Cleopatra oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Wear as a perfume oil on the pulse points and throat before a date.
• Anoint red candles around the bedroom for a night of passion.
• Dress a mirror for glamour work before going out.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Dress a red figure candle for a lover whose desire you want to stir.
• Anoint a red flannel mojo bag with damiana and rose petals.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint a Venus talisman for seduction and beauty in the hour of Venus.

A Simple Working

• On a Friday evening, stand before a mirror with a red candle beside you.
• Dress the candle with Cleopatra oil from base to wick and light it.
• Anoint your throat, wrists and the hollow of your collarbone.
• Look into the mirror and speak the qualities of allure you want others to see.
• Anoint the corners of the mirror with a dab of oil.
• Go out wearing the scent, and let the candle burn safely while you are near.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals, for love.
• Damiana, for desire.
• A red candle, for passion.
• A small mirror, for glamour work.
• Frankincense and myrrh, the scents of Egyptian temples.

What You Receive

Cleopatra oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

Cleopatra oil is a love and seduction formula named for Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, famous for her intelligence, her charm and the two Roman generals she won to her side. It is worked for passion, glamour and the kind of allure that holds a powerful lover.

When Cleopatra sailed to meet Mark Antony, her barge was said to be so perfumed that the scent drifted to the crowds on the riverbanks.

Plutarch described Cleopatra arriving at Tarsus on a barge with a gilded stern and purple sails, while the scent of incense drifted to the riverbanks, and Shakespeare later wrote that the sails were “so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them”. Ancient writers also credited her with a book on cosmetics, now lost.