{"id":52651,"date":"2026-05-21T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/?p=52651&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=52651"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:32:02","slug":"are-these-the-most-divisive-fragrances-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/fragrance\/guides\/are-these-the-most-divisive-fragrances-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Are These The Most Divisive Fragrances Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/product-tag\/fragrance\/\"><strong>Fragrance<\/strong><\/a> is so much about personal taste but there are some scents that can take this to extremes. In fact, a handful of the most popular fragrances in the world today are also among the most controversial. Those that dominate sales, rack up glowing reviews and achieve near-iconic status are the same that get criticised, heavily debated and, in some cases, outright disliked.<\/p>\n<p>We break down some of the most divisive fragrances on the market and look at why they inspire both obsession and aversion.<\/p>\n<p>What are your fragrance hot takes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fragrance is so much about personal taste but there are some scents that can take this to extremes. In fact, a handful of the most popular fragrances in the world today are also among the most controversial. Those that dominate sales, rack up glowing reviews and achieve near-iconic status are the same that get criticised,&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/fragrance\/guides\/are-these-the-most-divisive-fragrances-today\/\"><\/a>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":52659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21352],"tags":[21338,199,11890,17685,21339,19571,1100,40,21340],"private":[],"custom_brand":[],"class_list":["post-52651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","tag-divisive-mens-fragrances","tag-fragrance","tag-le-labo","tag-maison-francis-kurkdjian","tag-marc-antoine-barrois","tag-mens-fragrance","tag-perfume","tag-tom-ford","tag-xerjoff"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/are-these-the-most-divisive-fragrances-today-man-for-himself-ft.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52662,"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52651\/revisions\/52662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52651"},{"taxonomy":"private","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/private?post=52651"},{"taxonomy":"custom_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manforhimself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_brand?post=52651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}