Bewitching Brews
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
$6.25 – $25.00
It was about three feet and half high, with a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long, and its back legs were like those of a crane, and it had horse’s hooves. It walked on its back legs and held up two short front legs with paws on them. It didn’t use the front legs at all while we were watching. My wife and I were scared, I tell you, but I managed to open the window and say, “Shoo”, and it turned around barked at me, and flew away.
The scent of the wild, hauntingly beautiful Pine Barrens of New Jersey! Pitch pine with blackberry leaf, cranberry, cedar wood and tomato leaf.
Bewitching Brews
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
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Though thy slumber may be deep,
Yet thy spirit shall not sleep;
There are shades which will not vanish,
There are thoughts thou canst not banish;
By a power to thee unknown,
Thou canst never be alone;
Thou art wrapt as with a shroud,
Thou art gather’d in a cloud;
And for ever shalt thou dwell
In the spirit of this spell.
A profound and entrancing potion. Deep, wispy, and unfathomably dark: vetiver, dark woods, crumbling and burnt black sandalwood and a drop of lemon rind.
This is the captured scent of a cold, moonless night, lost deep within the darkest wood. Haunting and desolate, this scent evokes images of fairy tale tragedy and half-remembered nightmares. Thick, viscous pine with ambergris, black musk, juniper and cypress.
‘Tis said that when
The hands of men
Tamed this primeval wood,
And hoary trees with groans of woe,
Like warriors by an unknown foe,
Were in their strength subdued,
The virgin Earth Gave instant birth
To springs that ne’er did flow
That in the sun Did rivulets run,
And all around rare flowers did blow
The wild rose pale Perfumed the gale
And the queenly lily adown the dale
(Whom the sun and the dew
And the winds did woo),
With the gourd and the grape luxuriant grew.
So when in tears
The love of years
Is wasted like the snow,
And the fine fibrils of its life
By the rude wrong of instant strife
Are broken at a blow
Within the heart
Do springs upstart
Of which it doth now know,
And strange, sweet dreams,
Like silent streams
That from new fountains overflow,
With the earlier tide
Of rivers glide
Deep in the heart whose hope has died —
Quenching the fires its ashes hide, —
Its ashes, whence will spring and grow
Sweet flowers, ere long,
The rare and radiant flowers of song!
A sunlit ancient forest, dotted with wild roses, grape vine, and queenly lilies, clothed in swirls of opium smoke.
I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.
My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
His too familiar care doth make me rue it.
No means I find to rid him from my breast,
Till by the end of things it be supprest.
Some gentler passion slide into my mind,
For I am soft and made of melting snow;
Or be more cruel, love, and so be kind.
Let me or float or sink, be high or low.
Or let me live with some more sweet content,
Or die and so forget what love ere meant.
Inspired by the tragic, ill-fated love of Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester. This is our modernization of a 17th-century perfume blend favored by British aristocracy: rosemary, orange flower, grape spirit, five rose variants, lemon peel, and mint.
Spidey –
When I first applied it, it smelled exactly like hand soap. However, after a few minutes, it warms up and some of those green leafy and juicy berry notes appear. The tomato leaf note is a new favorite, totally looking out for that in new scents. It’s slightly sweet and bright without being cloying or too feminine; the green notes really freshen it up. The type of scent I’d be inclined to wear daily since it checks all the boxes.
Stef –
One of my favorite scents to date! It’s woodsy but balanced out with the sweeter berries and just a tiny bit of tomato. It’s like having the woods on your arm.
alikatcar7 –
This is a departure from the scents I usually get but it works well. Going on, the blend is strongly blackberry focused, almost to the point of being too strong. But as it dries the cedar and the cranberry comes to the forefront and it’s a pleasant balance of being sweet and woody. I’m extremely pleased I got the full bottle.
astrobookcat1 –
My second favorite after Cabras. Starts out very foresty, but quickly turns entirely to cranberry and blueberry on my skin. The tomato notes don’t come out at all on me. A nice everyday scent, and appropriate as I live in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.
wyrtwicce –
This is probably my favorite from my order o’ imps. Fresh on, it smells like a forest in the deep South in the middle of summer: sultry and heady with all the things blooming and fruiting. My skin really brings out the juicy notes of it all, between the cranberry and blackberry and tomato. There’s a sort of feral undertone that gets my adrenaline up as well. Very pleasant scent. Dry, the woody notes come to the forefront. Unfortunately, my skin seems to eat this fragrance because after about 3 hours it’s completely gone. I’d get a full-size bottle of it otherwise.
MikeJohns –
This is a pretty amazingly pleasing scent that will make you think of summer woods, gardens, tomato plants, etc….either in the NJ Pine Barrens or elsewhere. And smelled even better on my skin (without making me smell too plant-like in a bad way!)
[email protected] –
A fresh, woody/green blend. Cedar and tomato leaf seem to dominate on my skin upon application but nothing is overpowering or unpleasant. I expect the deeper wood notes will come out during dry down. Surprisingly pleasant! This would make a nice masculine fragrance or unisex selection.
VetchVespers –
Anything with cedar in it usually goes pencils or old man on me, but this was surprisingly pleasant. It has a very fresh, almost aquatic pine smell on me that would be nice for summer. I didn’t smell the tomato on me, but I did on my husband and it was odd and musky. If you want a bright, unisex forest scent, try this out.