The Best BPALs

03 Jan 2010 No Comments

by Lauriein January 2010 - "Best", NaBloPoMo

My favourite Black Pheonix Alchemy Lab perfumes by category.

Neil Gaiman series

Bewitching Brews

  • Bliss: the serotonin-slathered scent of pure milk chocolate
  • The Hesperides: sturdy oak bark, dew-kissed leaves, twilight mist and crisp apple

Sin & Salvation

  • Dorian: three pale musks and dark, sugared vanilla tea

Diabolus

  • Kitsune-Tsuki: Asian plum, orchid, daffodil, jasmine and white musk

Ars Amatoria

  • Bathsheba: carnation, sensual plum, and Arabian musk
  • Maiden: white tea, carnation and Damask rose
  • Snake oil: a blend of exotic Indonesian oils sugared with vanilla

Mad Tea Party

  • Alice: milk and honey with rose, carnation and bergamot
  • Frumious Bandersnatch: Bandersnatch musk, redolent of spicy carnations, wild plums and chrysanthemum

Illyria

  • Desdemona: sweet pea, carnation and water lily
  • Ophelia: lotus, water blossom ivy, stargazer lily and white rose
  • Regan: deceptively sweet orchid vanille with a faint trace of stephanotis

Wanderlust

  • Morocco: Arabian spices wind through a blend of warm musk, carnation, red sandalwood and cassia
  • Lyonesse (the Phantom Islands collection): golden vanilla and gilded musk, stargazer lily, white sandalwood, grey amber, elemi, orris root, ambergris and sea moss

Excolo

  • Aizen-Myoo: yuzu, kaki, and mikan with cherry blossom and black tea
  • Kali: a blend of the sacred blooms of cassia, hibiscus, musk rose, Himalayan wild tulip, lotus and osmanthus swirled with offertory dark chocolate, red wine, tobacco, balsam and honey
  • Tezcatlipoca: deep cocoa laced with patchouli, leather armor, ritual incense, and a touch of Xochiquetzal’s flowers
  • Xiuhtechtli: copal, plumeria and sweet orange and the smoke of South American incense and crushed jungle blooms
  • Verdandi (the Norns collection): deep herbs and apple with black amber

The Salon

  • Cloister graveyard in the snow: three white musks, ozone, frankincense, mint
  • Death of the Grave Digger: snow, soil, opoponax and myrrh
  • Three Brides: Moroccan rose, king mandarin, red sandalwood, Egyptian amber, orchid, carnation, benzoin, tonka, calla lily, vanilla flower
  • Death and Life Completed: grey amber, carnation, lemon balm, hydrangea, Chinese peony, white sandalwood, cypress, juniper, cedar, hibiscus, and African daisy

Panacea

  • Elixir IX: TKO

Carnivale Diabolique

  • Boomslang (Faiza’s snake pit): Snake Oil with cocoa, teakwood, and rice milk
  • Clémance (Ladies of the Grindhouse): patchouli, Kashmiri tea, cardamom, black pepper, carnation, and clove
  • Inez (Ladies of the Grindhouse):  golden amber, vanilla musk, myrrh, cedar, carnation, and red sandalwood
  • Pickled Imp (the Wunderkammer): cinnamon, clove, vanilla, and pine sap

Limited Editions

A Little Lunacy

  • Strawberry Moon 2009 (May 8-11 2009): wild strawberries, strawberry flower, vanilla-infused sugar, early summer grasses, and milky dandelion sap
  • Beaver Moon 2005 (October 16 2005): cheesecake and cupcakes
  • Hungry Ghost Moon (June 11 2006): ginger candy, sugar cane, smoky vanilla and rice wine mingle with a ghost’s perfume of white sandalwood, ho wood, ti, white grapefruit, crystalline musk and aloe
  • Old Moon (December 23-26 2007): evergreen, juniper, winterberry holly, bayberry, Viking black chokeberry, hemlock, and yew, ice-rimed, gilded by traditional lunar herbs and flowers
  • Snow Moon (November 15 2005 ): an icy flurry over the winter blooms of narcissus, pansy crocus, dahlia, tulip, chrysanthemum and white rose, with a hint of fir and birch
  • Pink Moon 2007 (March 1-7 2007): sugared carnation and phlox

Halloweenie

  • Feeding the Dead (2009): a barrel of beer, a pyramid of cakes, and three sticks of incense
  • Boo (2009): spun sugar, fluttering white cotton, and sheets of cream
  • Samhain (2003-2009): damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein

Lupercalia

  • Flowering Chrysanthemums (2009): chrysanthemum, marigold, golden sandalwood, vanilla, cinnamon, and amber incense

Yule (does not include Yule 2009 as I haven’t received my decants yet)

  • Gingerbread Poppet (2005): warm, cozy gingerbread spiced with nutmeg, clove and cinnamon
  • Frau Holle (2008): snow-covered pines, witches herbs, bestial musk, flax, and ethereal flowers that represent both birth and death
  • Christmas Rose (2007): bruise-tinted hellebore blossoms pushing through snowdrifts
  • Lick It (2005): candy cane perfume, minty, sweet and sugared.candy cane perfume, minty, sweet and sugared
  • The Snow Storm (2007): winter aconite, balsam fir, cedar leaf, and white mint
  • Perchta (2008): a blend of wild musk, snow, and alpine flora: Nigritella lithopolitanica, aconite, crocus, touch-me-not, edelweiss, Iris variegate, and violet
  • Talvikuu (2005): birch and fir coated in a thick, impenetrable blanket of snow

Misc. Limited Editions

  • Velvet Unicorn (April Fool’s 2009): spun sugar, sparkling rainbow candies, strawberries, merangue, and cherry fluff
  • Velvet Tiki (April Fool’s 2009): gold-washed frangipani, vanilla flower, vanilla bean, coconut, hibiscus, papaya, pineapple, bouganvilla, passion fruit, and three orchids
  • Candy Phoenix (Anniversary 2008): a dusky, yet effervescent mix of pomegranate and black currant candies, with a dusting of sugared pear and white apple
  • Marae (Atomic Luau Lounge 2008): vanilla orchid, Monoi tiare, gardenia, and light incense
  • Opuhi (Atomic Luau Lounge 2008): ginger blossom and vanilla orchid
  • Aquarius 2007: wisteria, myrrh, anise, galbanum, bryony, and pomegranate

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