Original La Ofrenda display photograph. Burn candles and incense outside the wooden box, away from the decorations and bottles.
The photograph was the one piece we couldn't choose for you.
La Ofrenda was our October 2026 Día de Muertos project. Two fragrances. Seventeen pieces. A wooden box that opened into a three-tier display, with a place for somebody you miss.
La Ofrenda and the place it made
We built the project as a tribute to the Mexican tradition of remembrance. That tradition isn't ours. We wanted to approach it with care, without pretending otherwise.
The box brought together skeleton doors, a sugar skull crest, marigolds and a hanging photograph frame. The frame held the part that made each display personal. Your picture. Your person.
The shaving products belonged at the sink. The box could stay on a dresser or shelf after the soap and fragrances were gone. It gave the project a life beyond the packaging.
La Muerte and La Vida
We gave the two fragrances different jobs within the set.
La Muerte went into the shaving soap and black-bottle aftershave. Mexican chocolate was the starting point, with cinnamon and piloncillo sugar, roasted cacao, toasted almond and ancho chile. Vanilla bean, tonka and smoked wood rounded out the scent.
La Vida went into the white-bottle aftershave and cone incense. Marigold led the fragrance, with lime peel and orange blossom, rose, tuberose and honey. Copal resin, vanilla and soft woods sat underneath.
The bottles mirrored each other. White with a black wax seal. Black with a white wax seal. The two scents belonged together, but each had its own place in the box.
The seventeen pieces
The original set brought together the shaving kit, the display and the small things that made it personal:
- The wooden box with opening doors and a fold-down shelf.
- A woven mat.
- A hanging photograph frame.
- A black-glazed clay cantarito.
- A one-ounce copper coin, with one of four Día de Muertos designs.
- A sugar skull shaving brush.
- La Muerte shaving soap in a ceramic dish.
- La Vida aftershave in the white bottle.
- La Muerte aftershave in the black bottle.
- Copal resin in a storage tin.
- La Vida cone incense.
- A clay disc for cone incense.
- Miniature papel picado.
- A box of matches.
- Dried marigolds.
- A seven-day candle.
- Lotería cards and boards.
The Lotería pieces were our addition for the people still around the table.
Keeping the display, using it with care
The box opened into the display. The mat went underneath, the photograph hung inside, and the flowers and paper decorations made it yours.
Burn candles and incense outside the wooden box. Use a heat-resistant surface away from the mat, dried flowers, paper, photograph and aftershave bottles.
The clay disc is for cone incense only. Copal resin needs a proper resin burner, which the set did not include. The tin is for storage.
Put the candle out before leaving or going to sleep. Seven-day is the candle's name, not permission to leave it burning unattended.
La Ofrenda belongs here as a record of that October project. The original product page remains separate from this archive. This page is not a new drop announcement or a restock promise.
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