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 also have the option of choosing a 1ml size sampler. We also have a smaller New Orleans sampler available.
- Black Baccara Marie Laveau Perfume Oil - Honoring the Voodoo Queen Of New Orleans, this fragrance is a sweet floral with notes of cinnamon bark, honey, rose, grapefruit, benzoin and vanilla.
- Hexennacht Bourbon Street Perfume Oil - Coffee, beignets, mahogany, pipe tobacco, cocoa and cardamom.
- Alkemia New Orleans Love Spell Limited Rerelease Perfume Oil - This is an old hoodoo recipe that was used to entice love, enhance sexual attraction, and stimulate romantic attentions. A lascivious blend of night-flowering New Orleans jasmine and fiery spices igniting a base of red sandalwood and skin musk.
- AromaG's Botanica French Quarter Perfume - This scent is so deep, exotic, and mysterious you’d almost swear that the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, mixed this potion herself. Dark vanilla with notes of amber and woods with clean and powdery nuances and a bourbon-like undertone. Brings forth images of the New Orleans French Quarter with its iron balconies, voodoo shops, and the sounds of jazz in the background.
- Possets Perfume Xmas in New Orleans Perfume Oil - A creamy thick white floral that is paradoxically enough, the essence of winter. You will understand that statement if you have ever been in New Orleans at Yuletide! Sweet, foody/gourmand, floral.
- The Strange South Cafe EDP - Chicory coffee, hot beignets and pralines.
- Alkemia Perfumes St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 Perfume - An atmospheric brooding of Spanish moss, crumbling stone, old cement, red clay brick and graveyard dirt. St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 was founded in 1789 and sits just outside the French Quarter. It is one of New Orleans' most famous 'cities of the dead' and its residents include Bernard de Marigny, the French-Creole playboy who brought the game of craps to the United States; Barthelemy Lafon, the architect and surveyor who allegedly became one of Jean Lafitte's pirates; and the legendary Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau.
- AromaG's Botanica Laveau Perfume - To honor the great Marie Laveau, with top notes of citruses and orange blossom; middle notes of freesia, jasmine, orchid, and rose; and base notes of musk, vanilla and heliotrope.
- The Strange South King Cake EDP - Yeasty cake, cinnamon, nutmeg, almond, lemon zest and confectioner's sugar.
