Brisk Autumn Sampler - Set of Ten 1/2ml Samples

We all can get a nostalgic flashback when we smell the scents of autumn (leaves, campfire smoke, damp earth, mushrooms, cooked marshmallows, apple cider, pumpkin, cinnamon, etc.). Words like cozy, crackling, crisp and crunchy describe the season. It turns out there's a scientific reason that people have a smell inextricably linked to the season in their head: it's a confluence of chemistry, biology and psychology that can trigger different emotions like anxiety, sadness or excitement depending on your personal collection of memories associated with the time of year.

"In summer, we have just more of a mixture of scent and sort of a wide blend of scent ... we smell a lot more of everything around us," said Rachel Herz, a neuroscientist and author of The Scent of Desire. "When it gets cooler and drier, specific scents tend to stand out more — we're able to kind of pull out the scent of leaves, the scent of bark, the scent of grass in more distinct ways." 

Beyond the man-made and commercial scents of pumpkin spice and apple pie, autumn has its own, much more natural smell. It’s the musty, earthy smell of dying and decomposing leaves blended with wet earth and maybe a bit of smoke from burning leaves. The dominant earthy smells are largely the product of plants hunkering down for the winter. Fallen leaves begin to decay and the sugars and organic compounds in the leaf break down, creating the classic musky-sweet smell of a leaf pile. Maple leaves, for example, have high contents of sugars and when decaying they release a pleasantly sweet, almost syrup-like scent. 

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

1. Bath Sabbath Bard's Song Perfume Oil - Woodsy and earthy with notes of fallen leaves, wet bark and fresh soil rounded out by patchouli and a hint of sugared berries.
2. LizabeCo Autumn Nights Parfum Oil - In the deepening twilight of fall, when the world seems to hold its breath, Autumn Nights beckons with an allure both haunting and beautiful. The scent begins with the bittersweet warmth of cinnamon and cloves, their spicy embrace reminiscent of crackling bonfires under blood-orange skies. There’s an ancient, almost forgotten sweetness to the fragrance, like the last apples of the season. The heart of this perfume is the dark, whispering presence of cedarwood, its earthy, smoky notes winding like a forgotten path through the woods. Yet, amidst the wood and spice, there’s something ethereal—an ephemeral note of sandalwood that swirls like a ghost’s lingering touch. The fragrance grows more intimate with each passing moment, a reminder that autumn is a season both of life and of loss. As the midnight hour draws near, the scent lingers, an echo of something that once was—a bittersweet remembrance of love, loss, and the eternal dance between the living and the dead. Autumn Nights is not merely a fragrance; it is a passage—a doorway to the quiet, gothic beauty of a world where the dead walk again, if only for thirty-one nights.  
3. Lovesick Witchery Pumpkin Patch Perfume Oil - The scent of a beautiful country pumpkin patch in autumn. Cool air flowing through hay bales stacked high, dying green grass, upturned dirt and carved pumpkins. This is a fresh pumpkin scent, rather than a classic gourmand or spiced pumpkin scent. A fresh, outdoorsy, scent with notes of hay bales, upturned dirt, dying green grass and freshly carved pumpkins.
4. Lunar Life Apothecary Ruins of a Garden Perfume Oil - From the Whispers of the Harvest Collection, step into a world where pumpkins grow wild amidst tangled herbs and fallen leaves, and the air is filled with the faint sweetness of anise hyssop and the earthy aroma of damp soil. This scent evokes the quiet magic of a place untouched by time—where the vibrant life of the past lingers in the shadows of overgrown paths and crumbling walls. With top notes of pumpkin flesh and anise hyssop; middle notes of dried herbs and Autumn leaves; and base notes of moss and damp earth.
5. Madam Moth's Parlour Into the Hollow Perfume Oil - Take a walk through the beautiful fields of Sleepy Hollow on a cool, crisp fall day. Featuring notes of eucalyptus, green sage, juniper berries, crushed grass and broken leaves. Just make sure to return home before nightfall...
6. Moonlight Cove Finery Harvest Moon Perfume Oil - The sky darkens and the moon rises early: pale-golden, full and bright - it casts a warm glow upon the land by which the harvest will be reaped long into the evening. The harvest moon is the full or nearly-full moon which appears at the time of the Autumn Equinox, signaling the time of harvest. On a few nights, the moon is big, full and luminous; and the crops are harvested vigorously into the night by the light of this moon. It is a time of hard work, celebration, abundance and thankfulness, and both a literal and symbolic reminder that you reap what you sow. A warm, Autumn blend of rich golden and dark amber, red cedarwood, and orange; spices of cinnamon, nutmeg, clove and allspice; notes of hay and fertile earth, myrrh, vanilla, whiskey and Fall apple, with a hint of harvest bonfire.
7. Obscura Hortus Ochre and Fire Perfume Oil - Cozy, sweet, with a touch of the outside autumn breeze, tree branches scraping at a sunshine flooded window. A faint ghosting of wildflowers and a hint of balsam dance atop heady patchouli and the sweet scent of wood. Clove, caramel and jasmine create a warm, inviting feeling, like being wrapped in your favorite sweater protected from a cold wind.
8. Paranormal Perfumes Season of the Witch Perfume Oil - Autumn witchcraft in a bottle. The scent of rustling leaves and whispering trees. Centuries of magic. Metaphysical storefronts and dim streetlights. Chanting from somewhere in the forest. Flickering candles. With notes of a spell bottle filled with cinnamon, patchouli, pine, cedarwood, crunchy fall leaves and a spiced fall drink.
9. Poesie Introvert Goblin Perfume Oil– Chai tea with extra cardamom, a cozy stack of old books, marshmallow and sweet pumpkin flesh enrobed in warm pumpkin spice.
10. Siren Song Elixirs Burning Leaves Perfume Oil – A beautiful fall fragrance of dried, windblown leaves set ablaze at dusk, creating an amber glow of embers and the sweet aroma of smoke in the evening air. It's the indescribable scent that is the herald of fall. It is an evocative, complex fragrance that combines top notes of dried leaves, charred wood and smoked sandalwood, with mid notes of toasted pecan and smoked vanilla, birch leaf and cinnamon leaf, and bottom notes of citrus, patchouli, cedar, vetiver and chrysanthemum.