Calling out synthetic ingredients, which then was kind of a taboo with people saying it has to be natural. Moving forward we know that synthetics can be fascinating. [Comme des Garçons] Garage and Tar are cult classics—you couldn't even find them on eBay. When they came back out, there was chaos. And now when you smell them, they don't seem so bizarre. Our noses have modernized over time. Garage has a really cool rubber gasoline thing that is fascinating on skin and the Tar, an oily asphalt.

— Franco Wright of Luckyscent talks to Coolhunting about their second Scent Bar store in Los Angeles (at the ROW), and about his favorite fragrance brands. Read more in Interview: Adam Eastwood and Franco Wright of Scent Bar.