While we believe that any gender can wear any scent, there are certain fragrance families and compositions particularly favored by men. Here's our regularly updated selection of top perfumes for men—an easy win :)

If you're just looking for the right scents, scroll down to the bottom.

With our most popular niche perfumes for men, you not only get a regularly updated selection of scents beloved in the high-end segment! Our Woodberg perfume team also walks you through what we think you definitely should smell. If outstanding and premium fragrances are your thing—or could become yours—this is the right place for you or the person you want to treat.

Niche perfumes are a fascinating part of the fragrance world, away from the mainstream. But what makes them so special? While mainstream perfumes often aim to please the masses, niche scents express the unique vision of individual perfumers. Creativity and exclusivity are key. 

These perfumes are often crafted in small studios in limited editions and are only available from select stores. To underline their uniqueness, niche perfumes use more unusual notes and special ingredients or ingredient combinations.
Producing these often costly fragrance oils is complex, which means only selected ingredients are used. Examples include oud, amber, ambrette, pistachio, orris root, and papyrus. By contrast, mainstream perfumes typically use more affordable, everyday essences.

Additionally, niche perfumes stand out through their unconventional fragrance profiles. Instead of the traditional top, heart, and base note structure, they feature more pronounced and complex nuances. Their formulas also tend to use a higher concentration of oils, resulting in more intense and higher quality scents.

All of these factors explain why niche perfumes tend to be more expensive than their mainstream counterparts.

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Although niche fragrances are all about the extraordinary, they offer a broad range of options. Even though we believe gender categories in perfume are no longer necessary, many niche perfumes still align with traditional gender norms. Here's a selection generally considered 'for men'.