Happy 5th Anniversary to Conjure! Let's Celebrate with a SCENT and a SALE! Friday the 13th

Hello Everyone!

I hope you're having a wonderful summer with your friends, family and loved ones and are taking the time to squeeze in all those projects and desires that occupied your mind during the dark and cold fall and winter months.

July is a busy month here in Conjure County! We've got a Friday the 13 to commemorate with a ritual oil based on a formula for an ancient Chinese restorative tonic, Conjure Oils has a fifth anniversary to celebrate with a perfume dedicated to the Orisha Oshun as well as a buy 2 get 1 free sale! This month we witness the launch of Conjure Oils' Etsy Limited Edition Curio Cabinet complete with long ago retired LE's such as Hallows' Mara and Miss Lucy's Haiku. We will also be adding some other goodies over the next few days such as custom perfumes and decanting supplies! 

HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY CONJURE!

I simply cannot believe it's been five years since I opened the scented doors to the Little Perfume House that Could! These last five years have been amazing. I've met some of the best, most beautiful and genuine people through Conjure. I've learned so much about what it means to run my own business and what it means to grow as an artist, a perfumier and as an individual as well. There is no way I would be here if it weren't for trusting the mad idea that my idea was worth investing in and that I could count on myself to see my dream to fruition. I'm grateful I took the chance. Which reminds me of my favorite quote I first read in Julia Cameron's book The Artists' Way "Leap and the net will appear."

I feel so incredibly blessed to do what I love as my job and to work for myself is a true miracle. After all, I do come with a warning label: "does not work well with others" :D

In honor of Conjure's 5th anniversary, I present to you:

FIVE
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles 
$18, $19 for glass amber 5ml roll-on


The number five is sacred to the Orisha Oshun. Many consider Oshun to be flirtatious, a femme fatale and sometimes conversely, sweetly demure. In my experience, Oshun is a fierce warrior. While she does have elements to her personality that are coquettish, Oshun, the youngest of all Orishas, is arguably the most powerful. When Olodumare created the world, s/he could tell it was still incomplete. Looking down upon the newly created world God saw the sheer raw and vast beauty of his/her creation and tears of joy and ecstasy rolled down his/her cheeks cascading on to the world below. Born in those tears was Oshun. She adds to life all that makes it worth living: sensuality, pleasure, beauty, community, friends, and of course, love. 


By using all the sweets she adores, Conjure Oils' Fifth Anniversary Celebration fragrance is dedicated to Oshun and all the gifts she gives us : Vanilla custard filled cream puff pastry is dusted with Ceylon cinnamon and drizzled with orange blossom honey and set ablaze with five yellow beeswax candles. 


FIVE will be available for five days (July 8), or until supplies are exhausted.

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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Decanted in 5ml glass amber bottles 
$25, $26 for glass amber 5ml roll-on

This month, the 13th falls on Friday and it has been become somewhat of a custom for Conjure to create a commemorative fragrance magickally formulated to transform bad luck into good 

 July 2012's installment for the Friday the 13th collection is Happy Go Lucky. Based on an ancient Chinese medicine formula developed to help tonify and release Qi stagnation of Kidney meridian it is blended using only the finest wildcrafted and/or organic essential oils.

Huo Xiang/ Pogostemon cablin (Patchouli),

Sheng Jiang / Zingiber officianale (Ginger), 

Tan Xiang/ Santalum album (Sandalwood),  

Jin Yin Hua/ Loniceria japonica (Honeysuckle), 

Ru Xiang/ Boswellia carterii (Frankincense),  

Mo Yao/ Commiphora myrrha (Myrrh),  

Chen Pi/ Citrus reticulata (Mandarin),  

Ding Xiang/ Eugenia carophyllata (Clove),  

An Xi Xiang/ Styrax benzoin (Benzoin), 

 Gui Zhi, Rou Gui, / Cinnamonum cassia (Cassia)

HAPPY-GO-LUCKY will be available for thirteen days (July 16), or until supplies are exhausted.

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SALE - BUY 2 GET 1 FREE!!

We will be having a Buy 2 get 1 FREE sale for the next 48 hours. Orders placed within the first 24 hours of the sale will ship within 5 days of the orders being placed. We are almost caught up on all our orders, so look forward to faster turn around times! If you have an outstanding order, expect to get a CnS in the next day or two!


Also, if you order within the first 24 hours, you can add a free 5ml for every $100 you spend. Spend $100-$199, get a free 5ml. $200-$299, get 2 free 5mls, etc. (this is in addition to the buy 2 get 1 free sale, and you can also reach the amount by buying limited editions, Oddment Emporium items, etc. The total doesn't have to come through the buy 2 get 1 free SALE!)


Happy Full Moon - enjoy the sale!


CONJURE OILS' LIMITED EDITION CURIO CABINET ETSY STORE!


We are over the moon! So there's no time more perfect than the timing of a full moon! Join us in the most joyous event - the launch of Conjure Oils' Etsy store! 


Over the next few days we will be adding new items to the Etsy store such as a custom perfume option, wand caps, screw caps and empty 4ml glass spray bottles. 


Thank you all for being such wonderful and amazing people. Your support, kind thoughts and words make it all worth it. I do it all for you!


Here's to another five years!


Vajra

Blackest Friday EVER! Buy 2 get 1 FREE sale and NEW PERFUMES added to the GC!

The print, it is fine:

Buy 2 get 1 free.
Sale good for 24 hours.
Free item must be the least expensive of the three.
Good for 5 or 10ml bottles, not pips.
No LE's, Toby Daye OK!
No Limit!

New Additions to the General Catalog!

We've added four new perfumes to the Mythos collection inspired by fearsome and seasonally appropriate deities. Anubis, Maman Brigitte and Set bring with them their celebration of death in this season of darkness while the sun is in the deep and passionate sign of Scorpio. In the broader autumnal season, we celebrate all sorts of ancestral and death honoring festivals: Halloween, Samhain, Los Dias de los Muertos, Hop Tu Naa, Calan Gaeaf, Allantide, All Hallows Eve, All Saints, Festival of the Dead, Ghost Festival... you get the point! Durga, while not a death goddess per se (that title belongs to Kali, an aspect of Durga herself) brings the celebration of her festival, Navratri, for a week during the month of September.

There isn't a more perfect time than now to add these to the collection! Try them today to attune to the energy of the darkening days and lengthening nights, to pay homage to your dearly departed loved ones or to simply enshroud yourself in the deadly aroma of these dire deities!
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ANUBIS
Jackal-headed Egyptian lord of embalming, mummification and protector of the dead. He watches over the funerary process making sure the bodies are properly readied for their journey to the afterlife. His color is black, associating him with the putrefaction stage of death as well as the promise of rebirth found in the fertile black soils on the banks of the river Nile.

A perfume inspired by the beauty that Anubis saw in death: Red musk, Egyptian patchouli accord, tonka bean absolute, aged vanilla resin and a drop of embalming honey.

DURGA
As a fierce protector and an indestructible force of nature, Durga's ability to help her devotees overcome selfishness, jealousy, prejudice, hatred, anger, and ego has made her one of the most beloved of all Hindu devas. She rides into battle on her tiger, a symbol of her vast and limitless power with a peaceful smile on her face, as even during the most violent confrontations, she does not lose her composure, compassion or her ability to laugh at a good joke.

Sacred, powerful and commanding, yet brightly festive: Daring Indian patchouli wrapped in graceful bergamot blossom and enlivened with tonka bean.

MAMAN BRIGITTE
Scottish and Irish indentured servants brought along with them to Haiti their beloved goddess and later Saint Brigid, the red haired, green eyed, fair skinned deity. She most certainly has her place among the pantheon of beloved Haitian Lwa as queen of the Ghede, a Haitian Creole word for a family of sprits that represent the dead as well as fertility - sex and death are never far apart! She is the Mistress of the Dead, owner of the cemetery and is, in true ghede fashion, as sexually suggestive, rude, obscene and debaucherous as her husband, Baron Samedi.

Maman's Ofrendas: Tobacco, peppered rum, spicy clove, piquant cinnamon and graveyard dirt.

SET
Egyptian lord of darkness, chaos, storms, the harsh desert and foreigners. He ruled the red desert in Upper Egypt while Horus was given the fertile Nile delta, the black lands of Lower Egypt. The two gods were always at odds with one another. Multiple myths detail the feud between the two, a conflict that is completely understandable: Set murdered then dismembered Horus' father Osiris as Set always had eyes for his sister and Horus' mother, the beautiful Isis and stopped at nothing to have her. Some historians claim that the vilification of Set was politically motivated, some say it was symbolic of the war that people living in the desert waged to survive within the environment daily: Set represented the sterile, harsh desert while Horus was the fertile lands that were flooded by the Nile. Nonetheless, Set is a darkly complicated figure who is often called upon for sex and love magic as he understands the how far down the maddening depths of love and desire can go when they remain unrequited.

Egyptian red amber, black patchouli, vanilla bean hull, sycamore, black musk, beeswax and vetiver.

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CONJURE OILS - The Little Perfume House that Could!