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May Perfume Reviews
Valaya from Parfumes de Marly is lively and elegant and immediately brings to mind the heroine of a period romance, someone you might describe as beautiful, free-spirited, and headstrong. And she...
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June Scentomancy
The above is a little peek at June’s scented thoughts for my lovely Midnight Stinks Patreon supporters. Every month I take a few moments to do a bit of scentomancy: I throw open the doors of my...
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June Perfume Reviews
Three new scents from Bloodmilk… LEKYTHOI Smells of the brine of the ocean and resinous petrified sap of ancient trees, like cool, polished sea glass and golden amber laced with tiny bubbles, heaped...
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August 2023 Perfume Reviews
Surrealist jewelers of psychic armor, bloodmilk, sent me their most recent collaboration with Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, a fragrance called “Comet,” which is described as “Glittering shards of icy...
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A Fragrant Marinade For Autumn
I’ve been curating little capsule collections of fragrances for myself each month— a “marinade,” if you will — and I have particularly been looking forward to revisiting these autumnal selections for...
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September Magics: Manifesting Autumn
At the start of September I was pretty bummed because Florida Septembers are not super magical. I don’t know what it’s like where you’re at, but in Florida, autumn really seems to dither and...
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September 2023 Perfume Reviews
Peche Obscene from Lvnea, in collaboration with musician Chelsea Wolfe is glorious– but what I mean is glorious in the way that something monstrous and magnificent stalks the dead zone of night, by...
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31 Days of Horror, Day Twenty Two: Tomie Perfume From BPAL
“Come on! What’s so precious about a monster?” You guys. I have been waiting on this Tomie-inspired fragrance ever since Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab teased its creation way back sometime last year. And...
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31 Days of Horror, Day Thirty-One: Halloween Perfumes From BPAL. [GIVEAWAY...
For this final day of October and in wrapping up our 31 Days of Horror here at Unquiet Things, we are going out in style! With reviews of twenty fragrances from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s...
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November ( + October) Perfume Reviews
Dream Skin, a collaboration between bloodmilk x Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is akin to a dream diary, a midnight scrapbook of filmy filaments teased from nocturnal murmurs, pressed between pages of mist...
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2023 Yule Fragrances From Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab
Vintage Snow Man Blow Mold (a milky plastic shell of frosted blue spruce, illuminated from within by 40 watts of glowing amber) If this scent could be a book cover, it would 100% be an R.L. Stine...
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December 2023 Perfume Reviews
I am glad you all are here with me today. Here, at the end of all things. Ok, ok, no need for Mount Doom melodrama; it’s only the last monthly gathering of perfumes for 2023! If you missed any of the...
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June Scentomancy
The above is a little peek at June’s scented thoughts for my lovely Midnight Stinks Patreon supporters. Every month I take a few moments to do a bit of scentomancy: I throw open the doors of my...
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January 2024 Perfume Reviews
Poesie generously sent me samples of each fragrance from their Cardamonth collection. I shared these reviews with them, and I am so honored that the reviews are now included as copy on the site! ❈...
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February 2024 Perfume Reviews
Roja Midsummer Dream is the olfactory equivalent of the urge to disappear into a haunted glade and become local folklore or of how your body isn’t a temple, it’s the moss-encrusted altar where...
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March 2024 Perfume Reviews
“Flacon de Parfum” costume designs attributed to “Madeleine Vilpelle” for a French music hall Over on TikTok this month, I shared a not-quite-a-review for a bland freebie from Sephora that actually...
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