Christmasween

[doomsday_disco]

The scent of ghost stories told beside a crackling fireplace, with garlands of evergreen hanging beside October’s carved pumpkins. Hearthlight and jack o’lanterns cast shadows on cobwebbed corners. Candied orange peel, mulled cider, smoked myrrh twirling through a cranberry garland, balsam resin and amber-drizzled pumpkin, smoldering hearthwood, and the soft honeyed glow of dripping beeswax.

[Geminirubyshoes]

This is the Christmas sister of my darling, beloved precious Fearful Pleasure from the 2008 Sleepy Hollow series. 

 

To save you from looking that one up, Fearful Pleasure is “Dried orange peels floating in simmering cider, roasted apples, smoldering firewood, chimney smoke, sassafras beer, warm hawthorn wood, and oakmoss.” Christmasween has a similar vibe with the candied orange peel, smoked myrrh, hearthwood and mulled cider but it’s sweeter and glowy-er (glowier?). The balsam resin & warm beeswax notes are not super forward but they can be detected on the drydown. This is absolutely fuckin’ MAGICAL and I am smitten. Put on a flannel nightgown, slather on  some Christmasween and sit in front of your yule tree while drinking a hot beverage a burning a halloween candle in the room.