STORA SKUGGAN
HEXENSALBE

Hexensalbe by Stora Skuggan is a Aromatic Spicy fragrance for women and men. Hexensalbe was launched in 2023. The nose behind this fragrance is Anna Barkne. Top notes are Licorice and Wormwood; middle notes are Angelica, Rosemary, Belladonna and Tuberose; base notes are Patchouli, Black hemlock or Tsuga and Oakmoss. Hexensalbe is a dark floral fragrance, rooted in the botanical underworld of witchcraft. Hexensalbe, also known as witches’ flying ointment, was a hallucinogenic salve used in witchcraft in the middle ages. It was a mixture of extremely poisonous ingredients that produced an ecstatic trance with powerful sensations of flying, images of otherworldly creatures and a primal sexual hunger. The ointment was so poisonous that eating it would be directly fatal, instead it was applied to other soft membranes of the body, armpits and more commonly the genitals. Because of the erotic effects of the high, the salve would often be rubbed directly onto a phallic object like the end of a staff or a broomstick. And so the popular image of witches riding on broomsticks has survived into our times, even if they rode them in a rather different sense. There are records from the 1200’s and forward where women have been found naked in a delirious trance, pleasuring themselves with the spicy devil’s dildo.