The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Dia de los Angelitos arrived in 2015 as part of The Wanderer's Journal Collection, a seasonal study in scent and memory. Its inspiration draws on freshly baked pan de muerto, sugar skulls, Mexican vanilla bean, ambrette seed, and beeswax votive candles. The combination brings together a warm, gently sweet bakery impression with a waxy candle quality, creating a distinctive balance between edible warmth and a soft textural glow. Mexican vanilla adds creamy depth, while ambrette introduces a rounded musky softness. Beeswax gives the composition a subtle dry edge, keeping the sweetness from feeling completely syrupy. The result is a fragrance built around contrasts: pastry warmth beside candle wax, creamy vanilla beside powdery musk, and sugary notes grounded by a more tactile material.
The striking choice here is the collision of Mexican vanilla and beeswax. Vanilla brings creamy sweetness, while wax adds a dry, softly textured quality that gives the composition structure. Sugar and pastry make that contrast tactile, as though warmth is being pressed into fabric. Ambrette brings a rounded musky softness, giving the sweetness a powdery, skin-close finish instead of a purely sugary shine. Together, the materials feel less like a dessert than a scented memory: bakery, beeswax, and skin gathered into one seasonal gesture.
The evolution
Dia de los Angelitos presents a layered blend of freshly baked pan de muerto, sugar skulls, Mexican vanilla bean, ambrette seed, and beeswax votive candles. Together, the bakery notes create a warm, sweet impression, while Mexican vanilla gives that sweetness a creamy fullness. Beeswax contributes a drier textural quality, and ambrette rounds the composition with soft musk and a powdery character. The notes interact in a way that shifts between comforting sweetness and gentle dryness, avoiding the effect of a simple dessert scent. Its performance on skin can reflect the balance of the listed materials, with the vanilla, wax, and musky ambrette creating a close, softly textured trail. As the fragrance wears, its character can feel both warm and restrained, revealing different facets of the same warm, waxy, and musky accord.
Cultural impact
Dia de los Angelitos draws together notes associated with warmth, sweetness, candlelight, and remembrance through its combination of freshly baked pan de muerte, sugar skulls, Mexican vanilla bean, ambrette seed, and beeswax votive candles. These materials create a layered sensory impression: baked warmth and sugar sweetness are balanced by creamy vanilla, soft musky ambrette, and the drier texture of beeswax. Rather than relying on a single dominant note, the composition lets familiar bakery and candle impressions overlap with a powdery, skin-close finish.
The House
Alkemia PerfumesAlkemia Perfumes is an indie fragrance house that emerged in 2009 with a focus on vegan, cruelty‑free creations. The brand blends essential oils, absolutes, CO₂ extracts and carrier oils to craft scents that avoid common irritants such as parabens, phthalates and DPGs. Its catalogue leans toward amber, incense and aromatic profiles, offering options that feel both natural and distinctive while staying affordable for niche‑fragrance enthusiasts.
The Creator
Sharra LamoureauxLamoureaux favors a methodical build‑up, starting with a clear base and adding heart and top layers in measured increments. She leans on woody anchors such as sandalwood and cedar, then introduces spice—cardamom or pink pepper—to add depth.
