Alone with Dionysus ♉︎ botanical perfume from long term tinctures. blackberries, black raspberries, wormwood, Vermont black spruce and fir, artemisia, bee balm, herbs. October 2023

Alone with Dionysus ♉︎ botanical perfume from long term tincturesa l c h e m y ♉︎ Wormwood & artemisia, vars. (organic, grown by the perfumer, Vermont) Frankincense (wild, Ethiopia) Vermont Fir (wild, Vermont) Blackberries (wild, Vermont) Black raspberries (wild, Vermont) Bee balm (organic, grown by the perfumer, Vermont) Alone with Dionysus is a gender neutral fragrance. It is the perfume version of my incense Taiga Moon and it is also part of my Minotaur series. Alone with Dionysus is inspired by the idea of debauchery in isolation: the sort of stranded revelry Ariadne might have engaged in with Dionysus after Theseus deserted her on the shores of Naxos. Without social constraints, the dyad maybe lived on the island as their freest selves. In their microcosm they were susceptible to each other's and nature's gaslighting. Fermented black berries and black raspberries that taste like red wine, stark black spruce and boreal fir that smell like juicy blackberries, wormwood's green tr