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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

@bpal.bsky.social
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Fine fragrance, est. 2002 🜏 perfume oil • hair gloss • beard oil • atmosphere spray • anti-fascism • and more! blackphoenixalchemylab.com

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 12h
Crustine will also be making an appearance on the FRIGHT WIG label! This was a wig spray we concocted for Drag Con nearly a decade ago, resurrected as a perfume oil: blackened patchouli, clove bud, honey oudh, pomegranate pulp, and a splash of whiskey.
a label image for BPAL's Fright Wig perfume, featuring a closeup photo of a plastic skull wearing a frizzy white wig that's streaming in out in all directions
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 16h
And of course this was inevitable!
A label artwork for BPAL's Pepper's Ghost perfume oil, in which the image of a wigged skull appears in the bowl of a wineglass.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not that there's anything wrong with repeats...
A label image for BPAL's Blood Squib Snake Oil perfume, featuring a photo of a rubber snake with a luxardo cherry in its mouth, leaving dribbles of syrup across a white surface.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It ain't all repeats, kiddos!
A label image for BPAL's Wax Bottles perfume blend, which shows a lovely multicolored assortment of a wretched drugstore candy classic: waxy little bottles filled with a splash of fruit goo.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We've restocked the @girthofvenus.bsky.social fragrance series in the Collaborations corner of our shop! 🔥 blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...
An illustration depicting a devilishly horned and tailed nude figure, red of skin and pink of hair, posed beguilingly in a chamber filled with of drapery swags and opulent cushions. In one hand the figure holds a lit cigarette and an apple slice; on the floor behind him is an open heart-shaped box filled with additional apple slices. His backside is presented to the viewer, and he gazes over one shoulder in a way that seems both challenging and nonchalant.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Like vapors rising from the clammy foundation of our soul, The Haunted House returns! Coming soon...
A collage of perfume labels from BPAL's upcoming The Haunted House series, each one showing different parts of a Victorian mansion's floorplan. Titles include: The Heinous Hedge Maze, The Lurid Library, The Perilous Parlour.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Nothing gets us in the Halloween spirit like preparing to re-release fragrances first formulated in 2007 👻
A black and white photograph of the exterior of a large brick house with pillars and a stained glass window. Ghostly letters are printed backwards in one corner of the image, spelling (when reversed) "The Haunted House."
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Why is this @drewrausch.bsky.social artwork from 2023 suddenly trying to sign my child up for a Trump savings account?? 🧐
A spooky artwork featuring a strange, shadowy feminine figure with an unsettling smile and fuchsia eyes
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The 2018 series translated the color-coded chambers and windows of Prince Prospero's ballroom into a series of atmosphere sprays and hair glosses. This time around, the glosses (windows) will all be 5ml perfume oils. A scent for the skin, and a paired scent for the room you wish to lurk in!
A background photo of sumptuous black fabric, superimposed with text in red: "The Seventh Apartment, 4oz atmosphere & linen spray"A background photo of a decorative cut glass window pane, the glass tinted deep red. Text in the foreground reads: "The Blood Red Window Panes, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab."
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We spent so much of this year infuriated by the antics of the billionaire class, we couldn't resist bringing back a fragrance series that fantasizes about them all blowing up with fatal lesions. Coming soon with our Halloween launch, 2018's The Masque of the Red Death rides again! 💀
A photo of an antique-style clock face with the hands posed just moments after midnight; the entire surface is drenched with blood
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's no fun making people feel bad, considering that this tech has been deliberately offered in a way that preys on users' status anxieties related to creativity, career, intellect & identity. But we can't roll over and accept the loss of our collective humanity, even speaking up causes discomfort.
A photo of a witch puppet peering at the viewer through the metal bars of a window. Text reads: "Your professional use of AI is making the rest of us uncomfortable"
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Posted a series of meme images on the Meta sites yesterday which really took off and definitely touched a nerve
A photo of a witch puppet peering at the viewer through the metal bars of a window. Text reads: "Your personal use of AI is cutting you off from other people."
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hello from a contributing author to this fabulous hardcover book exploring the rich cinematic legacy of #TheBrideofFrankenstein! My part is a biographical essay about Elsa Lanchester, the actress whose image was immortalized by this dual performance ⚡ pspublishing.co.uk/bride-of-fra...
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We bottled pure Laika magic to wear on the skin! Our official #ParaNorman fragrance collection can be yours year round, but we especially love revisiting Blithe Hollow in the fall. 🍂
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well hello, October! 💀
a black and white photo of a white-wigged skull, its mouth open in that way skulls have of appearing to be laughing. Text reads: "me when OCTOBER"
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More hot hand action!
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When we first launched the 4oz spray (a followup to the 5ml perfume oil) the label ended up being a bit rushed, borrowing from the standard format of our regular sprays. I use the spray lots, and looking at it was making me sad! So the updated label is wall-to-wall movie art.
The new label for BPAL's Tongue Wall atmosphere spray, featuring stills from the 1989 art horror movie Dr. Caligari. The main image is of a woman with her hair pulled back extending her tongue toward a large, diseased, biomorphic mass that is reaching back with a tongue of its own. The second image is the titular Doctor, in yellow lab coat with metal breast domes, vamping in front of an asylum doorway skewed to German Expressionist proportions
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some primo hand-acting by Galen in this clip showing off our new label for TONGUE WALL atmosphere spray 👅
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week we'll be expanding ARS INSPIRATIO, our ongoing fragrance collaboration with author @mlleghoul.bsky.social, to include a fresh round of artworks selected from her latest book, THE ART OF THE UNKNOWN Here's where they'll live: blackphoenixalchemylab.com/collections/...
A photo of S. Elizabeth's book The Art of the Unknown opened to the page containing Wenzel Hablik's painting "Starry Sky, Attempt," a square, blue-hued starscape swirled with planets and interstellar cloud formations. A silver necklace is draped across the page, holding the book open.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Change dot org petition for Mattel to make a yassified Skullector series Monster High doll for Possum (2018)
An image from the 2018 movie Possum, in which a nervous man holds a disturbing puppet aloft — it is bald with a human face, and a short body trailing spider legs
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Woke up feeling driven to non-ironically reclaim the slogan "for THEY/THEM, not YOU" with no changes
A graphic image with a blue and pink background. Text reads: "I'm for THEY/THEM, not YOU."
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're sincerely trying to bring in more goths
A screencap from the movie The Craft, showing the moment when Nancy's mom is freaking out about Rochelle not knowing who Connie Francis is, but we added text: "You're not on Bluesky??"
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Semi-regular reminder that one of the 1980s' strangest, funniest, and most creative movie treats is currently on AMC+ and Shudder, restored to retina-searing 4K
The dvd cover for the 1989 movie DR. CALIGARI, featuring an image of a woman in a tightly-tailored pink satin lab coat holding up a syringe, her black hair styled in a long bob. In the background an asymmetrical doorway can be seen, and a pink trench coat dangles from a clothes hanger.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Twin Cities! We'll be returning to haunt @oddmartmn.bsky.social with a fine selection of spooky perfumes on October 3rd from 12-3pm. Come enjoy A Little Lunacy with us? 👻
a poster image for A Little Lunacy, a pop-up retail event at Odd Mart in Minneapolis. The background photo is a witch's workspace set up on the seat of a wooden chair: a brass cauldron, a candelabra, jars, a whisk, and a goblet filled with the same glowing green fluid seen in the cauldron. Text reads: "A Little Lunacy, fine fragrance sampling & shopping at Odd Mart: 2520 Lyndale Avenue S., Saturday October 3rd, 12-3pm."
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Also killed off: our stash of Dusk In Autumn, the scent of black tea, currant cake, mandrake root, a whirl of dried leaves, and hearthsmoke.
A photo of a porch at dusk heaped with baskets, pumpkins, and scattered leaves, with one candle glowing from atop a candelabra
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
More photos from that pumpkin patch visit — Disco’s first!
A photo of a small white Pomeranian dog posing in a straw-littered barn full of ripe pumpkins A photo of a small white Pomeranian dog posing in a straw-littered barn full of ripe pumpkins A photo of a small white Pomeranian dog posing in a straw-littered barn full of ripe pumpkins
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Last day of #DragonCon! We just sold our 20th (and last) bottle of Every Day Is Halloween, feat. label supermodel baby Disco 🎃
A label image for BPAL’s Every Day Is Halloween perfume, featuring a photograph of a small white Pomeranian dog in a barn full of orange pumpkins
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Day 3 of #DragonCon! If you buy one of our remaining bottles of Spider Plushie perfume at the booth, you get to pet the actual spider plushie the scent is based on :3
A cute stuffed spider toy sitting in the palm of someone’s hand. The spider is all black, and fuzzy!
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our literary fragrance collab with @judedoyle.bsky.social is laid out for public consideration at #DragonCon! Visit booth 1417 in the Americasmart building to channel to ask fragrant questions about gender and pop culture archetypes 🖤
A rack of 5ml bottles of BPAL perfume. Centrally featured are DILF and the Dead Blondes & Bad Mothers series
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Did Disco write this??
A photo of a sassy white Pomeranian dog seated on a vintage sofa with a pink cushion in the background.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Working on fragrances alongside an ongoing film production is a thrilling high-wire act. It's so rewarding when the bottles finally exist, and people can finally smell them. We'll be previewing our #VictorianPsycho scents at #DragonCon this weekend, ahead of the launch later this fall!
Three bottles of BPAL fragrance for the upcoming Victorian Psycho film – a hair gloss pump mist, an atmosphere spray pump mist, and a smaller 5ml perfume oil bottle – elegantly arranged on an old-fashioned black dress trimmed with lace and a black-beaded tassel.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If we’d used AI for these images, then we wouldn’t have gotten to eat the peaches! 🍑 Full list of our #DragonCon limited edition scents here, available both in-person and online this coming weekend: www.bpal.org/topic/103085...
A still life tableau of draped fabric and ripe peaches, of of which has been hacked with a big metal cleaver. In the center ia a bottle of BPAL’s Sparkling Ginger Peach fragrance sprayA still life tableau of draped fabric and ripe peaches, of of which has been hacked with a big metal cleaver. In the center ia a bottle of BPAL’s Villain In The Peach Orchard perfume
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Well dang, should’ve just memed it in the first place
An illustration by Gustave Dore for Dante’s Divine Comedy that shows two silhouetted figures standing on a tall summit gazing up at a great celestial conflagration of souls in heaven. Text reads “We already had free art for people who are broke or bad at designing things. It’s called the PUBLIC DOMAIN”
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Coming to our shop this fall, but first, coming to our booth at #DragonCon where visitors may sniff, sample, and purchase in person: a VICTORIAN PSYCHO fragrance collaboration with Bleecker Street Films!
The movie poster for the upcoming film Victorian Psycho, which features a young woman (played by Maika Monroe) in historical garb holding an axe with a wry grin on her face. The title of the film is written in a typeface suggesting blood spatter
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When my Pomeranian sees another Pomeranian
Two screen caps from the movie Black Swan in which the main character, a ballet dancer played by Natalie Portman, is menaced by images of her doppelgänger, both in real life and in mirror reflections.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A literary trick-or-treat: we've refreshed the label artwork for our Dead Blondes & Bad Mothers collaboration with @judedoyle.bsky.social, and will be debuting the new (far more legible) bottles at Dragon Con next weekend!
A bottle of BPAL's Possessed Teen perfume oil rests on a vintage compact mirror, itself lain atop a trade paperback copy of Dead Blondes & Bad Mothers by Jude Ellison S. Doyle. In the background looms a vintage plastic Halloween treat bucket in the shape of a witch with dark skin and green hair and eyes
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The fourth book by @mlleghoul.bsky.social, The Art of the Unknown, is currently available to pre-order, and will become a widespread concern upon its September 1 launch! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
A copy of The Art of The Unknown by S. Elizabeth stands upright in the middle of a strange old dollhouse. On the front porch in the foreground, a doll in tattered, old-fashioned garb sits in a wooden rocking chair, its eyes empty and hollow, one hand holding the ace of spades. Other playing cards are scattered across the dusty floorboards, as well as a tiny gold box and a bunch of keys strung on a chain.A cover image for S. Elizabeth's upcoming book The Art of the Unknown: A Visual Treasury of the Esoteric, Uncanny, and Unexplained. The artwork is a strange pattern of leafy branches in a dusk-like color palette of pinks, purples, greens, and blues framing a distant mountainous horizon.A copy of The Art of The Unknown by S. Elizabeth stands upright in the middle of a strange old dollhouse. On the front porch in the foreground, a doll in tattered, old-fashioned garb sits in a wooden rocking chair, its eyes empty and hollow, one hand holding the ace of spades.A copy of The Art of The Unknown by S. Elizabeth stands upright in the middle of a strange old dollhouse. On the carpet in front of the book sits a tiny crystal ball on a metal stand, and a gold hand mirror with a long handle. In the background there is a bookcase with a red guitar leaning against it
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is not a drill: at #DragonCon we’ll be introducing some brand new scents in the Eternal Collection and RPG series. See you in Atlanta during Labor Day Weekend! 🧟‍♀️ Art by Lily Grasso @feyspeaker.bsky.social
An illustration of a classic glamour headshot featuring an undead femme model with mottled blue skin, large clawed fingers, soulless eyes, and glamorously-styled tendrils of sparse white hair. The figure holds a 5ml BPAL bottle in one of its ghastly clutches.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Just as in past years, we’ll be previewing a selection of Halloween 2026 fragrances at our #DragonCon booth during Labor Day weekend. Will you be there? Stay tuned for further details! ☠️
A photograph of the inside of a witch's cottage, created with miniatures, illuminated as if by firelight. On the broad seat of a wooden chair rests a metal cauldron, its magical contents glowing green and stirred by a silver spoon, next to a metal goblet also filled with the glowing potion. Also nearby: a wooden mortar and pestle, a metal whisk, a few bottles of ingredients, and a candelabra filled with candles burned down into stumps. A scattering of dead leaves litters the surface. Keys strung on a chain dangle from the chair's back, and in the room beyond one can see a bookcase, a patterned rug, and a vase full of flowers.
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Psssst, we will in fact be previewing some Halloween 2026 fragrances at #DragonCon. Please tell someone who needs to hear this!
A label image for BPAL's Every Day Is Halloween perfume oil. The background image is a photo of pumpkins and haystacks, with a white Pomeranian dog smiling off to one side
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Puppets!
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
FINISH HIM:
One more BPAL followup Instagram comment: "TBH just from the vibes I bet your nightstand isn’t looking so hot"
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We're well aware that our standard packaging – the classic, stalwart, trusty, handy-dandy 5ml amber apothecary bottle – isn't everyone's cup of tea. And we do have a sense of humor about it! But if it's a tussle you want...
An Instagram comment that says: "Sadly the bottle looks super cheap 😂 since each of these characters are special, it deserves iconic bottle you can display on your night stand." The identity of the commenter has been obscured.A BPAL Instagram comment replying to the other one: 

"Super cheap? Sir your profile is crawling with AI 😂 Anyhow when we first began selling precious oils in 5ml apothecary bottles 20+ years ago, there was no expectation that an indie perfumer would ever be competing for visibility with designer brands which charge more for their fancy packaging than for their synthesized ingredients. Two decades onward the market is jam-packed with indies who learned the wrong lessons from that artistic arms race. You’re welcome to buy from them if you need a fancy knick-knack to look at, but the excellence of our bottle’s contents is its own artistic statement.

(And besides, we’re the ones who managed to snag the license, so it’s either a humble 5ml bottle for you, or some bootleg jungle juice. Choose wisely!)"
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you're seeing this you have officially outlived the tenure of Karoline "The Mouthpiece" Leavitt. Congrats! 🏅
A screencap from the movie Mommie Dearest, but the face is perfectly covered with the photo of Karoline Leavitt from the notorious 2025 Vanity Fair article that featured a giant closeup of her face
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Started replying to all the goofy marketers who email us peddling AI services that instead we’ve bet everything on joyful shitposting
A screencap from the Lord of the Rings of a very wildly drunk hobbit serving themself straight from the keg. Text reads: “this email could’ve been a mead-ing.”
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
We can tell, bro 😬
An engraved illustration by Gustave Dore for Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Dante and Virgil pass by a tormented figure who looms conspiratorially in the foreground
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Because we are clearly in hell, after all
An illustration from Gustave Dore depicting Dante and Virgil exploring the underworld. A figure rises up from an underground young at their feet, surrounded by smoke and hellish light
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
With infinite apologies to Gustave Doré
Gustave Dore’s engraved illustration from the Divine Comedy showing Dante and Virgil looking down at the half-woman half-spider, surrounded by other tormented underworld denizens
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Stocked up on the latest TVL releases for our retail pop-up at @oddmartmn.bsky.social in Minneapolis tomorrow! 🎻 Come visit from noon to 3pm. Free samples and endless sniff-tests, cartoons, an enjoyable amount of background chatter, plus coffee and donuts.
Five 5ml apothecary bottles of BPAL perfume, each from the licensed The Vampire Lestat collaboration, laid down on a background of silvery fabric
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Paid to boost an Instagram post and this is all that ends up being shown in random folks’ feeds, no caption, explanation cropped 🤦 We sure won’t be beating the poppers allegations…
A screencap of a post from instagram that shows a promo image for BPAL’s The Vampire Lestat perfume series: a brown 5ml apothecary bottle against a still from the TV series showing the titular vampire in full fang mode
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