Perfume and Home Fragrance: A Buying Guide

Perfume and Home Fragrance: A Buying Guide

Buying Byredo De Los Santos comes down to a few checks you can do from the product page. Everything else is preference.

The short answer

Buying Byredo De Los Santos comes down to a few checks you can do from the product page. Everything else is preference. Test on skin and wait an hour. The opening is not what you will smell like. The groups below run from the decision that matters most to the ones you make afterwards.

What actually decides it

What decides this is concentration, notes and how long it lasts. Everything else is preference. Test on skin and wait an hour. The opening is not what you will smell like. A higher price mostly buys materials and finishing, and occasionally it buys nothing at all. Diptyque Baies (Berries) Room Spray at $88 is the cheaper decision, and Tom Ford Beauty Mandarino di Amalfi Eau de Parfum at $300 is where the extra money actually goes.

How to use it

Apply to pulse points and let it sit. Do not rub. From the second group, Jenni Kayne's Santo Wood Eau De Parfum ($120) is the one that earns its place, because it works in more than one context without being restyled. The third group is smaller, and it is there for the decisions you make after the main one. None of this needs the whole group. One piece from each is usually enough.

Our honest take

There are 20 fragrances here from 17 brands, $18 to $300, all in stock when this was written. We would not buy all of them, and neither should you. loveshackfancy.com's Perfume Library Eau de Parfum Discovery Set at $18 is the low-risk way in, and Tom Ford Beauty's Mandarino di Amalfi Eau de Parfum at $300 only makes sense if this is a category you already use constantly. On byredo de los santos specifically: the difference between the top and the bottom of this list is real but smaller than the price gap suggests. Nothing here is included because it is famous, and price is not used as a proxy for quality anywhere on this page. If you take one thing away: if you would not buy it at full price, you do not want it on sale.