The thing nobody tells you about a dresser until you've lived with one through a few seasons of changing laundry habits is that the top gets used for everything except what the drawers were built for. Mine has held a stack of mail, a dish of cufflinks that don't match any shirt I own, and a lamp that's been meaning to get fixed for two years. That surface matters as much as the drawers do, and a lot of newer pieces design it like an afterthought, too shallow or too glossy to hold real life.
In an ordinary bedroom, a dresser does best when it's not trying to match the bed frame exactly, that matched three piece bedroom set look went out with shoulder pads and it's still trying to make a comeback at every big box store. Let it sit a little apart in style from the bed and the nightstands, close enough in tone that the room doesn't feel like a furniture showroom floor, but with its own personality. Scale matters more than people account for too. A six drawer dresser in a ten by twelve room will eat the walking space around the bed, and you'll be doing a little sideways shuffle every morning for the rest of your life. Measure the walk path before you measure the wall. As for finish, the ones that wear well over years are honest wood tones, walnut, oak, a worn in painted finish in a soft putty or clay color, nothing with a high shine that shows every fingerprint and every cup ring from a glass of water at two in the morning. White was a mistake I made once in a rental, looked sharp for about three weeks and then showed every mark like it was keeping a diary.
What separates a dresser that lasts from one that sags by year three comes down to things you have to actually open and pull to find out. Drawers should run on real glides, wood on wood or metal, not a thin plastic track that'll crack the first winter the house gets dry. Joints at the drawer corners should be dovetailed or at minimum doweled, not stapled and glued, because staples let go the day you're moving house and have the most stuff piled in that drawer. Knock on the back panel, it should sound solid, not like a cereal box. If you're starting with nothing, go for a mid size four or five drawer piece in a plain, honest wood tone, big enough to actually hold a season's worth of clothes, small enough that it doesn't dictate where every other piece of furniture in the room has to go.