When you step outside one cold winter day, a familiar scent fills your nose. You can’t explain why, but you know that it can only mean one thing: snow. No, it’s not just your imagination; the air really does smell different right before it snows. According to olfactory scientist Pamela Dalton, that unmistakable snow “scent” can be boiled down to three things: cold weather, humidity, and a stimulated nerve in your brain. As temperatures drop to freezing, the molecules in the air slow down, making certain smells less pungent. Like rain and sleet, an impending snowstorm increases the humidity in the air. And while that humidity is what causes the flakes to fall, it also boosts your olfactory system, making your nose feel warm and moist. Lastly, the scent of snow is also linked to the stimulation of your trigeminal nerve. Although it is separate from your olfactory system—and typically only interprets sensations like mint and spices—this nerve gets turned on when you breathe in cold air, too. That’s also why our brains link snow with a distinctive “scent.” The scent and appearance of snow is highly associative in Europe and Northern America: it resembles the smoky wafts from stoves and fireplaces, where coal and birch or pine wood is burning, and childhood years with the innocent, milky smells of ones body, of wet wool and winter games and sports. It most certainly smells like Christmas eve and festive delights.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.
- Alchemic Muse Snowdrift Perfume Oil - Frosted red currants and cranberries atop a heart of snow-covered white birch and spruce trees with a whisper of peppermint and juniper over a base of smoky tonka bean and vanilla.
- Alkemia Perfumes Dust of Snow Perfume - Fresh fallen snow falling from bare tree branches, subtle whispers of hemlock pine, galbanum, ginger, lemonwood, witch hazel flowers and damp wool.
- Alkemia Perfumes Fallen Snow Angels Perfume - A paradox of crème de vanille and devilishly dark patchouli frolicking playfully amid a flurry of snowflakes and winter ice-mint.
- Alkemia Perfumes Falling Stars on Winter Solstice Perfume Oil – With notes of aromatic balsam needles, a dab of dark musk, sweet myrrh, incense resins, melted snow and a touch of cabin woodstove smoke.
- Bluebird Scent First Snowfall EDT - Fresh, sparkling, winter snow entices your inner child. Cool peppermint and pine needles with hints of vanilla, cedarwood and clove.
- Demeter Snow Cologne – Inspired by growing up and enjoying the northeast winter snowstorms that went on for days. It is the scent of newly fallen snow.
- Frankly Try This Snowsquall Season Perfume Oil - Smells like eating a box of snow cap candy on a winter snowsquall night. Fresh heavy snow mixes with cold salty sea side air to create a snowy ozone outside your warm cozy home. With notes of chocolate cocoa, cocoa butter, vanilla, wintergreen, peppermint, ozone and salty sea air.
- Lunar Life Apothecary Haute Frosty Perfume Oil - This frosty delight captures the magic of a snowy day with a playful twist. Cool, crisp notes of fresh snow and icy buttermints melt into fluffy marshmallow crème and sparkling sugar crystals. Wrap it all up in the softness of a cashmere scarf, and you’ve got a scent as enchanting as a winter wonderland. Haute Frosty features top notes of fresh snow and sugar crystals; middle notes of buttermints and marshmallow creme; and a base note of cashmere scarf.
- Solstice Scents White Fox EDP - An elegant skin scent featuring a soft vanilla core accentuated with notes evocative of clean silky white fur. The scent of a white fox as he pads through snow laced with veins of frozen dirt. It is heavy on ethereal vanilla with traces of woody-vanilla musk. A cool subtle frozen dirt note swirls intimately through the scent, along with the carefully restrained addition of cedar and woods notes.
- Une Nuit Nomade Nothing But Sea and Sky EDP - In his celebrated poetry collection 'Leaves of Grass', Walt Whitman wrote 'From Montauk Point', where his contemplation led him to quote: 'Nothing, but sea and sky'. At Montauk Point, also called The End, the world stops during winter. The sky is veiled in pale white and the breath of a blizzard sprinkles the beach with snowflakes. The rough sea gives the impression of a large cotton field in bloom. Nothing but Sea and Sky is a tribute to Montauk under its coat of snow. It is a reassuring fragrance, a stole of white musks infused in sandalwood with milky notes. With notes of bergamot, sandalwood and white musks.
