Nocturne Alchemy Permanent Collection - Arae Decantery & Favorites
Hi folks,
Arae Decantery is currently offering the entire Nocturne Alchemy Permanent Collection for decants (and felties!!!).
For those that know me, I have been very passionate about trying all of the NA PC scents. I find their Limited Edition scents are often the ones that get the most love and hype and I want to promote their extensive and beautiful permanent collection.
Thanks to Arae, I've been able to try most of the NA PC scents. For those that want to sample a huge variety of scents, the felties are great since it's a small piece of felt in a bag that you can apply to your skin. I treat the felties as single-use, but some folks aren't as slather-happy as I am and get more use out of them.
In honor of Arae's open orders... What are everyone's favorite NA PC scents? In no particular order (because I love them all equally) some of my favorites are:
- Ozymandias - Resin of Royal Sweet Frankincense, Languid Amber filtered through Royal Amber Resin and harsh-less white pepper essential oil.
- This scent is one of my absolute favorites. This is a soft, resinous skin scent that has a lot of vanillic and balsamic qualities to my nose. If you haven't tried this one, I think everyone should give it a shot.
- Blue Lotus Diamond - Rare Blue Lotus, Golden Frankincense, Amber Musk and the charm and faience of Studio Limited - Diamond (Redwood and Cedar).
- I've seen a lot of love for their limited lotus scents, so this is another one I want to highlight. The resins, woods, and aquatic lotus facets all blend together beautifully. I really adore this scent and think this one gets overlooked due to Lotus Santalum, even though this one is my preferred lotus!
- Endymion - Grey Pine, Hinoki Wood, Amber accord, Ambre attar, Cardamom, Gurjun Balsam, Labdanum, Crystalline absolute, Veil Vanilla accord, Musk, and Dragon’s Blood resin.
- I think this one is worth highlighting because pine!! Hinoki!!! Dragon's Blood!!! Vanilla!! I first tried this scent when I was trying to find a substitute for BPAL's Dragon's Milk, and while Endymion is definitely not that, it's a really stunning woodsy, ambery, vanilla take on Dragon's Blood. It's something that I've really enjoyed and found to be really unique in both NA's collection, but indie perfumes more broadly. This is from their Dragons collection, which I generally find delightful.
- OM NA: Balance - Beautiful imported White, Blue, and Egyptian Chamomile Essential base oils. White Sandalwood, Pure petals of Egyptian Chamomile, Blue Yarrow E/O, and a small nurturing of Amber Musk for the soul.
- I wear a lot of perfume when I go to sleep, especially since I've started working in the office most days and can't wear as much perfume during the day. Lavender scents are often the star of the show for calming or bedtime scents, but I find chamomile and yarrow to be absolutely lovely as well! If you haven't tried chamomile scents, I really recommend this one as a soothing almost functional perfume oil.
- Emerson - Driftwood Amber, Persian Amber, Egyptian Kyphi, Golden Kerala Amber, Amber of Nepal, Indian Amber, Amber Musk and Green Peppercorn Essential Oils.
- One of my favorite NA limited scents is Bastet's Amber Ambre Kulfi, and I find that Emerson is the slightly more mellow cousin of BAAK. This is a rich and lovely amber, with delicate spice from the peppercorn. I really love this and thanks to Arae's previous decants was able to find an alternative for my beloved BAAK scent!!
Aaaand, since I am completely head over heels for NA/eNVie's saphir scents, I'll mention that Arae still has their eNVie exclusif scents available as decants as well. For those that aren't familiar with saphir, it's a really stunning vanillic resinous blend. It lasts forever on my skin and I have an embarrassing number of eNVie bottles..
Speaking of saphir, another stunning PC scent is:
- Giza - Sandalwood Absolute, Sandalwood Musk Accord, eNVie saphir essence, White Amber Accord, Bastet’s Amber Absolute, Resin of Royal Sweet Frankincense, and Languid Amber
- For this following... This is a sandalwood, saphir, Bastet's Amber AND Ozymandias blend. This is shockingly good and dare I say, better than santal saphir. A full size bottle is only $26 too!! If you're only going to get one new scent to try, I highly recommend getting a decant of this scent!
I would love to hear what other gems are hiding in the Permanent Collection that I might have overlooked.
Please share your favorites!!! Are there any you're wanting to sample from Arae's felties and decants?
I want the permanent and general catalog scents to get all the love that they deserve.
My other NA PC reviews from Arae's NA Vanilla starter packs, in case any one is interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/Indiemakeupandmore/comments/1olzer2/nocturne_alchemy_vanilla_arae_starter_pack_reviews/