Lupercalia Has Arrived At The Black Phoenix Trading Post

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++ BPTP LUPERCALIA: THE YEAR OF LOVE

There were four loves that one by one,
Following the seasons and the sun,
Passed over without tears, and fell
Away without farewell.

The first was made of gold and tears,
The next of aspen-leaves and fears,
The third of rose-boughs and rose-roots,
The last love of strange fruits.

GOLD AND TEARS PERFUME

Glittering, ductile amber wet with carrot seed and bittersweet grey musk.

ASPEN-LEAVES AND FEARS HAIR GLOSS

Honey streaked with red musk and saffron.

ROSE-BOUGHS AND ROSE-ROOTS HAIR GLOSS

Vibrant red and white rose petals, thorny boughs, and gnarled roots.

These were the four loves faded.
Hold Some minutes fast the time of gold
When our lips each way clung and clove
To a face full of love.

THESE WERE THE FOUR LOVES FADED BATH OIL

Coconut, white jasmine, and mint-green moss with honeysuckle, tuberose, and white amber.

THE TIME OF GOLD BATH OIL

Orange blossom and vanilla orchid with frankincense, rockrose, golden sandalwood, gilded cedar, and yellow lily.

The tears inside our eyelids met,
Wrung forth with kissing, and wept wet
The faces cleaving each to each
Where the blood served for speech.

TEARS WRUNG FORTH PERFUME

Black cypress, celery seed, Italian bergamot, green juniper berries, ylang ylang, and petitgrain.

FACES CLEAVING EACH TO EACH PERFUME

White apple, benzoin, and oudh.

The second, with low patient brows
Bound under aspen-coloured boughs
And eyes made strong and grave with sleep
And yet too weak to weep—

EYES MADE STRONG AND GRAVE WITH SLEEP PERFUME

Ambergris accord, white musk, tobacco absolute, opoponax, and bitter cacao.

The third, with eager mouth at ease
Fed from late autumn honey, lees
Of scarce gold left in latter cells
With scattered flower-smells—

LATE AUTUMN HONEY BATH OIL

Thick raw honey with a touch of Russian sage and hyssop.

SCATTERED FLOWER-SMELLS HAIR GLOSS

Osmanthus, linden, tuberose, carnation, ylang ylang, and lemon tree blossoms with Himalayan cedar and a drop of tobacco absolute.

Hair sprinkled over with spoilt sweet
Of ruined roses, wrists and feet
Slight-swathed, as grassy-girdled sheaves
Hold in stray poppy-leaves—

RUINED ROSES PERFUME

White rose marred by oakmoss, Spanish moss, slippery labdanum, and gurjum balsam.

STRAY POPPY-LEAVES HAIR GLOSS

Poppy leaves, tobacco leaves, mandrake root, and dried ivy.

The fourth, with lips whereon has bled
Some great pale fruit's slow colour, shed
From the rank bitter husk whence drips
Faint blood between her lips—

FAINT BLOOD BETWEEN HER LIPS PERFUME

Honey and daemonorops draco with rum absolute, tobacco, and vetiver.

Made of the heat of whole great Junes
Burning the blue dark round their moons
(Each like a mown red marigold)
So hard the flame keeps hold—

BURNING THE BLUE DARK ROUND THEIR MOONS ATMOSPHERE SPRAY

Sapphire-blue musk alight with a white fire of chamomile, styrax, iced honey, saffron, and castoreum accord.

These are burnt thoroughly away.
Only the first holds out a day
Beyond these latter loves that were
Made of mere heat and air.

And now the time is winterly
The first love fades too: none will see,
When April warms the world anew,
The place wherein love grew.

THE FIRST LOVE FADES TOO ATMOSPHERE SPRAY

Blackened vanilla, white sandalwood, crushed lavender, and oudh.

THE PLACE WHEREIN LOVE GREW ATMOSPHERE SPRAY

Bulgarian rose, dark musk, orange blossoms, white fig, and honey.

++ LUPERCALIA 2015 BATH OILS

BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE BATH OIL

An exercise is unabashed sensuality: cacao absolute and a hint of oude.

BLOOD ROSE BATH OIL

Sensual, robust, and silken: voluptuous red rose bursting with lascivious red wine and sultry dragon's blood resin.

BOURBON VANILLA BATH OIL

Deceptively sweet: bourbon vanilla oleoresin and benzoin resinoid.

++ LUPERCALIA 2015 ATMOSPHERE SPRAYS

HONEYED GOLDEN MUSK, ROSEWATER, AND RED SANDALWOOD

A haze of skin, silk, and taffeta.

OLIBANUM, BLOOD, AND CLOVE

Unhallowed passion.

WHISKY, CANDLESMOKE, AND MUSK

With the faintest hint of opium smoke.

++ LUPERCALIA 2015 HAIR GLOSS

BLACK VANILLA AND CARDAMOM

With a touch of cinnamon, tobacco, and oudh.

ROSE PETALS AND CHAMPA

Champa resinoid, frankincense, red wine kyphi, and myrrh.

PEACH, WHITE GINGER, AND CUBEB

With tea leaf and cistus.

RED PATCHOULI AND FIG

A feral beauty.