Nikos

Nikos Apostolopoulos was a Greek-born Parisian designer whose trajectory was unusual — law doctorate from the Sorbonne, then menswear and swimwear from his Paris atelier, and finally fragrance, which arrived in 1994 with a female line named Sculpture. The following year he extended the concept to men with Sculpture Homme, composed by Michel Almairac for the Lancaster Group; the fragrance found its audience quickly and remains the house's anchor title to this day. Lancaster was absorbed by Coty in 1996, carrying the Nikos licence with it. The brand has since been repositioned around the Sculpture name and a sequence of masculines that update Almairac's original with lighter, modern-adjacent reworkings. For a fragrance associated with a mid-sized 1990s designer house, the longevity of Sculpture Homme is remarkable — it has survived reformulation, ownership transfer, and multiple shifts in masculine fragrance fashion while retaining a coherent identity and a devoted if understated following.