Ambergris (scent) oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Glamour: wear a drop at the pulse points or add one to a bath before an event where you want to be noticed and remembered.
• Love drawing: dress a red or pink candle with the oil and burn it on a Friday with your petition beneath the holder.
• Luxury and money: anoint the corners of a wallet or a green candle when the aim is a lavish, comfortable kind of wealth.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Sachet perfume: a few drops on a red flannel love bag keep it fed with a rich, lingering scent.
• Dressing: in conjure, ambergris scents are added to love and attraction formulas for depth and staying power.

A Simple Working

• On a Friday, write your own name on a small square of paper and draw a heart around it.
• Put three drops of ambergris oil on the paper, one at each side of the heart and one in the middle.
• Fold it toward you and place it under a pink chime candle.
• Dress the candle with the oil and light it.
• While it burns, touch a little oil to your throat and wrists and say how you want to be seen.
• Carry the folded paper in your bag for seven days.

Pairs Well With

• A pink chime candle: for gentle attraction and self-love.
• Rose petals: to add romance to glamour work.
• A red flannel bag: to carry a love charm scented with the oil.
• Musk oil: for a deeper, more sensual blend.

What You Receive

Ambergris (scent) oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

Natural ambergris forms in the gut of the sperm whale and ages for years at sea before it drifts ashore. It was prized as a fixative in fine perfume and as a scent for gloves, pomanders and incense across the Islamic world and Europe. This oil is a scent oil that recreates that aroma, as the name states.

For most of history ambergris was found, not made: grey, waxy lumps washed up on beaches, worth more than their weight in gold to perfumers and physicians.

The English word “amber” first meant ambergris, from the Arabic ‘anbar; only later did it pass to the fossil resin. Herman Melville devotes a whole chapter of Moby-Dick to ambergris, marvelling that fine ladies perfume themselves with something taken from a sick whale.