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Shuddering, sweat-warmed skin gleaming with sheer musk, honeyed olive blossoms, vanilla cedar, white sandalwood, and orris butter.

Grave-dry rice milk, black moss, hemp fibers, bone-white sandalwood and orris root, and bog osmanthus.

A creamy coagulation of clove bud and goat's milk.

Sugar, tea, and rum.

A great and golden love: immortal, undying, infinite. A love brightly burned into the stone of eternity: golden amber and scarlet musk, black vanilla absolute, red apple, Siamese benzoin, and sweet fig.

She seems happier lately. We want whatever Meemaw’s having! Peel back the wrapper of universal consciousness and savor this hard nugget of butterscotch with a decidedly suspicious aftertaste.

Honeyed lilies, white musk, white pear, and golden amber.

Lavender, hint of fruit (plum, I think), and lotus... as I get the dreaded bubblegum note. I think there might be some cedarwood and potentially some myrrh in it, as it has a somewhat resinous grounding in the drydown. It's a little too sweet, a little too fruity. Interesting, but not for me.

An incense of candied smoked fruits, Oman frankincense, red oud, labdanum absolute, sheer vanilla, patchouli, red musk seed, osmanthus, and datura accord.

Honey-sweet and thick with blood: red roses and honey, a throb of red musk, bitter neroli and clove husk all staining a slash of sheet-white vanilla sandalwood.

A bounty of butter, honey, and sweet cream.

A shell of milky plastic surrounding a puff of mint chocolate chip-scented air, illuminated from within by 40 watts of glowing amber.

Louis Gauffier Lebanese cedar, chamomile, frankincense, and cinnamon. This starts of as cedar, and frankincense with a whiff of cinnamon. As it dries, the chamomile comes out, and its a chamomile-cedar blend, with hints of resin. Medium throw and wear length. This one is sort of manly to me.

An incense for Solstice rites: fir resin, bayberry, myrrh, mistletoe, and oak bark.

Russet dried maple leaves crunching around a jack o’lantern splashed with bay rum, curling with cigar smoke.

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White tea, rice milk, and coconut husk.

Toasted Mysore sandalwood, saffron, and sweet amber.

A traditional Chilean holiday beverage: strong fresh-brewed coffee, steamed milk, sugar, aguardiente, cinnamon, clove, and vanilla bean.

A prism of sacred frankincense refracting a golden amber light into a spectrum of daemonorops draco, King mandarin, golden oud, verdant moss, blue tansy, indigo vegetal musk, and wild plum.

East African black patchouli, lilac, lavender, Italian neroli, King mandarin, Terebinth pine, and star anise. This is such an interesting patchouli blend On wet, its mainly lavender, lilac and citrus (from the neroli and mandarin). And as it dries, the patchouli comes out... and it dries to a citrusy patchouli blend. I'd recommend this to anyone who was afraid of patchouli. It's citrusy, light and clean.

Off with her head: white roses, tea roses, climbing roses, blood red roses, and a cluster of thorns, blood-spattered and sword-sharp, with clove bud and tobacco flower.

La Toussaint is a scent for All Saints' Day: falling leaves, crushed maple, bouquets of bright chrysanthemum, frankincense, white chamomile, and pale, dry wood bark. Un parfum pour la Toussaint: feuilles tombantes, érable broyé, bouquets de chrysanthèmes brillants, d'encens, de camomille blanche et d'écorce de bois claire et sèche. La Touissant has an intense green edge to it - I think its the leaf and maple. I get a bit of mum, chamomile and frankincense. It's greener than I thought, and leafier, but again, very autumn-esque. Good throw and wear length.

This is an oil for bedecking oneself in the Sun’s reflected radiance, imparting a radiant, powerful sheen of golden glory that will catch others’ attention and inspire them to raise you to greater heights. Frankincense essential oil and tears (Boswellia sacra), calendula flowers (Calendula officinalis), European ash bark (Fraxinus excelsior), sweet orange essential oil and peel from the TAL garden (Citrus sinensis), orris root and absolute (Iris germanica), Australian sandalwood essential oil (Santalum spicatum), bay leaf from the TAL garden (Laurus nobilis), ginger root and essential oil (Zingiber officinale), fir needle essential oil (Abies balsamea), valerian root from the TAL garden (Valeriana officinalis), Egyptian neroli essential oil (Citrus aurantium var. amara L.), and bay rum (Pimenta racemosa).

Hay absolute, rice milk, and sugar.