WINTER COLLECTION 2011 - Friday, November 18th at 7 p.m. EST

 

The Winter Collection will go live at 7 p.m. EST this Friday, November 18th. Saturday is G's birthday and after all of the hard work for this collection, his parents and I have big plans for him! We will most likely not pack orders this day but we will get a move-on on Sunday. As usual, we will process your orders as quickly as possible and most of you will have your goodies by next weekend (domestic US orders).  

We tried to have a big selection for you and we're hoping you will consider our offerings for holiday presents and holiday swaps! Since the collection is so large, we sadly do not have any gift sets this time around. We may have additional goodies in the few weeks but this will be based on feedback we receive from this release and testing on some Home Fragrance oils we're working on on the side of this collection.

This Winter we were primarily inspired by Pioneers and the American Frontier. You will see a total of 6 new fragrances along with a great deal of returning fragrances. As always, we will be offering perfume samples. You may purchase a 6 pack including the new scents or you may choose from a drop down menu to purchase any of the Winter scents individually. You may also purchase any of our existing sample 3,5 or 10 packs and write which ones you'd like to try in the comments box at checkout. I will not be adding all the new scents to the standard 3.5 and 10 pack listing drop down menus (it's not very user friendly so I rarely modify the sample packs).

WINTER COLLECTION 2011

RUSSIAN CARAVAN
Smoked Black Tea, Leather, Pomegranate, Black Currant, Amber & Pink Peppercorn

Russian Caravan is a blend of smoked black teas and black leather with just a hint of fruity pomegranate and black currants, pink peppercorn and exotic amber. It smells primarily of the smokey tea and leather and has a masculine edge due to these components. The amber is not readily apparent until it has been on the skin for some time and at that point the scent is mostly that of a soft tea and amber. It lends itself to smoothing the blend out and taking the edge off of the harsher dominant notes. The fruits and peppercorn add a subtle twist and slightly sweeten the blend. On skin the combo takes on a note of tobacco leaf as well, most likely from the smoked tea.

Available in Perfume and Burnishing Glace. 

 

DARK GINGER SPICECAKE
Gingerbread, Woodsy Musk, Patchouli EO and Vetiver EO

(Formerly known as Gingerdead Man). Gingerbread Cookies crash into a dark earthy corruption of Patchouli and Vetiver Essential Oil and a dark Woodsy Musk. The scent is primarily that of warm gingerbread cookies laying on top of the other three components that serve to temper the sweetness a bit and add dark and mysterious depth. It is not a supremely heavy blend despite the use of patchouli, musk and vetiver. All three are detectable but not overwhelming. This is perfect for those of you who like your foodie blends a little darker.

Available in Perfume, Ganache, Burnishing Glace and Whipped Soap. The Whipped Soap contains Clove Powder and Organic Cinnamon Powder.

GINGERBREAD & VANILLA CREAM
The Scent of Gingerbread Cookies & Creamy Vanilla

Warm gingerbread cookies with bakery notes of molasses, ginger, cinnamon and cardamom blended with three different vanillas. This perfume smells like soft gingerbread with a subtle edge of creamy vanilla icing rounding our the spiciness of the gingerbread. The vanilla notes are more obvious after a little time on the skin and during the long-term dry down. A delicious scent to warm your spirit and senses through the cold winter nights.

Available in Perfume, Ganache, Burnishing Glace and Home Fragrance Oil. 

 

SPIKED NOG & NUTMEG
Scented with Creamy Egg Nog, Nutmeg Essential Oil and a Dash Of Rum

NOT TO BE USED BY WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING.

Spiked Nog and Nutmeg is a blend of delicious creamy egg nog, a wee splash of rum and a few sensible drops of Nutmeg essential oil. Just like egg nog, it is not too sweet, but just enough to give this fragrance depth and body. Absolutely delicious and smells pretty close to the real thing! It is sure to improve your mood and brighten your spirits...without the spirits.

Available in Perfume, Ganache, Whipped Soap and Burnishing Glace. 

 

RICE PUDDING & RUM SOAKED RAISINS
Warm Toasty Fragrance With Spiced Rum & More

Warm rice pudding with a toasty slightly buttery scent coupled with soft spices, a little brown sugar, a pinch of vanilla and just a tiny hint of spiced rum soaked raisins. A comforting dish for cozying up next to the hearth.

Perfume only. 

 

ROASTED CHESTNUTS & MARSHMALLOW
Sweet, Nutty & Comforting Winter Fragrance

A BEST SELLER! The scent is soft, mildly nutty golden roasted chestnuts and a very faint wisp of sweet spice coupled with billows of creamy fluffy marshmallows. Roasted Chestnuts & Marshmallow is deliciously sweet, creamy, warm and sure to have family and friends' mouths watering this holiday season!

Available in Perfume, Ganache, Whipped Soap, Burnishing Glace, Sugared Amber Whipped Cleansing Scrub and Home Fragrance Oil. 

 

CEDAR & SIBERIAN FIR

NOT TO BE USED BY WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING.

The intoxicating smell of woodsy cedar meets piney Siberian Fir Essential Oil to create an absolutely wonderful soak reminiscent of a forest. Cedar and Siberian Fir makes a wonderful fragrance for the Winter Season and is also a wonderful woodsy fragrance for year-round enjoyment! Made with 100% pure essential oils of Virginia Cedarwood and Siberian Fir.

The cedar and fir are both uniquely detectable and smell exactly like you would imagine. The fir is the strongest note in the bath. This has always been a big hit with my male customers, but is great for ladies who don't care for typical sweet or floral fragrances too!

Topped with a slight sprinkle of rubbed sage. Available in Dead Sea Salt Oatmeal Milk Bath.

 

SPICED CRANBERRY & SPRUCE

Tart plump sugared cranberries with a whimsical wisp of spice in the background and festive green Spruce Essential Oil combine to bring a very wintery holiday blend to you this year. A unique fragrance to enhance your Winter Season. Smells like a coniferous cranberry juice!

The salt blend is topped with a few festive cranberry seeds. The texture of this salt is firm rather than dry and free-flowing. This is completely normal for this fragrance and will not affect the performance in the tub.

Available in Whipped Soap and Dead Sea Salt Oatmeal Milk Bath.

 

BAYBERRY
Traditional Yule and Christmas Scent

In Colonial times, candles were made from the wax of Bayberries as a favorably scented alternative to tallow. It was tiresome work as it took pounds of berries to yield just one pound of wax. Bayberry is a traditional element of the Yule and Christmas celebrations. It is not a coniferous plant, yet it smells of pine alongside subtle sweet berry notes, without the sharp top notes of pine oil. Bayberry smells of winter and is a wonderful fragrance to have in your home for the holidays. Light a Yule log, huddle near the hearth and use your Bayberry soap on Solstice Night!

Available in Perfume and Bar Soap. 

 

BLACK CHRISTMAS
Bayberry, Spruce, Cedar and Clove Infused with Coal

NOT TO BE USED BY WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING.

Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way

Yet what the shadows bring
Are wolves with fierce appetites
Circling while we sing
There will be blood tonight

Black Christmas is not a soap full of jovial laughter and merry wishes. It is not tinsel, mulled cider and sweet baked goods. It is the still, miserably cold winter night. Desperate, horrified and vulnerable: your sleigh stuck in an embankment, hungry prowling wolves catch the scent of your fear. A low growl issued from a distance not far away sends you scrambling for cover, yet you can never hope to out run them and survive.

Primarily scented with bayberry and spruce, Virginia cedarwood is not far behind and clove lies in wait in the background. A few drops of orange are added to the blend, but not readily detectable, like a stalker in the shadows. This soap is for the strong, brazen and wholly fearless individual. The meek and timid should remain hidden under the covers. Infused with pure black activated charcoal and crimson glitter. Smells very similar to my Bayberry soap, though a little darker.

Available in Bar Soap.


 

KRAMPUS
Sweet Birch Essential Oil

NOT TO BE USED BY WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING.

Sei nur brav und niemals keck
Dann der Krampus schaut um’s eck

Be only well-behaved and never saucy,
(for) the Krampus is looking around the corner.

The Krampus is St. Nick's dark and menacing companion. The word Krampus originates from the German Word ‘krampen’, meaning claw. While St. Nick visits the well-behaved children and bears presents, the ghastly satyr-like Krampus seeks out those children who have been naughty and flails them with his birch switch.
The Krampus soap is a luster grey-black soap scented in, what else? Sweet Birch Essential Oil. Birch has a very wintergreen and sassafras (root beer) like scent. It is sweet, minty, refreshing and generously scented.

You may experience as slight cooling sensation on the skin when using this soap. Use caution in "sensitive areas" if you do. Available in Bar Soap.

BRAND NEW SCENTS:

SNOWSHOE PASS
White Amber, White Musk, Vanilla Accord, Peppermint Cream, Cold Winds

A chilly white blend of an ethereal snow blanket and cold winter winds, Snowshoe Pass combines pale white amber, delicate and smooth white musk, a sweet touch of vanilla and a faint whisper of creamy cold peppermint. The result is a unique take on a winter scent inspired by heavy snows and desolate rural regions. On cold sniff and initial application a creamy peppermint note is detectable as a top note, though it is a careful addition that takes a backseat to the other notes as it wears on the skin, ultimately receding entirely. There is just enough peppermint to enhance the coolness of this plushly white blend. The other notes swirl together to evoke not only a snow covered landscape that may only be traversed with snowshoes and a pioneer spirit, but the calm and intense silence after a snow deep in the wild.

Available in Perfume, Ganache, Whipped Soap and Burnishing Glace.

 

 

 
CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT BARK
Milk Chocolate, Cool Peppermint, Dark Chocolate and White Chocolate

Creamy milk chocolate bark studded with crushed cool peppermint candies, drizzled with a touch of dark and white chocolates. On cold sniff and initial application, Chocolate Peppermint Bark starts with a medley of chocolates, primarily milk chocolate, combined with a smooth peppermint top note. The peppermint gradually fades the longer the perfume wears on the skin allowing the chocolates to come to the foreground. After it has been on the skin for sometime, a faint hint of the milk chocolate resides amongst more dominant white chocolate and vanilla notes. A journey and a morpher!

Available in Perfume, Ganache, Whipped Soap and Burnishing Glace. The Whipped Soap contains Organic Cocoa Powder. 

 

FLINTLOCK
TOBACCO, SADDLE LEATHER, VIRGINIA CEDAR, BLACK PEPPER, WOODS, BAYBERRY & EVERGREENS

NOT TO BE USED BY WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING.

A frozen expanse of untamed early America stretches as far as the eye can see. The boughs of cedar and conifers are heavy with snow. Your steed is laden with provisions, taking a slow measured pace through this unfamiliar region. Subtle wafts of your last fire emanate from your coat. Your saddle is warm and sturdy beneath you as your ride with trusty musket close at hand, prepared for the uncalculated dangers only the deep winter wilderness can oblige.

Flintlock is an intensely dark, ominous, woody, smokey and slightly coniferous blend. It is a combination of Tobacco absolute, saddle leather, Virginia cedarwood, black pepper, sandalwood and a medley of other woods with a touch of evergreens, bayberry and smoke that will plunge you deep into a Pioneer's winter in the American frontier. Flintlock is darker on cold sniff and initial application than on the dry down. The evergreen and bayberry notes are very mild and primarily detectable at this stage. The blend wears like a warm brown leather jacket. It is woody, smokey and refined on the dry down.

Those with sensitive skin may notice a mild cooling sensation on the skin after using the whipped soap in the shower. This is from the black pepper essential oil and subsides quickly based on our testing. You may wish to do a test area before using all over if you're concerned about having very sensitive skin and you may also wish to avoid using in "sensitive areas" if so. I had no cooling sensation at all after using all over and G only experienced the slight cooling sensation about five minutes after his shower on his back and the back of his arms. It only lasted a few minutes.

Available in Perfume, Ganache, Whipped Soap and Burnishing Glace.

OUTPOST
Sugar Crystals, Spruce, Fir, Soft Woods, Bayberry, Mistletoe & Amber

NOT TO BE USED BY WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING.

A beacon of light amidst cold, desolate wilderness. Pass through a copse of young evergreens into a warm cedar cabin and thaw out under a soft Afghan blanket by a blazing fire while sugared treats from the kitchen fill the air. Notes include sugar crystals, spruce, fir, a medley of soft woods including sandalwood, agar, cedar, aloeswood, patchouli, guaiacwood, bayberry, mistletoe and a touch of amber.

This complex and unique blend will take you on a morphing adventure, not unlike Witch's Cottage from the Fall Collection, though Outpost is a distinctly different blend. On cold sniff and initial application, sugar encrusted evergreens emerge as the top note. The evergreen is primarily detectable early in the life of the blend though remaining ever-present in the since it is a wash off product which can retain the top notes. The blend of woods emerges to greet the sugar crystals after a few minutes with a hint of bayberry in mistletoe in the background and the spruce and fir far behind. The dry down is a very soft, warm, sweet and comforting blend with a tiny wisp of sweet smoke. The green notes are very faint and barely detectable at this stage.

Despite the evergreens and woods used, this is a very gentle blend of soft woods as opposed to a dark, heavy, woodsy blend. The sugar keeps it light-hearted and the other notes bring a festive winter impression to mind. A mega morpher that is very fun to journey with when you're outside on a cold day. Cool weather really brings the notes of Outpost to life and enhances the blend. If you liked the complexity and warmth of Witch's Cottage, with sweet juxtaposed next to herbal and woods, you should like Outpost!

Available in Perfume, Ganache, Whipped Soap and Burnishing Glace.

SUGARVALE
Candied Pecans, Butterscotch, Buttered Rum, Brown Sugar, Maple Syrup, Hot Pralines & Milk Chocolate Cocoa

Nestled in a mountain vale lies a small, quaint community with rustic buildings housing friendly, hardworking people. A special delight during the harsh and demanding winter season is the Sugarvale Candy Kitchen in the middle of town. Smoke billows profusely from the chimney of the confectioner's cabin. Aromas of candied pecans, butterscotch, buttered rum, brown sugar, maple syrup, hot pralines and milk chocolate cocoa fills the air across town, beckoning the inhabitants inside to warm cold bodies and empty tummy's alike.

On initial application and cold sniff, candied pecans emerge from the mouthwatering golden notes mentioned above. The pecans subside leaving the butterscotch, buttered rum, maple and brown sugar sweetening your skin with just a hint of hot pralines. The milk chocolate hot cocoa is not readily detectable but the chocolate note helps to round out the blend from being too sweet, though this mix is toothsome and very warm and delicious!

Available in Perfume, Ganache, Whipped Soap and Burnishing Glace. 

 

NIGHT STAR
Nutmeg, Patchouli, Frankincense, Myrrh, Woods and Lemon

NOT TO BE USED BY WOMEN WHO ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING.

Ceremonial resins, patchouli, cold and spicy nutmeg, warm sandalwood and a touch of lemon, orange and clove meld together to create a dark, dry, resinous, earthy and spicy aroma.

Cold sniff and initial application features a marriage of frankincense and nutmeg essential oils hovering above grounding, earthy patchouli essential oil. The nutmeg is divine, authentic and spicy and adds and exotic mood to the blend. As the nutmeg and frankincense subside, the dry myrrh essential oil comes forward with a very light lemon note. All of the notes combine to form a dry down which is primarily patchouli with resinous myrrh, a whisper of citrus and woods and a delicate bit of spices.

Perfume only.