The Allure of New Orleans Sampler - Set of Seven 1/2ml Samples

New Orleans is a city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of Louisiana. With a population of nearly 400,000, it is the most populous city in Louisiana. It is world-renowned for its distinctive music, Creole cuisine, unique dialects, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street. The city has been described as the "most unique" in the United States, owing in large part to its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. Essentially an island between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans is a city defined and shaped by waterways. 

New Orleans is full of wonderful smells. A lot of those are food related. You can't walk around the French Quarter without swooning over the smells of Creole and Cajun food, crawfish, beignets, French bread, chickory coffee, etc. But then there are the natural splendors of New Orleans. The south is on full display here - jasmine, sweet olive, gardenia, magnolia, angels' trumpets, mossy trees, the muddy Mississippi and swamp waters. Not all smells are totally favorable but even Bourbon Street has its charms. Then there's Mardi Gras with its cheap plastic beads, cotton candy, king cake, diesel fumes and alcohol. Plus there are the cemeteries and shaded walks through stately neighborhoods. As I read in Dat Nola Chic The Scent of New Orleans: "New Orleans has this scent, fragrance, aroma that is an indescribable blend of it all, but once those fingertips dance around your nose, giving you a whiff of it, you will want to live in it, your sense will explode, and your heart will swell. The scent of New Orleans is so intoxicating, and there’s no sobering up, there’s no fix, but to be here." And since most of you can't be there, you can experience New Orleans through this sampler. You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.

You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler. 

1. Alkemia Laveau Perfume - Based on one of Marie Laveau's most legendary formulas for love, protection, and personal success. Includes crossroads jasmine, almond blossoms, white carnations, red roses, Indonesian patchouli, cinnamon and Bourbon vanilla along with secret ingredients. 
2. Calypso’s Cottage St. Louis Cemetery Perfume – Inspired by the haunting beauty of New Orleans’ most iconic necropolis, it conjures the quiet majesty of moss-draped tombs under a rain-darkened sky. The opening captures the coolness of nightfall after a summer storm—ozonic and a little electric, like charged silence. As the rain settles, damp soil and moss begin to bloom, grounding the experience in something dark, green, and deeply rooted. The cedar arrives later—old, worn, aromatic—with a whisper of rot and reverence. A mysterious, quietly gothic fragrance with top notes of night air and rainwater accord; middle notes of wet earth and green moss; and base notes of aged cedar, lichen and stone.
3. Calypso's Cottage The French Quarter Perfume Oil - The French Quarter redefines freshness through the lens of gothic elegance. Think damp cathedrals kissed by citrus light, graveyard moss uplifted by white florals, and stone and shadow softened by skin-warmed musk. A darkly romantic fragrance collection inspired by the decadent elegance and haunted soul of New Orleans' French Quarter. It captures New Orleans at its most mysterious and sensual, with all the gothic richness and timeless allure of the Quarter itself. The echoes of jazz in the humid air. Velvet curtains drawn against the storm. Perfume soaked into lace.... long after midnight. With notes of magnolia, labdanum, amber resin and vanilla. 
4. Obscura Hortus Rue St. Ann Perfume Oil - The pounding of drums reverberate window shutters and doors, creating a pulse through the ground, a penetrating heartbeat that flows up through your feet, blood flowing faster, goosebumps, until it hits your brain. The honeysuckle and scent of fresh herbs linger in the humid night air, a thick sweet fog surrounds the small cottage at 152 Rue St Ann. She exits, dressed in a long white gown, a snake coiled around her shoulders as the drums call her like ghosts in the dark. This fragrance was created for Marie Laveau, like a memory of a walk down St. Ann Street to Congo Square. A memory of banana trees, and red bricks, dirt, roots and spices. A memory of drums and chanting, fire, heat, flowers, snakes spirits and saints. A dedication to the ghosts of St. Ann Street and the legend of the voodoo queen. With notes of gardenia, soft florals, hints of citrus and spices, ginger, sandalwood, benzoin, frankincense and myrrh.
5. Olympic Orchids Mardi Gras Extrait de Parfum - Created by Ellen Covey in 2015, Mardi Gras is based on the grand party that New Orleans puts on every year in late winter. It’s a rainbow-hued, glittering, skanky, riotous, celebration of everything there is to celebrate, flowing in and out like a shiny snake amidst the flower-strewn, humidity-drenched, decaying streets of the French Quarter. Mardi Gras may present a polite, rich veneer of real orange blossom and vanilla, like a southern belle delicately munching on a beignet dusted with powdered sugar, but behind the pretty, festive costume are dark undercurrents of voodoo and hoodoo, midnight rituals and outrageous secrets that can only be unleashed under the protective camouflage of the innocent-looking mask. With notes of orange blossom, neroli, cistus, benzoin, vanilla, civet and a special musk blend. 
6. Paranormal Perfumes New Orleans, LA Perfume Oil - The perfect combination for strolling down Bourbon Street, visiting the house of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau and exploring the haunted bayous. With notes of bourbon whiskey, dark oud wood, caramel and brown sugar.
7. Siren Songs Elixirs Voodoo Perfume - A best seller from the 2018 Halloween Collection, Voodoo is dark, complex, earthy and intensely lush. It pays homage to the art and craft of the voodoo queen Marie Laveau and that ancient spiritualization that draws upon the powers of the earth for strength. Rich flavors of bay, tobacco, rum and whiskey are tempered with earthy notes of vetiver, leather, dirt, sage, coriander, and dark coffee to create a fragrance that is earthy, powerful, and carnal. With notes of bay leaf, rum, whiskey, coffee, tobacco, black vanilla, vetiver, leather, dirt, coriander and sage.