Sin and Salvation
The Seven Deadly Sins
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
$6.75 – $28.00
A scent aflame with rage, swirling in the red haze of hatred: dragon’s blood spiked with black pepper, clove, and cinnamon.
Sin and Salvation
The Seven Deadly Sins
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
Presented in an amber apothecary vial.
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White noise, isolation, interrogation: static-white musk grating against ink-black musk, black pepper, and clove.
The cry of the cicada
Gives us no sign
That presently they will die
– Matsuo Bashō, translated by William George Aston
This year, the forests of the eastern United States will be abuzz (pun intended) with the concurrent emergence of two separate broods, the 17-year-old Brood XIII and 13-year-old Brood XIX. A cicada extravaganza like this one hasn’t been seen since 1803!
A scent fit for a Swarmageddon: soft, dark soil, black pepper, tonka bean, decaying leaves, licorice root, ambrette seed, sweet vetiver, bourbon vanilla, oakmoss, brown labdanum, elm bark, vegetable leather, clary sage, 13-year aged patchouli, 17-year aged patchouli, and two bright red specs of dragon’s blood resin.
Art: Kingfisher, Cicada, and Willow Tree, Qing Dynasty, China
“How came the village to be deserted?” asked the General.
“It was troubled by revenants, sir; several were tracked to their graves, there detected by the usual tests, and extinguished in the usual way, by decapitation, by the stake, and by burning; but not until many of the villagers were killed.
“But after all these proceedings according to law,” he continued — “so many graves opened, and so many vampires deprived of their horrible animation — the village was not relieved. But a Moravian nobleman, who happened to be traveling this way, heard how matters were, and being skilled—as many people are in his country—in such affairs, he offered to deliver the village from its tormentor. He did so thus: There being a bright moon that night, he ascended, shortly after sunset, the towers of the chapel here, from whence he could distinctly see the churchyard beneath him; you can see it from that window. From this point he watched until he saw the vampire come out of his grave, and place near it the linen clothes in which he had been folded, and then glide away towards the village to plague its inhabitants.
A paean to ancient malevolence and the unseen forces that grasp and scratch at the living like gnarled roots clawing through blood-stained soil in midnight forests: patchouli, mandrake root, black pepper, and fossilized amber.
We must have all the old demons of the first class, with tails, and the hobgoblins and imps; and then I think we ought not to leave out the death-horse, or the grave-pig, or even the church dwarf, although they do belong to the clergy, and are not reckoned among our people; but that is merely their office, they are nearly related to us, and visit us very frequently.
Siberian musk, black clove, opoponax, tonka, black pepper, and neroli.
Christine –
A masculine, yummy smell. I bought it for my husband, whose a baked goods fiend and it was the first perfume I gave him that he actually wears without being asked. The cinnamon is the strongest smell, but the dragons blood adds it’s own floral notes, mostly detectable to those sensitive to those scents.
September –
I love the aroma but it fades too fast; there should be a smoke aroma added, however. Something like ash. Also, the red pepper aroma should be emphasized, even to the expense of cinnamon. Anyone can buy cinnamon oil cheaply.
Otherwise, I love it dearly. Expensive cinnamon oil, but loved.
abovezenith –
When applied I smell straight cinnamon, but with the sweet smell of the dragon’s blood coming out as well. The fragrance is energy packed with a crisp bite which makes it forceful and demanding. For me the clove came out in the dry down with the dragon’s blood receding a tad. Absolutely smells and looks (with the red hue) of bottled wrath.
Marc –
Odd that this hasn’t been reviewed yet I purchased a few different imps and this is by far my favorite. Its warm, fiery and soothing the cinnamon note last the longest. With all of the scent notes combined I feel as if I have a warm aura of heat around me at all times