It has been since last spring that I released four regular-catalog perfumes here at Sweet Anthem. But... over the weekend, I added four new fragrances to the Etsy shop and today finished setting up their entries here! Please to welcome our new vaudevillian- and vintage-Broadway-inspired beauties, which have already been garnering some attention via Twitter (and in person sniffs this weekend).

Esther: A companion scent to Emily, this is the cool, cold, wintry, snow-capped flanker to the warm and spicy version. Esther opens with oriental fruits, a colder marzipan-type prelude, and falls very quickly into a barely-there smoky, musky white chocolate dry down. I put this on well over 6 hours ago and the white chocolate is still pure, fluffy-white heaven.

Evelyn: For fans of Molly, Evelyn is another chocolate-patchouli number that opens with tender green fig leaf and matcha tea leaf notes. Somewhat sweet-sour and smoky-woodsy all at once, Evelyn is a bright red oil that is more softer than some of our other woodsy category scents. The guiacwood is an accord of several woods and finely-crafted aroma chemicals, and accompanied by a patchouli c02 that will knock the socks off any patchouli fans out there.

Sophie: On the heels of our very successful Halloween release, Rebecca, comes Sophie — another agar/amber duo, with several different varieties of amber and agarwood co-distillations. This perfume is finished with a sultry, musky black tea in place of the sugary honey that anchored Rebecca. This composes a much more feminine, herbal fragrance — gossamer hazes of black currant and neroli linger on top.

Stanford: A new masculine release for us, Stanford is a fragrance I've been personally daydreaming abut since early October while listening to lots of Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire during the gorgeous fall we had here. Falling into my recent love of all things green tea, this is a more true-to-scent green tea note than some of the more "brewed" and warm green tea notes out there. At the heart is a very rich and steamy osmanthus that is matched with sparkling fig. The whole darn thing is spiked with absinthe. Y'know. For funsies.

We're running a Twitter contest to win a sample pack of our beautiful winter releases, follow the RT instructions here to enter (through Christmas Eve)! If you've already sniffed yours, please leave a review!

Sorry this is short and sweet, but I'm beat from the recent holiday madness and definitely ready for some upcoming vacation time. Please have a very happy holidays, from all of us at Sweet Anthem!