DITA VON TEESE ◊ THE NOCTURNELLE OF AYAHUASCA

◊🪞 As a model and photographer who creates self-portraits in the mirror, I’ve been honoured to wear the visionary creations of Dita Von Teese Lingerie. Even more so, I’m honoured to share how she has rendered a cultural message showing that the medicine can be relevant to sexuality — moving with us through all stages of life. Whether during strict traditional observance of abstinence (through soulful beauty), or outside of those times in sexuality and all creative expression, through a diverse and liberated culture of wider plant medicine realization.

◊🌕 One particular lingerie set she created has always spoken volumes to me : Nocturnelle. The poetry of the name, combined with the design, has sparked so much dreaming. My first thought was that “Nocturnelle” seems to describe an elegant and mysterious goddess who stays up late at night. Personally, I’ve always aspired to stay up late and sleep in, originally inspired by Paris Hilton’s book Confessions of an Heiress, where she says it’s more like an icon to stay up late — and that truly stuck with me.


◊🍃 But in Nocturnelle, I found a deeper story. The swirling, leaf-like lace patterns in the fabric instantly reminded me of Salvia Divinorum, a psychedelic plant medicine. Salvia seemed like the perfect match — it takes great courage and an adventurous spirit to work with, such as that of a late night star. To me, this lingerie speaks to that powerful explorer of the night.


◊🔥 Salvia Divinorum is a potent psychedelic medicine smoked in a pipe, delivering an experience truly incomparable to anything else. Though it lasts only 5–15 minutes, it’s not like DMT — it’s a distinct realm, a direct teaching from the plant. Each journey feels like a lesson from a wise, shockingly powerful and mysterious teacher.


◊🤯 I once heard a story of a woman who smoked Salvia with her partner. Feeling little effect, they went for a walk, spent the whole day talking and wandering outdoors in the park. When they returned, they discovered they’d never left — still seated in the same place, and only five minutes had passed.

◊🌳 Another person described becoming the tree they had leaned on to smoke. The bark was their skin. They were the tree — not metaphorically, but literally, viscerally.

◊🪞In my own experience with Salvia, I felt a seam along the sides of my body, going over the top of my head. Through that seam, layer by layer of cosmic universes — infinite reality in new forms — folded over, one after another.

◊❤️‍🔥 Salvia is not recreational. Most people wouldn’t do it often. It’s something you’d try only if truly visionary as well as courageous — a seeker who is powerfully inspired to meet ancient plant teachers. You’d have to be so brave just to open that door.


◊🧬 If you’ve read my work, you know my deep background in psychedelic plant medicine. The Salvia dream I saw in the Nocturnelle lace was reminiscent in my mind of any psychedelic journies — this mystical experience of staying up late for bold reasons of this nature.


◊🪡 This lingerie set is different from the others — the way it fits and contours the body is unique. It covers more skin (without sacrificing sexiness) as a vintage-style longline bra and high-rise brief. There is also a plunge bra, a wireless variation for even deeper relaxation. The comfort is unparalleled. Even the longline bra distributes pressure gently around the ribs, making it one of the only high-end lingerie sets truly suited practically for psychedelic journeying.

◊🧘🏽‍♀️ During a journey, comfort is everything. The body becomes incredibly sensitive, and the ability to change positions without adjusting clothing is vital. In that state, it’s a miracle to wear anything so beautiful and luxurious.

◊🌹 Some psychedelics, like Ayahuasca, require abstinence in preparation and aftercare to maintain sacred focus and respect ancestral traditions. But even then, it’s a gift to feel beautiful in lingerie — and many other plant medicines, like mushrooms or LSD, allow for sexual exploration within the visionary state.


◊🧬 Ayahuasca culture, however, spans far beyond the ceremonial context of abstinence. For those who live in deep relationship with the medicine — monthly, seasonally, or even once or twice a year — it becomes an immersively meaningful lifestyle. Its influence touches music, fashion, art, relationships, artful life philosophies, and so much more. In that sense, Dita provides a cultural expression that speaks to the sacred space outside of the traditional container of abstinence, where sexuality can be joyfully embraced by medicine people.

◊🖤 As an Ayahuasqera Curandera Perfumera — a traditional master facilitator of Ayahuasca ceremonies — I’ve understood that my public choice to model lingerie publicly (as I do on instagram) can be seen as controversial. Most Curanderos and Curanderas promote themselves within their communities through local relationships, and are expected to maintain modest public presentation. This is largely to support the challenging psychological process of abstinence, which can be an incredibly delicate and demanding commitment for their patients. That said, it’s a joy that I’m not bound to that requirement, since I do not serve Ayahuasca ceremonies to the public due to my specialization as a Perfumera.

◊💐 As a Perfumera, my ceremonies are highly intensive — structured around personalized perfume applications and continuous healing remedies throughout the night. This makes my work suitable only for very small groups, shared in deep discretion with a select few. It’s such a rare offering that I may as well practice exclusively in Peru, even though I live in Canada. This gives me full freedom to choose participants based on their readiness and alignment, rather than opening myself to the public and their more intensive needs. More importantly, I’ve been deeply instructed by the medicine itself on the exact kinds of people I’m destined to work with — and they are, without exception, some of the most mature and capable individuals I’ve ever known surrounding this important issue.

◊🌳 Also, in my longtime indepth study of Dita Von Teese, I became profoundly fascinated her perfume SCANDALWOOD, one of the few she designed herself. On many levels, it carried meaning for me — especially in how it reminded me of Iboga, the traditional Bwiti medicine known for curing addiction and transforming lives.

◊🐍 SCANDALWOOD came wrapped in printed paper depicting a stylized anaconda — a being of immense importance in Ayahuasca medicine. It had ears, and resembled the medicine anacondas from the visionary paintings of Pablo Amaringo, the Peruvian Ayahuasquero who collaborated with anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna on the book Ayahuasca Visions : The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman. This book depicts countless Ayahuasca visions which Pablo had in his many years as an Ayahuasqero of the Shipibo-Conibo traditions.


◊🌈 These anacondas represent Ayahuasca itself — and I found it bold, powerful, and wise that Dita would make such a subtle reference to the medicine through a perfume rooted in sensuality and glamour. I applaud her for this — for honoring the vast reach of, specifically, Ayahuasca culture beyond ceremony, into the fullness of life and sexuality as it creatively comes to light through many facets of our existence.

◊💫 As a medicine woman, I can’t say how much that has meant to me. Because of my powerful background, I truly identify fully with the medicine at all times — not just in ceremony and the completely abstinent preparation and aftercare period before and after. One of the most important teachings Ayahuasca gave me early on was this : I and the medicine are one. That understanding became a crucial foundation of many-faceted importance for my long (and arduous) 15 year journey to becoming a full-fledged Ayahuasqera.


◊🧬⭐️ So as a woman who wears Dita Von Teese lingerie exclusively, it is an honor to say that Nocturnelle — the set I would always wear for a psychedelic trip or ceremony — is not only beautiful, but perfect for the experience. It is not just comfortable but also its beauty touches my soul, on a level far beyond my sexual emotions. And fittingly, traditional Ayahuasca ceremonies always begin at night — when the sun goes down — and end when it rises in the morning and we go to sleep. Just like the beautiful Nocturnelle.

Love, Ba
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