List of BPAL by Name - 2013 Limited Editions
This is a list of scent names of Limited Editions from 2013, that I've come across so far. As I search or have some to sell, I'll add them to this list. 2012 & 2014 are on separate posts. Remember, this is strictly a reference list!!! My sales are separate!!!!SUMMER 2013
June 2013: Single Note: Sweet Pea - First cultivated in the late 17th century by a Sicilian monk, Father Francis Cupani, sweet peas represent chastity, bliss, and innocent pleasures. The vines and flowers are used in magick to protect children, guard virtue, inspire affection, and cultivate friendship.
June 2013: Song of Nature: Octopus - Pale moss, white kelp, sea buckthorn berry, ambergris accord, Somalian frankincense, rose geranium, and salt.
June 2013: Song of Nature: Desmonema - White amber and mimosa with tendrils of Italian bergamot, myrrh, green tangerine and green patchouli, sheer coconut, quince, and vetiver.
June 2013: Song of Nature: Epibulia - East Indian Mango, cassis, blackcurrant, orange carnation, sugared coconut, and Maid of Orleans.
July/August 2013: The Last Rose of Summer - A quiet, solitary scent: white rose, frankincense, Arabian sandalwood, neroli, orris root, and patchouli.
LILITH'S BIRTHDAY & LIMITED EDITIONS
August 2013: Lilith’s Bubblegum & Roses - This summer, Lilith spent Tuesdays and Thursdays with us here at the Lab. One day, she decides that she wants to make a perfume for herself that all her friends can wear, too. We talk for a little while, and I let her smell some components before she finally decides that she wants her fragrance to smell like bubblegum and roses. Little lady, your wish is my command. Lilith’s creation: a spray of pink roses, red rose petals, and pink sticky bubblegum!
August 2013: Lilith’s Feel Better Flowers - I’ve been trying to teach Lilith a little bit about herbalism, aromatherapy, and plant lore. We talk about all the plants that are growing in the yard, we talk about all the tinctures, simples, and other concoctions that mom makes, and we play a board game that’s all about wildharvesting herbs. Lilith and I were talking about oils one day at work, and she told me that she wanted to make a perfume with all the “feel better flowers”. I told her that I’d put in every flower whose purpose she could remember… … so here’s what she made:
+ carnations (“to make people happy”)
+ lavender (“for sleeping and keeping away bedroom monsters”)
+ honey (“it’s for smiles and good throats”)
+ ginger (“for tummies”)
+ aloe (“for too much sun”)
+ blessed thistles (“for buronic (sic) plague”)
+ chamomile (“for happy families”)
+ chocolate peppermint (“because mom grows it just for me”)
Please remember! - this is a perfume, not a medicine! Please don’t drink, rub on wounds, use as a suppository, or anything else nutty.
September 2013: Butterflies, Flowers, & Jewels Attending - Inspired by the moment in time frozen in this photo - my fairy child, laughing and playing amongst gargantuan flowers. An ethereal, iridescent, twilit scent, sparkling with mystery and innocent joy: white patchouli with provence rose, delicate freesia, pink tuberose, jasmine sambac, orange blossom, butterfly musk, vanilla orchid, and delicate spices.
September 2013: The Future Ball - One day, Lilith digs up one of my old crystal balls and asks me what it does. I tell her that some people read the future in crystal balls, so she asks me to tell her what’s going to happen tomorrow.
“I see a little girl waking up and asking for spaghetti for breakfast.”
“I see a yellow building and a yellow toy bus.”
“I see a big brown dog. The dog is trying to steal a little girl’s dinner.”
“I see a little girl surrounded by stuffed animals. Her mother is trying to get her to go to sleep, but the little girl keeps asking for more stories.”
This went on every day for weeks. She’d pull out the ball, and ask (demand) that I tell her what was going to happen to her tomorrow. Fun stuff, motherhood! Crystalline white musk, Somalian olibanum, smoky benzoin, Damascus rose, dark myrrh, sacred sandalwood, life everlasting, rock rose, and gummy bear fingerprint residue.
September 2013: Little Pythia - Ever since toddler’dom, Lilith has had a thing for tarot cards. What kid wouldn’t? They’re big, they’re colorful, and each of them has a story to tell. She has her own decks now (Rider Waite and Thoth), but she still steals mine all the time. This pic was accidental, and, to me, hilarious. She was playing with her Thoth deck when out of nowhere, she grabbed these cards and smooshed them on her cheeks. I’m not sure why she did it, but I’m hella glad I had a camera handy! (Channeling Uncle Al, perhaps?) An incense for a budding baby magus: vanilla frankincense and rose champaca with a little bit of red licorice.
September 2013: Tarantula Fascinator - This summer, Lilith got to play with a ton of bugs, reptiles, and other wigglies during a special event at her preschool. She made a new friend that day - Ursula the Tarantula. “Lilith, what would a tarantula smell like?” “Maybe fuzzy chocolate? With stripes?” Done and done: fuzzy cacao-drenched hazelnut with hay absolute, black pepper, and nutmeg, laced with stripes of wild plum and white sandalwood.
HALLOWEENIES (2013) !!!
Halloween 2013: All Souls - A day of remembrance and intercession. Without the prayers and sacrifices of their families and loved ones, the faithful departed may not be cleansed of their venal sins, and thereby cannot attain beatific vision. On November 2nd, prayers are sung and offerings are made to aid lost souls in transcending purgatory. An incense blend that invokes the higher qualities of mercy and compassion, mingled with the soft, sugared currant scent of offertory soul cakes.
Halloween 2013: Autumn Fancies - Dry grasses bathed in amber light, muted by gentle shadows.
Halloween 2013: Haunted Houses - Quiet, ineffective ghosts haunting the realm of mystery and night, stretching dusty hands back to homes and lifetimes unforgotten: pale gossamer musks swirling in thick, dense otherworldly vapours through cracks in dry wood and old, old stones.
Halloween 2013: The Hell-Gate of Ireland 2013 - Smoldering brimstone, bitter labdanum, clove, black musk, and copper-colored feathers.
Halloween 2013: Ooky - This is the scent of lightly spiced pumpkin candies, decorated with thick marzipan, sweetened with buttercream, and decorated with a touch of lemon zest.
Halloween 2013: Samhain 2013 - Truly the scent of autumn itself - damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein.
Halloween 2013: September Midnight - A myrrh-darkened amber chypre sweetened by newly-ripened black pomegranate.
Halloween 2013: Theme In Yellow - Ghost songs and love to the harvest moon: fresh pumpkins warmed by candlelight and aglow with Halloween joy.
Halloween 2013: A World Where There Are Octobers - An armload of maple boughs and a swirl of autumn leaves.
Halloween 2013: Phobos: Achluophobia - Fear of darkness. Oppressive, stifling, suffocating, blinding: black patchouli, tobacco absolute, opoponax, and inky black musk.
Halloween 2013: Phobos: Noctiphobia - Fear of nighttime. The vast, endless canopy of the night sky, dotted with cold, harsh pinpoints of light under a bulging white moon.
Halloween 2013: Phobos: Phasmophobia - Fear of ghosts. Whispers in the darkness and cold breath upon your neck: calla lilies, white sandalwood, snow rose, white amber, and iced wine.
MISKATONIC VALLEY YULE
Miskatonic Valley Yuletide: The Festival 2013: Eldritch Drunken Constellations - Dizzying, swirling, starry madness: eucalyptus sap, white tea leaf, and ambergris foam.
Miskatonic Valley Yuletide: The Festival 2013: The Spell of the Eastern Sea - Sea salt, kelp, and twisting willows.
2013 YULES
Yule 2013: Butter Rum Cookie - A boozy addition to the devil’s bake sale! Rum-soaked butter cookies, crusted with sugar, soaked in almond and garnished with orange rind.
Yule 2013: Egg Nog - Sweet brandy, dark rum, heavy cream, sugar, and a dash of nutmeg.
Yule 2013: Like Brooms of Steel - Sharp, metallic slices of snow and freezing wind with a faint hint of cellar dust, burlap, and apple.
Yule 2013: The Mahogany Tree - Sorrows, begone! Sweet wine, sparkling laughter, warm companionship, and the song of night-birds under a canopy of rustling mahogany: robin-red currants, soft nightingale-brown tonka, glossy starling-black labdanum, hearth-warm amber, mahogany sap, winter woods, a splash of Muscat, and gentle Christmas snow.
Yule 2013: Picture Books in Winter - The wild joy of story time on a frosty winter morning: the well-loved, well-worn leather of old fairy tale books, the sweet mustiness of antique paper, fae glimmers of twinkling crystalline flowers, and a chunk of Scottish Tablet.
Yule 2013: Pink Snowballs - A lighthearted winter scent: chilly vanilla rose snowballs! Dainty, soft, and certainly unfit for flinging!
Yule 2013: Winter Stars - Dreaming my dreams on winter nights: starry blue musk with mugwort, white mandarin, rockrose, and snow.
Yule 2013: Yellow Snowballs - Because I am very, very crass. Slushy white mint, vanilla cream, lemon drops, grapefruit, and yuzu!
DECEMBER 2013 - 13 & MOON SCENTS
December 2013: 13 - Bringing the light of good fortune to the dark of the year! Coconut-infused white chocolate swirled with a mélange of New Year’s blessings: smashed pomegranates, a slice of vasilopita, black-eyed peas, rice wine, a bunch of leafy greens, twelve sweet grapes, buckwheat, almond cookies, and glazed doughnuts.
December 2013: Schwarzer Mond - Brian’s Interpretation… The keeper of secrets: opoponax, Tunisian black amber, night musk, antique patchouli, zdravetz, terebinth, myrrh, and Pimenta racemosa.
December 2013: Black Moon - Elizabeth’s Interpretation… A search for lost reason: white musk, indigo musk, and mugwort with honeyed sandalwood, honey myrtle, yarrow, white patchouli, and lemon verbena.