The Beat for Men
Burberry · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 2008
≈ $58 · 100ml · approx. retail
Part of Burberry's music-inspired 'The Beat' duo launched in 2008, a woody aromatic scent opening with black pepper and violet over a thyme-geranium heart and vetiver base.
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French · 48 in collection
In-house perfumer for Chanel since 2015, succeeding his father Jacques Polge. Oversees new creations and modern flankers of the house's classics.
See their fragrances →French · 39 in collection
A Paris-born, ISIPCA-trained perfumer who has spent her entire career at IFF, rising to senior fine-fragrance perfumer and later head of perfumery. She is best known for lush, gourmand-floral blockbusters created with or alongside the IFF studio.
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