Our Favorite Summer Colognes

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Summer fragrance is tough for guys. The backbone of men’s fragrances is sweet and smoky (think tonka bean, vanilla, and tobacco) and the summertime answer (aquatic and citrussy) can very quickly smell like a high school locker room. So, we gave our grooming experts the prompt: Find us summertime scents that men will actually want to wear. What they came back with were more grown up takes on citrus and salt—think Amalfi Coast and lemon trees by the sea. There are still some musky scents to keep it more masculine, but for the adventurous guys, there are even a few bottles that lean pretty heavily into floral notes. Buy one you like, and make it your warm weather calling card. – Luke Guillory, commerce editor

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Your signature scent for the season lies ahead.

Our favorite scents for the summer are all about capturing the sunshine and bottling it up. Stop and smell the roses! Enjoy the sea-salt air, the greenery, even the khaki shorts! These are all the kinds of things the fragrances below evoke—a summertime spirit and a scent for basking in it. They can even work beyond summer too, so if you’re eager enough to start spritzing these colognes on during spring, don’t fret—they smell so damn good you can certainly get away with it. 

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