Hexenhaus Perfume Oil: Vanilla Spice

This is Hexenhaus: a scent spun from storybook sugar, shadowed hearths and strange tales. The air is thick with spice... ginger, clove, and the golden warmth of vanilla.Hexenhaus has two distinct meanings in German culture: one rooted in fairytale, the other in historical persecution. It can evoke to the enchanted witch cottage fragrant with gingerbread and sugar, or to the grim witch prisons used during the German witch trials.In folklore and popular imagination, Hexenhaus (German for “witch’s house”) evokes the edible lebkuchen cottage from Hansel and Gretel. (A house made of gingerbread, cake, and sugar.) The idea of witches living in candy covered homes predates the Grimm Brothers and reflects older cultural beliefs about temptation and magic.On a darker note, in the annals of German history, Hexenhaus was also something far more harrowing. Hexenhaus was a name used for witch prisons during the German witch trials of the 17th century. Midwives, herbalists, the wise and the wild wer