Heretic Parfum - Flying Ointment

NOCTURNAL HAND & FOOT SALVE

Inspired by the mysterious unguents of historical folk practice, this restorative balm is crafted with spider web-inspired proteins, sea buckthorn, quartz crystal, mushroom extracts, resins and herbs that replenish skin and prepare the body, mind, and spirit for the dream state.

• Restorative & Protective
• Includes Tube Key
• Vegan Unhydrolyzed Spider Silk Proteins
• Sea Buckthorn
• Sacred Resins & Medicinal Herbs
• Mushroom Extracts
• Powdered Quartz Crystal

NET WEIGHT: 30 g (1.06 oz)

SCENT: Frankincense, Copal, Sage, Dragon's Blood

PRODUCT DETAILS

A nocturnal repair balm for hand and foot. A preparation for passage. There is an hour when the body grows heavy and the borders of the waking world begin to thin. The Flying Ointment belongs to this hour. This fragrant salve is applied beneath the cover of darkness to restore skin depleted by the waking world, and to mark the moment before consciousness crosses into sleep. Mysterious preparations like the Flying Ointment have long been associated with medicine, magic, and the folklore of witches, night journeys, and the sensation of traveling beyond the physical body. Our Flying Ointment reimagines this ancient mythology as a nightly ritual of restoration and passage.

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BODY: Reconstitution of the Boundary

The hands and feet are the body’s outer provinces: where we touch the world, traverse it, and carry its evidence home. By night, these extremities may be dry, fissured, and depleted. The restorative Flying Ointment features vegan, unhydrolyzed spider silk proteins that form a tensile, adaptive veil across the skin, supporting elasticity and resilience. The spider understands that a boundary need not be solid to possess strength. Its architecture is delicate, responsive, and nearly invisible.

Sea buckthorn restores suppleness, Comfrey extract supports compromised skin, while pomegranate seed and evening primrose oils replenish and reinforce the moisture barrier. Together, these materials restore the body’s outer boundary as a living threshold between self and world. Before the journey inward, the vessel is repaired.

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MIND: Induction of Descent

In sleep, the senses slowly withdraw and the waking mind begins to dissolve. The Flying Ointment transforms this nightly disappearance into ritual. Massaged slowly into the hands and feet before bed, the repeated gesture becomes a tactile marker of transition: a signal that the activities of the waking body are complete. Then scent opens another door.