Aramis(1955)

Created by Bernard Chant for Estee Lauder, Aramis opens on bergamot, green notes, and citrus, moves through a heart of sage, jasmine, and patchouli, and closes on leather, oakmoss, musk, and amber. It represented Estee Lauder's first dedicated men's fragrance, launched two years after Youth Dew had established the company's fragrance credentials, and its leather-oakmoss-patchouli structure helped define a template for American masculine chypres that influenced numerous subsequent men's fragrances. Chant, who would later create several other significant fragrances, built Aramis around a sophisticated, herbal-leather sharpness distinct from the sweeter or more citrus-forward men's colognes common at the time. It remains one of the most historically significant American masculine fragrances of the mid-20th century, still produced today as part of its own dedicated Aramis brand.