The Essence

The Essence connects Beckham’s interest in motorcycles with the feeling of adventure and time spent outdoors.

Introduced in 2012, it takes a fresh, fruity and aromatic direction, with a woody warmth beneath the brightness. Olivier Polge created the fragrance.

The motorcycle reference is unusually tangible: the embossed glass was designed to suggest a tyre track across the bottle. That detail makes sense of the release as a whole, tying its energetic image to Beckham’s life away from the pitch. The Essence launched under its own name rather than as another edition of Instinct.