Alan Bray
An obscure designer-tier label active since the early 2000s, with a catalogue of nearly a hundred releases across men's and women's fragrances. Public information about the house's headquarters, ownership and creative direction is scarce; major fragrance databases carry the line but list no founder, country or atelier of record. The range tends toward accessibly priced eaux de toilette in familiar idioms — fruity florals, oriental vanillas, fresh aquatic men's scents — sold through discount retailers and aggregator sites rather than dedicated boutiques. Names like Festival, Tobacco & Vanille, Arabian Vanilla and Signorina Assoluta hint at a strategy of echoing better-known mainstream releases. For most wearers, the appeal is price-to-performance rather than provenance.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
