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The Harvest Moon update is live at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Black Phoenix Trading Post! Harvest Moon 2011 HARVEST MOON Harvest Moon is celebrated in almost every culture, and the bounty of the season is marked in a myriad of ways. Harvest Moon touches the Equinox, the festival of Janus, the culmination of Homowo, the “crying of the neck” in Cornwall, and the Women’s Festival of the Moon. This is a day that celebrates abundance and beauty, fertility and progress, and the light of this full moon blesses new undertakings and reunites lost loves. The Harvest Moon, by definition, is the Full Moon that falls closest to the Autumnal Equinox, and thus, it shares some of that Sabbat’s characteristics. This Full Moon was thus named because it rises within half an hour of the sun’s setting, in the Northern Hemisphere, and at this time farmers are able to work longer into the night by the light of this Moon. As the year draws to a close, the Full Moon rises an average of fifty minutes later each night, with the exception of a few nights surrounding the Harvest Moon, which only rises 10-30 minutes later. This moon is also, to the human eye, the fullest and largest of the year’s Moons, hanging gloriously huge, yellow and low in the night sky, and many lunar illusions play tricks our eyes at this time. The Harvest ushers in many celebrations, including the Equinox and the Festival of Janus, God of Doors. Janus is the Roman Lord of Gateways, beginnings and endings, and transitions. Thus, the Harvest Moon is a time for blessing new ventures, the onset of new and progressive phases in one’s life, and rites of passage into adulthood. This time of year also marks one of the Festivals of Dionysus, Lord of Ecstasy and the Vine. This Harvest lunacy combines the autumnal scents of dry leaves, warm, brown spices, white oak, Himalayan cedar, Russian sage, red apple, sweet black plum, juniper berry, clove, saffron, verbena, and yarrow with Dionysus’ sacred grapes and ivy, the amaranth and lingum aloes of Janus, and a gentle breath of Harvest Festival woodsmoke and sweet red wine. So much thanks to Julie Dillon for illustrating Harvest Moon! Harvest Moon will be live on both sites until August 15th, 2011. Also this month, we are pleased to introduce scents that benefit the CBLDF and The Hero Initiative. It’s a tag team for free speech when Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and J. Gonzo team up to benefit the CBLDF with incredible new Luchadore inspired scents celebrating the launch of J. Gonzo’s amazing new series La Mano del Destino! It’s a battle of titans with the First Amendment at stake! In this corner: La Mano del Destino, fighting for your freedom of speech! His opponent, El Nuevo Puritano, bringing the wicked wrath of moral panic and outrageous censorship into the ring! LA MANO DEL DESTINO Powerful Sumatran patchouli and enigmatic Brazilian copaiba with pao d’arco, cacao absolute, bourbon vanilla, Ceylon cinnamon, and tobacco. EL NUEVO PURITANO The wicked wrath of moral panic: unmoving, rigid oak, dry leather, tonka, gunpowder tea, and pious olibanum with a core of perverse and furtive vanilla bean, bay leaf, clove bud, and lime. Next up, to benefit the Hero Initiative, we have scents based on Matt Wagner’s Grendel comic book series. MASTERMIND The first of the Grendel legacy, a stylish, best-selling author who leads a double life as a relentless assassin and all-powerful mob overlord. An elegant cologne of olibanum, opoponax, leather accord, black amber, bois de jasmine, cade wood, pale balsam, orange blossom, oudh, black plum, bourbon vanilla, and sandalwood. AVENGER A fashionable and fiery journalist who adopts the Grendel persona to avenge the death of her only child and is consumed by the dark identity. Plush vanilla bourbon and rum accord with pink pepper, patchouli, clove, pikaki, golden amber, caraway, tuberose, and jacarandá-da-bahia. EXORCIST Christine’s lover who, in the aftermath of her violent death, becomes haunted and possessed by what he sees as the “entity” of Grendel. A refined lilac fougère with frankincense, labdanum, styrax, and dark musk. HARLEQUIN A futuristic, gothic harlequin, addicted to a heinous hallucinogen with the street name “Grendel”, who leads chaotic attacks against the corrupt Catholic Church. Psychotomimetic: pink grapefruit, white honey, orange blossom, saffron, champagne grape, elemi, guaiac, blonde tobacco, and olibanum. And last, but certainly not least, this update brings us the third series of Last Unicorn scents. THE KING’S DAUGHTER There were a prince and a princess sitting by a stream in a wooded valley. Their seven servants had set up a scarlet canopy beneath a tree, and the royal young couple ate a box lunch to the accompaniment of lutes and theorbos. They hardly spoke a word to one another until they had finished the meal, and then the princess sighed and said, “Well, I suppose I’d best get the silly business over with.” The prince began to read a magazine. “You might at least –” said the princess, but the prince kept on reading. The princess made a sign to two of the servants, who began to play an older music on their lutes. Then she took a few steps on the grass, held up a bridle bright as butter, and called, “Here, unicorn, here! Here, my pretty, here to me! Comecomecomecomecome!” The prince snickered. “It’s not your chickens you’re calling, you know,” he remarked without looking up. “Why don’t you sing something, instead of clucking like that?” “Well, I’m doing the best I can,” the princess cried. “I’ve never called one of these things before.” But after a little silence, she began to sing. I am a king’s daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, That I did not have. I am a king’s daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more. So she sang, and sang again, and then she called, “Nice unicorn, pretty, pretty, pretty,” for a little longer, and then she said angrily, “Well, I’ve done as much as I’ll do. I’m going home.” The prince yawned and folded his magazine. “You satisfied custom well enough,” he told her, “and no one expected more than that. It was just a formality. Now we can be married.” “Yes,” the princess said, “now we can be married.” The servants began to pack everything away again, while the two with the lutes played joyous wedding music. The princess’s voice was a little sad and defiant as she said, “If there really were such things as unicorns, one would have come to me. I called as sweetly as anyone could, and I had the golden bridle. And of course I am pure and untouched.” “For all of me, you are,” the prince answered indifferently. “As I say, you satisfy custom. You don’t satisfy my father, but then neither do I. That would take a unicorn.” He was tall, and his face was as soft and pleasant as a marshmallow. When they and their retinue were gone, the unicorn came out of the wood, followed by Molly and the magician, and took up her journey again. A long time later, wandering in another country where there were no streams and nothing green, Molly asked her why she had not gone to the princess’s song. Schmendrick drew near to listen to the answer, though he stayed on his side of the unicorn. He never walked on Molly’s side. The unicorn said, “That king’s daughter would never have run away to see my shadow. If I had shown myself, and she had known me, she would have been more frightened than if she had seen a dragon, for no one makes promises to a dragon. I remember that once it never mattered to me whether or not princesses meant what they sang. I went to them all and laid my head in their laps, and a few of them rode on my back, though most were afraid. But I have no time for them now, princesses or kitchenmaids. I have no time.” A matter of formality: lilac musk, sandalwood, sweet pea, watermelon accord, pale woods, elemi, and oakmoss. HAGSGATE “When those words were first spoken,” Drinn said, “Haggard had not been long in the country, and all of it was still soft and blooming – all but the town of Hagsgate. Hagsgate was then as this land has become: a scrabbly, bare place where men put great stones on the roofs of their huts to keep them from blowing away.” He grinned bitterly at the older men. “Crops to harvest, stock to tend! You grew cabbages and rutabagas and a few pale potatoes, and in all of Hagsgate there was but one weary cow. Strangers thought the town accursed, having offended some vindictive witch or other.” Molly felt the unicorn go by in the street, then turn and come back, restless as the torches on the walls, that bowed and wriggled. She wanted to run out to her, but instead she asked quietly, “And afterward, when that had come true?” Drinn answered, “From that moment, we have known nothing but bounty. Our grim earth has grown so kind that gardensand orchards spring up by themselves – we need neither to plant nor to tend them. Our flocks multiply; our craftsmen become more clever in their sleep; the air we breathe and the water we drink keep us from ever knowing illness. All sorrow parts to go around us – and this has come about while the rest of the realm, once so green, has shriveled to cinders under Haggard’s hand. For fifty years, none but he and we have prospered. It is as though all others had been cursed.” An accursed bounty: rich black soil and hay, cucumber, tomato, red lettuce, summer squash, black eggplant, arugula, grape vine, artichoke, and a tangle of herbs marred by an undercurrent of vetiver, patchouli, and black moss LADY AMALTHEA Molly Grue had taken the white girl’s head onto her lap, and was whispering over and over, “What have you done?” The girl’s face, quiet in sleep and close to smiling, was the most beautiful that Schmendrick had ever seen. It hurt him and warmed him at the same time. Molly smoothed the strange hair, and Schmendrick noticed on the forehead, above and between the closed eyes, a small, raised mark, darker than the rest of the skin. It was neither a scar nor a bruise. It looked like a flower. A luminous white winter musk with lilac, wisteria, white chocolate, white mint, and tuberose WITCH-CURSED CASTLE You whom Haggard holds in thrall, Share his feast and share his fall. You shall see your fortune flower Till the torrent takes the tower. Yet none but one of Hagsgate town May bring the castle swirling down. Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard’s castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts, and beyond the castle the sea slid. Drinn stopped him as he raised his glass. “Not that toast, my friend. Will you drink to a woe fifty years old? It is that long since our sorrow fell, when King Haggard built his castle by the sea.” “When the witch built it, I think.” Schmendrick wagged a finger at him. “Credit where it’s due, after all.” “Ah, you know that story,” Drinn said. “Then you must also know that Haggard refused to pay the witch when her task was completed.” The magician nodded. “Aye,” and she cursed him for his greed – cursed the castle, rather. “But what had that to do with Hagsgate? The town had done the witch no wrong.” “No,” Drinn replied. “But neither had it done her any good. She could not unmake the castle – or would not, for she fancied herself an artistic sort and boasted that her work was years ahead of its time. Anyway, she came to the elders of Hagsgate and demanded that they force Haggard to pay what was due her. ‘Look at me and see yourselves,’ she rasped. ‘That’s the true test of a town, or of a king. A lord who cheats an ugly old witch will cheat his own folk by and by. Stop him while you can, before you grow used to him.’” Drinn sipped his wine and thoughtfully filled Schmendrick’s glass once more. “Haggard paid her no money,” he went on, “and Hagsgate, alas, paid her no heed. She was treated politely and referred to the proper authorities, whereupon she flew into a fury and screamed that in our eagerness to make no enemies at all, we had now made two.” He paused, covering his eyes with lids so thin that Molly was sure he could see through them, like a bird. With his eyes closed, he said, “It was then that she cursed Haggard’s castle, and cursed our town as well. Thus his greed brought ruin upon us all.” In the sighing silence, Molly Grue’s voice came down like a hammer on a horseshoe, as though she were again berating poor Captain Cully. “Haggard’s less at fault than you yourselves,” she mocked the folk of Hagsgate, “for he was only one thief, and you were many. You earned your trouble by your own avarice, not your king’s.” Drinn opened his eyes and gave her an angry look. “We earned nothing,” he protested. “It was our parents and grandparents whom the witch asked for help, and I’ll grant you that they were as much to blame as Haggard, in their way. We would have handled the matter quite differently.” And every middle-aged face in the room scowled at every older face. One of the old men spoke up in a voice that wheezed and miaowed. “You would have done just as we did. There were crops to harvest and stock to tend, as there still are. There was Haggard to live with, as there still is. We know very well how you would have behaved. You are our children.” Weed-strewn oak, opoponax, wet stone, creaking redwood, and desolate olibanum. PRINCE LÍR “Heroes,” Prince Lír replied sadly. “Heroes know about order, about happy endings – heroes know that some things are better than others. Carpenters know grains and shingles, and straight lines.” He put his hands out to the Lady Amalthea, and took one step toward her. She did not draw back from him, nor turn her face; indeed, she lifted her head higher, and it was the prince who looked away. “You were the one who taught me,” he said. “I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you. Also to find some way of starting a conversation.” Chivalry, love, and sacrifice. A noble cologne touched by a sweet sadness: vanilla fougere, bright citrus, juniper berry, ambergris accord, and basil. KING HAGGARD His eyes were the same color as the horns of the Red Bull. He was taller than Schmendrick, and though his face was bitterly lined there was nothing fond or foolish in it. It was a pike’s face: the jaws long and cold, the cheeks hard, the lean neck alive with power. Dry cedar, bitter balsam, and ashes. Halloweenies will be up before the month is over, and some will be out at this weekend’s Will Calls for testing!

Photos from The Last Unicorn Event, taken by the lovely and talented Lori Matsumoto, have been posted to our Facebook account.

The west coast will call event will be held on Saturday, August 13th from 4 to 7pm at Dark Delicacies. Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd (1 block east of Hollywood Way) Burbank, CA 91505 ___ Seattle Will Call will be held on Saturday, August 13th from 6 to 9 pm at Knows Perfume. knows perfume 4536 California Ave., SW Seattle, WA 98116 (206) 397-3141 — New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, August 14th from 5 to 8pm, in the Learning Center. Healthy Living Market 222 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403 ___ GA Will Call is still TBD. We will update the information as soon as we receive it. — The blends that will be available for purchase include those that went live on the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab website up to and including the Berry Moon update. Forum only scents will not be available at Will Call. We will no longer be accepting preorders at West Coast Will Call, with the exception of orders for Twilight Alchemy Lab oils. We will do our best to accommodate all orders, but sales will be based on availability. At this time, Twilight Alchemy Lab oils will only be available at Dark Delicacies via preorder. Items from Black Phoenix Trading Post will be available at Dark Delicacies, subject to stock on hand. If you have any questions, please email us at willcall@blackphoenixalchemylab.com. Where/When: West Coast Will Call at Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Ave Burbank, CA 91505 Saturday August 13th, 4:00 to 7:00pm Seattle Will Call at knows perfume 4536 California Ave SW Seattle, WA 98116 Saturday, August 13th, 6 to 9pm New England Will Call at Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center) 222 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403 Sunday, August 14th, 5 to 8pm Georgia Will Call at Whole Foods aka Harry’s Farmers Market (inside Salud) 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076 TBD

If you are coming to the Last Unicorn signing with Peter Beagle tomorrow, we will start giving out numbers at 1pm.

Dark Delicacies does not carry the Retail Only Salon's.

Eeee!! I'm so excited. How do Cali-native BPALers not LIVE there? I'm going to have to find an activity for the husband to do that day, I think. Is there a big difference between the stock at Le Pink and Dark Del as far as perfumes? I saw that DD carries all the GC (really? ALL??) but does LP sell different things? I probably won't pass up the opportunity to shop for BPAL in two real shops, but just curious. Sorry I just saw this. Dark Delicacies carries everything! Le Pink no longer stocks our products, although they may have a few things left in stock. But even when they were stocking things, they only carried about a half dozen scents.

Hero Initiative at Wizard’s Chicago Comic Con With Guest Star Matt Wagner! WORLD PREMIERE FOUR Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab “Grendel” scents August 3, 2011, (Los Angeles, CA) Hero Initiative, the non-profit organization that provides a financial safety net for comic creators in need, will head to the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, August 11th thru the 14th, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 5555 North River Road, in Rosemont Illinois. We are proud to announce that special guest and Grendel creator Matt Wagner will be heading up the Hero booth, #1341-1343, all day Saturday and Sunday to be on hand for the WORLD PREMIERE of FOUR Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab “GRENDEL” scents! The scents include: MASTERMIND Based on Hunter Rose, the first of the Grendel legacy, a stylish, best-selling author who leads a double life as a relentless assassin and all-powerful mob overlord. Fragrance notes: An elegant cologne of olibanum, opoponax, leather accord, black amber, bois de jasmine, cade wood, pale balsam, orange blossom, oudh, black plum, bourbon vanilla, and sandalwood. AVENGER Based on Christine Spar, a fashionable and fiery journalist who adopts the Grendel persona to avenge the death of her only child and is consumed by the dark identity. Fragrance notes: Plush vanilla bourbon and rum accord with pink pepper, patchouli, clove, pikaki, golden amber, caraway, tuberose, and jacarandá-da-bahia. EXORCIST Based on Brian Li Sung, Christine’s lover who, in the aftermath of her violent death, becomes haunted and possessed by what he sees as the “entity” of Grendel. Fragrance notes: A refined lilac fougère with frankincense, labdanum, styrax, and dark musk. HARLEQUIN Based on Eppy Thatcher, a futuristic, gothic harlequin, addicted to a heinous hallucinogen with the street name “Grendel,” who leads chaotic attacks against the corrupt Catholic Church. Fragrance notes: Psychotomimetic: pink grapefruit, white honey, orange blossom, saffron, champagne grape, elemi, guaiac, blonde tobacco, and olibanum. Each 5 ml bottle is $26, with proceeds benefitting Hero Initiative. Try ’em all! The Grendel scents will be going live concurrently at the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab site. Matt’s fans can also pick up a copy of the Wagner-covered Hero Comics, regularly $4, now only $2 at the con, and get it signed by Matt himself! And BPAL fans can also pick up on the very few “The Unknown” book/scent combos left. Fewer than 20 combos are left, which consist of a hardcover edition of The Unknown with an original bookplate illustrated by artist Minck Oosterveer and signed by Oosterveer and Mark Waid, AND a 5 ml bottle of Cat Allingham from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. the fragrance features distilled shadows, a bleak desert landscape at midnight: Myroswelia balsam, gaïac wood, obsidian musk, green cumin, patchouli, myrrh, Siamese benzoin, frankincense, champaca, and sand.

On Saturday, August 6th, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, in collaboration with Dark Delicacies, presents a signing and screening of The Last Unicorn with acclaimed author Peter S. Beagle. To commemorate this event, we have created an exclusive perfume that will only be available during the signing. TOUCHED TWICE It was long that the unicorn stood by Prince Lír before she touched him with her horn. For all that her quest had ended joyously, there was weariness in the way she held herself, and a sadness in her beauty that Molly had never seen. It suddenly seemed to her that the unicorn’s sorrow was not for Lír but for the lost girl who could not be brought back; for the Lady Amalthea, who might have lived happily ever after with the prince. The unicorn bowed her head, and her horn glanced across Lír’s chin as clumsily as a first kiss. He sat up blinking, smiling at something long ago. “Father,” he said in a quick, wondering voice. “Father, I had a dream.” Then he saw the unicorn, and he rose to his feet as the blood on his face began to shine and move again. He said, “I was dead.” The unicorn touched him a second time, over the heart, letting her horn rest there for a little space. They were both trembling. Prince Lír put his hands out to her like words. She said, “I remember you. I remember.” As delicate as life, as gentle as death, and as powerful as love: sheer, luminescent vanilla musk with frangipani, red sandalwood, frankincense, champaca flower, coconut, rose absolute, white cyclamen, Himalayan mogra, angelica, and white oud. The scent will be available both at the event itself and online on our website on August 6th, between the hours of 2pm and 6pm PDT. http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/lastunicorn.html Touched Twice will be available for $26. To celebrate the release of the remastered 25th Anniversary DVD of The Last Unicorn and the release of Series III of the Last Unicorn fragrance collaboration with Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, acclaimed author Peter S. Beagle, fantasist and author of many award-winning works including the Last Unicorn, Tamsin, Two Hearts, and A Fine and Private Place, will be signing at the Sunset Screening Room, followed by a Q&A with Peter S. Beagle, and a private screening of The Last Unicorn. The signing is free and open to the public. Books, dvds, and Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s Last Unicorn scents will be available for purchase. SUNSET SCREENING ROOM 2212 W Magnolia Boulevard Burbank, CA 91506-1734 Signing: August 6th, 2011 from 2 – 3pm Q&A and Screening: August 6th, 2011 at 3:30pm (SOLD OUT) BLACK PHOENIX ALCHEMY LAB http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com BLACK PHOENIX TRADING POST http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com DARK DELICACIES: THE HOME OF HORROR http://www.darkdel.com/ CONLAN PRESS http://www.conlanpress.com/

Actually if it's got the white prototype label, those are the bottles we send out as Will Call testers, as well as for approval (if it's a scent that needs approval) and occasionally for review purposes. We have also occasionally gifted those bottles to people. They are labeled prototypes because there is always a chance the scent could change, but that's not something that happens often. There have been a few scents, most notably the original versions of the RPG scents, that went out as white label prototypes and did later end up as Trunk Show scents, but that is not the norm. Most of the Trunk Show prototypes have not gotten far enough in the process to be sent out anywhere. If you have a full white label bottle of Libertarian, those scents were imp only gifts, but we did make full 5ml bottles to use as testers, and also gifted those to a few people. That would be exactly the same scent as the Libertarian that was in the imp. Hope that clears up any confusion.

It’s a tag team for free speech when Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and J. Gonzo team up to benefit the CBLDF with an incredible new Luchadore inspired print & fragrance set celebrating the launch of J. Gonzo’s amazing new series La Mano del Destino! It’s a battle of titans with the First Amendment at stake! In this corner: La Mano del Destino, fighting for your freedom of speech! His opponent, El Nuevo Puritano, bringing the wicked wrath of moral panic and outrageous censorship into the ring! EL NUEVO PURITANO The wicked wrath of moral panic: unmoving, rigid oak, dry leather, tonka, gunpowder tea, and pious olibanum with a core of perverse and furtive vanilla bean, bay leaf, clove bud, and lime. LA MANO DE DESTINO Powerful Sumatran patchouli and enigmatic Brazilian copaiba with pao d’arco, cacao absolute, bourbon vanilla, Ceylon cinnamon, and tobacco. BPAL has created a fragrance for each combatant, available for a donation of $30 each. J. Gonzo’s CBLDF-exclusive print is available for a $20 donation. Sets of all three are available for a $75, and a $100 donation gets you the set with a remarque sketch on your print! J. Gonzo will also be appearing throughout the show to make sketches to benefit the Fund, and to sign copies of La Mano del Destino, the tale of a once-champion Luchadore who, after being betrayed, agrees to a Faustian bargain in order to exact his revenge. Mesoamerican myth and high-flying, Lucha Libre action converge to tell this story of vengeance and destiny. La Mano del Destino #1 will be available for a $5 donation to CBLDF!

Tickets for the Last Unicorn screening and Q&A with Peter S. Beagle on August 6th are now available. If you would like to attend, please send an email to LastUnicorn@blackphoenixalchemylab.com with the following information: Name number of tickets requested (maximum of 2) email address Tickets for the event are limited, so Peter S. Beagle will randomly assign tickets based on emails received between now and 10pm PDT, on Tuesday, July 19th. We will email you on Wednesday, July 20th to confirm your ticket. If you are coming for the screening only, please do not make travel arrangements until your ticket is confirmed. The signing with Peter S. Beagle is open to the public; no ticket required! To celebrate the release of the remastered 25th Anniversary DVD of The Last Unicorn and the release of Series III of the Last Unicorn fragrance collaboration with Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, acclaimed author Peter S. Beagle, fantasist and author of many award-winning works including the Last Unicorn, Tamsin, Two Hearts, and A Fine and Private Place, will be signing at the Sunset Screening Room, followed by a Q&A with Peter S. Beagle, and a private screening of The Last Unicorn. The signing is free and open to the public. Books, dvds, and Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s Last Unicorn scents will be available for purchase. Free tickets to the screening and Q&A will be given out by random drawing via email. Information on how to win these tickets will be released soon. SUNSET SCREENING ROOM 2212 W Magnolia Boulevard Burbank, CA 91506-1734 Signing: August 6th, 2011 from 2 – 3pm Q&A and Screening: August 6th, 2011 at 3:30pm Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has created an exclusive perfume to commemorate the event that will be available during the signing: TOUCHED TWICE. Lake Street Creamery will be on hand from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please direct all questions to: lastunicorn@blackphoenixalchemylab.com

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Dark Delicacies Present PETER S. BEAGLE Author of THE LAST UNICORN To celebrate the release of the remastered 25th Anniversary DVD of The Last Unicorn and the release of Series III of the Last Unicorn fragrance collaboration with Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, acclaimed author Peter S. Beagle, fantasist and author of many award-winning works including the Last Unicorn, Tamsin, Two Hearts, and A Fine and Private Place, will be signing at the Sunset Screening Room, followed by a Q&A with Peter S. Beagle, and a private screening of The Last Unicorn. The signing is free and open to the public. Books, dvds, and Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab's Last Unicorn scents will be available for purchase. Free tickets to the screening and Q&A will be given out by random drawing via email. Information on how to win these tickets will be released soon. SUNSET SCREENING ROOM 2212 W Magnolia Boulevard Burbank, CA 91506-1734 Signing: August 6th, 2011 from 2 – 3pm Q&A and Screening: August 6th, 2011 at 3:30pm Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has created an exclusive perfume to commemorate the event that will be available during the signing: TOUCHED TWICE. Please direct all questions to: lastunicorn@blackphoenixalchemylab.com BLACK PHOENIX ALCHEMY LAB http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com BLACK PHOENIX TRADING POST http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com DARK DELICACIES: THE HOME OF HORROR http://www.darkdel.com/ CONLAN PRESS http://www.conlanpress.com/

Berry Moon is live at Alchemy Lab and Trading Post! BERRY MOON In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs. – Henry David Thoreau A sensuous, deep berry bouquet: blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries with Morello cherries, apricots, and strawberries, swirled in heady red musk and brandy. Berry Moon art by Manda Lander! We are also thrilled to introduce a Salon limited-run miniseries inspired by the works of Gustav Klimt. Happy birthday, Gustav! Proceeds from every sale of Donna Con Ventaglio, Pallas Athene, Hygeia, and Tree of Life benefit RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. Donna Con Ventaglio, Pallas Athene, Hygeia, and Tree of Life will be live until 13 October 2011. DONNA CON VENTAGLIO A white chypre with bergamot, rose otto, ylang ylang, tonka absolute, lotus root, blood orange, white fig, rock rose, mate, and violet leaf. HYGEIA Red musk and red amber, sweet incense, Mysore sandalwood, tobacco absolute, golden musk, orris root, frankincense, and helichrysum. PALLAS ATHENE Antiqued amber, cumin, saffron, frankincense, Atlas cedar, myrrh, mandarin, Ceylon cinnamon bark, and osmanthus. TREE OF LIFE Ash bark, Kashmir wood, tonka bean, clary sage, Spanish moss, cocoa absolute, King mandarin, galangal root, and matcha tea.

GA Will Call will be at Whole Foods Market, aka Harry’s Farmer’s Market, in Roswell, GA, on Sunday, July 31st from 6 to 8 pm, inside Salud (which is inside the store.) Whole Foods Market 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076. Whole Foods accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express and cash. They will not be able to accept any preorders. Sadly, The Zorya and three other scents will be discontinued when the lunacy goes dark on July 18th: Utrennyaya Vechernyaya Ephemera The Hesperides La Belle Dame Sans Merci Orders placed up until that time will still be filled. West Coast Will Call at Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Ave Burbank, CA 91505 Friday, July 15th, 7:00 to 10:00pm Seattle Will Call at knows perfume 4536 California Ave SW Seattle, WA 98116 Saturday, July 16th, 6 to 9pm New England Will Call at Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center) 222 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403 Sunday, July 17th, 5 to 8pm Georgia Will Call at Whole Foods aka Harry’s Farmers Market (inside Salud) 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076 Sunday, July 31st, 6 to 8pm

The west coast will call event will be held on Friday, July15th from 7 to 10pm at Dark Delicacies. Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd (1 block east of Hollywood Way) Burbank, CA 91505 ___ Seattle Will Call will be held on Saturday, July 16th from 6 to 9 pm at Knows Perfume. knows perfume 4536 California Ave., SW Seattle, WA 98116 (206) 397-3141 — New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, July 17th from 5 to 8pm, in the Learning Center. Healthy Living Market 222 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403 ___ GA Will Call is still TBD. We will update the information as soon as we receive it. — The blends that will be available for purchase include those that went live on the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab website up to and including Hungry Ghost Moon update. Forum only scents will not be available at Will Call. We will no longer be accepting preorders at West Coast Will Call, with the exception of orders for Twilight Alchemy Lab oils. We will do our best to accommodate all orders, but sales will be based on availability. At this time, Twilight Alchemy Lab oils will only be available at Dark Delicacies via preorder. Items from Black Phoenix Trading Post will be available at Dark Delicacies, subject to stock on hand. If you have any questions, please email us at willcall@blackphoenixalchemylab.com. Where/When: West Coast Will Call at Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Ave Burbank, CA 91505 Friday, July 15th, 7:00 to 10:00pm Seattle Will Call at knows perfume 4536 California Ave SW Seattle, WA 98116 Saturday, July 16th, 6 to 9pm New England Will Call at Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center) 222 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403 Sunday, July 17th, 5 to 8pm Georgia Will Call at Whole Foods aka Harry’s Farmers Market (inside Salud) 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076 TBD

THALASSA, THE GALAPAGOS MERMAID has gone into early retirement. We may not have enough stock to fill exisiting orders; we will contact you if your order cannot be filled. The rest of Carnaval Diabolique will go dark in about 4 hours.

Dark Delicacies has fewer than 12 bottles left of Christine, Crimson Christmas & Red Lace.

Three interpretations of Black Moon are now live at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. The Dark Moon is a time of secrets and hidden truths, of veils and binding, justice and revenge. It is sacred to the Crone, and to Gods and Goddesses of magick, death, and mysteries. The Black Moon has many meanings, but in any incarnation, it signifies a swelling of power. To us, it is the Blue Moon’s dark sister. This month, we are sharing three interpretations of the Black Moon’s energy. BLACK MOON 2011: BETH'S CREATION The absence of light: black orchid, motia attar, mugwort, English pear, jonquil, violet leaf, myrrh, opoponax, crystal musk, ylang ylang, and 5-year aged patchouli. SCHWARZER MOND: BRIAN'S CREATION The keeper of secrets: opoponax, Tunisian black amber, night musk, antique patchouli, zdravetz, terebinth, myrrh, and Pimenta racemosa. LUNA NEGRA: TED'S CREATION The solace of shadows: blackberry and blackcurrant with Nepalese amber, kewda attar, and a deep, rich, sweet dark musk. The Black Moon will be live until July 1, 2001.

The United States Postal Service on Friday stopped accepting all mail to Canada on the expectation that the labour dispute between Canada Post and its workers will last at least into next week. Due to this, all Canadian customers need to be advised that any orders that have not been shipped will be held until postal service resumes.

Sad news, Zorya has been discontinued, effective immediately. Existing orders will be filled but we won't be able to accept new orders.

The west coast will call event will be held on Wednesday, June 15th from 7 to 10pm at Dark Delicacies. Dark Delicacies will be offering their exclusive scents (excepting Tatter Lace) at $17.50 (cash only) during June’s Full Moon Event. Actor/Writer Mark Ryan (Transformers/The Prestige) will be signing The Wildwood Tarot: Wherein Wisdom Resides (deck & book $19.95) ”" Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd (1 block east of Hollywood Way) Burbank, CA 91505 ___ Seattle Will Call will be held on Wednesday, June 15th from 7:30 to 10:30 pm at Knows Perfume. knows perfume 4536 California Ave., SW Seattle, WA 98116 (206) 397-3141 — New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, June 19th from 5 to 8pm, in the Learning Center. Healthy Living Market 222 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403 ___ And last but not least, GA Will Call will be at Whole Foods Market, aka Harry’s Farmer’s Market, in Roswell, GA, on Sunday, June 26th from 6 to 8 pm, inside Salud (which is inside the store.) Whole Foods Market 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076. Whole Foods accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express and cash. They will not be able to accept any preorders. — The blends that will be available for purchase include those that went live on the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab website up to and including the Moon of Horses update. Forum only scents will not be available at Will Call. We will no longer be accepting preorders at West Coast Will Call, with the exception of orders for Twilight Alchemy Lab oils. We will do our best to accommodate all orders, but sales will be based on availability. At this time, Twilight Alchemy Lab oils will only be available at Dark Delicacies via preorder. Items from Black Phoenix Trading Post will be available at Dark Delicacies, subject to stock on hand. If you have any questions, please email us at willcall@blackphoenixalchemylab.com. Where/When: West Coast Will Call at Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Ave Burbank, CA 91505 Wednesday, June 15th, 7:00 to 10:00pm Seattle Will Call at knows perfume 4536 California Ave SW Seattle, WA 98116 Wednesday, June 15th, 7:30 to 10:30pm New England Will Call at Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center) 222 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403 Sunday, June 19th, 5 to 8pm Georgia Will Call at Whole Foods aka Harry’s Farmers Market (inside Salud) 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076 Sunday, June 26th, 5 to 8pm

A new Dark Delicacies / Black Phoenix scent will soon be live on the Dark Delicacies web site! It is also available at their brick and mortar shop in Burbank, CA! TATTERED LACE An allegory of Victorian melancholy and madness: tea-stained bourbon vanilla, with white cognac, coconut bark, Oman frankincense, and woodmoss over opium tar-stained silk. Tattered Lace is available exclusively through Dark Delicacies. Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd. Burbank, CA 91505 888-DARKDEL http://www.darkdel.com

Due to overwhelming response, there are no more free BPAL bottles available from Dark Delicacies. Thank you everyone, we love you!

The west coast will call event will be held on Tuesday, May 17th from 7 to 10pm at Dark Delicacies. Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd (1 block east of Hollywood Way) Burbank, CA 91505 ___ Seattle Will Call will be held on Tuesday, May 17th from 7:30 to 10:30 pm at Knows Perfume. knows perfume 4536 California Ave., SW Seattle, WA 98116 (206) 397-3141 — New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, May 22nd from 5 to 8pm, in the Learning Center. Healthy Living Market 222 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403 ___ And last but not least, GA Will Call will be at Whole Foods Market, aka Harry’s Farmer’s Market, in Roswell, GA, on Sunday, May 29th from 5 to 8 pm, inside Salud (which is inside the store.) Whole Foods Market 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076. Whole Foods accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express and cash. They will not be able to accept any preorders. — The blends that will be available for purchase include those that went live on the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab website up to and including the Weeping Branches Moon update. Forum only scents will not be available at Will Call. We will no longer be accepting preorders at West Coast Will Call, with the exception of orders for Twilight Alchemy Lab oils. We will do our best to accommodate all orders, but sales will be based on availability. At this time, Twilight Alchemy Lab oils will only be available at Dark Delicacies via preorder. Items from Black Phoenix Trading Post will be available at Dark Delicacies, subject to stock on hand. If you have any questions, please email us at willcall@blackphoenixalchemylab.com. Where/When: West Coast Will Call at Dark Delicacies 3512 W. Magnolia Ave Burbank, CA 91505 Tuesday, May 17th, 7:00 to 10:00pm Seattle Will Call at knows perfume 4536 California Ave SW Seattle, WA 98116 Tuesday, May 17th, 7:30 to 10:30pm New England Will Call at Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center) 222 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT, 05403 Sunday, May 22nd, 5 to 8pm Georgia Will Call at Whole Foods aka Harry’s Farmers Market (inside Salud) 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076 Sunday, May 29th, 5 to 8pm

Trading Posts Whispering Branches Moon shirts have arrived in house, but the t-shirts are a dark charcoal gray, a bit darker than we were expecting. While we are bringing all of a general catalog scents to Bats Day, as well as our Gaiman’s, Last Unicorns, etc. There were a few scents that could not be made due to a component issue, such as Rogue, Cleric and Halfling. Carnaval Diabolique, Salons, and general catalog imps were left behind, due to space constraints.