Kyphi Oil by Alchemy Works {Perfume Short (Review)}
The reason why we suddenly felt the need to seek out some kyphi more recently is because when we received our sample of Hors Là Monde Shiloh earlier this summer and started feeling the charm of a perfume that has an ancient mystical and haunting quality about it, we wondered if it might not have been inspired by something very ancient like kyphi? When we put the question to Symine Salimpour, she would or could not say anything, so we decided to hunt down a flacon of kyphi.......
The description of the process to make the kyphi oil by Alchemy Works was interesting and sounded authentic, if it were true. After eons had passed and silence persisted, the little bottle of precious oil showed at our doorstep while we had started asking ourselves whether they had been making a new batch under the full moon. The whole process is lengthy and just the macerating part reportedly takes at least a month.
Kyphi by Alchemy Works has the property of smelling (almost) nothing out of the bottle and to take on life only once it hits the skin an is warmed up by it. The carrier for the scent is olive oil. The perfume smells very natural, dark and spicy, delicious and centering, containing: mastic, amber, sweet flag, aspalathos, camel grass (lemon grass), mint, cinnamon, oasis wine, frankincense, honey, and myrrh. It smells also like ancient Egyptian pastries, which we used to reproduce after antique recipes when we were a child.
It stays close to the body, is not very long lasting being all-natural. It makes one think that it could be used like those little perfume phials that one used to carry to revive one's senses whenever needed or like another type of Tiger Balm. The bottle is square and very cute. It could be eaten too, on a cube of sugar, say.
You can purchase it for $8 here.
(Sources: Wikipedia, Alchemy Works, The Three Goddesses)
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