There is something special about horses. I don't think there is an animal in the world that smells as good as a horse! Granted, I was totally into horses as a kid. Had the little western outfits, wrote horse stories, took riding lessons and spent plenty of time with horses but if maybe just a sweaty horse perfume isn't for you, then these fragrances blend in notes of grass, hay, leather and woods to create some gorgeous fragrances.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler:
- Aether Arts Perfume Tea & Tahki Voile de Parfum - Experience the austere beauty and warm hospitality of Mongolian Horse Culture with Tea & Takhi. Central to Mongolia’s culture and heritage are the Takhi (native, wild horses). Nowhere are horses more central to daily life than in Mongolia. A traditional proverb sums it up: "A Mongol without a horse is like a bird without the wings." Within a land of fiercely independent, nomadic herdsman, horses are regarded as a source of both life and wealth. Horses also play a significant role in Mongolian spiritual beliefs; the word Takhi translates to Spirit or Spiritual. Mares’ milk is used for religious offerings and to made various foods such as Suutei Tsai (Mongolian Milk Tea) which is salty rather than sweet and is often enriched with butter. If you are ever to visit Mongolia, you will be welcomed with this warm and nourishing beverage which is an important part of Mongolian hospitality. Tea & Takhi perfume creates the moment and place with an evocative and unusual group of notes not often seen together: tea, salt, butter, smoke, grass, hay, leather and horses. You are greeted by the scent of salty, buttered, Lapsang Souchong tea brewed over an open fire in a metal kettle. Notes of grass and hay conjure the open grasslands of the Mongolian steppes. While a leather and warm horse accord—featuring real oud—brings the sense of leather tack warmed with animal sweat and sets you firmly in the saddle. With top notes of tea, salt, butter and smoke; middle notes of grass and hay; and base notes of smoke, leather and horses.
- Aether Arts Stirrup Perfume - The aroma of fresh, green hay bales, the glitter and glint of polished tack, the warm, musky bodies and breath of horses—the scents of the stable are among the most evocative I know. A fragrant homage for those who love all things equine, Stirrup combines a fresh-hay accord with spirited apple and chamomile top notes. An elegantly smooth, leather accord brings the scent of well-polished riding boots, bridles and saddles. A subtle musk and oud note brings the horse’s warm body to mind. All are enclosed by the weathered wood of the stable. With top notes of apple and chamomile accord; middle notes of grass and hay bale accord; and base notes of horses, tack and stable accord.
- Alpha Musk New Pony Perfume Oil - Warm buttery breath, sun kissed shiny fur musk and amber white ethereal accord.
- BeauFort London Iron Duke EDP - A strikingly powerful fragrance with animalic depths, Iron Duke revels in and blurs the man / beast dichotomy. The fragrance creates an apparition of horse and rider: bright metal, cognac, snuff and saddle soap atop a base of oud, animalic leather and hay. Created by Julie Dunkley, it features notes of snuff tobacco, metal, alcohol, Cambodian oud, star anise, animalic notes, saddle soap, leather, metal, burnt wood, gunpowder, hay, dark musks and bourbon.
- Cirrus Parfum Palomino Perfume Oil – Mid-morning in late September we were riding out to take a look at your mother’s land. It had rained late night and the warming air was heavy and aromatic. The ground was covered in a mix of damp dried grasses, sage brush and cactus. The horse you had lent me was a young and calmly rebellious palomino. He shifted his weight slowly onto a hoof he had placed on my right boot; was he testing me? With notes of white sage, coriander, clove, sweet dry grasses, tobacco flower, creosote, leather, patchouli, vetiver, amber and natural Cambodian oud.
- Parfum D'Empire Equistrius Extrait de Parfum - The horse’s breath. As exquisitely elegant as a thoroughbred showcasing all the facets of Florentine iris. A powdery veil with suede and dark chocolate facets, melting into ambrette butter, a slightly fruity natural vegetal musk. It is as a tribute to the “gleaming horse” who gave him his greatest victories that Marc-Antoine Corticchiato, a competition rider, gave the name Equistrius to the noblest perfume in his collection, built around the noblest of raw materials and inspired by humankind’s noblest conquest… The fragrance of iris is as opulent as Renaissance Florence which made the flower its emblem, and as variegated as the rainbow that was said to carry Iris, the messenger of the Greek gods. Its stately and serene odour is extracted not from the flower but from the root, and must be aged several years before it develops. Ever since Ancient Rome, iris has enriched the palette of perfumers but also of apothecaries, who used it for its calming virtues; in the 18th century, aristocrats powdered their wigs with it – hence its perception as a “powdery” note. Fruity, musky ambrette butter, milky sandalwood and warm amber make it melt into the skin. The surprising chocolate note of an exceptional iris extract reveals the secret sensuousness of this elegantly austere fragrance.
- Parfum D'Empire Ruade Extrait de Parfum - Mane, hooves, neighs, gallop, jump… Ruade. A kick from the animal for a perfume that packs a punch. All the fervor of the horse is distilled in this exceptional fragrance, built around a profusion of natural oud, or agarwood. A perfume-memory of returning to the stables after a weekend of show jumping. A discipline long practiced by Marc-Antoine Corticchiato and one which he conjures here – the adrenalin of competition, the euphoria of going back to the stables... A perfume-universe, that of the equestrian world, when the horses have been unloaded from the truck and escorted to their stalls. Next out of the van are the tack trunks, from which emanate a mixture of strong animalic smells: leather from the harness and gaiters, saliva from the bits, perspiration from the saddle pads, pine tar for smearing on hooves, remnants of straw and hay on the blankets... To capture the scent of opening the tack trunks, Marc-Antoine chose the most wayward material in perfumery: oud essence. Distilled since the year 1000, the fragrant resin is the result of an infection of the Aquilaria tree, after a very slow process evolving over several decades. This sumptuous liquid gold, used here in overdose, displays all its panache. Narcissus, wild and floral, exalts the indolent character of Ruade, with its mane note and straw-like effects. Cut hay absolute lends its power to the evocation of haystacks, whose trail permeates the air and sends horses into a frenzy. An intrepid perfume with precious materials in overdose, saturated with animality and as rebellious as the equine kick.
- Perfumer H Saddle EDP - An olfactory expression of a sculptural layer on the skin, Saddle evokes the tactility and warmth of worn saddle leather molded over time to the contours of the body—smooth and textural. With animalic tones, it is both tenacious and elegant, its character rooted in a sophisticated simplicity—yet with unexpected, compelling nuance. With notes of Italian bergamot, aldehydes, orange flower absolute, Egyptian jasmine absolute, Indonesian patchouli, benzoin resin, vanilla absolute and amber.
