Some of the oldest love charms are not about one named person at all: they ask for the right one, whoever that turns out to be.
Origin & Traditional Use
Perfect Mate is a named condition oil in the hoodoo style, made for open-ended love drawing rather than targeting a specific person. It is traditionally used when you know what you want in a partner but have not yet met them.
Uses by Tradition
Witchcraft & Folk Magick
- Write the qualities you want in a partner on a slip of paper, anoint the four corners and keep it under your pillow.
- Dress a pink candle and burn it on a Friday, the day of Venus.
- Wear a single drop at the throat or wrists before social events.
Hoodoo & Rootwork
- Anoint a red flannel mojo bag holding rose petals, a pair of Adam and Eve roots or a small lodestone.
- Add a few drops to a bath with rose petals and pour the water over your head, letting yourself air dry.
- Dress a pink figure candle that matches your own gender and set a second, undressed one at a distance to stand for the partner yet to come.
A Simple Working
- On a Friday evening, take a pink chime candle and a square of parchment.
- Write a list of the qualities you want in a partner, specific and honest.
- Anoint the corners of the paper and dress the candle with Perfect Mate oil from base to wick, drawing toward you.
- Set the candle on the folded paper and light it.
- Read your list aloud once while the candle burns.
- When it has burned out, keep the paper in your bedside drawer until the working has had time to settle.
Pairs Well With
- Rose petals, the most familiar love herb in every Western folk tradition.
- Adam and Eve root, carried in pairs in hoodoo to draw a true partner.
- Pink candles, for affectionate, gentle love rather than raw desire.
- Lodestone, kept in love bags to pull a partner closer.
- Love Drawing oil, for wider love and friendship work.
Lore & History
Partner-drawing formulas are part of the large hoodoo love category that spiritual-supply catalogues sold from the 1920s and 30s: Come to Me, Love Me, Attraction and their many cousins. Their names were practical and descriptive, so the buyer knew exactly which condition the oil was made for.
What You Receive
Perfect Mate oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.
Did You Know?
In hoodoo, Adam and Eve root is the corm of the puttyroot orchid, Aplectrum hyemale, which grows a new corm each year that stays joined to the old one, so the roots are found in linked pairs.
| Weight | N/A |
|---|---|
| Size | 2 dram, 1 oz, 16 oz |
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