Lake Street Gifts & Oils

This place feels a bit like a garage sale, but I pay that no mind, I’m here to get my scent fix.
They have hundreds of fragrance oils that you can sniff and mix until your heart’s content. Coming here can be a bit overwhelming, but don’t worry, they have the requisite coffee beans for you to huff whenever you need them.
They have a bunch of commercial fragrance dupes that I could do without (think Burberry Brit and Ralph Lauren Polo) but then they have a ton of single notes which are always my favorite. For $ 5, I can get a rollerball of oil that I can combine and proportion to my approximate specifications and this baby will last me months at least. Unless you’re a fragrance junkie like me then you have too many to use in an entire lifetime and so you’ll probably be taking this to your grave.
Oils are stored in clear containers which makes me cringe (it causes the oils to age more than if they were in darker bottles) but like Lil Wayne says, I ain’t got no worries.
Here are my favorite combinations that I’ve made: 80% almond/​20% cherry; 50% Egyptian musk/​50% fields of honey; 75% teakwood/​25% plum.
Have fun coming here!

I have visited this place twice. I was looking specifically for rose oil for my oil burner. The rose oil was potent and I only had to burn it for 5 – 10 minutes and I could smell it all over the house. They also carry designer fragrances in oil form. It’s nice because they can add the fragrances to a lotion if you want. There are multiple bottle sizes and they take credit cards (excluding american express). They also have some unique plug in oil burners too. It’s a pretty random store as they carry belts, watches, wigs, body moisturizers and hair care products.