When Good Babies Smell Bad

By Melissa August, Amanda Bower, Mitch Frank, Ellin Martens, Sora Song, Joel Stein, Heather Won Tesoriero and Josh Tyrangiel

MAKES NO SCENTS In the hierarchy of malodorousness, little babies rank pretty low. But that hasn't stopped the cosmetics industry from cashing in on all that new skin. New-mother alert: no perfume on Earth can disguise that I-need-a-diaper-change smell

Tartine et Chocolat $41 Soft, sweet, but you can't smell the bread or the chocolate

Baby Babar $17 Honey scent; musky--or is it tusky?--edge

Petit Ange $77 Nice, gentle smell, but contains alcohol

Le Petit Prince $27.50 Lemony and clean in a furniture-polish sort of way