FREE SHIPPING ~ Of course!

Black Friday is so depressing, all the sales that aren't really sales, the crowds, the parking issues, the rude people. This Black Friday is also MY birthday. So, in celebration of my birthday, and so you can avoid those pesky Black Friday problems, I'm offering free shipping on all orders placed at The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary from midnight Thursday night (early Friday, you get that, right?), until the end of Cyber Monday (midnight Monday night) within the continental United States.

Happy Birthday-Free Shipping-Black Friday!

NEW Jalali Creme Parfum

Jalali Creme Parfum is special -- really special. It's woodsy, resinous, sensual and sexy. It smells really great on us girls, but it's knock down gorgeous on guys.

Listed for sale at The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary.

Full photo rights go to Matt Goleta for this beautiful silhouette of the Varaz Samuelian sculpture of David of Sassoon and his war horse, Jalali, which stands on the courthouse grounds in Fresno, CA.

NEW Patchouli Cilantro Butter Scrub

At The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary ~ patchouli and cilantro and mandarin and coriander blended into organic coconut oil, raw shea butter and a little Ecosoya soy wax, whipped to fluffiness and mixed into organic cane sugar ~ yum! Oh, don't eat it. It's for your skin!

ON SPECIAL!

Green Rooibos Tea and Blueberry Seed Scrub ~ 50% off at The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary.

Another HOLIDAY OFFERING ~ This time it's Chocolate!

The newest member of the butter tribe at The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary is the Spiced Chocolate Jasmine Body Butter ~ yes! Spicy warm cocoa and jasmine sambac blended into a creamy, rich butter ~ there are loads of cocoa absolue and vanilla Bourbon CO2 in this butter, as well as jasmine sambac, nutmeg essential oil, and just a bare hint of cinnamon bark essential oil.

Get it!

HOLIDAY OFFERINGS at The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary!

So, as promised, I added another body butter to The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary ~ this time a little gourmandy number I like to call Vanilla Ginger Decadent Body Butter, and decadent she is! And if that weren't enough to satisfy your lust for all things vanilla, I even made a lush, richly scented vanilla soap! Vanilla Ginger Decadent Handmade Soap that's just loaded with vanilla scent and lathers like mad.

Go see for yourself!

Going, going, totally gone!

The Patchai Ratrani body butter went FAST! Thank you to all of you who ordered this special butter. So, that just means I'm going to put something else up, some other naughty little body butter or creme ~ what say you? How 'bout a little vanilla ginger butter? A spicy chocolate? Mmmm.

NEW Patchai Ratrani Body Butter

Oh, yeah, she's totally like that. Mysterious, sultry, sexy, and bold as all hell.

Patchai Ratrani Body Butter at The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary.

Dry Scrubs

Thus far The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary has offered only dry scrubs, very soon, however, we'll be offering wet scrubs. Two new scrubs will be introduced next week to herald in the holidays, both are on the gourmandy end of things, and both will knock your socks off -- or at the very least cause them to roll up and down a few times. And maybe, if the Djinn's feeling extra ambitious, a little patchouli scrub and body butter will follow the new amber patchouli soap. You know me, if you purchase my wares as a gift for someone else, I'll make it extra special, just like I do for you!

Think gift baskets.

NEW Amber Patchouli Handmade Artisan Soap

This is a beautiful new soap at The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary made with some really exquisite, aged patchoulis, a patchouli CO2, and a bit of warm, spicy Honduran styrax (liquidamber).

Verra nice!

Do Your Skin a Favor

So summer's done with, over, finito! But with the cooler days come a different set of skin problems, particularly the dreaded dryness. Summer is all about cooling and saving sun scorched skin, winter's about hydration, and nothing hydrates quite as nicely as a big glass of purified water -- um -- for drinking, of course, and a spritz of calming frankincense hydrosol now and again. Home distilled in January 2009, The Scented Djinn's lovely and gorgeously aromatic frankincense hydrosol is just the ticket. Do your skin a favor and love it up with hydrosols this winter!

Sapphira Pomegranate & Violets Sugar Scrub

Recent comment left for Sapphira Pomegranate & Violets Sugar Scrub ~ This scrub mixed with honey is the best. I let it sit on my face for a few, and then rinse, hello soft baby skin! Love it!

Sapphira Pomegranate & Violets Sugar Scrub is a dry scrub, that means you can add water, honey (as the customer who left this comment does), hydrosols, milk, whatever you like to make a wet paste and apply to your skin. It also means the scrub won't go bad on you as long as you keep the contents dry.

Raves About The Scented Djinn's "Strange and Unusual Bolivian Rose Salt and Moroccan Clay Soap"

From Becca M. ~ I've been using antibiotics and other acne medication for years to keep my chronic acne in check, but since I started using this weird soap (that's the Strange and Unusual Bolivian Rose . . . Soap) I haven't had to use any of my creams, and I let my antibiotic prescription run out! I don't need them anymore. Don't ever stop making this incredible soap!

Little Sister ~ My sis got a big bar of this and cut off a piece for me. She said it would help with my acne, and it really has!

Anonymous ~ What is this stuff? It's like magic!


From the Djinn: I'm not sure what that last comment means, but . . . whatever, I'll take it!

NEW Stuff! New Stuff! New Stuff! At Etsy

Gobs, loads, heaps of soaps are on The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary these days. No pictures, though, which really doesn't help matters. Still without a home computer set up and using computers here and there. Which isn't a bad thing since I'm getting so much done -- soaps, for one!

So, the new handmade soaps that are up on Etsy are:

Lemongrass Tuxedo
Creamy Lemongrass
Woods and Moss and Tea
Lavender Clary Sage
Frankincense & Myrrh (put four up last week and they disappeared almost instantly!)
and last, but not least,
Poppymint!

But also, -- also there are some melt and pour soaps, little delicious delicacies that can't withstand the heat and chemical forces of cold processed soap ~

Eau de Violettes
Eau de Jasmine (grandiflorum)
and
Sunny Saffron

See 'em here!

NEW Green Rooibos & Blueberry Seed Scrub

No pictures this time.

New scrub is up on Etsy, a lovely green rooibos tea from South Africa blended with that delicious looking purple forbidden rice and these precious little blueberry seeds I discovered.

Go check it out, eh?

NEW Orange Blossom Everlasting Mango & Olive Perfume Butter Balm

Wow! That's a mouth full, isn't it? But oh, so good! Go check it out at The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary.

A Little About The Scented Djinn's Hydrosols

I wasn't sure if anybody was aware, though I've put it in print on several venues, that I make the hydrosols I sell. Sometimes they're the goal of a distillation, sometimes they're the happily accepted consequence of an attempt at obtaining essential oils, either way, the hydros are just gorgeous. Especially the frankincense boswellia carterii. One very important thing I've learned making hydrosols, is that they need to age, just like an essential oil needs a few weeks of settling time after distillation to rid itself of those nasty still notes, so do hydros. The frankincense was ok, very bright and lemony with high resinous tones ~ today, it's just unbelievably spectacular. If you were to sniff it from the bottle with your eyes closed, you wouldn't be able to tell it apart from an open bottle of pure frankincense essential oil, it's that strong and deep and delicious. So if you like frankincense and you like supporting small indy business like The Scented Djinn and you love using fabulous natural skin care, I recommend you get yourself a bottle of at least the frankincense hydrosol -- for your skin.

NEW Harem Skincare, Mahidevran Skin Care Kit

Yes, once again, a new kit. This time it's Mahidevran, a beautifully alluring and strangely sea-like scent (in the soap, anyway), something -- something quite special.

NEW Patchouli Everlasting Soy Candle

Words fail, yeah. The scent is deep, deep, deep ~ floral, rosy, earthy, herbal. It expands and breathes like a living thing.

Go check it out at The Scented Djinn Etsy Apothecary.

NEW Hurrem Anointing Oil

Hurrem Anointing Oil lies somewhere between an elixir and a perfume oil ~ not really meant for use on the face, but can be used to moisturize the neck and decollete, and really nicely scented so that it can be used as a light perfume.

Anoint the skin behind your ears, at your wrists, the inside of your elbow, the backs of your knees. This is a beautifully scented nuzzling oil made in organic jojoba, virgin olive and virgin organic coconut oils, and scented lemon, pink pepper, cilantro, ho wood, palmarosa, geranium, petitgrain, oakmoss, mountain misery, Himalayan cedarwood, muhuhu, ambrette and patchouli.

10 ml corked bottle