Frangipani oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Love: dress a pink or white candle with frangipani oil on a Friday for sweet, romantic attraction.
• Glamour: wear a drop in the hair or at the throat, or add it to a bath before an evening out.
• Spirit offerings: the flower’s place at temples and graveyards makes the oil a choice for anointing candles, flowers and incense laid on ancestor or spirit altars.

A Simple Working

• On a Friday evening, set a white chime candle on a plate.
• Dress it with frangipani oil and lay fresh or dried flowers around the base.
• Light the candle and a stick of sweet incense.
• Offer the scent to the spirits or ancestors you honour, speaking to them by name.
• Sit quietly with them until the incense is spent.
• Let the candle burn out, then leave the flowers beneath a tree.

Pairs Well With

• A white chime candle: for offering and spirit work.
• Jasmine oil: another night-scented flower for love and glamour.
• Rose petals: to soften love workings.
• Sandalwood incense: a traditional partner on temple altars.

What You Receive

Frangipani oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

Frangipani, or plumeria, is a small tree native to Central America and the Caribbean, now grown throughout the tropics. Its waxy, five-petalled flowers are used for leis in Hawaii, temple offerings in Bali and India, and garlands at festivals and funerals.

Frangipani is planted around temples in Bali and graveyards across Southeast Asia, and Malay folklore says its scent drifts on the air when a pontianak is near.

The botanical name Plumeria honours Charles Plumier, a seventeenth-century French botanist. The common name is usually traced to the Frangipani family of Rome, linked with a perfume once used to scent gloves. Plumeria is the national flower of Laos, where it is called dok champa.