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HOLUS-BOLUS
Everything Everywhere
All At Once
No.85 Bacchanalia (Dionysia)
Top notes of absinthe set the mood for this salon of art and design in fragrance form.
Imagine an unctuous, herbaceous feast doused in the seductive scent of a well spent long evening. A nod to the golden age of the Paris Salon where you might overhear Claude Cahun admonishing Gertrude Stein for paying too much attention to Picasso.
Made as a limited edition scent activation for VIP offsite exhibition Hōlus-Bōlus at The Second as a part of Sydney Contemporary curated by Cassandra Bird & Emma Elizabeth.
MUCH ADO ABOUT MULBERRY
Here we go around the mulberry bush
No.33 Morus Alba (White Mulberry Leaf)
The mother plant of the world's most revered fabric, silk, also bears unctuously fragrant leaves which we have distilled and captured in essence for your burning pleasure. When paired with the natural fragrance of our beeswax blend, this aroma is early summer daydreams and youth-sprung nostalgia, giving sun kissed optimism and scintillating possibilities.
ACCESSORISE ON THE PRIZE
Snuff & Elevate
A little ceremony for the art of candle burning.
Our elegant brass candle snuffer features a slender, curved handle finished with a black silk grosgrain bow and signature bee charm. A handsome way to extinguish a flame without disturbing the molten wax.
Paired with a polished quartz coaster, each piece brings a considered touch to the candle-burning ritual. The natural stone protects surfaces from heat while providing an elegant resting place for your favourite fragrance.
ETERNAL SPRING
Make it season of the
rose all year round
No.21 Rosa Gallica (French Rose)
The oldest variety of hybrid rose in the world, Rosa Gallica’s sweet & bold aroma is captured here with full bright petals & a savoury finish.A decadent combination of masculine & feminine appeal, this is a perfume of sensuality & delight that’s truly modern. Not your grandmother’s rose.
ORIGIN STORY
Come down for air
No.27 Lutruwita (Tasmania)
Experience an aroma of pristine cool climate rainforest with scents at once familiar and yet entirely unique. The distinctive endemic species of Tasmania’s myrtle beech, sassafras and leatherwood beneath a canopy of towering King Billy, celery top & Huon Pines are captured in this candle.
What’s burning…?
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Superior fragrances
We source our fragrances from the parfum capital of the world Grasse in France as well as Australia’s best botanicals.
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Made in Tasmania
Crafted by hand & designed in Lutruwita/Tasmania in limited seasonal batches. Each one is inspected for quality and wax sealed by the maker for luxury assurance.
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Why beeswax?
100% natural, beeswax burns cleaner and longer while releasing negative ions. Beeswax absolute adds a rich note of warm green hay and sweet pollen to all our signature scents.
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Burn, baby burn
Our standard-sized candles burn for over 80+ hours owing to the beeswax in our recipe, giving a longer lifespan.
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100% natural wax blend
35% beeswax blended with 100% natural soy wax and contains 0% palm oil 0% paraffin 0% parabens & 0% phthlatates.
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Eco to the core
Our packaging is sheets of stunning 19th century typography in the form of newspapers and journals from the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
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Tasmanian beeswax
Tasmanian Honey Company’s wild and restorative leatherwood honey is ethically harvested from beehives housed across the most pristine areas of Tasmania.
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Italian recycled glass
Each candle is housed in an Italian-made, glass vessel made from recycling old wine bottles then casting them or hand-blowing them using traditional methods.
Explore by notes
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Our delicate Spring fragrances are made using a traditional method close to the ancient art of enfleurage: fragile flowers are pressed into balms at the peak of their ripeness and warmed to gently extract their pure essences without bruising the petals. These form a pomade that is then processed into the oils used for making World’s End Obscura’s signature fragrances.
Explore Floral Arom…
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Wood based aromas such as sandalwood and cedars are extracted using ancient steam distillation methods. For thousands of years the heart of woods has been used for ceremonial and medicinal purposes through natural alchemies.
Explore Woody Aromas…
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Foliage based fragrances are formulated using distillation methods. Leaves are collected and slightly crushed before being placed in a bath of ambient water and brought to boil. Oils rise to the surface and form a pure liquid thich is then funnelled into the form we use to add them to our candles.