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The headline pretty much says it all! Just passing this along from Brian. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lilith-2020/

Brian: "It's live. I expect lots of issues." BUT WE DID IT! It's here. And the Lunacy along with it! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lupercalia-2021/ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/shunga-2021/ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/february-2021/ If this collection was a rare flower, it would be called Lupercalia Dystopia.

I keep reaching for this one, months onward, which continues to shock me because there were others in Ars Inspiratio which were MUCH more interesting to me on paper. But when it's right it's right... right? In the bottle: It stings a little! Frankincense, oudh, labdanum are right there, which meant that it struck me as a touch medicinal in an Old World way, but inviting and intriguing nevertheless. Wet on the skin: Right away this is where the fruit notes and oudh start singing in a kind of high-pitched harmony, commanding my full attention. The tartness is what grabbed me here, tempering the sweetness and highlighting the overall wicked playfulness of the blend, doing sinister, wayward things to the musk. The osmanthus and hint of vanilla round it out and keep the whole thing fairly sophisticated. The sly smile of the figure on the label is the perfect advertisement for this scent: there are darker stirrings rising up from underneath, in the form of the patch and the datura accord, which suggest hidden depths of complete amorality. It's feminine, but edgy -- surely no pushover, this gal. Dry: This palette basically sticks with me, holding relatively stable throughout the whole drydown. It does get a bit softer, until the very end all that's left is this kind of pouting sigh of candied oudh. It's a wonderfully mysterious scent that is truly worthy of the artwork and suggestive of the art of divination itself.

AwoooOOOOOoooo, last call for our WOLF MOON Tee Shirt pre-orders, which will close after today. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/apparel/t-shirts/wolf-moon-2021-tee/ Also leaving the site after today: FALLING LEAVES MOON (perfume blend only!) BLUE MOON BLAUER MOND LUNA AZUL LÁN YUÈLIÀNG ROSE-TINTED MIRROR by Twilight Alchemy Lab And the following Menage products: ? HIMALAYAN WHITE TEA, LEMON PEEL, AND GRASS ? PAPYRUS, CARDAMOM, AND BALSAM ? CEYLON CINNAMON, MYRRH, AND CACAO ? RED MANDARIN, FRENCH LAVENDER, AND JUNIPER ? LEATHER, INDIGO INCENSE, AND RED AMBER When they're gone, they're gone! Gotta make room on the warehouse shelves for all kinds of new treats...

In the past, our February events were an opportunity to host a tampon & pad drive benefiting those in our community who don’t have access to these crucial products. This year, since we can’t gather, we’re simply asking folks to donate to Drive-By Do-Gooders directly: https://www.drivebydogooders.org/ Your V-Day gift of $5 or more (why not set up a recurring donation?) will be devoted to these hygiene products, which remain among the most oft-requested items, as well as warm socks to help those living outdoors fend off the winter chill. DBDG is a local grassroots nonprofit organization that ferries clean water, emergency food supplies, tarps, donated clothing, and other stuff to those living at the margins of Skid Row’s resource supply chain. For more info, or to make your donation, please visit https://drivebydogooders.org.

New Kickstarter alert! The scent DIG was created to accompany this 1909 literacy poster reproduced by Century Guild: "Apple peel, black tea, polished oak, a billow of white linen, and a teetering pile of leatherbound books."

You know we hate to shake things up, but thanks to the way the pandemic is still pandemicking, we need to adjust course on our order-combining policy, effective immediately. We work with customers to combine multiple orders whenever possible, to save them the extra shipping fee(s), though we can't guarantee we'll be able to do so in every instance. Going forward, we will no longer issue refunds for these additional shipping fees: instead, if your orders are combined, you will be issued store credit for the additional shipping charge. The practice of issuing cash refunds requires additional labor which is simply beyond our means at the moment, and we also incur additional expense in the form of processing fees. In the past this has seemed like a small price to pay in service to our customers, especially since we're constantly releasing new products and we don't want to penalize the folks who do the most shopping. We hope the new store credit policy will adequately address that need — and we know it will free things up on the production end, improving our turnaround time on processing orders and Customer Service requests. If you have any questions about how the new policy will be implemented, we will do our best to answer. Thanks very much for rolling with the punches as the Lab continues playing Whack-A-Mole with Covid-imposed issues!

The Wolf Moon has gotten us hungry for MORE PERFUMES, so more thar be. In addition to our usual monthly Lunacy offerings, we've also whipped up a special batch of sea shanty-inspired scents, celebrating the wedding anniversary of our dear founders in high piratical style. ☠️ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/january-2021/ Here's a recap of everything the drop contains: WOLF MOON "A fable in scent: bone-white sandalwood aged with beeswax and balsam, crushed grass and juniper berries, ambrette seed, and lupine musk." Label and tee design by Drew Rausch! ++ TWILIGHT ALCHEMY LAB CRUISING THROUGH BEDLAM "An oil for tricksters, an oil for gamblers, an oil of survival. It is an oil for David, not Goliath; Cruising Through Bedlam contains mace, nutmeg, cloves, mastic, lemongrass, wild bergamot, dill, caraway, peppermint, star anise, and coffee bean." ++ DUETS Simple, two-note perfumes ? MANDARIN AND OSMANTHUS ? PINK ROSES AND PINK PEPPERCORN ? COFFEE BEAN AND CARAMEL ? TOBACCO AND PINE NEEDLE ? BLACKCURRANT AND VETIVER ? STRAWBERRIES AND HONEYCOMB ++ FIRE DOWN BELOW Surely, the Sea Shanty (Chanty, Chantey) Renaissance is a sign of brighter times ahead! Happy (belated!) 13th Anniversary. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/limited-edition/fire-down-below/ ☠️ A HUNDRED YEARS AGO ☠️ A-ROVIN’ ☠️ ASLEEP IN THE DEEP ☠️ BONEY WAS A WARRIOR ☠️ GOOD SHIP VENUS ☠️ HANGING JOHNNY ☠️ HAUL ON THE BOWLINE ☠️ LEAVE HER, JOHNNY ☠️ ROLL THE OLD CHARIOT ☠️ ROW BULLIES ROW ☠️ THE WELLERMAN

These won't last long! Just letting you know about this limited run of products from Sphere + Sundry, for which Elizabeth has created the following three magickal oil blends. You may read all about them here: https://sphereandsundry.com/product-category/series/empress/ Queen of the Honeyed Heart Fruitful Mother of Thousands Daughter of Heaven and Earth

Most of you know the Lab has been having fun making Spotify playlists. We'd like to make one made up entirely from fan contributions! Here's how it will work. In this topic, please reply with a song that reminds you of a favorite BPAL perfume. It could be literal, as in same name/title, or suggested by the lyrics, or purely evocative of a mood or aesthetic. Only one entry per person, please! Also, if you try to edit or change your answer, we will probably screw it up. The song must actually be available on Spotify! Most things are, but not everything is. PLEASE include the song title and artist in your response, for easy searching. If two or more people end up suggesting the same song, it will only show up once. That's fine, your inclusion ended up being represented! There's no special consideration for having peed on it first. There are no right answers! As a result, the playlist might end up being a frightening cacophony, but it will be OUR frightening cacophony, hammered into shape by DJ Galen. Technically we can add more songs to any playlist as time goes on, but I'm going to cap it at responses submitted by the end of the week, FRIDAY JAN. 29TH, so that we're not constantly having to check and update. No worries if you miss out, we can always make another one soon! Is all of this clear? You're welcome to write me with questions. Thanks very much for playing along!

Haute Macabre lovers take note, this serves as a restock announcement AND a review. There are several ways to pronounce "cassis," and we nailed none of them! Join labbies Tom and Galen on a voyage into the tenebrous recesses of Haute Macabre's latest BPAL collaboration, IN THE SHADOW ROOM, which has been freshly restocked as of this posting. https://haute-macabre.myshopify.com/collections/black-phoenix-alchemy-lab/products/in-the-shadow-room-by-black-phoenix-alchemy-lab Also reviewed here: AEVUM, a bonus imp currently being included (while supplies last) in all HM orders over $35! IN THE SHADOW ROOM "Inky black pomegranate, blackcurrant, cassis, red sandalwood, ambrette seed and fossilized amber, pink peppercorn, and guiaicwood." AEVUM "13-year aged patchouli, incense smoke, burgundy tar oudh, teakwood, scorched driftwood, and clove."

Tomorrow we lose all those Trump-inspired Activism blends, but I just wanted to make sure these LE's were on your radar, since Brian is taking them down from the site TODAY. Last call! DIES PATRIBUS CEDARWOOD, VANILLA ABSOLUTE, AND TOLU BALSAM EUCALYPTUS, WHITE MINT, AND LEMON PEEL PINK CARNATION, PATCHOULI, AND FRANKINCENSE RED BENZOIN, YLANG YLANG, AND TOBACCO VERBENA, ORANGE BLOSSOM, AND KING MANDARIN WISTERIA, MUGUET, AND LILY OF THE VALLEY SHELTER HARVEST MOON 2020

Hello all! We've created a rare perfume blend for the Century Guild to offer as a reward for supporting their new Kickstarter for the book MALEVOLENT VISIONS. Look for it in the tiers on the righthand column! The scent: "Blood orchid, ylang ylang, bourbon vanilla absolute, rose cream, frankincense, pink pepper, clove, and opium tar accord." At the $99 tier, you also get a second scent, WITHERING HEIGHTS: "Red musk streaked with black musk seed, leather accord, black diamond shards of gleaming labdanum, and cherry wood." Only available this once... ao

Thanks for waiting patiently for our Lunacy release while we busied ourselves with surviving both the holidays AND the death rattle of 2020. We're officially ready to go all night long with you, via LONG NIGHT MOON and its coterie of attendant Lunacy perfume blends! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/December-2020/ LONG NIGHT MOON "The nights are at their longest, the sky is at its darkest. The air is still with reflective silence. A bouquet of night-blooming flowers, petals dusted with frost. Cereus, orris butter, moonflower accord, night phlox, honeysuckle, jonquil, silver thyme, white mint, and blue musk. Here’s hoping that as of January 20, 2021 our long night is finally over." This label artwork also available as a tee shirt design! This month's Ménage à Trois blends: ? TONKA BEAN, BLACK TEA, AND VETIVER ? BLACK AMBER, OAKMOSS, AND TEREBINTH ? CYPRESS, EUCALYPTUS, AND BIRCH TAR ?BEESWAX, AMBER, AND STAR JASMINE ? WILD FIG, BLACKCURRANT, AND NEROLI And from Twilight Alchemy Lab: SOFT REBOOT A purifying blend crafted to help you release old patterns, sever problematic connections, and clear your cache of unwanted and corrupted data. Delete all the apps that no longer serve you: copal, white sandalwood, sage, frankincense, elemi, lavender, palo santo, salt, and nutmeg.

Time to turn over a new leaf! As of Inauguration Day, we will be pulling all of the Trump-related Activism scents from our site. This category of perfumes raising funds for worthy causes will continue to grow, but in the meantime we want to be left with as few direct reminders of this evil, bungling madman as possible. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/ Below is the full list. ? Alternative Facts ? Fake News ? Impeachment ? National Emergy ? Sustained Boos ? Being Like, Really Smart ? Covfefe ? I Want Nothing ? No One is Above the Law ? Sinkhole ? Very Stable Genius Truly a series of fascinating items for collectors! The era of American politics when gothic perfumers took on the role of insult comic, using a President’s own words (or in some cases, “words”) against him as a way to funnel proceeds directly to orgs that stood a chance of countering his cruel policies. And as an added bonus, most of them smell terrific! Thank you so much to helping us with these efforts, including sharing our posts about them. Many thousands were donated over the past four years, and it has forever transformed our view of what we can accomplish as scrappy, angry, freedom-loving weirdos. We promise to carry that forward into future fights.

The time has come to say goodbye to our licensed HELLBOY (2019) products! Our license is ending, and as of 1/1/2021 we will no longer be offering them on our site. That includes HELLBEARD, one of the Lab's most popular beard oil blends! Just a note in case you want to include any of these products with your Winter 2020 orders. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/collaborations/hellboy-the-movie/ Our original HELLBOY scents, licensed through the comic, will remain for the foreseeable future.

Late to our own party, as usual! But we have arrived right ahead of 2020's darkest day to offer these new perfume blends to carry you through many a season: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/winter-2020/ ❄️ WINTER 2020 General Catalog ❄️ GINGERBREAD MONSTERS - A horrifying treat, featuring art by Drew Rausch! ❄️ WINTER DUETS - Seasonal scent notes artfully entwined together ❄️ LUX BRUMALIS - Perfumes inspired by painted winter scenes

We aim to release our Winter 2020 perfume collection this weekend! In the meantime, me n' Galen are here with a preview of coming attractions: GINGERBREAD MONSTERS, a series of scents (featuring label art by Drew Rausch!) that deliciously bridge the gap between the Halloween and Yule seasons. Coming soon, to a fireplace near you! We'll update again when we have a link to the whoooole damned thing. Discussed in this video: ? GHOST MILK "Goat’s milk, marshmallow fluff, vanilla cashmere, honey dust, and white chocolate." ? GINGERBREAD INVISIBLE MAN "Champagne-soaked gingerbread, candied ginger, lemon, and white sugar." ? GINGERBREAD MUMMY "Gingerbread wrapped in bourbon vanilla, white sandalwood, and marshmallow butter." ? GINGERBREAD VAMPIRE "Gingerbread, dark chocolate, cinnamon, and star anise." ? GINGERBREAD WITCH "Gingerbread, pumpkin pulp, Arkansas black apple pulp, rosemary, and lemon peel." ? GINGERBREAD WOLFMAN "Gingerbread, honey, molasses, pulverized chestnut, powdered sugar, nutmeg, and hazelnut." ? GINGERBREAD ZOMBIE "Gingerbread, vanilla bean, peppermint, and milk chocolate chips."

Just thought you should know our license for the Hellboy 2019 film collection is expiring and won't be renewed. These products will probably vanish from the site sometime in January! So if there's anything you want to try (or secure backups of) you might want to work that into any orders between now and then. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/collaborations/hellboy-the-movie/

We figured it would be VERY grinchy of us to wait and release the new Lunacy perfumes after the clock had run out on those Black Friday weekend gift imps. So! Here you'll find a chocolatey COLD MOON blend – "a frozen chocolate confection" – as well as a Twilight Alchemy Lab charm and the following Ménage à trois scent combinations. Don't forget, the Lunacy artwork by Dan Santat is also available as a tee shirt! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/november-2020 ?BLACK CURRANT, PATCHOULI, AND GRAPEFRUIT ?ORRIS ROOT, CARNATION, AND TOBACCO ?PINK PEPPER, ORANGE BLOSSOM, AND LEMON PEEL ?TEAKWOOD, MOSS, AND SALT ?BEESWAX, CEDARWOOD, AND BOURBON VANILLA

We may be unpredictable, but we can be relied upon to release new fancies every Friday the 13th! In today’s drop: ✔️ The latest iteration of 13, our classic perfume-as-luck-charm which is only available through next Tuesday. ✔️ A lovely new brew called FOUR SEASONS ALCHEMY LAB. We’re easy enough to find: on the edge of town, located between the alehouse and the plague pit. Art by Drew Rausch. ✔️ A new category of fundraiser scents to help turn the tide in Georgia’s runoff elections. Proceeds from the GEORGIA ON MY MIND scents go to Fair Fight and Black Voters Matter. Art for these perfumes has been generously donated by Tanya Bjork. Enjoy, and good luck out there! ?

Last call! The following Limited Edition perfume blends are on their way out, and any remaining stock will be removed from the site in about 4 weeks: FRUIT MOON VIGILANCE DOOMSCROLL BLOCKER DUM SPIRO SPERO (collection) WALPURGISNACHT (collection) HEXENNACHT Also, clearing out whatever's left of July/August MENAGE A TROIS: DRIED STRAWBERRIES, RED MUSK, AND BOURBON VANILLA SWEET PATCHOULI, LABDANUM, AND YLANG YLANG AGED VETIVER, CHOCOLATE, AND WHITE SANDALWOOD LAVENDER, WHITE CLOVE & AMBRETTE SEED TOMATO LEAF, BLACK PEPPER & HAY ABSOLUTE BLACK FIG, OAK BARK & BROWN SUGAR LEMON PEEL, MARSHMALLOW & ORANGE BLOSSOM SKIN MUSK, CREAM & HONEY DUST TAHITIAN VANILLA, MYSORE SANDALWOOD & BERGAMOT Thanks very much!

Soft release! You heard it here first. (Sharing more widely once everything on the site is fully cached.) https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/halloween-2020/ Here's what you'll find: ? Halloween 2020 General Catalog - A fête of perfume blends honoring the season in scent ? The Haunted House - Perfume blends for a year in which we became ghosts in our own houses ? Pile of Leaves - New variations on BPAL's home-brewed "dead leaves" accord ? Hallowenches Lockdown - These horror pinup queens are in quarantine too, and we've bottled their angst in a series of Hair Gloss blends ? Smut-O-Ween - A Lupercalia perfume blend in a variety of Halloween disguises ? Tote bags! We've got yer tote bags ? PLEASE NOTE that this year's batch of 'Weenies has arrived late due to covid-19 related production restrictions. Sadly, we will NOT be able to deliver these before October 31st. Thanks in advance for understanding as we make the best of an unfortunate situation! The same will go for our Yule/Christmas collection, so be prepared to do any gift-shopping extra early this year. ? Later, if you want, you can help us spread the word by sharing our official YouTube video announcement!

An update on Weenies, and the challenging season ahead, from your local BPAL marketing demon! If all goes according to plan, the Weenies will arrive later this week. Yay! The collection is hefty, though the main release may not include everything we've teased. Boo! And as much as it pains us, it's important to note that we will NOT be able to ship in time for Halloween arrival. (If that wasn't already obvious by now, ha!) Without the support of a production staff, the past few months have been unbelievably difficult for those remaining on the team. Normally by this time of year, the staff is somewhat rested in anticipation of the major holiday crush. Well, that's just not the case this time. Instead, just to maintain "normal" operations, the remaining staff have spent the spring and summer working too many hours per day, too many days a week, through the months that are normally our chill period. We're heading into this season already maxed out, but the nature of our insanity dictates that we persist and give it our best shot! We're already working on plans to help shore up production throughout the coming season. But this is the first time we're attempting releases on this scale without our staff, and we apologize in advance for any irregularities as we try our best to keep up with the demand. Here's one easy example: IMPS. Everyone loves 'em. They love buying samples to test, and they also love getting freebies with their order. However, imps are perhaps the most labor intensive product that BPAL produces, and we're having a difficult time keeping them in stock for purchase, let alone to give away. I know the "free gift with purchase" aspect may be a huge factor in folks' enthusiasm for our product, or their justification for the expense, so it can be a bummer to open a box and not find any rattling around — especially if it's a hefty order. Please just know that if your box is lacking frimps, it's simply because they don't exist. The only hands available to make them were probably needed elsewhere. Maybe several elsewheres. Similarly, the hands typing answers to Customer Service questions are not available for packing orders, and vice versa. So here's my periodic request for folks to wait a little longer before checking in, or to space out your requests re: combining orders, if possible. There are many days when it's impossible to keep up with the email queue AND the order queue. Since many of the emails relate to whether stuff has shipped, it behooves me to ask for community help with this conundrum. On that note: while we are happy to combine orders to cut down on customer cost and reduce waste, please be mindful that when there's a lot of back-and-forth and follow-ups involved, this does gradually add up to a considerable cost on our side, in the form of labor. So. if you can afford the shipping on an additional order, just know that it won't hurt our feelings any to show a little extra support for the USPS during this difficult time. I'm also renewing my request that BPAListas not try to jump the queue by reaching out to Elizabeth and Ted via their private social media for questions related to orders and other work stuff. The burnout is MAJOR, as I'm sure many of you are experiencing in your own situations. We do not want the team to feel they must be available 24/7 or receive a steady stream of notifications during their few non-work hours. (You may pester me instead, in a pinch; I can't check on orders, but I will be happy to advise and save steps where I can, even if it's just to say "Please email Ted.") Is that everything? I had to scan back through what I wrote to make sure these restrictions didn't sound too imposing... but really there's nothing hard-line about BPAL that we're changing or asking you to change. Please just remember that a very few humans are doing their damnedest to maintain the continuity of this wonderful company and all its traditions, and that not ONE DAY goes by when we manage to do this without your help and love, in one form or another. Sometimes, it seems to me that we might be succeeding a little too well in keeping up a robust, outward-facing veneer that says BPAL is LITERAL MAGIC and that we're kicking this year's ass. We are magic, but we are very, very, very much being kicked. The disappointments are endless. And working this hard, for this long, it becomes impossible to overlook the failures and the opportunities lost, both large and small. So, forging ahead through the upcoming season is going to require more communication throughout our community, and some additional consideration as we all do our best to tend the flame. And that communication isn't just one-way! I'm including my email address below in case someone has questions they don't want to ask via social media. Thank you for reading! My heart is warmed to know how many people still care about the Weenies despite *waves hands* all of this. tom@blackphoenixalchemylab.com

Greetings, all! Haute Macabre has fully restocked their BPAL collaborations, available via pre-order through November 2nd. And they've also introduced a new addition to the treasure chest of offerings, available as a perfume and/or a hair gloss: IN THE SHADOW ROOM "Inky black pomegranate, blackcurrant, cassis, red sandalwood, ambrette seed and fossilized amber, pink peppercorn, and guiaicwood." https://hautemacabre.com/2020/10/in-the-shadow-room/