Stora Skuggan Hexensalbe Eau de Parfum

Hexensalbe, also called witches’ flying ointment, was a hallucinogenic, highly poisonous salve used in medieval witchcraft. Rather than being eaten (which was deadly), it was applied to sensitive body parts—often the genitals or on the end of a staff or broomstick—producing powerful visions of flying, wild ecstasy, and encounters with otherworldly beings. This practice gave rise to the myth of witches flying to sabbaths on broomsticks. The enduring image of a witch astride a broom is rooted in these trances, while the suppressed truth of female sexuality and ecstasy reveals what society found even more frightening than devils or magic.

“In rifleing the closet of the ladie, they found a pipe of oyntement, wherewith she greased a staffe, upon which she ambled and galloped through thick and thin, when and in what manner she listed”

– Proceedings Against Dame Alice Kyteler, Prosecuted for Sorcery, 1324

Notes: wormwood, tuberose, rosemary, black hemlock, lichen, salty liqourice, angelica, belladonna, patchouli.

Stora Skuggan is a Stockholm, Sweden–based perfume studio creating concept-driven niche fragrances that blur the line between olfactory art and storytelling.

Founded in 2015 by a collective of creatives who describe themselves as “a nose in unison,” the brand composes, produces, and packages all its unisex perfumes by hand in its own studio, maintaining full control over every detail from formula to artwork. Each fragrance is built around a specific myth or phenomenon—such as the ghost legend behind its debut scent Fantôme de Maules—transforming folklore, history, and pop culture into immersive scent universes.

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