Elevated Classics

Before Rogue Perfumery existed, Manuel Cross collected fragrance with unusual focus. He was drawn especially to bottles from the late 1970s and early 1980s, a period he still returns to often. “I was always scouring eBay,” he says. At one point his collection grew to more than seven hundred bottles.…

I noticed it one morning while getting ready, the way you notice silence after music has stopped. Everything was in place. Brushes, creams, lipsticks lined up exactly as they always had been. The only thing missing was the air itself. When I was younger, getting ready had a scent. Not…

Every great house carries its own mythology. Chanel carries many. Some arrived with a roar. Others, like this one, took their place more quietly beside the legend of N°5. In 1921, Ernest Beaux presented Gabrielle Chanel with a series of numbered perfume samples. She chose the fifth. It would become…