This sampler will take you on an armchair visit through Scotland. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Mainland Scotland has a 96-mile border with England to the southeast and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and the Irish Sea to the south. Scotland also contains more than 790 islands divided into four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides. From the Highlands to the islands, there are distilleries across Scotland that produce the world's finest whisky which is featured in this sampler. Other featured notes are heather, peat, Scots pine, petrichor, bog myrtle, gorse, tweed and salty sea air.
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 Selkie Perfume Oil - Hear your feet pounding across windswept dry grass through Scotch pine. Kick up dirt on your way to the sand and cypress trees at the dock, and finally, step into your power, wrap it around yourself like a second skin. Plunge into the waves of the ocean, the seaweed and the briny smell of freedom. A fragrance for all who are still landlocked and longing for the sea.
- Deep Midnight Perfumes Highland Mists Perfume Oil - Inspired by Scotland and the Outlander Series. Scotland is one of my favorite places to travel to, and I would actually love to move and live there one day. My first 21 day trip there was inspired after reading the first five books in the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon (who is one of the nicest authors I have ever met, and has answered many of my fan mail emails so kindly!) There is nothing quite like the feel of the air and atmosphere in Scotland when you are outside the cities. The misty fog, the islands, the shores, the glens, and even the rain hold a mystery that can blanket the body and make you feel like you are between the worlds. All the castles, moors, standing stones, and battlefields I visited there held a solemnity that I will never forget. It is one of the places of my deepest longings. This perfume, about one year in the making, is comprised of main notes of: Oakmoss, smoked peat, heather, woods, ozone, amber and background notes of musk and cedar. It is unisex tending slightly towards the feminine. Earthy, and slightly sharp, it warms down to the smoky peat finish with a hint of florals and woods.
- Freyja's Daughters Highland Magic Perfume Oil - Loaded with notes of sweet Scotch whisky, brown sugar, and butterscotch. It's everything you'd imagine the warmth of a cozy Kitchen Witch's cottage in the Scottish Highlands to be.
- Hex Mundi Summerisle Parfum - Welcome to Summerisle. The pleasant aroma of honey and the salty air of a Scottish island, culminating in the grand celebration, the burning of the Wicker Man.
- Jorum Studio Young Pretenders Extrait de Parfum – This scent takes thematic inspiration from Bonnie Prince Charlie and the romanticized, baronial aesthetic associated with historical Scottish portraits. Heather, saffron, rose and honey shape the initial impression with a gently floral, slightly spicy sweetness, while the drydown focuses on ambrette seed, beeswax, ambergris, tonka bean and vanilla, creating a warm, resinous and lightly animalic base that evolves toward a sweet, balsamic finish.
- Smells Like Books Sassenach Perfume - This scent brings to mind the Highlands of Scotlands and is based on the Highlander series. It features top notes of petitgrain and heather; middle notes of cypress, pine and juniper; and base notes of oakmoss and smoke.
