Essence of Caesar opens with bergamot, elemi, and grapefruit, warms into apple, clean aquatic, salty notes, and cashmere woods, and leaves a base of amber, sage, and musk on your skin built to outlast you. Marble crumbles. Empires fragment. But everyone at the party still remembers exactly what you were wearing.

Inspired by Valentino's Uomo Born in Roma.

Ultra-High Concentration: 28-33% (Extrait de Parfum)

For:

• Conquering a Tuesday
• Commissioning a statue of yourself
• Giving the historians something to work with

We were going to dilute it. We forgot. What's left is grapefruit and tea at full strength, a bright spiced heart of cinnamon, ginger, and neroli with no sense of restraint, and a smoky guaiac-and-incense base that settles onto your skin certain — utterly, baselessly certain — that this is going to go well. No notes. Well, these notes. But spiritually, no notes.

Inspired by Louis Vuitton's Imagination.

Ultra-High Concentration: 28-33% (Extrait de Parfum)

For:

• Asking the pilot if you can have a turn
• Assembling furniture without the manual
• Giving directions to a local