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.
Carolina features notes of longleaf pine, hay absolute, magnolia, kudzu flower, tea, honeysuckle, star jasmine, vanilla, tonka and tobacco leaf. It is a parfum.
OLYMPIC ORCHIDS CAROLINA REVIEWS
Fragrantica: "It feels like the scent of a real place that sticks to your skin. It is absolutely a warm, humid night with wet dried grass and hay and distant but persistent tobacco and sweet natural florals. I also definitely get the sweet tea and banana bread that are in the website description but not the notes. This is quite unisex, but as a hetero woman, I think it would be a very intriguing and comforting scent on a man."
Fragrantica: "Carolina - inhale the essence of southern romance. I grew up in the south. Carolina conjures the feeling of being wrapped in southern hospitality and comfort in a place I love. Memories of sultry air, perfumed with the exhale of countless indolic flowers, a country dirt lane lined with antediluvian magnolias, blooms as big as dinner plates, a wide veranda for relaxation and waving at all passers-by, swaying on a porch swing cushioned by grandma's quilt, waving a church fan to cool hot skin, sweet tea sweating in etched crystal goblets, the screen door banging as barefoot kids come out to catch lightning bugs on the front lawn, thousands of jasmine blooms, like twilight stars, forming a constellation around cement angels in the garden, wild animal eyes luminous in the tobacco fields, the music of cicadas deafening as night falls. For me, simple memories, rich with tactile recollections. A beautiful experience. Carolina exquisitely captures the smell and I am transported back to a wonderful time in my life."
