Body & Scent

There's a moment, buying a candle, when someone always says "it's just a candle" — usually right before spending twenty minutes deciding between two that smell nearly identical. We understand. Scent is the one vanity that gets to pretend it isn't one, since nobody can see it, and yet it does more work than almost anything else in a room.

This is skincare for the face you're stuck with and have decided to be kind to. Perfumes, colognes, and fragrances for walking into a room like you meant to. Candles for the evenings that don't need witnesses, just a little warmth and something faintly like cedar. None of it is necessary. Most good things aren't.