The Pacific Northwest refers to the region in North American that features Washington and Oregon and is known for its stunning natural beauty, outdoor activities and relaxed lifestyle. It is a laid back, nature-centric lifestyle centered in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, characterized by outdoor adventure, environmental stewardship, coffee culture and casual fashion. It involves embracing rainy, moody weather for the benefit of lush green landscapes, balancing urban living with easy access to mountains, forests and coastlines. The region offers a deep and brooding vibe with lush alpine landscapes, quiet forests and a feeling of being immersed in nature. Because many areas have plentiful rainfall and mild summers, the PNW has some of North America’s most lush and extensive forests, which are extensively populated with Coast Douglas fir trees, the second tallest growing evergreen conifer on earth. Pacific Northwest (PNW) inspired perfumes focus on atmospheric, earthy scents, commonly featuring notes of damp soil, Douglas fir, cedar, rain-soaked moss and coastal fog. Key scents often include petrichor, pine, fern and saltwater, aiming to capture the region's dense forests and moody, wet climate.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler:
- Arcana Wildcraft Cascadian Mermaid EDP - Cascadian Mermaid is the scent of a dank mermaid in the Pacific Northwest. It features notes of terpene concentrate accord, grapefruit, cotton candy, Moroccan blue chamomile, vanilla-laced sugar cane, warm rain, wild-harvested spruce tips and shimmery mermaid musk.
- En Voyage Rainmaker EDP - Created by Shelley Waddington in 2016, this fragrance is inspired by the forested terroir and Bohemian lifestyle of the Pacific Northwest. She wanted to “interpret and decode the distinctive elements of this region, and to distill them into a fragrance that celebrates their story”. The Pacific Northwest, a place of Native American origins, is also famed for its edgy, unconventional artistic and urban culture. Rainmaking originally referred to a cultural ritual that induced rainfall. In popular culture, a rainmaker refers to a creator of something valued. “In expanding my creative work, I wanted to provide a mist of beauty and attraction that would become a ‘Rainmaker’ for the wearer,” continues Waddington, “Plus I like the quirky reference to the clouds above Portland, some of the best rainmakers in the world.” Rainmaker has a contemporary signature that exalts and infuses the native mossy forest, rainy weather and fragrant earth with modern perspectives and light. With notes of rose leaf, silver pine tips, wild citrus, incense, patchouli, iris, rhododendron, mossy rain forest notes of cedar, fir, redwood needles, petrichor, oakmoss and amber.
- Freyja's Daughters Salt and Shadow Perfume Oil - She wanders the shore where the fog never lifts. Wrapped in sea-worn lace and silence, she waits, watching the horizon for a ship that will never return. The gulls cry overhead, the waves whisper secrets, and the salt clings to her skin like memory. But she is not alone. At North Head Lighthouse, perched above the Graveyard of the Pacific in Washington, the wind howls and the sea thunders below. Thousands of ships have wrecked on these shores. And one woman, Melancholy Mary, the wife of the first keeper, never left. After years of isolation and sorrow, she vanished one day, her body later found on the rocks. Whether by accident, grief, or something darker, her story lingers in the salt air. Locals say her spirit still roams the grounds, mourning in silence. Salt and Shadow is the scent of coastal mourning, where grief clings like sea spray and memory drifts with the tide. Salt tinged tears mingle with briny mist and the aching breath of the Pacific, echoing the sorrow of countless women who watched the waves swallow their beloved mariners. It carries the hush of sea laced air, storm washed driftwood, and the metallic whisper of rusted chains and forgotten vows with ghostly musk soft as seafoam and sorrow. A fragrance of longing, of widows in wind-worn shawls, of dreams lost to the deep. This is not a tempest. It is the stillness after. The hush of grief held too long. It feels like haunted harbors, wind-worn lace and longing. It is the comforting sense you have on an early foggy morning on an island shore where the sea is still and the heartbeat of the earth is calm. With notes of sea salt, driftwood, old paper, tattered lace, and candle smoke. Inspired by the countless forgotten mariners who gave their lives to the sea- and their wives who pace the rooftop widows walks on the Victorian homes dotting the coastlines of the Pacific Northwest. In short, the scent of lighthouses enveloped in fog on wind beaten shores where the forest meets the ocean.
- Freyja's Daughters West Coast Witch Perfume Oil - West Coast Witch captures the essence of mountain breezes and coastal forests. Ideal for those who love greenery but not grass. It's like inhaling the air of a fern-laden forest along the Pacific Coast with a freshness and purity that is unparalleled. With hints of ferns, sea salt, evergreens, moss, citrus, and sage, it transports you to the edge of a moss-covered woodland overlooking the ocean.
- LizbeCo Pacific Northwest Parfum - Take a walk among the redwood forests of the Pacific Northwest. With notes of spicy cloves, fresh earth, warm cedar, fresh pine, smoky embers and damp moss.
- Olympic Orchids Blackbird Parfum - Blackbird celebrates the dry season and the warm, peaceful days of summer in the Pacific Northwest, when walking anywhere from a country road to a city greenspace brings the powerful scent of tawny dry grass, fir and cedar trees baking in the sun releasing their sharp, incense-like resins, and juicy ripe blackberries tempting us and the blackbirds with their jammy, musky sweetness. Inspired by nature, it was a finalist for the 2014 Art and Olfaction Awards. Created by Ellen Covey and released in 2013, Blackbird features notes of Himalayan blackberry fruit, dry grass and leaves, elemi, cedar wood and resin, woody-amber accord, fir balsam absolute, musk
- Olympic Orchids Olympic Rainforest Parfum - A green, aromatic fragrance inspired by the mysterious, lush, mist-shrouded rainforest of the Pacific Northwest where everything is constantly green, and every surface dripping with water and covered with life in the eternal cycle of growth, decay and rebirth, all rising from the wet, leafy cradle of the forest floor. With notes of cedar leaves, green sword ferns, rhododendron, forest mushrooms, beebalm, myrtle, wildflowers, oakmoss, black spruce, balsam fir, Port Orford cedar and an earthy accord.
- Venus Invictus Faunus EDP – In ancient Rome and myth, Faunus was the rustic god of the forest, plains and fields. This fragrance smells like running through a Pacific Northwest forest. It is a very coniferous and truly a very forest fragrance. With top notes of elemi, bergamot, mint, wormwood and yarrow; middle notes of hinoki wood, fig, cypress and bayberry; and base notes of oakwood, tobacco, dry wood, black hemlock and fern.
