Picky people aren’t always difficult, but buying gifts for someone with taste so...particular that you find it hard to figure out what (if anything) they like is its own kind of hell. What these people want from a gift is to be genuinely, actually surprised—as if you found the thing that they need but never knew that they did, until they opened their present from you.

A fussy little brush for your favorite little fussbudget.

Home scent diffusers are often ugly (no offense), but this unexepcted offering from Parfums de Marly looks (and functions) like nothing else out there.

For the photography “enthusiast” who can’t stop talking about film grain and the soulless nature of contemporary photography on Steve Jobs’s internet, a digital camera that produces vintage-inspired shots and is just as fussy as its film equivalent.

Yeah, yeah, we all know and love Le Labo’s Santal 33, but do we love it more if it comes in a bespoke concrete vessel? (Yes, the answer is yes.)

You heard it here—candle sconces that don’t look like they belong to a Victorian child with consumption are the next big thing.

For the person with very specific opinions about caviar, a sampler that give them every possible option.

One throw to rule them all!

If they think Peugeot is passé, then a peppy pepper mill from British brand Addison Ross is the way to go.

A little plate for some little snacks (and a little tea), because we should indulge the particularities of the people in our lives.

Peppery, bright, and sharp olive oil that tastes good enough to drink. (Graza who?)

It’s not soap, it’s a chic and scrubby little bar that’ll crack and smooth their rough exterior. (And it’s scented with D.S & Durga’s Debaser, a heady take on fig and musk.)

Cabbageware will always endure, but artichokeware, on the other hand, is very Italian country kitchen without being too obvious.

Wineglasses in crumpled, structural glass are a nice take on your standard stemmed offering and are, at the very minimum, unique.

Is buying someone else a robe a risky move? Yeah, maybe, but try your luck with Hommey’s vaguely ’70s-inflected offering.

Real oud for picky Petunias who value authenticity.

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