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STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like a Victorian debutante on vacation
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Named for a real botanical mystery. The Musk Monkeyflower was a Victorian sensation prized for its rich musk scent, until it mysteriously lost its fragrance entirely at the turn of the 20th century, in both cultivated and wild plants alike. No one has ever explained why. The scent...
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like the way moonlight on your skin feels
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Named after a 16th-century account by naturalist Conrad Gessner, who described moonlight filling Alpine caves so brightly it seemed to turn liquid, dripping from limestone stalactites as a strange white mineral deposit called "moonmilk." Black tea and cardamom keep it grounded and mineral rather than sweet.
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like a witch who prefers very sugary tea
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Named for a real unexplained phenomenon; mysterious booming sounds that emerge from fog over lakes and rivers worldwide, recorded for centuries with no confirmed scientific explanation. The brand spent four years trying to capture that elusiveness in scent form.
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like honeyed violet and cherry, powdered like old soap
Floral
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like honeyed violet and cherry, powdered like old soap
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Based on a Hindu myth about a king who accidentally drank a fertility potion meant for his queen and became pregnant himself (oops!) When he couldn't nurse the baby, the god Indra slit his own thumb and let the infant drink from it instead. Honey, violet, and candle...
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like wormwood and belladonna rubbed into a (witchy) broomstick
Aromatic
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like wormwood and belladonna rubbed into a (witchy) broomstick
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Named for the medieval witches' "flying ointment." A poisonous hallucinogenic salve historically rubbed onto skin (often via a broomstick) that produced sensations of flight and is thought to be the real origin of the witch-on-a-broomstick myth. Wormwood, belladonna, and black hemlock nod directly to the salve's toxic ingredients.
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like mulled blood orange over Saharan sand
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Named for a centuries-old Saharan caravan route, home to the loneliest tree on Earth...a single acacia standing 150km from any other living thing, a landmark for salt-and-gold traders for generations, until a truck driver accidentally killed it in 1973. Saffron, blood orange, and gum acacia are meant to...
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like pine!
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Exactly what it says on the label. No folklore, no mystery, just pine!
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like it's not easy being green
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Inspired by a real, unexplained local legend from a Swiss village. A mysterious figure locals call "Le Loyon," seen wandering the woods for a decade in camouflage, quietly smelling flowers before vanishing at the first sound. Bergamot, galbanum, and forest flowers are built to evoke that same elusive,...
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like a historic plant lost to time
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A tribute to history's most valuable lost spice; an ancient North African plant so prized by Greek and Roman writers that it was harvested to complete extinction, its true scent and flavor lost forever. Stora Skuggan built their version by researching Silphium's surviving botanical relatives to reconstruct what...
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