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We're back on track, babies! The new BONEY MOON and DEATH MOON Double Lunacy launch have got us all caught up with full moon stuffs. Behold! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/march-2025-double-lunacy/ Please note that we've added a free item that anyone can add to their order: Immigrant Rights "Red Cards" (ours are white) with info provided by the Immigrants Rights Resource Center. These are available in a variety of languages -- English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese -- and you may select the language and quantity from the drop-down window on the product listing. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/limited-edition/propaganda/immigrant-rights-cards/ And hey, the fact that we're launching two Lunacies means that two Lunacies must also *come down*. So consider this your one-week warning for Beaver Moon and Cold Moon. That includes the Black Moon Rising release and the New Year's Creepers & Oddments mini-series! That's it for now -- thank you for waiting so patiently while we got our collective shit together.

A new collaboration from BPAL & Haute Macabre celebrating the rebirth of spring, when life breaks through the ground and the light shines longer. https://hautemacabre.com/collections/apothecary/products/persephones-ascent-by-black-phoenix-alchemy-lab PERSEPHONE'S ASCENT A glorious blend honoring the benevolence of the season : sandalwood-infused vanilla, vines of pale spring blossoms, honeysuckle nectar, and sweet cream.

Century Guild is publishing a new book exploring witchcraft and the occult through vintage paperback cover art, so you know we just HAD to get on board with that! Two new scents available exclusively via their Kickstarter rewards: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/spell-bound-vintage-witchcraft-occult-hardcover-art-book?ref=profile_created&category_id=45 SENSUOUS WITCH Gliding through the velvet hush of midnight, she moves — barefoot on cool stone, wrapped in a whisper of clove-scented silk. A flicker of candlelight catches the curve of her throat, the glint in her half-lidded eyes. Dark florals, bruised and beckoning — black orchid, scarlet poppy, and moonlit tuberose — whisper their secrets against the heat of her skin. A breath of smoked vanilla curls like an incantation, weaving through ribbons of amber resin and spiced honey. Beneath it all, the slow, insistent pull of patchouli and oud, ancient and aching. This is the art of longing, the alchemy of desire. AGE OF AQUARIUS Ink-dark skies ripple with stardust and prophecy, and the air hums with the scent of revolution: smoked myrrh and velvet incense glittering with ti leaf and Italian bergamot.

If you are reading this, that means Galen and I must actually be moving to Minneapolis in March. Can this be real? How on earth did this happen? Those, reader, are questions to be answered another time. We're gonna run with the assumption that this IS real, since we've already signed a lease and are very busy packing up our apartment in L.A. Among the many WONDERFUL things that will become possible as a result of this move, we're setting our sights on organizing Lunacy events in the Twin Cities once we get settled. I've even got a space that wants to host us! I will definitely announce these meetup opportunities here in the Forum, but I've also made a Page for them on Facebook, akin to Courtney's for the Vermont Lunacy events. Whatever helps folks keep tabs on us! So if ya want, please Like and Follow this page to be notified of any activity over there, even as a distant lurker: https://www.facebook.com/BPAL.MPLS Very much looking forward to the excitement of meeting new people in a new city! TB

After a fair amount of cosmic struggle, we have launched our Lupers: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lupercalia-2025/ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/novel-ideas-for-secret-amusements-2025/ Here, too, is a trio of scents celebrating the 100th birthday of Edward Gorey. This is the beginning of BPAL's new ongoing collaboration with The Edward Gorey House! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/the-edward-gorey-house/ Thanks for keeping the faith, friends -- and thanks in advance for helping us inform other aspiring Lupercalians that we just made their scent dreams (and a few nightmares) come true.

One, two, three, Haute Macabre perfume oils restocked, muah ha ha! ⚡ https://hautemacabre.com/collections/black-phoenix-alchemy-lab AS ABOVE leather drenched with white patchouli, oak bark, bourbon vanilla, bitter almond, and Moroccan jasmine. SO BELOW Amber and black copal with black coconut, Sumatran red patchouli, green cardamom pod, and golden musk. CITRINE Glittering ambrette seed, crystalline sparkles of lemon and orange blossom, blood orange and orange peel, bay leaf, sweet myrrh, and caraway.

I mistakenly imagined that I'd reviewed this back when it first came out. Apparently not! But I came here to report that it's aged marvelously. This scent would be right at home in the pantheon of mystical/mythical rose blends such as Peacock Queen and Rose Red. Or perhaps in the Last Unicorn collection! It's matured into a playful and luxurious pink rose surrounded by spicy glimmers and golden bokeh effects. The kind of rose that could only grow in a sacred garden protected by high walls, afforded ample sun and plenty of cool green shade. The sweetness imparted by the other ingredients softens the floral bombast. Like the name suggests, there's a quietness and delicacy to the scent that seems to invite itself into one's thoughts and then gently begin coloring them with its rosy pigments. I wore this while using the Rosebud Tarot deck today and it's such an impressive aesthetic match. Dig this one out! Chances are, you could use the mood boost.

Alright folks, we've done it! Our recently refreshed A Little Lunacy page is now topped with additional tiles for The Prophet and Twilight Alchemy Lab -- recurring additions to our monthly launches in 2025. All of the Goose Moon perfume + gloss selections are there, as well as a fresh batch of Ars Anni scents, and the WOOD SNAKE perfume for Lunar New Year. But wait, there's more! Along with this month's Lunacy we've finally added the Limited Edition Skull Maskerade series to our shop, a collaboration with artist Carla Wyzgala. And we've also finally added those new RPG perfumes and glosses that we first introduced at Dragon Con last summer! Everything above can be browsed on one page (alphabetically) via this one little link: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/january-2025-late/ Hopefully this will keep you busy for a moment or three while we continue working on Lupercalia! As usual we'll be very grateful if you help us spread the word about these releases among the kind of folks who will be most delighted to know about them. Remember: as one moon rises, so another one sets. As such, prepare to bid adieu to last October's HUNTER'S MOON and friends, which will vanish forever at the end of next week. TB

As someone who shares these tastes, I would definitely grab Dead Leaves, Dried Lilacs, and Labdanum from the Halloween collection before it sails away.

Hi friends, in wake of the recent catastrophic events which -- unbelievably -- are still unfolding, BPAL has created a small fundraiser scent series to direct funds toward local orgs which are offering help to those affected: Direct Relief, and the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. We've also included a list of other orgs which are worth supporting directly, by anyone who is able. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/the-city-of-angels/ This series includes four perfume oils (and one hair gloss!) inspired by SoCal-centric botanicals, and we've also brought back three batty-bats from our Limited Edition 2018 Genius Loci series and deployed them to assist with this cause. The destruction of the Barrial fam's homeland and the danger faced by loved ones has been profoundly painful for them to witness from afar, and it's been quite unpleasant for Galen and me to experience from our perch just beyond the evacuation zones. We're all grateful for the kindness and support we've received from the BPAL community, and for all the care we see being extended toward evacuees, firefighters, wildlife, and those who've lost everything in the fires.

Greetings, all! As a new Lunacy has landed, it's time for another to retreat into the abyss. This is your last week to acquire the following items from the Harvest Moon Lunacy launch: HARVEST MOON Perfume Oil Duets: HARVEST MOON: Corn Husk and Nutmeg HARVEST MOON: Apple Pulp and Oats HARVEST MOON: Campfire Smoke and Bay Rum HARVEST MOON: Blood Orange and Champagne Hair Gloss: BLACK CLOVE AND WILDFLOWER HONEY ++ ARS ANNI A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW BODEGÓN CON CESTO DE FRUTAS, MELOCOTONES, GRANADAS Y BERNEGAL IDYLL WOMAN PUTTING ON HER STOCKING Never fear, Snake Oil fans: we're keeping the fundraiser Snakes live for now!

Our last Lunacy of 2024 is LIVE, and of course it brought some friends along for the sleighride: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/december-2024-late/? Happy New Year, everyone!!

Our second Friday the 13th of the year! The handful of things that we've just launched are all here: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/december-2024/ 13 Thirteen scents of comfort; a supplication for safety and succor during turbulent, dark times. Warm wool, fresh baked bread, steaming black tea, and a gooey brownie spiced with fresh ginger, green cardamom, black peppercorn, coriander, clove bud, fennel, star anise, honey, and cream. Please note that we've also done a very limited edition 2" collectible coin and perfume set as a holiday fundraiser for Feed America and Philabundance: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/limited-edition/naughtynnice24-perfume-oil/ And we also added A HAILSTORM OF KNITTING NEEDLES to An Evening With The Spirits -- we'd already made it, but forgot to include it with the Yule launch!

Sorry to blindside our EU customers, but we've been unable to manage GPSR compliance ahead of today's effective date. We promise to keep working on this! But in the meantime, we can no longer fulfill orders to the European Union. We're still determining whether this affects our ability to fulfill *existing* orders. So if this includes you, please hang in there a moment while we figure out what we can manage. We're so terribly sorry, even though we know we are far from the only business affected by the rollout of this new policy. Hopefully we will get it straightened out!

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Hello to those of you up North whose orders have been affected by the Post Strike! The team asked me to inform those of you whose packages had not already shipped to say: for the time being we're holding onto all orders to Canada, and stashing them safely in the Lab until the strike is over. That includes any new orders that come in! So you may order with confidence in the meantime, knowing your items will be set aside for you until the coast is clear. Those with concerns about specific orders have most likely already reached out to Ted. We figured we should post an announcement to put anyone else's mind at ease.

Hello friends! We usually wait until the week of Thanksgiving to inform everyone about the Black Friday gifties that will get added to each purchase during that entire mad shopping weekend (Friday thru Monday). But what if we decided to blab about them a little earlier... in exchange for a modest community request? Kinda simple really. We're going to be sharing a lot of stuff online next week -- about the Frimps, about some especially gift-able items, and about our recent collections. But every other business out there is doing the same thing! It can be hard to break through the noise. So our humble request is that you help extend our reach by sharing our posts next week and spreading the word about BPAL, in whatever way you can. We try to put lots of lovely, entertaining stuff on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Bluesky, and YouTube with the hopes that it will be not just enjoyed, but circulated. And we always appreciate it when that happens! ❤️ That's it, that's our entire request. We might seem big to some, but we're still just a small biz trying to get our message out there... and we're very grateful for the help. And now, as promised... ++ BLACK FRIDAY FRIMPS Pie for the sweet, solace for the stressed, and succor for the sorrowful. Into every order over $20 placed on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Filler Whatever Sunday, or Cyber Monday, we’ll dump one 1/32 oz. imp of Hush, one 1/32 oz. imp of Lemon Chiffon Pumpkin Pie, and *two* 1/32 oz. imps of Incolumitas — one to keep and one to share. That's four bonus frimps in total! The horrors of this past November have made the return of our 2019 Black Friday Imp, Incolumitas, a necessity. Incolumitas is a scent of safety and security, of peace of mind and freedom from harm: warm honeyed patchouli, bourbon vanilla, sweet sage, and lavender. Hush is a scent to cool the nerves and help inspire serenity in dark times: lemon myrtle, ylang ylang, tangerine, sandalwood, and lavender. And finally, we’re bottling up some Lemon Chiffon Pumpkin Pie as a reminder that a little silliness, joy, laughter, and sweetness will help sustain us, fortify our spirits, and get us through to the other side.

Why on earth did it take me so long to fall in love with The Amorous Tree? I love rose and frankincense together, but the bombast can seem a little brash in moments when I'm feeling more... well, amorous. In the bottle this is woody and incense-y, and I understand where folks are getting the pine: there's a freshness here, like a freshly split stick, and maybe a drop of something truly evergreen. I can't tell if it's actually pine, or just the misty element. Only a faint blessing of anything floral. The concentrated scent itself seems to be swooning, like a deep heavy breath of cool air that you hold as long as possible, warming it inside you. On the skin I immediately get a warm, vaporous rose and a more polished wood. A lushly detailed engraving of a tree. The rose and frankincense combo is doing that thing I love, but there's a gauzy filter diffusing it into a magical glow. There's a faint blush of sweetness that I'm tempted to diagnose as strawberry, or some other red fruit. Whatever might have seemed piney here before is now just a cool arboreal breath in the starlight, somewhere in that middle distance between the farmhouse and the woods, the perfect semi-secluded spot for a rendezvous. I wear The Woman At The Edge Of The Woods quite often, which is similar in that way -- bridging the gap between domestic, pastoral, and wilderness. Where that one is more solemn and more rough-hewn, this one seems brighter and more welcoming. But they could seem like they could describe the exact same setting, at different times? Featuring different characters? As this dries, it's settling into a lovely pink rose surrounded by lush greenery. Airy, sweet, vividly (and temporarily) alive. Just enough leaves-and-branches underneath to broadcast the possibility of rot -- thereby enhancing the immediacy of the bloom.

The full Beaver Moon soared high overhead this weekend — which means a fresh flight of Lunacy scents will be landing soon, sooooooon ??? It also means this is your last week to score any of the items from this summer’s Deer Moon launch. We’ll be taking these down on Friday: ? DEER MOON ? BLACKBERRY & WILD LILAC ? CARAMEL & DARK MUSK ? GOLDEN TOBACCO & BEESWAX ? HONEY DUST & OUDH ? SUMMER FIG & WILDFLOWER Hair Gloss Plus these fine art perfume oils: ? MORNING FOLLOWS NIGHT ? WOMAN IN FRONT OF THE SETTING SUN ? FAUN EINER AMSEL ZUPFEIFEND ? AN ANGEL LEADING A SOUL INTO HELL And also, last call for COCONUT TREE ?? The new general catalog Hair Gloss blends are here to stay!

Autumnal tidings to ye! HUNTER'S MOON and its various ridealongs are finally here: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/october-2024-lunacy/ I'll update soon with down dates for everything that's leaving us in the near future.

This fall we've teamed up with Spiritus Arcanum once again, introducing a new series of perfume oils inspired by historical accounts of witches' familiar spirits. These are available exclusively from their shop, and can also be acquired at their bricks and mortar store outside of Salem. Hurrah! https://spiritusarcanum.com/products/bpal-witchs-familiar-collection WITCH’S TIT Milk. Blood. Transgression. Black venom. ILLEMAUZER Weathered grey stones veined with black moss loom over an ancient library suffused with the scent of weathered leather, aged parchment, and rivulets of flame-scorched beeswax. PYEWACKETT Gleaming red-tinged eyes peering from the shadows. Ink stains and smoke weave tendrils through aged blackened patchouli, rich amber, and infernal musk. PECKE IN THE CROWN Candied plum, champaca blossom, exotic spices, and heady incense smoke swirls with the opulence of Hojari frankincense, evoking the splendor of purple silk adorned with gold embroidery. GRIEZZELL GREEDIGUTT The scent of mysteries sunken deep beneath the surface: the damp richness of bog earth and a gnarl of vetiver root intertwined with ancient lichen, soft oakmoss, and a warm exhale of tonka. VINEGAR TOM Black velvet steeped in tea leaves, infernal cologne, and crimson resins, Vinegar Tom exudes shadowy seduction. The scent evokes honeyed flatteries, secret pacts, and whispered promises slipping from the lips of a finely dressed lothario. Please note: this oil contains honey absolute. SACKE & SUGAR Sweetly diabolical, a mischievous twist on the infernal. Rich butter melts into caramelized sugar, vanilla marshmallow, a delicate touch of cream and milky musk, and the warm, comforting aroma of fresh-baked bread rolls. Please note: this oil contains butter CO2 extract. JARMARA A dangerously dark and intoxicating floral, Jarmara is equal parts menacing and irresistible, teetering on the knife’s edge between seduction and peril. It is equal parts the seductive kiss of a vampire and the lethal poison slipped into a lover’s drink by a black widow. Black orchid and scarlet poppies intertwine with rosehips, orris root, opoponax, tolu balsam, and smoky labdanum.

Once again, we've provided the Century Guild with a perfume oil to include as a reward for supporting their latest publishing project. Behold: ZODIAC! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/zodiac-rare-vintage-1897-mucha-art-nouveau-poster Warm golden spices enveloped in a swirl of deep resinous amber incense and palo santo, sparkling with a celestial bouquet of heliotrope, bergamot, and star jasmine.

We'll be vending at New York Comic Con from Thursday, October 17 through Sunday, October 20, at booth #3779! ? And just as with our Dragon Con wares, we're going to be make the following event exclusive scents available to shoppers on our website as well, for the duration of the event. And awayyyyy we go: Perfume Oils: $32 Hair Gloss: $36 MEME RAT 2025 will mark ten years of notoriety for this epitome of rodent excellence, whose motivations remain relatable to this day. This perfume oil is our contribution to Pizza Rat’s decennial anniversary: a squeaky black tomato musk. BLACK & WHITE COOKIE Whatever your preferred term for this eye-catching bodega snack, its iconic design undeniably lingers in the backdrop of core New York memories. A simple, jumbo-sized treat, it unifies by transcending differences to mostly taste all like one thing! ++ CIDER PRESS APPLEJACK CIDER A one-two punch from mother Malus pumila: a steaming dipperful of expertly-spiced cider that’s been slapped with a generous splash of aged apple brandy. Remember, if it’s boiled, it’s spoiled! APPLE CIDER DONUTS The secret to this treat is the apple cider reduction infused in the dough. What you dunk it in is up to you! (Please do not dunk your nether bits or any other sensitive body parts into this oil.) MULLED CIDER OUD Take a break from pondering that orb, and mull over this mug! Sweet oud infused with fermented apple, allspice, cinnamon sticks, ginger root, clove, orange slices, and bourbon. HOT BUTTERED APPLE CIDER Sometimes we find it purely impossible to function without the kind of hot drink that leaves an oil slick in the cup. Here’s a crisp apple cider scent for those who can relate, complete with melted buttery swirl. Please note: this oil is vegan. CARAMEL APPLE GINGER ALE FLOAT These five words, in this order, are like a spell that unlocks life-changing autumnal possibilities. So put this fragrance on your dessert mood board: fizzy vanilla ice cream spilling over the rim of a towering, froth-capped glass of ginger ale, drizzled with caramel. ++ CIDER PRESS HAIR GLOSS APPLE CIDER MARSHMALLOWS That’s right, we added squished apples to marshmallows in pursuit of maximum squishiness. Give us the Nobel Prize already! You can squish the resulting concoction directly into your hairs: pillowy marshmallow fluff infused with a cidery sparkle.

Upon request, and inspired by election signs Beth made for the Barrials' yard, BEHOLD! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/political-buttons-2024/

Better late than never! HARVEST MOON and friends are live in our shop: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/september-2024-lunacy/ We've also corrected a Halloweenie goof, adding GUTTERING CANDLE to the series of Spooky Single Notes where it belongs: Rivulets of beeswax, a blackened wick, and a shuddering gust of smoke. Thanks so much for your patience, as the fall season has given us so much to work on. More surprises and delights coming soon as we prepare our NYCC virtual con announcement!