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The fevered minds behind Arcana Soaps have been selling lavish distillations and ablutions since 2003. Our focus is on unparalleled skincare, exotic ingredients and delectable hand-blended scents.

Monday, August 07, 2006

Get Your Update News Here



From now until 8 PM PST on Tuesday, 8/8, orders of $50 or more will receive an adorable 3.6 ml cork-stoppered globe bottle for FREE in your choice of the following scents:

Anodyne
Chocolate LN
Lost for Words
Mutiny
Queen Crossbones

Please write your choice of scent in the comments section of the cart. And remember, orders over $75 receive free shipping and an adorable bottle of scent.

I'm sorry, but this offer is not available for orders consisting only of samples.

When making your purchase, please remember our upcoming break, as discussed below. While you are welcome to purchase samples, you won't receive them in time to purchase full sizes before we close. In the case of certain limited editions, they may be gone by the time we reopen, so please order with this in mind.

A few thoughts on the new scents:

Queen Crossbones has Egyptian musk in it, but it's different than our layering note Egyptian musk. Where our layering note E-musk is darker and drier, Queen Crossbones' E-musk is warm and sweet with an almost foody quality, yet it's still very intense. Another prominent note in this is wild honey. Oh yes.

Anodyne is my new addiction. The vivid blue coloration is caused by the azulene in our high grade chamomile essential oil. Why use real German blue chamomile in $10 perfume oil? Easy, because there's absolutely nothing like it. Incidentally, if you ever buy German chamomile which is brown in color, that's a sure sign it has passed its prime. It should be outrageously deep blue.

Speaking of which, for some reason everything is blue. Will kept saying we didn't have enough blue things, and apparently I took that to heart. Anodyne is blue. Revival soap is light blue with brown swirls. Queen Crossbones soap is very dark blue. Mutiny soap is ecru with navy blue swirls (though the perfume oil is dark red from the patchouli). I don't know. It's our blue period or something.

I'll leave the rest for you to discover. Feel free to ask any questions.

Edited to say: Never fear, Ganesh is still coming back!

6 Comments:

Blogger Ah Xia said...

What an amazing update! One quick question: Is Revival a soap-only scent? *off to spend lots of dough*...

9:14 AM  
Blogger Arcana Soaps said...

Thanks for the compliment, Ah Xia!

Yes, Revival is soap-only.

:)
Julia

9:18 AM  
Blogger Ah Xia said...

Whew, is my paypal tired! It's time for us to go relax. Thanks again -- I'm looking forward to a cute little blue potion coming in the mail! :)

9:27 AM  
Blogger Arcana Soaps said...

You're very welcome, Ah Xia!

You too, Madame Kittyflop!

xo,
Julia

11:49 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mmmm, such lovely honey notes being added. Any chance we will see a Honey Layering Note some day?

Off to make a ginormous order and take advantage of the free shipping. ;)

8:05 PM  
Blogger Arcana Soaps said...

I know, Finny, we seriously need a honey layering note. Maybe someday!

xo,
J.

2:44 AM  

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