Arcana Wildcraft Winter Classics
Warm your bones and celebrate the season with Arcana Wildcraft’s winter collection. The collection includes old classics and new blends that are sure to delight with delicious gourmands, snuggly ambers and resins, and the most perfect vanilla mint!
Scent descripion: Gaelic for snow, the word sneachta is also slang for another powdery white substance. Dry tobacco, sweet Irish honey, white musk, our Smoked Vanilla, and the unmistakable whiff of wayward impulses.
Sneachta smells cold and warm and snuggly all at once! It also smells a bit rugged and dangerous. When first applied, Sneachta is a sparkly, resinous (like a fine white amber) musk blend on my skin. It quickly mellows into a honey-sweet and chewy tobacco in a haze of musk that smells like a combination of bright, diaphanous white musk and gritty, smoky black musk. It’s a stunning tobacco musk!
Scent description: Eggnog, Arcana's beloved Yellow Cake accord, rum, fresh milk, nutmeg, and a drizzle of toasty caramel.
Nog AF on my skin is rum-soaked yellow cake spiked with freshly-grated nutmeg. It smells like a cup of liberally soused and spiced eggnog with perfect yellow cake drizzled in golden, sticky-sweet (but not cloying!) caramel. It’s delicious, and a must-try for lovers of cake and eggnog!
Scent description: The scent of staying in to watch the snow fall: dark honey amber, marshmallow, and the glow of beeswax candles.
Snug’s scent perfectly matches it’s name. It’s incredibly snuggly and cuddly--like a cozy blanket. On my skin I smell hazy golden, glowing beeswax candles sweetened with a touch of smooth amber honey and fluffy marshmallows. Snug is like a cloud of comfort--all of the notes are softened at the edges like the diffused glow of candlelight. I also smell a hint of cleanness--like a soft, clean blanket. This is a beautiful scent that will get a lot of wear.
Scent description: Sugar cookies infused with Mexican vanilla and sprinkled with tiny hints of peach, fig, and raisin.
Star Light smells like fruit-infused sugar cookies sprinkled with gleaming rock sugar crystals! It’s for sure a gourmand blend, but it’s not overly sweet. The fruit element smells more like fruit-flavored liqueur to my nose, as opposed to fresh or dried fruit. With wear the fruit element becomes less prominent, and I’m left with the perfect sugar cookie that’s neither too sweet nor too buttery. This one is lovely and is sure to be a crowd pleaser.
Scent description: The essence of a baroque case filled with tempered firesteel, flint, and linen charcloth: resinous black amber, woodsmoke, sweet mallow root, frankincense, cubeb, and sandalwood.
Tinderbox is a dark and deep smoky woods and resin blend. I get lots of charred, dry, fragrant sandalwood. This doesn’t change much for me on drydown--it remains a very dark, charred sandalwood blend.
Scent description: The scent of favorite scarves, gleeful snow days, and a lighthearted whirl of holiday parties: green coconut, baked pumpkin, nutmeg, red patchouli and brightest lemongrass.
Freshly applied, Winter Mirth is a blast of bright, happy, tart, herbal lemongrass! It’s ultra-soothing and immediately lifted my spirits when I smelled it. It fairly quickly becomes less dominant and allows some of the warm, baked pumpkin and nutmeg to shine through. The combination of bright lemongrass and warm bakery notes is an interesting marriage that works surprisingly well. They magically balance one another out, and the result is a scent that is both cheerful, bright, warm, and comforting. It’s neither herbal nor gourmand and smells utterly natural. A lovely and unexpected blend!
Scent description: The ancient pagan Norse revels of Winternights and Walpurgis once marked the beginning and ending of a long and frozen winter season. Feast, give thanks, ward off Frost Giants, or just frolic with this mirthful Northern mix of three vanillas, frosty peppermint, a dab of white musk, and a hint of ripe young berries encased in ice.
Winternights is one of my very favorite blends, and I wear it year-round. It’s an ultra-smooth mint blend, similar to the gorgeous sweet mint used in the Glittering blends and in the Candy Cane blends. It’s kissed with a silky, perfect vanilla and elevated with a crystal clear white musk. There’s just the barest hint of a soft purple berry in the background. The magic of this scent is that it actually smells cold--it’s cooling in the warmer months, and perfectly seasonal in the cooler months.
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