What is a Niche perfume?

Niche perfumes are the ultimate luxury fragrances made by highly qualified perfumers. They are the best option for lovers of perfumes who are seeking to get a unique scent that people are not likely to own. One would ask if Niche perfumes are worth it? The answer remains the same, a trial will convince you. These perfumes are made with ingredients that are pronounced, striking, and captured with a superior finesse that most designer perfumes lack.

Generally, perfumes are a welcome attraction to any occasion and have made their way into our daily routine. They serve as an open statement when you walk into a room smelling like a billion dollars, or as an endearing gesture when given to someone special as a gift. Niche perfumes are unique and exclusive allowing us to enjoy the richness of scents. Most designer perfume houses have started creating their niche perfumes. They now have their limited edition of scents and premium notes.

Why buy a Niche perfume?

Niche perfumes are made using only the best quality of ingredients, they cover a greater variety of notes and allow for creativity and the production of more interesting scents, Niche perfumes are usually not mass-produced so one can get a unique scent that is not common, an expensive amount of resources and time is spent creating each unique scent, so one can say that we are paying for the creativity and art which is worth it.

Niche perfumes are created for people who love luxurious scents and are willing to pay that much for them. One can argue that they are over-priced, but how else do we value true originality? The perfumers who create these fragrances have their eyes set on a certain demographic of individuals unlike the mass-produced scents; their key selling point is creativity and exclusivity, appealing to the class of people who enjoy this grandeur.

Niche perfumes are produced in small quantities and their scents last longer. The richness in the notes is captivating and well sorted. You can order them online via www.thescentsstore.com. You can also pre-order them at the scent store. The scents are unique and their availability is limited, hence a pre-order ensures that one gets a slot to purchase anyone of their choice.

Best Niche Perfumes for men and women

Looking for what to order? Here are some of the best niche perfumes from centuries-old houses that supplied fragrances to royal families. These niche scents are made by expert perfumers who conjure out-of-box notes and create premium scents that evoke new memories each time they are worn.

There is BYREDO. A Swedish fragrance house that fuses unique cultural references from South Asia. Each scent tells a story and the materials used to make them are sourced from all over the world and assembled by hand in Sweden.

We have CLIVE CHRISTIAN whose perfume collection gives you an experience like no other and ranges from N200,000 and above. Their "No.1" perfume is housed in polished Baccarat crystal with a five-carat diamond and 18-carat gold collar and takes more than six months to reach the "perfect" scent. Their collection is an enthralling expression of our tendency to excess, of libertine pleasures, and a wild nature waiting to be awakened underneath the refined visage. They boast as one of the most expensive perfumes as recognized by the Guinness book of records.

There is CREED used by even Queen Victoria herself. Their collections are superb, handcrafted, and they inspire dreamy adventures.

You can try the DIPTYQUE, one of the rarest and oldest essences in perfumery. Their scents are extremely unusual yet sophisticated. 

FREDERIC MALLE comes from generations of perfumery expertise. Their collection, especially Frederic Malle’s THE NIGHT, is a potent yet uncomplicated composition of real Indian oud rendered rare and expensive due to the depletion of its wild agarwood resource. 

MAISON FRANCIS KURKDJIAN is one of the best niche fragrances one can also buy. Francis Kurkdjian uses oud from Laos, where it is the purest and the most expensive.

If you are an art lover, you might also want to get the XERJOFF, their perfumes speak luxury with the bottles carved out of quartz stone, Murano glass, and other precious materials, making them look like works of sculptural art.

All these perfumes can be found in Nigeria, ordered or pre-ordered online at the scent store, one of Nigeria’s largest online retailer fragrance specialists operating for almost 10 years in the fragrance industry. You can browse their archives for more interesting fragrances.