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 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.
- Deep Midnight Perfumes Nessie Perfume Oil - "’Tis a fine, cool, crisp day in the highlands as the mist settles over the Loch. One might sense the faintest ripple in the water, a change in the sound the insects make and the general hush that comes over the nearby forest. Slowly she rises, a great leviathan in her own right, her scales shining in the semi-clouded sun. You did see her, didn't you, the lovely water horse? Better look again!" Imagine the highlands of Scotland and the gorgeous, mysterious Loch Ness and all that may arise from her depths. Nessie is comprised of main notes of deep dark waters, highland heather, green aquatics, forest greens, wormwood, mist and the faint and clean scent of a mysterious animal from the depths.
- Freyja's Daughters Highland Magic Perfume Oil - Loaded with notes of sweet Scotch whisky, brown sugar, and butterscotch. It's everything you'd imagine the warmth of a cozy Kitchen Witch's cottage in the Scottish Highlands to be.
- Jorum Studio Firewater Extrait de Parfum - Let’s dance around a smoked-out beach bonfire, skin anointed with sticky citrus char. Firewater is part of their new Scottish Odyssey Collection. It is an exploration of the folklore and mystery ingrained in Scotland's past and present. A contemporary fantasy built around the everyday; extending beyond geography into attitude, humour and culture. Grounded and earthy, joyful and irreverent. With impression notes of black tea, juniper berry, nettle, grapefruit, beardtongue, osmanthus absolute, ginger, bracken and larch; and fade notes of birchwood, sugar kelp, guaiacwood, vetiver, oakwood, benzoin, labdanum absolute and peat accord.
