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.
• Night Flyer by Olympic Orchids is where the cold breath of the dark chambers meets the scent of deep-reaching tree roots, moist earth, and dripping limestone walls. This fragrance steers away from animalic and puts you right in the zone of hyperrealism.
• 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.