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Verbatim from the Shiny & New page, as I am about to fall dead asleep on my keyboard...

 

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IF YOU ARE PAYING VIA PAYPAL, please do NOT use our online credit card processor. Place your order through PayPal using the payment address paypal [at] blackphoenixalchemylab [dot] com and fill your order info in the comments field. Please note that all orders, including domestic orders, are currently taking an excess of 21 - 45 business days to process, pack and ship out due to a heavy workload, the process of hand-blending and the nature of our product. Please refer to the Shiny and New section for more information about current ship times. All oils are made once they're ordered to ensure freshness. Our shipped-through info is constantly updated in the BPAL Forums.

 

Black Phoenix Trading Post is now live! Black Phoenix Trading Post is the officially licensed creator and distributor of BPAL tees, perfume jewelry and tchotch. The first tee is up, the Established 1350 tee, but they will be adding more designs in the near future.

 

In the Spring, the first in a series of demonic statues will also debut.

 

Questions? Please contact the Trading Post's proprietor, Tedwin, at tradingpost [at] papow [dot] net.

 

Our Beloved Kate has completed the BPAL Search Engine Scent Family Project, and searching the site for scents by genre, tone, and general feel is now possible. ALL HAIL KATE!

 

While Tedwin is busy slaving away in the t-shirt mines, Miss Kennedy, the recently deified Customer Service Goddess and Anthony, the BPAL House Manager and Official Whip Cracker, will be handling all of your customer service needs. Please email them with any concerns, comments, praise or lamentation at answers [at] blackphoenixalchemylab [dot] com.

 

BPAL will be vending at Convergence 11, so if you can manage it, please come down and say hullo.

 

Chaste Moon is coming up on my birthday, February 24, so you can bet your ass that it should be a pretty groovy update, all in all. But, in the meantime, here is a peek at the scents that are new for February:

 

LIMITED EDITION

• DEAD MAN'S HAND -- To celebrate the opening of the Black Phoenix Trading Post, we are offering this rugged, visceral dark cowboy scent. Now widely considered a portent of doom, the Dead Man’s Hand is a term used in five-card poker when you have “aces over eights” or “aces backed with eights” – the hand allegedly held by Wild Bill Hickock when he was gunned down from behind by Jack McCall in Saloon No. 10, Deadwood. According to the saloon’s proprietor, Hickock was holding all black cards, aces and eights, and it is believed that he was about to draw at the time of his murder. Our Dead Man’s Hand is the quintessential western scent: dusty rawhide and oiled leather.

• THE LIVING FLAME --

They pass before me, these Eyes full of light,

Eyes made magnetic by some angel wise;

The holy brothers pass before my sight,

And cast their diamond fires in my dim eyes.

 

They keep me from all sin and error grave,

They set me in the path whence Beauty came;

They are my servants, and I am their slave,

And all my soul obeys the living flame.

 

Beautiful Eyes that gleam with mystic light

As candles lighted at full noon; the sun

Dims not your flame phantastical and bright.

 

You sing the dawn; they celebrate life done;

Marching you chaunt my soul's awakening hymn,

Stars that no sun has ever made grow dim!

 

A luminescent red scent: breathless with passion, flickering with desire, and glowing with ardent and reverential love.

 

FUNEREAL OILS

• HOUSE OF NIGHT --

And by that light around the dome appear'd

A mournful garden of autumnal hue,

Its lately pleasing flowers all drooping stood

Amidst high weeds that rank in plenty grew.

 

The Primrose there, the violet darkly blue,

Daisies and fair Narcissus ceas'd to rise,

Gay spotted pinks their charming bloom withdrew.

And Polyanthus quench'd its thousand dyes.

 

No pleasant fruit or blossoms gaily smil'd,

Nought but unhappy plants or trees were seen,

The yew, the myrtle, and the church-yard elm,

The cypress, with its melancholy green.

 

There cedars dark, the osier, and the pine,

Shorn tamarisks, and weeping willows grew,

The poplar tall, the lotos, and the lime,

And Pyracantha did her leaves renew.

 

The poppy there, companion to repose,

Display'd her blossoms that began to fall,

And here the purple amaranthus rose

With mint strong-scented, for the funeral.

 

And here and there with laurel shrubs between

A tombstone lay, inscrib'd with stains of woe,

And stanzas sad, throughout the dismal green,

Lamented for the dead that slept below.

 

A sorrowful graveyard bouquet of somber blooms, funereal boughs, dismal green and laden with grief.

 

SIN & SALVATION

• LANGUOR -- An opiate torpor, soporific, trancelike, and sublimely languid. A poet’s morphine dream, a listless journey into a gentle dream and the precipice of intoxicated madness. Paperwhite and black narcissus, three lilies, black poppy and tuberose and a hint of hypnotic opium den haze.

 

LOVE POTIONS

• BRISINGAMEN -- The amber necklace of Freyja, Norse Goddess of Love, Sex, Attraction and Fruitfulness. Her magnificent necklace was bough from four Dwarves [Alfrik, Berling, Dvalin and Grer] at the price of four nights of her passion. When Brisingamen graces your throat, no man can resist your charms. A glittering mantle of rich golden notes: five ambers, soft myrtle and apple blossom, myrtle, and carnation.

• CASANOVA -- A name synonymous with seduction and licentiousness. From childhood aspirations of seclusion and priesthood came Giacomo Casanova, the self-styled Chevalier de Seingalt, the most notorious debauchee and playboy of all time. His memoirs, Histoire de Ma Vie, enflamed the Enlightenment with scandal and tales of sexual conquest. His restless nature and flair for sensationalizing his adventures drew him into and out of fortune, through numerous careers and affairs, and led him into a brief altercation with the Inquisition and a conviction on the charge of witchcraft. Though he had a life rife with drama and intrigue, he died peacefully at the age of 73, librarian to the Count of Waldstein. Who says librarians can’t be sexy? A rakish blend of leather, anise, lavender, bergamot and amber with tonka, lemon peel and lusty patchouli.

• HETAIRAE -- The sublimely beautiful, fiercely independent, impeccably cultured, fascinatingly worldly and witty courtesans of ancient Greece. A seductive and dazzling blend of golden honey, fiery patchouli, sweet fig and clove, and a blushing touch of ylang ylang.

 

DIABOLUS

• NOCNITSA -- Also known as Krisky, Plaksy and Gorska Makua, she is a nightmare spirit, the Night Hag of the Woods, who haunts Polish, Russian, Bulgarian and Slovak children during the darkest hours. The only protection against her torments is a circle drawn around a child’s cradle with a knife, or an axe or protective poppet hidden under the floorboards beneath where a child sleeps. Her scent is that of a lightless fir wood, nighttime air, wet forest mosses and upturned earth.

 

ARS DRACONIS

• DRAGON'S HIDE -- Flame-kissed, warm, smooth, and highly protective. Dragon’s blood, leather and a hint of smoke.

• DRAGON'S MUSK -- Dominant, passionate, devastating. Dragon’s blood and five deep musks.

 

WANDERLUST

• MOSCOW -- A rich, bold blend of imperial rose, carnation, lush jasmine, lily of the valley, dark musk, amber, bergamot and gilded tangerine.

• SANTO DOMINGO -- An exotic, sultry blend of tobacco leaf, bay rum and heady Caribbean blossoms.

• SILK ROAD -- A panoply of cultural treasures, spanning the herbs, flowers, oils and balms of the Romans, the Byzantines, the Mediterranean, the Levant, Northern China, Eastern Europe, Iran, the Bulgar-Kypchak, Mesopotamia, the Crimean Peninsula, Anatolia, Antioch, and North Africa.

 

New this month, the long-awaited Sephiroth series. Due to the complexity of the blends, and the quality and scarcity of their ingredients, they are only offered in the 10ml size, and, like the Tarot Blends, they are $21.50 each.

 

SEPHIROTH

• KETHER -- The Supreme Crown, Rashith ha-Gilgalim, the Primordial Ether, Primum Mobile, the Source of All, the Origin of Will that radiates 620 pillars of light.

• CHOKMAH -- The Primordial Point of Creation, Mazloth, Being Out of Nothingness, the Origin of Thought and the source of the 32 Ways of Wisdom.

• BINAH -- The Womb, Shabbathai, the Uppermost Feminine in the Godhead, Supernal Mother, Divine Sorrow, Supernal Shekhinah, and the source of the 50 Gates of Understanding.

• CHESED -- Loving Kindness, Tzedek, the Benevolence of God, and the source of the 72 Bridges of Mercy.

• GEBURAH -- Din, Madim, the Heavenly Court, the Consuming Fire, Divine Wrath, the Force that Contains the Seeds of Sitra Ahra.

• TIPHARETH -- Divine Beauty, Shemesh, Unity, the Balance of Justice and Mercy.

• NETZACH -- Victory, Nogah, Eternity, Endurance, God’s Grace.

• HOD -- Glory and Majesty, Kokab, God’s Judgement.

• YESOD -- Foundation, Labanah, The Living God, Eternal Life, the Source of the Living Waters.

• MALKUTH -- The Kingdom, Olam Yesodoth, Shekhinah, God’s Presence in the World, the Throne of Glory.

 

The following is a preview of scents that will become available throughout the rest of the year. Please do not request samples until they go live on the site; they are all still in their prototype or conceptual stages and are not available for purchase in any form.

• 51

• Aeval

• Anath

• Apocalypse

• Ariel

• Astarte

• Avalon

• Babalon

• Bé b'lia

• Belshazaar

• Berlin

• Bien Loin D'Ici

• Boleskine

• Camlann

• Ceylon

• Conjuration

• Cthulhu

• Decadence

• Dragon's Teeth

• Elegy

• Ennui

• Erebos

• Eurydice

• Event Horizon

• The Eyes of Beauty

• Fascination

• Freyja

• The Ghost

• Giza

• Gossamer

• The Graea

• Hades

• The Hanging Garden

• Havana

• Hel

• Hi'iaka

• Howl

• Isolde

• Jinx

• Koshchei

• Lemuria

• Loki

• Lorenz Attractor

• Melbourne

• Miranda

• Mu

• Na-maka-o-Kaha'i

• Nairobi

• Naked Singularity

• Oblivion

• Odin

• Orlando

• Orpheus

• Pandemonium

• Percival

• Prague

• Prospero

• Rebecca

• Requiscat

• Risis

• Romeo

• Rosmerta

• Sanguine Moon

• Santa Muerte

• Schrodinger's Cat

• Set

• Sidhe

• Sri Lanka

• Superstition

• Tannhauser

• Thanatos

• Thou Art That

• Tristam

• Tsuyu

• Two, Five and Seven

• Val Sans Retour

• Vampyre

• Vesuvius

• Vitriol

• Wasp in a Wig

• Xanadu

• Xochiquetzal

• Yekum

• The Zorya

• ... and the Mock Turtle's Lessons

 

Also coming later this year... more from the Great Alchemists Collection:

 

• Christian Rosenkreutz

• Demosthenes

• Hermes Trismegistus

• Dee

• Al-Razi

• Aquinas

• Caligostro

• Flamel

• Geber

• Magnus

• Mirabilis

• Newton

• Paracelsus

• Zosimus

 

Several limited editions will be coming in sets this year. The first pairings of the year will be...

 

• Agony & Ecstasy

• Cain & Abel

 

In addition, we will be working on a bevy of mythological blends, the Arthurian Collection, the Temple Blends series, the Loas, and an influx of Voodoo Blends.