Bentley

Bentley Motors was founded in Cricklewood, London in 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley — 'W.O.' — an engineer and racing car enthusiast who believed that a true motorcar should be both fast and dependable. The original Bentley Boys — wealthy gentlemen racers including Woolf Barnato, Tim Birkin, and Jean Chassagne — won the Le Mans 24 Hours race five times between 1924 and 1930, establishing Bentley's reputation for combining extreme performance with extreme reliability. The Volkswagen Group acquired Bentley in 1998; their headquarters remain in Crewe, Cheshire, where hand-built cars are produced at rates of roughly 15,000 annually. Bentley fragrances, launched in partnership with Inter Parfums in 2013, translate the brand's values — handcrafted precision, understated power, and the particular quality of English country-house luxury — into olfactive territory.

Bentley fragrances are created through Inter Parfums' working relationships with leading perfumers, with each composition designed to evoke the sensory experience of being inside a Bentley — the smell of hand-stitched leather, polished wood veneers, and the particular atmosphere of controlled power in motion. Bentley For Men (2013) by Nathalie Lorson uses bergamot, apple, cardamom, cedar, leather, vetiver, and amber to create the house's flagship masculine — refined, confident, and unmistakably English. Intense (2014), a darker, woodier extension by Lorson, is the house's most acclaimed composition for its depth.

Bentley For Men Intense (2014) is the house's most critically admired fragrance — a darker, denser interpretation of the flagship masculine using smoky woods, leather, and amber that evokes the interior of a Bentley Mulsanne in motion. Nathalie Lorson's composition achieves a quiet grandeur consistent with Bentley's ethos of power without ostentation. Momentum (2019), by Lorson, introduced a fresher, more dynamic interpretation for the active contemporary Bentley customer. Absolute (2021) is the house's richest oriental, using oud and amber for those seeking maximum depth.

Bentley occupies accessible luxury — EDPs from €50-€85 — with automotive heritage that gives the fragrance programme a legitimate luxury credentials story absent from most accessible masculine brands.

Every Bentley fragrance at The Scent Stories® is 100% authentic, factory-sealed and brand-packaged — sourced from authorised channels and shipped worldwide.