Richard Goller

Founded in 1893 by Alfred Dunhill when he took over his father’s saddlery business, the British brand made its fragrance debut more than four decades later in 1934 with Dunhill …

Thanks to the plethora of gourmands in recent years, vanilla fragrances can have a cheap ’n nasty reputation. Fortunately, for those of us with more grown-up tastes, this selection proves …

With his enfant terrible fashion reputation well established in the 1980s, Jean Paul Gaultier had to make a spectacular perfume entrance.  And his male fragrance debut, Le Male (the female Classique was launched …

Even before he founded his eponymous brand in 2006, Tom Ford was a household name. The savvy and suave businessman entered the fragrance biz in 2006, one year after the …

Sandalwood fragrances should be a staple of every dapper gentleman’s fragrance wardrobe.  You’d never know from its ubiquity that this precious wood from the Santalum tree family, with its warm, …

A rhetorical question: Is there a cooler perfume brand founder than Ben Gorham? The fine arts graduate and professional basketball player-turned-entrepreneur launched his fragrance company in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2006.  …

Who says fragrances must be complex to be good? Some of the best fragrances rely on simple compositions in which it’s possible to pick up most of the listed notes.  …

With the enigmatic and visionary Rei Kawakubo as creative director of the Paris-based fashion brand (she would never call her creations “fashion”), Comme des Garçons fragrances could never be ordinary. …

Since its founding in 2009 by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian and former Ernst & Young associate Marc Chaya, Maison Francis Kurkdjian has become one of the most popular and respected niche …

In a fragrance world dominated by churn-‘em-out-schedules and multimillion marketing-over-creativity budgets, Cartier stands out for all the right reasons. The French luxury brand is renowned for their fine watches and …