This week’s emotional damage
Mourning Jewelry
A weekly dose of macabre history, gently pressed into your hands like a haunted educational pamphlet.
In the 19th century, people sometimes wore jewelry made with the hair of the dead. Not metaphorically. Literally. Hair could be braided, tucked under glass, woven into designs, or kept inside lockets and brooches.
Because apparently grief wasn’t complete until you could fasten it to your outfit.
To be fair, photography was still new, death was everywhere, and people wanted physical reminders of the ones they loved.
Still, wearing someone’s hair as jewelry is extremely “I miss you” with a side of “please do not open this locket at brunch.”
Seance scent pairing
This one belongs to Memento Mori — beautiful, inevitable, and impossible to ignore. Much like death.
www.seanceperfumes.com · @seanceperfumes
