The Complete Book of Incense, Oils and Brews (Llewellyn's Practical Magick)
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Publisher : Llewellyn Publications; 2nd Revised edition (September 8, 2002)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 0875421288
ISBN-13 : 85
Item Weight : 12.5 ounces
Dimensions : 6.07 x 0.79 x 9.04 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #13,622 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #18 in Mythology & Folklore Encyclopedias #19 in New Age Reference (Books) #35 in Folklore & Mythology Studies
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This book is great. If you like Cunningham, this is one of his bests. In Part I: Basics, he explains everything well enough for beginners to understand, yet briefly enough lest the more advanced get frustrated. He even includes a chapter on creating your own recipes! Throughout Part II: Processing and Recipes, he gives useful lists of things like the most common ingredients used so you can keep them in stock, substitutions, simple uses for single ingredients, etc. Part II includes the following chapters: Incense, Oils, Ointments, Inks, Tinctures, Herb Baths, Bath Salts, Brews, Ritual Soaps, Sachets or Herbal Charm, Powders, and A Miscellany of Recipes. His recipes are not exact measurements; they are more like ratio suggestions, which is great and he explains why. Part III is entirely devoted to different kinds of substitutions. This books includes a glossary and appendices that are very useful for beginners. I would have loved to see more recipes for more magickal needs to be honest. There are a good bit of recipes, but they are mostly for the basic magickal needs. I would have liked to see the index more expanded. Obviously it's a bit outdated, but most of the best books are right? This is one of those books that will be used frequently for reference; I know it is an important addition to my library. I'm rating it 4 stars because I prefer bigger, more detailed reference books, but I hope that doesn't diminish its importance. I am including an out-of-focus picture of two of the pages so you can see the layout of the recipe pages.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2016 by NotAWitchProbably NotAWitchProbably
I can see where some people may be upset with the title change, although in the listing it does say it's published by Llewellyn (the most well known metaphysical publisher) and their Practical Magick publishing circuit, no less. That being said, I liked this book as a beginner book, but there were some things I really did not like. The wide variety of recipes in this book are wonderful. I enjoy a lot of the folklore mixed in and ancient recipes, however, ancient recipes can only go so far considering most of their ingredients may have never existed or are impossible to obtain now. Even throughout the book, Cunningham's commentary notes that some of the ingredients he doesn't know what they are, and then proceeds to give an alternative suggestion. It's great that there's a substitution chart in a later chapter, but I shouldn't have to be replacing ingredients in a recipe that even the author himself doesn't know what it is or how to obtain it. That is incredibly frustrating and a waste of time. The recipes I have been able to try have been good, and the quick references I can make without having to make substitutions are great. Another concern is that some of these "ancient" recipes are actually toxic and to the uninformed reader, that can be highly dangerous.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2016 by The Indigo Quill
This book in my opinion, is not for beginners, I crafted the various oil combinations, and yeah they work but I noticed attract certain things.... for example for every positive breakthrough there seemed to be a grotesque counterpart if that makes any sense. . duality?? try the various oil combinations you'll see, I suppose crafting these oils in a protection circle is better, I'm still new to this
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Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2021 by Dapper
I'm not a huge Scott Cunningham fan. I don't know why since every book of his that I have has very useful information in it :) ! This one is very good. First let me address some others' complaints. That many of the incense recipes have similar ingredients. While this may be somewhat true the reason is that the bottom notes of an incense have to come from somewhere and it is not unusual for them to be similar in that there are only so many of them. Sandalwood being the most frequently mentioned. In the same fashion almost all recipes - food wise - start with onions, so too you need a base in both perfumery and incense making. Sandalwood IS in almost every incense (I don't mean in this book - although it is in many - but rather ALL incenses you buy whether you are buying rose incense or lemongrass because it needs a base note). Problem: Sandalwood isn't cheap nor is it easy to get but guess what Amazon happens to have a source!! And it's not too terribly expensive. Plus there is a cheap substitution for it if you don't wish to shell out the money for it (although it will be just as magically useful, it won't smell as good - still good though - just not AS good).. As others have mentioned the substitution list is fantastic - I'd go so far to say almost priceless to have it all there handy for you So that you don't have to go searching the internet for every correspondance for every herb. It's all right there in alphabetical order. HANDY, HANDY, HANDY!!!! If you're into magic at all you have to know just how very, very important correspondances are!! They are indispensable. You basically cannot work magic without them. Therefore that list and it is not short is just really worth the price of the book alone! While not a fan of his writing style, as usual he has information in his book that I have not come across elsewhere. Hence it will be in my library forever. I have already made a couple of his recipes and I got the book yesterday and they are in some cases what I consider surprisingly good - things that I never would have thought to put together that actually smell fantastic together. For instance I'm not a big fan of verivert and he has a few recipes that call for it so I tried one of them and guess what - now I'm in love with verivert!! It's just a great addition to some other scents! Essential oils are not cheap and buying lots of herbs is not cheap. But in the long run in terms of making scents it will save you money and in terms of making incenses they will be vastly more powerful and smell better too (or at least more genuine/natural/not so sticky sweet/different/fresh). Therefore I heartily recommend this book (despite not wanting too lol - I don't know what my issue with him is - it's odd). (On a separate note: I disagree that you need 192 proof alcohol to make a tincture. I think 100 proof is fine. That's 50 percent and as far as I know there are two out there that are that high, everclear and bacardi. While you're going to want to go with everclear because it has no scent it would not be the end of the world if your county doesn't sell everclear and you have to buy bacardi - in my opinion it will work almost as good at least magically if not smell as good - or anywhere as good - still while many of the tinctures in this book will smell so good tat you can use them cosmetically, the point is not cosmetics but magic hence alcohol for the very most part is alcohol - at least correspondance-wise - IMHO.)
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Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2015 by Cynthia Scott