...I suppose the following can be worn all year round:"Perles de Lalique" - bold enough for winter, crispy enough for summer, same goes for"Comme des Garçons 2""Kelly Calèche""Déclaration""No. 19"and many more...

...Some masculines/unisex, some of which I love for myself, but that I would also love to smell on a guy:"Bel Ami""Équipage""Cuba""Arsène Lupin""Chamade Homme""Égoïste""Jicky""Taste of Heaven""Déclaration""L'Air du désert marocain""Eau Sauvage"etc. etc.

...What about "Sel de Vétiver"?

...Flaconneur:I think the overall quality of designer fragrances is controlled by the greed of the manufactures. They are looking at a target audience with a particular price range. The real issue with today's designer fragrances is the hype and marketing that goes along with the fragrance. Is the fragrance's development really about the fragrance itself or the person's name behind the fragrance that might sell it? I see a different type of competition going on in niche fragrances.Well, selling a plasticky trash scent under the name of Bond No 9 for a large amount of money is not greed? Anyway, I suppose this is not the kind of "niche" the thread-opener was talking about, as I have to admit.Well, I'm quite new at this hobby (~1 year). So there is still a lot of good stuff to discover in the designer frag world, however I tend towards classics as well. As long as I don't know them all and own the best of them needless to dive deep into the niche world. Well, that's how I see my priorities. However, I can't totally avoid niche frags, samples just come flying to me. I've started gathering stuff from Lutens, one Tauer, getting interested in Eldo. But I think a significant amount of niche firms sell over-hyped crap. What about the exclusive lines of the traditional houses? Hermèssences, Dior, Chanel, Guerlain? There ist some really good stuff around.