Back to shop

Rhubarb Thief

  • Vegan
  • Organic
  • Cruelty Free

50ML / 1.7FL OZ - EAU DE PARFUM

In our

Smells like

$165

Available for pickup

In stock at the shop on Grand Avenue — choose pickup at checkout, or come smell it in person.

565 Grand Ave, Carlsbad, CA 92008

Tue–Sat 11am–6pm · Sun 11am–4pm

Visit the shop

Shopping for someone else? Give a gift card →

If you love Rhubarb Thief, Shaya would reach for these

The Story

Green, Tart, Dangerous. This fragrance captures the daring spirit of pilfered treasures and fleeting indulgence. Bold notes of rhubarb, grapefruit, and cedarwood create a vibrant blend layered with a touch of irreverence. Rhubarb Thief is an ode to those who embrace beauty, playfulness, and the unexpected.

Rhubarb grows where spells are planted.

At the edges of gardens, between order and wildness, it pushes its crimson stalks through dark soil like a secret kept by the earth. In old herbals and folk traditions, rhubarb was less ingredient than incantation, used to restore balance, move stagnant energies, and protect the body from unseen disturbances. It was a plant taken quietly, at dawn or dusk, when its magic was strongest.

Rhubarb Thief opens with tension and snap. Grapefruit pith delivers a bitter-bright jolt; dry, bracing, and alive, tempered by the clean grain of cedar. Angelica, long regarded as a guardian plant and tonic, brings an herbal muskiness that feels both medicinal and spiritual. Thyme and verbena sharpen the edges, aromatic and green, while carrot seed introduces a soft earthiness, rooted, warm, and quietly grounding. At the heart, the stalk is snapped. Rhubarb arrives vivid and mouthwatering.

Green, tart, and vegetal, its brightness humming with energy rather than sweetness. Pink jasmine softens the sharpness with a translucent floral warmth, while cypress adds verticality, cool, resinous, and breath-opening, a tree long associated with vitality and renewal. The base settles into moss and resin. Elemi brings a citrus-tinged balminess, once used in healing salves to soothe both skin and spirit. Oakmoss anchors the composition in damp forest shadow, mineral, velvety, and alive, connecting the body back to earth.

Rhubarb Thief is a perfume of recalibration, bright yet rooted, cleansing yet sensual. A botanical charm disguised as pleasure, stolen from the garden before the light changes and the spell breaks.

TOP
Grapefruit Peel, Cedar, Angelica, Thyme, Verbena, Carrot Seed
HEART
Rhubarb, Pink Jasmine, Cypress
BASE
Elemi, Oakmoss

The House

Douglas Little — perfumer and founder of Heretic — makes the provocative side of clean perfumery. The fragrances are naturals-forward, raw and sensual, and built to feel like the unpolished version of the plant they came from rather than its varnish. Every batch is handcrafted in small runs in Heretic's Los Angeles studio and blended with non-GMO sugarcane alcohol.

The Perfumer

Douglas Little