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.
- Alkemia St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 Perfume - An atmospheric brooding of Spanish moss, crumbling stone, old cement, red clay brick and graveyard dirt. St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 was founded in 1789 and sits just outside the French Quarter. It is one of New Orleans' most famous 'cities of the dead' and its residents include the legendary Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau.
- Calypso's Cottage Rue des Ombres Perfume - Rue des Ombres (Street of Shadows) is a fragrance steeped in the soulful mystique of New Orleans’ French Quarter — where jasmine vines creep along wrought iron balconies, music seeps from every brick, and dusk hangs thick with stories. This perfume captures the slow, honeyed magic of a city suspended between shadow and celebration. Golden honey and steeped tea open the fragrance with a warm, inviting sweetness, like a glass of Southern tea left to catch the sun on a back porch. Honeysuckle and white florals (magnolia and night-blooming jasmine) bloom through the heart, evoking humid evenings where the air is perfume and alive, rich with floral whispers and the echo of distant jazz. Creosote and earth settle in like the city’s old soul — a dark, resinous grounding that suggests aged wood, rain-soaked streets, and something wild and rooted, beneath the surface. With notes of honey, black tea, white florals and earth.
- Ghost Ship Scentporium Watchman EDP - The mythical warrior Black Hawk often called upon the spirits to aid him in battle, staging his fights near burial mounds so the dead would be close at hand. Even today, he is invoked in the Spirit churches of New Orleans as the Watcher on the Wall who will aid all who believe in him. Step into the haunting world of the Watchman and the lands he loved with this blend of suede, river rock, yarrow, campfire and patchouli.
- Lizabe Parfum The Garden District Parfum Oil - The Garden District - A Perfume for Those Who Walk Between Worlds. In the velvet hush of a New Orleans midnight, the Garden District stirs. The streets are lined with mansions whose shutters never quite close, their gardens spilling secrets into the heavy air. The Garden District captures this moment—when the scent of flowers feels almost human, as if they breathe, as if they watch. The first breath is Lily of the Valley, delicate as porcelain yet steeped in ghostlight. Its purity is deceptive—beneath its innocence lies the shimmer of something that has crossed the threshold between life and memory. Soon, wild honeysuckle coils in, untamed and honey-sweet, winding itself like a lover’s arm around your senses. It is the scent of heat on skin, of laughter echoing down an empty veranda, of desire you cannot name. Then, when you think you have met the heart of the perfume, Queen of the Night opens her pale petals in the darkness. She is deep, opulent, and narcotic—her bloom short-lived, her impact eternal. Like a secret kept for generations, she releases her fragrance in a rush, heady and consuming, until you can no longer tell where the flower ends and your own heartbeat begins. Woven together, these notes breathe with the cadence of the city’s haunted beauty—sweetness shadowed by something ancient, sultry warmth edged with the chill of the unseen. It clings to gloves, lace, and hair, following you like an invisible companion through candlelit corridors and overgrown courtyards. The Garden District is not just worn—it possesses.
- LizabeCo City of the Dead Parfum - An invocation of the forgotten and the forbidden. In the sultry air of New Orleans, where the line between the living and the dead blurs into a single, eternal rhythm, City of the Dead is a fragrance that channels the eerie, mystical essence of a city steeped in mystery. It is a scent forged from the earth, the sky, and the forgotten souls that linger between both. The journey begins with the grounding depth of freshly turned earth, rich and dark, like the soil that holds the secrets of the dead. It carries the weight of history, of graves long forgotten, where the restless spirits of New Orleans stir beneath the cracked tombstones. As the scent begins to unfold, the delicate essence of petrichor rises—fresh and alive, like the first rain after a long, oppressive summer. It’s the smell of a storm breaking over the land, the earth breathing deeply once more, the city exhaling in unison with the restless spirits it holds. The petrichor acts as a bridge between the worlds, evoking the calm before a spiritual storm, a cleansing moment when the air tastes of renewal and forgotten histories begin to surface. From the moss-draped trees of the bayou comes the mournful, ethereal scent of Spanish moss. Draped like a veil over the city, this note carries the soft, ghostly sweetness of time itself. Spanish moss flutters in the breeze, whispering the names of those long gone, and in this fragrance, it gives a faintly sweet and melancholic tone, as though the spirits of the past have left their imprint on the air, ready to rise once more. Finally, there is the scent of stone—cool, timeless, and unyielding. It evokes the crumbling, weathered tombs that have withstood centuries of storms and sun, holding their secrets beneath layers of lichen and dust. It’s the scent of a city that is both decaying and eternal, where the passage of time is both a blessing and a curse. The stone is the anchor to this scent, reminding you that beneath the beauty and allure of New Orleans lies a darker, older truth—one that calls to those who are willing to listen. It’s a scent that clings to your skin like a memory, like a warning. Once it touches you, you will never be the same.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sweet Nothings Bourbon Street Beignets Perfume Oil - Notes of fresh beignets, powdered sugar, creamy butter, vanilla bean, smooth bourbon and malt. The taste of New Orleans!!
- The Little Book Eater New Orleans Vampire Perfume Oil - This will transport you to the sensual vampire world of New Orleans, wandering the languid midnight streets and lounging in regal parlors. A floral, powdery, antique fragrance of jasmine, rose, and musk.
