This sampler will take you on an armchair visit through Scotland. Scotland is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Mainland Scotland has a 96-mile border with England to the southeast and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and the Irish Sea to the south. Scotland also contains more than 790 islands divided into four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides. From the Highlands to the islands, there are distilleries across Scotland that produce the world's finest whisky which is featured in this sampler. Other featured notes are heather, peat, Scots pine, petrichor, bog myrtle, gorse, tweed and salty sea air.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler:
- Beaufort London The Grudge EDP - Inspired by the ‘white gold’ that appears occasionally on Scottish beaches and the alchemy of time and tide. It finds beauty in the unexpected: the journey of ambergris from the craw of the sperm whale, rolled on the tide, retrieved from a beach and tinctured into a bottle. A metaphor for the alchemy of presence. It features top notes of wormwood, frankincense and copal resin; middle notes of tea, seaweed and calamus; and base notes of ambergris, tobacco, oud, musk, oakmoss and labdanum absolute.
- Beaufort London Sirenide EDP - Based on a reimagined version of the Scottish myth of the Selkies. It opens with a sting of poison rendered in bitter almond and aniseed, which anoints a second skin of iris, aquatic florals and a plastic-pinseal accord. The irresistible pull of briny-sweet ambergris drags the florals and almond with it into the depths, creating an indelible drydown. Orkney, an archipelago located to the north of Scotland, plays host to the inspiration of this fragrance. According to ancient Orkney myth, shapeshifting creatures – Selkies – inhabit the bodies of seals and, coming out of the water, shed their skin to walk among the human population. Often in these stories the selkie’s skin is found and hidden by local men, and they are forced to marry their human captor. In Beaufort's rendering of this tale, however, the selkie takes the upper hand… horrified that he has tanned her precious skin, the selkie poisons her captor, reclaiming the leather and returning finally to the tumbling sea. A suitably formidable fragrance: powerful and haunting, with triplicate aspects of ‘skins’ developing on your own. PVC melds with pinseal and an unnerving bitter almond note… water flowers blossom and die, returning to the water. Created by Euan McCall, it features top notes of blue flag iris, water hawthorn, bitter almond and aniseed; middle notes of water lily and pink lotus; and base notes of ambergris, Atlas cedar, woodruff and pinseal.
- Cherry Ka's Trunk Selkie Perfume Oil - Hear your feet pounding across windswept dry grass through Scotch pine. Kick up dirt on your way to the sand and cypress trees at the dock, and finally, step into your power, wrap it around yourself like a second skin. Plunge into the waves of the ocean, the seaweed and the briny smell of freedom. A fragrance for all who are still landlocked and longing for the sea.
- Freyja's Daughters Machrie Moor Perfume Oil - On the Isle of Arran in Scotland, located by the old Moss Farm, is Machrie Moor. Machrie Moor is an ancient ceremonial site consisting of 6 stone circles, cairns, burial mounds and remains, stretching out over the moors. The stone circles are each in varying conditions. Some standing tall, others buried in Peat. Some of these have been found to be erected on top of timber posts, which may have been the original circles. These timber structures have shown this site has been used for spiritual practices for 4500 years, though the excavation of this area has not been extensive and likely much more is to be found. Machrie Moor scent has note of moss, vetiver, bergamot and sea salt. This scent is citrusy from the bergamot and a heavy wet green from the moss and vetiver.
- Jo Malone Melancholy Thistle Cologne - Bold and bright Melancholy Thistle guard a long-abandoned castle in the Scottish Highlands. Entwined with a green freshness, this woody aromatic scent is underpinned by Coolwood to summon the ivy-covered stone walls inside a majestic relic. With a top note of thistle, a middle note of English ivy and a base note of Coolwood.
- Jorum Studio Gorseland Extrait de Parfum - Gorseland was created by Euan McCall and launched in 2022. It features top notes of gorse, apple, chamomile, lemon and lavender; middle notes of black elder, geranium and neroli; and a base note of cannabis.
- Memo Paris Inverness EDP - Inverness is a woody fragrance that launched in 2023. Its very name is intriguing and languorous. It is a land of peat, heather and golden rain, beyond the senses, aptly known as the capital of the Highlands, the largest region in Scotland. Nature reigns free, unspoiled, extraordinary, and the River Ness forges its curves and mysteries. The odors of different varieties of wood rising up from this endless green and bracing empire, each more captivating and fragrant than the last. It leads to deep forests, bare moors, wooded valleys, mossy reliefs, waterfalls, meadows, castles, ruins or other manors. And to a lake where the unknown ripples. It calls for painting. Discovery. It welcomes stone tones between brown and silver, cloudy skies with a singular glow, intense greens or fiery colours depending on the time of year. Smoky woods keep it company. It is called Inverness, and this Scottish town at the mouth of the River Ness knows all that nature can, knows all that it owes her. A form of beauty that comes from the water, from its ample movement, a history in tune with the elements. Time flows here, dense and discreet like amyris wood. It fills the space, and with it, sandalwood, cedar, guaiac, a touch of mate absolute, and a powdery orris butter accentuate its luminous and enveloping presence. A striking, pervasive trail, as if carried by the riverbed on its way to Loch Ness and its silent legend. A fragrance guided by a deep and subtle woody conviction, which keeps its mystery intact, to which we return, as if magnetized. With top notes of iris butter and mate absolute; middle notes of sandalwood and amyris; and base notes of cedarwood and guaiacwood.
- Naughty Button Scottish Thistle EDP - Scottish herbs and forest foliage dance with notes of fresh apple, lavender, white spruce and wild rose. With top notes of green apple, geranium and clove; middle notes of lavender, spruce, white pine and rose; and base notes of Siberian fir needle and cedarwood.
- Potion Street Perfumes Hunter in the Highlands Perfume Oil- A poetic and masculine blend, this fragrance is a symphony of spicy-sweet notes, the tangy zest of lemon and French verbena, the verdant lushness of violet leaves and green Florentine iris, elevated by the loftiness of ambergris and Mysore sandalwood. It features top notes of bergamot, lavender, cyclamen, lemon and verbena; middle notes of eycalyptus, fern, red geranium, iris and violet; and base notes of cedarwood, labdanum, musk, olibanum, sandalwood and ambergris.
- Sucreabeille Nessie The Puddle Serpent EDP - Nessie tries to stay undercover because she's not a huge fan of tourists. She stayed above the surface for half a second too long in 1934, and she hasn't been able to live it down. She hadn't gotten news of cameras yet, and boy did the tourists start rolling in after that! It does get a little lonely down there sometimes though, so she occasionally pops her head up for a split second to startle people and then she rushes back down out of sight, chuckling all the way. Her other hobbies include singing to the moon on clear nights and spying on little Scottish boats by just barely sticking her eyeball out of the water. With notes of green musk, sea salt, vanilla, sweet lemon zest, water, kelp, tonka, sea moss, dirt and yuzu.
