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A milky moon rises over our brand new website! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/milk-moon-may-2026? Please note that the arrival of Milk Moon Lunacy means that on May 15th, we'll be discontinuing Coyote Moon and all previous Lunacy items (Beaver, Wolf, Terrible, The Prophet 2025) as well as Halloween 2025. Here's everything included in this launch: ++ A LITTLE LUNACY ✤ MILK MOON Folk horror, but make it breakfast cereal: dehydrated pumpkin marshmallows and blackened cocoa corn puffs in sugared milk. Art by Drew Rausch! 5ml perfume oil Duets: ✤ SPICED RUM & DARK CHOCOLATE ✤ MATCHA & PUMPKIN RIND ✤ PUMPKIN SPICE & CONDENSED MILK ✤ MILK & WHITE MUSK 4oz lotion Duet: ✤ GOLDEN GRAINS & ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY 4oz hair gloss Duet: ✤ MILK MOON: CACAO & CREAMY INCENSE ✤ MILK MOON Nail Polish The luminous, lactescent glow of moonlight poured through sea glass and pulverized quartz like starlight caught in cream. All of our nail polish is hand crafted by Haute Macabre! 10-free, cruelty-free, and vegan! Butyl Acetate, Ethyl Acetate, Nitrocellulose, Acetyl Tributyl Citrate, Adipic Acic/Neopentyl Glycol/Trimellitic Anhydride Copolymer, Isopropyl Alcohol, Stearalkonium Bentionite, Acrylates Copolymer, Silica, Benzophenone-1, N-Butyl Alcohol, Diacetone Alcohol, Trimethylpentandeiyl Dibenzoate, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Tin Oxide, Fluorphlogopite ✤ MILK MOON Sticker A 3” x 3” high-quality die-cut vinyl sticker for sticking on all stickable things. Art by Drew Rausch! ++ ARS ANNI: COME, YE RAINS, THEN IF YE WILL There is May in books forever; May will part from Spenser never; May's in Milton, May's in Prior, May's in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer; May's in all the Italian books:— She has old and modern nooks, Where she sleeps with nymphs and elves, In happy places they call shelves, And will rise and dress your rooms With a drapery thick with blooms. Come, ye rains, then if ye will, May's at home, and with me still; But come rather, thou, good weather, And find us in the fields together. –James Henry Leigh Hunt ✤ CHIMÈRES Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret Scarlet velvet, Byzantine amber, smoked Bulgarian rose absolute, and frankincense resin. ✤ PARIS BEING ADMITTED TO THE BEDCHAMBER OF HELEN Jacob de Backer Creamy, narcotic tuberose, a flutter of pink silk, and blushing sweet pea warmed by honeyed skin musk. ++ TWILIGHT ALCHEMY LAB Each month in 2026, we will be offering a condition oil from our sister shop, Twilight Alchemy Lab, that is relevant to the thematic weather. While these oils can be used as perfumes, they are intended for ritual use. Please note: these oils may contain plant materia, resins, and other floaty bits. ✤ WORTCUNNING An oil for cultivating plant knowledge, green witchery, and deepening relationships with and understanding of plant materia. This oil sharpens plant communication, deepens your relationships with the green ones in your care, and to honor the long lineage of people who passed this knowledge forward through dark centuries so that it could arrive in your hands. Anoint your hands before harvesting, wear it when you study your materia medica, anoint your ritual tools when communicating with earth spirits. Contains: frankincense, hyssop, mitti attar, clary sage, milky oats, comfrey, oakmoss, patchouli, and hay absolute. ++ AT THE ROOT Over time the word “radical” has been turned into a political swear word that signifies dangerous levels of extremism, and its etymology hints at why: the word borrows from Latin’s radic- or radix, meaning “root.” So when someone is accused of involvement in “radical politics”, on the face of it this means their goal is transforming society from the ground up, shaking loose all that is deeply and wrongly entrenched so that something else may grow in its place. Not everyone has the stomach for such upheaval, or the heart to understand why it is needed, or faith in whatever comes after. And not all radicals are good, or wish good for all. But radicalism is not, by definition, a destructive ideology; every garden has areas that must be weeded, pruned, and repurposed in order to be fruitful, according to the season and the gardener’s design. This year we’re reclaiming the original, literal spirit of radicalism with a monthly limited edition perfume release that will raise funds for organizations which are defending basic human rights – a mission that should not seem “radical,” but… well, here we are. And of course, the scents themselves will incorporate essences from the rootiest components we have on hand, to produce a series of grounding and inspiring perfume oils lending stability to thought, clarity to purpose, and stubbornness to cause. ✤ ROSE ROOT Roses have been woven into magic and folklore for thousands of years, and this oil reaches past the lovely sweetness of petal and hip. In addition to the rose’s association with love and romance, the rose's spiritual depths encompass blood, rebirth, resurrection, and immortality. The root carries all of this in concentrated silence: love that is not fragile, love that has come back from the frost, love that grew itself back from the cold, shadowed death of winter. The rose is an emblem of Venus, deeply associated with love, passion, and friendship across cultures, but she is also sacred to Aphrodite, Isis, Hekate, Inanna, Ishtar — goddesses of the underworld as much as the bloom. She lives at the crossroads of beauty and power, and her thorns and roots have always been part of its power. An earthy, patchouli-touched rose oil with a hint of oakmoss and vetiver. Proceeds from this 5ml perfume oil will be donated to Juntos, a “community-led, Latine immigrant organization in South Philadelphia fighting for our human rights as workers, parents, youth, and immigrants.”

The day we have long awaited is here: our migration of the entire BPAL library over to a more user-friendly platform that is both easier to navigate and easier for us to maintain. It may be days or even weeks before the "new" site (same URL!) has all the features we're trying to implement. ✤ BPAL's "General Catalog" has been renamed! It is now the Eternal Collection. And to celebrate this occasion, we've added some fragrances to it! Would you like us to tell you what they are, or hunt for them yourself? 🙃 ✤ Logins from the old site don't work anymore; you will have to make a new account. ✤ We will be re-issuing all store credits & gift cards. These will be sent to the email address that it was issued to on the old site. Please give us a bit of a grace period before contacting customer service, there are a lot to get through & we have to process them all individually. We'll keep editing this post to add more bullet points as updates and important clarifications arise. In the meantime please pardon our dust!

Greetings! Happy to inform you that Flower Moon Lunacy has taken flight, and it's dragging our 4/20 launch along behind it like a kite tail. For the sake of convenience (mine and yours) here's the whole kit and caboodle swirled together in one ungodly link: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/april-2026-lunacy/ For those in the Twin Cities, please note that the 4/20 blends can be sampled and sold in person on the high holy day itself at Clown Glass on Lyndale, from 12-6pm. That's right, we've been invited as a guest in their 4/20 festivities which will continue all the way until later that evening, but due to a previous engagement I'll be bugging out right at 6. All these new enticements will also be at our next Odd Mart Lunacy popup on May 2nd, 12-3pm.

We've crafted two new scents for Century Guild, as rewards for supporting their latest book Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/binding-the-devil-vintage-witchcraft-occult-1960s-1970s-art?ref=creator_tab ✤ BINDING THE DEVIL A psychedelic evocation: electric lime rind and green tea absolute explode, sharp and strange, into a heart of violet-tinged wild plum while poppy smoke and ancient amber twist through black cherry incense, infernal red musk, and sugared nag champa. ✤ MEPHISTO WALZ Lightly-honeyed skin musk bathed in pale incense smoke, a dusting of ritual chalk, black fig, clove bud, ambrette seed, and tobacco flower.

We've been seeing news reports about how the current ube trend that's sweeping America is causing big problems for farmers in the Philippines. Terrible! I figured it might be worth mentioning that Beth's ube accord, which has been popping up in more scents over the past years, is NOT derived from actual ube, and is therefore safe and ethical for you to enjoy. Or not enjoy! But fortunately we're not contributing to this particular issue. While researching our post about this, I compiled the following list of current ube scents, which I may as well share here also: ✤ ARAW NG MGA PATAY (Halloween 2025) A cheerful, raucous celebration of life and death: bouquets overflowing with gerbera daisies, waling waling, sampaguita, ylang ylang, hibiscus, night-blooming dama de noche, santan, and everlasting flower with piles upon piles of bibingka, ube halaya, rice muffins, champorado, purple yam cake, and turon, and plates of gooey kalabasa leche flan. ✤ LAVENDER UBE MOCHI DONUT (Yule 2025) A chewy delight made from a blend of rice flour and purple yam, fried in lavender-infused oil and dusted with granulated sugar. ✤ LILAC-DRAPED VULVA (Shunga 2026) Lilac-soaked amber cream, orris root, blue lotus absolute, white sandalwood, and purple yam. ✤ NANGGIGIGIL AKO SAYO (Lupercalia 2026 A scent for all of us who have been exploded by someone else’s cuteness: ube candyfloss and rice paper-wrapped red bean custard candy. ✤ TRIUMPH IN VERMILLION SILK (Shunga 2026) Scarlet silk, sweetened rice milk, ube, peony petals, candied ginger, persimmon, red dates, red carnation, lavender, and red amber. ✤ UBE PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE (Halloween 2025) Piles of ube pumpkin cheesecake batter blorped into a brown sugar graham cracker crust. ✤ WATER BEARER (Shunga 2026) French lavender, Thai coconut, cherimoya, and ube.

Good news: BPAL will have a presence at this year's Midsummer Scream convention, which will be held in Long Beach from August 7-9. Chrissy will be there with the same setup she's been bringing to other local events over the past year. Tickets available here: https://midsummerscream.org Worth mentioning that our Lunacy bestie Drew Rausch will also have a booth, selling spooky arts and other merchandise, and will be very happy to see BPAL folks.

All compiled here in one place: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/march-2026-lunacy/ March's iteration of 13 comes with a free imp of FORSAKEN ELEPHANT PUPPET: well-loved gray cotton, clover honey, kettle corn, and soft white amber.

At long last, Lupers are LIVE! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lupercalia-2026/ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/novel-ideas-for-secret-amusements-bpals-ode-to-shunga-2026/ We'd previously announced a site overhaul early in the new year. That's still underway, which means we're experiencing some temporary irregularities in the meantime. Thank you so much for rolling with these punches, it's very challenging to launch a major release at the same time that we're pulling our shop up by the roots. I'll let you know when there are more concrete details to share about that! Now that Lupercalia's live, the countdown is officially set on Halloween: those products will vanish following May's Lunacy. So there's still a good bit of time left to agonize, sample, layer, compare, and grab whatever you need.

Hark! Another Lunacy has landed, coinciding with our traditional 13 release. Here's everything included in today's launch: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/february-2026-friday-the-13th/ • COYOTE MOON and friends: Duets, hair gloss, lotion • 13, which comes with the first of three Friday the 13th frimps in 2026, SNOWY CIRCUS PEANUT • Last fall's LONDON FOG CREAM PIE has been added to our World Central Kitchen fundraiser series "Nourishment Wherever Needed" • Wuthering Heights has expanded to include a NELLY'S TALE Atmosphere Spray, HEATHCLIFF Beard Oil, and CATHERINE Hair Gloss • Two new Ars Anni classical painting scents • The next installment of 2026's monthly fundraiser series "At The Root" is ANGELICA ROOT, benefiting https://www.vamosjuntos.org

I'm teasing this now so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle this Friday! As most probably figured, we'll be dropping the Coyote Moon Lunacy, 13, and the rest of our Wuthering Heights series all at once... and THEN on to Lupers. Since there are THREE 13s slated for 2026, we've decided to build a little charm bracelet for all you 13 collectors: a bonus frimp for each release, inspired by various lucky omens and signs we've observed in our real life wanderings. The first one is SNOWY CIRCUS PEANUT. Who will end up with all three?

Thrilled to announce that we've partnered with The British Library on a series of fragrances inspired by Wuthering Heights, drawing from artwork and other material in their archive. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/wuthering-heights/ Launching with perfume oils to start with! And more coming soon...

Once again, we're closing down the site in solidarity with nationwide efforts to demand that I.C.E. get out of US cities (I mean, the list of demands is pretty long at this point, but that's the most recent impetus!) 9am - 5pm our website will be in maintenance mode. Last time we did this, it forced everyone to reset their password afterward in order to log into their accounts We're hoping to avoid that this time! Also, this seems like a worthy opportunity to remind everyone that we're working up to a major website relaunch. When the new site arrives, your transaction history and any reviews left on the main site will be evaporated. Poof! If that info is important to you, please slay your procrastination demons and gather that info ASAP. Thanks, one and all!

Gang, it's Saturday night and I'm feeling a little loony. So here's your TERRIBLE MOON and friends, your Fire Horse, and a new fundraiser series called At The Root, which we'll be continuing throughout all of 2026: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/january-2026-lunacy/

Hi everyone, sharing this post from our social media: In solidarity with workers and people in Minnesota and all across the country who are participating in the strike, we’ll be closing our site down for maintenance on Friday, January 23rd, 9am-5pm Eastern time. Via https://www.iceoutnowmn.com: “Friday, January 23rd will be a statewide day of non-violent moral action, reflection: no work, no school, no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.“ There are so many ways for onlookers to participate, support, or otherwise stand in solidarity with those existing under federal occupation in MN. Please contact your reps and demand that they vote to defund ICE by opposing any DHS appropriations bill that maintains funding for this agency. 5calls has a terrific script: https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/

In Philly this weekend? On Saturday, Haute Macabre will be part of a spooky sleepover-themed evening event at Endless Night Studio in Philly, from 6-9pm. Event info is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTakvKSlb0A/?igsh=Y2ZyZDJtbHR2amU1 That evening a new scent will be debuted, available at the event for $34: LIGHT AS A FEATHER, STIFF AS A BOARD This is the breathless euphoria of being lifted by unseen hands, friendship blurring into invocation, play into wild belief. The body is still, heartbeats thrum and murmur, the spirit floats. Something listens. This is a fragrance of surrendering gravity and trusting the darkness. It opens like a breath held too long, cool and smoky, trembling with anticipation. Pale, translucent florals drift upward, buoyant and unreal, while incense draws you back just enough to feel the disorienting pull between here and elsewhere. The base settles into dry wood and shadowed resins, like the floor beneath your back, solid, unyielding, waiting.