Carolina by Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes

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Carolina Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes 2010

7.5 / 10 45 Ratings

A perfume by Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes for women and men, released in 2010. The scent is sweet-floral. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet

Floral

Spicy

Green

Woody

Fragrance Notes

Tonka bean

Hay absolute

Honeysuckle Kudzu

Star jasmine Tea

Tea

Tobacco Longleaf pine Vanilla

Vanilla

Magnolia

Perfumer

Dr. Ellen Covey

Ratings

Scent

7.545 Ratings

Longevity

7.635 Ratings

Sillage

6.734 Ratings

Bottle

6.529 Ratings

Value for money

7.812 Ratings

Submitted by Martin, last update on 06/17/2025.

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7 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/09/2023

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

KathrynA66
46 Reviews

KathrynA66

Helpful Review 5

Scent Portrait of the South (USA)

This is a wonderful scent portrait of tobacco country in the American South. The heady white florals so emblematic of the South: star jasmine and magnolia, (star jasmine is also known, in the U.S, as Southern jasmine or "confederate" jasmine [yuck!]) are gorgeous.

The sweet, grassy hay and maybe the addition of honeysuckle to the floral bouquet evokes a rural feel, and the kudzu brings a distinctly Southern vibe. I just get a hint of bitterness from the tea, which tones down the florals- but only a tiny bit.

It's the tobacco notes, though, which are really special. I get both the fresh, green tobacco, growing in the fields and the rich scent of curing tobacco after the harvest. Combined with the hay/florals and rounded out by the spice notes and especially the pine, it reminds me of road trips in the South, through little towns with names like Mudlick, Cowtail and Hell's Half Acre or with Indiginous American names, like Cateechee, Awendaw and Coosawhatchie, just randomly exploring back country roads, driving past hay stacks, piney woods, tobacco fields or curing barns and blooming trees or vines full of white flowers. The kudzu is everywhere, and we drive with the windows down because, regardless of the season, the country air smells so good.
#scentportrait #whitefloral #tobacco

05/12/2025

10Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

kittea
65 Reviews

kittea

3

Hay there ;)

I've visited South Carolina before, but never spent all that much time there. So I don't have the scent memory that this perfume is trying to tap into. I don't know what kudzu smells like, and the only tobacco I've smelled has been in pipes. Nonetheless this is nostalgic to me, a hot summer day in a bottle.

Usually I think of cut grass as smelling fresh and green (like my favorite chemical cis-3-hexenol). But if you've ever had to mow on an incredibly hot day, when the grass is barely clinging onto life after baking in the sun for a week, and you're dripping sweat and wishing you'd gotten up to do this earlier when it was cooler out, you've smelled this. It's heavy and thick and honeyed, and somehow feels humid even on a dry day.

For me in Wisconsin, this scent probably came from sweetgrass and clover, but I'm pretty sure this feeling in Carolina comes from the hay absolute, which is above and beyond the star of the show here. Pairing it with tonka makes obvious sense, a coumarin match made in heaven. This is sweet, but it's not sweet in the way of candies or gourmands, it's sweet in the way hay is sweet. No added sugar here. This is the scent of a languid, sticky summer.

It's also the first time I've put a scent on for the night and still been able to smell it in the morning when I woke up, so points for that.

11/25/2024

7Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Lebinghe
1 Review

Lebinghe

1

Humid August

The hay smell comes out a lot more on the drydown. On application its far spicier, with more pine and kudzu notes. The tobacco changes from freshly cut to dried, heady, and mellow. Really enjoyable and inoffensive, but I wish the hay notes stood out more or it was as earthy as I was expecting. It's ultimately a sweet floral that would fit mostly anyone and is worth testing just for the image it paints. Ellen Covey has a great talent.

04/11/2025

Finalgirl
23 Reviews

Finalgirl

1

Appalachian fairytale

A drive down a winding backroad past swaths of land choked by kudzu. A weathered barn sheltering hay bales and drying tobacco leaves. The thick, sweet nectar of honeysuckle, suspended in humidity, turning each breath into a viscous brick of air. The plucking of mandolins and a woman with a syrupy twang asking if you want somethin’ to eat.

11/21/2021

7.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Chizza
360 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 24

Masked Ingredient

“Hello and welcome to your favorite show on ParfumoTV, which we have shamelessly copied as always! Today is the grand finale and the last masked ingredients will be revealed - only to ultimately crown the winner, the top-comment homepage perfume personality! In the jury as always Chizza and his oversized egos! He has written many comments, is coincidentally an expert in this field, and the number of his trophies - do I need to say more? Maybe just that everyone with more trophies has bought them. So the rumor goes. But now let’s get started!”

Immediately it begins, the jasmine is directly dominant, it smells sweet and herbal when you focus solely on this ingredient. In fact, it takes a while for the other notes to reveal themselves and Carolina becomes more complex.
“You heard it, we’re revealing the jasmine… it is… lemon balm! Yes, that makes total sense! Oh, what would you have guessed, Chizza?”
“Huh, what? I was busy with my trophies. Almost 5000 in comments, I’m a bombshell! Surely over 5,000 after this one is on the homepage.”

Next, the scent seems to become shadier, impressions of wild meadows appear before the inner eye, the grasses seem green and herbaceous. It might be the honeysuckle, whose heavy and sweet scent now fills the air. This scent is combined with earthy, yes, damp-earthy facets. Perhaps kudzu comes into play here, which I have never perceived olfactorily but is said to smell like this. This may be intensified by other ingredients. Tobacco also makes an entrance, and in quite an aromatic, not overly sweet form, spicy and rather rounding out Carolina.

“Okay, okay, all three ingredients must now drop out here in the semifinals, who is hiding under the honeysuckle? A hint: I’ll just say goat boy! Right, it’s our compatriot Cravache! Next comes kudzu and with this ingredient, no one knows what it is. And so hiding underneath is… WiseOwl! With the most perfume points, inactive for years and thus unknown in this fast-paced time! What do you think, Chizza?”
“Yes, unlike me, she hasn’t written any blogs recommended by Parfumo. Just wanted to point that out. Isn’t the tobacco reveal missing?”
“He. To your remark: that’s Ponticus, he likes tobacco. Let’s move on to the finale, the last two ingredients, it’s getting exciting! The winner will appear daily on the homepage at Parfumo for a year, wow!”

Commercial break.

“Before it’s all on the line - Chizza! Why is the fragrance called Carolina? Is it about the two Carolina states with the Appalachians? Sounds plausible.”
“Uh, no, I think it’s more about the Carolingian minuscule, the font Carolina in Word. I always use that.”
“Thanks to the man with the oversized egos, now let’s continue!”

After a while, what remains is the hay that seems to accompany the scent. Only now does it become apparent that the hay has been there all along but only becomes noticeable in the middle part. The hay smells just like fresh hay, appearing oily intensified and vibrant.
“Okay… who is under the hay costume? It is… DonVanVliet! The boss himself! This means that the winner can only be someone with a damn big ego but Chizza is still sitting here. Along with his 1302 blog trophies, each named individually!”

Now I only notice the tea, the swamp pine might be coming up in the background, perhaps in the earthy part, as it indeed reminds one of damp forest soil, of damp wood. The tea, on the other hand, seems spicy, reminding me of herbal plant mixtures with a hint of thyme.
“Who is now hiding under the teabag and is the winner? It is… the long-lost Yatagan! Incredible! What an event, what drama! Heartfelt… Wait! What is that? It’s a Yatagan costume and out comes… there shine statement trophies through… Chizza! How is that possible?”
“I cloned myself, like Dolly. It’s due to my oversized egos. Now we both have too big an ego.”

In fact, Carolina is not at all what I would want to purchase based on my olfactory preferences. Nevertheless, I must objectively acknowledge the class of this fragrance. Carolina transforms, is multifaceted, and is pleasing. Whether Ellen Covey has captured the forests of the Carolina states, I do not know. Generally, discussions about this are also obsolete, as Carolina is for me one of the best Coveys. Even though I personally prefer Blackbird due to the Airwaves Cassis note, Carolina seems objectively stronger to me.

(With thanks to Balticsea, who inspired me to this comment.)

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