All perfume samples are authentic fragrances that Surrender to Chance, Topeka, KS, has rebottled into smaller sample and decant sizes, repackaged and distributed. Surrender to Chance has no affiliation, connection or association with the manufacturers or brand owners of the perfumes.
KOT is a collaboration between Fischersund and Farmers Market, two creative Icelandic families that capture the essence of cozy, campfire moments and slow family rituals outdoors. Dry hay in a sheltered barn. Grass-stained trousers and a frayed wool sweater. Rolled pancakes dusted with sugar, stacked inside an old biscuit tin. Burnt marshmallow melting on a birch branch. Logs added to the fire as the bottle is passed around. Sparks disappear into the sky. Voices raised in song fill the summer night. KOT features notes of cedarwood, cypress, suede, fresh hay and marzipan. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
Fragrantica: "Gorgeous new release by Fischersund in collaboration with Farmers Market! Smoldering scent that isn't "smoky", if that makes any sense. Definitely retains the Fischersund DNA with some earthy notes. I've always found it difficult to describe their perfumes - they invoke more of a feeling that I get when I wear them - comforting, healing, mysterious. Mystical, hypnotizing."
cafleurbon: "KOT opens like you’re stepping outside into the country air. There’s a clean freshness stained with light wooded tones and pale blond hay facets. It feels so cosy making me think of how houses smell after being cleaned with Norwegian green soap. It’s a fresh cedar aroma with the hay adding a subtle sweetness. A soft haze of smoke adds a subtle density leaning into the hay’s texture. It’s the scent of smoke from a distance, a signal that pulling you closer. KOT’s smokiness never overwhelms, the cool air accord keeps it diffused. Yet when you get more intimate with KOT there’s a delicious soft char whispering of darkness. Jónsi elevates the hay’s sweetness, bringing out a nutty vanilla to balance the composition. KOT wears like an elegant subtly complex drone. It’s modulated with subtle hooks and rhythms that keep you wanting to smell it more. KOT feels happy, like a smile that appears when you remember something lovely. Toasted marzipan’s sweetness plays nicely with KOT’s sensual suede side. You feel its nap glide gently over you. Taking the hays texture and making it something you want to melt into. Wood smoke wraps around you like a soft furry animal. It’s a white smoke tinged with greys flickering with reds and woody greens. Cypress gives KOT a fresh, clean earthiness with a crisp woodiness adding more to the fire’s smoke with a subtle balsamic kiss, as cedar adds more logs to the bonfire off in the distance. It picks out more of the vanillic facets of KOT giving it this delicious but subtle sweetness. While the hay brings out a sun-dried fresh feel. KOT captures the feeling of happiness and togetherness while being spacious. Like a long walk outdoors when the sun never fades."
