Neisthai - This fragrance is my new favourite. Sultry evenings, sweet iced tea in glasses beaded with sweat. Age-old roses and magnolia blossoms. Fallen peaches and wild blackberries. Honeycrisps and banks of honeysuckle. Acres of cut clover, mown grass and old, musty wood. This soap came out beautifully - smooth, and shimmering with dragonfly-wing green. The Whipped is a perfect summer scent (light, but complex) and the Smooch! is luscious with it’s smattering of blackberry seeds and crushed roses.

Wasabi - Green tea with a black pepper burn and brisk splash of citrus. Because when you guys write, we listen. Same great soap, incredible new Smooch! (we’ve dosed it liberally with Green Tea extract), and enough Whipped! to keep you supple all summer.

Trauma - Ripe peaches dripping with dragon’s blood, against a sweet skin-scent of Egyptian musk, amber and myrrh. We’ve had a handful of requests for this soap, and have gone all out with this collection. This Smooch! features sugar drenched in peach syrup, and spiked with just enough dragon’s blood to stain the whole thing sanguine. And the Whipped! A mere whisper of sweetness that lasts all day.

Quick or Dead? - Sarsparilla and sweetgrass, worn saddle leather, tobacco smoke and the remains of a spicy lime cologne. QorD? appears at the request of some absolutely besotted fans. (You know who you are!) We’ve brought back the soap (so you can stock up!), a brand new Smooch! (lime! sarsparilla!), and the usual wonderful Whipped!.

Arsenic & Old Lace - Sweet black cherry tarts with warm, clinging honeymusk and a soft wisp of old-fashioned perfume - roses, honeysuckle, gardenia and chamomile. As a bonus, we’ve given one of our very first-ever blends a much-needed facelift and trotted it out for summer. I love this soap - all muted pinks and shimmering mauves!

In general catalog news, we’ve finally worked out the packaging for our bubble bombs and are now fully (re)stocked. You NEED a little Kaboom! in your life tub. Plus, awesome gifts.

Finally, there’s been something of a crisis at the Villainess offices. Somehow, we’ve managed to misplace Quick and Dead - the eponymous pair o’ pistols. We’re staging a manhunt (of sorts) to remedy this situation, and offering a hefty reward (50 greenbacks worth of loot by way of a Quick or Dead? gift set) for their return. Scope out The Blog for them thar details!