Alexandra Pauly is an award-winning writer and editor who tells stories about beauty, style, and youth culture.
She is the founding editor of Highsnobiety’s beauty vertical, its very first foray into the category.
Digging into beauty and its intersection with culture, identity, and politics, her reporting challenges readers to think critically about the industry and their own relationship to it.
A longtime fragrance enthusiast, she is also passionate about writing about scent. In 2023, she spearheaded Highsnobiety's State of Fragrance, a report on consumers' relationship to perfume and their buying habits that won The Fragrance Foundation UK’s 2024 “Rising Star” Jasmine Award and was nominated as a finalist for The Fragrance Foundation’s 2024 “Fragrance Editorial of the Year” award.
Outside of work, you can find her scouring Chinatown for the best egg tart, contemplating the next addition to her collection of 50-plus perfumes, and taking way too many photos of her dog.
