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Once you place your order with us -- through the web site, by mail or through CcNow -- it is final. No swap outs, no substitutions, no add-on's, no combining orders. I hate to do this, but it has caused far too many problems and is slowing up the packing and shipping process terribly. We do not have the manpower to cross-reference everything, and since every third order required some sort of post-order alteration... we were running into too many problems.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

This is being copied to the forum FAQ and will appear on the site tonight.

I've heard about this happening with a lot of different scents...the problem is likely the fact that one of the imps was not stored correctly.  Because they are in clear vials and not amber or cobalt, sunlight can alter their composition.  Also, if they are left in a warm place(at someone's home or in the mail, etc) that can change their composition as well.

 

If I were you, I'd try to get a third imp of it, preferably from the Lab (that way you know it is reasonably fresh, and it has had less time in the mail to get damaged), and see which of the other imps it is like, and assume that that is the true Hellcat. 

That /does/ happen. Oils can be quite fragile. When we moved the Lab to the Atwater location, I didn't realize exactly where the sun hit in the mornings and we didn't have curtains in for a few days. 16oz of apple blossom oil spoiled by sitting in direct sunlight for too long. It broke down the components of the oil and the whole damn thing went off. Luckily it was the only casualty.

Thank Hell I smell everything before I blend.

Another potential problem is that sometimes the oils seperate a little. When you are about to apply an oil, place it between your palms and roll it gently to "re-mix" the blend. Don't shake, as that can possibly break down the oil, too, and it will spoil faster.

Sometimes I wonder if I should start using preservatives and fixatives. =/

Bits copied from the Shiny & New section of the site:

Site update: 17 June 2004, 12.01am: Dark Moon.

Can you believe it? We're only three weeks behind on shipments. It may not seem so, but it really is an amazing feat. Brian constantly updates our shipped-through info in this thread on the BPAL Forums, so if you want to know if your order has gone out, that's the best place to start.

Nella, our Customer Service Goddess, Facilitator of Client Pleasure and High Lady of Answers will be out of town for the next thirty days. In the meantime, Brian and I will do our best to get back to everyone in a timely manner. Please be patient, as, for the next [long, harrowing] thirty days of her absence [yes, we are again short-staffed], we may be a bit swamped and pressed for time. I assure you, we will try our hardest to provide you with the quality of service and all-around love that she has shown you in her emails.

On with the new scents... two Limited Edition, two for the permanent collection:

LIMITED EDITION: A LITTLE LUNACY

BLUE MOON --

How often does the bright moon come?

With wine, I ask the blue sky.

The Heavily Palace, I wish to return there, riding the wind,

But fear that in the high places of jade halls and eaves,

I cannot fend off the cold. Rising to dance with my clear shadow,

Scarcely believing that I among men,

I turn around the red lacquered pavilions,

Dip below the silken-curtained windows,

Shine on the sleepless.

Let there be no regrets,

What else is always so full at the time of parting?

Men have sorrow and joy and farewell and union.

The moon has clouds and clear skies,

Waxing and waning.

Perfection is rare since days of old,

So wish only that the years be long,

To share beauty even across a thousand miles.

-- Su Shih

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…

Orchid and galbanum, for complexity, wisdom and noscere…

… with a potent lunar-charged blend of poppy, calamus, orris, wood aloes, moonflower, cucumber, and pale creeping buttercup.

LIMITED EDITION: SABBAT

LUGHNASADH -- The first of the year's Harvest Festivals. Lughnasadh represents a rest from toil and a time of reflection. Fertility magick is practised, as is agricultural magick used to ensure a bountiful Autumn harvest. The holy day is named after the Celtic deity Lugh, God of Skill in All Things, Patron of the Arts and Sciences. Though he and Rosmerta, his consort and the Goddess of Nature, are venerated at this time, the holy day was created out of respect for his foster mother Tailtiu, one of the Earth-Goddesses. Though she was a Lady of the Fir Bolg, she was a good, loving and honorable being, and cared for Lugh well. After her people were defeated by the Tuatha Dé Danann she was forced to clear a vast forest for the purpose of planting grain, and sadly, she perished from exhaustion in the process. The Hill of Tailte in Ireland was named in her honor, and legend states it was there that the first festival of Lughnasadh took place. To some outside of the Celtic mythos, this holy day also marks the annual death of the Sun God or the God of the Grain. The holiday is celebrated with contests of skill and cunning, feasting, oath-making, and agricultural competitions.

In addition, two new scents have been added to Bewitching Brews as part of our permanent collection:

BEWITCHING BREWS

INTRIGUE -- A sultry, exotic scent that inspires devious plotting and clandestine affairs. It is a scent painted in artifice, veiled in deceit, and slithering with whispered secrets. Black palm, with cocoa, fig and shadowy wooded notes.

LA BELLA DONNA DELLA MIA MENTE -- Inspired by Oscar Wilde's poem. Soft, lush myrtle and dry, sweet melilot with wild rose, pomegranate juice and peach blossom against a background of deep aquatic notes and a twirl of melancholy autumn breezes.

A reminder: Blue Moon will be available til midnight tomorrow.

The Blue Moon update is going live from midnight tonight [yep, 2.5 hours from now] til midnight tomorrow, giving everyone 12 additional hours to order. This is a one-shot, due to the nature and infrequency of the Blue Moon itself. Future Lunacy updates will still be limited to the 12-hour ordering span.

Along with the Blue Moon update, the Lughnasadh Sabbat oil will be available for pre-order... so I can ensure that it arrives in ample time for the festival. Two new "permanent scents" are being added in this mini-update, La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente, as part of an ongoing poetry-inspired series, and Intrigue.

More after the update is finished.

Bottles remaining as of today --

HAVISHAM

5ml: 3

10ml: 1

JUNE GLOOM:

5ml: 17

10ml: 7

For some weird reason it's bothering me that I posted it over an hour late.

I think I need to make some tea.

I'd write more, but it's 1am, and I am dead tired. We're starting to move the Lab to the Atwater Village location tomorrow, so I really need to get some sleep. But here they are... the new scents, as promised!

+ LIMITED EDITION PERFUMES FOR JUNE

HAVISHAM -- The embodiment of heart-wrenching loss, torment, of mad, obsessive cruelty and chilly revenge. This is the scent of a frost-limed wedding bouquet, frozen forever in time.

JUNE GLOOM -- Teddy's gloriously dismal creation. As a lover of rainy days, grey skies and chill air, summer is his antithesis. A spell of June Gloom is always welcome in our household. A bouquet of bright summer flowers dampened by the scent of morning mist and rain.

+ MAD TEA PARTY

THE DORMOUSE -- A dizzying eddy of four teas brushed with light herbs and a breath of peony.

TIGER LILY -- A feisty bouquet of golden, warm, gently honeyed lilies.

THE UNICORN -- A misty, almost luminous perfume: wispy linden blossoms, white flowers, and a touch of sweet herbs.

+ BEWITCHING BREWS

SHATTERED -- A scent as sharp as glass shards, and as brittle as a broken heart. The formula came to me - quite literally - in a dream, and is named after, and created in memory of, the last poem that I ever wrote… almost ten years ago to the day. A blend of white champagne notes, grapefruit, lotus, slivered mint and crystalline aquatic blooms.

The Lion will not be available until the August update.

I am, however, never too tired to cross-post like a fiend. Mea culpa!

As of next month we will be starting to post Lunacy Oils every full moon. They will be in the Limited Edition section for exactly 12 hours on the day of the full moon [noon til midnight] and will feature a scent dedicated to the next month's full moon's theme. Time will be calculated PST. The schedule for the remainder of 2004 is as follows:

Red Moon [August] available July 2nd AND July 31st [see notes at the bottom of this post]

Harvest Moon [september] available August 29th

Hunter Moon [October] available September 28th

Frost Moon [November] available October 27th

Cold Moon [December] available November 26th

Wolf Moon [January] available December 26th

The scent will only be available within that 12 hour period so the we can ensure that our clients receive them prior to the next full moon. Details will be provided as soon as I finish wrestling with tonight's mini-update.

There is a Blue Moon in July of 2004, and to celebrate we will offer a special, limited edition Blue Moon perfume which will be available on the dark moon in June, specifically June 17th, from noon til midnight Pacific Standard Time. This scent will only be available during that 12 hour window, and will not come around til the next Blue Moon.

Can you tell I have something of a Lunar Fetish?

I think my previous orders were sent to cupcake@blackphoenixalchemylab.com on paypal, as at oone point this was the into I had. Are they alright, or should I add that to my email to Nella?

Any PayPal orders sent to cupcake@blackphoenixalchemylab.com or blackphoenix@blackphoenixalchemylab.com are fine. It's just the papow.com one that's a potential problem. =P

Please use paypal[at]blackphoenixalchemylab[dot]com for all future PayPal purchases.

This is effective as of 5 June 2004.

If you have made a PayPal payment to the email addy cupcake@papow.com in the past week please email Nella to confirm that we received it. The papow.com email address was spontaneously bumped off of our PayPal account, and as we had the URL pirated out from under us, there is no way for me to retrieve anything from that email at this time.

Thanks!

The mail seems to be fixed for now. I think all the boxes have been reinstated. If you have emailed us within the last 48 hours, please resend. We have zip in our boxes.

I apologize if anyone has been frustrated by this experience. You have no idea how aggravated I am by this.

The mail seems to be fixed for now. I think all the boxes have been reinstated. If you have emailed us within the last 48 hours, please resend. We have zip in our boxes.

I apologize if anyone has been frustrated by this experience. You have no idea how aggravated I am by this.

We're still trying to figure out what's going on. It looks like all of our email boxes may have been deleted.

I'll keep everyone updated.

Thanks for the update Nella

 

But does this mean that emails sent to answer@blackphoenixalchemylab.com wont be answered?  As I've had no response so far from emails being sent there.

:-///

I'm a dumbass and screwed up that POP box. It should be fixed by 6pm today.

DONE!

Normally I would re-post all of my blah blah blah from the Shiny & New section here, but it feels like that would be just... just... taking up too many 1's and 0's. The site update for June is complete, and between that and the 'countdown' post, I think I've answered most of the questions about the new stuff that I saw floating around here. If I missed anything, poke me.

Gently, please.

I am a little bleary right now, so my proofreading skills were sketchy at best. If you catch any snarks, please PM or email me and let me know.

I'm going to post the update news on the LJ community and do a quick all-around pimping, and then I am going to pop open the first bottle of wine I have bought in over three years [no time to drink!] -- a bottle of '02 Windy City Pinot Noir [cheap but nice & fruity], pour a glass, lay down on the couch and watch a CSI rerun while I reread Prisoner of Azkaban.

Good night, all! I hope you enjoy the new update.

I don't even see any changes or updates

 

 

I do see the price increases though.

 

 

CCNow is working fine for me!

 

 

 

-Leslie

They aren't up yet. Still trying to proof it, but my eyes are getting all bleary.

It'll be up just after midnight PST. Prolly closer to 12:30.

I tried again, but no luck. Perhaps I'm cursed? I emailed Nella...

This is a bad, bad omen.

Umm. Not to cause any freak outs or anything, but CC_Now is definately not working for me...When I try to go to secure checkout it does an error...hopefully it's just me!

 

(the new stuff looks great by the way...I can't wait to get my hands on the Eumenides!)

Thanks for the kind words. =) I'll pass the Kindly Luv onto Brian... those three are his babies.

I was uploading the new sku info, so that might have been the problem. I gave it a go and got through checkout.

[crossing fingers!]

I'm proofreading at the moment. Just had a weird little spasm of tension / excitement / neurosis and had to pop in and say hi.

I think I've got everyone's questions about the update covered in the 'Shiny & New' section of the site, except for the following:

1. The reason the description of Desire changed is that I went from the original idea / formula to a reformulation and back again. The one posted on the site is the final.

2. The Mad Tea Party update will be done on June 7th. Every other section is complete until the August update is ready to go live.

3. Gods willing, I will be making a whole seperate sub-site for people who want to utilize PayPal by the end of next week. We are starting up another PayPal-specific email dealy-bobber, but that will take several days to "verify". In the meantime, please use blackphoenix@blackphoenixalchemylab.com.

4. Ingenue, Wolfsbane and Hemlock have not been re-incorporated back into the site yet. This should happen on the 7th, too.

Er... I think that's it. I'll post again once I'm done proofing and uploading. See y'all in an hour.

Ok guys, here goes.

I know I don’t need to say this, but please don’t order any of these scents til they’re officially live on the site. With all the weirdness and changes going on [and the fact that now we’re down to it just being Brian practically alone in the Lab at the moment] we can’t really get going on them til they’re properly set and ready. Thanks for understanding. =/

- - -

+ BEWITCHING BREWS

ARCANA

The essence of magickal enigmas and long-forgotten esoteric mysteries. Frankincense, rosemary, lavender, neroli, and verbena.

BLOOD LOTUS

Lush, velvet-red blooms born from the blood shed in the eternal battle between Set and Horus the Avenger. Inspired by Tammy Roth.

CATHODE

A negatively charged scent. Ambergris, Spanish Moss, oakmoss and three electric mints.

THE HESPERIDES

The Hesperides are the Nymphs of the Evening who dwell in a verdant garden located in the Arcadian Mountains, guarded by the terrible three-headed dragon, Ladon. Within their garden lives the tree that bears Hera’s sacred Golden Apples. Their perfume is that of sturdy oak bark, dew-kissed leaves, twilight mist and crisp apple.

INCANTATION

Though thy slumber may be deep,

Yet thy spirit shall not sleep;

There are shades which will not vanish,

There are thoughts thou canst not banish;

By a power to thee unknown,

Thou canst never be alone;

Thou art wrapt as with a shroud,

Thou art gather'd in a cloud;

And for ever shalt thou dwell

In the spirit of this spell.

A profound and entrancing potion. Deep, wispy, and unfathomably dark: vetiver, dark woods, crumbling and burnt black sandalwood and a drop of lemon rind.

KALI

Kali, the Black One, is the fearless Goddess of Destruction, Creation, Energy [in her Shakti aspect] and Dissolution. Also named Kaliratri [black Night] and Kalikamata [black Earth-Mother], she is the fiercest aspect of Devi, the supreme mother goddess. Kali is a protector Goddess, the destroyer of evil spirits and guardian of the faithful. She, along with her consort Shiva, represent the unending cycle of death and birth, sexual union, creation and destruction. Kali annihilates ignorance, maintains the natural order of the world, and blesses those who strive for spiritual awareness and knowledge of true holiness with infinite tenderness and motherly love. The constant, unending Work of Creation is called the "The Play of Kali". This perfume is a blend of the sacred blooms of cassia, hibiscus, musk rose, Himalayan wild tulip, lotus and osmanthus swirled with offertory dark chocolate, red wine, tobacco, balsam and honey.

MYSTERY

A swirl of shadowy incense smoke and the lingering perfume of cloaked strangers.

OUIJA

Lush parlor rooms draped in thick velvets and gilded in gold, unearthly whispering in the distance, fleeting flashes of wraithlike figures rushing just outside your vision, the chill of a phantom presence brushing by your cheek, the inscrutable knowledge that disembodied eyes are peering at you from darkened corners… this is the essence of Victorian-era spiritualism: rosewood, oak and teak notes with wispy blue lilac, tea rose, dried white rose and ethereal osmanthus.

PELE

Whimsical, temperamental, radiant and ravishingly beautiful Goddess of Volcanoes, Fire, Lightning and Dance. She is the Mother of Eruptions and the personification of destructive power. Volcanic eruptions are said to be a side-effect of her jealous rages and her epic quarrels with her siblings are legendary. This perfume embodies her gentler, benign aspect as the capricious Goddess of Dance: muguet and Hawaiian white ginger enveloped by warm, damp tropical blooms.

SCARECROW

An agricultural gargoyle. Though he is the Guardian of the Crops and Keeper of the Fields, his visage is still the stuff of nightmares. The scent of a hot wind blowing through desolate, scorched, barren fields.

TUSHNAMATAY

Pure internal harmony and spiritual bliss: the perfected meditation blend.

ULALUME

The skies they were ashen and sober;

The leaves they were crisped and sere -

The leaves they were withering and sere;

It was night in the lonesome October

Of my most immemorial year:

It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,

In the misty mid region of Weir -

It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,

In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.

Starry white lilies lend an eerie brightness to the deep black wooded scents of cypress and oak, layered with a touch of crushed dried leaves and the faintest aquatic note.

WILDE

To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear

This paltry age's gaudy livery,

To let each base hand filch my treasury,

To mesh my soul within a woman's hair,

And be mere Fortune's lackeyed groom,--I swear

I love it not! these things are less to me

Than the thin foam that frets upon the sea,

Less than the thistle-down of summer air

Which hath no seed: better to stand aloof

Far from these slanderous fools who mock my life

Knowing me not, better the lowliest roof

Fit for the meanest hind to sojourn in,

Than to go back to that hoarse cave of strife

Where my white soul first kissed the mouth of sin.

A sophisticated traditional gentleman’s cologne, with just the slightest taint of patchouli’s passion, tonka bean’s decadence, the philanthropy of bergamot, moss’ cynicism, the sharp wit of lavender, and the hopeless romantic longing of jasmine and thyme.

XIUHTECUHTLI

Patron of the Aztec pantheon, he is the personification of light within darkness, warmth in the cold, and life in, and after, death. He is a creative and destructive God of Fire and Light, and is appeased only by sacrifice, trial, and the slaughter of his people’s enemies. Copal, plumeria and sweet orange and the smoke of South American incense and crushed jungle blooms.

+ FUNEREAL OILS

DANSE MACABRE

An allegorical expression of the ineffable, indisputable triumph of death, generally expressed in medieval artwork as a violin or flute-wielding skeleton leading a procession of dancers to their graves. Black cypress with oakmoss, frankincense, oude, and a sliver of toasted hazelnut.

MIDNIGHT

An ethereal bouquet of night-blooming flowers. Evening primrose, ruellia, flowering nicotiana, wild petunia, panani-o-kai, night phlox, night gladiolus, moonflower and the elusive scent of Nottingham Catchfly.

+ SIN & SALVATION: The Kindly Ones Sub-Series

ALECTO

Unceasing in Anger

Olive leaf, raspberry leaf, vetiver and cedarwood.

MEGAERA

The Unwilling, The Jealous One

Orris, black amber, bergamot, plum and grapefruit.

TISIPHONE

The Avenger of Murder

Oleander with black patchouli, ylang ylang, and neroli.

+ SIN & SALVATION

BLACK DAHLIA

Voluptuous magnolias strewn over orchid, star jasmine, black amber and smoky rose.

DISSIPATION

Strands of bacchanal ivy wind through sweet wormwood, pungent poppy, and a sliver of murky sassafras.

HELLFIRE

A scent celebrating Sir Francis Dashwood’s Order of the Knights of St. Francis of Wycombe, also known as the Hellfire Club. A swirl of pipe tobacco, hot leather, ambergris, dark musk and the lingering incense smoke from their Black Mass.

KOSTNICE

A celebration of the Bone Church of Prague. Frankincense, rosewood, lily, and geranium rose.

MAGDALENE

A stirring yet gentle perfume. The scent of love and devotion mingled with an undercurrent of heart-rending sorrow. A bouquet of white roses, labdanum, and wild orchid.

ROADHOUSE

Truck stop sleaze. Weedy dandelion and hops with a whiff of tobacco and hemp and a swirl of booziness.

+ LOVE POTIONS

AIZEN-MYOO

A bright, bittersweet scent honoring the Japanese Deity of Love and Passion. Aizen-Myoo is one of the vidyarajas, the Shingon’s Radiant Kings of Wisdom. Though Aizen-Myoo possesses the lust, grace and passion of both genders, he most often appears to his followers as male. His face is screwed into a fearsome demonic mask, but this is only the wrathful, fierce countenance he places over himself to guide and empower his children. Aizen-Myoo is the patron of prostitutes, of joyous, unbridled sexuality and of all forms of erotic love and is worshipped by all those in the sex industry, musicians, and – oddly – landlords. Yuzu, kaki, and mikan with cherry blossom and black tea.

DESIRE

The overwhelming agony of passion crystallized into a singularly dark and magnetic blend: bittersweet neroli, black patchouli and black musk, gilded by apple, bergamot, blood red rose, teak, and vanilla.

QUEEN OF SHEBA

A woman of exquisite, unearthly beauty, profound intelligence, wit, and exceeding wealth, the Queen of Sheba – called Bilquis by the Muslims and Makeda by the ancient Abysinnians – traveled by caravan to Solomon’s realm seeking proof of the king’s reputed wisdom. Bearing gifts of exotic spices, a veritable mountain of gold, hearty camels and precious stones, she presented herself to the king and, bearing her heart to him, asked him a series of challenging questions, and was ultimately convinced of the truth of his wisdom, knowledge and judiciousness. In the end, the great king and queen conquered each other’s hearts and fell breathlessly in love: the perfect marriage of equals. Her scent is a bounty of golden honeyed almonds and a whisper of African and Middle Eastern spices.

SEVERIN

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the Father of Masochism and sexual surrender, had planned on writing six volumes of erotic literature entitled The Heritage of Cain. Only the first two volumes were completed, the more famous of the two being the notorious Venus in Furs. This novel tells the tale of a man, Severin, that enters into a relationship of slavery and increasingly debauched degradation with his mistress, Wanda. Dry black teas, Earl Gray, and leather.

WANDA

“And yet a restless, always unsatisfied craving for the nudity of paganism," she interrupted, "but that love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural, you become common. To you nature seems something hostile; you have made devils out of the smiling gods of Greece, and out of me a demon. You can only exorcise and curse me, or slay yourselves in bacchantic madness before my altar. And if ever one of you has had the courage to kiss my red mouth, he makes a barefoot pilgrimage to Rome in penitential robes and expects flowers to grow from his withered staff, while under my feet roses, violets, and myrtles spring up every hour, but their fragrance does not agree with you. Stay among your northern fogs and Christian incense; let us pagans remain under the debris, beneath the lava; do not disinter us. Pompeii was not built for you, nor our villas, our baths, our temples. You do not require gods. We are chilled in your world."

Along with Loviatar, she has become something of a 21st century Patron Goddess of all Dominatrixes. While Loviatar is the Goddess of Pain, Wanda govens Control. She is the breathtakingly beautiful sable-wrapped marble queen of Sacher-Masoch’s fantasies. Her scent is a deep red merlot with a faint hint of leather, sexual musk and body heat over crushed roses, violets and myrtle.

+ DIABOLUS

DJINN

An ancient, free-willed race created from the essence of Fire, much as man was created from Earth. They prowled the land at night, vanishing with the first rays of dawn. Myths surrounding the Djinn paint them as many things: benevolent champions of mankind and slaves to mad sorcerers, malicious incubi / succubi and energy vampires, or malevolent harbingers of madness and disease. The Djinn are ruled by Iblis, the Prince of Darkness, who bears unspeakable contempt for man. The scent of black smoke, of crackling flames, and smoldering ashes.

MASABAKES

Masabakes is a Cantabrian demoness that governs lustfulness and lechery. In order to tempt virgins to corruption she employs the aid of her lackey, the imp Tentirujo. Under the cover of magickal invisibility, the imp caresses maidens with mandrake root, instilling uncontrollable passion and wantonness in the unsuspecting girls. Thick black currant with the darkest, deepest myrrh, a drop of bitter mimosa and the slightest touch of mandrake dust.

NEPHILIM

Dark children conceived from the union of Fallen Angels and the Daughters of Men. According to lore, the angel Shemhazai led a group of his angels to earth to instruct mankind in the ways of piety and righteousness. After a time, the angels became prey to earthly desires and began to lust after the daughters of man, and thus they fell. They instructed their mortal mates in the arts of conjuration, summoning, necromancy and other magickal arts. The fruits of their union are the Nephilim: possessed of superhuman strength, cunning, and infinite capacity, and hunger for, sin. Venerated as heroes by some, vilified by most, the Nephilim eventually annihilated one another in a cataclysmic civil war instigated by the angel Gabriel as punishment for their transgressions. Holy frankincense and hyssop in union with earthy fig, defiled by black patchouli and vetiver, with a chaotic infusion of lavender, cardamom, tamarind, rosemary, oakmoss and cypress.

SZEPASSZONY

The Fair Lady, Winter Witch, White Maiden of the Storm. Szepasszony is a Hungarian demoness that appears as a stunningly beautiful woman with long, silver-white hair and a blinding white dress. She revels in storms, particularly when hail rains down on her. Water dripping down eaves into a puddle is an invitation for her to cause mischief: she uses the puddle as a magickal tool for casting her wicked spells. It is considered foolhardy to step into a circle of short grass ringed by taller grasses, as those mark the circles where the Fair Lady dances. A chilly, tempestuous whirlwind of clear, airy notes, slashing rain, and a thin undercurrent of white flowers.

+ ILLYRIA

QUEEN GERTRUDE

Imperial violet softened by wisteria and chrysanthemum, but edged with the regal iciness of delphinium.

REGAN

A deceptively sweet orchid vanille with a faint trace of stephanotis.

TITIANA

A nocturnal bounty of fae dew-kissed petals and pale fruits: white grape, white peach, iced pear, musk rose, sweet pea, moonflower and snapdragon.

+ WANDERLUST, formerly Venerable Cities

DANUBE

Rhododendron and bellflower petals swirl through deep, cool, dark aquatic notes.

OLD AMSTERDAM

Tulips, peony, fresh flowing water and crisp green grasses.

+ MAD TEA PARTY

Still working on the descriptions.

+ LIMITED EDITION

JUNE GLOOM

Ted’s gloriously dismal creation. As a lover of rainy days, grey skies and chill air, summer is his antithesis. A spell of June Gloom is always welcome in our household. A bouquet of bright summer flowers dampened by the scent of morning mist and rain.

- - -

So not to confuse matters, I’ll refrain from listing the scents that are coming up in the Solstice update.

If you guys want, I'll post the shell of the new scent info when I'm done with the sku coding tonight.

Ooh ooh!  Will the new scents be up next week?  Really really?

 

Damn.  I'm going to be in Geek Heaven.  Harry Potter, the new Magic expansion AND new stuff at the Lab...  :swoon:

Ted and I used to play MTG. Haven't had time in so long...

It's been even longer since we played AD&D. No wonder I'm going bugshit.

Due to an internal disaster we cannot switch from CcNow [insert colorful profanities here] for at least a few more weeks.

The good news is...

... the update will be live at the beginning of next week.

A few changes are being made due to necessity, but we'll cross that rickety-ass bridge when the update is ready.

I apologize for being out of communication for so many days. It's been f*ckall screwy here. Really, really screwy.

ETA: those smileys are making me kinda dizzy.

Thanks for the help, guys. =) I'd love to use osCommerce, but I'm not well versed in it, and I need to make sure that whatever cart we use will allow me to keep the design of the web site 99% of what it is now. I don't want to use any one else's templates or anything like that... I'm happy with how I designed the site, and I don't really want to change it at all.