All perfume samples are authentic fragrances that Surrender to Chance, Topeka, KS, has rebottled into smaller sample and decant sizes, repackaged and distributed. Surrender to Chance has no affiliation, connection or association with the manufacturers or brand owners of the perfumes.
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."
