Florida Water Spray, 2 oz

The classic citrus-floral blend. The bright, sweet, unmistakable scent of the Florida Water tradition: citrus over florals and spice.

Traveling 2 oz spray. The compact working format for bags, reading tables, and altar kits.

The universal cleanser. Two centuries of cross-tradition use for cleansing, blessing, and offering work.

• Size: 2 oz spray bottle
• Type: Florida Water cologne, citrus-floral blend
• Use: external ritual and cologne use; flammable like all colognes, keep from flame while wet and from children and pets
• SKU: RFLO2

Florida Water began around 1808 as a mass-market American cologne, its name evoking the fabled fountain of youth, and folk practice performed the great adoption: Hoodoo took it up for cleansing and ancestor work, Espiritismo made it central to the misa's white table, Santería and Vodou houses keep it among their standing waters, and household traditions from the Caribbean to Chinatowns worldwide use it for wiping down altars, refreshing thresholds, and honoring the dead. Few products in any tradition hold so many houses' trust at once, and its offices are remarkably consistent everywhere: it cleanses, it cools, it refreshes, and it makes ordinary things ready for sacred use.

Practice with it is correspondingly plain. Sprayed into a room it clears the air's weather; wiped over hands before readings it marks the shift into work; dabbed at the temples it is the tradition's oldest cooling-off; a splash in wash water or an offering glass serves the deeper customs of houses that keep them. We present it with the usual honest boundaries, a cologne for external use, kept from flame while wet, and note the working truth two centuries of practitioners would confirm: the bottle empties faster than any other on the shelf, because everything is its job.

1. Spray it through a room to cleanse and cool the space's energy.
2. Wipe a little over hands and the back of the neck before readings and workings.
3. Mist it over altars, tools, and thresholds as the general-purpose blessing.
4. Add a splash to floor washes and cleansing baths, keeping all use external.
5. Keep it from open flame while wet, as with any cologne, and store cool and capped.

Keep one in the bag and one at the altar. The tradition's practitioners always have.

• White Sage Smudge Sticks, Set of 6: the smoke cleanse beside the water one.
• Dark Moon Water Ritual Spray by Envision Crystal, 8 oz: the lunar cleanse for the same shelf.
• Deliverance! Hoodoo Spells by Khi Armand: the working tradition where this bottle is a staple.
• Elegua Oil by Aura Variety, 4 Dram: devotional company from a tradition that keeps Florida Water close.
• Epsom Salt, 2 oz: the bath base a splash of this keys toward cleansing.

What is Florida Water?

A citrus-floral cologne dating to the early 1800s that folk practice adopted as its universal cleansing water, central to Hoodoo, Espiritismo, Santería, Vodou, and household traditions worldwide.

What is it used for?

Nearly everything in the cleansing register: rooms, hands, tools, altars, thresholds, wash water, and offerings, the traditions agreeing on its offices with rare unanimity.

Does it come from Florida?

No: the 19th-century name evoked the fabled fountain of youth. It is a cologne style, made by many hands for two centuries.

Can I wear it as cologne?

Yes, externally and lightly, as generations have; its bright citrus-floral scent was a fashionable perfume before it was a sacrament.

Any cautions?

The cologne ones: external use, flammable while wet so keep it from open flame, and store it capped, cool, and away from children and pets.