Laboratory Perfumes Unisex Fragrance

Laboratory Perfumes started in London in 2012 with three scents built around the English coast and countryside, and it has added roughly one every few years since. Everything is unisex — there's no men's or women's version of any of them. We stock Helios and Samphire as eau de toilette, Gorse and Atlas as candles, and Amber and Gorse as soap and cream, alongside the rest of our well-being range and home. Start with the Discovery Set if you can't choose.

Laboratory Perfumes Eau de Toilette: Helios and Samphire

Samphire is the fresh one. Juniper, citrus oil, lavender, rosemary and basil over white amber and oak moss — it's meant to smell of coastal air and largely does. Helios is warmer and sunnier, citrus and bergamot over earthy woods, and the brand describes it as orange groves in Tuscany. If you want to know which suits you, the Discovery Set has five 5ml vials and costs less than committing to a full bottle you're unsure about. Both are unisex, as everything here is.

Laboratory Perfumes Candles: Gorse and Atlas

Gorse is the citrus and coconut one — cardamom underneath, and it smells like the yellow flowers it's named after, which is not something you can say of most candles. Atlas is the opposite end: cinnamon, ginger, black pepper and cognac, warm and spiced, named after the Moroccan mountains. Gorse for a kitchen in summer, Atlas for a sitting room in November. The candles are poured into a clear glass beaker, which is where the laboratory in the name comes from.

Amber and Gorse Soap and Cream

The soaps and creams carry the same two scents in a form you use rather than wear. Amber is the warm resinous one and the brand's first fragrance; Gorse is the citrus. The cream is for hands and body. If you like a scent but aren't sure about wearing it, the soap is a cheaper way to live with it for a few weeks. The Lifestyle Set pairs a cream and a soap if you want both.

The packaging is deliberately plain — brown card, clear glass, no gold — which is the point of the brand. There's more in well-being and home, and we ship worldwide.

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