Magickal Perfume Options

Here is a fun bit of magick I ran across lately, thought it might get some responses. Magickal media (the foci and carriers for our spells) are varied and plentiful, from candles, talismans, and sigils, to paintings statues, and even comic books, but perfume is something I of which I was completely unawares. A perfume made in accordance with herbalism and charged like a sigil to make a wearable spell. Somewhere between Natural Magick and Hedge-witchery perfumes are a novel way to make a spell.

My magick mirror is taking up my free time, but I have played around with the idea a bit and came up with a few situations where perfume might be better than another medium. The first and most obvious is to use it like a love spell, or for seduction. For people who have “one person in mind” and don’t want to deal with a conventional spell to attract "love", the bother of summoning a demon, or the haste of getting someone to drink/were/walk over it/ect. that many of those spells call for. Simply make pleasantly aromatic oil out of properly corresponding plants, charge in whatever way you see fit and place a few drops on your skin. The perfume presumably works at least partially though smell, so anyone who is close enough to smell it would be affected- just walk up to the person and start flirting.

Anyone got another way to use magical perfume, or perhaps comment on the metaphysical particularities of it?

The first and most obvious is to use it like a love spell, or for seduction. For people who have “one person in mind” and don’t want to deal with a conventional spell to attract "love", the bother of summoning a demon, or the haste of getting someone to drink/were/walk over it/ect. that many of those spells call for. Simply make pleasantly aromatic oil out of properly corresponding plants, charge in whatever way you see fit and place a few drops on your skin. The perfume presumably works at least partially though smell, so anyone who is close enough to smell it would be affected- just walk up to the person and start flirting.

Anyone got another way to use magical perfume, or perhaps comment on the metaphysical particularities of it?

...funny, I just bought a pre-mixed "SEX BOMB" oil for precisely the purpose you describe here, just for the fun of it, from "The Chicago Occult Bookstore." I was told to put some on my hand, which would then make contact with the hand (...or whatever else might be touched or stroked) of one's love object. The ingredients smell like a mixture of cloves, rose oil, and possibly jasmine oil; and apparently this thing has been blessed too.

Oils can also be burnt in ceremonies as incense. Rose can be used to help invoke Venus; Dittany of Crete can be used to help invoke ADNI, et cetera. Crowley has these correspondences listed in 777. Without alluding to my own experience in this matter, I know several people who say that the various oils really go a long ways in performing practical and high magick.

This post has been edited by monkman418: Jan 6 2011, 02:41 PM

I use a magickal elixir of secret manufacture that I call "Chloro-fun." Let your lover take a sniff from the bottle, and the spirits of Tri Halom'etha-ne will render her pliant (and possibly unconscious)!

Edit: But seriously, this is an interesting topic. It seems related to alchemy; perhaps alchemical techniques would be a good way to create your own oils or perfumes for ritual?

This post has been edited by Vilhjalmr: Jan 7 2011, 12:31 AM

But seriously, this is an interesting topic. It seems related to alchemy; perhaps alchemical techniques would be a good way to create your own oils or perfumes for ritual?

I was always a bit confused as to what an alchemical technique is. Internal alchemy bears only a theoretical resemblance to alchemy with plants and metals. Is there is difrance between just putting some herbs with useful associations together and alchemy?

This post has been edited by fatherjhon: Jan 8 2011, 02:01 PM