Luckyscent Videos: Noteworthy - Horsey Scents

Howdy! So, a sub-genre or category that has become really popular in recent years is horsey fragrances. We're seeing a lot of houses release or create fragrances that evoke a horse, a horse saddle, or a meadow and a horse. These usually start from a base of leather, to varying degrees of animalics, and then build on that.

The first fragrance I think that used that accord was Ekupage by Hermès. Here, we have different perfumers' takes on that DNA. Starting with Arabian Horse by Pierre Guillaume, we get an opening that's really reminiscent of that Ekupage—an old-school citrusy and green opening. But then as it dries down, it actually becomes more animalic and more raw leather, with almost a barnyard-y funk as well.

Moving on to something like Cuirs Equus by Naomi Goodsir, this fragrance creates a raw leather accord, a horsey accord, by using isobutyl quinoline, which is a lot dustier, much more stark and contrasty, and with a lot less green. There’s not much citrus, just that leather.

Then we go into something like Riders by Sarah Baker, which is a newer one. The focus here is a lot more on green, lush scenery with a little bit of that leather in the background, less animalic. This is actually a good starting point if you're interested in horsey fragrances.

Here we have Ruad, which is a horsey leather with a little bit of muguet, narcissus, and a bit of absinthe. It’s a lot more aggressive and a lot more dry, herbal, and medicinal, while still drying down into that almost moody, barnyard-y leather.

My personal favorite recently is Epona by the House of Papillon. This is a lot more of a nostalgic and abstract take on horsey fragrance. You still get that kind of dry hay feel, but there’s a lot more soapiness, like you