Black Moon

Scent Notes: Incense, black cumin, sassafras, the forgetfulness of werewolves, and black oud.

This was Day 10 in our Yule Advent Calendar.

If you are a werewolf, the moon is awesome. You are so stoked about the moon, basically all the time. To be honest, no one really knows why werewolves are so obsessed, but it's kind of their whole thing, so we just let them go for it. However, there is one phenomenon that no one ever really mentions, and that is that the werewolves' awareness of their own wolfieness comes and goes with the phases of the moon. That is to say, on the Full Moon, they are like, Fuck Yeah! I'm A Damn Werewolf! and then say, a few days later, they are still pumped, but it's more like, Woop! I'm Totally A Werewolf! 

At the quarter moon stage (looks like half a moon when you see it in the sky), the werewolves are starting to be a little more like, Yeah, I am a wolf, but I'm still a man. When there's just a thin little sliver up there in the night sky left, they have strong memories of being a werewolf, but have a hard time personally identifying as such. 

The most fascinating night is the New Moon, or the Black Moon as they call it. On this night they don't remember that they are werewolves at all. They are kind of confused when they walk around their own homes and see all of their cheesy wolf decor, and think, wow, I guess I'm like... into wolves? 

Some of them try to leave recordings for their oblivious selves, like Hey Jeff, Yes This Is You. You Are A Werewolf, etc. And Jeff will be kinda freaked out all day and call his bestie (also a werewolf) and they will both nervously agree that Jeff needs to stop leaving drunk messages on his phone. 

Then the moon begins to return and they slowly realize over the course of the month that they are, in fact, werewolves, first in a faint dreamy way, and later in a OMG I Think I Might Be A Werewolf! way, and Jeff calls his bestie again and his besitie says Jeff You Won't Believe This, I Think I'm A Werewolf Too! (They literally have this conversation every month, it's really cute.) And this cycle repeats again and again, buying tons of wolf-shaped trinkets and ground beef half the month and being super confused about the state of their houses and why all of their clothes have dog hair on them the other half of the month. Some people say werewolves are a little mad, or prone to madness, and to that I say, Let'em have it, they deserve to be allowed a little madness given their quirks.