A Pantomime of Deviltry and Debauch in Seven Acts
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
$32.00
Snake Oil with oakmoss, sea moss, white moss, and olive leaf.
A Pantomime of Deviltry and Debauch in Seven Acts
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
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Snake Oil with blood orange, blood apple, lemon peel, plumeria, and red gardenia.
Lady of the Ocean, Queen of Mothers, Mother of the Children of the Fishes. She is the River of Life, the ocean is her womb, and she is the mother of many of the Orishas. Yemaya shares the oceans with her lover / brother / son / brother-self, Olokun, and She governs the uppermost part of the waters where the sun’s rays mingle with Her waters to promote life and growth. Yemaya is everlasting, She is motherhood, the universal drive for the survival of a species, the procreative urge, the instinct of a mother protecting her young, and She is the governess of all life on Earth. She is the Most Fruitful of Women, and both She and Olokun are the protectors and benefactors of those who wish to conceive. Yemoya, being the mother of Shango, also has jurisdiction over rain and snow. She has seven roads and seven manifestations, all corresponding to the Seven Seas. She is the blood that pumps through our veins, and the sound of our blood rushing through our bodies is Her lullaby. She is in constant motion, never resting, ever vigilant and though she may seem calm on the surface, there is always activity within Her waters. The Great Mother possesses breathtaking beauty, patience and a gentle hand, yet She is also fearsome, temperamental, moody and stern. She nurtures her children, but She is also a disciplinarian. She is symbolized by the fish, mermaid, seagull, wharf rat, ibis, vulture and duck, and She shares the beauty of the peacock feather with Oshun. Her ofrenda is a bounty of melons and grapes, strewn with the petals of the flowers of motherhood, draped with sea mosses.
Natalie –
Requires a little aging. At first it smells like windex. Give it a couple months or so, and that delicious creamy Snake Oil blends and anchors the floating mosses and olive leaf. This is my first moss-heavy scent, so I’m finding it difficult differentiating between them. The olive leaf, however has its lovely characteristic green dusty powder scent that I so enjoy. For those who are turned off by powders, this one is not cloying. Generally, I find powders to be noxious, but olive leaf defies the odds. I imagine the sea moss is what gives this scent a salty tang. It’s quite amazing how BPAL truly captures the spirit of concepts and suspends them in perfume oil.
Overall, a salty, mossy scent rounded out beautifully by our beloved Snake Oil.