Halloween October 13 2023
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13 Perfume Oil
Out of Stock13 is significant, whether you consider it lucky, unlucky or just plain odd. Many believe it to be unfortunate…
…because there were 13 present at the Last Supper.
…Loki crashed a party of 12 at Valhalla, which ended in Baldur’s death.
…Oinomaos killed 13 of Hippodamia’s suitors before Pelops finally, in his own shady way, defeated the jealous king.
…In ancient Rome, Hecate’s witches gathered in groups of 12, the Goddess herself being the 13th in the coven.Concern over the number thirteen echoes back beyond the Christian era. Line 13 was omitted form the Code of Hammurabi.
The shivers over Friday the 13th also have some interesting origins:
…Christ was allegedly crucified on Friday the 13th.
…On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and sixty of his senior knights.
…In British custom, hangings were held on Fridays, and there were 13 steps on the gallows leading to the noose.To combat the superstition, Robert Ingersoll and the Thirteen Club held thirteen-men dinners during the 19th Century. Successful? Hardly. The number still invokes trepidation to this day. A recent whimsical little serial killer study showed that the following murderers all have names that total thirteen letters:
Theodore Bundy
Jeffrey Dahmer
Albert De Salvo
John Wayne GacyAnd, with a little stretch of the imagination, you can also fit “Jack the Ripper” and “Charles Manson” into that equation.
More current-era paranoia: modern schoolchildren stop their memorization of the multiplication tables at 12. There were 13 Plutonium slugs in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Apollo 13 wasn’t exactly the most successful space mission. All of these are things that modern triskaidekaphobes point to when justifying their fears.
For some, 13 is an extremely fortuitous and auspicious number…
…In Jewish tradition, God has 13 Attributes of Mercy. Also, there were 13 tribes of Israel, 13 principles of Jewish faith, and 13 is considered the age of maturity.
…The ancient Egyptians believed that there were 12 stages of spiritual achievement in this lifetime, and a 13th beyond death.
…The word for thirteen, in Chinese, sounds much like the word which means “must be alive”.Thirteen, whether you love it or loathe it, is a pretty cool number all around.
…In some theories of relativity, there are 13 dimensions.
…It is a prime number, lucky number, star number, Wilson Prime, and Fibonacci number.
…There are 13 Archimedean solids.AND…
…There were 13 original colonies when the United States were founded.Says a lot about the US, doesn’t it?
Be not alarmed, but show your pluck! Hallow-’Een goblins bring you luck!
A gift from the goblins – thirteen autumnal notes deepened by bitter cacao: red sandalwood, Himalayan cedar, pine needle, green cardamom, saffron, nutmeg, pumpkin rind, black fig, myrrh, tobacco absolute, guiac, cognac, and oakmoss.
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Batty Hunger Perfume Oil
Add to cartBlack narcissus, orange blossoms, vanilla bourbon, red leather, and red musk.
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Batty Lace Perfume Oil
Add to cartA leathered up, musky interpretation of BPAL’s Antique Lace: dry flowers, aged linens, and the faint breath of long-faded perfumes with well-worn leather and caramel musk.
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Batty Maiden Perfume Oil
Add to cartWhite tea, black carnation, Damask rose, indigo musk, and leather.
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Batty Perversion Perfume Oil
Add to cartSpiced rum, tobacco absolute and leather, caramelized tonka, chardonnay, and black musk.
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Batty Snake Oil Perfume Oil
Add to cartDeep, rich, earthy notes swirled with vegetal musks, sugared vanilla bean, brown leather, and dark spices.
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Dusk in Autumn 2023 Perfume Oil
Add to cartBlack tea, currant cake, mandrake root, a whirl of dried leaves, and hearthsmoke.
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Skelemingo Perfume Oil
Add to cartIncreasingly common to North America as various decorative customs have been blown off-course by year-round Halloween revelry.
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Sleepy Bat Perfume Oil
Add to cartAn ode to the BPAL bat: lavender-dusted auburn fur, a drop of hops, Roman chamomile, hay absolute, ambrette seed, and sun-warmed leather.
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Snootier Bat Perfume Oil
Add to cartNow with more snoot. All the sugared incense you can shake a wing at with double the leather and a dollop of thick, inky black musk.
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Snooty Bat Perfume Oil
Add to cartOn Fridays, we wear black: sugared patchouli, nag champa, black leather, and clove.
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Vintage Dracula Blow Mold Perfume Oil
Add to cartLustrous maraschino cherry fangs illuminated from within by 40 watts of glowing amber.
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Vintage Witch Blow Mold Perfume Oil
Add to cartA plastic cauldron filled with green tea-infused white chocolate, illuminated from within by 40 watts of glowing amber.