Stora Skuggan

Stora Skuggan is a niche perfume brand from Sweden, founded in 2015. The brand is run by a small group of perfumers and designers. All production – from perfume formulation to branding – is done at the Stora Skuggan fragrance studio in Stockholm. The perfumes are compounded by hand. Stora Skuggan perfumes are based on stories that blur the line between myth and reality. Central to the brand, these tales are conceptualized through scent and art, creating a small universe for each product.

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Harris Wharf London

Byredo

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Paraboot

Margaret Howell

Comme des Garçons Parfums

orSlow

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Casey Casey

Hestra

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mfpen

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Rostersox

Salomon

Pyrenex

Stockholm (Surfboard) Club

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Comme des Garçons Girl

Gimaguas

BEAMS BOY

Perfumer H

Puma

Gottlob

Sisi Joia

Maximum Henry

Drogheria Crivellini

Babaco

Cordera

Lauren Manoogian

FLORE FLORE

Régime De Fleurs

Gabriela Coll Garments

Studio Nicholson

FANE

Olga Basha

Norlha

Aeta

30ml

The Musk Monkeyflower (so renowned for its vibrant scent that it was simply referred to as The Common Musk) was imported to Europe from the American west coast, where the sun-yellow flowers, perched on fuzzy, sticky stalks, can be found in meadows or along old dirt roads.

The Monkeyflower was a smash hit in Victorian England, thanks to its rich musk smell. Over nearly a century, it spread from the botanical aristocracy to London street hawkers and countryside cottage windows. But at the turn of the twentieth century, the flower suddenly lost its scent—not just in domesticated plants, but in wild specimens as well. Botanists in North America reported that the uncultivated flowers had also lost their fragrance.

This puzzling mystery was the hottest topic among biology conspiracy theorists for decades, but no explanation was ever found. Eventually, the subject faded into obscurity, along with the flower’s popularity as a houseplant. By then, the flowers had spread into the wild and can sometimes still be found living a quiet life in parts of Europe and New Zealand—perhaps just biding their time before returning to the olfactory stage.

Top: Tussilago and Sunscreen
Mid: Chamomile, Goldberry, Fig and Buttercup
Base: Hay and Musk


Eau de Parfum, 30ml

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Monkeyflower

Thumbsucker is the fifth fragrance from Stockholm based perfumery Stora Skuggan. It’s a narcotic nectar floriental inspired by the reason babies suck their thumbs according to Hindu mythology.
The fragrance is centered around a few key elements, sweet and exhilarating honey is mixed with the narcotic and slightly dirty flower narcissus. In the base the golden hue of honey is mirrored through Himalayan cedar, which is similar to cedarwood atlas but even sharper and unmistakably sacred in impression. Cherry, styrax and bitter almond creates a dissonant underside to balance the sweet nectar.

Top Notes: Honey and Narcissus
Mid Notes: Violet and Cherry
Base Notes: Himalayan Cedar, Bitter Almond, Styrax Balmsam and Candle Wax

30 ML
Made by hand in Stockholm.

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Thumbsucker

Hexensalbe, also known as witches’ flying ointment, was a hallucinogenic salve used in witchcraft in the middle ages. It was a mixture of extremely poisonous ingredients.

Top Notes: Wormwood and Salty Liqourice 
Mid Notes: Tuberose Rosemary and Angelica Belladonna
Base Notes: Black Hemlock Lichen and Patchouli

30 ML Eau de Parfum
Made by hand in Stockholm.

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Hexensalbe

Azalai

Silphium (probably of the genus Ferula) was a plant that grew in the area of Cyrene, present day Libya, and was widely renowned as a spice, medicinal herb and perfume ingredient throughout the empires of the classical antiquity. It was praised by Greek philosophers and writers, as well as Roman emperors and cookbook authors.
There were many attempts to cultivate Silphium, but they inevitably failed. It would only grow wild in a limited area of the north African coast. This is combination with its qualities as seasoning and medicine made Silphium the most valuable spice in the world, outshining both saffron and cinnamon. The demand for Silphium eventually became so overwhelming that it was harvested to extinction, and the taste and smell of the once greatest spice in the world was lost in time.

Stora Skuggans rendition of this historical plant is created by researching surviving assumed relatives of Silphium, using aromachemicals (the molecular building blocks of scents) to create an accord that they feel represents what descriptions remains. This is set against a background of ancient incense, woods and leather.

[b]Top notes: Silphium accord, cistus
Heart notes: Cinnamon, tobacco leaf, geranium, black pepper, ginger, clove
Base notes: Frankinscense, cedarwood, myrrh, leather[/b]

Made by hand in Stockholm.

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Silphium

The famous Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner is considered the founder of modern zoology, but as a true 16th century scientist he was also: a prominent physician, botanist, linguist and – of course – spelunking adventurer.

In his 'Descriptio Montis Fracti sive Montis Pilati' from 1555, he chronicles his climb to the summit of Mount Pilatus, but we also get to follow him into the caves of the Alps. 'At night, the moon shines into the cave so brightly the light itself seems to take form, like a mist. It gathers in the ceiling and makes the limestone stalactites glitter and gleam, dripping tears of white liquid into puddles on the rock floor that never dries. Moonmilk.'

Top notes: Black Tea, Lime
Heart notes: Cardamom, Lily of the Valley, Mandarin, Black Pepper
Base notes: Sandalwood (mysore), Tan Leather

Made by hand in Stockholm.

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Moonmilk

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Mistpouffer by Stora Skuggan 

A Mistpouffer is an unexplained natural sound, a sonic boom like distant cannon fire that seems to come out of the fog over large lakes or rivers. It has been recorded all over the world throughout history, and is the source of many legends. In Japan the phenomenon is called uminari meaning “cries from the sea”. In Connecticut, the Machimoodus state park gets its name from the native american name for the area, which means “place of bad noises”.

Despite scientific attempts to understand the sounds (that can still be heard to this day), its source has still not been identified. Possible explanations include solar winds resonating in the atmosphere, underground earthquakes or gas bubbles being released from the deep. Others believe it is the work of extraterrestrial or subsurface civilisations.  Early settlers in North America were told by the native Haudenosaunee Iroquois that the booms were the sound of the Great Spirit continuing his work of shaping the earth.

Rendering this mystical water thunder as a fragrance was as elusive as the sound itself. We spent four years and hundreds of iterations before finding the right balance between being distinctive and inexplainable. Foggy but not aquatic, smoky but not heavy. Natural, but in equal parts supernatural.
IMMORTELLE

[i]FIG LEAF
PINE
SMOKE
VETIVER
BERGAMOT
OZONE
MALT SUGAR
CYPRIOL[/i]

Eau de Parfum, 30ml

Mistpouffer

Fantome de Maules by Stora Skuggan. Inspired by an enigmatic being, seen by many wandering the local woodlands for the past decade, dressed in nothing but cloaked camouflage and an obsolete mask.

Top: Green leaves, Lemon, Galbanum, Bergamot
Mid: Black pepper, Cardamom, Coriander, Lavender Absolute, Forest Flowers, Cashmeran
Base: Ambroxan, Cedarwoods, Habanolide, Cashmeran, Oakmoss, Labdanum, Vetiver, Sandalwood, Tonka Bean, Vetiver

Made by hand in Stockholm.

Fantome de Maules