Spiritus Arcanum: WALPURGISNACHT 2024 Scents

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Happy to inform you that Spiritus Arcanum launched this year's Walpurgisnacht collaboration on Friday, and everything (including some terrific products from other creators) is now available to pre-order in their shop.

 

Below are the Limited Edition perfume oils we've contributed:

 

++ APIARY

Each of these scents, inspired by the bee and the bounty of the hive, is offered in 5ml bottles. 

 

TELLING THE BEES

"Inspired by the John Greenleaf Whittier poem.

A red and white scattering of clover, pansy petals and crushed daffodils, a clutch of wild roses, and buzzing hives draped with velvety black musk."

 

WAXEN IMAGE

"Inspired by beeswax poppets, votary effigies, and wax cast funerary masks.

Beeswax, ashes, and blood."

MELISSAE

"A fragrance inspired by the buzzing prophesies of nymphs, the devotions of ancient priestesses, and the bounty of honied hives.

Wildflower honey, frankincense, olive blossoms, and cinnamon."

 

 

 

++ BOOK OF SECRETS

Inspired by books of everyday magic, prayer, talismans, and lore which often found their place in practical folk magical traditions throughout the world, the Book of Secrets collection is a collaboration with the legendary Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab intended as an olfactory homage to these books of wondrous things. 

 

SECRETS OF THE PSALMS
"A compound of frankincense, galbanum, onycha accord, and Balm of Gilead.
An homage to Secrets of the Psalms by Godfrey Selig."
 

BOOK OF SECRETS OF ALBERTUS MAGNUS
"Inspired by the fantastical collection of botanical, animal, and mineral lore spuriously attributed to Albertus Magnus which was widely popular throughout Europe and the Americas throughout the Middle Ages.

Date palm, luminous fossilized amber resin, bay laurel, and frankincense."

LONG-HIDDEN FRIEND
"A perfume devoted to John George Hohman's Der lange verborgene Freund or Long Hidden (Lost) Friend, a work published in 1820 which collects a selection of spoken prayer and written charms such as the SATOR square. Hohman's work draws upon earlier works such as Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus and also offers practical remedies for everyday concerns.

Mulberry, pumpkin molasses, and sweet clove dashed with sonnen-werbel to ensure that people speak to you with pleasant words and a sprinkle of caraway to keep you safe from frights and fantasies."

 

EGYPTIAN SECRETS OF ALBERTUS MAGNUS
"Capturing the essence of another Pseudo-Albertine book Egyptian Secrets. A title intended to evoke exotic origins, Egyptian Secrets collects remedies for fevers and burns, alongside protective magics against witchcraft, dog bites, and thieves.

Myrrh resin, green cardamom, golden saffron, and honeyed fig."

THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH BOOKS OF MOSES
"When these great princes do not appear immediately on the foregoing Citations, or if they hesitate in their obedience, then take frankincense and myrrh, and cast them upon burning coals, and when the smoke arises, place the spirit-seal thereon…

 

Ink-scratched parchment suffused with the smoke of Oman frankincense and Yemeni myrrh."

SATOR
"A scent dedicated, not to a book, but to the ancient and enigmatic amulet known as the SATOR square.

 

Night-black musk and scorched wood polished with ambrette, suffused with sweet flag, olibanum, vetiver, styrax, and red labdanum."