Niche Fragrances Gifts & Fragrance

Small batches, a private nose and no committee. Niche perfumery works on a different clock from the department store.

Niche fragrances come from independent houses. Xerjoff of Turin bottles its scents in heavy glass and crystal. Ramon Monegal, a Barcelona perfumer of the Myrurgia family, composes around leather, oud and flowers. Strange Invisible Perfumes of Venice, California, works with botanical and organic essences. Mark Buxton, the English perfumer behind early Comme des Garçons scents, signs his own line.

A flacon on a dressing table is an object in its own right.

Eau de personality.