EVERYONE WANTS TO SMELL RARE AND DIFFERENT
ELLE US|March 2024
Niche perfumes are helping you to be less like the crowd— and more like you.
KATHLEEN HOU
EVERYONE WANTS TO SMELL RARE AND DIFFERENT

Your name may not be Taylor Alison Swift, pecially when it comes to scents. Let's recall your personal Fragrance Eras Tour: Your teenage years, puzzling over whether you wanted to smell "clean" or "fresh." Then the "School Dance Scents" era. Maybe you had a "Sure, I'll Sample the Perfume in This Club Bathroom" era. Perhaps a CK One, Flowerbomb, Baccarat Rouge, or all-of-theabove era. And now? You have a chance to be in your most powerful scented era of all. It's never been easier, more exciting, or more thrilling to smell like nothing you've ever experienced before-and exactly what you've always wanted.

#Perfumetok confirms the huge surge of interest in scent, with the hashtag drawing billions of views. Funmi Monet, a fragrance and beauty content creator, describes its appeal: "You don't have to be a certain size; you don't have to be Kendall Jenner, or even super-rich," to put on a fragrance and feel more seen (or smelled).

This story is from the March 2024 edition of ELLE US.

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