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US shipping rates are as follows: $0.00-$99.99: $5.50 $100.00 and up:$12.50. Orders are shipped via USPS Priority Mail. Non-US shipping rates: $13.00 This is a flat rate that will cover perfume, samples and certain bath items. The shopping cart will only calculate this amount. If you order more than what this amount covers, I will bill you the difference. International orders are shipped Priority AirMail. Blooddrop Huile de Parfum ![]() Blooddrop Huile de Parfum is hand-blended perfume oil available in a large selection of blends. They can be used on the skin as a traditional scent, mixed into your favorite body product or used as a room scent. Scents are made with a jojoba oil base and come in 5ml bottles with screw cap or in sample size. Please see the scent list below. Huiles de parfum are made from a variety of ingredients including absolutes, essential oils, concretes, infusions, extracts, synthetics and resins. Purchase Huile de Parfum 5ml bottle, $10.00 Purchase Huile de Parfum Sample size, 1/32oz. vial, $2.50 Limit of 10 samples per order. Limited Edition oils are not available in sample size. Biscuits de Bain Biscuits de Bain are Blooddrop’s very limited edition effervescent and highly moisturizing bath treats! Let your senses be treated to the delicious aroma of chocolate absolute spiced very lightly with ginger while your skin is pampered to a moisturizing treatment of rice bran, virgin coconut cream, goat’s milk and pumpkin seed oil. Depending on the size of your tub and hardness of water, 1-2 Bicuits should do it as each Biscuit is quite rich. These are a bit fragile, so please handle with care! You will receive four Biscuits of approximately 1.3 ounces each, packaged in an adorable tube container. Ingredients: Oryza sativa (Rice) Bran, Zea mays (Corn) Starch, Sodium
Bicarbonate (Baking
Soda),
Sucrose (Brown Sugar), Citric Acid, Goat Milk Powder (for mixture), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Cream,
Mangifera
indica (Mango) Seed Butter, Cucurbita pepo (Pumpkin) Seed Oil, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Powder,
Theobroma
Cacao
(Cocoa) Absolute, Zingiber
officinale (Ginger) Oil . Purchase Biscuits de Bain (set of four cookies of approx 1.3 ounces each), $12.00 La Confiture pour la Peau Blooddrop's Confiture pour la Peau (skin preserves) is a fruit-ladened, brown sugar body polish. It sloughs off dead skin cells to reveal fresh, bright skin beneath while also nourishing the skin with fruit seed oils, virgin coconut cream and high lineolic sunflower oil. La Confiture is rich and a little goes a long way. Fabulous for all ages of skin and the whole body. Please use extra care is applying to the face. La Confiture is free preservatives, so please avoid getting moisture in your jar to prolong it's shelf life. Presented in a 4 ounce jar and weighing approximately 6.3 ounces. La Confiture comes in three choices of fruit: Fraise (strawberry), Mure (black raspberry) or Myrtille. Myrtille Ingredients: Sucrose (brown sugar), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Cream, Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) Oil, Vaccinium corymbosum (Blueberry) Seed Oil, Fragrance, Vaccinium myrtillus (Blueberry) Seeds. Mure Ingredients: Sucrose (brown sugar), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Cream, Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) Oil, Rubus Fruticosus (Blackberry) Seed Oil, Fragrance, Rubus fruticosus (Blackberry) Seeds, Alkanna Tinctoria (Alkanet) Root Powder. Fraise Ingredients: Sucrose (brown sugar), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Cream, Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) Oil, Fragaria annassa (Strawberry) Seed Oil, Fragrance, Fragaria vesca (Strawberry) Fruit Seed, Alkanna tinctoria (Alkanet) Root Powder. Purchase La Confiture pour la Peau 6 ounce jar, $12.00 Purchase all
three Confitures pour la Peau, $32.00
(save $4)
Blooddrop's Choc-Confiture pour la Peau (skin preserves) is a limited edition extra decadent body polish. Like the fruit Confiture, it sloughs off dead skin cells with a trio of different sugars to reveal fresh, bright skin beneath while also nourishing the skin with virgin coconut cream, mango butter, cocoa butter and high lineolic sunflower oil. La Choc-Confiture gets it's name from its ultra gourmand fragrance of Cocoa Absolute and Vanilla Orchid. Fabulous for all ages of skin and the whole body. Please use extra care is applying to the face. La Confiture is free preservatives, so please avoid getting moisture in your jar to prolong it's shelf life. Presented in a 4 ounce jar and weighing approximately 6.3 ounces. La Choc-Confiture will be avilable while supplies last. Ingredients: Sucrose, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Cream, Mangifera indica (Mango) Seed Butter, Theobroma Cacao(Cocoa) Butter, Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) Oil, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Absolute, Fragrance. Purchase La Choc-Confiture pour la Peau 6 ounce jar, $17.00Due to an error on my part, my ENTIRE batch of La Choc-Confiture came out more firm than is to my liking! (And merde! There is a typo on the labels!) At the same time, they are still usable and still wonderfully scrubby and moisturizing ONCE you manage to scoop the polish out of the jar. I don't want to throw these away, since they are still too nice for that, but I don't want to charge you for them. So, I will give one jar free with each order of $40 or more (before shipping). Just know that you will need a little spoon to scoop the scrub out of the jar. Once it is in your hands, it's fine! Crème de la Crème Blooddrop's Crème de la Crème (cream of the creams) is our ultra thick, ultra luxurious yogurt skin cream. Thick, yet wonderfully absorbant. It's great for hands or any part of the body. If you're looking for a decadent cream for year round or something extra for the cold months, this is it! You may order this is any of the scents below or unscented. Presented in a 4 ounce jar. You may choose from the following scent selections: Gelt Unscented Ingredients: water, glycerin, glycol, myristete, glyceril stearate, monostearate, isopropy, palmitate PEG-20, Octyldodecanol, Iodopropanol, polysorbate, ceterate-14, acrylamide copolymer, butylcarbamate, yogurt, carbopol, aloe vera extract. May contain fragrance. Purchase Creme de la Creme 4 ounce jar, $16.00 Vivre d’Amour et d’Eau Fraiche, Limited Edition Crème de la Crème I’ve taken my traditional Crème de la Crème (see above) and whipped it up, lightening it a tiny bit with virgin coconut cream (which is fabulous for the skin, you know!). It is scented with a wonderful, cheerful, effervescent blend of rose absolute (which is also fabulous for the skin!), fizzy ginger ale and a touch of sugar. In French there is an expression for those madly in love which translates as “to live on love and fresh water alone” and I thought it was a perfect name for this sprightly cream! This limited edition Crème will be available while supplies last. Ingredients: Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Cream, Water, Glycerin, Glycol, Myristete, Glyceril Stearate, Monostearate, Isopropy, Palmitate PEG-20, Octyldodecanol, Iodopropanol, Polysorbate, Ceterate-14, Acrylamide Copolymer, Butylcarbamate, Yogurt, Carbopol, Aloe Vera Extract, Rosa Damascena Absolute, Fragrance. Purchase Vivre d'Amour et d'Eau Fraiche Limited Edition Creme de la Creme 4 ounce jar, $18.00 Delectable Limited Edition Gel Moussant Honeyed coconut macaroon-scented shower gel to get your body delectably clean! Blooddrop's Gel Moussant (Foaming Gel) is a fabulous body wash. It is not an overly drying gel, so your skin will not be stripped of its natural oils. It is also a luxurious hand wash, if you want to treat yourself or your guests to an indulgent hand wash experience! Ingredients: Water, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Cocamide DEA, Sodium Chloride, Glycerin, Citric Acid, Kathon CG, Tetrasodium EDTA, fragrance. Purchase Delectable Gel Moussant 8 ounce bottle, $15.00 20% off! $12.00 Eau Douce, Floral & Herbal Facial Mist Eau Douce (translation: “soft
water”)
is a floral and herbal
facial mist. It contains only natural floral waters and beneficial
blend of organic
hydrosols aimed to refresh, sooth, heal and pamper your skin! It has
been
tested on a variety of skin types with lovely results. Psoriasis and
rosacea
test bunnies reported quieter skin. Also, wonderful for soothing
break-out
prone skin and preempting further breakouts. Equally suited for a
simple
refreshing treat to the face on hot days or during travel where the
skin tends
to dehydrate. Because this product does not contain any preservatives
(which is
a good thing), the suggested shelf life for Eau Douce is 4-8 months.
Keeping it
in the refrigerator will help prolong the life and add a zing when
using it!
Eau Douce has a light, natural herbal scent that passes when the spray
has
dried. Eau Douce is available in an amber 4oz. spray bottle with cap. Ingredients: Rosa damascena (rose) hydrosol, Rosa damascena (Rose) floral water, Matricaria recutita (chamomile) hydrosol, Calendula officinalis (calendula) hydrosol, Pelargonium graveolens (rose geranium) hydrosol. Purchase Eau Douce 4 ounce spray bottle, $20.00 Eau Glacée, Limited Edition Floral & Herbal Facial Mist Eau Glacée (translation:
“ice water”) is a limited edition summer twist on my Eau Douce floral
and
herbal facial mist. This version also only contains natural floral
waters and
beneficial blend of organic hydrosols especially targeted for the warm
summer
months when skin needs an extra “picker upper” to cool, sooth, heal and
tighten
up your skin! Eau Glacée has been packed full of wonderful
hydrosols including
cucumber, lavender, grapefruit, clary sage, lemon verbena, ylang ylang,
angelica, helichrysum, rose and peppermint! This is one facial spray
not to
miss! Because this product does not contain any preservatives (which is
a good
thing), the suggested shelf life for Eau Douce is 4-8 months. Keeping
it in the
refrigerator will help prolong the life and add a zing when using it!
Eau Glacée
has a light, natural herbal scent that passes when the spray has dried.
Eau
Glacee is available in an amber 4oz. spray bottle with cap. Ingredients: Rosa damascena (Rose) floral water, Cucumis sativus (cucumber) hydrosol, Helichrysum italicum hydrosol, Aloysia triphylla (lemon verbena) hydrosol, Mentha piperita (peppermint) hydrosol, Salvia sclaria (clary sage) hydrosol, Lavendula angustfolia (lavender) hydrosol, Cananga odorata (Ylang ylang) hydrosol, Angelica archangelica (angelica root) hydrosol, Citrus Paradisi (grapefruit) hydrosol. Available while supplies last. Purchase Eau Glacée 4 ounce
spray
bottle, $25.00 on
sale! 20% off $20.00 Glisten Glisten is Blooddrop’s multi-use spray! It’s primary use is on the hair to add shine on dry hair, as a light detangler on wet hair, and as a frizz and static tamer. Whatever scent you choose, Glisten will gloriously waft around your head! It’s also great as a body spray and leaves your skin feeling powdery dry not oily. One more use is as a fabric and room freshener. Note: use sparingly on hair until you determine how much is just right for your locks. A little can go a long way! Available in a 2oz. amber bottle with an extra fine mist spray pump. You may choose from the following scent selections: Dollhouse Sultrylicious Unscented Ingredients: Cyclomethicone, fragrance. Purchase Glisten 2 ounce spray, $12.00 can
also be used directly on the skin for added suppleness. A small
amount goes a long way! Aurelia Limited Edition Huile de Bain is sold
in a 4
ounce amber plastic, screw cap bottle with inner reducer for perfect
pour
control. Ingredients: Fractionated Coconut Oil, Apricot Kernal Oil, Jojobal Oil, Pumpkin Seed Oil, Shea Oil, Olive Oil, MIneral Oil, Isopropyl Myristerate, Glycereth-7-Cocate, Oleth 3, Fragrance. Purchase Aurelia Huile de Bain 4 ounce bottle, $20.00 Dollface Huile de Bain Slip into a delectable bath with Blooddrop’s Dollface Huile de Bain (bath oil). This lovely and nourishing bath oil that will gently pamper your skin and lightly scent it with crushed raspberries and strawberries, vanilla musk, sweet marshmallow and the tiniest, tiniest hints of peppermint to refresh you! This bath oil is a medium weight oil, which allows it to not be overly cloying, yet sufficiently adds elasticity to your skin. It can also be used directly on the skin for added suppleness. A small amount goes a long way! Dollface Huile de Bain is sold in a 4 ounce amber plastic, screw cap bottle with inner reducer for perfect pour control. Please note that, as with all oil-based products, surfaces will become slippery, so use with caution and keep out of the reach of pets and children. Discontinue use if any irritation develops. Ingredients: Fractionated Coconut Oil, Apricot Kernal Oil, Jojobal Oil, Olive Oil, MIneral Oil, Isopropyl Myristerate, Glycereth-7-Cocate, Oleth 3, Fragrance. Purchase Dollface Huile de Bain 4
ounce
bottle, $15.00 Peachskin Huile de Bain Slip into a delectable bath with Blooddrop’s Dollface Huile de Bain (bath oil)! This lovely and nourishing bath oil that will gently pamper your skin and deliciously scent it with heavy cream, peaches, amber, sweet orange, benzoin, pink grapefruit, palma rosa, and ho wood. This bath oil is a medium weight oil, which allows it to not be overly cloying, yet sufficiently adds elasticity to your skin. It can also be used directly on the skin for added suppleness. A small amount goes a long way! Dollface Huile de Bain is sold in a 4 ounce amber plastic, screw cap bottle with inner reducer for perfect pour control. $15 Please note that, as with all oil-based products, surfaces will become slippery, so use with caution and keep out of the reach of pets and children. Discontinue use if any irritation develops. Ingredients: Fractionated Coconut Oil, Apricot Kernal Oil, Jojobal Oil, Olive Oil, MIneral Oil, Isopropyl Myristerate, Glycereth-7-Cocate, Oleth 3, Fragrance. Purchase Peachskin Huile de Bain 4 ounce bottle, $15.00 Mousse de Bain Blooddrop's Mousse de Bain (bath mousse) is above and beyond from your ordinary shower soap or gel. This body wash has the consistency of thick, onctuous whipped cream (and I really do whip it!) and is incredibly decadent. You might have a hard time going back to bar or gel soap after you try this! It has rich, lucious ingredients to sweetly kiss and nourish your skin while washing and it is also the most fabulous things to use to shave! This truly is the most decadent of cleansing products you might ever come across for bathing or showering. The Mousse de Bain is sold in a 4 ounce jar with screw top with a miniumum weight of 4oz. You may choose from the following scent selections: Buche de Noel Cafe Oblique The Emerald Dragonfly of Whisperting's Bridge Glunfurgenknoogeen Berry L'Shana Tova Pumpkin Soleil Ingredients: Aqua, Glycerin, Sorbitol, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Disodium Lauryl Sulfosuccinate, Sodium Chloride, Phenoxyethanol, Tetrasodium EDTA Purchase Mousse de Bain, $15.00 The Scent List ~
Limited Edition Oils for 2010~
These limited edition oils will be available while supplies last. No sample sizes are available for any limited edition scent. ~Blooddrop
Conversational Hearts~
Who needs sweet and mushy
messages, faking your way through
yet another Valentine’s Day, when what you really need is to get rid of
this
person? Blooddrop Conversational Hearts say it more succinctly, more
eloquently
and nicer smelling than you ever could! Some
companies might reject such messages, but
Blooddrop embraces break-ups to preserve your time, money and sanity!
You can
thank Blooddrop later. (Please note that the fragrances are much nicer
than the
message and soften the blow to your partner’s heart.)
NOT EVER
For the person who just keeps asking and asking and pestering you, NOT EVER says it like it is. Lush peaches, velvety pink roses, soft woods and benzoin. I’M GAY It’s curious how you ended up in this relationship in the first place, but it’s time to be honest about all the putting off, saying how many times you have to get up really, really early and all the numerous headaches and migraines. Or maybe you just need to lie a little to ease the break up. Atlas cedar, plum blossoms, tonka, calamus, and dry grasses. THE PITS If you’re partner can’t see how bad it is, then tell him or her! Ruby red grapefruit, blood red rose, neroli and a touch of bitter greens. C’EST FINI If you need a message that’s a little classier, then why not say it in French? Golden honey, raspberry, fig leaf, sweet myrrh and bay. U STINK Literally or metaphorically, here you go. Blueberry coulis with a hint of lime, virgin coconut cream, vanilla sandalwood, ice milk, teak and sage. DECLINED Just like his or her credit card! Ouch. Rose otto, bitter orange, a blend of fresh herbs, soft attar dehnul oud and copaiba balsam. ~Love Songs~
After last year’s Valentine’s Day perfumes, I realized there were so many other great songs that I wanted to commemorate in scent form, so here are a few that decided to honor this year. If you aren’t familiar with any of these songs, I encourage you to look them up and give them a listen! Just Like Heaven (the Cure) A crystal clear, airy, dreamy, watery scent for this song with a touch of fingers on skin for the first time. Water accord, ocean air accord, white tea, rose de mai, jasmine sambac, valerian, white cognac, lavender and calamus. Lips Like Sugar (Echo and the Bunnymen) Kisses! Kisses! Kisses! This is a sticky, sweet, playful blend to match this song. White chocolate-covered marshmallow and vanilla cookies. Melt With You (Modern English) This song is totally timeless and remains utterly awesome. Of course, it is a heady, intense, melting fragrance. Cocoa absolute, coffee bean, tobacco absolute, and a blend of vanilla creams and sugars. Tainted Love (Soft Cell) Tainted Love is one of the most ultimate “it’s over” love songs and is as equally timeless as Melt with You. I created a passionate and powerful blend for an equally passionate and powerful song. Red musk, South American musk, oakmoss absolute, tobacco absolute, Bourbon vanilla, vetiver, matcha tea and a touch of anise. ~Other Limited Editions~ Café
Oblique No woman looks forward to the day she has any problems, health scares or diseases with her girlie bits and, yet, there are many, many issues that affect our lower parts all throughout our lives! In fact, it’s probably harder to find someone who has had no problems that someone who has! This scent was created to celebrate and honor our vagina, cervix, uterus, ovaries and all the other parts in between! My husband and I have created an expression and that is “good gyne.” Whenever I come back from a visit with the Ob/Gyn, he will always ask, “So, do you have good gyne?” I wish good gyne for all of us! I have formulated Good Gyne with ingredients that have been associated with women’s health one way or another. That said, this oil is not meant to be ingested or applied to your lady parts! Good Gyne has a soft base of vanillaed baby powder with rose absolute, pink lotus, clary sage, Egyptian geranium, jasmine sambac absolute, baby tea leaf, watermelon, and chamomile. Lumme ~ Limited
Edition Winter 2009~
These limited edition bath will be available while supplies last. Delectable Gel Moussant
Honeyed
coconut macaroon-scented shower gel to get your body
delectably clean!
Glunfurgenknoogeen Berry Mousse de
Bain
The
Glunfurgenknoogeen Berry is a mythical berry that legend
tells is found beneath the Midwinter snow at exactly 2:34am next to the
Pont
des Petits Pas in the Dutch-Franco isle of Glurnglurn Furg. Stranger,
yet, is
the fact that no one has ever found this isle except for a rare,
talking,
furry, arctic butterfly that only one boy has ever claimed to meet.
Even
stranger is that the boy stated the butterfly seemed a bit inebriated
at the
time and doubts that the accuracy of this arctic Lepidoptera’s claim is
sketchy
at best. All the while, this berry is compared to the common blackberry
but
much more magical and candy-like. For you to decide!
L'Ecurie
Blooddrop
L'Ecurie
Blooddrop (translation: Blooddrop Stables) is a new series of rotating,
limited
edition equine themed scents. I will be featuring equestrian themes,
famous
horses of myth, antiquity and contemporary history, and anything else
horse-related that I’m inspired to do a scent for. Horses have been a
part of
my life the minute I could pick up a crayon and put a ballerina on a
black
circus horse to playing with horse models to my first riding lesson to
my first
horse show to my first horse (beloved Zennadu) and years upon years of
shoveling
the best poo in the world! I hope you will enjoy my celebration of all
things
equi-centric! Scents will be available as supplies last. This is an
on-going adventure,
so there are no specific dates.
Bucephalus Filly Kelpie Merrylegs Pegasus Elixirs
pour l'Homme
Blooddrop Mens'
Fragrances
Specifically created pour l'homme, but can certainly be worn by la femme, as well. This is Blooddrop’s first gentleman’s fragrance. It has been named in honor of my scholarly male friends, regardless of their field of study. It is a handsome, elegant scent with a blend of classic ingredients: amber, vetiver and lavender. Requested by a good friend, this gentleman’s fragrance is inspired by the scent of the forest. Wood, stone, earth and cool shaded air. Two mosses, vetiver, spruce, wild rosewood, cedar wood and a good handful of rich loam. ~Current
Scent Menu List~
At Denny’s After Rocky The usual food trip after the RHPS brings a group of all sorts: some Goths, some SCA-ers and Gamers, the really odd old guy who still might live in his mom’s basement and that really hot guy you’re too shy to talk to. The selection of meals ordered was just as bizarre as the people, but one favorite was blueberry pancakes with blueberry syrup and maple syrup! Bisou Crème de Cassis, crème brulèe, vanilla bean and brown sugar. This is a bit hard to resist. Bûche de Noël A traditional French desert for le Reveillon de Noel. Insanely decadent and delicious! Hazelnuts, Grand Marnier, genoise, vanille and chocolate. This scent is currently unavailable and will return in Autumn 09/Winter11. Bonne Nuit A soft gentle bedtime scent. Powdered blossoms, spun sugar, lavender and a kiss of vanilla. Broomstick Sweet summer apricots, crisp early fall red apples, moist spice cake, clove and brown sugar. Just some of the things any good witch will have in her pantry! Café Zazou Incredible dark and smooth French roast coffee with whole milk and two sugar cubes, a piece of dark chocolate and a petit gateau sec au marrons. Café Zazou is the perfect response for a little afternoon rest in between visiting Montmartre and Le Centre Pompidou. Citrouille Pumpkin, complementing spices, creams and fresh autumn apple. Dandelion Wine A twinkling path to rolling in the grass and intoxicated delight! This scent is currently unavailable and will return in Spring. Diabolique A wicked little core glossed over with a misleading bat of the eyelashes. A blend of richly spiced woods and ambers, red musk, vanilla musk, cinnamon leaf, dark patchouli, ginger, vetiver, honey galore, allspice, myrrh, almond and golden herbs. Delicieuse Thick and sultry honey and vanilla with a sassy kiss of peppermint. Devonshire Cottage A quaint stone farm house with a view of the wild ponies. A bountiful bouquet of herbs from the garden, creeping ivy, and a gentle base of clotted cream, sugar and condensed milk. Dollhouse Eeerily dainty and charming. There is oddity in rendering the life-like so small. Bush-plucked raspberries, vanilla oleoresin, pink grapefruit, calendula, bergamot, palma rosa, and gurjum balsam. Eiffel Tower Amber, fig, peach, caramel and oak moss blended to create a very chic, glamorous and elegant scent preferably while wearing heels. The Emerald Dragonfly of Whisperting’s Bridge It is said that if you spend time on Whisperting’s Bridge with a tired and heavy heart, you may see a giant emerald dragonfly darting and hovering over the lily pads and among the cattails. Call to it and it will come to you; to grant you one wish that is honest and true to mend your broken heart. Egyptian musk, green tea, honeysuckle, king mandarin, and litsea cubeba. Frida Red wines sweetened with fruits and a branch of mimosa to tuck behind your ear. I had a Pony Fresh and crisp apples, carrots, sweet feed and a flake of hay. If Wishes Were Horses For every girl whomever dreamt of having her own horse and whether or not the wish came true. A blend of pears, linden blossom, tonka bean, bergamot, lime zest and a soft mane. Josephine My little tribute to the fabulous Josephine Baker and her banana skirt. bananas, French vanilla (mais oui!), giant yellow sunflowers and exotic spice. Killing Time in Taipei Not quite cold enough, but better than nothing iced tea with a plate of strange, other-worldy fruit. Les Madeleines Really, these should be France’s national “goûter” cake. Madeleines are little vanilla cakes infused with orange blossom water. They are baked in a special pan that forms them in the shape of little shells. My husband fell in love with them when I took him to visit my family in Brittany. L’Shana Tova May your have a sweet new year! Apples and honey. Luna Moth Giant, nighttime butterfly in all her iridescent and ethereal beauty against a full moon’s glow. Luminescent whites and the palest green shimmer. Bamboo, lettuce, a white trio of tea, ginger and musk plus a sliver of lime. Medusa Green, deadly and beautiful. White tea stained green with sea moss, black patchouli, benzoin, pink lotus, labdanum, amyris, vanilla oleoresin, palma rosa, German chamomile, amber and a wind blown black voile gown. Melancholia This is the scent of sadness driving you to incalculable amounts of chocolate and alcohol. Blackest of the blackberry liquors, darkest of the chocolate absolutes, creamiest and booziest of the chocolate cakey, lady fingery deserts, and a tiny touch of iron distilled patchouli for the sake of the woe-filled heart. Mourning Dove Gentle, grey feathers nestling and cooing. Sweetened cream, vanilla musk, rice milk, broom absolute, spring's grass, and a nook in an aged, maple tree. Pumpkin Did anyone ever called you ‘punkin’ or ‘pumpkinhead’ as a term of endearment? My mom did! In many ways I think that could not but help set me up towards my love of Halloween. Pumpkin is an absolute sticky, sugary Halloween delight! Osceney generous spoonfuls of marshmallow, sweet candied orange peel, buttercream frosted cupcakes, maple sugar candies and a pair of sticky hands holding a little bouquet of chrysanthemums and applewood branches. Ruffles, Bustles & Corsets A gathering of ladies for an afternoon tea. White orchids, sprigs of lavender and petite vanilla butter cream frosted lemon pastries. Soleil A light, fresh sunshine scent with peach blossom, tangerine and sunflower. Star Light, Star Bright A bouquet of white scents. Milk, cala lily, noix de coco, chamomile flowers and white angel food cupcakes. Sultrylicious This is one sweet, sexy, heavy scent! Black coconut, passion fruit, rice cream and patchouli. Unlikely Moonflower, cucumber, lily asiatique, fig and wisteria. Gentle and fresh. White Pumpkin The ghostly vegetable in your garden! Pumpkin with white tea and coconut. Yellow Kimono Bright and fresh. Tea, yuzu, pink grapefruit, lemon and a wee bit of pineapple. The Zodiac Club I absolutely loved the Zodiac Club in the movie “Bell, Book and Candle.” My husband and I said if we ever opened up our own club, that’s what it would be called. So in honor of the bar we probably won’t ever open, I’ve created this scent. A melange of the esoteric and bohemian: ginger, peppercorn, a backdrop of smoke and sweetened clove cigarettes. The
Possibly Not So Accurate
Historical Liquids for An Assortment of Dis-Eases: Dixie Elouise Adelaide Deschamps’ Perfectly Legal and Innocuous Kissing Cake Miss Deschamps was always a bit of a sassy girl. She’d hang upside down on the monkey bars so that her shirt would fall a little on its own revealing a young girl’s blossoming chest or shirts a bit too racy for school. But she was a kind heart and good to her momma and poppa even though they got tired pretty quick with her little romantic antics with the boys and with the phone calls from school and even with the occasional call from the sheriff. When Dixie wasn’t getting in to trouble, she’d spend some of her time in the kitchen making some mean baked goods. And there was also the other things she’d do upstairs in her room with a candle and some herbs she’d gathered from the next door farmer’s field. But, to be honest, no one knew about those things. A few years ago, Dixie baked a particularly delicious cake for the county fair which stirred a bit of a ruckus. Anyone who ate even the smallest bite of the cake later felt flushed, woozy and a-bit-more-than-usual amoureux. You can better believe she swore all up, down and to the left and right that there was absolutely nothing unusual about her cake. It was made with old fashioned love and local ingredients, yessirree! But, again, there could have been a little something said over the oven when she was baking it and maybe a little something said over the pan before putting it in the oven and maybe a little something rubbed on the pan before pouring the cake batter in it. Of course, she would have never done anything harmful to the townsfolk. Only maybe a little something to loosen up their tight belts. And just because her initials were D-E-A-D, well, that didn’t mean anything. Some of the finest, ripest strawberries, the fluffiest and sweetest angel cake, the creamiest butter cream frosting and some davana to make the experience unique. Empress Ming Li Zho’s Sparkling Infusion for Happy Brightness In a former life as a Zen monk some good 528 years ago or more, I lived in a very, very small region of China. It was a very lush and peaceful place that had a very, very dainty Empress to govern the land, which as I mentioned was very, very small and did not extend beyond the two mountains that cradled the valley of the region. Empress Ming Li Zho was an only child and her parents passed away when she was very young. Although she was raised by kind hearted people of the court, Empress Ming Li Zho missed her parents dearly and named a pair of red pandas after them. As she grew up, but not very much since she was very, very dainty and hence quite petite in size, she paid particular attention to other children who had also lost their parents (or other beloved things) and were having a difficult time smiling or knowing joy. She inquired with some local healers who sent her to the nearly coo-coo old man who did not live in a cave, but in a hole in the ground, who then sent her to talk to the yellow birds in the blue trees who, in turn, chirped a little song about happiness. The Empress translated a recipe from this song. It was the Sparkling Infusion for Happy Brightness. She shared it freely with all and sometimes used it herself on days when she felt she could use a little cheering up: a blend of two gingers, a few pressed leaves of mint and a very, very small piece of crushed lemongrass. Frau Von Schtinklestein’s Partially Completed Barvarian Love Essence Yes, it is true that Frau Von Schtinklestein never finished completing this recipe due to her unexpected passing with a bout of scurvy that her husband brought home with him after his long trip on the cold dark Arctic waters searching for the elusive Long-Haired Snowy Whale. In fact, she was creating this Love Essence as a means to keep him closer to home, instead of on the high seas that would hold on to him and his ship for months, sometimes years, at a time. While she did very much enjoy having the stone manor for herself, she found she would also be fraught with anxiety on odd numbered days with no one to tell her jokes to. Her three Guernsey cows never said much, but to chew their cud and the daisies in the garden. A young niece came across Mrs. Von Schtinklestein’s notes and decided to make this oil available anyway. Even if it worked halfway, it was better than not at all! A dessert lovingly made for two: pears poached in vanilla and then caramelized in brown sugar. Madame Pompidou’s Elixir Secret pour les Maladies et Crises du Coeur Passed on to me by my great, great grandmother whom I have never met, Madame Soupiron, this recipe was perfected by the grand Madame Pompidou in 1762. Although believed by the world and French men to be only available to very high class French ladies, in fact all French women have been using this not so secret (to French women, that is) elixir for ages, even prior to the perfected formulation by Mme. Pompidou. This oil is used for any sort of woes of the heart or spirit such as results from tripping in public places, bouchers who sell you the wrong cut of meat, mail that is damaged by the mice in your courier box, any day that ends by being qualifiably described as en merdant, being jilted by a so-called friend or lover or simply getting a hole in one’s stockings or breaking the laces in your corset. Chocolate, mousse au chocolat, various friandises au chocolat and any singular or mix of cordials or liquers remaining in the cabinet in the pantry that you have not already finished off. This fabuleux cure-all will brush all your malaises and crises away! All text on this page is copyright to
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