Arcana Oils review Halloween scents (revisited)

'Tis the season!

Typically I order Arcana oils (and Villianess soaps) from the Soap Box Company. I'm reviewing three of the oils she releases every year around Halloween.

From my experience Arcana oils smell very peppery or woody. I've tried about 6 different oils and they all smell either super peppery or woody.

Haint Perfume Oil

Description:
The sweet, melancholy essence of a Southern ghost drifting through dark mountain hollows and crumbling neo-classical mansions. White musk, vanilla musk, Madagascar vanilla, sugarcane, and a faint trail of white pepper.

One of my favorite perfume oils which sits on my shelf of favorites I rotate through (same shelf Sugar Skull sits on).

This smells very peppery which normally I don't like much but it makes the vanilla spicy. I love this smell. The  peppery spicy vanilla musk always gets me compliments from random people who ask what it is and can't pick out that this is a "vanilla" scent just something alluring and .. haunting.. (they say that! I swear!).

This smells better aged in my opinion. The bottle I am using is about two years old or more.

The sillage and throw are good. The lasting power is about 4 hours long for me. I give this an A-.

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Holy Terror Perfume Oil 

Description:
There are utterly somber and fearsome spirits which are known to haunt certain long-deserted chapels, monasteries, and abbeys. An unsettling, austere blend of burning frankincense, sandalwood, deep myrrh, and dusty beeswax candles.

*Love* I love foody scents usually since I adore vanilla but this is not foody whatsoever and I adore it. This smells like incense.. great dark beautiful resinous incense and the BEAUTIFUL beeswax candles. I love this and it's very hard to describe but it's just so memorable. If you order one bottle from Arcana make sure it's Holy Terror.

The sillage and throw are awesome. The last power is awesome. I give this a solid A.

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Sleepy Hollow Perfume Oil

Description:

An atmospheric ode to romantically spooky Autumn evenings, with fresh pumpkin, spiced apple brew, and bonfire smoke. Perfect for the telling of deliciously scary tales.

This is okay. I have other oils that are far more my favorite. It smells like everything it says except I smell no smoke in it. It's a cult favorite (as are the two listed above) but to me it smells almost watered down and diluted. Not a favorite but I am in the minority here.