{"product_id":"woman-as-dragon","title":"Woman as Dragon Perfume Oil","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWOMAN AS DRAGON\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 Ellison S. 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[originally published as Sady Doyle, book available\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/610854\/dead-blondes-and-bad-mothers-by-sady-doyle\/\"\u003ehere\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\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Woman as Dragon:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The archaic mother – the mother who reproduces without male permission for her own satisfaction – is the least human of the female monsters because she poses the most profound existential threat… The Mother is female bodily self-determination, full-fledged and uncontrollable, out of the ocean and stomping skyscrapers, turning the male world to rubble. She is what happens when the Furies come home.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eA fiery red musk with crushed ginger root, black upturned soil, dragon’s blood resin, clove bud, pink peppercorn, tobacco absolute, red amber, patchouli, black oud, blood-caked tar, vetiver, and cedar.\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"A fiery red musk with crushed ginger root, black upturned soil, dragon’s blood resin, clove bud, pink peppercorn, tobacco absolute, red amber, patchouli, black oud, blood-caked tar, vetiver, and cedar.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45606619316380,"sku":"DBBM-5","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/7891\/8812\/files\/Woman_As_Dragon_2026_WEB.jpg?v=1779209653","url":"https:\/\/blackphoenixalchemylab.com\/products\/woman-as-dragon","provider":"Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}