Scent Name: The White Witch
Manufacturer: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab – Halloween 2014
Scent Description and Notes: ”
O brothers mine, take care! Take care!
The great white witch rides out to-night.
Trust not your prowess nor your strength,
Your only safety lies in flight;
For in her glance there is a snare,
And in her smile there is a blight.
The great white witch you have not seen?
Then, younger brothers mine, forsooth,
Like nursery children you have looked
For ancient hag and snaggle-tooth;
But no, not so; the witch appears
In all the glowing charms of youth.
Her lips are like carnations, red,
Her face like new-born lilies, fair,
Her eyes like ocean waters, blue,
She moves with subtle grace and air,
And all about her head there floats
The golden glory of her hair.
But though she always thus appears
In form of youth and mood of mirth,
Unnumbered centuries are hers,
The infant planets saw her birth;
The child of throbbing Life is she,
Twin sister to the greedy earth.
And back behind those smiling lips,
And down within those laughing eyes,
And underneath the soft caress
Of hand and voice and purring sighs,
The shadow of the panther lurks,
The spirit of the vampire lies.
For I have seen the great white witch,
And she has led me to her lair,
And I have kissed her red, red lips
And cruel face so white and fair;
Around me she has twined her arms,
And bound me with her yellow hair.
I felt those red lips burn and sear
My body like a living coal;
Obeyed the power of those eyes
As the needle trembles to the pole;
And did not care although I felt
The strength go ebbing from my soul.
Oh! she has seen your strong young limbs,
And heard your laughter loud and gay,
And in your voices she has caught
The echo of a far-off day,
When man was closer to the earth;
And she has marked you for her prey.
She feels the old Antaean strength
In you, the great dynamic beat
Of primal passions, and she sees
In you the last besieged retreat
Of love relentless, lusty, fierce,
Love pain-ecstatic, cruel-sweet.
O, brothers mine, take care! Take care!
The great white witch rides out to-night.
O, younger brothers mine, beware!
Look not upon her beauty bright;
For in her glance there is a snare,
And in her smile there is a blight.
Love pain-ecstatic, cruel-sweet: gold-flecked honey amber pulsating with red musk, patchouli coeur, bourbon vanilla, inky vetiver, pomegranate rind, myrrh, blackened violet leaf, and blood red rose petals.” -BPAL.org
Oil Color: A spiced rum colored oil.
Bottle Design and Artwork: This is a standard 1/32 ml imp that has been decanted for me by Ralenth. Her label features her decanting information, collection name, date, and the scent name on the front. The back of her label features the scent notes. There is no label art on this decant. The label art she includes on the front features a white, icy witch portrait. The image art that was on the bottle (I think from 2014) is as follows:
Scent:
- ITI: That’s not what I expected. I am certainly getting a hard candy pomegranate rind, but there’s more of a sense of soft musk and aged rose perfume that keeps it from being too sweet in the imp.
- Wet: The blood red rose petals and blackened violet leaf are more distinct on my skin, although the honeyed pomegranate rind still rules the scent initially. However, in the 30 seconds it took for me to type this, I’m getting hints of gold and bourbon vanilla before it shifts once again as the violet leaf blooms. I’ll be intrigued to see how this dries down.
- Dry: It fades pretty quickly. After 20 minutes, the scent is very close to the skin. It’s a subdued pomegranate rose musk on me.
Other Impressions: “Meh, it’s kinda non-descript.” -Kelly
