Blonde — August 2026 Edition
A suave, oiled amber built from materials that have taken years to arrive here.
The August 2026 edition of Blonde draws especially deeply from Wild Veil's in-house aromatic archive: botanical extracts made slowly by hand from materials I grow, gather, tincture, age, and transform myself. These are not standardized ingredients that can simply be reordered when they are gone. Their character belongs to a particular harvest, extraction, and moment in time.
Blonde opens in a streak of suave lime and blonde tobacco—bright citrus oil slipping almost immediately into cured leaf. Beneath it is jasmine: narcotic but polished, pressed into the composition rather than floating above it. Frankincense gives the opening its cool mineral lift before the perfume begins to darken.
Then the amber emerges.
My own aged and handmade extracts give this edition an unusually textured interior: ambrette's vegetal musk, vanilla's dark cream, sweet myrrh's resinous warmth, tobacco, woods, and botanical material that has had time to change inside the menstruum. Rather than the smooth anonymity of a conventional amber accord, the base feels inhabited—leathery, resinous, faintly smoky, and alive with the irregularities of natural materials.
There is something almost architectural about it: a candlelit study wrapped in warm wood and leather; jasmine pressed between the pages of old books; vanilla pipe smoke lingering in cloth; sticky myrrh emerging through fissures in cool limestone.
But Blonde never becomes heavy.
Lime continues to glimmer through the darker materials. Ambrette gives the amber skin. Jasmine gives it breath. Frankincense opens small chambers of air inside the resins. What begins golden and suave becomes progressively more intimate: powder, tobacco, warm skin, old wood, vanilla, musk, and resin.
This particular edition is difficult to repeat because some of its character comes from Wild Veil's finite in-house extracts and aged botanical materials. When one of those extractions is exhausted, its exact aromatic fingerprint disappears with it. A future Blonde can remain Blonde—but it cannot necessarily be this Blonde.
August 2026 is its own vintage.
For any gender. Vegan.
Notes: suave lime · blonde tobacco · jasmine · frankincense · ambrette · vanilla · sweet myrrh · leather · woods · botanical musk · amber
Blonde ☽•☾ natural perfume
a l c h e m y ☽•☾
Suave, oiled, and intense vintage-styled amber that doesn't quite stay within the constraints of the genre. Frankincense breathes over a stacked opening of salty lime, blonde tobacco, and musk. Tart citrus decorates a velvet interior of leather-bound books, pressed jasmine, and vanilla pipe smoke. A candlelit study wrapped in warm wonder. Blonde moves its amber mystery over cool limestone with sticky myrrh oozing up between the cracks. For any gender. Vegan. Color may vary.
Suggested fixatives: Amber, Animalic, Botanical Musk, Dry, Earthy, Hay, Leather, Meadow, Powdery, Spicy, Tea, Tobacco, Woods, Woolen. Wild Veil's natural perfume fixatives act as primers for the skin. Applied prior to perfumes, they can extend the longevity of your fragrance.
Amber fixative contains classically amber base notes from my handmade resinoids that I extracted from raw, wild resins using organic high proof alcohol. It is warm, powdery, and slightly boozy. Resinous with caramel undertones.
Animalic fixative features stunningly intense musk base notes. If you are looking to enhance the tenacity of your natural perfumes, and to fix volatile florals and top notes, this is a fixative worth investing in. Luxurious and powerful, its sleek fur coat undresses to warm amber powder underneath.
Botanical Musk fixative contains musky base notes. It is slightly dry and earthy, with intimate notes of skin, hair, and smoky roots.
Dry fixative possesses dry base notes. It crackles with a warm, subtly smoky aroma, and smooth resins layered over a gently bracing botanical musk.
Earthy fixative contains earthy base notes. It is green and smoky, with the comforting aroma of wet musk from the depths of the earth.
Hay fixative conjures the scents of sun-dried bales of hay, as well as warm, dry straw stored in a barn.
Leather fixative contains leather base notes. Its smoky, sharp edges give way to a deep underlying warmth. Slightly furry, with notes of wood and musk.
Meadow fixative evokes yellow fields of prairie grass, wildflowers, drying husks still attached to the earth, and the sun in late August.
Powdery fixative contains powdery base notes. With notes of tonka, sweet myrrh, balsam, and ambrette musk, it tends toward dry and warm and will complement fragrances across a wide variety of scent families.
Spicy fixative contains spicy base notes from my handmade spice tinctures and absolutes: tulsi, ginger root, clove buds, true cinnamon, star anise, aniseed, and cardamom whole and hulled. Green herbs laced with anise, earth, and brown amber.
Tea fixative blends warm, malted, fermented yellow-orange-amber teas with notes of honey, cocoa, dark woods, savory earth, caramel, and Brazil nuts. This fixative includes my tinctured absolutes of Assam Marangi, fermented Mannong Pu-erh, yellow dragon, Oolong Eastern Beauty, and roasted Oolong. This is a mellow fixative that will work well beneath just about any type of fragrance.
Tobacco fixative features my organic handmade absolutes of organic cured leaf: American Virginia Flue, Burley, and Canadian Virginia Flue. I also infused the raw beeswax and propolis (used in the base) with my aged tabacum tinctures to deepen the husky warm qualities of the composition. Sweet, amber, blackberry and mulberry notes with the anticipation of hand rolled smoke. Depending on the season and availability, it may include extractions of my homegrown nicotiana leaves and flowers.
Woods fixative contains classically woody base notes. Dry and warm, white cedar mingles with lactonic, creamy Mysore sandalwood. Simple but exquisite.
Woolen fixative features funky sheep, meadow, and pasture notes from my handmade raw wool absolutes. These I concentrated by cold evaporation method from three types of unwashed sheep fleece that I had tinctured in high proof organic grain alcohol: Romeldale, Icelandic, and Churro. The unwashed Romeldale fleece is unbelievably soft. Romeldale-California Variegated Mutuant is an endangered breed of American sheep that produces high lanolin, very fine, multicolored wool. The resulting absolute has a creamy spring field and pasture scent. It’s sweet and reminds me of candlelight. The unwashed wool from a black Icelandic wether is funky and animalic. It is by far the oiliest and fattiest smelling of the three fleeces. Even with the barnyard leather overtones, it is warm and inviting. From another rare breed, the Navajo Churro wool has alfalfa notes amidst a southwestern desert profile. It's as if the heavy aroma of lanolin has been lightly dusted with sand and sage, and baked by the Arizona sun.
Photos: my enfleurage of Nicotiana alata flowers (jasmine tobacco) and my garden of fragrant tobacco grown from open pollinated seeds: wild Argentina tobacco (N. sylvestris), wild Australian tobacco (N. suaveolens), and heirloom jasmine tobacco (N. alata). My homemade tobacco absolutes (N. sylvestris, alata, and suaveolens), blonde frankincense tears, and dark myrrh; solid perfume in 5ml and 10ml black violet glass jars, and liquid perfume in 5ml and 10ml black violet glass roller ball bottles.
s i z i n g ☽•☾
Liquid perfumes are available in sizes of 1ml (a sample of approximately 20-25 drops), 5ml, and 10ml. All liquid perfumes are packaged in glass vials or glass bottles. 1ml comes in a sample glass perfume vial with an applicator cap. PLEASE READ: 1ML IS A SAMPLE. 5ml and 10ml sizes come in a brown amber glass bottle with orifice reducer. 10ml is also available in a frosted glass roller bottle.
Solid perfumes are available in sizes of 1ml (a sample of approximately 20-25 drops), 5ml and 10ml. 1ml (sample size) comes in a hinge top pod. 5ml comes in a glass jar. 10ml is available in a glass jar or a round tin.
Please make your selection from the menu.
r a w ☽•☾ m a t t e r
Wild Veil natural perfumes are composed by me, Abby, using homemade, wildcrafted and organic aromatics in Vermont. These include my handmade enfleurage, tinctures, enfleurage extraits, absolutes, resinoids and concretes, and floral waxes. I spend as much time growing plants and foraging as I do composing perfumes.
l i q u i d ☽•☾
Wild Veil oil perfumes are suspended in an odorless base of organic MCT coconut oil. As they do not contain water, liquid perfumes do not expire, and may improve with age. While the volatile top notes (the ones that hit your nose first) will fade after a year or more, the base and heart notes will deepen and grow more complex.
s o l i d ☽•☾ b e e s w a x
In solid perfumes this silky transparent base (above) mingles beautifully with the earthy, honey musk of organic beeswax. Raw beeswax traps the aroma molecules, releasing them over time for an intimate experience.
h o w ☽•☾ t o ☽•☾ w e a r
The best way to experience a natural perfume is to apply it to well-moisturized skin, without rubbing in (absorption only shortens the wear time of fragrance) and without scrubbing off. Natural perfumes are dynamic and take a minimum of 2 hours to reach their final stage, or dry down. Enjoy the alchemical changes as they unfold from the initial intensity of top notes, to the warmth of the heart, to the depth of lower base notes.
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