Scent List

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Snowed In + Winter oldies

THE SNOWED IN COLLECTION

Frozen Stars: The powdery elegance of white iris, midnight violets, our handmade myrrh smoke enfleurage, cold fog, icicle-adorned oaks, bright opoponax resin, and a vast expanse of frosted sky. A dry, iris-laden incense scent. EDP & parfum

Perfumer's Note: Frozen Stars is an exploration of the cosmic olfactory place where iris and incense meet. The end result is subtle with a close sillage which melds with your natural essence. Despite its subtlety (without any big top notes), this is still strong.

Poudre Douce: Translating to sweet powder, poudre douce is a delicious spice mix dating back to the Middle Ages. Ribbons of warm, melted caramel are spiced with golden cardamom, Ceylon cinnamon, and toasty nutmeg. A cardamom-forward spice scent. EDP & parfum

Snowed In: Opens with dark chocolate brownies studded with red and white peppermint sticks. The drydown reveals Tahitian vanilla oleoresin, whipped coconut cream, body-warmed silk, and a hint of cashmere.
A gourmand atmospheric. EDP only

Perfumer's Note: Snowed In is available only as an EDP because it has so many cocoa solids that it would have been thick and chunky in parfum or perfume oil form. You may have seen the video of us filtering this one on TikTok or Instagram. Created with organic grape alcohol.

Three Ghosts:

"I—I think I'd rather not," said Scrooge.

"Without their visits," said the Ghost, "you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first tomorrow, when the bell tolls one." (Charles Dickens)

A phantasm's melancholy melange. Night bloomimg jasmine, bittersweet bergamot and blood orange, funereal roses, soft mosses, blonde woods, and a bit of smoky Palo Santo. A floral with fruit and moss notes. EDP & parfum

Witch Fire: Our handmade vanilla bean smoke enfleurage is deepened with precious vanilla absolutes from Uganda and Mexico, then smoldered with a drop of birch tar. A rich and smoky gourmand. EDP, parfum, atmosphere spray

Perfumer's Note: We haven't seen anyone do a vanilla bean smoke enfleurage before, so we may possibly have invented this! :) We also used natural vanilla absolutes, materials which can be somewhat extravagant for indie perfume, but they are more than worth their cost. Created with organic grape alcohol.

Plus these Winter oldies:

Delicatus: (Returning) Pure indulgence. A steaming caffè latte with dark chocolate, warm bread, flaky profiteroles, hazelnut biscotti dipped in cocoa, and pumpkin cookies. A chocolate laced gourmand with nonsweet bread notes. parfum only

Glittering Green: (Returning) The scent of eating mint-laced white chocolates in a huge old growth forest. Jammy fir balsam, a bit of black spruce, and our Glittering White (an opening of cold peppermint settles into a heart of sugar cookies, marshmallows, white chocolate, and vanilla musk). An atmospheric gourmand with cold, pepperminty nuances. EDP, parfum, and atmosphere spray

Her Forest: (Returning) Layers of velvety forest mosses and soft green lichens with wild-harvested Northern fir tips, Bourbon vetiver, black oudh, and a hint of forest floor. A mossy coniferous scent. EDP & parfum

Köstlich: (Returning) For Yule, this most Teutonic of holidays, a gourmand-with-a-twist blend of roasted coffee beans, ginger cakes fresh from a warm oven, tobacco-gilded German amber, sweet vanilla, chai spices, and black Ostfriesentee. A gingery gourmand with coffee and tannic tea notes. parfum only

Snug: (Returning) The scent of staying in to watch the snow fall: dark honey amber, marshmallow, and the glow of beeswax candles. A cozy, resinous atmospheric. EDP & parfum

Halloween

Gravedigger's Song + Jaguar Heart + Halloween oldies

THE GRAVEDIGGER'S SONG COLLECTION

Cemetery Lawn: (NEW) Chilled Autumn air, fragrant with the scent of dead leaves and wet moss-covered branches, quiet hills covered in green grass, guardian trees, rain-spattered silk, and bone white iris. A grassy, gently aquatic fresh scent.

Gravedigger: (NEW)

A pickax, and a spade, a spade

For, and a shrouding sheet

O, a pit of clay for to be made

For such a guest is meet. (Hamlet, William Shakespeare)

Glowing jack o' lanterns, graveyard dirt, toasted blonde tobacco leaf, raisins, ambergris, vetiver, patchouli heart, and sweet rum. An earth scent with pumpkin and tobacco.

Haunted Forest: (NEW) A journey in olfactory form, this is the essence of discovering a darkly magical grimoire in a forest of coniferous trees.

You enter the Great Forest on a sunny day, but the trees are so tall and dense that you're plunged into near-twilight. Initially your nose encounters a blast of cool, crisp fir balsam and black spruce needles. As you walk further, downed trees covered in moss greet you. A tiny creature beckons from behind a fallen log, indicating a particular patch and insisting, "Here!" He disappears and you search, only to discover an ancient book of spells moldering under the dead leaves. The odor of the book hits your nose: vanilla, parchment paper, and mildew. You open its crumbling pages, eager to read, and... what's this? The unmistakable scent of enchanted ink. A dark academia atmospheric with coniferous notes.

Hell Queen: (NEW) Our ode to beautiful Persephone: wife, daughter, goddess, and part-time Lady of the Underworld. Stygian amber and tart pomegranate nectar with French ylang ylang, blonde woods, dark cardamom, and a girlish wildflower crown. A fruity dark amber.

Omen: (NEW) An opening of cold apples and wild-foraged porcini leads to a heart of consecrated incense, wool sweaters, soft amber, damp ash, hellhound musk, and English moss. A resinous, animalic aromatic.

Otherworld: (NEW) The land of the fey, the place where we hope to find ourselves after shuffling off this mortal coil. An enchanted blend of gossamer iris, our hand-extracted Violet Intrigue lavender, Madagascan vanilla absolute, pure vanilla co2, Hidcote pink lavender, shimmering amber, fairy wings, and a cloud of iridescence. A dry flourmand with a long vanilla drydown.

Spectre: (NEW) The fuzzy aroma of a cozy ghost. Velvety skin musks are layered over sweet Tonka bean, sheer cedarwood, silk satin, vegan rabbit fur accord, powdery sandalwood, and a drop of citron. A cozy, lightly sweet "your skin but better" scent.

THE JAGUAR HEART COLLECTION

Chalchiuhtlicue: (NEW) She of the jade skirt. Goddess of storms, oceans, rivers, and streams, she once ate the sun and moon. Fine bergamot, Pacific mist, mermaid silk, soft ambergris accord, blood orange cotton candy, white iris, wild herbs, and sea salt. A citrus-aquatic which is equally balanced between sugary and fresh.

Perfumer's Note: We based our soft ambergris accord around something called Orcanox, a wonderfully rich, sweet, complex, vanilla version of salty Ambroxan.

Coatlicue: (NEW) As the fearsome mother of Quetzalcoatl, she rules fertility, agriculture, and strength, and wears a necklace of human skulls, hearts, and hands. Loamy black earth with growling animalic notes, untamed musk, Autumnal yellow tagetes, ambery woods, fresh huitlacoche, and our handmade calendula infusion. An earthy animalic.

Perfumer's Note: Coatlicue contains the calendula infusion which we created in a recent video.

Metztli: (NEW) The ethereal Aztec goddess of the moon is an expert weaver who clothes herself in stardust. Vanilla absolutes from Tahiti and Madagascar with plumes of gossamer musk, soft lunar silk, pale velvety amber, white chocolate, and a drop of sugar. An elegant vanilla gourmand with sheer musk.

Perfumer's Note: For Metztli we used natural vanilla absolutes, materials which can be somewhat extravagant for indie perfume, but they are more than worth their cost. Metztli is very gourmand but is more of a cool gourmand than a dessert scent.

Oxomoco: (NEW) First Woman. She protects fortune tellers and midwives as she rules over astrology, calendars, and divination. Sumptuous curls of incense with coconut husks, our handmade frankincense smoke enfleurage, creamy musk, woody amber, and coconut milk. A woody, smoky incense scent with coconut milk nuances.

Perfumer's Note: Oxomoco contains the frankincense smoke enfleurage which we created in a recent video.

Quetzalcoatl: (NEW) The essence of sacred joy. As the feathered serpent god of life, peace, dawn, and the creation of the world, he is the compassionate savior of mankind, and his skin smells of sunshine. Omani frankincense resin, bright passionfruit, pink grapefruit, sweet coconut, organic lemon essence, warm, woody Sylvamber, and the rays of the sun. A vibrantly fruity resinous scent.

Perfumer's Note: The frankincense in Quetzalcoatl is not frankincense smoke, as can be found in scents such as Holy Terror. This is natural, unburned frankincense resin fresh from the tree: pure, sweet, high, and balsamic (in the perfume sense, not the vinegar sense), with little hints of citrus and conifer. We emphasized the citrus nuances in the frankincense with a bit of organic lemon. Our concept for this scent was the brightest, happiest energy encased in the holiest and most serious rituals.

Tezcatlipoca: (NEW) Hail Mountainheart, Jaguar god, lord of sorcery, ruler of the night sky, king of hurricanes! An opening of toasted pumpkin, bittersweet chocolate, and ground cinnamon gives way to dark heartwood, Mexican vanilla, benzoin, cherry infused caramel, and blonde woods. A gourmand atmospheric.

Perfumer's Note: Tezcatlipoca contains a small dose of Clearwood, which is basically the good aspects of patchouli (eg: softly spiced incense) without any of patch's so-called difficult aspects such as rubbery or dirty notes.

Xochipilli: (NEW) Flower Prince. This playful, fun loving deity of art, dance, pleasure, flowers, and feasts always throws the best parties. French vanilla, satiny skin, milky sandalwood, fluffy clouds, and ivory amber, with melted beeswax and wild honey swirled through sacred jasmine petals. A purring, subtly honeyed, lightly jasmined skin scent.

Perfumer's Note: The cool French vanilla base of this is somewhat similar to Infinite Sky (plus jasmine sambac and honey).

Plus these Halloween Oldies:

SOLD OUT. Coven: The nostalgic, Autumnal essence of a magical sisterhood blessed by the crone goddess Hecate. Warmly roasted pumpkin, French vanilla, cozy cashmere shawls, dead leaves, hay bales, a soft brush of kitten whiskers, and the rustle of black skirts. A comforting, pumpkin-laced gourmand with a strong cashmere note.

SOLD OUT. John Dee: During his heyday as Queen Elizabeth I's occultist, alchemist, mathematician, code breaker, mystic, and astrologer, Dee enjoyed a gloriously aristocratic lifestyle. This is the essence of Dee at the pinnacle of his power: swirls of incense, rich, sexy brown leather, a rented Elizabethan pineapple, heady orange flowers, mysterious herbs, smoky birch tar, ancient amber resin, an animalic accord, and Atlas cedar. A smoky, leathery atmospheric with pineapple.

SOLD OUT. Medea: A priestess of Hekate and niece of Circe, Medea is probably most famous for her ruthless murders, including the vengeance-driven filicide of her own sons. Yet this is the scent of the youthful Medea in full seduction mode: Enchanting, feminine, and magical, but spiked with madness. Opening with ripe cassis berries and pink pepper, the drydown reveals salty, musky notes of Cetalox and Ambroxan, a bit of juicy raspberry, a hint of iris, and a base of amber resin and blonde woods. A sexy dark fruit scent with amber and pink pepper.

SOLD OUT. Moon Queen: Our ode to Selene, the sleek, gleaming Titaness of the moon. A luminous blend of cool vanilla creme, moonlight infused coconut water, rich coconut gelato, translucent silk woven with silver threads, and softly beating wings. A creamy coconut-vanilla with gentle silk.

Mountain Witch: (Returning) The scent of a magical cottage tucked away in the foggy chill of the Cascade mountains. Roasted black coffee beans with a swirl of woody incense, wild-harvested spruce needles, fir balsam absolute, green moss, damp firewood, soft earth, and a hint of Oregon wildflowers. A mysterious atmospheric with conifer and coffee notes.

SOLD OUT. Witches Draw Down the Moon: Mexican vanilla is infused with sweet maple crème, maple sugar, dry Madagascan vanilla, and moon-white marshmallow. A vanilla-laden gourmand enriched with maple.

Wolfling: (Returning) An innocently feral opening of sweet marzipan and wild cherry leads to a heart of warm cardamom, sugared vanilla beans, soft wolfing fur, Cashmeran, and gentle gourmand musk. A softly musky, almondy, "your skin but better" scent with vanilla.

ARCANA CLASSICS

Our best. The creme de la creme of Arcana Wildcraft.

Daydreams of Trees: What do trees dream about? Sunshine, cool rain, squirrel homes, and little saplings. Our hand-distilled fir needle oil with sweet lavender absolute, jammy fir absolute, organic spruce tips, white iris, dappled sunlight, a bit of orris, and a hint of sugary sap. A lavender and iris laced coniferous perfume.

Perfumer's Note: Daydreams of Trees contains the fir essential oil which we extracted from local fir trimmings in a recent video.

Holy Terror: There are utterly somber and fearsome spirits which are known to haunt certain long-deserted chapels, monasteries, and abbeys. An unsettling, austere blend of burning frankincense, sandalwood, deep myrrh, and dusty beeswax candles. An incense-laced atmospheric.

Nectar: The deepest longing for sunshine, long warm days, and peace in our time. Ripe, plump blackberries and creme de cassis with sheer, summery georgette, cold swirls of vanilla ice cream, a tuft of tender lambswool, and a field of softly blooming sunflowers on a nearby hillside. A sweet fruit scent with hints of wool and silk.

On the Wing: Creamy white amber, velvety cashmere, shimmering silk voile, salty Orcanox, and diaphanous musk. A sheer, airy, yet strong and concentrated skin scent.

Perfumer's Note: On the Wing is our fancy flanker of Moth-Like Stars.

Puck: A rich amber accord (labdanum, benzoin, and sweet Tahitian vanilla) is warmed with velvety plum, ripe fig, layers of incense, cedar resin, incantations on old parchment, and soft woods. A resinous amber with plum nuances and a long vanillic drydown.

Perfumer's Note: If you tried Nott from our Hel's Belles collection, Puck uses a softer, gentler labdanum than Nott. However, Puck is the more animalic of the two scents.

Queen Mab: She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Over men’s noses as they lie asleep. (William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet)
The mysterious queen of the fae realm is whimsical, provocative, and full of dark powers. Intoxicating orange blossoms with marshmallow pillows, narcotic petitgrain, creamy coconut milk, wild harvested bitter orange, Tahitian vanilla, and feathery ylang ylang petals. A creamy floral with plenty of coconut and a bit of citrus.

ANTEDILUVIANS

Antediluvians are our old scents. Some have retired to this section long term, while others are in the process of being discontinued. Scents being discontinued state that in the individual listings. No samples will be offered for Antediluvians.

Bonfires at Dusk: Woodsmoke, sweet beeswax, Oregon lavender, sandalwood, charred juniper, and the scent of swiftly appearing stars.

Filthy Viking: Between the sea voyages and the pillaging, it must have been difficult for Odin's henchmen to stay fresh. Too bad they didn't have this ferocious blend of scents from the Viking world: bracing Norwegian juniper, frigid Icelandic mint, and the hardy wood of a longship.

Gráinne Mhaol: The Dark Lady of Doona was a fierce, rebellious, passionate seafarer. An opening of cold apples and wild harvested seaweed gives way to a heart of deep Irish cedarwood, damp incense, a coniferous forest of wild yew and pine, billowing salt-encrusted sails, sheer Ambroxan, white clover blossoms, and a bit of brown musk. A coniferous, woody aquatic with a cold apple accord. ***Gráinne Mhaol will be discontinued when our current stock sells out.***

Moth-Like Stars: Creamy white amber, elegant cashmere, soft silk voile, salty Ambroxan, and diaphanous musk. A sheer, airy, yet strong and concentrated skin scent. ***Moth-Like Stars will be discontinued when our current stock sells out.***

Sagittarius: This famous archery loving centaur was identified in the night sky in the 2nd century by Ptolemy. A rich blend of warm woods, benzoin resin, sacred incense, bittersweet Peruvian chocolate, dark amber, cedarwood shards, and black Mexican vanilla. A woody, resinous atmospheric with plenty of dark chocolate and incense. ***Sagittarius will be discontinued when our current stock sells out.***

Titania: Summer storms and cotton candy with a mischievous, feminine array of heart notes: spruce tips, pink pepper, forest mosses, Tahitian vanilla, and morning dew. A sweet gourmand with salty Ambroxan and pink pepper nuances. ***Titania will be discontinued when our current stock sells out.***

Sugar Spider

dessert comes first

Babydoll: The scent of innocence itself. Sweetened condensed milk is infused with plump vanilla beans and an extra spoonful of milk sugar. Available in EDP, perfume oil, body scrub, and body butter.

Blackout: A dizzying, delicious confection of milk chocolate, dark cacao, French vanilla, and a drizzle of warm caramel. Available in EDP, perfume oil, body scrub, and body butter.

Caked Up: A patisserie blend of sweet, decadent yellow cake with a vanilla-infused confectionery glaze. Available in EDP, perfume oil, and body scrub.

Cherry Bomb: Juicy dark red cherries with radiant sugar crystals, a hint of dried plum, and a bit of orris. Available in EDP, perfume oil, body scrub, and body butter.

Deserted: Tropical coconut with Réunion Island vanilla, coconut milk, and young, green coconut husk. Available in perfume oil, body butter, and body scrub.

Ghost Chocolate: (new version): Belgian white chocolate and creamy cocoa butter rest on a base of delicately haunted musk. Available in perfume oil, body scrub and body butter.

Peppermint Slaps: Bright, icy, triple distilled Washington peppermint with sweet Mexican vanilla. We like this one as an invigorating foot scrub. Available in EDP, perfume oil, body scrub, and body butter.

Raspberry Gash: Tartly sweet, juicy red raspberries are dusted with superfine sugar and softened with cashmere. Available in perfume oil, body scrub, and body butter.

Sass: Toasty oven-baked gingerbread people with blackstrap molasses, sweet clove, fresh gingerroot, and Tellicherry peppercorn. Available in EDP, perfume oil, and body scrub.

Spun: The utterly delicious scent of boozy caramel toffees. The scent for this scrub was created by our friends at Sixteen92, an award winning perfume house of which we are proud fans. This toffee accord is part of the scent of Sixteen92's gorgeous Thank the Dark Lord. Available in perfume oil, body scrub, and body butter.

Stark: No scent and no color. Perfect for an unscented experience or for scenting your own (feel free to email us at arcanawildcraft@gmail.com or spiderscrubs@gmail.com for ratios and tips on how). Available in body scrub and body butter.

Sugar Star: The essence of comfort. Aromatic, warm, spicy cardamom is sweetened with brown sugar and golden Turbinado sugar, Tahitian vanilla, and cardamom CO2 extract. Available in EDP, perfume oil, body scrub, and body butter.

Venus in Firs: The scent of eating cotton candy in a dark, coniferous forest. Jammy fir balsam, sugared pine needles, and delicately spun candyfloss. Available in EDP, perfume oil, and body scrub.

Whiteout: A delectable blend of French vanilla frosting and Mexican vanilla extract with vanilla bean fluff and precious Madagascan vanilla oleoresin. Available in EDP, perfume oil, whipped soap ganache, and body butter.

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