Snufflewort Essence

Ah, the notorious Snufflewort Essence - a substance so peculiar and pungent that only healers and the perpetually unfortunate can truly appreciate its...aroma...

— That novice healer who gets all the shite jobs.

Snufflewort is a small, nondescript herb gowing deep within the swampy bogs of Abrarion. At first glance, it resembles nothing more than a scruffy tuft of moss with a few dull leaves. But when distilled, it produces Snufflewort Essence, a thick oily liquid with a small so distict it could clear a room faster than a Amarexael skunk covered in fox excrement and smell a hundred times worse.

The scent is a strange cocktail of aged Treyshillian blue cheese, a dash of wet dog and a whisper of sweaty ball sack. It's this unique, eye-watering bouquet that makes it instantly recognisable to any seasoned healer. To an unseasoned healer in their first years of practice, they begin to question their life choices. It weeds out those who enter the healing profession for the recognition and the glory from those who enter to care and the compassionate, A test of heart...and of being nose blind.

They claim it has an uncanny ability to open congested sinusesm cure stubborn fevers, and - somehow - banish the faint whiff of doom that clings to battlefield casualties. Although...one whiff of this essence and those injured in battle wish they had died....

Uses

• Healing poultices: Slathered generously, it encourages the body to 'kick the nasties' out faster - though the patient may temporarily question the sanity of the healer.
• Air purifier: A few drops in a room and, well, it clears the air...often because everyone flees...
• Healer's secret handshake: If you catch a whiff of Snufflewort Essence from behind a healer's cloak, you know they're on the job - and probably abot to administer something you'd rather avoid.
• Unwanted suitor deterrent: Princess Teridana of Abrarion once used Snufflewort Essence as a cream applied to her décolletage to repel an unwanted suitor. The Man in question - who suffered from the body frowziness and who made Snufflewort Essence smell like a basket of roses - had the audacity to wrinkle his nose when his nose found itself...nose level with the Princess's...uh...chest... She soon married a handsome man with impeccable hygiene...but only after she quarantined herself for a month and bathing twice a day in vinegar.