Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

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Fine fragrance, est. 2002 🜏 perfume oil • hair gloss • beard oil • atmosphere spray • bath oil • jewelry • anti-fascism • and more!

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· 28d

This banana is not for gobbling! 5ml of high-quality perfume oil to chase the summer blues away while we kill time until fall. Label illustration by @drewrausch.bsky.social. With apologies (but not many) to H.G. Wells, here's our adaptation of the original 1897 book cover:

A photo of an antique book cover. Text reads: "The Invisible Man." On the red background there's a line drawing of an invisible figure sitting in a chair, only robe and shoes visible. A half-eaten banana hovers in midair, and a discarded peel litters the floor

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· 28d

All aboard! 🍌🫥 THE INVISIBLE MAN’S BANANA is a scientific experiment gone horribly right: the blurry outline of a flash-frozen banana skewered on a stick and dunked in a shimmering mixture of sheer musk and evaporated milk, sprinkled with invisible nuts. blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

Label artwork for BPAL's The Invisible Man's Banana perfume. A graphic in the style of an ice cream truck menu shows a coated banana on a stick, although the exposed banana part is drawn with a perforated outline denoting transparency. Behind the label is a photo of creepy odds and ends such as a spider ring, rubber snakes, and plastic fangs suspended in a milky fluid.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· 28d

Since 2018 we've been raising funds for RAICES with a fragrance called Abolish Ice, meant to evoke warmth and safety: smoked toffee and patchouli with coffee bean, caramelized oudh, clove, and bourbon vanilla. blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

A poster image with a photo of gray, dead-looking ice and slush, superimposed with flaming words that read: "ABOLISH ICE. A fundraiser for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) raicestexas.org

A color photo of a bottle of BPAL's Abolish Ice perfume oil against a black and white photo background featuring a statuette of the Holy Virgin

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· 28d

*laughs in Minnesotan* Best of luck with that, you useless wad

screencap from The Hill with headline: "Collins calls for 'full and impartial investigation' into Maine ICE shooting"

Also there is a picture of Collins, the less said about it the better

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· 28d

The gorgeous new Eartheater album teases listeners with questions such as "What if Enya was a cenobite?"

The new Eartheater album features a stark photo of the artist unclothed, very pregnant, wearing full-length white latex gloves and a futuristic alien headpiece/visor.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· 29d

Viola Swamp chosen to fulfill remainder of Lindsey Graham's Senate Term

An illustration from Harry Allard's famous children's book Miss Nelson Is Missing, depicting the evil Viola Swamp: a menacing looking woman in a lack dress with green and yellow striped stockings

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· 29d

When pool’s closed and the beach is awash in toxic foam, there’s simply nowhere cooler to hang out than on a bed of your native earth, deep in the secret catacombs under your current city. And hey, good news: we make fragrances for that! blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

a black and white photo of a wading pool at a playground. In the foreground, in color, is the cartoonish image of an ice cream salesman in a yellow uniform. His greenish skin is melty, the pink cones are melty, it's a real mess.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· 29d

Who wouldn’t wanna be in a vampire sandwich? 🫠 This fragrance is a creamy coagulation of frozen goat milk enrobed in a cape of the darkest chocolate. Better slurp up its off-kilter clove gumball eyes first thing, lest they ensnare you with their hypnotic gaze. Art by @drewrausch.bsky.social

A background photo of a seaside vista polluted with columns of foam. In the foreground is a label artwork for BPAL's Vampire Sandwich perfume oil, in the style of an ice cream truck poster. The image features a coffin-shaped ice cream sandwich with melty red filling. Candy fangs and red gumball eyes make a face on its surface.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 10

No witches were harmed in the milking or malting of this fragrance! MALTED WITCH MILK A gourmet shake infused with honeyed goat milk, incense smoke, yew bark, black pepper, mandrake root, ambrette seed, red currant, kitchen herbs, fly agaric accord, and a heaping helping of malted barley powder.

An archival black and white photo of a lovely young woman working a malt shop counter, except the drink is a bubbly, gooey green mess with a witch hat perched atop it. Also she has no face! Text reads: MALTED WITCH MILK, 5ml perfume oil

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 10

Here's another artifact from 2023: Monster Milk poster art by @drewrausch.bsky.social

A wacky cartoon-style poster for "Monster Milks" perfumes, featuring a Wednesday Addams-style little girl sitting down to a bowl of ghost-shaped cereal bits. Text reads: "Dary free! Do not ingest" and advertises the inclusion of witches, ghosts, mummies, vampire, invisible man, and wolf man.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 10

Having a totally normal day and sniffing perfectly normal things, how about you?

A photo of an ice cream truck covered in ads for spooky treats such as GUMMI FANGS, ITALIAN LICE, and MALTED WITCH MILK. A very melty-looking cartoon human is reaching out through an open window to hand you dripping pink ice cream cones covered in eyes.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 10

Official #TheVampireLestat soundtrack perfumes SET LIST: 1. BLACK LICORICE Notes: Black licorice, black plum, champagne, labdanum, benzoin, rosin, leather 2. BUTTERSCOTCH BITCH Notes: Saffron, pink pepper, scorched butterscotch, cognac, red labdanum, woodsmoke

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 9

"A slow-churned frozen mixture of goat’s milk, marshmallow, vanilla cashmere, honey dust, and white chocolate, served in a wailing waffle cone." 🍦👻 blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 8

In our personal lore, the Bad Humor Man is the werewolf's day job, so his scent pulls notes from 2023's Wolf Milk blend: crunchy leaves, well-worn black leather, cardamom pod, moonlit yellow bergamot, woodmoss, molasses, and vanilla-slapped buttermilk. Drew made him... melty 😱

The label illustration for BPAL's Bad Humor Man perfume. A melting man in a yellow uniform and cap offers melty oversized ice cream cones covered with staring eyes. All things considered he looks... cheerful?

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 8

Now we've taken this wisp of a dubious concept to new heights (depths?) by "freezing" all the Monster Milk recipes and adapting them into ice cream fragrances for Summerween. Ghost Milk Soft Serve! The Invisible Man's Banana! And so forth. blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

A full ice cream truck menu of monster ice cream treats, bright orange with purple and green text:

Bad Humor Man
Ghost Milk Soft Serve
The Invisible Man's Banana
Malted Witch Milk
Mummy Push Pop
Vampire Sandwich
Zombie Mochi

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 8

Then in '23 we decided to keep the bad joke running, asking Drew for a full set of Monster Milk perfumes for Halloween. It was GHOST MILK plus the whole list of cookie perfumes – witch, invisible man, wolf man, zombie, vampire, mummy – reimagined as eerie but strangely comforting lactonic scents.

The label art for WITCH MILK perfume: a wacky cartoon illustration of a witch sipping green liquid out of a mug sized cauldron

The label artwork for ZOMBIE MILK, featuring a wacky cartoon illustration of a rotting zombie working as a milkman, carrying a rack of bottles as a woman looks on in amazement from her doorway.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 8

This year's #Summerween launch has actually been SIX YEARS in the making. Story time! In 2020 we blurred Halloween into Yule, asking @drewrausch.bsky.social to create a whole series of label artworks for scents inspired by monster-ified gingerbread cookies... plus a carton GHOST MILK to dip them in

A wacky cartoon illustration of a young boy wearing a vintage-style vampire costume, holding aloft a gingerbread vampire cookie which he's discovered inside a yellow box labeled "Gingerbread Vampire."

A label illustration for GHOST MILK perfume. A wacky cartoon illustration of a ghost rising from a personal-sized carton of milk. On the back of the carton is an image of a brain and nervous system labeled "Have You Seen Me?"

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 7

We're stocking the scent collab at our local @oddmartmn.bsky.social events. Hey, there's one happening this Saturday... 👀

A poster image for A LITTLE LUNACY: TWIN CITIES.

Text reads: "Fine Fragrance, Sampling & Shopping. July 11, 12-3pm at Odd Mart, 2520 Lyndale Ave. S"

Background image is a historical black and white photo of young women cavorting on the lawn of a fancy Minneapolis mansion.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 7

We requested more copies of "DILF: Did I Leave Feminism?" by @judedoyle.bsky.social at Magers & Quinn Bookseller in Minneapolis, just so we could update you later and say "Hey! Go to Magers & Quinn and pick up a DILF!"

Bottles of BPAL's DILF perfume oil, hair gloss, and beard oil posed in front of the multicolored book cover for Jude Ellison S. Doyle's nonfiction book "DILF: Did I Leave Feminism?"

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 7

ARMAND ࿇ 5ml perfume oil White musk, iris, and frankincense fougere unfolding like a prayer, but beneath it lies something feral and desperately starving for love, but utterly incapable of loving without consuming: resinous woods, blackened clove, and blood-tinged incense.

An image of the vampire Armand from the AMC TV series The Vampire Lestat. Armand has dark skin and hair, his eyes are burning golden orange, and he is wearing a dark bespoke suit. Text reads: "Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat, licensed fragrances, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab"

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 6

So glad we're merely tasked with watching #TheVampireLestat (and making licensed fragrances) instead of trying to write episode recaps

Screencap of Jodie Foster in the movie CONTACT, looking misty-eyed up toward the camera. Text says: "THEY SHOULD HAVE SENT... A POET."

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 3

Wait, can this be my business card

A framed vintage ('80s?) closeup portrait of a white dog. Glitter sticker letters on the glass read: "CHAMPION BITCH"

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jul 1

Pride is officially over. 😩 On to the next sin! 🥳 WRATH is a scent aflame with rage, swirling in the red haze of hatred: dragon’s blood spiked with black pepper, clove, and cinnamon.

A bottle of BPAL’s Wrath perfume oil standing against a backdrop made from a classic horror movie poster from the 1960s — a closeup illustration of a woman’s face screaming, cut out of a flame-shaped negative space background

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jun 29

Our new Lestat perfume series has totally overshadowed the release of our monthly Lunacy series, but... that has arrived as well! Please welcome to the stage: ROSE MOON and friends 🌹 blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

A meme image of a lit cigarette dangling from the droopy open end of a wilted rose. Text reads: "You can learn a lot of things *cough* from the flowers *wheeze*"

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jun 29

Don't shoot the messenger!

A screencap from the movie Labyrinth showing a closeup of the blue fuzzy worm. Text: "I'm just a worm."

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jun 29

Thinking today of all the Pride festival cleanup workers, and all the interesting treasures they’re probably discovering 💐 Our Pride fragrance duets are a fundraiser for Athlete Ally, SAGE, and the Trans Youth Equality Foundation! blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...

A bottle of BPAL's Mushroom & Jasmine perfume oil, propped against a cluster of pale mushrooms in the grass. Nearby a vintage brooch shaped like a woman's face (art deco by way of the 1970s) with one rhinestone eye lays next to it in the grass.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jun 27

Got our Quatrefoil library cards at the People’s Pride in Minneapolis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ qlibrary.org Guest fragrance appearance by DILF @judedoyle.bsky.social

A bottle of BPAL’s DILF perfume on an outdoor table surrounded by LGBTQ books. In the foreground is a plastic library card

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jun 26

A moan and a groan and a sigh: the scent of scorched butterscotch, acrid on the edges, dipped in red labdanum and cognac, with a sting of saffron, pink pepper, and woodsmoke.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jun 24

A little Lunacy, anyone? 🌹 We’re in the final stages of preparing ROSE MOON for launch. Will update you here once it’s live! Label artwork by @drewrausch.bsky.social

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab@bpal· Jun 23

“Every evening he found a blazing fire, his dinner ready, easy-chairs, and a well-dressed woman, charming with an odour of freshness, though no one could say whence the perfume came, or if it were not her skin that made odorous her chemise.” — Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1856)