Nobody can smell a website, and a strip in a shop tells you almost nothing. A fragrance needs a day on your own skin before you know whether you want a bottle of it.
This box holds five 1.5 ml samples, one of each fragrance in the range.
- Oud Absolu, the dark one. Oud and sweet wood, and the heaviest thing we make.
- Grasgróinn, green and ozonic, with vanilla underneath.
- White Tea Del Mar, bright and coastal, with a salt edge.
- Verdant Zen Brew, garden green to open, turning earthy.
- Luminous Petal Tea, Earl Grey, herbs and moss.
How to test them, since this is what the box is for
One at a time, and on skin. Paper holds the top notes and drops everything else, which is why a shop strip flatters a fragrance that will not suit you.
Two in a session is the limit. After the third your nose stops distinguishing and everything starts smelling vaguely the same, which is a physical limit rather than a matter of concentration.
Ignore the first ten minutes. The opening is the most volatile part of any formula and the part guaranteed not to last, and on several of these it is deliberately not representative of what you will be wearing an hour later.
The hour that decides it is the fourth. That is roughly where a fragrance arrives at what it will be for the rest of the day, and it is the only version worth judging.
What 1.5 ml gives you
Between five and eight wearings, depending on how heavily you apply. That is enough to wear one across a working week and find out whether you still want it on Friday, which is a different question from whether you liked it on Monday.
It is also enough to notice the thing samples are really for: whether a fragrance suits your skin. The same formula genuinely smells different on different people, and there is no way to find that out from a description.
After the box
295 DKK. A full bottle starts at 1000 DKK, so the box costs rather less than choosing wrong.
Every full bottle also ships with two 1.5 ml samples you pick yourself at checkout, so you can keep trying the others afterwards.
Composed and bottled by hand in Denmark.
