These are a few of my favorite scents

For anyone interested — and also I’m documenting this for myself so I have an easy, accessible aggregation of my favorite scent recipes — I’m creating this page to house my “best of” recipes. So I’m anticipating that in the future I’ll return to this page and update it with more scent recipes.

I think it’s useful to approach everything I share here within the context of this past article I wrote, “Essential Oils: My (Hopefully) Holistic Perspective.”

Though that write-up is more about using essential oils with the intention of holistic healing, whereas here, while there’s a lot of cross-over, my main focus will be on scent.

There’s also this old post, “On Spell Oils (Cf. Anointing Oils).

As you probably know, the quality of the essence or absolute you’re using matters a lot and can make all the difference. So two people following the same exact recipe but using different quality essences are going to get two very different results. Fruit notes tend to be more forgiving, but resins and some florals, no, you are very likely going to get what you pay for.

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Holy Anointing Oil or Oil of Abramelin | Tinkering Bell #6

I made a Tinkering Bell practicum video on crafting Holy Anointing Oil, as it had been instructed in the Book of Exodus, and also the derivatives found in later occult texts, such as the Book of Abramelin, a medieval grimoire on Kabbalistic magic, and Aleister Crowley’s Book of the Law.

Today, the day of the posting, January 15, we see the sun and moon in Capricorn already (quite the stellium going on in Capricorn right now actually). Tomorrow January 16 is the new moon in Capricorn and at 6:00 pm Pacific Time (you’ll need to do a time zone conversion accordingly), both the sun and moon will be at exactly 26 degrees. I’m sharing this practicum one day before the new moon so you have some time to make preparations as needed, should you want to try crafting the oil for yourself.

This accompanying blog post is an addendum to the video, where I reflect on my personal impressions. What I’m sharing here are based on the journal entries I logged while crafting this oil.

Watch the video first before reading any of the below, as everything onward will presume you’ve already seen the video.

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