Our materia
We buy our absolutes and extracts from extractors we trust, then blend every bottle by hand, in small batches, at our own table. These are the flowers, roots, resins and fruit whose souls end up in your oil, and the old work each one is known for.
Seduction · Forbidden desire · Moon · Second sight
Tuberose was once too seductive to be allowed. Renaissance girls were kept out of the gardens at night because of it, and French girls were warned never to breathe it after dark. Women tucked fresh blooms under their skirts to draw men to them, and it's said to sharpen the psychic senses. Queen of the Night belongs to the moon. It opens only after sundown and is strongest on warm full-moon nights. Together they are the night heart of our Jezebel Oil.
Heady, creamy white floral with a honeyed depth · an intensely sweet white flower, strongest after dark.
In: Jezebel Oil
Domination · Control · Protection · Offering
The plant of command: worked to dominate, to bend a will, to take control. And the oldest offering, given to spirits and ancestors, burned to protect and purify.
Sweet hay and honeyed dried leaf.
Love · Passion · Beauty · The thornRoseThe flower of Venus and of every love goddess before and after her, worked to draw love, call up passion and soften a hard heart. The thorn has its own work: protection, and the kind of work that bites back.
Love drawing · Persuasion · Dominion · Hidden thingsOrrisCalled Queen Elizabeth root and Love Drawing herb in rootwork, and said to be named for Queen Jezebel herself. The powdered root is dusted on clothes and bedding so a love comes back to you. A moon root that digs into the subconscious and brings up what is hidden; as the fleur-de-lis, the flower of dominion and war.
Wealth · Power · The sacred · Death ritesAgarwoodOud draws wealth like little else, one of the oldest and most precious perfumes, priced like gold. Holy across faiths: burned as bakhoor, blended into temple powder, carried with myrrh to anoint the dead as in Egyptian rites three thousand years ago. It gives a blend a depth and richness nothing else can.
Desire · Temptation · AllureDark cherryRuled by Venus and water. Cherries are eaten to stir desire and make the eater irresistible, and the juice is drunk before a love reading.
Underworld · Binding · Dark goddesses · WishesPomegranateThe fruit that bound Persephone to the underworld: a few seeds, and she belonged to Hades. Offered to Persephone and the dark goddesses, used to call the ancestors, and eaten after a wish is made.
Prosperity · Success · SunBlood orangeOrange belongs to the sun: success, confidence, plenty in the home. Its oil is worked for money and career, and the red-fleshed blood orange brings passion to the same work.
Devotion · Anointing · Rebirth · Sex magicSpikenardThe nard poured over the feet of Christ. Worked into love charms and sex magic and used to anoint. The phoenix was said to build its nest with it, so it carries rebirth and peace with past choices.
Seduction · Forbidden desire · Second sightTuberoseSo seductive that young women were once kept from its gardens after dark. Tucked under skirts to draw men, and said to sharpen the psychic senses.
Lust · Love · Visions
No styling, no filter: this is the dried leaf straight from our worktable. Damiana is an herb of Venus and Mercury, an herb of lust worked into love charms and burned as an incense of desire, and said to open the eyes to visions.
Sweet, green herb.
In: Our love-drawing oils
From extractor to bottle
Our absolutes and extracts come from specialist extractors. We blend them by hand, as a family, and bottle in small batches. The photos on this page show the plants themselves, not our own fields.
Sold as a curio. Traditional uses are shared for cultural interest.
