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... will be live on Sunday, 5/1. Apologies for the small delay; small computer explody problem.

The logo contest is going up this weekend, period. I've given ample time for the last two entries to come in, and if they're not here by Friday, I'm going to go ahead with it anyway. This has been too long a process, and I have to cut it off. On a softer, happier note: the King & Queen of Clubs will be available [to forum members only] in the next update, along with a third surprise oil, along the same theme.

The Lunacy update will be going live between 1am and 3am [Mountain Time] on Sunday.

Just a small reminder that we'll be vending at this year's Convergence, April 22-24, at the Shelter Pointe Hotel in San Diego, CA. We're working on a tentative stock list, which will include some LE backstock, a few single notes, the notorious Triple Dagger tee [courtesy of Black Phoenix Trading Post, and a selection of demonic statues [designed by Thomas, of Panoptikom, Screaming Kings and Amy Brown Signature Series fame in addition to a few Twilight Alchemy Lab oils and oils from our general catalogue. Another reminder: my Aphrodesiac Workshop is scheduled for April 29, 8-10pm, and will be hosted by the fine people at Black Broom [5050 Vineland Ave, North Hollywood, CA 91601]. Getting Dirty With Aphrodisiacs 101 This is not a love spell course; just primal, bestial lust. We will address the basic components of a passion blend, discuss methods by which they can be implemented practically, cover edible aphrodisiacs briefly, and at the end of the class you have the option of participating in a little hands-on workshop. Cost for class and materials will be $25. You will leave this class with some goodies and just in time for the weekend! There is no need to pre-register for the class, but I would like to get a general head count so I know what materials I need to provide. At this time, we are awaiting the delivery of a few pieces of logo artwork that seem to have vanished in transit. As soon as they are in our hands, the contest will commence.

We had a few tarot imps left over, so for a limited time [while we've still got 'em!] all BPTP t-shirt orders will come with a couple of tarot impies. =) A little gift from Teddy!

BPAL LOGO CONTEST This is the first presentation of the entries for the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab logo contest. Voting will commence within the next few days. I wanted everyone to have some time to look at the artwork, and, given the computer-related problems we've run into since Mercury went askew, I also wanted some leeway space, just in case someone's entry got sucked into a communication vortex. If you have submitted a logo and it is not listed here, please let Kennedy know as soon as possible: answers [at] blackphoenixalchemylab [dot] com. The entries will remain anonymous until the votes have been cast.

I am such an enormous kook tonight: I posted this in the TOTALLY WRONG PLACE the first time around. Mercury, please cut it out. I posted almost the exact same stuff on the Lab’s new announcement LJ Community, bpal_excathedra… sorry if you end up reading all this twice. 8) As some of you know, some bozo has been monkeying around with our blackphoenixalchemylab eBay account. While we get that straightened out, I’m posting a couple of auctions on my personal eBay in an effort to pad the donations I’m sending out to the charities listed in the Oblations. I’ll be honest, guys… that whole thing didn’t go over the way I’d hoped. We didn’t generate much on those oils, so that’s why I’m pulling them, and from now on I’m going to use eBay auctions and a pad on the occasional LE in order to slake my need to help people, critters and causes. Anyway, I don’t want to write wee checks to these guys, so I’m trying to drum up some love before I send them off later this month. The entirety of the moola from the Prototype Auctions will be divided amongst the Oblation charities, sans any eBay or PayPal fees. The Prototype Auctions: Caligostro Jinx Naked Singularity Vampyre And on a slightly different topic, Chaos Theory II: The Butterfly Effect will be crashing out of the Lab this Spring. Details forthcoming. Some other dates worth mentioning… The Lab will be at Convergence 11. Visit, or suffer my wrath! Ok, maybe not wrath. But it’ll be nice to meet some of you guys! On April 29th, I will be hosting a little class at the Black Broom in North Hollywood, CA: - - - Getting Dirty With Aphrodisiacs 101 A two-hour course in blending oils, powders and incense for passion, dressing candles and assembling mojo hands for lust and attraction. This is not a love spell course; just primal, bestial lust. We will address the basic components of a passion blend, discus methods by which they can be implemented practically, cover edible aphrodisiacs briefly, and at the end of the class you have the option of participating in a little hands-on workshop. - - - More details about C11 stock and the class will be posted asap. Now for the irksome news: there’s a slight delay on the upload of the logo contest page. I keep dropping connection and the upload is locking up on me. I will get this working as quickly as I possibly can.

Upcoming Moons 2005 May: Flower Moon / Available April 24 June: Strawberry Moon / Available May 23 July: Buck Moon / Available June 22 August: Fruit Moon / Available July 21 September: Harvest Moon / Available August 19 October: Blood Moon / Available September 18 November: Beaver Moon / Available October 17 December: Snow Moon / Available November 16 2006 January: Holiday Moon / Available December 15 February: Budding Moon / Available January 14 March: Sleepy Moon / Available February 13 April: Peony Moon / Available March 14 May: Dragon Moon / Available April 13 June: Lotus Moon / Available May 13 July: Hungry Ghost Moon / Available June 11

Good evening, all! I'm SO happy that the forums are back up and running... I can't tell you how much I missed you guys! =) A gurzillion thanks to Ms. Shriekingviolet and the crew here for all the hard work and love that they put into the forum, and for the grueling hours they put into resurrecting it! Thank you, also, to Sarah for the gorgeous new skin! A quick head’s up about two things, and then I have to get back to work. First, some shitwit tried to hack into our fledgling eBay account, so it was taken down temporarily while eBay sorted out the dilemma. It should be back up within the next 24 hours; sincere apologies to everyone who was in mid-bid. We didn’t have any control over this. Due to a small internal problem, the voting page for the BPAL logo won’t be up until tomorrow night… I’m guessing around midnight, barring incident. I’ve opted to keep the submissions anonymous until after the contest is over for the sake of fairness. More will be posted as I get closer to getting this finished! Missed you, love you, and all that good stuff. =D ETA: We're brainless!

When Pink Moon rears its blushing noggin on 3/25, the Panaceas will make their debut. It is a small line of aromatherapy blends, the first of which are: Elixir I: Seduction Elixir II: Succor Elixir III: Lustration Elixir IV: Quietude Elixir V: Moxie On April 1st, a three-month long visit from the Great Old Ones commences: the Springtime in Arkham collection. More news as it becomes available.

BPAL is now available at the following shops: The Enchanted Castle 8660 N. Main Street Helen, GA 30545 The Dreaming Goddess 9 Collegeview Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

Surprise! We've got a small update in addition to tonight's Black Phoenix Trading Post update: the Limited Edition scent, the Ides of March is live, and Graveyard Dirt is making a guest appearance! - - - New at the Black Phoenix Trading Post: the BPAL Touché Tee! The Triple Dagger tee, a wicked Baphomet statue based on Eliphas Levi's illustration and three Goetic cuties will be live and snarling at the Trading Post this April. - - - New stuff @ the Lab... :: LIMITED EDITION THE IDES OF MARCH -- The Ides marked an auspicious time in the Roman calendar. Depending on the month in question, the Ides fell on the thirteenth or fifteenth, and usually marked the Full Moon. As we all know, it was not an auspicious day for Julius Caesar, nor was it fortuitous for H.P. Lovecraft, who also met his maker on this infamous day. Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi! A mixture of springtime greenery and classical Roman cologne: rosemary, bergamot, lemon rind and vervain with costus, benzoin, gray amber, cardamom, white narcissus and iris. GRAVEYARD DIRT -- A tribute to a somehat nefarious and truly notorious ingredient in New Orleans spellcrafting. It is employed in hoodoo rootwork for various reasons, primarily in spells of protection, “tricking” your enemies, binding, and even love magick. The graves are chosen based on the type of working, and are determined by the type of spirit that lies there and the manner of their demise. Payment is always required in the form of offerings to the deceased. This is the scent of pure graveyard dust, spattered with grave loam and dusted lightly with tombstone moss. Please note: Graveyard Dirt was placed in Funereal Oils and not Voodoo, as this version of Graveyard Dirt does not possess the esoteric qualities of the Twilight Alchemy Lab oil of the same name, though the scent is damn near identical. - - - Also in this update: :: BEWITCHING BREWS NUIT -- She is the Goddess of the Sky, one of the Ennead, daughter of the air [shu] and water [Tefnut], lover of Geb and Hadit, the Eternal Mother, and the Receiver, Reviver and Protector of the Dead, whose loving, divine embrace shields our souls from annihilation. She is love, rapture, splendor, continuous and eternal birth and rebirth, infinite space, and the “the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night”. Nuit is Earth’s guardian, and shields her lover and her mortal children from the primeval chaos that threatens Existence. Her perfume is starry and crystalline, a jewel-clad and glittering paean to night: dazzling white musks, white rose and night-blooming jasmine with the soft moss of moonlit meadows, a waft of Egyptian incense, and a gentle breath of moonflower. :: FUNEREAL OILS HADES -- The gloomy Hades enriches himself with our sighs and our tears. The Unseen. Eldest brother of Zeus, Husband of Persephone, Lord of the Underworld and Commander of the Demons of the Underworld, God of Wealth, whose epithets are Clymenus [Notorious], Eubuleus [Wise in Counsel], and Polydegmon [He who receives many / The Hospitable]. Though he is a dark, morbid and morose deity, fierce and relentless, and is stern, pitiless, and sometimes cruel, he is by no means an evil God. His justice is true, even-handed and absolute, and he is possessed of unbreakable loyalty, single-minded devotion to duty, and immense courage. A dark, palpably sacred chthonic blend: black narcissus and cypress, stephanotis, opoponax, labdanum, onycha and ambergris. :: SIN & SALVATION GOMORRAH -- One of the Biblical Cities on the Plain, destroyed by God with fire and brimstone because of its people’s pride, prosperous ease, deceit, hedonism and indolence, and their callous, uncharitable hearts. A gritty, sordid and languid scent: ripe fig, date and currant with black herbs. :: WANDERLUST THE HANGING GARDENS -- The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Great Wonders of the World, were believed to be created by Nebuchadnezzar, possibly to honor the Assyrian princess Semiramis, or, more likely, to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar’s unhappy, homesick wife, Amyitis. If the latter is to be believed, it is speculated that Amyitis found the dry, arid landscape of Mesopotamia, in contrast to the lush greenery of her homeland, to be staggeringly depressing and bleak. To bolster her spirits, the king recreated a fascimile of her mountanous, green home with this fantastic terraced wonder filled with sparkling waterfalls, strange beasts, and exotic fruits, trees and flowers. This perfume is an interpretation of the Hanging Gardens by night, based on further accounts of its fruit and flora: date palm, ebony, fir, pomegranate, plum, two pears, quince, fig, and grapevine with plumeria, three gardenias and dry rose.

Antique Lace and Three Witches have been discontinued as of 3pm PST 3/14/2005.

Black Phoenix is now being carried at Alternate Realities, Lincoln Mall, RI. Alternate Realities Lincoln Mall 622 George Washington Highway Lincoln, Rhode Island

As of the time of this posting, imps are no longer available for the following categories of scents: Sephiroth Tarot Oils Oblation Any Twilight Alchemy Lab oils [including those sold at Black Broom]. If you request a sample of a limited edition scent, we will swap for a random general catalog scent. Thanks for understanding!

The old phoenix logo has poofed out in a whoosh of flame, and it is time for a new BPAL logo to rise from its ashes. Since this is a family of sniff-makers and not doodlers, we're leaving it up to you. We are looking for a new logo... simple, clean, and something that will work well as both black ink on white and the reverse… a Fin de Siècle, Decadent Movement-inspired phoenix. The logo will be used on a bevy of BPAL paraphernalia, will adorn the new label for our Black Phoenix blend, will be carved into a Black Phoenix Trading Post pendant if possible, and, of course, the artist will be given full credit and will be lauded in the annals of BPAL history as an artistic genius and the herald of a new eon of BPAL tchotchkies. And I might just be moved to get it tattoo’d somewhere indiscreet. Sage, that means I’m coming to visit you again soon. =) Please email a lo-res version of your artwork to me at cupcake [at] blackphoenixalchemylab [dot] com with ‘Logo Contest Entry’ in the title by March 30th, 2005. The contest will commence on April Fools Day, 2005. I will set the artwork up on our site, and there will be an anonymous public voting process, the details of which are still to be determined. Voting is only open to members of the BPAL Forum and the BPAL Livejournal community. And now for the details: your artwork does not need to be digital, but must be scanable if it isn't digital. If you are sending a hard copy of your work, please remit it to – Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Attn: Beth 5042 Vineland Avenue North Hollywood, CA 91601 If you are sending digital art, we will need a version that is at least 300 dpi to use for printing and etching purposes. When sending in your entry, please send a 72 dpi version and keep the 300 dpi file on hand. Yes, there is a prize for the winner and the two runners up. A woman is entitled to her secrets and little mysteries, no? =) Questions? Email me.

Ted, Brian and I will be out of town from Thursday til Sunday cheering on Teddy’s hockey team, the L.A. Riots, at the Can-Am tournament in Las Vegas. We will be back Sunday night and our Vegas-fried brains should be functioning by Monday morning. Chaste Moon is live. In addition, we’ve added the following concoctions: + A LITTLE LUNACY CHASTE MOON -- Though March marks the end of the desolation and chill of winter, it is not yet Spring, the time of rebirth, fertility and the Earth’s fecundity. March’s Full Moon is a Virgin’s Moon, pure, youthful, unsullied and innocent. This is the Moon of the Child, and the scent is as soft and gentle as a baby’s breath: milky blossoms and soft cream touch the last buds of winter, coupled with crystalline, bright traditional Lunar oils. + BEWITCHING BREWS AEVAL -- A raven-haired Fairy Queen of Ireland. One of her eternal duties dictates that she must hold a midnight court every season and hear the pleas of married Irishwomen. The court serves only to determine whether or not husbands are adequately serving their wife’s sexual needs. A judicious yet powerfully sensual blend, a mingling of justice and sexuality: sage, sweet pea, bold pale musk and warm tonka. JUKE JOINT -- A bawdy, gleefully wicked and unruly scent: Kentucky Bourbon, sugar and a sprig of mint. LEANAN SIDHE -- Most of the Gaelic poets, down to quite recent times, have had a Leanhaun Shee, for she gives inspiration to her slaves and is indeed the Gaelic muse -- this malignant fairy. Her lovers, the Gaelic poets, died young. She grew restless and carried them away to other worlds, for death does not destroy her power. – W.B. Yeats The name translates to “fairy, love of my soul”. A vampiric spirit and a dark muse, the love of the Leanan Sidhe is both a gift and a curse. These eerily beautiful Irish spirits drain the sanity and lifeforce of the men they inspire to artistic greatness. Her kiss infuses a man with depth of vision and feeling, otherworldly passion, and a sudden and ineffable understanding of the unending sadness that plagues mankind. Her perfume is a crush of Irish herbs and flowers, Gaelic mists, and nighttime dew. SANTA MUERTE -- Santa Muerte, Saint Death, is not a harbinger of doom and symbol of entropy. She is the Queen of Mercy, a source of motherly comfort, and a symbol to all sweethearts that love lasts even beyond death. She is a vision of beauty in her own right: glittering rings adorn every bony finger, she is draped in a cloak of the finest satin, and her grinning skull, beneath her cowl, is crowned by a bejeweled tiara. A deep, resonant scent, both comforting and soft: lovers’ roses, solemn chrysanthemum, dark vetiver and dazzling cactus flowers. - - - + FUNEREAL OILS DANCE OF DEATH – Carrying bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves, Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves With all the careless and high-stepping grace, And the extravagant courtesan's thin face. Was slimmer waist e'er in a ball-room wooed? Her floating robe, in royal amplitude, Falls in deep folds around a dry foot, shod With a bright flower-like shoe that gems the sod. The swarms that hum about her collar-bones As the lascivious streams caress the stones, Conceal from every scornful jest that flies, Her gloomy beauty; and her fathomless eyes Are made of shade and void; with flowery sprays Her skull is wreathed artistically, and sways, Feeble and weak, on her frail vertebrae. O charm of nothing decked in folly! they Who laugh and name you a Caricature, They see not, they whom flesh and blood allure, The nameless grace of every bleached, bare bone, That is most dear to me, tall skeleton! Come you to trouble with your potent sneer The feast of Life! or are you driven here, To Pleasure's Sabbath, by dead lusts that stir And goad your moving corpse on with a spur? Or do you hope, when sing the violins, And the pale candle-flame lights up our sins, To drive some mocking nightmare far apart, And cool the flame hell lighted in your heart? Fathomless well of fault and foolishness! Eternal alembic of antique distress! Still o'er the curved, white trellis of your sides The sateless, wandering serpent curls and glides. And truth to tell, I fear lest you should find, Among us here, no lover to your mind; Which of these hearts beat for the smile you gave? The charms of horror please none but the brave. Your eyes' black gulf, where awful broodings stir, Brings giddiness; the prudent reveller Sees, while a horror grips him from beneath, The eternal smile of thirty-two white teeth. For he who has not folded in his arms A skeleton, nor fed on graveyard charms, Recks not of furbelow, or paint, or scent, When Horror comes the way that Beauty went. O irresistible, with fleshless face, Say to these dancers in their dazzled race: "Proud lovers with the paint above your bones, Ye shall taste death, musk scented skeletons! Withered Antinoüs, dandies with plump faces, Ye varnished cadavers, and grey Lovelaces, Ye go to lands unknown and void of breath, Drawn by the rumour of the Dance of Death. From Seine's cold quays to Ganges' burning stream, The mortal troupes dance onward in a dream; They do not see, within the opened sky, The Angel's sinister trumpet raised on high. In every clime and under every sun, Death laughs at ye, mad mortals, as ye run; And oft perfumes herself with myrrh, like ye And mingles with your madness, irony! A gloriously elegant representation of Lady Death. Dry, bone-white orris, black musk, serpentine patchouli and our murkiest myrrh. THE GHOST – Softly as brown-eyed Angels rove I will return to thy alcove, And glide upon the night to thee, Treading the shadows silently. And I will give to thee, my own, Kisses as icy as the moon, And the caresses of a snake Cold gliding in the thorny brake. And when returns the livid morn Thou shalt find all my place forlorn And chilly, till the falling night. Others would rule by tenderness Over thy life and youthfulness, But I would conquer thee by fright! A thin, sinuous, creeping chill, the scent of glee-filled undeath: white iris, osmanthus, Calla lily, tomb-crawling ivy and a coffin spray of gladiolus, lisianthus and delphinium. - - - + SIN & SALVATION ROSE CROSS -- A profound symbol of an individual’s personal initiatic process, spiritual refinement and evolution, synthesis, grace found as a result of trial and suffering, and the alchemical process by which we transform the raw essence of our souls through light in extension. This is a holy oil, a representation of the triumph of spirit over matter: purest rose with sacred frankincense. - - - + WANDERLUST PRAGUE -- Crocus with snowdrop and three lilies.

Due to some faulty wiring and a flooded modem, we are having some trouble connecting. Basically, no online access at home at all, and an erratic connection at the Lab.

Verbatim from the Shiny & New page, as I am about to fall dead asleep on my keyboard... - - - IF YOU ARE PAYING VIA PAYPAL, please do NOT use our online credit card processor. Place your order through PayPal using the payment address paypal [at] blackphoenixalchemylab [dot] com and fill your order info in the comments field. Please note that all orders, including domestic orders, are currently taking an excess of 21 - 45 business days to process, pack and ship out due to a heavy workload, the process of hand-blending and the nature of our product. Please refer to the Shiny and New section for more information about current ship times. All oils are made once they're ordered to ensure freshness. Our shipped-through info is constantly updated in the BPAL Forums. Black Phoenix Trading Post is now live! Black Phoenix Trading Post is the officially licensed creator and distributor of BPAL tees, perfume jewelry and tchotch. The first tee is up, the Established 1350 tee, but they will be adding more designs in the near future. In the Spring, the first in a series of demonic statues will also debut. Questions? Please contact the Trading Post's proprietor, Tedwin, at tradingpost [at] papow [dot] net. Our Beloved Kate has completed the BPAL Search Engine Scent Family Project, and searching the site for scents by genre, tone, and general feel is now possible. ALL HAIL KATE! While Tedwin is busy slaving away in the t-shirt mines, Miss Kennedy, the recently deified Customer Service Goddess and Anthony, the BPAL House Manager and Official Whip Cracker, will be handling all of your customer service needs. Please email them with any concerns, comments, praise or lamentation at answers [at] blackphoenixalchemylab [dot] com. BPAL will be vending at Convergence 11, so if you can manage it, please come down and say hullo. Chaste Moon is coming up on my birthday, February 24, so you can bet your ass that it should be a pretty groovy update, all in all. But, in the meantime, here is a peek at the scents that are new for February: LIMITED EDITION • DEAD MAN'S HAND -- To celebrate the opening of the Black Phoenix Trading Post, we are offering this rugged, visceral dark cowboy scent. Now widely considered a portent of doom, the Dead Man’s Hand is a term used in five-card poker when you have “aces over eights” or “aces backed with eights” – the hand allegedly held by Wild Bill Hickock when he was gunned down from behind by Jack McCall in Saloon No. 10, Deadwood. According to the saloon’s proprietor, Hickock was holding all black cards, aces and eights, and it is believed that he was about to draw at the time of his murder. Our Dead Man’s Hand is the quintessential western scent: dusty rawhide and oiled leather. • THE LIVING FLAME -- They pass before me, these Eyes full of light, Eyes made magnetic by some angel wise; The holy brothers pass before my sight, And cast their diamond fires in my dim eyes. They keep me from all sin and error grave, They set me in the path whence Beauty came; They are my servants, and I am their slave, And all my soul obeys the living flame. Beautiful Eyes that gleam with mystic light As candles lighted at full noon; the sun Dims not your flame phantastical and bright. You sing the dawn; they celebrate life done; Marching you chaunt my soul's awakening hymn, Stars that no sun has ever made grow dim! A luminescent red scent: breathless with passion, flickering with desire, and glowing with ardent and reverential love. FUNEREAL OILS • HOUSE OF NIGHT -- And by that light around the dome appear'd A mournful garden of autumnal hue, Its lately pleasing flowers all drooping stood Amidst high weeds that rank in plenty grew. The Primrose there, the violet darkly blue, Daisies and fair Narcissus ceas'd to rise, Gay spotted pinks their charming bloom withdrew. And Polyanthus quench'd its thousand dyes. No pleasant fruit or blossoms gaily smil'd, Nought but unhappy plants or trees were seen, The yew, the myrtle, and the church-yard elm, The cypress, with its melancholy green. There cedars dark, the osier, and the pine, Shorn tamarisks, and weeping willows grew, The poplar tall, the lotos, and the lime, And Pyracantha did her leaves renew. The poppy there, companion to repose, Display'd her blossoms that began to fall, And here the purple amaranthus rose With mint strong-scented, for the funeral. And here and there with laurel shrubs between A tombstone lay, inscrib'd with stains of woe, And stanzas sad, throughout the dismal green, Lamented for the dead that slept below. A sorrowful graveyard bouquet of somber blooms, funereal boughs, dismal green and laden with grief. SIN & SALVATION • LANGUOR -- An opiate torpor, soporific, trancelike, and sublimely languid. A poet’s morphine dream, a listless journey into a gentle dream and the precipice of intoxicated madness. Paperwhite and black narcissus, three lilies, black poppy and tuberose and a hint of hypnotic opium den haze. LOVE POTIONS • BRISINGAMEN -- The amber necklace of Freyja, Norse Goddess of Love, Sex, Attraction and Fruitfulness. Her magnificent necklace was bough from four Dwarves [Alfrik, Berling, Dvalin and Grer] at the price of four nights of her passion. When Brisingamen graces your throat, no man can resist your charms. A glittering mantle of rich golden notes: five ambers, soft myrtle and apple blossom, myrtle, and carnation. • CASANOVA -- A name synonymous with seduction and licentiousness. From childhood aspirations of seclusion and priesthood came Giacomo Casanova, the self-styled Chevalier de Seingalt, the most notorious debauchee and playboy of all time. His memoirs, Histoire de Ma Vie, enflamed the Enlightenment with scandal and tales of sexual conquest. His restless nature and flair for sensationalizing his adventures drew him into and out of fortune, through numerous careers and affairs, and led him into a brief altercation with the Inquisition and a conviction on the charge of witchcraft. Though he had a life rife with drama and intrigue, he died peacefully at the age of 73, librarian to the Count of Waldstein. Who says librarians can’t be sexy? A rakish blend of leather, anise, lavender, bergamot and amber with tonka, lemon peel and lusty patchouli. • HETAIRAE -- The sublimely beautiful, fiercely independent, impeccably cultured, fascinatingly worldly and witty courtesans of ancient Greece. A seductive and dazzling blend of golden honey, fiery patchouli, sweet fig and clove, and a blushing touch of ylang ylang. DIABOLUS • NOCNITSA -- Also known as Krisky, Plaksy and Gorska Makua, she is a nightmare spirit, the Night Hag of the Woods, who haunts Polish, Russian, Bulgarian and Slovak children during the darkest hours. The only protection against her torments is a circle drawn around a child’s cradle with a knife, or an axe or protective poppet hidden under the floorboards beneath where a child sleeps. Her scent is that of a lightless fir wood, nighttime air, wet forest mosses and upturned earth. ARS DRACONIS • DRAGON'S HIDE -- Flame-kissed, warm, smooth, and highly protective. Dragon’s blood, leather and a hint of smoke. • DRAGON'S MUSK -- Dominant, passionate, devastating. Dragon’s blood and five deep musks. WANDERLUST • MOSCOW -- A rich, bold blend of imperial rose, carnation, lush jasmine, lily of the valley, dark musk, amber, bergamot and gilded tangerine. • SANTO DOMINGO -- An exotic, sultry blend of tobacco leaf, bay rum and heady Caribbean blossoms. • SILK ROAD -- A panoply of cultural treasures, spanning the herbs, flowers, oils and balms of the Romans, the Byzantines, the Mediterranean, the Levant, Northern China, Eastern Europe, Iran, the Bulgar-Kypchak, Mesopotamia, the Crimean Peninsula, Anatolia, Antioch, and North Africa. New this month, the long-awaited Sephiroth series. Due to the complexity of the blends, and the quality and scarcity of their ingredients, they are only offered in the 10ml size, and, like the Tarot Blends, they are $21.50 each. SEPHIROTH • KETHER -- The Supreme Crown, Rashith ha-Gilgalim, the Primordial Ether, Primum Mobile, the Source of All, the Origin of Will that radiates 620 pillars of light. • CHOKMAH -- The Primordial Point of Creation, Mazloth, Being Out of Nothingness, the Origin of Thought and the source of the 32 Ways of Wisdom. • BINAH -- The Womb, Shabbathai, the Uppermost Feminine in the Godhead, Supernal Mother, Divine Sorrow, Supernal Shekhinah, and the source of the 50 Gates of Understanding. • CHESED -- Loving Kindness, Tzedek, the Benevolence of God, and the source of the 72 Bridges of Mercy. • GEBURAH -- Din, Madim, the Heavenly Court, the Consuming Fire, Divine Wrath, the Force that Contains the Seeds of Sitra Ahra. • TIPHARETH -- Divine Beauty, Shemesh, Unity, the Balance of Justice and Mercy. • NETZACH -- Victory, Nogah, Eternity, Endurance, God’s Grace. • HOD -- Glory and Majesty, Kokab, God’s Judgement. • YESOD -- Foundation, Labanah, The Living God, Eternal Life, the Source of the Living Waters. • MALKUTH -- The Kingdom, Olam Yesodoth, Shekhinah, God’s Presence in the World, the Throne of Glory. The following is a preview of scents that will become available throughout the rest of the year. Please do not request samples until they go live on the site; they are all still in their prototype or conceptual stages and are not available for purchase in any form. • 51 • Aeval • Anath • Apocalypse • Ariel • Astarte • Avalon • Babalon • Bé b'lia • Belshazaar • Berlin • Bien Loin D'Ici • Boleskine • Camlann • Ceylon • Conjuration • Cthulhu • Decadence • Dragon's Teeth • Elegy • Ennui • Erebos • Eurydice • Event Horizon • The Eyes of Beauty • Fascination • Freyja • The Ghost • Giza • Gossamer • The Graea • Hades • The Hanging Garden • Havana • Hel • Hi'iaka • Howl • Isolde • Jinx • Koshchei • Lemuria • Loki • Lorenz Attractor • Melbourne • Miranda • Mu • Na-maka-o-Kaha'i • Nairobi • Naked Singularity • Oblivion • Odin • Orlando • Orpheus • Pandemonium • Percival • Prague • Prospero • Rebecca • Requiscat • Risis • Romeo • Rosmerta • Sanguine Moon • Santa Muerte • Schrodinger's Cat • Set • Sidhe • Sri Lanka • Superstition • Tannhauser • Thanatos • Thou Art That • Tristam • Tsuyu • Two, Five and Seven • Val Sans Retour • Vampyre • Vesuvius • Vitriol • Wasp in a Wig • Xanadu • Xochiquetzal • Yekum • The Zorya • ... and the Mock Turtle's Lessons Also coming later this year... more from the Great Alchemists Collection: • Christian Rosenkreutz • Demosthenes • Hermes Trismegistus • Dee • Al-Razi • Aquinas • Caligostro • Flamel • Geber • Magnus • Mirabilis • Newton • Paracelsus • Zosimus Several limited editions will be coming in sets this year. The first pairings of the year will be... • Agony & Ecstasy • Cain & Abel In addition, we will be working on a bevy of mythological blends, the Arthurian Collection, the Temple Blends series, the Loas, and an influx of Voodoo Blends.

http://www.blackphoenixtradingpost.com Black Phoenix Trading Post is the officially licensed creator and distributor of BPAL tees, perfume jewelry and tchotch. The first tee is up, the Established 1350 tee, but they will be adding more designs in the near future. In the Spring, the first in a series of demonic statues will also debut. Questions? Please contact the Trading Post's proprietor, Tedwin, at tradingpost [at] papow [dot] net.

Storm Moon will be live until 12.01am 1/26. Along for the ride in this update: Spooky Revisited. Please refer to the Limited Edition page for more information. Email head's up, straight from the site: From 1/27 - 2/3, Tedwin, the BPAL Customer Service Demon, and Elizabeth will be in Orlando for INATS East. When emailing customer service during this time, you will receive an immediate reply from the BPAL Autoresponder Demon. Email replies from a human will be slower, but will not cease. All pressing emails pertaining to order-related questions will be addressed as quickly as possible by Brian, Elizabeth's partner and the Brain behind BPAL's mechanics, and Anthony, the Lab's resident Jester and House Manager. The rest of the crew will still be hard at work filling your orders.

Reiterated almost verbatim from another post I made today: The Lab is still open and running, but there might be a slight delay on email replies that require physical look-ups as both Puddin and I are floored with the flu at the moment. We're doing our best to see to it that all emails are answered and all issues are looked into in a timely manner, but at this time its involving a heap of phone calls and emails back and forth from home to the Lab, so there's a small delay. To reiterate, all orders placed prior to 11/15 were shipped. If you have not received your package yet and you placed your order prior to that date, there is something amiss. Please email us to let us know, and we will do our best to take care of it for you. Please do not PM us with questions: the only way we can keep track of anything is through formal emails. Thanks for understanding! - - - I am reposting this in Announcements to make sure it gets read.

Happy holidays, all! Wolf Moon will be live until 12/27, 12.01am PST. New to the catalogue in the Midwinter and Wolf Moon updates: The Graces, the Charities, the Gratiae: Goddesses of beauty, charm, celebration and merriment. They are the personification of all these aspects as found in both nature and mortal life. Daughters of Zeus and the oceanid Eurynome, they are Aphrodite’s attendants and work in harmony with the Muses as fountains of inspiration in the arts. In their aspect as fertility and nature deities, these Goddesses are associated with the Underworld and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Euphrosyne Mirth Gardenia, tea rose and vanilla and jasmine. Thalia Good Cheer Plumeria, pear, champagne. Aglaea Splendor Three golden ambers, bright musk, peach wine and myrtle. - - - DORIAN -- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. Inspired by and created for my beloved Tedwin: my eternal, beautiful, wicked Dorian Gray. Refined, elegant, and lovely, with a noble bearing and seemingly gentle air. This blend is an artful deception: a sweet gilded blossom lying over a twisted and corrupted core. A Victorian fougere with three pale musks and dark, sugared vanilla tea. - - - Unseelie has been discontinued. - - - Coming in January: ANATH CALIBAN CTHULHU DEE FREYJA NOCNITSA ODIN SET THE ZORYA THE TEN SEPHIROTH ...and scents inspired by Baudelaire: 'the Living Flame', 'the Ghost', 'the Eyes of Beauty', and 'Bien Loin D'Ici' as well as scents inspired by Matthew Arnold's 'Requiscat' and Philip Frenau's 'House of Night'. - - - Courtesy of our beloved Tedwin, Black Phoenix Trading Post will its open doors in late January.