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Hallo everyone! We've had a rash of partner launches recently, and instead of doing four separate posts I'm going to just include them all here. Blood Milk has released two new perfume oils, and restocked a bunch of past releases. Go check 'em out! The new offerings: 🖤 BEHELENA The silent, obsidian pool of narcosis, a dark reverie whispering horrid secrets: indigo oud, laudanum accord, myrrh, red musk, and black kyphi. 🖤 BEAUTIFUL DEATH A dirge sung to Atropa bella-donna: caramelized patchouli root, crushed purple berries, and opium tar. The astromages at Sphere + Sundry have released a treasure chest of "Sun in Leo" products in a collection called Golden Titan, which includes four Twilight Alchemy Lab oils. Recapped below, you can peep the ingredients for each on the product page: 🏵️ VALOUR This is an oil of courage and authority, formulated for our challenging times. It strengthens the will, ignites the spirit with roaring flames of Solar energy, and inspires bravery under adversity. This is an oil of ancient heroism and sacred leadership that taps into the stories of mythic heroes, leaders who stood fierce and unbroken against the tide. 🏵️ RESISTANCE THROUGH ART Rebellion, protest, liberation. As far back as at least ancient Egypt, art has been used to protest injustice, ridicule religious and political leaders, promote liberty and social justice, and foster change. This is an oil of creative fire and inspiration – of radical sacred expression – charged with the spirits of both self-soverignity and defiance. It is an oil of fierce imagination and fearlessness that ignites visions of a better future, defies oppression, and enables you to channel your rage or fear into works of powerful art. 🏵️ HEARTGLOW A beam of warm sunlight to ease and heal the spirit, assist in battling sorrow and stress. Helps to warm the heart and soothe the nerves; enables you to better act and react with compassion to both yourself and others. 🏵️ PERSEVERANCE An oil of strength under pressure and calm determination, this is a bulwark against despair that braces your spirit against weariness and fear so you can bear the burdens that life throws at you with grace and power. This is a Sol-powered rooting oil that can be used in ritual or to anoint your body before trials, when burdens weigh heavy or hope seems distant. We also have a new scent offered as a reward in the latest Century Guild Kickstarter to publish a book celebrating Alphonse Mucha's art, which you may add on to any pledge tier for $27. PENSE ET LIS Warm hands running over the well-loved tonka-sweet leather bindings of a cherished book. A flutter of gently-yellowed paper and ink suffused with luminous yellow bergamot, honeyed tea, and lavender sugar. Once again we're observing Walpurgisnacht by contributing to Spiritus Arcanum's amazing annual collection of oils, candles, jewelry, and other fancies marking the occasion. Eleven gorgeous perfume oils in total: AKELARRE Ecstasy and heresy on the Heath of the He-Goat: molten labdanum drips like blood onto bare skin, red musk thrums with carnal hunger, and gleaming red amber smolders against the writhing curve of the body. 5ml bottle BALD MOUNTAIN Writhing shadows and jutting gray stones stabbing through a starless sky: dark vetiver and blackened patchouli cling to cold rock, while opopanax and resin-weeping trees smolder into thick, hypnotic smoke. 5ml bottle BENEVENTO Witches cavort and the Devil stamps his cloven hoot the base of a venerable black walnut tree, the crackle of scorched wood and the fragrant profanation of dry vanilla bean heralds strange heresies. 5ml bottle BLOCKULA A shadowed meadow stirs under a shrouded moon: crushed bluebells release their bruised perfume, Arctic starflower and wild flax weave cold sweetness into the air. A thrum of patchouli-darkened red musk pulses heavily in the air, spiced with cardamom pods, cacao, and red oudh. 5ml bottle BROCKEN Animalic musk thrums with forbidden heat, while smoke and honeyed sweat braid into an ecstatic frenzy around a crackling bonfire. 5ml bottle NIGHT FLIGHT Flowers long dead twine with petals as-yet unfurled – ghost jasmine, pale heliotrope, asphodel, and black violets – swirling in windswept darkness. 5ml bottle TRAMPLED CROSS Dark frankincense, rose smoke, and oud swirling around splinters of cypress, cedar, and pine in an act of transgressive liberation. 5ml bottle DARK BAPTISM The sacred reborn in darkness, a baptism of liberation: defiled holy water and lily of the valley suffused with black musk. 5ml bottle DEVIL’S TOME Leather crackling under your touch, ink-smudged vows scrawled on incense-stained parchment, the metallic tang of blood and a whiff of brimstone. 5ml bottle COCK’S CROW The heavens awaken, piercing the darkness with the first rays of sunrise, scattering demons and chattering imps to the wind. The sun’s promise of redemption, the renewal of grace, and absolution for all sins: glowing amber, white bergamot, orange blossom, and petitgrain. 5ml bottle ***The perfumes in this collection are offered as a preorder item and will be available to order from Wednesday April 30th until Wednesday May 21st. The orders will be fulfilled afterwards in the order in which they were placed.***

For he seemed to me again like a king, Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld, Now due to be crowned again. A sinuous leather variant of BPALs Snake Oil. Only side-by-side with Snake Oil can I tell the difference between these in the bottle. It really was appropriate to name this after the snake's skin -- the leather wraps around the familiar blend like a sheath. And it's a grower, constricting slowly until it just might become the thing someone notices about the scent if they just happened to catch it in passing. It also nicely amps the woods in Snake Oil, which probably don't get enough love. If you have a man in your life who loves Snake Oil but it's too sweet for him to wear, he will probably be unstoppable with this.

Hi everyone. We've received so many questions about how tariffs and supply-chain issues will affect BPAL's production. How to answer honestly without stoking unnecessary panic? I'll try: We really, really, don't know. 😬 So if there are any fave BPAL products that you consider personal necessities which are *currently in stock*, please understand that we're still getting a sense of what we WILL and WON'T be able to restock, or how much it will cost. We appear to be heading into a component drought that will dictate our output for the time being. The last thing we want is for folks to feel pressured into panic-buying, but we also feel a responsibility to loyal customers who've depended on the same products year after year, or would be disproportionately affected by changes in price that reflect component scarcity. I wish I could offer specifics in terms of which exact ingredients are causing issues, but again: we don't know the extent of this yet. Some of our suppliers have preemptively jacked their prices or just canceled our orders altogether. Communication is proving difficult. We're patiently, methodically doing our best to keep our supply flowing -- holding our breaths the entire time, like every other small biz out there. The prices and inventory currently listed on our website reflect what we KNOW we can provide for now. Beyond here, we'll all be in the same boat of waiting and seeing together. (Disco pic because unsettling news is best delivered with a side of comfort floof.)

Save the date, amphibiennes! On Saturday, May 17th we'll be holding court at Odd Mart in Minneapolis with a limited supply of all the Frog Moon Lunacy offerings, some remainders from 4/20, and more! On Saturdays Odd Mart hosts a regular "Drink and Draw" event which is free for all, with refreshment sales benefiting MIRAC: Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. We'll be crashing that event with a nice long table and a whole lotta smells. So there will be a nice incentive to hang out and snack and chat, and pretend you can't see us setting up. (Thank you, but we don't need any help!) https://glorpgum.com/pages/odd-mart

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.

Scent-wise, each of these new Blow Molds go in totally different directions than the previous Halloweenie ones. So while there is some overlap in terms of the glowing amber component, it expresses itself differently in most of these; some of these are sweeter than others, or remain foodier, or involve more of a "plastic" quality, etc. In the bottle, lemon is the star of VWMBM. It reminds me of something from The Fool's Journey, probably one of the Fool or Magician scents: bright and golden and creamy thanks to the lift from the amber, which blurs out the freshness and sharpness. It's like... actually uplifting to smell it, reminding me of gleaming halos and rays of light in religious paintings. Here is the comfort and joy we are supposed to be receiving tidings of. I can't pick out any of the incense notes specifically quite yet, but I BELIEVE. Fresh on the skin that lemon's got a bit more of a zesty zing, but the amber's got a broader range too, bringing a surprising sweetness that is not QUITE a slice of the lemon meringue pie they serve in heaven, but it's not NOT that. And I'm very grateful for that part of it, because otherwise I think lemon might go furniture polish on me. Instead they just kind of hum together. Here's where the frank & myrrh start to assert themselves, but not in a dramatic Catholic way. This is one of those small town congregations where people worship Good Times Jesus. For that reason I'd personally say this reminds me more of an Easter scent, with pastel yellows and cheery messages about how He Has Risen. But that seems fitting for a scent inspired by these campy, cheerful Nativity blow mold scenes with their and blue-eyed Wise Men. It's like a serious religious experience that's been puffed out into something bright and shiny and filled filled with warm air. Glowing blow mold decorations have always been about defying the cold with cheerful sights and pleasant fantasies. Over time the freshness of the lemon truly retreats until it's not even particularly associated with real fruit. What's left is just this smooth, amber-glossed memory of something vaguely lemon-scented. It's lovely! Not overly clean or incense-y, just a lovely pale-golden nimbus of good vibes, man.

I know we've had bready scents before and lavender baked goods aplenty, but a lavender bread scent? The idea seems so obvious, and yet it took this long. The Lab also doesn't do many rosemary scents, so I'm curious to see how detectable that is. In the bottle the lavender is strong and tinged sweet. Possibly there is vanilla involved, but what the sweetness really reminds me of is Japanese milk bread. That being said, there is a robusst crustiness and saltiness poking up from under that, and I think the rosemary would have to be screaming its head off to be detectable through all that, and it's not, so it isn't. Fresh on the skin I do get like a light, savory olive oil sheen over the whole thing. And that's also when the rosemary seems the strongest, enriching the herbal tones. Perhaps because of the contrast, the lavender in this strikes me as the flowering kind, like an actual bit of floral lavender standing out against the savory and gourmand notes. And over time what lingers longest on me is that pale, sweet, milk bread-esque pastry note wrapped in lavender vapor-trails. Faintly beneath that I can still detect the crusty/salty aspect but that is such a neutral tone, almost a skin tone itself when you think about it, that it doesn't arouse much attention. While I think almost anyone can appreciate a bread scent (even if they don't care to wear it), the lavender really does seem to impart an emotional or fantastical quality that makes this a true comfort scent, instead of just a comfort food scent. flowery

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!!

Our second Friday the 13th of the year! The handful of things that we've just launched are all here: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/december-2024/ 13 Thirteen scents of comfort; a supplication for safety and succor during turbulent, dark times. Warm wool, fresh baked bread, steaming black tea, and a gooey brownie spiced with fresh ginger, green cardamom, black peppercorn, coriander, clove bud, fennel, star anise, honey, and cream. Please note that we've also done a very limited edition 2" collectible coin and perfume set as a holiday fundraiser for Feed America and Philabundance: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/limited-edition/naughtynnice24-perfume-oil/ And we also added A HAILSTORM OF KNITTING NEEDLES to An Evening With The Spirits -- we'd already made it, but forgot to include it with the Yule launch!

Sorry to blindside our EU customers, but we've been unable to manage GPSR compliance ahead of today's effective date. We promise to keep working on this! But in the meantime, we can no longer fulfill orders to the European Union. We're still determining whether this affects our ability to fulfill *existing* orders. So if this includes you, please hang in there a moment while we figure out what we can manage. We're so terribly sorry, even though we know we are far from the only business affected by the rollout of this new policy. Hopefully we will get it straightened out!

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Hello to those of you up North whose orders have been affected by the Post Strike! The team asked me to inform those of you whose packages had not already shipped to say: for the time being we're holding onto all orders to Canada, and stashing them safely in the Lab until the strike is over. That includes any new orders that come in! So you may order with confidence in the meantime, knowing your items will be set aside for you until the coast is clear. Those with concerns about specific orders have most likely already reached out to Ted. We figured we should post an announcement to put anyone else's mind at ease.