The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Amanda Feeley built Come to Me Love Potion in 2011 as a literal aphrodisiac in glass. The inspiration arrived from two places that already knew how to make words burn: a love poem by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and the Song of Solomon, where the body is treated like something sacred and hungry at the same time. Feeley translated that tension into a composition botanical and animalic in equal measure. The fragrance moves between bright citrus, dense white flowers, resinous incense, warm woods, and animalic depth, creating a scent that feels intimate from the first impression. Esscentual Alchemy presented Come to Me Love Potion within a collection centered on narrative and feeling rather than performance.
What sets this composition apart is the way it brings the romantic and the devotional into a single arc. The heart is full of jasmine sambac, tuberose, gardenia, and Damask rose, grounded by frankincense, myrrh, spikenard, and Himalayan cedar. The inclusion of ambergris and animalic warmth adds a deeper, warmer register to the floral accord. It smells like skin in candlelight as much as it smells like a chapel full of smoke, moving easily between intimacy and incense.
The evolution
The opening arrives warm and strange, bergamot and neroli lending a brief green-bright lift before the florals press in. Within the first ten minutes, jasmine sambac takes the wheel, honeyed and indolic, with cinnamon threading behind it like heat through a closed window. Tuberose arrives soon after, waxy and narcotic, and gardenia follows with its creamy, almost coconut-edged sweetness. The heart, between twenty minutes and two hours in, is where this fragrance earns its reputation: a dense white-floral bouquet sitting on a bed of frankincense and myrrh, supported by the deep green of patchouli and the resinous stillness of Himalayan cedar and balsam fir. The incense does not announce itself so much as accumulate, rising through the florals the way smoke rises through light. Spikenard adds a muddy, rooty depth that anchors the sweetness before it floats away.
Cultural impact
Come to Me Love Potion brings together the sensuality of the Song of Solomon and the romantic poetics of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, grounding both in a fragrance built around resinous incense and warm woods. Its floral heart is especially expressive: jasmine sambac, tuberose, gardenia, and Damask rose meet frankincense, myrrh, spikenard, patchouli, Himalayan cedar, and balsam fir. The composition moves between sweetness and depth, beginning with the lift of bergamot and neroli before settling into honeyed florals, smoky resins, and a warm base.
The House
Esscentual AlchemyEsscentual Alchemy crafts small‑batch botanical perfumes that blend natural essences with carefully selected aroma molecules. Since its first releases in 2010, the house has built a catalogue that includes The World (2011), Chocolate Hazelnut Twist (2010), Kama (2010), That 70's Smell (2010), Autumn Spice (2010), Purple Orchid (2010), Pro Fond (2015), Prata Viridi (2010), Dvora (2011) and Poir Indiscrète (2017). Each scent is presented in a minimalist bottle that lets the fragrance speak for itself, inviting wearers to explore memory, place and feeling through scent.
The Creator
Amanda FeeleyAmanda favors a minimalist palette, often starting with a single botanical note and building around it. She prefers absolutes of rose, jasmine, and orange blossom, paired with essential oils of bergamot, cedarwood, and sandalwood.
