Arcana's Spring 2009 Collection Part 2: Love, Sweetness, and
Strange Magic
Shipping approx. 5/10/09
PERFUME OILS
Philtre #1: Amity (Limited Edition): Based on a long-forgotten
love potion which aided seduction with an abundance of harmony and
joy. Three jasmines, pink grapefruit, rainwater, white musk, French
cognac, pink pepper, a hint of strawberry, and a drop of patchouli.
Philtre #2: Adoration (Limited Edition): An aphrodisiac believed
to draw one’s beloved to the greatest heights of receptivity and
indulgence. Three vanillas, sweet cream, banana custard, white
pepper, exotic amber, pearl musk, black pepper, and cardamom.
Philtre #3: Fetish (Limited Edition): Rumored to be disturbingly
effective, this philtre may create obsessions and fixations beyond
all reason. Three musks, Haitian vetiver, blackseed oil, nutmeg,
molasses extract, grapefruit, apricot, peach, and darkest vanilla.
Romani Princess Perfume Oil (Limited Edition): Passionate,
seductive and regal, with an unsettling mastery over strange
divinations. Dark garnet grapes, burnt sugar, fir needle oil,
iron-distilled patchouli, river water, and our hand-extracted
dragon's blood.
SOAP
The Bakehouse Soap (Limited Edition): A most delicious soap.
Gourmand notes of toasted almond, sugared coconut, bittersweet
chocolate, and a warm pastry accord waft over a rich base of benzoin
resin. Made with prime-pressed cocoa butter, black vanilla beans,
organic coconut milk, and organic oatmeal.
Nereid Soap (Limited Edition): A blend believed to be favored by
the 50 kind, beautiful daughters of the sea god Nereus: white bark
raspberry, silvery rain, piquant cranberry, fizzing ocean foam, and
a sugary whorl of sea salt caramel. Enriched with sweet almond oil,
organic agave nectar, caramel extract, and Tussah noil peace silk.
Romani Princess Soap (Limited Edition): Passionate, seductive and
regal, with an unsettling mastery over strange divinations. Dark
garnet grapes, burnt sugar, fir needle oil, iron-distilled
patchouli, river water, dragon's blood extract, Fair Trade shea
butter, coconut milk, and a swirl of amaranthine poppy seeds.
$6.99
Arcana Spring 2009
Collection-"Rabbits, Chocolate, and General Naughtiness"
Arcana Spring 2009 Soaps
Madame Lapin Soap (Limited Edition): The essence of a
soft brown bunny: fragrant notes of sweet honey, dry Atlas
cedarwood, warm toast, buttermilk, and a subtle blend of spices.
Created with organic carrots, finely ground organic oats,
organic molasses, virgin coconut oil and golden cocoa butter.
Pysanksa Soap (Limited Edition): A heart of creamy
chocolate and fresh Ukrainian apple is lightly decorated with
sunflowers, white hollyhock, blue chamomile, tender spring
grass, and a drop of golden citrus. Enriched with Fair Trade
shea butter, coconut milk, ivory clay and organic cacao beans.
$6.99
Arcana Spring Perfumes
Madame Lapin Perfume Oil
(Limited Edition):
The essence of a soft brown bunny: fragrant notes of sweet
honey, dry Atlas cedarwood, warm toast, buttermilk, and a subtle
blend of spices.
Monsieur Lapin Perfume Oil
(Limited Edition):
Fluffy but fierce. A wild jackrabbit blend of warm ginger, black
vanilla, Atlas cedarwood, bergamot, soft musk, cardamom, a pinch
of patchouli, and a tiny nip of oakmoss.
Morphine Perfume Oil
(Limited Edition):
The softening of hard remembrances and the inexorable embrace of
warm oblivion. Cocoa absolute, vanilla oleoresin, sticky
marshmallow syrup, a trickle of aged patchouli, and a delicate
shot of smoked vetiver. (NOTE: Due to uniquely high ingredient
costs, Morphine only comes in 5 ml bottles.)
Poison Candy Perfume Oil
(Limited Edition):
Ripe pink strawberries are tainted with musky ambrette seed,
pure cassia, rich cream, cinnamon sugar, honey, copaiba and wild
oat extract. (NOTE: Due to uniquely high ingredient costs,
Poison Candy only comes in 5 ml bottles.)
Velvet Underpinnings:
Our popular Frilly Underpinnings blend made even more seductive
by the addition of chocolate: pink, white, and black pepper lace
delicately through rich chocolate, sweet cream, bourbon vanilla,
caramel amber, white musk, two sugars, spice, and everything
nice. (NOTE: Due to uniquely high ingredient costs, Velvet
Underpinnings only comes in 5 ml bottles.)
Shipping approx. April 10th
Arcana's Winter Collection 2009,
Part Two: Nostalgic, Inebriated, and Powerfully Charming
Eleanor of Aquitaine Perfume Oil
(Limited Edition): The scent of vivacity, beauty, royalty, wisdom,
and an absolute, unfaltering strength. Precious attar of roses, rare
chandan wood, cinnamon leaf*, cream accord, aged vetiver, and a hint of
thorny green stems hidden under fragrant velvet petals. NOTE: due to
uniquely high ingredient costs, Eleanor is only available in the 5 ml
size.
Molly Malone Perfume Oil
(Limited Edition):
Now her ghost wheels her barrow
through streets broad and narrow
Crying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o!" Cotton candy, sea spray, green
sugarcane, salt, pink musk, sweet bergamot, lily of the valley, black
pepper, vanilla, patchouli, and the merest hint of aged vetiver.
Tammany Hall Perfume Oil (Limited
Edition): Vote early and often! Honest graft, New York tough talk,
and a whiff of the green auld sod. Bay laurel, sweet green clover, fresh
tree sage, dark, dirty musk, and black patchouli
5 ml $11.99
10 ml $15.99
Molly Malone Soap (Limited Edition):
Now her ghost wheels her barrow
through streets broad and narrow
Crying, "cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o!"
Cotton candy, sea spray, green sugarcane, salt, pink musk, sweet
bergamot, lily of the valley, black pepper, vanilla, patchouli, and
the merest hint of aged vetiver. Made with prime-pressed
cocoa butter, organic blackstrap
molasses, and rich organic whole milk yogurt.
Sold Out
Romani Princess Soap
(Limited Edition): Passionate, seductive and regal, with an
unsettling mastery over strange divinations. Dark garnet grapes,
burnt sugar, fir needle oil, iron-distilled patchouli, river water,
dragon's blood extract,
Fair Trade shea butter, coconut milk,
and a swirl of amaranthine poppy seeds.
Tammany Hall Soap (Limited
Edition): Vote early and often! Honest graft, New York tough talk, and a
whiff of the green auld sod. Bay laurel, sweet green clover, fresh tree
sage, dark, dirty musk, and black patchouli. Made with prime-pressed
cocoa butter, coconut milk, and a nourishing glass of dry Irish stout.
$6.99
Arcana Valentine Release 2009
PERFUME OILS
Herne Perfume Oil: Horned trickster, lord of the forest, god of the
wild hunt. Cassia cinnamon, Atlas cedarwood, fir needle oil, and a
whiff of Herne's holy oak tree.
The Huntress Perfume Oil: She is the goddess known by many
names: Diana, Artemis,
Artume, Frau Wode, and Nicevenn, yet her unbound spirit is eternal.
Sweet clove,
black pepper, aromatic mint,
blood orange,
and a whiff of her sacred oak groves.
SOAPS
Herne Soap: Horned trickster, lord of the forest, god of the
wild hunt. Cassia cinnamon, Atlas cedarwood, fir needle oil, and
a whiff of Herne's holy oak tree. Made with
Fair Trade shea
butter, exfoliating organic oats, and finely ground
calendula petals.
The Huntress Soap: She is the goddess known by many names:
Diana, Artemis, Artume, Frau Wode, and Nicevenn, yet her unbound
spirit is eternal. Sweet clove, black pepper, aromatic mint,
blood orange, and a whiff of her sacred oak groves. Made with
Fair Trade shea butter, organic oats, and finely ground
calendula petals.
$6.99
Arcanas Tao Update
PERFUME OILS
Fugue Perfume Oil
(Limited Edition): To know that one doesn't
know is best. Lao Tzu
An amnesiac haze of
dark clove, spiced amber, sugary milk, white musk,
nutmeg, and a drop of aged patchouli.
Quim Perfume Oil
(Limited Edition): The softest things in the
world overcome the hardest things in the world. Lao
Tzu
Lush French cognac,
deepest chocolate, banana creme, and succulent
orange entwine over a base of sensual ambrette musk.
5 ml $11.99
10 ml $15.99
Lavishly Uncommon Goods for
Bath and Body
These extravagantly
scented delectables from the fevered minds at Arcana Soaps are handmade in
Portland, Oregon using secret formulas created by a couple of bath and
perfume obsessives. All are handmade, please allow 7-10 days for
shipping
Do you need empty bottles to share oils with friends?
Sample sized empty glass bottles .15 cents each
Soaps
Arcana’s soaps are handmade
using traditional cold-process techniques. They start with skin-friendly
vegetable oils such as olive, palm and coconut, then adorn these with
various exotic luxuries such as Fair Trade shea butter, avocado oil, sweet
almond oil, Australian clays, peace silk and rich coconut milk. Vegetarian
$6.99 each
Delicious scents:
Arcana Absinthe Soap:
Let the heady spirit of the Green
Fairy whisper in your ear. Scented with aromatic herbs & sweet anise, this
deceptively soothing bar is enriched with avocado oil, coconut milk and a
touch of pure Artemisia Absinthium. Imminent moral collapse not included
4.4 oz/ 125 grams.
$6.99
Arcana Ambrosia Soap:
Recipes for ambrosia, the magical
food which bestowed eternal youth on the Greek gods, have long been lost.
However, we have it on the best authority that this melding of fragrant
honey, peaches, lemons, custard and coconut with oils of macadamia and sweet
almond is divinely close. Hazelnut-colored with shredded coconut topping.
4.4 oz/ 125 grams.
$6.99
Arcana Breakfast in Hollywood: Take the most important bath of the day
as juicy pink grapefruit shimmies up against a bevy of California citrus
fruits, sparkling champagne, ripe strawberries, rich mango butter, satiny
tussah silk and scattered rose petals. The indulgent essence of breakfast
with a screen goddess.
4.4 oz/
125 grams.
$6.99
Arcana Burlesque Soap: The sweet, smoky decadence of a bawdy dance hall,
with bold amber, spicy chocolate and the warm wood of a well traveled stage.
Enriched with more than enough cocoa butter & sweet almond oil to turn your
daily grind into a bump and grind
4.4 oz/
125 grams.
$6.99
Arcana Byzantium Soap: A salute to the ancient metropolis at the
crossroads of East and West. Sail to Byzantium with this opulent blend of
fortifying Mediterranean mint, dark Turkish tea & sparkling Roman oranges,
enriched with lavish dollops of sweet almond & grapeseed oils for
extravagantly happy skin.
4.4 oz/
125 grams.
$6.99
Out of stock
Arcana Devilish Soap: Shaking off vanilla's unfair reputation for namby
pambyness, this infernally dark & smoky soap comes complete with licks of
fire and sulfurous wafts of brimstone, all the while lowering your
inhibitions with deep Bourbon vanilla beans & velvety tussah silk. The devil
really does have all the best scents.
4.4 oz/
125 grams.
$6.99
Arcana
Filthy Viking Soap:
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 fiercely cleansing bar
with scrubbing pumice, deodorizing coffee and the scents of the Viking
world: bracing Norwegian juniper & frigid Icelandic mint. Forest green with
ground coffee and a topping of juniper berries. 4.6 oz/ 132 grams.
$6.99
Arcana
Murder Ballad Blues Soap:
In the
tradition of murder ballads, the essence of an old-time jailhouse lament (on
fiddle): wild Appalachian blackberries and sugared mountain violets with
hints of dark earth and guilty secrets. Enriched with coconut milk, sweet
almond oil & blackberry seeds. No mice were harmed in the making of this
soap. Violet-colored with blackberry seed topping. 4.4 oz/ 125 grams.
$6.99
Arcana Shambhala Soap:
Somewhere high in the Himalayas, a mystical kingdom is said to be hidden,
accessible on rare occasions to a fortunate few. Enjoy a touch of
Shambhala's magic with this harmony of sandalwood, Himalayan cedarwood, a
dash of spun honey, Fair Trade shea butter & purifying red clay.
4.4 oz/ 125 grams.
Arcana
Swashbuckler Soap:
Proof that you can be the scourge of the high seas and still breeze into
port smelling divine. Deeply cleansing, yet rich with Australian black clay,
exotic babassu, tropical coconut milk, West Indies bay rum and a dark blend
of spices. Hoist the black soap! Pitch-dark and stamped with a gold skull &
crossbones.4.4 oz/ 125 grams.
$6.99
Arcana Vampire’s Garden Soap:
For vampires and other dark souls addicted to topsoil,
the sweetly herbaceous scent of freshly turned earth, blood oranges and staked
tomato vines under a midnight sky. With rich red clay, genuine tussah peace silk
and luxurious sweet almond oil for suds that leave you clean, supple and highly
biteable. With red and black swirls. 4.4 oz/125 grams.
$6.99
Arcana’s perfume oils are hand-blended, 100% vegetarian and highly concentrated
to create a delicious waft around all who wear them.
Arcana Absinthe Perfume:
Let the heady spirit of the Green Fairy whisper in your ear. Scented with
aromatic herbs, sweet anise and a touch of pure Artemisia Absinthium.
Imminent moral collapse not included.
5 ml. $11.99
Arcana Ambrosia Perfume:
Recipes for ambrosia, the magical food which bestowed eternal youth on the
Greek gods, have long been lost. However, we have it on the best authority
that this melding of fragrant honey, peaches, lemons, custard and coconut is
divinely close. In an amber glass bottle with reducer cap and leakproof lid.
Out of stock
10 ml. $15.99
5 ml. $11.99
Arcana Anodyne Perfume Oil: Put your inner pain on ice. An initial volley
of frosty peppermint is smoothed out with tranquil notes of blue German
chamomile, gentle clover honey, chilled rice wine and just enough curative
copaiba.
10 ml $15.99
5 ml $11.99
Arcana Breakfast in Hollywood Perfume Oil:
Juicy pink grapefruit shimmies up against a bevy of California citrus fruits,
sparkling champagne and ripe strawberries. The indulgent essence of breakfast
with a screen goddess.
10 ml $15.99
5 ml $12.99
Arcana Burlesque Perfume Oil:
The sweet, smoky decadence of a bawdy dance
hall, with bold amber, spicy chocolate and the warm wood of a well-traveled
stage. Turn your daily grind into a bump and grind.
10 ml $15.99
5 ml $11.99
Arcana Perfume Oil-Byzantium:
A salute to the ancient metropolis at the
crossroads of East and West. Sail to Byzantium with this opulent blend of
fortifying Mediterranean mint, dark Turkish tea, sparkling Roman oranges and
a hint of sweet, resinous labdanum
10 ml $15.99
5 ml $11.99
Arcana Devilish Perfume Oil:
Shaking off vanilla’s unfair reputation for namby pambyness, this infernally
dark and smoky fragrance comes complete with licks of fire and sulfurous
wafts of brimstone. The devil really does have all the best scents.
10 ml $15.99
5 ml $11.99
Arcana Filthy Viking Perfume:
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.
In an amber glass bottle with reducer cap and leakproof lid.
10 ml. $15.99
5 ml. $11.99
Arcana Jane & Tarzan Perfume Oil:
Swing through the trees with the sultry tang of tropical mangos, exotic
woods and the faintly lingering whiff of a once-proper Edwardian lady's muguet
perfume. Ah, jungle love.
5 ml. $11.99
10 ml. $15.99
Arcana Persephone’s Flowers
Perfume Oil:
As one of the most over-scheduled divine beings, Persephone had to juggle
her roles as daughter, wife, goddess, icon of spring, cheerless Queen of
Hades and spokesmodel for pomegranate seeds. In her scent, the musky
tartness of pomegranate rubs itself all over innocent lily of the valley
while black anise hangs back discreetly.
10 ml $15.99
5 ml $11.99
Arcana Murder Ballad Blues Perfume Oil:
In the tradition of murder ballads, the essence of an
old-time jailhouse lament (on fiddle): wild Appalachian blackberries and
sugared mountain violets with hints of dark earth and guilty secrets. No
mice were harmed in the making of this perfume. In an amber glass bottle
with reducer cap and leakproof lid.
10 ml. $15.99
5
ml. $11.99
The adventurous scents of a pirate queen's far-flung travels: creamy Egyptian
musk, wild honey, sweet coconut and exotic resins. Because a bad attitude and a
stolen galleon will get you everywhere!
10 ml. $15.99
5 ml. $11.99
Shambhala Perfume Oil by Arcana
Somewhere high in the Himalayas, a mystical
kingdom is said to be hidden, accessible only on rare occasions to a fortunate
few. Enjoy a touch of Shambhala's magic with this harmony of sandalwood,
Himalayan cedarwood and a dash of spun honey.*
10 ml. $15.99
5 ml. $11.99
Skipping
Vespers Perfume Oil
The scents of a stolen evening spent wandering
through the gently idle pleasures of rose gardens, coffee shops and
bookstores, all experienced through a faint haze of clinging church
incense. Indulge your inner rogue Catholic.
Arcana perfume oils are hand-blended and highly concentrated.
5 ml $11.99
10 ml. $15.99
Arcana Swashbuckler Perfume Oil:
Proof that you can be the scourge of the high
seas and still breeze into port smelling divine. Concocted from West Indies
bay rum and a dark blend of spices. In an amber glass bottle with reducer
cap and leakproof lid.
5 ml.
$11.99
10 ml. $15.99
Arcana Vampire’s Garden Perfume Oil:
For vampires and other dark souls addicted to
topsoil, the sweetly herbaceous scent of freshly turned earth, blood oranges and
staked tomato vines under a midnight sky. In an amber glass bottle with reducer
cap and leakproof lid.
10 ml. $15.99
5 ml. $11.99
These soaps and oils are just beautiful and last a long time!