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REVIEW: Water of Notre Dame

Brings peace to the spirit, a sense of calm and fulfillment, and attracts the aid of beneficial spirits. In The Bottle Smells like watah. And a bit of flowery. Wet On Skin Aquatic, with light, calm florals. Maybe I didn't put enough on, but I have to put my wrist right up in my nose to get much off it. Dry On Skin Much stronger now, especially the florals; I can actually smell it without trying to. A little like soap or baby powder. It's hard to describe when I don't have a proper description to work off of. Longevity Lasted only two or so hours. Color Bright white and light lilac.

Ballad of the Mountainwitch

November 30, 2010

SnappingTurtle's Blog

Scent Notes

Work In Progress: Notes of Yay: Cinnamon Coffee White Tea Ginger Hawaiian Ginger Honeysuckle Pink Pepper Pink Grapefruit Violet ? Almost Always Delicious: Pomegranate Honey Gardenia Citrus Grapefruit Lemon Lime Pepper Amber Ozone Lotus Sweet Pea Tonka Jasmine Lavender Lilac Fig Old Paper/Parchment Candles, Candle Wax, Beeswax Moonflower ? Approach with Caution: Leather - doesn't like me, but mmmmmmm on the husband Pumpkin - one of my favorite scents, but the lab's pumpkin note tends to be too buttery altogether for me Patchouli - better as a supporting character than a main note Rose - some are wonderful, some are meh. Mint Sugar Coconut Licorice/Anise Red Velvet Cake - I love the taste of this, and want to try some, but foody is uncertain on me. Booze - will need more testing to know which ones are yum, and which ones make me go blecch... Musks - need to categorize. So far white musk seems ok, dark musk not so much. Strong Woody Notes Frankincense Opoponax Lemongrass Myrrh Vetiver Beer - I hate the taste of most beers, especially hoppy ones. Haven't smelled it in perfume yet though - who knows? Apple - depends on the blend, but good to be aware of it beforehand Pineapple - in just the right blend, awesome - otherwise blech. Currants - strongly blend-dependent Red Ginger ? Notes of DOOM: Butter & Buttery Yuckiness Milk (only ok on the daughter, but she likes it) Cherries - turns to cough syrup, blech Grape - much like cherry, smells like cough syrup almost always Maple - don't like it. Don't like the smell, the taste, nada. Chocolate - have had some success with the dry cocoa type, but very very suspicious of chocolate in my perfume Juniper Dark Myrrh Pine Sap Skin Musk Aged or Dark Patchouli Rum ? Overall, I tend to enjoy spicy/light floral/citrus/herbal type of perfumes more, less so on the foody/woody/resiny side. Still working on narrowing that down. Aquatics & Orientals tend to be harder for me to categorize, but so far so good. My ScentBase Profile - as up-to-date as humanly possible, this lists everything I have so far. Wish List Goodreads Source: notes you like, notes you don't like

SnappingTurtle

November 24, 2010

cuervosueno's blog

Switch Wrap Up

I just wanted to say that I had the most wondrous Witch--Dark Alice!--who really blew me away. So kind and generous! I feel like I have a new friend! I can't thank her enough! Also, now the my witchee knows who I am, gotta say, too, that my witchee was wonderful! Jencallisto was a pleasure to stalk, was always quick to post that she'd got things, and was just a joy! Another new friend! Thanks, too, to all the many ringleaders who made this possible. My love to you all!

cuervosueno

November 24, 2010

Good gravy . . .

Apparently my browser decided, "NO BPAL FOR YOU!" for a few days there. Well, it probably knows best, as I've got a huge hairy grad assignment coming up and things will just get weirder after that. If you'd like to contact me, feel free to send me an email; while I will be living like a sweetly-scented monk, I'd still like to hear from you!

mountainwitch

November 24, 2010

REVIEW: Mi-Go Brain Canister

Pink pepper, peony, jasmine, mango, kiwi, pomegranate, pineapple, white ginger, serene white tea and light musks. Thank God I at least know what most of these things smell like on their own, because otherwise I would be in something of a pickle trying to decipher such a multi-element scent. In The Bottle First reaction: I don't know what I'm smelling, I know I've smelled it before, but I don't think I like it. On closer inspection, I could catch the fruity notes and even a bit of sharpness-- the ginger? The florals stood out above that. I'm not sure what the first scent I encountered was, as my mental scent library is limited, but I suppose it was either the pink pepper or the peony-- being the ones I'm unfamiliar with. Starting to soften on my initial reaction. Wet On Skin Much sharper! More floral here, but not much fruit. A bit musky. Less startling when diluted. Dry On Skin The musk is starting to come out over the floral, but still not much in the way of fruitiness. Though, oddly, I did get a faint tang in the back of my throat resembling fruit roll-ups of all thing. Suppose it does make sense, considering all the fruits listed. Longevity Color Antique rose, mauve, yellowed paper.

November 23, 2010

Unholy Wishlist of Unholies

I say! There wouldn't happen to be an infertile ladies in the audience who might happen to be in the market for some eggs? Anyone? Hell, ovaries, tubes, the whole package-- I don't need it! But it can be yours for the low, low price of everything listed here! No? Then where my leukemia patients at, because have I got some marrow for you! ARS AMATORIA Ave Maria Gratia Plena Carnal Casanova Debauchery Defututa Delight Fascinum Harlot Kabuki Muse Nefertiti Queen of Sheba Whip ARS DRACONIS Dragon's Hide ARS MORIENDI Danse Macabre Darkness Deep In Earth Embalming Fluid Eternal The Ghost House of Night Nocturne The Reaper and the Flowers Sheol Thanatopsis ATOMIC LUAU LOUNGE Blue Fire Golden Wave Polynesian Pop Red Tide BEWITCHING BREWS Aeval Antique Lace Bewitched Black Forest Black Opal Black Tower Blood Brimstone Burial Cathode Calico Jack Event Horizon The Forest Reverie Highwayman Hurricane Incantation Inferno Intrigue Jack Jolly Roger Kill-Devil La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente Leanan Sidhe Lightning Lurid Magus Mary Read Mata Hari Morgause Ouija Plunder The Raven Séance Shattered Tavern of Hell Undertow Voodoo DIABOLIS Black Annis Blood Countess Djinn Dracul Ekhidna Hellcat Horreur Sympathiqe Kitsune-Tsuki Kumiho Loup Garou Nephilim Nocnitsa EXCOLO Aizen-Myoo Bastet Coyote Ehecatl Hades Kurukulla Mania Nyx Ogun Olokun Oya Pele Santa Muerta Shango Thanatos Xiuhtecuhtl ILLYRIA Anthony The Apothecary Hermia Queen Gertrude Titania Viola Yorick MAD TEA PARTY Alice's Evidence All in the Golden Afternoon Cheshire Cat Croquet The Dodo The Dormouse Jabberwocky The King of Hearts Mouse's Long and Sad Tail Queen Alice The Red Queen Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat White Rabbit Imperious Tiger Lily Brusque Violet Rocking-Horse Fly Bread-and-Butterfly How Doth the Little Crocodile 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster The Sluggard MÄRCHEN The Rose Egle The Sea Foams Milk The Sea Foams Blood Prunella Bensiabel The Witch's Garden The Miller's Daughter The Little Sparrow Serpents with Glittering Eyes and Forky Tongues The Black Rider The Chicken-Legged Hut Fire for Thy Stepmother's Daughters Old Demons of the First Class The Grave-Pig Beer from the Marsh Woman's Brewery Utrennyaya Zorya PHARMACOPOEIA Nostrum Remedium Slippery Poppy Tincture Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener A PICNIC IN ARKHAM Al Azif Arkham Brown Jenkin The Deep Ones The High Priest Not to Be Described Night Gaunt Shoggoth Shub-Niggurath Herbert West Y'ha-Nthlei RAPPACCINI'S GARDEN Baneberry Belladonna Black Rose Blood Lotus Bohun Upas Destroying Angel Hairy Toad Lily Hemlock The Lotus Tree Mandrake Opium Poppy Slobbering Pine Voodoo Lily Yew Tree SIN & SALVATION Envy Sloth The Great Sword of Wars The Scale of Deprivation Anathema Laudanum Nero Oblivion Roadhouse Sea of Glass Seraphim SOMNIUM Oneroi Baku Temple of Dreams STEAMWORKS Phoenix Steamworks Aelophile The Antikythera Mechanism Ether The Robotic Scarab Violet Ray WANDERLUST 51 Amsterdam Baghdad Bengal Crossroads Danube Glasgow Gomorrah The Hanging Gardens Havana Kathmandu London Mag Mell Moscow New Orleans Ogygia Paris Pontarlier Santa Eulária des Riu Santo Domingo Shanghai Silk Road Sybaris Tenochtitlan Uruk Venice Windward Passage The Isles of Demons Kumari Kandam THE SALON CARNIVAL DIABOLIQUE The Organ Grinder Pulcinella & Teresina Melisande Doc Constantine The Parliament of Monsters Arachnina Eshe Faiza Banded Seasnake Boomslang Green Tree Viper Habu Isaac Kataniya Meskhenet Thalassa Stormclouds Knuckle Bones L'Heure Verte Aeronwen The Blood Garden The Blasphmare Reliquary Faeu Boulanger The Contract... The Grand Inquisitor's... Hand of Glory Licwiglunga Shrunken Heads Sir Hugh Ockram GOOD OMENS Agnes Nutter Aziraphale The Bugger Alle This Bible Crowley Famine Jasmine Cottage Pepper Pollution Shadwell War Wensleydale Hastur Ligur GRIS GRIMLY A Fit of Artistic Enthusiasm Hideous Heart HELLBOY Kroenen Plague of Frogs

November 22, 2010

REVIEW: Galvanic Goggles

metallic, Indian musk, tobacco flower, African balsam In The Imp The metallic scent is quite prominent here. It has a mild alcoholic burn-- the sort you often get with perfumes-- but the other elements stop it from being unpleasant. There's a sort of sweetness underneath it all. Wet On Skin Much sharper then in the imp; it almost has a citrusy eucalyptus tang to it. The muskiness is apparent, but mostly covered by the metal. Dry On Skin The metal's calmed down, though still hanging around. Now the musky scents have come out, giving it a soft but masculine feeling, but with a hit of sweetness. I really have no idea what tobacco leaf or balsam smell like (or at least, I don't think I do), so I can't say how well they stand out individually. Heady, but nothing that'll make you feel like falling over. Longevity Expect this on to be on you for the duration. It's OK, go to sleep; it'll be there when you wake up. Color Silver and brass and brown-orange with a little swirl of light, light green-blue.

scopoliacarniolica's Blog

November 22, 2010

The Mad Perfume Addict

My Imp List :D

So i like to keep track of what i have here without needing to search through my boxes Alice Aglaea Australian Copperhead Black Opal Blood Moon 2008 Blood Kiss 2x Black Hellebore Bien Loim D'ICI Baneberry Black Phoenix Butterflies and Plovers Brisingamen Black Lily Black Cat Blood Countess 2x Blue Moon 2007 2x Baghdad Creepy Chaste Moon orig. Christmas Rose CT Snake Oil: LXXV CT Snake Oil: CCXCVIII CT Dorian: CCCX Cheshire Moon CT IV CMXXXVIII CT CMXXXVIII CT Penitence XXXVIII CT IV MCCCLXIX CT CMXIV Czernobog Cobra Lily 2x Day of the Skulls 2008 Dorian 2x Debauchery Death Cap Djinn Danube Dian's Bud 2x Delphi Dragon's Claw Defututa Eustephanos Ephemera Eris Endymion Fascinum Fairy Wine Fearful Pleasure Fallen Flower Song Fruitcake Glacies Gaueko Glasgow Highwayman Horn of Plenty Horror Sympathique Hunger Harlot Has No Hanna High John the Conqueror Hemlock Hymn Incendia I Fell in Love with a Floating Brain I Died for Beauty Juliet 2x Jingu 2009 John Barleycorn Kali 3x Katrina van Tassel Kyoto Kurukulla Litha 2009 Loup Garou 2x Lust Lilith and the Jarocho Lick it Like you Mean it 2008 Long Night Moon Man with Phallus Head Mouse Long Sad Tale Moscow Masquerade Magdalene Manila Marie Maiden Morocco Magus Nocturne Nocnitsa Namaste Ophelia O Odin Othello Purple Phoenix Peitho Pontarlier Psyche Pumpkin V 2008 Queen Mab Queen of Sheba Regan Rangoon Riptide Red Rose Red Moon 2007 Rosalind Rapture Sugar Skull 2008 Santa Eularia Des Riu Slobbering Pine Séance Sugar Slathered Candy Apple Sudha Segara Shattered Santa Muerte Sheol Severin Shango Sin Samhainophobia Snow Bunny 2008 Sagittarius 2007 Snow White 2007 Troll The Mock Turtle's Lesson The Dole of the King's Daughter Temple Viper The Ecstasy of St. Theresa Tanin'iver The Coiled Serpent Tamora Thanatopsis The Antikythera Mechanism The Ghost Tempest Tintagel The Hamptons The Reaper and the Flowers The Hanging Gardens Titania The Rose Underpants 2x Ultraviolet Viconte de Valmont Veil Violet Ray 2x Velvet Clown Velvet Tiki Viola Vampire Tears Windward Passage 2x Wrath 2x Wolfsbane Wings of Azrael White Rose Yggdrasil 2x Y'Ha-Nthlei Yuki-Onna Testers: Candy Butcher Crypt Queen Giant Vulva Honey Moon 2005 Leipreackan Punkie Night Sea of Tranquility Sticky Pillowcase Tell Tale Heart Treat 1

Icekitten

November 21, 2010

Ancilla's Blog

Yule wishlist

Just for my own reference: Cold Moon Phoenix in Winter THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS WHOOP Klara THE WALTZ OF THE SNOWFLAKES GELT 2010 GINGERBREAD POPPET 2010 JACOB'S LADDER 2010 WINTER-TIME WOODS IN WINTER

ancilla_morte

November 20, 2010

Note Preference

Notes that I love: amber, apricots, black cherry, blackberry, booze, champagne, chocolate/cocoa, cinnamon, clove, coconut (black, regular, sweet), cream, current (black, red), frankincense, fig, honey (golden, orange blossom), marshmallow, milk, musk (dark, red, skin, etc.), opium, patchouli, pomegranate, plum, raspberry, red sandalwood, resin, rum, sage, spices (Indonesian, Middle Eastern, Asian), strawberry, tobacco (blond, regular, pipe), vanilla (black, bourbon, regular, smoked, sugar), wine. Notes that are nice: almond, ambergris, apples, basil, caramel, cotton/linen, fur, grapefruit, ginger, hazelnut, incense, juniper, leather, lemongrass, lime, lychee, moss, orange, rosemary, rosewood, saffron, smoke, snow, tonka. Notes that sometimes work: aquatics, cedar, cherry, coffee, cotten candy/candy floss, eucalyptus, evergreen, fir, grains, lavender, lemon, linden blossom, lotus, magnolia, orange blossom/neroli, orris, peach, pear, pine, rose, sugar, teak, yuzu. Notes that I don't like: buttercream, butterscotch, fennel, heavy florals, hemlock, vetiver/khus, whiskey.

cupcakegernade

November 20, 2010

Collection

Under all kinds of construction. Note listings are mostly for my own forgetful benefit. • Aperotos Eros // benzoin, Indian musk, massoia bark, myrrh, ambrette seed, galbanum, bergamot, fir • Bathsheba // carnation, plum, Arabian musk • Bien Loin D'ici // red musk, benzoin, caramel, honey, spice, Moroccan oils • Brisingamen // amber, myrtle, apple blossom, carnation • Defututa // olive blossom, honey, smoky blossom, cinnamon, jasmine, sandalwood, champaca • Hunger // black narcissus, orange blossoms, vanilla • Jezebel // honey, rose, orange blossom, sandalwood • Lady of Shalott // gardenia, musk, muguet, water blossoms, aquatic, white ginger • Libertine // rosewood, chamomile, bergamot, violet, red sandalwood, primrose, Arabian musk • O // amber, honey, vanilla • Psyche // Bulgar rose, Chinese white musk, lavender, orchid, frankincense • Salome // almond, star jasmine, oakmoss, red sandalwood, Egyptian musk • Seraglio x2 // sweet almond, Mysore sandalwood, Bulgar rose, neroli, nutmeg, clove, orange peel • Le Serpent Qui Danse // violet, vanilla, gardenia • Succubus // mimosa, orange blossom, neroli, bergamot, sweet clove • Wanda // red merlot, leather, musk, rose, violet, myrtle • Dragon's Blood // dragon's blood • Dragon's Bone // dragon's blood, white sandalwood, orris, blondewood • Dragon's Reverie // dragon's blood resin, poppy, amber, ylang ylang • Dance of Death // orris, black musk, patchouli, myrrh • Jazz Funeral // bay rum, bourbon, flowers, graveyard dirt, magnolia, Spanish moss • Midnight // evening primrose, ruellia, nicotiana, wild petunia, panani-o-kai, night § phlox, night gladiolus, moonflower, Nottingham Catchfly • Nocturne // violet, lilac, tuberose • The Phantom Wooer // stargazer lily, bone dust, moss, buttonweed, moonflower, honey myrtle • Twilight // lavender, jasmine, honeysuckle • Zombi x3 // dried roses, rose leaf, Spanish moss, earth • Aremata-Popoa x2 // blackberry brandy, Castillo run, ouzo, iced black tea • Boo Bam // bamboo reed, palm frond, hibiscus • Te Po (The Bar) // rum, almond, orange, sugar, lime, black cherry, vodka, mint • Absinthe x2 // wormwood, light mints, cardamom, anise, hyssop, lemon • Arcana // frankincense, rosemary, lavender, neroli, lemon verbena • La Belle Dame Sans Merci • Belle Époque // sweet opium, lily of the valley, vanilla, mandarin, red sandalwood • Bess // rosemary, orange blossom, grape spirit, rose, lemon peel, mint • Bon Vivant // champagne, strawberry • Black Pearl // coconut, Florentine iris, hazelnut, white musk • The Coiled Serpent • Dee // leather, rosewood, tonka, incense, parchment, wood • Delirium // apple, rose, lemon • Eclipse // bitter almond, vanilla, frankincense, heliotrope, cinnamon • Ephemera // violet, chamomile, muget, white geranium, calla lily, tea rose, autumn leaves • Follow Me Boy • High John the Conqueror • Intrigue // black palm, cocoa, fig, wood • The Jersey Devil // pitch pine, blackberry leaf, cranberry, cedar, tomato leaf • Juke Joint x2 // Kentucky bourbon, sugar, mint • Kubla Khan // ice, roses, opium smoke, amber tobacco, golden sandalwood, champaca, tea leaf, sugared lily, ginger, hay absolute, leather, dark vanilla, mandarin, peru balsam, Moroccan jasmine • Lurid // black currant, Bulgarian lavender, white musk, resin, ozone • Masquerade // patchouli, ambergris, carnation, orange blossom • Penny Dreadful // perfume, loam • Phantasm // green tea, lemon verbena, jasmine, neroli • Poisoned Apple // red apple, opium, oleander, hemlock • Scarecrow // wind, hay, grass • Scherezade // saffron, Middle Eastern spices, red musk • Schrödinger's Cat // tangerine, sugared lime, pink grapefruit, oakmoss, lavender, chocolate peppermint • Sudha Segara // milk, ginger, honey, ambrosia • Swank // pomegranate martini • Ultraviolet // violet, neroli, eucalyptus, mint • Umbra // East African black patchouli, cedarwood, vetiver, cinnamon • Velvet // sandalwood, cocoa, vanilla, myrrh • Water of Notre Dame • Zephyr // lemon, lemon verbena, neroli, white musk, white florals, white sandalwood, China musk, bergamot, vanilla • Baobhan Sith // grapefruit, white tea, apple blossom, ginger • Black Phoenix // ?? • Catherine // orange blossom, rosemary, rose • Dracul // black musk, tobacco, fir, balsam of Peru, cumin, bitter clove, crushed mint, orange blossom • Ekhidna // mandrake, dark myrrh, seaweed, swampy moss, black pepper, pimento, opoponax, tobacco absolute, tarry clove • Kuang Shi // Mandarin orange, white musk, mango, white sandalwood • Nosferatu // herbs, earth, red wine • Rage // black ember, dragon's blood resin, melati, rose geranium, mandarin, black currant • Pain // lavender, pennyroyal • Szepasszony // air, rain, white flowers • Anubis // myrrh, storax, balsam, embalming herbs • Centzon Totochtin x2 // Mexican cocoa, rum, red wine, blood • Gaueko // sandalwood, lavender, smoke, tobacco, nag champa, labdanum • Grandmother of Ghosts // laurel, stargazer lily, woods, peony, mandarin, white musk, pepper • Himerus // juniper, sandalwood, rosewood, red musk, orchid, bergamot, lilac • Kali // cassia, hibiscus, musk rose, Himalayan wild tulip, lotus, osmanthus, dark chocolate, red wine, tobacco, balsam, honey • Megaera // orris, black amber, bergamot, plum, grapefruit • Melpomene // cypress, mint, geranium, Bulgar lavender, orange blossom, passion flower • Nuit // white musk, white rose, night-blooming jasmine, moss, Egyptian incense, moonflower • Obatala // milk, coconut meat, shea butter, water • Pele // muguet, Hawaiian white ginger, tropical blooms • Sophia // lavender, musks, star jasmine, black rose, delphinium, spice • Terpsichore (The Muses) // vanilla, carnation, neroli, iris, stephanotis, sweet pea, apple blossom, palmarosa • Thanatos // white sandalwood, Siamese benzoin, myrrh, Moroccan rose, mastic, tomb moss, Greek incense. • Yemaya // melon, grape, flowers, sea moss • Desdemona // sweet pea, carnation, water lily • Iago // musk, leather, vetiver • Juliet // sweet pea, stargazer lily, calla lily, heliotrope, honeysuckle, white musk, pear • Lady Macbeth // bordeaux, red currant, thyme, wild berry • Oberon // orchid, white musk, bergamot, juniper berry, patchouli • Ophelia // lotus, water blossom ivy, stargazer lily, white rose • Tamora // amber, heliotrope, golden sandalwood, peach blossom, vanilla bean • Titus Andronicus // dark musk, black amber, frankincense, red sandalwood, neroli, bergamot • Alice // milk, honey, rose, carnation, bergamot • The Caterpillar // incense, carnation, jasmine, bergamot, neroli, moss, iris, patchouli, vetiver • The Mock Turtle's Lesson // aquatic, iris, ambrette, green apple, vodka, white mint, lime • Pool of Tears // tears, flowers, perfume • The Red Queen // mahogany, wood, cherry, currant • Two, Five, and Seven // Bulgar rose, Somalian rose, Turkish rose, Damascus rose, red rose, tea rose, wine rose, shrub rose, rose, green grass • The Unicorn // linden, white flowers, sweet herbs • The Little Wooden Doll (Vasilissa the Beautiful) // wood, rose, amber, golden sandalwood • Bruised Violet Compound // violets, red currant, patchouli, Spanish moss • Azathoth // tangerine, saffron, vetiver, black amber, cedarwood • Cthulhu // seaweed, ocean plants, (unfathomable) water, ozone • Miskatonic University // Irish coffee, dust, books, oak • Night-Gaunt // yuzu, grapefruit, kumquat, snow, flowers • Nyarlathotep // ritual incenses, ozone • R'lyeh // ?? (grapefruit) • Whippoorwill // Spanish moss, cedar, black pepper, oakmoss, juniper, bamboo, cardamom • The Apple of Sodom // ?? • Baneberry // greenery, herbs, black fruit • Black Hellebore // herbs, roots, rose, peony • Black Lily // vanilla, lily • Death Cap // warm, earthy, mild • Destroying Angel x2 // papery, mushroom, crisp, soil • Hemlock Honey (Rappaccini's Apiary) // honey, • Squirting Cucumber // grass, cucumber • Strangler Fig + Imp // roots, woods, green • The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil // cinnamon, almond, spikenard, grapes, fig, pomegranate, apple • Ya-Te-Vo // barbed, greenery, fleshy, sharp • Black Dahlia // magnolia, orchid, star jasmine, black amber, smoky rose • The Bow and Crown of Conquest // sage, carnation, cedar, lavender, vanilla, white musk, leather • Cathedral // incense smoke, resins • Dirty // linen • Dorian // fougere, three pale musks, sugar, vanilla, tea • Fallen // white sandalwood, golden musk, amber, flowers, wood, vetiver, violet • Faustus // frankincense, cinnamon, violet • Greed // patchouli, heliotrope, copal, oakmoss • Hellfire // pipe tobacco, leather, ambergris, dark musk, incense • Jailbait // bubblegum, orange, cherry, perfume • Languor // paperwhite, black narcissus, lilies, black poppy, tuberose, opium smoke • Malediction // red patchouli, vetivert • Nero // rosemary, bay, pine, lemon • Oblivion // dark musk, wood spice, labdanum, patchouli, African woods, saffron • Pride // Moroccan rose, narcissus • Paramatman // orange blossom, East Indian sandalwood, champaca • Tzadikim Nistarim // frankincense, olive, spikenard, hyssop, galangal • Vice // chocolate, black cherry, orange blossom • Wrath // dragon's blood, black pepper, clove, cinnamon • Dream Formula IV: Nanshe // lavender, lemongrass, bergamot, ginger (??) • Dream Formula V: Somnus // lavender, chamomile, rose, jasmine, vanilla (??) • Aelopile // amber, citrus, labdanum, verbena, cedar, oud • The Antikythera Mechanism // teakwood, oak, black vanilla, tobacco • The Coil // ozone, eucalyptus, mint, purple orchid, passionflower, white ginger, purple lotus • Galvanic Goggles // metallic, Indian musk, tobacco flower, African balsam • No. 93 Engine // balm of Gilead, benzoin, frankincense, balsam of peru, beeswax, saffron, galbanum, calamus, hyssop, mastic, lemon balm, white sage • The Obsidian Widow // pinot noir, dark myrrh, red sandalwood, black patchouli, night-blooming jasmine, attar of rose • Phoenix Steamworks // gold, oil, bronze, Abramelin incense, sage • Smokestack // creosote, coal, industrial waste • Violet Ray // white mint, purple musk, violet, lilac, ylang ylang, lavender, moss, sandalwood • Bayou // Spanish moss, evergreen, cypress, hothouse flowers, swamp blossoms • Cairo // kyphi • Dublin // mist, forest, alder leaf, white rose • Eden x2 // fig leaf, fig, honey, almond milk, toasted coconut, sandalwood • Havana // date palm, dried tobacco, snakeroot, leather • Jezirat al-Tennyn // burnt pork • Kostnice [D] // frankincense, rosewood, lily, geranium rose • Kyoto // cherry blossom, white sandalwood, star anise • Machu Picchu x2 // tropical fruits, rainforest, flowers, breeze, Peruvian amber • Mag Mell // amber, white ginger, verbena, grass, sage, rain • Manhattan // amber, leather, white mint, lemon peel, white tea, grapefruit, kush, teak, orchid • Morocco // Arabian spices, warm musk, carnation, red sandalwood, cassia • New Orleans // honeysuckle, jasmine, lemon, spice • Niflheim // mist, blossoms • Port-au-Prince + Imp // buttered rum, almond, bay, clove, sassafras • Santo Domingo // tobacco leaf, bay rum, Caribbean flowers • Tintagel // hawthorn, blackthorn, juniper, English elm, bayberry, dragon's blood resin • Vinland // wind, loganberry, wild rose, prairie crocus, iris, wood anemone, mountain avens, yellow birch bark, mayflower, maple leaf • Whitechapel // white musk, lime, lilac, citron • Burial // juniper, patchouli, loam, flowers, rose • Silence // white sandalwood, iris, blue musk, lotus root, moonflower, moonflower, plum blossom, green tea, white mint, white peach • Kiyohime Changes From a Serpent // ocean spray, red kelp, black plum, lychee, sea moss, green musk, hachiya, plum blossom, matcha • Philosopher in Meditation // woodfire embers, kyphi, Abramelin incense • Lovers With Rutting Cats (Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements II) // vanilla, red ginger, oakmoss, palm date, oud • Lover's Parodies of Sumo Holds (Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements ?) // tangerine, pikaki, tonka, ti leaf, jasmine, opoponax, benzoin • Needlework (Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements III) // oolong tea, lilac, sheer musk, crushed ginger, wisteria, delphinium, lavender • Pink Mood (Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements III) // vanilla, star anise, cherry blossom, peony, violet leaf, neroli • The Wrestler Onogawa Kisaburo Blowing Smoke at a One-Eyed Monster (SakuraCon) // Peru balsam, Mysore sandalwood, bodark bark, tupelo gum, black pepper, tobacco absolute, white honey • Carnaval Diabolique // opium smoke, lemon flower, heliotrope, tuberose, black musk, vanilla, coconut, apricot flower • Midnight on the Midway // sugar, incense, night-blooming flowers • The Phantom Calliope // black cherry, patchouli, cassis, cardamom, verbena • Isaac, The Living Skeleton // bourbon, tobacco, dry bone, bay rum, cologne • Zarita the Doll Girl x2 // white carnation, iris, orange blossom, sugar, cream • Pink Moon March 2005 // phlox, tulip, daffodil, dogwood, muscari, pink sugar, carnation, honey, strawberry • Lotus Moon May 2006 // opium, golden lotus, amber, pine resin, rose otto • Harvest Moon August 2006 // chrysanthemum, pomegranate, cane sugar, dusty wheat, sorghum, green tea, rice flower, milk, Russian sage, bamboo, elderberry, black cherry, wild plum, red haw, hazelnut, red apple, shagbark hickory • White Moon Nov 2006 // sandalwood, lilac, calla lily, wisteria, white sandalwood, moonflower, night musk, phlox, violet • Bitter Moon Nov 2006 // Nepal poppy, lotus root, wild rose, blue hibiscus, blackberry, tonka, sage, lavender, peony, vetiver • Roux-Ga-Roux April 2007 // Spanish moss, swamp jessamine, bog water, cypress, hickory wood, lobelia, sweet flag, wisteria, marsh milkweed • Blue Moon June 2007 // mugwort, bay, juniper, orchid, galbanum, Asian woods, moonflower, Madagascan ylang ylang, Florentine iris, Greek cypress, davana, green tea absolute, palmarosa, cucumber, Clary sage, melitot trefoils, wood aloes, creeping buttercup • Selkie June 2007 (A Little Lunacy: Shapeshifters) // seawater, tea-leaved willow, honey, grass-of-Parnassus, sea aster, Scottish primrose • Thunder Moon July 2007 // ozone, amber, rain, wood, flowers, grass • The Emathides Sep 2007 // black amber, black orchid, black currant, olive blossom, wood violet, lavender, blue musk, rose attar, cedar • Hunter Moon Oct 2007 // dry leaves, bonfires, red wine, animal, winter • Moon of Ice Feb 2008 // frost, winter flowers, white pine, eucalyptus, traditional lunar oils. • Sugar Moon March 2008 // sugar cane, blue musk, mahogany, black orchid, black currant, violet, blackberry leaf, teak, strawberry, rose • Mourning Moon Nov 2008 // Chinese musk, wisteria, white grapefruit, calla lily, violet leaf, gaiac wood, balsam of Peru, Florentine iris • Bony Moon Feb 2009 // white sandalwood, cedar, lunar herbs • Berry Moon August 2009 // summer musk, fig, orange blossom honey, blueberries, raspberries. • Peach Moon Dec 2009 // peach blossom, white tea, musk, night-blooming jasmine, ho wood, chrysanthemum • Joyful Moon 2010 // white musk, French vanilla, ambrette seed, frangipani, angelica root, white rose, orris, honeysuckle • Dia de Los Muertos (2004) // dry, leaves, incense, funeral bouquets, candies, chocolates, tobacco, amaranth, cactus blossom, desert cereus • To Autumn (2008) // mist, moss, bark, dry leaves, apple pulp, galangal, poppy juice, nutmeat • A Blade of Grass (2008?) // leaves, grass • John Barleycorn (2008) // barley, beer, blood, whiskey • Wiley's Swamp (Sleepy Hollow) // water, rotting wood, chestnuts, oak leaf, bog laurel, Virginia creeper • Blue Pumpkin Floss // pumpkin, sugar, blackberry • Boo + Imp (2009) // sugar, cotton, cream • Chewing Little Bits of String (Inquest 2009) // marshmallows, lettuce, cotton, tea, lemon, honey • Boneshaking Antique Velocipede (Inquest 2009) // cucumber, purple sage, tonka bean, black coconut, redwood, teak • Noisome Clockwork Tin Locomotive (Inquest 2009) // wormwood, rum, star anise, vanilla, cognac, peppermint, green tea, smoke, lubricant • Halloween: Brooklyn (Mnemosyne) // dogwood, cherry, Korean pine, camellia, moonflower, Alberta spruce, arborvitae, crab apples • Ginger Skulls (Halloween: Inquisition 2010) // • Marshmallow Pumpkin (Halloween: Inquisition 2010) // marshmallow, pumpkin • Muilearteach (Halloween: Inquisition 2010) // blood red, bone white, black musks, hoarfrost. • Slough (Halloween: Inquisition 2010) // • The Decrepit House (Gothic Literature 2010) // mahogany, cypress, dead leaves, black musk, patchouli, galbanum, tobacco absolute, fragonia, oakmoss • A Howl In The Darkness (Gothic Literature 2010) // brown musk, wild sage, Terebinth pine, black oak, kunzea, cistus labdanum, verbena, juniper, metallic ozone, white mint • Lambs-Wool (Halloweenie 2010) // roasted apples, milk, ale, nutmeg, sugar, ginger, clove • Talvikuu (2005) // birch, fir, snow • Old Man Ackerman's Instructional Toys (The Miskatonic Valley Yuletide Faire) // • Winter of Our Discontent (2006) // balsam, myrrh, mandarin, bitter clove, artemesia, rosewood, nutmeg, dark musk, smoke, cypress • Diwali (2007) // lotus root, mango, tamarind, cardamom, clove, almond milk, cashew, rice flower, coconut, supari, raisin, incense, aloeswood, red sandalwood, cedar, spikenard • Noche Buena (2007) // incense, purple sage, plumeria, chrysanthemum, tuberose, angel's trumpet, Mexican tiger lily, dahlia, azucenas • Jólasveinar (2007) // snow, dirt, moss, marsh felwort, buttercup, orchid, pastries • November (2007) // damp autumn leaves, snow • The Magi (2008) // frankincense, gold, myrrh, coriander, cumin, ambergris, white wine grape, vanilla bean • There's a Certain Slant of Light (2008) // ozone, frankincense, white sandalwood, white amber, hyssop, bitter violet leaf, smoke • Joulumuori (2009) // glowing hearth, luumukiisseli, riisipuuro, sima • Sleipnir (2009) // hazelnuts, honey, elderberries, bilberries, hay, carrot • But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light (2009) // cistus labdanum, ginger, East Indian patchouli, pimento berry, oakmoss, saffron, smoky vanilla, sage, myrrh, bitter clove • Evening Cicadas and Red Peppers (2009) // frost, branches, maple leaves, camellia petals, red peppers, musks • Woods in Winter (2010) // hemlock, juniper berries, snow • F5 (Forum) // aloe, white musk, lime peel, mint, seaspray, verbena, green tea • Tabella (Forum) // olive blossom, frankincense, tobacco flower, benzoin, Little John, bergamot, galangal, angelica, fig, sage, ginger • Agapē (Forum) // carnation, apple, sweet pea, vanilla cream, passionfruit, sugar cane, tonka, guava • Candy Phoenix (2008) // pomegranate, black currant, sugared pear, white apple Iron Phoenix // dragon's blood, metal, black pepper, clove, red ginger, basil, myrrh • The Committee of 300: Meeting Minutes // polished wood, tobacco smoke, faded cologne, neon discharge • Illuminati Cotillion // incense, pipe tobacco, rose, shittim wood • Phantom Time Hypothesis // balm, benzoin, damask rose, gumdragon, lignum aloes, orange water, ambergris, vegetal musk • Skytyping With Chemtrails // spun sugar, white amber, white musk, citron, lemongrass, elemi, zdravetz, ravintsara • Staged Moon Landing // muguet, orris, white sandalwood, galbanum, cistus, dusty vanilla • Tin Foil Hat // ?? • Traipsing Through the Crop Circles // wheat, barley, maize • Mi-Go Brain Canister // pink pepper, peony, jasmine, mango, kiwi, pomegranate, pineapple, white ginger, white tea, light musk • Philommeidês (Lupercalia: Ode to Aphrodite) // peach wine, carnation, lemon peel, osmanthus, blood orange, wood violet, tuberose • Common Jezebel (Metamorphosis: The Butterflies) // apricot, lemon sugar, coconut, red currant, vetiver • Rosy Maple (Metamorphosis: The Moths) // lemon blossom, vanilla bean, huckleberry, sweet pea, rose sugar, acai, candyfloss • Black Lace Resurrected // sugar, vanilla, cream, tobacco, incense, Indian musk, cognac • Giallo (Dark Delicacies: Summer Blockbuster Series) // opopponax, black plum, night-blooming jasmine, benzoin, red musk, violet leaf, orange blossom, mimosa, mandarin, smoky vanilla, tobacco, patchouli, black amber • J-Horror (Dark Delicacies: Summer Blockbuster Series) // stargazer lily, white sandalwood, chrysanthemum, shincha, white mint, eucalyptus, licorice bark, blood orange • Psychological Horror (Dark Delicacies: Summer Blockbuster Series) // musk, something not quite right • Sue's Great Old Puppet Show (Dark Delicacies: Yuletide) // hot cocoa, marshmallows, white glue, googly eyes, felt • The Phantom Cow of Yerba Buena Island (Convergence XIII) • Ligeia (Into the Maelstrom) // jasmine, juniper berry, rose geranium • Spirits of the Dead (Demon in My View) // dry tea leaf, linden blossom, papyrus, orris, coffin wood • The Pit and the Pendulum (Into the Maelstrom) // incense • Nonae Caprotina July 2009 // goat's milk, fig, sweet myrrh • Hua Mulan (Warrior Queens 2009) // pink musk, white ginger, tea leaf, night blooming jasmine, bergamot, leather • Lune Noir (2008) // black orchid, jonquil, white pear, white amber, gardenia, olibanum, champaca, sweet clove, tonka, oakmoss, blue musk • Spinning Multicolored Metallic Pinwheel (Summer Garden Miniseries) // raspberry, lime, blueberry, tangerine, lemon, juniper, white grape • Plastic Pink Flamingo (Summer Garden Miniseries) // pink sugar, marshmallow, dandelion, sap • Thirteen October 2006 // cocoa, vanilla beans, mysore sandalwood, star fruit, orange rind, red amber, fig leaf, mimosa, rooibos tea, bourbon geranium, rose otto, nutmeg, lavender • Thirteen February 2009 // dark chocolate, brown sugar, nutmeg, tonka, allspice, star anise, Jamaican and African gingers, devil's shoestring, lucky hand root, thyme • Bedbug (NYCC 2010) // • The Lincoln Tunnel Vortex (NYCC 2010) // discordant, high-pitched, pavement, radiator fluid • Lady Luck Blues // honey, Bulgarian rose, vanilla flower, benzoin, tonka, black plum, peony, iris • Cykronashian Catnip (Underworld Cup 2010) // herbs, mossy, woody, oranges • Silenti (VDSA) // Spanish moss, lilac, wisteria, myrrh, olibanum • Ligur // olibanum, black moss, soggy ti, khus, opoponax • Pollution // green musk, davana, white amber

November 19, 2010

Yule Bottle Wish-List

I just have to narrow these down a little. Of course this will probably change when I get my decants. But for now, here's what I'm speculating...... The Nutcracker Midnight Mass The Phoenix In Autumn The Arabian Dance The Russian Dance BPTP Frankincense & Myrrh bath oil Victorian Virgin With Cherubs bath oil Vespers atmo spray For gifts: Peacock Queen soap Snow White soap So, all in all, not too bad or scary. 5 bottles, 2 bath oils, 1 atmo spray, and maybe 2 soaps. Of course, I may be adding more to that list after trying decants and reading reviews. We shall see.

November 19, 2010

Speculation

My unofficial speculation for the anniversary update..... I still think the periodic table scents might be the Phoenix scents. I know someone said those were for the upcoming local alchemist section, but I still have this nagging hunch. I counted and it seems there were 7 periodic prototypes at the will-calls, which is close to the number of Phoenix scents we are expecting. And it just seems to fit the themes from the past Phoenixes. Or, it seems like a natural progression. As for resurrected scents, I'm going to make some guesses. Someone recently posted that they got frimps of Mantis and Neo-Tokyo in their order, which I thought was unusual since those were both discontinued a few years ago. So I'm guessing we might see one or both of those resurrected. As for LE, I'm just going to make some wild guesses: Underpants, Pinched, or Glowing Vulva. Those are because Beth seems to like to bring back popular and longed-for scents in the past (Midway, Snake Charmer, Hod). It also crossed my mind that we could see Pumpkin King or Noir. Now I know that the recipe for Pumpkin King was lost, but I'm a firm believer that anything is possible and I would love to see Pumpkin King available some day. Same deal with Noir. That is another scent that lots of people would love to see come back. I can hardly wait to find out!

November 15, 2010

Vacation time coming up

I have over a week off work coming up soon. That makes me happy but I also want to make the most of it! I'd like to maybe make a list of things to do. Just fun things, hopefully cheap or free things, too. I can go to the zoo, of course, but I can do that any time. I live right next to the zoo and I have a yearly pass so it's always free, and I just walk there. This is one thing I'll definitely be doing. I can go to Newport On The Levee, which has lots of things to do. AMC Movie theater, for one thing, which isn't free or cheap, but is a nice splurge. Also the Newport Aquarium is there. I have a yearly pass for that too, so that is a free option. What would be best is if I could convince someone to go with me instead of going by myself for once! I really should start walking every day, not just for exercise, but for my mental well-being also. There are more benefits to this, besides just burning calories, but I need that, too. Thanksgiving falls at the end of the week so I want to find a good recipe, something to make and bring to my mom's. I have a couple ideas but I want to atually try it out first, earlier in the week, so I know for sure I'm making something good. I have so many cookbooks and don't use them enough! I really need to go grocery shopping. My refrigerator and cupboard are bare! So.....that's all I got right now. I need more things to do! Thrift shopping Thrift donating Sell some stuff on ebay? Get my camera working again Visit Kevin and Charlie in Columbus....not free but could be cheap Visit Sally Get together with Alan Get together with Luke Visit David Pack Cross-stitch Go to Ikea (but don't spend a whole lot of money?) Organize closets Go out with Jen Okay.....that's enough for a start. I'll have homework and laundry to do but I was mainly trying to list fun stuff. I mean, it is a vacation, and I can't really go anywhere (mainly because of school and lack of spending money), but I want it to be worth it. And I've had this thing lately where I want to get rid of a lot of this material stuff I've accumulated. I feel like it's encumbering me, if that's the right use of that word. I feel a bit stifled, spiritually. I need room to breathe. I have a fantasy of getting rid of everything and roaming the country. Wouldn't that be awesome? I might do it if I had unlimited funds for travelling and accomodations. I guess I could get really creative and find ways to do it anyway. Something to think about.

The List of Doom (AKA Scents Penance has tried)

November 15, 2010

Lorna Brigid's Blog

Blog Entry #2....

So since my first entry, the Boomslang problem got solved thanks to a lovely forumite. It is soooo beautiful, I can see why so many people love it! Sadly, it goes to yuck on my skin in a minute flat. I am fortunate that with this last discontinuances announcement, my only love of that list is Phantom Queen. She was my first imp a year ago when I first sniffed a BPAL! Currently I am looking forward to trying Wulric, and Phantom Calliope. And Cathedral, one of these days, soon. I am seeking at the moment the perfect cherry scent, the perfect lavender, and a beautiful incense scent. I also want to try Suck It and Oneiroi. I have already discovered I LOVE the Shadowy & the Sublime, and will be purchasing a bottle or two this coming Friday before the Weenies go down. I'm also terribly looking forward to our Yule decants coming! Can't wait to get my hands on Snow White and Gelt and The Clock Strikes Midnight...Madame Moriarty has become my "I'm feelin sexy and frisky" scent....just wish I had a man beast to be sexy and frisky with! Sigh. I've also secured a bottle of Peach Moon, and can't wait til next summer, because it will be a beautiful summer scent. One thing I have figured out about BPAL is that the obsession over the different scents is a great cure for depression; before I joined this forum, I had a few imps from my purchase last year, and really did not have much going on in my mind except the usual work, parenthood and college and day to day things. New BPALs and adoration of my loved scents is a little thought consuming happy thing that distracts me from the normal hum drum and keeps the depression at bay. Also, I really love being on here and seeing that the same women on this forum that talk scents, make up and clothing (girly stuff) also play WOW, read comic books, and have things like Olivia Dunham or Veronica Mars in their sigs or avatars, and it makes me feel right at home. My office at work has decreed that as of January 1st they are going 7 days a week and will now be working Sundays. This was a bitter pill to swallow, as well as the fact that my sub department has to work til 7 pm two nights a week. This means that with those 2 nights, and my school classes two nights, I will have a total of 4 nights hardly being with my daughter. I was devastated! She's only 6, and her father has not seen her in over 2 years. She needs me. But, I am looking forward to the paychecks next year, because I dumped my health insurance plan with them. They wanted about $25 more a week for shittier coverage. I said "No way." I found better coverage through a plan through my college, that costs less, will not garner me a whole bunch of bills in the mail due to the deductible, no visit copays, and it will still cover my rheumatoid arthritis. By June I can get my daughter on Medicaid and it will cover her psychotherapy, too. I still have to discuss it with my worker, but I think it will work out great. But the news from work has also lit the fire under my ass and reinforced my dedication to school. Yes it will be rough for several months, but my goal is to graduate May 2012. Between spring 2011 and winter 2012 I will need to complete 32 credit hours for my first degree. (I'm not sure if my Pell grants will cover a 2nd one, but I will have to see). I love my work, I've been there for 6 1/2 years, but I can taste the end in sight eventually. It is going to hell in a handbasket! Much like the rest of the world, it feels like. I am trying to be positive, really I am. From where I sit, though, it appears people's values have gone down the drain. All I can do is worry about my own values and behavior, and take pride in my child and my home and my goals.

Lorna Brigid

November 14, 2010

RedRoseMaze's Blog

Good Judy: Gothic

Gothic Category: Punk Quantity: sample Description: GOTHIC Dramatic and romantic. Moody, mysterious and morbid. Pale skin. Black and jewel-toned velvets mixed with lace and leather. Influenced by the supernatural and the creative. Black roses planted in graveyard dirt. Blood-red lips inhaling a sweet-clove cigarette. A crushed velvet choker cutting into smooth pale flesh. Beautifully dark and sweet. Review: In the bottle: I do smell a rose, and something herbal, mixed with clover. It’s almost lemony. Wet: Yeah, I definitively smell clove, but it’s sweet and soft, with a background note of cigarette. Dry: A mix of (black?) rose and clove. It’s dark, bitter, and mysterious. Verdict: It’s too bad this one is not available anymore; it’s gender-neutral, not too feminine. However, I suppose it competed with the American Gothic collection. Thanks for the remaining sample, Gary!

RedRoseMaze

November 14, 2010

The wonderful, magical smellies list...eight bagillion scents tried (and counting) - PART 1 (scents tried)

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, "Come and see this list of scents. How the hell could one person have tried that many perfumes?" Purple = love this scent (these are my absolute favorites, the best of the best) Green = like this scent (there's a lot of variation here, I may like it--even like it a lot--but just don't absolutely love it or I might think it's nice enough but not the kind of scent I enjoy wearing) Orange = this scent is just okay (I try not to lump scents into this category if I think they're nice but not for me; these are mainly the scents that I don't hate, but can't see a lot of appeal in, on me or on someone else) Red = don't like this scent (I rarely actively hate a BPAL scent...these are the scents that provoke an immediate "Get it away from me!" reaction for some reason, often because they have almond or rose in them, but those two notes aren't automatic qualifiers for inclusion) Bold = I own at least one bottle (or at least a partial bottle in a couple cases) of this scent Italics = I own an empty/tester/very low level bottle Exclusives and limited editions: Limited Editions: 13 (original/white label) 13 (November 2009) 413 U.S. 15 / Miller v. California (tester) A Bachelor's Dog Ace of Hearts All Saints All Souls An Altar to Cold, Rigid, Dreadful Death The Arabian Dance The Arbor Atlas Badger Bad Luck Woman Blues Bakeneko Bitter Moon Beaver Moon 2005 Beaver Moon 2010 Beltane Black Temple Burlesque Group Blood Moon 2005 Blue Moon 2004 Bones Trombone Boo Brom Bones Brood XIX Buck Moon Budding Moon Burning Vulva But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light Calaveras Capricorn 2007 Carfax Abbey The Chained Phantoms The Changeling Chaste Moon 2005 Cold Moon Conical Beast Count Dracula The Cracked Bell Creepy Dancing Koi Dark Chocolate, Fig and Tamarind Dark Chocolate and Key Lime Truffle Dark Chocolate and Pepper-Smoked Caramel Dark Chocolate, Whiskey and Cognac Truffle The Darkling Thrush The Decrepit House Ded Moroz Devil's Night Diable en Boîte Dia de Los Muertos Dr. John Seward Egg Nog El Dia de Los Reyes Enkhespalos Enraged Bunny Musk Enraged Groundhog Musk Enraged Orangutan Musk F5 Fearful Pleasure The Feast for the Greatly Revered Ones The First Soft Snow Fledgling Raptor Moon Flower Moon 2005 The Forbidding Foyer Formula 54 Frederic Fruit Moon Ghoulish Giant Vulva (this one's an odd one; it's between "I like it, but it's not for me" and "meh"...a little too floral for my tastes, but I mostly like it, just not really as a scent for me) The Gilman House Hotel (sniffie) Gingerbread Poppet Gnome The Goblin Rider Graveyard Dirt Green Party Gunpowder Gypsy The Hag Halloween: Brooklyn Halloween: Las Vegas Harvest Moon 2004 Harvest Moon 2005 Havisham Hearth 2004 Hearth 2005 Hellhound on my Trail The Hell of Great Heat Herr Drosselmeyer Hexennacht 2005 Holiday Moon Honey Moon The Host of the Air Hungry Ghost Moon Hunter Moon 2005 Hunter Moon 2007 Hygeia Ice Queen The Ides of March 2005 Independent The Infernal Lover (both red musk versions) The Infernal Lover (no red musk version) Irrelevant and Disturbing Surreal Crawdad Dream Ivanushka Jacob's Ladder June Gloom 2004 Khajuraho King of Clubs King of Diamonds King of Spades Krampus (2006 and 2007) Kusunoki Tamonmaru Masatsura Surprising a Fox Ghost La Mano Del Destino Lambs' Wool Lead Phoenix La Pere Fouettard The Last of the Spirits Lawn Gnome Lick It The Living Flame Love in the Asylum Lughnasadh Lunar Eclipse Luperci The Lurid Library Lycaon (tester) Mabon 2004 Makhanitis Male Nude, Arms Upstretched Manilus Hurled from a Rock Manners Among Men and Women in the Red Light District Man with Phallus Head Michael Casts Out All the Fallen Angels Midnight Kiss Midnight Mass Midwinter's Eve Mi-Go Brain Canister Milk Chocolate Buttercream Milk Chocolate, Cassia and Bacon (smells okay one me once it dries, but it's super funky in the bottle and not in a good way) Milk Chocolate, Coconut, Cardamom, Rum and Ginger Truffle Milk Moon 2005 Minamoto No Yurimitsu Cuts at the Earth Spider Minotaur Mircalla, Countess Karnstein Mistletoe Mlle. Lilith, Fortune Teller Mole Monster Bait: Bloody Mary Monster Bait: Closet Monster Bait: Tokyo Stomp Monster Bait: Underbed Monster Bait: Underpants Monster Bait: Ventriloquist Dummy Moon of Horses Mother Ginger Mother Shub's Spiced Lait de Chèvre (tester) Mourning Cloak (my bottle says Mourning Shroud Night's Pavilion Nonae Caprotina Nuclear Winter Numb The Nutcracker #OCCUPYWALLSTREET One to Tie, Two to Win Orb Weaver Paduan Killer Swarm Pallas Athene Pancake Breakfast Pandemonium Panther Moon Parlement of Foules Peacock Queen Penumbra (tester) Perchta The Perfumed Garden The Perilous Parlor The Phoenix in Autumn Pinched with Four Aces Pink Moon 2005 Pink Phoenix Pirate Moon Plastic Pink Flamingo Prosperity of a Country Pumpkin I 2005 Pumpkin II 2005 Pumpkin III 2005 Pumpkin IV 2005 Pumpkin V 2005 Pumpkin IV 2009 Pumpkin Latte Pumpkin Queen Punkie Night Purple Spotted Swallowtail Pussy Queen of Clubs Queen of Diamonds Queen of Spades Quincy Morris Rat The Rat King (2005) Raven Moon Red Lantern Red Moon 2004 Red Phoenix Rhinotoros Riding the Goat The Ring Rose Red Roux-Ga-Roux Ruddy Daggerwing Salamander Samhain Samhainophobia Schwarzer Mond The School-House Scorpio 2007 The Sea Rat The Season of Ghosts Selkie Skadi Sleepy Moon Smut Snow Bunny Snow Moon Snow White The Soldier Spicebush Swallowtail Spooky Staged Moon Landing Standing Female Nude Stardust Storm Moon Stranger in Camp Strawberry Moon 2005 Sugar Cookie Sugar Plum Fairy Sugar Skull Sylph Talvikuu The Ta-Ta Teatime in Roswell Thunder and Blazes Tin Foil Hat (sniffie) The Traveller Trick or Treat The Twisted Oak Tree Undine The Unsavory Gravediggers Valentine of Rome Variety of Pleasing Amusements Velvet Bandito Velvet Cthulhu Velvet Dogs Playing Poker Velvet Tiger Werepuppy White Chocolate, Black Raspberry, and Apricot Cordial Truffle White Peacock Wildfire WILF Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse Winter-Time Wolf Moon 2004 Wolf Moon 2011 Wolf Spider Womb Furie 2010 Wrestlers Yuletide BPTP Exclusives: Bauble (sniffie) Bogle (tester) Celeste Comforting Plush Companion The Ecstasy of Passion Egg'd Mailbox Fee Hellion La Fee Verte The Last Squished Jellybean (sniffie) Left His Nurse While in a Crowd Lump of Coal Marotte Marshmallow Poof Monsieur Petitbled's Frivolous Wheeled Footwear Mitzvah Ninon Overprotective Possessed Talking Doll Playing with Dangerous Toys Scattered Gloom Snow Angel Snowblind Spanked Spanked Revisited TP'd Trees Trick #2 Uncertain Horror Retail Exclusives: Autumn Banshee Beat Blackberry Jam & Scones Black Lace Creature Feature Crimson Christmas Heavenly Love & Earthly Love Invasion of the Flesh-Eating Reindeer from Uranus Lucifer Mutant Hot-Rodders from Hell High Mysterious Warning (sniffie) Psychological Horror Red Lace Silas Ruthyn Sue's Great Old Puppet Show Tattered Lace Ü Zombie Apocalypse Event Exclusives: The Anti-Saloon League (tester sniffie) Badgers Bat of Good Death Cat Allingham The Crumpet Rebellion Doc Buzzard Dungeon Crawl (tester) The Elephantine Colossus Fetish.Goth Fuwu Bansaku in Ruined Temple with Black Monster on Umbrella Gothabilly Ho Ho Ho India Ink In Reilig Oran (sniffie) Mitzvah Gororet Mitzvah (tester) Mount Misery and Sweet Hollow Roads Mule Skinner v1 Old Roswell Cemetery The Phantom Cow of Yerba Buena Island Pumpkin King Reindeer Poop [Rivet.Goth Romanti.goth Shanghai Tunnel Sky City (After) Storyville Voodoo Queen Carnaval Diabolique: Australian Copperhead Banded Sea Snake Bezoar The Blasphemare Reliquary Boomslang The Chapel (tester) Clemence The Contract of Theophilus of Adana Coral Snake Death Adder Dionysia Green Tree Viper Habu Hand of Glory The Illustrated Woman Inez King Cobra Marianne Meskhenet, the Vulture Maiden Mme. Moriarty, Misfortune Teller The Parliament of Monsters Pickled Imp Priala, the Human Phoenix Saw-Scaled Viper Shrunken Heads Temple Viper Thalassa, the Galapagos Mermaid Theodosius, the Legerdemain The Two-Headed Goat Western Diamondback The Wild Men of Jezirat Al Tennyn Carnaval Noir: Bearded Lady Bed of Nails Fire Eater Freak Show Geek Gypsy Queen House of Mirrors Kunstkammer Medicine Show Midway Shill Snake Charmer (original and resurrected) Torture King A Demon in My View: Al Araaf Alone The City in the Sea Dreamland Evening Star The Haunted Palace Lenore The Sleeper Spirits of the Dead A Descent Into the Maelstrom: Berenice Fortunato The Masque Montresor The Pit & The Pendulum The Premature Burial The Tell-Tale Heart Usher Springtime in Arkham: Al-Azif Arkham Revisted Shub-Niggurath Azathoth Cthulu Dunwich Kingsport Miskatonic University Tuzscha Whippoorwill Yog-Sothoth Unreleased & prototypes: 300F v1 Abedus Indentatus v5 Amaterasu v3 Antimony v9 Baba Yaga (unreleased version) Bedbug Beth's Experimental Blend (one of several) Beth's Experimental Blend (another of several) Black Widow Circus Boomslang v2 Cake Smash v6 Capela dos Osos v5 CBBOB1 CD023 CD: Alley of Games v6 CD: Misfortune Teller v3 CD: Tilt v4 (tester) Chaotic v3 Decadence Dorian v2 Dorian v3 Elf v4 Ennui v42 Fenris Wolf v2 The Fire Dancer Grand Guignol v4 Gun Moll Half-Elf (unrleased prototype version; tester) Half Elf v5 Hellion v2 Hexahedraon v3 IXHV4 IXHV37 (tester) Jingo-Kogo v6 (tester) KPX130 (tester) Kweku Anansi Lamia v3 (tester) LULU7 Lust v7 Mary Celeste v4 MB: Underbed v1 Miskatonic University v3 Morocco v2 MUV3 NGG023 (tester) Nigredo v7 Nine Mysteries Obeah Osiris v4 P013 Paladin v3 Peace PEXO Phyllocrania Paradoxa v1 Phyllocrania Paradoxa v3 PL176 (tester) PRC12 PX23 PX117 Quick Grope Under the Mistletoe Ranger v5 Sacrifice SAQQARA v2 Sol Niger v2 Taphophobia v2 Tetramorph v2 Trachelophorus Giraffe v3 Val Sans Retour XCDL13 Zombie Apocalypse v4 ---- Discontinued lines: The Atomic Luau Lounge: Aremata-Popoa Polynesian Pop (in between "like it but not my kind of scent" and OK) Rangoon Riptide Red Tide Screeching Parrot (sniffie) The Chakras: Anahata: The Heart Muladhara: The Root Svadhisthana: Sacral Illumination: A'Arab Zaraq Oblation: Chiroptera Corazon Oisin Thunderbird The Sephiroth: Binah Chesed Chokmah Geburah Malkuth Netzach Tiphareth Yesod Single Notes: Blue Lilac Carnation (tester) Cinnamon East African Black Patchouli Juniper Berry Pikaki Pink Grapefruit Red Mysor(e) Sandalwood Redwood Siberian Musk Sweet Clove White Cedarwood Tarot Oils: Ace of Cups Ace of Pentacles Ace of Swords Ace of Wands The Chariot Death The Devil The Emperor The Empress The Fool The Hanged Man The Heirophant The Hermit The High Priestess Judgement / Judgment Justice The Lovers The Magician The Moon The Star Strength The Sun Temperance The Tower The Wheel of Fortune The World Voodoo Blends: Bat's Blood Crucible of Courage Goona Goona India Bouquet Juju ---- General catalog (including discontinued scents that are part of current lines): Ars Amatoria: Aperotos Eros Ave Maria Gratia Plena Bien Loin d'Ici (I like it in the bottle, but it's just okay on me; definitely a scent locket blend) Bordello Brisingamen Carnal Casanova Debauchery Delight Depraved Desire Endymion Forbidden Fruit Golden Priapus Harlot Hetairae Ingenue Jezebel Kabuki La Belle Au Bois Dormant La Lethe La Petit Mort Le Serpent Qui Danse The Lady of Shallot Libertine Lolita Lorelei Lucy's Kiss Maiden Muse Nefertiti O Perversion Psyche Queen of Sheba Rapture Ravenous Salome Saturnalia Satyr Severin Siren Snake Oil Spellbound Succubus The Temptation Vicomte de Valmont Vixen Wanda Wanton Whip Ars Draconis: Dragon's Blood Dragon's Bone Dragon's Claw Dragon's Eye Dragon's Heart Dragon's Hide Dragon's Milk Dragon's Musk Dragon's Tears Ladon Ars Moriendi: Dance of Death Danse Macabre Darkness Embalming Fluid Eternal The Ghost Haunted House of Night Jazz Funeral Nocturne Shroud Silentium Amoris Tears Thanatos Twilight Wings of Azrael Zombi Bewitching Brews: #20 Love Oil Absinthe All Night Long Anne Bonny Antique Lace Arachne Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo Aureus Belle Epoque Bess Black Cat Black Forest Black Opal Black Pearl The Black Tower Bliss Block Buster Blood Blood Amber Blood Kiss Blood Pearl Bon Vivant Brimstone Burial Carnivale Cathode Chimera Chuparosa The Coiled Serpent Come to Me Dana O'Shee Dee Delirium Dove's Heart Eclipse Eidolon Empyreal Mist Event Horizon Feu Follet Fae Fire of Love Follow Me Boy Grand Guignol Grog Hamadryad Has No Hanna The Hesperides High John the Conqueror Highwayman Horn of Plenty Hurricane Incantation Inferno Intrigue Jack (I and II) The Jersey Devil Jolly Roger Juke Joint La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente La Belle Dame Sans Merci Lampades Leanan Sidhe Lightning Love Me Lurid Magus Mata Hari Morgause Omen Ouija Ozymandias Penny Dreadful Phantasm Plunder Poisoned Apple Queen Rakshasa The Raven Red Devil Saint-Germain Scarecrow Scherezade Schrodinger's Cat Seance Shadow Storm Sudha Segara Swank Tempest Tushnamatay Twenty-One Ulalume Ultraviolet Umbra Undertow Van Van Velvet Voodoo Water of Notre Dame Wilde Wolf's Heart Zephyr Yggdrasil The remainder of the scents I've tried can be found here! I had to split it into two posts because it was getting cut off otherwise.

Penance

November 10, 2010

Sigh of relief

I am finally done with early fall term, and I think I got some good grades. I know I passed CPT coding, which I was really worried about for a while. I was worried because I just wasn't getting it and I bombed a test and a couple quizzes, but I finally got the hang of it more or less, and ended up doing okay. So I am on a short break until late fall term starts (a week from today, I think), and just enjoying that even though I'm at work right now. I placed an order with the lab and I'm impatient for that to arrive, but it won't be here for a couple more weeks. It's just a relief to be done with those 3 classes. For the last 2 or 3 weeks I've been really stressed out and was having trouble seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.