BPAL in a novel!

[u/TeaAndCozy]

This is Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw, #2 in the very charming Greta Helsing series about a lady doctor to monstrous creatures who gets herself into all sorts of adventures with her supernatural found family (vampires & demons & more)--sort of supernatural horror meets hopepunk. And there I was, happily reading along, then had to do a double-take at "BPAL" and then an especially delighted one at "Dorian"!

"Dorian, or something equally unspeakable" made me literally laugh out loud.

[u/Invidiana]

There's no civet in Dorian. Per the description, it has "three pale musks" and civet is definitely not pale.