Brand: Solstice Scents
Scent Description:
Upon entering the Witch’s Cottage you are greeted with fresh and dried herbs, chamomile flowers, rosemary sprigs, Sweet Annie, Davana and a hint of crisp apples. A warm undercurrent of luscious baked goods, sweet buns and candied pralines emerges and is followed by mild fragrant woods and sweet hearth smoke. Witch’s Cottage fragrance is a true journey with loads of atmosphere.
On initial application the herbs emerge with the sweet baked goods hovering just below. The apple and herbal top notes (namely the chamomile and Sweet Annie) retreat within a few minutes to make way for brown sugar and caramel heavy baked goods. The sweet note is a collection of a variety of different sugary treats but the overall scent is not cloying – rather a vague, well blended impression of baked goods that adds a rich warmth to the blend.
Further journeying into the cottage will take you to the warmest, most fragrant and exotic soft woods touched by a wisp of divine incense and sweet hearth smoke. The long term dry down is that of the woods and sweet smoke and is a very warm, comforting and alluring fragrance. A definite morpher that is also very interesting, unique and complex scent. It wears close to the skin and encourages snuggling into the couch in front of a blazing fire with a great book and a mug of hot cider!
Indie Scent Library 
soft scent, dried herbs, …..comforting, slight baking smell
I used this in the Burnishing Glace. I’m not generally into gourmands or sweet scents, but this isn’t overly sweet for me.
On me, this is lightly sweet, a bit herbal but not sharp, a little spicy but not intensely, not really gourmand although the food notes are part of the “atmosphere” of the scent. Overall just a warm, dry, cozy kind of scent.
This has more throw than I realized and has actually gotten compliments in public. It also really lingers around me throughout the entire day, even with just one or two sprays.
[…] Witch’s Cottage** (Warm Baked Goods, Dried Herbs, Sweet Annie, Soft Woods & Fragrant Hearth Smoke.) Full description here. […]
I really enjoyed this one. I was hoping the herbal aspects of this would tame the baked goods down. I really didn’t smell any particular herbal notes but the overall blend was quite comforting. This has a sweetness that smells vaguely of maple (the brown sugar and candied pralines I’m guessing) that seemed to come and go throughout my wear time. It gradually came to the forefront as time went on. I also noticed a faint hint of wood smoke but it was nowhere near the smoke notes of Smokewood Apiary or Manor, it was probably the first note to fade out. I really like this for the fall and winter months. Too many fall/winter scents come across as cheap air fresheners or candle smells but not this beauty. On me this is one of those perfume oils where everything blends together so well. No individual note was overly pronounced. A delicate herbal slightly smoky gourmand tinged fragrance that I can wear without the fear of the gourmand notes making me hungry. This reminds me of my Gram’s house…she was always baking and cooking and cleaning. I definitely want a FS bottle of this one.
My favorite herbal/gourmet perfume. It’s very herbal at first, and then slowly more sweet with baked goods and brown sugar and fruit pies. The Sweet Annie note is beautiful and makes it worth trying this perfume alone.
Savoury woodsmoke and baked goods. Mostly smoke and herbs – the baked goods only add a sweetness and depth to this without ever being all that distinct.