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\n Our first shower oil, Silk Veil\n\n

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To speak of fragrance is often to speak of ephemera — moments that dissolve as quickly as they arrive. Yet in ancient Alexandria, scent was architecture: carefully composed, enduring, and designed to shape both body and perception. Oils infused with florals and resins were pressed into skin not as ornament but as declaration, binding the mortal to the divine. It is from this lineage that 39BC’s Silk Veil emerges, a composition of white florals, amber, and musk that lingers like carved stone softened by centuries. This is not perfume as surface. It is structure, ritual, and inheritance distilled into oil.

This is what we had in mind when we created Silk Veil — neroli, ylang-ylang, tuberose, jasmine, gardenia, musk, amber. A structure built not of stone, but of scent. The architecture of seduction, arranged one note at a time.

Picture Cleopatra preparing for evening. For her, bathing was never routine. It was ceremony — a private stage where politics and pleasure met. White florals suspended in cool air. Oil pressed into warm skin like a whispered promise. She knew what the night held, and she dressed for it with intention.

\n $\"Jasmine,$ \n\n

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\n Jasmine, one of its main ingredients\n

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Neroli begins, opening like spiced honey at dusk. Jasmine and tuberose follow — soft, but certain. Gardenia adds depth, its floral darkness balancing the sweetness. Finally, musk and amber complete the architecture, ensuring the memory clings long after she has left the room.

This is no fleeting fragrance. Oils bind to the skin, holding scent close, diffusing it slowly across hours. Silk Veil does not announce. It lingers.

When Silk Veil meets water, it transforms. Oil becomes milk, gradually, then completely. It cleanses without stripping, leaving the skin supple and scented. What remains is not absence, but presence — a silken layer of fragrance that knows how to keep secrets.

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\n For Cleopatra, bathing was never routine - it was ceremony.\n\n

In ancient Egypt, oils were more than beauty. They were protection, adornment, and signal. A way of marking transitions, from day to night, from public to private. Cleopatra herself would have known the power of scent, not as decoration, but as declaration.

At 39BC, we return to that inheritance. Silk Veil is part of our debut collection, Vol. I: Alexandria — four fine-fragrance shower oils inspired by the alliance of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Each oil is a chapter, a ritual, a memory held on the skin.

\n $\"our$ \n\n

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\n our irresistible combination\n\n

Step into Silk Veil — a luxury shower oil for those who dress in scent as much as in silk.

Because seduction begins long before you enter the room.

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There are three reasons we chose the name 39BC.

The first belongs to history. In many books, “nothing happened” that year. But that silence is precisely the point. History tends to preserve what men did — wars, treaties, governments. Yet in 39BC, Cleopatra VII was ruling Egypt, raising three children, and reshaping her kingdom.

Her twins by Mark Antony were toddlers. Her son by Julius Caesar was already heir. And when Antony abandoned her to marry Octavian’s sister, Cleopatra did not collapse. She governed. She stabilised Egypt’s economy, expanded her navy, secured trade routes, and strengthened her people. The year may appear blank in Roman records, but for Cleopatra — and for Egypt — it mattered. It still matters.

\n $\"Sharmadean$ \n

Sharmadean Reid's birthday invitation

The second reason is personal. On her own 39th birthday, our founder Sharmadean Reid felt a shift. She woke with a sense of peace that she had not known before. She celebrated with what she then called a “goddess party,” surrounded by women, ancestry, and ritual. Cleopatra died at 39. For Sharmadean, this was when she felt reborn. A moment of clarity, groundedness, and pleasure. That energy stayed, and became part of this brand.

The third reason is political. The year 39BC was itself a hinge in history. Cleopatra and Antony’s alliance could have shifted Rome’s trajectory. Had they lived and ruled, perhaps Rome would never have become empire. Without Rome as blueprint, the Senate House, the White House, even the British Empire may have looked very different. The structures we take as inevitable might never have existed.

\n $\"Sharmadean$ \n

Sharmadean Reid's at Oakley Court

So 39BC means three things at once:

A forgotten year in the record of men, yet a decisive one for a queen.
A personal turning point, a rebirth into grounded presence.
A threshold in history — the moment before empire.

That is what is held in our name. It is history, memory, and ritual, carried into the present.

It is also what shapes our products. Each of our Cleansing Shower Oils is both archive and ceremony. They draw from Cleopatra’s world but are designed for modern life — turning daily bathing into a moment of return.

\n $\"One$

One of the many books our founder immersed herself in

Discover Fig Milk, a luxury ritual shower oil inspired by intimacy observed in Alexandria’s palaces. Creamy fig, violet leaf, and coconut merge into a fragrance that lingers like memory on the skin.

Because at 39BC, nothing is forgotten. Not history. Not presence. Not pleasure.

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\n Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the 1963 epic drama Cleopatra\n

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The year is 39 BC. Cleopatra VII is the mother of three royal children, by two of the most powerful men of her age: Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Yet she rules alone — a queen not through marriage, but by lineage, strategy, and unmatched political acumen.

Just a year earlier, Cleopatra and Antony had shared a winter of alliance and intimacy in Alexandria. She became pregnant. He departed — not to return to her side, but to Rome, where he married the sister of his rival, Octavian. The world expected a broken queen. Instead, Cleopatra governed.

She gave birth to twins and then stabilized Egypt’s fragile economy. She expanded her navy, secured trade routes, commissioned temples, and strengthened her rule with precision. While outsiders speculated about her heart, she consolidated her empire and deepened her bond with her people. Her beauty was famed, but it was never her true power. Her mind was.

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\n\n $\"Sophie$ \n\n

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\n Sophie Okonedo and Ralph Fiennes in the National Theatre as Antony And Cleopatra\n\n

By 37 BC, Antony returned. This time, he needed Cleopatra. He had a war to fight, and her wealth was indispensable. But the queen who received him was not the woman he had left. She met him not as a lover abandoned, but as a goddess prepared. Her empire was stronger, her court more resplendent, her children fully recognized. What followed was not merely reunion, but the integration of power and desire.

Their story would end in 30 BC, after the devastating defeat at Actium. Both would die, leaving their legacy in ruins. Yet their myth endures. From Shakespeare to Hollywood, Cleopatra has been cast as seductress, Antony as victim. The truth is sharper. This was no simple love story. It was the collision of worlds — the end of one empire, the beginning of another.

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\n $\"Claudette$ \n\n

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\n Claudette Colbert and Henry Wilcoxon in Cecil B. Demille's 1934 Cleopatra\n

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At 39BC, we return to this moment. Because within every layer — love, politics, downfall, and desire — lies something that speaks to us now. Power can be tender. Pleasure can be strategic. Even ruin can leave behind a fragrance that lingers.

That is the essence of Denarii, our fine-fragrance shower oil inspired by Antony’s return to Cleopatra. Notes of frankincense, black pepper, patchouli, and balsams capture the tension of power and intimacy — the moment when smoke and sweat soften into something unforgettable.

Bathing, like history, is never just routine. It is ritual. It is archive. It is memory held on the skin.

Step back into the story. Begin in water.

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The difference begins in texture. But it ends in philosophy.

For decades, shower gel has been the default. Bright bottles, foamy bubbles, the shorthand for “clean.” But the truth is, that foam often comes at a cost. Many gels rely on harsh surfactants, leaving skin stripped of natural oils, tight, and thirsty. It is cleansing as absence: the body made bare, but not cared for.

Shower oil tells another story. It begins where the body does — with oil. Plant-based lipids meet water, emulsifying into a light milk that lifts what needs to be lifted while keeping the skin intact. The result is not squeak, but slip. Not erasure, but nourishment. What remains is presence: skin that feels supple, restored, alive.

The difference is not only in feel, but in scent. Shower gels often smell strong in the bottle yet vanish with the bubbles, a fleeting experience. Oils work differently. They bind to skin, holding fragrance close and releasing it slowly throughout the day. The scent doesn’t just wash away — it lingers, diffuses, and becomes part of you.

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\n\n $\"Our$ \n\n

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\n Our shower oils are designed as ritual and archive\n\n

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A Ritual Rooted in History

Though marketed as modern innovation, shower oils are ancient in origin. In Egypt, moringa and castor oils were massaged into the skin to protect against desert air. In Greece and Rome, olive oil was applied after bathing and lifted away with a bronze strigil, carrying dust, sweat, and fatigue off with it. These practices were not about stripping the body but softening it — leaving it perfumed, cared for, and ready.

Across cultures, oils have long been central to ritual bathing. They carried fragrance, signified power, and marked transitions: from the battlefield to the banquet, from labor to ceremony. Oils were both protection and adornment — a way of embodying presence.

At 39BC, we return to that principle. Our Cleansing Shower Oils are designed as both ritual and archive. They cleanse without erasure, transforming with water into a light emulsion that leaves behind a silken veil. A veil that holds fragrance long after the water has gone.

Each oil in Vol. I: Alexandria is inspired by Cleopatra and Mark Antony — their alliance, their intimacy, their power. Together, they remind us that bathing is not just hygiene. It is inheritance.

\n $\"$ \n\n

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\n Silk Veil, a combination of neroli, jasmine, tuberose, and amber that linger on the skin\n\n

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Discover Silk Veil, a luxury shower oil that evokes Cleopatra alone in power, perfumed and preparing to receive. Neroli, jasmine, tuberose, and amber linger on the skin — a ritual of presence, not performance.

If shower gel is routine, shower oil is ritual. One offers surface-level clean. The other offers immersion — a return to body, to scent, to memory.

Less foam. More feeling.

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