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 The Azalai is a caravan route through the Ténéré region of the Saharan desert where camel trains have transported salt and gold for a thousand years. Along the route stood one single acacia tree, the only living thing in an ocean of sand. This was the most isolated tree in the world, 150 km from any other.   
 This acacia, known simply as The Tree of Ténéré, was the last surviving plant from a time when the desert was less parched than it is today, thanks to roots reaching deep down into a water pocket, an underground pool hidden more than 30 meters below the desert. It’s easy to see how the Tuareg caravan riders, themselves desert survival specialists, held the tree and its amazing fortitude in highest regard. Breaking its branches for firewood or letting the camels eat from the leaves were considered blasphemy. 
  This loneliest tree in the world was one of very few landmarks along the Azalai, a sacred testament to the resilience of life, that had guided caravans for centuries. In spite of this, and the fact that it was the only obstacle for miles around, a truck driver that had drunkenly fallen asleep behind the wheel crashed into it in 1973, and killed it. 
  The scent is as an olfactory impression of gold, with radiant warmth from saffron and blood orange, and the glossy, luxurious musk velvione (a material that has been described as pressing the nose to the skin of a newborn’s scalp). Gum acacia, a syrup made from acacia sap, provides sugary sweetness balanced by salty amber and incense. A touch of mint tea and dried fruit pays homage to the Tuareg caravan riders. 
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 ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM, AQUA, PENTAERYTHRITYL TETRA-DI-T-BUTYL HYDROXYHYDROCINNAMATE, LIMONENE, ALPHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE, LINALOOL, COUMARIN, CITRAL, EUGENOL, GERANIOL   
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Azalai 30ml

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 What is Fantôme de Maules? Who is Fantôme de Maules?  
 The setting: Maules, a small village in the french-speaking part of Switzerland, surrounded by agricultural fields and  dense forests. The subject: An enigmatic being, seen by many wandering the local woodlands for the past decade, dressed in nothing but cloaked camouflage and an obsolete mask. Most likely human but one cannot be sure. Looming at almost two meters tall he seems to take particular interest in the surrounding flora and fauna. 
 Unaware of passersby, he spends his time picking and smelling flowers; only then he lets down his guard. A crack of a twig or the rustle of a leaf and he'll vanish back into the foliage. The locals call him Le Loyon, but the character calls himself Fantôme de Maules. The ghost of Maules. 
 So who is Fantôme de Maules? A recluse, an outcast from society who has made a home in the forest? A survivalist preparing for the apocalypse? We will never know, because he doesn't want us to. 
 And perhaps that's what makes Fantôme de Maules a character with such a riveting mystery. The modern world is alight with information and the shadows are shrinking. It is rare to come across someone who doesn't feel it is necessary to explain himself.  TOP BERGAMOT, GREEN LEAVES , GALBANUM, LEMON HEART CORIANDER, CARDAMOM, FOREST FLOWERS, LAVENDER ABSOLUTE BASE OAKMOSS, CEDARWOOD , SANDALWOOD, TONKA BEAN, LABDANUM, VETIVER   
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 ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM, AQUA, CITRUS AURANTIUM BERGAMIA PEEL OIL, ALPHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE, ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM SEED OIL, PIPER NIGRUM FRUIT OIL, CITRUS LIMON PEEL OIL, LIMONENE, BENZYL SALICYLATE, LINALOOL, GERANIOL, COUMARIN, CITRAL   
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 TOP BERGAMOT, GREEN LEAVES , GALBANUM, LEMON HEART CORIANDER, CARDAMOM, FOREST FLOWERS, LAVENDER ABSOLUTE BASE OAKMOSS, CEDARWOOD , SANDALWOOD, TONKA BEAN, LABDANUM, VETIVER  
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Fantôme de Maules 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.  
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 ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM, AQUA, PIPER NIGRUM FRUIT OIL, HYDROXYCITRONELLAL, COUMARIN, LIMONENE, LINALOOL, BENZYL BENZOATE, BENZYL SALICYLATE, GERANIOL, FARNESOL, CITRAL, EUGENOL, ISOEUGENOL   
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   TOP WORMWOOD, SALTY LIQUORICE HEART TUBEROSE, ANGELICA, ROSEMARY, BELLADONNA BASE BLACK HEMLOCK, PATCHOULI, LICHEN   
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Hexensalbe 30ml

 “Like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands” - Bem, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 
  A Mistpouffer is an unexplained natural sound, a sonic boom like distant cannon fire that seems to come out of the fog over large lakes or rivers. It has been recorded all over the world throughout history, and is the source of many legends. In Japan the phenomenon is called uminari meaning “cries from the sea”. In Connecticut, the Machimoodus state park gets its name from the native american name for the area, which means “place of bad noises”. 
  Despite scientific attempts to understand the sounds (that can still be heard to this day), its source has still not been identified. Possible explanations include solar winds resonating in the atmosphere, underground earthquakes or gas bubbles being released from the deep. Others believe it is the work of extraterrestrial or subsurface civilisations.  Early settlers in North America were told by the native Haudenosaunee Iroquois that the booms were the sound of the Great Spirit continuing his work of shaping the earth. 
  Rendering this mystical water thunder as a fragrance was as elusive as the sound itself. We spent four years and hundreds of iterations before finding the right balance between being distinctive and inexplainable. Foggy but not aquatic, smoky but not heavy. Natural, but in equal parts supernatural. 
 TOP IMMORTELLE, BERGAMOT HEART FIG LEAF, OZONE, PINE BASE SMOKE, MALT SUGAR, VETIVER, CYPRIOL   
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 ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM, CITRUS AURANTIUM BERGAMIA PEEL OIL, AQUA, LIMONENE, HELICHRYSUM ITALICUM FLOWER OIL, PINUS SYLVESTRIS LEAF EXTRACT, CANARIUM LUZONICUM GUM NONVOLATILES, ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM SEED OIL, BETULA ALBA OIL, LINALOOL, COUMARIN, EUGENOL, FARNESOL, BENZYL BENZOATE, CITRAL, GERANIOL, BENZYL SALICYLATE, CITRONELLOL, ISOEUGENOL   
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Mistpouffer 30ml

   “It appears that the loss of the scent of Monkeyflower was first noticed in Britain in 1909, when a well-known nurseryman asked: 'Is there such a thing now as a common Musk with the old Musk perfume?”  
  – THE LOST FRAGRANCE OF MUSK, letter published in the journal Nature, 1934.  
 The Musk Monkeyflower (so renowned for its vibrant scent that it was simply referred to as The Common Musk) was imported to Europe from the American west coast, where the sun-yellow flowers, perched on fuzzy, sticky stalks, can be found in meadows or along old dirt roads. 
 The Monkeyflower was a smash hit in Victorian England, thanks to its rich musk smell. Over nearly a century, it spread from the botanical aristocracy to London street hawkers and countryside cottage windows. But at the turn of the twentieth century, the flower suddenly lost its scent—not just in domesticated plants, but in wild specimens as well. Botanists in North America reported that the uncultivated flowers had also lost their fragrance. 
 This puzzling mystery was the hottest topic among biology conspiracy theorists for decades, but no explanation was ever found. Eventually, the subject faded into obscurity, along with the flower’s popularity as a houseplant. By then, the flowers had spread into the wild and can sometimes still be found living a quiet life in parts of Europe and New Zealand—perhaps just biding their time before returning to the olfactory stage. 
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   Alcohol Denat., Parfum, Aqua, Hydroxycitronellal, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Limonene, Benzyl Salicylate, Linalool, Citronellol, Eugenol, Geraniol  
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Monkeyflower 30ml

 The famous Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner is considered the founder of modern zoology, but as a true 16th century scientist he was also: a prominent physician, botanist, linguist and – of course – spelunking adventurer. 
 In his 'Descriptio Montis Fracti sive Montis Pilati' from 1555, he chronicles his climb to the summit of Mount Pilatus, but we also get to follow him into the caves of the Alps. 'At night, the moon shines into the cave so brightly the light itself seems to take form, like a mist. It gathers in the ceiling and makes the limestone stalactites glitter and gleam, dripping tears of white liquid into puddles on the rock floor that never dries. Moonmilk.' 
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 ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM, AQUA, CITRUS AURANTIUM BERGAMIA PEEL OIL, ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM SEED OIL, PIPER NIGRUM FRUIT OIL, CITRUS RETICULATA PEEL OIL, HYDROXYCITRONELLAL, LINALOOL, LIMONENE, CITRAL, GERANIOL, EUGENOL, FARNESOL   
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   TOP BLACK TEA, LIME HEART CARDAMOM, MANDARIN, LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY, BLACK PEPPER BASE SANDALWOOD, TAN LEATHER   
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Moonmilk 30ml

 It's PINE, it smells like PINE.  
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 ALCOHOL DENAT, PARFUM, AQUA, LIMONENE, EVERNIA PRUNASTRI EXTRACT, LINALOOL, PARNESOL, EUGENOL, BENZYL ALCOHOL, CITRAL, BENZYL BENZOATE   
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PINE 30ml

 A teaser to the Stora Skuggan saga, including a collection of 9 of their unique fragrances. 
 PINE, Azalai, Moonmilk, Hexensalbe, Mistpouffer, Silphium, Thumbsucker, Fantôme de Maules, and their newest addition Monkeyflower 
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 Ingredients of all 8 Stora Skuggan fragrances. 
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 "Even if one just tastes it, at once arouses a humour throughout the body and has a very healthy aroma” - Pedanius Dioscorides, around year 70 BC Silphium (probably of the genus Ferula) was a plant that grew in the area of Cyrene, present day Libya, and was widely renowned as a spice, medicinal herb and perfume ingredient throughout the empires of the classical antiquity. It was praised by Greek philosophers and writers, as well as Roman emperors and cookbook authors. 
 There were many attempts to cultivate Silphium, but they inevitably failed. It would only grow wild in a limited area of the north African coast. This, in combination with its qualities as seasoning and medicine made Silphium the most valuable spice in the world, outshining both saffron and cinnamon. The demand for Silphium eventually became so overwhelming that it was harvested to extinction, and the taste and smell of the once greatest spice in the world were lost in time. 
 Our rendition of this historical plant is created by researching surviving assumed relatives of Silphium, using aromachemicals (the molecular building blocks of scents) to create an accord that we feel represents what descriptions remains. This is set against a background of ancient incense, woods and leather.  
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 ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM, AQUA, PIPER NIGRUM FRUIT OIL, PELARGONIUM GRAVEOLENS OIL, ZINGIBER OFFICINALE RHIZOME EXTRACT, BENZYL SALICYLATE, CITRONELLOL, GERANIOL, LIMONENE, LINALOOL, EUGENOL, CITRAL, HYDROXYCITRONELLAL, ISOEUGENOL, BENZYL BENZOATE   
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   TOP SILPHIUM ACCORD, CISTUS HEART CINNAMON TOBACCO GERANIUM, BLACK PEPPER GINGER CLOVE, BASE FRANKINCENSE, CEDARWOOD, MYHRR LEATHER  
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Silphium 30ml

 "Even if one just tastes it, at once arouses a humour throughout the body and has a very healthy aroma” - Pedanius Dioscorides, around year 70 BC Silphium (probably of the genus Ferula) was a plant that grew in the area of Cyrene, present day Libya, and was widely renowned as a spice, medicinal herb and perfume ingredient throughout the empires of the classical antiquity. It was praised by Greek philosophers and writers, as well as Roman emperors and cookbook authors. 
 There were many attempts to cultivate Silphium, but they inevitably failed. It would only grow wild in a limited area of the north African coast. This, in combination with its qualities as seasoning and medicine made Silphium the most valuable spice in the world, outshining both saffron and cinnamon. The demand for Silphium eventually became so overwhelming that it was harvested to extinction, and the taste and smell of the once greatest spice in the world were lost in time. 
 Our rendition of this historical plant is created by researching surviving assumed relatives of Silphium, using aromachemicals (the molecular building blocks of scents) to create an accord that we feel represents what descriptions remains. This is set against a background of ancient incense, woods and leather. TOP SILPHIUM ACCORD, CISTUS HEART CINNAMON, BLACK PEPPER, TOBACCO, GINGER, GERANIUM, CLOVE BASE FRANKINCENSE, MYRRH, CEDARWOOD, LEATHER   
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 ALCOHOL DENAT., PARFUM, AQUA, ALPHA-ISOMETHYL IONONE, CINNAMYL ALCOHOL, CEDRUS DEODARA WOOD OIL, LINALOOL, COUMARIN, BENZYL BENZOATE, LIMONENE, BENZYL CINNAMATE, HEXYL CINNAMAL, EUGENOL, ISOEUGENOL, BENZYL SALICYLATE, GERANIOL, FARNESOL, CINNAMAL, BENZYL ALCOHOL, CITRAL   
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   TOP SILPHIUM ACCORD, CISTUS HEART CINNAMON, BLACK PEPPER, TOBACCO, GINGER, GERANIUM, CLOVE BASE FRANKINCENSE, MYRRH, CEDARWOOD, LEATHER   
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