Here's a sampler to help you in your exploration of animalic notes in fragrances. According to Fragrantica the odor profile for Animal Notes is different ingredients, synthetic and natural, that can produce an animalic dirty and deep sensual effect. Animal notes of natural origin are not allowed in the perfume industry today and have been replaced by synthetics. The main ones are civet, musk, castoreum, ambergris and hyraceum. I've added beeswax and animal fur. Animal notes have been used in perfumes since the beginning of perfuming-making. They impart a sensuality, depth and tenacity to a perfume that is unrivaled.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.
- Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Le Serval Voile de Parfum - Ripe with unusual African aromatics, Le Serval is a warm, rich, and mildly spiced aldehydic-animalic floral fragrance. Based on a trip to the zoo, the perfumer caught a whiff of a distinctively warm, honeyed ‘animal’ mixed with a spicy, grassy hay and a surprisingly sweet, almost fruit-like note. She followed my nose and found the Serval cat. Le Serval features top notes of African Savanna Air (accord), Aldehydes, African Bluegress, Bergamot, Karo Karunde and Tunisian Neroli; middle notes of Grandiflorum Jasmine, Hay Absolute, Honey Bush co2, Carthamus Flower, Egyptian Rose Geranium, Moroccan Rose Absolute, Cassis Bud, African Ginger Root co2, African Green Heart Wood, Bushman's Candle Tincture, Frankincense co2 Absolute, French Beeswax and Musk Rose; and base notes of Africa Stone Tincture, Ambergris, Atlas Cedarwood, Oakwood co2, Brown Oakmoss, Civet, Honey Musk, Muhuhu, Oppopanax and Oud Crassna.
- Redwood Alchemy Farwander Parfum - Farwander is an animalic scent that migrates through moist fields of sweet grasses and runs lithely alongside the most nimble of woodland creatures. It features notes of musk, sweet grass, mosses and wood.
- Redwood Alchemy Loup Garou Parfum - Loup Garou is an extreme, animalic scent with notes of cypress, bloodthirst, amber and desiccation. This Acadian werewolf themed fragrance is powerful and uncompromising. It is not for the faint of heart. With notes of predatory musk, animalic territorial marking, amber, cypress, blood and redwood.
- Wolf Bros. Goat EDP - Goat is from a line of fragrance inspired by the personality of wild animals. This series "Animals of the Polish Forest" will take you on a journey to the magical corners of the Bieszczady Mountains - exactly where their ideas were born. Each fragrance in the line is truly Slavic, wild and inspired by nature. Goat is the scent of impassable mountains, madness and obsession. From the brand: “I created this fragrance with the thought that it had to be unusual and surprising. This is how I wanted to express the wild side of the animal. Goat milk, mushrooms and truffle notes evoke the wild nature where goats live, while we can feel the dirty, animal, aggressive side of the animal through animal notes like costus, oud and leather aroma.” Goat features top notes of violet leaves, osmanthus, milk, mushrooms and truffles; middle notes of clove, cumin, cedarwood, fir and patchouli; and base notes of vetiver, moss, animal notes, agarwood (oud), costus and leather.
