Día de los Muertos

Collection · Seasonal

Día de los Muertos is observed on November 1st and 2nd across Mexico and among Mexican communities everywhere. Families build an ofrenda — an altar — and set out photographs, marigolds, copal incense, and the food and drink the dead loved in life. The point is not mourning. It is a welcome: the belief that the departed return for one night, and that the living should have something good waiting for them.

Every scent in this collection is named for something that actually appears in that tradition — the flower, the smoke, the bread, the figures. We built it that way on purpose, so a maker selling these can tell their customer what the scent means, not just what it smells like.

10Scents
5New this year
Nov 1–2The holiday

What the names mean

Ofrenda
The altar itself, built with photographs, food, flowers and candles.
Cempasúchil
The marigold. Its scent and colour are said to guide the dead home.
Copal
Tree resin burned as incense, used here since well before the Spanish arrived.
Calaca
A skeleton figure — the cheerful, dancing dead of Mexican folk art.
La Catrina
The elegant skeleton in a wide feathered hat, the holiday’s best-known image.
Pan de muerto
Sweet bread baked for the season and set out on the altar.

Flor y humo

2 scents

Flower and smoke. The two things that actually guide the dead home — marigold petals scattered from the door to the altar, and copal resin burning to carry the prayer upward. Start here if you want the collection’s most literal notes.

Las ánimas

3 scents

The spirits. Every celebration has its figures — the elegant skeleton, the weeping woman, the altar itself. These three are the darkest and most complex in the collection, and the ones built for perfume and leave-on products where the dry-down matters.

Before you formulate

Four things that apply across most of this collection. Individual specs are on each product page.

DiscolorationMost of these carry vanilla. Expect white bases to warm toward amber over time — use a Vanilla Stabilizer, or formulate in cream and amber where it reads as intentional.
Cold process soapLargely untested across this collection, and several carry cinnamon or spice notes that can accelerate trace. Run a small batch before you scale.
CandlesThese are formulated for skin, not wax. Six are rated not candle safe and the rest are untested for burn.
Where they shineBody butters, sugar scrubs, body and beard oils, bath products — anything worn slowly, where a long dry-down is the point.

Planning a seasonal release

Día de los Muertos falls November 1–2. Working backwards from a late-October sell-through, here is the window.

  1. Order by early September. That is the last comfortable point to sample, formulate, produce and still have stock on the shelf for late October.
  2. Sample first. Order 1oz of three or four, test them in your base, then commit to 8oz or 16oz on the ones that perform.
  3. Build a set, not a single. These were made to sit together — a three-scent gift box outsells one bar every time.
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Día de los Muertos

Calaca Fragrance Oil

$4.75 – $34.00
Día de los Muertos

Cempasuchil (Marigold) Fragrance Oil

$4.75 – $35.00
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Cocina de Abuela Fragrance Oil

$4.75 – $42.00
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Copal Fragrance Oil

$4.75 – $35.00
Día de los Muertos

La Catrina Fragrance Oil

$4.75 – $42.00
Día de los Muertos

La Llorona Fragrance Oil

$4.75 – $42.00
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Ofrenda Fragrance Oil

$4.75 – $38.00
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Pan Dulce Fragrance Oil

$4.75 – $35.00