Alpine Strawberry
Summer Simplicity 2010 note. No description available.

Apricot
Summer Simplicity 2010 note. No description available.

Bamboo
Summer Simplicity 2010 note. No description available.

Clary Sage
Summer Simplicity 2010 note. No description available.

Grass
Summer Simplicity 2010 note. No description available.

Tomato Leaf
Summer Simplicity 2010 note. No description available.

Watermelon
Summer Simplicity 2010 note. No description available.

White Peach
Summer Simplicity 2010 note. No description available.

Algue
(Algae)
A dreamy and wavy bed of oceanic greenery, carried by waves and current, laid to rest on the beach’s shore. A liquid salad of a multitude of soft and crisp greens.

Anemone
(Sea anemone)
A multitude of waving fingers, petals and threads in a dappled array of resplendent color. Quince, jasmine, helichrysum, and a tiny drop of patchouli to anchor.

Beluga
(Beluga whale)
Radiant, white, playful giant. Dogwood, sandalwood musk, white amber, coconut milk, and mint tisane.

Crevette
(Shrimp)
Ferociously busy and spindly! Lemon verbena, parsley, cotton threading, rose geranium, honeysuckle, and sweetened milk.

Hippocampe
(Seahorse)
Fragile, peculiar and ethereally charming. Sweet little nectarines, white tea, michelia alba, fresh ginger and a touch of mint geranium.

Meduse
(Jellyfish)
Lethal and alluring, the mesmerizing jellyfish dances in its otherworldly beauty. Tahitian gardenia, banana, blood orange, and kunzea.

Murene
(Eel)
The sign on the coral read, "Veuillez ne pas deranger!" Eels are famously cranky, you know. Stony and copper amber, West Indies bay, white peach, myrrh, spiced yellow mandarin and saffron.

Nacre
(Mother of pearl)
Pearlescent, silvery, hard, smooth, and languid. Sea spray, pale prchid, green tea, rose otto and peach blossom.

Naissance
(Birth)
Some say the birth of life began in the ocean and we crawled from the sea. An emergent blend of silky talc, red cassis, coconut cream, neroli, and rose de mai.

Noyer
(To drown)
Fatally numbing and soporific. Vanilla musk, rose geranium, lavender maillette, sugared strawberries and a pinch of valerian.

Oursin
(Sea urchin)
Spiky, little, and sometimes black, a choice finding to the tidal pool explorer! Black tea, black coconut, black lilac and black rice milk.

Poisson-globe
(Puffer fish)
Oddly adorable is this rotund, poisonous fishy! Cream, blackberry soda, baobab, ginger lily, watermelon and basil.

Poulpe
(Octopus)
Grand, magnificent, and wise beast of the sea. Velvety sandalwood, cotton blossom, seamoss, sea buckthorn berry and oakmoss.

Sirene
(Mermaid)
Pretty and topless, fish-tailed maidens. Bamboo(b!), blueberry, hazy musk, valerian and Clementine.

Vague
(Wave)
Deep blue, black, green, frothy white, aquamarine. A colorful and liquid blend of tea blossom, agave, kiwi, white cognac and Japanese mint.

~Other Limited Editions~

Bookish
Special Event Limited Edition perfume oil.
Created for the 2010 International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts held in Orlando, Florida, Bookish is a spiced black tea with soft wood notes.

Café Oblique
Mon dieu! The competition across the boulevard from Café Zazou! And they put liquor in their coffee! Quel horreur! Non mais! C’est incroyable! Imported Jamaican coffee beans, Madagascar vanilla, chai teas, Irish cream whiskey, frothy milk, chocolate syrup, Antilles spiced rum, and imported American oatmeal cream cookies for dunking. Ouais enfin, Café Zazou thinks this place is an atrocity!

Good Gyne
No woman looks forward to the day she has any problems, health scares or diseases with her girlie bits and, yet, there are many, many issues that affect our lower parts all throughout our lives! In fact, it’s probably harder to find someone who has had no problems that someone who has! This scent was created to celebrate and honor our vagina, cervix, uterus, ovaries and all the other parts in between! My husband and I have created an expression and that is “good gyne.” Whenever I come back from a visit with the Ob/Gyn, he will always ask, “So, do you have good gyne?” I wish good gyne for all of us! I have formulated Good Gyne with ingredients that have been associated with women’s health one way or another. That said, this oil is not meant to be ingested or applied to your lady parts! Good Gyne has a soft base of vanillaed baby powder with  rose absolute, pink lotus, clary sage, Egyptian geranium, jasmine sambac absolute, baby tea leaf, watermelon, and chamomile.

Lumme
Lumme in Finnish means “water lily.” This scent is a soft, ethereal, aquatic blend of white amber, white tea, Bulgarian rose absolute, pink lotus absolute, benzoin, pink grapefruit, palma rosa and has a gentle touch of bergamot mint and lavender. This scent was especially created for Tiina. SOLD OUT.

Bucephalus
Bucephalus was Alexander the Great’s furious war stallion who carried him in many a battle. He has been preserved in memory having been portrayed in numerous paintings and sculptures. It is believed he died in 326B.C.E. during Alexander’s last battle and was buried in the currently known town of Jhelem, Parkistan, which Alexander had formerly named Bucephala in honor of his formidable mount. This scent is a regal blend of red Egyptian musk, cedar, labdanum, Dominican bay, iron-distilled patchouli, vetiver and ho wood. It was created to imitate the glossy, sleek coat of the dark stallion. SOLD OUT.

Filly
Young, adorable, spindly-legged and utterly rambunctious! White tea, ginger, pink grapefruit, red Egyptian musk, sweet orange, watermelon, amyris, chamomile, tagette flower, and sweet davana.

Kelpie
Kelpies are mythical Scottish water ponies. They are believed to wander around lochs and rivers and lure people to them with their sad, wet state and on to their back. The pony then drags his or her victim to their drowning death deep below the water’s surface. Soft, milky black tea darkened with dry cocoa and aged patchouli.

Merrylegs
Merrylegs is the kind, sweet pony in the novel Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. This is an equally jaunty, fun scent of fluffy marshmallow, blackberries, blueberries, figs, angel food cake, raspberries, peaches and vanilla musk.

Pegasus
The great white, winged stallion who lives among the gods at Mount Olympus and gallops across the night sky among the stars. His scent is pristine, windy and wild. Aloe, cucumber, bergamot tea leaves, white amber, Roman chamomile, champaca, blue musk, linden blossom, and the whoosh of white feathers in the air.

Academic Absolute
This is Blooddrop’s first gentleman’s fragrance. It has been named in honor of my scholarly male friends, regardless of their field of study. It is a handsome, elegant scent with a blend of classic ingredients: amber, vetiver and lavender.
 
Wood & Stones
Requested by a good friend, this gentleman’s fragrance is inspired by the scent of the forest. Wood, stone, earth and cool shaded air. Two mosses, vetiver, spruce, wild rosewood, cedar wood and a good handful of rich loam.

At Denny’s After Rocky
The usual food trip after the RHPS brings a group of all sorts: some Goths, some SCA-ers and Gamers, the really odd old guy who still might live in his mom’s basement and that really hot guy you’re too shy to talk to. The selection of meals ordered was just as bizarre as the people, but one favorite was blueberry pancakes with blueberry syrup and maple syrup!

Bisou
Crème de Cassis, crème brulèe, vanilla bean and brown sugar. This is a bit hard to resist.

Bûche de Noël
A traditional French desert for le Reveillon de Noel. Insanely decadent and delicious! Hazelnuts, Grand Marnier, genoise, vanille and chocolat. This scent is currently unavailable and will return in Autumn 10/Winter11.

Bonne Nuit
A soft gentle bedtime scent. Powdered blossoms, spun sugar, lavender and a kiss of vanilla.

Broomstick
Sweet summer apricots, crisp early fall red apples, moist spice cake, clove and brown sugar. Just some of the things any good witch will have in her pantry!

Café Zazou
Incredible dark and smooth French roast coffee with whole milk and two sugar cubes, a piece of dark chocolate and a petit gateau sec au marrons. Café Zazou is the perfect response for a little afternoon rest in between visiting Montmartre and Le Centre Pompidou.

Citrouille
Pumpkin, complementing spices, creams and fresh autumn apple.

Dandelion Wine
A twinkling path to rolling in the grass and intoxicated delight!

Diabolique
A wicked little core glossed over with a misleading bat of the eyelashes. A blend of richly spiced woods and ambers, red musk, vanilla musk, cinnamon leaf, dark patchouli, ginger, vetiver, honey galore, allspice, myrrh, almond and golden herbs.

Delicieuse
Thick and sultry honey and vanilla with a sassy kiss of peppermint.

Devonshire Cottage
A quaint stone farm house with a view of the wild ponies. A bountiful bouquet of herbs from the garden, creeping ivy, and a gentle base of clotted cream, sugar and condensed milk.

Dollhouse
Eeerily dainty and charming. There is oddity in rendering the life-like so small. Bush-plucked raspberries, vanilla oleoresin, pink grapefruit, calendula, bergamot, palma rosa, and gurjum balsam.
 
Eiffel Tower
Amber, fig, peach, caramel and oak moss blended to create a very chic, glamorous and elegant scent preferably while wearing heels.

The Emerald Dragonfly of Whisperting’s Bridge
It is said that if you spend time on Whisperting’s Bridge with a tired and heavy heart, you may see a giant emerald dragonfly darting and hovering over the lily pads and among the cattails. Call to it and it will come to you; to grant you one wish that is honest and true to mend your broken heart. Egyptian musk, green tea, honeysuckle, king mandarin, and litsea cubeba.

Frida
Red wines sweetened with fruits and a branch of mimosa to tuck behind your ear.

I had a Pony
Fresh and crisp apples, carrots, sweet feed and a flake of hay.

If Wishes Were Horses
For every girl whomever dreamt of having her own horse and whether or not the wish came true.  A blend of pears, linden blossom, tonka bean, bergamot, lime zest and a soft mane.

Josephine
My little tribute to the fabulous Josephine Baker and her banana skirt. bananas, French vanilla (mais oui!), giant yellow sunflowers and exotic spice.

Killing Time in Taipei
Not quite cold enough, but better than nothing iced tea with a plate of strange, other-worldy fruit.

Les Madeleines
Really, these should be France’s national “goûter” cake. Madeleines are little vanilla cakes infused with orange blossom water. They are baked in a special pan that forms them in the shape of little shells. My husband fell in love with them when I took him to visit my family in Brittany.

L’Shana Tova
May you have a sweet new year! Apples and honey.

Luna Moth
Giant, nighttime butterfly in all her iridescent and ethereal beauty against a full moon’s glow. Luminescent whites and the palest green shimmer. Bamboo, lettuce, a white trio of tea, ginger and musk plus a sliver of lime.

Medusa
Green, deadly and beautiful. White tea stained green with sea moss, black patchouli, benzoin, pink lotus, labdanum, amyris, vanilla oleoresin, palma rosa, German chamomile, amber and a wind blown black voile gown.

Melancholia
This is the scent of sadness driving you to incalculable amounts of chocolate and alcohol.  Blackest of the blackberry liquors, darkest of the chocolate absolutes, creamiest and booziest of the chocolate cakey, lady fingery deserts,  and a tiny touch of iron-distilled patchouli for the sake of the woe-filled heart.

Mourning Dove
Gentle, grey feathers nestling and cooing. Sweetened cream, vanilla musk, rice milk, broom absolute, spring's grass, and a nook in an aged, maple tree.

Pumpkin
Did anyone ever called you ‘punkin’ or ‘pumpkinhead’ as a term of endearment? My mom did! In many ways I think that could not but help set me up towards my love of Halloween. Pumpkin is an absolute sticky, sugary Halloween delight! Osceney generous spoonfuls of marshmallow, sweet candied orange peel, buttercream frosted cupcakes, maple sugar candies and a pair of sticky hands holding a little bouquet of chrysanthemums and applewood branches.

Ruffles, Bustles & Corsets
A gathering of ladies for an afternoon tea. White orchids, sprigs of lavender and petite vanilla butter cream frosted lemon pastries.

Soleil
A light, fresh sunshine scent with peach blossom, tangerine and sunflower.

Star Light, Star Bright
A bouquet of white scents. Milk, cala lily, noix de coco, chamomile flowers and white angel food cupcakes.

Sultrylicious
This is one sweet, sexy, heavy scent! Black coconut, passion fruit, rice cream and patchouli.

Unlikely
Moonflower, cucumber, lily asiatique, fig and wisteria. Gentle and fresh.

White Pumpkin
The ghostly vegetable in your garden! Pumpkin with white tea and coconut.

Yellow Kimono
Bright and fresh. Tea, yuzu, pink grapefruit, lemon and a wee bit of pineapple.

The Zodiac Club
I absolutely loved the Zodiac Club in the movie “Bell, Book and Candle.” My husband and I said if we ever opened up our own club, that’s what it would be called. So in honor of the bar we probably won’t ever open, I’ve created this scent. A melange of the esoteric and bohemian: ginger, peppercorn, a backdrop of smoke and sweetened clove cigarettes.




Dixie Elouise Adelaide Deschamps’
Perfectly Legal and Innocuous Kissing Cake
Miss Deschamps was always a bit of a sassy girl. She’d hang upside down on the monkey bars so that her shirt would fall a little on its own revealing a young girl’s blossoming chest or shirts a bit too racy for school. But she was a kind heart and good to her momma and poppa even though they got tired pretty quick with her little romantic antics with the boys and with the phone calls from school and even with the occasional call from the sheriff. When Dixie wasn’t getting in to trouble, she’d spend some of her time in the kitchen making some mean baked goods. And there was also the other things she’d do upstairs in her room with a candle and some herbs she’d gathered from the next door farmer’s field. But, to be honest, no one knew about those things. A few years ago, Dixie baked a particularly delicious cake for the county fair which stirred a bit of a ruckus. Anyone who ate even the smallest bite of the cake later felt flushed, woozy and a-bit-more-than-usual amoureux. You can better believe she swore all up, down and to the left and right that there was absolutely nothing unusual about her cake. It was made with old fashioned love and local ingredients, yessirree! But, again, there could have been a little something said over the oven when she was baking it and maybe a little something said over the pan before putting it in the oven and maybe a little something rubbed on the pan before pouring the cake batter in it. Of course, she would have never done anything harmful to the townsfolk. Only maybe a little something to loosen up their tight belts. And just because her initials were D-E-A-D, well, that didn’t mean anything. Some of the finest, ripest strawberries, the fluffiest and sweetest angel cake, the creamiest butter cream frosting and some davana to make the experience unique.


Empress Ming Li Zho’s Sparkling Infusion for Happy Brightness
In a former life as a Zen monk some good 528 years ago or more, I lived in a very, very small region of China. It was a very lush and peaceful place that had a very, very dainty Empress to govern the land, which as I mentioned was very, very small and did not extend beyond the two mountains that cradled the valley of the region. Empress Ming Li Zho was an only child and her parents passed away when she was very young. Although she was raised by kind hearted people of the court, Empress Ming Li Zho missed her parents dearly and named a pair of red pandas after them. As she grew up, but not very much since she was very, very dainty and hence quite petite in size, she paid particular attention to other children who had also lost their parents (or other beloved things) and were having a difficult time smiling or knowing joy. She inquired with some local healers who sent her to the nearly coo-coo old man who did not live in a cave, but in a hole in the ground, who then sent her to talk to the yellow birds in the blue trees who, in turn, chirped a little song about happiness. The Empress translated a recipe from this song. It was the Sparkling Infusion for Happy Brightness. She shared it freely with all and sometimes used it herself on days when she felt she could use a little cheering up: a blend of two gingers, a few pressed leaves of mint and a very, very small piece of crushed lemongrass.

Frau Von Schtinklestein’s Partially Completed Barvarian Love Essence
Yes, it is true that Frau Von Schtinklestein never finished completing this recipe due to her unexpected passing with a bout of scurvy that her husband brought home with him after his long trip on the cold dark Arctic waters searching for the elusive Long-Haired Snowy Whale. In fact, she was creating this Love Essence as a means to keep him closer to home, instead of on the high seas that would hold on to him and his ship for months, sometimes years, at a time. While she did very much enjoy having the stone manor for herself, she found she would also be fraught with anxiety on odd numbered days with no one to tell her jokes to. Her three Guernsey cows never said much, but to chew their cud and the daisies in the garden. A young niece came across Mrs. Von Schtinklestein’s notes and decided to make this oil available anyway. Even if it worked halfway, it was better than not at all! A dessert lovingly made for two: pears poached in vanilla and then caramelized in brown sugar.

Madame Pompidou’s Elixir Secret pour les Maladies et Crises du Coeur
Passed on to me by my great, great grandmother whom I have never met, Madame Soupiron, this recipe was perfected by the grand Madame Pompidou in 1762. Although believed by the world and French men to be only available to very high class French ladies, in fact all French women have been using this not so secret (to French women, that is) elixir for ages, even prior to the perfected formulation by Mme. Pompidou. This oil is used for any sort of woes of the heart or spirit such as results from tripping in public places, bouchers who sell you the wrong cut of meat, mail that is damaged by the mice in your courier box, any day that ends by being qualifiably described as en merdant, being jilted by a so-called friend or lover or simply getting a hole in one’s stockings or breaking the laces in your corset. Chocolate, mousse au chocolat, various friandises au chocolat and any singular or mix of cordials or liquers remaining in the cabinet in the pantry that you have not already finished off. This fabuleux cure-all will brush all your malaises and crises away!