There is something special about horses. I don't think there is an animal in the world that smells as good as a horse! Granted, I was totally into horses as a kid. Had the little western outfits, wrote horse stories, took riding lessons and spent plenty of time with horses but if maybe just a sweaty horse perfume isn't for you, then these fragrances blend in notes of grass, hay, leather and woods to create some gorgeous fragrances.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler:
- Aether Arts Perfume Tea & Tahki Voile de Parfum - Experience the austere beauty and warm hospitality of Mongolian Horse Culture with Tea & Takhi. Central to Mongolia’s culture and heritage are the Takhi (native, wild horses). Nowhere are horses more central to daily life than in Mongolia. A traditional proverb sums it up: "A Mongol without a horse is like a bird without the wings." Within a land of fiercely independent, nomadic herdsman, horses are regarded as a source of both life and wealth. Horses also play a significant role in Mongolian spiritual beliefs; the word Takhi translates to Spirit or Spiritual. Mares’ milk is used for religious offerings and to made various foods such as Suutei Tsai (Mongolian Milk Tea) which is salty rather than sweet and is often enriched with butter. If you are ever to visit Mongolia, you will be welcomed with this warm and nourishing beverage which is an important part of Mongolian hospitality. Tea & Takhi perfume creates the moment and place with an evocative and unusual group of notes not often seen together: tea, salt, butter, smoke, grass, hay, leather and horses. You are greeted by the scent of salty, buttered, Lapsang Souchong tea brewed over an open fire in a metal kettle. Notes of grass and hay conjure the open grasslands of the Mongolian steppes. While a leather and warm horse accord—featuring real oud—brings the sense of leather tack warmed with animal sweat and sets you firmly in the saddle. With top notes of tea, salt, butter and smoke; middle notes of grass and hay; and base notes of smoke, leather and horses.
- Alpha Musk New Pony Perfume Oil - Warm buttery breath, sun kissed shiny fur musk and amber white ethereal accord.
- BeauFort London Iron Duke EDP - A strikingly powerful fragrance with animalic depths, Iron Duke revels in and blurs the man / beast dichotomy. The fragrance creates an apparition of horse and rider: bright metal, cognac, snuff and saddle soap atop a base of oud, animalic leather and hay. Created by Julie Dunkley, it features notes of snuff tobacco, metal, alcohol, Cambodian oud, star anise, animalic notes, saddle soap, leather, metal, burnt wood, gunpowder, hay, dark musks and bourbon.
- Dawn Spencer Hurwitz (DSH) Dutchess Meadows Voile de Parfum - A dream and memory fragrance of spring grass, new mown hay, meadow flowers, and soil… wet with snowmelt. Horse barns and cow pastures roll along the countryside subtly adding their honey-like charm to the base note accord. Riding along the countryside with all of the windows rolled down in the early afternoon on a sunny spring day in Dutchess County is how the perfumer can breathe in a favorite smell of hers. In her psyche this scent is synonymous with a sense of blossoming and the Earth’s renewal. It is what dreams are made of for her. Rural Dutchess County isn’t all that far north of New York City but it is filled with completely different imagery and smells. The City is full of gritty grease and petrol smells, sweet and savory food smells, mixed with funky ‘animal and human’ waste smells most of the time. The country is known for its funky aromas, too: while Dutchess County in the spring is filled with dewy new hay, green grasses beginning to sprout, and flowers bursting through moist earth, there are loads of horses and cows filling the air with their smells as well. Dutchess Meadows is all that is dreamy and beautiful, scent wise, from the perfumer's childhood memories… it’s atmospheric, humid, sweet, round, sun-warmed hay fields with meadow flowers (and some horse and cow barns nearby). Very dreamy indeed. With top notes of bergamot, clary sage, clover leaf, French lavender, green clover blossom, green grass, Tunisian neroli and violet leaf absolute; middle notes of hay absolute, rose petals, Bulgarian rose absolute, Grandiflorum jasmine, liatrix, labdanum and acacia honey absolute; and base notes of Australian sandalwood, Brazilian vetiver, castoreum, coumarin, green oakmoss, horse (animalic accord), leather and Oud Crassna.
- Nui Cobalt Equinophilia: Love of Horses Perfume Oil - A magnificent creature of effortless grace and power. Toasted oats, green and golden hay, living cedar, deep auburn musk, chestnuts, corn silk, saddle leather and galbanum.
- Parfum D'Empire Ruade Extrait de Parfum - Mane, hooves, neighs, gallop, jump… Ruade. A kick from the animal for a perfume that packs a punch. All the fervor of the horse is distilled in this exceptional fragrance, built around a profusion of natural oud, or agarwood. A perfume-memory of returning to the stables after a weekend of show jumping. A discipline long practiced by Marc-Antoine Corticchiato and one which he conjures here – the adrenalin of competition, the euphoria of going back to the stables... A perfume-universe, that of the equestrian world, when the horses have been unloaded from the truck and escorted to their stalls. Next out of the van are the tack trunks, from which emanate a mixture of strong animalic smells: leather from the harness and gaiters, saliva from the bits, perspiration from the saddle pads, pine tar for smearing on hooves, remnants of straw and hay on the blankets... To capture the scent of opening the tack trunks, Marc-Antoine chose the most wayward material in perfumery: oud essence. Distilled since the year 1000, the fragrant resin is the result of an infection of the Aquilaria tree, after a very slow process evolving over several decades. This sumptuous liquid gold, used here in overdose, displays all its panache. Narcissus, wild and floral, exalts the indolent character of Ruade, with its mane note and straw-like effects. Cut hay absolute lends its power to the evocation of haystacks, whose trail permeates the air and sends horses into a frenzy. An intrepid perfume with precious materials in overdose, saturated with animality and as rebellious as the equine kick.
- Perfumer H Saddle EDP - An olfactory expression of a sculptural layer on the skin, Saddle evokes the tactility and warmth of worn saddle leather molded over time to the contours of the body—smooth and textural. With animalic tones, it is both tenacious and elegant, its character rooted in a sophisticated simplicity—yet with unexpected, compelling nuance. With notes of Italian bergamot, aldehydes, orange flower absolute, Egyptian jasmine absolute, Indonesian patchouli, benzoin resin, vanilla absolute and amber.
- Strange Charm Design Le Poulain Perfume Oil - Gangly legs and a soft mane galloping through a field of sweetgrass, with musky sandalwood, sweet saddle suede, and a snack of hay and ripe pears. Please note: this scent is inspired by an afternoon with horses, but it is not meant to be a literal horse or barn smell.
