House of Orpheus
High Alchmical Perfume House
Perfumer Marcus McCoy
Marcus R. McCoy is the owner and perfumer behind the house of Orpheus. Marcus has dedicated years of his life to the study of the magic of scent. He began his journey with an apprenticeship to a South American shaman, working with exotic amazonian flowers learning how the plants spoke through their scent.
ENODIA
Enodia ancient goddess of the streets. She is the Nachtfalter, the moth, the night butterfly. Guided by the moon and associated with Artemis, Hekate and Persephone …
VERUM
Verum is a very special perfume. Made in the Day and Hour of Saturn this perfume is based upon the aged grimoire known as the ‘True Grimoire’. The formula was based upon the incense formula used to fumigate prior to casting the protective circles used in evocation of spirits …
STAG
Stag is a classic dirty, sexual, animalic, musk. Part classical lust magic philter of old and part elegant perfume. Made with the arousing stink horn fungus extract, deer antler velvet, civet, castoreum, vanillin, a perfume such as this has never been made. …
CYPRIAN
Cyprian is a very special perfume dedicated to the Patron St. of sorcerers. The perfume is made on his holy day after his invocation. Only the finest and rarest boutique distillations of frankincense and myrrh are used in this formula. Notes of rue and hyssop work with cedar and bay to create a herbal yet woody bay cologne scent. In each bottle the traditional Brazilian Ponto of Cyprian is drawn upon a bay leaf causing the drawing to become transparent in the bottle …
AMUNET
A classical Oud, made with spicy notes of cassia, black storax extrait, agar wood oil, and made with an antique Egyptian paste of civet and musk. Amunet is the hidden one, the high priestess, a tattooed goddess in human form. A dark feminine divinity, associated with witchcraft and feminine powers of creation and destruction.
ARKTOS
Arktos is the warm heart of the bear, a strong but gentle scent clean and clear like the northern sky. Made with a honey spirit, Arktos has notes of Black Agar, Ambergris, Vanilla, Tonka, Oud, and classical Amber.
GURU DEVA
Purely a botanical perfume, Guru Deva is deeply influenced by the scents of India and is conceptualized around and named after the Jovian spirit of the planet Jupiter …
THOTH
Self generated, self begotten, Thoth the Ibis headed, god of magic itself, great mediator between good and evil…true author and source of the knowledge of gods and men …
CUNNING MAN
Cunning Man is a leather, tobacco, oud blend. Made to be reminiscent of the scent of finely made leather bound Grimoires in rooms filled with incense smoke. The perfume is a bridge, a gateway, and a mask of the Cunning Man archetype, that which is the magician, the sorcerer, the mage…
SERAPH
Angelic, celestial, a dry desert wind whispering over dunes to bring revelation. Seraph is literally the burning ones and brings a smell not of smoke but of the elevated incense blends of old. Burning coals releasing mind and heart opening, serpent shaped wisps of smoke to the sky…
BLACK GOAT
The goat a symbol of fierce individuality, raw virility, and living deliciously… for those that love the barnyard animalic oud of South east Asia you will recognize this feral scent, that drys down to a sophisticated sexually charged incense note …
LA SIRENA
La Sirena is a classic feminine floral, high notes of hyacinth, Jasmine Sambac, Citrus, Rose, slight civet and white musk notes, with a an dry down of sensual Oud and sandalwood. The perfume is exalted with the Alchemical oil of copper, and prepared on Friday in the hour of Venus …
93
93 is a perfume inspired by and for the Thelemites, Do as thy wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will. The scent of gnostic mass, of temple perfumes, combined to elevate the practitioner and wearer to their highest will. Notes of fine artisan distilled Frankincense, Olibanum, Cedar and Oud …
DJINN
This perfume evokes images of dark desert tents, filled with smoke while conjurers, illuminated by the glowing of coals. In the smoke and dim light one can shapes changing back and forth between the forms of men and beast’s and hear the whisper of ancient tongues granting promises and making deals. …
CAIN COLOGNE
Cain cologne the scent of the forge, the first black smith, master of the chthonian mysteries, bringer of plow, and spear. The first black smith was Tubal Cain. The amazing progenitor of nations to some, witch father to others …
FREYJA
Freyja in Norse mythology, Freyja (/ˈfreɪə/; Old Norse for “(the) Lady”) is a goddess associated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death. …