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Our latest scent collaboration with Haute Macabre has launched! Available exclusively in the HM Apothecary. MOLDAVITE "Royal Hojari frankincense, 7-year aged raw patchouli, oakmoss, Yemeni myrrh, green fig, omubiri resin, blackberry syrup, and a sprig of crushed mint."

We are, in fact, vending at Dragon Con this year! And once again, our "event exclusive" perfumes will, in fact, be available online for the duration of the convention! We'll launch these on our site early Friday morning (9/1), and they'll remain available online through the following Monday (9/4). We will be including convention booth swag in these orders while supplies last, but keep in mind we have a VERY LIMITED amount of swag this year, and it's first come, first served. ++ PEACH PIT PERFUME - $29 Apiece BOURBONED PEACH AND APPLE COBBLER DRIED PEACH INCENSE PINK PEACH BUBBLEGUM PEACH & KUMQUAT SUGARED PEACHES AND BLACKBERRY WINE LEMON PEEL, WHITE PEACH, AND WHITE MUSK IMPORTED CALIFORNIA PEACH Climate change is real. This is the scent of Bonita peaches, matilija poppy, citrus rind, hummingbird sage, chaparral currant, and California lilac. Proceeds from the sale of this scent benefit Evergreen Collaborative, a US policy advocacy group comprised of policymakers and scientists who have dedicated themselves to advancing environmental justice through improved climate policy. Utilizing both their expertise and networks, Evergreen Collective has effectively lobbied for significant climate legislation, successfully advocating for many parts of the Inflation Reduction Act including $369 billion in climate provisions. ++ PEACH PIT HAIR GLOSS - $31 Apiece PEACH BELLINI JILLIONS OF PEACHES ++ PEACH PIT ATMO SPRAY - $28 Apiece PEACH ORCHARD ++ HERE BE DRAGONS DRAGON BELL Z I can care less what you think I need no permission, did I mention Don't pay my dragon any attention If you liked it then you shoulda put a bell on it: dragon’s blood and frankincense resins, sugared violets, blackberry pulp, and blackcurrant. (I'm so sorry.) DRAGON WITH A PENIS HAT Is that a penis on your dragon.... or are you just happy to see me? Dragon’s blood and champaca thrusting into a blorp of red musk and bourbon vanilla.

Even though we'd only launched the ROSE MOON/THUNDER MOON Lunacy last week, we decided to go ahead and launch our BLUE MOON(s) in time for the actual calendar event -- thus keeping us incredibly on track with our intended schedule. Here are those four new scents! BLUE MOON The spirit of the full moon is capricious, intense and passionate, yet still distant, aloof and cold. Luna herself governs glamours, bewitchments and dream-work, innocent wonder, transient pleasure and delight, the Moment, impulse, mystery and veils. The Blue Moon is one of her rarest manifestations, and this scent is formulated to encapsulate her most complex and profound nature: Mugwort and bay, for psychic sensitivity... Juniper, for divination through dreams... Lavender and almond oil for clarity and relaxation... Orchid and purple sage for complexity, wisdom and noscere... ...with a potent lunar-charged blend of exquisite woods, moonflower, Madagascan ylang ylang, Florentine iris, starry bergamot, elemi, green tea absolute, palmarosa, cucumber, Clary sage, lettuce leaf, melilot trefoils, and wood aloes. BLAUER MOND Brian's interpretation. A whisper under the moonlight: blue musk, and indigo amber, myrrh, moonlit oudh, opoponax, terebinth, and tobacco leaf. LUNA AZUL Ted’s interpretation. The ephemeral romance, the fleeting affair: frankincense and blackcurrant, caramelized black amber, and motia attar. BLUE COTTON CANDY MOON Lilith may be a teenager now, but her love of sweet scents has not dimmed at all. Blue cotton candy, crystalline white flowers, and moonlit white musk.

Our contribution to this Saturday's event is the exclusive scent COMETS: “Glittering shards of icy white plum, crystallized pink peppercorn, Oman frankincense, and silvered amber arc through a midnight haze of Sumatran patchouli, velvet oakmoss, and hothouse orchids.” 💫 Sharing what Blood Milk and Sphinx & Snakeskin shared on Instagram below: We are excited to announce The Northern Lights Fair, our next event here in our home studio, on July 29th from 1-5 pm. We will be joined by 3 Northern small businesses who are making the journey down to Philly to share their offerings with everyone, as well as one other local artist...As always, we'll have a large selection of our current line, as well as special jewels and a small treasure chest of one of a kind offerings. While this event is free to attend, we have a suggested door donation to the Attic Youth Center. If you’re unable to bring any cash to donate, we hope you’ll donate directly to them. LGBTQ folks, especially youth, have been having a particularly turbulent time. Pride month may be “officially” over but its spirit forever lives on within our doors. Joining us: @graveyardwanders @shoplastrites @midnite_tremors @seaofdoom Please note this will be the last fair of the year in this particular incarnation. The rest of the year we’ll be traveling, giving over the curating reigns for an exciting event in October, as well as dreaming up more intimate experiences over the remaining months of 2023. Thank you to all of the artists, craftspeople & small businesses who have taken the risk by stepping out of either their respective cities, making a financial investment in offerings for these events, or taking the risk by just being outside and amongst people again in what are still uncertain and strange times. Providing a place for artists without a monetary exchange, sharing space with each other in a spirit of vulnerability and delight, has always been my intention with Sphinx & Snakeskin and I do believe we more often than not came as close as one can these days in those pursuits. We look forward to being together, being with you, in this last event of its kind this year. We hope to see you 🖤 🗝️

Hi all, we are officially caught up on Lunacy thanks to this delightful PINK MOON / THUNDER MOON launch. Here's hoping we can stay that way!* https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/june-july-2023/ *lolllllllll

We're working on the latest Lunacy launch as we speak, should be landing soon. It's important to note that at the end of next week, we'll be chopping Lupercalia 2023 and the whole pile of Spring Lunacy scents listed below. The list: DEATH MOON BEAR MOON WATER RABBIT AT DUSK (BOSTON COMMON AT TWILIGHT) MALINCONIA MORNING SUNLIGHT ON THE SNOW, ERAGNY-SUR-EPTE PENDEL SIRENE MEDIEVALE WINTER LANDSCAPE, RIME YUKIKEISETSU BLOSSOMS COLD SPRING, THE ALIEN FALLING STARS MYSTERIOUS GARDEN REJANE NEROLI, GREEN YUZU, AND MANDARIN ORANGE COFFEE BEAN, JASMINE SAMBAC, AND VANILLA WHITE SANDALWOOD, PURPLE ORCHID, AND TUBEROSE LILY OF THE VALLEY, ROSE OTTO, AND BLACK MUSK SWEET AMBER, PRALINE, AND PATCHOULI PURSLANE, DANDELIONS, AND PETRICHOR ALMOND BLOSSOMS, PATCHOULI, AND SEA SALT GREEN APPLE, WHITE CEDAR, AND BERGAMOT WHITE PEAR, PINK MUSK, AND CUCUMBER OAKMOSS, WHITE SAGE, AND WOODLAND FERN

Since the event is this Saturday, I'm running around shouting it from the rooftops! Here is the exclusive scent we're contributing to the The Clothing Fair presented by bloodmilk on Saturday: SPHINX SKIN “A gleaming black leather cocoon engulfed in a garnet-tinged haze of dragon’s blood smoke, black vegetal musk, fossilized amber, 3-year aged patchouli root, and smoldering incense.” Please note: this oil contains Daemonorops draco resinoid. Please roll the bottle in your palms or shake gently before use.

This is a kind of dual-purpose post — previewing the four new fundraiser scents we're adding to TRIUMPH IN MY SONG ahead of Juneteenth, and also reminding folks to look through the Yule, NYE, and Winter Lunacy scents that are gonna be vanishing after next week. 🖤 https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/ Coming down next Friday: ++ YULE 2022 ++ NEW YEAR'S CREEPERS & ODDMENTS Plus the following Lunacy products: SOUR MOON QUIET MOON A WINTER'S EVENING ANGEL WITH FLAMING SWORD DRUIDS CUTTING MISTLETOE ON THE SIXTH DAY OF THE MOON THE GIANT MONASTERY IN THE WINTER NIGHT PREMONITION THE SHEPHERD'S DREAM SKOGINTERIOR THE WOLF MAN'S DREAM THE ACTION DIE TODESSTUNDE IN THE MAZE OF BRANCHES, THE PALE FIGURE APPEARED SNOWY EVENING ZIMA V LESE FETE FERN, ENGLISH IVY, AND OAKMOSS TEA LEAVES, VANILLA BEAN, AND INCENSE SMOKE BLACK PEPPER, WHITE SAGE, AND TEA ROSE CARAMEL, TEAKWOOD, AND VETIVER TUBEROSE, WILD TOBACCO FLOWER, AND RED CLOVER COFFEE BEAN, OAK BARK, AND PATCHOULI SANDALWOOD, LIME, AND TAHITIAN GINGER MOROCCAN JASMINE, GARDENIA, AND MALLOW

I'm here in Cruel Tease mode to give you the lowdown on our upcoming LGBTQ+ Pride Month series, which will be a fundraiser for Drag Story Hour. This will launch sometime early in June, I know not exactly when! The reason I want to inform the community in advance is that these are a COMPLETE REFORMULATION of event exclusive scents we created in 2018. They are not 1:1, this is not a restock. They might be... similar? Some will be more different than others. We've made the labels very different from the 2018 scents, so there's little risk of mixing them up in the wild. It just seemed like such a timely concept to revive, and an important cause to raise funds for. We'll be very grateful for help with spreading the word once the series is launched! ++ PRIDE MONSTERS DRAG IS FOR EVERYONE Just like any art form, drag asks questions that have no right answer. This scent is compatible with almost every body type, and has been crafted to either be worn alone or as a base upon which you can layer other scents. This iteration of DIFE retains its collective wearability, but with an added sweetness to help soften the impact of these brutal times: sheer frankincense, bourbon vanilla skin musk, and sugar. DRAG ON A SLIME She’s the reason the venue now has rules like “No liquids onstage, unless you bring your own tarp.” This one pops: bubble gum and translucent white musk, sugar syrup, pink lime, and milky mango juice. THE GROOM A shock in a jock: the perfect drag king cologne. Black leather, lightning-lit white musk, a splash of schmancy Victorian fougere, and a snap of ozone. THE LIBRARY IS HAUNTED With this one, every conversation turns into a reading challenge. A dolorous mélange of myrrh, crypt moss, soil, faded funereal incense, pallid balsam, decaying parchment, and cracked leather. LYCANTHROPE FOR YOUR LIFE Hey look, it’s that TikTok queen who only performs live once in a full moon. Cardamom-infused whiskey, fig cream, honey, and marshmallow fluff. SERVING GILL A swimsuit with no padding: the perfect gender-amphibious look. Aquamarine musk snarled in kelp, pine pitch, seafoam, Italian bergamot, and orchid. SLAY The consummate host: they can fill oceans of time on the mic and still leave the crowd hypnotized. Black leather, polished black patchouli and blood-red vegetal musk, bakhoor oudh, tobacco absolute, sacred frankincense, fossilized amber resin, and bittersweet cacao.

Our beloved DORIAN is back in stock after a drought of several years! Currently available in 5ml, 1/32oz, and Hair Gloss options. Note that the price has been increased, a la the SNAKE OIL restock, due to the higher cost of components and the endless labor involved in getting this back out there. Thank you so much for enduring such a long wait! May it be received joyously, arriving just in time!

Holy cats, FOURTEEN new fragrances inspired by portrayals of feline excellence in classical art?? 🙀 🙀 🙀 These can be found among this month's Lunacy products (including our usual series based on cat-free artworks), presented purely for your scentertainment. Ye cats: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/limited-edition/felis-silvestris-catus/ Ye Lunacy: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/may-2023/

We've restocked five more perfumes from our licensed collection: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/the-last-unicorn/ 🌳 THE AMOROUS TREE 🌳 MAGIC, DO AS YOU WILL 🌳 ELLI’S SONG 🌳 THE MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL 🌳 THE NINTH CAGE

Just alerting folks to a small goof! The 4/20 scent MAGIC RAINBOW HARDSHELL CANDY was described as being chocolatey, a la M&Ms, but that was a remnant from an earlier draft of the update: it's actually a fruity Skittles-esque candy scent. A very silly but understandable mistake! Ted is reaching out privately via email to those who purchased the scent under false pretenses, so there's no action needed on anyone's part. We're just sharing in case anyone had bookmarked the product for later purchase, because they might not notice the description had been updated on the website. Thanks for listening, sorry for the switcheroo!

Sorry for the short notice, but TOMORROW there will be a Bloodmilk market event at Sphinx & Snakeskin in Philly, and we've created a new scent that will only be available to those attend! LEKYTHOI "Rivulets of myrrh and pelanon clinging to ancient clay, remnants of thyme, moringa, spikenard, and hyssop."

Tipping you off a day early! This year's 4/20 perfumes are litttttt https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/limited-edition/black-phoenix-doob-lab-2023/

Our latest Lunacy release also includes the WATER RABBIT Lunar New Year scent, and the remnants of our recent HEARTSHOW collaboration with Jinxed. Fun! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/april-2023-lunacy/

I was scared of this scent when I first smelled it. Reminiscent of my great-grandfather's toolshed, full of mysteries I wasn't old or experienced enough to solve. In the bottle it's really dark, and dry, almost sweetly astringent? Seconding the pitch called out by MamaMoth. Very foreboding, like the cologne of a bad, bad man, who drives a bad, bad car — like Stuntman Mike in Death Proof. In fact, it kind of smells like the interior of a car: dusty, oily, well upholstered, full of hidden compartments. So if that was the whole ride, I was gonna be kind of bummed, because while that is a cool and VERY specific thing to smell like, it was just too much masculine swagger for me. I craved just a wee bit more sensitivity from this scarecrow, even though I've been burned before buy guys like that and should know better by now. After a few moments on the skin though, I really want to be in that car. I start to detect these teasing incense notes that suggest this guy actually does take pretty good care of himself, he's not a total brute. That sticky resinous quality and the sweet earthiness of the hay note are selling something pleasantly old-fashioned, giving me something warm and almost human to snuggle up to. The most intensely forbidding aspects of this fragrance in the bottle are just a suggestion now, framing the scent but no longer dominating it. So like yeah, we ARE in an evil guy's car, he IS driving a bit too fast, but I've got my seatbelt on and I have to admit: I'm thrilled to death.

I'm a huge fan of the Lab's guava note, and basically groveled for it to be included in this scent. During the scene in the film when the tongue wall appears, and all of its orifices start belching forth strange substances, something that appears to be fruit salad spills forth from one of them. It really might be fruit salad! So it seemed pre-ordained that Tongue Wall would be a sassy, fruity scent. Firstly, it's worth noting that most of the bottles I've seen contain a separation of oils: look for little red blobs floating around in there! How appropriate! I like to give mine a good shake, because whatever that is, I want it evenly dispersed throughout use. In the bottle: guava first thing, and then what I think is grapefruit, probably to give that "acidic" kick that will read as digestive juices. A hint of berry from the lip gloss, as well as that oleaginous note that I Nobodies Watching Wrestling, which I consider the most epic strawberry lip gloss perfume of all time. (I'm obsessed with the word "oleaginous" lately because it describes so many of my favorite scents, particularly within this collection. Apparently I like wearing oils that smell oily!) So yeah, mainly gourmand in the bottle, but just enough of the musk and gloss there to suggest that... maybe don't eat this. For kissing, not for eating! Just delightfully fruity and sweet/tart but soft and musky around the edges. On the skin: It smells pink, soft, and wet, in the most appealing way. I love that the guava is tempered with these other scents, it draws an eerie sophistication out of what would otherwise be... fruit salad, I guess! The gradient from guava to musk is so smoothly blended, it's hard for me to tell where one ends and the other begins. There really may be dragon's blood resin in this, hence the "blood-tainted", but it would similarly compliment this brew so seamlessly that I don't trust myself to call it. Thanks to the musk asserting itself a little more, you really do get a sense of the Tongue Wall's overall immensity, not just the pulpy lips and tongue. She's a complex lady, with complex needs. There's something salivary about it, and I know that sounds gross, but it isn't. Just... a slickness, a warm humidity. It's really nice! Hard to tell which phase I like more, the "juice is loose" fruity stage when fresh out of the bottle, or this warm, easy-riding, fruit-stained musk. Fortunately I don't have to choose, I can just keep re-applying! 👄

From the very beginning this one has been a real head-scratcher for me. In the bottle I get that nice foodie cherry scent full blast, floating up on a cloud of cake. Like perhaps there's a hint of citrus there at first, but I'm just blurring it into the tartness of the cherry? It totally smells like some kind of syrup that you can drink. On the skin the cake warms up and I can detect a separate buttercream note, thick and oleaginous. The cake reminds me of the note from Pink Lovebird! And the lemon sharpens quite a bit, actually pushing cherry to the side and making it less syrupy. So yes, overall it's a frosted lemon cake with a layer of cherry filling, just yeasty enough to impart that risen quality; a grownup palate dessert, not a kid-palate one. Although, some might associate this combination of scents with opening a box of fruity cereal? But my eyes read "cake," so my nose says cake. It doesn't smell ominous! I kept waiting to see if something dark and unbidden would spring forth from the center of this scent, and at times I psych myself out and think I detect something more sinister emerging (like an oudh?) but I'm pretty sure it's just cake.

In the bottle: Both sharp and creamy/powdery, it really has that aldehyde sparklefizz but then also this deeper musky scent I associate with an 80s housewife's vanity and toiletry kit. It's clean and bright but not too cheerful, winsome without being too sultry, infused with a kind of vivid, hectic energy ("high-pitched" indeed) where one might expect to find modesty or tranquility. This fragrance really does seem connected to that perfect ideal of womanhood we grew up seeing in TV commercials: eyes shining, teeth gleaming, hair hairing, performing a heightened version of everyday life. In the film, this character wears bright yellows and warm pinks, which I swear I can smell in this blend, although that may be my own mental projection. On the skin: One of those musks that I swear to god smells like an actual living person, a kind of forced intimacy which is very apt in this case. The aldehyde is less intense, and what remains is a compromise between this powdery, glimmering sweetness and a ripe, lightly savory animalic quality that I think relates to secretions somehow: the perfect homemaker transforming into a sex-crazed animal. It's kind of breathy and light, but laced with evidence of carnal knowledge. I can't imagine this appealing to anyone who isn't into aldehydes, musks, and/or powdery florals, but there are definitely some interesting subtleties floating up from beneath those more obvious notes.

Come to the Botanical Fair this Saturday in Philadelphia! We will be contributing the following scent as an IN PERSON event exclusive: OIL OF FLIGHT AND VISION “Inspired by witches’ flying ointments, this is a deep, rooty perfume flecked with grave soil: sweet, tar-like 7-year aged patchouli, henbane bell accord, smallage, opium pod accord, cinquefoil, mugwort, and soot.”

We've created a new perfume to accompany the latest Century Guild Art Nouveau print release on Kickstarter! 💚 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/absinthe-robette-rare-vintage-1896-art-nouveau-poster ABSINTHE ROBETTE Radiant emerald rivulets of sugared absinthe and lemon leaf draped with sheer lemon blossom.

Just wanted to make sure this isn't missed in the hubbub! Today we're finally launching the Caligari perfumes (and pins) online, AND ALSO a special one-off fragrance in collaboration with Véronique Hyland, the author of last year's non-fiction book "Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from The New Look to Millennial Pink". Huzzah!

Okay, hear me out. December and January Lunacy are LIVE, belatedly. Double Lunacy! But the only way that makes sense to categorize these in the URL this is "March 2023", because we can't just keep time-traveling each month as we catch up. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/march-2023/ Also! We need to start clearing out old Lunacy products, so here's the list of everything we'll be taking down about ONE WEEK from now. Please take a look as you're contemplating your current (belated) Lunacy purchases. Does any of that make sense? It's Friday evening and I had a low-dose edible. 🥴 Coming down: ++ MÉNAGE À TROIS ANGELICA ROOT, AMBERGRIS, AND BOIS DE ROSE BUTTERNUT SQUASH, PATCHOULI, AND GREEN FIG CHAMPA ORCHID, CHOCOLATE, AND VETIVER CHARCOAL, CHAMPACA RESIN, AND TOBACCO ABSOLUTE COCONUT, TI LEAF, AND PINEAPPLE COFFEE BEAN, CACAO, AND KHUS GREEN CARDAMOM, IRISH FERN, AND HINOKI HAITIAN TOBACCO, BAY LEAVES, AND PATCHOULI TOMATO, OLIVE LEAF, AND FRANKINCENSE VANILLA CREAM, PISTACHIO, AND MACADAMIA ++ PAINTINGS A SUMMER NIGHT ANIMALS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA CERES COLUMNS OF THE TEMPLE OF NEPTUNE AT PAESTUM FORGE OF VULCAN HORSES COOLING THEMSELVES IN WATER SHELLS TAHITIAN LANDSCAPE THE SOAP BUBBLES YOUNG PILGRIM GIRL ++ TWILIGHT ALCHEMY LAB EMPOWERING HARVEST MOON LOVE POTION ++ THE PURGE CHOCOLATE DOOBSICLE SUPPOSED TO BE A PRETZEL FENRIS BLARGH FIGGY WOODS FIR NEEDLE AND OTHER STUFF SNAKE OIL LEMONADE STRAWBERRY SANDALWOOD ++ VIRTUAL CON FUZZY PEACH SWEATER AND A MUG OF LONDON FOG PEACH BRANDY SNAKE OIL THIS IS A PERFUME ABOUT MY DOG EATING PEACHES VANILLA WAFERS AND PEACH CREAM ++ LABORS OF THE MONTH 2022 AND HERE I HEAR THE FOWLES SINGE AND HERE I SHERE MY CORN FULL LOWE AND I WEDE MY CORN WELL I NOW AND WITH MY SPADE I DELFE MY LANDYS BY THYS FYRE I WARM MY HANDYS HERE I SETTE MY THYNGE TO SPRINGE I AM AS LYGHT AS BYRDE IN BOWE WITH MY FLAYLL I ERNE MY BREDE WITH MY SYTHE MY MEADE I MAWE

Just sharing this around: please note that the BPAL site will be in maintenance mode today (Tuesday) at an unspecified time, for an unspecified amount of time. Don't be alarmed! Hopefully you won't even notice it. 🤞