Arcanum Experiments are perfuming experiments and happenstance musing from our workroom. While they didn't make the cut to our catalog (or we didn't have enough ingredients to make a larger batch), we wanted to give you an opportunity for some playful olfactory exploration. None of these formulas are written down, making each Experiment unique and unrepeatable.
If you’re a first timer to niche perfumes and/or Alkemia, Experiments are a great way to get acquainted with our perfumes and have some olfactory fun.
Arcanum Experiments are going live on July 6 at 12 noon EST as part of our July Clearout Sale!
Our experiments will be available in amber 5 ml. New this year, we will also have a very limited quantity of 1 oz. bottles. As we pre-bottle these in advance, samples will not available. We hope you'll have as much fun with these as we had making them!
2025 Arcanum Experiments
- Experiment 1, aka Flower Power: A riotous cottage garden of twining honeysuckle, climbing roses, wisteria, dianthus, daisies, lilies, phlox, sweetpea, peonies, and iris.
- Experiment 2, aka Of Spice and Men: A masculine blend of spice, ginger root, leather, tonka, black amber, oakmoss, dry woods.
- Experiment 3, aka Pipe Dreams: A reverie of smouldering pipe tobacco, affogato al caffè, a splash of amaretto, and frankincense.
- Experiment 4, aka Tutti Frutti, Oh Beautti!: A fruity bombshell of berries, purple plums, fresh figs, lychees, ripe peaches, and muskmelon
- Experiment 5, aka Violetta Coquetta: Old fashioned Victorian violet pastille candies, sweet white musk, and vanilla bean
- Experiment 6, aka Seaside Ghost Town: Slightly creepy abandoned buildings on the shore of a bleak ocean - rusting metal, ocean salt, sandy dirt, sea coal, storm felled pine trees
- Experiment 7, aka Is the Cake a Lie?: A tempting array of inviting red velvet cake, luscious frosted vanilla angel cake, and aromatically beckoning caramel coffee cake
- Experiment 8, aka Not THAT Musk: Warmly inviting musks enhanced with the depth and woody complexity of Zanzibar cloves
- Experiment 9, aka Cherry Bombe: An explosion of all things cherry - black cherries, cherry pie, cherry cola, chocolate covered cherries, cherry nougat, and candy cherry balls.
- Experiment 10, aka Sense and Sensibili-Tea: A genteel ensemble of fresh green tea, bergamot, garden mint, hyacinths, green patchouli, and white sandalwood
- Experiment 11, aka Let’s Give’em Pumpkin to Talk About: Homemade pumpkin pie, candied apples, pear frangipani tart, and warm autumn spices
- Experiment 12, aka Grape Expectations: A childhood reminiscence of the effervescence of a freshly popped can of grape soda infused with blackberry musk
- Experiment 13, aka Outstanding in their Field: A grassy field in midsummer, flowing meadow streams, light cotton, moroccan tea, blue juniper
- Experiment 14, aka Everything Rhymes With Orange: A candystore treat bag of orange glitterati candy, bubblegum, conversation hearts, coconut taffy, lemon drops, and red licorice sticks.
- Experiment 15, aka Bad Decisions Make Good Stories: The scent of bad decisions and regrettable choices - skanky dive bars, illicit trysts in afterhours alleyways, and indolic floral perfume mixed with sweat.
- Experiment 16, aka Incandescent Vamp: Voluptuous rose, tuberose, opium, golden amber, and cashmere