SCENT AND SHADOW
Category: Perfume Oil Sets
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Alse Young: What the Record Says and What It Does Not
The surviving record of Alse Young is painfully brief. This archive-style article separates documented fact from later interpretation and asks what her 1647 execution reveals about fear, authority, and evidence in colonial Connecticut.
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The Heretic’s Trinity: Thought, Word, and Act
The Heretic’s Trinity is a Black Moon perfume oil set built around thought, word, and act: three scents for the vocabulary authority uses when questions become inconvenient.
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Beltane: Fire, Risk, and What the Record Shows
Beltane was never just a flower crown. The record smells more like smoke, livestock, weather, and risk. There is a tension in it. Heat just beginning to rise from the ground. Blossoms pushing themselves open with a kind of urgency. Smoke threading through everything, sharp and resinous, cutting through the sweetness. This is not the…
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Alse Young – Theater of the Rope
A dramatic Cocina de Brujas archive piece inspired by the scarce surviving record of Alse Young, the first recorded person executed for witchcraft in colonial New England.