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What is the best men's fragrance?

By YPB Team

Office-safe classics against the ones that announce you in a lift. Pick the bottle you would actually buy twice.

  1. Dior Sauvage — ranked #11
    Dior Sauvage
    The bergamot-and-ambroxan blockbuster that has outsold almost every other men's scent since 2015.
    1000pts
  2. Creed Aventus — ranked #22
    Creed Aventus
    Smoky pineapple and birch, the fragrance that built the niche-cologne internet.
    814pts
  3. Azzaro Chrome — ranked #33
    Azzaro Chrome
    Clean citrus musk marketed on family and worn by half the office.
    732pts
  4. Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540 — ranked #44
    Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540
    Saffron and burnt sugar, technically unisex and universally worn as a flex.
    660pts
  5. Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille — ranked #55
    Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille
    Pipe tobacco, vanilla and spice — the winter signature of the private-blend shelf.
    610pts
  6. Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme — ranked #66
    Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Pour Homme
    Sicilian citrus and cedar, the summer wardrobe staple of the 2000s.
    553pts
  7. Prada Luna Rossa Carbon — ranked #77
    Prada Luna Rossa Carbon
    Metallic lavender built for the gym bag, and a top seller for a decade.
    488pts
  8. Jean Paul Gaultier Le Mâle — ranked #88
    Jean Paul Gaultier Le Mâle
    Lavender and vanilla in a sailor-striped torso, a 1995 icon that never left.
    488pts
  9. Giorgio Armani Acqua di Giò — ranked #99
    Giorgio Armani Acqua di Giò
    The 1996 marine accord that defined how a generation of men were told to smell.
    413pts
  10. Dior Homme Intense — ranked #1010
    Dior Homme Intense
    Lipstick-iris and cocoa, the scent that made powdery florals readable as menswear.
    413pts
  11. Tom Ford Oud Wood — ranked #1111
    Tom Ford Oud Wood
    Smooth oud and sandalwood, the gateway oud for people who dislike oud.
    413pts
  12. Guerlain Vetiver — ranked #1212
    Guerlain Vetiver
    The 1961 benchmark vetiver, still the yardstick for every green fragrance since.
    413pts
  13. Davidoff Cool Water — ranked #1313
    Davidoff Cool Water
    The 1988 aquatic that every men's fragrance of the nineties copied.
    413pts
  14. Hermès Terre d'Hermès — ranked #1414
    Hermès Terre d'Hermès
    Flint, grapefruit and vetiver — Jean-Claude Ellena's mineral take on masculinity.
    325pts
  15. Paco Rabanne 1 Million — ranked #1515
    Paco Rabanne 1 Million
    A gold-ingot bottle and a cinnamon-leather blast built for a night out.
    222pts
  16. Bvlgari Man in Black — ranked #1616
    Bvlgari Man in Black
    Rum, leather and tuberose — a sweet oriental that punches above its price.
    222pts
  17. Chanel Pour Monsieur — ranked #1717
    Chanel Pour Monsieur
    A 1955 citrus chypre, the restrained classic Chanel loyalists defend against Bleu.
    222pts
  18. Yves Saint Laurent La Nuit de l'Homme — ranked #1818
    Yves Saint Laurent La Nuit de l'Homme
    Cardamom and cedar in a black bottle, the quiet date-night default.
    222pts
  19. Versace Eros — ranked #1919
    Versace Eros
    Mint, apple and vanilla in a Medusa-stamped blue bottle, loud on purpose.
    0pts
  20. Bleu de Chanel — ranked #2020
    Bleu de Chanel
    Chanel's 2010 woody-aromatic in a matte navy bottle, a fixture of every men's counter since.
    0pts

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Comments

Bleu de Chanel arrived in 2010 and Sauvage in 2015; they have shared a counter ever since. Twelve other rankings holding the same two names: https://youpick.best/articles/chanel-vs-dior-ranked

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