Fischersund Faux Flora Discovery Sampler Coffret - Set of Five 1/2ml Samples

Fischersund Faux Flora is a sensorial display of a plant’s life cycle displayed through human milestones, exhibited and premiered at the National Nordic Museum. Inspired by the small number of native plant species in their home country of Iceland, Fischersund creates, names, and bring to life their own set of Icelandic plants. Progressing through five parts, Faux Flora weaves together two forms of life. The plant life cycle—germination, growth, flowering, seed formation and seed dispersal—is superimposed on the life cycle of a human - birth, childhood, adolescence, maturity and old age. Faux Flora springs from universal experiences, creating mythical flowers that are otherworldly yet familiar. The set features the five fragrances featured in the exhibition. Each fragrance is hand-crafted and hand-poured in Iceland. In the Fall of 2024, the National Nordic Museum presented the world premiere of Fischersund's first-ever museum exhibition, Faux Flora which was an immersive experience of scent, sound and visual art. It was organized in five consecutive parts in which the stages of a human life (birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, death) mirror those of plant development (germination, growth, flowering, seed formation, seed dispersal). An immersive exhibition, it is inspired by Iceland, its landscape and native plants. Moving through it—preferably slowly—while registering its myriad surprises, inhaling its varied scents through the successive stages, among them milk, fresh laundry, grass stains, mascara, cigarette smoke, tangled roots, cardboard boxes, ash, and blackened earth, feels like a voyage of discovery. Remarkably, this is the first-ever exhibition for the Fischersund Art Collective, although its members are hardly art novices and have collaborated with one another for years, just not as a full-on group. The collective consists of four siblings, each with their own talents and expertise which really mesh here: musician/artist/self-taught perfumer Jónsi (he’s also the frontman, singer, and guitarist in the great Icelandic band Sigúr Rós) and artists Inga Birgisdóttir, Lilja Birgisdóttir, and Sigurrós Birgisdóttir. 

You will receive a set of five 1/2ml samples of this set. All fragrances are eau de parfum, edp.

1. FAUX FLORA No. 1 features key elements of porcelain, mountain milk, concrete, cotton, dust and saliva. With top notes of bergamot and solar flare; middle notes of cream, salt and iris; and base notes of white musk, Ambroxan and ISO Gamma Super.
2. FAUX FLORA No. 2 features key elements of paintbrush, sugar rush, grass stains, growing pains, Band-Aids and orange peel. With top notes of lemon peel, lavender and bell pepper; middle notes of tomato leaf, petitgrain, salt licorice and raspberry; and base notes of cedarwood, vetiver and musk.
3. FAUX FLORA No. 3 features key elements of lipstick, leather shoes, cigarette smoke, mascara and spilled cocktails. With top notes of pink pepper and bergamot; middle notes of lipstick, magnolia and rose; and base notes of vanilla, leather and sugar.
4. FAUX FLORA No. 4 features key elements of golden amber, resin tears, sweet labdanum, tangled roots, combined efforts and a cardboard box. With top notes of pine and spice; middle notes of oil, incense and cypress; and base notes of balsam, musk, cedarwood, resin, sandalwood, Cashmeran and amber. 
5. FAUX FLORA No. 5 features key elements of absorption of all light, dead vessel, ash and blackened earth. With top notes of dirt, red wine and ash; middle notes of cypriol and leather; and base notes of patchouli, vetiver, oud, smoke, civet, indole and petrichor.