New Orleans is a city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of Louisiana. With a population of nearly 400,000, it is the most populous city in Louisiana. It is world-renowned for its distinctive music, Creole cuisine, unique dialects, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street. The city has been described as the "most unique" in the United States, owing in large part to its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. Essentially an island between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans is a city defined and shaped by waterways.
New Orleans is full of wonderful smells. A lot of those are food related. You can't walk around the French Quarter without swooning over the smells of Creole and Cajun food, crawfish, beignets, French bread, chickory coffee, etc. But then there are the natural splendors of New Orleans. The south is on full display here - jasmine, sweet olive, gardenia, magnolia, angels' trumpets, mossy trees, the muddy Mississippi and swamp waters. Not all smells are totally favorable but even Bourbon Street has its charms. Then there's Mardi Gras with its cheap plastic beads, cotton candy, king cake, diesel fumes and alcohol. Plus there are the cemeteries and shaded walks through stately neighborhoods. As I read in Dat Nola Chic The Scent of New Orleans: "New Orleans has this scent, fragrance, aroma that is an indescribable blend of it all, but once those fingertips dance around your nose, giving you a whiff of it, you will want to live in it, your sense will explode, and your heart will swell. The scent of New Orleans is so intoxicating, and there’s no sobering up, there’s no fix, but to be here." And since most of you can't be there, you can experience New Orleans through this sampler. You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.
- Alkemia New Orleans Love Spell Perfume Oil- This is an old hoodoo recipe that was used to entice love, enhance sexual attraction, and stimulate romantic attentions. A lascivious blend of night-flowering New Orleans jasmine and fiery spices igniting a base of red sandalwood and skin musk.
- Hyde & Hollow French Quarter Perfume Oil- The gaslights sputter against the thick New Orleans fog, their glow swallowed by the creeping dark. The café, once lively with voices and music, has gone deathly still. Bergamot and lavender hang in the humid air, clinging to the old wooden beams like ghosts of the past. A forgotten cup of cardamom-laced milk cools at the edge of the table, untouched, as if its owner had vanished into the night. A chair scrapes softly behind you. You turn, but no one is there—only the scent of vanilla, thick and cloying, curling through the air like a whispered warning. The door is open, the street beyond still alive with the echoes of jazz and drunken laughter, but you already know it’s too late. The shadows shift, closing in, and you finally understand. You were never alone. The last thing you taste is sweet cream and spice—before the world goes black. The French Quarter is decadent, dangerous, and unforgiving. With notes of lavender, milk, bergamot, cardamom, vanilla and tonka.
- Olympic Orchids Mardi Gras Extrait de Parfum - Created by Ellen Covey in 2015, Mardi Gras is based on the grand party that New Orleans puts on every year in late winter. It’s a rainbow-hued, glittering, skanky, riotous, celebration of everything there is to celebrate, flowing in and out like a shiny snake amidst the flower-strewn, humidity-drenched, decaying streets of the French Quarter. Mardi Gras may present a polite, rich veneer of real orange blossom and vanilla, like a southern belle delicately munching on a beignet dusted with powdered sugar, but behind the pretty, festive costume are dark undercurrents of voodoo and hoodoo, midnight rituals and outrageous secrets that can only be unleashed under the protective camouflage of the innocent-looking mask. With notes of orange blossom, neroli, cistus, benzoin, vanilla, civet and a special musk blend.
- Sweet Nothings Bourbon Street Beignets Perfume Oil - Notes of fresh beignets, powdered sugar, creamy butter, vanilla bean, smooth bourbon and malt. The taste of New Orleans!!
- The Little Book Eater New Orleans Vampire Perfume Oil - This will transport you to the sensual vampire world of New Orleans, wandering the languid midnight streets and lounging in regal parlors. A floral, powdery, antique fragrance of jasmine, rose, and musk.
