kebechet Report post Posted September 19, 2013 An October vision of Harvest Moon is our Lunacy this month: HARVEST MOON 2013 Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers. Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions. - Carl Sandburg Red roses and wild red leaves. The Harvest Moon tee is available at Black Phoenix Trading Post! Artwork by Tanya Bjork! We’ve plucked some Oakmoss for your perusal -- ++ SINGLE NOTES OAKMOSS ACCORD Oakmoss is a lichen that grows on the branches and trunks of conifers and deciduous trees. Oakmoss’ scent can vary, depending on how it is grown and which tree has housed it. Generally, it is deep, earthy, green, moist, and tenacious, though oakmoss grown on pine trees may possess a thinner, sharper scent. Some extractions smell vaguely leathery, and some are velvety green, while others can be dry and woodsy. In perfumery, oakmoss is considered a base note, and it is often employed as a fixative. It adds depth, a sense of grounding, and solemnity, and acts as an anchor for more capricious notes. And a new subsection of our catalogue is debuting! ++ INSPIRATION This is a paean to all the writers, artists, poets, dramatists, composers, sculptors, scientists, inventors and innovators that inspire us. The accompanying tees are available at our sister site, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. MARY SHELLEY Illustrated by Abigail Larson. Purchase the tee here! It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world. The scent of absinthe, lightning, stormclouds, and laudanum crashing through a veil of soft Victorian oriental perfume. BRAM STOKER Illustrated by Abigail Larson. Purchase the tee here! No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. Bourbon vetiver with opoponax, Italian bergamot, and hay absolute. Coming up next… Black Phoenix Trading Post’s Halloweenies! - - - A gentle reminder! -- On September 21st, Century Guild is hosting a closing party for Gail Potocki’s phenomenal Fragmented Alice series, and Black Phoenix will be there debuting our new collaboration with the artist! We'll also have an event exclusive for the evening: Time’s Infliction of Eternity, a sanguine blend of Dragon’s Blood sedum and black tea. Time’s Infliction of Eternity will ONLY be sold on the evening of the event! The Fragmented Alice scents that will be debuting are: WORMWOOD FIELD Wormwood accord, pink lime, yuzu, thyme flower, hinoki, cedar wood, and green musk. HATTA Copaiba balsam, battered brown leather, and Ceylon cinnamon. NEVAR Black plum and opium poppy with violet leaf and petal, white musk, indigo incense smoke, olibanum, vetiver, and cacao. And the rest of the upcoming Fragmented Alice scents will be on display for you to experience! Wormwood Field, Hatta, and Nevar are limited to 250 bottles each, and when they’re gone… they’re gone. They will be sold the night of the event, and the remainder will be sold through Century Guild and the BPAL site soon afterwards. Join us on the 21st! Gail Potocki’s Fragmented Alice: Closing Night September 21, 2013 7-10pm CENTURY GUILD 6150 Washington Blvd Culver City, CA 90232 1.800.610.2368 http://centuryguild.net/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
