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    With the holidays fast approaching, please take note of the Lab and Trading Post’s shipping cut-off dates to receive items by Christmas.


    These cut-offs are for shipments you need to receive by Christmas only and do not affect scent availability for purchase:


    Monday Dec. 7th 12:01am PST for international orders


    Monday, Dec 14th 12:01am PST for domestic orders


    Gift Certificates are not subject to the same cut-offs as they’re sent by email, so you can also get those for BPAL and the Trading Post.


    Thank you!


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    Coming out of hiding to report that I got to sample this tonight and have been thoroughly corrupted.

     

    The cumin keeps this from plunging as deep and dark as the clove and leather might otherwise dive together (as they do when you smell straight from the bottle). Instead the whole blend swirls and hovers together in a sort of stagnant middle layer, like brackish water swirling in warm sunlight, giving off a faintly sweet steam -- that's the vanilla and cumin dancing together, right on the edge of an edible smell.

     

    As in Snake Oil, this is merely an enticement to lure the nose down into the darker, more mysterious notes. However, I found the latter dried off sooner, leaving one to luxuriate in the steam instead of fully losing one's boots in the muck -- a decidedly non-putrid experience overall, but I love those early stages when you're nervous because you're not quite sure how deep those puddles might be.

     

    Edit: No, there it is -- a lingering stink, which I think is still the cumin. Beth just described it to me as "sweaty." I love this scent!

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    Pretty Indulgent has just added two new exclusive BPAL fragrances to their collection:

     

    MAT NIGHT
    The joy of wanton mischief: caramelized tobacco and snow muffling the scent of a distant fire.
    SOIRS d’AUTOMNE
    Voici que la tulipe et voilà que les roses,
    Sous les gestes massifs des bronzes et des marbres,
    Dans le Parc où l'Amour folàtre sous les arbres,
    Chantent dans les longs soirs monotones et roses.
    Dans les soirs a chanté la gaîté des parterres
    Où danse un clair de lune en des poses obliques,
    Et de grands souffles vont, lourds et mélancoliques,à
    Troubler le rêve blanc des oiseaux solitaires.
    Voici que la tulipe et voilà que les roses
    Et les lys cristallins, pourprés de crépuscule,
    Rayonnent tristement au soleil qui recule,
    Emportant la douleur des bêtes et des choses.
    Et mon amour meurtri, comme une chair qui saigne,
    Repose sa blessure et calme ses névroses.
    Et voici que les lys, la tulipe et les roses
    Pleurent les souvenirs où mon âme se baigne.
    - - -
    See how here the tulip- there the rose,
    By a group of bronze and marble statuaries,
    In the park where love frolics under trees,
    Sing through my nights, pink and monotonous.
    The flowerbeds sang at eve in joyful chords
    Where the moonlight’s dance is a shifting show
    And where, sultry and sad, their high notes go,
    Troubling the pure dreams of solitary birds.
    See how here the tulip there the rose
    And crystal lilies, crimson in twilight,
    Radiate sadly to the sun in flight
    That bears away from beasts and things their woes.
    And my ravaged love, like bleeding flesh, makes whole
    Its wounds and lets its madness find repose.
    See how the lily, tulip, and the rose
    Weep for the memories that wash my soul.
    - Emile Nelligan
    Ravaged love, like bleeding flesh, makes whole its wounds: lily, tulip and rose shimmering in the moonlight, brushed by a quiet autumn breeze.

     

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    Hi everyone, two updates this week -- a dash of luck, some good will, and new scents.

     

    Palmyra

     

    All proceeds after cost of manufacture benefit the UNHCR’s efforts to aid refugees and meet humanitarian needs.

     

    Golden amber and galbanum with frankincense, myrrh, Balm of Gilead, vanilla-infused sandalwood, sand-smoothed leather, and Ceylon cinnamon.

    13

    BPAL's latest tribute of today's notoriously unlucky date.

    Thirteen sugars, honeys, and vanillas dusted with chocolate to help you combat ill-fortune with the raw power of overwhelming sweetness.

    Enjoy in good health!

     

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