WERWULF SKULL POMANDER PENDANT

LIMITED EDITION • THE BEAST WITHIN • In partnership with Robert Eggers’ Werwulf and Focus Features, Heretic presents a pendant inspired by historical pomanders that were once worn to carry fragrant herbs, spices, and resins. Part jewelry, part perfume object, part memento mori, it hinges open to reveal a hidden chamber containing a bisque stone infused with perfume that becomes a wearable diffuser. One side is human, the other skull, exploring the film’s central tension between man and beast. 

Rendered in sterling silver recovered by From The Silver Screen from the processing of the actual film used to create WERWULF. Made in extremely limited quantities.

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PRODUCT DETAILS

This sterling silver pendant has a skull on one side, human face on the other. Hinged through its center, the piece opens to reveal a secret chamber concealed within. Inside rests a porous bisque stone imbued with the WERWULF perfume. Once the pomander is closed, the skull becomes the diffuser. Fragrance slowly escapes through the hollow eye sockets, nose and mouth, surrounding the wearer with scent emanating quite literally from within. 

This necklace comes with three fragranced bisque stones.

Made in extremely limited quantities, each WERWULF Skull Pomander is deliberately complex to produce: part jewelry, part perfume object, part mechanical curiosity, part relic.

HERETIC X FROM THE SILVER SCREEN

There is a reason we call it the silver screen. Traditional motion picture film contains microscopic crystals of silver within its emulsion. Light strikes the film and an image is born, captured through chemistry, matter and silver.

For WERWULF, that silver has been given another life.

Heretic partnered with British jewellery house From The Silver Screen, who recover silver from the processing of motion picture film that would otherwise disappear. Their laboratories work with this reclaimed material through meticulous process of recovery and refinement, and transform it into sterling silver jewelry. For this limited edition pendant, they’ve rendered silver recovered from the processing of the actual film used to create Robert Eggers’ WERWULF. 

You are wearing a piece of the film.
It is not simply a material chosen for the collection. It is a physical trace of the film itself.
Light becomes image.
Image becomes memory.
Silver becomes relic.

Robert Eggers’ Werwulf is only in theaters Christmas.

THE SKULL POMANDER

In WERWULF, Robert Eggers asks us to confront something uncomfortable: the distance between the civilized self we present to the world and the primal animal that remains beneath it. The “Beast Within” pendant is designed with two identities occupying a single form. From one side, human. From the other, death. The skull itself also takes the form of memento mori, the reminder of mortality that appeared throughout medieval and early modern European art and devotional objects. Life and death occupy the same object. That duality became the foundation of the WERWULF Skull Pomander.

Set in the 13th century, the WERWULF film takes us to a time when the boundaries between the cosmetic, medicinal, spiritual and supernatural were not nearly as fixed as they are today. Fragrance could be adornment, but it could also be medicine, protection, devotion and talisman. Aromatic substances were carried close to the body. Herbs, spices, resins and perfumes were enclosed within precious vessels that eventually became known as pomanders, from the French pomme d’ambre, meaning “apple of amber.”

Such objects were worn not simply to smell beautiful, but as personal instruments of protection.

Our pomander is inspired by a particularly elaborate 17th century skull pomander design. Hinged through its center, this piece opens to reveal a secret chamber for a perfumed stone that slowly diffuses its fragrance to surround the wearer with scent of the WERWULF, the beast within.

A contemporary interpretation of an ancient impulse: to carry scent as protection, adornment, memory and mystery. 

Robert Eggers’ Werwulf is only in theaters Christmas.

WERWULF EXPERIENCE

There are, within this collection, three witnesses: The forest. The beast. The blood. Each preserving the scent of what transpired beneath the changing moon. Click the link below to step into the darkness of the woods and experience the transformation from man to wolf, learning more about each fragrance as you go.

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