Saint Louis Cemetery #1

genuinely did not expect this to smell like actual dirt and moss and stone like the reviews said. i've been disappointed by so many indie perfumes that promise this incredibly unique and specific smell, and then i smell them and it's much more generic and boring than you'd imagined. this one does not disappoint! i wanted something earthy and stony and my god does it deliver. on initial application i get straight up soil (in a good way, i love the smell of soil and it's why i got this sample), and as it mellows out i get much more of the stone and moss coming out. similar to gaea but, as their names would suggest, gaea leans a little more green/foresty/fresh and st louis cemetery leans a little more stony/human/nostalgic/old. p.s. i received this sample from their "curated" sample set, where you tell them the scents and images you like, and then they pick the samples for you. very pleased!! they did not disappoint on delivering my desire for earth and mold and wood

Big fan of this one. It smells exactly like it's named. It reminds me of neglected pools and drainage ditches. It smells like cement, maybe with some hints of gasoline, definitely like moss, algae, wet dirt. I agree with sentiments of it being cold, wet cement specifically. Even when I picture a graveyard instead of a ditch, I envision an overpass highway up near the graveyard, so something about it definitely reminds me of car exhaust. I can understand the associations with mold. To me it is a southern scent, and a summer scent, because so many things are wet and overgrown and a little moldly in the summer in the south. But it's not a wild smell; it is unmistakeably marked by human infastructure.

i agree with the other reviewers who feel that this has less of an earthy, decaying foliage scent and more of a 'red clay after heavy rain' scent . i also can't disagree that it's somewhat one-note and a little too medicinal, but it's just so reminiscent of my childhood in the ohio valley; i'm completely on board. you walk around athens on a late spring afternoon and you smell the wet leaves and the overcast and walk on those red and brown brick streets and you go Damn, this smells exactly like alkemia's saint louis cemetery #1. would be perfect layered with honeysuckle.

The most amazing graveyard dirt/stone-after-rain smell. One of my all time favorites. I like to wear this on summer’s days, it helps cool me off. Smells so fresh and calming and earthy, I want to smell it all the time. Unfortunately, I can’t wear it much to work as it may not be everyone’s favorite (do many regular people want to smell like wet mossy dirt in a graveyard?). Love it always, had it for years.

This scent is what started my perfume obsession last year. I saw a review on tiktok and I knew I wanted to smell like a cemetery. This is perfection to me. It truly smells like a mossy cemetery. Paired with a terre note, the dirt really jumps out. I'm obsessed.