Christian Tortu

Before he was bottling scents, Christian Tortu was rearranging how Paris thought about flowers — he's the florist credited with breaking the rules and mixing blooms with foliage, moss, even fruit and vegetables, decades before "wild and gathered" was a look anyone else was doing. Eventually he took that same eye for the botanical world and turned it into candles and home fragrance, so instead of buying flowers that wilt in a week, you get his take on the forest floor, the tomato vine, the flower market, in a form that lasts.

These aren't sweet or syrupy — they smell like the actual outdoors, because that's what a florist's nose does. If you want your cottage to smell like it's surrounded by pine and cut greenery instead of vanilla and sugar, this is the shelf to shop.