#bpal

[boscotron]

This is not a drill, BPAL has done a Carmilla collection for their 2024 Halloween release:

(I don't work for the lab I'm just obsessed)

[momdusa]

These buttons from black phoenix alchemy labs are making me wanna pull out my dolls and take pics with them

[the-bar-sinister]

I want more BPAL scents, I say, reminding myself to enjoy the ones I already have.

[catastrfy]

neil gaiman collab update fromthe bpal forums. text in alt

[golvio]

I gotta say, there have been some real winners in this year’s batch of “Dead Leaves” scents. I tried “Dead Leaves, Lilac, & Labdanum” today and it’s really good! It does smell like classic lilac once it starts drying because lilac’s a really strong floral, but eventually the other two notes overtake it, making it smell more herbal than a straight floral. I like lilac, but I have to be in the right mood for it because it’s usually so strong, so it’s nice to have an option that’s a little less overpowering.

[shiniestcrow]

Hey, so, heads-up: if you're at all interested in any Good Omens perfume, now's the time to get it, as BPAL won't make any more of it

This goes for all their perfumes related to Neil Gaiman properties

This includes but is not limited to: Coraline, American Gods, Neverwhere & The Graveyard Book

100% of the proceeds go to the National Coalition Against Censorship, in case you're concerned about that

[cleolinda]

The work of horror manga artist Junji Ito has wound itself into our brains so tightly, there’s simply no digging it out. As such, it has been an immense honor to develop licensed BPAL products in collaboration with the Crunchyroll series Junji Ito Collection, which includes TOMIE and many other tales.

The first one: Tomie. “‘What’s so precious about a monster?’ A seductive and deceptively delicate blend of rose-tinted white sandalwood, ethereal white amber, voluptuous almond blossom, coeur de jasmin, and a gasp of bourbon vanilla.”

[postcardsfromheapside]

Hey perfume fans:

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has linked a bunch of relief funds for Los Angeles here, and they're also sending profits from this scent series towards relief organizations.

I've been a fan of this company for years and years - they produce an incredible product, and constantly have something going for relief efforts or awareness.

[angelofthemornings]

@diehellasrache AS REQUESTED. Every year I save up and when the Lupercalias drop I go nuts on Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab since I've never met a Shunga I didn't like. Let's check out what I got this time. We're going to make this a three parter since the money gods were good to me and I got nine this year.

Convivial Vulva: Cherry blossom cream, blush marshmallow, white amber, and wild pink strawberries.

I was most looking forward to this one, the Vulvas are always fun. I missed Glowing Vulva last year and I think I'll get the Glowing Vulva hair gloss this year if I spoil myself and do another run, even though I have no idea what hair gloss is. I imagine it makes your hair smell nice and I like it when my hair smells nice.

So, I open the bottle and smear some on and get hit with the strawberries first. Gigantic, teenage-girl confection of a fruity floral. I figured if I waited a minute it would settle down, and it did, with the amber coming out and granting more moderation and maturity to the fragrance. It's got very good sillage, in general, BPAL has gotten better about making fragrances with actual throw in recent years.

As it dries down, the "blush marshmallow" really comes out and the fruitiness takes a backseat, although it doesn't go away entirely, just falls back into the kind of smooth, creamy, well-rounded thing you'd expect from one of BPAL's Vulvas. (Not the manliest thing to want to smell like, but I'm not out here buying fragrances to feel butch.)

Michiyuki Koi no Futazao: Brandy-soaked pears, plum incense, and honeyed amber.

When first applied, this does, in fact, smell exactly like brandy-soaked pears. You can practically taste the alcohol (and the pears). I've been looking for a pear scent I liked and this is a buoyant, true to life gourmand I'm enjoying immensely. The plum incense (I love plum incense in real life and this is honestly a pretty true to life depiction of how it smells) is subtle at first, then way more prominent upon drydown, but adds some depth and support to the scent. I think this is going to age well and the pear and incense components won't fight as much.

Hazy Moon Cats: Sandalwood incense, dusky violet petals, mauve orris root, sweet labdanum, jasmine sambac, frankincense, and ti leaf.

Firstly, look at the awesome label.

I open the bottle and it's this thin, mean, astringent scent. (Cat's whiskers?) Hmm, I think, let's see where they're going with this. I put it on and it stays mean, very big on the violet. Eventually everything else comes out a little more and it develops into this dark, dingy, almost intimidating scent - definitely smells like what you'd feel if you took a wrong turn somewhere in Edo and saw a bunch of merchant cats.

Unfortunately, everything coalesces into kind of a bug spray note for me. This is the first Shunga I've smelt that wasn't a big hit for me, I think I'm just amping the violet which is a note I do not like and it's doing weird things to the drier aspects of the rest of the components. I'll keep it around and see how it ages, but this is probably getting sold.

[artemisgarden]

BPAL ORDER CAME!

[snarp]

Theory: BPAL scrapped the original formula for "Snake Oil" because it was based on some accord purchased in bulk for which the formulator never actually knew the individual components, and then they just ran out of it.

Argument Against: They should be able to just take a sample of the old stuff and "Shoot The Juice" through GC/MS - there are literally consumer services for that now, it should be affordable?

Argument For: They can't do that because they're too scared that the GC/MS company will reveal their secret formulation-shortcut shame (potential IP issue? lawsuit risk?) and/or secret snake oil formula to the world.

Competing Theory: It's more likely that the original formula just had too much eugenol and coumarin for regulatory purposes.* Like, if it were possible to legally sell convincing Original!Snake Oil dupes, I'm sure that Al Rehab, Bath and Body Works, and SaveOnScents would be doing it. Snake Oil is probably just illegal.

* (The changes described in the reformulation are the addition of patchouli oil and vanilla absolute, common "safe and all-natural" substitutions for eugenol and coumarin.

Also, like. Snake Oil smells like eugenol and coumarin. I have eugenol in the kitchen and I know what coumarin smells like. That's what's in the bottle.)

Argument Against: This one is slightly less funny.

[elspethdixon]

Some people have nice shelves or other display structures to hold their perfumes. After over a dozen years of BPAL collecting with a sideline in NAVA collecting, I have an entire closet dedicated to The Hoard:

The top shelf on the lefthand side looks like one row, but it’s actually got bottles arranged in arcs by perfume category.

[momdusa]

“What’s so precious about a monster?”

A seductive and deceptively delicate blend of rose-tinted white sandalwood, ethereal white amber, voluptuous almond blossom, coeur de jasmin, and a gasp of bourbon vanilla.

BPAL x Junji Ito???

[the-bar-sinister]

B [Oh scents are great. Any faves?]

Our top three BPAL scents are:

Whip: (our partner's standard scent)

Agony and ecstasy: black leather and damp red rose.

Bow and Crown of Conquest: (🔪🔪's standard scent)

Nobility and haughtiness befitting the Antichrist: sage, carnation and cedar with lavender, vanilla, white musk and leather.

Miskatonic University: (Several of our shared standard scent)

The scent of Irish coffee, dusty tomes and polished oakwood halls.

[valdiis]

I purchased a perfume from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (among several of them) that is "Red Oakmoss, Cedarwood, and Sweet Patchouli." What a delight! I get the cedarwood most heavily on fresh application, but now that it's been a few minutes, the oakmoss is coming out. I smell like the woods and I love it.

Just felt I should let everyone know that I smell amazing this morning.

[hillbillyoracle]

My BPAL order came in today! Finally got a full size of my favorite perfume of theirs (that I've found so far) Grave Pig. Got Troll and Deep in Earth as frimps. While I love all of my BPAL perfumes (I have quite a few from their collaborative with Sphere + Sundry), Grave Pig has remained a favorite and it was sorely missed.