New Orleans is a city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of Louisiana. With a population of nearly 400,000, it is the most populous city in Louisiana. It is world-renowned for its distinctive music, Creole cuisine, unique dialects, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street. The city has been described as the "most unique" in the United States, owing in large part to its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. Essentially an island between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans is a city defined and shaped by waterways.
New Orleans is full of wonderful smells. A lot of those are food related. You can't walk around the French Quarter without swooning over the smells of Creole and Cajun food, crawfish, beignets, French bread, chickory coffee, etc. But then there are the natural splendors of New Orleans. The south is on full display here - jasmine, sweet olive, gardenia, magnolia, angels' trumpets, mossy trees, the muddy Mississippi and swamp waters. Not all smells are totally favorable but even Bourbon Street has its charms. Then there's Mardi Gras with its cheap plastic beads, cotton candy, king cake, diesel fumes and alcohol. Plus there are the cemeteries and shaded walks through stately neighborhoods. As I read in Dat Nola Chic The Scent of New Orleans: "New Orleans has this scent, fragrance, aroma that is an indescribable blend of it all, but once those fingertips dance around your nose, giving you a whiff of it, you will want to live in it, your sense will explode, and your heart will swell. The scent of New Orleans is so intoxicating, and there’s no sobering up, there’s no fix, but to be here." And since most of you can't be there, you can experience New Orleans through this sampler. You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.
- Alkemia Laveau Perfume - Based on one of Marie Laveau's most legendary formulas for love, protection, and personal success. Includes crossroads jasmine, almond blossoms, white carnations, red roses, Indonesian patchouli, cinnamon and Bourbon vanilla along with secret ingredients.
- Calypso's Cottage The French Quarter Perfume Oil - The French Quarter redefines freshness through the lens of gothic elegance. Think damp cathedrals kissed by citrus light, graveyard moss uplifted by white florals, and stone and shadow softened by skin-warmed musk. A darkly romantic fragrance collection inspired by the decadent elegance and haunted soul of New Orleans' French Quarter. It captures New Orleans at its most mysterious and sensual, with all the gothic richness and timeless allure of the Quarter itself. The echoes of jazz in the humid air. Velvet curtains drawn against the storm. Perfume soaked into lace.... long after midnight. With notes of magnolia, labdanum, amber resin and vanilla.
- Calypso’s Cottage St. Louis Cemetery Perfume – Inspired by the haunting beauty of New Orleans’ most iconic necropolis, it conjures the quiet majesty of moss-draped tombs under a rain-darkened sky. The opening captures the coolness of nightfall after a summer storm—ozonic and a little electric, like charged silence. As the rain settles, damp soil and moss begin to bloom, grounding the experience in something dark, green, and deeply rooted. The cedar arrives later—old, worn, aromatic—with a whisper of rot and reverence. A mysterious, quietly gothic fragrance with top notes of night air and rainwater accord; middle notes of wet earth and green moss; and base notes of aged cedar, lichen and stone.
- Cherry Ka's Trunk The Garden District Perfume Oil - Wrought iron warmed by the dapples of the sun streaming through the massive boughs of ancient oak, bursting with Carnival beads and Spanish moss hanging heavy from the trees. The aroma of osmanthus, indolent flowers, French and Spanish lavender fills the streets, heady with life and decay, crumbling above ground marble mausoleums, awnings that survived hurricanes, and go cups filled to bursting with cooling sweet tea, all presided over by one of the biggest magnolia trees in the South.
- Deep Midnight Perfumes King Cake Perfume Oil - Based on the traditional and scrumptious Mardi Gras King Cake which is made with a yeasty bread and Danish type dough, braided and filled with cinnamon and sometimes various fruits jams or nuts and then topped with sugary or cream cheese frostings. King Cake is made around the world and is traditionally served around Epiphany and the pre-Lenten festival of Mardi Gras. The one who finds the baby charm inside the cake will have good luck year round. This perfume oil is a semi-sweet gourmand comprised of: yeasty bread dough, cinnamon sugar, vanilla, a touch of cream cheese frosting and a dab of strawberry filling. It's has that good yeasty bread/ Danish smell with the cinnamon lingering a long time.
- Eldritch Whispers Axeman Jazz Perfume - Every jazz club in New Orleans is roaring tonight. Dark rum is flowing and smoky cigars fill the room. March neroli blooms and pink pepper linger in the night air. You better get swinging, before the Axeman beats you to it.
- Ghost Ship Scentporium Royal Street EDP - Turn down the worn cobblestones of one of the world's most unmistakable streets and soak in the unique experience of New Orleans' fabled Royal Street. With the first whiff, this gourmand blend of morning mist, coffee, bananas foster, antique shop and vanilla oak will transport you to the most secret corners of the French Quarter.
- Hyde & Hollow French Quarter Perfume Oil- The gaslights sputter against the thick New Orleans fog, their glow swallowed by the creeping dark. The café, once lively with voices and music, has gone deathly still. Bergamot and lavender hang in the humid air, clinging to the old wooden beams like ghosts of the past. A forgotten cup of cardamom-laced milk cools at the edge of the table, untouched, as if its owner had vanished into the night. A chair scrapes softly behind you. You turn, but no one is there—only the scent of vanilla, thick and cloying, curling through the air like a whispered warning. The door is open, the street beyond still alive with the echoes of jazz and drunken laughter, but you already know it’s too late. The shadows shift, closing in, and you finally understand. You were never alone. The last thing you taste is sweet cream and spice—before the world goes black. The French Quarter is decadent, dangerous, and unforgiving. With notes of lavender, milk, bergamot, cardamom, vanilla and tonka.
- Lizabe Parfum Legends of the French Quarter Parfum Oil - A fragrance woven from the whispers of time, where the air hangs heavy with the scent of secrets, and the veil between the living and the dead grows thin. As the first note unfurls, the sharp, enigmatic bite of absinthe slices through the fog, its green, herbal bitterness mingling with the haunting darkness of history. It coils around you like an ancient curse, a silent promise that something lingers in the shadows, watching, waiting. The scent shifts as the spirit of the French Quarter embraces you—a deep, moss-draped earthiness of oakmoss rising from the decaying bricks of forgotten mansions, where ghosts of the past still linger. Underneath this, the warm, sultry amber breathes life into the scent, adding a haunting richness like the ambered light of candlelit rooms, long abandoned, now full only of the echoes of long-dead whispers. A flicker of sage ignites—a fleeting, mysterious note that seems to dance like the flickering of an old flame, reminiscent of rituals and forgotten spells, a reminder of the spirits that roam freely, tethered to the land. The bright zest of orange follows, an unanticipated burst of clarity in the midst of darkness, like the sudden, sharp cry of a distant bird echoing through the murky alleyways—vibrant yet quickly consumed by shadow. Lavender arrives next, soft and ethereal, like a dream on the edge of memory, bringing a delicate, almost mournful calm, as if trying to soothe the restless spirits that stir in the undercurrent of the Quarter. It sways between sharpness and sweetness, a reminder that even in darkness, beauty can be found. Finally, the deep, dark sweetness of tonka bean swells and settles, enveloping the wearer in its warm, velvety embrace. The scent is intoxicating—a sensual pull that lingers like a lover’s promise, the last vestige of a night that never quite ends. It weaves everything together into an inescapable spell, keeping you tethered between two worlds, a fleeting sensation of time suspended. Legends of the French Quarter is not merely a fragrance, but an experience—a scent that follows you through the mist, urging you to unlock the secrets of the past, while warning you of the dangers in embracing them. It is the fragrance of those who never truly leave, of stories carved into the bones of a city where the dead refuse to rest.
