New Orleans (Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler) Sampler - Set of Four 1/2ml Samples

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. 

1. Calypso's Cottage Rue des Ombres Perfume - Rue des Ombres (Street of Shadows) is a fragrance steeped in the soulful mystique of New Orleans’ French Quarter — where jasmine vines creep along wrought iron balconies, music seeps from every brick, and dusk hangs thick with stories. This perfume captures the slow, honeyed magic of a city suspended between shadow and celebration. Golden honey and steeped tea open the fragrance with a warm, inviting sweetness, like a glass of Southern tea left to catch the sun on a back porch. Honeysuckle and white florals (magnolia and night-blooming jasmine) bloom through the heart, evoking humid evenings where the air is perfume and alive, rich with floral whispers and the echo of distant jazz. Creosote and earth settle in like the city’s old soul — a dark, resinous grounding that suggests aged wood, rain-soaked streets, and something wild and rooted, beneath the surface. With notes of honey, black tea, white florals and earth.  
2. Calypso's Cottage The French Quarter Perfume Oil - The French Quarter redefines freshness through the lens of gothic elegance. Think damp cathedrals kissed by citrus light, graveyard moss uplifted by white florals, and stone and shadow softened by skin-warmed musk. A darkly romantic fragrance collection inspired by the decadent elegance and haunted soul of New Orleans' French Quarter. It captures New Orleans at its most mysterious and sensual, with all the gothic richness and timeless allure of the Quarter itself. The echoes of jazz in the humid air. Velvet curtains drawn against the storm. Perfume soaked into lace.... long after midnight. With notes of magnolia, labdanum, amber resin and vanilla. 
3. Possets Perfume Xmas in New Orleans Perfume Oil - A creamy thick white floral that is paradoxically enough, the essence of winter. You will understand that statement if you have ever been in New Orleans at Yuletide! Sweet, foody/gourmand, floral.
4. 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!!