A Beginner’s Fragrance Rotation: Where to Start

Starting a fragrance collection doesn’t have to mean buying a shelf full of bottles at once. This video gives you a few places to begin, including Montblanc Explorer, Acqua Essenziale Blu and Sean John Unforgivable. Lattafa Ejaazi Intensive Silver, Polo Deep Blue Parfum and Lacoste L’Homme Intense add more options to explore at your own pace.

I’d begin with the fragrance you can picture wearing most often, then decide what you want to add around it. Explorer has several similarly named flankers, so its comparison with Explorer Platinum is linked below. It’s a useful way to understand the original before choosing between bottles in the same family.