This sampler will take you on an armchair visit through Scotland. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Mainland Scotland has a 96-mile border with England to the southeast and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and the Irish Sea to the south. Scotland also contains more than 790 islands divided into four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides. From the Highlands to the islands, there are distilleries across Scotland that produce the world's finest whisky which is featured in this sampler. Other featured notes are heather, peat, Scots pine, petrichor, bog myrtle, gorse, tweed and salty sea air.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler:
- Deep Midnight Perfumes Highland Mists Perfume Oil - Inspired by Scotland and the Outlander Series. Scotland is one of my favorite places to travel to, and I would actually love to move and live there one day. My first 21 day trip there was inspired after reading the first five books in the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon (who is one of the nicest authors I have ever met, and has answered many of my fan mail emails so kindly!) There is nothing quite like the feel of the air and atmosphere in Scotland when you are outside the cities. The misty fog, the islands, the shores, the glens, and even the rain hold a mystery that can blanket the body and make you feel like you are between the worlds. All the castles, moors, standing stones, and battlefields I visited there held a solemnity that I will never forget. It is one of the places of my deepest longings. This perfume, about one year in the making, is comprised of main notes of: Oakmoss, smoked peat, heather, woods, ozone, amber and background notes of musk and cedar. It is unisex tending slightly towards the feminine. Earthy, and slightly sharp, it warms down to the smoky peat finish with a hint of florals and woods.
- Deep Midnight Perfumes Nessie Perfume Oil - "’Tis a fine, cool, crisp day in the highlands as the mist settles over the Loch. One might sense the faintest ripple in the water, a change in the sound the insects make and the general hush that comes over the nearby forest. Slowly she rises, a great leviathan in her own right, her scales shining in the semi-clouded sun. You did see her, didn't you, the lovely water horse? Better look again!" Imagine the highlands of Scotland and the gorgeous, mysterious Loch Ness and all that may arise from her depths. Nessie is comprised of main notes of deep dark waters, highland heather, green aquatics, forest greens, wormwood, mist and the faint and clean scent of a mysterious animal from the depths.
- Freyja's Daughters Highland Magic Perfume Oil - Loaded with notes of sweet Scotch whisky, brown sugar, and butterscotch. It's everything you'd imagine the warmth of a cozy Kitchen Witch's cottage in the Scottish Highlands to be.
- Freyja's Daughters Machrie Moor Perfume Oil - On the Isle of Arran in Scotland, located by the old Moss Farm, is Machrie Moor. Machrie Moor is an ancient ceremonial site consisting of 6 stone circles, cairns, burial mounds and remains, stretching out over the moors. The stone circles are each in varying conditions. Some standing tall, others buried in Peat. Some of these have been found to be erected on top of timber posts, which may have been the original circles. These timber structures have shown this site has been used for spiritual practices for 4500 years, though the excavation of this area has not been extensive and likely much more is to be found. Machrie Moor scent has note of moss, vetiver, bergamot and sea salt. This scent is citrusy from the bergamot and a heavy wet green from the moss and vetiver.
- Jorum Studio Gorseland Extrait de Parfum - Gorseland was created by Euan McCall and launched in 2022. It features top notes of gorse, apple, chamomile, lemon and lavender; middle notes of black elder, geranium and neroli; and a base note of cannabis.
- Jorum Studio Rose Highland Extrait de Parfum - A paper cut-out of a rose, tossed in saline sea air and blasted on jagged coastline rocks. With an impression of azalea, sweet basil, pink pepper, bell heater, clove bud, primrose, rhododendron, jasmine absolute, geranium oil and rose absolute and a fade of Atlantic oak, flag iris, vetiver, ambergris and mineral accord.
- Naughty Button Scottish Thistle EDP - Scottish herbs and forest foliage dance with notes of fresh apple, lavender, white spruce and wild rose. With top notes of green apple, geranium and clove; middle notes of lavender, spruce, white pine and rose; and base notes of Siberian fir needle and cedarwood.
- Nui Cobalt Kelpie Perfume Oil - The fearsome trixter of the Scottish countryside who transforms into a seductive woman or a beautiful horse in order to drown its prey. Warm brown leather and hay, twisted driftwood, ancient oak, ambergris accord, and sea foam.
- Potion Street Perfumes Hunter in the Highlands Perfume Oil- A poetic and masculine blend, this fragrance is a symphony of spicy-sweet notes, the tangy zest of lemon and French verbena, the verdant lushness of violet leaves and green Florentine iris, elevated by the loftiness of ambergris and Mysore sandalwood. It features top notes of bergamot, lavender, cyclamen, lemon and verbena; middle notes of eycalyptus, fern, red geranium, iris and violet; and base notes of cedarwood, labdanum, musk, olibanum, sandalwood and ambergris.
- Smells Like Books Sassenach Perfume - This scentbrings to mind the Highlands of Scotlands and is based on the Highlander series. It features top notes of petitgrain and heather; middle notes of cypress, pine and juniper; and base notes of oakmoss and smoke.
- Strangers Parfumers Scotch Peat EDP - Scotch Peat is a dark, cozy fragrance inspired by Lomros's travels around the Highlands and his visits to local whiskey distilleries. It is an earthy fragrance with the aromas of warm damp earth, curing fermenting hay and peaty booziness around the edges. It features top notes of artemisia, candied and dried fruits, lavender absolute, malted barley, peat and wormwood; middle notes of cade, cypress absolute, honey, labdanum, leather, milk chocolate, orris, smoke, spruce and whiskey; and base notes of Atlas cedarwood, old oak barrel, Clearwood™, hay absolute, moss and tonka beans.
