Dirt, or soil, is a thin covering over the Earth's surface. Soil is a mix of eroded rock, mineral nutrients, rotting organic matter, water, air and lots and lots of small living organisms. The top layer of soil called the Surface Litter Layer and the next layer down, the Topsoil Layer or Humus, are full of that great earthy scent. This is a very popular note in fragrances today.
Christopher Brosius of CB I Hate Perfume says: “Dirt is still a note I use in a lot of my work. I've always thought dirt resonates so strongly with everyone because at some point in everyone’s childhood everyone has played in the dirt.” Of course, Brosius points out, the dirt you grew up in might be very different from the dirt that I played in, so olfactory recollection varies enormously, which is why CB I Hate Perfumes makes close to half a dozen fragrances with strong dirt notes. “The smell itself is so archetypal,” he says. “So it's always recognized and loved.”
This sampler features fragrances containing a "damp" earth or dirt note.
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 larger sized sampler.
- Perfumer H Smoke EDP - Smoke is an aromatic spicy fragrance that launched in 2016 and was created by Lyn Harris. The smell of the air after burning wood is fused with damp earth, wild herbs and clean spices to create a masterfully unique amber. It features top notes of Egyptian geranium, cistus and Russian coriander seed with a heart of Moroccan chamomile, Turkish rose and cardamom on a smoldering base of birch tar, agar, Atlas cedarwood and Mysore sandalwood, with warming resins of benzoin and frankincense.
- Solstice Scents Wilcox's Potting Shed EDP - Wilcox's Potting Shed features a bold earthen palette of damp potting soil, leaves laying across a cold stone floor, mushroom covered logs and stacks of terracotta dotted with moss. The spicy scent of fresh torn Genovese, Thai and Holy basil leaves permeates this blend along with a pervasive wood fragrance emitting from the soil-stained wooden potting table and wood rafters that hold the old metal roof of the shed aloft. This fragrance is at once dank and fresh, cool and wet, with warm spicy and woody overtones throughout the wear. Wilcox's Potting Shed features notes of damp soil, wooden rafters, spicy basil, mossy terracotta, mushroom, leaves and stone floor.
- Strangers Parfumerie Wicked John EDP - Wicked John is a fragrance that is exclusive to Bloom Perfumery in London and is their special project with Strangers Parfumerie. Wicked John is a combination of the John Wick character and scents you might associate with the eponymous trilogy: gunpowder, hot metal, dandy lavender, a freshly disturbed soil accord and dark rose with steel spikes for that bleeding heart that keeps going. It features notes of Atlas cedarwood, Damask rose, damp earth accord, elemi, gunpowder, hay absolute, ink, lavender, leather, metallic notes, gasoline, orris concrete, petrichor and tobacco.
- Agar Olfactory Damp Perfume - Damp is a speculative scent designed for a time when soil takes over abandoned anthropogenic structures. It is composed as a single molecule that is responsible for the majority of soil's smell. From their website: Year 3030: human extinction has allowed flora to propagate wildly, bursting through concrete and rigid architectural structures. the skin of the earth has restored itself to a microbially-dense state. soil bacteria celebrate wildly as rain showers dampen their surface. damp gives you a taste of this future; it’s a gentle whisper of a musty room in the middle of a forest, the breath of the earth as wet soil. Damp features notes of dampness, wet soil and earth.
- Solstice Scents Foxcroft EDP - If you've ever wished to literally bathe in the essence of a late-afternoon Autumn day, Foxcroft is for you. An incredible blend of wet decaying leaves, rich black soil, dry rustling leaves, Fall air, woods and chimney smoke, Foxcroft is cool air coupled with fiery red, orange and golden leaves, a sweet sharp green note, fertile wet dirt and a touch of woods laced with the intoxicating smoke from fireplaces burning throughout the countryside. Foxcroft is very potent on first sniff. It smells of very wet decaying leaves but on the skin it will evolve into a softer and more wearable scent with dry leaves and the soft smoke and wood notes.
