What is the best designer perfume of all time?

Bottles people keep long after the juice runs out, sharing a shelf with counter blockbusters nobody admits to owning.

1
Dior J'adore
The gold-collared floral that has carried Dior's fragrance counter since 1999.
1000pts
2
Chanel Coco Mademoiselle
The 2001 patchouli-orange that recruited a younger customer for the house.
800pts
3
Chanel No. 5
The 1921 aldehyde bouquet Ernest Beaux built for Coco Chanel, still the reference point for designer perfume.
722pts
4
Thierry Mugler Alien
A purple talisman bottle holding jasmine and amber, Angel's stranger sibling.
558pts
5
Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue
Sicilian lemon and apple, the default summer scent since 2001.
558pts
6
Miss Dior
Christian Dior's 1947 chypre, launched alongside the New Look and named for his sister Catherine.
500pts
7
Marc Jacobs Daisy
The white-floral bottle with resin daisies on the cap, a 2007 teenage gateway fragrance.
500pts
8
Calvin Klein CK One
The 1994 unisex citrus sold in a flask, the scent of the whole decade's teenagers.
500pts
9
Narciso Rodriguez For Her
Musk sold as a personality rather than a base note, in a black-and-pink cube.
433pts
10
Guerlain Shalimar
The 1925 oriental built on vanilla and bergamot, named after the Shalimar gardens.
433pts
11
Lancôme La Vie Est Belle
The iris-and-praline smile-bottle that has topped French sales charts since 2012.
433pts
12
Mugler Angel
The blue star bottle that introduced gourmand — chocolate, caramel, patchouli — to perfumery in 1992.
433pts
13
Viktor&Rolf Flowerbomb
A grenade-shaped bottle holding one of the sweetest florals ever to sell at volume.
433pts
14
Jean Paul Gaultier Classique
The corseted torso bottle in a tin can, as recognisable as the juice inside it.
433pts
15
Tom Ford Black Orchid
A dark truffle-and-plum debut that launched Ford's own house in 2006.
357pts
16
Yves Saint Laurent Opium
The 1977 spiced oriental whose launch party and name caused a decade of argument.
357pts
17
Guerlain Mitsouko
The 1919 peach chypre that perfumers still cite as the genre's high-water mark.
269pts
18
Giorgio Armani Sì
Blackcurrant and vanilla in a squared bottle, Armani's biggest fragrance hit.
167pts
19
Chloé Eau de Parfum
The 2008 powdery rose in a ribboned bottle that redefined the house's counter.
0pts

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Comments

No. 5 dates from 1921, Miss Dior from 1947, launched beside the New Look. Thirteen rankings that put the two houses side by side: https://youpick.best/articles/chanel-vs-dior-ranked

ypb-team·2h ago·