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An offering of footstep dust and rusted keys, raw tobacco and whiskey, coconut shells and candle wax.

A thin sliver of radiant gold: wild honeysuckle, a burst of peach, dark amber, and lemon blossom.

Sweet hay, dry grasses, and wild herbs

A variety of Vesuvianite, also known as California Jade. A scent that is moss-green and crystalline, with a hint of fern.

Wooly and witchy, fuzzy and scuzzy, long green fingers tipped with ruby-red nails: raw wool, sweet oakmoss, and cranberry brandy.

...notes of church incense, ornate gold, old lace, and dust. This one smells like a softer more Lace interpretation of Calaveras Catrinas. There's a bit of sugar, but it's mainly lace, incense, and just smells old, Mexican and churchy. Low throw but good wear length.

Sandy shores and sweet fresh water, lichen, green algae, and whitestem pondweed, with benzoin, moonlit musk, cucumber, lettuce, violet poppy, and agave.

This one is as advertised. It's a very caramelly patchouli. Both notes are equally present and strong. This one has great staying power. Six hours later and it pretty much smells like you just applied it. If you love a nice, soft wearable patchouli, give this a whirl. Good throw, excellent wear length.

This is an oil that gilds one’s outlook with all the assurance and conviction of a yellow star in its prime, banishing shadows of doubt. This oil assists in affirming faith in oneself and one’s place in the cosmos. Frankincense essential oil and tears (Boswellia sacra), safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), vanilla absolute and bean (Vanilla planifolia), bay leaf from the TAL garden (Laurus nobilis), rue essential oil, leaf, and flower from the TAL garden (Ruta graveolens), benzoin absolute and resin (Styrax benzoin), rosemary from the TAL garden (Rosmarinus officinalis), clove bud and essential oil (Syzygium aromaticum), balm of gilead (Populus balsamifera), beeswax absolute (Cera alba), cinquefoil (Potentilla recta), and sweet orange essential oil and peel from the TAL garden (Citrus sinensis).

Blood, rust, and hope, dim with the patina of pain and struggle: cast iron, copper, gold, and steel with a cluster of French perfume and American wildflowers, a fleck of dried blood, and a sliver of saddle leather. I saw this at the NYCC 2018 and picked them up! Lady Liberty is a clean fougere cologne type blend. Very gender neutral. This type of blend is in mr. zee_zee's wheelhouse. Good throw and wear length. Strong, clean.

Gleaming black leather wrapped around a hot red chypre, sweet blackcurrant, smoky vetiver, and patchouli, glittering with amber and pink peppercorn.

Streaks of blue-white lightning slashing through a plum wine sky. Lemony incense smoke with a touch of ozone. This one was much more citrus and ozone than I expected. Medium throw and wear length.

Release your cares into a warm, soothing bath of liquefied hard candies.

This is an oil for seeing clearly in all directions, affording fears no refuge and eliminating the places where they may gather and grow. Ginger root and essential oil (Zingiber officinale), frankincense tears (Boswellia neglecta) and essential oil (Boswellia sacra), dragon’s blood resin (Daemonorops draco), Spanish saffron threads (Crocus sativus), tonka bean (Dipteryx odorata), rose geranium essential oil (Pelargonium graveolens L’Hér), black pepper essential oil (Piper nigrum), clove bud and essential oil (Syzygium aromaticum), borage from the TAL garden (Borago officinalis), pink peppercorn (Schinus terebinthifolius), and calendula flowers and herbal infusion (Calendula officinalis).

From Facebook: Witch's Tea Party is a lilac-dappled earthy green tea This one is one of the more interesting Lilith creations. I get whiffs of lilac and green tea, but there is a citrusy floral in this, and overall it actually reminds me to a perfume in my youth. It's got that blooming floral citrus freshness with a bit of muskiness in the drydown. I can't put my finger on which commercial perfume this reminds me to but I'll edit the review once my brain pings me. Needless to say, because of that scent association, it makes me think of a young teenage girl. This is like the scent of middle school. Great throw and wear length.

A vintage 1920's dry moss chypre with warm brown leather and a drop of sweet vetiver.

Corn husks and freshly uprooted gourds in a rustle of twigs, dead oak leaves, and a faint whiff of myrrh.

The splendor and terror of Totality: an abyss of black patchouli, tabac, burgundy pitch, smoky frankincense, and black fig surrounded by a glowing nimbus of fossilized amber.

Smoldering pine wood, black pepper, ho wood, amber embers, leather, green tea, and silken red musk.

Sandalwood incense, ti leaf, and honeyed saffron.

Burning leaves and smoldering applewood.

An aristocratic cologne of titanic passions, moody and brooding. This scent is dark with disillusionment and cynicism: a Victorian fougere and a dashing carnation boutonniere tainted by a cloud of khus, yew, and patchouli.

‘To make frumente. Tak clene whete & braye yt wel in a morter tyl the holes gon of; seethe it til it breste in water. Nym it up & lat it cole. Tak good broth & swete mylk of kyn or of almand & tempere it therwith. Nym yelkes of eyren rawe & saffroun & cast therto; salt it: lat it naught boyle after the etren ben cast therinne. Messe it forth.’ In parts of rural England, the last sheaf of grain from autumn’s harvest were added to a sweet porridge that was eaten on Christmas morning to ensure good health and strength during the dark of the year. Cracked wheat cooked in cream and ale with currants, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. Frumenty to me smells like cinnamon, nutmeg and popcorn. I think its the effect of the cracked wheat cooked which smells like a cooked grain, which means to me... popcorn. Spiced porridge if you like. Medium throw and wear length.

Glittering shards of icy white plum, crystallized pink peppercorn, Oman frankincense, and silvered amber arc through a midnight haze of Sumatran patchouli, velvet oakmoss, and hothouse orchids

Smoky brown vanilla husk, bourbon vanilla, dark amber, pink oud, and burnt cocoa bean.