Wednesday, September 16, 2026
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When done properly, fragrance at work can be a leg up—a subtle olfactory signature. When done wrong, it’ll quickly make you the most hated man in the office. So we struck out to find the rare gems. These colognes will suit your elevated taste, but they won’t give your cubicle buddy a headache. —Luke Guillory, commerce editor
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Make a good impression with clients, but don’t give any coworkers a headache.
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We’re all about personal fragrance here at the Esquire office. We wear it, geek out about it, and write about it to no end. You’ll catch us spritzing luxurious, expensive colognes from big fashion houses and niche perfumeries—some of our favorites are even in the under-$100 range. But there is something we have to say. No matter how good a fragrance is, too much of it will make a room feel like a mall beauty department. Your coworkers, sadly, don’t know who Francis Kurkdjian is, and the water cooler might not be the best place to tell them. So, the trouble becomes finding something that can have one foot in both these sensibilities. How to be fashionable while still remaining professional.
Thankfully, there are plenty of colognes out there that are perfectly acceptable for wherever you work. These scents tend to lean fresh, clean, and lightweight, but they can also be woody and earthy or even warm and spicy, just as long as they’re not too overpowering. We rounded up some of our favorite fragrances to wear to work that will not only be deemed “office-appropriate” but might even get you some compliments from your coworkers.
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Comedian, TV host, and YouTube creator Hasan Minhaj has every intention to kill fellow comic and actor Ronny Chieng—live, onstage—in their new stand-up show Hasan Hates Ronny/Ronny Hates Hasan. It’s touring now, but in October in Oakland the performance will tape for future streaming on Netflix. It’s during that show, Minhaj swears, that someone will die.
This is, of course, all a joke, which arrives in a new episode of Esquire’s “What I’ve Learned,” streaming above. “Netflix has done a lot of things,” teases Minhaj. “They know that hatred, bigotry, it really does well on the algorithm. What if we did a full snuff film? And we just went for it?”
It’s not all barbs and bits in the comedian’s sprawling new interview. Elsewhere, the 40-year-old dives deep into growing up second-generation Indian Muslim—which he says he only closely embraced after hanging with other Indian and pan-Asian dancers in college—his career in showbiz, and his tumultuous 2023.
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or the first two years in my apartment, I used the same department store towels I had in college: thick, not too absorbent, and over time decorated with a few bleached splotches courtesy of my benzoyl peroxide body wash. When it came time to think about replacing them (because, yes, we should be replacing our bath towels more often than we are), it was the dog days of summer. My bedroom was blissfully air-conditioned, but my shoebox bathroom was very much not. Every shower ended with me stepping out, wrapping myself in a bulky towel, and immediately starting to sweat again—a Sisyphean struggle.
What I actually needed was a towel that was lightweight but still soft. Also, it had to be quick-drying enough to handle two-shower days. And because matching washcloths, hand towels, and bath towels are a must once you’re over the age of 23, but I like to have a little variety, they needed to have more than just white. The end of my search? These Nossara Japanese waffle towel set—coordinated, breathable, and made to the finest degree. They were exactly the bathroom upgrade I needed.
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