Phantom Team of Horses

[doomsday_disco]

About two miles from the village of Canton, Me., is a cosey, old-fashioned farm-house which is located directly opposite a graveyard, with no other house in sight. From the window of this little house nothing can be seen except the graveyard with its gleaming stones, and the hills and mountains round about.

 

The family that has been occupying the house moved out not long ago, declaring that they could not stand it any longer, that they were wellnight distracted by the demonstrations. When they told their story a former resident, who now lives in Hartford, announced that he had known for years that the place was haunted. He had not told any one for fear of the ridicule of his neighbors.

 

The demonstrations were not only in the house, but in the barn and around the premises. Regularly every night at 12 o’clock a team of horses rushes from the direction of the village, rumbles over the little bridge at a slashing gait, and then disappears. It never reaches the house. Instead, ghostly voices address the members of the family who have the temerity to live there, the voices coming from all parts of the house, but never so clearly that they can be located.

 

On one memorable night a member of the family went to the barn just at dusk without a lantern. A figure stood at the corner of the building, and he ran to learn what the straggler wanted about the place. The figure silently and mysteriously melted into the shadows and was gone.

 

The Buffalo News, April 20, 1904

 

A spectral cacophony of shimmering, translucent dun sandalwood, grey amber, and wraith-chilled chestnut galloping through the mist-cloaked shadows of time, a clattering of clove and black pepper, and a crack of phantom leather.

[Darkersolstice]

Oh, look, it's Sols being drawn in by black pepper and leather and clove again! What a surprise!

 

This is a nicely masculine scent profile, nothing too sweet about it to go sugary (as so many scents do on my skin). While there are spices in the scent profile, it is neither spicy nor spiced, and the leather is not, I think, BPAL's black leather or red leather note. It's giving dangerous mystery man in slightly-damp leather armor, which is absolutely a vibe I can rock.