This sampler gives you fragrances that are reminiscent of being in the middle of a majestic forest. The smell of the forest is a complex blend of scents, often described as earthy, woody, and fresh. It's a result of various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by trees and other vegetation. The smell of damp earth, sometimes described as petrichor, is a key component, especially after rain. This is due to the chemical compound geosmin, which is released by soil bacteria and gives the earth a characteristic earthy undertone. Pine and cedar trees contribute a fresh, resinous scent. The pungent aroma of pine needles and cones is often mentioned when describing forest smells. Another factor that contributes to the inviting smell of a forest includes the earthy notes that make up the forest floor. This is usually a layer of decomposing leaves, twigs, and other organic matter, creating an earthy aroma that is often described as musty or rich. Other scents include decaying wood, moss, foliage, moisture, decomposing leaves, mushrooms, herbs and plants, fruity scents, fresh air and wildflowers.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.
- Alkemia Ydalir Perfume Oil (Private Reserve) - Mysterious, smoky, and primal. A 100% natural scent of Megalithic ancestral memory - 35 million year old fossilized amber resin, oakmoss absolute, Siberian black pine, smoked juniper tar and balsam pine needles.
- Firebird Woodland Perfume Oil - The essence of the forest - all green leaves and stems and twisting vines, bark and wood, damp moss, and pine needles crunching underfoot. Clean and cool, woodsy and green - yet softer and sweeter than your typical evergreen outdoor-type scent… more like smelling the outdoors on someone's skin or in a dream. More feminine than you'd expect, given all the green and earthy notes. Mysterious. With notes of moss, evergreen and galbanum.
- Moonlight Cove Finery In The Deep Wood Perfume Oil - Deep in the old wood, amongst the ancient trees where the moonlit mist glows, and the faeries dwell in the hollows; a sacred place alive with the spirits of nature, veiled beneath a canopy of evergreen, and the darkness whispers its arcane secrets. Forest pines, cedar, firs, tall black spruce and cypress with deep roots in primeval earth, blankets of lush moss over log and stone. Clinging ivy, wild herbs and flora, and the green, damp scent of forest mist.
- Apoteker Tepe Anabasis – A long journey upland, a wind through the trees in early spring. Cool and distant, wild and free. Anabasis (from the Greek 'to go upward') is an expedition from the coast to the interior of a country. It is also the title of two great works that describe such a journey, one by Xenophon and one by Saint-John Perse. Anabasis is adventurous and mysterious, bringing the scent of Japanese shiso and mint wafting through a forest of cedar and pine. With notes of citrus, shiso, birch, mint, pine, cedar and musk.
- Stardust and Stems Winter Forest Enchantment Parfum - This fragrance will transport you to a Nordic Cottagecore Winter Wonderland. Standing in an icy grotto, the stillness echoes under blankets of snow; there’s nothing to see but white. A clean slate – utterly empty but full of possibilities. While the sterile coldness feels as though the world has frozen into almost nothing, poking from beneath the white is the evergreen. In the quiet simplicity of this Winter Forest, all is calm, all is bright, and we’re reminded of the magical enchantment conjured by solace in nature. A woody, balsamic, spicy and fresh fragrance with top notes of balsam fir, juniper, mandarin, Scots pine and wintergreen; middle notes of cardamom, cinnamon, coffee, ho wood and tonka; and base notes of Peru balsam, Atlas cedar, frankincense, labdanum, copaiba and vetiver. Vegan.
- Alpha Musk Forest Haze Perfume Oil - With notes of waxy rosewood sap, nooka tree, thick aged oakmoss, green amber, muhuhu wood and fog looming around the moss covered roots.
