Diabolus
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
$6.25 – $25.00
Dab a bit behind each ear, and you’ll be instantly inspired to alter street signs, shake fruit from your neighbor’s trees, and hide your roommate’s car keys.
Black coconut, gnarly patchouli, and sweet benzoin.
Diabolus
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
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Thy gloomy features, like a midnight dial,
Scowl the dark index of a fearful hour.
Patchouli, ylang ylang, blood orange, and vetiver.
Kitsune-Tsuki are malevolent Japanese spirits, akin to western werebeasts: women are possessed by the spirits of foxes, who compel them to perform acts of wickedness and mischief. Asian plum, orchid, daffodil, jasmine and white musk.
The ghostly White Women of the Scottish highlands. They seduce unwary travelers by night with their unearthly beauty and mesmerizing dancing. They engage their victims in a wild, hypnotic dance, and once they reach exhaustion, exsanguinate their partners with their vampiric kiss. Grapefruit, white tea, apple blossom and ginger.
As if, with beasts’ eyes, angels led
The way, I slip back to your bed,
Quiet as a hooded light,
Hushed by the shadows of the night.
And then, my dark one, you shall soon
Embrace the cold beams of the moon,
Around a fresh grave, the chilling hiss
Of serpent coiled shall be my kiss.
When morning shows his livid face
Your bed shall feel my empty place,
As cold as death, till fall of night.
Others take tenderness to wife:
Dread gives away your youth and life
To me, to be bride of fright.
Spectral white musk and the heart-stopping chill of sheared mint, fanned by caramel-touched body heat, and the diabolical sensuality of black musk, nicotiana, and sage.
nettle-and-nocturne –
This is one of my favourite summer scents. While wet it smells strongly of dirt and dust. For me, it calls to mind an indoor riding arena, the underside of a bridge, or a lakeshore beach parking lot, in a really nice way. After drying down it becomes a little sweeter and less dusty, with hints of toasted marshmallow and unlit cigar. It makes me think of teenage adventures on long summer evenings, lighting fires where you probably shouldn’t be.
gaia.earth24 –
It does make me feel a little naughty when I put it on, like I want to shrink down and put on a vest and a little cap and sneak around, eat all of the cereal, hide socks, and annoy cats. I’m normally not a fan of coconut but this is continuing to grow on me. It smells of very sweet milky coconut (almost caramel) out of the bottle with a dark cunning undertone. It wasn’t what I expected but I am pleasantly surprised. Honestly kind of hated it the first time I smelt it but now I keep returning to the scent. The burning leaves description is a good way to put the patchouli notes. On my skin it smells like sweet caramel coconut and dirt. It didn’t last very long on me though. I’m very excited to see how this ages.
Beth –
When I first bought Goblin I absolutely hated it in the bottle. But, after it sat untouched for a year or so, I took a chance and wore it. Oh my god. Everything changed. Worn, it’s warm and spicy, but not heavy. It sinks in and gets better with time. It is now one of my go-to fragrances, along with Nasty Woman.
ezack –
Warm,sweet coconut milk, incense, burning leaves are the scents I detect. Love it!
fal-chan –
Does not work for me AT ALL. It smells like a very bitter herbal medicine concoction, actually rather similar to one that I sometimes take and have to hold my nose to drink. I’m sure it’s a body chemistry thing, but this is definitely not something I enjoyed smelling like. Looks like it works really well for lots of other people, though!
Sarah –
Smelled almost garbage-y at first but is really awesome when it dries! Burning tobacco leaves, sudden betony, and some other dark-corner-in-a-strange-city scent. Sort of smug and unkind, so very well-named.
Gloame –
I am a big fan of warm wood scents and this one’s got it. A little tobacco-y, actually, perhaps in the way the benzoin mixes with the patchouli. Very lovely.
Unisex, woody.
lookingglass –
I’ve always loved sweet patchouli scents, and this is one of my favorites. This is the kind of patchouli that settles right into my skin and just becomes me: not too herbal, not metalic or “stinky”. The bezoin is rich and vanillic, slightly spicy like a high quality Mexican vanilla bean. The black coconut adds another element of dark richness without taking over. It’s like the best coconut incense that doesn’t even exist. It’s your skin at the end of a sexy night on a tropical island. It’s so deep, earth, and grounding, and gets even smoother with age, so just go ahead and buy 2 bottles!