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:
- Cirrus Parfum Palomino Perfume Oil – Mid-morning in late September we were riding out to take a look at your mother’s land. It had rained late night and the warming air was heavy and aromatic. The ground was covered in a mix of damp dried grasses, sage brush and cactus. The horse you had lent me was a young and calmly rebellious palomino. He shifted his weight slowly onto a hoof he had placed on my right boot; was he testing me? With notes of white sage, coriander, clove, sweet dry grasses, tobacco flower, creosote, leather, patchouli, vetiver, amber and natural Cambodian oud.
- 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.
- Demeter Stable Cologne - Fresh hay and muck and sweet animal sweat. Stable is inspired by Demeter’s warehouse, located in Pennsylvania, which is surrounded by vast open land and hundreds of stables. You cannot go down a local street without running into a farm or barn housing horses.
- Maison Crivelli Oud Stallion Extrait de Parfum - Purebred saffron, cardamom mane, nutmeg stirrup, spicy reins. In the saddle: oud stallion, animalic rose. Under starter's orders... Stride: cedar acceleration, patchouli fence, tonka turn. A leathery, woody, smoky gallop! The defining adventure: smelling oud wood while attending a horse race. The surprising contrast: a smoky leather contrasting with the depth of oud wood. It is a leather woody fragrance that features notes of ORPUR cardamom absolute from India, oud, nutmeg essential oil from Indonesia, saffron, ORPUR rose absolute from Turkey, cedarwood essential oil from Morocco, leather accord, ORPUR patchouli oil from Indonesia and roasted tonka bean absolute from Venezuela. The ORPUR label brings together the finest natural perfume ingredients from the Givaudan perfume house.
- 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.
- 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.
