Call Clients Cologne, 7.5 oz

A generous working size. Seven and a half ounces is meant to be used freely on a threshold, a doorway, or a workspace rather than dabbed sparingly.

Supplied with a prayer card. The card is part of the product as its makers intend it, giving you the words that go with the act rather than leaving you to improvise.

Made for the botánica trade. This is a traditional-format product from a house that specializes in them, not a general fragrance repackaged with a new label.

• Volume: 7.5 oz
• Format: scented alcohol-based cologne in a splash bottle
• Includes a prayer card
• External use only. Do not drink it and keep it away from eyes and broken skin.
• Alcohol-based and therefore flammable. Keep it well away from lit candles and burning charcoal, which is worth saying given how these products are typically used.
• Patch test on the inner forearm before applying to skin, particularly if you have fragrance sensitivities.
• Can mark or strip finishes. Test on an inconspicuous spot before applying to painted wood, varnish, or leather.

Drawing-work colognes sit in a specific lineage: the botánicas of Latin America and the Caribbean and their diaspora, where prepared oils, waters, and colognes are stocked alongside candles and prayer cards for practical, outcome-focused work. The register is petition and faith rather than compulsion, which is why a prayer card comes in the box.

Some of the traditions these products circulate through are initiatory. Where that is the case, correct use is taught within a house by people with standing to teach it, and a shop page is not a substitute for that. We stock the product; we are not going to instruct you in anyone's tradition.

One thing worth being straight about: this prepares you and your space. Work of this kind is understood by most practitioners as opening a road and putting yourself in the way of opportunity, not as overriding anyone else's choices. Anybody promising you control over another person's decisions is selling you something we are not.

1. Read the prayer card first. The makers supplied it for a reason, and the words are meant to accompany the application rather than sit in the box.
2. Apply lightly to the threshold of your shop, studio, or workspace, working from the outside inward if your practice uses directional dressing.
3. Some practitioners wipe a little across a doorknob, a till, an appointment book, or a business card holder. Test any finish first.
4. On the person, patch test first, then apply sparingly at the pulse points before meetings, markets, or appointments.
5. Repeat on whatever schedule fits your practice. Regular light use is the norm rather than a single heavy application.

• Atrae Dinero Fragrance Oil, 1 oz: the oil format from the same house, for dressing candles and objects.
• Abracadabra Anointing Oil, 4 Dram: a smaller anointing oil for work on the person rather than the premises.
• Blessed Holy Water, 4 oz: commonly used at the same thresholds in the same traditions.
• The Magic Candle by Charmaine Dey: a practical text on candle work in this idiom.
• Black Brass Cone Incense Burner: for the smoke half of a threshold working.

Can I wear it as an everyday cologne?

You can, and plenty of people do. Patch test first. Bear in mind these are made as working products rather than as fine fragrance, so the scent is bold and simple rather than layered, and it does not develop the way a designer perfume would.

Will it make someone hire me?

No, and we would not sell it to you on that basis. Work in this register is understood as opening a road and preparing the person doing it. It sits alongside doing the work, showing up, and asking, rather than replacing any of that.

What is the prayer card for?

It carries the words that accompany the application, supplied by the makers as part of the product. Most practitioners read or speak it while dressing the threshold or the person. It is not decorative packaging.

Is it safe near candles?

Keep it well clear. This is alcohol-based and flammable, which matters because these products are so often used alongside candle work. Apply first, let it dry, and light afterward rather than the other way round.

Will it damage my shop fittings?

It might. Alcohol can lift or cloud varnish, paint, and some leather finishes. Test somewhere inconspicuous before you dress a painted doorframe or a wooden counter, and apply lightly rather than pouring.