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There are a couple of things we take very seriously around here: fragrances and awards. Which is why it's so exciting to announce that today is the debut of our second annual Esquire Cologne Awards. We spent all year searching, spritzing, and sniffing to find the very best scents—from rich, special-occasion elixirs to fresh, easy-to-wear options that are just begging to become part of your daily routine. Eventually, we narrowed it down to 31 winners, all of which you can read about right now. Not sure what to choose? Close your eyes and point at your screen. Or print it out and throw a dart. Whatever you choose, you really can't go wrong. – Jonathan Evans, style director Plus: |
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This year's Esquire Cologne Awards are bigger, bolder, and brasher than ever before—just like the fragrances that won top honors. |
Modern fragrance is about leaning into change, switching up your vibe as often as you change your clothes. Your grandfather might have worn the same cologne his entire life, but you're not your grandpa! 2025 is about experimentation, busting out of your comfort zone, and blazing a new trail. Any of these fragrances are an ideal tool to do that, and we wholeheartedly endorse creating your own collection and using fragrance intuitively based on both how you want to smell and also how you feel. Fragrance is one of those things that might draw people to you, but at the end of the day is all about you. It's deeply personal and, we think, one of the best and most effective ways to express yourself. So, as you peruse this list, keep your mind and nose open. Trust us, they're all winners. |
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Chris Chalk hopes people see many different spirits within Dick Hallorann. In It: Welcome to Derry, Chalk stars as the same character the late Scatman Crothers played in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, the kind old-timer who has the uncanny ability to sense the otherworldly. Naturally, Chalk's performance has homages to Crothers, but there are other familiar faces hidden within it too. He put a little Viola Davis in there. And Denzel Washington. And a dash of Philip Seymour Hoffman. "I learned so much from all of these people," Chalk says. Stephen King introduced Hallorann in his 1977 novel about the haunted hotel, but he brought him back for a cameo as a much younger man in his 1986 epic It. |
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Eloy Detention Center lies nine miles east of Interstate 10 in Arizona, amid a patchwork of windswept mesquite scrub, solar farms, and alfalfa and cotton fields, with the jagged ridgeline of the Picacho Mountains visible to the southeast. Beyond the truckers chapel and the sign at the corner—"CoreCivic: We're Hiring"—acres of ruddy, bare dirt surround a cluster of austere buildings linked by concrete walkways. Pass the reserved parking spots for the Employee of the Month, Supervisor of the Quarter, Officer of the Month, and Employee of the Year. Pass the little signs that say "Keep Off the Landscaping" and stop at a reinforced steel door painted blue, with an intercom button on the right. Employees may already be waiting there, carrying McDonald's bags and energy drinks. A sticker inside someone's see-through backpack: "I Don't Know, I Just Work Here." They will be grousing about how long it takes to get in. "Any fucking day now, Central." Look at the camera, announce yourself. The door opens past a twelve-foot fence ringed with razor wire and into a vestibule where a second button awaits. Past the second fence, electrified, fifteen feet high, a chain-link tunnel leads to the main entrance. Eloy is privately owned and operated by a contractor, CoreCivic, working for U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (As a CoreCivic spokesperson put it in an email, "Eloy Detention Center serves our government partners at ICE.") |
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