I mean, who else would do this and this? And with such flair.

AMBERGRIS

Sperm whale intestinal glop, oh how the fragrance world adores you. Ambergris is born from a sticky, black bile secretion that gloops forth from the intestines of sperm whales. When fresh, it possesses a rank, seaweedy fecal odor, but once it has been embraced by sea and sun, it transforms into a uniquely intoxicating perfume fixative. This precious substance has been used in cosmetics for ages untold, and is said to be a potent aphrodisiac with the power to increase psychic sensitivity and induce prophetic dreams.

Our ambergris accord is lightly balsamic, slightly woody, almost tobacco-like marine musk, and possesses a distinct salty animalic note that borders on sweet. The scent is extraordinarily versatile, and adds depth and complexity to a wide swath of fragrance families.

No whales were harmed, fondled, scraped, prodded, or offended during the creation and production of this accord. It is 100% vegan, and has never seen the inside of a whale’s tummy.

(via Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab)

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and the Black Phoenix Trading Post are teaming up to help support the folks at #occupywallstreet with capitalistic flair ;-)

Help us feed the #occupywallstreet protesters! You don’t need to do it out of the kindness of your heart: true to the capitalist nature of the good ol’ US of A, we’re not asking you to give something for nothing. You send us money, you get a bottle of perfume and the protesters get some chow. All the money after manufacturing costs that we generate from sales of #OCCUPYWALLSTREET will go to purchasing pizzas for the protesters.


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Rock the protester cliché! This is a filthy friggin’ patchouli, dark, deep, rooty, and strangely sexy, with cocoa absolute, tobacco absolute, and bourbon vanilla.

Need I say more? Go buy a bottle. Go on. Feed a protester.

p.s. I already bought two myself.

via Black Phoenix Gazette.

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::grin:: I dunno. Am I a figment of some nerd’s imagination?

For the record, I’m thrilled about this. How frakkin’ cool is it that BPAL got nerd teased by Jimmy Fallon? ::happy dance, squee::

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Anywhoodle. Here’s the basic run down. BPAL has created a series of scents based on DnD/RPG classes, alignments and races.

While you can wear them individually, the beauty of these oils is they can be layered to create new scents.

So, if you have a chaotic, evil, half elf rogue, you’re layering 4 oils to come up with a blend for your particular character. Change out a class or alignment and you get something different.

It pleases the gamer in me no end and tickles the fancy of my actress former life.

Head over to Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab for more details.

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Hero Initiative have teamed up on the following projects.

1) Black Phoenix has created Cat Allingham Unknown perfume to compliment Mark Waid’s The Unknown hardcover graphic novel!

Only 100 copies of this great combo were created, and only a VERY few remain! You get BOTH:

• A hardcover edition of The Unknown with an original bookplate illustrated by artist Minck Oosterveer and signed by Oosterveer and Mark Waid. Each copy is a signed-and-numbered edition of only 100 copies!

• A 5ml bottle of Cat Allingham from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. the fragrence features distilled shadows, a bleak desert landscape at midnight: Myroswelia balsam, gaïac wood, obsidian musk, green cumin, patchouli, myrrh, Siamese benzoin, frankincense, champaca, and sand.

Only a few limited edition sets remain at $50 and you can get them here.

2) BPAL has the LBCC Exclusive Heroine on their website for a mere $26.

Heroine is the first scent created specifically for The Hero Initiative, and the label art is by the fabulous Adam Hughes!

Heroine: Nepalese amber, East African patchouli, dark musk, apple blossom, petitgrain, aged leather, skin musk, and rhubarb.

::grin:: I may also have a bottle of Heroine to give away, but that’s for later. ;-)

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Astrological Interplay for October 2010
October begins with a veritable spy game to challenge our perceptions. First, we are asked to see both the forest and the trees as Mercury continues his task-oriented trek through Virgo‘s realm of precision. Jupiter and Uranus are complicating the matter by pulling his focus repeatedly toward the spiritual and philosophical “big picture.” They want to find meaning in the minutia: a cosmic reason for all of this i-dotting and t-crossing. That’s quite a lot to ask when mere management of the everyday is strenuous enough. Their idealistic expectations aren’t likely to resemble the factual information he collects …

Meanwhile, Venus and Mars have yet another lovers’ tryst, this time in the dark and dirty chambers of Scorpio on October 3rd. Their summertime romance in Libra was far more civilized than this lusty entanglement promises to be. The pleasant superficiality of their courtship dance back in August was by comparison a thin, empty gesture. This time, they get serious and matters of the heart are likely to get much, much messier. Well, true intimacy always is.

You can read the rest and grab a feed here ;-)

Happy Sunday!

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BPTP and BPAL are giving you a chance to Trick or Treat and, just like a kid making the candy rounds, there’s chance involved in what you get. ;-)

You might get a Treat…

… you will receive a bottle of one of these Black Phoenix Treat perfume oils, chosen at random:

Ginger Skulls – Zingy crystallized ginger candies with quince and Asian pear.
OR
Licorice Bats – Black licorice with cacao nibs and anise.
OR
Marshmallow Pumpkin – Marshmallow goo and pumpkin pulp! And yes – this, too, is vegan!

Or you may get Tricked…

Bogle – A garish shellycoat: red currant, Spanish mandarin, pumpkin, quince, wild blueberry, and ginger with green tea, vanilla bean, frankincense, tonka, and vetiver.
OR
Muilearteach – Blood red, bone white, and pitch black musks coated in hoarfrost.
OR
Slaugh – Champaca, black tea, tonka bean, and sassafras.

And you can even get an Inquisition Pack which includes a soap, t-shirt, and oil.

Plus, if you purchase an Inquisition pack, you will receive a small spritzer bottle of White Pumpkin Extrait and a Wad of Chewed Up Strawberry Bubblegum (an impful!). White Pumpkin and Wad are not available separately.


However, if you want to get in on the action, you better do it soon. According to the site, “You have until October 10th, 2010, at which point the Imps and Goblins will retire to their conference room and cease to accept orders.”

P.S. I have the Trick and Treat soaps in my hot little hands that I might just give away if you want to plead your case here. (you can view them here)

P.P.S. I just found out that BPAL has a new blog called the Black Phoenix Gazette. You may wanna follow because there may be mischief ahead.

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Many of the upcoming Halloween scents and other new Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab oils were passed around (and given away) and I’m figuring you’ll see a few stories here and there if you follow the ladies.

However, I didn’t want to leave out folks who couldn’t make it, so I saved one of the oils to give away to a reader.

This is the new 2010 Pumpkin Latte Halloween blend.

Sorry, I know the pic is blurry. My phone was being ornery. But it says..

“Pumpkin Latte – prototype – not for sale” *

Scent: Espresso, pumpkin syrup, smoky vanilla bean, milk, raw sugar, and a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg.

If you’d like to enter to win, just RT the following and you’re all set. Or, if you’re not on Twitter, just comment with a link to where you posted this post.

RT by 8am pst 9/8 and enter to win the new @bpal Pumpkin Latte Halloween 2010 Oil at www.geekgirldiva.com

See? Easy ;-)

*please note – this is a prototype and, due to the collectible nature of it, I understand you’d be tempted to try and make a profit off it by selling it on eBay or the like. Please don’t. The folks at BPAL were kind enough to give it to me because they trust my judgement and because they hope it’ll go to someone who’d really like it. Additionally, it’ll allow me to do other giveaways of this sort in the future. your cooperation and understanding is appreciated.


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Well, I have a new addition to the love fest. Port Royal soap from the Black Phoenix Trading Post.

While I’ve definitely drooled over many of the BPTP items, this was my first chance to try out the one of the soaps. So, I figured, why not share ;-)

Port Royal soap is made of gunpowder-black clay, imported silk, and a thick crust of sea salt.

The scent is BPAL’s Port Royal oil:

Spiced rum and ship’s wood mixed with the body-warmed trace of a prostitute’s perfume and a hint of salty sea air on the dry-down.

Which means, after the bath I just took, I smell like a pirate wench who had a few drinks, paid for a few hours of fun and woke up naked, sleepy and wrapped in silk sheets and fading perfume.

Yum.

What I really liked about this soap (and it may well mean I go through the bar faster than most) is the lather on it.  This doesn’t just bubble up.  It’s creamy in a really delectable and naughty way.

The hedonistic side of me just kept picking it back up and playing with it. But what I thought was really cool was that, while it was slick and sexy going on, it washed off without leaving any film or forcing me to work hard to rinse.

I know, I sound tawdry explaining it.  I’m going to sound even more tawdry when I say that this is the kind of soap that works on a man or a woman, so I’m betting money it would be really awesome for paired showers ;-)

Either way, I’m going to recommend it and link it so you can check it out for yourself.

Oh and, guess what?

I have another bar.  Maybe I’ll give it away.

Perhaps thar be a BPAL virgin out there who’d be likin’ it? Ye may be persuasive in the comments.

If you’d like to check out the actual BPAL oil, click here here. Just scroll down, it’s alphabetical

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