The Lovecraft Collection.
Scents inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.
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PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
$5.75 – $23.00
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.The sunken city of the Great God Cthulhu. A hellishly dark aquatic scent, evocative of fathomless oceanic deeps, the mysteries of madness buried under crushing black waters, and the brooding eternal evil that lies beneath the waves.
The Lovecraft Collection.
Scents inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.
Iä! Iä!
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
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The enemy of God, also named Iblis, He Who Despaired of the Mercy of God. Al-Shairan is the leader of the Jinn, a tempter who whispers false suggestions to men enticing them into evil and perfidious acts, and is the sworn enemy of all of Adam’s children.
His scent is fiery, bright and thick with sweet sinfulness: clove, peach and orange with cinnamon, patchouli and dark incense notes.
The devil’s herb, which he cultivates with skill and pleasure. According to lore, the spirit of this plant may take the form of a breathtaking, achingly beautiful woman, deadly to behold. This scent is a tribute to such a dark and magnificent plant: a rich green and floral blend, earthy and haunting.
Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meager iron bed. His ears were growing sensitive to a preternatural and intolerable degree, and he had long ago stopped the cheap mantel clock whose ticking had come to seem like a thunder of artillery. At night the subtle stirring of the black city outside, the sinister scurrying of rats in the wormy partitions, and the creaking of hidden timbers in the centuried house, were enough to give him a sense of strident pandemonium. The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound – and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.
He was in the changeless, legend-haunted city of Arkham, with its clustering gambrel roofs that sway and sag over attics where witches hid from the King’s men in the dark, olden years of the Province.
A shadowy, unapproachable forest of maple, birch, dogwood, cypress and pine softened by a garland of New England wildflowers: bergamot, columbine, rue anemone, blue violet, creeping phlox, bloodroot, toadflax, and pixie moss.
No one ever found what the night-gaunts took, though those beasts themselves were so uncertain as to be almost fabulous. Carter asked them if night-gaunts sucked blood and liked shiny things and left webbed footprints, but they all shook their heads negatively and seemed frightened at his making such an inquiry. When he saw how taciturn they had become he asked them no more, but went to sleep in his blanket.
Their scent of their slick, rubbery hides is bittersweet, ticklish, and skin-creeping: something akin to yuzu, white grapefruit, and kumquat mixed with the snow-dusted flowers of Mount Ngranek.
wordortwo –
This scent is murky, sour, brackish – in an artful, wearable way. I don’t like aquatics, but this bitter citrus (grapefruit? yuzu?) wrapped in seaweed being mashed against a barnacled rock has won my heart. In my home office, which I will evidently never be leaving, I pat on a dollop of R’lyeh when I need to feel like a Disney villain in order to get through my work day. Consider this a vote for R’lyeh in #tournamentofunderdogs.
artimisia –
I tried this one out because I’d never tried an aquatic before. And now, based off this one, I’m thinking aquatics are not my thing. This one did smell like a beautiful French soap in the bottle. On me, when I put it on darker notes started to come out, grounding it nicely and stopping it from being too soapy. And then…it went away. Within an hour it faded to powder on me…but sort of a strong, overpowering powder smell. Not very pleasant. As time went on, my skin chemistry added a sickly sweet undertow to the powder scent. Basically, my skin just hated this perfume.
I understand that’s not the perfume’s fault. But I was sort of so so on it even before it nosedived. Thus the two stars.
Hazel –
I ordered a sample R’lyeh along with some other stuff from them expecting something weird and hard to wear, I mean it’s named for Cthulhu’s undersea non-euclidean nightmare city, I opened the bottle and that is so impossibly untrue it smells like the fanciest French soap and the seaside.
Love it, amazing, gorgeous and just ever so slightly chilly but very feminine and pretty