Seth and Bastet's Dark Incense: Black Wine #4

"Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin — find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less." ~Maya Angelou

VApothecary presents; Seth & Bastet's Dark Incense.

#4 Black Wine

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 wine notes, hence the next perfume of this Dark Incense collection: Black Wine.

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 fifth Dark Incense, this being the fourth release of Seth & Bastet's Dark Incense Collection for July, 2014.

Dark Shiraz Grapes, Blackened Cabernet Wine, Napa Merlot Grape Skin, Black Patchouli, Black Vanilla, Aged Kashmir in rich Cedar wood (Red Musk/cedar), and aged Crystal Incense accord bathed in Bastet's Zamsara Perfume Incense.