Seth and Bastet's Dark Incense: Black Musk #1

VApothecary presents; Seth & Bastet's Dark Incense.

#1 Black Musk

Working from their love of incense perfume, comes a dark and rich perfume Collection that resonates the aroma of wondrous per fumum (the Latin from which 'perfume', comes), of scent. The Latin of incendere (to burn), is a method of lighting resins and allowing the 'holy' scent to clear passageways for ceremonial or spiritual content. Seth and Bastet wanted to create this, but through perfume only.

Incense began in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia; incense was the way of perfuming by distilling flowers, resins, oils, herbs and other aromatics. Along the way, incense and perfume became two separate forms of aroma and ritual. This is Seth and Bastets way of binding both with alchemy, patience and a little fun.

Beginning a quest for the most beautiful and darkly rich incense, Bastet and Seth worked around the unique Zamsara blends that Bastet created for past NA perfumes and worked through the notes and equations and ultimately found the best induction of shadow via perfume by enhancing the incense blend with rich and dark musks, hence the very first perfume of this Dark Incense collection: Black Musk.

The intent is to be bold while still remaining a shadow of scent, not the overpowering department store aromatic compound, but a perfume that will blend with chemistry and 'appear-in-scent' as an incense lifting from the skin, sans fragrant smoke.

We invite you to be part of this journey as they are both in the midst of their fourth Dark Incense, this being the first release of Seth & Bastet's Dark Incense Collection for May, 2014.

exotic Black Olibanum Incense Resin from Egypt, Black Musk Incense, Black Musk Oudh, blended into the dark sensuality of aged Kashmir in rich Cedar wood (Red Musk/cedar), Black Hessonite (Patchouli) and aged Crystal Incense Accord bathed in Bastet's Zamsara Perfume Incense.