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January 19, 2019

WOLF BLOOD SUPER MOON RITUAL ELIXIR

JANUARY 20, 2019

5ML APOTHECARY BOTTLE - $30

 

A ritual oil thrice dedicated to empowering ourselves with lunar forces. Presented in a black velvet pouch.

An arousing melange of pure essential oils of the highest quality: bergaptene free bergamot, clary sage, clove, black patchouli, rose otto, crimson ylang ylang and a tiny bit of pink pepper.

19 January 2019

Once again ConjurePunks, NewYear is upon us! I hope your holidays were wonderful and your new year full of potential. Speaking of potential, we've got an amazing astrological event that will be happening on the 20th! With that event, we can dive into some deep and incredible magick! I'm reposting some of this so you may recognize some of the content, but most of it has been updated to fit this new event.

On the 20th there will be a Full Wolf Blood Moon Eclipse! I know that Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse a lot to digest, so I will respectfully unpack this lunacy! What's the big deal? you say. The big deal is that three rare and powerful lunar occasions will be happening simultaneously!

1. It's a Wolf Moon. The Wolf Moon takes place during the winter mating season of wolves, so it's also known as Lupercalia - which is also known as Valentine's Day. So it's an erotic and romantic moon and time of year.

2. The Super Moon aspect intensifies all lunar energies both physical and metaphysical, as it will be 30% brighter than the typical moon in the sky and it will also be 14% larger in diameter. Essentially, the moon is on holy silver steroids!

3. Next is the Blood Moon. A Blood Moon happens when a total lunar eclipse occurs- that is when the earth rests between the sun and the moon. This allows the Earth's atmosphere to filter out all of the colors of the spectrum except red thus creating a ruddy or blood like appearance of the moon. Historically, Blood Moons have caused much distress and fear. We're going to use that fear of darkness and death to enter the realm of deep soul work. Interestingly, it is also a time to connect with our literal blood - our menses (or lack thereof), our blood relatives and family that extends out into our communities - These are the people we hold deep in our heart. Ourselves included!

Wolf Moon: So now let's put it back together and we'll see just what Wolf Blood Super Moon Ritual Elixir is designed to do. First, it has been lovingly crafted with essences, infusions and elixirs that resonate with the three parts of this phenomenon. For the aspect of the Wolf Moon, I have used herbs sacred to the erotic nature of the moon to increase the already doubled lunar power - Clove essence waxes and wanes as we do, clove ignites the fire of passion and stimulates sexuality. Rose otto - the costly and penultimate oil of love and passion andc pink pepper that lends the fire of desire to the elixir.

Next we have the Super Moon and, like the Wolf Moon, it's a power booster. Just what is the moon and what is she good for? People have been praying their hearts out to that silver orb in the sky ever since they noticed she was up there. She almost always has been considered feminine and the deities that represent her have been primarily goddesses. So we know one thing for sure - the moon loves women (and the men and women who love and adore women too. They have a special place in her heart.) Her realm has been that of mysteries and cycles. As the moon waxes and wanes, she is born, matures and dies and returns yet again youthful and ready for another round. She knows the mystery of birth and death intimately and can show us the nature of the cycles of life if we're willing to observe her in the sky, in our lives and in our souls.

As far as earthly matters go, the moon rules our intuition, subconscious, psychic abilities and fertility. She increases our power to practice magick, specifically witchcraft (as witches are her chosen people after all!) For the Super Moon, I've added an herbal infusion of clary sage that lends us the feelings of joy and relieves feelings of sadness, inspires dreams, creativity, bliss and ecstacy. I have also added crimson ylang ylang to boost the energy of the moon and to enhance its aphrodisiac properties.

Lastly, we have the Blood Moon - our deepest darkest fears. The monsters under the bed and the thoughts that paralyze us with terror in middle of the night. For this I've added soulful patchouli and bergamot. Patchouli blends well with bergamot. Both lend a sense of calm and are powerful grounding oils. They also are known to banish lethargy and and promote uplifting energies, which are great for the Blood Moon.

So why would we want a Wolf Blood Super Moon Ritual Elixir? First, to increase your vitality, your connection to the Mysteries, to enhance your emotions and to increase your psychic powers, your intuition and thus your luck. It also improves your connection to the Craft, or to help you get started along the path. It is also for women to ease into the various phases of life. For the young woman to find the place in the world that resonates with her. To cultivate her strength and self confidence in the Maiden aspect of the lunar Lady. For mothers of all sorts - nurturing children, critters or careers This is the balm to soothe the sad and lonely long nights of worry and to strengthen the connection to the Mother and Queen aspect of the lunar goddess and for women transitioning into menopause we make peace with the Crone aspect and see her as friend and guide, not a withered hag to be feared and resented.

For men, this is a blend that can put you in touch with your emotions, your intuition and quite possibly the Lunar goddess as well, depending how deep you go. For transgender folks, I would recommend this elixir during transition and after for strength, emotional support as well as all the gifts the moon gives to us on a daily basis like intuition, connection to our dreams, the subconscious and as a guide for inner work. Use as much as you feel necessary.

All components have been prepared and I will assemble the master bottle on the 20th and set it outside in the light (or presence if we have clouds) of the moon overnight. I will let it sit in darkness for a week surrounded by black and white moonstones and then it will be decanted, placed in a black pouch and then it will be sent out to you! Because I want this to be accessible to as many people as possible I am only asking $30 for a 5ml bottle (plus shipping.)

I am so excited to be able to offer this elixir. I know in my heart this will also be a life and heart changer for many of us!

The only caveat - I do not have a ton of components, so I can only fill so many orders, so please order as fast as you can so I won't have to turn you away! I will keep them available for as long as possible.

Thank you for reading through and having faith in my magick and your magick too.

Full Moon Blessings!

In Her Lunar name,

CONJURE OILS' LUPERTINE COLLECTION

NEW & RESURRECTED

CREATURES KISSING IN THE RAIN - February 2019
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25.00

A twenty two song mix tape overflowing with Post-Punk and other surprise love songs for the Lupertine season!

If you'd like to listen to the songs here is the Spotify link to the playlist HERE! It's free!

CREATURES KISSING IN THE RAIN - LUPERTINE 2019

Creatures Kissing in the Rain is a line from the Cure song "The Hanging Garden." I was listening to it when I was contemplating this collection and that line really popped out at me. I realized that's what we are - creatures, just animals looking for love in sometimes less than comfortable or suitable situations - kissing in the rain, so to speak. This year for Lupertine I have curated 22 songs - 5 new ones and 17 resurrected songs - mostly post-punk but some not. What I find so touching about these songs is that they're not all about being in love and totally blissed out. I picked songs that cover all forms of relationships - from long distance to heart break to pure sex. Please listen to them on Spotify, you'll love them! The link is HERE. These songs don't belong to me. I use them with Fair Use. Just so you know. :)

I hope you enjoy these as much as I did creating them. The fragrances are some of the best I've ever made and the concept, to me, is truly moving. Enjoy!

THE LOVERS PT. 2 - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS from the album "THE LOVERS"

"And it only takes
A push and China Doll will fall apart. But it only takes a touch
And China Doll will start to dance...to hope...to love...to feel.
Dance, China Doll!"

Vanilla cream, cinnamon sugar, quince, violet, clove and patchouli.

 

STELLA WAS A DIVER AND SHE'S ALWAYS DOWN - INTERPOL from the album "TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS"

"There's something that's invisible
There's some things you can't hide
Try to detect you when I'm sleeping
In a wave you say goodbye"

Beautiful floral brine dampened with orris root, oakmoss, sandalwood and sea salt.

 

STRANGER THAN KINDNESS - NICK CAVE from the album "YOUR FUNERAL... MY TRIAL"

"Your sleeping hands journey
They loiter
Stranger than kindness
You hold me so carelessly close
Tell me I'm dirty
I'm a stranger
I'm a stranger
I'm a stranger to kindness
"

Ylang ylang, frankincense, geranium, dried strawberry, black pepper, red musk, patchouli.

 

STRIP - ADAM AND THE ANTS from the album "STRIP"

"When it gets so hot, the end of the day
You may find your clothes getting in the way
If a pretty dress hides your true desire
Fold it nice and slow, throw it on the fire"

A risque melange of black lace musk, earthy patchouli, skin musk, sandalwood, fresh fig and brown sugar.

 

PERSEPHONE (THE GATHERING OF FLOWERS) - DEAD CAN DANCE from the album WITHIN THE REALM OF A DYING SUN

{Instrumental}

Orange blossom, wildflower honey, lemon zest, candied ginger and red patchouli

 

RESURRECTED - 2019

BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE - NEW ORDER from the album BROTHERHOOD

"Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You'll say the words that I can't say"

Mediterranean fig, quince, and red myrrh - a bizarre trio that is truly uplifting and courageous!

 

BLUEBEARD - COCTEAU TWINS from the album FOUR CALENDER CAFE

"Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you betray my confidence?"

Tangerine peel, Mirabella plum, raw sugar, red currant and reassuring amber.

 

DARLING NIKKI - (the immortal) PRINCE from the album PURPLE RAIN

"The castle started spinning
Or maybe it was my brain
I can't tell you what she did to me
But me body will never be the same"

The scent of pure sex: blackberries whipped to a purple froth in vanilla cream, mango and orange blossom all embellished with lollipop for the Beautiful One.

 

DENIMS AND CURLS - THE CHAMELEONS - from the album TONY FLETCHER WALKED ON WATER

"This foolish world will hold you down
Screw your feet into the ground
But they can't take away the stars
Just like that night on the sands
I'll be there too
I'll hold your hand"

The intensity of new love: pink musk, candied rose, tonka bean and aged vanilla resin.

 

FASCINATION STREET - THE CURE from the album DISINTEGRATION

"Yeah, I like you in that like I like you to scream
But if you open your mouth then I can't be responsible
For quite what goes in or to care what comes out
So just pull on your hair, just pull on your pout"

Dark and dangerous side of desire. Blood musk, the aroma of worn leather, the tang of metal and a dash of dragon's blood. An aromatic balm for sexy bitten lips and beautiful bruises.

 

LOVE MY WAY - PSYCHEDELIC FURS from the album ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING

"Love my way, it's a new road
I follow where my mind goes, so swallow all your tears, my love
And put on your new face
You can never win or lose, if you don't run the race"

Black sandalwood, dried tobacco, smoked oudh, white lavender, clary sage and Himalayan cedar.

 

LOVE WILL TEAR US APART - JOY DIVISION from the album SUBSTANCE

"Why is the bedroom so cold?
Turned away on your side.
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal,
That we've kept through our lives."

A sorrowful love song with a glimmer of hope: Crimson pomegranate, bergamot, red clove and mournful drops of black musk.

 

LOVER. YOU SHOULD HAVE COME OVER - JEFF BUCKLEY from the superlative album GRACE

"It's never over,
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles
When I slept so soft against her
It's never over,
All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over,
She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever"

Silken notes of tousled cotton bed sheets and the musky scent of worn t shirts, white tea and an open window that lets the rain in.

 

THE LOVERS (PT. 1) - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS from the album THE LOVERS

"Hands across the table - tasting tears and linking
fingers. Case is packed but we'll still linger 'til
our time is up. Soon we'll just be swapping letters,
crying down the telephone. We'll wish away the seconds
'til the story starts again..."

The pang of grief from a long distance relationship: Comforting resins of frankincense and myrrh blended gently with black narcissus, belladonna accord and blackthorn.

 

LOVESONG - THE CURE - from the album DISINTEGRATION

"However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
I will always love you"

A romantically melancholy blend of wistful sugared vanilla bean and comforting aged patchouli with sanguine drops of bergamot and red jasmine.

 

REPTILE - THE CHURCH from the album STARFISH

"Had you coiled around my arm.
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamond eyes
But that was long ago."

Crystalline musk, orris root, crimson poppy, snakeweed accord and black locust.

 

SHE BOP - CYNDI LAUPER from the album SHE'S SO UNUSUAL

"Do I want to go out with a lion's roar?
Huh, yea, I want to go south and get me some more.
Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine
They say I better stop or I'll go blind!
Ooh she bop, she bops."

Sensual self pleasure! Whipped honey, amber resin, juicy peach, patchouli, toasted coconut and seductive cardamom.

 

SPACE AGE LOVE SONG - FLOCK OF SEAGULLS from the album SPACE AGE LOVE SONG

"I saw your eyes
And you made me cry
And for a little while
I was falling in love"

The feeling of falling in love: Red patchouli, dried red rose petals, whipped vanilla sugar and a splash of red cherry liquor.

 

TAINTED LOVE - SOFT CELL from the album SINGLES

"Once I ran to you, now I run from you.
This tainted love you've given,
I gave you all a boy could give you.
Take my tears and that's not really all.
Tainted love, oh, tainted love."

Toasted almond, Earl Gray tea, sandalwood and candied violets.

 

WITHIN A DAZE OF PASSION - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION from the album STRANGE FREE WORLD

"Tell me this is so easy inside your words and feelings.
Promise me there will be no ending.
Stay here with your brilliant kisses, please.
Waking within the daze of passion."

The daze of passion lingers: sensual gardenia, Ceylon cinnamon and black plum, all drizzled with raw wildflower honey.

BONUS TRACKS - SUPER LIMITED EDITION!

THIS TWILIGHT GARDEN - THE CURE from the album WISH (B SIDE)

"No one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
No one will ever take your place
So in love with you"

An opulent and sensual fragrance full of desire and dreaming: English roses, pink pamplemousse, honey liquor, a bouquet of black blossoms, patchouli incense and candy floss.

 

SERAPHIM of SPIRIT - RESURRECTED FROM THE JULY 2014 SPIRITS OF ELEMENT RITUAL OILS by special request!

The Spirit of the Element of Seraphim: akasha, the Void, outer space, starlight, rainbow, soul, angels, center, space-time, pure energy, bliss.

Aged vanilla resin, deep patchouli, tonka bean, holy sandalwood, three ambers, black musk, sacred cedar and blessed myrrh.

13 September 2018

AMARE AETERNUM

$25 each

For this Hallows 2018 we present for your enjoyment the concept of Amare Aeternum ot Love Eternal. While some of these couples may not be forever romantuc couples, they definitely are soul mates in their own way - whether it be partners in crime or crime fighting!

Delivered in 5ml amber glass vials with dropper tops. Our gorgeous labels are drawn by artist Tobias Morrow, aka Cannibal Teeth! (This is the artist who did an amazing job on the Pale Rat Named Death Collection right under this one.)

Do not miss out on this collection. I fear it will sell out fast!

LILY & HERMAN MUNSTER

The lead couple from the 1964 show The Munsters. Herman was Frankenstein's monster and his wife Lily was a vampire. This show put goth camp on the map!


LILY: The dark scent of twilight lilies, the softest waft of bat musk, the chill of midnight and the pleasant mustiness of a crumbling Victorian mansion.


HERMAN: Massive black leather boots, a crack of electricity and the charge of ozone that floats through the air.

 

MORTICIA & GOMEZ ADDAMS

Debuting the same year as The Munsters, The Addams Family was a bit darker and more passionate than The Munsters. The deep and eternal love affair between Morticia and Gomez still makes many of us melt with jealousy to this day!


MORTICIA: The depraved scent of decapitated blood red roses, a cauldron full of witches' herbs for a love spell: patchouli, ginger, vanilla. Sealed with a heaping sprinkle of blackened sugar to keep the passion sweet yet smouldering.


GOMEZ: The metallic tang of dueling swords clashing, billows of seductive cigar smoke, and a lustful drop of blackest musk.

 

HANNIBAL LECTER & CLARICE

Not quite technically a couple in romantic love, they are more in love with each others' minds. Hannibal is drawn to Clarice's intellect and history and Clarice is equally drawn to Dr. Lecter for similar reasons.


CLARICE: The scent of cleanliness and dark perfection: Evian skin cream slathered into an unblemished epidermis followed with a gentle spray of Nina Ricci's L'air Du Temps and covered with designer wool scarf that still reminds her of the screaming of the lambs.


HANNIBAL: A fragrance that's nothing short of refined perfection: golden musk, rare Indian sandalwood, an arterial spray of blood crimson carnation with a passionate addition of Middle Eastern herbs and spices: sensual saffron, coriander, cardamom, nutmeg and clove.

 

JACK & SALLY

The adorable couple from A Nightmare Before Christmas, He is a skeleton man known as The Pumpkin King and Sally is a sweet Rag Doll who is shy and often loses body parts. So much so she has to carry sewing needles around. Despite her shyness, Sally manages to communicate her feelings of love and kindness to Jack and Jack finally gets the signals loud and clear!


SALLY: Deadly nightshade harvested from a witches' grave, the spice of moldering gorgeous fall leaves and acorns, a sewing kid filled with sewing needles, black, red and purple threads elegantly blended with dark fruits and cassia.


JACK: A skeletal blend of bone musk, royal pumpkin spice and the cool winds of Autumn with dried crimson, orange and golden leaves whipping through the cool breeze.

 

SWEENY TODD & MRS. LOVETT

First appearing in a humble Penny Dreadful tabloid in 1846, it grew over time becoming many things from an urban legend all the way to a Tony award winning Broadway musical written by Sondheim and Wheeler!

It's a dark tale of the Demon of Fleet Street who would murder his clients and send them to the basement with the pull of a lever. This is where his partner in crime, some say lover, Mrs. Lovett retrieves the bodies in the basement where she carves the meat off the bones and bakes them into her "World Famous" meat pies! A match made in Hell, these two!


MRS. LOVETT: A decidedly Victorian blend. Egyptian musk, Mirabella plum wine, black current infused vanilla and soul black oude.


SWEENY TODD: Based on an old Victorian fougere formula: Bay rhum, emerald ferns, ambergris and a drop of blackest musk.

 

JANET (SLUT!) & BRAD (ASSHOLE!)

Coming from the inimitable Rocky Horror Picture Show, Brad (asshole!) and Janet (slut!) are two young lovers who with a flat tire who are lucky enough to happen upon the castle of Dr. Frankenfurter. Hilarity ensues. Watch it at mudnight in a theater with friends to enjoy the subtext and the full experience.


JANET (SLUT!): Bergamot, red patchouli, aged vanilla resin and pink grapefruit
.


BRAD (ASSHOLE!): Lemon zest, ylang ylang, red tangerine, crystal amber and nutmeg.

 

BORIS & NATASHA

Partners in crime, Natasha Fatale and Boris Badenov were spies from the fictional country of Pottsylvania. They first appeared in 1959 on the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The pair delight in their life of misdeeds, dahlink.


NATASHA: Parma violet, vanilla bean cream, raw whipped honey and a drop of clove.


BORIS: Russian amber, vanilla bean infused vodka and dried orange blossom.

 

MARCELINE THE VAMPIRE QUEEN & PRINCESS BUBBLE GUM

Marceline and Princess Bubble Gum from Adventure Time had a rocky on again and off again relationship, but that's to be expected when you're immortal teenagers! By the end of the series we see them restore their love with a kiss and a cuddle. Perfect!


MARCELINE THE VAMPIRE QUEEN: Red and black patchouli, tonka bean, red rose blood, white ginger blossom, red frankincense and crimson dragon's blood.


PRINCESS BUBBLE GUM: The scent of pink bubblegum and puffs of sweet cotton candy smoke from Princess Bubblegum's MAD SCIENCE experiments!

 

MULDER & SCULLY

What is there to say about Mulder and Scully? We waited years to find out were they or weren't they. Well with the reboot these main charaters from The X Files most certainly fall in the are they category, but definitely in their own way. The Truth is Out There.


SCULLY: A powerful and honest blend of louban, incense cedar, Bulgarian lavender, tonka and aged vanilla.


MULDER: An extraterrestrial blend of oakmoss, labdanum, juniper berries and grey musk.

 

These characters are the property of their respective owners/entities. I do not claim to own them, this is a one of a kind fan art project. It's just perfume for the love of all that is dark and unholy. - Vajra

 

 

May 11, 2018 - A PALE RAT NAMED DEATH - WELCOME CARDI C. aka TWINKLE TOES!

I am inviting you to enjoy some of my favorite music, and to be introduced to one of my favorite bands (if you don't adore them already!) - GHOST. They have been around for several years and for many of those years, the band has been fronted by a different front man known as Papa, I II or III. He is known as the Anti-Pope and until just recently his identity has been hidden. We have recently been introduced to a new front man known as Cardinal Copia, also known as Cardi C. in a playful way. It has been hinted that Cardi C rides the Pale Horse, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Besides being a harbinger of the end of the world, Cardi C. has some sweet dance moves!

The band and their use of Satanic camp is treated one of two ways - there are people like me who adore the band from the music to all the tricks they have up their sleeve. Then there are the others who have a hard time every time the band has a transition. And like any other fandom, there is bound to be drama and Ghost is no stranger to it!

Yet here are four perfumes inspired by Cardi C. and the new incarnation of Ghost. I know many people wonder how I find inspiration in such a group, but if I set aside all of the drama, I can definitely enjoy the band and find copious amounts of inspiration!

I hope you enjoy the perfumes! I have been operating this perfume house, Conjure Oils for nearly 11 years now and it's been a passion of mine since the very beginning. The oils are blended to be unisex with the exceptions being Ghuleh and The One Lascivious - they tend to run slightly female and male, respectively.

If you'd like to experience the music of Ghost, HERE is a rather good playlist over at Spotify!

A PALE RAT NAMED DEATH - WELCOME CARDI C. aka TWINKLE TOES!

5ml amber glass vials, gorgeous labels.

$25

 


BLOOD HONEY

Blood Honey is an amalgamation of two concepts - it's a Marilyn Manson song as well as imagery of Cardi C, tasting blood in the Rats video. Dark and sexy.

A lustful blend of blood musk, the smoke of hellfire, honeycomb and sandalwood saturated with vanilla.


GHULEH

Rarefied, undead and otherworldly beauty.

Notes of shameless fig leaves, sweet and sensual tonka bean with ancient Egyptian spices ritually applied.


THE ONE LASCIVIOUS

Lecherous and treacherous, unholy earth coated with sullied graveyard dirt.

The scent rising from cursed catacombs coated in ancient dust and crypt moss. Eternally possessing a dark kiss for forbidden fruit that is forever desired.


A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH

It is Death who rides a pale horse. Cardi C. keeps company with rats as well as a boom box so he can get his dance moves on. Papa Nihl calls him "Twinkle Toes!" LOL! Cardi C. puts the Fun back in Funeral, that's for sure!

Black amber, honey infused oud, frankincense, black orchid and toasted vanilla husk.

All art for the Ghost collection was done by the superlative Tobias Morrow who can be found on Instagram by clicking the link below.

08 May 2018

Welcome to Conjure Cosmetics & Elixirs!

Here we provide hand made cosmetics crafted with organic oils and essences as well as hand infused herbal oils that allow the skin to absorb perfected elixirs and blends. We also offer aromatheraputic merchandise enhanced with flower essences and pure essential oils as well as natural colorants

BATHORY

Conjure Cosmetics Facial Serum

BATHORY

Conjure Cosmetics Facial Serum
10ml Black Capped Clear Roll-On Bottle Containing Natural Blood Red Tinted Oil

$45

BATHORY

Conjure Cosmetics Facial Serum

I feel that to tell the story of Countess Erzebet Bathory never does the tale justice, as the entire truth of her crimes of depravity aren't known for sure as she is known as one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, killing up to 650 women. It is said that she would summon young virgin women from the villages that surrounded her castle to come and work in her household which was a wonderful and prestigious dream come true for a peasant girl of such a lowly social stature. Sadly, the dreams of these women were soon dashed by the sadistic Bathory who, believing that it would grant her eternal youth, she would drain these unlucky young ladies life's blood into her bath where she would luxuriate in the exsanguination - one of the most diabolical beauty treatments of all time!

BATHORY - Conjure Cosmetics Facial Serum: 100% cruelty free and 100% vegan. Inspired by the darkness of the Hallows season, I have developed the most amazing, Goth girl skin facial serum. It is all natural, non greasy and won't clog pores. It is a blood red oil infused with alkanet root that is used to soothe skin irritation. The oil is a blend of deeply nourishing and softening fractionated coconut oil, wild crafted marula oil that is moisturizing, balancing, softens fine lines and reduces redness and organic sea buckthorn oil that heals sun damaged skin, acne, anti oxidants that slow the aging process, heals rosacea and other skin discolorations. Essential oils of rose, frankincense, patchouli and palo santo are gently added to soften skin, fight the aging process and lighten the complexion. This is a limited edition product at this price so don't wait!

(This is, of course, my experience with the product and my research into the components. These statements haven't been approved by the FDA.)

ELIZABETH

lyrics by GHOST

Underneath the moonlight of old Hungarian skies
Buried in the blood drenched Earth
These barren lands of ice
She was an evil woman with an evil old soul
Piercing eyes emotionless
A heart so black and cold

Elizabeth, in the chasm where was my soul
Forever young, Elizabeth Bathory in the castle of your death
You're still alive, Elizabeth

Her pact with Satan
Her despisal of mankind
Her acts of cruelty and her lust for blood
Makes her one of us!

Our ancient countess was refused her desires will
To bathe in pure fresh blood
She'd peasant virgins killed

Elizabeth, in the chasm where was my soul
Forever young, Elizabeth Bathory in the castle of your death
You're still alive, Elizabeth
Elizabeth, in the chasm where was my soul
Forever young, Elizabeth Bathory in the castle of your death
You're still alive, Elizabeth!

CONJURE LIP ELIXIRS

These Lip Elixirs are presented in a .25 oz. black tin for a limited time. They come without a tint or heavily tinted with either a natural black compound, a berry violet tint or a blood red shade. They are available without a flavor or the following flavors (All Natural):

Booberry Juice (Blueberry)

Death By Chocolate (Chocolate and Cacao)

Citrus Sin (Fruit Punch)

Perky (Coffee and Sweet Cream)

Wicked Witch (Chamomile, Vanilla and Lavender)

Passion (Passionflower)

Venom (Peppermint)

Infatuated (Strawberry)

Lilith (Vanilla Rose)

Kali Ma (Midnight Chai)

Lovesick (Jasmine, Honeysuckle, Nectarine and Raspberry)

Ceremony (Green Jasmine Tea)

Blood (Red Currant)

CONJURE LIP ELIXIRS

Conjure Cosmetics Lip Elixirs
.25 oz. Black Tin

$25

CONJURE OILS' APRIL FOOLS - POISSON D'AVRIL

POISSON D'AVRIL APRIL 1ST 2018
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $22.50

In French speaking regions of the world, April 1st is known as April Fish! Using your tricksy cunning and shiftiness, you attempt to place a paper fish on someone's back without their knowledge. A classier nod to the kick me sign.

CONJURE OILS' APRIL FOOLS - POISSON D'AVRIL

POISSON d'AVRIL

A day of mayhem and mischief! Is that a fish on your back? I didn't do it! Wasn't me. Wait. It probably was! Here is a fragrance that inspires fun, playfulness and pranks!

Blissful bergamot, tangy pink grapefruit, joyful geranium, frabjous frankincense and a drop of boisterous ylang ylang

CONJURE OILS' LUPERTINE COLLECTION

CREATURES KISSING IN THE RAIN - February 2018
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $22.50

A fifteen song mixtape overflowing with Post-Punk and other surprise love songs for the Lupertine season!

If you'd like to listen to the songs here is the Spotify link to the playlist HERE! It's free!

CREATURES KISSING IN THE RAIN - LUPERTINE 2018

Creatures Kissing in the Rain is a line from the Cure song "Hanging Garden". I was listening to it when I was contemplating this collection and that line really popped out at me. I realized that's what we are - creatures, just animals looking for love in sometimes less than comfortable or suitable situations - kissing in the rain, so to speak. This year for Lupertine I have curated 15 songs - mostly post-punk but some not. What I find so touching about these songs is that they're not all about being in love and totally blissed out. I picked songs that cover all forms of relationships - from long distance to pure sex. Please listen to them on Spotify, you'll love them! The link is HERE. These songs don't belong to me. I use them with Fair Use. Just so you know. :)

I hope you enjoy these as much as I did creating them. The fragrances are some of the best I've ever made and the concept, to me, is truly moving. Enjoy!

BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE - NEW ORDER from the album BROTHERHOOD

"Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You'll say the words that I can't say"

Mediterranean fig, quince, and red myrrh - a bizarre trio that is truly uplifting and courageous!

 

BLUEBEARD - COCTEAU TWINS from the album FOUR CALENDER CAFE

"Are you the right man for me?
Are you safe? Are you my friend?
Or are you toxic for me?
Will you betray my confidence?"

Tangerine peel, Mirabella plum, raw sugar, red currant and reassuring amber.

 

DARLING NIKKI - (the immortal) PRINCE from the album PURPLE RAIN

"The castle started spinning
Or maybe it was my brain
I can't tell you what she did to me
But me body will never be the same"

The scent of pure sex: blackberries whipped to a purple froth in vanilla cream, mango and orange blossom all embellished with lollipop for the Beautiful One.

 

DENIMS AND CURLS - THE CHAMELEONS - from the album TONY FLETCHER WALKED ON WATER

"This foolish world will hold you down
Screw your feet into the ground
But they can't take away the stars
Just like that night on the sands
I'll be there too
I'll hold your hand"

The intensity of new love: pink musk, candied rose, tonka bean and aged vanilla resin.

 

FASCINATION STREET - THE CURE from the album DISINTEGRATION

"Yeah, I like you in that like I like you to scream
But if you open your mouth then I can't be responsible
For quite what goes in or to care what comes out
So just pull on your hair, just pull on your pout"

Dark and dangerous side of desire. Blood musk, the aroma of worn leather, the tang of metal and a dash of dragon's blood. An aromatic balm for sexy bitten lips and beautiful bruises.

 

LOVE MY WAY - PSYCHEDELIC FURS from the album ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING

"Love my way, it's a new road
I follow where my mind goes, so swallow all your tears, my love
And put on your new face
You can never win or lose, if you don't run the race"

Black sandalwood, dried tobacco, smoked oudh, white lavender, clary sage and Himalayan cedar.

 

LOVE WILL TEAR US APART - JOY DIVISION from the album SUBSTANCE

"Why is the bedroom so cold?
Turned away on your side.
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal,
That we've kept through our lives."

A sorrowful love song with a glimmer of hope: Crimson pomegranate, bergamot, red clove and mournful drops of black musk.

 

LOVER. YOU SHOULD HAVE COME OVER - JEFF BUCKLEY from the superlative album GRACE

"It's never over,
My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles
When I slept so soft against her
It's never over,
All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over,
She is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever"

Silken notes of tousled cotton bed sheets and the musky scent of worn t shirts, white tea and an open window that lets the rain in.

 

THE LOVERS (PT. 1) - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS from the album THE LOVERS

"Hands across the table - tasting tears and linking
fingers. Case is packed but we'll still linger 'til
our time is up. Soon we'll just be swapping letters,
crying down the telephone. We'll wish away the seconds
'til the story starts again..."

The pang of grief from a long distance relationship: Comforting resins of frankincense and myrrh blended gently with black narcissus, belladonna accord and blackthorn.

 

LOVESONG - THE CURE - from the album DISINTEGRATION

"However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
I will always love you"

A romantically melancholy blend of wistful sugared vanilla bean and comforting aged patchouli with sanguine drops of bergamot and red jasmine.

 

REPTILE - THE CHURCH from the album STARFISH

"Had you coiled around my arm.
How could you ever know
How I loved your diamond eyes
But that was long ago."

Crystalline musk, orris root, crimson poppy, snakeweed accord and black locust.

 

SHE BOP - CYNDI LAUPER from the album SHE'S SO UNUSUAL

"Do I want to go out with a lion's roar?
Huh, yea, I want to go south and get me some more.
Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine
They say I better stop or I'll go blind!
Ooh she bop, she bops."

Sensual self pleasure! Whipped honey, amber resin, juicy peach, patchouli, toasted coconut and seductive cardamom.

 

SPACE AGE LOVE SONG - FLOCK OF SEAGULLS from the album SPACE AGE LOVE SONG

"I saw your eyes
And you made me cry
And for a little while
I was falling in love"

The feel of falling in love: Red patchouli, dried red rose petals, whipped vanilla sugar and a splash of red cherry liquor.

 

TAINTED LOVE - SOFT CELL from the album SINGLES

"Once I ran to you, now I run from you.
This tainted love you've given,
I gave you all a boy could give you.
Take my tears and that's not really all.
Tainted love, oh, tainted love."

Toasted almond, Earl Gray tea, sandalwood and candied violets.

 

WITHIN A DAZE OF PASSION - KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION from the album STRANGE FREE WORLD

"Tell me this is so easy inside your words and feelings.
Promise me there will be no ending.
Stay here with your brilliant kisses, please.
Waking within the daze of passion."

`The daze of passion lingers: sensual gardenia, Ceylon cinnamon and black plum, all drizzled with raw wildflower honeSepcial

 

BONUS PERFUMES - SUPER LIMITED EDITION!

THIS TWILIGHT GARDEN - THE CURE from the album WISH (B SIDE)

"No one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
No one will ever take your place
So in love with you"

An opulent and sensual fragrance full of desire and dreaming: English roses, pink pamplemousse, honey liquor, a bouquet of black blossoms, patchouli incense and candy floss.

 

SERAPHIM of SPIRIT - RESURRECTED FROM THE JULY 2014 SPIRITS OF ELEMENT RITUAL OILS by special request!

The Spirit of the Element of Seraphim: akasha, the Void, outer space, starlight, rainbow, soul, angels, center, space-time, pure energy, bliss.

Aged vanilla resin, deep patchouli, tonka bean, holy sandalwood, three ambers, black musk, sacred cedar and blessed myrrh.

 

BLUE BLOOD SUPER MOON RITUAL ELIXIR

5ML APOTHECARY BOTTLE - $30

BLUE BLOOD SUPER MOON RITUAL ELIXIR

A ritual oil thrice dedicated to empowering ourselves with lunar forces. Presented in a black pouch with a silvery moon charm sewn upon it by yours truly

Clary sage, night blooming jasmine, stargazer lily essence, an infusion of poppy, lotus and mugwort, myrrh, patchouli, dragon's blood and a drop of Damascus rose essential oil.

 

30 January 2018

Happy New Year ConjurePunks! I hope your holidays were wonderful and your new year full of potential. Speaking of potential, we've got an amazing astrological event that will be happening on the 31st! With that event, we can dive into some deep and incredible magick! I have created the most powerful, deep and magickally decadent oil I could muster to celebrate this unique event.

On the 31st there will be a Super Blue Blood Moon! It is so rare that it has been 150 years ago since this phenomenal event took place! I know that Super Blue Blood Moon is a lot to digest, so I will respectfully unpack this lunacy! What's the big whoop? you say. The big whoop is that three rare and powerful lunar occasions will be happening simultaneously!

1. It's a Blue Moon. This is when two full moons occur during the same month. This has always been a very sacred and powerful moon magickally as it increases lunar energy. Double your pleasure, double your power!

2. The Super Moon aspect intensifies all lunar energies both physical and metaphysical, as it will be 30% larger than the size of the typical moon in the sky and it will also be 14% brighter. Essentially, the moon is on holy steroids!

3. The Blood Moon! A Blood Moon happens when there is a total lunar eclipse - that is when the earth rests between the sun and the moon. This allows the Earth's atmosphere to filter out all of the color spectrum except red thus creating a red or blood like appearance of the moon. Historically, Blood Moons have caused much distress and fear. We're going to use that fear of darkness and death to enter the realm of deep soul work. Interestingly, it is also a time to connect with our literal blood - our menses (or lack thereof), our families and relatives, extending out to our communities - the people we hold deep in our heart. Ourselves included!

So now let's put it back together and we'll see just what Blue Blood Super Moon Ritual Elixir is designed to do. First, it has been lovingly designed with essences, infusions and elixirs that resonate with the three parts of this phenomenon. For the aspect of the Blue Moon, I have used herbs sacred to the moon to increase the already doubled lunar power - clary sage (which has euphoric properties as well), night blooming jasmine (which has been forever holy to the Moon Goddess) and a drop of Stargazer Lily essence (just as the moon waxes and wanes, so do we. Stargazer Lily essence that helps us unwind the constriction and tension that holds us back and allows us to expand into our joy, goals and destinies.)

Next we have the Super Moon and like the Blue Moon it's a power booster. Just what is the moon and what is she good for? People have been praying their hearts out to that silver orb in the sky ever since they noticed she was up there. She almost always has been considered feminine and the deities that represent her have been primarily goddesses. So we know one thing for sure - the moon loves women (and the men who love and adore women too. They have a special place in her heart.) Her realm has been that of mysteries and cycles. As the moon waxes and wanes, she is born, matures and dies and returns yet again youthful and ready for another round. She knows the mystery of birth and death intimately and can show us the nature of the cycles of life if we're willing to observe her in the sky, in our lives and in our hearts.

As far as earthly matters go, the moon rules our intuition, subconscious, psychic abilities and fertility. She increases our power to practice magick, specifically witchcraft (witches are her chosen people after all!) For the Super Moon, I've added an herbal infusion of mugwort, poppy and lotus. These speak to our subconscious and to our intuition allowing us to immerse ourselves in our healing process and circumvent the habits that prevent us from moving forward.

Lastly, we have the Blood Moon - our deepest darkness and fear. The monsters under the bed and the thoughts that paralyze us with terror in the middle of the night. For this I've added the soulful scents of myrrh, patchouli and dragon's blood. To attract connection to the blood and to community I've also added a drop of pure Damascus rose essential oil. It is rare and precious - just like you!

So why would we want a Blue Moon Super Moon Ritual Elixir? To increase your vitality, your connection to the Mysteries, to your emotions and to increase your psychic powers, your intuition and thus your luck. To improve your Craft, or to help you get started. For women to ease into the different phases of life. For the young woman to find the place in the world that resonates with her, to cultivate her strength and self confidence in the Maiden aspect of the lunar Lady. For mothers of all sorts - nurturing children, critters or careers The balm to soothe the sad and lonely long nights of worry and to strengthen the connection to the Mother and Queen aspect of the lunar goddess and for women transitioning into menopause we make peace with the Crone aspect and see her as friend and guide, not a hag to be feared and resented.

For men, this is a blend that can put you in touch with your emotions, your intuition and quite possibly the Lunar goddess as well, depending how deep you go. For transgender folks, I would recommend this elixir during transition and after for strength, emotional support as well as all the gifts the moon gives to us on a daily basis like intuition, connection to our dreams, the subconscious and as a guide for inner work.

All components have been prepared and I will assemble the master bottle on the 31st and set it outside in the light (or presence if we have clouds) of the moon overnight. I will let it sit in darkness for a week surrounded by black and white moonstones and then it will be decanted, placed in a black pouch that has a moon charm sewed on by yours truly and it will be sent out to you! Because I want this to be accessible to as many people as possible I am only asking $30 for a 5ml bottle (plus shipping, of course!)

I am so excited to be able to offer this elixir. I know in my heart this will be a life changer for many of us!

The only caveat - I did not make a ton of the components, so I can only fill so many orders, so please order as fast as you can so I won't have to turn you away!

Thank you for reading through and having faith in my magick.

Full Moon Blessings!

In Her Lunar name,

PS - We still have many candles available! Take a look and see what you like. They really are lovely and very fragrant. Get one made in the Moon scent in the Astrology collection!

CONJURE CANDLES FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON

And Some Perfumes for Yuletide - Oldies and a Few Newbys.

24 November 2017

First, let's start with the candles. You can pick ANY color and ANY scent from the general catalog. You know they're from the general catalog when a 5ml costs $15. Above the photos posted below is a list of collections you can choose your scent from. Once you've selected it, please write it in the scent bar provided under the color selection menu. If you select a scent that is ineligible I will substitute it with an eligible scent that shares a scent family with the one you've selected.

The cost for the candle is listed under the listing. Once one is sold I'll indicate it by the picture. These have to be shipped flat rate medium and that costs $12 per candle since I insist on shipping them individually to maintain their integrity. If you add other bottles of perfume to you order, you won't be charged any extra shipping and it will be shipped with your candle. I'm confident from experience that this can be safely done. However, if you order a large order of 10 or more bottles I will ship them separately, gratis!

Grab a cuppa and take a leisurely break to look through these truly wonderful selections and read the descriptions under the photos. In all of them I describe the piece and make a fragrance recommendation or two, as I know how overwhelming this site can be for some people. This is a project that has been two years in the making, so I hope you're as pleased as I am to see it released! Have fun and enjoy the warm flame of a candle's flicker during this dark time of the year.

EXCEPTION: I hate to do this, but I cannot send these Internationally. It is way too cost prohibitive and the candles are too fragile. I'm already sweating domestic deliveries arriving a-ok! And on that note, if the USPS does something nasty to your candle and it breaks, we cannot be held responsible for their blatant disregard for things of beauty. Like I learned from my Gruncle Stan, always put the FUN in no reFUNds! (i.e. we do not offer refunds, so caveat emptor!) You may be able to purchase insurance at the time of shipping. If enough of you candleistas are interested I will figure out a way to make it work. Love these candles! I demand it!

COLLECTIONS:

Astrology, Aquarian Apothecary, Conjure Caravan, Dark Moon Lodge, Elementals (Winds), Feri Tradition, Loteria, Lucky Bastards, Miss Victoria's, Mythos (this is where Whore of Babylon is), Pick Yer Poison, Santeria, Seasonal, and Speakeasy.

CONJURE CANDLES

Beautiful Little Light Bringers

TO ORDER:

In order for me to process the orders and not have any double sales, please answer the following the questions and send to madv at conjureoils dot com. I will send you an invoice. Once the invoice is paid, you can consider the candle yours. If it happens to be sold, I will send an email letting you know.

Candle Selection: (e.g. A Left: POISON SKULL 18oz $50.)

Color Selection: (e.g. BLACK, RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, PURPLE, WHITE)

Fragrance: (e.g. Ella's Demons)

***This list isn't current. For a list of available candle selections, click HERE.***

 

A Left: POISON SKULL 18oz $50.

B Right: BEWARE SKULL 18oz $50

These two are hefty juggernauts at 18oz! Your candle will last close to forever! When it's burned out, you'll have a bad ass mug to use as you see fit! These two are some of my favorites - I just can't decide which one I like best! These would be lovely with any scent in our Pick Yer Poison collection!

C Left: BLACK CAT PSYCHIC VISION 16oz $45

D Right: FOXGLOVE 10oz $45

What is not to love here? We have the cutest Black Cat Psychic Vision mug in a beautiful mauve color. Both would be lovely with our Hecate fragrance! On the right we have a lovely mug with Foxglove (Digitalis Purpurea) famous for providing the digoxin that is used with cardiac patients. In the days of old, Foxglove was added to Witches' flying ointments. It helped them to connect to to the spirit world, among other things. The relationship that Witches have with poisonous plants goes waaaaay back. Represent!

E Left: LUCKY BLACK CAT 12oz $45

These bowls are so adorable I had to get all 4. This one is the black cat bowl - Make a lovely candle and a fun one! When the wax burns out you'll see the cute meow in the bottom of the bowl. Once you clean it up, you'll have one of the cutest bowls ever! Our Black Cat Crossed My Path would be a great fragrance to add. It's in our Lucky Bastards collection.

 

F Left: CREEPY SKULLS ARE THE BEST 12oz $45

Like the Black Cat bowl above, this has all the same cool qualities! You'll get a full candle - 12oz! La Muerte, from the Loteria collection would be a fun scent to add to this candle.

 

G Left: RELEASE THE BATS! 12oz $45

I once released a limited edition perfume called Release the Bats, named, of course, from the amazing eponymous Birthday Party song.. While I don't make it anymore, a couple other scents come to mind. Since the bat is seen as a trickster in folklore, Eleggua in the Santeria collection is a trickster par excellence. Another trickster - El Diablito (the little devil) is certainly a trickster and he hides out in the Loteria collection.

 

H BOO TO YOU 12oz $45

Look at those cute little ghosties just waiting to haunt your candle! They're tricky spirits, trying to horrify you with a "boo" at the bottom of the bowl. Can your nerves take the horror? A great scent for this candle would be Guardian Angel in the Lucky Bastard collection.

 

I Left: DEVIOUS SKULL MUG WITH SPIDER WEB SAUCER 8oz $40

J Right: SUGAR SKULL BOWL 16oz $45

Here are two amazing skulls I picked up. I love skulls - I have them everywhere. Maybe a bit of memento mori, maybe a bit of necromancy. Who can tell really? Anyway, the mug on the left is a mug with a spider web saucer. So cute. It's 8oz so the size of a typical mug

Sweet skull on the right was designed to be a sugar bowl. I rescued it. Now it will be an awesome candle then skull dish for your treasures.

Like the earlier skull piece, I recommend La Muerta in the Loteria collection, but they're whispering in my ear, telling me that they'd be thrilled with anything from the Pick Yer Poison collection. Also browse the Mythos collection. Dang these dudes are demanding!

 

K Left: MAY BLOSSOM 6oz $40

L Right: FLORAL GLORY 6oz $40

We're going to switch gears now and get a little fancy. These are Royal Albert Bone China cups. The value of the cups themselves vary from $10 to $30. I'm not adding that cost to the total. You just get a valuable cup after your candle is gone.

The set on the left is called May Blossom. To me it looks a bit Japanese and dappled with cherry blossoms. Either way, it's gorgeous. My perfume Amaterasu in the Mythos collection would be a lovely addition to this fine cup

On the left, we have another Royal Albert Bone China cup. It is decorated with an assortment of various opulent flowers. It would pair wonderfully with Persephone in the Mythos collection.

 

M Left: IN THE GARDEN 6oz $40

N Right: PEARLESCENT STARS 6oz $40

On the left we have another Royal Albert Bone China cup. It's a gorgeous cup with a fun floral print on both the cup and saucer. Find your deity in the Mythos collection and honor them with opulent floral splendor.

Pearlescent Stars is nothing short of magickal. It has hand painted golden stars covered in a pearl glaze. Aradia, the star goddess in the Mythos collection would be a wonderful choice for this candle.

 

O Left: CROW FEATHER SUGAR BOWL 10oz $45

P Right: CROW FEATHER SUGAR BOWL10oz $45

I wasn't kidding when I said I was a rescuer of sugar bowls! They make such amazing candles and the lid makes them super classy. Both of these vessels are identical in shape, design and color. The sheen is that of a crow's feather or an oil slick. Anything from Miss Victoria's Marauding Mercantile or Atypical Teahouse would be an amazing selection for these candles!

 

Q Left: MELODY SERIES SERENADE 6oz $40

R Right: AUTUMN MAPLE SPLENDOR 6oz $40

On the left we have another Royal Albert Bone China cup and saucer. The shape of the cup is ringed with lovely scallop shapes and the artwork is delicate and breathtaking. For something so delicate, I'd recommend a gentle scent like Fortuna in the Mythos collection. Given the rosy color and the feminine curves of the cup, Whore of Babylon, also in the Mythos collection, would also work beautifully.

On the right is a deceptively simple cup and saucer. It is decorated in maple leaves decked out in autumnal dress - from emerald greens to shining coppers. Like the May Blossoms cup above, it also has a Japanese feel to it. I would recommend Amaterasu from the Mythos collection, or Mabon from the Seasonal collection.

 

S Left: WILD GERANIUM 6oz $40

T Right: EVESHAM 6oz $40

Both of these tea cups and saucers are Royal Albert Bone China. On the right we have Wild Geranium. The color work - pinks and greens and yellows - not to mention the composition of the artwork makes this cup outstanding! In fact, I find it so spectacular, I considered keeping it for myself! Wild Geranium is a bold and beautiful cup. Fragrances from the Conjure Caravan would suit it nicely.

Eversham on the right is a gentle and subtle floral pattern; it reminds me of what tea with the Queen would be served in. Miss Victoria's Atypical Teahouse has a blend called Earl Black. I think that would be a perfect selection.

 

U Left: SMALL STRAWBERRY SURPRISE 4oz $35

V Right: BLUE MORNING GLORY 6oz $35

On the left we have this tiny and adorable cup and saucer covered in delicate strawberry plants in all stages of growth - from flower to berry. It was made in Brazil by Avon in 1978, and it still looks brand new! As far as a recommendation goes, I'd recommend August Moon - First Fruits in the Dark Moon Lodge collection would be splendid!

On the right is a gorgeous sky blue morning glory design. Morning Glories have an interesting history much like foxglove, as Morning Glory seeds have been used as an hallucinogen since the age of the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican cultures long before the Spanish arrived! Ella's Demons from the Pick Yer Poison collection would be perfect for this candle.

 

W Left: BLACK SUGAR BOWL 10oz $45

X & Y Right: ALICE IN WONDERLAND TINS - SET OF 3 1oz EACH. $30 - 2 SETS AVAILABLE

See, I wasn't lying! On the left is the last sugar bowl I have. It's a gorgeous shade of black with hand painted golden trim. It looks like a vessel of mystery! I would recommend the perfume of a Dark God to reside within. Set or Anubis would be gorgeous.

On the right we have empty tea tins with Sir John Tenniel's colored illustrations from Through the Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. They are small - about an ounce. There are two sets of three available. They're about an ounce and they're simply adorable! As far as scent suggestion goes, it's hard to tell in Alice's topsy-turvy world. The only rule that stands is that all three have to be of the same scent and color. Thanks for understanding!!

XMAS IN HAWKINS & GHOST OF YULETIDES PAST

5ml Amber Apothecary Bottle - $20

XMAS IN HAWKINS

SUPER SANTA BOB

Part Hobbit, part Superman ALL hero. Bob lives on eternally in our hearts and will live eternally in this scent dedicated to his keen wit and enormous heart. All hail Bob the every man and victor!

Comforting Indian chai with smoked rose petals laced with vanilla bean resin.

DECK THE HALLS WITH LIGHTS THAT SPELL RUN

With her fierce mama bear instincts, Joyce wasn't willing to accept Will was lost to the darkness. She saw the answer in the holiday lights, even if the answer made her blood run cold.

Multicolored electric synaesthesia: candied cherries, oranges and sugared grapefruit, pine boughs and blue raspberry candy finished with a drop of violet sugar.

XMAS MORNING EGGOS

Nothing in Eleven's life was consistent except two things: pain and her love of Eggo waffles. I like to think of what Xmas morning would look like with her and Hopper.

Fresh buttermilk waffles fresh from the toaster slathered with butter, maple syrup and crowned with a mountain of whipped cream and decorated with red and green sprinkles. Levitation optional.

SANTA'S FROM THE UPSIDE DOWN

I am always suspect of anyone who monitors the behavior of children year round. Makes me wonder if Santa is part demagorgon from the Upside Down!

Twilit and ash-strewn, the Upside Down is the opposite of a joy filled realm. It is filled with doom, death, decay and possibly candy canes and zombie elves. Crystal amber, black patchouli, smoked oud, frankincense, clary sage and red mandarin.

GHOSTS OF YULETIDES PAST

CHOCOLATE CAT 2017

Hot chocolate cream flavored with curls of blood orange peel and soft ginger fur. Hurrah for the Chocolate Cat!

 

STROKES OF GOLD 2017

Glimmering golden sandalwood, glittering vanilla blossoms and a shimmer of sweet clove bud.

 

A LA NANITA NANA 2017

The cherubic scent of a sleeping infant's skin, the nourishing sweetness of mother's milk, holy white musk and the radiant golden glow of warm vanilla-infused amber angel wings.

 

AURORA BOREALIS 2017

Gossamer hues of green, ethereal hints of crimson and pale blue flashes of sky fire illuminate the long nights with mystery, wonder and awe. 

Shivering frost notes cling to the boughs of fir and spruce whilst wisps of smoke from sacred wood fires swirl and undulate amid a wintry mix of chilled yew and cranberries sweetened with frozen vanilla.

 

MAUL SANTA 2017

Because Killer Klowns need holiday work, too!

Drunk before noon: Dark and boozy Bourbon vanilla, blackened coconut husk, toasted tonka bean, cherry pipe tobacco smoke and the suspicious scent of peppermint schnapps.

 

NAUGHTY LIST 2017

Despite our best efforts to kiss up to the big guy in red, sometimes we can't help but end up on the naughty list!

Fluffy marshmallows slowly toasted over the fireplace flames, buttered rum spiked steamed vanilla milk, cacao musk, swirling pipe tobacco and a snicker doodle bribe.

22 September 2017

DIVINE LOVE

DIVINE LOVE

Vajra and Sterling's 8th Wedding Anniversary
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

DIVINE LOVE

Vajra and Sterling's 8th Wedding Anniversary

Prior to my marriage to Sterling, my longest relationship was four years long. It ended when I was dumped unceremoniously on Christmas eve. We'd just exchanged gifts when he dropped the bomb leaving my heart in a broken heap among the ribbons and wrapping paper. I demanded that he leave and my blurry tear stained eyes watched his tail lights shrink red in the snowy distance as he drove away. I also noticed that the car was familiar and realized with horror that - holy Santa - that was my car! Apparently in the emotional rohypnol cocktail of rage, grief and just wanting him to get the hell away from me - I signed the car title over to him! Not one of my better moments, that's for sure guaranteeing no presents for me that Xmas! Just four years wasted in a relationship that I would never get back as well as a crappy Chevy Celebrity I'd never see again. Now maybe it's the trauma that has kept me with Sterling so long, or maybe it's the fact we have kids together. I like to think the reason is simple - he's someone I genuinely love who loves me back. I know it doesn't sound all fiery and passionate, but I've come to realize in my forties that stability is sexy and consistency is more loving than all the Neruda you could read to me at midnight. Well, wait a minute - I'll need to think on that last one! :D I love you, Sterling. Thanks for sticking around and just stealing my heart, not my car!

DIVINE LOVE: Cardamom pod, red frankincense, smoked oud, crimson amber, Spanish moss, cacao infused patchouli, and tourmaline infused gem elixir, the gemstone that is associated with eighth wedding anniversaries as well as protection from heartless thieves.

BATHORY

Conjure Cosmetics Facial Serum

BATHORY

Conjure Cosmetics Facial Serum
10ml Black Capped Clear Roll-On Bottle Containing Natural Blood Red Tinted Oil

$45 Introductory Price of $35!

BATHORY

Conjure Cosmetics Facial Serum

I feel that to tell the story of Countess Erzebet Bathory never does the tale justice, as the entire truth of her crimes of depravity aren't known for sure as she is known as one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, killing up to 650 women. It is said that she would summon young virgin women from the villages that surrounded her castle to come and work in her household which was a wonderful and prestigious dream come true for a peasant girl of such a lowly social stature. Sadly, the dreams of these women were soon dashed by the sadistic Bathory who, believing that it would grant her eternal youth, she would drain these unlucky young ladies life's blood into her bath where she would luxuriate in the exsanguination - one of the most diabolical beauty treatments of all time!

BATHORY - Conjure Cosmetics Facial Serum: 100% cruelty free and 100% vegan. Inspired by the darkness of the Hallows season, I have developed the most amazing, Goth girl skin facial serum. It is all natural, non greasy and won't clog pores. It is a blood red oil infused with alkanet root that is used to soothe skin irritation. The oil is a blend of deeply nourishing and softening fractionated coconut oil, wild crafted marula oil that is moisturizing, balancing, softens fine lines and reduces redness and organic sea buckthorn oil that heals sun damaged skin, acne, anti oxidants that slow the aging process, heals rosacea and other skin discolorations. Essential oils of rose, frankincense, patchouli and palo santo are gently added to soften skin, fight the aging process and lighten the complexion. This is a limited edition product at this price so don't wait!

(This is, of course, my experience with the product and my research into the components. These statements haven't been approved by the FDA.)

ELIZABETH

lyrics by GHOST

Underneath the moonlight of old Hungarian skies
Buried in the blood drenched Earth
These barren lands of ice
She was an evil woman with an evil old soul
Piercing eyes emotionless
A heart so black and cold

Elizabeth, in the chasm where was my soul
Forever young, Elizabeth Bathory in the castle of your death
You're still alive, Elizabeth

Her pact with Satan
Her despisal of mankind
Her acts of cruelty and her lust for blood
Makes her one of us!

Our ancient countess was refused her desires will
To bathe in pure fresh blood
She'd peasant virgins killed

Elizabeth, in the chasm where was my soul
Forever young, Elizabeth Bathory in the castle of your death
You're still alive, Elizabeth
Elizabeth, in the chasm where was my soul
Forever young, Elizabeth Bathory in the castle of your death
You're still alive, Elizabeth!

VIVA BORIQUA, VIVA CUBA, VIVA MEXICO - Hurricane Maria Relief Fund raiser

VIVA BORIQUA, VIVA CUBA, VIVA MEXICO - Hurricane Maria Relief Fund raiser
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25

VIVA BORIQUA, VIVA CUBA, VIVA MEXICO - Hurricane Maria Relief Fund raiser

Around September 19th and for days following the aftermath of hurricane Irma, Cuba and Puerto Rico were slammed with hurricane Maria. Cuba was blasted, Puerto Rico, better (and non Colonially) known as Boriqua lost 100% of power, engulfing the entire country in darkness. Also on the 19th of September a 7.1 earthquake toppled cities and villages in Mexico City leaving many dead and without housing, food or drinking water, as it is in Cuba and Boriqua. Here's an opportunity for a win-win: you get to smell fabulous and I get to cut a check to Mercy Corps, helping those affected by Irma, Maria and the Mexico City earthquake

ALL profits from the sales of these three scents will be donated to Mercy Corps, my favorite charity. The give a lot more than two shacks in Haiti after collecting a couple billion! 87% of money they collect goes directly to their aid programs. In this day with so much fraud it's refreshing to find an organization who puts your donation where you want it to go! Plus they are based in Portland, Oregon, so for me I get to keep it local!

VIVA BORIQUA: Fresh orange zest, golden honeycomb, clary sage, vanilla blossom, aged amber steeped in tonka bean, incense cedar and tobacco leaf.

 

VIVA CUBA: Citron, fresh grated ginger, rosewood, toasted tobacco, rum, and a drop of aged rhus khus.

 

VIVA MEXICO - Sugared bergamot, candied grapefruit, golden frankincense, labdanum, saffron infused patchouli, black copal and crimson amber.

 

THANK YOU!!

 

August 20, 2017

TOTALITY

Model: Lola Torgerson. Photography: Jeff Walser

TOTALITY

Total Solar Eclipse in Leo
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25

TOTALITY

Total Solar Eclipse in Leo

During this eclipse both the Sun and the Moon merge in the sign of Leo who is ruled by the Sun. The Sun says like an attention starved toddler, "Hey! Look at me! Look at me! It wants attention and validation of all the great things it's doing. It wants you to know all of it. However, it doesn't want you to know just the joy and successes, the Sun in Leo wants you to bear witness to the pain, the hurt, the misery. Sun in Leo wears its heart on its sleeve, and that is no surprise. As the Sun is the center of our solar system that witnesses the circulation of the celestial bodies that rule us in subtle and not so subtle ways, our heart is the center of our solar system allowing our life's blood to circulate through us. It is more than a physical organ, the heart, in times of old, was believed to be the seat of the soul. For us, it is where we suppress and express our emotions.

The new Moon in Leo says it's time to make a wish and watch it grow. New Moons are always great times to begin new projects, but when the new Moon is conjunct to the Sun in such a way as it is during this eclipse, it is high time to start projects and set goals that will manifest the will of you heart: your deepest desires. Self-confidence, ego strength, success, healing, love, freedom. But those are basic needs. We could do those at any Moon.

With this eclipse it's time to kick spiritual ass and be a Sun God or Goddess! Use TOTALITY in your spiritual work to recuperate, gather strength, confidence and energy if you've been feeling down, lowly or overwhelmed. Anoint your solar plexus to enliven your desire to change the world and overthrow fascism, racism, Nazis, 45... Take your pick! This is a Moon of fire, power and will! Use TOTALITY while visualizing a solar shield, breathing spiritual fire, or shooting psychic thunderbolts from your palms! (Or at least feel like you can!) Put TOTALITY in a diffuser and meditate on glowing like the sun, absorbing that mighty eclipse energy, planning the world you want for you and your loved ones to happily live in.

TOTALITY is a spiritual fire breathing blend to get to the bottom of your heart's desire and radiate enough energy to assist with spiritual endeavors of that process. As the eclipse reaches the totality of complete darkness, so the blend will also be imbued with the power of that darkness - the ability to access our shadow selves and to pull out the stifled strength, lost ambition and suppressed desires and integrate them wholly into our hearts again. I have have to say, I have been experimenting with the oil all week and it has been an intense one - very deep emotions bubbling up from the darkness. I cannot imagine what it will be like once it's been eclipse kissed. There I will find the light. May we all.

TOTALITY will be presented to the Sun and Moon during the eclipse on the 21st.

Limited bottle supply, but I'm pretty good at guessing what will be needed, so no worries.

 

TOTALITY: A study in the union of fire, desire and power. Notes of the Sun, Moon and Leo's blaze: bloodstone elixir, borage and black eyed Susan flower essences as well as protective angelica, golden frankincense, honeyed amber, saffron, ginger, bergamot and wild crafted (by me!) St. John's Wort oil among other powerful herbs and minerals.

 

16 October 2016

RENDER THE VEIL - RITUAL COMPOUNDS FOR THE SAMHAIN SEASON - HALLOWS 2016

~ CHAPTER ONE ~

Samhain is not just Halloween, costumes and candy. Samhain is the ancient Celtic celebration of the end of the harvest cycle of the growing season; bonfires dotted the landscape and the ancestors were honored. This is the season of death and of spirits, of magic and mystery. It is said that the veil that exists between the world of the dead and the living is at its thinnest during this dark season so this Hallows I have channeled 13 dark potions that can be used ritually as well as fragrantly. Empowered on September's rare Black Moon, these oils are imbued with depth, power and intensity and a drop of my handmade black moonstone gem essence! Some of the most potent work I've done in some time! All itens will be released slowly up until Hallows to build the drama and anticipation!

We here at Conjure Oils have slowly been preparing this collection for a year! We're offering perfume grade ritual oils (that can be used as both or either, as all Conjure Oils can be used.) Sacred Sprays for all sorts of spiritual needs and Bewitchment Balms for all your witchy wiles, dark and light.

THIS UPDATE IS DEDICATED TO FABIENNE CHRISTENSON OF POSSETS PERFUME. Fabienne, who passed on October 2nd, 2016, had raw talent, an eye for art and a legion of fans that adored her and her work - myself included. I know she was a lover of animals and supported many charities, In her honor I will donate a portion of all proceeds of Hallows 2016 to the Oregon Humane Society in her name. May she rest in power.

-Vajra

RENDER THE VEIL

An Epic Samhain: More Perfumes,Sprays and Solids!

~CHAPTER ONE~
SPIRITS BEYOND THE VEIL
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

RENDER THE VEIL - RITUAL COMPOUNDS FOR THE SAMHAIN SEASON - HALLOWS 2016

 

RENDER THE VEIL
Samhain 2016

Litanies of Satan
Charles Baudelaire
Fleurs du Mal

Wisest of Angels, whom your fate betrays,
And, fairest of them all, deprives of praise,

Satan have pity on my long despair!

O Prince of exiles, who have suffered wrong,
Yet, vanquished, rise from every fall more strong,

Satan have pity on my long despair!

All-knowing lord of subterranean things,
Who remedy our human sufferings,

Satan have pity on my long despair!

To lepers and lost beggars full of lice,
You teach, through love, the taste of Paradise.

Satan have pity on my long despair!

You who on Death, your old and sturdy wife,
Engendered Hope — sweet folly of this life —

Satan have pity on my long despair!

You give to the doomed man that calm, unbaffled
Gaze that rebukes the mob around the scaffold,

Satan have pity on my long despair!

You know in what closed corners of the earth
A jealous God has hidden gems of worth.

Satan have pity on my long despair!

You know the deepest arsenals, where slumber
The breeds of buried metals without number.

Satan have pity on my long despair!

You whose huge hand has hidden the abyss
From sleepwalkers that skirt the precipice,

Satan have pity on my long despair!

You who give suppleness to drunkards' bones
When trampled down by horses on the stones,

Satan have pity on my long despair!

You who, to make his sufferings the lighter,
Taught man to mix the sulphur with the nitre,

Satan have pity on my long despair!

You fix your mask, accomplice full of guile,
On rich men's foreheads, pitiless and vile.

Satan have pity on my long despair!

You who fill the hearts and eyes of whores
With love of trifles and the cult of sores,

Satan have pity on my long despair!

The exile's staff, inventor's lamp, caresser
Of hanged men, and of plotters the confessor,

Satan have pity on my long despair!

Step-father of all those who, robbed of pardon,
God drove in anger out of Eden's garden

Satan have pity on my long despair!

Prayer

Praise to you, Satan! in the heights you lit,
And also in the deeps where now you sit,
Vanquished, in Hell, and dream in hushed defiance
O that my soul, beneath the Tree of Science
Might rest near you, while shadowing your brows,
It spreads a second Temple with its boughs.

— Translated by Roy Campbell, Poems of Baudelaire (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952)

 

The corrupted blood of ancient dragons is infused with patchouli black. The midnight musk petals from les Fleurs du Mal are caramelized cauldron bound with black opium, black fig and dark muscavadao sugar. Defiled deeply by the scent of smoke of crimson red leaves and Scandinavian churches ablaze, filling the crisp autumn air with sweet despair. Nema!

13 July 2016

HAPPY NINTH BIRTHDAY CONJURE!

Nine years! Where does the time go? When I hung my shingle for Conjure back in 2007 it was all such a both wonderful and sucky learning experience. But I persevered and now I own an amazing perfume and ritual oil company that continues to delight and enchant people all over the world!

This past year was a difficult one for me. From having half my pancreas removed at the end of 2014, to the complication of getting type 1 diabetes and now I've recently been diagnosed with colitis. It's not been easy to manage these conditions, two little kids and Conjure Oils. Updates were really lacking this year and now you know why. I have a mixtape collection in the works and I've already began working on the Hallows collection. Hopefully as I learn to manage these conditions and get the correct medications dialed in I will have more energy and creativity for Conjure Oils.

Because we all love Conjure Oils, right? And I have every plan for it to continue for another nine years. As long as there's perfumistas, witches, wizards and nature people out there who desire my work, I am happy to provide ample selections for you all.

I want to thank my husband Sterling who ships your orders and Marisa who runs the Etsy store, which you can check out HERE!

IX - CONJURE OILS 9th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

 

Borrowing Pamela Coleman-Smith's amazing artwork from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, I present for Conjure's 9th birthday the minor arcana card: IX of Pentacles.

For ages, the 9 of Pentacles has been one of my favorite cards. It symbolizes my aspirations and goals in life. On the card you see a woman dressed in finery, lovingly holding her falcon that represents the untamed parts of herself that she has mastery over. Surrounded by opulence in the form of overflowing grape leaves and juicy grapes that could become a fine wine, she's also surrounded by nine pentacle coins that rest near the ground, reminding us that while income is important, it is still necessary to rise above it and enjoy the finer things in life.. She is the picture of grace and refinement: art, music, intellectual pursuits. It is time to enjoy the fruits of your labors. To open up, to relax and receive the treasures that you have earned with your hard work and tireless efforts.

Invite the good life into your world with oils that evoke wealth, ease, opulence, pride and creativity: Blood cedarwood, bergamot, golden amber, persimmon, aged ginger, dragon's blood resin, grape leaf, black patchouli, aged vanilla resin and crimson carnation.

 

IX - CONJURE OILS 9th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

IX - CONJURE OILS 9th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

23 January 2016

STARMAN: A DAVID BOWIE MIXTAPE - IN MEMORIAM 1947 - 2016

STARMAN: A DAVID BOWIE MIXTAPE - IN MEMORIAM 1948 - 2016

STARMAN: A DAVID BOWIE MIXTAPE - IN MEMORIAM 1948 - 2016
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25

THE GRIEF IS OVERWHELMING. The morning of January 11th the world stood still. I dropped my daughter Lucy off at kindergarten when I heard it on NPR - David Bowie, dead at 69 from a long battle with liver cancer. I couldn't believe it! It was like something sucked all the air out of the car. Didn't he just have a birthday and release an album? I rode home, dripping tears and denial so thick it was nearly impossible to see. For the rest of that day and for several after all of my friends - Facebook and otherwise - were overt in their mourning. Endless outpourings of disbelief and exhalations of what David had meant to them. How he was so sacred because he validated the freak, the androgynous, the gay, the glamour, the extraterrestrial, the smooth and sexy, the Goblin King in us all.

David Bowie never announced his illness, so to us his death was seemingly spontaneous. But he knew for 18 months and spent that time writing the album Blackstar which is full of allusions to his death and the afterlife. In it we find a touching, well crafted goodbye that could only be achieved by meticulous planning. David died like he lived - a consummate artist that went out with style and grace.

He will be sorely missed on the earthly plane, but his spirit will be ever available to us. Light candles for David, lift them high and give his spirit illumination and elevation.

 

"This way or no way

You know, I’ll be free

Just like that bluebird

Now ain’t that just like me"

-Lazarus, Blackstar, David Bowie

 

A NOTE ABOUT THE CREATION AND PROCESS OF THESE OILS: These fragrances were made with heart and magick, with the intentions of love, expansion and healing in mind, using my knowledge of perfumery, alchemy, astrology and aromatherapy. As spirit would have it, I discovered that each song's scent had a specific planetary correspondence and particular energetic current. That's when I realized these perfumes were going to transcend perfume and become what Conjure Oils is truly about - magickal and ritual oils that are blended as fine perfume. All 10 planets were crafted and infused into the perfume oil. I have blended these perfumes with the most sacred ingredients and intentions: healing, soul nourishment, spirit connection, peace, prosperity as well as otherworldly, extraterrestrial elements, glamour magick, sacred sexuality and beautiful gender queer energy. Open you heart, mind and spirit and use these scents with prayer and intention, or as always, you can slather on their seductively delicious scents! REGARDING INGREDIENTS: Please note that even though the flower essences describe a plant name, they do not impart a fragrance into the perfume. They are purely an energetic essence used by the drop. THE COST AND DONATIONS: The majority of the components are natural essential oils, as they contain the most energy and are connected to the natural world. I used the finest oils in my possession and because of this, these blends should retail for about $45/5ml, since all the proceeds of this collection will be donated to the American Liver Foundation in his name, we will charge $25/5ml but will accept donations at madv at conjureoils dot com.

Love and Bliss Eternal,

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PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED: Proceeds after expenses will be given as a memorial donation in the name of David Bowie to the American Liver Foundation. This collection is truly a gift from one fan to another, so I feel it is best to donate any profit to the cause of liver cancer research.

STARMAN: A DAVID BOWIE MIXTAPE - IN MEMORIAM 1948 - 2016

Ashes to Ashes
Solar Sweetness

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low”

The unguents of positivity, rebirth and motivation. For those days life truly feels like an all time low: Solar energies infused into Indonesian clove bud, cypress, bergamot, sweet orange, blood cedar and a hint of wild rose with the ashes of the 23rd psalm sprinkled in, adding the power of the prayer to the perfume.

 

Blackstar
Venusian Vapors

“I’m a blackstar, way up, oh honey, I’ve got game
I see right so white, so open-heart it’s pain
I want eagles in my daydreams, diamonds in my eyes”

To open the heart, be free from pain, to help cope with loss and tragedy: The sacred energy of Venus is incorporated into temple sandalwood, bergamot, palmarosa, wild marjoram, cypress, black cyclamen and ruh khus with Borage for buoyant courage and optimism and to counter depressive feelings and Love-Lies-Bleeding flower essence that helps alleviate personal intense suffering and melancholia and the ability to move beyond personal pain. .

 

China Girl
Neptune's Essence

“My little China girl
You shouldn't mess with me
I'll ruin everything you are
I'll give you television
I'll give you eyes of blue
I'll give you man who wants to rule the world”

Obsessions and moodiness are balanced by night blooming jasmine tea, China musk, notes of rain beating loud as thunder, yuzu, hinoki, rose geranium, clary sage, osmanthus and tender bamboo leaves with Neptune influenced gem and flower essences of Labradorite and Grass Widow. Labradorite for psychic awareness and discernment and Grass Widow is is emotionally uplifting, releases pain from the past and encourages one to be comfortable in their independence.

 

Lady Stardust
Jupiter's Spice

“People stared at the makeup on his face
Laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace
The boy in the bright blue jeans
Jumped up on the stage
And lady stardust sang his songs
Of darkness and disgrace”

A perfume ritually formulated to reduce shame and enliven pride. To transform darkness and disgrace to joy and grace.. Black musk, black patchouli, petitgrain, neroli and vanilla infused toasted sandalwood and blessed with flower essence of Dogwood and Gem essence of Ruby. Dogwood eases awkward painful awareness of the body, bringing physical and etheric harmony to the body. Ruby gem essence helps you to shine in the world, carrying an energy of regal abundance and exuberance!Black or pink glitter available ONLY upon request - just say what color you'd like in the comments to merchant box.

 

Life on Mars?
Earthen Attar

“Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?”

This scent is formulated to be extremely grounding and centering. Use it to align with the earth element and with reality to get a centered perspective on matters. Good to use when you're feeling like there is life on mars and that reality tv is actually real. Also good for spell and energy work to attract money and prosperity because of its connection with the earth element. Excellent for simply grounding and centering.

Patchouli infused honey is blended with opulent notes of warmed milk, black tea, cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, ginger and clove and tonka bean. Flower essences for prosperity and Green Nicotiana for opening the heart to the pulse of the earth, giving one the ability to reconnect to the earth and reestablish connection with the planet by finding assistance in disconnecting at will with earth damaging forces such as electronics, war, agriculture, fossil fuels and other forces. Pyrite, used in Hoodoo as a attractant to money, success and good luck is also sprinkled in the oil.

 

Moonage Daydream
Lunar Elixir

“I'm the space invader, I'll be a rock 'n' rollin' bitch for you…”

Here is a potion that is purely lunar, making it perfect for psychic work, divination, prophetic dreams and lunar magic. An etherial blend of willow, cucumber, white tea, blue lotus,white poppy, jasmine sambac, mugwort and white gulab attar with Mugwort and St. John's Wort flower essences. Mugwort possesses the properties of integration of dream symbolism with life. and a balanced psychic life, not one that isn't overloaded. St. John's Wort is illuminated consciousness, protection from psychic or physical vulnerability, relief from disturbed dreams and a connection with the spirit world that helps alleviate depression that was caused by spiritual isolation.

 

Queen Bitch
Mercurial Effusion

“She's so swishy in her satin and tat
In her frock coat
and bipperty-bopperty hat
Oh God, I could do better than that”

Queen Bitch says what she means and means what she says. This oil is formulate to enhance intelligence, improve communication, to advance the self and to boost eloquence. Indian sandalwood blended, tonka bean with toasted almond, pomegranate, lily of the valley, lemongrass, mulberry and clary sage with Calendula and Hound's Tongue flower essence. Calendula helps to heal patterns of verbal abuse, heals the use of spoken dialogue, heals warmth and receptivity. Hound's Tongue heals the integration of imagination and intellect and lightens thoughts and all other heavy sensations or feelings.

 

Rebel Rebel
Martian Incense

“Hot tramp, I love you so!”

Rebel Rebel's Martian influence is hot and energetic - healing physical, magickal and sexual energy. It also enhances courage and protection as well. Dragon's blood dances with ginger, tobacco, black pepper, coriander and allspice with Hibiscus and Pomegranate flower essences. Hibiscus is for warmth and responsive sexuality. An integration of soul love and physical passion. Allows one to enjoy a sexual experience. Pomegranate is expressing creativity in the world it its most exalted format creating deep joy from this process.

 

Space Oddity
Perfume of Pluto

“And the stars look very different today…”

Pluto rules over birth and death, those deep mysteries of the occult and the underworld. Like Major Tom who drifts off to a new life ushered in by death. Oils of deep earth and endless space: black patchouli, myrrh resin, frost laden loam, cypress, galangal and pomegranate with hyacinth to represent the myth of Pluto who abducted Persephone. Enhanced with gem essence of Black Tourmaline that dissolves our wounds into the black healing light of space and Angel Trumpet allows one to open their soul to the spiritual world, helps process the fear of death or the soul's need for transition.

 

Starman
Saturn Spirits

“There's a starman waiting in the sky
He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds”

Saturn rules over the Starman - the stability and structure of Ziggy's mystique. It gives endurance, patience and is a portal to our past lives. Allow the Saturnine structure to lend you stability. Rich patchouli, black myrrh, ruh khus with Angelica flower essence that eases the feelings of being a spiritual orphan and and getting guidance and protection from spiritual beings.

 

Androgyny
Uranus Unguent

David was legendary for is ability to seamlessly slip between the gender binary. While many in the mainstream at the time found it absolutely abhorrent and yet another harbinger of the breakdown of society, the rest us fabulous folk fount it to be a life line, one that validated our freak selves and gave us permission to slide back and forth just the same.

Ruled by the planet of innovation and originality, the oils used in this perfume are ruled by Uranus and can be worn by any gender to invoke creative genius and sexual ambiguity with a secret formula that beautifully invigorates the scents of the darkness of earth and the bright musk of spring florals. Calla Lily flower essence helps the wounding from gender bias and the pain of discrimination.

 

Anisocoria
Chiron

Anisocoria is the medical term for David’s condition – one pupil permanently dilated. The disorder began when he was 15 and got in a scrap with a close friend of his over a girl. This left him with a look that bordered on mystical or otherworldly, fitting seamlessly with his man who fell to earth persona.

Chiron is the asteroid as well as a deity that is known as the Centaur. As a celestial body, it is Chiron that finds a place when you're born, like any planet is supposed to do. As a deity Chiron deals with all aspects of health and disease and how they affect our spiritual path. Chiron himself represents the wounded healer. Like Bowie performing in spite of his eye, it healed those who came to see him. And like Chiron, Bowie found strength through adversity, as does this fragrance. Dried tobacco, willow, Parma violet, Egyptian Sandalwood, aged oak, blood cedar, marionberry and persimmon. Self Heal flower essence connects the body to the spirit of healing and gives you the motivation for healing the self.

 

Long Live the Goblin King
Ceres

In 1986, David Bowie played Jareth, the Goblin King in the film Labyrinth who tormented young Sarah as she struggled through the twists and turns to get Toby, the little brother who she wished away to the Goblin King herself. Besides  John Blaylock in The Hunger, Jareth is one of Bowie’s most cherished, beloved and iconic roles.

“Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!”

With the Passing of Bowie, we must also acknowledge the passing of Jareth, the Goblin King. The Goblin King is dead! Long live the Goblin King!

The astroid Ceres is the nuturer. And like the Goblin King, who wanted to be a nurturer, whether it was to turn Toby into one of the goblin minions he "cares" for, or longing for the love of Sarah, whom he would be a slave for. At the center of the twisted heart of the Goblin King was the most impossible thing: true love. Notes of raw lust and devotion: red patchouli, aged tonka absolute infused with vanilla resin. ruh gulab, crimson opium, dazzling pomegranate and commanding calamus. Mugwort flower essence is remarkable for allowing the psychic and the dream world unite in real life and to maintain a multidimensional consciousness, all needed to enter realms such as Labyrinth - and to find your way home. If you want to return...

 

Major Tom
Juno

Mentioned in three Bowie songs, namely  Space Oddity as the astronaut commander of the capsule that gets lost in space, as well as Ashes to Ashes where Major Tom falls from the heavens, medicating himself and reaching an all time low. Major Tom has become somewhat of an entity in his own right and can be found in other places such as Peter Schilling’s Major Tom (Coming Home).

The asteroid Juno represents relationships, true love and beauty, even diplomacy. It's no accident we hear "Tell my wife I love her very much!" "She knows!" Major Tom has been formulated to uplift sadness, fill the hole within so there's no need for self medication. Allow it to engulf you in self love. Triumphant and glorious oils of love and success: cinnamon, ginger absolute, clove bud, mulberry, African violet, Dragon's Blood, Adriatic fig, sweet orange, plum, tonka bean and aged vanilla with drops of Joshua Tree flower essence that release karma that is passed down through the family line allowing freedom from habits that hold you down, whether karmically influenced or not.

 

Ziggy Stardust
Pallas Athena

Libertine hedonist, androgynous Starman, Martian Messiah, David completely immersed himself in the character and the lifestyle of this man who fell to earth. He played with his band The Spiders from Mars iconic songs such as Ziggy Stardust, Moonage Daydream, Suffragette City and Lady Stardust. His style was legendary: half sci-fi rock and part Kabuki, blatantly bisexual and glittering glamorous

Pallas Athena is fitting as our final asteroid. Representing creativity and intellect, I think it is a fitting conclusion to this collection. Let this fragrance enhance the genius and the creative mind within yourself: Exotic benzoin is expertly blended with lily of the valley, bergamot, lavender, papyrus, lovely linden and lemongrass. The flower essence Downy Avens is added as it integrates intelligence with heart and mind.

CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU'RE GOTH: YULE 2015

CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU'RE GOTH: YULE 2015

CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU'RE GOTH: YULE 2015
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

Holidays are here again! This year I racked my brain forever thinking of a good theme this year and nothing was coming to me; nothing seemed to fit. Not until I ran into the song "Christmas When You're Goth" by California comedy band Hot Waffles while browsing on Spotify a while ago. At last I found the inspiration I was searching for - this year's theme was going to be a playlist! I love doing mix tapes! Quickly I assembled a few of my favorite Xmas songs and curated Christmas When You're Goth collection that you see below. I hope your enjoyment of it equals the joy I experienced in assembling and arranging it. Not to mention crafting the luscious fragrances that accompany the songs - honestly some of my best work ever!

From the House of Conjure and from my family to yours, we wish you a fantastic holiday in the religious or non religious denomination of your choice. Peace on Earth. Good Will Toward All!

Please order by December 21 for a Christmas Eve delivery! We will get all orders out by then, pinky swear! Yule 2015 and Hallows 2015 will be available until January 15.

As with all other mixtapes, I don't own the songs, but though copyright laws and fair use, I am able to use the titles, band names and sample bits of lyrics. And because I don't like making money off of the intellectual property of others, I happily donate a portion of sales to MercyCorps. I hope that my adoration for the music shows through my offering the mixtape collections!

If you're on Spotify you can follow the playlist HERE!

Joyous Yule,

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CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU'RE GOTH: YULE 2015

HALLELUJA - written by Lenoard Cohen
performed by JEFF BUCKLEY (the best version, imho)

"It's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah"

Frozen amber spiced with cardamon, clove, cinnamon and nutmeg, white patchouli and blessed snowy narcissus

 

 

WHITE CHRISTMAS - written by Irving Berlin
performed by IGGY POP

"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas 
Just like the ones I used to know 
Where the treetops glisten, 
and children listen 
To hear sleigh bells in the snow..."

Crystalline ice musk, vanilla snow, ponderosa pine and twinkling golden frankincense

 

 

FAIRY TALE OF NEW YORK - THE POGUES feat. KRISTY MCCOLL

"I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you"

A corrupted Book of Kells, tipsy and dreaming: swarthy notes of Irish whiskey stain pages of heather and emerald moss with a squeeze of juice from the Big Apple.

 

 

CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU'RE GOTH - HOT WAFFLES

"Your mom made you wear a sweater for the family photograph
And you hope your friend Belladonna Moonshade isn't going to laugh
Knowing that there's no Christmas album written by The Cure
It's just another thing that you're going to have to endure."

A cheerless din of black musk, obligatory patchouli & clove tobacco, wistfully blended with shy violet, sugar plum and gingered black cherry, (Mortifying sweater optional)

 

 

COVENTRY CAROL - TRAD.
performed by MEDIAEVAL BAEBES

"Then woe is me, poor Child, for Thee,
And ever mourn and say;
For Thy parting, nor say nor sing,
By, by, lully, lullay."

Wrathful whirls of cypress, incense smoke, carnation and temple sandalwood fly while twilit rose of sharon mourns for innocence lost.

 

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS (I DON'T WANT TO FIGHT TONIGHT) - THE RAMONES

"I love you and you love me 
And that's the way it's got to be
I loved you from the start 
'Cause Christmas ain't the time for breaking each other's heart"

Gingerbread cookies,vanilla icing, cinnamon imperials and fruit spice gumdrop buttons.

 

 

THERE AIN'T NO SANITY CLAUSE - THE DAMNED

"Vanians got a visit from a guy named Drac
Says he's from the blood bank wants his 10 pints back
Singers rather sickly when it rains it pours -
Oh no, there ain't no Sanity Clause"

Dragon's Blood, spiced patchouli, smoked sandalwood, aged vanilla resin and red mandarin

 

 

CHRISTMAS AT GROUND ZERO - "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC

"It's Christmas at ground zero
Now the missiles are on their way
What a crazy fluke we're gonna get nuked
On this jolly holiday"

It's a nuclear winter wonderland: melted plastic decorations, multicolored ornament shards that reflect the light of all the trees on fire. The comforting scent of pre-apocalyptic holidays, only slightly mutated: thick, rich egg nog sprinkled with nutmeg, cinnamon and served with a slice of pumpkin cheese cake with ginger cream.

(Please note - Some labels on the 5ml bottles will glow in the dark! Maybe you'll get one! Very collectable!)

 

 

KRAMPUS CAROL - JOHN LaJOIE

"You've been naughty, lazy and bad
So I'll steal you from your mommy and dad
Eat you piece by piece.
Eat you piece by piece."

Coal and ruten bundles: birch tar, black tea, the Alpine forest at midnight, matted fur and burlap.

 

 

CHRISTMAS IS INTERESTING - JONATHAN COULTON

"Christmas is interesting
Like a knife in your heart
Christmas is interesting
How it tears you apart
Christmas is interesting
Like a stick in your eye
It's so freaking interesting
That it might make you cry"

All the things that make a holiday go from yuck to yum: laudanum, aged tobacco, white opium, merlot, cannabis flower, fallen leaves and crisp driven snow sparkling like diamonds in the midnight moonlight.

 

 

MELE KALIKIMAKA - written by Alex Anderson
performed by BING CROSBY

"Jingle bells upon a steel guitar
through the clouds we see the same bright star"

When it's 40 below and you can't stand another day of snow and you just can't swing the fare for a Hawaiian holiday, here's a warming alternative: coconut husk, mango, liliko'i, pikake, orange peel, pineapple juice, gardenia, clove, Hawaiian ginger, puakeniken, fir needle and boughs of holiday pine. You provide the piña colada!

 

 

THE HOLLY AND THE IVY - TRAD.
performed by MEDIAEVAL BAEBES

"The Holly bears a berry,
As red as any blood;
And Mary bore sweet Jesus Christ,
To do poor sinners good."

Red holly berries, sacred to the Druids and symbolic of truth, are interwoven with immortally evergreen English Ivy, bayberry and sugared lemon rind.

 

 

CAROL OF THE BELLS - written by M. Leontovych
performed by C
AST IN BRONZE

"Oh how they pound,
raising the sound,
o'er hill and dale,
telling their tale."

Golden tones of bellflower, foxglove, lily of the valley, fuscia, and coral bells ring clearly over cold winter fields flecked with snow.

 

 

RIU RIU CHIU - TRAD.
performed by THE MONKEES

"Riu, riu chiu...
Este qu'es nacido es el gran monarca,
Christo patriarca de carne vestido;
Hemos redemido con se hazer chiquito,
Aunqu'era infinito, finito se hiziera."

Precious Spanish saffron, Ceylon cinnamon, clove buds, aged vanilla sugar and rich Iberian amber swathed in cocoa infused patchouli,

 

 

IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER - TRAD.
performed by KATHERINE JENKINS

"In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago."

A bleak midwinter, indeed: snow, frost, frozen iron stone, ice kissed fallen leaves and a sky violet twilight air.

 

GHOSTS OF YULES PAST 2015

GHOSTS OF YULES PAST 2015
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

AURORA BOREALIS 2015

Gossamer hues of green, ethereal hints of crimson and pale blue flashes of sky fire illuminate the long nights with mystery, wonder and awe.

Shivering frost notes cling to the boughs of fir and spruce whilst wisps of smoke from sacred wood fires swirl and undulate amid a wintry mix of chilled yew and cranberries sweetened with frozen vanilla.

 

 

CHOCOLATE CAT 2015


Hot chocolate cream flavored with curls of blood orange peel and soft ginger fur. Hurrah for the Chocolate Cat!

 

 

DO YOU FEAR WHAT I FEAR 2015

The dark, the unknown, death, poisoning, drowning, being buried alive, flying, being lost in space, abandonment, clowns... .

Seared vanilla sugar syrup, blood orange stained sandalwood, black tea soaked linens and corrupted toasted clove.

 

 

MAUL SANTA 2015

Because Killer Klowns need holiday work, too!

Drunk before noon: Dark and boozy Bourbon vanilla, blackened coconut husk, toasted tonka bean, cherry pipe tobacco smoke and the suspicious scent of peppermint schnapps.

 

 

O HOLY SMITE


Armageddon — the final battle between Good and Evil. Smite or be smitten; it's a survivor's world.

Boozy vanilla, caramelized coconut, smoked tonka and black patchouli.

 

 

PANCHA GANAPATI


Pancha Ganapati is a five day solstice celebration that takes place December 21st through the 25th in honor of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha. On the first day, the shrine is constructed by the family as a gesture of unity and worship and an icon of Ganesha is decorated with pine boughs, shimmering tinsel and a particular magical color. Each day the God is dressed in a new color and a particular sadhana, or spiritual practice, is focused upon by the family. By the last day, the celebrants are said to be overflowing with love for one another and showered with the blessings of Ganesha.

Beats a food coma in front of the TV if you ask me!

Coconut cream, caramelized sugar, cardamom, rosewater, fresh mango pulp, red musk, amber incense, a bouquet of champaca and a few grains of basmati rice.

 

 

SNEGUROTCHKA 2015


In Russian folklore, there is a beautiful snow maiden named Snegurochka — daughter and helper of Grandfather Frost who has the jolly task of delivering presents to children on Christmas. In one old fairy tale, Snegurochka yearns for the companionship of mortal humans and falls in love with a handsome shepherd named Lel. Unfortunately, her heart is frozen solid rendering her incapable of knowing love. Her mother, Mother Spring, takes pity on her dear Snegurochka and gives her heart the capacity to love. Sadly,Snegurochka's icy heart of snow and deep ice isn't immune to the fire of love and melts in the heat of passion.

Snegurochka, how cold it is!
Vitreous soul
It does not wait my love
It knows all secrets in advance
How difficult it is for me
What more can I say?
And my heart aches
Ice heated
And difficultly selected words
Where is your accordion?
Where is the light of love?
Do you not know?

Romantically tragic and withering: roses heavy with ice are thawed with a deep heart of oud and fiery ginger.

 

 

SNOWBOUND 2015


The sting of black leather on shivering skin; the merging of ice and lust.

Frozen musk topped by worn leather, thawed by sultry sandalwood and a drop of sweetest honey

 

 

STIRICIDE 2015


"Stiricide- the act of an icicle falling, as from the edge of a roof." 17th century. Definitely a chilling way to die.

Icicles with evil agendas, ozone and the coppery tang of impending doom.

 

 

STROKES OF GOLD 2015

Glimmering golden sandalwood, glittering vanilla blossoms and a shimmer of sweet clove bud.

 

 

 

25 September 2015

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT: FRIGHTENING FOLKLORE - HALLOWS 2015

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT: FRIGHTENING FOLKLORE - HALLOWS 2015
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

THE BANSHEES' KEEN
Ireland

Closely associated with death, Banshees (traditional spelling, Bean Sidhe, which means Women of the Fairy Mound) are ancient faeries that appear in many ghostly forms. From flawlessly beautiful women draped in diaphanous white flowing robes with glowing, pearlescent skin framed by loose crimson hair dancing about their visage and shoulders to horrific headless forms nude from neck to waist! The blood-curding wail that has become the trademark of the Banshee is not the cause of death as many mistakenly believe, but only harbinger of imminent doom; usually of a close family member, as clans seem to retain specific, familial Banshees throughout the generations. When the Celtic mourning keen of the Banshee is heard, dread fills the hearts of those who bear witness to her humbling power as her visit surely portends the passing of a loved one to the other side.

Damp loam from the faery mound, Irish moss, shrill eucalyptus gum and an offering of Irish whiskey.

BLACK ANNIS
England

Sometimes seen as a merger of black cat and demon or as a blue faced hag with claws and horrible teeth, Black Annis lives on the Dane Hills near Leicester, England and is blamed for any missing children or animals in the area. She is said to roam the land after dark stealing babies from their cribs and capturing children and small farm animals who have strayed into her realm. She flays her victims alive, scatters their bones and drapes the skins over the old oak tree near her cave, the Bower.

Yet another instance of a once beloved and powerful goddess reduced to a gruesome two dimensional villain in a children's cautionary tale! May this fragrance serve as an offering to restore Black Annis to her ancient glory.

Rich and resplendent dark pepper essence, blackened tonka resin, ruh khus, crimson cananga and motia attar.

BLOODY MARY
England

Often dismissed as an urban legend intended to scare teenage girls at slumber parties out of their minds at the stroke of midnight, the spirit of Bloody Mary may have actual historical authenticity linked to it! During her truncated reign, Mary Tudor, the Queen of England from 1553 to 1558, burned over three hundred people at the stake during her brief reign, earning her the moniker 'Bloody Mary'. According to history books, Mary had multiple miscarriages and legend has it that they were caused by people who didn't want her to have an heir or continue her lineage. If this is true, they were indeed successful. She is paired with the Bloody Mary ritual through wording. Some variations on the Bloody Mary chant are "Bloody Mary, I killed your baby" or "Bloody Mary, where is your baby?". All intended on exploiting the mourning spirit's grief. Folklorist Alan Dundes' Freudian interpretation of the ritual is that it is symbolic of menarche and menstruation. Teenage girl + bathroom + the sudden appearance of blood + total instant freak out. You do the math!

A symbolic perfumed prayer to the spirit grief and loss: Blood red gulab attar in full bloom, shy English violet, the passion of clove infused with red sandalwood, red blood musk and the innocence of the gift of crocus in the form of saffron threads all anchored in earthy russet patchouli saturated black honey.

DEVIL'S DANDY DOGS
Southwest England

A variation on the Wild Hunt - a phenomenon witnessed the world over. On stormy nights, usually on the liminal holidays of the Earth such as All Hallows and May Day, or the days that mark the turning of the seasons such as Midsummer or Yuletide, a procession of spirits can be seen parading at night under the full moon. In Hawaii they are known as Night Marchers, and Hyakki Yako in Japan. Great Gods are said to sometimes lead the revelry; Shiva, Dionysis and Freya. The Devil's Dandy Dogs are a Christianized take on the Wild Hunt - a pack of red eyed, fire-breathing and feral hounds are lead through the foggy moonlit English moors at midnight lead by none other than the Adversary himself - Satan!

Rain weathered grey leather reins, baked clay earth, petrichor, deliciously decomposing autumn leaves, silver vanilla sugar drenched with pitch black tobacco absolute and the fragrant flaming red glow of brimstone obscured by gleaming fog, heavy with the magic of a million spells cast in the full moon's light
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THE GRIEF OF LA LLORONA
Mexico

Seen roaming through the lonely night dressed in stark white with her face shrouded by a matching veil, La Llorona mortifies all that have the misfortune of coming across her with her terrible cries. Her name itself means 'The Wailing Woman' or 'The Weeping Woman'. Like Black Annis and Bloody Mary she is now an urban legend, however, again like the former, there is so much more to her history. There have been sightings of La Llorona since the 1500's wandering the streets of the town that would eventually become Mexico City lamenting over the loss of her children and then disappearing into the nearby river.

The actual legend of La Llorona is as tragically heartbreaking as it is terrifying. HERE is a particularly thorough telling.

She shares characteristics with the Banshee and the Mothman as a harbinger (not cause) of death and to warn others of impending danger and disaster. La Llorona, who was probably a demonized version of the ancient goddess Cihuacóatl: the goddess of snakes and midwifery, is once again being restored to her goddess status. Young Latina mothers petition her, particularly those in situations of desperation.

Ofrenda para Cihuacóatl: Spiced tobacco, black copal, cempazuchil blossoms, palo santo, guaiac wood and cacao nibs soaked with tequila, drizzled with blue agave syrup and dusted with Ceylon cinnamon powder.

KUNEKUNE YOKAI
Japan

Similar to the Slenderman, Kunekune is a fictitious being made up on Japanese websites around 2003 and is considered to be a modern yokai, or ghost. On hot summer days in the afternoon it is said to materialize. It has the appearance of a tall, thin humanoid figure made of silk or fabric. Its appendages are constantly moving, in fact Kunekune is translated to "wiggle" or "to meander". It is safe to see this yokai from a distance and depending on the location, it takes on different colors; in the countryside and over the ocean, it appears to be ghostly white and tar black in the city. Being too close to the Kunekune causes madness, and to touch it leads to certain death.

This powerful fragrance is based on a rare and ancient Japanese incense recipe I was once gifted long ago by a mysterious Japanese gentleman I met in a bookstore when I was in my early 20s. It is purported to clean the environment from malefic spirits, thus opening the way for blessings from ancestors, deities and the Buddha, The solid incense itself contains several components - many of them are hard to obtain and are quite costly. I have made this perfumed interpretation: A drop of star anise, black sandalwood, agarwood, red benzoin, black cherry and cinnamon bark.


THE GREY LADY
United Kingdom

Grey Ladies are called thusly because they have a gloaming grey ghostly pallor, not so much because of her clothing (like in the case of the White and Green Ladies). There are multiple Grey Ladies that haunt various places throughout the UK. Often, these female spirits have suffered a violent death, in the name of love (a single stab wound to the chest by a certain baron, for example), or they simply wasted away from longing. They often appear with a predictable regularity forever ever searching for their loved ones.

Gray amber, black musk, Egyptian sandalwood, yuzu, coconut husk, Night Queen, Earl Gray and red raspberry raw honey.

 

GLAISTIG, THE GREEN LADY
Scotland

Green Lady describes several different types of supernatural beings who have little in common save for the deep emerald green dresses worn by the spirits themselves. They are ghosts who haunt ancient castles and dark moors, ruins and lonely, barren areas. Some consider them to be demons. Glaistig is a type of Green Lady. Some say she is a mortal woman turned into a fairy, or a true Highland Fairy. Glaistigs are very helpful on farms and are caretakers of the herds of livestock. They even look out for the children of the farmers as they tend to the animals. However, they are not always benevolent - they have been known to be harbingers of death as well.

Linden vert, balsamic amber, emerald moss, spruce sap and davana.

 

ERZEBET BATHORY, LADY IN WHITE
Slavic

Some are ghosts, some are apparitions, some are spirits, but they all wear long flowing white ghostly gowns. The sometimes appear as amorphous white translucent humanoid forms that transform into different horrifying shapes. They are quite beautiful and the white they wear is usually a wedding dress as they have most likely died on their wedding day from a violent attack from their intended, or fathers who opposed the marriage. Some just died of a broken heart. They can walk through the walls of the places they haunt. They are not harmful, but like the other Ladies, they can be harbingers of death as well.

In Slavic mythology, White Ladies are usually the result of women who have committed suicide, died in prison or who were violently murdered. They often tend to linger in the same place, often the place they died. Countess Erzebet Bathory is a great example of a White Lady. At the time of her trial, she was reported to have killed up to 650 women, allegedly bathing in the blood of virgin girls to retain her youthful beauty. Countess Bathory died while imprisoned where it is said her spirit still lingers. Paranormal investigators have searched for evidence that will lead to the existence of the tormented spirit of Countess Erzebet Bathory. To this day, evidence has remained inconclusive.

Damascus rose resin, smoked patchouli, aged vanilla tar.

MACHINE ELVES
Subconscious and Psychic Realms

Machine Elves (also known as Fractal Elves or Self-Transforming Elf Machines) is a term coined by the late ethnobotanist, writer and philosopher Terence McKenna to describe the entities that are often reported by individuals using the ethenogenic compound DMT, also known as the God Molecule. These creatures, existing on the Astral Plane, seem to take advantage of a person's DMT experience to introduce themselves and to interact with the person using the substance. They appear as small beings composed of iridescent rainbow fractals that have the ability to enter and exit the person's spiritual body and consciousness at will. The purpose of the Machine Elves seems to make sense out of all the metaphysical and spiritual information that is being presented to a person while interacting with DMT by participating in a ayahuasca ceremony or imbibing DMT containing plants such as Reed Canary Grass. While this fragrance does contain plants that have been known to contain DMT and other alkaloids, it is sold as a perfume and a curio only. Please use it as fragrance ONLY. If I catch you using it any other way I will kick your ass and not make any other neat tribute scents such as this and you'll be the reason we can't have nice things.

An intoxicant for the initiated. For the rest of us: blue lotus absolute and attar, mimosa, butterfly bush, mugwort, belladonna accord, mandrake, dragon's blood, black myrrh and a pinch of reed canary grass.

TULPA
Tibet

Rooted in ancient Indian and Tibetan Buddhist lore and practice, a Tulpa is a sentient spiritual being (also known as an emanation, hallucination or thought form) imagined into existence by a practitioner using the power of concentrated thought and specialized techniques in meditation. Also known as Servitor Magick, it is a current practice in Western Occultism. Online communities can be found at tulpa dot info and in the subReddit group r/Tulpa. There is quite an extraordinary community of practitioners, known as Tulpamancers, creating Tulpas based on characters found in their favorite television programs - My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic being one of the most popular.

Tibetan frankincense, juniper berry, Indian sandalwood, shredded cinnamon bark, 13 year aged Indian patchouli, blood cedar, clove, rosa moschata and a drop of hina oud attar.

VAMPIRE PUMPKIN
Balkan Peninsula

Originating as a folk legend from the Balkans, it is associated with the Romani people (who seem to have a wonderful connection with vampiric folklore in general!) According to legend, any inanimate object left outside overnight in the light of the full moon can become a vampire! Look out for a drop of blood on the surface of the pumpkin's skin - it's a clear sign that the vampiric transformation had just begun or ended. A scholarly work from Serbia in the 1930's states that according to the Gypsies, two plants that are most prone to vampiric proclivities are the pumpkin and the watermelon. To destroy plants that have turned into the undead, you need to plunge the plants into boiling water, dump the plants and the water onto the ground, sweep the water and fruit away and then burn the broom.

Just when you thought it was safe to make a pumpkin pie...

Sensual chai spiced golden honey folded into pumpkin cream cheese and toasted oak ice cream finished with a dollop of vanilla whipped cream then drizzled with smoked sea salt and lapsong souchong caramel swirl.

Putting the finishing touches on during the full moon eclipse this weekend. Look for it shortly thereafter!

All your favorite Conjure Oils scents from seasons past you've come to expect at Hallows!

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT: FRIGHTENING FOLKLORE - HALLOWS 2015

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT: FRIGHTENING FOLKLORE - HALLOWS 2015
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

ABANDONED MORGUE 2015

Are you here on a dare and wishing you weren't, or is this your new nightly haunt? Either way, this old abandoned morgue has many stories to tell. Tonight we'll listen intently with the lights out!

Ghost of a bonfire, tonka bean, vanilla bourbon, Zanzibar clove, black amber and dark Indonesian patchouli.

DRACULA 2015

One of the legendary monsters from the horror world who deserves a scent of his own!

Mesmerizing notes of corrupted incense, blood musk, clove, Tunisian myrrh and blood red pomegranate.

HANSEL UND GRETEL 2015

A gingerbread house decorated with spice drops and butter cream frosting. The faint smell of a witch's brew filling the enchanted woods and roaring cook stove perfect for roasting a greedy little boy or girl.

KILLER KLOWN 2015

No rest for the wicked, though! The darkness of the Dot Room gives way to a brightly lit funhouse of warped mirrors, garishly painted arches, and flashing strobes. In the smoky chaos, yellow-fanged mad clowns dart, popping out of the peripheries with honking horns, crazed laughter, or bloodied hand tools. Withered corpses bound cruelly into exaggerated poses line the walls, mimicking tight wire acts, animal tamers, and side-show acts, each one more nightmarish than the next.

Spun sugar, vanilla-white greasepaint, molten marshmallow and cherry-syrup blood.

LIGHTLESS MAZE 2015

The creaking doors and cobwebbed foyer of the Manor lead into a dark hallway, one that grows ever more dim the further your group progresses. In time, there is nothing but inky blackness, peppered with nerve-wracking scrapings in the walls and the feeling of spiderwebs brushing your face, or something worse - are those bugs crunching underfoot? Is the floor tilting, or is it just your imagination? There's a faint yelp from the front of the party as the poor soul in the lead finds out about the turn at the end of the hall the hard way.

Soft black patchouli, silky midnight opium, warm black tea and a mysterious trace of obfuscated honey sweetness over shrouded black coconut and black musk.

MEPHISTOPHELES 2015

Faustian devil; popular through the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. He is the spirit of chaos who hates all things beautiful and denies the power of Love. Some say he is a trickster; a smooth talker with a slick tongue and slippery words used to coax and flatter the unwitting.

A Medieval incense burned in dark temples: black amber resin, aloeswood, calamus root, cedar, galbanum, opoponax, golden olibanum, saffron and onchya

MULTIFOLIATE ROSE of DEATH 2015

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

Black, white and crimson roses, stargazer lily, lily of the valley, labdanum, kush, black cherry juice, red patchouli, cardamom and amber cream.

MURDER OF CROWS 2015

Every fall they gather in murderous shrieking clusters blacking out the branches in the oak and apple trees across the street. They caw and cackle in a long-overdue maniacal avian family reunion from Hell.

The softest touch of black leather feathers, oak splinters, acorn, crumbled leaves and baked apples drizzled in brandy all illuminated by creamy vanilla moonlight

OL' SCRATCH 2015

Ol' Scratch is a folksy epithet for Satan originating out of the legends of New England in the days before the Civil War. Some other pet names for the Prince of Darkness (other than Ozzy :D) are Old Nick, Old Bendy and Rodger (as in Jolly).

Thick slices of oven-fresh pumpkin bread slathered with butter and served with fresh cream and a drizzle of treacle

ONI BI 2015

The Demon Fires. According to Japanese folklore, they are the spirits born from the corpses of humans and animals, and are also said to be resentful people that have become fire. They appear as blue flames, often on rainy days in graveyards and in wetlands.

Tunisian amber, red musk, black myrrh, African violet, tonka bean and bergamot reinforced by a supple leather accord.

SCARECROW ALLEY 2015

Reaching the dubious safety of the junkyard gate, the path leading out dumps out not on the safety of a highway, but the tall, crackling rows of a fallow cornfield. After some time spent wandering through the stalks in the darkness, the path opens out into a short road lined on both sides with suspicious looking scarecrows. Weather and decay have rotted away some of the burlap and flannel of their clothing and the straw is mildew blackened. Perhaps it's a trick of the moonlight or the few lanterns hanging on the fence, but there seems to be something awfully realistic about these unmoving effigies. Only moments after you pass, two of the scarecrows fling themselves off their crosses, landing on the path behind you! Thankfully there are brighter lights ahead!

Moonlit corn husk, fresh pumpkin gourd, crispy frost-covered hay.

 

SUCCUBUS 2015

A demon who takes the form of a gorgeous human female specifically to seduce men. Like the incubus, the succubus may have been a scapegoat for infidelity or stray lust. Either way, the succubus has captured the imagination of men for ages, rousing all flavors of fear and fantasy.

African violet, sugar soaked vanilla, benzoin, coconut milk, triple cream, Egyptian sandalwood musk and red currant.

WOLF MAN 2015

Clap for the Wolf Man! I saw him having a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. Transform into something wild!

Gypsy incense, deep forests and soft fur.

 

INFERNA, the Blaze Witch 2015

The fiery and temperamental member of the ensemble, Inferna leaves a trail of glittering ash in her wake.

Myrrh ashes, singed cinnamon bark, smoked ginger and peppered clove-infused vanilla.

ESMERELDA, the Plague Witch 2015

Cheeriest member of the coven, Esmerelda's bubbly personality is in opposition to her power - to spread pestilence and woe at the snap of her greenish fingers.

Emerald green forest herbs crushed in a mortar and pestle and blended with resinous frankincense, wisteria and a drop of demon mint.

WENDY, the Tempest Witch 2015

She will blow you away, literally. Having command over the wind makes Wendy a very happy and light-hearted witch!

Breeze-dusted lavender honey, broom straw, silver bells, wind-whipped willow and Mercurial musk.

TERRA, the Tremor Witch 2015

If you're looking for Terra, your best bet would be to look in the forest caves hunkered down with the brown bears and grey wolves, or tending to her sacred grove of yew and apple trees.

Earthy patchouli, juicy yew berry, apple wood, loam, lichen and a kiss of frost.

STELLA, the Celestial Witch 2015

Even when she's standing next to you, her silver eyes reveal that her mind is a million light years away, longing for another world to call home.

Otherworldly and bioluminescent flowers deepened with the blackness of a night sky littered with stars.

MARISOL, the Tsunami Witch 2015

Watch what you say around Marisol, she's sensitive and cries at the drop of a pointed black hat. Deeply caring and feeling, her power knows no bounds - the power to love.

Ocean mist, lunar musk, moonflower and white amber complicated by white grapefruit and vanilla sugar.

TEMPORA the Time Witch 2015

Tempora feels at home during any day, year or era! Her cauldron is bigger on the inside and her trusty sonic broomstick is always at the ready to help her out of all the sticky situations she gets herself jammed into on her adventures through time, space and dimensions improbable and magical!

Legendary perfume components collected during her voyages, compounded in a cosmic mortar and pestle: Egyptian sandalwood gifted by Cleopatra from her own private reserve, the fragile scent of dried vanilla and dust extracted from the crumbling books and scrolls that once lined the shelves at the Library of Alexandria, sweetened black rose tea enjoyed with Queen Victoria in her garden. All deepened with rare, exotic and resplendent Oriental spice notes purchased from Marco Polo on the Silk Road.

13 July 2015

HAPPY EIGHTH BIRTHDAY CONJURE!

Eight years ago I took a chance on the Little Perfume House that Could. I collected all my books, notes, formulas, supplies and knowledge and decided to hang out my shingle. I learned how to make a website and quickly recorded all that I had worked on up to that point. The words, just sketches at first really, seemed to flow from my fingers. The site seemed to write itself and before I knew it, I was bowled over with orders, emails and messages from people all over the world. Conjure Oils' mission seemed to really resonate with people and I was happy and grateful to provide individual love and attention to everyone I could. As folks received their orders, they would order again and again. I received more messages of praise and inspiration. I was encouraged by friends, clients - even haters! They all allowed me to continue to grow commercially and creatively. My site design became more opulent and user friendly. I got one of my first large wholesale accounts and was able to afford an amazing printer so the labels now were stunning and in full color! (Aside from formulating perfumes, one of my favorite tasks is label design. At last, my Bachelors in Fine Arts comes in handy!) Over time, more categories were added, Limited Editions concocted, evil plots hatched. I say these things not out of self aggrandizement, but out of a need to give recognition to all those who have interacted with Conjure in any way: all the purchases, the custom orders, the patience with the turn around time, the recommendations, the gifts sent, the books loaned, the decant circles, the reviews written, the blog entries about Conjure, the Conjure County forum (that I need to work on to get it going again), the Facebook fans, the Twitter followers, the hoarders, the retailers and the girl I saw in Gresham who had a Conjure Oils tote bag. I fucking love you all. Madly.

As Conjure continues to grow, it is my dream to be able to offer more hand made bath and body products consistently. I would also like to build up the Etsy store with back stock and to push my comfort zone and begin to vend at various cons and festivals, as I get repeated requests to do so. I know the last year was hard on me and therefore Conjure. I am humbled and grateful that you all stuck with me through that trying period. I was overwhelmed with all the wonderful words of support and encouragement I received. I am particularly thankful to my husband Sterling for taking over the shipping aspect of Conjure. I truly appreciate all your efforts and ideas.

Conjure has allowed me to connect and share the love with people in ways I never thought possible. Strangers became clients and clients became friends and friends became family. Thank you to all of you

I love you all. Now on to the Birthday Celebration fragrance before I start weeping!

 

VIII - CONJURE OILS 8th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

Borrowing Pamela Coleman-Smith's amazing artwork from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, I present for Conjure's 8th birthday the 8th card in the Major Arcana: Strength.

The Strength card represents not physical strength, but inner strength. The ability to tame your fears and have the courage create the life you'd like to live. It also encourages the ability to endure the blocks, pain and madness life randomly puts in our path. This path to courage and resilience isn't a forced one; it is forged with love and compassion for yourself and for others. It bridges our id and the super ego by balancing and nourishing our ego, keeping it in a healthy and effective state of being. Only though love can we tame the beast of the world - the lion that roars without and within. Through purity of will and intention no perceived threat is insurmountable. Love is the key, as love is eternal. Open your heart to the endless possibilities that life has to offer. You hold the key.

Let your inner radiance glow vibrant and true: the clout of precious Indian cardamom infused sandalwood merges with heartwarming sweet tonka, invigorating ginger and golden Arabian frankincense. Shimmering top notes of courageous bergamot, bold blood orange and a proud drop of black pepper are the gleaming jewels in this potent philtre.

VIII - CONJURE OILS 8th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

VIII - CONJURE OILS 8th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20
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26 June 2015

CELEBRATE EQUALITY!

Well that was a hiatus, wasn't it? After Ming! died, I had a heart thick with grief and endured a pretty heavy duty surgery on my pancreas (I'm fine! No worries!) but the healing and recovery from it has been sheer hell. I can endure physical pain and discomfort, but it deeply affected my energy and endurance. Couple that with general malaise and you have a recipe that kills even the most stalwart creative person's juices.

But today I'm back, bitches! I am INSPIRED by today's Supreme Court ruling that legalizes and recognizes marriage equality in all 50 states. It's truly a great day in America when the Constitution is upheld allowing equal protection under the law, freedom and liberty to all who live here. May our society continue this patriotic and proud pace!

While we take today to rightfully celebrate this historic victory, tomorrow it's back to work! There are many issues that we must lavish with our love and attention. Today's victory is but a step on the constant incline on the journey to justice, equality and liberty.

All proceeds (after basic costs and expenses. Read: most) will be donated to Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund, an organization that works to bring an end to GLBT youth homelessness. A truly worthy cause!

Allow me now to introduce these two commemorative perfumes: #LoveWins and Love is the Law

 

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

"Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins" - President Barack Obama's Tweet following SCOTUS' decision.

A jubilant and triumphant blend of vibrant crimson carnation blossoms. mandarin orange, yellow bergamot, green patchouli leaf infused aged vanilla resin and blue poppy finished with a kiss of violet.

 

LOVE IS THE LAW

Ol' uncle Al Crowley said it best: LOVE IS THE LAW. Use your freedom and liberty to celebrate the Scarlet Woman or Man in us all.

The deep lust filled scent of sacred sexuality: aged black patchouli seared with sensual cassia, enveloped in the essences of red and black musks and finished with the bite of dragon's breath.

 

CELEBRATE EQUALITY

#LOVEWINS and LOVE IS THE LAW
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25
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6 November 2014

Hallows blessings, happy Day of the Dead and All Souls and Full Moon!

Typically, Halloween is my favorite holiday, but this year it is tinged with sadness. My dear cat of thirteen tears, Ming!, died unexpectedly on the 12th of October. Shortly thereafter it seemed like many people were losing their beloved companions. I felt so heartbroken that I was overcome with the desire to craft a ritual oil to help soothe the heartache and show respect for the furry friends that have passed on. The resultant Rainbow Bridge oil has been calming and reassuring to me. I hope it can do the same for those whose hearts still sting over the loss of their beloved pets. They truly are family.

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In addition to the Rainbow Bridge ritual oil, we'll be offering the Carnal Delights design-your-own-scent collection, the latest and spookiest installment of the Mixtape collection as well as adding a tobacco single note to the Apothecary line and we'll also begin the Yule contest! HALLOWS will be available until the end of the month.

Rainbow Bridge

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. Her bright eyes are intent. Her eager body quivers. Suddenly she begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, her legs carrying her faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.... 

Author unknown...

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

A soothing and loving ritual oil created for those of us who have lost beloved pets. A portion of all proceeds will be donated to DoveLews, Portland's non-profit 24 hour emergency and pet ICU.

Comforting tonka bean, red patchouli, soothing vanilla musk, nourishing sweet milk, sacred woods and blessed tayberry,

 

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE RITUAL OIL
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25

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SPIRITS IN THE TWILIGHT GARDEN: AUTUMN 2014

SPIRITS IN THE TWILIGHT GARDEN: AUTUMN 2014

SPIRITS IN THE TWILIGHT GARDEN: AUTUMN 2014
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

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Spirits in the Twilight Garden takes the Mixtape collection in a bit of a different direction. Instead of a monthly installment, I'll start seasonal offerings that encapsulate the mood, the ambiance and the poetry of the season. Spirits in the Twilight Garden is a disembodied romp through the supernatural that we find during the end of October and the beginning of November. As the sun travels through the dark and mysterious sign of Scorpio, known for its associations with death, legacies, the underworld and the shadow aspects of our souls. Last month we were treated to an eclipse while both the sun and the moon were in Scorpio. It is not easy to have the darkness and the intensity of the sign thrust upon us. For me, I was tossed head long into the grieving process by losing my cat Ming! that put me into an existential tailspin from which I'm still trying to develop some equilibrium. The fact that Mercury is in Retrograde did little to help the matter.

I guess the moral of the story would be to be kind to one another. We don't know what they are going through, nor do they have any understanding where we're at emotionally. During these particularly dark and increasingly cold days, reach out in warmth, light and kindness. Be the comfort you seek. Be the light in the dark. Love always wins.

As with all other mixtapes, I don't own the songs, but though copyright laws and fair use, I am able to use the titles, band names and sample bits of lyrics. And because I don't like making money off of the intellectual property of others, I donate a portion of sales to MercyCorps. I hope that my adoration for the music shows through my offering the mixtape collections! If you're on Spotify you can follow the playlist HERE!

Lux in Tenebris,

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SPIRITS IN THE TWILIGHT GARDEN: AUTUMN 2014

(DON'T FEAR) THE REAPER - BLUE OYSTER CULT

"Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew and then disappeared
The curtains flew and then he appeared
(Saying, "Don't be afraid")"

A melancholy and wistful blend of crisp night air, candle flame and eternal musk.

 

DEAD MAN'S PARTY - OINGO BOINGO

"It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?
Everybody's comin', leave your body at the door
Leave your body and soul at the door."

White bone musk, soulful patchouli, and an offering of vanilla blossoms.

 

LULLABY - THE CURE

"quietly he laughs and shaking his head creeps
closer now closer to the foot of the bed and
softer than shadow and quicker than flies his
arms are all around me and his tongue in my
eyes..."

Black musk, candystripe legs, crimson carnation, shivering cold sandalwood.

 

BLOOD BITCH - COCTEAU TWINS

"Don't damage my altar, don't damn this cold flame
Neither one or the other has much form or shape."

Black tea, red honey, frankincense, blackest amber.

 

SKOTOSEME - DIAMANDA GALAS

"Skotoseme!" ("Greek. Means sangre coriala lo meti, my blood runs inside thee. It’s a very violent love song." - Diamanda Galas)

Blood musk, shreds of oude, cinnamon, ginger, clove, black patchouli and aged myrrh.

 

BLACK ZONE - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

"Because the Black Zone's here to stay and it's
here to protect us, 'til that black and bitter day when test-tube
spills and blows us all away."

Bitter orange, blood orange, ginger, galangal, spiced myrrh and sinister grasses.

 

HEART AND SOUL - JOY DIVISION

"Existence well what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can.
The past is now part of my future,
The present is well out of hand."

Bleak, yet hopeful. Crystalline amber, cassia, black leather, ghostly bergamot, all anchored with aged patchouli

 

TEAR YOU APART - SHE WANTS REVENGE

"I want to hold you close
Soft breath, beating heart
As I whisper in your ear
I want to fucking tear you apart"

A violent and sexy blend of leather, dark musk, woodsmoke, dreamy opium smoke and the sting of cinnamon.

 

OUIJA BOARD, OUIJA BOARD - MORRISSEY

"The table is rumbling...
the table is rumbling
the glass is moving
"No, I was NOT pushing that time"

Otherworldly white sandalwood, spirit drawing kananga, mugwort incense, and holy frankincense.

 

RELEASE THE BATS - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

"Cool machine
Horror bat, bite
Cool machine, bite
Sex vampire, bite
Whoah, bite"

Horror bat bite! Black musk, bat wing leather, vanilla resin, crimson blossoms, and black amber.

 

THE KILLING MOON - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN

"In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels"

Lunar musk, murderous belladonna, dried tobacco, black sandalwood and midnight patchouli.


CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION

Autumn is a season most voluptuous and sensual. Colors in their crimson, orange and ochre vibrancy flash their iridescent fire from quaking leaves. The sky, in its dazzling display of darkness, threatens the diminishing light with clouds suspended heavily in the air, saturated with the thick storms of a thousand nights. Respite is found in the infinity azure expanse that arches effortless with the angles of sunlight, golden, slanting to earth creating a crisp, clean and shimmering aura to the world around us. A chill embraces the frosted air and our breath is etched in silver tendrils reaching heavenward. Seeking warmth and connection, we wrap our arms around ourselves and our loved ones and descend within; our thoughts deepen while our vision expands.

Conjure's Carnal Delights Collection is a celebration of the senses that the autumnal season ignites like no other. I've hand picked the fragrances that speak to me of deepest Autumn, of introspection, of sensuality and of delight. All fragrances are accords crafted in house unique to Conjure Oils!

In celebration of this season most wonderful, we're offering custom fragrances for a limited time. Depending on the success of the line, I may later offer candles, soaps, whips, sprays and lotions in the Carnal Delights Collection! It's up to you!

CARNAL DELIGHTS - CUSTOM FRAGRANCES - BACK FOR 2014!

Select up to five of the accords listed below to create your own signature scent! In order to prevent a back log, I can only accept orders for twenty five (or so) customs, so once the limit is reached, I'll mark the option as sold out.



CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION 

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Selections from CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION are available in one size, five styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Single Note $25
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Two Notes $30
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Three Notes $35
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Four Notes $40
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Five Notes $45

 

CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION ACCORDS

THE ANCIENT ORCHARD
Apple Cider
Candy Apple
Caramel Apple
Cinnamon Donut
Fresh Hay
Fuji Apple
Green Apple 

CAFE de CHARNEL

Chai Tea
Cinnamon
Clove
Coffee
Cream
Cream Soda
Ginger
Hazelnut
Nutmeg
Sugar Cane
Treacle
Vanilla Bean

EARTHEN JEWELS

Black Lotus
Blood
Bonfire
Falling Leaves
Graveyard Dirt
Oakmoss
Petrichor
Rain
Spanish Moss
Tobacco

THE FARMERS MARKET

Blackberry
Butter
Chili Pepper
Chrysanthemum
Dahlia
D'anjou Pear
Fig
Fresh Pumpkin
Golden Honey
Lavender
Pomegranate
Pumpkin Bread
Red Rose
Sunflower
Sweet Orange
Whole Wheat Bread
Zucchini Bread

PARFUMERIE

Black Musk
Black Patchouli
Crystal Amber
Dark Amber
Dragon's Blood
Red Musk
Tonka Bean
Vanilla Musk
White Musk

THE SWEET SHOPPE

Candy Corn
Caramel
Caramel Popcorn
Cream Cheese Frosting
Dark Chocolate
Milk Chocolate
Pumpkin Pie
Red Velvet Cake
Spun Sugar

YULE CONTEST

Holiday Contest!

For the past eight years now (8th annual, REALLY? I can't believe it!) Conjure Oils has offered a contest for people to come up with a suggestion for a Holiday blend of their own design. Each and every year, I get more and more stunning, wonderful and creative entries and I'm hoping that this year will be no different!

Conjure Oils Holiday Contest 2014!!

Here's the contest: Come up with a name, a description, some notes, a story, an image. It doesn't matter which - you can develop the entire concept or just come up with one or two things. From these submissions, I'll select several ideas to create for the Yule line this year.

The winners will receive a 5ml bottle of their scent as well as a 30 dollar gift certificate good for anything on the Conjure Oils website in 2015 - we'll even cover shipping! ...not to mention you'll receive temporary fame on the Limited Editions page as well and be the envy of all your family and friends.

In order for me to potentially use them, all entries will become the property of Conjure Oils so make sure you want them out in the world before you submit your ideas! By entering the contest, you agree to give me permission to use your idea for production. If you don't want your name associated with your entry, let me know, ok? I'll respect your privacy. MULTIPLE ENTRIES ARE OK - (because last year I said one entry per person and it was widely ignored! LOL! You can enter more than once, but keep it under 5, just so I can stay sane and somewhat organized, ok? :D)

Please email your submissions to yulecontest (at) conjureoils (dot) com by November 15 and don't forget to include your contact info! Don't make me track you down. ;)

I'll pick the winners on the 20th and make the scents available around December 1st. If I can't decide, or there are too many ideas, I reserve the right to freak out, scrap the whole idea and save some ideas for next year.

May creativity and good luck be with you!

Vajra

22 September 2014

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY VAJRA & STERLING!

FALL IN LOVE - VAJRA & STERLING'S 5TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Five years! I am one of the lucky ones: I got to marry not only someone I love, but my best friend as well. Fall in Love celebrates our anniversary and marks the first day of fall as well - our favorite season!

Envelope yourself in the soft and sultry, where the love of fall and the falling of love collide: sugared fig, black amber incense, toasted coconut, crisp autumn leaves and a slathering of oud.

FALL IN LOVE - VAJRA & STERLING'S 5TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20


FALL IN LOVE - VAJRA & STERLING'S 5TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

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SEPTEMBER: THE DEATH OF SUMMER 2014
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

SEPTEMBER: THE DEATH OF SUMMER

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September: The Death of Summer is the next installment of the Conjure mixtapes. Once again, it's a nod to the post-punk era but also branches out in some other surprising directions as well. Enjoy! I am allowed to use the titles because of copyright rules, but since I don't really like making money of the works of others, all proceeds after production costs will be donated to Mercy Corps. All lyrics are used through fair use. I do not own them. You can get the playlist if you're a member of spoitfy. Find Vajra Conjure Wright and the playlist September: The Death of Summer.

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MIXTAPE SEPTEMBER: THE DEATH OF SUMMER TRACKLIST

 

CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES - THE CURE

"Sometimes I'm dreaming
While the other people dance..."

The recollection of a fading dream: vanilla cream, Mirabella plum, Parma violet, ruby pomegranate, clove and a drop of ginger.

 

STELLA WAS A DIVER AND SHE WAS ALWAYS DOWN - INTERPOL

"At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
Her caresses caressed by fingers
And fat blue serpent swells"

Serpentine blue musk, salty sea air, bioluminescent blossoms and sapphire amber.

 

UNDER THE MILKY WAY - THE CHURCH

"Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight."

Toasted black tobacco, oud, aged vanilla resin, roasted almonds and kush.

 

A DAY - CLAN OF XYMOX


"Where are you?
So far away.."

Tonka bean, Indian patchouli, cinnamon, orange blossom, black currant and wildflower honey.

 

GRACE - JEFF BUCKLEY

"And she weeps on my arm,
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow "

Black patchouli, pink pepper, Indian jasmine, deep sandalwood and a sultry drop of ylang ylang.

 

I CAN'T HARDLY STAND IT - THE CRAMPS

"I can't hardly stand it
You're troublin' me
I can't hardly stand
It just can't be."

Sorrowful notes of King mandarin, bergamot, juicy peach, black tea and Moroccan myrrh.

 

I MELT WITH YOU - MODERN ENGLISH

"The future's open wide."

Dark chocolate, woodsmoke, toasted marshmallow and aged vanilla extract.

 

DIE INTERIMSLIEBENDEN - EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN

"In ihrem gemeinsamen Mund
lebt ein Kolibri
Mit jedem seiner Flügelschläge
dafür das Auge viel zu träge
Kulturen erblühen und vergehen
ganze Kontinente untergehen"

Delicate hummingbird attracting blossoms, honey incense, amber cream, spiced myrrh and white tea.

 

WICKED GAME - CHRIS ISAAK


"The world was on fire and no one could save me but you."

Delicious passionate torture: Wildberry, anise, cinnamon, orange blossom, Haitian vetiver, sandalwood, blood cedar and vanilla.

 

PINK MOON - NICK DRAKE

"None of you stand so tall
Pink moon gonna get ye all."

Pink grapefruit, delphinium, pink calla lily and crimson dragon's blood.

5 September 2014

DARK CINEMA: HALLOWS 2014
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

DARK CINEMA: HALLOWS 2014

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I present for your consideration Dark Cinema, the 2014 Hallows collection from Conjure Oils! Rooted in the cinematic history of the horror genre. From the high art of Strange Geometries to the gore fest that is Tortue Porn, I'm sure you'll find a fright fest that is to your liking! The amazing artwork and concept for this series was done by the inimitable Paula Schricker.

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DARK CINEMA: HALLOWS 2014

 

STRANGE GEOMETRIES

Films from the 1920's. German Expressionism at its best!

A study in grayscale: black and white musk, black currant and white pepper.

 

THE OLD DARK HOUSE

The supernatural elements of the 1930's Old Dark House style of movie were usually not supernatural at all but, spoiler alert, usually the doings of the rich inhabitants. And they would have got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!

Musty notes of decaying wood and crumbling decadence: brandy, fading bouquets of calla lilies and cracked leather.

 

DRACULA

One of the legendary monsters from the horror world who deserves a scent of his own!

Mesmerizing notes of corrupted incense, blood musk, clove, Tunisian myrrh and blood red pomegranate.

 

FRANKENSTEIN

Reanimated and ready for revenge!

Electric notes of ozone and wet stone. Ponderously earthy with a tinge of bittersweet innocence.

 

THE MUMMY

Straight from the tomb to spread Egyptian terror to your nightmares!

Ancient kyphi is blended with Egyptian amber, parchment, leather and worn linen.

 

THE WOLF MAN

Clap for the Wolf Man! I saw him having a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. Transform into something wild!

Gypsy incense, deep forests and soft fur.

 

THE OUTSIDERS

Weird, otherworldly. It's either giant sized, radioactive, alien, or all three. The wail of a theremin and bulky latex monsters. Definitely a commentary on the age of atomic insecurity of the 1950's.

Green musk, bracing lime, Martian flora and a drop of mint.

 

A PLEASANT VENEER

It's all fun and games until you realize there was a triple homicide at your favorite vacation spot! Invokes films such as Psycho, The Shining or Amityville Horror.

All the trimmings of a perfect house: fresh mown lawn, fresh air and sunshine overshadowed by something absolutely sinister.

 

GRINDHOUSE

Combine the grunge of a bad roadhouse movie with a freewheeling view of human monstrosity and you've got a Hell of a flick. Add in some porn-staches and boobs for good measure.

Sleazy booze, cigar smoke, booze, maybe a hint of something green and illegal… and blood. Lots and lots of blood. Did I mention the booze?

 

SLASHER CHIC

Freddy, Jason, Michael Meyers. Three methods, one purpose, hack up them naughty teenagers!

A hell broth of the waters of Camp Crystal Lake, the steamy hiss of a boiler room and a dark Halloween night of crisp leaves and doom.

 

FAR EAST FRIGHTFEST

J-Horror. Eerie, incomprehensible, terrifying.

Notes of Japanese musk, juniper, green tea and osmanthus. Pale,, haunting and terrifying.

 

TORTURE PORN

Don't flinch! The basest of human cruelty displayed for all to witness.

The sweet smell of dark fear (dark chocolate) collides with singed flesh (bacon).

All your favorite Conjure Oils scents from seasons past you've come to expect at Hallows!


THE GHOSTS OF HALLOWS PAST - RESURRECTED 2014

Selections from THE GHOSTS OF HALLOWS PAST - RESURRECTED 2014 are available in one size, multiple styles.

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A GYPSY FLAME 2014
A gypsy flame in on the hearth,
Sign of this carnival of mirth.
Through the dun fields and from the glade
Flash merry folk in masquerade--
It is the witching Hallowe'en.

Pale tapers glimmer in the sky,
The dead and dying leaves go by;
Dimly across the faded green
Strange shadows, stranger shades, are seen,--
It is the mystic Hallowe'en.

Soft gusts of love and memory
Beat at the heart reproachfully;
The lights that burn for those who die
Were flickering low, let them flare high--
It is the haunting Hallowe'en.

--A.F. MURRAY, in Harper's Weekly, Oct. 30, 1909

Bewitching swirls of the bonfire smoke, spun sugar, warm caramelized popcorn and candy coated apples.

 

ABANDONED MORGUE 2014
Are you here on a dare and wishing you weren't, or is this your new nightly haunt? Either way, this old abandoned morgue has many stories to tell. Tonight we'll listen intently with the lights out!

Ghost of a bonfire, tonka bean, vanilla bourbon, Zanzibar clove, black amber and dark Indonesian patchouli.

 

THE AUTUMN WIND 2014
The Autumn wind — oh hear it howl!
Without — October's tempests scowl,
As he troops away on the raving wind!
And leaveth dry leaves in his path behind!
Without — without,
Oh hear him shout.
He is making the old trees bare;
Oh cruel, he,
To the old oak tree,
And the garden hedge so fair!
Oh, a wild and tyrannous king is he,
When he playeth his frolic in every tree.
And maketh the forest bare!

Excerpt from Halloween; a romaunt, with lays, meditative and devotional by A. Cleveland Coxe, 1845

Dried oak leaf and acorn, honey cured leather, toasted tobacco leaf and sun warmed hay.

 

HELL BROTH 2014
Actus Quartus. Scena Prima.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches:

1 Thrice the brinded Cat has mew'd.

2 Thrice,and once the Hedge-Pigge shin'd.

3 Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time.

1 Round about the Caldron go:
In the poysond Entrailes throw
Toad, that under cold stone,
Dayes and Nights, ha's thirty one:
Sweltred Venom sleeping got,
Boyle thou first I'the' charmed pot.
All. Double, double, toile and trouble;
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.

2 Fillet of a Fenny snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake :
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Toungue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
Lizard legge, and Howlets wing :
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble.
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble

3 Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe,
Witches Mummey, Maw,and Gulfe
Of the rauin'd salt Sea sharke:
Roote of Hemlocke, digg'd i'th' darke :
Liuer of Blaspheming Iew,
Gall of Goate, and Slippes of Yew,
Sliuer'd in the Moones Ecclipse :
Nose of turke,and Tartars lips :
Finger of Birth-strangled Babe,
Ditch-deliuer'd by a Drab,
Make the Grewell thick, and slab.
Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron,
For th' Ingredience of our Cawdron.
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire Burne,and Cauldron bubble.

2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.

Excerpt from Macbeth by William Shakespeare, 1603-1607

Black coconut, almond blossom, toasted patchouli, nutmeg, beeswax and bubbling green sugar cane syrup.

 

KILLER KLOWN 2014
No rest for the wicked! The darkness of the Dot Room gives way to a brightly lit funhouse of warped mirrors, garishly painted arches, and flashing strobes. In the smoky chaos, yellow-fanged mad clowns dart, popping out of the peripheries with honking horns, crazed laughter, or bloodied hand tools. Withered corpses bound cruelly into exaggerated poses line the walls, mimicking tight wire acts, animal tamers, and side-show acts, each one more nightmarish than the next.

Spun sugar, vanilla-white greasepaint, molten marshmallow and cherry-syrup blood.

 

MARA 2014
Mara is the Buddhist personification of Evil. Also known as Papiyan, ("more wicked") Mara (meaning "thirst" or "death") made every attempt possible to deter Siddhartha on his path toward Enlightenment by using armies of temptations such as: lust, hunger, thirst, sloth, cowardice, pride and fame, among others.

Bo tree bark, Indian sandalwood, thousand-petaled sacred lotus blossoms, warmed honey and pure vanilla absolute.

 

MURDER OF CROWS 2014
Every fall they gather in murderous shrieking clusters blacking out the branches in the oak and apple trees across the street. They caw and cackle in a long-overdue maniacal avian family reunion from Hell.

The softest touch of black leather feathers, oak splinters, acorn, crumbled leaves and baked apples drizzled in brandy all illuminated by creamy vanilla moonlight

 

OL' SCRATCH 2014
Ol' Scratch is a folksy epithet for Satan originating out of the legends of New England in the days before the Civil War. Some other pet names for the Prince of Darkness (other than Ozzy :D) are Old Nick, Old Bendy and Rodger (as in Jolly).

Thick slices of oven-fresh pumpkin bread slathered with butter and served with fresh cream and a drizzle of treacle

 

SUCCUBUS 2014
A demon who takes the form of a gorgeous human female specifically to seduce men. Like the incubus, the succubus may have been a scapegoat for infidelity or stray lust. Either way, the succubus has captured the imagination of men for ages, rousing all flavors of fear and fantasy.

African violet, sugar soaked vanilla, benzoin, coconut milk, triple cream, Egyptian sandalwood musk and red currant.

 

VORTEX TUNNEL 2014
You lose your unholy pursuit in the corn, finally reaching the safety of the lights you saw in the distance… only to find out someone has set up a carnival out here in the corn. The music piping from inside the great tent is cheery, but somehow off and disturbing, the notes off key and cracked turning their perky melody into a tune of complete derangement. A gaunt man in a ringmaster's costume stands by the entrance, accompanied by a shapely woman in spangled tights and a very nearly blank doll's mask. He grins wickedly, beckoning you to pass through the curtains held by his assistant and into the swirling darkness within.

Inside, you find yourself on a narrow walkway inside a tunnel painted with crazy psychedelic patterns. The motion of the tunnel makes the walkway twist and writhe, all but forcing you to close your eyes just to get through this fun-house of terror without falling down.

Sweet funnel cakes defiled by chaotic swirls of vanilla ice cream, topped with corrupt caramel syrup and washed down with hootch.

 

WENDY'S WICKED ICING 2014
Wicked witch Wendy has whipped up a batch of her royal icing!

Confectioner’s sugar, vanilla and cream.

 

WITCHING HOUR 2014
A midnight walk through the pumpkin patch on All Soul's Eve.

Spiced pumpkin, falling leaves, a black velvet cloak to pull close for warmth and a frankincense candle offering for the spirits residing in the nearby cemetery.

 

YUKI-ONNA 2014
The white woman bent down over him, lower and lower, until her face almost touched him; and he saw that she was very beautiful,--though her eyes made him afraid.

Wind whipped sugared vanilla snow, black orchid, ginger tea and ume blossom.

 

Happy Hallows, ConjurePunks! We're working like madmen and women to get yout goodies out to you in a timely fashion. We appreciate you so very, very much. <3 Vajra

 

15 August 2014

 

 

MIXTAPE: AUGUST GLOOM 2014

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MIXTAPE: AUGUST GLOOM 2014

i am an unrepentant music lover. Particularly the post-punk era of the 1980's. I present for your consideration my monthly mixtape installments! For the next three (maybe more!) months, I plan on posting a seasonally appropriate mix just for you! I hope you enjoy them! Proceeds from the sale of these items after cost will be donated to Mercy Corps, a humanitarian organization, as I don't like making money off the works of others, even though copyright allows me to do so. Enjoy! All lyrics are used through fair use. I do not own them. You can get the playlist if you're a member of spoitfy. Find Vajra Conjure Wright and the playlist August Gloom.

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MIXTAPE: AUGUST GLOOM 2014: TRACKLIST

 

PINK ORANGE RED - COCTEAU TWINS

"And my defeat and hope
And sad and hope
Might not feel down
Don't listen, now"

Haunting notes of rain, black currant and pomegranate anchored with deep, resinous amber.

 

THE CENTRE BULLET - THE TEAR GARDEN

"...as if you swallowed your own poison followed as you crawled up to the altar...."

A dark and dangerous mixture of black musk, almond, patchouli leaf, white tea, crystalline amber and a crimson driop of blood.

 

NEW DAWN FADES - JOY DIVISION

"Directionless so plain to see,
A loaded gun won't set you free.
So you say."

Wine colored plums, tobacco, black agar, dragon's blood and tonka.

 

OPIUM - DEAD CAN DANCE


"Sometimes
I feel the ocean in my blood
See rain from the sky above
Her salt brined tears
And now
Those tears leave taste on my tongue
Like the warm rush you get from
Black opium"

Tunisian opium, black agar, helischirum and tonka

 

SONG TO THE SIREN - THIS MORTAL COIL

"Well, I'm as puzzled as a newborn child
I'm as riddled as the tide
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or shall I lie with death my bride?"

The salty sea that crashes against the breakers and the murky perfume of Death, my bride.

 

GOLDEN DAWN - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

"I'll be your slave, maybe you'll be my priestess..."

A high ritual oil for union: frankincense, myrrh, dragon's blood, holy sandalwood and blessed lotus,

 

SPELLBOUND - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHESS

"Following the footsteps
Of a rag doll dance
We are entranced
Spellbound"

A magickal mix of cinnamon, clove, dried black rose petals, aged vanilla resin,, Meyer lemon and jasmine. Truly bewitching.

 

SECOND SKIN - THE CHAMELEONS


"I realize a miracle is due
I dedicate this melody to you
But is this the stuff dreams are made of?
If this is the stuff dreams are made of
No wonder I feel like I'm floating on air"

Ancient woods, familiar ancient standing stones, heather and the breath of Loch Ness,

 

WORLOCK - SKINNY PUPPY

"wasted views,
that’s all they see blue,
hot blood, guilt, optic nerve.
with the right attitude you will succeed, blue.
self abusive recluse, too late for me."

Black incense, clove, steel cogs and roses.

 

BLACK OUT DAYS - PHANTOGRAM

"Black out days, I don't recognise you anymore."

Black musk, Tunisian myrrh, tobacco, preserved sugared fig,

 

 

 

 

05 July 2014

SEVEN, THE SHERWOOD FOREST COLLECTION and MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN

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SPIRITS OF ELEMENT

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SEVEN \ SHERWOOD FOREST \ MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN

SEVEN, THE SHERWOOD FOREST COLLECTION, MIDNIGHT in the GARDEN and SPIRITS OF ELEMENT RITUAL OILS

First, Happy SEVENTH Birthday, Conjure Oils! I cannot believe that the lucky number seven years have passed since I started the little perfume house that could! And it HAS! In the seven years that I've had Conjure not only have I learned trial-by-fire style about what it's like to own a business, but I've also come to know some wonderful talented crafts people, clients, helpers and customers, several of which I now consider close personal friends. You know who you are! Thank you so very much for allowing me to live one of my dreams! I love you.

For Conjure's seventh birthday perfume, *SEVEN*, I've taken inspiration from the Orisha Yemaya. She is the queen of the waters, mother of the world. Her number is seven and all things nautical are hers. She's the salt waters, tiny tears to the vast oceans. With her enormous heart she loves her children fiercely and will listen to your heartache as you weep your worries away on the shore. She'll wipe away your sadness with her blue skirts and cleanse you of your pain.

In the Sherwood Forest Collection, Robin Hood, or Robyn Hode in earlier manuscripts, is a character in English folklore who not only is a heroic outlaw, but an expert archer and swordsman. It wasn't until the 19th century that his band of Merry Men were added as his companions and their noble quest of robbing from the rich to give to the poor began. He has been popular since medieval days and his tales have been recorded and retold in poems, books and ballads since then. This series is fragrantly dappled with sunlight through the forest canopy; a courageous and heroic collection that is passionate and just. While the collection is named primarily after male characters, the scents are unisex.

Spirits of Element Ritual Oils is a collection dedicated to the spiritual entities that embody the elemental powers behind the energies of spirit, air, fire, water and earth developed by the alchemical works Paracelcus in the 16th century. Great for elemental ritual rites and to invoke the elements into your daily life. Also wonderful for enhancing your astrological sign, anointing candles, charms, amulets or sigils.

Lastly, we have Midnight in the Garden, a series inspired by the treacherously poisonous plants of the world. These herbs, roots, flowers and fungi have dark reputations ranging from the creation of Witches' flying ointment, the "possessions" that sparked the Salem Witch trials, to mundane uses such as disgruntled wives ridding themselves of husbands, to toxic eye drops used to beautify ladies of yore. Please note that these fragrances are just interpretations of the flower, root, fungi or herb. They do not contain components of their namesakes nor are they to be taken internally. They are, however, skin safe and gorgeously scented.

Thank you for seven years! Here's to seventy more!

Love,

*SEVEN*

 

*SEVEN*

Happy seventh solar return, Conjure! Dedicated to the Orisha Yemaya, the ocean mother of all.

Sun-ripened watermelon, crisp sea salt, minty cucumber lime water and cane sugar sweetened coconut shreds.

 

SHERWOOD FOREST COLLECTION

 

ROBIN HOOD

Green clad and lion hearted, he robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. He's a master archer, swordsman and hero. Leader of his band of Merry Men.

A courageous and kind hearted mixture of oakmoss, dashing sandalwood, tonka bean, blood cedar, dried tobacco, aged leather and winesap apple.

 

MAID MARIAN

Not a part of the original Robin Hood stories, Maid Marian was adapted into the Merry Men from various sources. During Victorian times she's the passive noblewoman and romantic interest of Robin Hood. In the 20th century she was depicted as a cross dressing tomboy who met Robin Hood in a fight that ended in a draw.

A heroic balance of power and beauty: white lilac, patchouli flower, Arabian rose, sugared sandalwood and cassia.

 

FRIAR TUCK

The happy-go-lucky ale loving clergyman of the troupe. He, like Maid Marian, developed separately from the Robin Hood mythos and joined the Merry Men after engaging Robin Hood in a battle of wits that ends with Friar Tuck carrying the outlaw across the river and tossing him in!

Pumpkin ale and church incense.

 

LITTLE JOHN

Robin Hood's lieutenant. A huge man with a small name that joined the Merry Man after battling Robin Hood with quarterstaves.

Black musk, oakmoss, dusty wood, salt and masculine musk.

 

WILL SCARLET

Nephew of Robin Hood and one of his earliest companions. He's an expert swordsman like his uncle.

Crimson carnation, cinnamon, clove, Himalayan cedarwood, red musk, bregamot and orange blossom.

 

ALAN-A-DALE

The minstrel of the Merry Men, Alan-A-Dale's loyalty was earned after Robin saved his beloved from having to marry another man.

Lemongrass, grape leaves, Florence iris and saffron infused amber.

 

MUCH THE MILLER'S SON

The youngest of the Merry Men, he was an experienced fighter and is often found brawling along side Little John.

White musk, crystalline amber, lime, ylang ylang, resplendent clove and polished wood.

 

SPIRITS OF ELEMENT RITUAL OILS

 

GNOME of EARTH

The Spirit of the Element Earth: fertile, moist, nurturing, stabilizing, grounding, green, receptive, gnomes, salt, crystals, pentacle, north, night, winter, melancholic, money, prosperity, employment, gold, touch, planet earth, Gaia, gravity, Orisha Oko.

Crossroads dirt, Indian jasmine, heady gardenia, heartwarming rose and French vanilla.

 

SALAMANDER of FIRE

The Spirit of the Element Fire: purifying, destructive, energetic, passionate, sexual, vibrant, salamanders, red, wand or athame, candles, flame, south, summer, noon, projecting, sight, glowing, choleric, desert, Sun, Ifrit, Mars, Brigid, power, will, Shango.

Haitian vetiver, bergamot, lime, Hawai'ian ginger, blood cedarwood, red amber, orange blossom, sultry cinnamon.

 

SERAPHIM of SPIRIT

The Spirit of the Element of Seraphim: akasha, the Void, outer space, starlight, rainbow, soul, angels, center, space-time, pure energy, bliss.

Aged vanilla resin, deep patchouli, tonka bean, holy sandalwood, three ambers, black musk, sacred cedar and blessed myrrh.

 

SYLPH of AIR

The Spirit of the Element Air: Intelligent, quick, east, yellow, tarot, sunrise, fairies, travel, freedom, sanguine, flowers, sylphs, knowledge, education, Aradia, Thoth, psychology, hearing, sound, mountain tops, beaches and other wind-swept areas, Oya, feathers, incense smoke.

Red apple, lavender, garden herbs, white amber and sweet cedar.

 

UNDINE of WATER'

The Spirit of the Element Water: Setting sun, west, purifying, taste, twilight, blue, phlegmatic. shells, chalice, flowing, healing, undines, mermaids, soothing, loving, psychic awareness, dreams, peace, marriage, Isis, receptive, Yemaya, emotional, silver.

Salt water, heirloom lilac, blue agave, ginger and blue musk.

MIDNIGHT in the GARDEN

 

ATROPA BELLADONNA

Also known as belladonna, deadly nightshade, devil's berries or death cherries. Used as an ingredient in witches flying ointment and as an ancient anaesthetic and to poison the tips of arrows. The name comes from the Greek Fate Atropos that cuts the thread at the end of life. The name Bella Donna is Italian for "beautiful woman" referring to the time atropa was used as eye drops to dilate the pupils of women, which was once considered sexy.

A deadly dark and gorgeous interpretation: black currant berries, blood cedar, opium poppy, red musk and a drop of thyme.

 

BLACK HENBANE

A psychoactive plant, used to make flying ointments and other witches' brews as its hallucinations were very visual and induced the sensation of flight. Henbane has been used as a anaesthetic poison since the Neolithic age and was used as a flavoring in beer, later replaced by hops in accordance with Germany's 1516 Bavarian Purity law.

Kush, patchouli, black rose and oud.

 

DATURA

Another member of the witches' weed club. Also known as Angel Trumpet, Jimson weed or Thorn Apple. Its hallucinogenic properties can cause death. Spiritually, it is used in prayers and devotional rituals to the Hindu deity Shiva.

Datura accord and glowing white florals anchored by golden sandalwood and tonka.

 

DEATH CAP

Responsible for 90% of global fungus related fatalities including two Roman emperors.

Rich loam, dark water, night blooming cereus and star anise.

 

ERGOT

During the winter of 1691 a group of girls went into convulsions, rambled incoherently and complained that bugs were crawling on their skin. They also spontaneously began to dance a dance known as Saint Anthony's Fire that caused blisters on the skin and burning sensations throughout the body. It was determined that they were possessed by the devil and according to one theory, this spurred the Salem Witch Trials. Three hundred years later the fungus ergot, a parasitic fungus with properties like LSD, was discovered growing on rye grain, a food commonly consumed at the time.

Red and black patchouli, lemon blossom, aged vanilla resin and raspberry.

 

MANDRAKE

The most fearsome member of the Nightshade family looks innocuous enough with a round of leaves, green flowers and tiny tomato-like poisonous berries. Also known as Satan's Apple or Mandragora, the true magic of this plant exists in the root that can appear forked into a small person with arms and legs. It was believed to cure demonic possession create powerful love philtres and soporific sleeping potion like the one given to Juliet of Shakespeare fame., It was also believed that the mandrake would give a blood curdling fatal shriek to the person who pulled the root from the ground or was in earshot of the scream.

Honey infused with mandrake accord, clove, hydrangea, nutmeg, myrrh, dewberry, mugwort and teakwood.

 

OLEANDER

A common shrub that produces white, pink, red or yellow blossoms that is so prevalent in has been implicated in a number of murders and accidental deaths over time. There is an urban legend that says a group of naive campers were killed because they used sticks from the oleander plant to roast their marshmallows and weenies.

Oleander accord, white peach, sassafras, tobacco and bourbon vanilla.

 

WOLFSBANE

Despite an ancient reputation as a witches' potion used to transform others into werewolves (Remus Lupin, anyone?) you may be shocked to know that wolfsbane, also known as aconite, does not actually create or destroy werewolves! The ancient Greeks did use it to poison the tips of their arrows to hunt wolves. In modern days they have found aconite useful in creating poisoned bullets!

White amber, soft sandalwood, fierce petitgrain, cucumber and white musk.

 

YEW

Known as the Graveyard Tree in England, not only because it was poisonous, but because Romans held early church services in the shade of yew trees to convert pagans to the new Christian religion. The trees can live up to three centuries and reach almost seventy feet in height. Every part of the yew is poisonous, with the exception of its bright red berries, but even those contain a toxic seed. Don't rip the tree from your garden yet! Scientists have found it to havepowerful antitumor cancer fighting properties.

Pinon pine, teaberry, white spruce, teakwood, white birch and gray myrrh.

13 June 2014

 

 

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897

Full Honey Moon, Friday the 13th 2014 and Eleggua's Block Buster are available in one size, one style:

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Psychic Shield Ritual Oil is offered in one size, one style:

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FULL HONEY MOON, FRIDAY the 13th, ELEGGUA'S BLOCK BUSTER and PSYCHIC SHIELD RITUAL OIL

Not only is today Friday the 13th, but it's also: the full moon, the Orisha Eleggua's feast day AND Mercury is in retrograde. I'd be remiss in my duties as potions mistress if I did not offer some sexy oily good times today! I was going to make one whiz-bang oil, but the energies were just not meshing for me, so I've decided to make four separate offerings.

The first, Full Honey Moon, celebrates the full moon in June. Called the Honey Moon because this is the traditional month of marriage, it's a celebration of love, unity and passion - partnered or just with ourselves!

Friday the 13th 2014 is a traditional hoodoo blend to turn sour luck into sweet success.

Eleggua's Block Buster is rooted in Lucumi tradition with plants, or ewe (pronounced A-way), that have a long standing reputation for road opening.

The last one, Psychic Shield Ritual Oil, is one I'm very excited to present to you! It is based on a recipe in Judika Illes' book Pure Magic (the book I always recommend to people when looking for a magickal primer) Handcrafted lovingly with Judika's blessing, this is a Conjure first as it will be offered in a 1/2 ounce clear glass bottle and filled with wildcrafted yarrow.

All oils are presented to the energy of the moon (no moonlight here in Oregon tonight - it's been raining all day.) and will be blessed by me as a Lucumi priest of Eleggua and as a witch by my drawing down the moon.

Enjoy!

 

FULL HONEY MOON 2014

Fall in love all over again, whether with yourself or another, there can never be enough deep, true, heartfelt sweetness in our lives.

Himalayan honey, vanilla infused patchouli and fresh Hawai'ian ginger.

 

FRIDAY the 13TH 2014

A traditional hoodoo blend to turn sour bad luck into sweet success!

Gingergrass, lemongrass, vetiver, High John the Conqueror root, tobacco, red clover, lavender, cinnamon bark, thyme and blood cedar.

 

ELEGGUA'S BLOCK BUSTER

Rooted in Lucumi tradition with plants, or ewe (pronounced A-way), that have a long standing reputation for road opening.

A perfume of coconut infused rum, cigar smoke and mango with a hearty pinch of secret Lucumi road-opening herbs blessed and presented to my Eleggua for added aché.

 

PSYCHIC SHIELD RITUAL OIL

A dynamic ritual oil that helps to create a mirror-like shield over the etheric body, keeping out unwanted energies, cosmic floaties, boogy men and other nasties.

Solar-infused sunflower oil, hand-crafted (by myself) St. John's Wort oil, rosemary essential oil, frankincense and myrrh, angelica flower essence all emboldened with a pinch of blessed salt and a sprig of wild-crafted (hand-picked by yours truly) pink yarrow.

March 04, 2014

Fat Tuesday fragrances are available in one size, nine styles:

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PACZKI DAY 2014!

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND ! Celebrate Fat Tuesday Conjure style with our NINE Polish pastry inspired perfume oils! Growing up in Southeastern Michigan like I did, it wasn't hard to find a box of these delectable sweet treats! For those who don't know what a paczki is, (pronounced "poonchky") it's like a large huge doughnut stuffed to the brim with various intoxicatingly sweet fillings ranging from traditional plum and rose hip jam to more modern conventions like Bavarian custard, apple or raspberry. Though it's no typical doughnut - the paczki is sweeter and spongier. They can be topped with powdered or granulated sugar, or with icing. Truly, the mortal doughnut pales in comparison!

Paczki are a convenient way to get all of the sugar, fat and temptation out of the house before the sparse season of Lent rears it head. Fortunately, we've conjured a great way to get the paczki experience throughout whilst avoiding the calories as well! It's like magic! Indulge!

CONJURE PACZKI SELECTIONS

Packzi Day!PLUM JAM PACZKI
Sweet dough is filled with black plum jam and dusted with refined powdered sugar.

Packzi Day!BAVARIAN CUSTARD PACZKI
Fried pastry dough filled with thick vanilla Bavarian custard and coated with granulated vanilla sugar.

Packzi Day!ROSE HIP JAM PACZKI
Fresh paczki are served warm, overflowing with rose hip jam and drizzled with sweet honey sugar glaze.

Packzi Day!BLUEBERRY & GARDENIA PACZKI
Wonderfully sweet and deep fried dough dusted with powdered sugar, spice and filled with plump, succulent blueberry and gardenia flower compote.

Packzi Day!COCONUT CHOCOLATE CARAMEL CHAI PACZKI
A twist on a traditional favorite! A filling of toasted coconut flakes coated in chai spiced infused salted caramel stuffed to bursting in a flaky golden shell topped with a drizzle of milk chocolate ganache.

Packzi Day!CARAMELIZED APPLE & CHAMOMILE PACZKI
Fresh Granny Smith apples reduced with baker's sugar, cinnamon and gooey caramel packed in a delectable paczki pastry coated with a chamomile tea glaze. .

Packzi Day!LEMON CURD & ARABIAN JASMINE PACZKI
Creamy sweet lemon filling, fragranced with Arabian jasmine petals encased by a powdered sugar topped doughy delight.

Packzi Day!RASPBERRY & SWEET PEA PACZKI
Lovely red raspberries stewed with vanilla, sweet pea blossoms and pink rock candy sugar sweetly oozing out of a honey glazed paczki pocket.

Packzi Day!STRAWBERRY & HIBISCUS PACZKI
Plump and crimson strawberries, allspice, clove, sweet orange zest and gorgeous hibiscus flowers packed into its sweet and sticky balsamic glaze coated shell.

Paczki will available until April 21st, or until we sell out! And I must say this: while these do indeed smell good enough to eat, they are not in any way, shape or form intended for consumption, human or animal. External use only!

 

The CONJURE KREWE celebrates MARDI GRAS!

Join the Conjure Plague Circus as the good Doktor leads our rag tag krewe down paths devious and debaucherous!

Order all six of the Conjure Krewe and receive a free Gris Gris bag conjured by Mama Vajra herself! The bag comes along with a pip of a specially formulated anointing oil and instructions for use! The current Gris Gris we are offering can be found HERE. If you're ordering a complete set, please let me know your free Gris Gris selection either in the Message to Merchant section on the PayPal check out page, or send a separate email to vajra at conjureoils dot com.

You can also purchase the Gris Gris bags individually. They are $40 each and are available HERE.

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Selections from The CONJURE KREWE celebrates MARDI GRAS! are available in one size, one set:

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5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Set of all SIX -
$120 SOLD OUT!
(If ordering the set of six, please remember to send a separate email with your Gris Gris selection, or list it in the Notes to Merchant box at checkout!
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DOKTOR PLAGUE

Ringmaster and mysteriously dark leader of this motley Conjure krewe!

Smoked black tea, cardamom, aged myrrh, robust sandalwood, sweet sage and silver lavender.

 


COLUMBINE

Clever Columbine is an artful and confident juggler, carelessly tossing glass spheres, sharp toys, grenades and the hearts of the men who adore her to the delight and dismay of her audience.

Cherry blossom, guava fruit, blood orange, golden patchouli and sugared amber.

 


HARLEQUIN

Harlequin serves up his comedy nimbly with the aid of his robotic limbs, ever trying to catch the heart of Columbine with his acrobatics and foolish antics.

Crystalline amber, black coconut, sugared tobacco, vanilla musk, osmanthus and salted caramel.


PIERROT

Wrapped in a straight jacket and donning a gas mask, Pierrot is the picture of the sadness and madness born of unrequited love; he pines for Columbine whom he always loses to the agile Harlequin.

Blue iris, antiqued frankincense, red sandalwood, aged vanilla resin, bergamot and white carnations.

 


MLLE. JUDIE

Half human, half skeletal, Mlle. Judie tries her best to keep her brute of a husband, Punch, in line. She insists that one day she will get it through his thick skull that when baby sitting, one doesn't actually sit on the baby.

Red amber, black currant, kush, orange blossom honey and lush gardenia.

 


PUNCH

Despite his ability to fight the devil and win, Punch will always be just the the hen pecked husband and eternal tormentor of his formidable wife Mlle. Judie. He's all bark, and some bite, too!

Black musk, champaca blossom, red myrrh, cassia, burned sugar, narcissus, pomegranate and black patchouli.

CONJURING GRIS GRIS

Gris Gris Bags are available at Conjure Oils for a short time only!

Made by hand using a combination of organic and/or wildcrafted herbs, roots, semi precious stones, minerals, metals, shells and other mystical curios, these Gris Gris bags come in beautiful color appropriate pouches with a small charm affixed by hand to the exterior. Each Gris Gris comes with complete instructions on their preparation with suggestions on how to enliven them using various candle colors, moon phases, days of the week and instructions on how personalize them with anointing oils and personal concerns.

Before they're sent out to you, each Bag is prayed over and passed through sacred smoke that is burned as a daily devotional on my Boveda, or spirit altar.

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CONJURING GRIS GRIS BAGS are available in nine variations, one size. All Bags come with instructions.

One Gris Gris Bag - $40
Three Gris Gris Bags - $100
Set of all nine Gris Gris Bags -
$300

SOLD OUT!

CURRENT GRIS GRIS SELECTIONS:

TRUE LOVE - To attract LOVE. Pink bag, heart charm.

LA FLAMME - To enliven an existing relationship or attract SEX - Red bag, devil charm.

TREASURE CHEST - To draw :PROSPERITY - Green bag, coin charm.

GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT - To acquire employment that meets financial, mental, emotional and spiritual needs - Green bag, clock charm.

PEACE CLOUD - To create an aura of peace for the wearer - White bag, dove charm.

SPIRIT VEIL - To encourage COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD - Violet bag with skull charm.

THIRD EYE - To strengthen PSYCHIC ABILITIES - Silver bag with ankh charm.

BLUE FLAME - To create a fiery wall of PROTECTION - Haint blue bag with anti evil eye charm.

SHADOW WEAVER - To create PACTS WITH DARK SPIRITS - Black bag with inverted cross charm.

Please note that bag color and charm may vary in accordance with availability; any substitutions will be expertly chosen.

A Spiritualist's Statement: I have been called to offer these bags once again at this time by my spirits, as I have been reluctant to take on this project in the past, despite multiple requests. These aren't Mojo Bags - Mojo Bags, or Mojo Hands as they're often called differ slightly than Gris Gris in their ingredients, preparation, blessing and maintenance. Mojos have their history in the Hoodoo tradition, or African American Folk Magic. Gris Gris can be found in New Orleans, among other places, and are rooted in the Vodoun tradition. I've chosen to offer Gris Gris instead of Mojo because of the level of spirit work involved in their conception and creation. While making Mojos very much relying on prayer to make them a living spiritual tool, I feel it is more of a mundanely magical act in that I've really never needed much spirit communication in their creation. It's always been a more intuitive process for me. Gris Gris, on the other hand, incorporate more of my skills as a spiritualist into their construction. I've spent many hours in meditation speaking with my Egun (spirits of my dearly departed ancestors) designing their appearance, components and corresponding prayers, etc. I found that it was a much more of a spiritually collaborative effort and one that I've found to be quite healing personally and spiritually. For that I am grateful. I hope these Gris Gris bags will help to align your heart, mind and soul with the workings of your spirits.

 

January 29, 2014


IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME - LUPERTINE 2014 - $20

SOLD OUT!

5ml Glass Amber Vials with reducer caps. You can order a screw top lids, or a glass wand caps HERE.

 

LOVE: IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME

English can be a bit lacking when it comes to ways to describe LOVE. I mean, there are compound words like in love, deep love, true love but they aren't words themselves. I thought it was interesting when I came across these unique Greek words for different variations for love to represent our Lupertine collection for 2014. I have crafted these very potent oils not only to be gorgeously fragrant, but to embody the properties of each type of love. If you want a good time, Ludus is what you want, want some crazy sexy time with a bit of danger? Eros is for you. And so it goes with each scent! All blended with the expertise that you can't find anywhere else other than Conjure Oils. Have a wonderful Lupertine and get the love YOU want! Of course, you can always just wear them because you like the scent! No harm in that. Either way, I hope you enjoy Conjure's Lupertine 2014 collection!

 

EROS: SEXUAL PASSION

Named after the Greek god of fertility and represented an idea of passion and desire. It also had a connotation of danger and wildness, where people would lose themselves and "fall" in love. as in a type of possession.

Immerse yourself in the madness and passion and danger that the desire of Eros can bring.

Provocative patchouli is melded with sultry notes of juicy hips of rose and bloody thorns, sacred crimson apple incense and myrtle all topped with passionate aged vanilla resin.

 

PHILIA: DEEP FRIENDSHIP

Philia, simply put, is friendship. Valued by the Greeks far more than the sexuality of Eros, Philia was the love between brothers in arms who fought in combat together. It embodied friendly loyalty, sacrifice, and sharing your deep dark feelings with one another. In this day and age of Twitter and FaceBook it really wouldn't hurt to take an inventory and see how many people how many people with whom you truly share Philia.

Deep, everlasting and dedicated cedar, palo santo and black copal are brightened and enlivened with Meyer lemon and blissful sweet pea.

 

LUDUS: PLAYFUL LOVE

The playful love shared between children or young lovers. The twinkle of belly butterfly you get from flirting or the joy that comes from good times spent with friends, or going out dancing and connecting with a mysterious stranger and enjoying a mutual attraction.

Mysterious coconut meat, smoky patchouli, honey dusting powder, peach brandy, pink musk and all-night-long loving moonflower.

 

AGAPE: UNIVERSAL LOVE

Selfless love and perhaps the most radical of all the loves. This was love that was extended to all people: friend, family, stranger, foreigner, etc. In Buddhism they call it "universal loving kindness" and in Christianity it is known as "gift love". Empathy is a hard love to master these days, it seems. It seems some folks find it simpler to forget people in need and dismiss those who are different.

One of the greatest things we can do spiritually is to exercise out compassion and our empathy. Be sure to extend your love to the world and all the people in it.

Oils sacred to Green Tara, our lady of compassion, blended to open the heart and help one to extend love to all: Golden sandalwood dhoop, gorgeous and resplendent bergamot, green lotus, heady gardenia and frangipani. A truly loving and radiant sacred elixir. .

 

PRAGMA: LONG STANDING LOVE

Long-Standing love developed between couples that have spent ages together. Pragma is about making the relationship to last over the long haul by learning how make comprises, cultivate patience, understanding and tolerance

As psychiatrist Fromme says, be sure you're not spending too much time falling in love. Make sure you're crafting something that will last and work for you over the long term.

A loving and enduring fragrance crafted with the spirit of endurance and love that lasts: Mighty redwood, Dragon's Blood, crimson carnation, High John the Conqueror infusion, aged myrrh, blonde patchouli and purifying sage, juniper and a tiny drop of cinnamon so the passion endures with the relationship.

 

PHILAUTIA: LOVE of the SELF & NARCISSISM

Philautia, or Self Love and Narcissism. Philautia the love of the self allows for a wider capacity to love. If you like yourself and are secure there will be lots of love to be spread about. As Aristotle says, "All friendly feelings for others are an extension of a man's feelings for himself.

In Narcissism one becomes self obsessed and focuses only one's personal fame and fortune.

PHTLAUTIA is a fragrance to enhance one's love for the self and the healthy desire to spread that love throughout the universe. A cosmic blend that helps energy grow and expand throughout the universe. It it designed to only send and increase love.

Red rose, Parma violet, Aged vanilla, neroli, golden frankincense and Indian patchouli.

 

NARCISSISM is an elixir crafted to heal the heart and create more independence, self love and security. Perfect for anointing the self, the heart or the soles of the feet.

Narcissus, Arabian sandalwood, oakmoss, Meyer lemon, orange peel,, ginger, olibanum and a drop of clove.


SEVEN WONDERS 2014 - $20

5ml Glass Amber Vials with reducer caps.

SOLD OUT!

You can order a screw top lids, or a glass wand caps HERE.

 

SEVEN WONDERS

Inspired by a particular show on TV that shall remain nameless because I don't want any trouble, I present you with a list of Seven Powers - a list of seven psychic properties that young witches must pass in a test if they are to become the Supreme of the coven. These perfumes are designed to embody the spirit of the power, not to actually give you the power. I'm not that good! I may be a Supreme, but unfortunately, I'm one that comes with sour cream! Now I've said enough! On we go to the powers...

 

CONCILIUM

Mind Control.

Black sandalwood, orris root, heliotrope, calamus root, honeysuckle and a drop of ylang-ylang

 

DIVINATION

To predict the future either with a tool such as cards, shells or crystals, or with the mind alone.

Vanilla musk, a drop of vetiver, orange, clove, licorice, violet, Moroccan myrrh, and night blooming white ginger blossom.

 

 

DESCENSUM

To travel between life and the afterlife.

Graveyard dirt, opoponax, Spanish moss, calla lily, opium poppy.

 

PYROKINESIS

To set fire to objects with the mind.

Chipotle ice cream, cinnamon sugar, red pepper infused vanilla simple syrup.

 

TELEKINESIS

The ability to move and levitate objects with the mind.

English lavender, white sage, pinon pine, white amber, Himalayan cedar, juniper berry, yew needles.

 

TRANSMUTATION

To transform from one location instantaneously.

Heliotrope, wisteria, vanilla incense, patchouli, pomegranate, African violet and a touch of wild leather.

 

VITALIUM VITALIS

To raise someone or yourself from the dead..

Coconut, Sudanese frankincense, Red sandalwood, magnolia, cinnamon, ambergris, lotus and deep, black myrrh.


2014 AND BLACK MOON 2014

 

2014 AND BLACK MOON 2014

2013 proved to be a challenging year for me. Despite the highlight of having Sebastian in April, I was presented with a host of post partum complications that landed me in the hospital multiple times for varying stays. The shortest being a couple of days and the longest, a month. Now that I'm medicated, I hope these episodes will reduce and that I get some of my vim and vigor back! (In case you were wondering, it's also why there was no Yule update. It's hard to compose perfume and not have access to my studio!)

So you'll forgive me if I'm a tad boisterous in wishing you a wonderful 2014! I'm excited for what this year will bring. I'm no fool - I'm not going to tempt fate and say that it couldn't get any worse than 2013 (because it can!) So I'd like to set the intention of 2014 to one of healing. And tonight's super new moon in Capricorn will set the tone for the internal magick that needs to take place if we're to heal ourselves, our relationships, our planet, our politics, our country (where ever you are), or our cosmos. It's a mighty undertaking that begins inside and from there, extends out reverberating infinite and eternal.

Happy 2014. Let's make this one count.


2014

The Darkling Thrush
BY THOMAS HARDY

I leant upon a coppice gate
      When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
      The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
      Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
      Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be
      The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
      The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
      Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
      Seemed fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among
      The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
      Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
      In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
      Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
      Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
      Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
      His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
      And I was unaware.

Hopeful notes of bergamot, orange peel, pink grapefruit and golden frankincense twinkle amidst layers of ginger, sugared sandalwood, succulent peach and white patchouli.

 


BLACK MOON

Today is the day of the super new moon, as it is at perigee and the closest to us that it will be all year! Under the influence of Capricorn, it's an ambitious time for new beginnings, building confidence, order, patience, prosperity, responsibility, stability, success and the willpower to bring about manifestation.

Dark lunar oils of black patchouli, benzoin and seared vanilla are expertly blended with oils under Capricorn's spell: opuim poppy, magnolia and yew. The fragrance is then empowered with Purifoy flower essences* of trillium, fairy lantern and pungent desert parsley.

*Flower essences are unscented elixirs that are vibrational remedies that possess etherial, soul deep balancing properties.

Trillium Trillium ovatum Singing Your Song, Divine Feminine, Rebirth, Purity, Innocence, Triple Goddess, Renewal, Cleansing, Forgiveness. 

Fairy Slipper Calypso bulbosa - uncommon ('No Pick' Essence) -  Magic, Divinity, Regal, Moving Into Other Realms, Grace, Fairy Realm, Playfulness.

Pungent Desert Parsley Lomatium grayi - Gratitude, Openness, Self Worth, Clears Abandonment.

Essence descriptions from PurifoyFlowerEssences.com

2014 and Black Moon will be available until February 1, 2014. Or longer. :)

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October 4, 2013

THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN - HALLOWS 2013

At long last! Hallows 2013 is LIVE and ENORMOUS at Conjure Oils! It's the time of year that I most look forward to creating and because of that I sometimes often let my inherent perfectionism get the better of me! But like Alfred E. Newman, I don't worry because I think, and I hope you do as well, that it's worth the wait. Truly, you're getting my very best and strongest work in exchange for the few extra days it takes for me to polish the collection until it's sparkling!

This year, I've taken my inspiration from The Book of Hallowe'en, written by Ruth E. Kelley, published in 1919. It is a fascinating little tome that covers the history of the holiday dating back to the sun worshipping Druids leading up to the observation of the holiday as it was celebrated at the turn of the last century! I'm sure that you'll find this year's Hallows update to be poetic, quirky, whimsical and steeped in Victoriana - just as you've come to expect from Conjure!

SHIPPING

Because we're getting Hallows off with a bit of a late start this year, know that all Hallows orders placed will be shipped within FIVE business days, so you can enjoy your seasonal sniffies in a timely fashion! Last day for orders that will arrive on or by the 31st of October is 25th October, domestic and October 18th for International orders. Hopefully the USPS will deliver them without glitch once they leave here, but I can only guarantee my ship date, not the delivery date! :D

HALLOWS 2013 - RESURRECTED, ETSY & EBAY

In addition to the newest collection, we will be resurrecting:

the KWAIDAN collection from last year in in its entirety,

THE DANCE OF DEATH in its German fierceness.

Again, you can get a custom scent created in the CARNAL DELIGHTS collection, ,

along with the Hallows staples you've come to look forward to each year in THE GHOST OF HALLOWS PAST!

If there are particular scents you'd like to have that weren't made available this year, you may have some luck in our ETSY shoppe as we're going to be adding some Hallows bottles from updates of yore during the entire month of October! Also feel free to make requests; I may be able to dig some classics out for you. Just send a convo via ETSY or an email.

I have three bottles of Whore of Babylon ORIGINAL FORMULA up for auction on EBAY in the next week or so! The money received from the sales of these items will be donated to Planned Parenthood. Let sexy times stay sexy and there's nothing more sexy than being healthy! Make sure you're subscribed to our newsletter, EVOCATIO, so you can get the heads up that the new items are live!

ODDMENT EMPORIUM & OTHER DELIGHTS!

If the success of the Summer offering was any indication, I think you'll find the Autumn update in the Oddment Emporium just as thrilling! Taking inspiration from the FaceBook page, The Grandiloquent Word of the Day, a page that illustrates outmoded, superfluous, and outdated words and gives them new life in a humorous, often, irreverent way. I recommend it highly! We will also be adding the next installation to the seasonal Parasol collection that was started in the summer with Fire Dragon Parasol! These scents will be available in 5ml perfumes, lotions, scrubs, body sprays and candles!

Unique to the Hallows update, we'll be adding the following items to the Emporium for the season: Pumpkin Body Butter (glorious glitter optional!) and Halloween candles poured in delightful tins festooned in many festive designs from pink glow in the dark punk rock girl skull and crossbones girls, to black and white stripes framing a grinning pumpkin! All available in seasonal scents and vibrant colors!

These will be available in the next week or so along with the Oddment Emporium update.

DANCING IN THE DARK

Also in the spirit of the Hallows season for a limited engagement Conjure will be offering 13 ritual oils for use in matters of the dark arts: good ol' fashioned cursing, spiritism, necromancy, coercion, domination, damnation and all things hellishly devious and devilishly hideous!! Use at your own peril! Curios only: We will not be held responsible for any dings on your Karmic credit report or any pacts signed with any demonic figures, in blood or otherwise.

Dancing in the Dark will go live along with the Oddment Emporium update very soon! Stay tuned! Remember to sign up to EVOCATIO so you'll know right away!

YULE CONTEST TIME!

Every year, Conjure Oils invites each citizen of Conjure County to contribute to our Yule collection. We ask that you send your ideas, (in the form of one email per person, please!) It could be everything from a feeling to a long drawn out concept. I will select the entries that I feel best fit together into a comprehensive whole. The people who's ideas I use will each get $50 in Conjure Credit to spend in 2014! That contest is a go as of right now, so hop to it, yo! Email your entry, when you're ready, to yulecontest at conjureoils.com. All submissions must be received by November 1, 2013. Winners will be notified right before the Yule line goes live, around Mid November. Good luck, everyone! Fine print: All entries are property of Conjure Oils and by entering the contest to agree to terms and conditions and waive any right to intellectual property or ownership once they're emailed in. We'll do what we want with them! Muahahah!

And now for the love of all things dark and unholy, I present for your consideration AT LONG LAST...

THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN 2013

A collection of thirteen darkly delightful scents inspired by The Book of Hallowe'en, written by Ruth E. Kelley, published in 1919.


THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN

 

THE AUTUMN WIND
The Autumn wind — oh hear it howl!
Without — October's tempests scowl,
As he troops away on the raving wind!
And leaveth dry leaves in his path behind!
Without — without,
Oh hear him shout.
He is making the old trees bare;
Oh cruel, he,
To the old oak tree,
And the garden hedge so fair!
Oh, a wild and tyrannous king is he,
When he playeth his frolic in every tree.
And maketh the forest bare!

Excerpt from Halloween; a romaunt, with lays, meditative and devotional by A. Cleveland Coxe, 1845

Dried oak leaf and acorn, honey cured leather, toasted tobacco leaf and sun warmed hay.

 

DEATH of the FLOWERS
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay
And from the wood-top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day.

"The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago,
And the wild rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow:
But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sun-flower by the brook in autumn beauty stood,
Till fell the frost from the cold clear heaven, as falls the plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen.

Excerpt from Death of the Flowers by William C. Bryant, 1900

Frosted wild rose, the decay of exotic orchids moribund at the end of their season, goldenrod, mauve asters, woodland moss, African violet and twilit musk.

 

A GYPSY FLAME
A gypsy flame in on the hearth,
Sign of this carnival of mirth.
Through the dun fields and from the glade
Flash merry folk in masquerade--
It is the witching Hallowe'en.

Pale tapers glimmer in the sky,
The dead and dying leaves go by;
Dimly across the faded green
Strange shadows, stranger shades, are seen,--
It is the mystic Hallowe'en.

Soft gusts of love and memory
Beat at the heart reproachfully;
The lights that burn for those who die
Were flickering low, let them flare high--
It is the haunting Hallowe'en.

--A.F. MURRAY, in Harper's Weekly, Oct. 30, 1909

Bewitching swirls of the bonfire smoke, spun sugar, warm caramelized popcorn and candy coated apples.

 

THE HAUNTED CHAMBER
.Each heart has its haunted chamber,
Where the silent moonlight falls!
On the floor are mysterious footsteps,
There are whispers along the walls!

And mine at times is haunted
By phantoms of the Past
As motionless as shadows
By the silent moonlight cast.

A form sits by the window,
That is not seen by day,
For as soon as the dawn approaches
It vanishes away.

It sits there in the moonlight
Itself as pale and still,
And points with its airy finger
Across the window-sill.

Without before the window,
There stands a gloomy pine,
Whose boughs wave upward and downward
As wave these thoughts of mine.

And underneath its branches
Is the grave of a little child,
Who died upon life's threshold,
And never wept nor smiled.

What are ye, O pallid phantoms!
That haunt my troubled brain?
That vanish when day approaches,
And at night return again?

What are ye, O pallid phantoms!
But the statues without breath,
That stand on the bridge overarching
The silent river of death?

The Haunted Chamber by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1893

Red musk, black opium tar, narcissus, pomegranate blossom, myrrh and patchouli leaves soaked in vanilla extract.

 

HELL BROTH
Actus Quartus. Scena Prima.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches:

1 Thrice the brinded Cat has mew'd.

2 Thrice,and once the Hedge-Pigge shin'd.

3 Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time.

1 Round about the Caldron go:
In the poysond Entrailes throw
Toad, that under cold stone,
Dayes and Nights, ha's thirty one:
Sweltred Venom sleeping got,
Boyle thou first I'the' charmed pot.
All. Double, double, toile and trouble;
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.

2 Fillet of a Fenny snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake :
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Toungue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
Lizard legge, and Howlets wing :
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble.
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble

3 Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe,
Witches Mummey, Maw,and Gulfe
Of the rauin'd salt Sea sharke:
Roote of Hemlocke, digg'd i'th' darke :
Liuer of Blaspheming Iew,
Gall of Goate, and Slippes of Yew,
Sliuer'd in the Moones Ecclipse :
Nose of turke,and Tartars lips :
Finger of Birth-strangled Babe,
Ditch-deliuer'd by a Drab,
Make the Grewell thick, and slab.
Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron,
For th' Ingredience of our Cawdron.
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire Burne,and Cauldron bubble.

2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.

Excerpt from Macbeth by William Shakespeare, 1603-1607

Black coconut, almond blossom, toasted patchouli, nutmeg, beeswax and bubbling green sugar cane syrup.

 

JACK-O-LANTERN with TERRIBLE TEETH!
I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters
And I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs 
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o'-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.

Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg, 1916

Fresh pumpkin, corn husk, golden sandalwood and the musk of a crisp October night.

 

POMONA
I am the ancient apple-queen.
As once I was so am I now--
For evermore a hope unseen
Betwixt the blossom and the bough.

Ah, where's the river's hidden gold!
And where's the windy grave of Troy?
Yet come I as I came of old,
From out the heart of summer's joy.

Pomona by William Morris, 1891

Glorious winesap apples, amber sap, sun-scorched grass and a touch of clary sage.

 

THE SPELL
With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground,
And turn me thrice around, around, around.
Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame,
And to each nut I gave a sweet-heart's name.
This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd,
That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd.
As blaz'd the nut, so may thy passion grow,
For 'twas thy nut that did so brightly glow.
"With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground,
And turn me thrice around, around, around.

Excerpt from The Spell by John Gay, 1714

A steamed pumpkin-hazelnut latte drizzled with a vanilla caramel swirl.

 

THE HOLLOW MEN
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

Dried straw, lavender, and wormwood stuffed scarecrow with weathered leather and rusted metal stained with forgotten blood.

 

THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer --

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

Sandalwood incense, crow black cedarwood smoke, black poppy seed, pomegranate husk, tonka bean and silver mugwort.

 

FROM PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONE
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

Aloe vera, Saguaro cactus blossom, chaparral, creosote, cumin, cacao, chili pepper and gravel root.

 

MULTIFOLIATE ROSE of DEATH
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

Black, white and crimson roses, stargazer lily, lily of the valley, labdanum, kush, black cherry juice, red patchouli, cardamom and amber cream.

 

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

The Hollow Men by T.S. Elliot, 1925

Pumpkin stout with notes of prickly pear juice, D'anjou pear, black plum and lavender.

 

HALLOWS RESURRECTED 2013

Kwaidan is a collection of stories written in 1904 by Lafcadio Hearn shortly before his demise. To say he was a Japanophile is a bit of an understatement, as he has written volume after volume on the mythology and spirituality of Japanese culture at the turn of the century.

Like the 1965 eponymous film based on the work of Hearn, we've selected four stories to give you a glimpse into the demons and ghosts that haunt the land of the rising sun and to send a chill down your spine in the process! Some of the stories can be on the long side. Grab a cup of tea (or sake!) and settle in for a thrill. I guarantee it will be worth your time!

The text for the stories is taken from Sacred Texts. com (the best site ever for public domain spiritual works) and the illustrations are by Yasumasa Fujita from a hand made copy of Kwaidan crafted in 1932.

Click on the titles of the stories to read the chilling tales!


KWAIDAN RESURRECTED 2013

Selections from KWAIDAN RESURRECTED 2013 is available in one size, twelve fragrances.


THE AUGUST ASSEMBLY
Everywhere above the tombs, the fires of the dead were burning, like candles.

Fierce and ghostly: Conjure Oils' own crimson dragon's blood accord, clove, ginger and cassia are softened with Japanese red musk, red mandarin and luminous white tea.

THE BATTLE AT DAN-NO-URA
Hoichi lifted up his voice, and chanted the chant of the fight on the bitter sea,--wonderfully making his biwa to sound like the straining of oars and the rushing of ships, the whirr and the hissing of arrows, the shouting and trampling of men, the crashing of steel upon helmets, the plunging of slain in the flood.

Black and starless skies coupled with turbulent and bloodied waters: Bruised musk, dried black currant, antiqued patchouli, murky gray amber, maritime juniper, bois de rose and the tormented memories of blood soaked metal, fathomless grief and boundless loss.

MIMI-NASHI-HOICHI
From the time of his adventure, he was known only by the appellation of Mimi-nashi-Hoichi: "Hoichi-the-Earless." A blind man famed for his skill in recitation and in playing upon the biwa. It is said that when he sang even the goblins [kijin] could not refrain from tears.

The fading scent of a summer night thick with the tricks of demonic forces: Hoichi sits in silent meditation surrounded by the fragrance of an ancient moribund garden at the season's end. A spectral osmanthus blossom is carried crisply on the night air accompanied by the crumbling of Japanese maple leaves crunching under the ghostly samurai's foot as he draws near. The polished teak wood biwa rests silently next to Hoichi, reflecting the glow of the last firefly as the black inky musk of inscribed prayers is lifted heavenward propelled by fear and the body heat generated by Hoichi's trembling heart. The cold metallic tang of blood congealing on Hoicihi's head completes this ghostly portrait.

ONI BI
The Demon Fires

Tunisian amber, red musk, black myrrh, African violet, tonka bean and bergamot reinforced by a supple leather accord

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JIKININKI
I have been obliged to feed upon the corpses of the people who die in this district: every one of them I must devour in the way that you saw last night.

Dried blood musk, the chilled air of October, bleached bone and offerings of incense, chrysanthemums and toasted rice.

THE RUINOUS ANJITSU
On the top of a hill lighted by the last rays of the sun, one of those little hermitages, called anjitsu, which are built for solitary priests.

Hinoki, black myrrh, vanilla husk, orris root, bergamot, yuzu and night blooming jasmine tea.

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AN ITINERANT SOBA-SELLER
Was it anything like THIS that she showed you?" cried the soba-man, stroking his own face--which therewith became like unto an Egg.

Bone musk, pine sap. oakmoss, faded sandalwood, cade and scorched willow.

MUJINA
Then that O-jochu turned around, and dropped her sleeve, and stroked her face with her hand;--and the man saw that she had no eyes or nose or mouth!

Pearl musk, black lotus, blonde patchouli, aged tobacco blanc, golden honey and quince.

WEEPING AT THE MOAT
A woman crouching by the moat, all alone, and weeping bitterly.

Still water, water lily, gingergrass, clove, hiba wood, dragon's blood and blackberry blossom.

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MOSAKU & MINOKICHI
In a village of Musashi Province, there lived two woodcutters: Mosaku and Minokichi.

Mahogany, Mirabelle plum, red amber, golden sandalwood, smoked patchouli and sugared pomegranate.

O-YUKI
Even as she screamed, her voice became thin, like a crying of wind;--then she melted into a bright white mist that spired to the roof-beams, and shuddered away through the smoke-hold... Never again was she seen.

White tea, crystalline amber, spun sugar, oleander, white opium and stargazer lily.

YUKI-ONNA
The white woman bent down over him, lower and lower, until her face almost touched him; and he saw that she was very beautiful,--though her eyes made him afraid.

Wind whipped sugared vanilla snow, black orchid, ginger tea and ume blossom.


Resurrected for 2013

It seems that the end of October and early November is the time of year where many cultures have holy days honoring death. From Los Dias de los Muertos to Samhain tide this has been the season to honor, revere and even celebrate the role death has in our lives. Using three works of art as inspiration, we are offering a trilogy of fragrances to pay tribute to the ancestors, to show respect for the power of the spirit of Iku (Yoruban personification of Death) and to the metaphysical associations that are part and parcel to the concept: transitions, inevitable change and destruction that clears the way to creation. Maferefun Oya, Kali, Hecate, Set, Baron Samedi and the Ghede, Egun, Yewa and all other spirits who work and exist in such a nebulous and liminal space fraught with a spectrum of human emotion: from the depths of suffering and grief stemming from senseless and tragic loss to the heights of grace and light embedded in those moments where death is a release from pain and an ascension into the Great Mystery.

The fragrances have been formulated to be worn layered together, but they are perfectly suitable to be worn individually

The Dance of Death series will be available until the Sun exits the sign of Scorpio in November.


THE DANCE OF DEATH SERIES

Selections from DANCE OF DEATH SERIES are available in one size, three fragrances or a set of all three items. 


RITTER, TOD und TEUFEL
Albrecht Dürer
copper engraving, 1513

RIDER, DEATH and DEVIL: A knight, protected by the armor of his faith, is surrounded by the grotesque images of the Devil and Death. Note the Memento Mori symbolism of the hourglass reminding the soldier that his time on earth is finite and the skull in the bottom left corner confirming the inevitable to us all.

Tunisian black myrrh, holy sandalwood, Persian musk, charred wood, frankincense absolute, desecrated incense, cassia, pink grapefruit, and aged patchouli.

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DER TOD als ERWÜRGER - ERSTER AUFTRITT der CHOLERA auf einem MASKENBALL in PARIS 1831
Alfred Rethel
wood-carving, 1851

Death the Strangler - First Outbreak of Cholera at a Parisian Masquerade Ball in 1831: Death pays a visit to a party and the results are devastating. Playing mock fiddle with bones and surrounded by corpses, Death stands centrally while the doomed musicians attempt an escape in the top left. Seated on the stairs is the personification of Cholera dressed in Egyptian finery.

Tonka bean absolute, black patchouli, white sandalwood, ginger CO2 extract, bone musk, orange blossom, vanilla resin absolute, Sudanese amber, blood orange, opoponax and tulsi.

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DER TOD als FREUND
Alfred Rethel
wood-carving, 1851

Death the Friend: Death rings the church bells for the ringer who sits in an apparent deathly repose in the top right. The sun rise out the window reminding the viewer that the cycle of life will continue and transformation is assured.

Antique patchouli, tonka absolute, vanilla resin, ruh khus, tendrils of Spanish moss, neglected leather, graveyard loam and Parma violet.

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CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION

Autumn is a season most voluptuous and sensual. Colors in their crimson, orange and ochre vibrancy flash their iridescent fire from quaking leaves. The sky, in its dazzling display of darkness, threatens the diminishing light with clouds suspended heavily in the air, saturated with the thick storms of a thousand nights. Respite is found in the infinity azure expanse that arches effortless with the angles of sunlight, golden, slanting to earth creating a crisp, clean and shimmering aura to the world around us. A chill embraces the frosted air and our breath is etched in silver tendrils reaching heavenward. Seeking warmth and connection, we wrap our arms around ourselves and our loved ones and descend within; our thoughts deepen while our vision expands.

Conjure's Carnal Delights Collection is a celebration of the senses that the autumnal season ignites like no other. I've hand picked the fragrances that speak to me of deepest Autumn, of introspection, of sensuality and of delight. All fragrances are accords crafted in house unique to Conjure Oils!

In celebration of this season most wonderful, we're offering custom fragrances for a limited time. Depending on the success of the line, I may later offer candles, soaps, whips, sprays and lotions in the Carnal Delights Collection! It's up to you!

CARNAL DELIGHTS - CUSTOM FRAGRANCES - BACK FOR 2013!

Select up to five of the accords listed below to create your own signature scent! In order to prevent a back log, I can only accept orders for twenty five (or so) customs, so once the limit is reached, I'll mark the option as sold out.



CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION 

Selections from CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION are available in one size, five styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Single Note $20
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Two Notes $25
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Three Notes $30
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Four Notes $35
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Five Notes $40

 

CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION ACCORDS

THE ANCIENT ORCHARD
Apple Cider
Candy Apple
Caramel Apple
Cinnamon Donut
Fresh Hay
Fuji Apple
Green Apple 

CAFE de CHARNEL

Chai Tea
Cinnamon
Clove
Coffee
Cream
Cream Soda
Ginger
Hazelnut
Nutmeg
Sugar Cane
Treacle
Vanilla Bean

EARTHEN JEWELS

Black Lotus
Blood
Bonfire
Falling Leaves
Graveyard Dirt
Oakmoss
Petrichor
Rain
Spanish Moss
Tobacco

THE FARMERS MARKET

Blackberry
Butter
Chili Pepper
Chrysanthemum
Dahlia
D'anjou Pear
Fig
Fresh Pumpkin
Golden Honey
Lavender
Pomegranate
Pumpkin Bread
Red Rose
Sunflower
Sweet Orange
Whole Wheat Bread
Zucchini Bread

PARFUMERIE

Black Musk
Black Patchouli
Crystal Amber
Dark Amber
Dragon's Blood
Red Musk
Tonka Bean
Vanilla Musk
White Musk

THE SWEET SHOPPE

Candy Corn
Caramel
Caramel Popcorn
Cream Cheese Frosting
Dark Chocolate
Milk Chocolate
Pumpkin Pie
Red Velvet Cake
Spun Sugar

All your favorite Conjure Oils scents from seasons past you've come to expect at Hallows!


THE GHOSTS OF HALLOWS PAST - RESURRECTED 2013

Selections from THE GHOSTS OF HALLOWS PAST - RESURRECTED 2013 are available in one size, multiple styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

 

ABANDONED MORGUE 2013
Are you here on a dare and wishing you weren't, or is this your new nightly haunt? Either way, this old abandoned morgue has many stories to tell. Tonight we'll listen intently with the lights out!

Ghost of a bonfire, tonka bean, vanilla bourbon, Zanzibar clove, black amber and dark Indonesian patchouli.

 

CALAVERA DE AZUCAR 2013
Celebrate El Dia de los Muertos swirling in sumptuous scent!

Muscovado sugar, royal icing and meringue powder with a slight hint of metaphysical white musk.

 

HANSEL UND GRETEL 2013
Nibble nibble like a mouse, who's been nibbling at my house?

A gingerbread house decorated with spice drops and butter cream frosting. The faint smell of a witch's brew filling the enchanted woods and roaring cook stove perfect for roasting a greedy little boy or girl.

 

MAUSOLEUM 2013
The dusty stillness of the afterlife.

Emerald moss, black orchids, cold stones and holy water.

 

MIDNIGHT DREARY 2013
Maybe it's the long winter looming around the corner? Perhaps it's the lengthening of the evening hours that signal the death of summer? Perchance it's simply sorrow for the lost Lenore? I couldn't tell you. But Poe's passion for the macabre (and maybe the love of laudanum) have led you down a dark path this evening. Will the sun ever rise again? In this midnight dreary mood, the answer is unlikely.

Pale ghost lilac and melancholy moonflowers decorate an elaborately antique mahogany table. Fig and clove, wafts of opium smoke hang heavy in the parlor as an open window carries a draft of night air and autumn leaves.

 

MURDER OF CROWS 2013
Every fall they gather in murderous shrieking clusters blacking out the branches in the oak and apple trees across the street. They caw and cackle in a long-overdue maniacal avian family reunion from Hell.

The softest touch of black leather feathers, oak splinters, acorn, crumbled leaves and baked apples drizzled in brandy all illuminated by creamy vanilla moonlight

 

PUNKIN' HEAD 2013
No tricks here! Just sweet treats!

Juicy, spicy pumpkin blended in with adorable creamy bits of cheesecake slathered in caramel sauce.

 

SUCCUBUS 2013
A demon who takes the form of a gorgeous human female specifically to seduce men. Like the incubus, the succubus may have been a scapegoat for infidelity or stray lust. Either way, the succubus has captured the imagination of men for ages, rousing all flavors of fear and fantasy.

African violet, sugar soaked vanilla, benzoin, coconut milk, triple cream, Egyptian sandalwood musk and red currant.

 

WITCHING HOUR 2013
A midnight walk through the pumpkin patch on All Soul's Eve.

Spiced pumpkin, falling leaves, a black velvet cloak to pull close for warmth and a frankincense candle offering for the spirits residing in the nearby cemetery.

 

WHEW! Happy Hallows, ConjurePunks! I'll get your goodies out to you ASAP! <3 Contact me with any questions! <3 Vajra

September 23, 2013

SONG OF SONGS & UNENDING LOVE

Happy 4th Wedding Anniversary to Vajra & Sterling who were wed on the Autumnal Equinox, Septermber 22nd, 2009.

Two fragrances to celebrate four years together!



SONG OF SONGS

I am my lover's and he desires me
Come, my darling
Let us go out into the fields
And spend the night in the villages
Let us wake early and go to the vineyards
And see if the vine is in blossom
If the new grape bud is open
And the pomegranates in bloom.

There I will give you my love
The mandrakes will spray aroma
And over our door will be precious fruit
New and old
Which I have saved for you, my darling.

The Song of Solomon 7:10-13

Sun-baked desert spices of clove, saffron and mandrake are cooled in the midnight sun and set swirling through the vineyard, mingling with the intoxicating aromas of muscadine blossom and crimson grenadine branches heavy with flower..

 


UNENDING LOVE

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times.
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

Chthonic and eternal aged black Egyptian patchouli is infused with antiqued vanilla resin, amber paste and opoponax, A passionate heart of crimson carnation, red mandarin and exotic Moroccan myrrh pulses a sensual rhythm while shimmering and ephemeral top notes of black narcissus, bergamot zest, stargazer lily and romantic pink jasmine revel in their dance ecstatic.

SONG OF SONGS & UNENDING LOVE
Hand-blended to order and decanted in a 5ml amber glass apothecary bottles.

$20 each.

Available until September 30, 2013 or until supply has been exhausted.

 

July 13, 2013


CONJURE OILS 6TH ANNIVERSARY!

Happy anniversary, Conjure! You're six now. Six whole years.

SIX YEARS?!? Wow.

That means if Conjure were a child, it would be a very fragrant first grader!

In all seriousness though, these past six years have been so many things: amazing, scary, wonderful, terrifying, encouraging, educational, silly, serious, seriously freaky and mostly fun!

Six years ago, I was just a little Iyawo fresh off the mat with nothing more than a book of formulas, ideas and dreams, a crate of oils, a heart filled with passion and a directive from Oshun to make perfumes for the people. Six years later, I have over a thousand formulas, enough components to fill a small aircraft hangar, and more heart and passion that you can shake a stick at. I also have love. Which when it comes down to it, that's the best part: my sweet three year old daughter Miss Lucy, my little ginger baby Sebastian, my accomplice Sterling and each and every one of you. Some of you have been with me from the very beginning (*waves at Valna, my first customer*) some of you are new to the Conjureverse, but you are all precious to me. And it's more than because you spend money here. It's WAY more than that. It's the friendships that have been forged, the connections made. Things have never been golden for this business. I've had to bust my ass to get where I am but there is no way in hell I could have done this without you, your input, feedback, support, perfectly timed kindnesses and love. There's that word again. LOVE. It is why I breathe. Everything I do is in love; the way of the Love Warrior. Our tribe. It's why I call this little perfume house that could CONJURE. A living verb that manifests the desires heart and mind into delights tangible, a world of our own making. Let's keep making our magick, our dreams. our tribe. Let's keep CONJURE alive. Together.

Thank you.


TRIPLE SIX - CONJURE OILS 6TH ANNIVERSARY

A daring, devilish delicious elixir, simply sinful and searingly sexy!

Six layers of Devil's food cake debauchery spiced with Ceylon cinnamon and Indonesian clove bud accompanied by an oozing scoop of Mexican vanilla bean ice cream slathered with caramel sauce smoked with lapsang souchong. Served doused with rum and set ablaze!

 

Thanks to the inimitable Paula Schricker for the devil cake drawing! See more of her amazing art at her site, Lycanthrotech.

TRIPLE SIX - CONJURE OILS 6TH ANNIVERSARY is available in one size, one style. LIVE until August 1st, or sold out.

Sadly, we will no longer be offering 5ml roll on bottles as they were discontinued by the manufacturer.


5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20
SOLD OUT!

June 23, 2013


PERIGEE SIX TWENTYTHREE THIRTEEN - SUPER MOON '13

On June 23, we were treated to the magick of a super moon! As she travels in her elliptical journey around the earth, there is a point in the moon's orbit where she is closest to the earth, or perigee. To those of us admiring the moon from earth during this time, she appears 14% larger and 30% brighter, the tides are at their highest and with the human body being approximately 60% water, one can only imagine the influence the lunar tides have over us all!

Thirteen essences sacred to the moon were used to craft this fragrance. It can be described as a mysterious lunar philtre that is as invigorating as the night air and enchanting as a moonlit dance. PERIGEE can be used to alter consciousness in sacred circles, as an anointing oil for intense spell work or used as a fragrance when you need an extra spark of enchantment!

In a sacred space, the components were lovingly combined in a crystal vessel, corked then left outside to be exposed to the energies of deep night and moon at her fullest. In the morning, I decanted PERIGEE into 23 5ml brown glass apothecary bottles and then tucked away in a dark cupboard keeping them from the sun's rays.

PERIGEE will be shipped to you protected in a black bag that has a beautiful lunar amulet hand stitched to it. PERIGEE really is a work of art made with skill and love and destined to be a staple in your or a loved one's magickal cupboard,

White sandalwood, myrrh resin, saffron, narcotic nutmeg, white gardenia, moonflower, blackberry, orris root, bergamot, star jasmine, Madonna lily, white rose and vanilla husk.

PERIGEE SIX TWENTYTHREE THIRTEEN is available in one size, two styles, sent in a black bag with a lovely lunar amulet hand stitched to it.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $23
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $24

SOLD OUT!

 

April 22, 2013


EARTH DAY 2013 - GOTHS IN TREES

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND ! With a title inspired by a blog I once saw, Goths in Trees was our first ever Earth Day limited edition from 2012! Using all natural, organic/wild crafted oils, we've resurrected the finest just for you. We'll also be donating $3 from each sale to SAVE THE ORANGUTAN, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the habitat and well being of these wonderful and precious creatures.

Deep and earthy amyris and balsam peru, gritty patchouli, ho wood and oakmoss brightened with olibanum, sweet orange and a subtle drop of ylang ylang sunshine!

GOTHS IN TREES is available in one size, two styles: SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $26

Resurrected for these long, lovely days of Spring....

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS - RESURRECTED

Scents inspired by the fevered passions of composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinski

 

Le Sacre du Printemps, or the Rite of Spring, is a legendary ballet rife with sexuality, virility, primal, ancient magics and pagan revelry. Penned in 1913, it is one of the best examples of musical innovation that heralded the Modern period of music. It has inspired many - from Fantasia to Frank Zappa - and continues to ignite the hearts and minds of artists to this day.

We at Conjure can think of no better devotion to Spring than to create a fragrance collection based on this wonderful and exhilarating work of fine art. This is a conceptual line, offering Conjure's interpretation of the music, the myth and the meaning that resounds within the imagination.

Enjoy the rebirth and the rapture.

Fragrances in the LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS - RESURRECTED collection are available in one size, two styles:


5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $20

Danses des Adolescentes

The Dance of the Young Girls; a study in innocence.

Creamy orchid, soft skin musk, a blush of pink jasmine, white tea, candy floss and the finest gowns of raw silk and linen.

Jeu du Rapt

Ritual of Abduction; thief of hearts. Evocative of the myth of Persephone and the betrayal and agony she felt as she was spirited away to the underworld.

Crimson pomegranate, Moroccan fig, smoked vanilla sugar, soft moss, amber resin, aged black tea and opium poppy resin.

Rondes Printanières

Spring Rounds. Warm, sweet and renewing as the first day of Spring. This is the scent of hope.

Vanilla cream, pink hyacinth, ruby grapefruit, scarlet hibiscus, cake flour, caramelized coconut and raspberry infused patchouli.

Jeux des Cités Rivales

The Games of the Two Rival Tribes.

Spirited and spiced candied violets, bitter cloves, cassis and red sandalwood spar with black currant, ylang ylang, vanilla orchid, gunpowder and dried wild grasses.

Cortège du Sage

Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One. We revere the wisdom of the ages and respect our elders.

We honor the Old Ones: clary and desert sages, chaparral, creosote, ancient wood, faded leather and cactus flower sweetened with desiccated fireweed honey.

Adoration de la Terre

The Kiss of the Earth. Earthbound and beautiful; the blue dot in a sea of black that we call home.

Warm and golden as a summer's sunset: peach blossom honey, chthonic amber resin, toasted basmati rice, cured tobacco, sweet tea and blonde patchouli.

Danse de la Terre

Dancing Out of the Underworld. Persephone is free and the world is reborn in joyous celebration.

Escape the darkness with rejuvenating black Assam tea, dark coconut husk, aged vanilla resin, sacred sandalwood temple incense, earthen musk and shaved red mandarin zest.

Cercles Mystérieux des Adolescentes

Circle of the Mystical Maidens.

The Celtic festivals of Samhain and Beltaine are historically the two times during the year when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead are at their thinnest. May 1st invites more than ancestral spirits - it carries the spirits of earth Elementals - faeries, gnomes, sprites and other creatures of myth as spring rains and gentle blossoms are carried on the perfumed breeze.

The Spring Maidens dance this eternal dance and weave into their rhythm the magic of the season working the rites that further weaken the veil making the world of seen and unseen indistinguishable.

"We gather in a strict formation, hold hands in a circle
and at twilight we all we all walk around the stones.
Spirits dance and bodies roll, hallucinations curtsey
as the river priestess consecrates the bones."

~ Casting the Runes, Legendary Pink Dots

Exotic tuberose, pink peony, lychee fruit, orange blossom, vanilla bean, tonka, strawberry blossom, bergamot and sugar cane.

Glorification de l'Élue

Naming and Glorifying the Chosen One who is the Golden Child, the May Queen, the Sacred Divine within; the Holy Fire of Spirit that links us with All-That-Is.

Glory be: golden saffron, antique patchouli, white honey, orris root, toasted almond, khus and splendid olibanum.

Evocation des Ancêtres

Evoking the Spirits of the Ancestors. We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors through love, adoration and veneration our predecessors are lifted, elevated, given light and eternal life.

Revere and honor: dried pomegranate rind crushed and perfumed with linden blossom, red spikenard, aloes wood, Egyptian sandalwood, sweet myrrh and Kyphi incense.

Action Rituelle des Ancêtres

Ritual of the Ancestors. Our ancestral rituals are remembered on a cellular level. Deep DNA memories are celebrated during the heart of the darkest night lasting until the break of iridescent dawn.

Honor those that have passed on with white sandalwood, red willow, amyris, palo santo, patchouli blossom, Himalayan cedar, ylang ylang, opoponax and ginseng.

Danse Sacrale

Sacrificial Dance of the Chosen One.

Sacred and uplifting: crystal amber, blue lavender, cyclamen, white sage, honeydew, vanilla musk, candied violets and a gentle heart of white rose tea.

Le Sacre du Printemps will be available until June 21st

January 29, 2013


PACZKI DAY 2014!

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND ! Celebrate Fat Tuesday Conjure style with our NINE Polish pastry inspired perfume oils! Growing up in Southeastern Michigan like I did, it wasn't hard to find a box of these delectable sweet treats! For those who don't know what a paczki is, (pronounced "poonchky") it's like a large huge doughnut stuffed to the brim with various intoxicatingly sweet fillings ranging from traditional plum and rose hip jam to more modern conventions like Bavarian custard, apple or raspberry. Though it's no typical doughnut - the paczki is sweeter and spongier. They can be topped with powdered or granulated sugar, or with icing. Truly, the mortal doughnut pales in comparison!

Paczki are a convenient way to get all of the sugar, fat and temptation out of the house before the sparse season of Lent rears it head. Fortunately, we've conjured a great way to get the paczki experience throughout whilst avoiding the calories as well! It's like magic! Indulge!

CONJURE PACZKI SELECTIONS

Packzi Day!PLUM JAM PACZKI
Sweet dough is filled with black plum jam and dusted with refined powdered sugar.

Packzi Day!BAVARIAN CUSTARD PACZKI
Fried pastry dough filled with thick vanilla Bavarian custard and coated with granulated vanilla sugar.

Packzi Day!ROSE HIP JAM PACZKI
Fresh paczki are served warm, overflowing with rose hip jam and drizzled with sweet honey sugar glaze.

Packzi Day!BLUEBERRY & GARDENIA PACZKI
Wonderfully sweet and deep fried dough dusted with powdered sugar, spice and filled with plump, succulent blueberry and gardenia flower compote.

Packzi Day!COCONUT CHOCOLATE CARAMEL CHAI PACZKI
A twist on a traditional favorite! A filling of toasted coconut flakes coated in chai spiced infused salted caramel stuffed to bursting in a flaky golden shell topped with a drizzle of milk chocolate ganache.

Packzi Day!CARAMELIZED APPLE & CHAMOMILE PACZKI
Fresh Granny Smith apples reduced with baker's sugar, cinnamon and gooey caramel packed in a delectable paczki pastry coated with a chamomile tea glaze. .

Packzi Day!LEMON CURD & ARABIAN JASMINE PACZKI
Creamy sweet lemon filling, fragranced with Arabian jasmine petals encased by a powdered sugar topped doughy delight.

Packzi Day!RASPBERRY & SWEET PEA PACZKI
Lovely red raspberries stewed with vanilla, sweet pea blossoms and pink rock candy sugar sweetly oozing out of a honey glazed paczki pocket.

Packzi Day!STRAWBERRY & HIBISCUS PACZKI
Plump and crimson strawberries, allspice, clove, sweet orange zest and gorgeous hibiscus flowers packed into its sweet and sticky balsamic glaze coated shell.

Paczki will available until March 21st, or until we sell out! And I must say this: while these do indeed smell good enough to eat, they are not in any way, shape or form intended for consumption, human or animal. External use only!

Fat Tuesday fragrances are available in one size, nine styles: SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$20

Please indicate your desired size and fragrance from the drop down menus below then click the Add To Cart button to complete the selection.

Fat Tuesday in Conjure County will be LIVE until March 21, or until supplies are exhausted.

January 22, 2013

SELECTIONS FROM THE BOOK OF LOVE, MARDI GRAS with the CONJURE KREWE! and CONJURING GRIS GRIS!
Conjure Oils' 2013 Lupertine and Mardi Gras Collections!

SELECTIONS FROM THE BOOK OF LOVE - LUPERTINE 2013

Sometimes we lack the words to express the depth or essence of what is thought or felt so very deep within our souls. We string together strands of nouns, adjectives and verbs hoping for just the right sequence to express the secrets buried in our hearts. We imagine songs and poetry or visual art in an attempt at a melodic, abstract or symbolic explanation.

Language is the art of the tongue acting in concert with the heart and mind. Some languages are clumsy in their presentation of complex theories and emotions while others are more graceful, playful or efficient. In crafting this series, I wondered what it would look like if all the human expressions of love were assembled in one place; a proverbial Book of Love in a fashion. As I searched for words that conveyed ideas of love, longing and loss in a unique way, I stumbled upon a couple blog articles investigating the same subject and was inspired by what I had found. All of the words in this collection are non English in their origin and while English is my native language, I find that it often lacks the elegance and grace found in many other tongues.

In the end, what I take away from this collection is the commonality of love, loss and desire. We all ache, yearn, have our hearts broken and share the bliss of love - all evident in the myriad ways we have to say, sing or recreate our inner worlds.

We hope you enjoy the Lupertine 2013 collection.

PLEASE NOTE: Please order by February 4th for delivery by Valentine's Day. Also, last years Lupertines - Mlle Victoria's Lupertine Burlesque Cabaret are still available HERE! No other scents will be resurrected at this time. If there is a Lupertine from the past you're interested in, please contact Vajra.

LUPERTINE 2013 and MARDI GRAS 2013 perfumes will be available until March 15th, or until supplies are exhausted. Gris Gris Bags will be available until February 28.

Selections from SELECTIONS FROM THE BOOK OF LOVE are available in one size, two styles. SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $20


CAFUNÉ
Brazilian Portuguese

The act of running ones fingers gently and lovingly through a beloved's hair.

Black tea, toasted sweet tobacco, Sudanese frankincense, cocoa absolute, black pepper and vanilla infused coconut husk.


FORELSKET
Norwegian

The pure euphoric bliss experienced during the first moments of falling in love.

Davana, blood orange, spun sugar, vanilla musk, hibiscus and Indian patchouli.


ILUNGA
Bantu

An individual who is willing to forgive a lover's transgression the first time that it is committed, show tolerance toward a second event and refuse to abide any abuse a third time.

English lavender, juniper berry, allspice, Himalayan cedar, aged pine resin, palo santo and black copal.


KOI NO YOKAN
Japanese

The instantaneous intuitive knowledge that you and the person you just met will fall in love with one another.

King mandarin, rose geranium, bois de rose, beeswax absolute, crimson orchid, magnolia, pink lotus and golden honey.


LA DOULEUR EXQUISE
French

The exquisite agony that accompanies the desire for someone who is unobtainable.

Coriander, clove absolute, Meyer lemon, oleander, white musk and amber milk.


MAMIHLAPINATAPEI
Yagan, Tierra del Fuego

A silent, aching look shared by a couple who long for one another that is shadowed by a mutual, bashful reluctance.

Sweet pea, cardamom, fresh fig, Baltic amber, ginger and stargazer lily.


RETROUVAILLES
French

The joyous reunion after a long separation.

Ruby red grapefruit, cassia, black pepper, pomegranate, black tea and red sandalwood.


SAUDADE
Portuguese

An unrelenting longing for someone who was loved and lost. Also, a nebulous and nagging desire for people, places or things that never have, cannot and never will exist.

Passion fruit, candied Parma violet, vanilla blossom, balm of Gilead infusion, guaiac wood, love-lies-bleeding and French opium.


YA'ABURNEE
Arabic

Literally: "You bury me." The hope that one would die before their loved one, as a life spent apart would be unbearable.

Black musk, aged patchouli, Spanish moss, desert hyacinth, leather, oakmoss and clove soaked myrrh.


YUANFEN
Chinese

A complex concept rooted in Buddhist theological determinism. A synchronistic, predetermined karmic force that links or binds two people together in a relationship that is fated or destined to be. This relationship can be shared between lovers, friends and family as well and is, according to the ancients, indicative of connections forged in past lives.

Dragon's blood, temple sandalwood, white amber, black locust blossom, white ginger and quince.

The CONJURE KREWE celebrates MARDI GRAS!

Join the Conjure Plague Circus as the good Doktor leads our rag tag krewe down paths devious and debaucherous!

Order all six of the Conjure Krewe and receive a free Gris Gris bag conjured by Mama Vajra herself! The bag comes along with a pip of a specially formulated anointing oil and instructions for use! The current Gris Gris we are offering can be found HERE. If you're ordering a complete set, please let me know your free Gris Gris selection either in the Message to Merchant section on the PayPal check out page, or send a separate email to vajra at conjureoils dot com.

You can also purchase the Gris Gris bags individually. They are $40 each and are available HERE.

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Selections from The CONJURE KREWE celebrates MARDI GRAS! are available in one size, two styles. SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Set of all SIX -
$120
(If ordering the set of six, please remember to send a separate email with your Gris Gris selection, or list it in the Notes to Merchant box at checkout!
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DOKTOR PLAGUE

Ringmaster and mysteriously dark leader of this motley Conjure krewe!

Smoked black tea, cardamom, aged myrrh, robust sandalwood, sweet sage and silver lavender.

 


COLUMBINE

Clever Columbine is an artful and confident juggler, carelessly tossing glass spheres, sharp toys, grenades and the hearts of the men who adore her to the delight and dismay of her audience.

Cherry blossom, guava fruit, blood orange, golden patchouli and sugared amber.

 


HARLEQUIN

Harlequin serves up his comedy nimbly with the aid of his robotic limbs, ever trying to catch the heart of Columbine with his acrobatics and foolish antics.

Crystalline amber, black coconut, sugared tobacco, vanilla musk, osmanthus and salted caramel.


PIERROT

Wrapped in a straight jacket and donning a gas mask, Pierrot is the picture of the sadness and madness born of unrequited love; he pines for Columbine whom he always loses to the agile Harlequin.

Blue iris, antiqued frankincense, red sandalwood, aged vanilla resin, bergamot and white carnations.

 


MLLE. JUDIE

Half human, half skeletal, Mlle. Judie tries her best to keep her brute of a husband, Punch, in line. She insists that one day she will get it through his thick skull that when baby sitting, one doesn't actually sit on the baby.

Red amber, black currant, kush, orange blossom honey and lush gardenia.

 


PUNCH

Despite his ability to fight the devil and win, Punch will always be just the the hen pecked husband and eternal tormentor of his formidable wife Mlle. Judie. He's all bark, and some bite, too!

Black musk, champaca blossom, red myrrh, cassia, burned sugar, narcissus, pomegranate and black patchouli.

CONJURING GRIS GRIS

Gris Gris Bags are available at Conjure Oils for a short time only!

Made by hand using a combination of organic and/or wildcrafted herbs, roots, semi precious stones, minerals, metals, shells and other mystical curios, these Gris Gris bags come in beautiful color appropriate pouches with a small charm affixed by hand to the exterior. Each Gris Gris comes with complete instructions on their preparation with suggestions on how to enliven them using various candle colors, moon phases, days of the week and instructions on how personalize them with anointing oils and personal concerns.

Before they're sent out to you, each Bag is prayed over and passed through sacred smoke that is burned as a daily devotional on my Boveda, or spirit altar.

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CONJURING GRIS GRIS BAGS are available in nine variations, one size. All Bags come with instructions.

One Gris Gris Bag - $40 SOLD OUT!
Three Gris Gris Bags - $100 SOLD OUT!
Set of all nine Gris Gris Bags -
$300 SOLD OUT!


CURRENT GRIS GRIS SELECTIONS:

TRUE LOVE - To attract LOVE. Pink bag, heart charm.

LA FLAMME - To enliven an existing relationship or attract SEX - Red bag, devil charm.

TREASURE CHEST - To draw :PROSPERITY - Green bag, coin charm.

GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT - To acquire employment that meets financial, mental, emotional and spiritual needs - Green bag, clock charm.

PEACE CLOUD - To create an aura of peace for the wearer - White bag, dove charm.

SPIRIT VEIL - To encourage COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD - Violet bag with skull charm.

THIRD EYE - To strengthen PSYCHIC ABILITIES - Silver bag with ankh charm.

BLUE FLAME - To create a fiery wall of PROTECTION - Haint blue bag with anti evil eye charm.

SHADOW WEAVER - To create PACTS WITH DARK SPIRITS - Black bag with inverted cross charm.

Please note that bag color and charm may vary in accordance with availability; any substitutions will be expertly chosen.

A Spiritualist's Statement: I have been called to offer these bags at this time by my spirits, as I have been reluctant to take on this project in the past, despite multiple requests. These aren't Mojo Bags - Mojo Bags, or Mojo Hands as they're often called differ slightly than Gris Gris in their ingredients, preparation, blessing and maintenance. Mojos have their history in the Hoodoo tradition, or African American Folk Magic. Gris Gris can be found in New Orleans, among other places, and are rooted in the Vodoun tradition. I've chosen to offer Gris Gris instead of Mojo because of the level of spirit work involved in their conception and creation. While making Mojos very much relying on prayer to make them a living spiritual tool, I feel it is more of a mundanely magical act in that I've really never needed much spirit communication in their creation. It's always been a more intuitive process for me. Gris Gris, on the other hand, incorporate more of my skills as a spiritualist into their construction. I've spent many hours in meditation speaking with my Egun (spirits of my dearly departed ancestors) designing their appearance, components and corresponding prayers, etc. I found that it was a much more of a spiritually collaborative effort and one that I've found to be quite healing personally and spiritually. For that I am grateful. I hope these Gris Gris bags will help to align your heart, mind and soul with the workings of your spirits.

November 24th, 2012

MERRY APOCALYPSMAS!
Conjure Oils' 2012 Yule Collection!

MERRY APOCALYPSMAS!

Apparently, the Mayans have predicted the end of civilization this year - December 21, 2012, to be exact. The gospel of the End Times has been preached long before the Book of Revelations was penned 2000 some odd years ago; the Norse have Ragnarok, Hindus have Kaliki, the Yoruba have Olokun. As time keeps bumping along the pot hole riddled gravel path of progress, we're only left to meditate on what our world of exploding population, dwindling resources and questionable pop culture will disintegrate into. Sing while you may! If this is our last holiday season, make it your best! Happy Unholy Days!

PLEASE NOTE: Since I am planning on going out of town for a month, all orders will be shipped ON OR BEFORE December 15th. Please have any orders that are to be holiday gifts in by December 7th. Thank you!

HALLOWS 2012 perfumes will continue to be available until December 15th. YULE 2012 perfumes will be available until January 30th.

Selections from MERRY APOCALYPSMAS! are available in one size, two styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $20


ALIENS ARE COMING TO TOWN

Films like "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Independence Day", even shows like the X-Files gave us a glimpse into a possible alien inspired end game. Here's a fragrance to honor our gray overlords.

Silver bells, starlit vanilla resin, Night Queen, sea lavender, white rose tea and black sky musk

DECK THE HALLS WITH SCOWLING ZOMBIES

Maybe a zombie apocalypse is what you're hoping for? Stock up on guns, ammo and don't forget to double tap!

Dragon's blood, crimson cranberry jelly, marshmallow cream and the tattered remnants of musky humanity.

DO YOU FEAR WHAT I FEAR?

The dark, the unknown, death, poisoning, drowning, being buried alive, flying, being lost in space, abandonment, clowns... .

Seared vanilla sugar syrup, blood orange stained sandalwood, black tea soaked linens and corrupted toasted clove.

NUCLEAR WINTER WONDERLAND

With just a press of a shiny, red, candy-like button we could enjoy a permanent winter wonderland!

Heartbroken and desolate: black ice, desiccated winter berries, frozen hopes, destroyed dreams all contaminated with the saddest sting of black pepper.

OH HOLY SMITE

Armageddon - the final battle between Good and Evil. Smite or be smitten; it's a survivor's world.

Boozy vanilla, caramelized coconut, smoked tonka and black patchouli.

RAGNAROK'N AROUND YGGDRASIL TREE

Jormungandr opens his mouth letting his tail go free and Fenrir slips his fetter Gelipnir and literally, all Hell breaks loose. It's the stuff Heavy Metal songs are made of.

Balsam fir, palo santo, snow laden birch branches and serpentine boughs of holly are doomed with pitch black woodsmoke and cracked leather.

WE FOUR HORSEMEN OF APOCALYPSE ARE

The Bhagavad Gita, as quoted by Oppenheimer after seeing the detonation of the first nuclear bomb in 1945. "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds": War, Famine, Death and Conquest. The End is always Now.

Bleak and hopeless: spiced vetiver is abused by lashes of black leather, broken by blackest musk and completely decimated with clove stained aged patchouli.

GHOST OF YULES PAST

Selections from GHOSTS OF YULES PAST are available in one size, two styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $20

 

A LA NANITA NANA 2012
The cherubic scent of a sleeping infant's skin, the nourishing sweetness of mother's milk, holy white musk and the radiant golden glow of warm vanilla-infused amber angel wings.

Hillary L.
Pennsylvania, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

AURORA BOREALIS 2012
Shivering frost notes cling to the boughs of fir and spruce whilst wisps of smoke from sacred wood fires swirl and undulate amid a wintry mix of chilled yew and cranberries sweetened with frozen vanilla.

Niki W.
United Kingdom
Yule 2010 Winner

b'ak'tun 13 - APOCALYPSE SOON? 2012

You may have heard a little rumor that a certain Mayan calender is set to expire this year. (As an aside, why does this have to coincide with an election year AND during the year of the Dragon? As if I don't have enough to worry over, but I digress...) If this year is it, make it your best year ever! More YES less NO, less stay, more GO! See you on the other side.

Sin while you may: Black musk, leather, clove saturated patchouli and tobacco spiced with peppered Mexican chocolate and aged vanilla beans.

CHOCOLATE CAT 2012
Hot chocolate cream flavored with curls of blood orange peel and soft ginger fur. Hurrah for the Chocolate Cat!

VioletBlue
Florida, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

COLA DE MONO 2012
“The Monkey’s Tail” in English, Cola de Mono is a traditional Chilean holiday drink that is similar to a White Russian. The Dude would approve!  “Hey man, there’s a beverage here!”

Hot buttered rum, scalded cream, spiced coffee liqueur and a splash of vanilla infused vodka.

Michelle H.
California, USA

I WANT TO BELIEVE (IN SANTA) 2012
A suspicious mix of holiday cheer: vanilla syrup sweetened eggnog spiked with a dubious shot of spiced rum, garnished with a peppermint candy cane and a splash of doublespeak.

Vajra W.
Oregon, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

KAOS 2012
The prehistoric abyss that gives birth to the Sun and all of creation.

Primeval black resin, hoary black musk, ancient leather, Prometheus’ fire and traces of ozone; a relic from the crack of lightning that created life in the primordial ooze

MAUL SANTA 2012
Because Killer Klowns need holiday work, too!

Drunk before noon: Dark and boozy Bourbon vanilla, blackened coconut husk, toasted tonka bean, cherry pipe tobacco smoke and the suspicious scent of peppermint schnapps.

Leigh B.
Tennessee, USA

MISA DEL GALLO 2012

Misa del Gallo, or "Roosters Mass" is a name used in Catholic Latin America for the tradition of Midnight Mass, stemming from the belief that the rooster was one of the first creatures to witness and then announce the birth of the infant Jesus with a mighty crow.

Celebrate Midnight Mass in a cathedral dark and crumbling: black amber, sweet myrrh, olibanum resin, beeswax candle smoke wafting heavenward, raw cacao absolute, desert chaparral and braids of sweetgrass.

Siggster
North Carolina, USA
Yule 2007 Winner

MOOSEMAS 2012
Dark and rich chocolate mousse laced with the warmth and cheer of hazelnut liqueur and slivered almonds because things always get a little nutty at Moosemas!

Andrea F.
Wisconsin, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

POMME D’AMBRE 2012
A juicy clove-studded orange is dusted with powdered cinnamon, ginger and orris root and hung from a scarlet ribbon to perfume the air with its ancient aroma.

Erin G.
Massachusetts, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

SNEGUROCHKA 2012
Romantically tragic and withering: roses heavy with ice are thawed with a deep heart of oud and fiery ginger.

Christine
Oregon, USA
Yule 2008 Winner

SNOWBOUND 2012
Frozen musk topped by worn leather, sultry sandalwood and a drop of sweetest honey.

Vajra W.
Oregon, USA
Yule 2008 Winner

STROKES OF GOLD 2012
Glimmering golden sandalwood, glittering vanilla blossoms and a shimmer of sweet clove bud.

VioletBlue
Florida, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

THE LOLLIPOP TREE 2012
Lollipop sweeties in all the colors of the rainbow are flavored with sugared winter fruits: pomegranate, fig, sour cherry, lemon, candied ginger, pineapple and clementine.

VioletBlue
Florida, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

THE NAUGHTY LIST 2012
Despite our best efforts to kiss up to the big guy in red, sometimes we can't help but end up on the naughty list!

Fluffy marshmallows slowly toasted over the fireplace flames, buttered rum spiked steamed vanilla milk, cacao musk, swirling pipe tobacco and a snicker doodle bribe.

Hottie McNaughty
Washington, USA

#OCCUPYTHENORTHPOLE
Why should Santa get all the credit? Let’s #OccupytheNorthPole and give props to some of the 99% that do all the work in the cold, white North - the reindeer!
This is in no way meant to demean or diminish the value or intention of the righteous #Occupy movement, of which I am in full support. In fact, the proceeds of the #OccupyTheNorthPole collection will be used to help us at Conjure Oils donate money to the Occupy movement enabling them to bail out consumer debt instead of Wall Street. Last year we were able to raise $250! Thank you!

DASHER 2012
Dashing bergamot blossom, guaiac wood, cardamom pods, toasted cinnamon, black amber, benzoin resin, pimento berry and polished mahogany.

DANCER 2012
Egyptian chamomile, rock rose, elemi resin, aged vanilla bean, sugared amber and dark patchouli SCO2.

PRANCER 2012
Snow-dusted cypress branches, steaming coffee, vetiver root and patchouli wood.

VIXEN 2012
Sweet honey, champaca blossom, vanilla orchid, ginger root and a sip of shimmering ruby pomegranate champagne.

COMET 2012
Black pepper, nutmeg, clary sage, starry black vanilla musk, labdanum absolute and stellar white sandalwood.

CUPID 2012
Sultry red musk, golden amber resin, red mandarin, crimson carnation and clove bud.

DONNER 2012
White pine, pimento berry, violet leaf, hinoki wood, birch bark, Himalayan cedar wood, rainbow iris and olibanum.

BLITZEN 2012
Lime zest, bergamot, night blooming jasmine, white tea, fresh skin musk, white amber, lily of the valley and brisk night air.

GINGERBREAD COVEN
Build-Your-Own-Gingerbread-Temple! Esmerelda, Inferna, Wendy, Terra and Marisol are back to celebrate Yule with you and have crafted all the goodies you’ll need to create the most delicious dwelling for all your spell castings!

INFERNA’S GINGERBREAD 2012
Nothing says lovin’ like somethin’ from the coven and Inferna’s gingerbread is no exception! Hand mixed and baked to perfection: ginger root, sifted cake flour, molasses, brown sugar and a pinch of chili pepper. Inferna wouldn’t have it any other way!

TERRA’S SPICED GUMDROP GEMS 2012
Terra spent all month in the candy caverns mining the perfect jelly gemstones that have just the right balance of clove, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice!

MARISOL’S SEA SALT CARAMELS 2012
Marisol’s caramels are a force of nature all on their own! Mouth-watering soft caramel, sugared milk, vanilla bean and a sprinkling of her own hand-harvested sea salt.

WENDY’S WICKED ICING 2012
Wendy’s whipped up a batch of her royal icing: confectioner’s sugar, vanilla and cream.

ESMERELDA’S CANDY WANDS 2012
Red and green swirls of peppermint hard tack candy sweetened with vanilla sugar and a hint of something sinister.


September 15, 2012

KWAIDAN - Japanese Ghost Stories
Conjure Oils' 2012 Hallows Collection!

Kwaidan is a collection of stories written in 1904 by Lafcadio Hearn shortly before his demise. To say he was a Japanophile is a bit of an understatement, as he has written volume after volume on the mythology and spirituality of Japanese culture at the turn of the century.

Like the 1965 eponymous film based on the work of Hearn, we've selected four stories to give you a glimpse into the demons and ghosts that haunt the land of the rising sun and to send a chill down your spine in the process! Some of the stories can be on the long side. Grab a cup of tea (or sake!) and settle in for a thrill. I guarantee it will be worth your time!

The text for the stories is taken from Sacred Texts. com (the best site ever for public domain spiritual works) and the illustrations are by Yasumasa Fujita from a hand made copy of Kwaidan crafted in 1932.

Selections from KWAIDAN are available in one size, two styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $20


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The Story of Mimi Nachi Hoichi
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Jikininki
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Mujina
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Yuki Onna
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13 July 2015

HAPPY EIGHTH BIRTHDAY CONJURE!

Eight years ago I took a chance on the Little Perfume House that Could. I collected all my books, notes, formulas, supplies and knowledge and decided to hang out my shingle. I learned how to make a website and quickly recorded all that I had worked on up to that point. The words, just sketches at first really, seemed to flow from my fingers. The site seemed to write itself and before I knew it, I was bowled over with orders, emails and messages from people all over the world. Conjure Oils' mission seemed to really resonate with people and I was happy and grateful to provide individual love and attention to everyone I could. As folks received their orders, they would order again and again. I received more messages of praise and inspiration. I was encouraged by friends, clients - even haters! They all allowed me to continue to grow commercially and creatively. My site design became more opulent and user friendly. I got one of my first large wholesale accounts and was able to afford an amazing printer so the labels now were stunning and in full color! (Aside from formulating perfumes, one of my favorite tasks is label design. At last, my Bachelors in Fine Arts comes in handy!) Over time, more categories were added, Limited Editions concocted, evil plots hatched. I say these things not out of self aggrandizement, but out of a need to give recognition to all those who have interacted with Conjure in any way: all the purchases, the custom orders, the patience with the turn around time, the recommendations, the gifts sent, the books loaned, the decant circles, the reviews written, the blog entries about Conjure, the Conjure County forum (that I need to work on to get it going again), the Facebook fans, the Twitter followers, the hoarders, the retailers and the girl I saw in Gresham who had a Conjure Oils tote bag. I fucking love you all. Madly.

As Conjure continues to grow, it is my dream to be able to offer more hand made bath and body products consistently. I would also like to build up the Etsy store with back stock and to push my comfort zone and begin to vend at various cons and festivals, as I get repeated requests to do so. I know the last year was hard on me and therefore Conjure. I am humbled and grateful that you all stuck with me through that trying period. I was overwhelmed with all the wonderful words of support and encouragement I received. I am particularly thankful to my husband Sterling for taking over the shipping aspect of Conjure. I truly appreciate all your efforts and ideas.

Conjure has allowed me to connect and share the love with people in ways I never thought possible. Strangers became clients and clients became friends and friends became family. Thank you to all of you

I love you all. Now on to the Birthday Celebration fragrance before I start weeping!

 

VIII - CONJURE OILS 8th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

Borrowing Pamela Coleman-Smith's amazing artwork from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, I present for Conjure's 8th birthday the 8th card in the Major Arcana: Strength.

The Strength card represents not physical strength, but inner strength. The ability to tame your fears and have the courage create the life you'd like to live. It also encourages the ability to endure the blocks, pain and madness life randomly puts in our path. This path to courage and resilience isn't a forced one; it is forged with love and compassion for yourself and for others. It bridges our id and the super ego by balancing and nourishing our ego, keeping it in a healthy and effective state of being. Only though love can we tame the beast of the world - the lion that roars without and within. Through purity of will and intention no perceived threat is insurmountable. Love is the key, as love is eternal. Open your heart to the endless possibilities that life has to offer. You hold the key.

Let your inner radiance glow vibrant and true: the clout of precious Indian cardamom infused sandalwood merges with heartwarming sweet tonka, invigorating ginger and golden Arabian frankincense. Shimmering top notes of courageous bergamot, bold blood orange and a proud drop of black pepper are the gleaming jewels in this potent philtre.

 

VIII - CONJURE OILS 8th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!

VIII - CONJURE OILS 8th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

26 June 2015

CELEBRATE EQUALITY!

Well that was a hiatus, wasn't it? After Ming! died, I had a heart thick with grief and endured a pretty heavy duty surgery on my pancreas (I'm fine! No worries!) but the healing and recovery from it has been sheer hell. I can endure physical pain and discomfort, but it deeply affected my energy and endurance. Couple that with general malaise and you have a recipe that kills even the most stalwart creative person's juices.

But today I'm back, bitches! I am INSPIRED by today's Supreme Court ruling that legalizes and recognizes marriage equality in all 50 states. It's truly a great day in America when the Constitution is upheld allowing equal protection under the law, freedom and liberty to all who live here. May our society continue this patriotic and proud pace!

While we take today to rightfully celebrate this historic victory, tomorrow it's back to work! There are many issues that we must lavish with our love and attention. Today's victory is but a step on the constant incline on the journey to justice, equality and liberty.

All proceeds (after basic costs and expenses. Read: most) will be donated to Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund, an organization that works to bring an end to GLBT youth homelessness. A truly worthy cause!

Allow me now to introduce these two commemorative perfumes: #LoveWins and Love is the Law

 

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

"Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins" - President Barack Obama's Tweet following SCOTUS' decision.

A jubilant and triumphant blend of vibrant crimson carnation blossoms. mandarin orange, yellow bergamot, green patchouli leaf infused aged vanilla resin and blue poppy finished with a kiss of violet.

 

LOVE IS THE LAW

Ol' uncle Al Crowley said it best: LOVE IS THE LAW. Use your freedom and liberty to celebrate the Scarlet Woman or Man in us all.

The deep lust filled scent of sacred sexuality: aged black patchouli seared with sensual cassia, enveloped in the essences of red and black musks and finished with the bite of dragon's breath.

 

CELEBRATE EQUALITY

#LOVEWINS and LOVE IS THE LAW
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25

6 November 2014

Hallows blessings, happy Day of the Dead and All Souls and Full Moon!

Typically, Halloween is my favorite holiday, but this year it is tinged with sadness. My dear cat of thirteen tears, Ming!, died unexpectedly on the 12th of October. Shortly thereafter it seemed like many people were losing their beloved companions. I felt so heartbroken that I was overcome with the desire to craft a ritual oil to help soothe the heartache and show respect for the furry friends that have passed on. The resultant Rainbow Bridge oil has been calming and reassuring to me. I hope it can do the same for those whose hearts still sting over the loss of their beloved pets. They truly are family.

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In addition to the Rainbow Bridge ritual oil, we'll be offering the Carnal Delights design-your-own-scent collection, the latest and spookiest installment of the Mixtape collection as well as adding a tobacco single note to the Apothecary line and we'll also begin the Yule contest! HALLOWS will be available until the end of the month.

Rainbow Bridge

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. Her bright eyes are intent. Her eager body quivers. Suddenly she begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, her legs carrying her faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together.... 

Author unknown...

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

A soothing and loving ritual oil created for those of us who have lost beloved pets. A portion of all proceeds will be donated to DoveLews, Portland's non-profit 24 hour emergency and pet ICU.

Comforting tonka bean, red patchouli, soothing vanilla musk, nourishing sweet milk, sacred woods and blessed tayberry,

 

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE RITUAL OIL
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25

SPIRITS IN THE TWILIGHT GARDEN: AUTUMN 2014

SPIRITS IN THE TWILIGHT GARDEN: AUTUMN 2014

SPIRITS IN THE TWILIGHT GARDEN: AUTUMN 2014
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

Spirits in the Twilight Garden takes the Mixtape collection in a bit of a different direction. Instead of a monthly installment, I'll start seasonal offerings that encapsulate the mood, the ambiance and the poetry of the season. Spirits in the Twilight Garden is a disembodied romp through the supernatural that we find during the end of October and the beginning of November. As the sun travels through the dark and mysterious sign of Scorpio, known for its associations with death, legacies, the underworld and the shadow aspects of our souls. Last month we were treated to an eclipse while both the sun and the moon were in Scorpio. It is not easy to have the darkness and the intensity of the sign thrust upon us. For me, I was tossed head long into the grieving process by losing my cat Ming! that put me into an existential tailspin from which I'm still trying to develop some equilibrium. The fact that Mercury is in Retrograde did little to help the matter.

I guess the moral of the story would be to be kind to one another. We don't know what they are going through, nor do they have any understanding where we're at emotionally. During these particularly dark and increasingly cold days, reach out in warmth, light and kindness. Be the comfort you seek. Be the light in the dark. Love always wins.

As with all other mixtapes, I don't own the songs, but though copyright laws and fair use, I am able to use the titles, band names and sample bits of lyrics. And because I don't like making money off of the intellectual property of others, I donate a portion of sales to MercyCorps. I hope that my adoration for the music shows through my offering the mixtape collections! If you're on Spotify you can follow the playlist HERE!

Lux in Tenebris,

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SPIRITS IN THE TWILIGHT GARDEN: AUTUMN 2014

(DON'T FEAR) THE REAPER - BLUE OYSTER CULT

"Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
Then the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew and then disappeared
The curtains flew and then he appeared
(Saying, "Don't be afraid")"

A melancholy and wistful blend of crisp night air, candle flame and eternal musk.

 

DEAD MAN'S PARTY - OINGO BOINGO

"It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?
Everybody's comin', leave your body at the door
Leave your body and soul at the door."

White bone musk, soulful patchouli, and an offering of vanilla blossoms.

 

LULLABY - THE CURE

"quietly he laughs and shaking his head creeps
closer now closer to the foot of the bed and
softer than shadow and quicker than flies his
arms are all around me and his tongue in my
eyes..."

Black musk, candystripe legs, crimson carnation, shivering cold sandalwood.

 

BLOOD BITCH - COCTEAU TWINS

"Don't damage my altar, don't damn this cold flame
Neither one or the other has much form or shape."

Black tea, red honey, frankincense, blackest amber.

 

SKOTOSEME - DIAMANDA GALAS

"Skotoseme!" ("Greek. Means sangre coriala lo meti, my blood runs inside thee. It’s a very violent love song." - Diamanda Galas)

Blood musk, shreds of oude, cinnamon, ginger, clove, black patchouli and aged myrrh.

 

BLACK ZONE - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

"Because the Black Zone's here to stay and it's
here to protect us, 'til that black and bitter day when test-tube
spills and blows us all away."

Bitter orange, blood orange, ginger, galangal, spiced myrrh and sinister grasses.

 

HEART AND SOUL - JOY DIVISION

"Existence well what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can.
The past is now part of my future,
The present is well out of hand."

Bleak, yet hopeful. Crystalline amber, cassia, black leather, ghostly bergamot, all anchored with aged patchouli

 

TEAR YOU APART - SHE WANTS REVENGE

"I want to hold you close
Soft breath, beating heart
As I whisper in your ear
I want to fucking tear you apart"

A violent and sexy blend of leather, dark musk, woodsmoke, dreamy opium smoke and the sting of cinnamon.

 

OUIJA BOARD, OUIJA BOARD - MORRISSEY

"The table is rumbling...
the table is rumbling
the glass is moving
"No, I was NOT pushing that time"

Otherworldly white sandalwood, spirit drawing kananga, mugwort incense, and holy frankincense.

 

RELEASE THE BATS - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

"Cool machine
Horror bat, bite
Cool machine, bite
Sex vampire, bite
Whoah, bite"

Horror bat bite! Black musk, bat wing leather, vanilla resin, crimson blossoms, and black amber.

 

THE KILLING MOON - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN

"In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels"

Lunar musk, murderous belladonna, dried tobacco, black sandalwood and midnight patchouli.


CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION

Autumn is a season most voluptuous and sensual. Colors in their crimson, orange and ochre vibrancy flash their iridescent fire from quaking leaves. The sky, in its dazzling display of darkness, threatens the diminishing light with clouds suspended heavily in the air, saturated with the thick storms of a thousand nights. Respite is found in the infinity azure expanse that arches effortless with the angles of sunlight, golden, slanting to earth creating a crisp, clean and shimmering aura to the world around us. A chill embraces the frosted air and our breath is etched in silver tendrils reaching heavenward. Seeking warmth and connection, we wrap our arms around ourselves and our loved ones and descend within; our thoughts deepen while our vision expands.

Conjure's Carnal Delights Collection is a celebration of the senses that the autumnal season ignites like no other. I've hand picked the fragrances that speak to me of deepest Autumn, of introspection, of sensuality and of delight. All fragrances are accords crafted in house unique to Conjure Oils!

In celebration of this season most wonderful, we're offering custom fragrances for a limited time. Depending on the success of the line, I may later offer candles, soaps, whips, sprays and lotions in the Carnal Delights Collection! It's up to you!

CARNAL DELIGHTS - CUSTOM FRAGRANCES - BACK FOR 2014!

Select up to five of the accords listed below to create your own signature scent! In order to prevent a back log, I can only accept orders for twenty five (or so) customs, so once the limit is reached, I'll mark the option as sold out.



CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION 

Selections from CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION are available in one size, five styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Single Note $25
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Two Notes $30
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Three Notes $35
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Four Notes $40
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Five Notes $45

 

CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION ACCORDS

THE ANCIENT ORCHARD
Apple Cider
Candy Apple
Caramel Apple
Cinnamon Donut
Fresh Hay
Fuji Apple
Green Apple 

CAFE de CHARNEL

Chai Tea
Cinnamon
Clove
Coffee
Cream
Cream Soda
Ginger
Hazelnut
Nutmeg
Sugar Cane
Treacle
Vanilla Bean

EARTHEN JEWELS

Black Lotus
Blood
Bonfire
Falling Leaves
Graveyard Dirt
Oakmoss
Petrichor
Rain
Spanish Moss
Tobacco

THE FARMERS MARKET

Blackberry
Butter
Chili Pepper
Chrysanthemum
Dahlia
D'anjou Pear
Fig
Fresh Pumpkin
Golden Honey
Lavender
Pomegranate
Pumpkin Bread
Red Rose
Sunflower
Sweet Orange
Whole Wheat Bread
Zucchini Bread

PARFUMERIE

Black Musk
Black Patchouli
Crystal Amber
Dark Amber
Dragon's Blood
Red Musk
Tonka Bean
Vanilla Musk
White Musk

THE SWEET SHOPPE

Candy Corn
Caramel
Caramel Popcorn
Cream Cheese Frosting
Dark Chocolate
Milk Chocolate
Pumpkin Pie
Red Velvet Cake
Spun Sugar

YULE CONTEST

Holiday Contest!

For the past eight years now (8th annual, REALLY? I can't believe it!) Conjure Oils has offered a contest for people to come up with a suggestion for a Holiday blend of their own design. Each and every year, I get more and more stunning, wonderful and creative entries and I'm hoping that this year will be no different!

Conjure Oils Holiday Contest 2014!!

Here's the contest: Come up with a name, a description, some notes, a story, an image. It doesn't matter which - you can develop the entire concept or just come up with one or two things. From these submissions, I'll select several ideas to create for the Yule line this year.

The winners will receive a 5ml bottle of their scent as well as a 30 dollar gift certificate good for anything on the Conjure Oils website in 2015 - we'll even cover shipping! ...not to mention you'll receive temporary fame on the Limited Editions page as well and be the envy of all your family and friends.

In order for me to potentially use them, all entries will become the property of Conjure Oils so make sure you want them out in the world before you submit your ideas! By entering the contest, you agree to give me permission to use your idea for production. If you don't want your name associated with your entry, let me know, ok? I'll respect your privacy. MULTIPLE ENTRIES ARE OK - (because last year I said one entry per person and it was widely ignored! LOL! You can enter more than once, but keep it under 5, just so I can stay sane and somewhat organized, ok? :D)

Please email your submissions to yulecontest (at) conjureoils (dot) com by November 15 and don't forget to include your contact info! Don't make me track you down. ;)

I'll pick the winners on the 20th and make the scents available around December 1st. If I can't decide, or there are too many ideas, I reserve the right to freak out, scrap the whole idea and save some ideas for next year.

May creativity and good luck be with you!

Vajra

 

22 September 2014

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY VAJRA & STERLING!

FALL IN LOVE - VAJRA & STERLING'S 5TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Five years! I am one of the lucky ones: I got to marry not only someone I love, but my best friend as well. Fall in Love celebrates our anniversary and marks the first day of fall as well - our favorite season!

Envelope yourself in the soft and sultry, where the love of fall and the falling of love collide: sugared fig, black amber incense, toasted coconut, crisp autumn leaves and a slathering of oud.

FALL IN LOVE - VAJRA & STERLING'S 5TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

FALL IN LOVE - VAJRA & STERLING'S 5TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

SEPTEMBER: THE DEATH OF SUMMER 2014
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

SEPTEMBER: THE DEATH OF SUMMER

September: The Death of Summer is the next installment of the Conjure mixtapes. Once again, it's a nod to the post-punk era but also branches out in some other surprising directions as well. Enjoy! I am allowed to use the titles because of copyright rules, but since I don't really like making money of the works of others, all proceeds after production costs will be donated to Mercy Corps. All lyrics are used through fair use. I do not own them. You can get the playlist if you're a member of spoitfy. Find Vajra Conjure Wright and the playlist September: The Death of Summer.

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MIXTAPE SEPTEMBER: THE DEATH OF SUMMER TRACKLIST

 

CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES - THE CURE

"Sometimes I'm dreaming
While the other people dance..."

The recollection of a fading dream: vanilla cream, Mirabella plum, Parma violet, ruby pomegranate, clove and a drop of ginger.

 

STELLA WAS A DIVER AND SHE WAS ALWAYS DOWN - INTERPOL

"At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
Her caresses caressed by fingers
And fat blue serpent swells"

Serpentine blue musk, salty sea air, bioluminescent blossoms and sapphire amber.

 

UNDER THE MILKY WAY - THE CHURCH

"Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty
Sound of their breath fades with the light
I think about the loveless fascination
Under the Milky Way tonight."

Toasted black tobacco, oud, aged vanilla resin, roasted almonds and kush.

 

A DAY - CLAN OF XYMOX


"Where are you?
So far away.."

Tonka bean, Indian patchouli, cinnamon, orange blossom, black currant and wildflower honey.

 

GRACE - JEFF BUCKLEY

"And she weeps on my arm,
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow "

Black patchouli, pink pepper, Indian jasmine, deep sandalwood and a sultry drop of ylang ylang.

 

I CAN'T HARDLY STAND IT - THE CRAMPS

"I can't hardly stand it
You're troublin' me
I can't hardly stand
It just can't be."

Sorrowful notes of King mandarin, bergamot, juicy peach, black tea and Moroccan myrrh.

 

I MELT WITH YOU - MODERN ENGLISH

"The future's open wide."

Dark chocolate, woodsmoke, toasted marshmallow and aged vanilla extract.

 

DIE INTERIMSLIEBENDEN - EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN

"In ihrem gemeinsamen Mund
lebt ein Kolibri
Mit jedem seiner Flügelschläge
dafür das Auge viel zu träge
Kulturen erblühen und vergehen
ganze Kontinente untergehen"

Delicate hummingbird attracting blossoms, honey incense, amber cream, spiced myrrh and white tea.

 

WICKED GAME - CHRIS ISAAK


"The world was on fire and no one could save me but you."

Delicious passionate torture: Wildberry, anise, cinnamon, orange blossom, Haitian vetiver, sandalwood, blood cedar and vanilla.

 

PINK MOON - NICK DRAKE

"None of you stand so tall
Pink moon gonna get ye all."

Pink grapefruit, delphinium, pink calla lily and crimson dragon's blood.

 

September 5, 2014

DARK CINEMA: HALLOWS 2014

 

STRANGE GEOMETRIES

Films from the 1920's. German Expressionism at its best!

A study in grayscale: black and white musk, black currant and white pepper.

 

THE OLD DARK HOUSE

The supernatural elements of the 1930's Old Dark House style of movie were usually not supernatural at all but, spoiler alert, usually the doings of the rich inhabitants. And they would have got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!

Musty notes of decaying wood and crumbling decadence: brandy, fading bouquets of calla lilies and cracked leather.

 

DRACULA

One of the legendary monsters from the horror world who deserves a scent of his own!

Mesmerizing notes of corrupted incense, blood musk, clove, Tunisian myrrh and blood red pomegranate.

 

FRANKENSTEIN

Reanimated and ready for revenge!

Electric notes of ozone and wet stone. Ponderously earthy with a tinge of bittersweet innocence.

 

THE MUMMY

Straight from the tomb to spread Egyptian terror to your nightmares!

Ancient kyphi is blended with Egyptian amber, parchment, leather and worn linen.

 

THE WOLF MAN

Clap for the Wolf Man! I saw him having a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. Transform into something wild!

Gypsy incense, deep forests and soft fur.

 

THE OUTSIDERS

Weird, otherworldly. It's either giant sized, radioactive, alien, or all three. The wail of a theremin and bulky latex monsters. Definitely a commentary on the age of atomic insecurity of the 1950's.

Green musk, bracing lime, Martian flora and a drop of mint.

 

A PLEASANT VENEER

It's all fun and games until you realize there was a triple homicide at your favorite vacation spot! Invokes films such as Psycho, The Shining or Amityville Horror.

All the trimmings of a perfect house: fresh mown lawn, fresh air and sunshine overshadowed by something absolutely sinister.

 

GRINDHOUSE

Combine the grunge of a bad roadhouse movie with a freewheeling view of human monstrosity and you've got a Hell of a flick. Add in some porn-staches and boobs for good measure.

Sleazy booze, cigar smoke, booze, maybe a hint of something green and illegal… and blood. Lots and lots of blood. Did I mention the booze?

 

SLASHER CHIC

Freddy, Jason, Michael Meyers. Three methods, one purpose, hack up them naughty teenagers!

A hell broth of the waters of Camp Crystal Lake, the steamy hiss of a boiler room and a dark Halloween night of crisp leaves and doom.

 

FAR EAST FRIGHTFEST

J-Horror. Eerie, incomprehensible, terrifying.

Notes of Japanese musk, juniper, green tea and osmanthus. Pale,, haunting and terrifying.

 

TORTURE PORN

Don't flinch! The basest of human cruelty displayed for all to witness.

The sweet smell of dark fear (dark chocolate) collides with singed flesh (bacon).

All your favorite Conjure Oils scents from seasons past you've come to expect at Hallows!


A GYPSY FLAME 2014
A gypsy flame in on the hearth,
Sign of this carnival of mirth.
Through the dun fields and from the glade
Flash merry folk in masquerade--
It is the witching Hallowe'en.

Pale tapers glimmer in the sky,
The dead and dying leaves go by;
Dimly across the faded green
Strange shadows, stranger shades, are seen,--
It is the mystic Hallowe'en.

Soft gusts of love and memory
Beat at the heart reproachfully;
The lights that burn for those who die
Were flickering low, let them flare high--
It is the haunting Hallowe'en.

--A.F. MURRAY, in Harper's Weekly, Oct. 30, 1909

Bewitching swirls of the bonfire smoke, spun sugar, warm caramelized popcorn and candy coated apples.

 

ABANDONED MORGUE 2014
Are you here on a dare and wishing you weren't, or is this your new nightly haunt? Either way, this old abandoned morgue has many stories to tell. Tonight we'll listen intently with the lights out!

Ghost of a bonfire, tonka bean, vanilla bourbon, Zanzibar clove, black amber and dark Indonesian patchouli.

 

THE AUTUMN WIND 2014
The Autumn wind — oh hear it howl!
Without — October's tempests scowl,
As he troops away on the raving wind!
And leaveth dry leaves in his path behind!
Without — without,
Oh hear him shout.
He is making the old trees bare;
Oh cruel, he,
To the old oak tree,
And the garden hedge so fair!
Oh, a wild and tyrannous king is he,
When he playeth his frolic in every tree.
And maketh the forest bare!

Excerpt from Halloween; a romaunt, with lays, meditative and devotional by A. Cleveland Coxe, 1845

Dried oak leaf and acorn, honey cured leather, toasted tobacco leaf and sun warmed hay.

 

HELL BROTH 2014
Actus Quartus. Scena Prima.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches:

1 Thrice the brinded Cat has mew'd.

2 Thrice,and once the Hedge-Pigge shin'd.

3 Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time.

1 Round about the Caldron go:
In the poysond Entrailes throw
Toad, that under cold stone,
Dayes and Nights, ha's thirty one:
Sweltred Venom sleeping got,
Boyle thou first I'the' charmed pot.
All. Double, double, toile and trouble;
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.

2 Fillet of a Fenny snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake :
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Toungue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
Lizard legge, and Howlets wing :
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble.
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble

3 Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe,
Witches Mummey, Maw,and Gulfe
Of the rauin'd salt Sea sharke:
Roote of Hemlocke, digg'd i'th' darke :
Liuer of Blaspheming Iew,
Gall of Goate, and Slippes of Yew,
Sliuer'd in the Moones Ecclipse :
Nose of turke,and Tartars lips :
Finger of Birth-strangled Babe,
Ditch-deliuer'd by a Drab,
Make the Grewell thick, and slab.
Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron,
For th' Ingredience of our Cawdron.
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire Burne,and Cauldron bubble.

2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.

Excerpt from Macbeth by William Shakespeare, 1603-1607

Black coconut, almond blossom, toasted patchouli, nutmeg, beeswax and bubbling green sugar cane syrup.

 

KILLER KLOWN 2014
No rest for the wicked! The darkness of the Dot Room gives way to a brightly lit funhouse of warped mirrors, garishly painted arches, and flashing strobes. In the smoky chaos, yellow-fanged mad clowns dart, popping out of the peripheries with honking horns, crazed laughter, or bloodied hand tools. Withered corpses bound cruelly into exaggerated poses line the walls, mimicking tight wire acts, animal tamers, and side-show acts, each one more nightmarish than the next.

Spun sugar, vanilla-white greasepaint, molten marshmallow and cherry-syrup blood.

 

MARA 2014
Mara is the Buddhist personification of Evil. Also known as Papiyan, ("more wicked") Mara (meaning "thirst" or "death") made every attempt possible to deter Siddhartha on his path toward Enlightenment by using armies of temptations such as: lust, hunger, thirst, sloth, cowardice, pride and fame, among others.

Bo tree bark, Indian sandalwood, thousand-petaled sacred lotus blossoms, warmed honey and pure vanilla absolute.

 

MURDER OF CROWS 2014
Every fall they gather in murderous shrieking clusters blacking out the branches in the oak and apple trees across the street. They caw and cackle in a long-overdue maniacal avian family reunion from Hell.

The softest touch of black leather feathers, oak splinters, acorn, crumbled leaves and baked apples drizzled in brandy all illuminated by creamy vanilla moonlight

 

OL' SCRATCH 2014
Ol' Scratch is a folksy epithet for Satan originating out of the legends of New England in the days before the Civil War. Some other pet names for the Prince of Darkness (other than Ozzy :D) are Old Nick, Old Bendy and Rodger (as in Jolly).

Thick slices of oven-fresh pumpkin bread slathered with butter and served with fresh cream and a drizzle of treacle

 

SUCCUBUS 2014
A demon who takes the form of a gorgeous human female specifically to seduce men. Like the incubus, the succubus may have been a scapegoat for infidelity or stray lust. Either way, the succubus has captured the imagination of men for ages, rousing all flavors of fear and fantasy.

African violet, sugar soaked vanilla, benzoin, coconut milk, triple cream, Egyptian sandalwood musk and red currant.

 

VORTEX TUNNEL 2014
You lose your unholy pursuit in the corn, finally reaching the safety of the lights you saw in the distance… only to find out someone has set up a carnival out here in the corn. The music piping from inside the great tent is cheery, but somehow off and disturbing, the notes off key and cracked turning their perky melody into a tune of complete derangement. A gaunt man in a ringmaster's costume stands by the entrance, accompanied by a shapely woman in spangled tights and a very nearly blank doll's mask. He grins wickedly, beckoning you to pass through the curtains held by his assistant and into the swirling darkness within.

Inside, you find yourself on a narrow walkway inside a tunnel painted with crazy psychedelic patterns. The motion of the tunnel makes the walkway twist and writhe, all but forcing you to close your eyes just to get through this fun-house of terror without falling down.

Sweet funnel cakes defiled by chaotic swirls of vanilla ice cream, topped with corrupt caramel syrup and washed down with hootch.

 

WENDY'S WICKED ICING 2014
Wicked witch Wendy has whipped up a batch of her royal icing!

Confectioner’s sugar, vanilla and cream.

 

WITCHING HOUR 2014
A midnight walk through the pumpkin patch on All Soul's Eve.

Spiced pumpkin, falling leaves, a black velvet cloak to pull close for warmth and a frankincense candle offering for the spirits residing in the nearby cemetery.

 

YUKI-ONNA 2014
The white woman bent down over him, lower and lower, until her face almost touched him; and he saw that she was very beautiful,--though her eyes made him afraid.

Wind whipped sugared vanilla snow, black orchid, ginger tea and ume blossom.

 

August 15, 2014

 

MIXTAPE: AUGUST GLOOM 2014

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

MIXTAPE: AUGUST GLOOM 2014

I am an unrepentant music lover. Particularly the post-punk era of the 1980's. I present for your consideration my monthly mixtape installments! For the next three (maybe more!) months, I plan on posting a seasonally appropriate mix just for you! I hope you enjoy them! Proceeds from the sale of these items after cost will be donated to Mercy Corps, a humanitarian organization, as I don't like making money off the works of others, even though copyright allows me to do so. Enjoy! All lyrics are used through fair use. I do not own them. You can get the playlist if you're a member of spoitfy. Find Vajra Conjure Wright and the playlist August Gloom.

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MIXTAPE: AUGUST GLOOM 2014: TRACKLIST

 

PINK ORANGE RED - COCTEAU TWINS

"And my defeat and hope
And sad and hope
Might not feel down
Don't listen, now"

Haunting notes of rain, black current and pomegranate anchored with deep, resinous amber.

 

THE CENTRE BULLET - THE TEAR GARDEN

"...as if you swallowed your own poison followed as you crawled up to the altar...."

A dark and dangerous mixture of black musk, almond, patchouli leaf, white tea, crystalline amber and a crimson drop of blood.

 

NEW DAWN FADES - JOY DIVISION

"Directionless so plain to see,
A loaded gun won't set you free.
So you say."

wine colored plums, tobacco, black agar, dragon's blood and tonka.

 

OPIUM - DEAD CAN DANCE


"Sometimes
I feel the ocean in my blood
See rain from the sky above
Her salt brined tears
And now
Those tears leave taste on my tongue
Like the warm rush you get from
Black opium"

Tunisian opium, black agar, helischirum and tonka

 

SONG TO THE SIREN - THIS MORTAL COIL

"Well, I'm as puzzled as a newborn child
I'm as riddled as the tide
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or shall I lie with death my bride?"

The salty sea that crashes against the breakers and the murky perfume of Death, my bride.

 

GOLDEN DAWN - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

"I'll be your slave, maybe you'll be my priestess..."

A high ritual oil for union: frankincense, myrrh, dragon's blood, holy sandalwood and blessed lotus,

 

SPELLBOUND - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHESS

"Following the footsteps
Of a rag doll dance
We are entranced
Spellbound"

A magickal mix of cinnamon, clove, dried black rose petals, aged vanilla resin,, Meyer lemon and jasmine. Truly bewitching.

 

SECOND SKIN - THE CHAMELEONS


"I realize a miracle is due
I dedicate this melody to you
But is this the stuff dreams are made of?
If this is the stuff dreams are made of
No wonder I feel like I'm floating on air"

Ancient woods, familiar ancient standing stones, heather and the breath of Loch Ness,

 

WORLOCK - SKINNY PUPPY

"wasted views,
that’s all they see blue,
hot blood, guilt, optic nerve.
with the right attitude you will succeed, blue.
self abusive recluse, too late for me."

Black incense, clove., steel cogs and roses.

 

BLACK OUT DAYS - PHANTOGRAM

"Black out days, I don't recognise you anymore."

Black musk, Tunisian myrrh, tobacco, preserved sugared fig,

 

 

05 July 2014

SEVEN, THE SHERWOOD FOREST COLLECTION and MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

SPIRITS OF ELEMENT

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25

SEVEN, THE SHERWOOD FOREST COLLECTION, MIDNIGHT in the GARDEN and SPIRITS OF ELEMENT RITUAL OILS

First, Happy SEVENTH Birthday, Conjure Oils! I cannot believe that the lucky number seven years have passed since I started the little perfume house that could! And it HAS! In the seven years that I've had Conjure not only have I learned trial-by-fire style about what it's like to own a business, but I've also come to know some wonderful talented crafts people, clients, helpers and customers, several of which I now consider close personal friends. You know who you are! Thank you so very much for allowing me to live one of my dreams! I love you.

For Conjure's seventh birthday perfume, *SEVEN*, I've taken inspiration from the Orisha Yemaya. She is the queen of the waters, mother of the world. Her number is seven and all things nautical are hers. She's the salt waters, tiny tears to the vast oceans. With her enormous heart she loves her children fiercely and will listen to your heartache as you weep your worries away on the shore. She'll wipe away your sadness with her blue skirts and cleanse you of your pain.

In the Sherwood Forest Collection, Robin Hood, or Robyn Hode in earlier manuscripts, is a character in English folklore who not only is a heroic outlaw, but an expert archer and swordsman. It wasn't until the 19th century that his band of Merry Men were added as his companions and their noble quest of robbing from the rich to give to the poor began. He has been popular since medieval days and his tales have been recorded and retold in poems, books and ballads since then. This series is fragrantly dappled with sunlight through the forest canopy; a courageous and heroic collection that is passionate and just. While the collection is named primarily after male characters, the scents are unisex.

Spirits of Element Ritual Oils is a collection dedicated to the spiritual entities that embody the elemental powers behind the energies of spirit, air, fire, water and earth developed by the alchemical works Paracelcus in the 16th century. Great for elemental ritual rites and to invoke the elements into your daily life. Also wonderful for enhancing your astrological sign, anointing candles, charms, amulets or sigils.

Lastly, we have Midnight in the Garden, a series inspired by the treacherously poisonous plants of the world. These herbs, roots, flowers and fungi have dark reputations ranging from the creation of Witches' flying ointment, the "possessions" that sparked the Salem Witch trials, to mundane uses such as disgruntled wives ridding themselves of husbands, to toxic eye drops used to beautify ladies of yore. Please note that these fragrances are just interpretations of the flower, root, fungi or herb. They do not contain components of their namesakes nor are they to be taken internally. They are, however, skin safe and gorgeously scented.

Thank you for seven years! Here's to seventy more!

Love,

*SEVEN*

 

*SEVEN*

Happy seventh solar return, Conjure! Dedicated to the Orisha Yemaya, the ocean mother of all.

Sun-ripened watermelon, crisp sea salt, minty cucumber lime water and cane sugar sweetened coconut shreds.

 

SHERWOOD FOREST COLLECTION

 

ROBIN HOOD

Green clad and lion hearted, he robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. He's a master archer, swordsman and hero. Leader of his band of Merry Men.

A courageous and kind hearted mixture of oakmoss, dashing sandalwood, tonka bean, blood cedar, dried tobacco, aged leather and winesap apple.

 

MAID MARIAN

Not a part of the original Robin Hood stories, Maid Marian was adapted into the Merry Men from various sources. During Victorian times she's the passive noblewoman and romantic interest of Robin Hood. In the 20th century she was depicted as a cross dressing tomboy who met Robin Hood in a fight that ended in a draw.

A heroic balance of power and beauty: white lilac, patchouli flower, Arabian rose, sugared sandalwood and cassia.

 

FRIAR TUCK

The happy-go-lucky ale loving clergyman of the troupe. He, like Maid Marian, developed separately from the Robin Hood mythos and joined the Merry Men after engaging Robin Hood in a battle of wits that ends with Friar Tuck carrying the outlaw across the river and tossing him in!

Pumpkin ale and church incense.

 

LITTLE JOHN

Robin Hood's lieutenant. A huge man with a small name that joined the Merry Man after battling Robin Hood with quarterstaves.

Black musk, oakmoss, dusty wood, salt and masculine musk.

 

WILL SCARLET

Nephew of Robin Hood and one of his earliest companions. He's an expert swordsman like his uncle.

Crimson carnation, cinnamon, clove, Himalayan cedarwood, red musk, bregamot and orange blossom.

 

ALAN-A-DALE

The minstrel of the Merry Men, Alan-A-Dale's loyalty was earned after Robin saved his beloved from having to marry another man.

Lemongrass, grape leaves, Florence iris and saffron infused amber.

 

MUCH THE MILLER'S SON

The youngest of the Merry Men, he was an experienced fighter and is often found brawling along side Little John.

White musk, crystalline amber, lime, ylang ylang, resplendent clove and polished wood.

 

SPIRITS OF ELEMENT RITUAL OILS

 

GNOME of EARTH

The Spirit of the Element Earth: fertile, moist, nurturing, stabilizing, grounding, green, receptive, gnomes, salt, crystals, pentacle, north, night, winter, melancholic, money, prosperity, employment, gold, touch, planet earth, Gaia, gravity, Orisha Oko.

Crossroads dirt, Indian jasmine, heady gardenia, heartwarming rose and French vanilla.

 

SALAMANDER of FIRE

The Spirit of the Element Fire: purifying, destructive, energetic, passionate, sexual, vibrant, salamanders, red, wand or athame, candles, flame, south, summer, noon, projecting, sight, glowing, choleric, desert, Sun, Ifrit, Mars, Brigid, power, will, Shango.

Haitian vetiver, bergamot, lime, Hawai'ian ginger, blood cedarwood, red amber, orange blossom, sultry cinnamon.

 

SERAPHIM of SPIRIT

The Spirit of the Element of Seraphim: akasha, the Void, outer space, starlight, rainbow, soul, angels, center, space-time, pure energy, bliss.

Aged vanilla resin, deep patchouli, tonka bean, holy sandalwood, three ambers, black musk, sacred cedar and blessed myrrh.

 

SYLPH of AIR

The Spirit of the Element Air: Intelligent, quick, east, yellow, tarot, sunrise, fairies, travel, freedom, sanguine, flowers, sylphs, knowledge, education, Aradia, Thoth, psychology, hearing, sound, mountain tops, beaches and other wind-swept areas, Oya, feathers, incense smoke.

Red apple, lavender, garden herbs, white amber and sweet cedar.

 

UNDINE of WATER'

The Spirit of the Element Water: Setting sun, west, purifying, taste, twilight, blue, phlegmatic. shells, chalice, flowing, healing, undines, mermaids, soothing, loving, psychic awareness, dreams, peace, marriage, Isis, receptive, Yemaya, emotional, silver.

Salt water, heirloom lilac, blue agave, ginger and blue musk.

MIDNIGHT in the GARDEN

 

ATROPA BELLADONNA

Also known as belladonna, deadly nightshade, devil's berries or death cherries. Used as an ingredient in witches flying ointment and as an ancient anaesthetic and to poison the tips of arrows. The name comes from the Greek Fate Atropos that cuts the thread at the end of life. The name Bella Donna is Italian for "beautiful woman" referring to the time atropa was used as eye drops to dilate the pupils of women, which was once considered sexy.

A deadly dark and gorgeous interpretation: black currant berries, blood cedar, opium poppy, red musk and a drop of thyme.

 

BLACK HENBANE

A psychoactive plant, used to make flying ointments and other witches' brews as its hallucinations were very visual and induced the sensation of flight. Henbane has been used as a anaesthetic poison since the Neolithic age and was used as a flavoring in beer, later replaced by hops in accordance with Germany's 1516 Bavarian Purity law.

Kush, patchouli, black rose and oud.

 

DATURA

Another member of the witches' weed club. Also known as Angel Trumpet, Jimson weed or Thorn Apple. Its hallucinogenic properties can cause death. Spiritually, it is used in prayers and devotional rituals to the Hindu deity Shiva.

Datura accord and glowing white florals anchored by golden sandalwood and tonka.

 

DEATH CAP

Responsible for 90% of global fungus related fatalities including two Roman emperors.

Rich loam, dark water, night blooming cereus and star anise.

 

ERGOT

During the winter of 1691 a group of girls went into convulsions, rambled incoherently and complained that bugs were crawling on their skin. They also spontaneously began to dance a dance known as Saint Anthony's Fire that caused blisters on the skin and burning sensations throughout the body. It was determined that they were possessed by the devil and according to one theory, this spurred the Salem Witch Trials. Three hundred years later the fungus ergot, a parasitic fungus with properties like LSD, was discovered growing on rye grain, a food commonly consumed at the time.

Red and black patchouli, lemon blossom, aged vanilla resin and raspberry.

 

MANDRAKE

The most fearsome member of the Nightshade family looks innocuous enough with a round of leaves, green flowers and tiny tomato-like poisonous berries. Also known as Satan's Apple or Mandragora, the true magic of this plant exists in the root that can appear forked into a small person with arms and legs. It was believed to cure demonic possession create powerful love philtres and soporific sleeping potion like the one given to Juliet of Shakespeare fame., It was also believed that the mandrake would give a blood curdling fatal shriek to the person who pulled the root from the ground or was in earshot of the scream.

Honey infused with mandrake accord, clove, hydrangea, nutmeg, myrrh, dewberry, mugwort and teakwood.

 

OLEANDER

A common shrub that produces white, pink, red or yellow blossoms that is so prevalent in has been implicated in a number of murders and accidental deaths over time. There is an urban legend that says a group of naive campers were killed because they used sticks from the oleander plant to roast their marshmallows and weenies.

Oleander accord, white peach, sassafras, tobacco and bourbon vanilla.

 

WOLFSBANE

Despite an ancient reputation as a witches' potion used to transform others into werewolves (Remus Lupin, anyone?) you may be shocked to know that wolfsbane, also known as aconite, does not actually create or destroy werewolves! The ancient Greeks did use it to poison the tips of their arrows to hunt wolves. In modern days they have found aconite useful in creating poisoned bullets!

White amber, soft sandalwood, fierce petitgrain, cucumber and white musk.

 

YEW

Known as the Graveyard Tree in England, not only because it was poisonous, but because Romans held early church services in the shade of yew trees to convert pagans to the new Christian religion. The trees can live up to three centuries and reach almost seventy feet in height. Every part of the yew is poisonous, with the exception of its bright red berries, but even those contain a toxic seed. Don't rip the tree from your garden yet! Scientists have found it to have powerful antitumor cancer fighting properties.

Pinon pine, teaberry, white spruce, teakwood, white birch and gray myrrh.

13 June 2014

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897

Full Honey Moon, Friday the 13th 2014 and Eleggua's Block Buster are available in one size, one style:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

Psychic Shield Ritual Oil is offered in one size, one style:

1/2 Ounce Clear Glass Bottle - $35

FULL HONEY MOON, FRIDAY the 13th, ELEGGUA'S BLOCK BUSTER and PSYCHIC SHIELD RITUAL OIL

Not only is today Friday the 13th, but it's also: the full moon, the Orisha Eleggua's feast day AND Mercury is in retrograde. I'd be remiss in my duties as potions mistress if I did not offer some sexy oily good times today! I was going to make one whiz-bang oil, but the energies were just not meshing for me, so I've decided to make four separate offerings.

The first, Full Honey Moon, celebrates the full moon in June. Called the Honey Moon because this is the traditional month of marriage, it's a celebration of love, unity and passion - partnered or just with ourselves!

Friday the 13th 2014 is a traditional hoodoo blend to turn sour luck into sweet success.

Eleggua's Block Buster is rooted in Lucumi tradition with plants, or ewe (pronounced A-way), that have a long standing reputation for road opening.

The last one, Psychic Shield Ritual Oil, is one I'm very excited to present to you! It is based on a recipe in Judika Illes' book Pure Magic (the book I always recommend to people when looking for a magickal primer) Handcrafted lovingly with Judika's blessing, this is a Conjure first as it will be offered in a 1/2 ounce clear glass bottle and filled with wildcrafted yarrow.

All oils are presented to the energy of the moon (no moonlight here in Oregon tonight - it's been raining all day.) and will be blessed by me as a Lucumi priest of Eleggua and as a witch by my drawing down the moon.

Enjoy!

 

FULL HONEY MOON 2014

Fall in love all over again, whether with yourself or another, there can never be enough deep, true, heartfelt sweetness in our lives.

Himalayan honey, vanilla infused patchouli and fresh Hawai'ian ginger.

 

FRIDAY the 13TH 2014

A traditional hoodoo blend to turn sour bad luck into sweet success!

Gingergrass, lemongrass, vetiver, High John the Conqueror root, tobacco, red clover, lavender, cinnamon bark, thyme and blood cedar.

 

ELEGGUA'S BLOCK BUSTER

Rooted in Lucumi tradition with plants, or ewe (pronounced A-way), that have a long standing reputation for road opening.

A perfume of coconut infused rum, cigar smoke and mango with a hearty pinch of secret Lucumi road-opening herbs blessed and presented to my Eleggua for added aché.

 

PSYCHIC SHIELD RITUAL OIL

A dynamic ritual oil that helps to create a mirror-like shield over the etheric body, keeping out unwanted energies, cosmic floaties, boogy men and other nasties.

Solar-infused sunflower oil, hand-crafted (by myself) St. John's Wort oil, rosemary essential oil, frankincense and myrrh, angelica flower essence all emboldened with a pinch of blessed salt and a sprig of wild-crafted (hand-picked by yours truly) pink yarrow.

Fat Tuesday fragrances are available in one size, nine styles:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

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PACZKI DAY 2014!

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND ! Celebrate Fat Tuesday Conjure style with our NINE Polish pastry inspired perfume oils! Growing up in Southeastern Michigan like I did, it wasn't hard to find a box of these delectable sweet treats! For those who don't know what a paczki is, (pronounced "poonchky") it's like a large huge doughnut stuffed to the brim with various intoxicatingly sweet fillings ranging from traditional plum and rose hip jam to more modern conventions like Bavarian custard, apple or raspberry. Though it's no typical doughnut - the paczki is sweeter and spongier. They can be topped with powdered or granulated sugar, or with icing. Truly, the mortal doughnut pales in comparison!

Paczki are a convenient way to get all of the sugar, fat and temptation out of the house before the sparse season of Lent rears it head. Fortunately, we've conjured a great way to get the paczki experience throughout whilst avoiding the calories as well! It's like magic! Indulge!

CONJURE PACZKI SELECTIONS

Packzi Day!PLUM JAM PACZKI
Sweet dough is filled with black plum jam and dusted with refined powdered sugar.

Packzi Day!BAVARIAN CUSTARD PACZKI
Fried pastry dough filled with thick vanilla Bavarian custard and coated with granulated vanilla sugar.

Packzi Day!ROSE HIP JAM PACZKI
Fresh paczki are served warm, overflowing with rose hip jam and drizzled with sweet honey sugar glaze.

Packzi Day!BLUEBERRY & GARDENIA PACZKI
Wonderfully sweet and deep fried dough dusted with powdered sugar, spice and filled with plump, succulent blueberry and gardenia flower compote.

Packzi Day!COCONUT CHOCOLATE CARAMEL CHAI PACZKI
A twist on a traditional favorite! A filling of toasted coconut flakes coated in chai spiced infused salted caramel stuffed to bursting in a flaky golden shell topped with a drizzle of milk chocolate ganache.

Packzi Day!CARAMELIZED APPLE & CHAMOMILE PACZKI
Fresh Granny Smith apples reduced with baker's sugar, cinnamon and gooey caramel packed in a delectable paczki pastry coated with a chamomile tea glaze. .

Packzi Day!LEMON CURD & ARABIAN JASMINE PACZKI
Creamy sweet lemon filling, fragranced with Arabian jasmine petals encased by a powdered sugar topped doughy delight.

Packzi Day!RASPBERRY & SWEET PEA PACZKI
Lovely red raspberries stewed with vanilla, sweet pea blossoms and pink rock candy sugar sweetly oozing out of a honey glazed paczki pocket.

Packzi Day!STRAWBERRY & HIBISCUS PACZKI
Plump and crimson strawberries, allspice, clove, sweet orange zest and gorgeous hibiscus flowers packed into its sweet and sticky balsamic glaze coated shell.

Paczki will available until April 21st, or until we sell out! And I must say this: while these do indeed smell good enough to eat, they are not in any way, shape or form intended for consumption, human or animal. External use only!

 

The CONJURE KREWE celebrates MARDI GRAS!

Join the Conjure Plague Circus as the good Doktor leads our rag tag krewe down paths devious and debaucherous!

Order all six of the Conjure Krewe and receive a free Gris Gris bag conjured by Mama Vajra herself! The bag comes along with a pip of a specially formulated anointing oil and instructions for use! The current Gris Gris we are offering can be found HERE. If you're ordering a complete set, please let me know your free Gris Gris selection either in the Message to Merchant section on the PayPal check out page, or send a separate email to vajra at conjureoils dot com.

You can also purchase the Gris Gris bags individually. They are $40 each and are available HERE.

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Selections from The CONJURE KREWE celebrates MARDI GRAS! are available in one size, one set:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Set of all SIX -
$120
(If ordering the set of six, please remember to send a separate email with your Gris Gris selection, or list it in the Notes to Merchant box at checkout!
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DOKTOR PLAGUE

Ringmaster and mysteriously dark leader of this motley Conjure krewe!

Smoked black tea, cardamom, aged myrrh, robust sandalwood, sweet sage and silver lavender.

 


COLUMBINE

Clever Columbine is an artful and confident juggler, carelessly tossing glass spheres, sharp toys, grenades and the hearts of the men who adore her to the delight and dismay of her audience.

Cherry blossom, guava fruit, blood orange, golden patchouli and sugared amber.

 


HARLEQUIN

Harlequin serves up his comedy nimbly with the aid of his robotic limbs, ever trying to catch the heart of Columbine with his acrobatics and foolish antics.

Crystalline amber, black coconut, sugared tobacco, vanilla musk, osmanthus and salted caramel.


PIERROT

Wrapped in a straight jacket and donning a gas mask, Pierrot is the picture of the sadness and madness born of unrequited love; he pines for Columbine whom he always loses to the agile Harlequin.

Blue iris, antiqued frankincense, red sandalwood, aged vanilla resin, bergamot and white carnations.

 


MLLE. JUDIE

Half human, half skeletal, Mlle. Judie tries her best to keep her brute of a husband, Punch, in line. She insists that one day she will get it through his thick skull that when baby sitting, one doesn't actually sit on the baby.

Red amber, black currant, kush, orange blossom honey and lush gardenia.

 


PUNCH

Despite his ability to fight the devil and win, Punch will always be just the the hen pecked husband and eternal tormentor of his formidable wife Mlle. Judie. He's all bark, and some bite, too!

Black musk, champaca blossom, red myrrh, cassia, burned sugar, narcissus, pomegranate and black patchouli.

CONJURING GRIS GRIS

Gris Gris Bags are available at Conjure Oils for a short time only!

Made by hand using a combination of organic and/or wildcrafted herbs, roots, semi precious stones, minerals, metals, shells and other mystical curios, these Gris Gris bags come in beautiful color appropriate pouches with a small charm affixed by hand to the exterior. Each Gris Gris comes with complete instructions on their preparation with suggestions on how to enliven them using various candle colors, moon phases, days of the week and instructions on how personalize them with anointing oils and personal concerns.

Before they're sent out to you, each Bag is prayed over and passed through sacred smoke that is burned as a daily devotional on my Boveda, or spirit altar.

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CONJURING GRIS GRIS BAGS are available in nine variations, one size. All Bags come with instructions.

One Gris Gris Bag - $40
Three Gris Gris Bags - $100
Set of all nine Gris Gris Bags -
$300

SOLD OUT!

CURRENT GRIS GRIS SELECTIONS:

TRUE LOVE - To attract LOVE. Pink bag, heart charm.

LA FLAMME - To enliven an existing relationship or attract SEX - Red bag, devil charm.

TREASURE CHEST - To draw :PROSPERITY - Green bag, coin charm.

GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT - To acquire employment that meets financial, mental, emotional and spiritual needs - Green bag, clock charm.

PEACE CLOUD - To create an aura of peace for the wearer - White bag, dove charm.

SPIRIT VEIL - To encourage COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD - Violet bag with skull charm.

THIRD EYE - To strengthen PSYCHIC ABILITIES - Silver bag with ankh charm.

BLUE FLAME - To create a fiery wall of PROTECTION - Haint blue bag with anti evil eye charm.

SHADOW WEAVER - To create PACTS WITH DARK SPIRITS - Black bag with inverted cross charm.

Please note that bag color and charm may vary in accordance with availability; any substitutions will be expertly chosen.

A Spiritualist's Statement: I have been called to offer these bags once again at this time by my spirits, as I have been reluctant to take on this project in the past, despite multiple requests. These aren't Mojo Bags - Mojo Bags, or Mojo Hands as they're often called differ slightly than Gris Gris in their ingredients, preparation, blessing and maintenance. Mojos have their history in the Hoodoo tradition, or African American Folk Magic. Gris Gris can be found in New Orleans, among other places, and are rooted in the Vodoun tradition. I've chosen to offer Gris Gris instead of Mojo because of the level of spirit work involved in their conception and creation. While making Mojos very much relying on prayer to make them a living spiritual tool, I feel it is more of a mundanely magical act in that I've really never needed much spirit communication in their creation. It's always been a more intuitive process for me. Gris Gris, on the other hand, incorporate more of my skills as a spiritualist into their construction. I've spent many hours in meditation speaking with my Egun (spirits of my dearly departed ancestors) designing their appearance, components and corresponding prayers, etc. I found that it was a much more of a spiritually collaborative effort and one that I've found to be quite healing personally and spiritually. For that I am grateful. I hope these Gris Gris bags will help to align your heart, mind and soul with the workings of your spirits.

January 29, 2014


IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME - LUPERTINE 2014 - $20

 

LOVE: IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME

English can be a bit lacking when it comes to ways to describe LOVE. I mean, there are compound words like in love, deep love, true love but they aren't words themselves. I thought it was interesting when I came across these unique Greek words for different variations for love to represent our Lupertine collection for 2014. I have crafted these very potent oils not only to be gorgeously fragrant, but to embody the properties of each type of love. If you want a good time, Ludus is what you want, want some crazy sexy time with a bit of danger? Eros is for you. And so it goes with each scent! All blended with the expertise that you can't find anywhere else other than Conjure Oils. Have a wonderful Lupertine and get the love YOU want! Of course, you can always just wear them because you like the scent! No harm in that. Either way, I hope you enjoy Conjure's Lupertine 2014 collection!

 

EROS: SEXUAL PASSION

Named after the Greek god of fertility and represented an idea of passion and desire. It also had a connotation of danger and wildness, where people would lose themselves and "fall" in love. as in a type of possession.

Immerse yourself in the madness and passion and danger that the desire of Eros can bring.

Provocative patchouli is melded with sultry notes of juicy hips of rose and bloody thorns, sacred crimson apple incense and myrtle all topped with passionate aged vanilla resin.

 

PHILIA: DEEP FRIENDSHIP

Philia, simply put, is friendship. Valued by the Greeks far more than the sexuality of Eros, Philia was the love between brothers in arms who fought in combat together. It embodied friendly loyalty, sacrifice, and sharing your deep dark feelings with one another. In this day and age of Twitter and FaceBook it really wouldn't hurt to take an inventory and see how many people how many people with whom you truly share Philia.

Deep, everlasting and dedicated cedar, palo santo and black copal are brightened and enlivened with Meyer lemon and blissful sweet pea.

 

LUDUS: PLAYFUL LOVE

The playful love shared between children or young lovers. The twinkle of belly butterfly you get from flirting or the joy that comes from good times spent with friends, or going out dancing and connecting with a mysterious stranger and enjoying a mutual attraction.

Mysterious coconut meat, smoky patchouli, honey dusting powder, peach brandy, pink musk and all-night-long loving moonflower.

 

AGAPE: UNIVERSAL LOVE

Selfless love and perhaps the most radical of all the loves. This was love that was extended to all people: friend, family, stranger, foreigner, etc. In Buddhism they call it "universal loving kindness" and in Christianity it is known as "gift love". Empathy is a hard love to master these days, it seems. It seems some folks find it simpler to forget people in need and dismiss those who are different.

One of the greatest things we can do spiritually is to exercise out compassion and our empathy. Be sure to extend your love to the world and all the people in it.

Oils sacred to Green Tara, our lady of compassion, blended to open the heart and help one to extend love to all: Golden sandalwood dhoop, gorgeous and resplendent bergamot, green lotus, heady gardenia and frangipani. A truly loving and radiant sacred elixir. .

 

PRAGMA: LONG STANDING LOVE

Long-Standing love developed between couples that have spent ages together. Pragma is about making the relationship to last over the long haul by learning how make comprises, cultivate patience, understanding and tolerance

As psychiatrist Fromme says, be sure you're not spending too much time falling in love. Make sure you're crafting something that will last and work for you over the long term.

A loving and enduring fragrance crafted with the spirit of endurance and love that lasts: Mighty redwood, Dragon's Blood, crimson carnation, High John the Conqueror infusion, aged myrrh, blonde patchouli and purifying sage, juniper and a tiny drop of cinnamon so the passion endures with the relationship.

 

PHILAUTIA: LOVE of the SELF & NARCISSISM

Philautia, or Self Love and Narcissism. Philautia the love of the self allows for a wider capacity to love. If you like yourself and are secure there will be lots of love to be spread about. As Aristotle says, "All friendly feelings for others are an extension of a man's feelings for himself.

In Narcissism one becomes self obsessed and focuses only one's personal fame and fortune.

PHTLAUTIA is a fragrance to enhance one's love for the self and the healthy desire to spread that love throughout the universe. A cosmic blend that helps energy grow and expand throughout the universe. It it designed to only send and increase love.

Red rose, Parma violet, Aged vanilla, neroli, golden frankincense and Indian patchouli.

 

NARCISSISM is an elixir crafted to heal the heart and create more independence, self love and security. Perfect for anointing the self, the heart or the soles of the feet.

Narcissus, Arabian sandalwood, oakmoss, Meyer lemon, orange peel,, ginger, olibanum and a drop of clove.


SEVEN WONDERS 2014 - $20

 

SEVEN WONDERS

Inspired by a particular show on TV that shall remain nameless because I don't want any trouble, I present you with a list of Seven Powers - a list of seven psychic properties that young witches must pass in a test if they are to become the Supreme of the coven. These perfumes are designed to embody the spirit of the power, not to actually give you the power. I'm not that good! I may be a Supreme, but unfortunately, I'm one that comes with sour cream! Now I've said enough! On we go to the powers...

 

CONCILIUM

Mind Control.

Black sandalwood, orris root, heliotrope, calamus root, honeysuckle and a drop of ylang-ylang

 

DESCENSUM

To travel between life and the afterlife.

Graveyard dirt, opoponax, Spanish moss, calla lily, opium poppy.

DIVINATION

To predict the future either with a tool such as cards, shells or crystals, or with the mind alone.

Vanilla musk, a drop of vetiver, orange, clove, licorice, violet, Moroccan myrrh, and night blooming white ginger blossom.

 

PYROKINESIS

To set fire to objects with the mind.

Chipotle ice cream, cinnamon sugar, red pepper infused vanilla simple syrup.

 

TELEKINESIS

The ability to move and levitate objects with the mind.

English lavender, white sage, pinon pine, white amber, Himalayan cedar, juniper berry, yew needles.

 

TRANSMUTATION

To transform from one location instantaneously.

Heliotrope, wisteria, vanilla incense, patchouli, pomegranate, African violet and a touch of wild leather.

 

VITALIUM VITALIS

To raise someone or yourself from the dead..

Coconut, Sudanese frankincense, Red sandalwood, magnolia, cinnamon, ambergris, lotus and deep, black myrrh.

 

January 1, 2014


2014 AND BLACK MOON 2014

Selections from 2014 AND BLACK MOON 2014 is available in one size, two fragrances.

$20 per 5ml amber apothecary bottle.

Styles
Fragrances:

2014 AND BLACK MOON 2014

2013 proved to be a challenging year for me. Despite the highlight of having Sebastian in April, I was presented with a host of post partum complications that landed me in the hospital multiple times for varying stays. The shortest being a couple of days and the longest, a month. Now that I'm medicated, I hope these episodes will reduce and that I get some of my vim and vigor back! (In case you were wondering, it's also why there was no Yule update. It's hard to compose perfume and not have access to my studio!)

So you'll forgive me if I'm a tad boisterous in wishing you a wonderful 2014! I'm excited for what this year will bring. I'm no fool - I'm not going to tempt fate and say that it couldn't get any worse than 2013 (because it can!) So I'd like to set the intention of 2014 to one of healing. And tonight's super new moon in Capricorn will set the tone for the internal magick that needs to take place if we're to heal ourselves, our relationships, our planet, our politics, our country (where ever you are), or our cosmos. It's a mighty undertaking that begins inside and from there, extends out reverberating infinite and eternal.

Happy 2014. Let's make this one count.


2014

The Darkling Thrush
BY THOMAS HARDY

I leant upon a coppice gate
      When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
      The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
      Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
      Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be
      The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
      The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
      Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
      Seemed fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among
      The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
      Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
      In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
      Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
      Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
      Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
      His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
      And I was unaware.

Hopeful notes of bergamot, orange peel, pink grapefruit and golden frankincense twinkle amidst layers of ginger, sugared sandalwood, succulent peach and white patchouli.

 


BLACK MOON

Today is the day of the super new moon, as it is at perigee and the closest to us that it will be all year! Under the influence of Capricorn, it's an ambitious time for new beginnings, building confidence, order, patience, prosperity, responsibility, stability, success and the willpower to bring about manifestation.

Dark lunar oils of black patchouli, benzoin and seared vanilla are expertly blended with oils under Capricorn's spell: opuim poppy, magnolia and yew. The fragrance is then empowered with Purifoy flower essences* of trillium, fairy lantern and pungent desert parsley.

*Flower essences are unscented elixirs that are vibrational remedies that possess etherial, soul deep balancing properties.

Trillium Trillium ovatum Singing Your Song, Divine Feminine, Rebirth, Purity, Innocence, Triple Goddess, Renewal, Cleansing, Forgiveness. 

Fairy Slipper Calypso bulbosa - uncommon ('No Pick' Essence) -  Magic, Divinity, Regal, Moving Into Other Realms, Grace, Fairy Realm, Playfulness.

Pungent Desert Parsley Lomatium grayi - Gratitude, Openness, Self Worth, Clears Abandonment.

Essence descriptions from PurifoyFlowerEssences.com

2014 and Black Moon will be available until February 1, 2014. Or longer. :)

October 13, 2013

Guess what?!? It's Goth Chick Appreciation Day Once Again!

While it might have its origins in a silly Facebook meme, Goth Chick Appreciation day has stuck a chord with thousands of Goth, (or recovering Goth) ladies out there and it's completely understandable why! So much of the year we spend fending off questioning or horrified looks from people - it's nice to have a day to be honored and at least one day a year where our wardrobe makes sense!

I made this one available in May for a brief period, so I don't have many bottles left for this year. And honestly, I think this is the last time I'm going to be able to offer it because of component issues, so if you've been on the wrought iron cemetery fence, now is the time to get yours!

GOTH CHICK PRIDE - last dance edition
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles

Show your Goth spirit! Aged black patchouli, sexy garnet pomegranate, clove tobacco, vanilla smoke and red musk. Destined to be a classic!

SWAG!

You can get all sorts of Goth Chick Pride goodies like T-shirts, mugs and posters in our Zazzle store! Lookit HERE! We've sold quite a few! So, I'll just keep on flashing y'all my mug! <3


Here's Miss Vajra modeling her own Conjure Oils' Goth Chick Pride long sleeve t-shirt. You, too, can have your very own!


GOTH CHICK PRIDE 2013 - last dance edition
Limited Edition

$20.00 for 5ml Perfumed oil

Goth Chick Pride is limited to a run of about 13 bottles. Once we're out, we' re out! FOR GOOD.


 

October 4, 2013

THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN - HALLOWS 2013

At long last! Hallows 2013 is LIVE and ENORMOUS at Conjure Oils! It's the time of year that I most look forward to creating and because of that I sometimes often let my inherent perfectionism get the better of me! But like Alfred E. Newman, I don't worry because I think, and I hope you do as well, that it's worth the wait. Truly, you're getting my very best and strongest work in exchange for the few extra days it takes for me to polish the collection until it's sparkling!

This year, I've taken my inspiration from The Book of Hallowe'en, written by Ruth E. Kelley, published in 1919. It is a fascinating little tome that covers the history of the holiday dating back to the sun worshipping Druids leading up to the observation of the holiday as it was celebrated at the turn of the last century! I'm sure that you'll find this year's Hallows update to be poetic, quirky, whimsical and steeped in Victoriana - just as you've come to expect from Conjure!

SHIPPING

Because we're getting Hallows off with a bit of a late start this year, know that all Hallows orders placed will be shipped within FIVE business days, so you can enjoy your seasonal sniffies in a timely fashion! Last day for orders that will arrive on or by the 31st of October is 25th October, domestic and October 18th for International orders. Hopefully the USPS will deliver them without glitch once they leave here, but I can only guarantee my ship date, not the delivery date! :D

HALLOWS 2013 - RESURRECTED, ETSY & EBAY

In addition to the newest collection, we will be resurrecting:

the KWAIDAN collection from last year in in its entirety,

THE DANCE OF DEATH in its German fierceness.

Again, you can get a custom scent created in the CARNAL DELIGHTS collection, ,

along with the Hallows staples you've come to look forward to each year in THE GHOST OF HALLOWS PAST!

If there are particular scents you'd like to have that weren't made available this year, you may have some luck in our ETSY shoppe as we're going to be adding some Hallows bottles from updates of yore during the entire month of October! Also feel free to make requests; I may be able to dig some classics out for you. Just send a convo via ETSY or an email.

I have three bottles of Whore of Babylon ORIGINAL FORMULA up for auction on EBAY in the next week or so! The money received from the sales of these items will be donated to Planned Parenthood. Let sexy times stay sexy and there's nothing more sexy than being healthy! Make sure you're subscribed to our newsletter, EVOCATIO, so you can get the heads up that the new items are live!

ODDMENT EMPORIUM & OTHER DELIGHTS!

If the success of the Summer offering was any indication, I think you'll find the Autumn update in the Oddment Emporium just as thrilling! Taking inspiration from the FaceBook page, The Grandiloquent Word of the Day, a page that illustrates outmoded, superfluous, and outdated words and gives them new life in a humorous, often, irreverent way. I recommend it highly! We will also be adding the next installation to the seasonal Parasol collection that was started in the summer with Fire Dragon Parasol! These scents will be available in 5ml perfumes, lotions, scrubs, body sprays and candles!

Unique to the Hallows update, we'll be adding the following items to the Emporium for the season: Pumpkin Body Butter (glorious glitter optional!) and Halloween candles poured in delightful tins festooned in many festive designs from pink glow in the dark punk rock girl skull and crossbones girls, to black and white stripes framing a grinning pumpkin! All available in seasonal scents and vibrant colors!

These will be available in the next week or so along with the Oddment Emporium update.

DANCING IN THE DARK

Also in the spirit of the Hallows season for a limited engagement Conjure will be offering 13 ritual oils for use in matters of the dark arts: good ol' fashioned cursing, spiritism, necromancy, coercion, domination, damnation and all things hellishly devious and devilishly hideous!! Use at your own peril! Curios only: We will not be held responsible for any dings on your Karmic credit report or any pacts signed with any demonic figures, in blood or otherwise.

Dancing in the Dark will go live along with the Oddment Emporium update very soon! Stay tuned! Remember to sign up to EVOCATIO so you'll know right away!

YULE CONTEST TIME!

Every year, Conjure Oils invites each citizen of Conjure County to contribute to our Yule collection. We ask that you send your ideas, (in the form of one email per person, please!) It could be everything from a feeling to a long drawn out concept. I will select the entries that I feel best fit together into a comprehensive whole. The people who's ideas I use will each get $50 in Conjure Credit to spend in 2014! That contest is a go as of right now, so hop to it, yo! Email your entry, when you're ready, to yulecontest at conjureoils.com. All submissions must be received by November 1, 2013. Winners will be notified right before the Yule line goes live, around Mid November. Good luck, everyone! Fine print: All entries are property of Conjure Oils and by entering the contest to agree to terms and conditions and waive any right to intellectual property or ownership once they're emailed in. We'll do what we want with them! Muahahah!

And now for the love of all things dark and unholy, I present for your consideration AT LONG LAST...

THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN 2013

A collection of thirteen darkly delightful scents inspired by The Book of Hallowe'en, written by Ruth E. Kelley, published in 1919.


THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN

Selections from THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN are available in one size, three fragrances or a set of all three items. 

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

 

THE AUTUMN WIND
The Autumn wind — oh hear it howl!
Without — October's tempests scowl,
As he troops away on the raving wind!
And leaveth dry leaves in his path behind!
Without — without,
Oh hear him shout.
He is making the old trees bare;
Oh cruel, he,
To the old oak tree,
And the garden hedge so fair!
Oh, a wild and tyrannous king is he,
When he playeth his frolic in every tree.
And maketh the forest bare!

Excerpt from Halloween; a romaunt, with lays, meditative and devotional by A. Cleveland Coxe, 1845

Dried oak leaf and acorn, honey cured leather, toasted tobacco leaf and sun warmed hay.

 

DEATH of the FLOWERS
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the wither'd leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrub the jay
And from the wood-top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day.

"The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago,
And the wild rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow:
But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sun-flower by the brook in autumn beauty stood,
Till fell the frost from the cold clear heaven, as falls the plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen.

Excerpt from Death of the Flowers by William C. Bryant, 1900

Frosted wild rose, the decay of exotic orchids moribund at the end of their season, goldenrod, mauve asters, woodland moss, African violet and twilit musk.

 

A GYPSY FLAME
A gypsy flame in on the hearth,
Sign of this carnival of mirth.
Through the dun fields and from the glade
Flash merry folk in masquerade--
It is the witching Hallowe'en.

Pale tapers glimmer in the sky,
The dead and dying leaves go by;
Dimly across the faded green
Strange shadows, stranger shades, are seen,--
It is the mystic Hallowe'en.

Soft gusts of love and memory
Beat at the heart reproachfully;
The lights that burn for those who die
Were flickering low, let them flare high--
It is the haunting Hallowe'en.

--A.F. MURRAY, in Harper's Weekly, Oct. 30, 1909

Bewitching swirls of the bonfire smoke, spun sugar, warm caramelized popcorn and candy coated apples.

 

THE HAUNTED CHAMBER
.Each heart has its haunted chamber,
Where the silent moonlight falls!
On the floor are mysterious footsteps,
There are whispers along the walls!

And mine at times is haunted
By phantoms of the Past
As motionless as shadows
By the silent moonlight cast.

A form sits by the window,
That is not seen by day,
For as soon as the dawn approaches
It vanishes away.

It sits there in the moonlight
Itself as pale and still,
And points with its airy finger
Across the window-sill.

Without before the window,
There stands a gloomy pine,
Whose boughs wave upward and downward
As wave these thoughts of mine.

And underneath its branches
Is the grave of a little child,
Who died upon life's threshold,
And never wept nor smiled.

What are ye, O pallid phantoms!
That haunt my troubled brain?
That vanish when day approaches,
And at night return again?

What are ye, O pallid phantoms!
But the statues without breath,
That stand on the bridge overarching
The silent river of death?

The Haunted Chamber by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1893

Red musk, black opium tar, narcissus, pomegranate blossom, myrrh and patchouli leaves soaked in vanilla extract.

 

HELL BROTH
Actus Quartus. Scena Prima.

Thunder. Enter the three Witches:

1 Thrice the brinded Cat has mew'd.

2 Thrice,and once the Hedge-Pigge shin'd.

3 Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time.

1 Round about the Caldron go:
In the poysond Entrailes throw
Toad, that under cold stone,
Dayes and Nights, ha's thirty one:
Sweltred Venom sleeping got,
Boyle thou first I'the' charmed pot.
All. Double, double, toile and trouble;
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble.

2 Fillet of a Fenny snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake :
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Toungue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
Lizard legge, and Howlets wing :
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble.
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and Cauldron bubble

3 Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolfe,
Witches Mummey, Maw,and Gulfe
Of the rauin'd salt Sea sharke:
Roote of Hemlocke, digg'd i'th' darke :
Liuer of Blaspheming Iew,
Gall of Goate, and Slippes of Yew,
Sliuer'd in the Moones Ecclipse :
Nose of turke,and Tartars lips :
Finger of Birth-strangled Babe,
Ditch-deliuer'd by a Drab,
Make the Grewell thick, and slab.
Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron,
For th' Ingredience of our Cawdron.
All. Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire Burne,and Cauldron bubble.

2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.

Excerpt from Macbeth by William Shakespeare, 1603-1607

Black coconut, almond blossom, toasted patchouli, nutmeg, beeswax and bubbling green sugar cane syrup.

 

JACK-O-LANTERN with TERRIBLE TEETH!
I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters
And I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs 
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o'-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.

Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg, 1916

Fresh pumpkin, corn husk, golden sandalwood and the musk of a crisp October night.

 

POMONA
I am the ancient apple-queen.
As once I was so am I now--
For evermore a hope unseen
Betwixt the blossom and the bough.

Ah, where's the river's hidden gold!
And where's the windy grave of Troy?
Yet come I as I came of old,
From out the heart of summer's joy.

Pomona by William Morris, 1891

Glorious winesap apples, amber sap, sun-scorched grass and a touch of clary sage.

 

THE SPELL
With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground,
And turn me thrice around, around, around.
Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame,
And to each nut I gave a sweet-heart's name.
This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd,
That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd.
As blaz'd the nut, so may thy passion grow,
For 'twas thy nut that did so brightly glow.
"With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground,
And turn me thrice around, around, around.

Excerpt from The Spell by John Gay, 1714

A steamed pumpkin-hazelnut latte drizzled with a vanilla caramel swirl.

 

THE HOLLOW MEN
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

Dried straw, lavender, and wormwood stuffed scarecrow with weathered leather and rusted metal stained with forgotten blood.

 

THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM
Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer --

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

Sandalwood incense, crow black cedarwood smoke, black poppy seed, pomegranate husk, tonka bean and silver mugwort.

 

FROM PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONE
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

Aloe vera, Saguaro cactus blossom, chaparral, creosote, cumin, cacao, chili pepper and gravel root.

 

MULTIFOLIATE ROSE of DEATH
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

Black, white and crimson roses, stargazer lily, lily of the valley, labdanum, kush, black cherry juice, red patchouli, cardamom and amber cream.

 

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

The Hollow Men by T.S. Elliot, 1925

Pumpkin stout with notes of prickly pear juice, D'anjou pear, black plum and lavender.

 

HALLOWS RESURRECTED 2013

Kwaidan is a collection of stories written in 1904 by Lafcadio Hearn shortly before his demise. To say he was a Japanophile is a bit of an understatement, as he has written volume after volume on the mythology and spirituality of Japanese culture at the turn of the century.

Like the 1965 eponymous film based on the work of Hearn, we've selected four stories to give you a glimpse into the demons and ghosts that haunt the land of the rising sun and to send a chill down your spine in the process! Some of the stories can be on the long side. Grab a cup of tea (or sake!) and settle in for a thrill. I guarantee it will be worth your time!

The text for the stories is taken from Sacred Texts. com (the best site ever for public domain spiritual works) and the illustrations are by Yasumasa Fujita from a hand made copy of Kwaidan crafted in 1932.

Click on the titles of the stories to read the chilling tales!


KWAIDAN RESURRECTED 2013

Selections from KWAIDAN RESURRECTED 2013 is available in one size, twelve fragrances.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

THE AUGUST ASSEMBLY
Everywhere above the tombs, the fires of the dead were burning, like candles.

Fierce and ghostly: Conjure Oils' own crimson dragon's blood accord, clove, ginger and cassia are softened with Japanese red musk, red mandarin and luminous white tea.

THE BATTLE AT DAN-NO-URA
Hoichi lifted up his voice, and chanted the chant of the fight on the bitter sea,--wonderfully making his biwa to sound like the straining of oars and the rushing of ships, the whirr and the hissing of arrows, the shouting and trampling of men, the crashing of steel upon helmets, the plunging of slain in the flood.

Black and starless skies coupled with turbulent and bloodied waters: Bruised musk, dried black currant, antiqued patchouli, murky gray amber, maritime juniper, bois de rose and the tormented memories of blood soaked metal, fathomless grief and boundless loss.

MIMI-NASHI-HOICHI
From the time of his adventure, he was known only by the appellation of Mimi-nashi-Hoichi: "Hoichi-the-Earless." A blind man famed for his skill in recitation and in playing upon the biwa. It is said that when he sang even the goblins [kijin] could not refrain from tears.

The fading scent of a summer night thick with the tricks of demonic forces: Hoichi sits in silent meditation surrounded by the fragrance of an ancient moribund garden at the season's end. A spectral osmanthus blossom is carried crisply on the night air accompanied by the crumbling of Japanese maple leaves crunching under the ghostly samurai's foot as he draws near. The polished teak wood biwa rests silently next to Hoichi, reflecting the glow of the last firefly as the black inky musk of inscribed prayers is lifted heavenward propelled by fear and the body heat generated by Hoichi's trembling heart. The cold metallic tang of blood congealing on Hoicihi's head completes this ghostly portrait.

ONI BI
The Demon Fires

Tunisian amber, red musk, black myrrh, African violet, tonka bean and bergamot reinforced by a supple leather accord

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JIKININKI
I have been obliged to feed upon the corpses of the people who die in this district: every one of them I must devour in the way that you saw last night.

Dried blood musk, the chilled air of October, bleached bone and offerings of incense, chrysanthemums and toasted rice.

THE RUINOUS ANJITSU
On the top of a hill lighted by the last rays of the sun, one of those little hermitages, called anjitsu, which are built for solitary priests.

Hinoki, black myrrh, vanilla husk, orris root, bergamot, yuzu and night blooming jasmine tea.

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AN ITINERANT SOBA-SELLER
Was it anything like THIS that she showed you?" cried the soba-man, stroking his own face--which therewith became like unto an Egg.

Bone musk, pine sap. oakmoss, faded sandalwood, cade and scorched willow.

MUJINA
Then that O-jochu turned around, and dropped her sleeve, and stroked her face with her hand;--and the man saw that she had no eyes or nose or mouth!

Pearl musk, black lotus, blonde patchouli, aged tobacco blanc, golden honey and quince.

WEEPING AT THE MOAT
A woman crouching by the moat, all alone, and weeping bitterly.

Still water, water lily, gingergrass, clove, hiba wood, dragon's blood and blackberry blossom.

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MOSAKU & MINOKICHI
In a village of Musashi Province, there lived two woodcutters: Mosaku and Minokichi.

Mahogany, Mirabelle plum, red amber, golden sandalwood, smoked patchouli and sugared pomegranate.

O-YUKI
Even as she screamed, her voice became thin, like a crying of wind;--then she melted into a bright white mist that spired to the roof-beams, and shuddered away through the smoke-hold... Never again was she seen.

White tea, crystalline amber, spun sugar, oleander, white opium and stargazer lily.

YUKI-ONNA
The white woman bent down over him, lower and lower, until her face almost touched him; and he saw that she was very beautiful,--though her eyes made him afraid.

Wind whipped sugared vanilla snow, black orchid, ginger tea and ume blossom.


Resurrected for 2013

It seems that the end of October and early November is the time of year where many cultures have holy days honoring death. From Los Dias de los Muertos to Samhain tide this has been the season to honor, revere and even celebrate the role death has in our lives. Using three works of art as inspiration, we are offering a trilogy of fragrances to pay tribute to the ancestors, to show respect for the power of the spirit of Iku (Yoruban personification of Death) and to the metaphysical associations that are part and parcel to the concept: transitions, inevitable change and destruction that clears the way to creation. Maferefun Oya, Kali, Hecate, Set, Baron Samedi and the Ghede, Egun, Yewa and all other spirits who work and exist in such a nebulous and liminal space fraught with a spectrum of human emotion: from the depths of suffering and grief stemming from senseless and tragic loss to the heights of grace and light embedded in those moments where death is a release from pain and an ascension into the Great Mystery.

The fragrances have been formulated to be worn layered together, but they are perfectly suitable to be worn individually

The Dance of Death series will be available until the Sun exits the sign of Scorpio in November.


THE DANCE OF DEATH SERIES

Selections from DANCE OF DEATH SERIES are available in one size, three fragrances or a set of all three items. 

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20
Set of all three $55.


RITTER, TOD und TEUFEL
Albrecht Dürer
copper engraving, 1513

RIDER, DEATH and DEVIL: A knight, protected by the armor of his faith, is surrounded by the grotesque images of the Devil and Death. Note the Memento Mori symbolism of the hourglass reminding the soldier that his time on earth is finite and the skull in the bottom left corner confirming the inevitable to us all.

Tunisian black myrrh, holy sandalwood, Persian musk, charred wood, frankincense absolute, desecrated incense, cassia, pink grapefruit, and aged patchouli.

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DER TOD als ERWÜRGER - ERSTER AUFTRITT der CHOLERA auf einem MASKENBALL in PARIS 1831
Alfred Rethel
wood-carving, 1851

Death the Strangler - First Outbreak of Cholera at a Parisian Masquerade Ball in 1831: Death pays a visit to a party and the results are devastating. Playing mock fiddle with bones and surrounded by corpses, Death stands centrally while the doomed musicians attempt an escape in the top left. Seated on the stairs is the personification of Cholera dressed in Egyptian finery.

Tonka bean absolute, black patchouli, white sandalwood, ginger CO2 extract, bone musk, orange blossom, vanilla resin absolute, Sudanese amber, blood orange, opoponax and tulsi.

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DER TOD als FREUND
Alfred Rethel
wood-carving, 1851

Death the Friend: Death rings the church bells for the ringer who sits in an apparent deathly repose in the top right. The sun rise out the window reminding the viewer that the cycle of life will continue and transformation is assured.

Antique patchouli, tonka absolute, vanilla resin, ruh khus, tendrils of Spanish moss, neglected leather, graveyard loam and Parma violet.

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CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION

Autumn is a season most voluptuous and sensual. Colors in their crimson, orange and ochre vibrancy flash their iridescent fire from quaking leaves. The sky, in its dazzling display of darkness, threatens the diminishing light with clouds suspended heavily in the air, saturated with the thick storms of a thousand nights. Respite is found in the infinity azure expanse that arches effortless with the angles of sunlight, golden, slanting to earth creating a crisp, clean and shimmering aura to the world around us. A chill embraces the frosted air and our breath is etched in silver tendrils reaching heavenward. Seeking warmth and connection, we wrap our arms around ourselves and our loved ones and descend within; our thoughts deepen while our vision expands.

Conjure's Carnal Delights Collection is a celebration of the senses that the autumnal season ignites like no other. I've hand picked the fragrances that speak to me of deepest Autumn, of introspection, of sensuality and of delight. All fragrances are accords crafted in house unique to Conjure Oils!

In celebration of this season most wonderful, we're offering custom fragrances for a limited time. Depending on the success of the line, I may later offer candles, soaps, whips, sprays and lotions in the Carnal Delights Collection! It's up to you!

CARNAL DELIGHTS - CUSTOM FRAGRANCES - BACK FOR 2013!

Select up to five of the accords listed below to create your own signature scent! In order to prevent a back log, I can only accept orders for twenty five (or so) customs, so once the limit is reached, I'll mark the option as sold out.



CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION 

Selections from CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION are available in one size, five styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Single Note $20
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Two Notes $25
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Three Notes $30
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Four Notes $35
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Five Notes $40

 

CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION ACCORDS

THE ANCIENT ORCHARD
Apple Cider
Candy Apple
Caramel Apple
Cinnamon Donut
Fresh Hay
Fuji Apple
Green Apple 

CAFE de CHARNEL

Chai Tea
Cinnamon
Clove
Coffee
Cream
Cream Soda
Ginger
Hazelnut
Nutmeg
Sugar Cane
Treacle
Vanilla Bean

EARTHEN JEWELS

Black Lotus
Blood
Bonfire
Falling Leaves
Graveyard Dirt
Oakmoss
Petrichor
Rain
Spanish Moss
Tobacco

THE FARMERS MARKET

Blackberry
Butter
Chili Pepper
Chrysanthemum
Dahlia
D'anjou Pear
Fig
Fresh Pumpkin
Golden Honey
Lavender
Pomegranate
Pumpkin Bread
Red Rose
Sunflower
Sweet Orange
Whole Wheat Bread
Zucchini Bread

PARFUMERIE

Black Musk
Black Patchouli
Crystal Amber
Dark Amber
Dragon's Blood
Red Musk
Tonka Bean
Vanilla Musk
White Musk

THE SWEET SHOPPE

Candy Corn
Caramel
Caramel Popcorn
Cream Cheese Frosting
Dark Chocolate
Milk Chocolate
Pumpkin Pie
Red Velvet Cake
Spun Sugar

All your favorite Conjure Oils scents from seasons past you've come to expect at Hallows!


THE GHOSTS OF HALLOWS PAST - RESURRECTED 2013

Selections from THE GHOSTS OF HALLOWS PAST - RESURRECTED 2013 are available in one size, multiple styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

Styles
Fragrances:

 

ABANDONED MORGUE 2013
Are you here on a dare and wishing you weren't, or is this your new nightly haunt? Either way, this old abandoned morgue has many stories to tell. Tonight we'll listen intently with the lights out!

Ghost of a bonfire, tonka bean, vanilla bourbon, Zanzibar clove, black amber and dark Indonesian patchouli.

 

CALAVERA DE AZUCAR 2013
Celebrate El Dia de los Muertos swirling in sumptuous scent!

Muscovado sugar, royal icing and meringue powder with a slight hint of metaphysical white musk.

 

HANSEL UND GRETEL 2013
Nibble nibble like a mouse, who's been nibbling at my house?

A gingerbread house decorated with spice drops and butter cream frosting. The faint smell of a witch's brew filling the enchanted woods and roaring cook stove perfect for roasting a greedy little boy or girl.

 

MAUSOLEUM 2013
The dusty stillness of the afterlife.

Emerald moss, black orchids, cold stones and holy water.

 

MIDNIGHT DREARY 2013
Maybe it's the long winter looming around the corner? Perhaps it's the lengthening of the evening hours that signal the death of summer? Perchance it's simply sorrow for the lost Lenore? I couldn't tell you. But Poe's passion for the macabre (and maybe the love of laudanum) have led you down a dark path this evening. Will the sun ever rise again? In this midnight dreary mood, the answer is unlikely.

Pale ghost lilac and melancholy moonflowers decorate an elaborately antique mahogany table. Fig and clove, wafts of opium smoke hang heavy in the parlor as an open window carries a draft of night air and autumn leaves.

 

MURDER OF CROWS 2013
Every fall they gather in murderous shrieking clusters blacking out the branches in the oak and apple trees across the street. They caw and cackle in a long-overdue maniacal avian family reunion from Hell.

The softest touch of black leather feathers, oak splinters, acorn, crumbled leaves and baked apples drizzled in brandy all illuminated by creamy vanilla moonlight

 

PUNKIN' HEAD 2013
No tricks here! Just sweet treats!

Juicy, spicy pumpkin blended in with adorable creamy bits of cheesecake slathered in caramel sauce.

 

SUCCUBUS 2013
A demon who takes the form of a gorgeous human female specifically to seduce men. Like the incubus, the succubus may have been a scapegoat for infidelity or stray lust. Either way, the succubus has captured the imagination of men for ages, rousing all flavors of fear and fantasy.

African violet, sugar soaked vanilla, benzoin, coconut milk, triple cream, Egyptian sandalwood musk and red currant.

 

WITCHING HOUR 2013
A midnight walk through the pumpkin patch on All Soul's Eve.

Spiced pumpkin, falling leaves, a black velvet cloak to pull close for warmth and a frankincense candle offering for the spirits residing in the nearby cemetery.

 

WHEW! Happy Hallows, ConjurePunks! I'll get your goodies out to you ASAP! <3 Contact me with any questions! <3 Vajra

September 23,2003

SONG OF SONGS & UNENDING LOVE

Happy 4th Wedding Anniversary to Vajra & Sterling who were wed on the Autumnal Equinox, September 22nd, 2009.

Two fragrances to celebrate four years together!



SONG OF SONGS

I am my lover's and he desires me
Come, my darling
Let us go out into the fields
And spend the night in the villages
Let us wake early and go to the vineyards
And see if the vine is in blossom
If the new grape bud is open
And the pomegranates in bloom.

There I will give you my love
The mandrakes will spray aroma
And over our door will be precious fruit
New and old
Which I have saved for you, my darling.

The Song of Solomon 7:10-13

Sun-baked desert spices of clove, saffron and mandrake are cooled in the midnight sun and set swirling through the vineyard, mingling with the intoxicating aromas of muscadine blossom and crimson grenadine branches heavy with flower..

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UNENDING LOVE

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times.
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

Chthonic and eternal aged black Egyptian patchouli is infused with antiqued vanilla resin, amber paste and opoponax, A passionate heart of crimson carnation, red mandarin and exotic Moroccan myrrh pulses a sensual rhythm while shimmering and ephemeral top notes of black narcissus, bergamot zest, stargazer lily and romantic pink jasmine revel in their dance ecstatic.

SONG OF SONGS & UNENING LOVE
Hand-blended to order and decanted in a 5ml amber glass apothecary bottles.

$20 each.

Available until September 30, 2013 or until supply has been exhausted.

 

 

 

July 13, 2013


CONJURE OILS 6TH ANNIVERSARY!

Happy anniversary, Conjure! You're six now. Six whole years.

SIX YEARS?!? Wow.

That means if Conjure were a child, it would be a very fragrant first grader!

In all seriousness though, these past six years have been so many things: amazing, scary, wonderful, terrifying, encouraging, educational, silly, serious, seriously freaky and mostly fun!

Six years ago, I was just a little Iyawo fresh off the mat with nothing more than a book of formulas, ideas and dreams, a crate of oils, a heart filled with passion and a directive from Oshun to make perfumes for the people. Six years later, I have over a thousand formulas, enough components to fill a small aircraft hangar, and more heart and passion that you can shake a stick at. I also have love. Which when it comes down to it, that's the best part: my sweet three year old daughter Miss Lucy, my little ginger baby Sebastian, my accomplice Sterling and each and every one of you. Some of you have been with me from the very beginning (*waves at Valna, my first customer*) some of you are new to the Conjureverse, but you are all precious to me. And it's more than because you spend money here. It's WAY more than that. It's the friendships that have been forged, the connections made. Things have never been golden for this business. I've had to bust my ass to get where I am but there is no way in hell I could have done this without you, your input, feedback, support, perfectly timed kindnesses and love. There's that word again. LOVE. It is why I breathe. Everything I do is in love; the way of the Love Warrior. Our tribe. It's why I call this little perfume house that could CONJURE. A living verb that manifests the desires heart and mind into delights tangible, a world of our own making. Let's keep making our magick, our dreams. our tribe. Let's keep CONJURE alive. Together.

Thank you.


TRIPLE SIX - CONJURE OILS 6TH ANNIVERSARY

A daring, devilish delicious elixir, simply sinful and searingly sexy!

Six layers of Devil's food cake debauchery spiced with Ceylon cinnamon and Indonesian clove bud accompanied by an oozing scoop of Mexican vanilla bean ice cream slathered with caramel sauce smoked with lapsang souchong. Served doused with rum and set ablaze!

Thanks to the inimitable Paula Schricker for the devil cake drawing! See more of her amazing art at her site, Lycanthrotech.

June 23, 2013


It's summer in the Oddment Emporium! And with that, we're offering these six sexy selections in multiple formats! From 5ml bottles of Passionate Perfume to 8oz of Wicked Whip, you can slather yourself in layer after layer of sizzling summer sexiness!

FIRE DRAGON PARASOL
First in a series of four seasonal parasols, the Fire Dragon Parasol is symbolic of midsummer; growth, strength, protection, vitality.

Smouldering vanilla, scorched patchouli, neroli, blood orange and bamboo.

HELIOPHOBE
This one is for all the gingers, pale kids, freckled fiends and sun fearing folks out there! Cooling and refreshing!

Coconut water, Tahitian tiare, aloe vera, crystalline ginger and iced amber cream.

MIDNIGHT
Escape from the burning heat of midday.

"This is our time, the night's our day
We'll dance this fading life away."

-Abney Park "The Wrong Side"

Pomegranate blossom, blackthorn, night-blooming magnolia, honeysuckle, aged vanilla resin and a drop of clove infused black patchouli.

POTTER'S FIELD PICNIC
Grab your besties and your beasties, some delicious nosh, your favorite beverages and hand pick a bouquet of wildflowers for the ancestors. It's time for everyone's favorite high school pastime - a twilight picnic in the cemetery!

Kudzu blossom, scuppernong, Spanish moss, sweetgrass, sweet peach tea and the scent of graveyard loam cooling in the silvery-blue dusk.

SOL NIGER
In the alchemical Great Work, or Magnum Opus dating back to the first century, Sol Niger (the Black Sun) is the first phase in the physical and spiritual transmutation that creates the Philosopher's Stone and leads one on a journey to individuation. In stage one, we're met with putrefaction and decomposition. Carl Jung attributed this stage two distinct psychological states.

In the first state, we have unio naturalis, a state of imbeddedness where the ego is enmeshed with its surroundings. Here there is no separation between the self and the other. "Ignorance is bliss" is a good way to describe this realm.

In the next state, nigredo or the blackening, we find the dark night of the soul where one becomes acutely, painfully aware of the separation between the self and the other. This gives rise to the recognition of the shadow self and the chaos and melancholy that comes with it.

However, all is not lost to despair! This darkness gives way to the next stage, albedo, the light at the end of the tunnel and the ascent from the depths of darkness. But that is another Sol for another day...

Moroccan myrrh, sugared violet, lilac, stargazer lily, ghost poppy, patchouli blossom and sandalwood soaked vanilla.

VOLUPTUARY
A devotee of all things luxurious and pleasingly sensual.

Sexy red musk, dried tobacco, black pepper, Indian patchouli, cardamom, tonka bean, cacao husk and aged vanilla resin.


PERIGEE SIX TWENTYTHREE THIRTEEN - SUPER MOON '13


On June 23, we were treated to the magick of a super moon! As she travels in her elliptical journey around the earth, there is a point in the moon's orbit where she is closest to the earth, or perigee. To those of us admiring the moon from earth during this time, she appears 14% larger and 30% brighter, the tides are at their highest and with the human body being approximately 60% water, one can only imagine the influence the lunar tides have over us all!

Thirteen essences sacred to the moon were used to craft this fragrance. It can be described as a mysterious lunar philtre that is as invigorating as the night air and enchanting as a moonlit dance. PERIGEE can be used to alter consciousness in sacred circles, as an anointing oil for intense spell work or used as a fragrance when you need an extra spark of enchantment!

In a sacred space, the components were lovingly combined in a crystal vessel, corked then left outside to be exposed to the energies of deep night and moon at her fullest. In the morning, I decanted PERIGEE into 23 5ml brown glass apothecary bottles and then tucked away in a dark cupboard keeping them from the sun's rays.

PERIGEE will be shipped to you protected in a black bag that has a beautiful lunar amulet hand stitched to it. PERIGEE really is a work of art made with skill and love and destined to be a staple in your or a loved one's magickal cupboard,

White sandalwood, myrrh resin, saffron, narcotic nutmeg, white gardenia, moonflower, blackberry, orris root, bergamot, star jasmine, Madonna lily, white rose and vanilla husk.

May 22, 2013

Happy World Goth Day! Goth Chick Pride and Darkling are available TODAY only!


HAPPY WORLD GOTH DAY!

May 22 has been designated by the Goth powers that be as World Goth Day, a day for us darklings to celebrate our selves, community and spirit. 
This year, Conjure will be celebrating by making the wildly popular Goth Chick Pride and the NEW Darkling available for today only!



GOTH CHICK PRIDE

Show your Goth spirit! Aged black patchouli, sexy garnet pomegranate, clove tobacco, vanilla smoke and red musk. A classic!

DARKLING

Black musk, unholy incense smoke, crypt moss, opoponax and black plum with a faint sprinkling of graveyard dust. It's to die for! 

GOTH CHICK PRIDE & DARKLING are available in one size, two styles: SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$21

Please indicate your desired size and fragrance from the drop down menus below then click the Add To Cart button to complete the selection.

GOTH CHICK PRIDE & DARKLING will be available until the end of May 22nd.

Don't forget, we also have shirts, posters and mugs available with the Goth Chick Pride logo on them in ourZazzle shop! 

Here I am modeling my very own t-shirt!


Stay spooky, darklings!
Vajra

April 29, 2013

Happy Birthday to my Beloveds!

SUGAR AND FILIGREE - HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY, MISS LUCY!

Join me in wishing Miss Lucy a happy third birthday in the Newfangled Notions collection!

Aged vanilla infused musk, pink candy floss, quince, rock candy and angel food cake.

MOODY BASTARD - HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY, STERLING!

On April 21st, my dear hubs turned 30. And while he may be in deep denial over it, I still find cause for celebration! (And yes, my husband, my daughter and my son were are all born in April within two weeks of one another!) Sterling's birthday falls on the cusp between Aries and Taurus which I believe gives him a tendency to be rather intense and moody. (Sterling shares a birthday with Robert Smith from the Cure and we all know what kind of reputation that guy has for being melancholy and cantankerous! There just may be something in the stars that day.)

In honor of all the gloomy curmudgeons of the world, I present Moody Bastard, a blend most dark and brooding.

Black patchouli, smoked vanilla resin, shredded tobacco, oakmoss, teak, black tea and Indian sandalwood.

MOODY BASTARD is available in one size, two styles: SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$20

Please indicate your desired size and fragrance from the drop down menus below then click the Add To Cart button to complete the selection.

MOODY BASTARD will be available until the end of May, or until supplies are exhausted.

April 22, 2013

EARTH DAY

Updates today include:

*Nursery Rhymes Collection

*Goths in Trees 2013

*Le Sacre du Printemps 2013

Join us is welcoming the newest edition to the Conjure family, Sebastian Ray Wright! He was born on Friday April 12 at 12:49pm. In celebration, we've resurrected the Nursery Rhymes line that was created for the birth of our Lucy in 2010. We've also added his own selection, Little Boy Blue and What Are Little Boys Made Of?


NURSERY RHYMES are available in one size, fourteen styles

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$20

Please indicate your desired size and fragrance from the drop down menus below then click the Add To Cart button to complete the selection.

Nursery Rhymes will be available until the end of Summer, or until supplies are exhausted.

LITTLE BOY BLUE

Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Where is the boy that looks after the sheep?
"He's under the haystack, fast asleep."
Will you wake him?
"No, not I; For if I do, he'll be sure to cry."

Golden spun cornflower honey, hay absolute, dandelion, French lavender and vanilla infused amber.

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WHAT ARE LITTLE BOYS MADE OF?

What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of?
Slugs and snails And puppy-dogs' tails,
That's what little boys are made of.

Mud pies, petrichor and patchouli mischief

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ALL AROUND THE MULLBERRY BUSH

All around the mulberry bush
The monkey chased the weasel.
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun.
Pop! goes the weasel.

A penny for a spool of thread,
A penny for a needle.
That's the way the money goes.
Pop! goes the weasel.

Up and down the City Road,
In and out of the Eagle,
That's the way the money goes.
Pop! goes the weasel.

Half a pound of tuppenney rice,
Half a pound of treacle,
Mix it up and make it nice,
Pop! goes the weasel.

Juicy ripe mulberries, toasted rice and a trace of treacle warmed with fig and a light dusting of nutmeg and clove

BAT BAT COME UNDER MY HAT

Bat, bat, come under my hat,
And I'll give you a slice of bacon;
And when I bake,
I'll give you a cake,
If I am not mistaken.


Devil's food cake, chocolate ganache, Conjure Oils' Apothecary dragon's blood and jasmine blossom musk

CURLY LOCKS

Curly Locks, Curly Locks,
Will you be mine?
You shall not wash dishes,
Nor feed the swine,
But sit on a cushion
And sew a fine seam,
And sup upon strawberries,
Sugar, and cream.


Raw sugar and vanilla bourbon extract are whipped into sweet cream clouds and served on fresh strawberry-filled tarts

HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE

Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Crystallized ginger, Indian sandalwood, black amber, vanilla resin and coconut milk.

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THE ITSY BITSY SPIDER

Itsy Bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
Now Itsy Bitsy spider went up the spout again


Night Queen, lily of the valley, rain musk and ozone

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LITTLE MISS MUFFET

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away

Steel cut oats, Conjure Oils' Apothecary Raw Honey, whole milk, succulent black raspberry and orange blossoms

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MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY

Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

Red patchouli, mandarin orange, frankincense, vanilla blossom, tobacco leaf, brown sugar and pink peppercorns

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RING AROUND THE ROSY

Ring around the rosy
A pocketful of posies
"Ashes, Ashes"
We all fall down!

Black rose incense, night blooming cereus, sweet pea, teakwood and orris root


STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT

Star Light Star bright,
The first star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.

Stargazer lily, sugar cane, black amber, red patchouli, butter cream and black tea


THE OWL AND THE PUSSY CAT

The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are, you are, you are,
What a beautiful Pussy you are."
Pussy said to the Owl "You elegant fowl,
How charmingly sweet you sing.
O let us be married, too long we have tarried;
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows,
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose, his nose, his nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling your ring?"
Said the Piggy, "I will"
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon.
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand.
They danced by the light of the moon, the moon, the moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

Honey rose, quince fruit, sparkling bergamot, sweet myrrh, a dark, calm sea and luminous moonlight musk


TWINKLE TWINKLE LITLLE STAR

Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?
Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky
When the blazing sun is gone, when he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light, twinkle, twinkle all the night.
Then the traveler in the dark, thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go, if you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep, and often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye, 'till the sun is in the sky.
As your bright and tiny spark lights the traveler in the dark,
Though I know not what you are - twinkle, twinkle little star

Valencia orange, golden frankincense, white amber, white grapefruit, opalescent musk and a shower of glowing sandalwood stars drifting in deep labdanum and oud ocean

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WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?

What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice,
And everything nice,
That's what little girls are made of.

Steamed milk, chai spice, vanilla bean infused simple syrup and a sprinkling of powdered honey


EARTH DAY 2013 - GOTHS IN TREES

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND ! With a title inspired by a blog I once saw, Goths in Trees was our first ever Earth Day limited edition from 2012! Using all natural, organic/wild crafted oils, we've resurrected the finest just for you. We'll also be donating $3 from each sale to SAVE THE ORANGUTAN, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the habitat and well being of these wonderful and precious creatures.

Deep and earthy amyris and balsam peru, gritty patchouli, ho wood and oakmoss brightened with olibanum, sweet orange and a subtle drop of ylang ylang sunshine!

GOTHS IN TREES is available in one size, two styles:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $26

Available until May 30, 2013

Resurrected for these long, lovely days of Spring....

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS - RESURRECTED

Scents inspired by the fevered passions of composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinski

Le Sacre du Printemps, or the Rite of Spring, is a legendary ballet rife with sexuality, virility, primal, ancient magics and pagan revelry. Penned in 1913, it is one of the best examples of musical innovation that heralded the Modern period of music. It has inspired many - from Fantasia to Frank Zappa - and continues to ignite the hearts and minds of artists to this day.

We at Conjure can think of no better devotion to Spring than to create a fragrance collection based on this wonderful and exhilarating work of fine art. This is a conceptual line, offering Conjure's interpretation of the music, the myth and the meaning that resounds within the imagination.

Enjoy the rebirth and the rapture.

Fragrances in the LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS - RESURRECTED collection are available in one size, two styles:


5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $20

Danses des Adolescentes

The Dance of the Young Girls; a study in innocence.

Creamy orchid, soft skin musk, a blush of pink jasmine, white tea, candy floss and the finest gowns of raw silk and linen.

Jeu du Rapt

Ritual of Abduction; thief of hearts. Evocative of the myth of Persephone and the betrayal and agony she felt as she was spirited away to the underworld.

Crimson pomegranate, Moroccan fig, smoked vanilla sugar, soft moss, amber resin, aged black tea and opium poppy resin.

Rondes Printanières

Spring Rounds. Warm, sweet and renewing as the first day of Spring. This is the scent of hope.

Vanilla cream, pink hyacinth, ruby grapefruit, scarlet hibiscus, cake flour, caramelized coconut and raspberry infused patchouli.

Jeux des Cités Rivales

The Games of the Two Rival Tribes.

Spirited and spiced candied violets, bitter cloves, cassis and red sandalwood spar with black currant, ylang ylang, vanilla orchid, gunpowder and dried wild grasses.

Cortège du Sage

Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One. We revere the wisdom of the ages and respect our elders.

We honor the Old Ones: clary and desert sages, chaparral, creosote, ancient wood, faded leather and cactus flower sweetened with desiccated fireweed honey.

Adoration de la Terre

The Kiss of the Earth. Earthbound and beautiful; the blue dot in a sea of black that we call home.

Warm and golden as a summer's sunset: peach blossom honey, chthonic amber resin, toasted basmati rice, cured tobacco, sweet tea and blonde patchouli.

Danse de la Terre

Dancing Out of the Underworld. Persephone is free and the world is reborn in joyous celebration.

Escape the darkness with rejuvenating black Assam tea, dark coconut husk, aged vanilla resin, sacred sandalwood temple incense, earthen musk and shaved red mandarin zest.

Cercles Mystérieux des Adolescentes

Circle of the Mystical Maidens.

The Celtic festivals of Samhain and Beltaine are historically the two times during the year when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead are at their thinnest. May 1st invites more than ancestral spirits - it carries the spirits of earth Elementals - faeries, gnomes, sprites and other creatures of myth as spring rains and gentle blossoms are carried on the perfumed breeze.

The Spring Maidens dance this eternal dance and weave into their rhythm the magic of the season working the rites that further weaken the veil making the world of seen and unseen indistinguishable.

"We gather in a strict formation, hold hands in a circle
and at twilight we all we all walk around the stones.
Spirits dance and bodies roll, hallucinations curtsey
as the river priestess consecrates the bones."

~ Casting the Runes, Legendary Pink Dots

Exotic tuberose, pink peony, lychee fruit, orange blossom, vanilla bean, tonka, strawberry blossom, bergamot and sugar cane.

Glorification de l'Élue

Naming and Glorifying the Chosen One who is the Golden Child, the May Queen, the Sacred Divine within; the Holy Fire of Spirit that links us with All-That-Is.

Glory be: golden saffron, antique patchouli, white honey, orris root, toasted almond, khus and splendid olibanum.

Evocation des Ancêtres

Evoking the Spirits of the Ancestors. We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors through love, adoration and veneration our predecessors are lifted, elevated, given light and eternal life.

Revere and honor: dried pomegranate rind crushed and perfumed with linden blossom, red spikenard, aloes wood, Egyptian sandalwood, sweet myrrh and Kyphi incense.

Action Rituelle des Ancêtres

Ritual of the Ancestors. Our ancestral rituals are remembered on a cellular level. Deep DNA memories are celebrated during the heart of the darkest night lasting until the break of iridescent dawn.

Honor those that have passed on with white sandalwood, red willow, amyris, palo santo, patchouli blossom, Himalayan cedar, ylang ylang, opoponax and ginseng.

Danse Sacrale

Sacrificial Dance of the Chosen One.

Sacred and uplifting: crystal amber, blue lavender, cyclamen, white sage, honeydew, vanilla musk, candied violets and a gentle heart of white rose tea.

Le Sacre du Printemps will be available until June 21st

January 29, 2013


PACZKI DAY 2013!

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND ! Celebrate Fat Tuesday Conjure style with our NINE Polish pastry inspired perfume oils! Growing up in Southeastern Michigan like I did, it wasn't hard to find a box of these delectable sweet treats! For those who don't know what a paczki is, (pronounced "poonchky") it's like a large huge doughnut stuffed to the brim with various intoxicatingly sweet fillings ranging from traditional plum and rose hip jam to more modern conventions like Bavarian custard, apple or raspberry. Though it's no typical doughnut - the paczki is sweeter and spongier. They can be topped with powdered or granulated sugar, or with icing. Truly, the mortal doughnut pales in comparison!

Paczki are a convenient way to get all of the sugar, fat and temptation out of the house before the sparse season of Lent rears it head. Fortunately, we've conjured a great way to get the paczki experience throughout whilst avoiding the calories as well! It's like magic! Indulge!

CONJURE PACZKI SELECTIONS

Packzi Day!PLUM JAM PACZKI
Sweet dough is filled with black plum jam and dusted with refined powdered sugar.

Packzi Day!BAVARIAN CUSTARD PACZKI
Fried pastry dough filled with thick vanilla Bavarian custard and coated with granulated vanilla sugar.

Packzi Day!ROSE HIP JAM PACZKI
Fresh paczki are served warm, overflowing with rose hip jam and drizzled with sweet honey sugar glaze.

Packzi Day!BLUEBERRY & GARDENIA PACZKI
Wonderfully sweet and deep fried dough dusted with powdered sugar, spice and filled with plump, succulent blueberry and gardenia flower compote.

Packzi Day!COCONUT CHOCOLATE CARAMEL CHAI PACZKI
A twist on a traditional favorite! A filling of toasted coconut flakes coated in chai spiced infused salted caramel stuffed to bursting in a flaky golden shell topped with a drizzle of milk chocolate ganache.

Packzi Day!CARAMELIZED APPLE & CHAMOMILE PACZKI
Fresh Granny Smith apples reduced with baker's sugar, cinnamon and gooey caramel stuffed in delectable paczki pastry coated with a chamomile tea glaze. .

Packzi Day!LEMON CURD & ARABIAN JASMINE PACZKI
Creamy sweet lemon filling, fragranced with Arabian jasmine petals encased by a powdered sugar topped doughy delight.

Packzi Day!RASPBERRY & SWEET PEA PACZKI
Lovely red raspberries stewed with vanilla, sweet pea blossoms and pink rock candy sugar sweetly oozing out of a honey glazed paczki pocket.

Packzi Day!STRAWBERRY & HIBISCUS PACZKI
Plump and crimson strawberries, allspice, clove, sweet orange zest and gorgeous hibiscus flowers packed into its sweet and sticky balsamic glaze coated shell.

Paczki will available until March 21st, or until we sell out! And I must say this: while these do indeed smell good enough to eat, they are not in any way, shape or form intended for consumption, human or animal. External use only!

Fat Tuesday fragrances are available in one size, nine styles:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$20

Please indicate your desired size and fragrance from the drop down menus below then click the Add To Cart button to complete the selection.

Fat Tuesday in Conjure County will be LIVE until March 21, or until supplies are exhausted.

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January 22, 2013

SELECTIONS FROM THE BOOK OF LOVE, MARDI GRAS with the CONJURE KREWE! and CONJURING GRIS GRIS!
Conjure Oils' 2013 Lupertine and Mardi Gras Collections!

SELECTIONS FROM THE BOOK OF LOVE - LUPERTINE 2013

Sometimes we lack the words to express the depth or essence of what is thought or felt so very deep within our souls. We string together strands of nouns, adjectives and verbs hoping for just the right sequence to express the secrets buried in our hearts. We imagine songs and poetry or visual art in an attempt at a melodic, abstract or symbolic explanation.

Language is the art of the tongue acting in concert with the heart and mind. Some languages are clumsy in their presentation of complex theories and emotions while others are more graceful, playful or efficient. In crafting this series, I wondered what it would look like if all the human expressions of love were assembled in one place; a proverbial Book of Love in a fashion. As I searched for words that conveyed ideas of love, longing and loss in a unique way, I stumbled upon a couple blog articles investigating the same subject and was inspired by what I had found. All of the words in this collection are non English in their origin and while English is my native language, I find that it often lacks the elegance and grace found in many other tongues.

In the end, what I take away from this collection is the commonality of love, loss and desire. We all ache, yearn, have our hearts broken and share the bliss of love - all evident in the myriad ways we have to say, sing or recreate our inner worlds.

We hope you enjoy the Lupertine 2013 collection.

PLEASE NOTE: Please order by February 4th for delivery by Valentine's Day. Also, last years Lupertines - Mlle Victoria's Lupertine Burlesque Cabaret are still available HERE! No other scents will be resurrected at this time. If there is a Lupertine from the past you're interested in, please contact Vajra.

LUPERTINE 2013 and MARDI GRAS 2013 perfumes will be available until March 15th, or until supplies are exhausted. Gris Gris Bags will be available until February 28.

Selections from SELECTIONS FROM THE BOOK OF LOVE are available in one size, two styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $20


CAFUNÉ
Brazilian Portuguese

The act of running ones fingers gently and lovingly through a beloved's hair.

Black tea, toasted sweet tobacco, Sudanese frankincense, cocoa absolute, black pepper and vanilla infused coconut husk.


FORELSKET
Norwegian

The pure euphoric bliss experienced during the first moments of falling in love.

Davana, blood orange, spun sugar, vanilla musk, hibiscus and Indian patchouli.


ILUNGA
Bantu

An individual who is willing to forgive a lover's transgression the first time that it is committed, show tolerance toward a second event and refuse to abide any abuse a third time.

English lavender, juniper berry, allspice, Himalayan cedar, aged pine resin, palo santo and black copal.


KOI NO YOKAN
Japanese

The instantaneous intuitive knowledge that you and the person you just met will fall in love with one another.

King mandarin, rose geranium, bois de rose, beeswax absolute, crimson orchid, magnolia, pink lotus and golden honey.


LA DOULEUR EXQUISE
French

The exquisite agony that accompanies the desire for someone who is unobtainable.

Coriander, clove absolute, Meyer lemon, oleander, white musk and amber milk.

MAMIHLAPINATAPEI
Yagan, Tierra del Fuego

A silent, aching look shared by a couple who long for one another that is shadowed by a mutual, bashful reluctance.

Sweet pea, cardamom, fresh fig, Baltic amber, ginger and stargazer lily.

RETROUVAILLES
French

The joyous reunion after a long separation.

Ruby red grapefruit, cassia, black pepper, pomegranate, black tea and red sandalwood.


SAUDADE
Portuguese

An unrelenting longing for someone who was loved and lost. Also, a nebulous and nagging desire for people, places or things that never have, cannot and never will exist.

Passion fruit, candied Parma violet, vanilla blossom, balm of Gilead infusion, guaiac wood, love-lies-bleeding and French opium.


YA'ABURNEE
Arabic

Literally: "You bury me." The hope that one would die before their loved one, as a life spent apart would be unbearable.

Black musk, aged patchouli, Spanish moss, desert hyacinth, leather, oakmoss and clove soaked myrrh.


YUANFEN
Chinese

A complex concept rooted in Buddhist theological determinism. A synchronistic, predetermined karmic force that links or binds two people together in a relationship that is fated or destined to be. This relationship can be shared between lovers, friends and family as well and is, according to the ancients, indicative of connections forged in past lives.

Dragon's blood, temple sandalwood, white amber, black locust blossom, white ginger and quince.

The CONJURE KREWE celebrates MARDI GRAS!

Join the Conjure Plague Circus as the good Doktor leads our rag tag krewe down paths devious and debaucherous!

Order all six of the Conjure Krewe and receive a free Gris Gris bag conjured by Mama Vajra herself! The bag comes along with a pip of a specially formulated anointing oil and instructions for use! The current Gris Gris we are offering can be found HERE. If you're ordering a complete set, please let me know your free Gris Gris selection either in the Message to Merchant section on the PayPal check out page, or send a separate email to vajra at conjureoils dot com.

You can also purchase the Gris Gris bags individually. They are $40 each and are available HERE.

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Selections from The CONJURE KREWE celebrates MARDI GRAS! are available in one size, two styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $21
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Set of all SIX -
$120
(If ordering the set of six, please remember to send a separate email with your Gris Gris selection, or list it in the Notes to Merchant box at checkout!
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DOKTOR PLAGUE

Ringmaster and mysteriously dark leader of this motley Conjure krewe!

Smoked black tea, cardamom, aged myrrh, robust sandalwood, sweet sage and silver lavender.

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COLUMBINE

Clever Columbine is an artful and confident juggler, carelessly tossing glass spheres, sharp toys, grenades and the hearts of the men who adore her to the delight and dismay of her audience.

Cherry blossom, guava fruit, blood orange, golden patchouli and sugared amber.

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HARLEQUIN

Harlequin serves up his comedy nimbly with the aid of his robotic limbs, ever trying to catch the heart of Columbine with his acrobatics and foolish antics.

Crystalline amber, black coconut, sugared tobacco, vanilla musk, osmanthus and salted caramel.


PIERROT

Wrapped in a straight jacket and donning a gas mask, Pierrot is the picture of the sadness and madness born of unrequited love; he pines for Columbine whom he always loses to the agile Harlequin.

Blue iris, antiqued frankincense, red sandalwood, aged vanilla resin, bergamot and white carnations.

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MLLE. JUDIE

Half human, half skeletal, Mlle. Judie tries her best to keep her brute of a husband, Punch, in line. She insists that one day she will get it through his thick skull that when baby sitting, one doesn't actually sit on the baby.

Red amber, black currant, kush, orange blossom honey and lush gardenia.

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PUNCH

Despite his ability to fight the devil and win, Punch will always be just the the hen pecked husband and eternal tormentor of his formidable wife Mlle. Judie. He's all bark, and some bite, too!

Black musk, champaca blossom, red myrrh, cassia, burned sugar, narcissus, pomegranate and black patchouli.

CONJURING GRIS GRIS

Gris Gris Bags are available at Conjure Oils for a short time only!

Made by hand using a combination of organic and/or wildcrafted herbs, roots, semi precious stones, minerals, metals, shells and other mystical curios, these Gris Gris bags come in beautiful color appropriate pouches with a small charm affixed by hand to the exterior. Each Gris Gris comes with complete instructions on their preparation with suggestions on how to enliven them using various candle colors, moon phases, days of the week and instructions on how personalize them with anointing oils and personal concerns.

Before they're sent out to you, each Bag is prayed over and passed through sacred smoke that is burned as a daily devotional on my Boveda, or spirit altar.

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CONJURING GRIS GRIS BAGS are available in nine variations, one size. All Bags come with an appropriate anointing oil and instructions.

One Gris Gris Bag - $40
Three Gris Gris Bags - $100
Set of all nine Gris Gris Bags -
$300

CURRENT GRIS GRIS SELECTIONS:

TRUE LOVE - To attract LOVE. Pink bag, heart charm.

LA FLAMME - To enliven an existing relationship or attract SEX - Red bag, devil charm.

TREASURE CHEST - To draw :PROSPERITY - Green bag, coin charm.

GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT - To acquire employment that meets financial, mental, emotional and spiritual needs - Green bag, clock charm.

PEACE CLOUD - To create an aura of peace for the wearer - White bag, dove charm.

SPIRIT VEIL - To encourage COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD - Violet bag with skull charm.

THIRD EYE - To strengthen PSYCHIC ABILITIES - Silver bag with ankh charm.

BLUE FLAME - To create a fiery wall of PROTECTION - Haint blue bag with anti evil eye charm.

SHADOW WEAVER - To create PACTS WITH DARK SPIRITS - Black bag with inverted cross charm.

Please note that bag color and charm may vary in accordance with availability; any substitutions will be expertly chosen.

A Spiritualist's Statement: I have been called to offer these bags at this time by my spirits, as I have been reluctant to take on this project in the past, despite multiple requests. These aren't Mojo Bags - Mojo Bags, or Mojo Hands as they're often called differ slightly than Gris Gris in their ingredients, preparation, blessing and maintenance. Mojos have their history in the Hoodoo tradition, or African American Folk Magic. Gris Gris can be found in New Orleans, among other places, and are rooted in the Vodoun tradition. I've chosen to offer Gris Gris instead of Mojo because of the level of spirit work involved in their conception and creation. While making Mojos very much relying on prayer to make them a living spiritual tool, I feel it is more of a mundanely magical act in that I've really never needed much spirit communication in their creation. It's always been a more intuitive process for me. Gris Gris, on the other hand, incorporate more of my skills as a spiritualist into their construction. I've spent many hours in meditation speaking with my Egun (spirits of my dearly departed ancestors) designing their appearance, components and corresponding prayers, etc. I found that it was a much more of a spiritually collaborative effort and one that I've found to be quite healing personally and spiritually. For that I am grateful. I hope these Gris Gris bags will help to align your heart, mind and soul with the workings of your spirits.

December 21, 2012

Happy Solstice and Merry Apocalypsmas!

Not only is today the winter solstice, marking the returning of the light, but it is also a day that many consider to be the date of the next apocalypse. The odometer of the Mayan calender rolls over today and to many that spells DOOM! But since we're still sitting here waiting for the big bang, I'd like to introduce two limited edition perfumes to mark the occasion!



Naughty or Nice? and Merry Apocalypsmas! are available in one size, two styles, or as a set.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $21
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Set - One of Each Scent - $35
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On Set - One of Each Scent - $37


NAUGHTY OR NICE?

On the surface: an uplifting and lighthearted scent created to celebrate the solstice, the return of sunlight and joy! However, don't dismiss it as a fluffy bunny potion; it has a sinister side for those not so angelic days when the only things propping up your halo are your horns.

Sweet and snowy vanilla, creamy chai tea, iced crimson winter berries, Satsuma mandarins, and pine boughs felled from a forbidden forest.


MERRY APOCALYPSMAS!

I've lived on this planet 36 years and I have survived many potential apocalypses: Haley's Comet, Hale-Bopp, the failed Harold Camping Raptures of March and October of 2011, Y2K, Nostradamus' 1999 prediction, etc... I'm exhausted! Well, here we are on the date of the latest doomsday, ushering in the 14th baktun of the Mayan calender and ain't nothin' gone boom yet! (Oh Nibiru, where are you?) Nonetheless, we can still live each day like it's the last one we have on earth. Perhaps that's the moral behind of all these End Time predictions: all we have is now; we're not promised tomorrow. Let's make the best of it!

Vanilla infused amber, ginger absolute, tonka, orange blossom, tobacco, leather and black currant.

Naughty or Nice? and Merry Apocalypsmas! will be live until the end of January, unless the world does, indeed, end today.

November 25, 2012

MERRY APOCALYPSMAS!

Apparently, the Mayans have predicted the end of civilization this year - December 21, 2012, to be exact. The gospel of the End Times has been preached long before the Book of Revelations was penned 2000 some odd years ago; the Norse have Ragnarok, Hindus have Kaliki, the Yoruba have Olokun. As time keeps bumping along the pot hole riddled gravel path of progress, we're only left to meditate on what our world of exploding population, dwindling resources and questionable pop culture will disintegrate into. Sing while you may! If this is our last holiday season, make it your best! Happy Unholy Days!

Since I am planning on going out of town for a month, all orders will be shipped ON OR BEFORE December 15th. Please have any orders that are to be holiday gifts in by December 7th. Thank you!

HALLOWS 2012 perfumes will continue to be available until December 15th. YULE 2012 perfumes will be available until January 30th.



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ALIENS ARE COMING TO TOWN

Films like "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and "Independence Day", even shows like the X-Files gave us a glimpse into a possible alien inspired end game. Here's a fragrance to honor our gray overlords.

Silver bells, starlit vanilla resin, Night Queen, sea lavender, white rose tea and black sky musk

DECK THE HALLS WITH SCOWLING ZOMBIES

Maybe a zombie apocalypse is what you're hoping for? Stock up on guns, ammo and don't forget to double tap!

Dragon's blood, crimson cranberry jelly, marshmallow cream and the tattered remnants of musky humanity.

DO YOU FEAR WHAT I FEAR?

The dark, the unknown, death, poisoning, drowning, being buried alive, flying, being lost in space, abandonment, clowns... .

Seared vanilla sugar syrup, blood orange stained sandalwood, black tea soaked linens and corrupted toasted clove.

NUCLEAR WINTER WONDERLAND

With just a press of a shiny, red, candy-like button we could enjoy a permanent winter wonderland!

Heartbroken and desolate: black ice, desiccated winter berries, frozen hopes, destroyed dreams all contaminated with the saddest sting of black pepper.

OH HOLY SMITE

Armageddon - the final battle between Good and Evil. Smite or be smitten; it's a survivor's world.

Boozy vanilla, caramelized coconut, smoked tonka and black patchouli.

RAGNAROK'N AROUND YGGDRASIL TREE

Jormungandr opens his mouth letting his tail go free and Fenrir slips his fetter Gelipnir and literally, all Hell breaks loose. It's the stuff Heavy Metal songs are made of.

Balsam fir, palo santo, snow laden birch branches and serpentine boughs of holly are doomed with pitch black woodsmoke and cracked leather.

WE FOUR HORSEMEN OF APOCALYPSE ARE

The Bhagavad Gita, as quoted by Oppenheimer after seeing the detonation of the first nuclear bomb in 1945. "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds": War, Famine, Death and Conquest. The End is always Now.

Bleak and hopeless: spiced vetiver is abused by lashes of black leather, broken by blackest musk and completely decimated with clove stained aged patchouli.

GHOST OF YULES PAST

A LA NANITA NANA 2012
The cherubic scent of a sleeping infant's skin, the nourishing sweetness of mother's milk, holy white musk and the radiant golden glow of warm vanilla-infused amber angel wings.

Hillary L.
Pennsylvania, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

AURORA BOREALIS 2012
Shivering frost notes cling to the boughs of fir and spruce whilst wisps of smoke from sacred wood fires swirl and undulate amid a wintry mix of chilled yew and cranberries sweetened with frozen vanilla.

Niki W.
United Kingdom
Yule 2010 Winner

b'ak'tun 13 - APOCALYPSE SOON? 2012

You may have heard a little rumor that a certain Mayan calender is set to expire this year. (As an aside, why does this have to coincide with an election year AND during the year of the Dragon? As if I don't have enough to worry over, but I digress...) If this year is it, make it your best year ever! More YES less NO, less stay, more GO! See you on the other side.

Sin while you may: Black musk, leather, clove saturated patchouli and tobacco spiced with peppered Mexican chocolate and aged vanilla beans.

CHOCOLATE CAT 2012
Hot chocolate cream flavored with curls of blood orange peel and soft ginger fur. Hurrah for the Chocolate Cat!

VioletBlue
Florida, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

COLA DE MONO 2012
“The Monkey’s Tail” in English, Cola de Mono is a traditional Chilean holiday drink that is similar to a White Russian. The Dude would approve!  “Hey man, there’s a beverage here!”

Hot buttered rum, scalded cream, spiced coffee liqueur and a splash of vanilla infused vodka.

Michelle H.
California, USA

I WANT TO BELIEVE (IN SANTA) 2012
A suspicious mix of holiday cheer: vanilla syrup sweetened eggnog spiked with a dubious shot of spiced rum, garnished with a peppermint candy cane and a splash of doublespeak.

Vajra W.
Oregon, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

KAOS 2012
The prehistoric abyss that gives birth to the Sun and all of creation.

Primeval black resin, hoary black musk, ancient leather, Prometheus’ fire and traces of ozone; a relic from the crack of lightning that created life in the primordial ooze

MAUL SANTA 2012
Because Killer Klowns need holiday work, too!

Drunk before noon: Dark and boozy Bourbon vanilla, blackened coconut husk, toasted tonka bean, cherry pipe tobacco smoke and the suspicious scent of peppermint schnapps.

Leigh B.
Tennessee, USA

MISA DEL GALLO 2012

Misa del Gallo, or "Roosters Mass" is a name used in Catholic Latin America for the tradition of Midnight Mass, stemming from the belief that the rooster was one of the first creatures to witness and then announce the birth of the infant Jesus with a mighty crow.

Celebrate Midnight Mass in a cathedral dark and crumbling: black amber, sweet myrrh, olibanum resin, beeswax candle smoke wafting heavenward, raw cacao absolute, desert chaparral and braids of sweetgrass.

Siggster
North Carolina, USA
Yule 2007 Winner

MOOSEMAS 2012
Dark and rich chocolate mousse laced with the warmth and cheer of hazelnut liqueur and slivered almonds because things always get a little nutty at Moosemas!

Andrea F.
Wisconsin, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

POMME D’AMBRE 2012
A juicy clove-studded orange is dusted with powdered cinnamon, ginger and orris root and hung from a scarlet ribbon to perfume the air with its ancient aroma.

Erin G.
Massachusetts, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

SNEGUROCHKA 2012
Romantically tragic and withering: roses heavy with ice are thawed with a deep heart of oud and fiery ginger.

Christine
Oregon, USA
Yule 2008 Winner

SNOWBOUND 2012
Frozen musk topped by worn leather, sultry sandalwood and a drop of sweetest honey.

Vajra W.
Oregon, USA
Yule 2008 Winner

STROKES OF GOLD 2012
Glimmering golden sandalwood, glittering vanilla blossoms and a shimmer of sweet clove bud.

VioletBlue
Florida, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

THE LOLLIPOP TREE 2012
Lollipop sweeties in all the colors of the rainbow are flavored with sugared winter fruits: pomegranate, fig, sour cherry, lemon, candied ginger, pineapple and clementine.

VioletBlue
Florida, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

THE NAUGHTY LIST 2012
Despite our best efforts to kiss up to the big guy in red, sometimes we can't help but end up on the naughty list!

Fluffy marshmallows slowly toasted over the fireplace flames, buttered rum spiked steamed vanilla milk, cacao musk, swirling pipe tobacco and a snicker doodle bribe.

Hottie McNaughty
Washington, USA

#OCCUPYTHENORTHPOLE
Why should Santa get all the credit? Let’s #OccupytheNorthPole and give props to some of the 99% that do all the work in the cold, white North - the reindeer!
This is in no way meant to demean or diminish the value or intention of the righteous #Occupy movement, of which I am in full support. In fact, the proceeds of the #OccupyTheNorthPole collection will be used to help us at Conjure Oils donate money to the Occupy movement enabling them to bail out consumer debt instead of Wall Street. Last year we were able to raise $250! Thank you!

DASHER 2012
Dashing bergamot blossom, guaiac wood, cardamom pods, toasted cinnamon, black amber, benzoin resin, pimento berry and polished mahogany.

DANCER 2012
Egyptian chamomile, rock rose, elemi resin, aged vanilla bean, sugared amber and dark patchouli SCO2.

PRANCER 2012
Snow-dusted cypress branches, steaming coffee, vetiver root and patchouli wood.

VIXEN 2012
Sweet honey, champaca blossom, vanilla orchid, ginger root and a sip of shimmering ruby pomegranate champagne.

COMET 2012
Black pepper, nutmeg, clary sage, starry black vanilla musk, labdanum absolute and stellar white sandalwood.

CUPID 2012
Sultry red musk, golden amber resin, red mandarin, crimson carnation and clove bud.

DONNER 2012
White pine, pimento berry, violet leaf, hinoki wood, birch bark, Himalayan cedar wood, rainbow iris and olibanum.

BLITZEN 2012
Lime zest, bergamot, night blooming jasmine, white tea, fresh skin musk, white amber, lily of the valley and brisk night air.

GINGERBREAD COVEN
Build-Your-Own-Gingerbread-Temple! Esmerelda, Inferna, Wendy, Terra and Marisol are back to celebrate Yule with you and have crafted all the goodies you’ll need to create the most delicious dwelling for all your spell castings!

INFERNA’S GINGERBREAD 2012
Nothing says lovin’ like somethin’ from the coven and Inferna’s gingerbread is no exception! Hand mixed and baked to perfection: ginger root, sifted cake flour, molasses, brown sugar and a pinch of chili pepper. Inferna wouldn’t have it any other way!

TERRA’S SPICED GUMDROP GEMS 2012
Terra spent all month in the candy caverns mining the perfect jelly gemstones that have just the right balance of clove, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice!

MARISOL’S SEA SALT CARAMELS 2012
Marisol’s caramels are a force of nature all on their own! Mouth-watering soft caramel, sugared milk, vanilla bean and a sprinkling of her own hand-harvested sea salt.

WENDY’S WICKED ICING 2012
Wendy’s whipped up a batch of her royal icing: confectioner’s sugar, vanilla and cream.

ESMERELDA’S CANDY WANDS 2012
Red and green swirls of peppermint hard tack candy sweetened with vanilla sugar and a hint of something sinister.

October 30, 2012

Hurricane Sandy Relief - 2 Perfumes to Ease Suffering

Hello Everyone,

Looking at the devastation that is being left in the wake of Sandy this morning, I feel sad and helpless. So many people who have lost their homes, their power, their water, their lives. It's a devastation that I can't even begin to imagine.

Since I'm in no condition to travel to NY or NJ and help with the relief effort, I feel compelled to help and the only thing I can do is offer my skills and use the money I earn to help those in need.

I always have some special occasion perfume blends on reserve. Ones that will one day reveal their purpose and names to me when the time is right. Two stepped forward to proclaim that they were ready to volunteer and represent the cause.

We'll be offering two blends, HEKUA YANSA and SALVO LERI. All proceeds after cost of manufacture will be donated to the Red Cross where it will be used to provide relief from those pummeled by the ravages of Sandy.

These are $20 per bottle. Please include $5 for postage per order. (So, 2 bottles would come to $45, for example.) Please remit payment to paypal at conjureoils dot com. Feel free to add on to the order. Just do the math and let me know what you're getting. Orders over $100 ship free.

HEKUA YANSA

Oya, also known as Yansa is the Mother of Nine. She is the Rainbow in the sky, the Queen of the hurricane, the tornado, the cemetery gates and she watches over our Egun (our ancestors). She rules over the winds of abrupt change; she destroys to create. Don't try to fight Oya, metamorphosis is inevitable.

African musk, wind whipped white amber, torrential rain and the black plums Oya demands as adimu (food offering).

SALVO LERI

"Salvo Leri" is Lukumi for "Save my head" In the Santeria faith it is customary when one walks pass the cemetery gates to cross your arms over your chest and salute Oya saying, "Hekua Yansa, Salvo Leri!" Or, I salute you, Oya, please save my head! In Lukumi faith, the head is the seat of the soul, or the Ori. To lose one's head is tantamount to death. A good head can save a whole town. A bad head can destroy one just as easily. Let's keep our heads about us during these trying times.

Golden sandalwood, ginger co2, Egyptian amber, sugared violets, orange blossom, dark honey and drop of red musk.

I have enough for about 20-25 bottles on hand of each of these. So when we're sold out, I'll make a small announcement on FB. If you still haven't liked us there, now would be a good time!

A NOTE ON SHIPPING

We moved to a new physical location in September which has caused shipping to slow to a trickle. Right now we are finishing September orders and beginning October. We humbly and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. (The move was quite unexpected and lots of things went sideways in the move. I'm pretty much living the worst days of my life, to be perfectly honest with you. So please, bear with me here.) I'm considering going to visit my family in Michigan for the holidays, so if you're planning on ordering for Xmas gifts, please get your orders in by December 7th or so. I'll be sure to ship it all before I leave.

YULE CONTEST - CANCELLED

Because I feel that it's more important to get caught up than keep working on new stuff (since I lost my main shipper, it's back to just me doing it all again!) I need to cancel the Yule contest this year. I may do a small update, we'll see. Keep your entries safe for next year! Thanks to all the people who have sent me inquiries about the contest! I really appreciate it.

Stay warm, stay safe and love each other,

Vajra

October 13, 2012

It's Goth Chick Appreciation Day Once Again!

While it might have its origins in a silly Facebook meme, Goth Chick Appreciation day has stuck a chord with thousands of Goth, (or recovering Goth) ladies out there and it's completely understandable why! So much of the year we spend fending off questioning or horrified looks from people - it's nice to have a day to be honored and at least one day a year where our wardrobe makes sense!

Last year, Goth Chick Pride was sold out in a day with many requests for orders after the fact. While I was able to accommodate all orders last year, this year, I have 23 bottles available and won't be able to take any orders for extras, so try to get them while you can. I'm going to ask that you limit your order to no more than 3 bottles per order (because I know that folks like to combine orders with their friends and that is perfectly acceptable.) That way, everyone has a chance. I've gotten so much positive feedback about this perfume! So many emails with ladies exclaiming that this is their holy grail scent! I'm excited to be able to offer it again! Hopefully, I can make this a yearly release, but I'm anxious about two of the components, so we shall see. I guess to sum it up: get a bottle while you can!

Fine Print: If you placed an order for the Crowleymass sale and would like to add this on, you can send the total with a note to paypal at conjureoils dot com and we will be glad to add it to your order!

GOTH CHICK PRIDE
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles

Show your Goth spirit! Aged black patchouli, sexy garnet pomegranate, clove tobacco, vanilla smoke and red musk. Destined to be a classic!

SWAG!

You can get all sorts of Goth Chick Pride goodies like T-shirts, mugs and posters in our Zazzle store! Lookit HERE!


Here's Miss Vajra modeling her own Conjure Oils' Goth Chick Pride long sleeve t-shirt. You, too, can have your very own!


Goth Chick Pride SOLD OUT!
Limited Edition

$20.00 for 5ml Perfumed oil
$21 for 5ml Perfumed oil in a brown amber roll on

Goth Chick Pride is limited to a run of 23 bottles. Once we're out, we' re out!

October 12, 2012

BUY 2 GET 1 FREE CROWLEYMASS SALE, THE DANCE OF DEATH & CUSTOM CARNAL DELIGHTS!

HAPPY CROWLEYMASS! 

Birthday wishes to the To Mega Therion, or The Great Beat as he was fond of calling himself. Aleister Crowley was a complex and controversial man. He was an influential magician, a scholar and a mystic. He channeled his religious text, Liber AL vel Legis or The Book of the Law through a being called Aiwass while visiting Cairo with his wife, Rose. He believed that this event ushered in a new aeon of Horus and from this experience, he eventually created his religion/philosophy of Thelema, of which the main tenet is: "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of the Law" encouraging its adherents to live to their own True Will.

Love him or hate him, you have to admit he is a significant figure in modern occult history. I find him personally intriguing, inspiring and downright entertaining! 

In celebration of the Frater, I'm hosting my yearly sale! Buy 2 get 1 FREE! Here's the fine print: Only items from the General Catalog are applicable. The free bottle must be equal or lesser in value to the other items with it. Only applicable to 5ml or 10ml sizes. No pips or pip samplers. No amending past orders. No whining! :D Just be awesome and enjoy the free stuff. To take advantage of the sale: Put 2/4/6 etc. bottles in your cart and then in the "add a message to merchant" section, let me know which freebies you'd like! Or send an email along with your order  and let me know there. vajra at conjureoils dot com.

The sale will be LIVE until Sunday night at 11:59 Pacific.

THE DANCE OF DEATH SERIES

It seems that the end of October and early November is the time of year where many cultures have holy days honoring death. From Los Dias de los Muertos to Samhain tide this has been the season to honor, revere and even celebrate the role death has in our lives. Using three works of art as inspiration, we are offering a trilogy of fragrances to pay tribute to the ancestors, to show respect for the power of the spirit of Iku (Yoruban personification of Death) and to the metaphysical associations that are part and parcel to the concept: transitions, inevitable change and destruction that clears the way to creation. Maferefun Oya, Kali, Hecate, Set, Baron Samedi and the Ghede, Egun, Yewa and all other spirits who work and exist in such a nebulous and liminal space fraught with a spectrum of human emotion: from the depths of suffering and grief stemming from senseless and tragic loss to the heights of grace and light embedded in those moments where death is a release from pain and an ascension into the Great Mystery.

The fragrances have been formulated to be worn layered together, but they are perfectly suitable to be worn individually

The Dance of Death series will be available until the Sun exits the sign of Scorpio in November.


RITTER, TOD und TEUFEL
Albrecht Dürer
copper engraving, 1513

RIDER, DEATH and DEVIL: A knight, protected by the armor of his faith, is surrounded by the grotesque images of the Devil and Death. Note the Memento Mori symbolism of the hourglass reminding the soldier that his time on earth is finite and the skull in the bottom left corner confirming the inevitable to us all.

Tunisian black myrrh, holy sandalwood, Persian musk, charred wood, frankincense absolute, desecrated incense, cassia, pink grapefruit, and aged patchouli.

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DER TOD als ERWÜRGER - ERSTER AUFTRITT der CHOLERA auf einem MASKENBALL in PARIS 1831
Alfred Rethel
wood-carving, 1851

Death the Strangler - First Outbreak of Cholera at a Parisian Masquerade Ball in 1831: Death pays a visit to a party and the results are devastating. Playing mock fiddle with bones and surrounded by corpses, Death stands centrally while the doomed musicians attempt an escape in the top left. Seated on the stairs is the personification of Cholera dressed in Egyptian finery.

Tonka bean absolute, black patchouli, white sandalwood, ginger CO2 extract, bone musk, orange blossom, vanilla resin absolute, Sudanese amber, blood orange, opoponax and tulsi.

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DER TOD als FREUND
Alfred Rethel
wood-carving, 1851

Death the Friend: Death rings the church bells for the ringer who sits in an apparent deathly repose in the top right. The sun rise out the window reminding the viewer that the cycle of life will continue and transformation is assured.

Antique patchouli, tonka absolute, vanilla resin, ruh khus, tendrils of Spanish moss, neglected leather, graveyard loam and Parma violet.


THE DANCE OF DEATH SERIES

Selections from DANCE OF DEATH SERIES
are available in one size, three fragrances or a set of all three items.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20
Set of all three $55
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CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION

Autumn is a season most voluptuous and sensual. Colors in their crimson, orange and ochre vibrancy flash their iridescent fire from quaking leaves. The sky, in its dazzling display of darkness, threatens the diminishing light with clouds suspended heavily in the air, saturated with the thick storms of a thousand nights. Respite is found in the infinity azure expanse that arches effortless with the angles of sunlight, golden, slanting to earth creating a crisp, clean and shimmering aura to the world around us. A chill embraces the frosted air and our breath is etched in silver tendrils reaching heavenward. Seeking warmth and connection, we wrap our arms around ourselves and our loved ones and descend within; our thoughts deepen while our vision expands.

Conjure's Carnal Delights Collection is a celebration of the senses that the autumnal season ignites like no other. I've hand picked the fragrances that speak to me of deepest Autumn, of introspection, of sensuality and of delight. All fragrances are accords crafted in house unique to Conjure Oils!

In celebration of this season most wonderful, we're offering custom fragrances for a limited time. Depending on the success of the line, I may later offer candles, soaps, whips, sprays and lotions in the Carnal Delights Collection! It's up to you!

CARNAL DELIGHTS - CUSTOM FRAGRANCES

Select up to five of the accords listed below to create your own signature scent! In order to prevent a back log, I can only accept orders for twenty five (or so) customs, so once the limit is reached, I'll mark the option as sold out.

CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION ACCORDS

THE ANCIENT ORCHARD
Apple Cider
Candy Apple
Caramel Apple
Cinnamon Donut
Fresh Hay
Fuji Apple
Green Apple

CAFE de CHARNEL

Chai Tea
Cinnamon
Clove
Coffee
Cream
Cream Soda
Ginger
Hazelnut
Nutmeg
Sugar Cane
Treacle
Vanilla Bean

EARTHEN JEWELS

Black Lotus
Blood
Bonfire
Falling Leaves
Graveyard Dirt
Oakmoss
Petrichor
Rain
Spanish Moss
Tobacco

THE FARMERS MARKET

Blackberry
Butter
Chili Pepper
Chrysanthemum
Dahlia
D'anjou Pear
Fig
Fresh Pumpkin
Golden Honey
Lavender
Pomegranate
Pumpkin Bread
Red Rose
Sunflower
Sweet Orange
Whole Wheat Bread
Zucchini Bread

PARFUMERIE

Black Musk
Black Patchouli
Crystal Amber
Dark Amber
Dragon's Blood
Red Musk
Tonka Bean
Vanilla Musk
White Musk

THE SWEET SHOPPE

Candy Corn
Caramel
Caramel Popcorn
Cream Cheese Frosting
Dark Chocolate
Milk Chocolate
Pumpkin Pie
Red Velvet Cake
Spun Sugar



CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION - SOLD OUT!

Selections from CONJURE'S CARNAL DELIGHTS COLLECTION
are available in one size, five styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Single Note $20
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Two Notes $25
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Three Notes $30
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Four Notes $35
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - Five Notes
$40

September 15, 2012

Join us in the unveiling of this year's Hallows collection - Kwaidan, or Japanese Ghost Stories! I unearthed an ancient copy of Lafcadio Hearn's eponymous novel penned shortly before his death in 1904 and was immediately drawn in to the spooky subject matter and otherworldly spiritual presentation! I selected four of my favorite stories to use as inspiration in creating this year's Hallows perfumes and I think that while the subject and concept are unusual, the final result is something truly amazing!

I've also resurrected Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem in its entirety as well as choice selections from Hallows past in the All-Hallows Resurrected line.

The stories are presented in their entirety for your enjoyment! So, grab your favorite beverage, get cozy and prepare to be spooked!

Vajra

ALL-HALLOWS is LIVE at CONJURE!

KWAIDAN - Japanese Ghost Stories
Conjure Oils' 2012 Hallows Collection!

Kwaidan is a collection of stories written in 1904 by Lafcadio Hearn shortly before his demise. To say he was a Japanophile is a bit of an understatement, as he has written volume after volume on the mythology and spirituality of Japanese culture at the turn of the century.

Like the 1965 eponymous film based on the work of Hearn, we've selected four stories to give you a glimpse into the demons and ghosts that haunt the land of the rising sun and to send a chill down your spine in the process! Some of the stories can be on the long side. Grab a cup of tea (or sake!) and settle in for a thrill. I guarantee it will be worth your time!

The text for the stories is taken from SacredTexts.com (the best site ever for public domain spiritual works) and the illustrations are by Yasumasa Fujita from a hand made copy of Kwaidan crafted in 1932.

MADAME VICTORIA'S MANSION of MAYHEM RESURRECTED for 2012!

This year, we're offering once again our Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem collection as well as some choice selections from Hallows past! The images will take you through the Mansion, or look below the image for the scents listed individually.

Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem! - Hallows 2012

Perhaps nothing pairs the horror and excitement of Halloween like a good old fashioned Haunted House attraction. Combining a festive carnival atmosphere with the terror of the unseen world, demented and tortured souls trigger the latent primal fears that dwell within the patrons as they stumble from room to room in the dim light, bearing witness to the ghastly scenes and ghoulish sights displayed before them.

Once a year the fear inspired by the Things that go Bump in the Night serves to entertain us; we're intellectually reassured by the mood lighting, fake blood & theatrics. Nonetheless, our psyches still question the artifice - the darkness and perceived danger is still very real to our pre-verbal lizard brains which send the appropriate signals to our nervous systems accordingly. Our hearts pound, our palms sweat. We're startled, scared out of our wits, screaming in horror and having the most fun we've had in ages! Enter Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem!

ENTER THE MANSION OF MAYHEM HERE!

We're also resurrecting perfumes from Hallows past! All your fall favorites that you've come to expect year after year can be found by clicking on the image!

ADDED TO THE GENERAL CATALOG

Wu Xing has been added to our Elemental collection and Mlle. Victoria's Lupertine Burlesque Cabaret will be a permanent guest for the foreseeable future in our Whore's Couture collection!

Have a safe and happy Halloween. ConjurePunks!

Vajra

July 13, 2012

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY CONJURE!

I simply cannot believe it's been five years since I opened the scented doors to the Little Perfume House that Could! These last five years have been amazing. I've met some of the best, most beautiful and genuine people through Conjure. I've learned so much about what it means to run my own business and what it means to grow as an artist, a perfumier and as an individual as well. There is no way I would be here if it weren't for trusting the mad idea that my idea was worth investing in and that I could count on myself to see my dream to fruition. I'm grateful I took chance. Which reminds me of my favorite quote I first read in Julia Cameron's book The Artists' Way "Leap and the net will appear."

I feel so incredibly blessed to do what I love as my job and to work for myself is a true miracle. After all, I do come with a warning label: "does not work well with others" :D

In honor of Conjure's 5th anniversary, I present to you:

FIVE
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles 
$18, $19 for glass amber 5ml roll-on

The number five is sacred to the Orisha Oshun. Many consider Oshun to be flirtatious, a femme fatale and sometimes conversely, sweetly demure. In my experience, Oshun is a fierce warrior. While she does have elements to her personality that are coquettish, Oshun, the youngest of all Orishas, is arguably the most powerful. When Olodumare created the world, s/he could tell it was still incomplete. Looking down upon the newly created world God saw the sheer raw and vast beauty of his/her creation and tears of joy and ecstasy rolled down his/her cheeks cascading on to the world below. Born in those tears was Oshun. She adds to life all that makes it worth living: sensuality, pleasure, beauty, community, friends, and of course, love. 

By using all the sweets she adores, Conjure Oils' Fifth Anniversary Celebration fragrance is dedicated to Oshun and all the gifts she gives us : Vanilla custard filled cream puff pastry is dusted with Ceylon cinnamon and drizzled with orange blossom honey and set ablaze with five yellow beeswax candles. 

FIVE will be available for five days (July 8), or until supplies are exhausted.

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles 
$25, $26 for glass amber 5ml roll-on

This month, the 13th falls on Friday and it has been become somewhat of a custom for Conjure to create a commemorative fragrance magickally formulated to transform bad luck into good 

 July 2012's installment for the Friday the 13th collection is Happy Go Lucky. Based on an ancient Chinese medicine formula developed to help tonify and release Qi stagnation of Kidney meridian it is blended using only the finest wildcrafted and/or organic essential oils.

Huo Xiang/ Pogostemon cablin (Patchouli),
Sheng Jiang / Zingiber officianale (Ginger), 
Tan Xiang/ Santalum album (Sandalwood),  
Jin Yin Hua/ Loniceria japonica (Honeysuckle), 
Ru Xiang/ Boswellia carterii (Frankincense),  
Mo Yao/ Commiphora myrrha (Myrrh),  
Chen Pi/ Citrus reticulata (Mandarin),  
Ding Xiang/ Eugenia carophyllata (Clove),  
An Xi Xiang/ Styrax benzoin (Benzoin),  
Gui Zhi, Rou Gui, / Cinnamonum cassia (Cassia)

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY will be available for thirteen days (July 16), or until supplies are exhausted. __________________________________________

SALE - BUY 2 GET 1 FREE!!

We will be having a Buy 2 get 1 FREE sale (5mls ONLY) for the next 48 hours (ending Thursday July 5 at 9pm Pacific.) Orders placed within the first 24 hours of the sale will ship within 5 days of the orders being placed. We are almost caught up on all our orders, so look forward to faster turn around times! If you have an outstanding order, expect to get a CnS in the next day or two!

Also, if you order within the first 24 hours, you can add a free 5ml for every $100 you spend. Spend $100-$199, get a free 5ml. $200-$299, get 2 free 5mls, etc. (this is in addition to the buy 2 get 1 free sale, and you can also reach the amount by buying limited editions, Oddment Emporium items, etc. The total doesn't have to come through the buy 2 get 1 free SALE!)

SALE HOW TO: When you place you eligibleitems in your paypal shopping cart, list the freebies (of equal or lesser value) in the "comments to merchant" box at the checkout. OR Email vajra {!at!} conjureoils dot com with your selections! It's that easy.

For example. Say you're placing an order within the first 24 hours to take advantage of the extra freebie sale, you'd put enough 5mls to total $100. Then in the comments section, or in an email, you'd let me know which free 5ml you'd like for every 2 you purchased, plus you get to 1 additional freebie for spending $100. (You'll also be eligible for free shipping! BONUS!)

Happy Full Moon - enjoy the sale!

CONJURE OILS' LIMITED EDITION CURIO CABINET ETSY STORE!

We are over the moon! So there's no time more perfect than the timing of a full moon! Join us in the most joyous event - the launch of Conjure Oils' Etsy store! Over the next few days we will be adding new items to the Etsy store such as a custom perfume option, wand caps, screw caps and empty 4ml glass spray bottles. 

Thank you all for being such wonderful and amazing people. Your support, kind thoughts and words make it all worth it. I do it all for you!

Here's to another five years!

Vajra

May 19, 2012

RING OF FIRE
Annular Solar Eclipse in Taurus

See my shadow changing,
Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow,
Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow.

- 46 & 2 by Tool

A solar eclipse is that heavenly moment when the tender and introspective Moon sandwiches herself smack dab in between us and the extroverted and egocentric Sun. This tight conjunction is a perfect time to push ourselves further along, melding the yin with the yang, using the annular fire ring to add zing to your zang and allow ourselves to 'step through our shadows' if you will, turning our trash into compost and that compost into treasure. Since this eclipse occurs in Taurus of all signs, all acts of love and pleasure could definitely be your rituals, as the old Charge goes. What limits your comfort? Your beauty? Your happiness? Your self love?

Formulated specifically to work with the energies of the Annular Solar Eclipse in Taurus, the ritual oil will be consecrated and presented to the sun as the moon passes over his face. Magma is what comes to mind when I try to describe the scent. Dark, hot and a bit dangerous!

The cost will be $40 for 5ml ($41 for the roll-on) and will be tucked safely in its own pouch.

I will only be making a very small batch, so if you're interested in obtaining a bottle of this special oil please order by the end of the day on the 22nd. If I run out, I will post here.

Thank you and have a blessed eclipse!

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THE WHORE'S COUTURE presents MLLE. VICTORIA'S LUPERTINE BURLESQUE CABARET!

Come one, come all to witness the stunning beauty and talent demonstrated by the show girls of yesteryear! Va va va voom! The ladies we're heartbroken when the Valentine's Day show ended, so we're going to showcase them here for a season or two longer! Get your tickets ready!

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS - RESURRECTED

Resurrected for these long, lovely days of Spring....

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS - RESURRECTED

Scents inspired by the fevered passions of composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinski

Le Sacre du Printemps, or the Rite of Spring, is a legendary ballet rife with sexuality, virility, primal, ancient magics and pagan revelry. Penned in 1913, it is one of the best examples of musical innovation that heralded the Modern period of music. It has inspired many - from Fantasia to Frank Zappa - and continues to ignite the hearts and minds of artists to this day.

We at Conjure can think of no better devotion to Spring than to create a fragrance collection based on this wonderful and exhilarating work of fine art. This is a conceptual line, offering Conjure's interpretation of the music, the myth and the meaning that resounds within the imagination.

Enjoy the rebirth and the rapture.

Fragrances in the Limited Edition collection are available in one size:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $18
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $19

Danses des Adolescentes

The Dance of the Young Girls; a study in innocence.

Creamy orchid, soft skin musk, a blush of pink jasmine, white tea, candy floss and the finest gowns of raw silk and linen.

Jeu du Rapt

Ritual of Abduction; thief of hearts. Evocative of the myth of Persephone and the betrayal and agony she felt as she was spirited away to the underworld.

Crimson pomegranate, Moroccan fig, smoked vanilla sugar, soft moss, amber resin, aged black tea and opium poppy resin.

Rondes Printanières

Spring Rounds. Warm, sweet and renewing as the first day of Spring. This is the scent of hope.

Vanilla cream, pink hyacinth, ruby grapefruit, scarlet hibiscus, cake flour, caramelized coconut and raspberry infused patchouli.

Jeux des Cités Rivales

The Games of the Two Rival Tribes.

Spirited and spiced candied violets, bitter cloves, cassis and red sandalwood spar with black currant, ylang ylang, vanilla orchid, gunpowder and dried wild grasses.

Cortège du Sage

Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One. We revere the wisdobwm of the ages and respect our elders.

We honor the Old Ones: clary and desert sages, chaparral, creosote, ancient wood, faded leather and cactus flower sweetened with desiccated fireweed honey.

Adoration de la Terre

The Kiss of the Earth. Earthbound and beautiful; the blue dot in a sea of black that we call home.

Warm and golden as a summer's sunset: peach blossom honey, chthonic amber resin, toasted basmati rice, cured tobacco, sweet tea and blonde patchouli.

Danse de la Terre

Dancing Out of the Underworld. Persephone is free and the world is reborn in joyous celebration.

Escape the darkness with rejuvenating black Assam tea, dark coconut husk, aged vanilla resin, sacred sandalwood temple incense, earthen musk and shaved red mandarin zest.

Cercles Mystérieux des Adolescentes

Circle of the Mystical Maidens.

The Celtic festivals of Samhain and Beltaine are historically the two times during the year when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead are at their thinnest. May 1st invites more than ancestral spirits - it carries the spirits of earth Elementals - faeries, gnomes, sprites and other creatures of myth as spring rains and gentle blossoms are carried on the perfumed breeze.

The Spring Maidens dance this eternal dance and weave into their rhythm the magic of the season working the rites that further weaken the veil making the world of seen and unseen indistinguishable.

"We gather in a strict formation, hold hands in a circle
and at twilight we all we all walk around the stones.
Spirits dance and bodies roll, hallucinations curtsey
as the river priestess consecrates the bones."

~ Casting the Runes, Legendary Pink Dots

Exotic tuberose, pink peony, lychee fruit, orange blossom, vanilla bean, tonka, strawberry blossom, bergamot and sugar cane.

Glorification de l'Élue

Naming and Glorifying the Chosen One who is the Golden Child, the May Queen, the Sacred Divine within; the Holy Fire of Spirit that links us with All-That-Is.

Glory be: golden saffron, antique patchouli, white honey, orris root, toasted almond, khus and splendid olibanum.

Evocation des Ancêtres

Evoking the Spirits of the Ancestors. We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors through love, adoration and veneration our predecessors are lifted, elevated, given light and eternal life.

Revere and honor: dried pomegranate rind crushed and perfumed with linden blossom, red spikenard, aloes wood, Egyptian sandalwood, sweet myrrh and Kyphi incense.

Action Rituelle des Ancêtres

Ritual of the Ancestors. Our ancestral rituals are remembered on a cellular level. Deep DNA memories are celebrated during the heart of the darkest night lasting until the break of iridescent dawn.

Honor those that have passed on with white sandalwood, red willow, amyris, palo santo, patchouli blossom, Himalayan cedar, ylang ylang, opoponax and ginseng.

Danse Sacrale

Sacrificial Dance of the Chosen One.

Sacred and uplifting: crystal amber, blue lavender, cyclamen, white sage, honeydew, vanilla musk, candied violets and a gentle heart of white rose tea.

Le Sacre du Printemps will be available until June 21st

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April 29, 2012

PEEK-A-BOO! Miss Lucy's Two! is LIVE in the Newfangled Notions Collection!

Peek A Boo!

NEW PHONE NUMBER!

You can now call us toll free (within the US) at (855) 848-6667!

March 06, 2012

FOUR THIEVES

During the dark times of the Black Death, a group of four ne'er do wells were captured whilst looting bodies that had succumbed to the plague. Curious about their ability to avoid illness while knee deep in crime and disease, the arresting officers granted the Thieves leniency in exchange for the formula behind their success and thus the Legend of the Four Thieves was born.

There are other stories you can research that are more than likely the linguistic origin of Four Thieves, but they don't have the same drama and flair, so we won't share them here. Suffice to say, the Four Thieves formula has been around for centuries used as an anti microbial formulation fending off pestilence long before the science existed that backed it up. Over time, however, Four Thieves was integrated into the magickal formulary as a wash used to protect one's self from magickal attack and pestiferous people as well as for health and well being.

We at Conjure have long sung the praises of Four Thieves and are proud to at last offer it to you!

4oz Glass Bottle, 4oz bar of soap, 5ml

February 21, 2012

BISSEXTILE CURIOUS?

Once every four years, a spectacular day is sandwiched snugly in between February 28th and March 1st. Most commonly known as Leap Year, February 29th allows for the alignment of human time with the chaos of the cosmos. More specifically, it was created in the Gregorian calendar to ensure that the Vernal Equinox is as close to March 21 as possible. This assures that the Christian holiday of Easter will fall on the full moon on or after the first day of spring. This is where the curious comes in - because that arrangement seems splendidly pagan if you ask me!

So, join me in celebrating the human desire to create order out of chaos and ride the wild waves of the cosmos - all so we can celebrate rebirth and resurrection by basking in the light of the full moon.

Packzi Day!BISSEXTILE CURIOUS?
A union of time and space: A sky riddled with distant and dry vanilla stars set in a void of black musk, red dwarf myrrh, and deep sandalwood.

In other news...

NYX has been added to the Mythos collection in the general catalog. It was just too good to see go.

<3NYX
{Greek Goddess of the Night
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Nyx is the exceedingly dark, beautiful, powerful and unknowable Greek goddess of the Night who witnessed the birth of all of creation. She is Mother of the deepest mysteries that have haunted humanity since the beginning of time: The Mother of Moros (Doom), Styx (Hate), Hypnos (Sleep) & Thanatos (Death) and many, many others.

Egyptian myrrh, amber resin, opium tar, antique patchouli, moonflower, black tea and tonka bean.

Also, the Paczki series as well as Revolution 36 and Erzulie's Kiss are still available! Just look at the last two updates beneath this one.

So, there you have it! Have a great Leap Year's Day and howl at the moon for me!

Bissextile Curious? fragrance will be available in one size, two styles: SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $18
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$19

Please indicate your desired size and from the drop down menus below then click the Add To Cart button to complete the selection.

Bissextile Curious? fragrance will be LIVE until the end of March, or until supplies are exhausted.

February 21, 2012

PACZKI DAY!

Celebrate Fat Tuesday Conjure style once again with our Polish pastry inspired perfume oils! Growing up in Southeastern Michigan like I did, it wasn't hard to find a box of these delectable sweet treats! For those who don't know what a paczki is, (pronounced "poonchky") it's like a large huge doughnut stuffed to the brim with various intoxicatingly sweet fillings ranging from traditional plum and rose hip jam to more modern conventions like Bavarian custard, apple or raspberry. Though it's no typical doughnut - the paczki is sweeter and spongier. They can be topped with powdered or granulated sugar, or with icing. Truly, the mortal doughnut pales in comparison!

Paczki are a convenient way to get all of the sugar, fat and temptation out of the house before the sparse season of Lent rears it head. Fortunately, we've conjured a great way to get the paczki experience throughout whilst avoiding the calories as well! It's like magic! Indulge!

Conjure Paczki Selections:

Packzi Day!Plum Jam Paczki
Sweet dough is filled with black plum jam and dusted with refined powdered sugar.

Packzi Day!Bavarian Custard Paczki
Fried pastry dough filled with thick vanilla Bavarian custard and coated with granulated vanilla sugar.

Packzi Day!Rose Hip Jam Paczki
Fresh paczki are served warm, overflowing with rose hip jam and drizzled with sweet honey sugar glaze.

Packzi Day!Set of all three Paczki
Order all three types of Paczki in a set!

Paczki will available until March 21th, or we sell out! And I must say this: while these do indeed smell good enough to eat, they are not in any way, shape or form intended for consumption, human or animal. External use only!

Fat Tuesday in Conjure County fragrances are available in one size, two styles: SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $18
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$19

Please indicate your desired size and fragrance from the drop down menus below then click the Add To Cart button to complete the selection.

Fat Tuesday in Conjure County will be LIVE until March 21, or until supplies are exhausted.

February 5, 2012

HAPPY 36th BIRTHDAY, VAJRA!

For 36 years now I've had the privilege of spinning around the splendid sun upon this gorgeous blue-green marble, swirling and whirling through the blackness of space. During these 36 years, I've endured traumas so horrific that I was launched head long into the weary depths of sadness; a darkness so vast that I thought I'd never again see the sun rise anew in my soul. I've also been treated to wonders, thrills and to love so shimmering and pure that it coursed through the maze of my veins as if I were filled not by blood, but by an incandescent liquid joy.

As I witness each day rise, grow and then succumb to the night, I look deeply within myself and see an accumulation of wisdom and experience. As a child, I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up; I always figured the path would reveal itself to me over time. I now know that the path doesn't just appear. There may be hints, suggestions and clues about its whereabouts along the way, but truly, the revelation of my soul's purpose becomes this gentle yet profound realization: it's been underfoot all along. There is no destination after all. It's the love shared along the way that matters.

Celebrate my 36th revolution with me!


HAPPY 36TH BIRTHDAY, VAJRA! SOLD OUT!
Limited Edition

$18 for 5ml Perfumed oil
$19 for 5ml Perfumed oil in a brown amber roll on

ERZULIE'S KISS SOLD OUT!

$10 for .5oz sliding tin.

Live until March 13, 2012

<3REVOLUTION 36
Each solar return has its challenges, its intrigues, its rewards! For my 36th revolution, I've designed a perfume for revolution and evolution! Will you grow with me? Let's heal misery
, sadness, emptiness and creative blocks while moving forward toward an existence rife with life, light, laughter and an overabundance of love.

Coursing with life and vibrancy: Red musk, crimson carnation, smoked vanilla, white peach, tonka bean, amberette and a drop of clary sage for ecstasy.

LIP BALM

<3ERZULIE'S KISS
A lip balm inspired by the Haitian Lwa of love and sensuality! Slather your lips with her spicy unguent and you'll be blowing spicy kisses well into the night!

Coconut oil, beeswax, organic shea butter, organic cocoa butter, vitamin e with a warming blend of spicy essential oils: cardamom, rose, clove bud, ginger, sweet orange, vanilla and a drop of peppermint

HYPNOS

Please welcome Hypnos to the General Catalog! Once known as the Yule 2011 Limited Edition, Shut-Eye Town, Hypnos was renamed and added at the request of its most ardent fans!

<3HYPNOS
{Greek God of Sleep}

Brother of Thanatos, Hypnos is the Greek god of sleep. Tucked deep in his cave, he slumbers peacefully among the poppies.

Sweet lavender-infused vanilla cream, heliotrope blossoms and blue chamomile to soothe slumber woes.

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February 1, 2012

WELCOME TO MLLE. VICTORIA'S LUPERTINE BURLESQUE CABARET!

Happy Lupercalia, Valentine's Day, or Lupertine, as I've come to call it! This is the time of year for things to heat up, so without further ado - come one, come all to witness the stunning beauty and talent demonstrated by the show girls of yesteryear! Va va va voom!

Mlle. Victoria's Lupertine Burlesque Cabaret 2012 fragrances are available in one size, two styles:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $18
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$19

DE FAYA
De Faya's gutsy glamour comes from her ability to proudly display the military look! Strong and tall, she marches this sexy look decades ahead into the future!

A bold, confident blend: White sandalwood musk with glowing golden notes of honeysuckle, bergamot and aged tonka.

DIÉTERLE
Diéterle's a sophisticated show girl - her tight curls and checkered kerchief present a strong and confident performer.

Rich and creamy leather intricately layered with tobacco infused vanilla, shimmering musk and a hint of red patchouli and cacao.

ELECTREMA
Electrema is shocking in her ghostly white body suit and gossamer veil. She slips and slides silently, dancing into your haunted heart.

Crystal musk, silverbells, ozone, a clap of thunder and a spark of lightning.

L'EGYPTIENNE
L'Egyprienne is a dancing marvel. Hailing from lands far away and exotic, she brings her Oriental dance to the stage, with all of its sinewy mystery.

Egyptian sandalwood and musk, kyphi incense, benzoin and Silk Road spices evoke the sensual heat and all the romance of the desert.

LILY DAMITA
Lily Damita is no shy violet! Her iridescent white ruffles, wig and lily blossoms add sparkle and flair to her seductive dance.

White lily, apple, golden honey, tonka, patchouli and whipped cream. Not for the faint of heart!

MLLE. LOLA
Mlle. Lola brings spring with her steps. With her crown of flowers and milky white limbs, her dance melts the ice of winter and promises spring.

Spring warmth: Forsythia, blue hyacinth, fresh grass and dandelion grounded in thawing earth.

MLLE. PAPILLON
Mlle. Papillon flitters across the stage, swinging her large wings boldly with panache and flash! Become beguiled by the beating of her wings!

Butterfly bush, nectarine, frankincense, snapdragon, and sagebrush.

MLLE. C. de VILLERS
Mlle C. de Villers is a jewel in the crown of the show! With her bright pink plumage and aqua dress, she is a splash of color against the subdued stage lights.

Pink grapefruit, red musk, French vanilla ice cream with a brandy soaked Moreno cherry on top.

MLLE. ÉVA MARTIN
Mlle. Éve Martin is truly an original! Her geometric dress revealing the most suggestive views of the female body. It's almost scandalous!

Toasted coconut, caramelized vanilla bean, peach, and heady magnolia ignited with red musk.

MLLE. WHIARD
Witchy Mlle. Whiard casts a spell with her hot pink pointed hat and wildly floral gown. Let her cast a spell on you!

Wild strawberry, whipped cream, kiwi fruit, raw sugar and a pinch of clove.

SELVA & LARIDAN
Selva & LariDan are the dynamic dancing duo! Hot as the tropical flowers they wear proudly in their hair, they entwine their bodies, writhing to a melody most ancient and fantastic.

Crimson hibiscus, golden frankincense, yellow rose, dark sandalwood, oud, aged vanilla and a drop of sensual spiced honey.

TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES 2012

True Love Never Dies 2012

Two 5ml Brown Apothecary Bottles - $38
Two 5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$40

Please note that these are only vailable in pairs.

Antony & Cleo 2012
According to legend it was love at first sight between Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt and Marc Antony, the Roman General and friend of Julius Caesar. The two would eventually marry, have three children and as a family, rule much of the region. 

The truth is lost in the mists of history, but some say that Marc Antony killed himself by falling on his sword when he heard a false rumor that his beloved Cleopatra had died. Others say that when the tides of war turned against the couple, they escaped together then, to avoid capture, Marc Antony committed suicide. When Cleopatra, who by this time was already imprisoned by Octavian and could no longer bear the grief of her dwindling empire, heard the news about the death of her dear Marc Antony she poisoned herself by snake bite. With the help of her sympathetic servants, she hid a small asp in a basket of figs, donned her royal robes, reclined upon her couch of gold and placed the venomous snake upon her breast.

Antony
A complex and ancient stymmata recreated to commemorate the general: juniper berries macerated in a base of sandalwood imported from the Far East, royal musk, cyclamen, sweet flag, blue lavender, myrtle, cypress, labdanum and victorious bay laurel.


Cleo
Cleopatra understood the power of scent and utilized it to her advantage. It is said she first met Marc Antony upon a ship equipped with large billowing incense censers and perfumed sails that scented the entire port.

A legendary queen, seductress, mathematician and strategist, Cleopatra is remembered in this beguiling fragrance:  Egyptian sandalwood, myrrh resin, honeysuckle, orris root, serpentine cinnamon and black fig. 

The Breath of Isis & The Jewel of Osiris 2012
No other gods could boast of love as deep and pure as the love shared by Isis and Osirs. Out of jealousy, Osiris was murdered by his brother, Set, and his body was divided into fourteen parts and scattered to the four corners. Isis, stricken ill with grief and despair, frantically searched the world over for her lover's body parts. She discovered all but one, as the phallus of Osiris had been eaten by a fish! Undaunted, crafty Isis fashioned a new phallus for her husband out of pure gold. She then embalmed him and with one giant breath filled with love, passion, longing, grief and ecstasy, brought Osiris back to life to rule the Underworld.

The Breath of Isis
Lotus root, tonka bean, sweet pea blossoms, neroli, black currant absolute and an opoponax tear drop.


The Jewel of Osiris
Guiacwood, oakmoss, black patchouli, crimson plum, golden bergamot and cassia


Khosrow & Shirin 2012
Khosrow and Shirin are two lovers immortalized by ancient Persian poets. Khosrow is a handsome prince who is taken with tales of a beautiful princess living in a nearby kingdom. Khosrow, anxious to meet his future bride, can wait no longer and travels with his best friend to Shirin's land to meet her. Shirin is then courted with Khosrow's amazing feats of strength and daring until at long last, she's convinced that he's truly her soul mate.

Khosrow
Bold cardamom cream is exalted with scarlet carnation, golden frankincense and amber resin.


Shirin
Sweet and seductive: silken jasmine, royal rose, gentle geranium, vanilla blossom, red musk, sweet patchouli and molten honey.


Sir Lancelot & Lady Guinevere 2012
Torn between their loyalty to King Arthur and their desire for one another, it can be argued that the love between Guinevere and Lancelot weakened the integrity of the Round Table. Truly star-crossed lovers from the start, Lancelot and Guinevere never had a chance. Even after the death of Arthur, Lancelot was denied a final kiss from his beloved as she'd joined a convent with the intention of never seeing the face of Lancelot again.

Sir Lancelot
Aged leather, almond, shining musk, nutmeg, black tea, vanilla sugar and smoked sandalwood.


Lady Guinevere
Tuberose, sweet cream, juicy apricot, cherry blossoms, rosewood and the softest blush of pink grapefruit.

LUPERTINE RESURRECTED 2012

Lupertine Resurrected 2012

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottles - $18
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$19

ANA MOAJABA BIK 2012

Moroccan

A complex and mysterious melange of black musk incense, white sandalwood, spicy red carnation, oud, and Moroccan geranium with a sparkle of sweet orange.

DON JUAN 2012

This sultry Spanish libertine's seductive folly led him straight to the gates of Hell, however the magnetic allure of his eponymous fragrance is nothing short of Heavenly.

Saffron and sable Moorish woods are seduced by bundles of white lavender, masculine amber and black musk.

HARLOT 2012

Biblically, harlots were devoted prostitutes who worked in service of the great goddess Astarte, the Syrian Venus.

Temple incense, dried blood red roses, labdanum, osmanthus, tuberose and oud.

RAVISHED 2012

Seduced by a scoundrel on the Seven Seas; a bodice-ripper in it's own right. Passionate pirate kisses plunder the depths of her black heart.

Sweltering Tahitian vanilla heat, a mahogany headboard, silken crimson sheets pulled tight and notes of golden honey ooze over mouth-watering coconut mounds.

SHEELA-NA-GIG 2012

She first appeared in the 11th or 12th century as a stone carving found on churches, castles and gates in Britain and Ireland and was believed to be an apotropaic charm – a true testament to the female mysteries.
Sheela-Na-Gig, often considered as a Goddess, is a powerful symbol of a woman's relationship with her sexuality, her body and the power that lies therein. She is depicted as a grinning bald woman displaying her exaggerated vulva for the world to behold. Imagine what would happen if we were proudly willing to share the most sacred parts of ourselves without reservation. Allow Sheela's bold defiance of misogyny to empower you!

A daring mix of enchanted herbs and flowers sacred to the ancient Celts of the British Isles evoke he feeling of watching the sun set behind the towering megaliths of Stonehenge: rolling green hills, dusky heather, the gossamer fruit of the Sidhe and sacred vervain.

SHUNGA 2012

Shunga were sexually explicit Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints produced in the 16th and 19th centuries. Men and women from all stations in life took great pleasure in these erotic "pillow books" as they were often given as gifts to newly-wedded couples. The lascivious images in these books were highly idealized, stylized and featured innumerable steamy situations with raw desire and opulent fantasy.

A suggestive blend of impassioned dark amber resin clinging to delicate white ginger lilies as tendrils of Asian opium smoke swirl about the charged atmosphere.

TÁIM IN NGRÁ LEÁT 2012

Irish Gaelic

An inspired scent that evokes swirling mists through ancient apple orchards, oak leaves, cool rain and emerald moss.

Mlle. Victoria's Lupertine Burlesque Cabaret, True Love Never Dies 2012 & Lupertine Resurrected 2012 will be LIVE until March 21, or until supplies are exhausted.

December 31, 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Whether you loved it or hated it. you have to agree, 2011 was a hell of a year! Here is a small selection ranging from doom to death to decadence (all the good stuff!) to say sionara to the old year and howdy to the new! May good luck, prosperity, great health, and lots of love be yours in 2012! Click the image above and get you some!

~Vajra & the CO crew!


HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 SOLD OUT

Happy New Year 2012 fragrances are available in one size, two styles:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $18
5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle Glass Roll-On -$19

The New Year's Collection will be LIVE until January 7, or if supplies are exhausted.

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b'ak'tun 13 - APOCALYPSE SOON?

You may have heard a little rumor that a certain Mayan calender is set to expire this year. (As an aside, why does this have to coincide with an election year AND during the year of the Dragon? As if I don't have enough to worry over, but I digress...) If this year is it, make it your best year ever! More YES less NO, less stay, more GO! See you on the other side.

Sin while you may: Black musk, leather, clove saturated patchouli and tobacco spiced with peppered Mexican chocolate and aged vanilla beans.

THE DEATH OF THE OLD YEAR
by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter winds are wearily sighing:
Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,
And tread softly and speak low,
For the old year lies a-dying.
    Old year you must not die;
    You came to us so readily,
    You lived with us so steadily,
    Old year you shall not die.

He lieth still: he doth not move:
He will not see the dawn of day.
He hath no other life above.
He gave me a friend and a true truelove
And the New-year will take ’em away.
    Old year you must not go;
    So long you have been with us,
    Such joy as you have seen with us,
    Old year, you shall not go.

He froth’d his bumpers to the brim;
A jollier year we shall not see.
But tho’ his eyes are waxing dim,
And tho’ his foes speak ill of him,
He was a friend to me.
    Old year, you shall not die;
    We did so laugh and cry with you,
    I’ve half a mind to die with you,
    Old year, if you must die.

He was full of joke and jest,
But all his merry quips are o’er.
To see him die across the waste
His son and heir doth ride post-haste,
But he’ll be dead before.
    Every one for his own.
    The night is starry and cold, my friend,
    And the New-year blithe and bold, my friend,
    Comes up to take his own.

How hard he breathes! over the snow
I heard just now the crowing cock.
The shadows flicker to and fro:
The cricket chirps: the light burns low:
’Tis nearly twelve o’clock.
    Shake hands, before you die.
    Old year, we’ll dearly rue for you:
    What is it we can do for you?
    Speak out before you die.

His face is growing sharp and thin.
Alack! our friend is gone,
Close up his eyes: tie up his chin:
Step from the corpse, and let him in
That standeth there alone,
    And waiteth at the door.
    There’s a new foot on the floor, my friend,
    And a new face at the door, my friend,
    A new face at the door.

The old year makes way for the new: melting snow, a snuffed out candle flame and the sweet scent of hope fresh on new year's morn.

 

OUT WITH THE OLD...
Oya's winds will blow! Sweep the carnage of the old year away and make room for something far more spectacular!

Cypress, black patchouli, oakmoss, lemon with a pinch of hyssop and rue added to the bottle.
 
..IN WITH THE NEW
All of the best in the new year! Love, light, life, money, friends, good times, peace of heart, mind and soul. Those resolutions can stick. WE CAN DO THIS!

Golden sandalwood drenched in amber with inspired ginger and a shimmering spray of olibanum and sweet orange.
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December 24, 2011


HAPPY HOLIDAYS and NEW YEAR!

We here at Conjure - Vajra, Sterling and little Miss Lucy, too - wish you a gorgeous and wonderfully memorable holiday season! 2011 has been a year of growth and expansion and all the white-knuckle anxiety that goes along with it! None of this - Conjure Oils or The Conjure Works could have happened without your love and support, and for that, I humbly thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

We hope that 2012 is an amazing year full of inspiration, spirit and evolution! As we work toward the best manifestations of our souls and our Selves, we can always be enriched by our inner strength and fortified by each other. Truly, when it comes down to it, at the very end what will endure are the memories of the love we shared, the challenges we faced and the sacred successes we achieved along the way. We're all in this together.

Evolution isn't always pleasant; insecurity and worry are always in tow, but if we can stay in touch with that part of us that resides in the faith that we're exactly where we're meant to be and find solace in our deep inner knowledge that no matter what, our struggles bring us strength. We know that dawn is always waiting behind the dark night of the soul. Despair is not an option! So to 2012: we accept your challenge and will meet you head on! Happy New Year!

HOLIDAY CHEER in the ODDMENT EMPORIUM

From December 23rd to January 2nd, ANY scent will be available in the Oddment Emporium, including ALL of the Yule 2011 selections! We have Seductive Soaps, Luxurious Lotions, Seductive Sprays, Wicked Whips and now Enchanted CANDLES! Candles are offered in an 8oz clear glass apothecary jar and in a vintage tea cup as well! 

Get yours TODAY!

BUY 2 GET 1 FREE SALE!

December 24th to December 26th we're hosting a holiday Buy 2 get 1 FREE sale! Here's the fine print: perfume only, no Limited Editions or Oddment Emporium items. The free item must be of equal or lesser value.

Simply list your selections in the comments field, or send a separate email! Easy peasy!

COMING SOON...

In 2012 we can look forward to some of the lines being completed that have spacers on the nav bar, a new Limited Edition line to enhance creativity, and some other tricks up our sleeves...

All the best in the New Year,

Vajra & CO.

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December 10, 2011

TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE – SATURDAY DECEMBER 10, 2011

On Saturday December 10th, 2011 we will be treated not only to the last lunar eclipse of 2011, but the last total lunar eclipse until 2014! We checked in with our resident Rebel Astrologer Andrew Drobny and this is what he has to say to “illuminate” the subject. Enjoy!
“A lunar eclipse represents the tightest phase of the aspect (and therefore strongest manifestation) of what we astrologers refer to as a Solar-Lunar opposition. Literally the sun and the moon are on directly opposite sides of the earth from one another. Thus the earth may shield the moon from the light of the sun causing the emblematic shadow across the surface of the moon. Astrologically speaking the general effect is that the moon, representing our emotional state, is shielded from its source: the sun, representing the center of our beings and the source of our energies. In general, a lunar eclipse induces emotional insecurities and a very basic internal conflict between the part of us that says “I AM” and the part of us that says “I FEEL.”
A lunar eclipse (or Sun-Sun opposition) means that our emotional state and sense of self are crashing against each other and causing mass confusion. This can range from a vague feeling of distraction or clumsiness all the way to emotional crisis. The key to keep in mind is that this is not necessarily all negative; all moments and configurations exist for a reason. This is a great time to exercise intention and take the time to slow down and examine our hearts and our sense of identity. To "readjust" our solar direction based on what the heart says. If we do so a lunar eclipse can be not only beneficial, but downright enjoyable as well. Of course, if we refuse to look at these things and just smash forward it is likely to make nothing short of a mess of our emotions.
Let’s take a look at a few things that are going down right now regarding the eclipse:

  1.  Moon in Gemini and Sun in Sagittarius. This is a mutable opposition and therefore may have effects that are less pronounced, thankfully. The general effects: emotional moon in Gemini means a kind of detachment and a lack of commitment to any one idea and a scattered feeling. Sun in its Sagittarius position shows a sense of identity and attention that has high hopes, yet lacks focus. The result: you may be all over the place, a bit insecure and have difficulty making firm decisions. This is a time for exploration, not absolutes.
  2. Mars is in Virgo, squaring both the sun and moon in what is called a T-Square formation, exacerbates the confusion and scattered energies the opposition of the sun and moon are creating. Representing the part of us who motivates and activates, Mars is stifled under unmanageable picky expectations and a lack of drive. The result is a tendency to simmer in unexpressed frustration, indecisiveness, etc. Outbursts of frustration are likely, personally, and in the larger sense as well. Translation: be very careful of your expectations. Breathe!

Summing it all up: 
Relax this weekend and allow things to come as they come; stay loose. It is not a moment when things will seem to be getting done. Instead of decision making and goal setting, go ahead and explore! Playfully misbehave a little. Don’t forget that Sagittarian optimism is the ticket to all of this! Learn new ways to define the self and find new and unique ways that you fit into the world, because you belong. When this aspect moves on, you'll be surprised at what you’ve discovered about yourself!”

SACRED TRANSGRESSIONS

The Sun, Earth and Moon align in space allowing the mighty light of the full Moon to surrender and submit to the shadow of the Earth. Magickally, it is oftentimes considered a "micro month" where all lunar phases happen during the duration of the eclipse. To many astrologers the effects that happen during the few hours of an eclipse can last for years. Whether an eclipse is a time to practice magick is up for the practitioner to decide, but few can dispute the power that the eclipse brings; if you're going to do Work, you better mean it.
  
 During this very special eclipse, the last of its kind until 2014, I will be preparing an oil to harness the energy of this most unique event. Blending rare oils sacred to Madam Night and Lady Moon in all Her lunar phases as well as astrologically relevant oils to enhance identity and sacred play including: 

*Jasmine Sambac (known as "Queen of the Night"), 
*Mysore Sandalwood (sacred to many lunar Gods and Goddesses), 
*Bulgarian Rose Otto (reputed to enhance clairvoyance and meditation), 
*Blessed Myrrh (protection, contemplating darkness) 
*Poppy (getting in touch with your dream state and creativity)
*Bergamot (creates a strong sense of self and an air of authority)
*Patchouli SCO2 (grounding, centering and soothing)
*Vanilla Absolute (adds an element of fun for the sweetness of play) 

The cost will be $40 for 5ml ($41 for the roll-on) and will include a moonstone, labradorite and quartz crystal lunar charm that will be exposed to the energies of the eclipse as well. I will tuck the bottle in a protective black pouch before it's shipped out to you.    

I will only be making a very small batch, so if you're interested in obtaining a bottle of this special oil please order by the end of the day on the 11th.

This oil will be perfect for use during all phases of lunar and nocturnal workings as well as anointing all lunar amulets and jewelry. It will also be well-suited for workings dealing with play, identity and shapeshifting!

Thank you and blessed eclipse!


Sacred Transgressions SOLD OUT
Total Lunar Eclipse - December 10, 2011
Limited Edition

Your bottle of Sacred Transgressions will be placed in a black pouch with a hand-made and blessed lunar charm of quartz, labradorite and moonstone affixed to it.

$40 for 5ml Perfumed oil
$41 for 5ml Perfumed oil in a brown amber roll on

Sacred Transgressions will be available until 11:59pm, December 11, 2011. These will be made to order, but some extra will be made to accommodate late requests. Orders placed that can't be filled will be promptly refunded. Limit 2 per person. Thank you for understanding.

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November 25, 2011

Blackest Friday EVER! Buy 2 get 1 FREE sale and NEW PERFUMES added to the GC!

The print, it is fine:

Buy 2 get 1 free.
Sale good for 24 hours.
Free item must be the least expensive of the three.
Good for 5 or 10ml bottles, not pips.
No LE's, Toby Daye OK!
No Limit!


New Additions to the General Catalog!

We've added four new perfumes to the Mythos collection inspired by fearsome and seasonally appropriate deities. Anubis, Maman Brigitte and Set bring with them their celebration of death in this season of darkness while the sun is in the deep and passionate sign of Scorpio. In the broader autumnal season, we celebrate all sorts of ancestral and death honoring festivals: Halloween, Samhain, Los Dias de los Muertos, Hop Tu Naa, Calan Gaeaf, Allantide, All Hallows Eve, All Saints, Festival of the Dead, Ghost Festival... you get the point! Durga, while not a death goddess per se (that title belongs to Kali, an aspect of Durga herself) brings the celebration of her festival, Navratri, for a week during the month of September.

There isn't a more perfect time than now to add these to the collection! Try them today to attune to the energy of the darkening days and lengthening nights, to pay homage to your dearly departed loved ones or to simply enshroud yourself in the deadly aroma of these dire deities!
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ANUBIS
Jackal-headed Egyptian lord of embalming, mummification and protector of the dead. He watches over the funerary process making sure the bodies are properly readied for their journey to the afterlife. His color is black, associating him with the putrefaction stage of death as well as the promise of rebirth found in the fertile black soils on the banks of the river Nile.

A perfume inspired by the beauty that Anubis saw in death: Red musk, Egyptian patchouli accord, tonka bean absolute, aged vanilla resin and a drop of embalming honey.

DURGA
As a fierce protector and an indestructible force of nature, Durga's ability to help her devotees overcome selfishness, jealousy, prejudice, hatred, anger, and ego has made her one of the most beloved of all Hindu devas. She rides into battle on her tiger, a symbol of her vast and limitless power with a peaceful smile on her face, as even during the most violent confrontations, she does not lose her composure, compassion or her ability to laugh at a good joke.

Sacred, powerful and commanding, yet brightly festive: Daring Indian patchouli wrapped in graceful bergamot blossom and enlivened with tonka bean.

MAMAN BRIGITTE

Scottish and Irish indentured servants brought along with them to Haiti their beloved goddess and later Saint Brigid, the red haired, green eyed, fair skinned deity. She most certainly has her place among the pantheon of beloved Haitian Lwa as queen of the Ghede, a Haitian Creole word for a family of sprits that represent the dead as well as fertility - sex and death are never far apart! She is the Mistress of the Dead, owner of the cemetery and is, in true ghede fashion, as sexually suggestive, rude, obscene and debaucherous as her husband, Baron Samedi.

Maman's Ofrendas: Tobacco, peppered rum, spicy clove, piquant cinnamon and graveyard dirt.

SET
Egyptian lord of darkness, chaos, storms, the harsh desert and foreigners. He ruled the red desert in Upper Egypt while Horus was given the fertile Nile delta, the black lands of Lower Egypt. The two gods were always at odds with one another. Multiple myths detail the feud between the two, a conflict that is completely understandable: Set murdered then dismembered Horus' father Osiris as Set always had eyes for his sister and Horus' mother, the beautiful Isis and stopped at nothing to have her. Some historians claim that the vilification of Set was politically motivated, some say it was symbolic of the war that people living in the desert waged to survive within the environment daily: Set represented the sterile, harsh desert while Horus was the fertile lands that were flooded by the Nile. Nonetheless, Set is a darkly complicated figure who is often called upon for sex and love magic as he understands the how far down the maddening depths of love and desire can go when they remain unrequited.

Egyptian red amber, black patchouli, vanilla bean hull, sycamore, black musk, beeswax and vetiver.

November 21, 2011

The Naughty List photo:
Model & styling by Hottie McNaughty
Photo by POC
Used with permission

THE NAUGHTY LIST
Conjure Oils’ Yule 2011
Collection

Welcome to Conjure Oils’ 2011 Yule Collection, The Naughty List! Every year, we host a contest to challenge the citizens of Conjure County to come up with suggestions for their ideas of a holy grail Yule perfume design. The winners not only get $30 in Conjure Ca$h to indulge on anything at ConjureOils.com, they also get to be the envy of their friends and enemies alike! All winning entries are lovingly crafted into a unique perfume oils available for all to admire (and purchase!) on the Conjure Oils website throughout the Yuletide season, not to mention that the winner also receives a 5ml bottle of their perfume as well!

The parameters of the contest were fairly loose – a maximum of five entries per person illustrating concepts that could be as general or specific as the entrant desired. We had entries that ran the gamut from simply elegant (balsam fir and cranberries, call it Garlands) to intricately complex treatises on the origins of various Yule traditions (for example, an entry the length of five single-spaced typed pages explaining the origins of Krampus with the recommendation that the perfume be titled  Krampusnacht ist Wunderbar!)

Every year the entries increase in their creativity, cleverness, complexity of design and, well, length! :D I am SO proud of the citizens of Conjure County and the community that has been created around Conjure Oils. I want to extend a massive gesture of gratitude and bow deeply and reverently before everyone who entered, who told someone or who spread the word about the contest, to all who spread the word about Conjure Oils to anyone who would listen, all who taunted their foes with the majesty of our unpretentious honesty and the sincerity of our passions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

So! On to the Naughty List! Congratulations to all the winners and to everyone who entered! I loved reading all of your creative contributions and wished I could have used them all! Nonetheless, may your Yule be blessed, your Kwanzaa righteous, your Hanukkah glorious, your Christmas merry and your Winter Solstice secular!

Big love, hugs, blessings, light, life and joy from all of us at Conjure Oils & The Conjure Works!

Vajra, Sterling & Miss Lucy, too!

YULE 2011

THE NAUGHTY LIST
Despite our best efforts to kiss up to the big guy in red, sometimes we can't help but end up on the naughty list!

Fluffy marshmallows slowly toasted over the fireplace flames, buttered rum spiked steamed vanilla milk, cacao musk, swirling pipe tobacco and a snicker doodle bribe.

Hottie McNaughty
Washington, USA

HADES’ HOMECOMING
Even Gods get to go home for the holidays and Hades is no exception! Every Midwinter’s Eve He returns to Mount Olympus to share in the ambrosial nectar. Let us celebrate the Lord of the Dead’s slight reprieve with fragrant offerings of our own design.
Persephone's frosted garnet pomegranates, lightly bruised winter mint, snow-softened flames, Stygian incense smoke, Cerebus’ worn collar leather and the bittersweet tears of homecoming.

Nyx G.
California, USA

KAOS
The prehistoric abyss that gives birth to the Sun and all of creation.

Primeval black resin, hoary black musk, ancient leather, Prometheus’ fire and traces of ozone; a relic from the crack of lightning that created life in the primordial ooze.

NYX
Nyx is the exceedingly dark, beautiful, powerful and unknowable Greek goddess of the Night who witnessed the birth of all of creation. She is Mother of the deepest mysteries that have haunted humanity since the beginning of time: The Mother of Moros (Doom), Styx (Hate), Hypnos (Sleep) & Thanatos (Death) and many, many others. I’m sure Holiday celebrations at Mama Nyx’s house are serious business!

AT NIGHT
Franz Kafka

Deeply lost in the night.
Just as one sometimes lowers one’s head to reflect,
Thus to be utterly lost in the night. All around people are asleep.
It’s just play acting, and innocent self-deception, that they sleep in houses,
In safe beds, under a safe roof, stretched out or curled up on mattresses,
In sheets, under blankets; in reality they have flocked together
As they had once upon a time and again later in a deserted region,
A camp in the open, a countless number of men, an army, a people,
Under a cold sky on cold earth, collapsed where once they had stood,
Forehead pressed on the arm, face to the ground, breathing quietly.
And you are watching, are one of the watchmen,
You find the next one by brandishing a burning stick
From the brushwood pile beside you.
Why are you watching? Someone must watch, it is said.
Someone must be there.

Egyptian myrrh, amber resin, opium tar, antique patchouli, moonflower, black tea and tonka bean.

Kirsten B.
Georgia, USA

COLA DE MONO
“The Monkey’s Tail” in English, Cola de Mono is a traditional Chilean holiday drink that is similar to a White Russian. The Dude would approve!  “Hey man, there’s a beverage here!”

Hot buttered rum, scalded cream, spiced coffee liqueur and a splash of vanilla infused vodka.

Michelle H.
California, USA

PANCHA GANAPTI
Pancha Ganapti is a five day solstice celebration that takes place December 21st through the 25th in honor of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha. On the first day, the shrine is constructed by the family as a gesture of unity and worship and an icon of Ganesha is decorated with pine boughs, shimmering tinsel and a particular magical color. Each day the God is dressed in a new color and a particular sadhana, or spiritual practice, is focused upon by the family. By the last day, the celebrants are said to be overflowing with love for one another and showered with the blessings of Ganesha.

Beats passing out from turkey overdose in front of the TV if you ask me!

Coconut cream, caramelized sugar, cardamom, rosewater, fresh mango pulp, red musk, amber incense, a bouquet of champaca and a few grains of basmati rice.

Heather M.
Washington, USA

THE ICE QUEEN COMETH
Seated atop her gleaming crystalline carved ice throne, the regal Ice Queen prepares once more to rule the winter world. Tended to by snow sylphs and frost faeries she is powdered, perfumed and primped in her finest winter-white raiment and ready to mount her fantastic furred beast. She rides forth bringing with her winter's chill winds and icy darkness.

Hers is the fragrance of frost itself: arctic winds and frigid ice-rain drops that weave an icy web of glacial glamour.

SNOWCASTLE
A pale little girl sat in a field
Raising a castle from snow.
"You shouldn't be out here, you'll catch a cold!"
A passerby started to scold.
"I am out here, and here I shall stay, building my castles of snow.
For I'm all alone in this world and have no other place to call home."
"Little girl, don't you cry, for I've come bearing gifts;
Of warm, cozy nights
And daybreaks, so bright.
Just close your eyes and take hold my hand."
"Where are we going?"
"To your own winter wonderland."
With a snap of his fingers, and a clap of his hands
They shrunk to the size of two grains of sand
Then all of a sudden, the two were inside
A magnificent palace of ivory, so white.
Seated before an amber fire, lay the little girl's most sincere desire
A beautiful mother, with beauty and grace
And a father with a kind and generous face.
The little girl cried tears of absolute glee
As the passerby smiled, exiting silently.
From the little snow castle that was now the girl's home
No teardrops or sadness, just acres to roam.
As the kindly stranger went on his way
He waved a good-bye and boarded his sleigh.

The scent of holiday dreams come true: Powder fine sugar and snow, the stillness of clear iced amber, soft tendrils of hearth fire smoke and the welcoming gentle scent of oven fresh gingerbread slices dusted with just enough holiday magic.

Miranda S.
New Jersey, USA

MAUL SANTA 
Because Killer Klowns need holiday work, too!

Drunk before noon: Dark and boozy Bourbon vanilla, blackened coconut husk, toasted tonka bean, cherry pipe tobacco smoke and the suspicious scent of peppermint schnapps.

Leigh B.
Tennessee, USA

SLEIGHER
I’m dreaming of a black metal Christmas…  Somewhere in Norway a church is glowing, on Christmas Eve and the flames are spreading…

(I’m so going to Hell for this one.)

A Black Mass: Corrupted church incense, unholy water, Hell fire and the surprisingly pleasant scent of damnation.

Andrew D.
Oregon, USA

#OCCUPYTHENORTHPOLE
Why should Santa get all the credit? Let’s #OccupytheNorthPole and give props to some of the 99% that do all the work in the cold, white North - the reindeer!
This is in no way meant to demean or diminish the value or intention of the righteous #Occupy movement, of which I am in full support. In fact, the proceeds of the #OccupyTheNorthPole collection will be used to help us at Conjure Oils create care packages for the Occupants across the nation as need dictates. The packages will contain liquid antacid and empty spray bottles, protective eye wear, tincture of echinacea and goldenseal, zinc lozenges, toiletries, packs of new socks, fleece hats, mittens and hopefully brand new coats if the line generates enough funds!

DASHER
Dashing bergamot blossom, guaiac wood, cardamom pods, toasted cinnamon, black amber, benzoin resin, pimento berry and polished mahogany.

DANCER
Egyptian chamomile, rock rose, elemi resin, aged vanilla bean, sugared amber and dark patchouli SCO2.

PRANCER
Snow-dusted cypress branches, steaming coffee, vetiver root and patchouli wood.

VIXEN
Sweet honey, champaca blossom, vanilla orchid, ginger root and a sip of shimmering ruby pomegranate champagne.

COMET
Black pepper, nutmeg, clary sage, starry black vanilla musk, labdanum absolute and stellar white sandalwood.

CUPID
Sultry red musk, golden amber resin, red mandarin, crimson carnation and clove bud.

DONNER
White pine, pimento berry, violet leaf, hinoki wood, birch bark, Himalayan cedar wood, rainbow iris and olibanum.

BLITZEN
Lime zest, bergamot, night blooming jasmine, white tea, fresh skin musk, white amber, lily of the valley and brisk night air.

GINGERBREAD COVEN
Build-Your-Own-Gingerbread-Temple! Esmerelda, Inferna, Wendy, Terra and Marisol are back to celebrate Yule with you and have crafted all the goodies you’ll need to create the most delicious dwelling for all your spell castings!

INFERNA’S GINGERBREAD
Nothing says lovin’ like somethin’ from the coven and Inferna’s gingerbread is no exception! Hand mixed and baked to perfection: ginger root, sifted cake flour, molasses, brown sugar and a pinch of chili pepper. Inferna wouldn’t have it any other way!

TERRA’S SPICED GUMDROP GEMS
Terra spent all month in the candy caverns mining the perfect jelly gemstones that have just the right balance of clove, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice!

MARISOL’S SEA SALT CARAMELS
Marisol’s caramels are a force of nature all on their own! Mouth-watering soft caramel, sugared milk, vanilla bean and a sprinkling of her own hand-harvested sea salt.

WENDY’S WICKED ICING
Wendy’s whipped up a batch of her royal icing: confectioner’s sugar, vanilla and cream.

ESMERELDA’S CANDY WANDS
Red and green swirls of peppermint hard tack candy sweetened with vanilla sugar and a hint of something sinister.

GHOST OF YULES PAST

A LA NANITA NANA
The cherubic scent of a sleeping infant's skin, the nourishing sweetness of mother's milk, holy white musk and the radiant golden glow of warm vanilla-infused amber angel wings.

Hillary L.
Pennsylvania, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

AURORA BOREALIS
Shivering frost notes cling to the boughs of fir and spruce whilst wisps of smoke from sacred wood fires swirl and undulate amid a wintry mix of chilled yew and cranberries sweetened with frozen vanilla.

Niki W.
United Kingdom
Yule 2010 Winner

CHOCOLATE CAT
Hot chocolate cream flavored with curls of blood orange peel and soft ginger fur. Hurrah for the Chocolate Cat!

VioletBlue
Florida, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

I WANT TO BELIEVE (IN SANTA)
A suspicious mix of holiday cheer: vanilla syrup sweetened eggnog spiked with a dubious shot of spiced rum, garnished with a peppermint candy cane and a splash of doublespeak.

Vajra W.
Oregon, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

MIDNIGHT OF THE CENTURY
The otherworldly aroma of sacred offerings: resinous billows of frankincense and myrrh smoke, the built up wax from ages of burned beeswax candles, sacramental wine sweetened with milk and honey, slices of oven-fresh cranberry bread, garlands of holiday greens and flecks of gold foil from worn Byzantine saint icons.

Mark H. and the TIWWA Gang
UK/USA
Yule 2010 Winner

MOOSEMAS
Dark and rich chocolate mousse laced with the warmth and cheer of hazelnut liqueur and slivered almonds because things always get a little nutty at Moosemas!

Andrea F.
Wisconsin, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

POMME D’AMBRE
A juicy clove-studded orange is dusted with powdered cinnamon, ginger and orris root and hung from a scarlet ribbon to perfume the air with its ancient aroma.

Erin G.
Massachusetts, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

SHUT-EYE TOWN
Sweet lavender-infused vanilla cream, heliotrope blossoms and blue chamomile to soothe winter woes.

VioletBlue
Florida, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

SNEGUROCHKA
Romantically tragic and withering: roses heavy with ice are thawed with a deep heart of oud and fiery ginger.

Christine
Oregon, USA
Yule 2008 Winner

SNOWBOUND
Frozen musk topped by worn leather, sultry sandalwood and a drop of sweetest honey.

Vajra W.
Oregon, USA
Yule 2008 Winner

STILLE NACHT
Atlas cedar, oakmoss, cold dry woods, faded cathedral incense and drifting snow.

Paula S.
Arizona, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

STIRICIDE
Icicles with evil agendas, ozone and the coppery tang of impending doom.

Krystal A./Maire I.
USA
Yule 2010 Winner

STROKES OF GOLD
Glimmering golden sandalwood, glittering vanilla blossoms and a shimmer of sweet clove bud.

VioletBlue
Florida, USA
Yule 2010 Winner

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

October 13, 2011

Goth Chick Appreciation Day!

While it might have its origins in a silly Facebook meme, Goth Chick Appreciation day has stuck a chord with thousands of Goth, (or recovering Goth) ladies out there and it's completely understandable why! So much of the year we spend fending off questioning or horrified looks from people - it's nice to have a day to be honored and at least one day a year where our wardrobe makes sense!

Thank you to A. Drobny who drew the hoodoo dolly for the label! Not only is he The Conjure Works' delightful Rebel Astrologer, he just so happens to be an amazing artist as well. Who knew?

GOTH CHICK PRIDE
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles

Show your Goth spirit! Aged black patchouli, sexy garnet pomegranate, clove tobacco, vanilla smoke and red musk. Destined to be a classic!

T-SHIRTS

Be on the look out for Goth Chick Pride, Hoodoo Dolly and ConjurePunk T shirts coming soon!


Goth Chick Pride SOLD OUT!
Limited Edition

$17.50 for 5ml Perfumed oil
$18.50 for 5ml Perfumed oil in a brown amber roll on

Goth Chick Pride is limited to a run of 13 bottles. Once we're out, we' re out!

October 9. 2011

Holiday Contest!

For the past four years now (5th annual, REALLY? I can't believe it!) Conjure Oils has offered a contest for people to come up with a suggestion for a Holiday blend of their own design. Each and every year, I get more and more stunning, wonderful and creative entries and I'm hoping that this year will be no different!


Conjure Oils Holiday Contest 2011!

Here's the contest: Come up with a name, a description, some notes, a story, an image. It doesn't matter which - you can develop the entire concept or just come up with one or two things. From these submissions, I'll select several ideas to create for the Yule line this year.

The winners will receive a 5ml bottle of their scent as well as a 30 dollar gift certificate good for anything on the Conjure Oils website in 2012 - we'll even cover shipping! ...not to mention you'll receive temporary fame on the Limited Editions page as well and be the envy of all your family and friends.

In order for me to potentially use them, all entries will become the property of Conjure Oils so make sure you want them out in the world before you submit your ideas! By entering the contest, you agree to give me permission to use your idea for production. If you don't want your name associated with your entry, let me know, ok? I'll respect your privacy. MULTIPLE ENTRIES ARE OK - (because last year I said one entry per person and it was widely ignored! LOL! You can enter more than once, but keep it under 5, just so I can stay sane and somewhat organized, ok? :D)

Please email your submissions to yulecontest (at) conjureoils (dot) com by November 1 and don't forget to include your contact info! Don't make me track you down. ;)

I'll pick the winners on the 2nd and make the scents available around November 15th. If I can't decide, or there are too many ideas, I reserve the right to freak out, scrap the whole idea and save some ideas for next year.

May creativity and good luck be with you!

Vajra

September 28, 2011

CELEBRATING NAVRATRI AND AN ANNIVERSARY

Hard to believe, but two years ago on the 22nd, Sterling and I exchanged vows in a humble and low-key wedding ceremony at the County Courthouse witnessed only by a small intimate group of family and a few close friends. We couldn't be happier since it truly suited our introverted personalities. From the moment Sterling proposed to me I would often break out into a cold sweat imagining myself up in front of a large audience sharing something so private and sacred to me. Now when I reminisce, what stands out the most in my mind was the moment of the kiss. As we moved closer together so Sterling could now kiss his bride he inadvertently (and rather comically) knocked off the veiled top hat I was wearing which caused a small ripple of laughter in the audience - the judge included! It was wonderful to have such a nerve wracking and solemn moment lightened with happenstance humor.

Big money (or big egos!) can create big weddings, but the ones that are the most memorable (and lasting) in my opinion are the ones with a little humor and a lot of heart - and while we had little of the former, we had plenty of the latter.


There goes the hat!

To commemorate our second wedding anniversary, please enjoy the latest offering, The Kiss and a resurrected version of True Love

THE KISS
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles

A perfume evocative of deeply loving and passionate memories warmly wrapped in a lighthearted and fun loving embrace: Silken white wedding cake lightly infused with orange blossom water and frosted with toasted coconut vanilla cheesecake cream, topped with curls of shaved white chocolate.

TRUE LOVE
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles

Vanilla creme-filled dark chocolate truffle accord slowly drizzled with warm, wild raw honey and seven sensual sugared ambers.

NAVRATRI

Navratri is a nine day long Hindu celebration held four times a year in honor of the great goddesses, particularly Durga. The largest of these celebrations occurs in the fall. This year, Navratri begins on the 28th of September, ending on the 5th of October. Vast altars and effigies are created in her honor. Pujas are held; prayers offered.

As a fierce protector and an indestructible force of nature, Durga's ability to help her devotees overcome selfishness, jealousy, prejudice, hatred, anger, and ego has made her one of the most beloved of all Hindu devas. She rides into battle on her tiger, a symbol of her vast and limitless power with a peaceful smile on her face, as even during the most violent confrontations, she does not lose her composure, compassion or her ability to laugh at a good joke.

Celebrate Navratri and honor Durga with this perfume created specially for Durga in a blessed space on her sacred day.

DURGA
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles

Sacred, powerful and commanding, yet brightly festive: Daring Indian patchouli wrapped in graceful bergamot blossom and enlivened with tonka bean.

HERE LIES... & PUTTING THE FUN BACK IN FUNERAL

There are still a few left of each. Last call for them as I'm taking them off the site at the end of the week! Click HERE to order!


The Kiss, True Love & Durga SOLD OUT!
Limited Edition

$17.50 for 5ml Perfumed oil
$18.50 for 5ml Perfumed oil in a brown amber roll on

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HALLOWS 2011 IS LIVE!!

This update is unique in that for the first time, I've collaborated with someone else to create it! Paula Schricker, artist of the Cryptozoology line, approached me with the concept, art and the majority of the copy! With this amazing gift planted in my lap, I was able to focus intently on the perfumery which, if I do say so myself, is stunning. (I can say that, right?) Be sure to click HERE first so you can go through the Mansion of Mayhem room by room. Have fun!

In other news, shipping is again $5.50 for First Class. There was just no logical sense in Priority for us. We like First Class. It's inexpensive and works just fine. However, if you want Priority, let us know and we can make it happen for you. (This is for perfume oil only orders. The Oddment Emporium is still its own animal.) Don't forget - all domestic orders over $100 still ship free, so order with a friend and save! International shipping is still the same.

What else? The Conjure Works, our storefront at 3352 SE Hawthorne in beautiful Portland, Oregon is open for business! Come by for a chat, a reading or to sample the latest sniffies.

Also, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest info and whatnot.

Brevity is a must today! So, what are you waiting for? Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem awaits you!

Happy Halloween, All!

Big love,

Vajra

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Packzi Day!August 20, 2011

Expanding Autumn Selections!

After receiving several emails asking if we could separate HERE LIES... into two individual items, I've made it so, just for you! Now you can get the set, the 5ml (still with a custom label), or an empty coffin - it's up to you! I've also added Putting the Fun Back in Funeral, a study in pain and lulz. To take advantage of these new selections, click HERE!

Evocatio - A Conjure Oils Communique

Please join me in a celebratory pat on the back - Conjure Oils now has an email list! Sign up and be informed!

Packzi Day!August 11, 2011

Let's Get Autumn Started!

For me out in the Pacific Northwest, Summer really never got started. I mean we're now getting weather in the mid eighties, but I'm sure most of you are over the mercury broiling in the triple digits. I say, if we can't have the weather we want, we can at least revel in delusion and have the Fall season begin in our hearts and minds, right? Let's scatter the bats in the belfry and officially ring the skull bell with the femur bone; this is Halloween (the beginning, anyway!)

Before we unleash this season's Limited Editions and Resurrecteds, we're starting the season right with a blood pulsing panic: we're resurrecting HERE LIES..., the cryptic perfume that sold out within 48 hours. Last year, I made 13 perfumes that came complete with a personalized label and their own hand painted and decorated coffins. This year, I'm going to do the same horrible thing and make only 13 coffins available. They will be taken off the site once they're sold out not to be seen again... until next year. Maybe. Don't miss out!

HERE LIES...
A Limited Edition

5ml of spooky brew complete with a personalized headstone label on the 5ml, enshrouded in a wooden coffin hand painted and decorated by Vajra. Please let us know the name you'd like to appear on your headstone by filling in the order form below! :)

 


Here lies Vajra... What will your headstone say?

HERE LIES...

A tip of the Baron's top hat to the mortal coil that we all inevitably must shed...

Chthonic black patchouli, bruised plum, decaying wood, grave moss, pooling red amber, withering ghost white myrrh resin and post mortem vanilla blossoms.

 

Putting the Fun Back in Funeral

From the ashes of ingratitude arise this perfume; when all you want is something to make you feel happy and sexy but get something that reminds you of death and funerals instead.

Perky vanilla musk, cheerful clove and sunny ruby red grapefruit clouded by cheerless and morose funeral incense.


Here Lies... SOLD OUT!
Limited Edition

$50 for 5ml Perfumed oil with personalized label enshrouded in a hand-painted & decorated black and silver wooden coffin.
$25 for 5ml Perfumed oil with personalized label, no coffin
$25 for Hand-Painted Coffin, no perfume.

Putting the Fun Back in Funeral SOLD OUT!
Limited Edition

$17.50 5ml Perfumed oil


The Coffin is a definite collectors item and perfect for future pip storage!


Packzi Day!August 2, 2011

Wu Xing: Seasonal Splendor in the Chinese Gardens

Wu Xing: Seasonal Splendor the Chinese Gardens, Late Summer 2011 is now LIVE!

Taking its inspiration from the Portland Chinese Gardens, Wu Xing: Seasonal Splendor in the Chinese Gardens is my deep, reverent and contemplative bow to the seasons of the year; how their mutable and mercurial presence reminds us that through nature, we can find healing and enlightening metaphors for our own lives and processes.

Fragrances in the Limited Edition collection are available in one size:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $17.50
Order the entire set and a pip of Chinese Dragon's Blood will be included with your order!

Lotions, Sugar Scrubs, Sprays and Soaps scented with fragrances from the Wu Xing series are available in the Oddment Emporium as well!

SHIPPING IS FREE ON ALL DOMESTIC ORDERS UNTIL AUGUST 8TH!

ASPHALTAThe Azure Dragon

SPRING: Element of Wood. The sun rising in the East, the verdant and expansive energy of the planet Jupiter. Generative, sprouting, sensitive, new born. Taking in the sights: looking through picture books, or enjoying everything from Spring flowers to sour lemons.

Mirabelle plum, coconut husk, lemon honey, cedar wood, aged amber resin, sandalwood musk, crushed moss and tonka bean.

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GLAMOURThe Vermillion Bird

SUMMER: Element of Fire, the color red, the midday sun blazing in the summer sky. The direction South, the energetic and active energy of the planet Mars. The expansiveness of Summer: blooming, youthful, hot, creative, sweaty, happy. Chatting and laughing over coffee with loved ones.

Apricot nectar, honeysuckle blossoms, vanilla musk, creamy white amber, heliotrope, basmati rice and a drop of sweet clove.

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MERCURY RETROGRADEThe Yellow Dragon
LATE SUMMER: Element of Earth. Long shadows cast in the golden light of the late afternoon. Finding your center, stabilizing and exercising the constraint of Saturn's energy. Fruit ripening on the vine: mouth-watering sweetness, damp and fragrant. The clarity of purpose; adulthood. Pure love.

Aged vanilla resin, ginger infused red patchouli, seductively sweet Medjool dates and exotic Silk Road spices.

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GLITCHThe White Tiger
AUTUMN: Element of Metal, the silvery shimmer of the sun setting in the West; white twilight, loving Venus glimmering in the dusky sky. The melancholy of turning within and contracting our energy. The pungency of withering flowers, old age and the grief of impermanence.

Black tea, crushed violet petals, peach sugar, red sandalwood, aged amber resin, cured tobacco, soft suede and threadbare linen

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POET'S POTIONThe Black Tortoise
WINTER: Element of Water. Frozen in the silent blackness of midnight we lie dormant, longing for the ever-changing, spontaneous energy that is the signature of Mercury. Conserving our energy, we fend off our primal fears of darkness and death while we wait in suspended animation for the creative cycle to begin again with the rising sun.

Pomegranate fruit, blood musk, black vanilla orchid, dark patchouli, sugared amber, black currant and deep myrrh.

Le Sacre du Printemps - Back Again

Due to multiple requests (and because I'm a sap!) Le Sacre du Printemps is again available for your enjoyment! Both lines will be live until the end of August, or until supples are exhausted; whichever comes first!

The Conjure Works

A big thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate The Conjure Works' petite opening last Saturday! It means more to me than you'll ever know! Things are still moving right along and we're getting close to being open to the public. I'm thinking we'll be open for business toward the end of this week. Stay tuned! We're also still accepting donations if you'd like to contribute and support the Conjure Works from a distance! If you donate $25 or more, you'll receive a 5ml bottle of Gratitude! Click HERE for the scent description and the donate button!

Meanwhile, here are some more recent pictures of the space and of the party. A good time was had by all!


Looking in on the space toward the counseling area and the couch which everyone covets.


The oil mines are hidden behind the couch and blinds. No one should be subjected to that level of chaos! :D


There was such a good turn out for the celebration! Miss Lucy had a blast and the Rose City Steampunks, Local 23 were out in full force!

Lammas blessings,

Vajra

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Packzi Day!July 13, 2011

Happy 4th Anniversary Conjure Oils!

It's hard to believe that it's been four years since I launched the Little Perfume House that Could! In these four years, I've had the pleasure and privilege of interacting with and meeting some of the most wonderful people through Conjure; the most intelligent, creative, inspiring, generous people out there. I feel so humbled to be able to serve your scented needs and I intend to continue to do so for as long as you all will allow me to do so. I know there are so many amazing artisan perfume houses to choose from and you choose Conjure. I am honored.

Allow me to introduce our fourth anniversary blend for your enjoyment.

Packzi Day!FOUR
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles

Richly dark and succulent chocolate truffle cake sandwiched between layers of thick and gooey toasted coconut caramel sauce, frosted with lavender butter cream and topped with four crimson beeswax candles glowing brightly.

Purchase
SOLD OUT!

Packzi Day!FOUR

Available decanted in 5ml amber glass apothecary
bottles with gorgeous full color glossy graphic label.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $17.50

FOUR will be available until August 1st, or until supplies are exhausted.

Packzi Day!July 7, 2011

The Conjure Works - A Perfumed Temple of the Spirit

The excitement (and anxiety!) is palpable - we are working toward making our dream of having a Conjure Oils brick & mortar location a reality! We've signed the lease are waiting for the keys! Once we get them, it'll be a blur of painting, moving, decorating and setting up for our grand opening! We'll make an official announcement when we know for sure, but keep the evening of Saturday July 30 open!

Besides being the Conjure Oils studio, the space will also serve as a venue where we plan on hosting preview and release parties for Conjure Oils' limited edition collections and a showroom where you can come and sample and sniff all the products in the Conjure Oils catalog until your heart's content! You can order on site and have your items freshly prepared, pick up orders that are ready a la will call, have a custom perfume consultation and have your signature scent created just for you. You'll also be able to have a spiritual reading; besides a perfumery, The Conjure Works will also be a full-service spiritual spa where you'll be able to have tarot, palm, tea leaf, intuitive or rune readings, or take classes in Hoodoo, divination, mythology, Orisha spirituality, and other fascinating subjects from teachers who are considered to be experts in their fields.

In addition to enhancing your spiritual life, body workers, a naturopath and other alternative health professionals will be available by appointment at The Conjure Works to support your body. To support your mental health, Vajra, who holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology, will be accepting clients for her new counseling practice!

We hope you are as excited as we are to see The Conjure Works come to life! We couldn't do it without the support of all our wonderful customers, clients and friends! Thank you so very much!

A Gift of Gratitude

Many people have asked us if they can help and the answer is a resounding yes! We will need people to help with moving, painting, decorating, etc. and if you can help in that regard, please email or call. If you can't help in that way, aren't local, or just want to contribute financially, we won't say no! I've created a perfume as a thank you gift to all of my helpers and to everyone who is so very kind as to donate $25 or more to the Conjure Works fund (but any amount is appreciated! And if you don't want the gift, please let me know, but trust me, you do!)

Packzi Day!GRATITIUDE
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles

A success-drawing and inspiring blend crafted to bring luck and prosperous opportunities. Share the love.

Golden patchouli, vanilla infused aged amber, fresh ginger, Ceylon cinnamon and effervescent bergamot.

Available until The Conjure Works' grand opening!

Thank you! Thank you Thank you!

Packzi Day!June 21, 2011

New Phone Number!

You can reach us at 971-235-3004 9am to 9pm PACIFIC! Seven days a week. We look forward to talking with you!

Improved Shipping!

With the ever increasing shipping charges put forth from the purgatorial USPS, we have no choice but to increase our shipping rates. However, this means that we can now offer Priority shipping for what we would have had to charge for First Class. All domestic orders up to $100 will ship for Priority $6.50. After $100.01, it's free! International, you orders still ship First Class for $8. International orders of $100.01 - shipping is on us (oils only)! Oddment Emporium orders are their own animal - $7.25 domestic, free with an order of $100.01 or more! International is charged the exact shipping amount.

Thank you for your understanding.

Packzi Day!June 21, 2011

{Radiance - Summer Solstice 2011}

Happy Summer Solstice!

In the Northern Hemisphere, today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. Midsummer has been traditionally associated with joyous celebration, fertility, frolicking and the merriment that comes with reaping the rewards the end of the waxing year has to offer. On this day, the Sun is at its energetic peak. Astrologically, it is a projection of the self; our ego, our creative urges, our reasons for being. It's the energy that, literally, enlightens us, enlivens us, invigorates us. It is the radiance of our true selves that is the realm of the Sun.

Conjure Oils is pleased to offer Radiance, a solar blend compounded during the solstice designed to harness the energy of the longest day of the year. Use it to let your inner light shine, to protect you from unwanted darkness and, of course, invoke the powers of the Sun.

We are offering this consecrated blend in three forms - as a 5ml perfume ritual oil, a 1/2 oz. tin of hand-blended loose herbal incense and as a 4oz. amber glass bottle of Sanctuary Spray.

Packzi Day!RADIANCE

Bask in the energy of the Sun: Strength, health, prosperity, joy, invigorating bliss. Let your light shine!

Perfume Ritual Oil: Solar resins and herbs ignite in this illuminating blend: Benzoin, crimson carnation, cinnamon, golden copal, frankincense, heliotrope, amber, orange blossom and calendula.

Hand-Blended Ritual Incense: Benzoin, cedar, cinnamon, golden copal, frankincense, calendula, rosemary and other solar herbs infused with Radiance ritual perfume oil.

Sanctuary Spray: Distilled solar-charged water, benzoin, crimson carnation, cinnamon, golden copal, frankincense, heliotrope, amber, orange blossom and calendula. Frankincense and pyrite will be added to each bottle.

Packzi Day!RADIANCE
SOLD OUT!

Available decanted in 5ml amber glass apothecary
bottles with gorgeous full color glossy graphic labels.

Incense is presented in 1/2 oz brushed metal tins.

Sanctuary Sprays are dispensed in 4oz. amber glass spray bottles.

Packzi Day!June 18, 2011

{June Newfangled Notions Update}

June update in Newfangled Notions!

The Whore on Tour series comes to a close with the Whore coming back home to Oregon. It's been a great year. She spent last summer in French wine country, spent autumn in the Middle East, wintered and spent Christmas in Germany, thawed out for spring in Italy and has now come home to spend summer here in Oregon. Hopefully she'll go on vacation again soon!

Since this is the end of the tour, all of the fragrances will be available for a short time.

The Whore on Tour - Oregon

After her splendid Italian vacation, our heroine makes her way home to Oregon to indulge in the amazing fruit found in abundance that grows from the ancient volcanic soil. It's been a great year for the Whore on Tour! See you next time she goes on vacation!

Springtime in the Pacific North West: Rain, Hood River strawberries, marionberries, early blueberries and raspberries anchored with emerald grass, cloudy skies and fertile black loam.

Packzi Day!May 26, 2011

{An Interview with the Vajra!}

Cam Collins of ScentBase (a pretty fab free service that allows you to keep track of your overflowing perfume collection) asked me to do an interview for her blog and I was thrilled to oblige her! Read it HERE!

{Added to the General Catalog}

The Whore on Tour - Italy has been deified and added as Fortuna in the Mythos collection! Also, please welcome the Pick Yer Poison and Lucky Bastards collections!

{May Update in the Oddment Emporium}

The May update in the Oddment Emporium is as follows: Serena & Beast of Babylon have been swapped out for Cherry Red Lipstick, La Estrella & La Palma just in time for Summer! The 4ml trial vials for the Seductive Sprays are now available as well!

In case you were wondering, here are the perfume descriptions:

CHERRY RED LIPSTICK
Cupid's bow lips seductively blowing kisses across the room. Chypre spiced roses, a diabolical dry down of cardamom and a swirl of succulent black cherry

LA ESTRELLA  Sparkling and distant, but never cold. This scent is all about the glitter! Grapefruit, spun sugar and shaved ice shimmer in this truly unique blend

LA PALMA
Sweet guava, blue ocean water, and a pina colada enjoyed under the cool shade of a palm tree

Packzi Day!May 20, 2011

Rapture, Doomsday or just Saturday? SOLD OUT!

According to some, this Saturday, May 21, 2011, Jesus will be returning to Earth, taking with him the faithful to Heaven leaving all the sinners and infidels behind. Whether you'll be waiting on the lawn with your backpack to catch a ride on the celestial space bus, gearing up for post-Rapture looting, or just planning a WTFBBQ to celebrate the lulz, here are two perfumes to ring in the End!

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Rapture!

Goin' up? Here's a light a lively blend to purify, sweeten and renew the soul.

Angel food cake laced with almond, milk and honey. Michael, row the boat ashore!

Doomsday!

Left behind, huh? Well, I'm sure you're not the only one! Celebrate sin with this unrepentant transgressive brew.

Smutty lust musk, sticky booze, tobacco smoke and sweaty black leather with a hint of traditional Gehennan fire and brimstone.

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Please note that Rapture! and Doomsday! are provided expressly for the lulz. No offense intended to anyone's beliefs, or non-beliefs, for that matter! Available until the End, or the 23rd or May - whichever comes first!

Packzi Day!May 2, 2011

Le Sacre du Printemps - Conjure Oils Spring 2011 Collection

Le Sacre du Printemps

Scents inspired by the fevered passions of composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinski

Le Sacre du Printemps, or the Rite of Spring, is a legendary ballet rife with sexuality, virility, primal, ancient magics and pagan revelry. Penned in 1913, it is one of the best examples of musical innovation that heralded the Modern period of music. It has inspired many - from Fantasia to Frank Zappa - and continues to ignite the hearts and minds of artists to this day.

We at Conjure can think of no better devotion to Spring than to create a fragrance collection based on this wonderful and exhilarating work of fine art. This is a conceptual line, offering Conjure's interpretation of the music, the myth and the meaning that resounds within the imagination.

Enjoy the rebirth and the rapture.

Fragrances in the Limited Edition collection are available in one size:

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $17.50

Order the entire line and receive a free 5ml of:

Le Sacre du Printemps
Aged patchouli, Ethiopian frankincense, vanilla absolute, pink musk, delicate lace and magnolia blossoms.

Danses des Adolescentes

The Dance of the Young Girls; a study in innocence.

Creamy orchid, soft skin musk, a blush of pink jasmine, white tea, candy floss and the finest gowns of raw silk and linen.

Jeu du Rapt

Ritual of Abduction; thief of hearts. Evocative of the myth of Persephone and the betrayal and agony she felt as she was spirited away to the underworld.

Crimson pomegranate, Moroccan fig, smoked vanilla sugar, soft moss, amber resin, aged black tea and opium poppy resin.

Rondes Printanières

Spring Rounds. Warm, sweet and and renewing as the first day of Spring. This is the scent of hope.

Vanilla cream, pink hyacinth, ruby grapefruit, scarlet hibiscus, cake flour, caramelized coconut and raspberry infused patchouli.

Jeux des Cités Rivales

The Games of the Two Rival Tribes.

Spirited and spiced candied violets, bitter cloves, cassis and red sandalwood spar with black currant, ylang ylang, vanilla orchid, gunpowder and dried wild grasses.

Cortège du Sage

Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One. We revere the wisdom of the ages and respect our elders.

We honor the Old Ones: clary and desert sages, chaparral, creosote, ancient wood, faded leather and cactus flower sweetened with desiccated fireweed honey.

Adoration de la Terre

The Kiss of the Earth. Earthbound and beautiful; the blue dot in a sea of black that we call home.

Warm and golden as a summer's sunset: peach blossom honey, chthonic amber resin, toasted basmati rice, cured tobacco, sweet tea and blonde patchouli.

Danse de la Terre

Dancing Out of the Underworld. Persephone is free and the world is reborn in joyous celebration.

Escape the darkness with rejuvenating black Assam tea, dark coconut husk, aged vanilla resin, sacred sandalwood temple incense, earthen musk and shaved red mandarin zest.

Cercles Mystérieux des Adolescentes

Circle of the Mystical Maidens.

The Celtic festivals of Samhain and Beltaine are historically the two times during the year when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead are at their thinnest. May 1st invites more than ancestral spirits - it carries the spirits of earth Elementals - faeries, gnomes, sprites and other creatures of myth as spring rains and gentle blossoms are carried on the perfumed breeze.

The Spring Maidens dance this eternal dance and weave into their rhythm the magic of the season working the rites that further weaken the veil making the world of seen and unseen indistinguishable.

"We gather in a strict formation, hold hands in a circle
and at twilight we all we all walk around the stones.
Spirits dance and bodies roll, hallucinations curtsey
as the river priestess consecrates the bones."

~ Casting the Runes, Legendary Pink Dots

Exotic tuberose, pink peony, lychee fruit, orange blossom, vanilla bean, tonka, strawberry blossom, bergamot and sugar cane.

Glorification de l'Élue

Naming and Glorifying the Chosen One who is the Golden Child, the May Queen, the Sacred Divine within; the Holy Fire of Spirit that links us with All-That-Is.

Glory be: golden saffron, antique patchouli, white honey, orris root, toasted almond, khus and splendid olibanum.

Evocation des Ancêtres

Evoking the Spirits of the Ancestors. We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors through love, adoration and veneration our predecessors are lifted, elevated, given light and eternal life.

Revere and honor: dried pomegranate rind crushed and perfumed with linden blossom, red spikenard, aloes wood, Egyptian sandalwood, sweet myrrh and Kyphi incense.

Action Rituelle des Ancêtres

Ritual of the Ancestors. Our ancestral rituals are remembered on a cellular level. Deep DNA memories are celebrated during the heart of the darkest night lasting until the break of iridescent dawn.

Honor those that have passed on with white sandalwood, red willow, amyris, palo santo, patchouli blossom, Himalayan cedar, ylang ylang, opoponax and ginseng.

Danse Sacrale

Sacrificial Dance of the Chosen One.

Sacred and uplifting: crystal amber, blue lavender, cyclamen, white sage, honeydew, vanilla musk, candied violets and a gentle heart of white rose tea.

Le Sacre du Printemps will be available until June 21st

Packzi Day!April 29, 2011

Happy First Birthday, Miss Lucy! Celebrate her first solar return with Miss Lucy's Beary Good Year in the Newfangled Notions collection!

Miss Lucy's Beary Good Year

Miss Lucy's Beary Good Year

Happy First Birthday, Miss Lucy!

I cannot believe it's been a year since you've been born. You've grown so much! You're walking, talking, singing, dancing and even learning to yodel! It's been such a gift and a blessing to be able to watch you change, learn. try, fall, get up and keep on going. You're an inspiration! Happy number one, baby girl. I hope we can share a hundred more birthdays together. I love you.

Soft and comforting teddy bear musk, a smear of blackberry jam, warm milk, white vanilla birthday cake, sweet buttercream frosting and the subtle scent of pink hyacinth carried on the warm spring breeze.

Packzi Day!April 1, 2011

Happy April Fools Day! The one day out of the entire year where we can truly just do about anything simply for the lulz! No matter how you choose to celebrate the ultimate day of buffoonery, we've three offerings for you to commemorate the occasion! While these perfumes are wonderful on their own, they were developed to be layered together, so mix, match and have fun!

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Packzi Day!Fool's Errand 2011
A tricky mix that is chicanery in a bottle! Baffle your nose with the morphing magic of seven vanillas, tobacco leaf, red mandarin, peru balsam, copiaba, white amber, blue ginger, ambrosial magnolia and a sprinkling of powdered sugar!

Packzi Day!Fool's Gold 2011
Have them following you like the Pied Piper! Antiqued golden patchouli is expertly blended with molten amber, caramelized coconut, toasted almond, vanilla resin, sandalwood blossoms, raw honey and bronze musk.

Packzi Day!The Fool 2011
The unnumbered card of the Major Arcana, The Fool can be interpreted as new beginnings. With nothing more than a sack full of your worldly possessions and your companion animal at your side, you've nothing but the horizon in front of you offering limitless possibilities!

Open the gates to unlimited potential: Sweet orange, red amber and aged sandalwood sweetened with heady ginger, clove infused honey and a dab of davana.

Packzi Day!Set of all three April Fools
Order all three in a set and get free domestic shipping!

The April Fool Collection will available until April 15th, or until we sell out! And I must say this: while these do indeed smell good enough to eat, they are not in any way, shape or form intended for consumption, human or animal. External use only!

In order to make enough available to everyone we must limit orders to 2 sets per customer. Thanks for understanding!

Pricing:

April Fools Collection - Individual 5ml - $17.50
Set of all three - $50

SOLD OUT!

Packzi Day!March 13, 2011

Japan wir stehen zu Euch

Support Relief Efforts for Japan and Smell Fabulous in the Process!

For the next month Conjure Oils will be donating 100% of the money generated from the sales of the following perfumes to MercyCorps to support efforts toward earthquake and tsunami relief
Amaterasu & Maneki Neko (both in the Mythos line)
All the Blood Type perfumes (in Via Carpathia)
The Yellow Emperor Chinese Element perfumes (in the Elements collection)
Hibagon (in the Cryptozoology collection)
Together we can make a difference! Thank you!

Packzi Day!March 08, 2011

Packzi Day!
SOLD OUT

Celebrate Fat Tuesday Conjure style with our Polish pastry inspired perfume oils! Growing up in Southeastern Michigan like I did, it wasn't hard to find a box of these delectable sweet treats! For those who don't know what a packzi is, (pronounced "poonchky") it's like a large huge doughnut stuffed to the brim with various intoxicatingly sweet fillings ranging from traditional plum and rose hip jam to more modern conventions like Bavarian custard, apple or raspberry. Though it's no typical doughnut - the packzi is sweeter and spongier. They can be topped with powdered or granulated sugar, or with icing. Truly, the mortal doughnut pales in comparison!

Packzi are a convenient way to get all of the sugar, fat and temptation out of the house before the sparse season of Lent rears it head. Fortunately, we've conjured a great way to get the packzi experience throughout whilst avoiding the calories as well! It's like magic! Indulge!

Conjure Packzi Selections:

Packzi Day!Plum Jam Packzi
Sweet dough is filled with black plum jam and dusted with refined powdered sugar.

Packzi Day!Bavarian Custard Packzi
Fried pastry dough filled with thick vanilla Bavarian custard and coated with granulated vanilla sugar.

Packzi Day!Rose Hip Jam Packzi
Fresh packzi are served warm, overflowing with rose hip jam and drizzled with sweet honey sugar glaze.

Packzi Day!Set of all three Packzi
Order all three types of Packzi in a set and get free domestic shipping!

Packzi will available until March 15th, or we sell out! And I must say this: while these do indeed smell good enough to eat, they are not in any way, shape or form intended for consumption, human or animal. External use only!

January 12, 2011

Lupercalia 2011, Resurrecteds, A Mid-Winter Reprieve and Wishing You Were Here are now LIVE just for you.

Happy Valentine's Day. This is just how much you're loved.

True Love Never Dies

A Mid-Winter Reprieve

Wishing You Were Here - A Postcard Travelogue Resurrected

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January 2, 2010

Happy New Year!

JANUARY UPDATE in the ODDMENT EMPORIUM!

Soaps, Lotions and Wicked Whips available in the following nine scents:

Absolutely Vanilla
Caramelized Vanilla Vice
Vanilla Crème Fraiche
Vanilla Fire
Vanilla Smoke
Vanilla Steam
January - Ice Moon
Shakti
ShapeShifter

December 20th, 2010

Sacred Shadow - Lunar Ritual Oil
SOLD OUT

Perfect for use during all phases of lunar and nocturnal workings as well as anointing all lunar amulets and jewelry. It will also be well-suited for workings dealing with transitions of all kinds as well as all rituals working with your shadow self.

Carefully made by hand in very limited quantities using the finest consecrated lunar oils available.

Visit the Conjure Oils blog for the complete explanation.

December 7th, 2010

December's Newfangled Notions are LIVE! Happy Holidays everyone!

November 27th, 2010

The Devil Made Me Do It! Hallows 2010 and All-Hallows Resurrected are back on the Limited Editions page. Sorry they disappeared prematurely! The devil made me do it! :)

November 25th, 2010

Yuletide in Conjure County is LIVE!

Xmas in Conjure County

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2010 Conjure Oils Yule Contest!

HOLIDAY SHIPPING INFORMATION:

In order for a timely holiday delivery, please place all orders by Monday, December 13.
Please note that Conjure Oils will be closed December 15th through the 27th. Any orders placed during that time period will be shipped after the 27th.

The current turn around time is approximately 14 business days, so plan accordingly!

The Oddment Emporium will not be having a December update, as the last one was a seasonal update. The Newfangled Notions December update will go live by the 30th of November.

Thank you for all the support this year!

Have a fantastic Holiday! I hope that love, fun, light, love and bliss fill your season with gorgeous memories!

All the best,

Vajra

November 12th, 2010

SHIPPING CHANGES

Conjure Oils makes every effort to remain an affordable, competitive, fair and sustainable business. Taking care of the needs of our supporters and the health of our vision benefits both you, our beloved clientele and ourselves as well. It is of the utmost importance to us that we continue giving you the goods that you've grown to love and cherish while sticking to our belief in a fair and affordable shipping policy.

With this in mind it has become glaringly apparent that we desperately need to adjust our shipping structures so we can retain one of the most reasonable shipping policies out there. Here is our new shipping policy for both Domestic and International orders. And, of course, we still offer Free Shipping on all orders over $50 (in the US) and $100 (International*)

Thank you for your understanding.

DOMESTIC

Perfume Oils Only: $5 on all orders under $50. After $50, it's free. Shipped First Class with Delivery Confirmation
Oddment Emporium: (with, or without perfume oils) $7.25 on all orders under $50. After $50, it's free. Shipped Priority with Delivery Confirmation.

INTERNATIONAL

*Perfume Oils Only: $7 on all orders under $100. After $100, it's free. Shipped First Class with Delivery Confirmation
*Oddment Emporium: (with, or without perfume oils) Actual shipping charge will be billed prior to shipment if you order from the Oddment Emporium, less the $7 initial charge. The Free Shipping offer is no longer available for International orders.

INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE: You are responsible for all customs charges, including duties, taxes, brokerage fees, and any other fees, assessed at the border before delivery

November 12th, 2010

Welcome to the new Toby 0 Collection!

November 8th, 2010

NOVEMBER UPDATE in the ODDMENT EMPORIUM!

Soaps, Lotions and Wicked Whips available in the following six scents:

Chai Spice Tea,
Vanilla Fire
Vanilla Smoke
Vanilla Steam
November - Frost Moon
El Diablito

CONJURE OILS 4th HOLIDAY CONTEST is a GO!

You can win $50 in Conjure cash! Get the details over at the Conjure Oils blog.

November 4, 2010

WELCOME!

Cryptozoology

Welcome to our new Cryptozoology line! Over three years in the making, I am over the moon now that it's live! Big thank you to Paula Schricker for the label art and design. You did a bang up job, love!

Conjure County

Conjure County

I must thank Paula Schricker again, along with Kelly C. for their love and effort that went into creating Conjure County, Conjure Oils' very own form! Come and see what all the fuss is about!

MORE UPDATES!

Mythos: The WHORE is back! Whore of Babylon v 2.3 is back and reformulated! Equal to it's predecessor. Might even be better. You be the judge.

Apothecary: The Apothecary has a few Limited Edition visitors - the Vanilla Vices line! Get them while you can:

Vanilla Vices

Vanilla Smoke
Vanilla Steam
Vanilla Fire
Vanilla Creme Fraiche
Absolutely Vanilla
and Caramelized Vanilla Vice

and added to the GC in the Apothecary, please welcome:

White Sage
Sacred Sweetgrass
Japanese Green Tea
and Black Raspberry

Miss Victoria's

Miss Victoria's got some new Gears spinning in her Marauding Mercantile!

Gears of Cognition

Gears of Oblivion

and Gears of Victory!

THANK YOU!

Thank you to all of you who participated in the Wicked Whips of the West Sugar Scrubs! The Oddment Emporium is ripe for an update any day now, so last call for Wicked Whips, Lotions and Soaps currently available!

I love all of you. Thank you from the bottom of my hear for allowing me to do what I love and to love what I do.

Best,

Vajra

October 27 2010

Wicked Whips of the West Preview!
SOLD OUT.

Wicked Whips of the West
Whipped Sugar Scrubs

PREVIEW -Select your own fragrance!

These Wicked Whips are nothing short of amazing!

In each jar, you're treated to a sensual sugar scrub with the delightful texture of fluffy marshmallow creme and the exfoliating power of pure cane sugar. It leaves your skin gorgeously soft and wonderfully perfumed.

* Each batch is hand made, fragranced and unique! To sweeten the deal and tempt you further you can select almost any scent in the Conjure Oils' catalog - everything's fair game except Hoodoo, Book of Shadows, Limited Editions and Newfangled Notions!

Made in a very limited quantity, the Preview will be live until the end of the week or while supplies last.

October 15 2010

HERE LIES... Limited Edition
SOLD OUT.

With only 13 available, these will be on sale through Monday (or until stock is depleted) so that they may be readied to ship for a timely Halloween arrival!

5ml of spooky brew delivered in a hand painted and stamped wooden coffin (by Vajra) complete with a personalized tombstone label on the 5ml. Please let us know the name you'd like to appear on your tombstone! :)


Here lies Vajra... What will your tombstone label say?

HERE LIES...

a tip of the Baron's top hat to the mortal coil that we all inevitably must shed...

Chthonic black patchouli, bruised plum, decaying wood, grave moss, pooling red amber, withering ghost white myrrh resin and post mortem vanilla blossoms.

Purchase

Here Lies... Limited Edition

$50 for 5ml perfumed oil and hand painted and stamped black and silver wooden coffin.

Free Shipping!

SOLD OUT.


The Coffin is a definite collectors item and perfect for future pip storage!


Here Lies a 5ml in a bed of Spanish moss...

NEWFANGLED NOTIONS

New additions to both the Miss Lucy and the Whore on Tour series!

ODDMENT EMPORIUM

Wicked Whips of the West - Sugar Scrubs! The preview is on - this weekend only!

DISCONTINUED

Let us now have a moment of silence for the Whore of Babylon in the Mythos collection, as she won't be returning from the Tour. (The Tour will continue, however!)

October 1 2010

NEW!

Oddment Emporium - Soaps AND Lotions in the following scent choices:

Perfect Pumpkin
La Calavera
October - Blood Moon
Marie LaVeau - New Orleans Voodoo Queen

Give me a few days and the Newfangled Notions page will be updated as well!

GOODBYE: Lucky Bastards. We'll see ya next Friday the 13th!

September 22, 2010

True Love

$17.50 - 5ml Perfume Oil
SOLD OUT.

Vanilla creme-filled dark chocolate truffle accord slowly drizzled with warm, wild raw honey and seven sensual sugared ambers.

On September 22nd, the Autumnal Equinox, Sterling and I will be celebrating our first wedding anniversary!

Still so madly in love with this man, I was inspired to create a fragrance to reflect the deep emotions and tender gratitude that I feel towards him, our family and our relationship.

It's not every day that Mr. Wright comes along, so when he did, I knew that he needed to be mine. Sterling, my knight in shining armor! May this be the beginning of a lifetime together.

True Love was live from September 21st - 26th, 2010

September 16, 2010

Solid Perfume Preview!


This preview will expired on Monday, September 20th! Thanks to all who participated! <3

September 6, 2010

Halloween 2010 at Conjure!

NEW ITEMS!

APOTHECARY: Perfect Pumpkin, Indonesian Clove Bud, Egyptian Cinnamon

ODDMENT EMPORIUM

This month's soap selections are:

Perfect Pumpkin
The Light Crone
Oshun and
La Calavera - the Skull

PRICE CHANGES

Apothecary

In keeping up with the consistently increasing prices of raw materials, it was necessary to adjust the price of the oils in the Apothecary collection. Please order Apothecary pips on the Apothecary or Pips page. They can no longer be included in the Conjure Sampler. Thank you for understanding.

Prices are now:

5ml - $17.50
10ml - $30.00
Pips - $4.00

Shipping

Shipping rates have gone up multiple times since Conjure Oils began three years ago and we've held off as long as we could - only raising shipping costs once. Unfortunately, the shipping rate as it stands is no longer sustainable. Effective immediately our shipping is:

Domestic:
Up to $49.99 = $3.25 (Shipped First Class)
$50 and up = Free Shipping (Shipped First Class)

Oddment Emporium:

$5.50 Flat Rate Priority shipping
(See the Oddment Emporium page for specific instructions.)


Options for those who are Overseas:

International:
Up to $49.99 = $5 (Shipped First Class)
$50 and up = Free Shipping (Shipped First Class)

$7.25 if ordering from the Oddment Emporium

DISCONTINUED - EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

Champagne Bubbles


August 10, 2010

Newfangled Notions: Serialized selections with even more whimsy than the limiteds! Now featuring two series: Miss Lucina Rose and The Whore on Tour.

Oddment Emporium: new soaps in Sweetest Strawberry, Radio Bastet, Kraken Up! and Whore of Babylon!

Mythos: 2 new scents added to the GC: Aradia and Erinyes!

July 1, 2010

Happy Third Birthday Conjure Oils!

Pick Yer Poison - a limited edition line created to celebrate the occasion!

NEW LINE!

Three new tantalizing soap scents added to the Oddment Emporium for July:

Coconut Milk
La Estrella
Tribe
and Whore of Babylon

New scents added to the Apothecary: Luscious Grapefruit and Sweetest Strawberry

May 27 , 2010

WELCOME MISS LUCY ROSE!

Spring Time and Nursery Rhyme LE's are LIVE! Let's celebrate spring
and the birth of Vajra's daughter!

Three new tantalizing soap scents added to the Oddment Emporium for the June update:

Tempus Fugit Torte
Nuit
Raw Honey
and Whore of Babylon

March 17.2010

Search Engine added!

Please welcome Conjure Oils' newest endeavor

Indulge your senses with a rotating selection of old-fashioned, all-natural, cruelty-free bath and beauty compounds that are meticulously handmade in small batches and generously scented with Conjure Oils' own proprietary fragrance formulas.

New scents added to the GC:

Vajrayogini added to the Mythos line!

Tempus Fugit Torte added to Miss Victoria's!

Lightning & Rain, Champagne Bubbles, Coconut Milk and Champa Bouquet added to the Apothecary!

March 02.2010

Haitian Relief Effort

Thanks for all your support! Conjure Oils was able to donate $231.50 on your behalf to MercyCorps and Save the Children

New Art:

January 15, 2010 - The Language of Love

The Lupercalia scents are LIVE!

January 2010

HAITIAN RELIEF EFFORT FUNDRAISING

The proceeds from the sale of selected oils throughout the months of January and February will go directly to the Haitian people in their time of need.

We'll be donating to Mercy Corps as well as Save the Children.

December 31. 2009 - Happy New Year

New Year's Scents are LIVE!

November 2009 - Merry Yuletide!

Ghosts of Holidays Past - Yule 2009 is now LIVE!

September 2. 2009 - Happy Halloween!

An Otherworldly All-Hallows Halloween 2009 is now LIVE!

love

New scents added to the GC:

Ganesha added to the Mythos line!

Raw Honey and Milk Chocolate added to the Apothecary!

July 13. 2009 - Happy 2nd Birthday to Conjure Oils!

New LE's to Celebrate the Occasion

...and...

Via Carpathia added to the GC!

May 2009 - BELTANE SALE!

Buy 2 get 1 Free!

Spring's here at last! Let's celebrate! Buy any two oils from the general catalog (limited editions excluded) and get the third bottle FREE! Simply list your freebie in the comments section of the PayPal cart, or just send an email along with your order!

Sale will be good until Sunday, May 3rd 11:59pm Pacific!

March 2009 - Via Carpathia! and New Scents added to the GC!:

New Limited Editions!

These were Debuted at the Portland Vampire's Masquerade Ball on March 28, 2009 and were a huge success! I knew right away that they must be made available to all of you!

New for the season in the Limited Editions, Via Carpathia! Steeped in the romance and seductive grace of the Vampir, Via Carpathia is an enchanted journey into the madness, beauty and mythos that celebrates these mysterious otherkin.

Via Carpathia

Blood Type A
Blood Type AB

Blood Type B
Blood Type O
Bat's Blood
Dove's Blood
The Count

The Countess
Immortal
Love Eternal
Vampire's Kisses

April 15. 2008 - New GC Scents!

Mythos

Beast of Babylon*
Nepthys
Nuit*
Salome*
Thoth

*LE's that have become permanent.
(Nuit was formerly known as the Celestial Cow)

Hoodoo

Follow Me Boy!
Has No Hanna

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December 2008 - New Line! DailySlather.com and new scents added to GC!!

Join DailySlather.com!

Daily Slather is the shared online forum of Conjure Oils and Good Judy! It's a great and friendly place to read and write reviews, swap CO and JG, be privy to the latest news and forum-only releases. Please join today!

New Scents added to the GC!

Apothecary

Sweet Patchouli

Mythos

Baron Samedi - Haitian Lwa of the Dead
a fragrant homage: coconut meat, cigar smoke, black leather and rum spiked with spicy black pepper corns.

Miss Victoria's Atypical Tea House and Marauding Mercantile:

Bête Noire Brew

Detested? Avoided? No matter! Revel in your rebellion!

honey infused with blue ginger sweetens blood red tea. Lychee, frangipani, night queen, haunted woods, Egyptian musk and golden copal round out this rogue remedy.

The Shadowy Shawl

A gorgeous crotched black lace shawl. Slide it over your shoulders and slip silently through the night.

sweet patchouli, amber incense, ginger musk, moonflowers and black sandalwood.

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Very Victorian, decidedly deadly. Miss Victoria's is the place to go to order a cup of Earl Black tea (because Gray just wasn't dark enough) and to make sure you have the latest devices suited for turn of the century espionage or airship piracy!

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Free Shipping on ALL orders over $50!

Domestic and international!

Not over $50? It's $2.50 domestic and $4.00 international. Easy peasy pumpkin squeezy!

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February 2008 - A New Line! The Conjure Caravan presents The Souk!

Let the Conjure Caravan whisk you away to a land of lush textures, jewel-tones, exotic rhythms, serpentine dancers and sultry fragrances inspired by the roots of
American Tribal Style Belly Dance.

These seductive scents are sure to raq your world!

* You've spoken, and we've listened! The Apothecary is here to stay! (and with the sale prices made permanent, what's not to love? We're also taking requests - is there a note that you're dying to see listed?!)

* Would you like a bottle or a roll-on for your 10ml oil?
You now have a choice when ordering the 10ml size - you can choose from a 10ml amber apothecary bottle, or a clear roll-on applicator bottle with a black cap! Just list your choice in the comments section when you order. If you don't mention which one you'd like, we'll choose one for you!

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