The Coffee-and-Cardamom Pragmatist

Gourmand-spicy: coffee, vanilla, cardamom, tonka, pink pepper. The Coffee-and-Cardamom Pragmatist isn't looking for an art project. They want one bottle they can wear to work without thinking about it, that smells like them, and that doesn't need to be repurchased every three months. This category is increasingly where the best designer launches live — gourmands have moved upmarket, and the result is a category that used to feel teenage now reads grown-up. Comforting, a little sweet, a little spicy, sturdy in the dry-down.

Concentration matters more here than category. An EDP version of a gourmand is often a wildly different fragrance from the EDT.