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.
- Nui Cobalt Mme. Marie's Bees Perfume Oil - A sophisticated scent to honor the great Marie Laveau, New Orleans’ exalted Voodoo Queen. A deep harmonic blend of communion wine, cathedral incense, Haitian amyris, Cattleyas orchid, coconut husk, café au lait, Brennan’s baked apple with honey-simmered raisins and authentic beeswax from a colony rescued from Mme. Marie’s tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.
- Nui Cobalt Strolling the French Quarter Perfume Oil - A scent portrait of autumn in New Orleans. Red brick soaked with rain, humid jasmine, creamy gardenia, pralines and a wisp of conjure shop incense.
- The Strange South King Cake Perfume Oil - Yeasty cake, cinnamon, nutmeg, almond, lemon zest and confectioner's sugar.
- 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. Slow, deliberate. 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.
- Ghost Ship Scentporium Royal Street EDP - Turn down the worn cobblestones of one of the world's most unmistakable streets and soak in the unique experience of New Orleans' fabled Royal Street. With the first whiff, this gourmand blend of morning mist, coffee, bananas foster, antique shop and vanilla oak will transport you to the most secret corners of the French Quarter.
- Eldritch Whispers Axeman Jazz EDP - Every jazz club in New Orleans is roaring tonight. Dark rum is flowing and smoky cigars fill the room. March neroli blooms and pink pepper linger in the night air. You better get swinging, before the Axeman beats you to it.
- Ghost Scent Scentporium Watchman EDP - The mythical warrior Black Hawk often called upon the spirits to aid him in battle, staging his fights near burial mounds so the dead would be close at hand. Even today, he is invoked in the Spirit churches of New Orleans as the Watcher on the Wall who will aid all who believe in him. Step into the haunting world of the Watchman and the lands he loved with this blend of suede, river rock, yarrow, campfire and patchouli.
