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Fate
Muscadine, black and red patchouli, cereus and nag champa.
Excolo
Est deus in nobis.
The Norns
The Norse Sister-Goddesses of destiny, who measure the lives and fortunes of both Gods and Men and hold steady the ineffable laws of the cosmos. They are preservers and protectors of the Tree of Life and the Well of Fate, and give assistance during the birth of every mortal and divine creature.
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial..
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The subject of our latest #BPAL7wordstory contest was WRATH. The winning entry was submitted by Miss Paulette:
The poison worked slowly, to her delight.
Bitter almond swirled into black patchouli, with red amber, rum absolute, and lemon peel.
A handsome, dark-skinned man weaves and dances his way through the crowd. Veves have been burned into the face of his old acoustic guitar, which he strums casually as he strolls though the crowd. A winged Capuchin monkey is balanced on his shoulder, holding out a rusty metal cup. The guitar player’s melancholy chords begin to mingle strangely with a cacophonous jangling sound. The discordant symphony grows and swells as he moves toward a cloaked and hooded figure; this spectre’s skeletal hands operate a dilapidated barrel organ that stands at a crossroads in the midway. As they come together, the music hits a nightmarish crescendo; your heart heaves with longings unfulfilled, your vision swims, and your head is filled with whispered incantations and gallows secrets. In that instant, you suddenly understand the profundity of deals made in Heaven and Hell, and the price of desire.
Almond milk, sarsaparilla, tobacco smoke, High John the Conqueror root, coconut hull, black patchouli and white pine bark.
For my heart too springs up at the pressure,
Mine eyelids too moisten and burn;
Ah, feed me and fill me with pleasure,
Ere pain come in turn.
Black patchouli, honey, and thick vanilla amber.
Arizona vs United States
We are not talking here about a federal law prohibiting the States from regulating bubble-gum advertising, or even the construction of nuclear plants. We are talking about a federal law going to the core of state sovereignty: the power to exclude.
The Court opinion’s looming specter of inutterable horror-“[i]f §3 of the Arizona statute were valid, every State could give itself independent authority to prosecute federal registration violations:-seems to me not so horrible and even less looming.
If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign State.
Wherein Scalia channels Lovecraft: raw frankincense and tobacco absolute with Russian leather, blackened champaca, bitter clove, red patchouli, bourbon vanilla and petitgrain.
Gloame –
I am the lone dissenter! I love nag champa and I’m quite all right with fruit in general, but together, these come out sickly on me.
It definitely has a fruity tint to it, with the nag champa laying underneath. Maybe smells like me in high school.
Unisex, fruity, woody.
kitsch –
The best scent ever created! Smells like juicy incense. Is that a thing? It’s a thing now. I want to bathe in this.
Samantha –
I can’t believe it has taken me so many years of wearing BPAL to find this fabulous fragrance! It is earthy…a MUST for any patchouli or nag champa lover! It also has a bit of sexy fruitiness on the dry down, but is not overly sweet or foody by any means. Such a wonderful, heavenly, heady blend and one that has become an absolute favorite!
Abigail –
I ADORE this scent. Probably one of my faves so far. It’s a cross between earthy patchouli and sugary grape drink, which sounds weird but it’s awesome!