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Honeyed plum and a whiff of white blossoms. Honestly, this is very plum-like floral but sometimes I get a whiff of banana from this. I mean none of the Vulva blends have ever worked for me, but that ain't gonna stop me from trying. Medium throw and wear length.

Jasmine, vanilla, rose sandalwood. This one smells gauzy and incensey. Medium throw and wear length.

Crusty sea salt, whiffs of both carnation and aquatic skin. This smells like a mermaid would smell. Slightly salty, slightly floral, aquatic. Medium throw and wear length.

Driftwood, white patchouli, sea salt, and kelp.

Icy blue musk, eucalyptus, white pine, and opoponax. Minty, icy blue musk and a touch of pine. This one was an odd one, as it was mainly blue musk which is sometimes oddly powdery on me. Good throw and wear length. Chilly.

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A fable in scent: bone-white sandalwood aged with beeswax and balsam, crushed grass and juniper berries, ambrette seed, and lupine musk.

Bear in mind that this soap is over 10 years old. It's still a solid little brick. Good lather, great Villainess soap base. The scent is however very faint. It smells sort of spicy and a with a whiff of sugary molasses.

A thin, sorrowful, lonely scent: white musk and dust, elemi and white amber, carrot seed and opium tar accord.

A beam of hope for a happier, safer, kinder future for us all: peach and honeyed amber with frankincense, honeyed rose, white oud, apricot, and sweet musk.

Brian: “It’s something we always do when we’re on a trip, ever since she was really little. She complains constantly about how Beth brushes her hair, and I honestly enjoy the challenge of brushing her mop. It’s like that knot Alexander had to undo, except on my niece’s head, and I don’t have the option to cut it. Plus, her hair looks really nice when it’s done right.” Lilith: “Every time we’re on a trip together, Unkie brushes my hair for me. I hate brushing my hair. Also cuz mom says I don’t do it thoroughly and I miss parts in the middle. I think there are pictures of him brushing my hair in every city we’ve ever been together. He brushes my hair way better than mom does.” A warm scent, mahogany-dark: spiced teakwood, coffee bean, bourbon vetiver, styrax, tobacco, and oakmoss.  I get teak, coffee, styrax, tobacco and a whiff of oakmoss. This one is darker, fun, and sort of playful? If you have a favorite uncle, this is what it smells like - caring, fun, and a little high strung maybe? Good throw and wear length.

[No additional description provided.] Cedar, gunpowder, and baking spices. If you were looking for a smoky woodsy with clean cedar top notes and spicy notes underneath, look no further. Very masculine. Good throw and wear length.

Honeycrisp apples, jasmine tea, honeycomb, and cedar shavings.

This scent is white musk, lavender-tinged cognac, and smoke.

Cardboard, pajama cotton, tonka beans, and dried lavender buds.

Since this photo is from November of 2019, we decided to make this a pumpkin and gingerbread waffle scent washed down with coffee and hot chocolate.

Lilith’s gleeful middle finger to gender and beauty standards: a hot pink cherry chypre.

Artemis, standing in her golden chariot… driving off with her fast-trotting deer over the hills and far away to some rich-scented sacrifice: leather, gleaming golden amber, red amaranth, cypress, asphodel accord, a gleam of silver, and soft brown musk.

This is a treasure trove of boons from a host of celestial kings and queens: a glittering gift of courage and physical strength, honorable leadership and authority, wise counsel and prophecy, finding wonder and delight even under adversity, cleansing and purification, beauty and vitality, joyousness and affection, harmony and skill in the arts, honeyed speech and diplomacy, courage and physical prowess, stability and the blessing of bringing ideas into material form. In addition, this is an oil of manifestation. Used in conjunction, the strength and power you channel from the Queen’s Exultation can be further refined and expressed in the material realm through the Many-Jeweled Crown. Fossilized amber oil (Oleum succini), frankincense essential oil (Boswellia serrata) and tears (Boswellia papyrifera), gold copal (Agathis dammar), bay laurel essential oil and leaves from the TAL garden (Laurus nobilis), rosehips (Rosa rubiginosa), anise seed (Pimpinella anisum), star anise pods and essential oil (Illicium verum), lemon verbena essential oil and leaves from the TAL garden (Aloysia citriodora), sandalwood essential oil gleaned from wild-harvested Australian heartwood (Santalum spicatum), honeysuckle tips (Lonicera periclymenum), spikenard essential oil (Nardostachys jatamansi), immortelle essential oil (Helichrysum italicum), jasmine absolute (Jasminum grandiflorum), motia attar (Jasmin sambac), vanilla absolute and Madagascar vanilla beans (Vanilla planifolia), star jasmine petals from the TAL garden (Trachelospermum jasminoides), sunflower petals from the TAL garden 2018 harvest, honey amber resin, 24-karat gold, silver, and saffron stems.

I needed too many things today, so I figured I'd pop the Luminous Crown because I needed some Mars, Venus, and Solar persuasion going on, and I'd figure that I might as well just throw everything in there. I was going for a leadership punch, and this absolutely delivers. I'm all about manifestation and this delivers in spades. Will definitely have to incorporate the use of LC for material wealth now. As a scent though, I get mainly resins, and a bit sandalwood, and vanilla, and whiffs of jasmine, and amber. It's warm, golden, and very diverse.

Cherry pulp, crushed raspberries, and sugar

Leather, dust, a backpack full of cookies, and a hint of lavender.

Toasted sandalwood, frankincense, hinoki wood, hay absolute, peru balsam, choya ral, and ambergris accord.

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A scribble of honey-drenched strawberry and white pear. Honeyed pear, with a touch of strawberry. But really it's about the honey and pear. If you like either, give this a whirl. Good throw, low wear length.