Carolinas Fragrance- sweetgrass, tasty blackberry, juicy peach, breezy aquatic notes, mint tobacco, magnolia, sugar, and lemon. We always like to throw a little sugar in everything down south. Even our speech and grammar.
 
Almost every summer there’s a trip to the mountains of Georgia and North Carolina and there’s something to be said for that area of the U.S. This scent, Carolinas, has fruits of blackberry and peach, popular in the south, sugar and lemon, because we can’t have our sweet tea without, at least, sugar, and that beautiful southern floral note of heady magnolia. Mint tobacco is thrown in for a gourmand because we all love the scent of pipe tobacco, and mint provides that hint of a fresh clean herb to stay on track with this scent. North Carolina has always been known for their tobacco production, and with good reason.

But, the real diamond in this scent is reminiscent of the scent from Charleston, South Carolina, home of the sweetgrass. For many years, beautiful baskets have been made by the Gullah peoples living in these regions, their cultural knowledge coming from West Africa. The original baskets were made from ‘bulrush’ but, later in the early 1900’s, sweetgrass came into the picture. The stories I always loved hearing about were the Gullah from the islands and coastal regions of the Carolinas, the coast, being significant for the aquatic and sea notes of “Carolinas” perfume oil. And to be more precise, the Gullah lived in coastal regions from North Carolina down to the coast of Florida. The baskets are exquisite with their ornamental patterns and have been used for all sorts of purposes from toting food to ‘winnowing’, the art of tossing hulls into the air to separate chaff from rice. True gems from true talent. I’ve always loved the scent of sweetgrass, mixed with the salty ocean breeze whenever I’m in Charleston.

So, in this fragrance, we have juicy, tender blackberries and succulent peaches from both Carolinas and the sweetgrass from the coastal regions. Then arrives the scent of heady Magnolia blossoms wafting on aquatic coastal breezes, and possibly a whiff of mint tobacco being smoked from a pipe by someone. And for good measure, as we say in the south, a little sugar for that tea, and some lemon, if you’re one of those who wishes to have lemon in your tea.