In "Concord," perfumer Sandy Carr of BLUE HILL Fragrances offers a whiff of sun-ripened Concord grapes.

It's the first perfume Carr created, seven years ago. "Concord" is evocative of summer in New England, or a walk in the woods, where wild Concord grapes thrive and their clean, sharp fragrance is all too familiar in Thoreau Country.

Bottle size: 50ML/1.7OZ

This limited, small batch perfume will be available in late March/early April.

For more information on  Sandy Carr and BLUE HILL Fragrances, visit https://bluehillfragrances.com/ .

A history note on the Concord grape:

Experimenting with seeds from some of the native species, Boston-born Ephraim Wales Bull developed the Concord grape in 1849.  On his farm outside Concord, Massachusetts, down the road from the Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Alcott homesteads, he planted some 22,000 seedlings in all, before he had produced the ideal grape.

Early ripening, to escape the killing northern frosts, but with a rich, full-bodied flavor, the hardy Concord grape thrives where European cuttings had failed to survive. In 1853, Mr. Bull felt ready to put the first bunches of his Concord grapes before the public and won a prize at the Boston Horticultural Society Exhibition.  From these early arbors, fame of Mr. Bull's (the father of the Concord grape) Concord grape spread world-wide, bringing him up to $1,000 a cutting, but he died a relatively poor man. 

The inscription on Bulll's tombstone states, "He sowed - others reaped."