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Greetings! Happy to inform you that Flower Moon Lunacy has taken flight, and it's dragging our 4/20 launch along behind it like a kite tail. For the sake of convenience (mine and yours) here's the whole kit and caboodle swirled together in one ungodly link: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/april-2026-lunacy/ For those in the Twin Cities, please note that the 4/20 blends can be sampled and sold in person on the high holy day itself at Clown Glass on Lyndale, from 12-6pm. That's right, we've been invited as a guest in their 4/20 festivities which will continue all the way until later that evening, but due to a previous engagement I'll be bugging out right at 6. All these new enticements will also be at our next Odd Mart Lunacy popup on May 2nd, 12-3pm.

We've crafted two new scents for Century Guild, as rewards for supporting their latest book Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/binding-the-devil-vintage-witchcraft-occult-1960s-1970s-art?ref=creator_tab ✤ BINDING THE DEVIL A psychedelic evocation: electric lime rind and green tea absolute explode, sharp and strange, into a heart of violet-tinged wild plum while poppy smoke and ancient amber twist through black cherry incense, infernal red musk, and sugared nag champa. ✤ MEPHISTO WALZ Lightly-honeyed skin musk bathed in pale incense smoke, a dusting of ritual chalk, black fig, clove bud, ambrette seed, and tobacco flower.

We've been seeing news reports about how the current ube trend that's sweeping America is causing big problems for farmers in the Philippines. Terrible! I figured it might be worth mentioning that Beth's ube accord, which has been popping up in more scents over the past years, is NOT derived from actual ube, and is therefore safe and ethical for you to enjoy. Or not enjoy! But fortunately we're not contributing to this particular issue. While researching our post about this, I compiled the following list of current ube scents, which I may as well share here also: ✤ ARAW NG MGA PATAY (Halloween 2025) A cheerful, raucous celebration of life and death: bouquets overflowing with gerbera daisies, waling waling, sampaguita, ylang ylang, hibiscus, night-blooming dama de noche, santan, and everlasting flower with piles upon piles of bibingka, ube halaya, rice muffins, champorado, purple yam cake, and turon, and plates of gooey kalabasa leche flan. ✤ LAVENDER UBE MOCHI DONUT (Yule 2025) A chewy delight made from a blend of rice flour and purple yam, fried in lavender-infused oil and dusted with granulated sugar. ✤ LILAC-DRAPED VULVA (Shunga 2026) Lilac-soaked amber cream, orris root, blue lotus absolute, white sandalwood, and purple yam. ✤ NANGGIGIGIL AKO SAYO (Lupercalia 2026 A scent for all of us who have been exploded by someone else’s cuteness: ube candyfloss and rice paper-wrapped red bean custard candy. ✤ TRIUMPH IN VERMILLION SILK (Shunga 2026) Scarlet silk, sweetened rice milk, ube, peony petals, candied ginger, persimmon, red dates, red carnation, lavender, and red amber. ✤ UBE PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE (Halloween 2025) Piles of ube pumpkin cheesecake batter blorped into a brown sugar graham cracker crust. ✤ WATER BEARER (Shunga 2026) French lavender, Thai coconut, cherimoya, and ube.

Good news: BPAL will have a presence at this year's Midsummer Scream convention, which will be held in Long Beach from August 7-9. Chrissy will be there with the same setup she's been bringing to other local events over the past year. Tickets available here: https://midsummerscream.org Worth mentioning that our Lunacy bestie Drew Rausch will also have a booth, selling spooky arts and other merchandise, and will be very happy to see BPAL folks.

All compiled here in one place: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/march-2026-lunacy/ March's iteration of 13 comes with a free imp of FORSAKEN ELEPHANT PUPPET: well-loved gray cotton, clover honey, kettle corn, and soft white amber.

At long last, Lupers are LIVE! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lupercalia-2026/ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/novel-ideas-for-secret-amusements-bpals-ode-to-shunga-2026/ We'd previously announced a site overhaul early in the new year. That's still underway, which means we're experiencing some temporary irregularities in the meantime. Thank you so much for rolling with these punches, it's very challenging to launch a major release at the same time that we're pulling our shop up by the roots. I'll let you know when there are more concrete details to share about that! Now that Lupercalia's live, the countdown is officially set on Halloween: those products will vanish following May's Lunacy. So there's still a good bit of time left to agonize, sample, layer, compare, and grab whatever you need.

Hark! Another Lunacy has landed, coinciding with our traditional 13 release. Here's everything included in today's launch: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/february-2026-friday-the-13th/ • COYOTE MOON and friends: Duets, hair gloss, lotion • 13, which comes with the first of three Friday the 13th frimps in 2026, SNOWY CIRCUS PEANUT • Last fall's LONDON FOG CREAM PIE has been added to our World Central Kitchen fundraiser series "Nourishment Wherever Needed" • Wuthering Heights has expanded to include a NELLY'S TALE Atmosphere Spray, HEATHCLIFF Beard Oil, and CATHERINE Hair Gloss • Two new Ars Anni classical painting scents • The next installment of 2026's monthly fundraiser series "At The Root" is ANGELICA ROOT, benefiting https://www.vamosjuntos.org

I'm teasing this now so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle this Friday! As most probably figured, we'll be dropping the Coyote Moon Lunacy, 13, and the rest of our Wuthering Heights series all at once... and THEN on to Lupers. Since there are THREE 13s slated for 2026, we've decided to build a little charm bracelet for all you 13 collectors: a bonus frimp for each release, inspired by various lucky omens and signs we've observed in our real life wanderings. The first one is SNOWY CIRCUS PEANUT. Who will end up with all three?

Thrilled to announce that we've partnered with The British Library on a series of fragrances inspired by Wuthering Heights, drawing from artwork and other material in their archive. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/wuthering-heights/ Launching with perfume oils to start with! And more coming soon...

Once again, we're closing down the site in solidarity with nationwide efforts to demand that I.C.E. get out of US cities (I mean, the list of demands is pretty long at this point, but that's the most recent impetus!) 9am - 5pm our website will be in maintenance mode. Last time we did this, it forced everyone to reset their password afterward in order to log into their accounts We're hoping to avoid that this time! Also, this seems like a worthy opportunity to remind everyone that we're working up to a major website relaunch. When the new site arrives, your transaction history and any reviews left on the main site will be evaporated. Poof! If that info is important to you, please slay your procrastination demons and gather that info ASAP. Thanks, one and all!

Gang, it's Saturday night and I'm feeling a little loony. So here's your TERRIBLE MOON and friends, your Fire Horse, and a new fundraiser series called At The Root, which we'll be continuing throughout all of 2026: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/january-2026-lunacy/

Hi everyone, sharing this post from our social media: In solidarity with workers and people in Minnesota and all across the country who are participating in the strike, we’ll be closing our site down for maintenance on Friday, January 23rd, 9am-5pm Eastern time. Via https://www.iceoutnowmn.com: “Friday, January 23rd will be a statewide day of non-violent moral action, reflection: no work, no school, no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.“ There are so many ways for onlookers to participate, support, or otherwise stand in solidarity with those existing under federal occupation in MN. Please contact your reps and demand that they vote to defund ICE by opposing any DHS appropriations bill that maintains funding for this agency. 5calls has a terrific script: https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/

In Philly this weekend? On Saturday, Haute Macabre will be part of a spooky sleepover-themed evening event at Endless Night Studio in Philly, from 6-9pm. Event info is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTakvKSlb0A/?igsh=Y2ZyZDJtbHR2amU1 That evening a new scent will be debuted, available at the event for $34: LIGHT AS A FEATHER, STIFF AS A BOARD This is the breathless euphoria of being lifted by unseen hands, friendship blurring into invocation, play into wild belief. The body is still, heartbeats thrum and murmur, the spirit floats. Something listens. This is a fragrance of surrendering gravity and trusting the darkness. It opens like a breath held too long, cool and smoky, trembling with anticipation. Pale, translucent florals drift upward, buoyant and unreal, while incense draws you back just enough to feel the disorienting pull between here and elsewhere. The base settles into dry wood and shadowed resins, like the floor beneath your back, solid, unyielding, waiting.

Hi ho, we're finally live with a Beaver Moon + Wolf Moon double Lunacy, plus some stowaways and stragglers! Since all this might be hard to keep track of, here's one link that contains everything just launched: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/december-2025/? This includes our three new Junji Ito Collection scents, a series of NYE Creepers, a bonus ACLU fundraiser oil, and expansions of Skull Maskerade and The Erl-King. Whew!

Hello one and all! I've been asked to relay this news from the warehouse: we don't have an official "order by this date to receive your package in time for Christmas!" cutoff. Everything is just too loosey-goosey at the moment, for reasons both foreseeable and un-. So how about this instead: if your order is time-sensitive because it contains Christmas gifts, please make a note of it in the comments section of the order, and/or email Ted (answers@blackphoenixalchemylab.com) to let him know. We're gonna be on the lookout for these orders so we can prioritize them in the queue and give them the best shot of reaching you ahead of the holiday. Thank you so much for including us in your holiday gift-giving! We are definitely feeling the love this year, and doing our best to spread it around.