This post will first explore the power of scent and speak to the 6th Hermetic Law, an important Alchemical principle that expresses the power of our inner worlds and outer worlds corresponding and hence the validity of using perfumes and tinctures together.
Further the post will then explore how to choose which archetype is appropriate to work with, when and how to use our products.
The Alchemy of Scent
Scent has long been revered for its powerful ability to evoke emotions, memories, and states of consciousness. In the realm of archetypes, perfumes and tinctures serve as potent tools for anchoring and amplifying specific energies. At Hieros Gamos Alchemy, our products are carefully crafted with natural, non-psychoactive ingredients that resonate with the energetic frequencies of flowers and other botanicals. These alchemical blends are designed to support your journey of self-discovery and transformation.
Why Scent Matters
The olfactory system is directly linked to the brain's limbic system, which governs emotions and memory. This connection makes scent a powerful catalyst for accessing and embodying archetypal energies. When you use our perfumes and tinctures, you are not just applying a fragrance; you are engaging in a sensory ritual that aligns your energy with the desired archetype.
The Alchemical Process
Our perfumes and tinctures undergo a meticulous alchemical process, infusing them with the vibrational essence of their ingredients and our intentions. This process ensures that each product carries the energetic signature needed to support your work with archetypes. By using these products, you can enhance your rituals, deepen your meditations, and transform your everyday experiences.
Flower Essences
Flower essences, unlike herbal preparations, operate on an energetic vibrational level and contain no discernible plant material or psychoactive compounds. They embody a holistic approach to wellness and self-healing, steeped in a tradition of nurturing the emotional self to calm the spirit and mind. This is alchemical wisdom at its finest, transforming nature’s subtle energies into powerful tools for inner harmony.
The creation of flower essences involves capturing the plant’s vibrational imprint. Through a sacred process, flowers are placed in pure water under the sun or moon, infusing the liquid with their life force. This essence, stabilised typically with alcohol, retains the plant’s unique energetic signature, and is capable of activating specific aspects within human energy fields.
Safe for Ingestion
Flower essences are purely vibrational extracts devoid of any psychoactive components, ensuring you are not ingesting a hallucinogen! Not to be confused with plant medicines used in shamanic ceremonies, which are herbal / plant brews made using large amounts of plant matter. Flower essences are created with the lifeforce energy or bioenergetic imprint (spirit) of plants and their flowers.
The Importance of Using Tinctures Within and Perfumes Without for a Complete Experience - 6th Hermetic Law in Action
In the mystical and alchemical traditions of Hieros Gamos Alchemy, achieving a holistic experience involves harmonising the inner and outer realms of existence. This dual approach is rooted in the Hermetic Law of Correspondence, which states, "As above, so below; as within, so without." This principle underscores the interconnectedness of all things and the importance of balancing inner and outer worlds. Both our perfumes and tinctures contain flower essences.
Tinctures Within
Tinctures, taken internally, serve as powerful elixirs that align your inner world with the healing vibrations of nature. These tinctures work on an energetic level, supporting emotional balance, spiritual awareness, and inner harmony. By consuming these sacred potions, you invite their transformative energies into your body, aiding in personal growth and emotional healing. They are also an anchor for the new neural pathways being set with our audio programs, bringing our mind back to the intention to be living more aligned, aware of past shadows and how we are choosing to live differently.
Perfumes Without
Perfumes applied externally affect our auras and as the scent is continually associated to the audio programs, wearing them in and outside the audio sessions allows us to carry the energy of these sessions with presence throughout the day. Each time you smell the perfume again and again, your memory is triggered to new patterns embedded during audio sessions. Crafted from natural essences, these perfumes envelop you in their healing vibrations, positively influencing your external and internal environment and interactions. Wearing these perfumes allows you to carry the energy of the plants throughout your day, aligning your outer actions with your inner intentions. These perfumes are perfect for ritual use and everyday is an opportunity for ritual - Everyday use can be the entry point to your life becoming more ritualistic.
The Law of Correspondence
The Law of Correspondence, deeply embedded in Jungian and Hermetic thought, emphasises the reflection between the microcosm (individual) and the macrocosm (universe). This principle asserts that by harmonising the inner self with external actions, one can achieve a state of holistic balance. Using tinctures within and perfumes without embodies this law, ensuring that your internal transformations are mirrored in your external reality.
Applying the Law of Correspondence
By integrating tinctures and perfumes into your daily rituals, you create a complete alchemical practice that honours the interconnectedness of all things. This approach enhances personal growth, healing, and the manifestation of your highest potential.
Explore the sacred offerings of Hieros Gamos Alchemy and embrace the transformative power of tinctures and perfumes. Let the wisdom of the Law of Correspondence guide you toward a balanced and harmonious life, where the sacred marriage of inner and outer realms manifests your truest self.
Which Archetype to Work With
This can be as simple as wearing the same perfume everyday or choosing which attracts you the most according to your mood. There are also other considerations available. With familiarity of the archetypes it can be choosing the one which you feel to shift shadow within and can also be about choosing the archetype that you feel to accentuate. Learn more about the archetypes in our deep dive to better enhance your daily experiences. Sometimes I wear all the perfumes on my body at once, often in different places and also mixing different ones for activating myself in specific ways. We have also created quizzes (1 & 2)Â for you to take to find out which archetype you are experiencing the most shadow within and which one you are expressing most from.
We ask that you build a relationship with each archetype so that you can track your progress within associated arena's in life. As you work with our physical products and pair them with our audios - build a relationship with the clearing statements and affirmations using verbal repetition like a Mantra. By anchoring the use of our audios with the physical products - A Pavlovian dog response can be built - instead of ringing a bell before dinner time and dogs physically creating a larger drool response - taking our tinctures and smelling our scents can re-activate the neural circuits built when repeating clearing statements and affirmations.
When I have worked in massage and spiritual healing, accessing the archetype of the Light Masculine has been useful. I love wearing this perfume under my armpits and on my head the most, I feel myself channeling more powerfully and coming from a pure place within myself with this scent.
When choosing to move through a space from my sensuality and allure, the Dark Feminine has been useful to inspire my energy shifting. I usually wear this perfume on the nape of my neck moving up to my ears, this is a sensual area. I find it such a magnetic scent and to draw people into this area is to entice them.
I know that I feel empowered as a leader and able to command presence, especially when wearing the Dark Masculine. Wearing this perfume on the front of my neck, on my beard and on the top of my chest is powerful. I can feel my energy penetrating a space with this scent, my confidence to be bold and strive is activated.
The sweetness of the Light Feminine fills my heart with lightness, with generosity, ease in sharing and a peacefulness that allows me to listen and surrender to the needs of others. It's an easy choice to spray the middle of my chest with this scent, I also enjoy spraying my mouth with it occasionally. How wonderful to have an expressive and lovingly charged tongue.
Esoteric Intentions of Tinctures
To clear the outer personality layers of attachments (represented by the outer layers of the body - skin, hair, nails) within each archetype, so that the soul, deeper inside clearly shines, freed from obstructive filters. Shiliajit an ingredient in our tinctures brings over 80 minerals as deep into the body as the bones marrow and our intention is that the flower essences vibrations are embedded at every layer of the body.
Dosage
We ask that you create a relationship with the tincture so that you know how much to take and when. As a guideline 2 drops to 2 squirts, up to 3x per day is a great way to build a relationship and learn how to discern your own dosage. We also recommend using intuitive testing methods, such as muscle testing and divination. Keeping a journal will also help track progress and to review the effects of different amounts.
Sprays
Please wear an amount that allows you to smell good without overwhelming you or others in your environment. 1-3 sprays on the body and/or clothes is suggested. You may also dilute our perfumes with gin and vodka into larger spray bottles to create a room spray. The more often you conduct ritual with our perfumes, the more associations are built into your memory
Unlock Your Inner Wisdom: Essential Resources
Understanding Archetypes: Explore our post to learn the basics of archetypes.
Core Archetypes Exploration: Access our blog series to explore the polarity of masculine and feminine, light and dark. For a deeper dive on the four core archetypes read about each individually.
Transformative Audio Programs: Use our audio programs for deeper insights and journaling prompts to reflect on your journey. Rewrite past experiences with affirmations for each archetype.
Start your journey today and awaken your true potential.
If you have a partner to explore the ritual perfume process with, it can be useful to wear perfumes that are in polarity with each other. If you are both feeling that you are in energies that are lacking polarity, it can be an interesting process to wear the perfumes associated with these energies and explore how they can meet. For now you are encourage how to create a basic archetypal ritual for yourself.
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