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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dawn Spencer Hurwitz (DSH) Le Sazerac Voile de Parfum - Based on a traditional cocktail of Old New Orleans, Le Sazerac is a sexy, boozy beauty. This all-natural perfume features notes of rye whiskey, absinthe, bitters and citrus zest notes melding with deep woods and smoky nuances. In the French Quarter, since the early 1800’s, an enigmatic cocktail has been served to those in the know: the Sazerac. With top notes of lemon, absinthe, anise, artemisia, bergamot, bitter orange, sweet orange, pimento berry, rye whiskey (natural accord) and star anise; middle notes of Bulgarian rose absolute, Bulgarian rose ptto, ciste absolute, clove bud, clove leaf, Grandiflorum jasmine, immortelle, oakwood CO2, orris concrete and labdanum; and base notes of angelica root, Australian sandalwood, birch tar, brown oakmoss, Peru balsam, Siam benzoin, Siam wood, styrax, tobacco absolute, tolu balsam and vanilla absolute.
- Aroma G's Botanica French Quarter Perfume Oil - This scent is so deep, exotic, and mysterious you’d almost swear that the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, mixed this potion herself. Dark vanilla with notes of amber and woods with clean and powdery nuances and a bourbon-like undertone. Brings forth images of the New Orleans French Quarter with its iron balconies, voodoo shops, and the sounds of jazz in the background.
- Hexennacht Bourbon Street Parfum Extrait - Coffee, beignets, mahogany, pipe tobacco, cocoa and cardamom.
- Possets Perfume Xmas in New Orleans Perfume Oil - A creamy thick white floral that is paradoxically enough, the essence of winter. You will understand that statement if you have ever been in New Orleans at Yuletide! Sweet, foody/gourmand, floral.
- AromaG's Botanica Laveau Perfume - To honor the great Marie Laveau with top notes of citruses and orange blossom; middle notes of freesia, jasmine, orchid, and rose; and base notes of musk, vanilla and heliotrope.
