BPAL X Spiritus Arcanum Walpurgisnacht

Akelarre
Ecstasy and heresy on the Heath of the He-Goat: molten labdanum drips like blood onto bare skin, red musk thrums with carnal hunger, and gleaming red amber smolders against the writhing curve of the body.

Bald Mountain
Writhing shadows and jutting gray stones stabbing through a starless sky: dark vetiver and blackened patchouli cling to cold rock, while opopanax and resin-weeping trees smolder into thick, hypnotic smoke.

Benevento
Witches cavort and the Devil stamps his cloven hoot the base of a venerable black walnut tree, the crackle of scorched wood and the fragrant profanation of dry vanilla bean heralds strange heresies.

Blockula
A shadowed meadow stirs under a shrouded moon: crushed bluebells release their bruised perfume, Arctic starflower and wild flax weave cold sweetness into the air. A thrum of patchouli-darkened red musk pulses heavily in the air, spiced with cardamom pods, cacao, and red oudh.

Brocken
Animalic musk thrums with forbidden heat, while smoke and honeyed sweat braid into an ecstatic frenzy around a crackling bonfire.

Cock’s Crow
The heavens awaken, piercing the darkness with the first rays of sunrise, scattering demons and chattering imps to the wind. The sun’s promise of redemption, the renewal of grace, and absolution for all sins: glowing amber, white bergamot, orange blossom, and petitgrain.

Dark Baptism
The sacred reborn in darkness, a baptism of liberation: defiled holy water and lily of the valley suffused with black musk.

Devil’s Tome
Leather crackling under your touch, ink-smudged vows scrawled on incense-stained parchment, the metallic tang of blood and a whiff of brimstone.

Night Flight
Flowers long dead twine with petals as-yet unfurled – ghost jasmine, pale heliotrope, asphodel, and black violets – swirling in windswept darkness.

Trampled Cross
Dark frankincense, rose smoke, and oud swirling around splinters of cypress, cedar, and pine in an act of transgressive liberation.