Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Vice, Baobhan Sith, and Gobo

Today I’ve got a Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab perfume review for you. The scents are Vice, Baobhan Sith and Gobo. For those of you who don’t know, Black Phoenyx Alchemy Lab specializes in dark, esoteric scents. There is nothing like this brand in the department store. They’re known for their quality and variety of unique blends. They do an amazing job of capturing scent notes.

PR samples.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Vice, Baobhan Sith, and Gobo

As always, scents are very subjective. How something smells to me and with my personal body chemistry may differ from your experience as body chemistry influences scents on everyone.

Animal Testing Policy
With the exception of our honey-based products, everything that comes from BPAL is vegan, and we abhor animal testing. Black Phoenix does not test on animals, and we do not work with companies that utilize animal testing.

Price for Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Perfumes
$26.00 per 5ml bottle for Lady Death
$17.50 per 5ml bottle for Good and Elf
$22 for 6 imp’s ear (samples)
$4 for a single 1/32 oz imp’s ear (sample)

Availability
BlackPhoenixAlchemyLab.com, Amazon, Etsy

Vice
Voluptuous and indulgent! A deep chocolate scent, with black cherry and orange blossom.

Scent Notes
Black cherry, dark chocolate and hints of orange.

My Thoughts
This is one of my all time favorite BPAL scents! Immediately I smell the black cherry, then the chocolate. Later I get hints of orange. It’s delicious and decadent.

Instead of ‘twice as nice,’ ‘vice is nice.’

Baobhan Sith
The ghostly White Women of the Scottish highlands. They seduce unwary travelers by night with their unearthly beauty and mesmerizing dancing. They engage their victims in a wild, hypnotic dance, and once they reach exhaustion, exsanguinate their partners with their vampiric kiss. Grapefruit, white tea, apple blossom and ginger.

Scent Notes
Ginger, Grapefruit, White Tea, Appleblossom

My Thoughts
Immediately I smell ginger, then the grapefruit kicks in. Later I smell apple blossom. Finally I think the last note is white tea. After about 30 minutes, there’s a fresh green scent that works its way out. The grapefruit lingers, which I like, and I think I still smell ginger from time to time. This is a really cool and unusual scent to me.

Gobo
Gobo is the natural leader of the Fraggle Five. He is an explorer, spending his days charting the unexplored (and explored-but-forgotten) regions of Fraggle Rock. Gobo is following, often quite literally, in the footsteps of his Uncle Travelling Matt Fraggle, the greatest living Fraggle explorer.

(For those of you who don’t know, Fraggle Rock was a cute live action puppet tv show by Jim Henson. It was awesome.)

Scent Notes
Tangerine, lemon peel, sugared pink grapefruit, and vanilla cream.

My Thoughts
Right off the bat I smell the vanilla and sugary pink grapefruit. Later I get hints of tangerine, mixed with the vanilla and reminding me of a creamsicle. I can smell only the barest hint of lemon. Later, the scent reminds me of those orange candy circus peanuts.

Both Vice and Gobo fall into the gourmand category for me. I love good gourmand scents and it’s hard to beat dark chocolate and cherries. Gobo is unusual because of the whole creamsicle to orange circus peanut candy scent. Very unexpected and nice. Baobhan Sith is an uncommon sensual scent.

Have you tried any of these BPAL scents? What scents do you recommend?

See my reviews of other BPAL scents

•  Lady Death Savage, Good, and Elf.
• Coraline Collection.