D’Orsay

The house borrowed its name from Alfred d’Orsay, the 19th-century Paris dandy whose monocled self-portrait still serves as The New Yorker’s mascot. Today’s D’Orsay, reimagined by the family company Æra Nova, makes something of its own from it: perfumes about the states of love. Each one is named like the start of a sentence — “Dandy or Not,” “Nous sommes amants” — and signed with the initials of a person only you know. Made in France, with raw materials from Grasse. A scent as a small, secret confession.