Menu
Parfums Quartana
0
  • SHOP
    • ALL PERFUMES
    • Beaut'Air
    • Soleil Invisible
    • Forest of the Golden Dream
    • Ierofante
    • Venetian Belladonna
    • Bloodflower
    • Midnight Datura
    • Digitalis
    • Hemlock
    • Lily of the Valley
    • Mandrake
    • Poppy Soma
    • Wolfsbane
    • COLLECTIONS
      • Les Potions D'Entéléchie
      • Les Potions Fatales
      • Les Potions D'Arcanes
    • DISCOVERY SETS
      • Complete Discovery Set
      • Magic Garden Discovery Set
      • Starlight Discovery Set
      • All Discovery Sets
  • EXPLORE
    • Discovery Sets
    • What's New
    • Spring Scents
    • Best-Sellers
    • Award-Winners
    • Florals
    • Fresh / Green
    • Clean
    • Gourmand
    • Leather
    • Smoky
    • Masculine Friendly
    • Vegan
    • Explore All Perfumes
    • ORIGIN STORIES
      • Poppy Soma
  • ABOUT
  • Sign in
  • Your Cart is Empty
Parfums Quartana
  • SHOP
    • ALL PERFUMES
    • Beaut'Air
    • Soleil Invisible
    • Forest of the Golden Dream
    • Ierofante
    • Venetian Belladonna
    • Bloodflower
    • Midnight Datura
    • Digitalis
    • Hemlock
    • Lily of the Valley
    • Mandrake
    • Poppy Soma
    • Wolfsbane
    • COLLECTIONS
    • Les Potions D'Entéléchie
    • Les Potions Fatales
    • Les Potions D'Arcanes
    • DISCOVERY SETS
    • Complete Discovery Set
    • Magic Garden Discovery Set
    • Starlight Discovery Set
    • All Discovery Sets
  • EXPLORE
    • Discovery Sets
    • What's New
    • Spring Scents
    • Best-Sellers
    • Award-Winners
    • Florals
    • Fresh / Green
    • Clean
    • Gourmand
    • Leather
    • Smoky
    • Masculine Friendly
    • Vegan
    • Explore All Perfumes
    • ORIGIN STORIES
    • Poppy Soma
  • ABOUT
  • 0 0

Forest of the Golden Dream

@20% parfum


“The fragrance that changed my life.”

“A sanctuary in liquid form.”


WHERE THE LIGHT COMES THROUGH.

Forest of the Golden Dream enters like a path under evergreens: cardamom and lemon flashing through pine needles, mimosa casting a golden glow, incense and fir resin deepening into moss, sandalwood, and sacred wood.


A perfume for grounding, vitality, and the feeling of sunlight finding you inside the forest.


Opens with: cardamom, pink pepper, coriander, lemon

Softens into: mimosa, pine needle, fir balsam, olibanum

Settles as: cypress, sandalwood, patchouli, moss


Concept: Joseph Quartana

Perfumer: Celine Barel

Collection: Les Potions D’Entéléchie

Ft. essential oils by LMR Naturals, Grasse.

Hand-finished in New York.

Adheres to Clean-at-Sephora guidelines.

$215.00 USD

50mL / 1.7fl. oz. bottle

You Might Also Like...

Complete Discovery Set Bundle - Parfums Quartana

Complete Discovery Set Bundle

$85.00 USD
Digitalis - Parfums Quartana

Digitalis

$175.00 USD
Hemlock - Parfums Quartana

Hemlock

$195.00 USD
    • Are PARFUMS QUARTANA safe?

      All of our products are strictly IFRA-compliant, and adhere to the latest legal, safety and environmental regulations.


      Every single one of our products is 100% cruelty-free and never tested on any animals ever for any reason.


      Four PARFUMS QUARTANA fragrances are certified vegan: Ierofante, Bloodflower, Wolfsbane, and Digitalis.


    • Ingredients

      INGREDIENTS: SD Alcohol 40-b, Fragrance (parfum), Water/aqua/eau, Limonene, Linalool, Benzyl Salicylate, Isoeugenol, Cinnamal, Benzyl Alcohol, Amyl Cinnamal, Gerianol, Citronellol.

    Forest of the Golden Dream

    $215.00 USD
    Add to Cart
    Forest of the Golden Dream by Parfums Quartana
    Forest of the Golden Dream by Parfums Quartana
    CaFleureBon Best of 2023

    ACCORDS:

      Forest of the Golden Dream 50mL Bottle

      RITUAL USE

      FOREST OF THE GOLDEN DREAM

      WHEN IT CALLS

      When you need a return to Mother Nature and the light moving through the trees.

      WHERE IT LIVES

      A walk after too much noise, a desk before deep work, the hour when vitality yearns to be called forth.

      WHAT IT LEAVES BEHIND

      Vibrant green-gold stillness: pine, sap, earth, and sunlight gathered into a scent that feels alive.

      BACKSTORY : THE REAL GOLD

      In 1842, a person fell asleep beneath an oak tree in California and dreamt they were floating in a river of pure gold. When they woke, they dug for wild onions — and found actual gold flakes clinging to their roots.


      The world called it the birth of the California Gold Rush. But they misunderstood.


      The gold was never in the ground. It was in the dream.


      Aristotle named it entelechy — the force that drives a thing toward its fullest expression.


      Forest of the Golden Dream bottles the first gateway inward, transporting you instantly to a place where you can catch a glimpse of the golden glint, and blend it into your person.


      The gold is not in the ground. It's in you.

      Siberian Pine Oil LMR
      Siberian Pine Oil LMR

      BACKSTORY : THE REAL GOLD

      In 1842, a person fell asleep beneath an oak tree in California and dreamt they were floating in a river of pure gold. When they woke, they dug for wild onions — and found actual gold flakes clinging to their roots.


      The world called it the birth of the California Gold Rush. But they misunderstood.


      The gold was never in the ground. It was in the dream.


      Aristotle named it entelechy — the force that drives a thing toward its fullest expression.


      Forest of the Golden Dream bottles the first gateway inward, transporting you instantly to a place where you can catch a glimpse of the golden glint, and blend it into your person.


      The gold is not in the ground. It's in you.

      Canadian Fir Balsam LMR

      THE FOREST YOU BECOME

      Forest of the Golden Dream opens with Guatemalan cardamom and pink pepper sparking against laurel leaf and Italian lemon — bright, alert, the scent of first light breaking through branches. The heart blooms into French mimosa, Siberian pine, and fir balsam resin, with olibanum smoke weaving through like morning mist burning off. The base is sanctuary: cypress absolute, sandalwood, patchouli, and moss-covered earth.


      It smells like the forest you find in fever dreams and meditation. Dappled. Luminous. Ancient.


      But you don't walk through this forest. You become it.

      SHINRIN-YOKU—FOREST BATHING

      The benefits are remarkable:


      Cortisol levels drop significantly in forest environments


      Natural killer cell activity increases — boosting immune function


      Blood pressure and heart rate decrease


      Anxiety, depression, and fatigue reduce

      Mood and vigor improve


      Every ingredient in Forest of the Golden Dream was chosen for its healing properties: Siberian pine, Canadian fir balsam, eucalyptus, frankincense — all rich in phytoncides shown to reduce stress, boost immunity, and calm the nervous system.

      Mimosa LMR Accord
      Mimosa LMR Accord


      SHINRIN-YOKU—FOREST BATHING

      The benefits are remarkable:


      Cortisol levels drop significantly in forest environments


      Natural killer cell activity increases — boosting immune function


      Blood pressure and heart rate decrease


      Anxiety, depression, and fatigue reduce

      Mood and vigor improve


      Every ingredient in Forest of the Golden Dream was chosen for its healing properties: Siberian pine, Canadian fir balsam, eucalyptus, frankincense — all rich in phytoncides shown to reduce stress, boost immunity, and calm the nervous system.

      Eucalyptus Accord

      CREATOR COMMENTARY

      Seminal ambient composer Harold Budd's 1970 masterpiece The Oak of the Golden Dreams — was itself named for the actual oaktree in California, beneath which, in 1842, a person dreamt of floating in a river of gold.


      Forest of the Golden Dream bottles that vision — the golden light behind nature's veil, the first gateway inward. Pine and loam scraping away the surface to reveal the source beneath. Created during my own healing with perfumer Céline Barel, every ingredient carries restorative properties. Forest bathing, distilled. The idea itself heals.


      — Joseph Quartana

      CRITICAL REACTION

      “This is one of the most incredible perfumes I have ever smelt in my life. I cant even describe it as a fragrance, it's like a healing experience and I dont say that lightly. Forest of the Golden Dream is a moment of pure olfactory genius, very green, mossy and woody but there is a thread of something golden, ethereal, and magical running through it. This smells exactly like an enchanted wood- that's it, there is no other way to describe it.

      •

      I have never experienced a fragrance that has actually taken me with such firmness to another place in time and space, but this does. Simply smelling it makes me feel restored, and as if I have been transported to a place where all things are possible. Every single person I have asked to smell this on me has become instantly hypnotised by it and cannot stop asking to smell it again, and again.

      •

      This fragrance is absolutely exquisite and I will wear this forever.


      — Fumester

      Forest of the Golden Dream eau de parfum
      Forest of the Golden Dream eau de parfum

      CRITICAL REACTION

      “This is one of the most incredible perfumes I have ever smelt in my life. I cant even describe it as a fragrance, it's like a healing experience and I dont say that lightly. Forest of the Golden Dream is a moment of pure olfactory genius, very green, mossy and woody but there is a thread of something golden, ethereal, and magical running through it. This smells exactly like an enchanted wood- that's it, there is no other way to describe it.

      •

      I have never experienced a fragrance that has actually taken me with such firmness to another place in time and space, but this does. Simply smelling it makes me feel restored, and as if I have been transported to a place where all things are possible. Every single person I have asked to smell this on me has become instantly hypnotised by it and cannot stop asking to smell it again, and again.

      •

      This fragrance is absolutely exquisite and I will wear this forever.


      — Fumester

      "From the very first inhale, Forest of the Golden Dream captivated me entirely. This scent doesn’t just evoke a place; it evokes a feeling. A profound, unshakable peace settles over me with every wear. It’s a sensory masterpiece, a sanctuary in liquid form. 10/10."

      — TaoWolf

      "Forest of the Golden Dream is the door opening to a magical place for the kids who searched for it in vain years ago. It’s like smelling literal hazy, glittering sunlight coming through fantastical green fir trees."

      — UglyLucy7

      "Forest of the Golden Dream is the best fragrance of 2024, a cinematic olfactory journey.”

      — Filippo Mearelli

      THE SHORT FILM

      The 3 fragrance vials of the Starlight Wellness Discovery Set

      RITUAL USE

      DISCOVER LES POTIONS D'ENTÉLÉCHIE

      The Starlight Wellness Discovery Set is the house’s chapter of inward light: three fragrances for restoration, radiance, vitality, and private rituals to return you to yourself.

      BEAUT'AIR

      Dreams from last night carried into daylight.

      SOLEIL INVISIBLE

      Warmth, composure, and the sun you carry within.

      FOREST OF THE GOLDEN DREAM

      Green-gold life returning to the body.

      SHOP THE STARLIGHT

      FREE USA SHIPPING

      On all Full-size bottle purchases

      REIMBURSABLE DISCOVERY SETS

      Try before you buy with our discovery sets • All discovery set purchase prices are REIMBURSED with upgrade to a full size 50mL bottle • Offer valid for one month from date of purchase.


      EXCLUSIVELY AT WWW.SIX-SCENTS.COM

      ECO - FRIENDLY & SAFE

      All of our fragrances are

      Cruelty-Free • IFRA-compliant

      TAKE 10% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER

      Sign up to be the first to know about new releases, special offers, & secret sales

      Follow
      • CLUB QUARTANA MEMBERSHIP
      • CUSTOMER CARE / FAQ
      • CONTACT US
      • OFFICIAL STOCKISTS

      © 2026 Parfums Quartana.
      POS and Ecommerce by Shopify