The Alkemia 2025 Holiday Gift Guide

This post highlights some of our best-loved seasonal offerings for your perusal and hopefully your (and your recipient's) delight. Need help selecting the perfect perfume? Check out our guide to choosing perfume perfumes with confidence. Feeling overwhelmed? Our guide to holiday gift shopping for the overwhelmed and/or indecisive can help you untangle the stress. 

Want your holiday gift to arrive before December 25? Be sure to look over our Shipping Policy for both Domestic (US) and International Holiday Shipping Deadlines! These are also included at the bottom of this blog for your convenience. 

Alkemia Holiday Gift Ideas & Highlights of the Season

2025 Dark Mysteries Collection - $20-$270

Our newest perfume collection of winter flirtations and merriments is available as samples, extraits, and EDPs.

• Encens d’ Amour: A sensual reverence of amber-benzoin incenses, Grecian figs, white peaches, black currants, green pumpkin, coconut water, vanilla pods, star jasmine, freesia, rosemary sprigs, ripe passionfruit, and medjool dates.
• Gods of Mad Desire: A delirium of hashish coffee, licorice, coriander, and trampled greens swirling in an erotic maelstrom of spices, black honey, goat milk caramel, dark amber, and patchouli 
• Kabarett: A debauched chypre of black leather, pipe tobacco, cigar smoke, worn wood stages, Cassis liqueur, Brazilian Rosewood, blood oranges, flambéed pears, wilted bouquets, wine-stained satin, tonka, and rare Gesha coffee.
• North Star: A powerful solitude of night-dark woods and resins, impassive stones, frozen lichens, the electrical crackle of Northern Lights, and the saliferous petrichor of dried tears.
• Somnium: An eventide elixir of aromatics to bring deep relaxation and restful sleep – French lavender, green cardamon, neroli, Irish moss, vetiver root, and opopanax. 

Savings Alert! - Winter Perfume Bundle Special - starting at $54

We’ve curated a special selection of your wintertide favorites and from November 28 until Feb 1, we’re offering a 10% bundle discount on 3 or more perfumes. An extrait bundle will offer a mix and match of 5ml amber bottles, rollerballs and 30 ml bottles. A separate alcohol-free spray bundle is also available. 

Winter Seasonal Fragrances - $20-48 USD

Flirtatious and Festive

 

Mesmerize with the sophisticated flirtations of Compliments of the Season, Bewitching Temptress, Dance of the Seven Veils, or In a Railway Carriage. Take a naughty frolic with Fallen Snow Angels or Caveau de Innocents. Shine with the luminous pearlescence of Stardust, the golden gourmands of Amber Witch, or the sweet enchantment of Honored Ghosts. Radiate your divinity with As Dark Things Are Meant To Be Loved or the lush, red pomegranate of Ruby Amber. 

Secret Weapon: The Pheromone Attraction Bomb

Want to supercharge your powers of enchantment? Try layering our two piece Pheromone Attraction Bomb with your favorite perfume.

Weaving Winter Magic - Nature and Ceremony 

 

Escape to the solace of nature with perfumes like Dust of Snow and Ammil where the clean smell of freshly fallen snow mingles with elements like hemlock pine and musk to evoke a woodland winter walk or wander off the trail with forest trees in Ydalir, In a Northern Wood, and Falling Stars at Winter Solstice.

Engage in the sacred act of wintering - traditionally a time of spiritual retreat, rest, and healing. Accompany your winter rituals and meditations with the timeless incense resins of Attorney for Lost Souls, Dark Goddess, Gothique Sanctum, and Sacred Flame.

Delectable Temptations

 

 

Tempt and delight with spicy, gourmand, or smoky perfumes like Magpie's Rhyme, Confectionaire, Persian Tearoom, Incantation Cacao, Smoke and Mirrors, and Encircling Flame. Wrap yourself and your home in the coziness of Hygge Sanctuary, Cidre d' Automne, or La Cheminée (The Fireplace).

Winter Intimacies

 

 

Cuddle up with warmly enticing skin scents like Winter Sanctuary, Afterglow, and Aurora. Invite cuddles to turn into sexy embraces with Venus in Furs, Bronze and Blaze, Evening Song, and other warmly romantic perfumes like Shine Bright My Desire and our best-selling Enchantress.

 

Alkemia Introductory Sample Set - $30

 

Our introductory sample set is a perfect way to introduce someone to Alkemia's offerings. The set includes samples of nine of our most beloved perfumes and a special postcard detailing scent notes and ideas for creatively using our perfumes to scent your world.

Themed Sample Sets - $20 USD

Premade sample sets are a fun and easy way to explore a variety of our perfumes, scent notes, and fragrance aesthetics. Build Your Own sample sets allow you to customize samples to fit your recipient's personality and interests, highlight a theme, or communicate a special message. 

Gifting sample sets at a small group gathering provides an excellent opportunity for a "fragrance soirée," where guests can compare each other's samples and discuss their favorite scents.

Pheromone Alchemy C24 - $30 USD

 

Do you or your giftee get social anxiety? Does someone dread parties or worry about being with family for the holidays? C24 is a pheromone elixir to inspire comfort, intimacy, and warm feelings in others. It encourages deepened bonding/affection in existing relationships, catalyzes new friendships, and inspires greater social conviviality. For the more introverted or shy, it works as a "social rescue remedy" making connecting with people easier. 

 

Perfume Fixative - $18-30 USD

 

Our exclusive perfume fixative ($18 USD) will enhance the longevity of any perfumes that are too ephemeral. Our fixative is now available in an alcohol-free spray format ($30 USD) that can work as a base layer for any EDP or cologne. 

Single Layering Notes - $20-48 USD

 

Single layering note perfumes either as a complete 12 piece set ($200 - a savings of $40) or in bottles ($20-$48 USD each) will let your favorite perfume lover customize the perfumes in their fragrance wardrobe to match their moods or the seasons, experiment with making their own fragrance creations, rekindle romances with perfumes that have become boring, or add their favorite scent element. Single layering notes are also beloved by people who prefer simple, unfussy perfumes. Our newest single layering notes are Vanille, Cafe, and Tabac.  

 

Special Reserves - $30-$145 USD

 

 

For connoisseurs and people who delight in the finer things, bottles or samples of special reserves like dark-fruited Cherries of Night or luxe Ambre de Amour make memorable gifts.

  

Sample Sets/C24 + Gift Cards:

The Fail-Safe Formula for Secret Santa, Multi-recipient/Group Gift Situations, and Last Minute Gifts 

 

If you're pressed for time and/or still uncertain about which perfume to choose, it's time to consider a fail-safe option: purchasing a premade sample set and/or C24 along with a gift card so the recipient can enjoy sampling and then select the perfume of their choice. This works well for group gifting situations (friend groups, workplace, siblings, Secret Santa, etc.) where you want to keep the gifts unique but also equitable.

📦✨ Holiday Shipping Deadlines! ✨📦

If you want your perfumes to arrive before December 25, please keep the following shipping deadlines in mind. Postal mishaps can occur, especially during busy times so we suggest ordering as early as possible to give your package the best chance of arriving on time.🎁❄️

🌍 INTERNATIONAL DEADLINES
• Sat, Dec 7 – Noon EST → International First Class & Priority Mail
• Sat, Dec 14 – Noon EST → International Express

🇺🇸 U.S. DOMESTIC DEADLINES
• Sat, Dec 14 – Noon EST → US First Class, US Ground, US Priority Mail
• Fri, Dec 19 – Noon EST → US Express

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed." - Maya Angelou

Wishing you blessings of the seasons and happy holidays (whichever and however many you celebrate)! -- Love from everyone at Alkemia Perfumes

Artworks:

• Dreaming of Christmas by Charles Burchfield, 1947
• Vintage 19th-century greeting card
• Angel with Tree by Rafael Kirchner, 1901
• Girl with Mantilla by Jan Frederik Pieter Portielje, c. late 19th century 
• Christmas Eve Dinner in Sweden by Carl Larsson, 1917
• The Artist at Work by Fred Pegram, 1928
• Circe by Beatrice Offor, 1911
• Still Life with Jewelry by A. Pollack, 1907
• Christmas 1920 by Norman Rockwell, 1920
• Vintage New Year holiday card, c. 1900