We’ve recently expanded our influence, reaching ever farther into the distant reaches of civilization, bringing soaps and delicious/delectable skincare to your doorstep. Check out our new vendors:

• Canada, Ontario - Heartbreaker
  Get a facial, a mani/pedi, a skillful wax, and pick up your favourite selection of Villainess items on the way out of this chic Toronto salon. Visit them at 889 Dundas St. W.

• Netherlands, Nijmegen - Alice & Jo’s havesentials offer a great lineup of awesome brands and now? A little Villainess to top things off!
  

• Wisconsin - Bella Ancora
  
  Kenosha locals, get your Villainess fix here! Find home accents and gifts at 5621 6th Ave.

• Colorado - La Henna Boheme
  
  Located in the Manitou Springs shopping district, find a great selection of Villainess essentials and eclectic gifts for your bohemian lifestyle.

• Oregon - Urban Waxx
  
  “The best wax you’ll ever have. Seriously.” You just don’t want to mess with a mediocre wax job - and this Portland salon has this niche-market cornered by specialising in this high-priority service. Vist them at 1036 NW 18th Ave for a comfortable, professional atmosphere and a great selection Villainess best sellers.

(We tend to do cumulative blog entries to showcase new resellers - for an up-to-the-minute listing, keep an eye on our Official Retailers page.)

Let’s cut to the chase here… We’ve got a new Black Label collection full of florals and schmoopy sweets, just in time for Valentine’s Day gifting!

Returning this year, is The Truffle Trade A neglected box o’ chocolates - cherry cordials, coconut creams, almond clusters, raspberry parfaits - covered in dust, tossed aside for bigger game. Last year’s debut scent was an unmitigated success - we loved it, you loved it. There was much love. It returns this year in Smooch!, Soap, Whipped! and Extrait formats.

Torchsong also returns for an encore. A memory of raw coconut infused with heavy white blossoms - tuberose, orchid, and awapuhi - and tonka bean, ginger crushed underfoot, damp moss and your vanilla perfume. Store it in a mahogony box, lit with spices. And available once more in Smooch!, Soap, Whipped! and Extrait.

Raspberry Swirl is a perennial favourite with its Sweet red raspberry creamed with soft vanilla. We started this one in… 2005? Wow. It too returns in Smooch!, Soap, Whipped! and Extrait.

The cult favourite Miss Edith with Lemony black tea with milk, English Lavender and Roses beneath a thick layer of dust returns in a limited run of Soap and Extrait.

Lipstick Lost is an older scent that has only appeared as Soap once in 2005. It is Total adolescence. Effervescent cherry, smart-aleck sassafras and a creamy dollop of vanilla. and I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to give it a facelift! Lipstick Lost appears in Soap, a delicious cherry-laden Smooch!, and our classic Whipped! body lotion.

This month’s Staff Pick is Truffle Trade Smack!. It is “A single scoop of Chocolate Mousse layered over a gooey Coconut Milk center, a Raspberry Plum filling, and a touch of Cherries Jubilee.” and it’s exquisite. Other readily layer-able recommendations?
Raspberry Swirl Smack - 2 Layers Raspberry Plum and 2 Vanilla Bean
Truffle Trade Noir - Chocolate Mousse, Unearthed, Coconut Milk & Raspberry Plum.
Torchsong Smack - 1 Lei Flowers, 1 Red Woods, 1 Vanilla Bean, 1 Coconut Milk

In further Smack! news, we are switching the lineup a bit. Both our Lei Flower and Summer Melon single notes will be retired (and thus, unavailable) by February 14th. We staged an informal survey via blog and the overwhelming response has been pro Bonfire and Bluegrass, so those will be available “soon” (i.e. ETA yet to be determined).

And for those who missed our winter clearance sale (just before New Year’s), we’ve discounted the last few units of our winter Black Label items by that same 20%.

Thanks for writing in guys!

Brooke

We, are give our Smack! lineup a facelift. We’re sticking with 24 single-notes, because I feel juggling anymore would be asking for trouble, but we are looking at jettisoning Summer Melon, Lemon Meringue and/or Lei Flowers. These three candidates are only up for consideration because they move so slooooowly. So while I hate to part with Lei Flowers, one of our two floral selections, perhaps we could line up a better blending floral. And Lemon Meringue and Summer Melon are both light fruity delicious scents, we have a good selection of fruity single notes, and those slots might be better occupied with other scents.

On our list of considerations are:

• Apple Orchard - Red Delicious and Granny Smiths.


• Bluegrass - Chamomile, sweet hay, and grass stains.


• Bonfire - Sweet brown sugar and big gusts of smoke.


• Matcha - Perfect green tea.


• Mint Medley - Peppermint, Spearmint and Cornmint essential Oils.

So drop us a line or weigh in on the forum and let us know what you think!

Will make this brief because the first day of my (much needed, very rare) three-day weekend has left me brain-dead in the best way possible. Ohh, to sleep in and eat a cinnamon roll breakfast… simple pleasures, I tell ya.

First, since your dessert structures might be crumbling to pieces, we think it’s the perfect time to indulge in a little Gingerbread Whorehouse! Our best-selling/smelling collaboration with Possets Perfume returns, and it is still aweseome.

Second, I am experimenting with a fabulous frosty fir concoction that we’ve dubbed Freezerburn. It is “Siberian fir and stately pines dusted with powder-soft layers of sweet snow.” It’s not ideal if you’re hoping to escape the snow and cold, but if you’ve only got a light dusting of frost on your shrubberies? Might be nice to set the winter mood!

Third, button yer seatbelts! Mercury officially enters its retrograde period tomorrow. Mars, of course, entered it’s retrograde a week ago - you may have already noticed a nice, slow, sense of inertia setting in. Objects at rest, et al. Thus, our Perfume Oil returns.

Finally, we’re ready to start fresh with 2010, so our entire Black Label collection (featuring selections from our Fall & Winter releases) is at 20% off. Auto-deducted from the cart, no codes, no hoops. The aforementioned Freezerburn and Retrograde items are the only non-discounted items, and they will checkout at the normal full-size product prices.

And now, I indulge in a little more mid-winter torpor.

We have been really fortunate to catch the eye of some truly talented writers this year! I wanted to take a moment to showcase their work before 2009 disappears entirely…

Sonja at The Coveted has done a wonderful series of articles where Villainess products were featured. An Oil for an Oil, non only covers Villainess Slick, but serves as a wonderful rundown of oil cleansing and how/why it works. It’s a great starter article with some equally great product recs. She also takes us Around the World in a Bottle, with a guide to the Elixirs of Love, and covers a very necessary handful of Beauty Solutions.

And Liza at Evil Monito writes beautiful lyric reiviews that are just as indulgent as the luxuries she covers. I enjoyed Trauma Perfume, Trauma Soap, and Smooch by Villainess.