Scalpers

Scalpers is a Spanish fashion house founded in 2007 in Seville. It began as a menswear label built around tailored shirts and ties, and later grew into a broader lifestyle brand whose skull emblem became its recognisable signature. For beauty shoppers, Scalpers is present through two lines: a licensed fragrance collection marketed by the Spanish perfume company Perfumes y Diseño, and Scalpers Lab, a small facial skincare range sold directly through the company's own stores and website.

The brand remains active. As of 2025 it operated more than 300 retail points across seven countries alongside worldwide online sales, employed over 1,400 people, and continued to release new fragrance editions.

Sources differ on who founded Scalpers. The English Wikipedia article names only Rafael de Medina, 20th Duke of Feria, together with friends [5], while other accounts identify three co-founders: Rafael Medina, Alberto Artacho and Borja Vázquez [5][6]. All sources agree the company was established in Seville in 2007 [1][5].

In its early years the label focused on men's clothing, accessories and footwear, becoming known in Spain for its suits and ties. According to the company, the brand was built around a rebellious, non-conformist spirit, an identity it ties to the skull motif that runs through its products and marketing.

Scalpers expanded steadily from a menswear specialist into a full lifestyle brand. It launched an online store in 2009 and added a children's collection in 2013. A women's line followed in 2018, the year the company reported €42 million in sales; a capsule collection for girls arrived in 2019, when sales grew to €83 million [5]. International expansion began around 2017, extending the brand into Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

The company entered adjacent categories in 2021, launching a home collection that included candles, diffusers and soaps. The same period marked its move into perfumery: the flagship fragrance, The Club, appeared in 2021, followed by The Boxing Club in 2022 and Yacht Club in 2023.

The reviewed sources do not name a parent company, and Wikipedia records no ownership change [5]. The fragrance line is produced under a separate arrangement: it is marketed by Perfumes y Diseño, a Spanish fragrance company, under a licensing agreement [6]. Scalpers Lab skincare, by contrast, is sold directly by the company.

Scalpers frames itself around masculine style with an irreverent edge. Its stated mission is to "offer contemporary and sophisticated fashion to people seeking to dress with style and confidence," creating what it calls timeless garments through continual design work [1]. The fragrance line carries the same positioning: Sobelia, a fragrance retailer, describes the perfumes as marrying audacity with sophistication and aimed at men who reject convention [6]. The Scalpers Lab skincare range takes a plainer approach, presented by the company as a simple, effective and unisex facial routine built on a short set of products.

The Club is the brand's flagship fragrance, an eau de parfum for men in the woody aromatic family. The company lists its notes as cocoa, grapefruit and sage at the top; lavender, tobacco and ginger at the heart; and a base of ambergris, vetiver, patchouli and woods, and states the scent is made in Spain [4]. It is joined by The Boxing Club (2022) and Yacht Club (2023), part of a wider portfolio that also includes women's and children's fragrances such as Her & Here and The Suite Club.

Scalpers Lab covers facial skincare across roughly five products, among them an antioxidant day serum, a night serum, an eye cream, a hyaluronic moisturiser and an AHA cleanser [3]. The company positions the range as a minimalist routine of only a few steps.

Scalpers is a fully operational business. The company reports more than 300 stores across seven countries and worldwide online operations, with central offices in Seville and additional teams in Madrid and Lisbon [1]. Its licensed fragrance line remains active, with the newest editions dated to 2025 [4].