{"product_id":"alien-siren","title":"Alien\/Siren Perfume Oil","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALIEN\/SIREN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Women have always been monsters… But a monster is not something to dismiss, or look down on.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo mark the anniversary of Jude Doyle’s 2019 book\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDEAD BLONDES AND BAD MOTHERS: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e[book available\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/610854\/dead-blondes-and-bad-mothers-by-sady-doyle\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003ehere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e], BPAL is proud to present a new collection of perfume blends inspired by this brilliant work of nonfiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDEAD BLONDES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edigs into the meaty places where pop-culture, history, and folklore overlap, presenting a series of monstrous feminine archetypes which perpetually recur in storytelling – including the stories we construct around current events, or events in our own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach archetype comments differently on the roles that women and femmes have been relegated to throughout society; many of these have been reclaimed and turned inside out over time, evolving from punishments into sources of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This is a dark book, but some things are clearer in the darkness. This is a violent book, but an unsparing confrontation with violence can bring us to what lies beneath and beyond it.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Alien\/Siren:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Women are defined from the outside, in terms of how they seem to men, rather than from the inside, as thinking, feeling subjects. They are not fellow people, not even a different or worse variety of person, but simply the opposite of men, and hence, the opposite of human.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhich leads to the question of how you can have sex with something that isn’t human. In many myths, heterosexuality is portrayed as a kind of legalized bestiality, and attractive women are alluring, predatory, half-human monsters: fairy wives, snake-women, others whose beauty is a thin veneer over their dangerous and alien psyches.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eA sebaceous, slick reptilian perfume: green and black vegetal musks, kelp, sea salt, blackened opoponax, violet leaf, Siamese red benzoin, davana, squid ink, and ambergris accord.\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"A sebaceous, slick reptilian perfume: green and black vegetal musks, kelp, sea salt, blackened opoponax, violet leaf, Siamese red benzoin, davana, squid ink, and ambergris accord.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45606542344348,"sku":"DBBM-3","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/7891\/8812\/files\/Alien_Siren_2026_WEB.jpg?v=1779209653","url":"https:\/\/blackphoenixalchemylab.com\/products\/alien-siren","provider":"Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}