A Visit to New Orleans Sampler - Set of Five 1/2ml Samples

New Orleans is a city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of Louisiana. With a population of nearly 400,000, it is the most populous city in Louisiana. It is world-renowned for its distinctive music, Creole cuisine, unique dialects, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street. The city has been described as the "most unique" in the United States, owing in large part to its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. Essentially an island between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans is a city defined and shaped by waterways. 

New Orleans is full of wonderful smells. A lot of those are food related. You can't walk around the French Quarter without swooning over the smells of Creole and Cajun food, crawfish, beignets, French bread, chickory coffee, etc. But then there are the natural splendors of New Orleans. The south is on full display here - jasmine, sweet olive, gardenia, magnolia, angels' trumpets, mossy trees, the muddy Mississippi and swamp waters. Not all smells are totally favorable but even Bourbon Street has its charms. Then there's Mardi Gras with its cheap plastic beads, cotton candy, king cake, diesel fumes and alcohol. Plus there are the cemeteries and shaded walks through stately neighborhoods. As I read in Dat Nola Chic The Scent of New Orleans: "New Orleans has this scent, fragrance, aroma that is an indescribable blend of it all, but once those fingertips dance around your nose, giving you a whiff of it, you will want to live in it, your sense will explode, and your heart will swell. The scent of New Orleans is so intoxicating, and there’s no sobering up, there’s no fix, but to be here." And since most of you can't be there, you can experience New Orleans through this sampler. You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.

You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler. 

1. Ghost Ship Scentporium Royal Street EDP - Turn down the worn cobblestones of one of the world's most unmistakable streets and soak in the unique experience of New Orleans' fabled Royal Street. With the first whiff, this gourmand blend of morning mist, coffee, bananas foster, antique shop and vanilla oak will transport you to the most secret corners of the French Quarter. 
2. Lizabe Parfum Legends of the French Quarter Parfum Oil - A fragrance woven from the whispers of time, where the air hangs heavy with the scent of secrets, and the veil between the living and the dead grows thin. As the first note unfurls, the sharp, enigmatic bite of absinthe slices through the fog, its green, herbal bitterness mingling with the haunting darkness of history. It coils around you like an ancient curse, a silent promise that something lingers in the shadows, watching, waiting. The scent shifts as the spirit of the French Quarter embraces you—a deep, moss-draped earthiness of oakmoss rising from the decaying bricks of forgotten mansions, where ghosts of the past still linger. Underneath this, the warm, sultry amber breathes life into the scent, adding a haunting richness like the ambered light of candlelit rooms, long abandoned, now full only of the echoes of long-dead whispers. A flicker of sage ignites—a fleeting, mysterious note that seems to dance like the flickering of an old flame, reminiscent of rituals and forgotten spells, a reminder of the spirits that roam freely, tethered to the land. The bright zest of orange follows, an unanticipated burst of clarity in the midst of darkness, like the sudden, sharp cry of a distant bird echoing through the murky alleyways—vibrant yet quickly consumed by shadow. Lavender arrives next, soft and ethereal, like a dream on the edge of memory, bringing a delicate, almost mournful calm, as if trying to soothe the restless spirits that stir in the undercurrent of the Quarter. It sways between sharpness and sweetness, a reminder that even in darkness, beauty can be found. Finally, the deep, dark sweetness of tonka bean swells and settles, enveloping the wearer in its warm, velvety embrace. The scent is intoxicating—a sensual pull that lingers like a lover’s promise, the last vestige of a night that never quite ends. It weaves everything together into an inescapable spell, keeping you tethered between two worlds, a fleeting sensation of time suspended. Legends of the French Quarter is not merely a fragrance, but an experience—a scent that follows you through the mist, urging you to unlock the secrets of the past, while warning you of the dangers in embracing them. It is the fragrance of those who never truly leave, of stories carved into the bones of a city where the dead refuse to rest. 
3. Lizabe Parfum The Garden District Parfum Oil - The Garden District - A Perfume for Those Who Walk Between Worlds. In the velvet hush of a New Orleans midnight, the Garden District stirs. The streets are lined with mansions whose shutters never quite close, their gardens spilling secrets into the heavy air. The Garden District captures this moment—when the scent of flowers feels almost human, as if they breathe, as if they watch. The first breath is Lily of the Valley, delicate as porcelain yet steeped in ghostlight. Its purity is deceptive—beneath its innocence lies the shimmer of something that has crossed the threshold between life and memory. Soon, wild honeysuckle coils in, untamed and honey-sweet, winding itself like a lover’s arm around your senses. It is the scent of heat on skin, of laughter echoing down an empty veranda, of desire you cannot name. Then, when you think you have met the heart of the perfume, Queen of the Night opens her pale petals in the darkness. She is deep, opulent, and narcotic—her bloom short-lived, her impact eternal. Like a secret kept for generations, she releases her fragrance in a rush, heady and consuming, until you can no longer tell where the flower ends and your own heartbeat begins. Woven together, these notes breathe with the cadence of the city’s haunted beauty—sweetness shadowed by something ancient, sultry warmth edged with the chill of the unseen. It clings to gloves, lace, and hair, following you like an invisible companion through candlelit corridors and overgrown courtyards. The Garden District is not just worn—it possesses. 
4. Nui Cobalt Mme. Marie’s Bees Perfume Oil - A sophisticated scent to honor the great Marie Laveau, New Orleans’ exalted Voodoo Queen. A deep harmonic blend of communion wine, cathedral incense, Haitian amyris, Cattleyas orchid, coconut husk, café au lait, Brennan’s baked apple with honey-simmered raisins and authentic beeswax from a colony rescued from Mme. Marie’s tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. 
5. Nui Cobalt Strolling Through The French Quarter Perfume Oil - A scent portrait of autumn in New Orleans. Red brick soaked with rain, humid jasmine, creamy gardenia, pralines and a wisp of conjure shop incense.