Excolo
Est deus in nobis.
The Kindly Ones
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial..
$6.25 – $25.00
Unceasing In Anger
Olive leaf, raspberry leaf, vetiver and cedarwood.
Excolo
Est deus in nobis.
The Kindly Ones
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial..
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“The archaic mother – the mother who reproduces without male permission for her own satisfaction – is the least human of the female monsters because she poses the most profound existential threat… The Mother is female bodily self-determination, full-fledged and uncontrollable, out of the ocean and stomping skyscrapers, turning the male world to rubble. She is what happens when the Furies come home.”
A fiery red musk with crushed ginger root, black upturned soil, dragon’s blood resin, clove bud, pink peppercorn, tobacco absolute, red amber, patchouli, black oud, blood-caked tar, vetiver, and cedar.
2024’s duet scents are designed to flatter, compliment, or enhance different aspects of the Lunacy blend that they are born from. They can be worn alone or layered with their siblings and their parent Lunacy.
On to Pieria he stepped from the upper air, and swooped down upon the sea, and then sped over the wave like a bird, the cormorant, which in quest of fish over the dread gulfs of the unresting sea wets its thick plumage in the brine. In such wise did Hermes ride upon the multitudinous waves. But when he had reached the island which lay afar, then forth from the violet sea he came to land, and went his way until he came to a great cave, wherein dwelt the fair-tressed nymph; and he found her within. A great fire was burning on the hearth, and from afar over the isle there was a fragrance of cleft cedar and juniper, as they burned; but she within was singing with a sweet voice as she went to and fro before the loom, weaving with a golden shuttle. Round about the cave grew a luxuriant wood, alder and poplar and sweet-smelling cypress, wherein birds long of wing were wont to nest, owls and falcons and sea-crows with chattering tongues, who ply their business on the sea. And right there about the hollow cave ran trailing a garden vine, in pride of its prime, richly laden with clusters. And fountains four in a row were flowing with bright water hard by one another, turned one this way, one that. And round about soft meadows of violets and parsley were blooming. There even an immortal, who chanced to come, might gaze and marvel, and delight his soul; and there the messenger Argeiphontes stood and marvelled.
Crisp sea air, kelp, and climbing vines, flame-singed cedarwood and juniper branches, cypress boughs, alder wood, violets, selino, parsley, glistritha, and white sage.
Many an hour has been whiled away in this gentlemanly retreat: skin-warmed steel, fresh cedar shavings, a creamy fougere lather, a soothing splash of orange blossom water, and the distant memory of blood and bandages.
hotaru1301 –
In the bottle: the boldness of the raspberry is strong. It smells like the fruit. I can’t identify the cedar wood from everything else. I get a weedy, thistle leaf like scent-it’s not really pleasant at all and at the end of the exhale is the sweetness of raspberry fruit. Straight inhale from the bottle, I don’t like this one.
Wet on Skin: Cedar wood is prominent with I’m guessing the olive leaf. The scent brings to mind rough plants-the whole “touch me and you’ll bleed” type of plants with thorns and needles on them. To me, there is a bitter scent that I can’t place. Smelling off my wrist the aroma almost burns my eyes. The raspberry is dark with an almost spoiled smell. I can relate to the wrathful nature in this scent, however, it actually annoys me. Right now, I don’t like it.
Worn 30+ mins: That bitter scent has mixed with the cedar wood. It’s a curiosity triggering scent. The sweetness is out of place and seems unnatural. It’s not bad enough for me to wash it off, but I still don’t like it.
Worn 3+ hours: The bitterness has calmed down a bit. The sweetness of the raspberry and cedar wood has come clearly to the front. The prickly plant scent has faded into the background I can see the use of layering this scent with others but it’s too poisonous and bitter on my skin. The scent doesn’t quite turn my stomach, but it takes too long to get to a stage that I can tolerate. Alecto, true to her name, was unceasingly bitter. I don’t think I’ll be wearing this one again. I might let it age a few months and try again, but I don’t have any high hopes or expectations.
Sylvie –
I bought an imp of this with quite a few others and on first opening, I have to say that I didn’t like the scent – the olive leaf and raspberry leaf combined to make a somewhat cloying sweet scent which I don’t really care for on my skin. However, after finally trying it on my skin I was absolutely blown away.
Wet: The sweetness of the raspberry leaf is prominent, backed with the warmth of the olive, this is followed by the smokiness of the vetiver and cedarwood. It has a clean, almost green scent like fresh cut bramble and wood but with the raspberry adding a juicy sweet note.
Dry: The scent rounds out a lot more – you still have the sweet juicy note and warmth of the olive leaf, but with more herbaceous qualities from the olive and the cedarwood and vetiver stepping forward. The cedar continues to hold the fresh cut wood note and the vetiver adds a smokey finish. Definitely less green when dry but deliciously smokey, warm and sensual. Definitely (and surprisingly based upon first scent) one of my favorites.