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It's the most wonderful time of the year!
BPAL Halloween time, that is! What is an instabottle for you? What is a no no no (black) cat? I thought it might be fun to discuss here (I know there's discussions on the forum, Twitter, Facebook et al), so here are the breakdowns behind the cut:
All Souls
An incense blend that invokes the higher qualities of mercy and compassion, mingled with the soft, sugared currant scent of offertory soul cakes.
Dia de los Muertos
This is a Mexican paean to La Huesuda: dry, crackling leaves, the incense smoke of altars honoring Death and the Dead, funeral bouquets, the candies, chocolates, foods and tobacco of the ofrenda, amaranth, sweet cactus blossom and desert cereus.
Feeding the Dead
A barrel of beer, a pyramid of cakes, and three sticks of incense.
Frosted Pumpkin Spice Cookie
With cinnamon, nutmeg, browned butter, and cream cheese icing.
Le Revenant
A shroud of gardenia, narcissus, and sandalwood with ambrette seed, white cognac, muguet, davana, and white musk.
Magnificent Autumn
A scent that wanders through the Ages of Autumn, from the last green leaf to the first breath of winter.
October
Dry, cold autumn wind. A rustle of red leaves, a touch of smoke and sap in the air.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcake
Because this is all that I’ve wanted out of life for months.
Pumpkin Lager
A peculiar point of contention: you either love it or hate it, and however you feel, it’s passionate.
Samhain
Truly the scent of autumn itself — damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein.
Second Spring
An accolade: drifting leaves tinted in the bold reds of pomegranate and current, the golds of amber and honey, russet myrrh, a touch of cypress-green, and crisp patchouli-brown.
Sonnet d’Automne 2015
Tenebrous Love: a shivering white musk with vanilla-infused white cocoa, amber incense, and dead, dry leaves.
Sugar Skull 2015
Vibrant with the joy and sweetness of life in death! A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits.
Sweet William’s Ghost
A scent of unendurable grief and longing: pale orris root and honeyed white lily chilled by wild carrot and cognac, pulled into a winding sheet of white jasmine, tobacco flower, tuberose, and patchouli.
The Unquiet Grave
One kiss of clay-cold lips: frozen white roses, frankincense, white gardenia, white sandalwood, and vanilla orchid.
The Vampire Bride
Icy skin touched by a perfume of violet leaf, white tea, olibanum, elemi, myrrh, wormwood, crypt dust, and saffron with a dribble of blood red musk.
The White Witch 2015
Love pain-ecstatic, cruel-sweet: gold-flecked honey amber pulsating with red musk, patchouli coeur, bourbon vanilla, inky vetiver, pomegranate rind, myrrh, blackened violet leaf, and blood red rose petals.
PILE OF LEAVES
Dead Leaves and Tobacco
Dead Leaves, Black Pepper, and Sandalwood
Dead Leaves, Bourbon Vanilla, and Myrrh
Dead Leaves, Frankincense, and Copal
Dead Leaves, Honey, and Oudh
Dead Leaves, Red Musk, and Neroli
BOBBING FOR APPLES
Apple I - Apple with hay absolute, oats, honey, cream vanilla, and goat’s milk accord.
Apple II - Green apple with pink pepper, Himalayan cedar, juniper berries, and lemon rind.
Apple III - Appalachian black apple with sweet tobacco and patchouli, orange blossom, vanilla champaca, lavender, and white honey.
Apple IV - Red apple with blackcurrant bud, black clove, and vanilla bourbon.
Apple V - Apple with white coconut, fig, and tiare.
SINGLE NOTES
Apple Cider
Bonfire
Candied Apple
Clown White
Disappointing Pencil
Graveyard Dirt Redux
Polyester Spiderweb
Pumpkin Spice Everything
Stage Blood
PICKMAN GALLERY
A Phantasmagoria: Scene – Conjuring Up an Armed Skeleton
Wig powder, amber-perfumed leather gloves, and rose petals with a sliver of oak bark and cauldron smoke.
A Witch Riding on a Dragon
Blackened tonka, patchouli, dragon’s blood resin, and scorched oak.
A Young Woman Appealing to a Witch
Honey, cream and white rose petals buffeted by toadstools, creeping moss, bog cypress, and myrrh.
Départ Pour Le Sabbat (Aufbruch Zum Hexensabbat)
Bourbon vanilla, sweet red patchouli, oudh, goat’s milk accord, and white honey.
Liebeszauber
Honey, rose petals, and carnations – a drop of blood – red clover, cubeb berries, and vanilla cream.
The Magic Circle
Vanilla-infused frankincense and clary sage with 7-year aged patchouli, jasmine sambac, honey myrtle, and oudh.
The Sorceress
An evocation incense of frankincense, styrax, lavender buds, mastic, and white sandalwood mingled with moonflower, violet absolute, tuberose, and dark musk.
The Witch and the Mandrake
Mandrake root, apple blossom, dusty brown sandalwood, coconut milk, woodmusk, and soft leather.
The Witches
Pumpkin cream, honey, vanilla sugar, and smoked vanilla bean.
The Witches’ Rout (the Carcass)
White sandalwood, opoponax, shriveled black plum, and vetiver.
The Witches’ Sabbath
Burgundy and champaca resin with immortelle, leather accord, wine-soaked red fruits, rose geranium petals, red patchouli, guttering candles, and smoke.
Witchcraft Scene
Black lily and black pepper with narcissus, white musk, and white sandalwood.
Witches’ Kitchen
Belladonna accord, sprigs of rue, crushed hyssop, white sage, beeswax, mandrake leaf, bay rum, black honey, hemp, and myrrh.
A Holy Man Advises a Woman to Invoke Mary Against a Devil
White musk, tobacco flower, white tea, Tunisian neroli, and blonde leather.
La Femme de Satan
Red musk and cacao with clove, caramelized tobacco, aged patchouli, red currant, black leather, and vanilla-infused amber.
La Ronde du Sabbat
Oman frankincense, black clove, and tobacco tar.
Pan Twardowski and the Devil
Brown leather, bay leaf, tobacco leaf, lavender, and oudh.
Portrain of an Unidentified Man as Mephistopheles
A debonair lavender fougere cloaked in smoky red musk, red mandarin, and oakmoss.
Satan Starting from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Spear
Golden amber, carnation, blackcurrant, aged black patchouli, red musk, and vetiver.
Satan Summoning His Legions
White leather and cypress-tinged white musk with cardamom, smouldering incense, Ceylon cinnamon and white sandalwood.
All Souls
An incense blend that invokes the higher qualities of mercy and compassion, mingled with the soft, sugared currant scent of offertory soul cakes.
Dia de los Muertos
This is a Mexican paean to La Huesuda: dry, crackling leaves, the incense smoke of altars honoring Death and the Dead, funeral bouquets, the candies, chocolates, foods and tobacco of the ofrenda, amaranth, sweet cactus blossom and desert cereus.
Feeding the Dead
A barrel of beer, a pyramid of cakes, and three sticks of incense.
Frosted Pumpkin Spice Cookie
With cinnamon, nutmeg, browned butter, and cream cheese icing.
Le Revenant
A shroud of gardenia, narcissus, and sandalwood with ambrette seed, white cognac, muguet, davana, and white musk.
Magnificent Autumn
A scent that wanders through the Ages of Autumn, from the last green leaf to the first breath of winter.
October
Dry, cold autumn wind. A rustle of red leaves, a touch of smoke and sap in the air.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcake
Because this is all that I’ve wanted out of life for months.
Pumpkin Lager
A peculiar point of contention: you either love it or hate it, and however you feel, it’s passionate.
Samhain
Truly the scent of autumn itself — damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein.
Second Spring
An accolade: drifting leaves tinted in the bold reds of pomegranate and current, the golds of amber and honey, russet myrrh, a touch of cypress-green, and crisp patchouli-brown.
Sonnet d’Automne 2015
Tenebrous Love: a shivering white musk with vanilla-infused white cocoa, amber incense, and dead, dry leaves.
Sugar Skull 2015
Vibrant with the joy and sweetness of life in death! A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits.
Sweet William’s Ghost
A scent of unendurable grief and longing: pale orris root and honeyed white lily chilled by wild carrot and cognac, pulled into a winding sheet of white jasmine, tobacco flower, tuberose, and patchouli.
The Unquiet Grave
One kiss of clay-cold lips: frozen white roses, frankincense, white gardenia, white sandalwood, and vanilla orchid.
The Vampire Bride
Icy skin touched by a perfume of violet leaf, white tea, olibanum, elemi, myrrh, wormwood, crypt dust, and saffron with a dribble of blood red musk.
The White Witch 2015
Love pain-ecstatic, cruel-sweet: gold-flecked honey amber pulsating with red musk, patchouli coeur, bourbon vanilla, inky vetiver, pomegranate rind, myrrh, blackened violet leaf, and blood red rose petals.
PILE OF LEAVES
Dead Leaves and Tobacco
Dead Leaves, Black Pepper, and Sandalwood
Dead Leaves, Bourbon Vanilla, and Myrrh
Dead Leaves, Frankincense, and Copal
Dead Leaves, Honey, and Oudh
Dead Leaves, Red Musk, and Neroli
BOBBING FOR APPLES
Apple I - Apple with hay absolute, oats, honey, cream vanilla, and goat’s milk accord.
Apple II - Green apple with pink pepper, Himalayan cedar, juniper berries, and lemon rind.
Apple III - Appalachian black apple with sweet tobacco and patchouli, orange blossom, vanilla champaca, lavender, and white honey.
Apple IV - Red apple with blackcurrant bud, black clove, and vanilla bourbon.
Apple V - Apple with white coconut, fig, and tiare.
SINGLE NOTES
Apple Cider
Bonfire
Candied Apple
Clown White
Disappointing Pencil
Graveyard Dirt Redux
Polyester Spiderweb
Pumpkin Spice Everything
Stage Blood
PICKMAN GALLERY
A Phantasmagoria: Scene – Conjuring Up an Armed Skeleton
Wig powder, amber-perfumed leather gloves, and rose petals with a sliver of oak bark and cauldron smoke.
A Witch Riding on a Dragon
Blackened tonka, patchouli, dragon’s blood resin, and scorched oak.
A Young Woman Appealing to a Witch
Honey, cream and white rose petals buffeted by toadstools, creeping moss, bog cypress, and myrrh.
Départ Pour Le Sabbat (Aufbruch Zum Hexensabbat)
Bourbon vanilla, sweet red patchouli, oudh, goat’s milk accord, and white honey.
Liebeszauber
Honey, rose petals, and carnations – a drop of blood – red clover, cubeb berries, and vanilla cream.
The Magic Circle
Vanilla-infused frankincense and clary sage with 7-year aged patchouli, jasmine sambac, honey myrtle, and oudh.
The Sorceress
An evocation incense of frankincense, styrax, lavender buds, mastic, and white sandalwood mingled with moonflower, violet absolute, tuberose, and dark musk.
The Witch and the Mandrake
Mandrake root, apple blossom, dusty brown sandalwood, coconut milk, woodmusk, and soft leather.
The Witches
Pumpkin cream, honey, vanilla sugar, and smoked vanilla bean.
The Witches’ Rout (the Carcass)
White sandalwood, opoponax, shriveled black plum, and vetiver.
The Witches’ Sabbath
Burgundy and champaca resin with immortelle, leather accord, wine-soaked red fruits, rose geranium petals, red patchouli, guttering candles, and smoke.
Witchcraft Scene
Black lily and black pepper with narcissus, white musk, and white sandalwood.
Witches’ Kitchen
Belladonna accord, sprigs of rue, crushed hyssop, white sage, beeswax, mandrake leaf, bay rum, black honey, hemp, and myrrh.
A Holy Man Advises a Woman to Invoke Mary Against a Devil
White musk, tobacco flower, white tea, Tunisian neroli, and blonde leather.
La Femme de Satan
Red musk and cacao with clove, caramelized tobacco, aged patchouli, red currant, black leather, and vanilla-infused amber.
La Ronde du Sabbat
Oman frankincense, black clove, and tobacco tar.
Pan Twardowski and the Devil
Brown leather, bay leaf, tobacco leaf, lavender, and oudh.
Portrain of an Unidentified Man as Mephistopheles
A debonair lavender fougere cloaked in smoky red musk, red mandarin, and oakmoss.
Satan Starting from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Spear
Golden amber, carnation, blackcurrant, aged black patchouli, red musk, and vetiver.
Satan Summoning His Legions
White leather and cypress-tinged white musk with cardamom, smouldering incense, Ceylon cinnamon and white sandalwood.