NYCC Bound

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The Black Phoenix crew is New York bound! We will be at NYCC October 8 – 10, taking up residence in booth #2851.

 

Joining us in our booth will be artists Mark Dos Santos and Sarah Coleman. Sarah did the illustrations for our Stardust labels, and will be selling the following original art at our booth:

 

Yvaine – matted and framed

Tristan - matted

Una - matted

Lamia - matted

Victoria - matted

Fairy Wine - matted

Fairy Market - matted

Stormhold - matted

The East - matted

 

The following scents will be available exclusively at NYCC:

 

+ NYCC LIMITED EDITION SCENTS

 

$20

 

THE ELEPHANTINE COLOSSUS

Perfect for a Victorian Seaside Fornicatress! The Elephant Hotel, or Elephantine Colossus, was a 122 foot high elephant-shaped hotel that opened on Coney Island in 1885. Though it was a marvel of its time, it was also sullied by it’s proximity to the Gut, a particularly seedy section of West Brighton that seethed with persons of ill repute, and the Elephantine Colossus soon became as famous for its prostitutes as it was for its unusual architecture. Seaside hanky panky: a strumpet’s red musk with a merry splash of root beer, a swirl of exotic pipeweed, and a whiff of sweets carrying over from the boardwalk.

 

THE LADY OF LAKE RONKONKOMA

Lake Ronkonkoma is rumored to be a bottomless lake and conduit to the netherworld. The gods of the Lake demand an annual sacrifice, using the restless spirit of a long-dead Seatauket maiden to lure unsuspecting men to their doom. Balsamic, reedy water, sweetgrass, algae, loosestrife, and lady’s slipper.

 

THE LINCOLN TUNNEL VORTEX

Not merely a pathway between Manhattan and Weehawken, the Lincoln Tunnel is also a site of mystery. Cars have been reported missing in mid-voyage as they passed through the tunnel, and individuals have claimed that they have exited the tunnel disoriented, with strange gaps in their memories. Are these accounts a side-effect of sanity-shattering traffic or is this a genuine highway to an alternate dimension? Swirls of discordant, high-pitched notes, pavement, and a thin coating of sweet, green-glowing radiator fluid.

 

MOUNT MISERY AND SWEET HOLLOW ROADS

Both Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Roads are believed to be intensely haunted, and are pathways of misfortune and sorrow whose history of horrors descends deep into pre-Colonial American folklore. Black spruce boughs, packed dirt, gravel, brush, fallen chestnuts, wild tuberose, galbanum, and dead leaves.

 

THE WHITE LADY OF DURAND EASTMAN PARK

In the early nineteenth century, a woman and her daughter took up residence in Rochester, where the Durand Eastman Park now stands. The woman was fleeing an abusive husband, and fled to Rochester to in an attempt to find solitude and safety for herself and her child. One terrible day, her daughter went missing. The grief-stricken mother searched the area frantically, but her daughter had disappeared without a trace. Over many weeks of searching, the woman became convinced that her daughter had been a victim of foul play at the hands of a local farmer. Unable to find her child, mad with sorrow, she flung herself into the chilly waters of Lake Ontario. Her spirit haunts Durand Eastman Park now, accompanied by a pair of phantom hounds. She is believed to be a protectress of women in peril, and exacts vengeance on any man that she encounters that have done any woman harm. Bittersweet and ethereal: bergamot, cacao, white tea, jasmine bud, narcissus, and tobacco flower.

 

++ NYCC LIMITED EDITION ATMOSPHERIC SPRAYS

 

$25

 

THE BRITISH BLONDES

In 1868, Lydia Thompson’s British Blondes took New York City by storm, introducing burlesque to the Americas. A cluster of hothouse orchids with smoky vanilla-touched skin musk and burnished golden amber.

 

CONEY ISLAND CREEK

The scent of silty, thick water, mud flats, and rusted ancient shipwrecks.

 

STEEPLECHASE PARK

A celebration of Gilded Age amusement parks. Sweet, sticky concessions against a backdrop of gold-leafed rickety wood.

 

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While we are on the road, orders will still be packed and shipped, and Bill will still be answering your customer service questions. However our wholesale department, and Twilight Alchemy Lab, will be closed until we return to the office on Tuesday, October 12th.