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Fingernail-havers! Our Halloween 2025 perfume series inspired this new series of Autumn Nail Polishes, which we'll be selling while supplies last. Paint your claws in different stages of leaf decomposition! Let a Lovebat (or two) ride along to your pedicure. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/autumn-2025/ As a side-note, we'll have testers for these at the Twin Cities Lunacy event on Saturday!

We can't wait to return to Odd Mart this Saturday, November 8th. Come see us between 3p-6pm! As a special bonus, we’ll have tester bottles of *three new perfume oils* that will soon be joining TOMIE in the Lab's collab with the Junji Ito Collection: ✤ FASHION MODEL ✤ SOICHI ✤ TOMIE’S LAUGHTER Please note that the store itself closes at 6pm, so those final 15 minutes of our event will be devoted to final purchases and preliminary packing up of our stuff. The staff have been amazingly welcoming, but I hate keeping anyone there even slightly longer than necessary on a Saturday to lock up after us. See you soon!

Brace yourselves, Sacramento! We're crashing Carla Wyzgala's booth at the Oddities & Curiosities Expo this weekend. https://odditiesandcuriositiesexpo.com Chrissy will be there selling a limited range of BPAL enticements alongside Carla's Skull Maskerade series and other artworks. Who will be there? Booth #47, baby!

Happy Halloween, B-pals! Beeple? Labsters? Anyhow, technically *tomorrow* is October 32nd, but we wanted to go ahead and get this mini-launch out there so we could begin raising funds for those recovering from Hurricane Melissa. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/october-31-2025/ These three scents benefit Direct Relief, which supports the Caribbean with medical aid and supplies and supports health facilities in the region: ✤ JAMAICAN BELLFLOWER A sun-warmed bloom, its fragrance unfurls in lush waves: rich and creamy, like chocolate and nectar mingling in the sultry air. A scent both decadent and wild, glistening with heady sweetness. ✤ NIGHT-SCENTED ORCHID A tribute to Epidendrum nutans, the nocturnal seductress of the forest canopy. Sweet, indolic jasmine curls around a breath of citrus and moonlit air, a perfume that blooms when the world sleeps. ✤ OCTOBER 35TH In a desperate bid to mend the fractures of this cursed timeline, we are stretching Halloween beyond all reason, until time itself buckles and snaps back into place. It’s thirsty work, so here’s a snuggly blanket of creamy pumpkin cold foam quivering atop a pint of butterscotch ale. That's right, we're back to our old tricks with post-Halloween time manipulation! We've also revived our past experiments as well – October 32nd through 34th – but these aren't part of the fundraiser: ✤ OCTOBER 32ND The scent of Eternal October: leaves fluttering against a thick wool sweater, the cool amber glow of an autumn sunset, dollops of thick cream swirling in black tea. ✤ OCTOBER 33RD Don’t mind us, we’re just distorting time beyond all recognition to wring the last drop of fun out of the season. Spiced bourbon apples, pumpkin soufflé, the dregs of your last PSL of the season, and a handful of candy corn. ✤ OCTOBER 34TH For those remaining defiantly spooky even though the stores are full of Christmas junk: a jolly endcap of cinnamon pine cones and ribbon candy next to a clearance bin full of pumpkin sugar cookies. Do with that info what you will. And please have a happy and safe spooky event weekend! It's currently pissing rain on us here in Minneapolis but we're hoping it will clear in time for trick-or-treating this evening. 🎃

A big one for me was Every Sweet Thing, which is also a fundraiser scent: honey-dripping plakous, rose petals, caramelized hazelnut, and goat’s milk. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/activism/sorores-genita-nocte-aigles-kharities/every-sweet-thing-perfume-oil/ Truly just a wonderful combo of so many wholesome, enticing, beautiful things! The inclusion of rose adds to the gourmand instead of diverting from it, almost like a sticky rosewater-infused baklava.

The Blood Moon launch has arrived! Not only have we added a nail polish to our monthly trove of themed items, this Lunacy has brought another round of Rarities and B-Sides. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/lunacy-october-2025/ And there seems to be a recurring theme among this month's Ars Anni scents as well, not sure if I can put my finger on it...

Jude Doyle's followup to Dead Blondes & Bad Mothers will be published on October 21st, a non-fiction book entitled DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? To celebrate, we've created a singular DILF fragrance that's available as a perfume oil, hair gloss, and beard oil. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/dilf-did-i-leave-feminism/ Our DILF scent is a rich bourbon cream skin musk, formulated to announce and enhance whatever version of oneself is currently coming forth. From the publisher: In this sharp manifesto, veteran author and activist Jude Doyle reunites feminist and trans politics through a common belief: that all people deserve to have the final say about who they are… When Jude Doyle began his transition in the summer of 2020, he had a very public career as a feminist – winning awards from women’s organizations, writing for women’s magazines, publishing books on “women’s issues.” Then, after a decade in the movement, he had to walk out in front of the public and tell them he had never been a woman at all. Doyle offers a seldom-heard and much-needed transmasculine perspective on feminist subjects, drawing together strands of intersectional feminist theory and queer and trans politics to show that all their struggles are the same struggle: The fight for gender-marginalized people to maintain autonomy and full selfhood in a patriarchy that is always eager to hollow us out and use us to further its own agenda. DILF offers a strong rebuke to trans-exclusionary feminisms that seek to drive a wedge between gender-marginalized communities. Using interviews, critical analysis, and Doyle’s own personal experience, DILF proves that feminism is a vital and necessary tool for breaking free of patriarchal control, whoever you are.

Over the weekend, we expanded our Skull Maskerade collaboration with Carla Wyzgala by two scents: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/skull-maskerade/ If you're interested in reviews, start pestering those who visited Carla's NYCC booth in person – because she had them there at the table! 🎭 HOLLOWMAN Dark delusions, sinister shadows in an underground lair, surrounded by death and decay, puffs of tobacco smoke and a longing to be whole. Pipe tobacco and a splash of Victorian fougere, damp soil and grave moss, yew boughs and mandrake root. VEX Vex, the Bone Goddess – summoning rituals of skulls, bones and stones, chanting into the dancing flames, pits of black ash and spice, the door opens. A bone goddess’ sacred incense: fire and ash, bone shards, and stone.

Yes! It's only kind of technically a horror film, Galen and I have watched it so many times over the years. Very cool to see it mentioned as an inspiration for the new Rodarte collection! Last night was Jennifer's Body.

Anyone who appreciated our Dead Blondes & Bad Mothers scent collaboration with author Jude Doyle might be interested in hearing that Doyle's new book is now available to preorder, and Thrift Books currently has it for below list price: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/dilf-did-i-leave-feminism_jude-doyle/54633951/item/83485439/#edition=72611544&idiq=83485439 The book is called DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? and explores the way his life and perspective as a feminist author have evolved since beginning to transition in 2020. There are no scents associated with this new title... not yet, anyway!

We watched Over The Garden Wall last night, 3 Women the night before, and I just saw that BUG was added to the Criterion channel. Thank you for the reminder to keep track, I'd love to be able to look back in a month and see just how much spooky/strange we managed to ingest.

Hi everyone, Brian has informed me that they're having major issues with the way Wish Lists work on the BPAL website, and they're planning to try to update it a week from now. So if your Wish List is important to you, please copy it down somewhere safe. I dunno what will happen, but we want to make sure no information is lost as we try to fix this feature. We will update with more information before we do anything! TB

Thank you for enduring our last-minute hiccups and fine-tuning! Our annual Halloween fragrance series is LIVE: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/halloween-2025/ We've got a truly stonkering array of Main Category perfume oils for you to dig through – some old, some new! As well as a truly bewildering assortment of seasonal hair glosses, atmosphere sprays, beard oils, and lotions. Beyond there you'll find the customary Pile of Leaves series, a batty little series called Bat's All, Folks!, the long-foretold Halloween Flash Sheet perfume oils, the 2025 revival (and expansion!) of Wild Hearses as perfume oils, and a brand new eight-scent series adapting the classic 1892 horror tale "The Yellow Wallpaper"(!!). Thank you for sharing in our excitement of these things! And special thanks to the artists whose work adorns these labels and web listings: you provide the soul of the season year round for those of us waiting to revel in it.

Everyone has been waiting so patiently (and yet so fervently) for the Lab's Halloween treat bucket to drop, but here's something new you can score right now: BATS & BONFIRES A blend of bat wings rustling while the bonfires blaze, the warmth of embers and woodsmoke, sticky toffee, and the crisp sweetness of roasted apples. This 5ml perfume oil is available exclusively from Haute Macabre!

Workman Publishing reached out to us with a 20% discount for their new book E Is For Edward, a centennial celebration of Gorey's work. Anyone who purchases any of the Gorey oils from us will receive this link, between now and September 30th! You may message me here or DM the Lab's accounts on social media with your order number, and I'll give you the link. (You are also welcome to email Ted and ask for it, since many of you are already in conversations with him about orders. I'm just trying to lighten his load!) "E Is for Edward celebrates Edward Gorey as author, illustrator, humorist, playwright, printmaker, fabric artist, and stage designer, showcasing the vast array of material he created between 1953 and his death in 2000. Curated by Gregory Hischak, Director of The Edward Gorey House, the book is organized by major themes and topics that characterize Gorey’s work including hapless children, mutant menageries, the murder mystery, the ballet, sartorial elegance, stylized decor, and the many recurring motifs and latent symbolism that underlie these subjects. In addition, Hischak offers a look into the pages of the dozens of rarely-viewed notebooks kept by Gorey throughout his lifetime. Illustrated with hundreds of original pieces of art and archival material, E Is for Edward is a must-have for every fan and the most comprehensive, in-depth exploration of Gorey’s art in more than a decade."