Seth and Bastet's Dark Incense: Black Vanilla #5

An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be." ~Henry Louis Mencken

VApothecary presents; Seth & Bastet's Dark Incense.

#5 Black Vanilla

Working from their love of incense perfume, comes the very last of a trip toward a dark and rich perfume Collection. This collection resonates the aroma of wondrous per fumum (the Latin from which 'perfume', comes), and Dark Incense perfume. 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 vanilla notes/vanilla bean flecks/essential vanilla essences, hence the next perfume of this Dark Incense collection: Black Vanilla.

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 thank you for being part of this journey and the perfume that has come from this truly amazing collaboration. As both Seth and Bastet begin a new journey and collaboration of perfumes for the fall, we invite you to enjoy the very last (5th release) of their Dark Incense Collection for August, 2014.

Black Vanilla, French Vanilla Bean Raw (flecks and flesh sifted), French and Tahitian Vanilla, Kobalt Dark, Moonstone, Crystal, Aged Kashmir in rich Cedar wood (Red Musk/cedar), and aged Black Crystal Incense accord bathed in Bastet's Zamsara Perfume Incense.

*Please layer on your skin with the Studio Limited Crystal Dark, Kobalt Dark, Crystal, Moonstone or Kobalt to give an deeper resonating Vanilla essence to this perfume.