Heritage Collection
Discover the Five Heritage Scents by Van De Zotte: our five Eau de Parfums, beautifully presented in a luxurious gift box. Each fragrance tells a story of our Dutch Heritage: WAD captures the salty beauty of the Wadden Sea, POLDER evokes the green reclaimed lands, MILLS recalls the spicy scents of the windmills of the Golden Age, WILD takes you deep into ancient mossy pine forests like the Veluwe and TEGENWIND is our tribute to the invisible force that shaped the Dutch.
Handmade in the Netherlands, and wrapped in artisanal luxury – a powerful tribute to Dutch heritage.
MILLS
The scents of the Dutch windmills.
The main ingredients are clove, cinnamon and pepper. And even we did not think these would bond together so well. You will also experience notes of bergamot, vetiver, saffron, tobacco and leather, which results in this dashing and spicy fragrance.
POLDER
This is what it smells like 6 meters below sea level.
You will smell fresh grass, dry woods and warm hay. This scent will develop beautifully on your skin. The main ingredients are green polder herbs like artemisia, clary sage and carrot seeds. Besides that you will also experience notes of fresh bergamot, basil, freshly mowed grass, cedar wood, patchouli and vetiver, which results in this enchanting and appealing green fragrance.
WILD
You will definitely smell the forest, with pine trees, sweet resin, purple heather fields, wet soil of leaves and moss. All completed with a wild and animalic edge of musk, oudh and smokey vetiver, which delivers a very long and powerful longevity.
WAD
We believe we succeeded in capturing the true scent of the Wadden Sea and its islands, while still making it a delicious perfume. But don't just take our word for it. WAD was awarded with a Dutch Beauty Award! You will smell salty seaweeds, ship's rope, juttersheds, and pine. After a while it will develop to an addicting and extremely longlasting sea scent, thanks to ambergris and oudh.
TEGENWIND
A tribute to the invisible force that shaped the Dutch. We captured the feeling of tegenwind (headwind) in this perfume. This perfume opens icy and fresh with notes of pink pepper, juniper berry, geosmin (petrichor) and wet mint. It then slowly warms up with notes of elemi, geranium, eucalyptus and patchouli. To eventually dry down to a warm base of ambergris, earthy vetiver, leather and sandalwood.
All of our perfumes are unisex. Scents react differently on each of us depending on other factors than gender.
