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BPAL will be returning to New York Comic Con this October.
NYCC
October 11 – 14, 2012
Javits Center, NYC
Booth #567
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The west coast will call event will be held on Tuesday, July 3rd from 6 to 9pm at Dark Delicacies.
Dark Delicacies
3512 W. Magnolia Blvd
(1 block east of Hollywood Way)
Burbank, CA 91505
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New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, July 15th from 3:00 to 6:00pm, in the Learning Center.
Healthy Living Market
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
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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 Smoky 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, July 3rd, 6:00 to 9:00pm
New England Will Call at
Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center)
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
Sunday, July 15th, 3:00 to 6:00pm
There may be a 3rd Will Call location to announce soon…
Also, BPAL will be vending at Anime Expo, 6/29-7/2, 2012 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Exclusives will be announced soon.
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Attention artists! Want to work for Black Phoenix? We are currently looking to add a few artists to our stable. Email wickedgoddess@blackphoenixalchemylab.com with samples and/or a link to your portfolio if you are interested.
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Emerald Knights Comics and Games is holding a charity auction for Shriners Hospital, and BPAL and BPTP have donated a complete set of RPG scents! Check out the auction here:http://ekcomicsandgames.com/index.php/emerald/page/product/shriners/shriners_auction_045_black_phoenix_oil_set/
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BPAL is having problems with our outgoing email server. If you have written to customer service in the past week, and haven't heard back, don't despair, we are trying to answer you! All should be fixed by Monday at the latest. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience.
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BPAL will be vending at Anime Expo, 6/29-7/2, 2012 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
More conventions will be announced soon, as plans are finalized.
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Smoky Moon is live at BPAL and BPTP!
SMOKY MOON 2012
Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and messenger of dawn
Circling above the hamlets as they nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
Aged champaca, golden amber, guiac wood, dusky patchouli, twilit oudh, and feathery orris, with a touch of grapefruit, davana, and elemi to help lift it to the heavens
Art by the illustrious Julie Dillon. Smoky Moon will be available until June 11, 2012.
And, it is with great pride that we introduce the second part of our collaboration with the Jim Henson Company, eight scents based on Henson’s Fraggle Rock!
GOBO
Gobo is the natural leader of the Fraggle Five. He is an explorer, spending his days charting the unexplored (and explored-but-forgotten) regions of Fraggle Rock. Gobo is following, often quite literally, in the footsteps of his Uncle Traveling Matt Fraggle, the greatest living Fraggle explorer.
Tangerine, lemon peel, sugared pink grapefruit, and vanilla cream.
BOOBER
According to Boober Fraggle, there are only two things certain in this world: death and laundry. Boober is terrified by the former and fascinated by the latter. He is also paranoid and superstitious. According to Boober, anything that can go wrong surely will, and when it does, it will inevitably happen to him.
A fretfully clean scent: freshly-washed laundry, linden blossom, soap suds, and a sprinkle of vanilla.
RED
Red Fraggle is a nonstop whirligig of activity. To her fellow Fraggles, Red is often seen as a flash of crimson racing to her next athletic pursuit. She is Fraggle Rock champion in Tug-of-War, Diving while Singing Backwards, the Blindfolded One-Legged Radish Relay, and a number of other traditional Fraggle sports. She is outgoing, enthusiastic, and athletic, but take note – her impetuosity can get her into real trouble.
Sporty and energetic: sweet red currant, tangy cranberry, pink musk, and spicy pink pepper.
MOKEY
Mokey is an artist, poet and philosopher. She seems to be in touch with some sort of higher Fraggle consciousness. Mokey is fascinated by the beauty and intricacy of the world around her, and is always seeking new ways to share this feeling with others.
A gentle, contemplative fragrance: lilac blossoms, violet sugar, orris root, stephanotis, and osmanthus.
WEMBLEY
To Wemble is a Fragglish word that means (roughly) “to be so unable to make up one’s mind that it’s ridiculous.” Wembley is indecision personified. Wembley has an uncanny ability to find merit on both sides of any issue. This talent occasionally casts him in the role of peacemaker.
Innocently indecisive: white musk, banana, orange blossom honey, pineapple, and mint.
UNCLE TRAVELING MATT
The magic is always there, as long as we keep looking for it.
Gobo’s Uncle Travelling Matt is the greatest living Fraggle explorer – the Fraggle equivalent of an astronaut. After completing his exploration of Fraggle Rock, he ventured forth into our world, a place the Fraggles call “Outer Space.”
Dark chocolate, figgy vanilla, pear, and quince.
DOOZERS
Totally unlike the Fraggles, Doozers spend their lives working. The greatest joy in a Doozer’s life is to get up, put on a hard hat and take a place on the Doozer work crew.
The scent of industrious cooperation: glittering crystals, soft soil, and radish dust.
GORG’S GARDEN
The Fraggles raid the Gorgs’ garden for the vegetables (particularly the radishes) that they eat.
Radishes, freshly-turned soil, and soft herbs.
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Good news! We can now let you combine your BPAL Etsy order with a regular BPAL order. Please email answers@blackphoenixalchemylab.com before placing your order, and add a note in your Etsy order that you will be combining it with a BPAL order.
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There are less than 50 bottles available of the following Dark Delicacies excusive scents. Once they’re gone, they’re gone!
Black Heart
Pink Lace
Creature Feature
Diabolical Offspring
Ein Kuss Von Krampus
Sue’s Great Old Puppet Show
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The west coast will call event will be held on Sunday, June 3rd from 4 to 7pm at Dark Delicacies.
Dark Delicacies
3512 W. Magnolia Blvd
(1 block east of Hollywood Way)
Burbank, CA 91505
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New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, June 10th from 3:00 to 6:00pm, in the Learning Center.
Healthy Living Market
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
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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 Strawberry 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
Sunday, June 3rd, 4:00 to 7:00pm
New England Will Call at
Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center)
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
Sunday, June 10th, 3:00 to 6:00pm
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Black Phoenix will be vending at
Bats Day Black Market
May 19, 2012
3 to 10pm
DoubleTree Guest Suites Anaheim
2085 South Harbor Blvd Anaheim CA, 92802
Free Admission
In addition to our regular offerings, the following bat-themed scents will be available at Bats Day:
PERFUME OIL BLENDS
$20 per 5ml bottle
ATMOSPHERE SPRAY & BATH OIL
$25 per 4oz bottle
++ BPAL: BATS DAY 2012
GREAT VAMPIRE BAT
Incense-touched jungle orchid.
SILVER-HAIRED BAT
Gleaming white amber and silvered ambergris accord with copoiba balsam, benzoin, Atlas cedar, black pepper, and oudh.
VESPERTILIO PROTERUS
Warm golden ginger, wild fig, and vanilla cream spiced with saffron, limu amani, nutmeg, coriander, and angelica.
EPOMOPHORUS MONSTROSUS
Black patchouli, tonka bean, mahogany bark, gurjum balsam, and decadent cacao absolute surrounded by two dark, feral musks and sweet sarsaparilla.
PTEROPUS LEUCOPTERUS
White sandalwood, white sage, East Indian patchouli, muguet, golden frankincense, and Balsam of Mecca.
And also at Bats Day, these Black Phoenix Trading Post offerings:
++ BPTP: BATS DAY 2012
VIRGIN'S BLOOD BATH OIL
Rose petals and fresh cream.
No virgins were harmed in the making of this product. Everlasting youth and eternal beauty not guaranteed.
PYRIPHLEGETHONIAN POMEGRANATE ATMOSPHERE SPRAY
An infernal bounty: fiery, blood red pomegranate, black fig, opoponax, patchouli, black pepper, tobacco absolute, cypress, yew berry, and dragon's blood resin.
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Bats Day is offering VIP shopping from 2 to 3pm for $5. The dealer’s room is free from 3 to 10 pm. Due to this, we will start sell Bats Day exclusives at 3pm.
We anticipate having enough product to fill everyone’s order, so we will not be limiting the number of purchases per person. There shouldn’t be a need to get there early, but if you still choose to, will be giving out numbers in the lobby of the DoubleTree Hotel from 2:30 to 3pm. Please come see us for your number before heading inside.
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Absinthe and Lace is now available at Dark Delicacies and selling fast. It’s limited to only 313 bottles, so order now before it’s gone for good!
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O, hello, Strawberry Moon!
STRAWBERRY MOON 2012
Strawberries that in gardens grow
Are plump and juicy fine,
But sweeter far as wise men know
Spring from the woodland vine.
No need for bowl or silver spoon,
Sugar or spice or cream,
Has the wild berry plucked in June
Beside the trickling stream.
One such to melt at the tongue’s root,
Confounding taste with scent,
Beats a full peck of garden fruit:
Which points my argument.
May sudden justice overtake
And snap the froward pen,
That old and palsied poets shake
Against the minds of men.
Blasphemers trusting to hold caught
In far-flung webs of ink,
The utmost ends of human thought
Till nothing’s left to think.
But may the gift of heavenly peace
And glory for all time
Keep the boy Tom who tending geese
First made the nursery rhyme.
Wild strawberries, strawberry flower, strawberry blossom honey, vanilla-infused sugar, early summer grasses, and milky dandelion sap.
A little while back, we wrote a bit about strawberries on the Gazette: http://www.blackphoenixgazette.com/?p=1425.
Strawberry Moon is also live on Black Phoenix Trading Post! Please welcome Tanya Bjork to our family of artists!
“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”
This month, we revisit the Metamorphosis:
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Lo, the bright train their radiant wings unfold!
With silver fringed, and freckled o’er with gold:
On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower
They, idly fluttering, live their little hour;
Their life all pleasure, and their task all play,
All spring their age, and sunshine all their day.
- ” To Mrs. P——–., With Some Drawings…”, Anna Laetitia Aikin
The grace, beauty, and complexity of butterflies and moths have permeated myths all over the globe. The symmetry and elegance of their form and the coquettish rhythm of their dance inspires visions of fleeting romance:
The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers
The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers
That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings
In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings,
That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide,
With muffled music, murmured far and wide.
Ah, the Spring time, when we think of all the lays
That dreamy lovers send to dreamy mays,
Of the fond hearts within a billet bound,
Of all the soft silk paper that pens wound,
The messages of love that mortals write
Filled with intoxication of delight,
Written in April and before the May time
Shredded and flown, playthings for the wind’s playtime,
We dream that all white butterflies above,
Who seek through clouds or waters souls to love,
And leave their lady mistress in despair,
To flit to flowers, as kinder and more fair,
Are but torn love-letters, that through the skies
Flutter, and float, and change to butterflies
- ” The Genesis of Butterflies”, Victor Hugo
Though in some myths – notably, China’s Butterfly Lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, and Japan’s tale of Takahama and Akiko – butterflies are symbols of eternal love and devotion.
Most often, butterflies and moths represent change, transition, and metamorphosis. Butterflies are also seen as personifications of the soul, and symbols of mankind’s desire for spiritual evolution. They are harbingers of both love and death, and some believe that errant souls manifest in this form.
Moths and butterflies are, to some, symbols of blind desire and madness, perilously drawn to the splendor of light and flame. This mad desire is also portrayed, at times, as transcendence:
Tell it none except the wise,
for the common crowd defames:
of the living I shall praise
that which longs for death in flames.
In the love night which created
you where you create, a yearning
wakes: you see, intoxicated,
far away a candle burning.
Darkness now no longer snares you,
shadows lose their ancient force,
as a new desire tears you
up to higher intercourse.
Now no distance checks your flight,
charmed you come and you draw night
till, with longing for the light,
you are burnt, O butterfly.
And until you have possessed
dying and rebirth,
you are but a sullen guest
on the gloomy earth.
- ” Blissful Yearning”, Goethe, translation by Walter Kaufmann
This series, though seemingly simple, is a complex narrative in scent. It was created with the intention of illustrating the beauty of transformation and transcendence, the sweetness of romance, the joy of freedom and personal liberty, and the perpetuity of true love.
Wake, butterfly -
It’s late, we’ve miles
To go together.
- Matsuo Basho
This year’s butterfly series was inspired by our many, many trips to Mexico, and is focused on the butterflies and moths of the Yucatan and Quintana Roo.
BERNARDINO DOTTED BLUE
Lily of the valley, patchouli, copal, violet leaf, ambrette seed, Cyprian bergamot, chocolate peppermint, and tobacco absolute.
CEANOTHUS SILKMOTH
Blood orange, night-blooming jasmine, vanilla bean, bog wood, Spanish moss, benzoin, and oudh.
JUNIPER HAIRSTREAK
Smoky brown musk, cucumber, green-tinged ozone, cypress, white mint, jungle orchid, and juniper berry.
RUDDY DAGGERWING
Cacao, tobacco absolute, Chilean coffee bean, osage-orange, and ebony.
PASSION BUTTERFLY
Red mandarin, mimosa, pink grapefruit, copal, petitgrain, and black amber.
SPHAEROMACHIA GAUMERI
Iris, iced lemon peel, anise seed, red current, coriander, cilantro, and white musk.
TWO-BARRED FLASHER
Orris root, lilac, galbanum, white tea, Italian bergamot, and blueberry.
WHITE PEACOCK
Teak, ebony wood, osmanthus, patchouli, red sandalwood, vanilla orchid, tonka bean, tobacco, wild musk, spikenard, and sugandh kokila.
ZEBRA HELICONIAN
Opium tar, frankincense, lemongrass, ambergris accord, Himalayan cedarwood, coffee absolute, coconut meat, clary sage, tobacco flower, vetiver, and white plum.
The Metamorphosis series is dedicated, as always, to my daughter. Lilith, my angel, my dearest love. I love you, little butterfly. I love your laugh, I love your smile, I love your huge, compassionate heart. You are the joy of my life, you are the song of my spirit. I’m so very grateful to be your mother.
Inspired by our sojourns into the jungles of Latin America, we present two sweet, raw, prickly blends as a small tribute to our omnipresent hematophagous travel companions:
AE. ALBOPICTUS
Saffron, pimento, cardamom, beeswax, cajeput, tomato leaf, geranium, and pink pepper honey.
AE. AEGYPTI
Five honeys with vanilla orchid, gardenia, dragon’s blood resin, gingergrass, and turmeric.
Butterflies are also swarming the ‘Post!
BUTTERFLY GARDEN ATMOSPHERE SPRAY
Butterfly bush blossoms, dew-damp moss, mist flower, purple coneflower, Brazilian verbena, ground ivy, pink clover, lantana accord, and sunflower.
CANDLELIGHT ATMOSPHERE SPRAY
O Candle! Why does the moth love you?
Why is this restless soul devoted to you?
Your charm keeps it restless like mercury
Did you teach it the etiquette of Love?
It circumambulates the site of your manifestation
Is it inspired with the fire of your lightning?
Do the woes of death give it the peace of life?
Does your flame possess the quality of eternal life?
If you do not brighten this sorrowful world
This burning heart’s tree of Longing may not green up
Falling before you is the prayer of this little heart
The taste for impassioned Love knows this little heart
It has some zeal of the Primeval Beauty’s Lover
You are a small ñër , it is a small Kalam
The moth and the taste for the Sight of the Light!
This small insect and the Longing for the Light!
Beeswax candles burning softly in a shadowed room, touched with a wisp of smoky foreboding.
BUTTERFLY NECTAR BATH OIL
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A bath of honeyed petals and sugar-dusted leaves.
Black Phoenix Trading Post has added a few new hair glosses:
AMBER & PATCHOULI
COCONUT, VANILLA BEAN, AND TIARE
JUNIPER MINT
MOROCCO
Dark Delicacies will be debuting a new scent in the Lace series at West Coast Will Call! It will also be available on the Dark Delicacies web site.
DARK DELICACIES: ABSINTHE AND LACE
Inspired by Edgar Degas’ L’Absinthe, and created in the vein of the Dark Delicacies / Black Phoenix lace-themed collaborations. A scent of dissipation and ennui: green cognac and icy absinthe, louched, spilling onto lace that is drooping with neglect and darkened by tobacco smoke.
The following bat-themed scents will be available at Bats Day:
++ BPAL: BATS DAY 2012
GREAT VAMPIRE BAT
Incense-touched jungle orchid.
SILVER-HAIRED BAT
Gleaming white amber and silvered ambergris accord with copoiba balsam, benzoin, Atlas cedar, black pepper, and oudh.
VESPERTILIO PROTERUS
Warm golden ginger, wild fig, and vanilla cream spiced with saffron, limu amani, nutmeg, coriander, and angelica.
EPOMOPHORUS MONSTROSUS
Black patchouli, tonka bean, mahogany bark, gurjum balsam, and decadent cacao absolute surrounded by two dark, feral musks and sweet sarsaparilla.
PTEROPUS LEUCOPTERUS
White sandalwood, white sage, East Indian patchouli, muguet, golden frankincense, and Balsam of Mecca.
And also at Bats Day, these Black Phoenix Trading Post offerings:
++ BPTP: BATS DAY 2012
VIRGIN’S BLOOD BATH OIL
Rose petals and fresh cream.
No virgins were harmed in the making of this product. Everlasting youth and eternal beauty not guaranteed.
PYRIPHLEGETHONIAN POMEGRANATE ATMOSPHERE SPRAY
An infernal bounty: fiery, blood red pomegranate, black fig, opoponax, patchouli, black pepper, tobacco absolute, cypress, yew berry, and dragon’s blood resin.
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Black Phoenix will be vending at
Bats Day Black Market
May 19, 2012
2 to 10pm
DoubleTree Guest Suites Anaheim
2085 South Harbor Blvd Anaheim CA, 92802
Free Admission
In addition to our regular offerings, the following bat-themed scents will be available at Bats Day:
++ BPAL: BATS DAY 2012
GREAT VAMPIRE BAT
Incense-touched jungle orchid.
SILVER-HAIRED BAT
Gleaming white amber and silvered ambergris accord with copoiba balsam, benzoin, Atlas cedar, black pepper, and oudh.
VESPERTILIO PROTERUS
Warm golden ginger, wild fig, and vanilla cream spiced with saffron, limu amani, nutmeg, coriander, and angelica.
EPOMOPHORUS MONSTROSUS
Black patchouli, tonka bean, mahogany bark, gurjum balsam, and decadent cacao absolute surrounded by two dark, feral musks and sweet sarsaparilla.
PTEROPUS LEUCOPTERUS
White sandalwood, white sage, East Indian patchouli, muguet, golden frankincense, and Balsam of Mecca.
And also at Bats Day, these Black Phoenix Trading Post offerings:
++ BPTP: BATS DAY 2012
VIRGIN’S BLOOD BATH OIL
Rose petals and fresh cream.
No virgins were harmed in the making of this product. Everlasting youth and eternal beauty not guaranteed.
PYRIPHLEGETHONIAN POMEGRANATE ATMOSPHERE SPRAY
An infernal bounty: fiery, blood red pomegranate, black fig, opoponax, patchouli, black pepper, tobacco absolute, cypress, yew berry, and dragon’s blood resin.
Also, Dark Delicacies will be debuting the newest Lace scent on Sunday, May 6th at West Coast Will Call:
DARK DELICACIES: ABSINTHE AND LACE
Inspired by Edgar Degas’ L’Absinthe, and created in the vein of the Dark Delicacies / Black Phoenix lace-themed collaborations. A scent of dissipation and ennui: green cognac and icy absinthe, louched, spilling onto lace that is drooping with neglect and darkened by tobacco smoke.
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The west coast will call event will be held on Sunday, May 6th from 4 to 7pm at Dark Delicacies.
Dark Delicacies
3512 W. Magnolia Blvd
(1 block east of Hollywood Way)
Burbank, CA 91505
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New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, May 6th from 3:00 to 6:00pm, in the Learning Center.
Healthy Living Market
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
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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 Dragon 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
Sunday, May 6th, 4:00 to 7:00pm
New England Will Call at
Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center)
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
Sunday, May 6th, 3:00 to 6:00pm
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Sadly, it's time to say good-bye to more of our general catalog scents.
Desdemonda
Eos
Fascinum
Nero
and
Sri Lanka
are no longer available.
If you have a pending order for any of these scents, our customer service department will be in touch.
As always, if you have any questions, email answers @ blackphoenixalchemylab.com.
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Due to a component issue, Baghdad is temporarily on back order. We hope to be able to start shipping it again by the end of May.
The Hanging Gardens has been discontinued, effective immediately, also due to a component issue.
If you have an outstanding order for either of these scents, our customer service department should have already contacted you.
Questions? Contact answers@blackphoenixalchemylab.com
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13
13 is significant, whether you consider it lucky, unlucky or just plain odd. Many believe it to be unfortunate…
…because there were 13 present at the Last Supper.
…Loki crashed a party of 12 at Valhalla, which ended in Baldur’s death.
…Oinomaos killed 13 of Hippodamia’s suitors before Pelops finally, in his own shady way, defeated the jealous king.
…In ancient Rome, Hecate’s witches gathered in groups of 12, the Goddess herself being the 13th in the coven.
Concern over the number thirteen echoes back beyond the Christian era. Line 13 was omitted form the Code of Hammurabi.
The shivers over Friday the 13th also have some interesting origins:
…Christ was allegedly crucified on Friday the 13th.
…On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and sixty of his senior knights.
…In British custom, hangings were held on Fridays, and there were 13 steps on the gallows leading to the noose.
To combat the superstition, Robert Ingersoll and the Thirteen Club held thirteen-men dinners during the 19th Century. Successful? Hardly. The number still invokes trepidation to this day. A recent whimsical little serial killer study showed that the following murderers all have names that total thirteen letters:
Theodore Bundy
Jeffrey Dahmer
Albert De Salvo
John Wayne Gacy
And, with a little stretch of the imagination, you can also fit “Jack the Ripper” and “Charles Manson” into that equation.
More current-era paranoia: modern schoolchildren stop their memorization of the multiplication tables at 12. There were 13 Plutonium slugs in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Apollo 13 wasn’t exactly the most successful space mission. All of these are things that modern triskaidekaphobes point to when justifying their fears.
For some, 13 is an extremely fortuitous and auspicious number…
…In Jewish tradition, God has 13 Attributes of Mercy. Also, there were 13 tribes of Israel, 13 principles of Jewish faith, and 13 is considered the age of maturity.
…The ancient Egyptians believed that there were 12 stages of spiritual achievement in this lifetime, and a 13th beyond death.
…The word for thirteen, in Chinese, sounds much like the word which means “must be alive”?.
Thirteen, whether you love it or loathe it, is a pretty cool number all around.
…In some theories of relativity, there are 13 dimensions.
…It is a prime number, lucky number, star number, Wilson Prime, and Fibonacci number.
…There are 13 Archimedean solids.
AND…
…There were 13 original colonies when the United States were founded.
Says a lot about the US, doesn’t it?
I believe we could all use a little more good fortune. This 13 is contains thirteen flowers of good luck swirled in white chocolate and a touch of honey: white carnation, stephanotis, blood-flower, yellow rose, eggplant flower, tiare, chamomile blossom, champaca flower, pink heather, wild orchid, pink peony, sweet basil flower, and Bells of Ireland.
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The Orchard is now available exclusively from Ysanne Spevack’s online store.
THE ORCHARD
Rose hips and rose thorns, tulip petals, wild plum, and bittersweet chocolate.
Painting by Gail Potocki.
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The west coast will call event will be held on Friday, April 6th from 6 to 9pm at Dark Delicacies.
Dark Delicacies
3512 W. Magnolia Blvd
(1 block east of Hollywood Way)
Burbank, CA 91505
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New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, April 15th from 3:00 to 6:00pm, in the Learning Center.
Healthy Living Market
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
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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 Pink 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, April 6th, 6:00 to 9:00pm
New England Will Call at
Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center)
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
Sunday, April 15th, 3:00 to 6:00pm
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Please join us on March 15th at 7pm at Dark Delicacies to celebrate our partnership with Hero Initiative with the release of 3 new scents!
THE MAGDALENA
Frankincense, myrrh, leather, ti leaf, saint wood, benzoin, and labdanum absolute.
CYBORG
Inspired by the character Grendel-Prime.
A heavy-metal cyborg, created by the Grendel-Khan to act as a paladin protector for his only son and heir, an unstoppable killing machine.
Gleaming metal and black leather over a khus-darkened bay rum.
DAWN: MOURNING VICTORY
Red sandalwood, night-blooming jasmine, white tea, hyacinth, rosehips, and tuberose.
All three perfume oils will retail for $26 each for a 5 ml bottle, and a portion of all proceeds will benefit Hero Initiative, the first federally recognized not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping comic book creators in medical and financial need.
Best of all, Dawn creator Joseph Michael Linsner and Top Cow Productions’ Echoes artist Rahsan Ekedal will be in attendance at the party! Don’t miss this exclusive evening to get your scents, sketches and signatures!
And fans of Matt Wagner’s Grendel will be able to pick up a copy of Hero Comics featuring a Grendel cover for a mere $1, a $4 value!
All three scents will be available to the general public starting April 4th, 2012 at www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com.
About The Hero Initiative
The Hero Initiative is the first-ever federally chartered not-for-profit corporation dedicated strictly to helping comic book creators in need. Hero creates a financial safety net for yesterday’s creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work. It’s a chance for all of us to give back something to the people who have given us so much enjoyment.
Since its inception, The Hero Initiative has had the good fortune to grant over $500,000 to the comic book veterans who have paved the way for those in the industry today. For more information go to www.heroinitiative.org or call 626-676-6354.
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The west coast will call event will be held on Thursday, March 8th from 6 to 9pm at Dark Delicacies.
Dark Delicacies
3512 W. Magnolia Blvd
(1 block east of Hollywood Way)
Burbank, CA 91505
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New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, March 11th from 3:00 to 6:00pm, in the Learning Center.
Healthy Living Market
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
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And last but not least, Seattle Will Call will be held in a new location:
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW
Seattle, WA, 98106
Seattle Will Call will be held in the South Classroom on Tuesday, March 13th, from 6:30 to 8:30pm.
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 Candles 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
Thursday, March 8th, 6:00 to 9:00pm
New England Will Call at
Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center)
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
Sunday, March 11th, 3:00 to 6:00pm
Seattle Will Call at
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW
Seattle, WA, 98106
Tuesday, March 13th, 6:30 to 8:30pm
BPAL at Anime Expo
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Black Phoenix will be vending at Anime Expo, June 29 – July 2 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
We will be in booth 1329, and we will be bringing ALL of our currently available scents (yes, that includes the Fraggles!) as well as debuting our new Anime Event Exclusives!
Anime Exclusives
These 4 scents are debuting at Anime Expo 2012, and will be available at any and all Anime Events where we are vending.
BOYSTYLE ARISTOCRAT
A dapper Victorian bergamot and patchouli cologne that has been softened by orris and spiced with pink peppercorn.
DOLLY KEI
Antiqued bourbon vanilla and tobacco-tinged yellow sandalwood with copal and amber incense, frankincense, tonka absolute, and myrrh.
HIME GYARU
Fit for a princess: pink musk, spun sugar, white rose, pink gardenia, black currant, and violet leaf.
MORI GIRL
Forest tuberose, woodland mosses, wisteria blossoms, hime wood, night-blooming jasmine, and honey dust.
Art by Manda Lander.
The Anime Event Exclusives are $20 each and there are no per person limits.