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Hello everyone, I've been asked to inform you that it's LAST CALL for the following items, which we'll be removing from the site tonight:
⚠️ HARVEST MOON Tee Shirt
⚠️ The remaining ANNIVERSARY 2019 products
⚠️ The remaining YULE 2019 products
⚠️ The remaining LUPERCALIA 2020 products
⚠️ All remaining Lunacy products released in June or earlier. (This includes the Menage and TAL blends!)
Short notice, we know! But we've got to make room for all the new stuff that awaits right around the corner...
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Over the holiday weekend, our HARVEST MOON perfume began stalking around the site, stirring the other autumnal scents from their slumber and calling them back into service. September's full moon officially ushers in our favorite time of year!"This Harvest lunacy combines the autumnal scents of dry leaves, mulling spices, balsam fir, pine needles, cedar, juniper berry, clove, saffron, damson plum, white sage, yarrow, and lily twined with Dionysus’ sacred grapes and ivy, a bounty of apple, black fig, and pumpkin, and the amaranth and lingum aloes of Janus, all touched by a gentle breath of festival woodsmoke and sweet wine."This killer label design by Dan Santat is also available as a tee shirt!But the reaper isn't riding alone: they're trailed by a sextet of the following Ménage à Trois perfumes.🥉 CEDARWOOD, VANILLA ABSOLUTE, AND TOLU BALSAM🥉 PINK CARNATION, PATCHOULI, AND FRANKINCENSE🥉 RED BENZOIN, YLANG YLANG, AND TOBACCO🥉 VERBENA, ORANGE BLOSSOM, AND KING MANDARIN🥉 WISTERIA, MUGUET, AND LILY OF THE VALLEY🥉 EUCALYPTUS, WHITE MINT, AND LEMON PEELAnd finally, a timely new offering from our sister site, Twilight Alchemy Lab:SHELTER"I built this oil to help form a sense of fundamental safety, a solid bedrock that you can build from. This is an oil of stability and grounding that will help you find the strength to keep going.This oil contains warm brown patchouli, angelica root, oakmoss absolute, lemongrass, vetiver, bourbon vanilla absolute, lavender bud, ginger root, spruce, vervain, three sages, and barley." -
𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔...BPAL is thrilled to announce a partnership with author Sady Doyle on a new collection of 8 perfume blends, drawing inspiration from her incredible non-fiction book "Dead Blondes & Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power" (Penguin Random House, 2019).One year ago, Doyle's book combed through history and pop culture, presenting archetypes of feminine monstrosity that have been used to define and control womanhood — some of which may now be reclaimed as roles of tremendous power.Our DEAD BLONDES & BAD MOTHERS fragrance collection highlights eight of those archetypes, each captured in scent and accompanied by a trenchant quote from the book, presented in a 5ml amber apothecary bottle.The perfumes:☿️ POSSESSED TEEN☿️ DEAD BLONDE☿️ ALIEN/SIREN☿️ BLUEBEARD'S WIFE☿️ HAUNTED HOUSEWIFE☿️ MAMA GEIN☿️ THE WOMAN AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODSWe're also restocking a handful of Trading Post offerings today as well!
• ALICE Hair Gloss
• EREBOS Atmosphere Spray
• TKO Atmosphere Spray
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Just a warning from the chiefs, those badass FRUIT MOON tees will be coming down in the next couple of days.
https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/apparel/t-shirts/fruit-moon-tee/
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We did not intend to release a bonkers August mini-release, but... look what happened anyway!
Recapping below:
🎢 The PLEASE SCREAM INSIDE YOUR SNAKE OIL perfume blend is our new happy place, by way of our old happy place.
✨ From Twilight Alchemy Lab, an oil crafted to help ease that darkest of impulses: DOOMSCROLL BLOCKER
👁 Two new perfumes inspired by Neil Gaiman quotes, featuring David Mack's SANDMAN art: THE THINGS WE DO MAKE ECHOES, and WHAT YOU WANT AND BEING HAPPY ARE TWO QUITE DIFFERENT THINGS.
🌄 A new collection of scents entitled WHO CAN FIGHT AGAINST DESPAIR, inspired by the haunting times between night and day.
🍌 FRUIT MOON is this month’s Lunacy, featuring a bananalicious label design by Dan Santat that’s also available as a tee.
👚 Speaking of tees! We’ve also got a new PLAGUE DOCTOR design, a BPAL logo tee, and a version of the PLEASE SCREAM design by Drew Rausch. You can now also buy stickers of the same design!
🥉 SIX new Ménage à Trois perfume blends to pick through.- LAVENDER, WHITE CLOVE, AND AMBRETTE SEED
- TOMATO LEAF, BLACK PEPPER, AND HAY ABSOLUTE
- BLACK FIG, OAK BARK, AND BROWN SUGAR
- LEMON PEEL, MARSHMALLOW, AND ORANGE BLOSSOM
- SKIN MUSK, CREAM, AND HONEY DUST
- TAHITIAN VANILLA, MYSORE SANDALWOOD, AND BERGAMOT
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Time to talk turkey, BPAL fans!
As most of you know, the Lab has maintained a General Catalog of perfume blends dating all the way back to its earliest days. These remain our most accessible and affordable option, since we also sell them in sample sizes!
However, what you may not know is that many of these beloved recipes are among our lowest sellers, and have been for a really long time.
As time goes on, it's getting more and more difficult to justify the expense and labor required to keep these in stock, or the space in our crowded warehouse to store them. And now that we can't travel with them to conventions as a way of luring new fans into our clutches, they are truly languishing on the shelves.
DO NOT BE ALARMED: we have not yet made any plans to discontinue any of these scents!
However, in the interest of re-introducing them to the public, and giving devotees an opportunity to stump for them, we have decided to launch a new 15 MINUTES OF 'FUME spin-off series.
We've rounded up FIFTY of our lowest-selling General Catalog perfumes — many of them tied for last place in terms of number of bottles sold in the past year. The full list can be seen below!
In BPAL's upcoming ✨TOURNAMENT OF UNDERDOGS✨, these bottles will be pitted against each other two at a time, and judged side by side to see which deserves to advance in the rankings.
Nothing bad is going to happen to the "losers," this is all purely in fun! Each will receive their moment in the spotlight and hopefully put them on perfume lovers' radar again. Or maybe some things just weren't meant to last forever?
Which perfume will survive all these rounds of combat, clawing its way out of obscurity and back onto people's perfume shelves?
We shall know soon! *very evil laughter*
As you can see below, we've released the brackets early so folks will have a chance to root for their faves! In addition to combing through the forum reviews, Galen and I will be searching the #tournamentofunderdogs hashtag on Twitter and Instagram to look for testamonials while we're filming these videos. So if you want to tell the world why they might enjoy one of your favorite perfumes, you'll have your chance! Who knows, maybe your input will break a tie vote.
At the heart of it, this competition is just a tribute we want to pay to all of these scents: the work that Elizabeth put into crafting them, the memories they've become associated with over the years, and the way they helped BPAL grow into the community and creative juggernaut you see staggering before you. There's no way we could just discontinue some of these products without first exploring this history and giving fans an opportunity to weigh in.
So what do you say, will you tune in and participate in the madness? The videos will end up on our YouTube channel, which you can subscribe to here. We'll also be posting them to Instagram, so follow us there.
The TOURNAMENT OF UNDERDOGS will be officially announced tomorrow, and filming will start very soon!
These match-ups were generated randomly! The first round of battles will be:
1. ROSES, PEARLS & DIAMONDS vs. RAKSHASA
3. MACHU PICCHU vs. VIOLA
5. ODE ON MELANCHOLY vs. THE COILED SERPENT
6. QANDISA vs. SQUIRTING CUCUMBER
7. MORGAUSE vs. THE SCALES OF DEPRIVATION
8. MOSCOW vs. THE RED QUEEN
9. PRIDE vs. STRANGLER FIG
10. R'LYEH vs. SCHRODINGER'S CAT
11. MASQUERADE vs. URUK
12. LUCY'S KISS vs. Y'HA-NTHLEI
13. NO. 93 ENGINE vs. THE LITTLE WOODEN DOLL
14. PARAMATMAN vs. TENOCHTITLAN
15. QUEEN ALICE vs. SERAPHIM
16. MATA HARI vs. TUSHNAMATAY
17. NIGHT-GAUNT vs. QUEEN OF HEARTS
And then seeded into later rounds:
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Here's an ANNOUNCEMENT related to Limited Edition releases such as Lupercalia, Lunacies, and other cool stuff we've kept selling throughout 2020.We've been thrilled to just keep stocking these throughout the year, and grateful for the extra sales. Hopefully they've resulted in many small enjoyments during an otherwise difficult time.However, as we stare down the challenge of preparing this fall's major collections — intimidating even during a normal year, night unthinkable without our usual production staff — we've decided we will no longer keep replenishing those products. We'll be letting them run out of stock, and there they shall stay.Going forward, every ounce of our energy must go into the Liliths, the Weenies, the Yules, and everything else that's on our calendar for the rest of 2020. We wanted to give everyone fair warning so no one would feel these had been unceremoniously yanked away.So, here we are celebrating Lupercalia in August... a sign of the End Times if there ever was one! We're lucky to be spending them in such great company.
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Hello everyone! We're still short-staffed due to covid-19, which means very few people are doing ALL the work. And that work needs to be constrained to the hours when they're actually working (so they don't burn out), and it all needs to be kept as organized and streamlined as possible.
So if you're checking on an order, or have requests related to an order, or stray questions related our products or the Lab's ability to do certain things, the ONLY appropriate place for those messages is through the Customer Service email: answers@blackphoenixalchemylab.com. That way the messages can be prioritized and dealt with properly, by the correct person.
Please don't hit up Elizabeth or Ted on their personal social media accounts with your requests. In addition to those notifications landing at odd hours or during a time when they may be trying to relax, it also means your message may get lost in the shuffle, or they may not remember exactly where that conversation was happening. It also thwarts our attempt to organize and prioritize requests as they come in. So even if you see that they appear to be active on their personal social media, that is not an invitation to reach out there with work-related requests.
In terms of "stray questions related to the Lab's products or our ability to do certain things," the Lab's social media channels are a totally okay place to message privately and ask. In which case you're most likely to reach me, Tom! And I'll be happy to point you in the right direction, even if that means suggesting that you email CS.
It is difficult to convey in words just HOW MUCH work everyone is doing, or how all-consuming it can be. If you consider Elizabeth and Ted your friends to the point where you feel comfortable reaching out personally with work requests, I implore you to consider the cumulative effect of that, writ large across their entire social circle.
It's just worth a periodic reminder as this wears on, and we all struggle to adjust to our new "normal." Thank you so much for listening, and for your enduring support!
xoxox
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Today (which is Monday, for those just tuning in) is your last day to score our goaty HAY MOON Lunacy tee shirt design! 🐐
https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/apparel/t-shirts/hay-moon-tee/
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Gadzooks! Our new lockets sold out VERY quickly, but if you sign up for the waitlist you'll be notified right away once we're able to replenish them.In the meantime we have some rare and unusual delights to distract you with. First up, this month's Lunacy scent, HAY MOON, accompanied by a label/tee shirt design by Dan Santat."Hay absolute, tall grasses, dry honey, mallow, cardamom, amber, oat cakes, and wheat."Next, a sweet standalone release to reward you for making it this far into 2020! PLEASE SCREAM INSIDE YOUR HEART is accompanied by some possum-love by Elizabeth, and each bottle comes with a free sticker bearing Drew Rausch's unforgettable design.You're also invited to the following Ménages à Trois:🥉 BERGAMOT, ORANGE BLOSSOM, AND VETIVER🥉CACAO, BLACK AMBER, AND BLACK COPAL🥉 DRIED STRAWBERRIES, RED MUSK, AND BOURBON VANILLA🥉 SWEET PATCHOULI, LABDANUM, AND YLANG YLANG🥉 AGED VETIVER, CHOCOLATE, AND WHITE SANDALWOODWait, did we forget to mention these new sugar scrubs by B. Perry Studios??
STRAWBERRIES AND CHAMPAGNE
SUGAR DUSTED CHOCOLATE CARDAMOM TRUFFLE"A protection blend that shields against curses, malocchio, susto, jinxes, hexes, and crossings, particularly those that attack physical and mental health.Please note: this oil contains trace amounts of cinnamon.This oil contains tulsi, angelica root, blessed thistle, frankincense, lemongrass, cinnamon, and fennel."Here's where you can find those out of stock BOOK OF THE DEAD and MORIUNTUR lockets to join the waitlist:Remember, the days are getting shorter again now with each one that passes. We're on the down-slope stretch toward longer nights and all of our favorite holidays. If you feel the urge to scream, please scream inside your heart!🖤 -
I just opened up my bottle for the first time in forever, and it was almost glued shut with sticky, gooey residue... so I knew this was gonna be GOOD.
And it is! Everything I originally liked about this is still present and blended smooooth and mellow with time. UNGH!
That is all.
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Coming soon!
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I guess I will dive in and write the first review, since I've worn this nearly every day since it was released!
In the bottle this is a staid and solemn lavender, with a mellow smoky quality that ends up seeming almost creamy to me -- that's probably the sandalwood. Or maybe that's just how the overall savory nature of this blend reads to me.
I paused over the carrot seed, because while I appreciate the role it plays in the storytelling, it's just not a scent I find myself drawn to, or want to embody. However, it's VERY subtly blended into this perfume. I know the note well but I'm not sure I'd track it if I hadn't read it was there.
Fresh on the skin the iris and wisteria notes step out and kind of sing through the grey lavender haze. Still doesn't read as terribly flowery to me, the smoke and lavender holding court. Reminds me of BLACK HAUS, except that blend's leather etc. is so distinctive that you'd never mix them up.
As it dries I get almost a beeswax scent, that's still definitely the smoke and sandalwood uplifted by the thin floral notes. It smells very much of the natural world, in a way that's meant to tug at the human heart. Decent throw and wear length!
While I know the concept of the scent isn't terribly romantic, it has a terribly mysterious and emotive quality that I can imagine accompanying romantic feelings -- the peril, as well as the comfort. Completely genderless, in a way I personally find very affirming.
It's been hard to pick a fave out of this collection, I don't think I could have consciously done it, but like I said, this is the one I have ended up reaching for over and over. I can't wait to read other folks' impressions!
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We at BPAL were surprised and disappointed to learn this week about the events that led to Charles Brownstein's resignation from CBLDF, and have been listening carefully to further complaints and questions related to the org's ability to fulfill its stated mission, which is one we have supported eagerly in the past.
In light of these events, we have requested to be removed from CBLDF's list of Corporate Members. We will be updating our site so that funds raised for CBLDF by various products will be routed to other orgs (TBD). In the meantime, proceeds from recent sales of those products will be held until we have fully updated our giving plan.Will post more when we know more! -
Today, BPAL’s own patriarch Ted is celebrating Happy Making Me a Father’s Day. Read his loving tribute to Lilith on the page for DIES PATRIBUS, the scent we just released to mark this occasion:“Lilith would eat cereal five times a day if we let her, so this is the scent of fruit-adjacent cereal with whole milk, a blast of vanilla bean, heavy cream, and fresh strawberries.”🍓 -
Along with this month's Lunacy, we're introducing a new ongoing series, TRIUMPH IN MY SONG: perfumes inspired by 18th- and 19th-century African-American poetry.https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/
Proceeds from TRIUMPH IN MY SONG will be split between Black Lives Matter, Black Visions Collective, the National Center for Black Equity, and the NAACP.This collection is accompanied by a message from Elizabeth about our goals as a company strenuously committed to fighting racial injustice.++ A LITTLE LUNACYMEAD MOON"Golden mead fermented with gruit, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, ginger root, sweet-briar, lemon, orange slices, and blackberries."https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/a-little-lunacy-limited-edition/mead-moon-2020-perfume-oil/
++ MÉNAGE À TROIS🥉 VETIVER, PATCHOULI, AND APPLE PEEL🥉 VANILLA, CHAMPACA, AND GARDENIA🥉 NIGHT-BLOOMING JASMINE, WILD HONEYSUCKLE, AND WISTERIA🥉 FRANKINCENSE, BOURBON TOBACCO, AND TONKA BEAN🥉 PINEAPPLE, WHITE MUSK, AND BLACKCURRANT++ TWILIGHT ALCHEMY LABISYCHIAThis is a dual-purpose protection and anti-anxiety blend. As the saying goes - in a crisis, you have to put your oxygen mask on first before you can help anyone else, and this oil is designed to help you calm and center yourself, protect yourself, and grant yourself space and clarity so you can move forward in strength to assist and support others.This oil contains ylang ylang, elemi, chamomile, and blue tansy.(Oh, and pssssst: SNAKE OIL is back in stock!)
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ALERT: I have been informed that the pre-orders for our MILK MOON and SPROUTING GRASS MOON tee shirts will end tomorrow.
https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/apparel/t-shirts/sprouting-grass-moon-tee/
https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/apparel/t-shirts/milk-moon-2020-tee/
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Releasing our monthly Lunacy perfumes is still our favorite way to mark the passage of time! This month we have a Full Milk Moon swirling around somewhere over our heads — be sure to take a big sip if you see her tonight.Without further ado:🥛 MILK MOON"A fertile scent, generous, life-affirming, and swelling with a sense of triumph, warmth, and abundance: sweet milk, golden honey, fig fruit, cedarwood, olive leaf, and dates."https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/a-little-lunacy-limited-edition/milk-moon-2020-perfume-oil/
***Note that our MILK MOON and SPROUTING GRASS MOON tee shirts are both available for pre-order. Design by Dan Santat!***++ MÉNAGE À TROIS🥉WHITE SANDALWOOD, SAGE & BOURBON VANILLA🥉GARDENIA, TOBACCO LEAF & OAKMOSS🥉COCONUT, SMOKED VANILLA & FIG🥉DARJEELING TEA, COCOA DUST & INCENSE🥉FRANKINCENSE, STAR ANISE & LABDANUMAnd from Twilight Alchemy Lab:⚗️ WHITE ROSEAn oil of peace, harmony, and reconciliation – a ceasefire, an oil of amity, a blend that restores harmony and nullifies household discord. We’re all in this together – and in many cases, really REALLY together – and this oil was crafted to help make that stay-at-home-in-your-face togetherness as peaceful and sweet as possible"Three types of rose essential oil, rose petals from the TAL garden, borage, motherwort, passion flower, lavender, sumac berries, coriander, and magnolia blossoms." -
It's time to ride! 🧹 The infamous HEXENNACHT (Witches' Night) of antiquity summons kindred spirits out of the shadows to take the biggest, juiciest bite out of springtime every year on April 30th. We've marked the occasion with a recurrence of our limited edition perfume blend. (Our video announcement below is convenient for sharing if you want to help us get the word out!)https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/limited-edition/hexennacht-2020-perfume-oil/
"German fir and forest herbs, incense and bonfire smoke, broom straw, and the wet, glimmering scent of skin warmed by dance."But she didn't come alone! Accompanying this year's HEXENNACHT release is a small collection of nine brand new perfumes drawing from the same traditions, honoring the power of the oppressed to overthrow their oppressors through wit and guile: DIE ERSTE WALPURGISNACHThttps://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/limited-edition/die-erste-walpurgisnacht/
Remember, high-fliers: keep those broomsticks at least 6 feet apart!🧹 🧹 🧹 -
I was a little afraid of this scent! Afraid because of what it embodies, and also afraid that I wouldn't like it, because I couldn't really imagine what it would smell like from the description. I was afraid of falling too hard for TOTALITY from a distance, and then discovering that it just wouldn't work between us in person.
And then with all the Lunacies canceled, and not being allowed to come into the Lab to work, I didn't end up having a chance to try it, so TOTALITY ended up fading from my list of potential partners altogether.
But then! Ted dropped off a whole box of all the partnership collaboration blends so we could photograph and review them during the lockdown. TOTALITY appeared on my actual doorstep, as if by magic! And then it was like I NEEDED to love it, which made me even more scared to smell it.
But now I haven't smelled of anything else for at least five days.
In the bottle: No joke about that abyss. Often there are crags and snarls and spikes that kind of break your fall a bit as you descend into one of these scents, but not here. The smoothness of the glide is part of the terror. Because, how deep does it go? The patchouli and frankincense don't claw at you or hold you back, they just grease the rails taking you down. Kind of at the last second, right when you think it might be going sweet, a scrud of smoke wafts up out of it... but no fire! It reminds me of the black hole effects in the film INTERSTELLAR. At first I thought I was detecting a leather note, like in SNAKE'S KISS (smelled side by side to confirm), or paper, like in bloodmilk's BOOKS, but I believe it's just the place where the pitch hits the fig and tangy tobacco. But if quizzed blind, I definitely would have guessed there was leather here!
So overall, in the bottle, the scent's character lives in a kind of indefinable nether-region. I love the text references to fossils, because there is something distinctly protean and inhuman about this scent experience. It's undeniably sensual but not exactly mammalian or even terribly organic at first, if you know what I mean. I'm thinking of tar pits, maybe.
Wet on the skin: The notes immediately seem to warm up upon contact with the skin. Here's where that amber starts to glow, and maybe there's something a bit mentholated from the pitch, and the tobacco becomes more identifiable, actually reminding me of fresh cigars. So yes, more glimmerings of organic life, but there's still something very "Before The Dawn of Civilization" about the whole thing.
This is the phase where I began to get very addicted to this scent. It's just so mysterious and brooding, and lures you into those murky depths by teasing with half-obscured answers.
I asked Galen what he thinks the dominant notes in this blend are, just from smelling it, and he said fig, amber, and tobacco. He can track the patchouli in it, but I really can't. It definitely reminds me a bit of GOMORRAH, an old love of mine, but TOTALITY is bolder, darker, smokier. It seems like the throw would be pretty robust. Hard to tell in quarantine!
Dry: More of the heady fumes related to the pitch and tobacco, warmed by the amber. You can't really lean into the sweetness without getting pushed back by something else, it's mesmerizing. I look forward to this "glowing nimbus" when I'm first putting it on, it's a mysterious vapor lifts you out of that abyss... but never all the back way into the light. TOTALITY-dwellers are creatures of no world!
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Since we're sheltering in place for a while longer, why not kick off another poetry contest? The theme for our new one is TOTALITY, which is the latest scent we created just for Haute Macabre:
“The splendor and terror of Totality: an abyss of black patchouli, tabac, burgundy pitch, smoky frankincense, and black fig surrounded by a glowing nimbus of fossilized amber.”
You've got until May 15th! Multiple submissions are allowed. Full details, including rules and regulations, can be found here:
https://www.blackphoenixgazette.com/bpal-x-haute-macabre-totality-poetry-contest-rules-regulations/
In the meantime, you'll find the TOTALITY products freshly relisted in the Haute Macabre apothecaryhttps://haute-macabre.myshopify.com/collections/apothecary
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Releasing a batch of monthly Lunacy perfumes makes us feel almost... NORMAL again!Included therein is SPROUTING GRASS MOON, which should help bring some of the outdoors inside: "Patches of bright green grass bursting through the last snows of winter." Label/tee shirt design by Dan Santat![Due to current circumstances, we are unable to print tees at this time. Please join the waitlist, and we’ll let you know as soon as we can go into production on the Sprouting Grass Moon tee. Thank you so much for understanding!]
Also, invitations to the following Ménages à Trois:🥉BLUEBERRIES, CREAM & CARDAMOM🥉 LAVENDER, SEA SALT & RAIN🥉 GRAPEFRUIT, YUZU & WHITE MUSK🥉 COTTON CANDY, STRAWBERRIES & LIME ZEST🥉 CARAMEL, SMOKED CHILIS & BLACK VANILLAAnd a special Twilight Alchemy Lab blend for gardeners, farmers, homesteaders, horticulturalists, and all people who shepherd and care for the Earth. We proudly present you with GAIA'S BLESSING!"Patchouli root, spikenard, burgundy pitch, barley, oakmoss, rice, purple sage, white sage, and clary sage, vervain, ivy, and myrrh." -
The LOVEBIRDS Poetry Contest results are long overdue, but here they are at last!
(Here's the link to a PDF containing all of these standout entries.)
The grand prize winner, Crystalyn Kuhlmeyer ("a year in the life of birds") will receive both Lovebirds perfume blends plus 3 Lupercalia products of her choice. Congratulations!
The three runners-up, presented here in no particular order, each win a mated set of LOVEBIRDS perfumes! We trust you will give them a good home. Those winners are:
Scarlett St. James - "A Lovebird's Lives"
Jill Baguchinsky - "Wing in Wing"
Euna Bonovich - "In Love & After"
Because this was SO DIFFICULT, we have named a handful of Honorable Mentions. Surprise! Each of you will receive one bottle of the Lovebird perfume of your choice. Those names:
Hanna Hertzler - "Theatrebirds"
Jacqueline Wright - "The Pink and the Green"
Michelle Cast - "Lovebirds"
Cathy Podd - "Rapture"
We could have picked an entirely different set of entries to spotlight, without any detectable decline in quality. Such is the bind you have put us in! Especially since we are not qualified to “judge” your work in any significant way. Know that you have taken us on the wildest of emotional rides with your poems, and please PLEASE submit again when we launch our next poetry contest... which will be soon! -
One more thing! All those Lunacy cancellations meant that no one got to preview the SPRING 2020 scents, so we've posted a vidya with some nosey first impressions. Part 2 coming on Monday!
https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/limited-edition/dum-spiro-spero-spring-2020/
Lockets: Last Chance At This Price!
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We hate, HATE to raise prices! However, due to the climbing cost of silver, this is your last chance at the current price for any of our sterling silver scent locket designs.
All future restocks (for older as well as newer designs) will retail for $120. Boooo! But in the meantime, you can still purchase our remaining stock at the current price, which is $100.
Once these run out, we'll update the website accordingly.