For Advent
Great Light
Citrus, apple and spice · Pine needle, fir balsam and cedar · Soft musk
Fragrance oil for warmers and diffusers, 1 oz vial of it, undiluted. This is the scent, not the ingredient. It is not edible and it is not for skin.
The fragrance, note by note
Evergreen and spice, the two smells scripture attaches to a sanctuary and to the gifts that arrived at one.
A fragrance has no power of its own. Every one of these came out of the ground, off a tree, out of a flower that was made and called good long before anyone thought to bottle it. What follows is what each note has meant to people, and where scripture happens to touch it. The meaning is the part we chose on purpose.
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Citrus, apple and spice
The spice is the part that matters. When the magi finally reach the house they open their treasures and bring out gold, frankincense and myrrh, and two of those three are fragrance. Not useful gifts. Resin that is burned and resin that is used to anoint, given to a toddler in an ordinary house by men who had come a very long way.
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Pine needle, fir balsam and cedar
The glory of Lebanon will come to you, Isaiah writes, the cypress, the fir and the pine together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary. Evergreens in scripture are shorthand for the thing that stays green when everything else has gone. It is not an accident that this is what people drag indoors in December.
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Soft musk
Barely there, holding the rest together. Isaiah 9 was written to people under occupation seven hundred years before anyone connected it to a birth: the people walking in darkness have seen a great light. The line is about light arriving somewhere it had no business arriving.
OIL AND ASHES
Great Light
Citrus, apple and spice · Pine needle, fir balsam and cedar · Soft musk
(9:1) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.
ISAIAH 9:2
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All four come printed on the card in the package. You are not choosing one here, you get the whole thread. Read it in full.
1 oz vial of undiluted oil, twice the usual half-ounce bottle. Every passage is printed whole on the card, so you can read them with a dead phone and without scanning anything. The bottle carries the name, what it smells of, and the code.
Where this thread starts
(9:1) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.
Isaiah wrote this to people living under occupation, seven hundred years before anyone connected it to a birth. The line is about a light arriving somewhere it had no business arriving.
A full ounce
The house standard for a home fragrance oil is half an ounce, and some sell a third. Ours is a full ounce of undiluted oil, roughly twice what the shelf gives you, at a few dollars more. Nothing here is cut with anything.
- Great Light, 1 oz vial
- $24.00
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- Total today
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Next Verse
This fragrance carries four passages, in order.
All four come printed on the card in the package, so you have the whole thread from the first day. The code on the bottle opens this fragrance's page, and each passage has its own from there, with the chapter it came out of. Reordering sends the same bottle.
- 1 of 4 Isaiah 9:2 Light showing up in the wrong neighbourhood.
- 2 of 4 John 1:5 Darkness tried and could not put it out.
- 3 of 4 Luke 2:10-11 The announcement, made to night-shift workers.
- 4 of 4 Isaiah 7:14 The name means God is with us. That is the whole claim.
The part that matters
Read it every time you pour.
The passage on the card is not decoration and it is not meant to be admired once and then ignored. Stand the card where you keep the warmer and read it while you fill the dish. Out loud, if you are on your own. It takes about four seconds.
That is the whole method, and it is the only part that asks anything of you. The scent is already doing its work without permission: it attaches itself to whatever is in your head while you are smelling it. Give it these words on purpose, the same ones, at the same point in the day, and after a few weeks the smell arrives carrying them. You will not have to remember the verse. It will hand it to you, on the mornings you would never have gone looking.
The first and greatest commandment is to love God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind. Nothing in a bottle helps anybody keep it, and we have said so elsewhere on this site. But a room that smells of something, tied to a sentence you have now read three hundred times, is a small standing reminder of the thing that matters most. That is worth more than the room smelling good, and the room will smell good anyway.
How to use it
The simplest way is a warmer, electric or tea light. Fill the dish about two thirds with water, add five to ten drops, and let it warm. Top the water up before it runs dry.
The same few drops work in an electric or ultrasonic diffuser. Away from heat altogether, it will scent a wooden bead, a scent stone, or a cotton pad left in a drawer, a closet, a car vent or a vacuum bag, anywhere the air moves and nobody is handling it.
There is no ceremony to get right. What builds the association is doing it the same way, at the same point in the day, with the verse in front of you.
The water matters. Never put this oil in a warmer dish on its own. The water holds the dish near boiling and keeps the oil well below the temperature at which its vapour can catch. A dry dish over a flame will pass that point. An electric warmer is the safer of the two.
What is in the bottle, and what it is not for
Undiluted fragrance oil. Nothing else, and nothing watered down. It is sold at full strength because that is what makes it go a long way: a warmer takes five to ten drops at a time, so one vial is months of them.
This is for scenting a room, not for wearing.
Do not put it on skin, do not swallow it, and keep it away from eyes, children and pets. Fragrance is among the most common contact allergens and this is the concentrated form. It can also mark polished wood, painted surfaces and some plastics, so stand a diffuser on something you do not mind. Some of these smell like food. None of them are. This is not a medicine and makes no claim to treat anything.