Lost Highways is the scent of a roadtrip around the U.S. in a bottle. A botanical peregrination of saw palmetto palm leaves and southern cypress from the Southeast bayous; new mown hay, lemon basil and wild bergamot tea from the Great Plains; linden blossom and Acadian pine from the Northeast; night-flowering desert flowers from the Southwest; and spicebush and incense cedar from the West and Northwest coast. Lost Highways is a perfume.
This is the alcohol free perfume, not an oil. It is also free of parabens, phthalates, PDGs and other unpleasant things. Alkemia is hand-blended and small batch perfumery using natural essences, ethically rendered accords, and lab-created aroma molecules.
Alkemia: "Complex and lovely scent. This has become my signature perfume over the last two years- bittersweet and spicy. I love how it lasts on my skin as well."
Fragrantica: "To me it opens very fruity floral sweet, then after settling it’s a sweet, sour, and spicy floral. I definitely get the sharp and spiciness of pine and maybe some cinnamon. Hay emerges after another few minutes. Not bad, but I’ve seen descriptions of flat soda at a gas stop and that’s all I can envision with this one. It’s a desolate area with a lot of plains and the sky is an orange-pink."
Fragrantica: "A very evocative scent, like stopping at a gas station in a rural area. I get the farmland vibe and a sharp scent like smoke or gasoline. Unfortunately like many scents designed to give the impression of a scene, it's wearability is limited. The smokiness could be considered unpleasant to some."
Fragrantica: "Starts very fruity and sweet, then gets more green/grassy. I definitely get the hay note. Something fresh spicy in the background that kind of warms up to a cinnamon/mossy fuzz, i like the drydown a bit more than the fruity opening."
