Alkemia

Announcement    June Gift with $50 Purchase - Rainbow Alchemy: A celebration of life, love, and fabulousness - succulent raspberries and strawberries, a streak of wild lavender, calamus root, muskrose, heirloom roses, passionflower, and Queen of Spice.

Our alchemies are experimental perfumes blended intuitively and with no written recipe. We release a new one every month and include them as a free gift with orders over $50 (before shipping).
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Alkemia Perfumes and TapRoots presents: Olfactory Offerings

Alkemia Perfumes has teamed up in musical-olfactory collaboration with world fusion group - TapRoots, to create four limited edition scents to honor the Yoruba Orishas. Each perfume incorporates the ritual offerings traditionally given to each Orisha blended with inspirations from TapRoots songs. This artistic collaboration gives gratitude to the spirits that guide our artistic endeavors and invites you to enter into a multi-sensory experience of scent and sound.

Accompanying the purchase of a 5 ml bottle/rollerball, is a digital copy of its partner song from the self-titled debut TapRoots CD (Taproots will email it when Alkemia sends your perfume). As a special offer, Taproots is offering a package that includes: all four Orisha inspired perfumes, a signed copy of the original CD, and a digital download of TapRoots’s next album (to be released in late 2021).

These perfumes can be purchased exclusively on the TapRoots webpage: https://www.thetaprootsmovement.com/shop

Standing at the Crossroads: An olfactory paean to the Opener of Doors and Keeper of Pathways (Elegua). A sublime bouquet of serendipitous encounters, delicious paradoxes, lucky mistakes, and wrong things somehow turning out alright in the end - fresh-brewed dark roast coffee, creamy caramels, a little splash of rum, dark vanilla, succulent coconut, and a humidor of fine Cuban cigars.

Arrow in the Forest: An evening serenade to the Lord of the Hunt (Ochossi). The earthy musk of a forest floor at twilight, balsam needles, hemlock pine, dark patchouli, flowing tree sap, dry incense woods, dark green aldehydes, cardamom pods, vetiver root, and wormwood absinthe.

Song to the Ocean: An exaltation to the Mother of the Ocean Waters (Yemaya). Warm Caribbean ocean breezes buoyed by delicate Butterfly jasmine, water musk, cyclamen, white roses, sapodilla, and melon.

Amber Goddess: An ode to the Lady of Love and Life's Delights (Ochun). Sensual vanilla, sugarcane water, and golden honey infused with warm spices, fig, and fresh pumpkin.

Like Alkemia’s unique perfume blends, TapRoots music is a complex cross-cultural sonic tapestry woven from salsa, timba, jazz, samba, reggae, ska, go-go, Afro-beat, Afro-cuban folkloric songs, and a little bit of rock'n'roll.

Critics praise for the debut TapRoots CD:

“A feast for the senses, this music is for the mind, body and spirit; It will get you dancing ecstatically as well as thinking deeply about the world around you.”

“Acoustic and electric, voice, coquis, crickets, ocean waves and a multitude of instruments come together in a formidable energy of rhythm and lyric that also folds in various instruments of language and thought as found in its political, linguistic, and spiritual forms.”

“A tap root is a strong, wide root which grows deep into the earth and is a center from which other rootlets spring. This album is a taproot for humanity. The earth, spirit, redemption, and collective liberation spring from its musical source.”

Questions about these oils? Reach out through the TapRoots website: https://www.thetaprootsmovement.com/contact


A Note About Shipping and Turnaround Times

Our tiny two person order processing team is working hard to pack up your perfumes and get them to you quickly. We do our best to stay within a 3-5 day turnaround but ask your patience if sometimes the turnaround is closer to 5-7 days. If you have a special date that you need your perfumes by please let us know and we’ll try our best to accommodate (we also strongly recommend selecting Express or Priority shipping).

USPS is continuing to struggle with the impact of COVID on front line postal service workers. This has been affecting delivery times and package routing so once your package ships it might take a little longer to get to you than usual. We ship from the Northeast so this is most likely to impact our West Coast folks although we’ve seen some delays here and there with packages to Southern destinations. International orders have been taking 4-6 weeks to arrive (sometimes even 6-8). Etsy's new Global Shipping program has been causing some confusion because it will list a package as delivered when it arrives at the Global Shipping processing facility. Once at the processing facility, packages are relabeled with your address and sent on with a new tracking number. For tracking purposes, the customs number will stay the same so that's the best number to use to follow your order. We encourage international orders with higher value packages to ship via Priority Mail and/or to consider adding insurance. There is a handy video about Global Package tracking here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgI0iGjQ-hw

If you’re ordering internationally, please make sure we have your phone number to add to the customs form to help ensure delivery.
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Our artisan perfume oils are hand blended in small batches using natural essences, ethically rendered accords, lab-created aroma molecules and a little science, passion, and magic. Our perfumes are free of phthalates, DPG, and parabens and designed to morph with your chemistry to create a sensual alchemy of scent and skin that is special to you.