Atomic Nerds

Things have been… “fun” around here this weekend, ranging from brief periods of actual fun to fully delving into the depths of construction fail that the previous occupants of this house perpetrated. Ask Stingray about the way they hung the blinds someday after he’s calmed down and it has a chance to seem funny in retrospect.

Anyway, via Odious and Peculiar, the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has embarked upon an… interesting new line. BPAL is well known within certain circles, as they make roughly ninety skillion different fragrances, and a lively subculture has sprung up for the purpose of trading collections of BPAL bottles around by mail to find out what works and what doesn’t. Given that any perfume or cologne will smell different on different people depending on their individual skin chemistry, and BPAL’s products very often fall outside the tried and true “universal donor” scents of perfumery, this is an important question to answer before you plunk down your cash.

The newest collection is “A Picnic In Arkham“, a collection inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Some of them sound as unfortunate as their inspirations- for example Cthulhu’s personal blend, described as “A creeping, wet, slithering scent, dripping with seaweed, oceanic plants and dark, unfathomable waters”- but I think I’d actually wear the Miskatonic fragrance.

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