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Now with more pirates!
For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I've no desire to be disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don't know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty,
One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty.
Through some singular coincidence ? I shouldn't be surprised if it were owing to the agency of an ill-natured fairy ?
You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the twenty-ninth of February;
And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you'll easily discover,
That though you've lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays,you're only five and a little bit over!
Alas, poor Frederic the Leapling! – bound to the merry Pirates of Penzance until his twenty-first birthday.
As his birthday comes around only every four years, so does his scent!
Victorian whimsy and piratical romance: a reluctant seaman's chypre sloshed with a mix of bay rum, patchouli, amber musk, salty woods, tobacco absolute, black tea, English roses, and red currant.
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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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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
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Please join us on March 15th at Dark Delicacies to celebrate our partnership with Hero Initiative with the release of 3 new scents!
The Magdalena from Top Cow, Cyborg, the newest member of the Grendel line, and Dawn: Mourning Victory.
All three perfume oils will retail for $26 each for a 5ml 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. Notes will be released closer to the event, once scents are finalized.
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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Ted is having knee surgery on Wednesday morning, and will be out of commission for a few days. During this time, BPTP will be dark. He won’t be able to take care of customer service emails during that time, but orders will still be going out, though perhaps a bit slower that usual.
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Happy Valentines Day!
We have a few chocolates, just for you.
Limited to 100 each, when they are gone, they’re gone.
DARK CHOCOLATE WITH SUN-DRIED TOMATO, PINK PEPPERCORN, THYME, AND COMFREY
DARK CHOCOLATE WITH TULSI, TUMERIC, AND WHITE GINGER
MILK CHOCOLATE WITH MACADAMIA NUT, COCONUT, BUTTOM MUSHROOM, AND MARSHMALLOW
WHITE CHOCOLATE WITH LEMONGRASS, CORIANDER, AND ALMOND CREAM
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Due to a component issue, the Antikythera Mechanism is temporarily on back order. We expect to be able to start shipping it again by the end of February.
If you place an order for it, your order will be held until it is available. If you have an outstanding order for it, our customer service department should have already contacted you.
Questions? Contact answers@blackphoenixalchemylab.com
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Candles Moon is live at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and http://www.blackphoenixtradingpost.com/lunacy.html!
CANDLES MOON 2012
To-day is the Day of Bride,
The serpent shall come from his hole,
I will not molest the serpent,
And the serpent will not molest me.
The serpent will come from the hole
On the brown day of Bride,
Though there should be three feet of snow
On the flat surface of the ground.
Moonlight shining on the Quickening Tree, the heat and wax of sacred candles, the milk of ewes, Brigid's blackberry, the sting of keening wind, and the last flutter of the Cailleach's winter snow.
THE IDES OF MARCH 2012
The Ides marked an auspicious time in the Roman calendar. Depending on the month in question, the Ides fell on the thirteenth or fifteenth, and usually marked the Full Moon. As we all know, it was not an auspicious day for Julius Caesar, nor was it fortuitous for H.P. Lovecraft, who also met his maker on this infamous day. Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi! A mixture of springtime greenery and classical Roman cologne: rosemary, bergamot, lemon rind and vervain with costus, benzoin, coriander, rosewood, gray amber, cardamom, white narcissus, dark musk, and iris.
THEOTOKOS
Άξιον εστίν ως αληθώς
μακαρίζειν σε την Θεοτόκον,
την αειμακάριστον και παναμώμητον
και μητέρα του Θεού ημών.
Την τιμιωτέραν των Χερουβείμ
και ενδοξοτέραν ασυγκρίτως των Σεραφείμ
την αδιαφθόρως Θεόν Λόγον τεκούσαν,
την όντως Θεοτόκον,
Σε μεγαλύνομεν.
It is truly meet and right to bless you, O Theotokos,
Ever-blessed and most-pure mother of our God.
More honourable than the Cherubim,
And beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim,
Who without corruption gave birth to God the Word,
True Theotokos: we magnify you.
Calla lily, Egyptian amber, frankincense, chrysanthemum, daphne, and red roses.
++ THE BARDS OF IRELAND 2012
Irish bards were members of a hereditary caste of learned poets. They were officials of the courts of their chieftains and kings, and served as historians, storytellers, and satirists. They were immersed in the rich history of their clan and country, and learned the intricacies of their craft from birth. Their words held so much power that it was believed that a glam dicing, or satirical incantation, spoken by a bard held the magic of a curse.
THE FAIRIES
Up the airy mountain
Down the rushy glen,
We dare n't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl's feather.
Down along the rocky shore
Some make their home,
They live on crispy pancakes
Of yellow tide-foam;
Some in the reeds
Of the black mountain-lake,
With frogs for their watch-dogs,
All night awake.
High on the hill-top
The old King sits;
He is now so old and gray
He's nigh lost his wits.
With a bridge of white mist
Columbkill he crosses,
On his stately journeys
From Slieveleague to Rosses;
Or going up with music,
On cold starry nights,
To sup with the Queen,
Of the gay Northern Lights.
They stole little Bridget
For seven years long;
When she came down again
Her friends were all gone.
They took her lightly back
Between the night and morrow;
They thought she was fast asleep,
But she was dead with sorrow.
They have kept her ever since
Deep within the lake,
On a bed of flag leaves,
Watching till she wake.
By the craggy hill-side,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn trees
For pleasure here and there.
Is any man so daring
As dig them up in spite?
He shall find the thornies set
In his bed at night.
Up the airy mountain
Down the rushy glen,
We dare n't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl's feather.
- William Allingham
Supping with the Queen of the Fae: apple blossom, white clover, huckleberry wine, dandelion sap, milkweed, primrose, thyme, pink moss, thorny thistles, and opium pod.
IN THE FOREST
Out of the mid-wood's twilight
Into the meadow's dawn,
Ivory limbed and brown-eyed,
Flashes my Faun!
He skips through the copses singing,
And his shadow dances along,
And I know not which I should follow,
Shadow or song!
O Hunter, snare me his shadow!
O Nightingale, catch me his strain!
Else moonstruck with music and madness
I track him in vain!
- Oscar Wilde
A wild, passion-inflamed skin musk with black pine pitch, brown leather, black clove, copal, white sage, oakmoss, patchouli, and saffron.
LIADAIN AND CURITHIR
When thou art hidden fears throng into my heart:
I am as one who has found a treasure of gold
Whom the stars watch
And the winds threaten
And swords wait in the dark.
Or can the dream break, Curithir, into the cold dawn?
Do not even the angels tremble gazing on us?
For only within God's Dún such joy can live.
Come let us dream, love, that we sail to the west
And in enchanted islands are free of the sun
And the cold blind eyes of the years that pass unheeding sorrow.
O by the sweetness of love and joy like the piercing of spears
I have known the vain life that dies beaten back to the sod,
And the moan of all impotent things cries in my heart;
For that which can wither the budding trees can wither love.
O Curithir hast thou bidden the birds to sing of thee?
They have awoken me to the grey sweet skies
And the out-breathed light stealing over the stars.
There is no bird whose song is not of thy love
No laughter of sudden dawn winds whose joy thou art not -
O that the world could know thou lovest me, Curithir!
- Moireen Fox
An hour of love, all-too-fleeting, set against the tumble and crash of the somber seaside: honeysuckle, ivy, white moss, and salty spray.
STRINGS IN THE EARTH AND AIR
Strings in the earth and air
Make music sweet;
Strings by the river where
The willows meet.
There's music along the river
For Love wanders there,
Pale flowers on his mantle,
Dark leaves on his hair.
All softly playing,
With head to the music bent,
And fingers straying
Upon an instrument.
- James Joyce
White sage, white musk, honey myrtle, galbanum, lilac, and everlasting flower.
This weekend, Pink Lace and Mourning Lace go live at Dark Delicacies.
MOURNING LACE
A contemplation of death: fragile vanilla blossom with polished oak, bitter clove, frankincense, myrrh, and green cognac.
PINK LACE
A sweet prelude to grief: delicate tea rose and strawberry-laced vanilla stained by tobacco, champaca incense, and white cognac.
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Today the USPS increased its prices for both domestic and international shipping.
While the domestic increase is small enough for us to absorb, the international increase is pretty hefty.
As of today, our shipping rates are as follows:
Domestic shipping rates for the US are as follows:
Orders totaling up to $150.00: $7.50
…up to $300.00: $12.00
…up to $500.00: $14.00
International shipping costs vary depending on the location we’re shipping to and the weight of the package. The latter is determined by the number of bottles that we’re sending out.
We use USPS Flat Rate on most international shipments. The Flat Rate service offered by USPS features a fixed price per package, regardless of weight. As a rule, we can fit up to 24 items in International Flat Rate packaging with occasional exceptions.
The International Flat Rate shipping fee is $19.00 for all orders up to 24 bottles; the rate jumps to $43.00 on orders containing more that 20 items that won’t entirely fit in the Flat Rate box. Shipping is free for all orders that exceed $500.
For Canadian orders, $15.00 will cover shipments up to 24 items; the price is $28.00 for shipping over 24 items.
For Eastern European countires, such as Russia, Czech Republic, Moldova or Poland, $20.00 will cover shipments up to 24 items; the price is $50.00 for shipping over 24 items.
Shipping costs will be waived for all orders over $500.00, both domestic and international.
This pricing applies to both Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Twilight Alchemy Lab. Because Black Phoenix Trading Post’s shipping grid is more complex, they will be issuing their revised shipping scale within the next few days.
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Two Limited Edition Lupercalia Massage Oils are available!
BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE MASSAGE OIL
An exercise is unabashed sensuality: cacao absolute and a hint of oude.
BOURBON VANILLA MASSAGE OIL
Deceptively sweet: bourbon vanilla oleoresin and benzoin resinoid.
Our gentle, balancing massage oils were created with the finest environmentally-responsible and body-friendly ingredients. Both oils are vegan, blissfully devoid of harsh chemicals or unwholesome fillers, paraben and formaldehyde free, and do not contain sodium lauryl or sodium laureth sulfate. These luxurious oils absorb well, granting you the power of the aromatherapeutic properties of the essential oils, as well as the healing and soothing aspects of the base oils’ health-affirming properties. The smooth, even texture of the blends are easy on your massage therapist’s hands! Handmade by Black Phoenix.
These massage oils have corresponding bath oils as well!
There are two Lupercalia atmosphere sprays that were inspired by Aphrodite as patroness:
APHRODITE KYPRIA ATMOSPHERE SPRAY
Egyptian musk, Ceylon cinnamon, cassia, and bourbon vanilla.
APHRODITE EYRKINÊ ATMOSPHERE SPRAY
Blood orange, ylang ylang, red musk, jasmine, and mimosa.
And also! – the Eros Inquisition…
The Eros Inquisition
+ The Eros Inquisition: Limited Edition Lupercalia 2012
Love, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day’s dusk,
Trembles before your glory.
The Eros Inquisition! An examination of love in all its glory and horror. Show the world the quintessence of your heart. If you participate in the Inquisition by sharing a tale, song, poem, or original piece of artwork expressing infatuation, love, lust, loss, or madness, you will receive a perfume oil (L’essence) and bath oil (L’eau) set, plus a small atomizer filled with L’essence du Cœur Libéré des Ténèbres (L’extrait). You can bypass the Inquisition and purchase the perfume oils and bath oils separately, but you will only receive the extrait if you submit to the Inquisition.
How do you woo the imps and goblins? You may plead your case in the comments field of your order. Time permitting, all entries will be published on the Black Phoenix Trading Post web site as they come in, unless you request otherwise. When making your order, please indicate whether you wish to remain anonymous. If you would like your name published, specify how you wish for it to appear.
Spin your narrative, from life or fantasy, and let Eros decide; or simply pick your poison, and indulge in love-dappled scents that will wrap you in the warmth of true love, inspire flirty dalliances, rouse raging passion, delve into the depths of madness, and evoke heartrending memories of love lost.
+ Ecstasy: Intoxication of the First Kiss
L’ESSENCE DE L’ENGOUEMENT
French vanilla, pink candies, strawberry sugar, and orange blossom.
L’EAU DE L’ENGOUEMENT
Pink strawberries, sugar cane, and candy floss.
+ The Radiant Glory of Love: Devotion, Understanding, and Unity
L’ESSENCE DE L’ARDEUR
Centifolia rose absolute, tea rose, bourbon vanilla, bittersweet chocolate, champaca resinoid, myrrh, nutmeg, pomegranate, and benzoin.
L’EAU DE L’ARDEUR
French vanilla, tea rose, champaca flower, and white chocolate.
+ The All-Consuming Flames of Passion
L’ESSENCE DE LA PASSION
Red musk, carnation, myrrh, and honey.
L’EAU DE LA PASSION
Carnation, orange blossom honey, myrrh, and neroli.
+ The Depths of Despair
L’ESSENCE DU CHAGRIN
White chypre, French lavender, rose geranium, opopponax, Peru balsam, bois de rose, lime, and vanilla absolute.
L’EAU DU CHAGRIN
French Lavender, rose geranium, white rose, vanilla orchid, benzoin, and carrot seed.
+ The Cacophony of Madness
L’ESSENCE DE LA FOLIE
Pink pepper, black pepper, clove, myrrh, dark chocolate, labdanum, and Daemonorops draco.
L’EAU DE LA FOLIE
Cacao, frankincense, gurjum balsam, red tea, vetiver, and myrrh.
L’essence du Cœur Libéré des Ténèbres Extrait
Sweet vanilla orchid, red sandalwood, and ylang ylang emerging from a dark shroud of fossilized amber, East Indian black patchouli, black pomegranate, guaiac wood, Peru balsam, and oudh.
For $46US, you will receive a full Inquisition set: a 4 oz. love-themed bath oil concocted by Black Phoenix Trading Post, a coordinating 5 ml Eros-touched perfume from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, and a small atomizer filled with extrait of L’essence du Cœur Libéré des Ténèbres. In order to receive L’essence du Cœur Libéré des Ténèbres, you must submit a story, poem, or piece of artwork to Black Phoenix Trading Post illustrating an aspect of love. You may order the perfume oils and bath oils individually, bypassing the Inquisition process, but you will not receive the extrait. L’essence du Cœur Libéré des Ténèbres is not sold separately. You may place an order for multiple sets, or place multiple orders; in either case, each plea will be considered separately in the course of the Inquest process. If you are placing an order for more than one set, you may submit multiple tales, applicable to each order. Please indicate which work of art pertains to which order.
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"Good-night, ladies; good-night, sweet ladies; good-night, good-night."
Sadly, Ophelia has said her good-nights, and, effective immediately, has been discontinued.
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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?
In our paean to all the mysteries surrounding this enigmatic number, there are thirteen lucky and unlucky components in this fragrance: cacao absolute, Holy basil, Jamaican ginger, High John the Conqueror root, lucky hand root, manzanilla, nutmeg, Queen of the Meadow, star anise, thyme, frankincense, Irish moss, and huckleberry leaf.
WATER DRAGON
A new year’s blessing! Peony, China’s national flower, with bamboo for flexibility, Buddha’s Hand for introspective spiritual growth, plum blossom for perseverance, courage, and hope, coconut for camaraderie, chrysanthemum for a life free of grief and struggle, tangerine and orchid for wealth, orange for happiness, lychee for household peace, pine resin for constancy, golden kumquat, pussy willow, and quince for prosperity, sesame for sweetness, narcissus and King mandarin for good fortune, and peach blossom for longevity, with a splash of blazing red of dragon’s blood… to help you scare away the rampaging Nian.
Love is in the air at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, and we’re celebrating the Season of Schtupping in myriad ways!
SMUT 2012
Three swarthy, smutty musks sweetened with sugar and woozy with dark booze notes.
WOMB FURIE 2012
In the middle of the flanks of women lies the womb, a female viscus, closely resembling an animal; for it is moved of itself hither and thither in the flanks, also upwards in a direct line to below the cartilage of the thorax and also obliquely to the right or to the left, either to the liver or spleen; and it likewise is subject to falling downwards, and, in a word, it is altogether erratic. It delights, also, in fragrant smells, and advances towards them; and it has an aversion to fetid smells, and flees from them; and on the whole the womb is like an animal within an animal.
– Aretaeus the Cappadocian
Oh, that wily womb! Hippocrates and his followers considered the womb a mobile creature, causing mayhem as it writhed its way through a woman’s body. Sometimes this ornery organ, due to lack of sexual activity, would create conflicts within a woman’s system or would become blocked itself, causing anxiety, nervousness, water retention, and sleeplessness. With the assistance of doctors, nursemaids, hand tools, or, occasionally, self-manipulation, this vexing condition could be alleviated through hysterical paroxysms.
Or, as we call it nowadays: orgasm.
An itch that needs to be scratched: Snake Oil and three types of honey.
And also – a celebration of the language of love:
+ LOVE POEMS
THE BALCONY
Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses,
O thou, my pleasure, thou, all my desire,
Thou shalt recall the beauty of caresses,
The charm of evenings by the gentle fire,
Mother of memories, mistress of mistresses!
The eves illumined by the burning coal,
The balcony where veiled rose-vapour clings—
How soft your breast was then, how sweet your soul!
Ah, and we said imperishable things,
Those eves illumined by the burning coal.
Lovely the suns were in those twilights warm,
And space profound, and strong life’s pulsing flood,
In bending o’er you, queen of every charm,
I thought I breathed the perfume in your blood.
The suns were beauteous in those twilights warm.
The film of night flowed round and over us,
And my eyes in the dark did your eyes meet;
I drank your breath, ah! sweet and poisonous,
And in my hands fraternal slept your feet—
Night, like a film, flowed round and over us.
I can recall those happy days forgot,
And see, with head bowed on your knees, my past.
Your languid beauties now would move me not
Did not your gentle heart and body cast
The old spell of those happy days forgot.
Can vows and perfumes, kisses infinite,
Be reborn from the gulf we cannot sound;
As rise to heaven suns once again made bright
After being plunged in deep seas and profound?
Ah, vows and perfumes, kisses infinite!
- Charles Baudelauire
Voluptuous darkness: Bourbon vetiver, red patchouli, honey, helichrysum, and black rose.
BODY, REMEMBER
Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds on which you lay,
but also those desires for you
that glowed plainly in the eyes,
and trembled in the voice–and some
chance obstacle made futile.
Now that all of them belong to the past,
it almost seems as if you had yielded
to those desires–how they glowed,
remember, in the eyes gazing at you;
how they trembled in the voice, for you, remember, body.
- Constantine Cavafy translated by Rae Dalven
Profoundly sensual. The echo of caresses: raw black coconut, ambergris accord, ambrette seed, champaca flower, and sugar cane.
THE DOOM OF BEAUTY
Choice soul, in whom, as in a glass, we see,
Mirrored in thy pure form and delicate,
What beauties heaven and nature can create,
The paragon of all their works to be!
Fair soul, in whom love, pity, piety,
Have found a home, as from thy outward state
We clearly read, and are so rare and great
That they adorn none other like to thee!
Love takes me captive; beauty binds my soul;
Pity and mercy with their gentle eyes
Wake in my heart a hope that cannot cheat.
What law, what destiny, what fell control,
What cruelty, or late or soon, denies
That death should spare perfection so complete?
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
An opulent, bittersweet Renaissance-inspired fragrance: Hungary water, parma violets, and roseated oil.
ELIZABETH of BOHEMIA
You meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes
More by your number than your light,
You common people of the skies;
What are you when the moon shall rise?
You curious chanters of the wood,
That warble forth Dame Nature’s lays,
Thinking your passions understood
By your weak accents; what’s your praise
When Philomel her voice shall raise?
You violets that first appear,
By your purple mantles known
Like the proud virgins of the year,
As if the spring were all your own;
What are you when the rose is blown?
So, when my mistress shall be seen
In form and beauty of her mind,
By virtue first, then choice, a Queen,
Tell me, if she were not design’d
Th’eclipse and glory of her kind?
- Sir Henry Wotton
Incomparable loveliness: the perfect rose oude.
THE FACE OF ALL THE WORLD IS CHANGED, I THINK
The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me, as they stole
Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink
Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink,
Was caught up into love, and taught the whole
Of life in a new rhythm. The cup of dole
God gave for baptism, I am fain to drink,
And praise its sweetness, Sweet, with thee anear.
The names of country, heaven, are changed away
For where thou art or shalt be, there or here;
And this …this lute and song…loved yesterday,
(The singing angels know) are only dear
Because thy name moves right in what they say.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Absinthe accord, opoponax, green cardamom, olibanum, honey, prickly juniper, and rockrose.
THE FIRST ENCOUNTER
She was only half-dressed
And equally bare trees tossed
Their few leaves against the window pane
Playfully and with reckless abandon.
Sprawling half naked in my desk chair,
Hands pressed modestly against her pale breasts,
She tapped small, delicate feet on the floor
Betraying sweet anticipation.
Her body was the colour of wax, and I watched
As an eager little ray of light
Fluttered across her laughing lips,
Across her peeking breast, like an insect on the rose-bush.
I knelt and kissed her little ankles.
She laughed softly and produced
A perfect string of clear trills,
A delightful crystal laugh.
Her delicate feet disappeared
Underneath her: “Stop! You’re so naughty!”
Yet the first act of daring permitted,
She pretended to punish me only with a laugh!
I rose and kissed her eyelids softly.
They trembled beneath my lips, poor things:
And she tossed her head back, eyes shining…
“You’re not trying to take advantage of me…are you?
“If you are, darling, you know I’ll have to–”
But I silenced the protest, dipping my mouth to her breast,
Which caused an explosion of ringing laughter
And she opened herself willingly…
She was only half-dressed
And equally bare trees tossed
Their few leaves against the window pane
Playfully and with reckless abandon.
- Arthur Rimbaud
Candied apricot and orange blossom honey with grandiflorum jasmine, orris C02, tonka, patchouli, quince, and skin musk.
LIAISON
A big bud of moon hangs out of the twilight,
Star-spiders spinning their thread
Hang high suspended, withouten respite
Watching us overhead.
Come then under the trees, where the leaf-cloths
Curtain us in so dark
That here we’re safe from even the ermin-moth’s
Flitting remark.
Here in this swarthy, secret tent,
Where black boughs flap the ground,
You shall draw the thorn from my discontent,
Surgeon me sound.
This rare, rich night! For in here
Under the yew-tree tent
The darkness is loveliest where I could sear
You like frankincense into scent.
Here not even the stars can spy us,
Not even the white moths write
With their little pale signs on the wall, to try us
And set us affright.
Kiss but then the dust from off my lips,
But draw the turgid pain
From my breast to your bosom, eclipse
My soul again.
Waste me not, I beg you, waste
Not the inner night:
Taste, oh taste and let me taste
The core of delight.
- DH Lawrence
The loveliest darkness, the core of delight: Moroccan black musk, white tea leaf, Indonesian black sandalwood, frankincense, honeycomb, jonquil, and clove.
MY SWEEETEST LESBIA
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love,
And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,
Let us not weigh them. Heaven’s great lamps do dive
Into their west, and straight again revive.
But, soon as once set our little light,
Then must we sleep one ever-during night.
If all would lead their lives in love like me,
Then bloody swords and armor should not be;
No drum or trumpet peaceful sleeps should move,
Unless alarm came from the camp of Love:
But fools do live and waste their little light,
And seek with pain their ever-during night.
When timely death my life and fortune ends,
Let not my hearse be vext with mourning friends,
But let all lovers rich in triumph come
And with sweet pastimes grace my happy tomb:
And, Lesbia, close up thou my little light,
And crown with love my ever-during night.
- Caius Valerius Catullus
Osmanthus, hay absolute, ambergris accord, catnip, and Egyptian musk.
ON THE DEATH OF HIS MISTRESS
Dost thou wonder that I flew
Charm’d to meet my Leila’s view?
Dost thou wonder that I hung
Raptur’d on my Leila’s tongue?—
If her ghost’s funereal screech
Thro’ the earth my grave should reach,
On that voice I lov’d so well
My transported ghost would dwell:
If in death I can descry
Where my Leila’s relics lie,
Saher’s dust will flit away,
There to join his Leila’s clay.
- Abu Sahet Alhedhily
Plum musk, ambergris accord, matcha tea, oakmoss, patchouli, violet leaf, and cypress.
THE ROSE IN THE DEEPS OF HIS HEART
All things uncomely and broken,
all things worn-out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway,
the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman,
splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms
a rose in the deeps of my heart.
The wrong of unshapely things
is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew
and sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water,
remade, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms
a rose in the deeps of my heart.
- William Butler Yeats
Golden amber, red rose, frankincense, Egyptian musk, galbanum, and immortelle.
THE SORROW OF LOVE
The quarrel of the sparrow in the eaves,
The full round moon and the star-laden sky,
And the loud song of the ever-singing leaves,
Had hid away earth’s old and weary cry.
And then you came with those red mournful lips,
And with you came the whole of the world’s tears,
And all the sorrows of her labouring ships,
And all the burden of her myriad years.
And now the sparrows warring in the eaves,
The curd-pale moon, the white stars in the sky,
And the loud chaunting of the unquiet leaves,
Are shaken with earth’s old and weary cry.
- William Butler Yeats
Stargazer lily, white musk, white gardenia, white rose, stephanotis, delphinium, orris root, white sandalwood, bergamot, and magnolia.
THE VINE
I dream’d this mortal part of mine
Was Metamorphoz’d to a Vine;
Which crawling one and every way
Enthralled my dainty Lucia.
Me thought, her long small legs & thighs
I with my Tendrils did surprize;
Her Belly, Buttocks, and her Waste
By my soft Nerv’lits were embrac’d:
About her head I writhing hung,
And with rich clusters (hid among
The leaves) her temples I behung:
So that my Lucia seem’d to me
Young Bacchus ravisht by his tree.
My curles about her neck did craule,
And armes and hands they did enthrall:
So that she could not freely stir,
(All parts there made one prisoner.)
But when I crept with leaves to hide
Those parts, which maids keep unespy’d,
Such fleeting pleasures there I took,
That with the fancie I awook;
And found (Ah me!) this flesh of mine
More like a Stock, than like a Vine.
- Robert Herrick
Bradford pear, honey, and vanilla cream.
And finally, the porn.
Black Phoenix Trading Post‘s Lupercalia update will be live early next week. Keep your eyes peeled!
Coming soon to Dark Delicacies: Pink Lace and Mourning Lace! They will be available in store and at www.darkdel.com in early February.
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As part of today's very special West Coast Will Call event, Ysanne Spevack (@ilovestrings) will be playing a free acoustic concert, to celebrate the successful launch of her Kickstarter campaign and BPAL collaboration.
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BLACKBEAR MOON
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her
And draws it down as if it were a lover
And its chokecherries lips to kiss good-by,
Then lets it snap back upright in the sky.
Her next step rocks a boulder on the wall
(She’s making her cross-country in the fall).
Her great weight creaks the barbed wire in its staples
As she flings over and off down through the maples,
Leaving on one wire tooth a lock of hair.
Such is the uncaged progress of the bear.
The world has room to make a bear feel free;
The universe seems cramped to you and me.
In February, black bears give birth to their cubs, nurturing and protecting them as the snow melts, the days grow warmer, and winter gives way to spring. Hazelnuts, acorns, black cherries, wild winter berries, and warm black fur dusted by moonlight, honey, and pine needles.
Blackbear Moon is available for a limited time.
The Blackbear Moon T-shirt from Black Phoenix Trading Post features art by Julie Dillon.
Lupercalia will be here next week, alongside a new 13.
Visitors to our upcoming lunacy events will have a chance to test out many of the upcoming Lupercalia scents, as well as a few upcoming suprises!
Where/When:
West Coast Will Call at
Dark Delicacies
3512 W. Magnolia Ave
Burbank, CA 91505
Sunday, January 8th, 4:00 to 7:00pm
Seattle Will Call at
knows perfume
4536 California Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98116
Saturday, January 14th, 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, January 15th, 3:00 to 6:00pm
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The west coast will call event will be held on Sunday, January 8th 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, January 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 Old Moon update. This includes the Yules and Anniversary scents 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, January 8th, 4:00 to 7:00pm
Seattle Will Call at
knows perfume
4536 California Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98116
TBD
New England Will Call at
Healthy Living Market (inside the Learning Center)
222 Dorset Street,
South Burlington, VT, 05403
Sunday, January 15th, 3:00 to 6:00pm
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Senelion and the Champagne scents are now available on the BPAL etsy.
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Due to a component issue, we will be unable to ship out any more Wiley Grasser. Pending orders containing that scent will be contacted and offered a refund or exchange.
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BPAL has added 5 bottles of the Last Unicorn event exclusive scent, Touched Twice, to the auction for author Terri Windling. If you missed out on owning this, you now have a second chance!
http://magick4terri.livejournal.com/121783.html
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.
From the Magick 4 Terri page:
Beloved editor, artist and writer Terri Windling is in need, and we are asking for your help in a fundraising auction to assist her. This auction will combine donations from professionals and fans in an online sale to help Terri through a serious financial crisis. Terri is the creator of groundbreaking fantasy and mythic art and literature over the past several decades, ranging from the influential urban fantasy series Bordertown to the online Journal of Mythic Arts. With co-editor Ellen Datlow, she changed the face of contemporary short fiction with The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and other award-winning anthologies, including Silver Birch, Blood Moon, and The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest. Her remarkable Endicott Studio blog continues to bring music, poetry, art and inspiration to people all over the world.
Terri Windling and her family have been coping with health and legal issues that have drained her financial resources at a critical time. Due to the serious nature of these issues, and privacy concerns for individual family members, we can’t be more specific than that, but Terri is in need of our support. As a friend, a colleague and an inspiration, Terri has touched many, many lives over the years. She has been supremely generous in donating her own work and art to support friends and colleagues in crisis. Now, Terri is in need of some serious help from her community. Who better than her colleagues and fans to rise up to make some magick for her?
That’s where we come in. Until December 15th, we’ll be bringing you auctions (and vice-versa!) of art, books, collectibles, music, and more amazing offers from the awesome fantasy art and literature communities. Please see the About Us page for FAQs on Terri, the auction process, and how you can get involved! Finally, stop by HQ Headquarters to meet your wacky staff. We got cookies!
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Available tomorrow, only at West Coast Will Call:
SENELION
Against a velvet black sky hangs a blood red moon and a dusky midnight sun: Nepalese amber, twin red musks, Indian black vegetal musk, lotus root, star anise, orris C02, Himalayan cedar, hops, mallow, Roman chamomile, and zdravetz.
SANGRIA CHAMPAGNE
MANGO LYCHEE CHAMPAGNE
PEACH CHAMPAGNE
BLOOD & CHAMPAGNE
TWILIGHT ALCHEMY LAB: YULE
Twilight Alchemy Lab’s Yule Oil contains essential oils, absolutes, and CO2 extracts that are organically-grown and pesticide-free, and many of the oils’ components are first distillations from small farms. This oil includes fir needle essential oil, steam-distilled North African myrrh, Austrian pine needle essential oil, wild crafted steam-distilled bay leaves, Ceylon cinnamon, steam-distilled black spruce, bayberry, apple leaf, Roman chamomile, and C02 extract of hazel bark. This oil was charged under tremendously auspicious circumstances during a complete lunar cycle, and was created utilizing the specific astrological aspects that will be active at Midwinter 2011.
All of our products are created using the finest quality herbs, resins, oils, absolutes, and compounds. They contain no filler and no synthetic materials.
Please note: this is not BPAL’s Yule blend.
The BPAL exclusives are $20 each; TAL’s YULE is $27.50.
Many, many thanks to everyone that came to BPAL’s November will call with food donations for the Burbank Temporary Aid Center! At December’s will call, we will be hosting our annual toy drive. In addition, proceeds from sales of Sangria Champagne, Mango Lychee Champagne, Peach Champagne, Blood & Champagne, and Senelion – a scent created to celebrate Saturday’s Lunar eclipse – will go to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Black Phoenix Trading Post will match our donation. These scents are available while supplies last, and if any remain, they will go onto the BPAL etsy site. Twilight Alchemy Lab’s Yule blend will also be available at tomorrow’s West Coast Will Call.
According to the US Census Bureau’s figures, there in excess of 46 million Americans in poverty, and as of November of 2010, fifteen percent of US households are food insecure. If you have the means, please consider donating to / volunteering with your local food bank.
West Coast Will Call and Yule Event at
Dark Delicacies
3512 W. Magnolia Ave
Burbank, CA 91505
Saturday, December 10th, 4:00 to 7:00pm
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Old Moon is waxing at Black Phoenix Alchemy Laband Black Phoenix Trading Post!
OLD MOON
The scent of things drifting just on the edge of memory, hiding in shadowed corners. Old, yellowing books, dust-covered toys pushed to the back of the attic, windows obscured by thick, thorny vines, letters discarded, and photographs of people long-forgotten.
Art by the laudable Julie Dillon!
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The west coast will call event will be held on Saturday, December 10th 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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Seattle Will Call will be held on Saturday, December 10th from 6 to 9pm at Knows Perfume.
knows perfume
4536 California Ave., SW
Seattle, WA 98116
(206) 397-3141
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New England Will Call will be held at Healthy Living Market on Sunday, December 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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All three Will Call locations will be holding a toy drive. Everyone who brings a toy ($10 value or higher, please) will receive a 5ml of Hot Buttered Rum (while supplies last.) Limit one bottle per customer.
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 Beaver Moon update. This includes the Halloweenies! 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, December 10th, 4:00 to 7:00pm
Seattle Will Call at
knows perfume
4536 California Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98116
Saturday, December 10th, 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, December 11th, 3:00 to 6:00pm
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s cutoff dates for Christmas shipping are as follows:
Domestic: December 10, 6pm pacific standard time (aka lab time)
International: December 7, 6pm pacific standard time (aka lab time)
Orders placed for the upcoming lunacy will NOT arrive in time for Christmas. If you are ordering the upcoming lunacy scent along with Yules, be advised that they will not arrive in time for Christmas giving.
Please do not wait until the last minute to place your orders. We will do everything we can to get every order placed by these dates out in time for Christmas Eve delivery, but we cannot make any guarantees.
Black Phoenix Trading Post will be announcing their cutoff dates separately.
Thanks everyone, and happy holidays!
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The goblins are decking the Trading Post Halls; the Yuletide season has begun!
++ BPTP: Krampus Tee Shirt
Commemorating Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s Yuletide season! Artwork by the phenomenal Julie Dillon. Coal black and snow white ink on red tee.
++ BPTP: Yuletide Atmosphere Sprays
KONDITOREI
Apple strudel, candied fruits, iced tarts, marzipan, Turkish coffee, and hot chocolate.
WINTER WIND
Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
That does not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As a friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Snow, sleet, and biting wind with a touch of holly leaf and winter mint.
GOOD CHEER
Roasted chestnuts and candied figs.
SCROOGE’S APARTMENTS
They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it: dust and darkness, a spoonful of gruel, and a low fire burning in the grate.
THE STORYTELLER’S PARLOR
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
A soft leather armchair, pipesmoke, crackling firewood, and a snifter of brandy.
++ BPTP: Yuletide Soaps
CHOCOLATE ESPRESSO GINGERBREAD
Dark molasses, espresso beans, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and brown sugar with rum-infused espresso frosting.
EGG NOG
Sweet brandy, dark rum, heavy cream, sugar, and a dash of nutmeg.
SUGAR COOKIE
Sugar cookies dusted with confectioner’s sugar.
SUGAR PLUM FAIRY
Queen of the Kingdom of Sweets: sugar plums, vanilla-infused sugar, tiare, amber musk, apricot peel, and a light dusting of cacao.
++ BPTP: Yuletide Bath Oils
EGG NOG
Sweet brandy, dark rum, heavy cream, sugar, and a dash of nutmeg.
GINGERBREAD POPPET
Warm, cozy gingerbread spiced with nutmeg, clove and cinnamon.
HOCKEY URCHIN
A warming, ache and pain relieving, muscle relaxing bath: red ginger with patchouli, chamomile, honey, allspice, and nutmeg, sprinkled with Epsom salts.
ICE PRINCESS
Iced blackberries, blackcurrant honey, frozen white peach, and sweet vanilla cream.
SILENT FOREST
Snow-draped pine, cedar, and fir, with juniper, mountain sage, and wild thyme.
WINTER FAIRY
Honey, lotus root, orris root, white jasmine, and winter berries.
++ BPTP: Yuletide Scents
Three Christmas Puddins!
BLACK CHERRY AMARETTO CHRISTMAS PUDDIN’
Sweet Christmas pudding with black cherries soaked in vanilla-drizzled amaretto.
FIGGY PUDDIN’
Calymyrna figs, dark rum, cognac, raisins, cinnamon, ginger, brown sugar, and clove.
PLUM PUDDIN’
Sultana raisins, red currants, candied orange peel, allspice, clove, nutmeg, sherry, and cognac.
And two stockings filled with imps.
STOCKING FULL OF IMPS I
Amaretto Macaroon
Blueberry Peppermint
Red Velvet Truffle
STOCKING FULL OF IMPS II
Honey Gingerbread
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookie
Snowy Rum Ball
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Sorry for the bad new right before the holidays, but effective immediately, Black Opal has been discontinued.
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Do they have wand caps? We do prototype labels for two different things, Will Call testers and scent that we send out for approval. Since those are Yules and wouldn't have needed to be approved by anyone, I am guessing those are Will Call testers.
Pink Moon is Live!
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Pink Moon is live at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Black Phoenix Trading Post!
PINK MOON
The name of this moon refers to the color of wild ground phlox, a primary component of this Lunacy Blend, which is one of the most widespread floral signposts of springtime in North America. This Lunar blend is soft with phlox, tulip, daffodil, pink columbine, delphinium, pink carnation, peony, and muscari, dusted with pink sugar and honey, bourbon vanilla, a hint of white chocolate, and a touch of the first strawberries of the season.
Artwork by Julie Dillon!
As a preview for the upcoming addition to Somnium, we present the compass points of Sidney Sime's map of the Land of Dreams.
++ THE LAND OF DREAMS: COMPASS POINTS
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand—
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep—while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
WAKE
Pink grapefruit, peppermint, orange blossom, bitter orange, juniper berry, cumin, tuberose, and lemon balm.
SLEEP
Lavender with tobacco, zdravetz, Haitian vetiver, and blue lotus absolute.
DREAM
White rose, lavender, kush accord, oudh, opium poppy, white musk, and shamama attar.
NIGHTMARE
Black currant, black orchid, lavender, black dammar, myrrh, oakmoss, champaca flower, and mandrake root.