Eau de toilette gets dismissed in fragrance circles as the weaker option—the one you graduate from, the format for people who haven't discovered eau de parfum yet. That reputation ignores what most women actually want from a daily fragrance.

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Niche perfume is the part of the market where houses are free to be strange. There's no marketing department insisting on a crowd-pleaser, no focus group testing whether the opening is likeable enough. What you get instead is a perfumer's particular vision—sometimes brilliant, sometimes baffling, and rarely boring.

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