Sin and Salvation
Come and See
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
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And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Mandarin, tonka, saffron, black tea, cocoa, tobacco leaf, sanguine red musk and five classical herbs of conflict.
Sin and Salvation
Come and See
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
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Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger
The scent of denial, of looking the other way, of tolerating the intolerable: white peppercorn peering slyly through green tangerine, mandarin, mimosa, and red lotus root.
‘Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
‘You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.’
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the shark;
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
I passed by his garden and marked, with one eye,
How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie:
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
And concluded the banquet by —
A woody, musky-weird base glooping over with blackberry preserves, a twist of mandarin, strawberry juice, pulverized watermelon, and a handful of smushed gardenia petals.
Sweet, smokey and sensually wicked. A thick, steamy scent, truly sinister in its voluptuous sexuality. The perfume of a demon’s favored consort, or of the devil herself. Oleander with wet, sweet mandarin, lush magnolia, a rush of deep musk and a touch of spice.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And ‘mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ‘twould win me
That with music loud and long
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Through sunlit caves of ice, roses unfurl amidst dancing waves of serpentine opium smoke and amber tobacco, golden sandalwood, champaca, tea leaf, sugared lily, ginger, rich hay absolute, leather, dark vanilla, mandarin, peru balsam, and Moroccan jasmine.
Claire –
In the imp and when I first put this on it smells like very bitter food. Almost sour. I think that’s the black tea and mandarin. As it dries I can start to make out the tobacco leaf and possibly saffron. I don’t smell any cocoa and I’m not sure I can identify any specific herbs although there are other notes present. It’s overall a bit musky and over time becomes sweeter, which I like.
This isn’t the scent for me, but I can definitely see how it would work for others!
Kate –
I got this as a bonus Imp Ear and love it. It goes on sweet but after a while on my skin it takes on a smoldering, spicy, almost incense-like scent that I love. Can’t wait for it to be available again so I can have a full-size!
Natalie –
In the bottle, it smells like a bag of Halloween candy. Seriously. I wanted it to stay like that, but it got better. It deepened and the spice came forward. Quite lovely and warm.
Gloame –
Smells so red and yellow, like the last 2 stages of Alchemy.
At first I thought “Lemon!” but no, it wasn’t that at all. When it starts drying down, it sweetens up and the mandarin becomes obvious. It has a resin-y spiciness to it—that dry, desert-y spiciness that feels like it’s been baking in the sun. The tobacco is enough to keep it warm and smouldering, but not enough to remind you of Granddad’s cigar. Tonka is light. Tea is light. Everything still shines through. Beautiful, beautiful blend.
This blend glows. I’m buying a 5ml right now.
Hellokoi –
Smells like chocolate orange truffles with some dry herbs decorating the top. The red musk isn’t as overpowering as it usually is on me, but adds a warm, musky glow underneath the chocolate orange.
Jennifer –
I really enjoyed how the notes mingled together. It mellows out after application but I found it lasted quite a while. This is probably my favorite scent I’ve ever used.
[email protected] –
Unfortunately, with my chemistry I am learning that cocoa and citrus notes do not work well on me. Will give to a friend who will be able to morph it into what I am sure will be nice on her.
jessecake –
The Great Sword of War started out sweet – like chocolate and oranges, I liked it.
Then the dry down happened and other scents came out. Now it has a slight hint of incense and floral.
Overall, it’s decent but not a keeper for me. I could imagine this smelling great on the right person though.