Julien Sprecher founded Parfums de Marly in 2009, and the name comes from the Château de Marly, the private residence where Louis XV received his inner circle away from Versailles etiquette. The logo and the bottle motif pay tribute to the Marly horses Guillaume Coustou sculpted for the king, commissioned in 1743, and many fragrances are named after racehorses. Delina is the best known, created by perfumer Quentin Bisch in 2017 as a pink floral with lychee, rhubarb, Turkish rose, vanilla and musk. Here it appears as an eau de parfum, the Exclusif parfum, La Rosee and a hair perfume. Layton is the other classic, opening with apple and lavender over a base of vanilla, pepper, patchouli and guaiac wood, in a deep blue bottle with the horse motif. Godolphin, Althair, Valaya, Carlisle, Athénaïs, Dorval, Meliora, Cassili and Castley fill out the shelf, and Valero, Eragon and Carios are in extrait de parfum. The house became a TikTok-era favorite, and Sprecher says he wanted to break away from the done thing. If you are new to fragrance, my guide to shopping perfume by scent family will help you choose from this list, and the hair perfume explainer is useful for Delina in that format.

The rest of the edit is for building a routine around a signature scent. The Delina coffret and the Delina travel set are made for gifting, the Althair coffret does the same, and The Collector's Coffret discovery set holds eighteen 5ml samples, the easy way to find a favorite before you commit to a full bottle. The refillable travel cases, one in 10ml, are the practical pieces. The Valaya refillable body cream and the Layton and Percival shower gels carry the scent into the bath. Oriana, Valaya Exclusif and Pegasus Exclusif Edition Royale are for people who already know the house. What I would skip is layering a body cream and a different fragrance over the same skin on a hot day; match the scent family instead. For fall, the fall fragrance edit and a warm floral perfume list are good partners.

In our fashion dreams she is leaving a dinner in a long coat, with Delina on her wrists and nothing else to prove. For a lighter route to layering, the dessert-scented shelf of Kayali shows another way to build a collection. The house always comes back to the same idea: a story from the court of Louis XV, sold one bottle at a time.

To round out the look, see Maison Francis Kurkdjian Perfume and Fragrance and OUAI Hair Care and Fragrance.