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A perfectly balanced blend of grey and white amber, touched by a hint of smoke.

Pumpkin sugar, red musk, and a puff of brimstone.

A heady, pungent incense.

This is our 2021 house peace blend – a meditation and condition oil constructed to invoke tranquility, stillness, and silence. Pax 2021 is a deep breath after a long terror, the first rays of dawn’s light after a long, shadowless night. While all is not resolved, we can at least begin unraveling our anxieties and sorrows in order to make space for healing. Pax contains jasmine flowers and rose petals harvested from the TAL garden, pink lotus absolute, lavender oil, myrrh, and copal.

I built this oil to help form a sense of fundamental safety, a solid bedrock that you can build from. This is an oil of stability and grounding that will help you find the strength to keep going. This oil contains warm brown patchouli, angelica root, oakmoss absolute, lemongrass, vetiver, bourbon vanilla absolute, lavender bud, ginger root, spruce, vervain, three sages, and barley.

Pink grapefruit, sugared yuzu, lemon leaf, raspberry, Queen mandarin, and plum blossom musk.

Boot leather, whiskey, tobacco smoke, prairie wildflowers, chaparral, white sage, and gunpowder.

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This one started off as a green, appley floral and I think it has tuberose. Light, high pitched florals, with a swirl of sweetness - either sugar or sweet pea.

The Sea of Fecundity: clove and allspice with chamomile, strawberry leaf, sweetly aged patchouli, squill root, acorns, and bright mosses. Stealth frimp from another wonderful BPALista. You know who you are! Mare Forecunditas is heavily clove and allspice, with a touch of acorns. It stops being overtly foodie with a touch of patchouli and slightly aquatic moss. I feel like chamomile bring a slight herbal bitterness toward the end. Definitely loads of clove and allspice. Mmmm, allspice. This smells like FALL. You know all of those fall things you love - the spices in everything, the smell of dirt, the slight chill in the wind. UGH. Beautiful. In a lot of ways, this reminds me to Harvest Moon 2005 in vibe. I don't think they share any common notes at all, but the feel of having bottle the Autumn season is right there. ETA: From the bottle, I got a ton more patch/clove/allspice which made it smell like burnt fall leaves. Which again is amazing for the Fall.

A joyous, delight-addled, safe perfume: billows of vanilla with pink carnation, warm clove husk, sweet patchouli, ylang ylang, and cinnamon bark.

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O, let America be America again – the land that never has been yet: waving green grasses, purple-hued amber, smoked sandalwood, bay rum, clove bud, cardamom, and black pepper.

Cupcakes are to kids what catnip is to cats: red velvet cupcakes, buttercream, vanilla bean, and coconut cream.

This was mentioned in the Dirty South Lunacy back in 2015. And speculated that the released version may be Insects. This one does have patchouli, it has a very purple vibe, but there's a floral freshness to it. The patchouli is there to give darkness and glimmer in shadows. Overall, the top notes are a purple floral (perhaps even phlox), mayhaps violet. It is lighter and airier than Insects, and more along the lines of what you think a moth/butterfly blend would be, whereas Insects was a harder, grittier patchouli blend. In this it makes me think more Black Moths than Insects. Although I don't smell roses in this blend. It actually reminds me more to the atmosphere Lucille Sharpe, if Lucille Sharpe was to turn into a winged insect.

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Red ginger, cardamom pod, sweet aged patchouli, benzoin, mushroom, and honey musk.

Due to a sanguinous slip up, a batch of our Endless Corridors ended up a little… bloody. A flicker of beeswax and candle smoke casting distorted shadows on a blackened panel of vetiver that has been splattered with red musk.

Furious, frantic, fainting fandom: sugar blossom, lemon peel, candied strawberry juice, and marshmallow root squirted through a sheer white musk.

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Candied strawberries and pink pepper. Fresh sugary strawberry candy. I really get no pink pepper from this. It reminds me to Strawberry Moon 2009. Sadly, strawberry does not last longer than about an hour on me. Medium throw, low wear length.

Easily my favorite of the bunch.

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Sultry amber musk, crushed violets, red currant, wild peony, plum blossom, and carnation.

The scent is the same! A roll in the hay with a sexy demon daddy: a diabolical incense with a splash of bay rum and a hiss of infernal fougere.