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    WE DID IT!
     
    Here's everything the update contains:
     
    ❄️ Yule General Catalog • Old friends, new friends!
     
    ❄️ Carved Wooden Holiday Village • A series of woody fragrances to be enjoyed and rearranged year after year
     
    ❄️ Cranberry Bog • It turns out you can teach an old bog new tricks!
     
    ❄️ Creepo Yuletide Greetings • Perfumes inspired by a series of strange old greeting cards that we'd love to send and receive
     
    ❄️ Snow On Snow, Snow On Snow • BPAL's classic SNOW WHITE fragrance casts a frosty spell over a series of General Catalog scents
     
    ❄️ The Cake Boys • A special yuletide sponsorship scent for these NYC pals, a troupe of drag kings and alternative queer & trans performers • https://www.cakeboykings.com/
     
    ❄️ Santa Doesn't Need Your Help • A fragrance crafted to accompany the entertaining new Christmas storybook by Kevin Maher and Joe Dator
     
    ❄️ Yule Hair Gloss • Gloss your hairs!

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    I'm not JUST here to tease you with glimpses of the Yule update (which we're hard at work on!), but to help pace expectations related to holiday shopping.
     
    As in the past few years, there's basically NO guarantee that we can ship these brand new scents in time for Christmas. The world is chaos, the postal system is slammed, and the new facility is operating with a decidedly NON-ginormous skeleton crew.
     
    If you really, really want gifty 'fumes to arrive in time for Christmas, you basically have two options. Firstly, you can order now, TODAY, from the vast array of amazing options that are already in stock on our website. Yeah, I know, boringgggggggg, but still. That is the safest path to order fulfillment ahead of Dec. 25th, and we greatly appreciate the business.
     
    The second option is more of a wish and a prayer, and that involves including a note IN THE COMMENTS OF YOUR ORDER that it's a gift and you really need it by Christmas, and we'll do our best (still no promises!) to prioritize it.
     
    No, these two options aren't mutually exclusive. Also, the second option won't really work if people are grinchy and use that trick to hasten their regular orders for themselves, will it? So there's a bit of an honor system thing going on, and others' Christmas dreams are likely to count on you (YES, YOU) being honorable.
     
    And as is my annual custom, I'll also drop a mention of our Gift Certificates, which are available in any amount and will allow people to find and discover their own 'fumes at their own pace. You can buy those right up till the last minute, since they are delivered via email!
     
    The perfume teased below is slated as a fundraiser scent for Transanta, an org we've posted about on Instagram that shares gift registries for young trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming folks who can't count on receiving gender-affirming gifts (or any at all) from their families this Christmas. That's a great place to do a little shopping while you wait for us to finish up: https://www.instagram.com/transanta/
     
    I'm figuring the Yule collection will go live next week? That's all I know!
     
    Thanks, friends, and hugs. We're really trying.
     
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    Okay, contrary to what I said elsewhere, we have indeed managed to restock a few more LE's! It felt important to get the word out, so folks can still pounce on the Free Gift imps if they haven't already.
     
    Cherry Red
    Oct 33rd
    The Shadowed Veil
    Samhain
    Every Day is Halloween
    Lightning Strikes Literature
    Apple Macchiato
    A Sorceress
     
    Sorry for the mixed messages, we really are just off-roading through this stuff because of the move.

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    We've whipped up something special for Black Friday weekend! Anyone who spends $15 or more at BPAL from Fri. Nov. 25th through Mon. Nov. 28th will find the following trio of 1/32 oz. perfume oils tucked into their order:

     

    🥧 BLUEBERRY BANANA CREAM PIE

    🥧 CARAMELIZED PECAN RUM CAKE

    🥧 GINGER CAKE WITH QUINCE AND ORANGE ZEST

     

    These perfumes are impossible to obtain any other way, will be given out while supplies last, and should under no circumstances be tasted, nibbled, or otherwise ingested. Thanks for supporting a small business during your holiday shopping, it means the world to us!

     

     

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    We blew it when we launched the 'Weenies, accidentally omitting PUMPKIN RUM CAKE. We've launched the scent to coincide with the sniff vid in which we sampled it -- link to the perfume is in the caption. Thank you, and apologies once again!

     

     

     

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    Halloween has a magic that transcends season, and we have bottled it for year-round enjoyment. This year's perfume collection is finally here! 🎃

     

    https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/halloween-2022

     

    Contained therein, you'll find...

     

    🎃 A bounty of General Catalog 'Weenie scents — some old, some new!

     

    🎃 Ginormous Yard Skeleton — four perfumes inspired by the stages of acquiring this contemporary spooky-season staple

     

    🎃 Bobbing For Apples — our mind may be in the gutter with these variations on BPAL classics, but at least we get a healthy snack!

     

    🎃 Pile of Leaves — the Lab's time-honored Dead Leaves accord has returned to imbue the air around you with a distinctive crackle

     

    🎃 Witches, Sorceresses, and Sorceries in Art History — a sinister museum tour painted in scent

     

    🎃 Lightning Strikes — three variations on BPAL's classic Lightning fragrance, created in collaboration with PS Publishing to celebrate the release of their new non-fiction book about The Bride of Frankenstein

     

    🎃 Persephone's Bounty — a wealth of autumnal pomegranate perfumes

     

     

     

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    We're still cleaning out the Lab's old facility ahead of our move, and have returned with another round of rare mistakes, misadventures, and various oddities. Those have been updated here:

     

    https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/the-purge/

     

    Also, it looks like we had enough leftovers from LAST year's Dragon Con to constitute a lil mini-release of those perfumes. Get 'em while they're hot, hot, hot!

     

    https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-tag/virtualcon-2021/

     

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    The new Sphere + Sundry drop celebrating Exalted Venus contains four incredible new perfume blends capitalizing on a particularly benevolent astrological conjunction. Brief descriptions below!
     
     
    CONDOLEO
    "A sweet, comforting oil: a balm for despair, a heart-healer, and a catharsis."
     
    SQUAMA
    "This oil was crafted as a protection from the ravages of personal and global grief by enabling you to keep an open heart, letting the darkness of the world pass through you without injuring you. Squama assists in helping you remain able to acknowledge and process pain with eyes that remain open and hearts that remain open while enabling you to continue to react with love to yourself and to others no matter how dark the world may become."
     
    POMPILUS
    "Loosely inspired by remoras, this oil will assist you in befriending those who – at first glance – may seem to be your enemies, in finding (and charming) unexpected allies, and in guiding you to your destinations (literal, spiritual, and metaphorical) in safety."
     
    LEPOS
    "An oil of effervescent charm, quirky humor, captivation, and enchantment. The allure of the odd, the magnetism of Poe’s 'strangeness in the proportion,' the amplification and cultivation of the strange things about you that make you uniquely lovely."
     
    Available for $45 each, or as a full set for $180

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    Welp, we've just released a new perfume to raise emergency veterinary funds for the Barrials' littlest, Maggie, who is in trouble now due to complications from her spay surgery. Obviously the timing couldn't be worse for them; we're dropping a special LE in hopes that it will help ease this unforeseen financial burden. (As Beth writes on the product page, any additional funds raised will be donated to https://redrover.org/.

     

    Thank you all so much for your support during such a delicate time. And on a personal note, I'd like to request that folks give the Barrials some space to take care of things in this sensitive moment -- they really shouldn't be deluged with messages and notifications during their special gal's time of need. 

     

     https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/limited-edition/margaret-magdalena-muffinhead-perfume-oil/ 

     

    MARGARET MAGDALENA MUFFINHEAD

    "Miss Margaret Magdalena is a chocolate lab baby so her perfume is a thick, smoky fudge brownie scent with a heavy handful of coffee beans. She has golden eyes with a hint of green, so I added a bit of caramelized amber and green cardamom."

     

     

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    Hi friends, as the Lab's move to Philly is now underway, we're about to enter a sort of twilight period of production during which our chiefs are hustling back and forth, setting up one facility while breaking down another.

     

    This will affect production in a number of ways, some of which still aren't foreseeable yet. But here's one thing we DO know: over the next few months, Limited Edition releases such as Lunacy drops are going to be SUPER limited: instead of a finite window of time to purchase, there will be a finite number of bottles available to purchase. The reason why? Our blenders in chief can't count on being readily accessible to make more. So when they're gone, they're gone!

     

    You're also going to notice more GC scents being listed as out of stock, since there won't be anyone on hand to reblend if we oversell what we have in inventory. We WILL get around to replenishing and relisting these, it will just take a little longer than folks may be used to. As in, late fall or winter? Just trying to be realistic. (So, if there's anything you can't live without through the rest of the year, it would be wise to acquire it now.)

     

    Please try not to panic! It's just temporary, and they've been blending as much as possible ahead of all this back-and-forth travel so that Lunacies etc. can proceed as usual. But we can't think of everything, and we appreciate your patience as we sort everything out in real time. We'll be releasing more info soon about our bonus release of all the mistakes/experiments/archival products that we're letting go of in order to clear out our space and make mucho dinero for the rest of the move.

     

    Thanks, everyone!

     

    TB

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    Timed to coincide with the release of a new reissue of Peter's book! The new scents will go live Friday morning.
     
     
    I wanna add a note here that this run of perfumes (as well as restocks of the older ones) are no longer going to include original character artwork, but instead will feature a "main category" label.
     
    Nothing to worry about, we just want to be able to release these on the best timetable for our needs, which can include surprise factors such as component inventory that may dictate which ones we revive next, regardless of which illustrations we already have on standby.
     
    As much as we prefer having each scent look unique next to others in the collection, I figure people would much rather have these in hand sooner rather than later!
     

     

     

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    We're launching a bunch of candles online tomorrow morning at 9am Pacific. $25 apiece! Extremely limited quantity — when they're gone, they're gone. If you miss out, know that we will be releasing another small run of different scents sometime in the future. 

     

    https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/home-linen/candles/

     

    🕯️APPLE CIDER - "A crisp, bright, boozy cider."

     

    🕯️APPLES AND HONEY

     

    🕯️AUTUMN ROSES - "Petals blooming in a somber sunset gradient of russet, amber-brown, and blood red."

     

    🕯️BLACK HONEY


    🕯️PUMPKIN SPICE EVERYTHING

     

    🕯️SAMHAIN - "Truly the scent of autumn itself — damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein."

     

    🕯️BOLESKINE HOUSE - "Highland wildflowers, peat, decaying wood, and faded incense smoke."

     

    More candle info:

     

    Hand-poured in Los Angeles, CA! Our candles are crafted from a natural coconut wax with an lead-free cotton wick, and are generously scented with Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab-crafted fragrances.

     

    Please trim your wick to 1/4" before each lighting. When burning, please allow the melted wax pool to melt to the edges of the glass before you extinguish the candle in order to prevent tunneling. We strongly recommend that you burn our candles for three hours at a time to help prevent tunneling, but please try not to burn them for longer than four at a stretch. (This is especially true the first time you light one up!) Coconut wax candles imprint: the wax has a memory of sorts, and will burn best and smell strongest if you establish a good melt pool straight off the bat.

     

    Coconut wax candles should never remain lit for longer than four hours at a stretch, and always let them cool completely before relighting. Please make sure your wick is always trimmed to a good height (1/8” to 1/4”), and is always centered. Once the wax has burned down to about 1/2”, please discontinue use. You don’t want to scorch the furniture or risk cracking the glass!

     

    Some stats!

    * White wax in black glass.

     

    * Natural, sustainable, paraben-free, non-GMO, food-grade coconut wax blend. (But please don't eat!)

     

    * Lead-free cotton wick.

     

    * Dimensions: 3 1/2" high x 3 3/16" wide, approximately 8oz of candle. Weight with glass: 1lb 4oz.

     

    Common sense precaution:

    Candles utilize fire in order to work properly, and fire can be a touchy element, so please do not leave your little hot wax fireball within reach of children, pets, or irresponsible adults. The glass containing your candle will be hot during and after use, so please use caution while handling. Do not leave our candles unattended, burn them in drafty areas, or leave them near flammable materials. Do not eat the wax. Do not use the wax for sexytime. Don’t play weird double dog dare games with open flames. Do not use the wax to make poppets of your enemies.

     

    Black Phoenix is not responsible for any unforeseen funny business; use the candles responsibly and wisely, please!

     

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    Not to "per our last email" you, but... per our last email!

     

    Below is a linked list of everything we're dropping after the next Lunacy. We're lightening our load ahead of the huge move to Philly this fall. Wanna help? 

     Winter/Yule 2021

     Lupercalia / Shunga 2022

     February Lunacy Perfumes, including Five Paintings That Smell Like February

     March Lunacy Perfumes, including Five Paintings That Smell Like Fickle March Weather and Snake Milk

     Blacklight Reactive Posters

    And don't forget to stalk our eBay page, which Ted has been updating with all kinds of new (old) stuff!

     

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    We will be going to DragonCon! More details coming soon about how things will work at the booth, but I know you'll wanna see this list in the meantime...

     

    ++ DRAGONCON 2022

    Price per bottle is still TBA, we are figuring out a lot of things at the moment. As we said above, these perfumes will be sold at the event and online, ONLY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.

    🍑 CHROME PEACHES

    🍑 PEACH GLAZED DONUT WITH MANGO CHUNKS

    🍑 POMEGRANATE PEACH MARTINI

    🍑 PEACH ABSINTHE

    🍑 PEACH, COCONUT CREAM, MARSHMALLOW, AND NOUGAT

    🍑 PEACH, LEMON PEEL, AND SUGARED BLACKBERRY

    🍑 RIDICULOUSLY SEXY PEACH

    🍑 PEACH MILK

    🍑 PEACH-KISSED DADDY BY EFFY

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    Our latest collaboration with Century Guild is a perfume that’s only accessible via their Kickstarter project reviving this 1893 artwork by Georges de Feure.
     
    FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL IN THE FLESH
    “Skin musk and white tea shadowed by smoked lilac, white tobacco petals, vanilla husk, elemi, and incense dust.”
     
     

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    Craving new hair gloss options? We’ve brewed up something special for Ritualcravt, using scents previously crafted for them as perfumes. Exclusively available via their store and website! 🖤

     

    https://www.ritualcravt.com/product-category/beauty/

     

    RITUALCRAVT

    "A complex perfume devoted to Hekate, our shop’s matron deity. Formulated and poured by cult-favourite perfumer Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, this scent is genderless, earthy, and addictive. Notes of plants sacred to Her include: black patchouli, teakwood, white sandalwood, saffron crocus, tobacco leaf, aconite accord, ambrette seed, musk seed, Dittany of Crete, and yew."

     

    HEKATE'S GARDEN

    "Notes of honeyed patchouli root, tobacco absolute, saffron crocus, teakwood, and burnt cypress."

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