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Chocolate, rosemary, sugar, and a whiff of herbs. This one is an herby sort of chocolate, sugary, herby. Medium throw and wear length.

Bright peach, vetiver and sage. It gets smokier and sagier as it dries, but still retains the peach element. Good throw and wear length.

This is a dark pomegranate-rose on a bed of resins blend. Dark, inky pom and roses. Good throw and wear length.

Sugared orange and peach jelly slices. Take the orange and peach slices (each sold separately), throw them into a bag, and then eat them. This is what this smells like. Medium throw and wear length.

To me, this smells like a peach-orange pez and coconut cream. Good throw and wear length.

Fuzzy cashmere and peaches, with a hint of honeysuckle? This one is cozy, soft, and peachy. Medium throw and medium wear length.

You love Snake Oil? This basically starts off as peach tea on me, and then slowly but surely morphs into Snake Oil after about an hour. It has a light whiff of peaches after an hour, but its mainly and very recognizeable as Snake Oil. This will probably age beautifully. Medium throw and good wear length.

This smells like vanilla wafers and peaches, and then dries down to a vanilla peach skin on me. Medium throw and wear length.

To me, this is a spicy, resinous Coca Cola blend. I get basically the labdanum (hence Coca Cola), the myrrh, clove, and touches of patchouli, spices, and a whiff of rose at the end. Medium throw and wear length.

An oil of the Philosopher Queen, Turbulent Flow is the ordered chaos at the intersection of philosophy, faith, introspection, and knowledge. This is an oil of evolution and change, but the focus is on the evolution of your worldview, values, and belief system, enabling you to shake off the shackles of ideas that no longer serve you. Lignum aloes, benzoin resinoid (Styrax benzoin), European ash leaves (Fraxinus excelsior), white willow bark (Salix alba), white sage essential oil and white sage from the TAL garden (Salvia apiana), Western red cedar essential oil and leaf (Thuja plicata), cedar berries (Juniperus monosperma), cardamom essential oil and pods (Elettaria cardamomum), evening primrose oil and seed (Oenothera biennis), English lavender flowers (Lavandula angustifolia), wild-harvested pine needles and pine needle essential oil (Pinus sylvestris L.), and celery seed essential oil (Solidago canadensis).

How do you embrace change? Because change is hard. Turbulent Flow enables you to make that transition easier. It’s about expanding your mind and willingness. It’s about realizing that you are able to make that stretch. Turbulent Flow is embodying the philosopher king or queen, post-thinking, and moving off that throne to enact what you’ve come to realize.

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Queen of the Honeyed Heart is an oil of spiritual, mental, and physical grace. This oil contains honey absolute (Apis melliferra), Sumatran benzoin gum oleoresin and tears (Styrax benzoin), blue yarrow essential oil and herb from the TAL garden (Achillea millefolium), organic motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca), strawberry fruit compound, organic ylang ylang essential oil (Cananga odorata var. genuine), white lotus absolute (Nelumbo nucifera), pink lotus stamens (Nelumbo nucifera), organic hibiscus flowers (Hibiscus sabdariffa), and red vegetal musk.

Wanna embody grace, compassion, and power despite feeling like secretly you're a trash panda that can't seem to get your life out of the dumpster? Queen of the Honeyed Heart does that. It's a floral honey with a smidge of red musk, but more importantly will remind you to elevate yourself and that you are worthy. You finding it hard to love yourself? This reminds you that you are a Queen, and deserve all the best.

"An oil to support education, enhance scholarship and insight, and spark discovery. This oil enhances the speed at which you absorb information and aids you in retaining and processing data. Peppermint essential oil and leaves from the TAL garden (Mentha piperita), clary sage essential oil (Salvia sclarea), rosemary essential oil (Rosmarinus officinalis) and rosemary leaves and flowers from the TAL garden (Rosmarinus officinalis), anise seed essential oil (Pimpinella anisum), Sicilian lemon essential oil (Citrus limon (L.) Burm.f.) and lemon peel from the TAL garden (Citrus limon), cedar berries (Juniperus monosperma), cedar leaf (Thuja plicata), Atlas cedar essential oil (Cedrus atlantica), lemongrass from the TAL garden (Cymbopogon citratus), bay leaf from the TAL garden (Laurus nobilis), and citrine chips washed in whiskey."

I scheduled some uninterrupted work time to work with a data request that involved extracting information from various places and place it in a spreadsheet. I thought this might be the beginning of the process, but I ended being something that I was able to almost complete. Definitely helps with focus and data processing. It sort of reminds me to St. Albert's Oil, but less analytical, and more like understanding how everything works as a whole. Its more expansive than St. Albert's. I also found transitions with Reperio easier, when I was getting interrupted either through email or at home.

[No additional description provided.] OMG this smells like the fall. It's a nice dirty patchouli, cool air, and enough pumpkin to just say AUTUMN IS HERE. Which is great, because honestly, with 90F and air temps in the 100+ plus, I could do with some fall just about now.

Honey, gunpowder, dried herbs and pleonectic, twopenny magics.

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The first rays of spring sunlight bursting forth behind snow-capped mountains: a chilly amber perfume.

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Lotus petals and tears.

A blur of grey-white: ambergris accord, ice musk, black tea, Himalayan cedar, coconut husk, and frost.

"You're dead, Mad Sweeney," said Shadow. "You take what you're given when you're dead." "Aye, that I shall," sighed the dead man sitting in the back of the hearse. The junkie whine had vanished from his voice now, replaced with a resigned flatness, as if the words were being broadcast from a long, long way away, dead words being sent out on a dead frequency. Tinny eucalyptus and elemi against a flat black backdrop of opoponax. Minty elemi and white florals. This one is wispy and like an aldehyde. You get white, wispyness, and fragility. Good throw and wear length.

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