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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 • bath oil • jewelry • anti-fascism • and more!
https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com
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Just spent hours slithering around in the basement trying to photograph our “The Yellow Wallpaper” fragrance series. All in a day’s work! 💛
A photo of BPAL’s entire “The Yellow Wallpaper” fragrance series, with an arrangement of apothecary bottles airing on a small wooden shelf against an ancient wall partially stripped bare of plaster. A spooky antique ragdoll is propped on the shelf among the bottles
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Get on the horn!
A vintage black and white photo of a woman smiling and holding a phone receiver to her ear. Red laser eyes have been added to the photo.
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Twin Cities! We’ll be serving up claw polish and DILF juice tomorrow at @oddmartmn.bsky.social
from 3-6pm. Come through and let us pepper you with perfume samples 👄

We’ll also have a limited supply of copies of @judedoyle.bsky.social’s new book for sale.
Bottles of BPAL’s DILF-scented perfume oil, beard oil, and hair gloss staged in front of two copies of Jude Doyle’s new non-fiction book “DILF: Did I Leave Feminism?” A bottle of BPAL’s Blood Moon nail polish — a sanguine jelly packed with red glitter — nestled in a swirl of metallic red lamé fabric
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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On Saturday we return to @oddmartmn.bsky.social in Minneapolis with a treasure chest full of perfume oils, nail polish, beard oils, and other fine potions for you to try!

(Including the Tongue Wall atmosphere & linen spray, natch)
A still image from the film Dr. Caligari (1989) which features a woman stretching her tongue lasciviously toward a mouth and tongue that is straining to meet it, despite being embedded in a strange, fleshy, biomorphic surface. Test on the image reads: "NOVEMBER LUNACY at Odd Mart, Saturday Nov. 8 3-6pm. Fine Fragrance sampling & shopping, monthly event!"
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Let them hear it! ☎️
A still from the 1989 arthouse horror movie Dr. Caligari in which the doctor (played by Madeleine Reynal) is speaking on a neon red telephone
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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It only takes a second to let drive-by haters know that you are not intimidated and do not value their input
A screencap from our DMs in which someone named Carol has responded to one of our posts with “ANTIFA SUCKS.” Following our auto-response, we have responded with a more personal message: “OMG get stuffed, Carol”
October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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We're elated to announce a fresh collab with @judedoyle.bsky.social, whose book DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? launches next week.

Our DILFhood-affirming scent, a rich bourbon cream skin musk, can be had as a perfume oil, hair gloss, or beard oil! #booksky

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The cover of Jude Ellison S. Doyl's new book "DILF: Did I Leave Feminism?" Additional text reads: "A Trans and/or Feminist Manifesto," "'Smart, funny, and fearless.' – THE BOSTON GLOBE"
October 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Did you ever go smell something in person because of a post you read on Bluesky? This Saturday is your chance, if you’re near the Twin Cities: IRL sniffs, free samples, and sales at @oddmartmn.bsky.social from 3-6pm!
An event flyer based around a vintage (early 90s?) photograph of an elderly woman holding the hand of a child. She’s dressed as a clown in a stripey suit with a full face of makeup; the child is in a plush green and purple dinosaur costume. They are posed next to a pumpkin carved with a wolf howling at the moon. Text on the flyer announces BPAL’s October Lunacy, at Odd mart on Saturday October 11th from 3pm to 6pm
October 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Disco was very good today
A photo of a white Pomeranian dog reclining in a sunbeam on a red banquet in a coffee shop
October 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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This beard oil… we couldn’t help ourselves 💀
A closeup photo of a bearded stone gargoyle from a church in Portugal. Text says: “GARG OIL”
October 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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As of this moment I have officially failed to keep from teasing this. 💛

Part of the Halloween 2025 fragrance launch, which will be arriving within the next few days!
A picture of a disintegrating plaster wall covered on the edges by panels of ornate yellow and gold wallpaper. Text in the middle says “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER”
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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✨☎️✨
A black and white vintage photo of an older woman with short hair smiling and holding a phone receiver, but her eyes have been edited to be red lasers
September 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Our sugar skull caught a rainbow cast by the setting sun
A sugar skull decorated with black frosting and a scattering of flame-red marigold petals, resting on a fluffy bed of yellow and orange petals
September 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Meanwhile, the white-controlled religious groups which have had more rural communities in a headlock for generations have only succeeded in impoverishing them and making them more dangerous.
A news screencap with the headline “Some admirers of Charlie Kirk hope response to his death signals start of a religious revival”
September 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I know we shouldn’t do this. But we had exactly ONE Trumper taunting us in DM’s with “Fuck Around and Find Out” re: Kimmel, and I hope this is how he ended up hearing the news.
One side of a chat conversation with the following messages: “You seem fun” “(Just kidding)” And then later: “Hey guess what, Kimmel's back on the air! Looks like all we ‘found out’ is that you're just another little bootlicking bitch” “(Feel free to go ahead and keep fighting about it alone in our Spam folder)”
September 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Our hair gloss blend inspired by this artwork: her scent is the salt-scraped flesh of blue plums, soothed by a panoply of bioluminescent musks and ambers, threaded with inky oil-spill tendrils of olibanum.

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September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Woke up wanting to post about trans love ✨ trans bodies ✨ trans joy ✨ trans resistance ✨ trans people ✨ trans rights ✨

This artwork by @girthofvenus.bsky.social says a mouthful 👄
“Marine Lover,” an artwork by Girth of Venus, depicting a transfeminine Venus figure with black hair emerging from a large blue-tinted seashell, borne aloft by two winged male heralds — one with a prosthetic leg. The tableau is framed by jellyfish, seaweed, and shells.
September 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Just a reminder that Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre’s memoir is available to preorder ahead of its October 21st release.

It’s tragic that Giuffre is no longer living, but we can help make sure her story spreads everywhere.
The cover for Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s upcoming book Nobody’s Girl, featuring a younger photo of the author fading into a light-colored background
September 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Working on the latest email announcement about Black Butterfly Moon et al, and thought some of our new Skyfriends might appreciate a head start on signing up to receive it! 🦋

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The butterfly meme, with a man labeled “BPAL” seeing a butterfly labeled “An overly long email” and asking: “is this a successful digital marketing strategy?”
September 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The expansion of our collab with @girthofvenus.bsky.social includes a 4oz hair gloss inspired by this artwork — from the moment we saw it, we knew she belonged on a label. ✨🐚✨
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Artwork depicting a transfeminine Venus figure emerging from a large blue seashell, supported by two winged heralds
September 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Black Butterfly Moon… or Black Fly Butter Moon? 🤔

Art for this month’s Lunacy perfume label(s) by @drewrausch.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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From today’s Hollywood Babylon shoot! This photo looks like Thelma Ritter is about to sidle past and lovingly question your intelligence
A black and white photo of BPAL’s Hollywood Babylon perfume oil sitting on a backstage folding chair in a tableau styled to look like an old Hollywood dressing room, complete with lighted vanity, makeup, liquor bottles, and other personal effects
September 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Just gave a whole stack of these badge ribbons to someone who was excited to find one at our Dragon Con table. So now we have a minion out there passing them out to cool folks 💜
A stack of purple badge ribbons that read: ANTI-FASCIST ALCHEMIST
August 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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As a contributor to the book, I am honor-bound to inform you that we DO have the PS Publishing “Bride of Frankenstein” companion scents here at our #DragonCon booth!
A photo of a wooden rack of BPAL perfume bottles, with the three in the foreground labeled LIGHTNING STRIKES LITERATURE, LIGHTNING STRIKES CINEMA, and LIGHTNING STRIKES THE FUTURE The cover of the book Bride of Frankenstein, edited by Emma Westwood. The color illustration is a silhouette of the iconic Bride, with scars and hair streak standing out brightly against the dark shading
August 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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We did not expect to run out of Dark Macademia so early in the weekend! You can still sample the tester at our #DragonCon booth, but otherwise will have to wait until the Halloween 2025 launch to procure a bottle for yourself. 🖤
A photo of a human hand holding a bottle of BPAL’s Dark Macademia perfume oil in front of a fringed backdrop covering a black curtain. The hand is embellished with a ruffled sleeve and a pinkie ring.
August 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM