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Tomorrow will be the last Friday the 13th until next May. Plan ahead with our latest batch of "13," a lucky amulet in the form of an exquisite perfume oil. Available only through 8/15! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/friday-the-13th/13-august-2021/ "Thirteen herbs to stave off the plague, coated with chocolate and delivered with a spoonful of sugar: butterburr, fennel, marigold, borage, rosemary, wood sorrel, clove pink, self-heal, yarrow, lemon balm, sweet cicely, rue, and masterwort." [This perfume doesn’t really stave off any diseases. In order to actually keep viruses at bay, please get vaccinated if you are able, mask up diligently, and wash your hands!]

The announcement of our Dragon Con 2021 exclusive scents has arrived in the form of a special video preview — a "sneak peach," if you will. Embedded below! The following perfumes will ONLY be available to those attending the convention: ? VANILLA WAFERS AND PEACH CREAM ? FUZZY PEACH SWEATER AND A MUG OF LONDON FOG ? GEORGIA PEACH, OAKMOSS, SAGE, AND VETIVER ? PEACH AND SUGARED ORANGE SLICES ? POMEGRANATE, SPICY GERANIUM, BLACK MUSK, AND PEACH PULP Plus these two, which will *also* be available to those shopping from home: ? WORKING TITLE: THIS IS A PERFUME ABOUT MY DOG SMELLING WEIRDLY LIKE PEACHES ? PEACH BRANDY SNAKE OIL $28 apiece, available while supplies last! Here's where you can find the latest updates from Dragon Con about their health and safety standards for the event: https://www.dragoncon.org/updates/ Your shopping experience at the BPAL booth will be significantly different this year, in the following ways: • Customers will not be allowed to handle anything at the table. Staff members will happily provide you with test blotters for any fragrances you'd like to try. This will take a little more time than the usual grab-n'-sniff process, but also the capacity of the building will be reduced, so hopefully it will all even out. • Masks will be required at our booth AT ALL TIMES. Regardless of vaccination status, your nose and mouth must remain covered, even while smelling the test blotters. (No vented masks, no bandanas.) We know having a barrier of any kind between you and a scent you're sampling is a strange inconvenience, but the venue itself is enforcing a strict "masks at all times" policy and we don't want to end up being a problem area where people feel they have an excuse to break that rule. Thanks in advance for rolling with these cumbersome changes, we are truly doing our best to conduct ourselves safely while still showing up for our friends and fans on the other side of the country.

I'm about to share the July Lunacy announcement more widely, and wanted to make sure to circulate info about down dates as well! Firstly, this Lunacy update is accompanied by two bonus collections: a pair of scents tying in with an upcoming interactive program launched by our Shakespeare buddies, and also a new set of RPG scents. As for what's coming down: we lose all the Lupers on August 16th. No Lunacy scents are being taken down this month, but next month the Double Lunacy stuff will vanish. So there ya go!

Dragon Con is still a month away, but they have already begun issuing formal safety guidelines for the event. Sounds like a good time to start helping folks know what to expect at the BPAL booth! https://www.dragoncon.org/updates/ For starters, customers will not be allowed to handle anything at the table. Staff members will happily provide you with test blotters for any fragrances you'd like to try. It will take a little more time than the usual grab-n'-sniff process, so please be patient and understanding as we adapt to this odd new way of doing things. Also, masks will be required at our booth AT ALL TIMES. Regardless of vaccination status, your nose and mouth must remain covered, even while smelling the test blotters. (No vented masks, no bandanas.) We know having a barrier of any kind between you and a scent you're sampling is a strange inconvenience, but the venue itself is enforcing a strict "masks at all times" policy and we don't want to end up being the kind of problem booth where people feel they have an excuse to break that rule. (On the more cheerful side, there WILL be con exclusive scents, and those will be announced soon!) None of this is ideal for anyone, but we are very excited to trot our vaccinated asses out there and safely see as many folks as we can. More info as we know it!

New Sphere + Sundry drop! We've contributed four talismanic oils crafted to harness the magic and majesty of Jupiter in Pisces. Available in limited quantity, and part of a truly dazzling range of useful products. https://sphereandsundry.com/product-category/series/jupiters-empyreal-vantage/ OUTFLOW BOUNDARY "The rush of cool air as a thunderstorm moves overhead; this boundary lifts moist, warm air and may cause new thunderstorms to appear. An oil of prolific, generative creativity – ideas coalesce in a swirl of mist and lightning. This oil can be used alone as an all-purpose inspiration blend or combined with other oils to amplify its focus, whether it be inspiration in the arts, problem solving, engineering, philosophy, theology, or academia." TURBULENT FLOW "Continuously undergoing change. An oil of the Philosopher Queen, Turbulent Flow is the ordered chaos at the intersection of philosophy, faith, introspection, and knowledge. This is an oil of evolution and change, but the focus is on the evolution of your worldview, values, and belief system, enabling you to shake off the shackles of ideas that no longer serve you." MULTIPLE STORM INTERACTION "When cyclones move towards one another, they may either circle around one another or spiral into each other’s central point and merge. An oil of the convergence of ideas and philosophies, of finding companionship and friendship with those who uplift and enrich your life and whose lives you can improve in return. This is an oil of connection, empathy, intuition, and mutual healing, and an attraction oil that focuses on drawing kind, wise, and loving people into your sphere." THE EYE "Within the Eye, you are shielded from the surrounding storm. A kingdom at peace requires a sovereign at peace. This is an oil of finding serenity, invoking the peace of mind necessary to make prudent choices. The Eye facilitates achieving and maintaining a level head, and crafting the equilibrium necessary to govern yourself, your life, and your kingdom with calm, mercy, and wisdom."

Heads up! A couple of new perfumes that are exclusively available as rewards on the Century Guild's latest book Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/alphonse-mucha-expanded-edition-lost-art-nouveau-masterpiece LE PATER "Wild black plum and dried berries deepened by blackened vanilla husk, 3-year aged patchouli, oakmoss, vetiver, Mysore sandalwood, and black leather." LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL "Catarratto bianco comune and Airén grapes dappled with fossilized white amber, life everlasting, and tabac." Available at the $79 and $103 pledge levels, each bottle of perfume is full size (5 mL) and presented in an amber glass apothecary vial.

Just a post updating folks about the situation with Dragon Con, which will soon be upon us! 1. We are currently planning to attend! BUT, as you may have noticed, we're still currently living through a pandemic, and anything could change at any moment. 2. If we make it, our booth and retail experience will likely be overhauled to minimize contact and keep people safe. We don't know yet how any of that will work... details TBA! 3. We promise we will continue closely monitoring convention standards, health reports, and all the variables that might affect the safety of our customers and our staff. Ultimately we will make the best decisions we possibly can, up to and including when we're at the event. We'll try to be as clear and direct as possible in keeping everyone updated, to minimize disappointment or concern. Although there's likely to be SOME disappointment and concern no matter what, since we simply can't guarantee the cozy, familiar experience that we've all gotten used to over the years. In fact, we can't guarantee almost anything! That's literally all we know for now. If you have additional questions, you're welcome to message me and I'll answer as best I can, though "I don't know yet" is likely to be a common refrain. Thanks, everyone!

Lunacy is here, and it brought friends! Tomorrow we are going to blast the world with this video announcement for The Last Unicorn (embedded below). https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/June-2021 Brian sez we're leaving the Lupers up for the moment, so Feb. Lunacy is the only stuff that's coming down soon: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/February-2021/ Galen and I will begin reviewing the Hierophant stuff tomorrow!

We’ve really done it this time. The RABBIT MOON Lunacy has arrived, and it brought some friends... including our in-depth olfactory exploration of the tarot, after a break of some years. Here’s everything you’ll find in today’s release, which can also all be found lumped together in this link: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/may-2021/ ? RABBIT MOON perfume and tee, featuring art by Drew Rausch ? The Fool’s Journey: THE HIEROPHANT - eleven perfumes focusing on symbolic aspects and faces of this archetypal figure ? BROOD X: a perfume paying tribute to our temporary insect overlords! ?Five new DUETS — simple, two-note fragrance blends ✨ CLEANING HOUSE and SEALING SANCTUARY oils by Twilight Alchemy Lab ? A limited quantity of two in-house errors: BLOODY CORRIDOR, and PSNAKE OIL ? To mark the occasion of returning to the tarot, we’ve also revived the 2014 Lilith scent THE HIEROPHANT AND THE EMPRESS. ✔️ REMINDER: The Winter 2020/21 perfumes will be coming down within the week! Along with the January Lunacy offerings. Don’t forget them...

Hi ho, hi ho! We aren't sharing this "publicly" yet, but I wanted folks here to be the first to hear it so there will be plenty of time to process your feelings before we start re-releasing The Last Unicorn this summer. In a nutshell, there are going to be some differences. I know everyone wants to recapture the EXACT scent they fell in love with before, but ingredient accessibility over the span of a decade can make that impossible; in certain cases we'll be approximating original formulas using updated components based on what's actually available now, not unlike the "Resurrected" collection a few years back. And in other cases (I don't know which yet!) the formula itself will be tweaked, reflecting areas in which our beloved perfumer has been convinced FOR YEARS that she could do better. It's essentially the same spirit that has inspired us to update the labels, beloved and familiar as the old ones have become. We have grown! And we want to present our best work. So we know there's likely to be a certain element of surprise in this collection, welcome or otherwise, and we wanna be up front about it so the actual release itself isn't too marred by disappointed reactions, and no one ends up feeling tricked. Questions are welcome, I'll answer what I can, when I can! Overall this re-release represents a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes and we're terribly proud of it. Please keep that in mind amidst your unavoidable pangs of nostalgia for the original stuff. We feel them too, but we've simply gotta do what we must in order to keep holding our heads up. Thanks for listening! Back to your previously scheduled screaming.

Here to break the internet with news that our beloved "The Last Unicorn" perfume collaboration with author Peter S. Beagle will FINALLY be returning this summer! Featuring brand new label art by Julie Dillon (@juliedillonart), these fully licensed perfumes will be re-released in small groups until the full set is restored. And we plan to expand the collection as well, formulating new original scents! Please help us spread the word about this occasion, which we hope will serve as a joyous reunion with many beloved characters from the book as well as vintage BPAL scent memories. We'll be sharing more artwork and updates soon, so follow along and stay tuned!

Hello everyone! Spiritus Arcanum got slammed earlier and lost site function for several hours. They're back online, and there's plenty of perfume for everyone! Dropping an update here since I know they were concerned about folks having given up or forgotten to check back. https://www.spiritusarcanum.com/ While I'm here, let's go ahead and share our YouTube review of the four Walpurgisnacht scents below!

As the seers foretold, we've just dropped two months' worth of perfumes in one vast haul. Here's everything you'll find included in the Lab's first-ever Double Lunacy release! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/march-april-2021/ ++ A LITTLE LUNACY ? FROG MOON - Perfume & Tee Shirt "Named for the awakening of frogs after a long winter, this scent is a springtime chorus of trills and croaks celebrating the beginning of our own slow emergence from the pandemic hibernaculum. A pattering deluge of refreshing, enlivening, bright green notes: green tea, wet green musk, pine moss, fresh patchouli leaf, bamboo leaf, tulsi, pond grasses, and a pinch of wasabi." ? WORM MOON - Perfume & Tee Shirt "This year’s iteration of Worm Moon is a moist, writhing splort of white grapefruit, coconut meat, wet white amber, squishy pink fruits, cistus, and ruddy labdanum protruding through a moondust-dappled mound of white musk, iris absolute, white sandalwood, and ti leaf." Illustrations by Drew Rausch! ++ DUETS BLACK PEPPER & PINK GRAPEFRUIT RICE MILK & MANGO TOMATO & CUCUMBER CINNAMON & LEATHER OSMANTHUS & AGARWOOD BLACK AMBER & SUGAR CANE HONEYSUCKLE & WISTERIA BLUE CYPRESS & HAITIAN VETIVER ORANGE BLOSSOM & DRIFTWOOD SWEET MYRRH & GREEN FIG ++ TWILIGHT ALCHEMY LAB PAX 2021 BOUNCE ***DOWN DATES**** The December Lunacy perfumes will be leaving the site within the week! Last chance for these lovelies: LONG NIGHT MOON TONKA BEAN, BLACK TEA, AND VETIVER BLACK AMBER, OAKMOSS, AND TEREBINTH CYPRESS, EUCALYPTUS, AND BIRCH TAR BEESWAX, AMBER, AND STAR JASMINE WILD FIG, BLACKCURRANT, AND NEROLI SOFT REBOOT Also, Brian has just informed me that Weenies will be coming down during NEXT month's Lunacy!

Witches, prepare to ride! In observance of Walpurgisnacht 2021, BPAL is thrilled to announce a partnership with Spiritus Arcanum, purveyor of wares for the magickal arts. On Friday, April 30th at 3pm Eastern (12pm Pacific) the following limited edition perfume blends will be available for pre-order exclusively via https://spiritusarcanum.com: THE WALPURGISNACHT COLLECTION ?️HEXENTANZ Hazy clouds of bonfire smoke and dark, resinous incense envelops the silhouettes of shape-shifting witches dancing ‘round a blazing fire: black incense, woodsmoke, sumac, turmeric, dried ginger, cassia husk, red cedar berries, 7-year aged patchouli, wood moss, and blood-red vegetal musk ?️THE MAN IN BLACK The Devil at the Crossroads: well-worn black leather, tobacco absolute, Haitian vetiver, ambrette seed, crushed tonka bean, and a flick of crossroads soil. ?️OSCULUM INFAME A scent of seduction, transgression, and danger: crystalized sap, candied red fruits, raw wildflower honey, black amber, and sweet red labdanum. (This scent is vegan because pacts with the devil should be available to everyone regardless of their dietary preferences.) ?️THE QUEEN OF MAY An electric howl of dazzling spring blossoms; a rabid cacophony of bright, alluring, dew-splattered wildflowers streaked with lightning-white vegetal musk. An oil of youth, beauty, treachery, and liberation.

Due to popular demand, we've revived this 4/20 perfume inspired by illicit memories from our misspent youth: "Nag champa, patchouli, and weed smoke." An even stankier blend than before, appropriate for 2021. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/in-memoriam/limited-edition-in-memoriam/blacklight-reactive-poster/ DISCLAIMER: Please do not smoke, eat, or huff this oil. Do not rub it on your gums, do not put it on your privates, do not vape it. It is a perfume and meant to be used as such. No funnybusiness! (This perfume contains no actual weed. Zero cannabis. None. Zilch. What do we look like? A dispensary?) (Wait, don't answer that...)

The Fortunes of the Harvest A hymn for increasing fecundity, and to help nurture all the seeds that you plant in the coming year: patchouli, licorice root, tobacco, and sandalwood. In the bottle: a cool, damp, gritty tobacco, like a pouch that's been kept in a farmer's pocket close to the skin. On the skin: Almost immediately becomes warmer and spicier as the patchouli breaks from the pack of notes, in the most inviting way imaginable. I'm not getting a clear bead on the licorice root or sandalwood notes, they are all expertly harmonized with the tobacco in a beautiful earthy chord (so, don't let that licorice note scare you). In the drydown the scent becomes less lively on the skin and more earthbound. The hint of sweetness from the tobacco (and I assume, the licorice) is quite pleasant. I would definitely scent a drawer or closet with this, in addition to wearing on the skin -- it completely reminds me of all the out-of-the-way corners of my grandparent's farmhouse, and the old books, clothes, and relics that gave off an enticing aroma of hard work and age.

Good morning! It seems like most folks saw our announcement about DOUBLE LUNACY, and I wanted to follow that up on the more private channels with an update about the state of our Customer Service, aka Ted P. Barrial, email-slayer extraordinaire, who is also packing most of the orders. By now most BPAL fans have gotten the memo about the urgency of our situation over here, in terms of too much work being done by too few people. But we've also gotten a lot of new customers during the pandemic (yay!) who don't really know anything about what's going on behind the scenes (boo! but not their fault) and have more intense expectations in terms of accessibility and order turnaround. Anyhow, every hour Ted spends answering emails is an hour when X amount of orders don't get shipped out. And bit by bit, week by week, this has contributed to a major slowdown, which is why we're still struggling to complete orders that people made a month (or longer) ago. And this, dear faithful readers, is one factor in the decision to bump Lunacy farther down the road: as sorely as we need the business, we simply can't handle the influx of new orders. I know many of you are already only emailing etc. as a last resort, but it still behooves me to issue a reminder that Pandemic Roolz are still very much in effect, and our labor shortage has got the remaining crew working 6-7 days a week and we're STILL falling further behind. There's not much anyone can do to help, but one way is that if you see anyone grumbling about the turnaround time or about our Customer Service, you can gently (because we want to keep them around!) catch them up on our situation. We are not Amazon. We are not Target. Heck, we're not even BPAL in terms of how things were running a year ago. We are starkly limited in our ability to scratch every itch or see further ahead than this week. If you want to inquire about something but don't want to slow Ted down, you're welcome to email me (tom@blackphoenixalchemylab.com) and I will field the question as best I can. I also check the DM's on Instagram, where we field all kinds of random queries, and you're not bothering anyone there since it's just ME DOING MY WONDERFUL JOB, and I don't think Beth or anyone else gets distracting notifications from that. This message is appended with a lovely photo of Dorothy Parker that we can all deeply relate to, although thankfully I don't think any of us at the Lab are hitting the bottle quite like that. We don't have time! Selling perfume is our drug of choice, and we are REALLY chasing the dragon these days. Thank you for listening!

Kickstarter alert! Including a scent that it’s impossible to acquire any other way. THE DEVIL AND CIRCE “A flutter of leathery wings envelop a gossamer swirl of pomegranate chypre, smoky aged patchouli, pink carnation, rose cognac, ivory-white sandalwood, lilac incense, and clove.”

We've done it again! And by "it," I mean contributed to Sphere + Sundry's war chest of ceremonial implements, with a new oil called DIADEM OF MYRIAD RAYS. Available in very limited quantities, only from S+S! https://sphereandsundry.com/offerings/diadem-of-myriad-rays Helios puts on his diadem of myriad rays and the corselet woven of twelve stars and bound by the belt which athwart the rain-clouds shows for men its many hued bow. – Valerius Flaccus This is an oil of triumph, renewal, and victory. It is a scent radiating with power and life-affirming heat, and its function is to grant success, bestow glory, and lend protection from all that creeps in the shadows. It is an oil that rejoices in the vibrant power of the sun and the joy and pleasure of life itself. This oil can be used in rites to honor Helios and Phoibos Apollon, in Solar rites, or as a perfumed oil to invoke the qualities of this oil in your body, mind, and spirit. Organic blood orange essential oil (Citrus sinensis), bourbon geranium essential oil (Pelargonium x graveolens), organic Italian bergamot essential oil (Citrus aurantium subsp. Bergamia), wild bergamot petals from the TAL garden (Monarda fistulosa), King mandarin essential oil (Citrus reticulata), mimosa olessence (Acacia decurrens), frankincense essential oil and tears (Boswellia carteri and Boswellia sacra), dragon’s blood resin (Daemonorops draco), cinnamon essential oil and bark (Cinnamomum verum), ginger essential oil and root (Zingiber officinale), bay laurel essential oil and bay leaves from the TAL garden (Laurus nobilis), calendula flowers from the TAL garden (Calendula officinalis), cistus essential oil (Cistus ladaniferus), and cassia (Cinnamomum burmanni). PLEASE NOTE: This oil is vegan. Use caution when using this oil, as it contains cinnamon and cassia.

This is the very definition of a small-batch fragrance. Stock will be extremely limited, and when it’s gone it’s gone! Available exclusively from bloodmilk this Friday. Via @bloodmilk on Instagram: ?Sea of Grief? In addition to our new mourning strand collection launching this Friday, 3/26, at 3pm EST in our corner of the ? { see previous post }, we’ll also be offering a limited edition of ‘Sea of Grief’, a special perfume oil made by BPALas part of their sister branch, Twilight Alchemy Lab. I asked Beth for a ‘grief balm ‘ and she made a gorgeous oil that can be used in various ways in your personal practices aside from as a perfume. As per Beth: • I have a right to feel my throat choke about this. You take your grief and I mine—see? A balm for the soul, this is an oil that assists in healing the acute lacerations of sorrow and loss that both cut and calcify our hearts. Angelica essential oil and root, carrot seed oil, lavender essential oil and bud, Roman chamomile essential oil and chamomile harvested from the BPAL garden, vetiver root and oil, neroli essential oil, organic Italian bergamot essential oil, and white vegetal musk. Ritually crafted one full lunation. This oil contains solid plant materia.

It's happening again! Our devilishly accurate CLOVE CIGARETTE perfume blend is currently available for pre-order, exclusively via Thorns Clothing. https://www.thornsclothing.com/collections/frontpage/products/thorns-x-black-phoenix-alchemy-lab-clove-cigarette-perfume-oil-1

The headline pretty much says it all! Just passing this along from Brian. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lilith-2020/

Brian: "It's live. I expect lots of issues." BUT WE DID IT! It's here. And the Lunacy along with it! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lupercalia-2021/ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/shunga-2021/ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/february-2021/ If this collection was a rare flower, it would be called Lupercalia Dystopia.

I keep reaching for this one, months onward, which continues to shock me because there were others in Ars Inspiratio which were MUCH more interesting to me on paper. But when it's right it's right... right? In the bottle: It stings a little! Frankincense, oudh, labdanum are right there, which meant that it struck me as a touch medicinal in an Old World way, but inviting and intriguing nevertheless. Wet on the skin: Right away this is where the fruit notes and oudh start singing in a kind of high-pitched harmony, commanding my full attention. The tartness is what grabbed me here, tempering the sweetness and highlighting the overall wicked playfulness of the blend, doing sinister, wayward things to the musk. The osmanthus and hint of vanilla round it out and keep the whole thing fairly sophisticated. The sly smile of the figure on the label is the perfect advertisement for this scent: there are darker stirrings rising up from underneath, in the form of the patch and the datura accord, which suggest hidden depths of complete amorality. It's feminine, but edgy -- surely no pushover, this gal. Dry: This palette basically sticks with me, holding relatively stable throughout the whole drydown. It does get a bit softer, until the very end all that's left is this kind of pouting sigh of candied oudh. It's a wonderfully mysterious scent that is truly worthy of the artwork and suggestive of the art of divination itself.

AwoooOOOOOoooo, last call for our WOLF MOON Tee Shirt pre-orders, which will close after today. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/apparel/t-shirts/wolf-moon-2021-tee/ Also leaving the site after today: FALLING LEAVES MOON (perfume blend only!) BLUE MOON BLAUER MOND LUNA AZUL LÁN YUÈLIÀNG ROSE-TINTED MIRROR by Twilight Alchemy Lab And the following Menage products: ? HIMALAYAN WHITE TEA, LEMON PEEL, AND GRASS ? PAPYRUS, CARDAMOM, AND BALSAM ? CEYLON CINNAMON, MYRRH, AND CACAO ? RED MANDARIN, FRENCH LAVENDER, AND JUNIPER ? LEATHER, INDIGO INCENSE, AND RED AMBER When they're gone, they're gone! Gotta make room on the warehouse shelves for all kinds of new treats...