Hexensalbe

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EAU DE PARFUM - 30ml
“In rifleing the closet of the ladie, they found a pipe of oyntement, wherewith she greased a staffe, upon which she ambled and galloped through thick and thin, when and in what manner she listed”
– Proceedings Against Dame Alice Kyteler, Prosecuted for Sorcery, 1324

Hexensalbe, also known as witches’ flying ointment, was a hallucinogenic salve used in witchcraft in the middle ages. It was a mixture of extremely poisonous ingredients.

The drug produced an ecstatic trance with powerful sensations of flying, images of otherworldly creatures and a primal sexual hunger. These hallucinations are at the core of the mythology of witches, where they fly to the sabbath at Blåkulla or Brocken to do it with the devil and other witches in unholy rites.

So, the image of witches flying can be traced back to the use of hexensalbe, but why on a broomstick? The ointment was so poisonous that eating it would be directly fatal, instead it was applied to other soft membranes of the body, armpits and more commonly the genitals. Because of the erotic effects of the high, the salve would often be rubbed directly onto a phallic object like the end of a staff or a broomstick. And so, the witch did not ride the broomstick like we picture her today. She actually -really- rode it.

Given which aspects of the story of hexensalbe has survived into the modern image of witches, and what has been suppressed, it would seem that the one thing more terrifying than witches or devils, is female sexuality.

DETAILS:
  - Top Notes: Wormwood, Salty Liqourice
  - Mid notes: Tuberose Rosemary, Angelica Belladona
  - Bottom notes: Black Hemlock Lichen, Patchouli

INGREDIENTS: alcohol denat, parfum, aqua, piper nigrum fruit, hydroxycitronella, coumarin, limonene, linalool, benzyl benzonate, benzyl salicylate, geraniol, farnesol, citral, eugenol, isoeugenol 

ABOUT STORA SKUGGAN: It happened many seasons ago. Of course to explain it you would have to be here. We had all been used to only the same smells, the same architecture. Until the monsoon came. 

At first we were weary. What did she want with us? But then we became dizzy. The allure became a way of living. Without it we were dust.

Made by hand in Stockholm.