You can smell the funnel cakes, and hot sun on the asphalt, the petting zoo, the plastic bag the cotton candy is in, the oil and grease of the cheap carnival rides, the trees hanging low and heavy in the humidity and the fresh cut grass. The smell of summer. There are few things that say "carnival" more than the scent of freshly spun cotton candy and funnel cake bubbling in the deep fryer. The bright lights and whizzing, whirling rides are beckoning. The sounds and smells are seductive sirens of the season. The midway is filled with scents from animals and vehicles and the mechanical smells generated by the rides. But, perhaps the favorite range of aromas is from the food prepared on cookers, fryers, and griddles and offered by vendors ready to tempt the taste buds of lovers of fair food. Moments after walking through the gates, fair-goers can hear young and old alike as they catch a whiff of their favorite delicacies and start talking about their favorite fair food.
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler:
- Calypso's Cottage Carnival Perfume - Carnival is a nostalgic and playful fragrance. It is a scent that captures the golden haze of twilight on a summer fairground. A whimsical blend of sweetness, warmth and cool evening air, it features a top note of kettle corn, a middle note of caramel apples and a base note of night air - a soft breeze laced with cotton candy dreams and distant fireworks. With subtle hints of ozone, evoking the cool thrill of dusk falling on the Midway.
- Cherry Ka's Trunk Dark Carnival Perfume Oil - Thunder rolls across the vast plain housing the big top. Golden hay sways like the sea under the wind of a late summer storm, and the performers begin to ready for their next show, their last in this slice of America's heartland for the season. It'll go off with a bang. The smell of a night to remember and acts so good they're otherworldly: gasoline and wax waterproofing the canvas cover that gives the big top its name, ripe summer melons, dry grass, hay, buttery popcorn, a whiff of tobacco and a generous splash of cask strength bathtub gin. Let the show begin!
- Cirque Sensorium Fright House Delights Perfume Oil - It begins with blood red raspberry cotton candy, spun sweet and tart. The vanilla iced funnel cake, is warm and inviting, but laced with something that makes you hesitate. Sinister spices lurk in the shadows. Beneath it all, red musk pulses like a heartbeat in the dark, anchored by dark patchouli, damp and earthen, like the ground beneath the funhouse floor.
- Cult Fragrance King of the Carnies Perfume Oil - Imagine an autumn carnival that only opens at midnight. The notes create memories of carnival fun, then corrupts itself with a ravenous underbelly. Meet the King of the Carnies: He's responsible for the sleaze and grim of the Autumnal Carnival. A barbarous leader with a liking of the darkness. Those under his tutelage have no choice but consider him their savior. He shelters the destitutes and roustabouts, and feeds them any lost visitor in his Midway...A blend of fleshy Pumpkin, caramel corn, pipe tobacco, woodsmoke, fried dough, a flash of bourbon, dead Leaves, barn hay and vetiver.
- Freyja's Daughters Coffin Candy Perfume Oil - A swirl of cotton candy mist, ripe strawberry nectar, and pink vanilla sugar, this scent is spun from midnight carnivals and haunted sweet shops. Feminine and flirtatious with just enough shadow to make it intriguing, Coffin Candy will leave you feeling like the most irresistible treat in the underworld.
- Sixteen92 Point Pleasant Parfum - From the Friday the 13th Collection, Point Pleasant is a chilly and ominous Fall atmospheric with hints of carnival sweetness. It is based on the legend of The Mothman, a menacing 7-foot tall winged humanoid that was first glimpsed near Route 62 in the autumn of 1966. It is the scent of a distant fall carnival carried over humid night air, dark crawl spaces, dusty moth wings, crumbing asphalt and rusted metal. Hushed wind through groves of sugar maple and black oak branches, a quick glimpse of glowing red eyes and a sense of impending doom.
- Solstice Scents Foxcroft Fairgrounds EDP - Created as part of a collection of fragrances based on the fictional town of Foxcroft, Maine. Crisp Fall air weaves around the sweet treats of pink cotton candy, frosty vanilla cream sodas, vanilla saltwater taffy and Gridling's funnel cakes blanketed with confectioner's sugar. In the background just a hint of dirt, leaves and moss laced with woodsmoke are present. In a quiet corner of the fairground, a fortune is waiting to be told. Exotic tendrils of incense escape from underneath the tent flaps, swirling around you and beckoning you to enter. It features 30 notes and has plenty of layers to unfold and journey with. This is the kaleidoscope of scents at an Autumn Festival, intended to mirror the sights and smells for an olfactory synesthesia that is a fun and fascinating experience. This scent is grounded in the non-gourmand notes and may turn more unisex depending on your chemistry. It does have a pervasive sweetness to it but it is meant to be an atmospheric experience that even men can enjoy.
- True Wishes Haunted Carousel Perfume Oil - Step into the shadows of a long-forgotten carnival, where the flickering lights of a haunted carousel cast eerie silhouettes upon the desolate grounds. As the first notes caress your senses, a chilling breeze carries whispers of aged wood and creaking mechanisms, reminiscent of the carousel's hauntingly slow revolutions. The scent unfolds like a ghostly waltz, revealing a sinister blend of mysterious spices and dusky florals, as if the very essence of the carnival's phantom riders materialized before you. The heart of Haunted Carousel reveals an intoxicating bouquet of ghostly blossoms - midnight roses with petals as black as the shadows that dance upon the abandoned carousel. As the scent journey intensifies, a crescendo of smoky incense and aged leather envelops you, evoking the phantom laughter and spectral whispers that linger in the air. The aroma of spun sugar and candied apples adds a sweet, dissonant note, with an earthy undertone that evokes the damp, moss-covered pathways of an abandoned fairground. Vetiver and patchouli intertwine, grounding the fragrance in the melancholic nostalgia of a bygone era. Each drop is a ticked to the macabre, an aromatic portal to the hauntingly poetic world that resides within the abandoned carnivals enigmatic embrace.
- Zelda’s Cauldron Carnival Memories Perfume Oil – A gorgeous gourmand featuring the best scents of the carnival. It features notes of candy apple, caramelized pear, rum-spiked coffee, buttered popcorn, saffron spiced pecan, clove cigar smoke, burnt sugar, cinnamon donut and sandalwood incense.
