"Southern charm" in perfume embodies a blend of warm, sweet and floral notes, often featuring magnolia, peach, vanilla and magnolia. These scents evoke Southern hospitality and nostalgia, ranging from fresh garden florals to rich, comforting, or sophisticated fruity florals. Magnolia, rose, jasmine and citrus are often used to mimic a Southern garden while peach nectar, raspberry and honeysuckle are sometimes combined with cognac or tea for depth.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler:
- Cherry-Ka’s Trunk Southern Drawl Perfume Oil - A truly Southern Gothic scent with notes of low-hanging Spanish moss, cypress knees rising out of the bayou, a honeyed accent, dripped peach brandy and a spatter of gunpowder green tea.
- CocoaPink Georgia Perfume - The unmistakable scent of spring and summer in Georgia that has endured for many generations past. Beautiful, white magnolia blooms, sweet lemon, ripe watermelon and the subtle yet gentle aroma of freshly picked garden herbs and an extra hint of pure southern charm.
- Death & Floral Bless Your Heart Honey EDP - Dark vanilla cream bourbon, honeyed mint leaves, sugared oranges and sweet southern blessings.
- Demeter Sweet Tea Cologne - Tea, lemon and sugar. Lots and lots of sugar - the ultimate refreshment. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really, it's culture in a glass.
- Eldritch Whispers Southern Gothic EDP - An eerie blend of peche de vigne, cardamom rum, tonka and vanilla Cashmeran.
- Freyja's Daughters Southern Gothic Perfume Oil - Southern Gothic opens with the intoxicating scent of night blooming jasmine and black violet, lush, nocturnal, and gently overgrown. Powdered sugarcane lends a delicate sweetness, like dust on forgotten lace, while smooth velvet, dried rose buds and bay leaf evoke the hush of parlor rooms and faded grandeur. Incense lingers like memory, warm and spectral. This is haunted femininity - beautiful, ghostly, and tender. A scent for those drawn to the romance of ruin, elegant decay, and the quiet power of what endures. There are whispers across the South of mourning belles who drift through graveyards, trailing the scent of ghost flowers in their wake. Some speak of the Lady in White of Selma, Alabama, gliding between tombstones in search of a love lost to war. Others recall Alice Flagg of coastal Carolina, buried in her bridal gown, still clutching the memory of a forbidden ring. These women leave behind more than legend. They leave an atmosphere: heavy with night-blooming jasmine and shadowed violets, a hush of perfume that clings to the air like memory. Their presence lingers in the hush of dusk, in the bloom of moonflowers that open only for the dead. A spectral bouquet for every Southern belle who loved too deeply, mourned too long, and left behind a trail of petals no storm could wash away. It smells like sweet southern charm, decadent decay, romantic ruin and fading elegance. With notes of night-blooming jasmine, black violets, dried rosebuds, haunting graveyard mists, powdered sugarcane, velvet and moss. Inspired by the many southern belles who linger in heartbreak, mourning and loss.
- Imaginary Authors Saint Julep EDP - This fragrance may conjure memories of your first wild experiences in the American South, running through the sprinklers and sweet conversations with your grandparents. With notes of sweet mint, tangerine, magnolia, bourbon, Grisalva, sugarcube and crushed ice.
- Nui Cobalt Bees on the Bayou 2022 Perfume Oil - A dark, seductive blend for a sultry southern evening. Vines heavy with honeysuckle entwined with Easter lily, linden blossom and neroli over a sweet foundation of pipe tobacco, pralines and creamed honey.
- Olympic Orchids Carolina Parfum - Carolina is a sweet floral-gourmand fougere-type scent reminiscent of the American South. It takes you from a day spent among sun-warmed pine woods, grassy fields and roadsides sprinkled with wildflowers through lunch in a diner that serves iced sweet tea and fresh-baked banana bread, into a warm, humid night sweetened with the scent of night-fragrant flowers and the persistent undercurrent of tonka-rich tobacco curing in the wooden barns and historic red brick factories. With notes of longleaf pine, hay absolute, magnolia, kudzu flower, tea, honeysuckle, star jasmine, vanilla, tonka and tobacco leaf.
- Sixteen92 Only Children Weep Parfum - Inspired by the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Frequently banned or challenged in school districts across the US and Canada, usually due to "use of racial slurs, inappropriate content, adult themes, and objectionable language." They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it – seems that only children weep. It is a sweet warm-weather fruity-floral with southern charm with notes of sweet tea, azalea, red clay, rhubarb, dry wood and cement.
- Sixteen92 The Sound and The Fury Parfum – Inspired by Southern Gothic literature, it is a warm and earthy green floral. This one works equally well in warm and cooler weather. With notes of southern sweet tea, Carolina jessamine, balsam, fern, warm musk and loam.
- Snowy White Owl Perfumery Carolinas Perfume Oil - This scent has fruits of blackberry and peach, popular in the south, sugar and lemon, because you can’t have sweet tea without, at least, sugar, and that beautiful southern floral note of heady magnolia. Mint tobacco is thrown in for a gourmand but the real diamond in this scent is reminiscent of the scent from Charleston, South Carolina, home of the sweetgrass. For many years, beautiful baskets have been made by the Gullah peoples living in these regions, their cultural knowledge coming from West Africa. The original baskets were made from bulrush but, later in the early 1900’s, sweetgrass came into the picture. With notes of sweetgrass, blackberry, juicy peach, breezy aquatic notes, mint tobacco, magnolia, sugar and lemon.
- Solstice Scents Southern Veranda EDP – A southern floral fragrance with notes of lemon, magnolia, sun-warmed grass, green tea, green leaves, sparkleberry flowers, amber, antique garden roses, blonde woods, warm soil and powdered sugar.
- Strange Charm Nectar Perfume Oil - A sticky southern summer: sweet drops of nectar squeezed from wild honeysuckle, a bushel of ripe peaches, sweet black tea, bergamot, hints of honeycomb and orange blossom and the velvety musk backdrop of a million thrumming cicadas.
- The Little Book Eater Reading on the Porch Perfume Oil - Inspired by the joy of reading outside in the open air. Made with scents of iced tea, lemon, honeysuckle and sugar. The perfect combination for breathing deeply, living simply and enjoying a great book. A fresh floral blend of iced tea, lemon, honeysuckle and sugar.
- The Little Book Eater Southern Belle Perfume Oil - Inspired by the classic southern belle. Made with the scents of delicious pink lemonade, fresh lime and sugar. The perfect combination for warm summer nights, parades and balls, and celebrating life in the heart of a community.
- Vintner's Reserve Mint Julep Perfume Oil - A Kentucky staple that will completely immerse you in the Derby experience. Muddled fresh mint and sugar, bourbon, and a splash of seltzer water make up this classic Derby cocktail.
- Vintner's Reserve Southern Sweet Tea Perfume Oil – The perfect reminder of summer nights sitting on your front porch. A blend of black and white teas, made with heaping spoonfuls of sugar, served over ice and finished with a squeeze of fresh lemon.
