Baldessarini

Baldessarini is the namesake brand of Werner Baldessarini, the Austrian-born designer who served as chief designer and later chairman of Hugo Boss before spinning off his own private label in 1993. The fragrance line followed in 2002, originally launched as Baldessarini by Hugo Boss, and persisted under the Baldessarini name after Werner left the parent company. The perfumery sits squarely in the European prestige-masculine register: warm fougère, oriental and amber-leather compositions designed for tailored adult men, with Baldessarini, Del Mar and Strictly Private among the long-running pillars. Compositions by Jean-Marc Chaillan, Pierre Wargnye and others lean conservative — quality raw materials in classic structures rather than experimentation. It suits the wearer who reads German tailoring, dark wood and old-school men's grooming — fragrance as part of an unselfconsciously adult routine.