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:
- 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.
- Fyrinnae Snoqualmie Lodge Perfume Oil - Crisp October mountain air, fir and pine trees, rocky soil, apples, fallen leaves and warmth from the hearth. We added some leather because you'll want a jacket.
- 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 and musk.
- Poesie Great Northern Perfume Oil - A discontinued fragrance from the Twin Peaks Collection, Great Northern features notes of cedarwood, plum, black pepper, pink pepper and clove.
