The perfume is an extremely important part of our individual personal identity. If your attire represents the first impression in a meeting, then the scent is the second. However, perfumes can be whimsical and expensive, which inadvertently leads us to the important of a long-term perspective when choosing a new fragrance. If you use the perfume sparingly, it can last for a longer period of time, thus the fragrance becomes associated with you.

Creed - Aventus

The perfume brand Creed has since its inception in 1760 produced some of the world’s finest perfumes. The perfumes’ natural ingredients are selected with such accuracy that certain fragrances stop being produced if the year’s harvest did not live up to standard. Aventus is the brand’s best-selling fragrance and was created with inspiration from the strength, spectacle and success of Emperor Napoleon’s life. A timeless scent that mixes masculine notes of bergamot and moss with the fruitiness of black currents, apple and pineapple. The outcome results in a fragrance that manages to make an impression without intruding.

Histoires de Parfums - 1899

It is the early 1920s and Ernest Hemingway is wandering, in the evening along Paris’ illuminated streets. The author who described the city as “a moveable feast”, an expression that also gave name to the biography that followed the years in the city. Histoires de Parfums has been inspired by the time Hemingway spent in Paris and tried to create a fragrance that combines the city’s seductive nature with Hemingway’s masculine character. You can read light notes of vanilla and iris mixed with the spice of cinnamon and black pepper in the fragrance. The result is a fragrance with several interesting levels, that seamlessly adapts to the wearer and blends naturally into day and night.

Floris London - Special No.127

The perfume brand Floris London has created fragrances ever since Juan Famenias Floris and his wife Elizabeth founded the company in 1730. If you are talking about timeless fragrances, it’s almost impossible not to mention the brand’s perfume: Special No.127, which was introduced in 1890. Floris London describe the fragrance as a milestone in British perfumery, since its introduction it has been worn by everything from Russian aristocrats to Winston Churchill.

Eight & Bob - The Original

Eight & Bobs The Original is perhaps the list’s most versatile perfume, and it’s hard to imagine a person who did not appreciate the soft, slightly suggestive fragrance. With the top notes of cardamom, lemon and allspice, the perfume catches your attention. It then draws you closer with its base notes of violet leaves, sandalwood, vetiver and amber. The end product is a fragrance with an excellent balance between the sharp floral notes and the deeper, slightly woody base of the perfume.

Byredo - Tobacco Mandarin

Tobacco Mandarin is the essence of an evening perfume, which is something everyman’s fragrance wardrobe should contain. Substantial notes of tobacco and leather are mixed with the sweetness of mandarin to create an interplay between our prejudices about masculine and feminine fragrances. The perfume is a so-called “extrait de parfum”, which means that it has a lofty concentration of fragrances. This results in a very intense scent that is well suited to events where you want to attract attention. It should be added that even if Byredo does not have a solid history as the others, it still manages to deliver at entirely the same level.