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Snake Bath
Nice bath ya got there; would be a shame if some Snake Oil sloshed into it… 😏 Soothe your dry scales with a soak in our sssignature ssscent: deep, rich, earthy notes swirled with vegetal musks, sugared vanilla bean, and dark spices. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/bath/bath-oils/ Snake Oil is just one of FIFTEEN Bath Oils currently in stock. Each is superbly moisturizing without being greasy, lushly scented without being heavy-handed — a blend of softening and replenishing oils, with rosehip, shea, evening primrose, fractionated coconut, and vitamin E, will ensure that you experience the utmost in sublime (or fiendish!) pleasure. Paraben & formaldehyde free. No sodium lauryl or sodium laureth sulfate. No animal testing, no bad vibes, no actual sssssnake included anywhere! #bpal #blackphoenixalchemylab #bathoil

Here, fishy fishy! ✨🐟✨ We’re deep in the process of preparing a STURGEON MOON Lunacy launch. New limited edition perfume oils and hair gloss — timed and themed with each month’s full moon! Label and sticker artwork by Drew Rausch! #bpal #blackphoenixalchemylab #sturgeonmoon

Dr. Caligari Pins
We created these beautiful enamel pins to celebrate Dr. Caligari’s restoration — from grimy VHS to the glittering world of 4K! 👁️ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/collaborations/dr-caligari/ Here’s a little side-by-side showing the pin art next to Stephen Sayadian’s eye-catching set pieces. The digital version we’ve been pulling clips from is pre-restoration, so it all looks drastically better on Blu-ray and streaming. Check it out on Shudder! #midnightmovies #cultfilm #drcaligari #80shorror #classichorror #cultclassic

Match our freak by wearing Clive Barker perfumes in August! 🔥⛓️🪝⛓️🔥 We have not one but THREE licensed scents inspired by “The Forbidden” — the short story of Barker’s that was adapted into Candyman… twice! Here they are! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/clive-barker/the-forbidden/ 🐝 SWEETS TO THE SWEET Sugar upon sugar, honey upon honey: white cane sugar and honey absolute. 🐝 FOOLISH AND VACUOUS A scent with no depth: a light, reedy, almost vapid take on a classic men’s fougere. 🐝 THE DAY BURNED WHITE Plaster and spraypaint, mottled with buttermilk – sweet, chalky, and edging on sickly. White and golden amber beams of daylight pour through the belly of the scent, while oakmoss and Spanish moss add a touch of decay. #clivebarker #candyman #candymancandymancandymancandymancandyman #90shorror

Hair Gloss
Your hair told us it’s aching to try a new scent 👹 Our general catalog of Hair Gloss blends has been steadily growing — not to mention the Limited Edition ones which we frequently unleash to bedevil and beguile unsuspecting hair-havers. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/body-beauty/hair-gloss/ Each 4oz bottle contains our special formula of argan oil, botanisil, camelina oil, cyclomethicone, karanja oil, Tahitian monoi oil, and Vitamin E, plus lots and lots of fragrance. BPAL’s Hair Gloss is paraben- and sulfate-free, and contains no petrochemicals, no GMOs, and no triclosan. Pictured here, all new: ✨ MINERALIC AMBER ✨ EMBALMING FLUID A light, pure scent: white musk, green tea, aloe and lemon. ✨ CONCOMBRE #bpal #blackphoenixalchemylab

We put honeydew in a shoe for totally non-perverted reasons — to visually demonstrate the appeal of MELON CREAM CAKE perfume oil. Please don’t send us to horny jail! 👠🫣 Slather yourself in the scent of whipped cream squished between luscious layers of pale green sponge, topped with hunks of syrup-glazed honeydew. Part of the Lupercalia 2024 collection, available only until September 4th 🤍 https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lupercalia-2024/

Expect to see a lot of Lupercalia love posted here in the weeks to come! 🫀 This epic series of Limited Edition fragrances — including the Shunga series inspired by Edo Period artworks — will be leaving our shop on September 4th. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/lupercalia-2024/ https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/novel-ideas-for-secret-amusements-2024/ Please tell us your faves below! Everyone else needs know what they stand to miss out on.

Coconut Tree
It’s all context, baby 🥥🌴 Proceeds from our COCONUT TREE single note perfume oil will go to EMILYs List — an org dedicated to helping pro-choice women win elections. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/activism/coconut-tree-single-note-perfume-oil/ The scent: a silky, summery blend of coconut meat, coconut milk, coconut frond, and coconut husk. #context #coconut #coconuttree #prochoice #reproductiverights

Fragrant meditations from the mangled mind of Gus Pratt — erstwhile cannibal and current inmate at Dr. Caligari’s asylum. 💉🧠 Our scent inspired by this memorable scene: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/collaborations/dr-caligari/ CANNIBAL SOLILOQUY A perfume worthy of a fading Tennessee Williams heroine wandering through a mirror-maze of memories, slightly singed from too many Electro-Convulsive Therapy sessions: wafts of burning frankincense rising from a hot-seat of duelling champaca orchids, white amber, Sicilian mandarin, and bergamot. The film (as we keep telling anyone who will listen) has been brilliantly remastered and is currently streaming on Shudder. #midnightmovie #drcaligari #vhshorror #80shorror #cultclassic

With racialized misogyny taking center stage this election season, and with reproductive and gender rights increasingly on the line, we’ve decided to spend the next couple of months ravenously revisiting Jude Doyle’s 2019 book DEAD BLONDES & BAD MOTHERS: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power. Drawing from numerous pop culture examples as well as historical events, Doyle digs into specific archetypes of female monstrosity which have been used to define and enforce societal norms for centuries — in certain instances, millennia — speaking directly to the challenges of the present moment. This would be excellent book club material in the months ahead... or if you want to be in a mini book club with *us*, keep your eyes peeled for further posts as we dive into the text. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/collaborations/dead-blondes-and-bad-mothers/ In 2020 BPAL collaborated with Doyle on a set of eight perfume oils to celebrate the book’s anniversary, channeling individual chapters into scent. Currently available in our shop: 📚 DEAD BLONDE 📚 POSSESSED TEEN 📚 ALIEN/SIREN 📚 BLUEBEARD’S WIFE 📚 HAUNTED HOUSEWIFE 📚 MAMA GEIN 📚 WOMAN AS DRAGON 📚 THE WOMAN AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS #bookclub #booksbooksbooks #womenwhoread #transinclusive #transauthor #transrightsarehumanrights

We did it! 🦋 The remaining six scents in this licensed collection of perfume oils have finally been re-released: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/the-last-unicorn/ Peter S. Beagle 🦋 HAGSGATE An accursed bounty: rich black soil and hay, cucumber, tomato, red lettuce, summer squash, black eggplant, arugula, grape vine, artichoke, and a tangle of herbs marred by an undercurrent of vetiver, patchouli, and black moss. 🦋 KING HAGGARD Dry cedar, bitter balsam, and ashes. 🦋 PRINCE LÍR Chivalry, love, and sacrifice. A noble cologne touched by a sweet sadness: vanilla fougere, bright citrus, juniper berry, ambergris accord, and basil. 🦋 THE KING'S DAUGHTER A matter of formality: lilac musk, sandalwood, sweet pea, watermelon accord, pale woods, elemi, and oakmoss. 🦋 TOUCHED TWICE As delicate as life, as gentle as death, and as powerful as love: sheer, luminescent vanilla musk with frangipani, red sandalwood, frankincense, champaca flower, coconut, rose absolute, white cyclamen, Himalayan mogra, angelica, and white oud. 🦋 WITCH-CURSED CASTLE Weed-strewn oak, opoponax, wet stone, creaking redwood, and desolate olibanum.

Is your favorite scent locket-worthy? 🧡 The faces of our sterling silver locket designs are artfully vented so that wafts of perfume — warmed by the metal’s closeness to your body — can be released into the air around you. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/jewelry/lockets/ This is ideal for anyone with sensitivities or whose favorite fragrance doesn’t play nice with their skin chemistry; also those who spend time around others sensitive to fragrance, since a locket can so easily be removed and put away. Our locket designs cover a range of aesthetics and interests, from high goth to astrology, literature, and classical art. Our goldfish design (pictured here) is a tasteful and sensuous work of art in itself.

Thank you for being specific 💋 Our goal is to rewatch Dr. Caligari a truly unhealthy amount of times while it’s still streaming on #Shudder. We’re already getting there! 🤪 #drcaligari #midnightmovie #cultfilm #80shorror

If you’re new here, dearest deer, then please know this: each month we launch a new series of Limited Edition fragrances timed and themed with the latest full moon. These are accompanied by a fresh set of those classical art scents you may have seen here as well! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/a-little-lunacy-limited-edition/ July’s launch: 🦌 DEER MOON Moonstruck with music and madness: warm russet musk, toasted sandalwood, cacao, blood-tipped blackberry thorns, and oak bark. Label artwork and 3” x 3” vinyl sticker design by Drew Rausch! 2024’s Lunacy Duet scents are designed to flatter, compliment, or enhance different aspects of the main Lunacy blend. They can be worn alone, or layered with their siblings and/or parent Lunacy! 🌙 DEER MOON: Honey Dust and Oudh 🌙 DEER MOON: Blackberry and Wild Lilac 🌙 DEER MOON: Golden Tobacco and Beeswax 🌙 DEER MOON: Caramel and Dark Musk And a 4oz Lunacy Duet hair gloss that’s sure to bring the bucks running: 🌙 SUMMER FIG & WILDFLOWER HONEY This month’s Ars Anni scents, translating works of classical art into 5ml perfume oils: 🎨 FAUN EINER AMSEL ZUPFEIFEND by Arnold Bocklin A musky, sensual balsamic amber reclining on a bed of dandelions, mock strawberry, and wild grasses with a flutter of feathery black vetiver and a splotch of ink. 🎨 WOMAN IN FRONT OF THE SETTING SUN by Caspar David Friedrich Five ambers fading in descending radiance. 🎨 MORNING FOLLOWS NIGHT by Nicolaes Berchem Bourbon vanilla, tonka bean, raw cacao, and patchouli root illuminated by yellow bergamot, lemon rind, and white amber. 🎨 AN ANGEL LEADING A SOUL INTO HELL by Hieronymous Bosch A tarterian conflagration of red musk, mimosa, scorched leather, Halfeti rose, and king mandarin aflame with red pepper, daemonorops draco, red amber, patchouli ash, pimento berry, cardamom, and tobacco. All accounted for in the section of our store called A Little Lunacy! #bpal #blackphoenixalch

Felis Silvestris Catus
Perfumes for childless cat ladies, catboys, or anyone else allegedly wrecking our nation simply by doing what they want and being themselves. Keep up the good work! 😻 Felis Silvestris Catus is our limited edition series of 5ml perfume oils inspired by portraits of feline excellence in classical art. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/felis-silvestris-catus/ “The thing is that we’re effectively run in this country via the Democrats, be it via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.” — JD Vance, 2021 #childlesscatladies #catladies #catboy #perfumeoil #catlover #jdvance

This weekend, 2024’s Buck Moon will rise high overhead — which means on Monday we’ll be launching our DEER MOON Lunacy jubilee! New limited edition perfume oils, hair gloss, and a vinyl sticker design featuring Drew Rausch's label artwork. At the end of next week, we’ll be taking away the WORM MOON offerings from earlier this year. Go give ‘em a looksee in case there’s anything you missed! 🪱 https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/a-little-lunacy-limited-edition/ All of the above will be found in the section of our shop called A Little Lunacy.

Strawberry Moon
It’s too late to run… she’s here already! 🍓👄🍓 STRAWBERRY MOON A dark and dreary fragrance, honeyed yet ominous, hovering in sweet shadows: overripe strawberries and bloody smears of red currant hovering in a gloom of indigo musk, black tea, plum incense tears, champaca, cacao, and hazy laudanum accord. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/a-little-lunacy-limited-edition/ This 5ml perfume oil is here to smear gobs of strawbs across your summer doldrums… if you’ll just let her in. Found under A Little Lunacy in our shop! Many thanks to Drew Rausch for this brilliant label illustration.

Since it’s hotter’n hell outside, here’s a little love for a classic General Catalog scent: HORREUR SYMPATHIQUE “In you I see my pride take form, And the huge clouds that rush in streams Are the black hearses of my dreams, And your red rays reflect the hell, In which my heart is pleased to dwell.” The perfume of a hellbound soul, gleefully lost to iniquity: blood musk, golden honey, thick black wine, champagne grapes, tobacco flower, plum blossom, tonka bean, oakmoss, carnation, benzoin, opoponax, and sugar cane. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/general-catalog-perfume-oils/diabolus/ This oil is currently available in both 5ml or 1/32oz sizes 🖤

Imp Pack Restock
Restock alert! 🐍 Three more Imp Packs have returned — sets of handy 1/32oz samples you can use to explore certain scent families. In this case: Patchouli, Vanilla, and our ever-expanding RPG series! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/imps-ears/imp-packs/ ++ PATCHOULI IMP PACK 🐍 ANNE BONNY A blend of Indonesian red patchouli, red sandalwood, and frankincense. 🐍 THE COILED SERPENT A potent yogic oil that stimulates the kundalini, provokes spiritual awakening, and releases the energy seated in your root chakra. 🐍 IMP White peach, amber, golden musk and patchouli. 🐍 NAMASTE Sandalwood, jasmine, rose, patchouli, cedarwood and lemongrass. 🐍 THE OBSIDIAN WIDOW Pinot noir, dark myrrh, red sandalwood, black patchouli, night-blooming jasmine, and attar of rose. 🐍 SIN Amber, sandalwood, black patchouli and cinnamon. ++ VANILLA IMP PACK 🤍 EAT ME Three white cakes, vanilla, and red and black currants. 🤍 BELLE EPOQUE “The Pretty Era”, France’s Golden Time: an age of beauty, innovation and peace in France that lasted from the 19th Century through the first World War and gave birth to the cabaret, the cancan, and the cinema as well as the Impressionist and Art Nouveau movements. Sweet opium, Lily of the Valley, vanilla, mandarin and red sandalwood. 🤍 GOOD Shimmering celestial musk with vanilla, white honey, acacia, and sugar cane. 🤍 LIGHT OF MEN'S LIVES The wax and smoke of millions upon millions of candles illuminating the walls of Death’s shadowy cave: some tall, straight, and strong, blazing with the fire of life, others dim and guttering. 🤍 LYONESSE Golden vanilla and gilded musk, stargazer lily, white sandalwood, grey amber, elemi, orris root, ambergris and sea moss. 🤍 MOUSE'S LONG AND SAD TALE Vanilla, two ambers, sweet pea and white sandalwood. ++ RPG CLASSES IMP PACK 🛡️ DRUID A woolen robe infused with the scent of a vast, primordial forest: ancient trees, fertile soil, wild herbs, spri

I Know You're Watching Me
Count on BPAL to bottle the scent of full-blown nympho housewife hysteria: a smear of flushed, pearly skin musk splashed by a sophisticated vintage aldehyde perfume and drenched in the secretions of high-pitched arousal. 👀 I KNOW YOU’RE WATCHING ME is just one of eight licensed perfume oils bringing the 1989 cult classic Dr. Caligari to shocking life. Everybody limbo! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/collaborations/dr-caligari/ Now that the glorious 2023 remaster is streaming on Shudder, anyone can take a peek!