The Dark Side sample pack

You know how mass-market perfume brands love to add "black" or "noir" to the name of a scent to make it sound rich and mysterious? And then you smell it and discover that all they've done is amp up the woods to a universally inoffensive degree? We see you there, mass-marketers. And we're here to show you what darkness really looks like.

Find darkness with this sample pack  at  10% off  the price of  á la carte  samples.

• Black Velvet Cafe  by 4160 Tuesdays is rich and dark as night with tobacco, coffee, leather, dark chocolate, and that darkest of raw materials: oud.
• A City on Fire by Imaginary Authors is cade oil, spikenard, cardamom, clearwood, dark berries, labdanum, and burnt match. Yep, burnt match.
• 2B2926 (formerly the Black)  by Sum is black smoke swirling, floating, and changing in the air. More ethereal than dense, and still dark enough to make you howl at the moon.
• Dark Aoud  by Montale is darkness penetrated by a flicker of hot light, like a candle glowing in the chambers of an Egyptian pharaoh surrounded by a sea of blackness.