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WOLF BLOOD SUPER MOON RITUAL ELIXIR

JANUARY 20, 2019

5ML APOTHECARY BOTTLE - $30

SOLD OUT!

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!

SOLD OUT!!

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 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 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.

CANDLES!

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 your Moon sign in the Astrology collection!

 

AMARE AETERNUM

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

$25 each

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.)

This collection is nearly sold out.

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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 mud night 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 bubble gum and puffs of sweet cotton candy smoke from Princess Bubble gum'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 characters 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

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

SOLD OUT!


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

Bathory Facial Serum:

$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

SOLD OUT!

Thank you!

1 April 2018

CONJURE OILS' APRIL FOOLS - POISSON D'AVRIL

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

In French speaking regions around the world, as well as Italy and the Netherlands, 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!

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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 and 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!

THIS COLLECTION WILL COME DOWN MAY 15th. MOST ARE NEARLY SOLD OUT. GET YOURS ASAP!

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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 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.

 

BLUE BLOOD SUPER MOON RITUAL ELIXIR

5ML APOTHECARY BOTTLE - $30

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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 ANY REASON!

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

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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)

 

A Left: POISON SKULL 18oz $50. SOLD!

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 SOLD!

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 SOLD!

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

5ml Amber Apothecary Bottle - $20 - Sold Out

GHOST OF YULETIDES PAST


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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.

{Stranger Things (and the characters and realms associated with it) is not my intellectual property. Consider this fanart. As always, a portion of Conjure Oils' Yule profits is donated to Mercy Corps to support their humanitarian efforts throughout the world.}

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

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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

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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
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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!!

 

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

RENDER THE VEIL
Samhain 2016

Litanies of Satan
Charles Baudelaire
Les 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!

~CHAPTER TWO~
SPIRITS WHO TRAVERSE BETWEEN THE WORLDS

These are the spirits of life and death. They are psychopomps that travel freely between the veil of the dead and the living. Some are gentle and kind, others are intense and terrifying. These spirits are closer to us at Samhain, throughout the dark months and then again at Beltaine when the veil is thin once more.

RENDER THE VEIL

An Epic Samhain: PERFUMES

~CHAPTER TWO~
SPIRITS BEYOND THE VEIL
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AYAO

Ayao is the Yoruban Orisha of the wind. She is the eye of the storm and sister to the mighty Oya, Ayao wields the power of witchcraft and magical knowledge. Her companion is the snake and her weapon is the crossbow. Find her in the forest where the leaves swirl like a cyclone.

A whirling cyclone of crisp fall leaves fills the air coupled with slithering wisps of wood smoke, tonka bean and black plum.

 

CAER IBORMEITH

Caer Ibormeith, bride of Angus Mac Og, the Irish Lord of Love is a shape shifter, swan and beautiful woman. She is also a goddess of death, as her name means yew berry, the toxic fruit from the yew tree. Offer her mead on Samhain to celebrate the beauty of love and the agony of death.

The joy and pain of true love and inevitable death: yew berry accord infused black patchouli, swan feather soft vanilla musk, red amber and stout clove.

 

CHARON

Charon is the infamous ferryman that grants passage to Hades across the river Styx. Cantankerous and cold, he only accepts passengers with proper funeral rites that have the fare of a coin to pay him. If you don't you're doomed to find your own perilous way to Hades. Good luck. Offer him coins for payment at the cemetery gates.

An ancient memory of Tunisian opium, precious oudh, aged tobacco and chthonic rhus khus.

 

HEKATE'S TORCH

She holds the keys to all domains, passing freely between the realms of the dead and the living. She is the beloved Queen of the Witches, waiting at the crossroads with her beloved dog. She is mistress of the poison path cultivating plants that can be used to cure, kill or stir the souls of the witches that venerate her. Invoke her on the dark moon at the crossroads at midnight, walk away and don't look back.

Often depicted with two torches that allow her safe passage between the worlds, allow Hekate's Torch to guide you along your path. A light in the darkness: earthen patchouli, apotropaic clove, spiritually uplifting frankincense, Persephone's pomegranate and illuminated bergamot.

 

KING OF TERRORS

He's the man who comes and does the job with no illusions - this is death hit man style! The crowned, weapon wielding skeleton can appear as the Grim Reaper or Holy Death and his haunting images is on many tombstones and churches, reminding the viewer Memento Mori! Call his frightening visage with his symbols of scythe, spear and arrow.

The musty shadows of the cemetery, haunted loam and moss, metal sting and arterial spray.

 

LA MADAMA

If you think about what Aunt Jemima looks like you'll have a pretty good idea of La Madama's appearance. Not a singular spirit, per se, but a vast network of spirits who oftentimes are the spirits of deceased Lucumi priestesses from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Everyone who has their own unique Madama can tell you her name and how she lived her life. This information is gleaned via spiritual masses, quiet reflection and other spiritual work. She is a teacher and mentor spirit who favors diviners, spiritual workers, healers, mediums and the like. A powerful partner for magic, cleansings and protection. Offer her flowers and cigars while staring into her eyes in a candlelit room to get her to speak her secrets to you.

Offerings of warm vanilla infused bourbon, juicy mangoes, star jasmine blossoms, cigar smoke and a pinch of blessed salt.

 

LES MORTS

Les Morts is what those in the Voudoun tradition call The Dead. The belief in the Voudon religion is when someone passes away they really don't die, but go to a spiritual land of their blood and spiritual ancestors called Ginen and are never really far from their living loved ones. Les Morts are spirits to consult with when you have questions about the afterlife, a fear of death or if you would like to have an elevated conversation, as they tend to wax philosophical. Speak to them through scrying with water or mirrors. Gaze in candlelit basins of water to meet with them on the other side.

Still waters, crystal musk, beeswax candles, water lilies, white amber and sweet offerings of coffee and beignets.

 

LIBITINA

Lady Death, Holy Death. She is the goddess of decay, of death, corpses and funerals. Her Roman temples were where grieving loved ones would report deaths or make funeral arrangements. It is said she appears shrouded in a black winged robe with an obscured face. She will accept offerings of coins and cemetery cleaning and upkeep.

A wistful and somber meditation on eternity: smoked amber, dragon's blood, aged black patchouli, rose hips, cypress, white myrrh and black storax.

 

SIMBI

Simbi is the Vodoun snake spirit that originated in the Congo. It is the greatest of all magicians and is the guardian of magicians and occultists. He is also a master healer and diagnostician. Being a freshwater serpent, Simbi loves water, moisture, rain and waterfalls. He is in charge of flow - water, electricity, air currents and therefore manages the energetic exchange involved with moments of sacred possession. Simbi also protects electrical devices such as computers and televisions. Keep an image of a snake on your electronics and offer Simbi some water and rum from time to time to keep him moist and happy to assist.

African green musk and violets, falling water, the spark of ozone and lightning struck sandalwood.

 

THANATOS & LETHE

Thanatos is lord of the peaceful death who guides the dead over to his sister, the river Lethe. The waters of Lethe have amnesiac properties and help the dead forget their former lives and attachments. There is no greater pair to petition for a peaceful death, to forget past pains and torments or to instill deep peace. Offer Thanatos black candles, poppies, snakes and butterfly images. Petition Lethe during the dark of night, preferably by a stream or a river.

Black opium, poppy flower, kush, vanilla flower, cannabis accord, blue lotus attar, aged patchouli and mimosa.

 

VALKYRIE

Norse goddesses of varying tasks: magic, life, battle and death. They ferry the dead warriors to Valhalla or Freya's hall, where they host the fallen. In the beginning they were the daughters of Odin and Herta but over time their numbers grew as it opened up to include the deified priestesses of Odin. Some say they also may be deified shamans with erotic leanings who will fight and protect their human lovers. See them in the swans and crows in the sky with offerings of mead

Honey mead from the halls of Valhalla, the smoke of oak and juniper fires from the battlefield and the magnificent golden musk of eternal glory.

 

WANYUDO

Manifesting as a disembodied head at the hub of a flaming ox-cart wheel, Wanyudo is a yokai that patrols the line between the living and the dead with violent precision. It is said that a raging fever is produced just by getting a glimpse of Wanyudo. Woe be to the person Wanyudo catches peeking at him as he will roll over them with his wheel ablaze, scorching them to nothing but a crisp shadow on the road! He has also been known to cart gawkers straight to Hell.

An infernal and damned philtre of ginger root, red patchouli, tonka bean, cinnamon sticks and burnt marshmallow.

 

WASHERS AT THE FORD

Hailing from the British Isles, the Washers at the Ford are the spirits of women in varying degrees of haggardness with ghostly pale skin and disheveled hair. They crouch at the ford of the river where they wail and keen as they furiously launder any number of gristly and bloody items in the murky water: from cloth to armor to severed limbs and heads! In mourning, she continues to cry and shriek as she washes and if she happens to lock eyes with you as you innocently stroll by, it is your impending death that she is mourning! The Washers are not bringers of death as one might assume, but ancient harbingers. It is said when people of great status are to die the Washer presented will not be the typical washer woman, but a goddess such as Badbh or the Morrigan and make herself available for many to see so the cold shiver of a death omen will travel long and far.

A Victorian mourning fougere: bog moss, heather, pitcher plant, water poppy and emerald ferns under a slate gray sky that threatens torrential rain.

 

 

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!
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23 January 2016

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

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

12 December 2015

 

CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU'RE GOTH: YULE 2015

CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU'RE GOTH: YULE 2015

CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU'RE GOTH: YULE 2015
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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.

 

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GHOSTS OF YULES PAST 2015
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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.

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

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

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

THE GHOST OF HALLOWS PAST 2015

THE GHOST OF HALLOWS PAST - HALLOWS 2015
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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
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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

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5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20 SOLD OUT!


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 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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ENTER IF YOU DARE...

It's mid-October, not too long after dusk. A full moon hangs in the autumn sky, silhouetting the mostly-bare trees against a star-spattered sky as the car filled with you and your friends passes along a rural, two-lane road. Excitement is thick in the car, for tonight is special; not to be spent at the local night club or usual hangout, but a small, enticing ad in the newspaper brought word of something far better. Out here, on the edges of the city where the streetlights are few and far between, lies Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem promising thrills and chills appropriate for the Halloween-season. A terrifying phantasm that rises from the chill autumn mists only once a year, and only for the briefest period of time.

A hand-painted sign, illuminated by a couple of clamp lights attached to a bush, is the only marker for the road. The words are written in gothic, drippy, and almost absurdly macabre letters, along with a skeletal hand pointing the way. The entrance road is full of potholes and well rutted... it would almost look like you were headed down some long abandoned path if it weren't for the artificial jack-o'-lanterns serving as way-markers along the shoulder. At the end, a teenager in plastic flashing devil horns shows you to your parking spot with the wave of a red flashlight, and it's everyone out of the car.

The night is crisp and cool, the smells of popcorn, cotton candy, and fog juice hanging on the breeze as your party makes its way up to the entrance. There's a brief wait in line, giving you ample time to listen to the screams, snarls, and less identifiable noises issuing from behind the fence. and you get your tickets; moving to stand in line with the other guests. From the queue, it's hard to see much; a weathered wooden fence roughly eight feet tall allows only the barest glimpses of movement and light beyond. The facade, though, is the foreboding portico of a decrepit southern mansion, the weathered steps creaking ominously as each group is let in by the creepily-smiling butler in the mildewed tuxedo at the front door. Some distance away, the off-key tootling of a circus organ can be heard, tinny in the cold air.

Welcome, to Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem.
Enjoy your visit...

SLIDER 2012

You've been in line close to an hour already, impatiently waiting beneath the decaying eaves of the Mansion. People around you chatter excitedly on cell phones or to each other in anticipation, watching the gaunt figure of the Talker shouting out to the crowd from his decrepit podium by the entrance.

Suddenly, with a horrible and unearthly scraping noise, a leggy zombie in greyish moldering rags races across the blacktop toward an unwitting teenager lost in her phone conversation.. Screeching, it crawls on its hands and knees as a shower of sparks explodes from underneath the creeping creature. In one smooth movement it lunges upright next to the oblivious teen, snarling and looming over her while she shrieks and nearly drops her phone in terror.

Sharp, startling, and sudden: grey mint, metallic lime, sparkling white grapefruit and pomegranate musk.

LIGHTLESS MAZE 2012

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.

HAUNTED GALLERY 2012

A thick black drapery separates the lightless hallway from one that is only slightly brighter. Blotchy, peeling wallpaper and dark oaken wainscoting stained with unknown mildews cover decrepit walls behind a series of paintings in dull gilded frames. Each one contains a formal portrait, though the subjects are human only in the loosest sense. Staring red eyes follow you from sunken sockets, faint eerie scrapings are heard from behind the flaking canvases, and one bulges out as you pass as if its subject were trying to reach through to the warm flesh on the other side. As your party reaches the end of the hall, the second portrait from the end slams down with a startling crash and the rotting shell of some decaying ancestor lunges through the opening with an unholy screech!

Once fine and glistening, the mahogany is now decayed and desiccated; blood amber soaks and stains the shredded canvas. Evocative of a heart filled with longing and regret.

FORGOTTEN ATTIC 2012

Scampering out of the hall of possessed portraits, you emerge into the dim, cluttered recesses of the Mansion's attic where you are informed that a young woman once took her life after she was abandon at the altar.. Cobwebs and dust cling to every surface and eerie shadows flicker across the rough walls. A ghostly figure in the shadows seems to watch you sadly as you go past; a headless dressmaker's dummy with a stained old wedding dress that ruffles in an unseen breeze. As your group edges nervously among the cargo trunks and splitting boxes, a faint scratching noise reaches your ears as if some small animal were trapped somewhere in the narrow stacks. As you near the exit, the scraping turns into the crashing of chains, and a shriek to see you out the door in a panicked exit!

A lifetime neglected then forgotten: weathered and crumbling grief-torn love letters wrapped in a cracked and worn leather satchel, an unused moth-ravaged satin and lace trimmed wedding gown, a dusty and faded dried bouquet of blood red roses and a string of pearls stained with a rusty red splatter of blood.

SOMETHING UNDER THE STAIRS 2012

The back stairs of the attic lead down into the depths, a narrow and claustrophobic descent into pitch blackness. You almost make it to the bottom before the sharp rattle of chains and a low, ominous growl sends you skittering toward the next room.

Ebony wood, vetiver, black leather, tonka, thick black vanilla resin, haunted clove, scuppernong and a wisp of motia attar.

VAMPIRE'S LAIR 2012

Parting a thick velvet curtain, you find that the basement is less a forest of pipes and old junk and more a warren of hand-dug tunnels and caves. Niches in the stone walls hold candles and bones, aged books and ruined antiques. Amidst this blackened finery, a series of larger ledges hold coffins ranging from mildewed old toe-pinchers to fine, enameled steel. As you make your way between them, first one lid cracks open, then another, urging you to hurry onward. Suddenly, a lanky vampire in ruined Victorian garb lands heavily on a big metal coffin near the exit, hissing and clawing at you as you run past.

Damp and blood-soaked soil is buried deep under notes of blood orange, black roses, dragon's blood, clove incense, tobacco,red sandalwood, blood kyphi and blood musk sweetened with the tiniest trickle of bruised plum.

JUNKYARD ZOMBIE 2012

The winding catacombs end in a crumbling old crypt, but it seems that the ancient graveyard it rests in has been long forgotten… long enough that it's been consumed by a nearby junkyard. Ancient, nearly-illegible tombstones lie almost unseen between burned out cars, rusting oil barrels, and discarded appliances. A low groan from the darkness proves soon enough that those interred in this once-hallowed ground are less than pleased by the current state of their lodgings. First one, than another, the zombies lurch out of the rusting debris, staggering unstoppably after your group as they flee for the safety of the distant gate.

Chthonic and ancient: lichen-riddled headstones, Spanish moss, smushy soil, murky myrrh, frozen mist and the eerie glow of the will-o'-the-wisp.

SCARECROW ALLEY 2012

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.

VORTEX TUNNEL 2012

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.

DOT ROOM 2012

Finally clear of the disorienting vortex, you take a moment to clear your vision… even though it looks like the fluorescent afterimages of the previous room have followed you here. Wild splatters of paint and brightly glowing dots cover every surface of this otherwise jet-black room, making it not entirely clear where the walls actually are. As you start to pick your way through it, some of those dots seem to move… or is it just your imagination? Soon enough the reality is made abruptly clear as shapes impossible to define dart and lunge toward you, swirling around your party as you scrabble for the exit.

Cavity craven and all madness! Peaches, pears, plums, and grapes petrified with toothache inspiring levels of sugar.

KILLER KLOWN 2012

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.

CHAINSAW! 2012

As you claw your way out of the smoke and strobe filled carnival of chaos, you find yourself in what looks like some sort of access corridor. Unpolished, unpainted wooden walls lead out toward the distant sound of the parking lot, and safety. But just as you're about to reach it, a man in a stained, filthy jumpsuit explodes out from behind a side door, and the roar of his bloodied chainsaw rips through the air. "Encouraged" by this occurrence, you and your friends tear out through the exit at a dead run, the sting of gasoline smoke and death still thick in your nostrils.

Terrifyingly harsh, oily and industrial. Oil smoke, gasoline, opium tar, leather and black musk.

THE WITCHES' COVEN

THE WITCHES' COVEN collection is available in one size, two styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $20

 

INFERNA, the Blaze Witch 2012

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

Myrrh ashes, singed cinnamon bark, smoked ginger and peppered clove-infused vanilla.
ESMERELDA, the Plague Witch 2012

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 2012

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 2012

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 2012

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 2012

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 2012

As a new dedicant to the Coven, 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.

HALLOWS 2012 RESURRECTED

ALL-HALLOWS RESURRECTED 2012 is available in one size, two styles.

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $19
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $20

ABANDONED MORGUE 2012

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 2012

Muscovado sugar, royal icing and meringue powder with a slight hint of metaphysical white musk.
HANSEL UND GRETEL 2012

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.
MARA 2012

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.

MAUSOLEUM 2012

The dusty stillness of the afterlife: emerald moss, black orchids, cold stones and holy water.

MIDNIGHT DREARY 2012

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 2012

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 2012

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

PUNKIN' HEAD 2012

Juicy, spicy pumpkin blended in with adorable creamy bits of cheesecake slathered in caramel sauce.

SUCCUBUS 2012

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 2012

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.

Kwaidan, Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem! Hallows 2012, The Witches' Coven and Hallows 2012 Resurrected will be undead until the end of November, or supplies are exhausted. Whichever comes first.

CREDITS:
Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem
Concept & Artwork by Paula Schricker
Intro Copy by Vajra, Story Intro by Paula
Perfume Description Copy by Paula (mostly) & Vajra
Perfumes Created and Hand-Blended by Vajra

July 3, 2012

FIVE
Conjure Oils' Fifth Anniversary Fragrance

 

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, or until supplies are exhausted.

FIVE is available in one size, two styles. SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $18
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $19

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Friday July 13, 2012

 

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, or until supplies are exhausted.

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY is available in one size, two styles. SOLD OUT!


5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $25
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $26

June 05, 2012

HOLY FUCK!
Venus Transits the Sun

Since the invention of the telescope, only seven of these celestial events have taken place and the events occur in pairs eight years apart. A rare treat, indeed!

To understand what this transit means, we have to delve into the meanings of the planets themselves. Venus, named after the Roman goddess of love and sensuality, is the second planet from the sun and along with Mars, our planetary neighbor.

The understand the energy of Venus is to understand the energy of life, not so much life as in creation, but the aspects of life that make existence enjoyable: love, pleasure, fulfillment, gratification. The treasures of Venus are tangible, they can be held, used, caressed, adored. She gifts us with the desires that reside deep in the heart and psyche and works with the magic of manifestation, possession and, of course, beauty. She grants our wishes for success and prosperity, for life events that support us, spirits to guide and protect us, families that are stable, friends that are true and mates that are soulful.

Venus is often associated with Mother goddesses such as the nurturing all-mother Isis and the Blessed Virgin Mary however, she is also a warrior who will battle to protect those dearest to her. She is often seen as a goddess of war: savage and almost violently erotic, lusty, and even petty and a plain bitch on bad days!

Pair these often paradoxical aspects of Venus with the sheer ego brilliance of the Sun - the center of our universe and often seen as the dispenser of all energy and the source for all existence and you'll come to recognize why I've selected Holy Fuck as the name for this ritual fragrance. When our raw and primal passionate urges for progeny and survival are paired with the source of our energetic center and our Will we can truly create the ultimate matrix for manifestation. We align the sacral with the crown chakra and our personal universe is created. Holy fuck, right? Holy fuck, indeed!

Conjure Oils is pleased to offer Holy Fuck, a Venusian blend compounded during the transit of Venus designed to harness the energy of the union of the Sun with the Morning Star. Perfect for manifestation work and crafting a life in alignment with your desires; a life worthy of living replete with joy and soul sustenance, Holy Fuck is your divine desires made manifest.

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.

HOLY FUCK


Holy Fuck Perfume Ritual Oil

Decanted in a 5ml green glass vial - $35

Notes of voluptuous gardenia, fleshy coconut, sexy vanilla musk, white patchouli, crystal amber and a shimmer of star jasmine

Hand-Blended Ritual Incense

1/2 oz steel tin packed to the brim - $25

Sumatran benzoin, Egyptian myrrh, red sandalwood, patchouli leaf, red rose petals, violet leaves, mugwort, orris root and other Venusian herbs infused with Holy Fuck ritual perfume oil.

Sanctuary Spray

Decanted in 4oz amber glass bottle with spray cap - $40

Distilled solar-charged water, gardenia, fleshy coconut, sexy vanilla musk, white patchouli, crystal amber and a shimmer of star jasmine. Frankincense, amber and peridot will be added to each bottle. Shipped Priority. (Extra postage is built into the item's cost. No need to add extra shipping!)

Holy Fuck Perfume Ritual Oil & Hand-Blended Ritual Incense Set

Combine the ritual oil with the incense to make a perfectly matched set and save $10! - $50

 

HOLY FUCK is available in one size, three styles and it comes tucked inside a muslin pouch.


5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $35 SOLD OUT!
1/2oz Hand Blended Ritual Incense - $25
SOLD OUT!
4oz Sanctuary Spray - $40
SOLD OUT!
Ritual Oil and Incense Set - $50
SOLD OUT!

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!

RING OF FIRE is available in one size, two styles and it comes tucked inside a muslin pouch.


5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $40
5ml Brown Apothecary Roll On - $41

SOLD OUT!

 

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 - $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 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

April 29, 2012

Peek-a-Boo! Miss Lucy's Two! is LIVE in the Newfangled Notions collection!

Peek A Boo!

April 22, 2012

GOTHS IN TREES - Earth Day LE 2012


Title inspired by a blog I saw recently, Goths in Trees is our first ever Earth Day limited edition! Using all natural, organic/wild crafted oils! 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 a brown apothecary bottle. SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $18

 

 

April 13, 2012

Friday the 13th

FRIDAY the 13th

People have multiple reactions when the 13th day of the month falls on a Friday. Some tremble in fear and refuse to leave the house, while others can't wait to get out and try their hand at gambling on a day that they think is extremely lucky. Personally, I feel that Friday the 13th is a fantastic day for turning bad luck into good, breaking old harmful habits, and clearing your life of false friends, people and situations. It seems that 13 is a mystical in between time perfect for change.

13
Today's offering, 13, is blended to be incredibly useful for breaking old habits, ridding your life of worn out situations that no longer serve you, and for fortifying your passions and resolve. It contains 13 essential oils famous for their abilities to cut and clear, as well as a hefty portion of a mixture of thirteen herbal and mineral curios added to each and every bottle for added oomph!

Great for dressing your body in blessing gestures, anointing amulets, candles or mojos, adding to bath or wash water or just add a couple drops to a burner and allow the aroma to cleanse and purify the area around you.

 

13 is available in a brown apothecary bottle. SOLD OUT!

5ml Brown Apothecary Bottle - $20

13 will be live for thirteen days and will come down on the 26th.

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!

 

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

 
Please note that these are only available 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.

 

 

 
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.

 

Happy New Year from Conjure Oils, natch!

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!

~Vajra & the CO crew!

 

b'ak'tun 13 - APOCALYPSE SOON?

You may have heard a little rumor that a cerain 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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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!

 

All three categories of Yule 2011 fragrances are available in one size, two styles:

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.

The Yule Collection will be LIVE until January 15, or if supplies are exhausted.

 

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

 
 
 
 
 

Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem! - Hallows 2011

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! ...if you dare!

ENTER THE MANSION OF MAYHEM HERE!

Order the entire set of Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem and receive a free pip of Behind the Screams

Behind the Screams
Behind every bloody zombie, crazed clown, or deranged doctor, there's a team of (perhaps also slightly mad) individuals devoted to making your Halloween experience as exciting as possible. They shed sweat, tears, (and blood, more often than not) in the pursuit of making nightmares real, if only for a brief time, creating tombstones out of plywood and tentacled swamp beasts out of high-expansion spray foam and fabric leaves from Big Lots. To those who work Behind the Screams… we at Conjure Oils salute you!

Greasepaint, fog juice and latex rubber.


 

ENTER IF YOU DARE...

It's mid-October, not too long after dusk. A full moon hangs in the autumn sky, silhouetting the mostly-bare trees against a star-spattered sky as the car filled with you and your friends passes along a rural, two-lane road. Excitement is thick in the car, for tonight is special; not to be spent at the local night club or usual hangout, but a small, enticing ad in the newspaper brought word of something far better. Out here, on the edges of the city where the streetlights are few and far between, lies Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem promising thrills and chills appropriate for the Halloween-season. A terrifying phantasm that rises from the chill autumn mists only once a year, and only for the briefest period of time.

A hand-painted sign, illuminated by a couple of clamp lights attached to a bush, is the only marker for the road. The words are written in gothic, drippy, and almost absurdly macabre letters, along with a skeletal hand pointing the way. The entrance road is full of potholes and well rutted... it would almost look like you were headed down some long abandoned path if it weren't for the artificial jack-o'-lanterns serving as way-markers along the shoulder. At the end, a teenager in plastic flashing devil horns shows you to your parking spot with the wave of a red flashlight, and it's everyone out of the car.

The night is crisp and cool, the smells of popcorn, cotton candy, and fog juice hanging on the breeze as your party makes its way up to the entrance. There's a brief wait in line, giving you ample time to listen to the screams, snarls, and less identifiable noises issuing from behind the fence. and you get your tickets; moving to stand in line with the other guests. From the queue, it's hard to see much; a weathered wooden fence roughly eight feet tall allows only the barest glimpses of movement and light beyond. The facade, though, is the foreboding portico of a decrepit southern mansion, the weathered steps creaking ominously as each group is let in by the creepily-smiling butler in the mildewed tuxedo at the front door. Some distance away, the off-key tootling of a circus organ can be heard, tinny in the cold air.

Welcome, to Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem.
Enjoy your visit...

 

Slider

You've been in line close to an hour already, impatiently waiting beneath the decaying eaves of the Mansion. People around you chatter excitedly on cell phones or to each other in anticipation, watching the gaunt figure of the Talker shouting out to the crowd from his decrepit podium by the entrance.

Suddenly, with a horrible and unearthly scraping noise, a leggy zombie in greyish moldering rags races across the blacktop toward an unwitting teenager lost in her phone conversation.. Screeching, it crawls on its hands and knees as a shower of sparks explodes from underneath the creeping creature. In one smooth movement it lunges upright next to the oblivious teen, snarling and looming over her while she shrieks and nearly drops her phone in terror.

Sharp, startling, and sudden: grey mint, metallic lime, sparkling white grapefruit and pomegranate musk.

 

Lightless Maze

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.

 

Haunted Gallery

A thick black drapery separates the lightless hallway from one that is only slightly brighter. Blotchy, peeling wallpaper and dark oaken wainscoting stained with unknown mildews cover decrepit walls behind a series of paintings in dull gilded frames. Each one contains a formal portrait, though the subjects are human only in the loosest sense. Staring red eyes follow you from sunken sockets, faint eerie scrapings are heard from behind the flaking canvases, and one bulges out as you pass as if its subject were trying to reach through to the warm flesh on the other side. As your party reaches the end of the hall, the second portrait from the end slams down with a startling crash and the rotting shell of some decaying ancestor lunges through the opening with an unholy screech!

Once fine and glistening, the mahogany is now decayed and desiccated; blood amber soaks and stains the shredded canvas. Evocative of a heart filled with longing and regret.

 

Forgotten Attic

Scampering out of the hall of possessed portraits, you emerge into the dim, cluttered recesses of the Mansion's attic where you are informed that a young woman once took her life after she was abandon at the altar.. Cobwebs and dust cling to every surface and eerie shadows flicker across the rough walls. A ghostly figure in the shadows seems to watch you sadly as you go past; a headless dressmaker's dummy with a stained old wedding dress that ruffles in an unseen breeze. As your group edges nervously among the cargo trunks and splitting boxes, a faint scratching noise reaches your ears as if some small animal were trapped somewhere in the narrow stacks. As you near the exit, the scraping turns into the crashing of chains, and a shriek to see you out the door in a panicked exit!

A lifetime neglected then forgotten: weathered and crumbling grief-torn love letters wrapped in a cracked and worn leather satchel, an unused moth-ravaged satin and lace trimmed wedding gown, a dusty and faded dried bouquet of blood red roses and a string of pearls stained with a rusty red splatter of blood.

 

Something Under the Stairs
The back stairs of the attic lead down into the depths, a narrow and claustrophobic descent into pitch blackness. You almost make it to the bottom before the sharp rattle of chains and a low, ominous growl sends you skittering toward the next room.

Ebony wood, vetiver, black leather, tonka, thick black vanilla resin, haunted clove, scuppernong and a wisp of motia attar.

 

Vampire's Lair
Parting a thick velvet curtain, you find that the basement is less a forest of pipes and old junk and more a warren of hand-dug tunnels and caves. Niches in the stone walls hold candles and bones, aged books and ruined antiques. Amidst this blackened finery, a series of larger ledges hold coffins ranging from mildewed old toe-pinchers to fine, enameled steel. As you make your way between them, first one lid cracks open, then another, urging you to hurry onward. Suddenly, a lanky vampire in ruined Victorian garb lands heavily on a big metal coffin near the exit, hissing and clawing at you as you run past.

Damp and blood-soaked soil is buried deep under notes of blood orange, black roses, dragon's blood, clove incense, tobacco,red sandalwood, blood kyphi and blood musk sweetened with the tiniest trickle of bruised plum.

 

Junkyard Zombie
The winding catacombs end in a crumbling old crypt, but it seems that the ancient graveyard it rests in has been long forgotten… long enough that it's been consumed by a nearby junkyard. Ancient, nearly-illegible tombstones lie almost unseen between burned out cars, rusting oil barrels, and discarded appliances. A low groan from the darkness proves soon enough that those interred in this once-hallowed ground are less than pleased by the current state of their lodgings. First one, than another, the zombies lurch out of the rusting debris, staggering unstoppably after your group as they flee for the safety of the distant gate.

Chthonic and ancient: lichen-riddled headstones, Spanish moss, smushy soil, murky myrrh, frozen mist and the eerie glow of the will-o'-the-wisp.

 

Scarecrow Alley
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.

 

Vortex Tunnel
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.

 

Dot Room
Finally clear of the disorienting vortex, you take a moment to clear your vision… even though it looks like the fluorescent afterimages of the previous room have followed you here. Wild splatters of paint and brightly glowing dots cover every surface of this otherwise jet-black room, making it not entirely clear where the walls actually are. As you start to pick your way through it, some of those dots seem to move… or is it just your imagination? Soon enough the reality is made abruptly clear as shapes impossible to define dart and lunge toward you, swirling around your party as you scrabble for the exit.

Cavity craven and all madness! Peaches, pears, plums, and grapes petrified with toothache inspiring levels of sugar.

 

Killer Klown
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.

 

Chainsaw!
As you claw your way out of the smoke and strobe filled carnival of chaos, you find yourself in what looks like some sort of access corridor. Unpolished, unpainted wooden walls lead out toward the distant sound of the parking lot, and safety. But just as you're about to reach it, a man in a stained, filthy jumpsuit explodes out from behind a side door, and the roar of his bloodied chainsaw rips through the air. "Encouraged" by this occurrence, you and your friends tear out through the exit at a dead run, the sting of gasoline smoke and death still thick in your nostrils.

Terrifyingly harsh, oily and industrial. Oil smoke, gasoline, opium tar, leather and black musk.

 
THE WITCHES' COVEN
 
Inferna, the Blaze Witch

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

Myrrh ashes, singed cinnamon bark, smoked ginger and peppered clove-infused vanilla.
 
Esmerelda, the Plague Witch

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

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

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

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

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.
 

HALLOWS 2011 RESURRECTED

 

Abandoned Morgue 2011

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 Azúcar 2011

Muscovado sugar, royal icing and meringue powder with a slight hint of metaphysical white musk.
 
Hänsel und Gretel 2011

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.
 
Mara 2011

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.
 

Mausoleum 2011

The dusty stillness of the afterlife: emerald moss, black orchids, cold stones and holy water.

 

Midnight Dreary 2011

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 2011

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 2011

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
 

Punkin' Head 2011

Juicy, spicy pumpkin blended in with adorable creamy bits of cheesecake slathered in caramel sauce.

 
Succubus 2011

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 2011

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.

 

 

Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem! Hallows 2011, The Witches' Coven and Hallows 2011 Resurrected will be undead until the end of November, or supplies are exhausted. Whichever comes first.

CREDITS:
Madame Victoria's Mansion of Mayhem
Concept & Artwork by Paula Schricker
Intro Copy by Vajra, Story Intro by Paula
Perfume Description Copy by Paula (mostly) & Vajra
Perfumes Created and Hand-Blended by Vajra