Ranger Station, the Nashville Fragrance House by Steve and Jordan Soderholm, is collaborating with country music artist, ERNEST, on a fragrance collection.
Named 1992 (feat. ERNEST), the collection was inspired by both his birth year and his newly-released Nashville, Tennessee album. The collection includes a unisex perfume and candle, and is available for purchase on the Ranger Station website and flagship store in Nashville beginning May 15. Ten percent of net proceeds of perfume sales will benefit Porter’s Call, a nonprofit that provides mental health resources to recording artists and their families.
“I loved working with ERNEST on this scent because he knew exactly what he wanted. He knows fragrance well and he was extremely decisive throughout the process,” says Steve Soderholm, Ranger Station co-founder and perfumer. “ERNEST is a calm, confident presence in a room. He’s detailed in what he’s wearing, and that played into what we created for the fragrance.”
1992 (feat. ERNEST) was designed to conjure up the feeling of Nashville in the summer of 1992, the year ERNEST was born. A feeling of a hot summer night, lazing away on the front porch with a whiskey-and-coke in hand and the sounds of country music greats like Merle Haggard and Conway Twitty on the radio. The scent embodies a classic men’s fragrance that is timeless, masculine, and fresh.
The collection includes two products:
- 1992 Unisex Perfume (feat. ERNEST): $94 for a 50mL bottle. Each bottle is hand-mixed to order, using high quality fragrance and essential oils, and is paraben, phthalate, and sulfate free.
- 1992 Candle (feat. ERNEST): $45 for an 8 oz. candle. The candle comes paired with a cocktail recipe (an Old fashioned) and a box of matches.
“My album Nashville, Tennessee was about honoring what my hometown is to me,” says ERNEST. “Sonically, it was about what we were able to create on the album and the songwriters that are represented on each track. With 1992, it was about being able to collaborate with a locally-owned shop, Ranger Station, to create a fragrance that felt authentic to me and conjured this memory of a specific moment in time, while still managing to be timeless.”
