As a practicing witch, I get really excited when fall comes because it marks the arrival of my very favorite holiday- Samhain (or Halloween). As a Cosmetic Chemist I also get excited because it means I get to use the ingredients, essential oils, and fragrances I love the most! Things like spice, pumpkin, honey, autumn leaves and smokey bonfires light my creativity like no other.
What is Samhain you say? Well, it's pretty interesting really. Samhain (pronounced Sah-ween). It was the biggest and most significant
holiday of the Celtic year. The Celts believed that at the time of
Samhain, more so than any other time of the year, the ghosts of the dead
were able to mingle with the living, because at Samhain the souls of
those who had died during the year traveled into the otherworld. People
gathered to sacrifice animals, fruits, and vegetables. They also lit
bonfires in honor of the dead, to aid them on their journey, and to keep
them away from the living. On that day all manner of beings were
abroad: ghosts, fairies, and demons--all part of the dark and dread.
Virtually all present Halloween traditions can be traced to the ancient
Celtic day of the dead. Halloween is a holiday of many mysterious
customs, but each one has a history, or at least a story behind it. The
wearing of costumes, for instance, and roaming from door to door
demanding treats can be traced to the Celtic period and the first few
centuries of the Christian era, when it was thought that the souls of
the dead were out and around, along with fairies, witches, and demons.
Offerings of food and drink were left out to placate them. As the
centuries wore on, people began dressing like these dreadful creatures,
performing antics in exchange for food and drink. This practice is
called mumming, from which the practice of trick-or-treating evolved. To
this day, witches, ghosts, and skeleton figures of the dead are among
the favorite disguises. Halloween also retains some features that harken
back to the original harvest holiday of Samhain, such as the customs of
bobbing for apples and carving vegetables, as well as the fruits, nuts,
and spices cider associated with the day.
In honor of this approaching festive time; I present you with selections from our
Samhain Collection. This is our very best selling collection and it sells out VERY quickly, so if you are tempted by anything please make haste in getting yours. These fragrances come in both
sugar scrubs and
perfumes.
All of these items are currently in stock and ready to ship immediately.
Samhain Collection: Black Velvet Shroud PerfumeThe
blackest most sublime velvet covering an antique rosewood coffin...in
which lay our sexy vampyre. We know he is only resting until the dark
night falls and the air becomes heavy with mist and the sounds of night
creatures......when that time comes we'll embrace our dark lover again.
The scent: dark dark dark black chocolate, heady sweet black currants,
tangy blood red currants, Bourbon & Madagascar vanillas, smoked
spices, loamy black earth & a touch of church incense.
Samhain Collection: Death By Sunrise Sugar ScrubYou've
accepted the eternal kiss of your vamp lover and been re-born into a
new and brilliant night-time world but you must rest before the first
rays of the sun touch the earth or you will be dead by sunrise.
The scent: blood orange, tangerine, syrupy sweet pineapple, golden
gateau d'or, black cherries, billows of marshmallow creme, vanilla bean
souffle, and rich ripe sexy mango.
Samhain Collection: Evangeline PerfumeA
famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about the Acadia Cajun beauty
Evangeline Bellefontaine and her lover Gabriel Lajeunesse. Tragic but
romantic figures who are separated by bitter circumstances, they spend
their lives searching for one another always just missing being
reunited. Evangeline becomes a nun ministering to the poor and ill this
is where one days, many years later, she finds her beloved
Gabriel.....broken and sick by an epidemic, her lover dies in her arms
as she weeps for him and their lost love.
The scent: Sweet Southern blooms of magnolia, wisteria, Cape Jessamine,
and gardenia underneath a blanket of church incense, a forgotten bridal
bouquet, Bayou woods of oak, and cypress, crushed grasses and virginal
white cotton and lace.
Samhain Collection: Herne of Windsor Sugar ScrubIf
you be of Blood Royal you have no greater fear than to be cursed and
stalked by the dark deeds of the equestrian ghost that haunts the Royal
Woods of Windsor. The scent: Dark mysteries in exotic witchcraft resins,
Olde English dragon's blood, orange pomanders spiked with cloves,
gingerbread, dark forest woods and midnight air.
Samhain Collection: Mourning Shadows PerfumeA
lone dark caped figure stands in the shadows of a smoking pyre on which
his witch lover was put to her tragic death. Grief washes over him and
his tears fall as sparkling diamonds onto his pale cheeks.
The scent: Black pomegranate,blood red pomegranate, white funereal
blooms, heady violets, 2 types of exotic musk, Cornish honey and a
touch of Bourbon vanilla.
Samhain: Boo-Berry Mansion Sugar ScrubA
hauntingly wicked blend of ripe forest berries swirled with blueberry
mousse and a healthy dollop of vanilla custard topped with mounds of
whipped creme and blue raspberry coulis.
Samhain Collection: White Chapel Spectre PerfumeTragic
Victorian 'soiled doves' struck down in their prime by the malevolent
Jack the Ripper. The narrow alleyways and spooky mist filled streets of
the White Chapel district in Olde London Towne still echo with the
sounds of their sighs, whispers and final cries. The scent: crushed
velvets, silks and laces, skin musk, bitter lime, floral posies and a
slash of citrus.
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