BPAL Reviews

For those coming late to the party, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is a scent manufacturer that sells essential oil blends. These are not the perfumes available across your drugstore counter; they have names like "Perversion" and "The Bow and Crown of Conquest" and "Kuang Shi" and "The Music of Eric Zahn". (At least, perfumes with names like these aren't available over my drugstore counter. If they're available across yours, I am duly impressed.)

Like many wonderful things in the world, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab's products are remarkable not merely for their actual substance, but for the mystique that surrounds them and the community that has grown up around the mystique. In consequence, I have cheerfully succumbed and decided to join the ranks of oddballs gleefully purchasing and trading the precious. And, always being one to fiddle at least lightly with communities, I am writing reviews.

Should these be of interest to you at all, I hereby advise you that naamah_darling writes reviews that are more eloquent, interesting, educated, and graphic than mine: http://naamah-darling.livejournal.com/tag/bpal+reviews.

( Reviews of Sudha Segara, Persephone, Velvet, Morgause, Blood Rose, and The Unicorn are below. )