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The cat's outta the bag! Haute Macabre has debuted BPAL's foray into a whole new product category: scented hand & body lotion. Our opening act is GARNET, rich with 13-year aged red patchouli, Damascus rose resin tar, blackcurrant syrup, Egyptian myrrh, and crimson musk seed. Ingredients: Water, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Stearic Acid, Emulsifying Wax, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Optiphen Plus, and Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab perfume blends. More will be on the way!

Frogtastic news: our FROG MOON Lunacy is live, and it looks like some additional critters came along for the ride! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/april-2025/ In addition to the customary Duets, Ars Anni classical art scents, The Prophet fundraiser scents, and TAL oil, you'll also find a smattering of perfume oils launched in anticipation of 4/20... and also, the stoneware coffee mugs which we debuted at conventions last year! 😱 Spring has fully sproinged with this launch, and if my own packages arrive in time, Galen and I will have all of these new things (minus the mugs) at Odd Mart in Minneapolis this weekend for you to sample and/or purchase. https://glorpgum.com/pages/odd-mart

Sorry to only be sharing this here now! On Easter Sunday (which falls on 4/20 this year, lollll) Galen and will be hazarding our first retail outing in Minneapolis. We've been invited to helm a table at Odd Mart's marketplace event. We'll have the soon-to-be-released 420 perfume oils on hand, as well as other fun surprises! This is by no means a proper Lunacy event, but will help us build up hosting one (likely at Odd Mart) sometime soon. We've made a FB page for Twin Cities-based BPAL events, which you can follow if you wanna keep tabs on these events. Hope to see some of you, and/or any friends you send our way! https://glorpgum.com/pages/odd-mart The teased scents will also be available on BPAL's site as part of the upcoming Frog Moon Lunacy launch: 💚 REVENANT RHYTHM A tousled, sexy mix of patchouli, vanilla, and hemp. Label artwork by José Guadalupe Posada (1852 - 1913) 💚 FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing. Wasn’t that a dainty dish To set before the king? A delicacy to be puffed and then passed, dainty as you please: rye puff pastry crust splitting apart to reveal a cacophony of musky wild blackberries stewed in kush-infused butter. 💚 STONED BUNNY BLOW MOLD Looks like someone’s been nibbling a bit too much grass! A sun-faded, plasticky shell of rice milk and marshmallow, illuminated from within by 420 watts of weed-wafted glowing green amber.

We're back on track, babies! The new BONEY MOON and DEATH MOON Double Lunacy launch have got us all caught up with full moon stuffs. Behold! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/march-2025-double-lunacy/ Please note that we've added a free item that anyone can add to their order: Immigrant Rights "Red Cards" (ours are white) with info provided by the Immigrants Rights Resource Center. These are available in a variety of languages -- English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese -- and you may select the language and quantity from the drop-down window on the product listing. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/limited-edition/propaganda/immigrant-rights-cards/ And hey, the fact that we're launching two Lunacies means that two Lunacies must also *come down*. So consider this your one-week warning for Beaver Moon and Cold Moon. That includes the Black Moon Rising release and the New Year's Creepers & Oddments mini-series! That's it for now -- thank you for waiting so patiently while we got our collective shit together.

A new collaboration from BPAL & Haute Macabre celebrating the rebirth of spring, when life breaks through the ground and the light shines longer. https://hautemacabre.com/collections/apothecary/products/persephones-ascent-by-black-phoenix-alchemy-lab PERSEPHONE'S ASCENT A glorious blend honoring the benevolence of the season : sandalwood-infused vanilla, vines of pale spring blossoms, honeysuckle nectar, and sweet cream.

Century Guild is publishing a new book exploring witchcraft and the occult through vintage paperback cover art, so you know we just HAD to get on board with that! Two new scents available exclusively via their Kickstarter rewards: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/spell-bound-vintage-witchcraft-occult-hardcover-art-book?ref=profile_created&category_id=45 SENSUOUS WITCH Gliding through the velvet hush of midnight, she moves — barefoot on cool stone, wrapped in a whisper of clove-scented silk. A flicker of candlelight catches the curve of her throat, the glint in her half-lidded eyes. Dark florals, bruised and beckoning — black orchid, scarlet poppy, and moonlit tuberose — whisper their secrets against the heat of her skin. A breath of smoked vanilla curls like an incantation, weaving through ribbons of amber resin and spiced honey. Beneath it all, the slow, insistent pull of patchouli and oud, ancient and aching. This is the art of longing, the alchemy of desire. AGE OF AQUARIUS Ink-dark skies ripple with stardust and prophecy, and the air hums with the scent of revolution: smoked myrrh and velvet incense glittering with ti leaf and Italian bergamot.

If you are reading this, that means Galen and I must actually be moving to Minneapolis in March. Can this be real? How on earth did this happen? Those, reader, are questions to be answered another time. We're gonna run with the assumption that this IS real, since we've already signed a lease and are very busy packing up our apartment in L.A. Among the many WONDERFUL things that will become possible as a result of this move, we're setting our sights on organizing Lunacy events in the Twin Cities once we get settled. I've even got a space that wants to host us! I will definitely announce these meetup opportunities here in the Forum, but I've also made a Page for them on Facebook, akin to Courtney's for the Vermont Lunacy events. Whatever helps folks keep tabs on us! So if ya want, please Like and Follow this page to be notified of any activity over there, even as a distant lurker: https://www.facebook.com/BPAL.MPLS Very much looking forward to the excitement of meeting new people in a new city! TB

After a fair amount of cosmic struggle, we have launched our Lupers: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lupercalia-2025/ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/novel-ideas-for-secret-amusements-2025/ Here, too, is a trio of scents celebrating the 100th birthday of Edward Gorey. This is the beginning of BPAL's new ongoing collaboration with The Edward Gorey House! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/the-edward-gorey-house/ Thanks for keeping the faith, friends -- and thanks in advance for helping us inform other aspiring Lupercalians that we just made their scent dreams (and a few nightmares) come true.

One, two, three, Haute Macabre perfume oils restocked, muah ha ha! ⚡ https://hautemacabre.com/collections/black-phoenix-alchemy-lab AS ABOVE leather drenched with white patchouli, oak bark, bourbon vanilla, bitter almond, and Moroccan jasmine. SO BELOW Amber and black copal with black coconut, Sumatran red patchouli, green cardamom pod, and golden musk. CITRINE Glittering ambrette seed, crystalline sparkles of lemon and orange blossom, blood orange and orange peel, bay leaf, sweet myrrh, and caraway.

I mistakenly imagined that I'd reviewed this back when it first came out. Apparently not! But I came here to report that it's aged marvelously. This scent would be right at home in the pantheon of mystical/mythical rose blends such as Peacock Queen and Rose Red. Or perhaps in the Last Unicorn collection! It's matured into a playful and luxurious pink rose surrounded by spicy glimmers and golden bokeh effects. The kind of rose that could only grow in a sacred garden protected by high walls, afforded ample sun and plenty of cool green shade. The sweetness imparted by the other ingredients softens the floral bombast. Like the name suggests, there's a quietness and delicacy to the scent that seems to invite itself into one's thoughts and then gently begin coloring them with its rosy pigments. I wore this while using the Rosebud Tarot deck today and it's such an impressive aesthetic match. Dig this one out! Chances are, you could use the mood boost.

Alright folks, we've done it! Our recently refreshed A Little Lunacy page is now topped with additional tiles for The Prophet and Twilight Alchemy Lab -- recurring additions to our monthly launches in 2025. All of the Goose Moon perfume + gloss selections are there, as well as a fresh batch of Ars Anni scents, and the WOOD SNAKE perfume for Lunar New Year. But wait, there's more! Along with this month's Lunacy we've finally added the Limited Edition Skull Maskerade series to our shop, a collaboration with artist Carla Wyzgala. And we've also finally added those new RPG perfumes and glosses that we first introduced at Dragon Con last summer! Everything above can be browsed on one page (alphabetically) via this one little link: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/january-2025-late/ Hopefully this will keep you busy for a moment or three while we continue working on Lupercalia! As usual we'll be very grateful if you help us spread the word about these releases among the kind of folks who will be most delighted to know about them. Remember: as one moon rises, so another one sets. As such, prepare to bid adieu to last October's HUNTER'S MOON and friends, which will vanish forever at the end of next week. TB

As someone who shares these tastes, I would definitely grab Dead Leaves, Dried Lilacs, and Labdanum from the Halloween collection before it sails away.

Hi friends, in wake of the recent catastrophic events which -- unbelievably -- are still unfolding, BPAL has created a small fundraiser scent series to direct funds toward local orgs which are offering help to those affected: Direct Relief, and the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. We've also included a list of other orgs which are worth supporting directly, by anyone who is able. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/the-city-of-angels/ This series includes four perfume oils (and one hair gloss!) inspired by SoCal-centric botanicals, and we've also brought back three batty-bats from our Limited Edition 2018 Genius Loci series and deployed them to assist with this cause. The destruction of the Barrial fam's homeland and the danger faced by loved ones has been profoundly painful for them to witness from afar, and it's been quite unpleasant for Galen and me to experience from our perch just beyond the evacuation zones. We're all grateful for the kindness and support we've received from the BPAL community, and for all the care we see being extended toward evacuees, firefighters, wildlife, and those who've lost everything in the fires.

Greetings, all! As a new Lunacy has landed, it's time for another to retreat into the abyss. This is your last week to acquire the following items from the Harvest Moon Lunacy launch: HARVEST MOON Perfume Oil Duets: HARVEST MOON: Corn Husk and Nutmeg HARVEST MOON: Apple Pulp and Oats HARVEST MOON: Campfire Smoke and Bay Rum HARVEST MOON: Blood Orange and Champagne Hair Gloss: BLACK CLOVE AND WILDFLOWER HONEY ++ ARS ANNI A VIEW FROM THE WINDOW BODEGÓN CON CESTO DE FRUTAS, MELOCOTONES, GRANADAS Y BERNEGAL IDYLL WOMAN PUTTING ON HER STOCKING Never fear, Snake Oil fans: we're keeping the fundraiser Snakes live for now!

Our last Lunacy of 2024 is LIVE, and of course it brought some friends along for the sleighride: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/december-2024-late/? Happy New Year, everyone!!