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Limited edition winter fragrances (100% botanical), wild plant infused skin care, and more.

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Wild Alchemy

Ritual Guide

a 45-page guidebook to partner with the elements and plants for healing and manifestation

    NEW SEASONAL BOTANICAL PERFUMES

    The Winter Wonder Collection

    Sultry and warming, the Winter Wonder Collection is filled with botanical perfumes for the season. Limited edition set includes:

    • Odin — for the Norse Allfather, smoke, leather, and booze

    • Bear — cocao and spice, sipped around a fire, under evergreen bows

    • Hygge — the scent of the season with citrus, spice, and forest notes

    • Sugar Cookie — if a sugar cookie became a legit perfume, gourmand delights

    • Dragon — light your fire in the dark with saffron, florals, and smoke

    • Inanna — the goddess enters her underworld era, precious woods take the lead

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    LIMITED EDITION

    HEAL ALL SALVE

    A deeply nourishing and soothing healing salve for all the things — red patches and cracked skin to sore muscles and scar tissue.

    This healing salve is infused with dozens of wild healers:

    • Wild plants like yarrow, rose, ponderosa resin, red clover, arnica, aspen, calendula, lavender, birch, and more

    • Precious essential oils like neroli, rock rose, immortelle, turmeric, frankincense, blue tansy, copaiba, and more

    • Nourishing, organic butters and oils like jojoba, shea, coconut, olive, and more

    Very limited, seasonal availability.

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    LIMITED EDITION
    MADE WITH DOZENS OF WILD PLANTS

    Alchemessence Anointing OIls

    Anointing oils and balms are alchemical blends of rare, precious, and potent botanicals — each infused with energetic transmissions and light codes to catalyze your growth, healing, and awakening. 

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    Rose Anointing Balm

    A sacred balm for ritual, meditation, and heart-opening ceremony.

    This anointing balm contains an unprecedented collection of 11 different types of rose medicine — including wild rose blossoms and fresh white organic rose petals infused in oil —with sandalwood and beeswax. One of my most precious and potent creations ever.

    Very limited, seasonal availability.

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    LIMITED EDITION
    MADE WITH WILD ROSES

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    All new 2025 Hydrosols!

    Each alchemical hydrosol is made by hand in my own copper alembic. Very limited supply.

    Alchemessence hydrosols are healing, aromatic waters created in sacred ceremony at my high desert property.

    Each hydrosol is made in a small batch that captures the essence of the plant’s spiritual, energetic, and medicinal gifts in the purest form.

    Unlike commercial hydrosols, I do not remove the essential oils from the aromatic water — so each bottle contains both the hydrosol and a small amount of freshly distilled essential oils.

    These hydrosols are beautiful companions for daily beauty rituals, spiritual practice, and aromatic healing.

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    Newly restocked!

    Spirit Sprays

    Here’s why Spirit Sprays are extra magical: they incorporate a wide variety of plant material, so you get the alchemy — of salt, mercury, and sulphur…jing, chi, and shen. Each bottle includes:

    • Aromatic essential oils, absolutes, CO2, and other fragrant extractions are selected for both their aroma and energetic qualities.

    • I make every essence in sacred ceremony, partnering with the spirit of the plants, the stones, and the land. These essences enhance the vibrational gifts of your spray.

    • Each hydrosol is distilled from wild and garden-grown plants in my own copper alembic. Hydrosols add gentle aroma and healing properties to the mist.

    • Tinctures are made from wild plants, sacred resins, and other precious plants with organic grape alcohol. Each tincture adds a light aroma and potent plant power to your mist.

    • Pure spring water, imprinted with an energetic transmission of intention, finishes your spray. When possible, water is foraged from a magical local spring in the mountains where I live.

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    Natural Perfumes

    Explore artisan, small-batch, spiritual perfumes made from the 100% natural, whole-plant, sustainably sourced materials.  A transmission of spirit in every bottle.

    Elevated Perfumes for Those Who Know that Beauty Is the Soul of Life

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    I have worked with custom essences crafted from essential oils for years. Blends that were made just for me and my personal, human, and spiritual journey. Never have I felt such instant resonance and deep connection as I just did opening my Bear Essence perfume from Juniper. It’s like remembering that “thing” you’ve been trying to remember for years alongside a deep, deep presence and sense of being that is bathed in alignment and love. Thank you, Juniper for claiming, nurturing and honoring your gifts so that you could share it with each of us. Namasté, siSTAR!

    —Whitney Freya, WhitneyFreya.com

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    Hi :) I’m Juniper Stokes, the creatrix behind Alchemesssence.

    I’m also a botanical alchemist, spiritual mentor, and teacher whose work restores the living bond between soul and nature.

    I believe that cultivating a mythic and animist consciousness — what I call mythoanimism — is the key to meeting our current polycrisis with creativity and grace.

    My synthesis of deep ecology and contemporary leadership offers a grounded approach to modern spiritual mentorship and education—one that honors both the mystery and the material of being human.

    As a natural perfumer and ritualist, I create sacred aromatic blends that serve as bridges between worlds, supporting ceremony, initiation, and creative evolution.

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    Nectar & Alchemy

    The School of Sacred Aromatics

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    We live in wild times—and we need to reconnect with our own wild nature to thrive as the world rapidly changes.

    It’s time to heal the pain and programming that has caused you to forget who you are, what you’re capable of, and how much joy you’re here to experience.

    It’s time to remember how to live in reverent relationship with life itself, to see the beauty within and all around you.

    It’s time to embark on a journey of wild alchemy.

    Let’s go.

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    The Wild Alchemy Apprenticeship

    A Practitioner Training in soul healing & sacred aromatics

    Coming March 2026.

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    • Juniper is a true healer, seer, and knower of truth. I've been blessed to work with her on several occasions, and I can testify that she is the real deal. I've experienced many layers of healing and self revelation from her work. I believe she will be one of the great teachers and healers of our time.

      Lisa G., Spiritual Medium

    • "If you want to learn from a gifted person who is deeply committed to her practice, Juniper Stokes is an excellent choice. What struck me most, beyond her depth of wisdom and knowledge, is that she sustains an effortless capacity to empower. It is obvious that she believes we all have something wild and wise within us. Juniper creates a space to nourish this inherent capacity for each person.”

      —Cit Ananda, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Poet

    • Being coached by Juniper is equivalent to being in the presence of a beautiful force of nature. She is a remarkable healer, guide and teacher with an incredibly grounding energy and a well of wisdom. Intuition and penetrating insight wrapped in a loving presence and deep compassion. I had the honor to be in her sphere during a challenging and stressful time, where even in the lowest moments she could always bring me back to see the path of least resistance and to resource from my power through her profound guidance.

      Agnes Udoh, Integrative Coach

    • Juniper is a gifted healer, teacher, and guide who skillfully weaves together an ethereal fabric of sight, wisdom, creativity, and compassion then wraps it around her clients with care and grace. I have found her shamanic guidance to be informative, transformative, and superlative. Her relationship to spirit is so well tended, and so apparent, that she literally walks through this world as an expression of the Goddess. Juniper's apothecary is extensive and her herbal remedies have soothed, healed, and protected me. Juniper represents all that is balanced and beautiful in this world and beyond and I recommend her completely.

      Heather Porter, Animisma

    • Working with Juniper is such a pleasure! Juniper's gifts run deep and wide, spilling into every space of a session with her. Her way of holding me in complete compassion and tenderness while maintaining powerful connections to the seen and unseen is tremendously healing. The work we have done together has allowed me to deepen into my path and my medicine in this lifetime. I am so grateful for the gifts she has given me through her special alchemy in this realm and in others—they have been unexpectedly potent blessings on my way.

      Katie P., Shamanic Healer and Wilderness Guide

    • I've had several coaching sessions under Juniper's care and guidance during a difficult unexpected transition in life. Juniper has a beautiful ability to help soothe and ground with her calming voice and caring nature. Her years of experience in accessing her own inner knowing, as well as trusting guidance came through with very pertinent questions on the topics explored, leading to next steps in my inner growth and feelings of relief. I would trust Juniper with helping to guide any of my loved ones as I know they would be handled with the utmost care. If you feel called to work with Juniper, I highly recommend her coaching services.

      Brie Larson, Grief Counselor & Life Coach

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