On the Wing Perfume

I related this originally to an outdoor wedding, where the candles had just been blown out on the cake, and everyone is running through the grass barefoot.
The longer I’ve worn this fragrance- it for some reason continues to remind me of my grandmothers old house, specifically the top of her carpeted stairs. The sun always would hit the stairs at sunset- and it would heat up and illuminate the carpet in the late afternoon which gave off a wool/ carpet scent. She also was so prone to having lady bugs in her home, and there was always a reminiscing scent of them in the surrounding rooms. Above this the bathroom sat atop the stairs where she kept many cherry and oatmeal fragranced items. Somehow this scent connected me to all of that. But it’s a beautiful glimmering silver cashmere fragrance, that also reminds me of a coat closet, once it’s full of all familiar friends and families winter coats. This is a very special scent.

There’s a contrast between lightness and depth: the skin-hugging warmth of amber and musk sits alongside something almost ethereal, a shimmer that’s barely there but noticeable. I’m not familiar with orcanox and i’m making my way towards understanding Arcana’s silk accord but I think that’s what is causing a shimmering/fuzzy effect with an undercurrent of something a bit dark. Sits close to the skin.

This is a stunning airy and ethereal scent. It’s wispy, slightly woodsy, and has that fuzzy texture cashmere that I love except it’s so much softer than I’m used to. This smells clean but also has this…edge to it. Like a lovers sweatshirt after they’ve worn it a few times.

I’ve been buying from Arcana Wildcraft for years and when I found out Moth-like stars was being discontinued I fell to my knees! When I saw that this was similar I was skeptical, but it really is! This is just like moth-like stars if not the same scent but with a minuscule difference that I can barely tell. I feel like a celestial witch wearing this and it’s definitely my signature scent.

On The Wing from Arcana Wildcraft is a confoundingly gorgeous study in contradiction; it opens with a balsamic sheerness, a paradoxical shimmering shadow. When you think of skin scents, you probably think subtle, delicate, and intimate... but what of, say, Maleficent's skin scent? It's not just clean, soft, and simple.

Imagine a fragrance that embraces both light and shadow, a scent that sighs and susurrates with complexity and depth, that embodies the beautiful…and the terrible. Take what you thought you knew of skin-like fragrances and remix it with the most masterful, barest glimmer of midnight glamour and gothic opulence. As it unfurls, this effervescent richness ebbs and flows - champagne bubbles rising through inky depths or the cold vapors of the void with an incandescent vein of cosmic dust.

This juxtaposition of light and heavy is disorienting, an olfactory illusion that tricks the senses. You're wearing a scent as weighty as a motheaten cloak, yet as insubstantial as mist. It's the broken-winged beating of the hollow heart, the devastating language of wounds, the darkness that embraces everything.

On The Wing rasps a silken truth: you do not have to be whole or perfect or even good to claim your own skin. Your wild darkness and your luminous scars are part of your magic, so wear it like you mean it, in all that contradictory glory.