Halloween 86

Some nights just stay with you.

Halloween 86 isn’t simply a Halloween scent. It’s a memory of what Halloween felt like when we were kids.

The idea came from one of my best friends, Marcus Klinger of The Barbershop Duet. Marcus has a gift for taking a memory—something you can almost see, hear, and smell—and turning it into a scent idea. He was the spark behind Rookie Card. He and I dreamed up Triple Dog Dare while spitballing ideas for Blizzard Battles. And then one day, Marcus painted another picture.

Trick-or-treat night. Sometime in the 1980s.

It’s dark, but the neighborhood is alive. Porch lights glow up and down the street. Jack-o’-lanterns flicker on front steps, and you can smell freshly carved pumpkin hanging in the cool October air.

You’re wearing one of those costumes we all remember. Maybe it’s the plastic outfit and hard mask with the little elastic string digging into the back of your head. Maybe Mom covered your face in makeup so you could be a pirate, a monster, or a werewolf. Maybe somebody emptied half a can of hairspray getting ready.

Probably all of the above.

You hit the sidewalk with your friends, carrying a plastic pumpkin full of candy. Fallen leaves crunch under your shoes. There’s the smell of grass and hay somewhere in the background. The night air is cool and clean.

Then a car rolls slowly down the street.

For just a moment, that unmistakable hint of gasoline mixes with everything else—the pumpkins, grass, makeup, hairspray, fallen leaves and cold night air.

And somehow, that was Halloween.

Not one particular Halloween. Not one particular street. It’s that strange collection of little details that, decades later, can suddenly take you right back there.

That is Halloween 86.

Burnt Pumpkin Top • Fall Grass • Makeup • Hair Spray • Night Air • Gasoline

This scent is our attempt to bottle that glorious, spectacular night—and it’s also a nod to the friend who dreamed it up. At this point, Marcus might as well be the unofficial creative director of Adopted Acres Soap Co.

Thanks for another one, buddy.

Halloween 86 — Some nights just stay with you.

Ingredients

Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Aloe Vera Leaf Juice), Extracts of Calendula Officinalis (Calendula) Flower, Trifolium Pratense (Red Clover), Plantago Lanceolata Leaf (Plantain), Recutita Matricaria (Chamomille), Salix Alba (White Willow) Bark Extract, Kosher Vegetable Glycerin, Sd40 Special Blend Alcohol, Caprylic/Capric Triglycerides, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol