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    Please be aware that we do not permit swap-related content on profiles or in blogs. Please post this content only in the For Sale, Swaps, and Wanted forums, or in the Wishlists topic. ~from Swapping 101  Thanks!
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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Video Game Excitement

I realized yesterday that I've reached the point where upcoming video games are more exciting to me now than upcoming movies. I guess a lot of people crossed that line a long time ago, but for me it's pretty amazing that I reached it at all.   I am still excited about the Dark Crystal sequel, and the Dawn Treader movie from the Narnia series. However, I am much, much more excited about the Last Guardian. In fact, I just preordered it. Woo Hoo!! I can't wait.
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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Halloween

I'm excited, of course, about the Halloween update coming up. It's my absolute favorite of all the special updates we get to see, and that's including Carnaval Diabolique. There's just something so special and cozy about fall for me. It makes me think of sleepovers, watching horror movies (good ones and bad ones), spicy and sweet goodies, brisk walks in chilly night air......the list goes on......   My only complaint is that I don't take full advantage of all the fun things I could do in the fall season. This is due to my own laziness, and too much focus on work. But I do manage to make some fun goodies at home like mulled apple cider, or some kind of spicy baked goods. It's a great feeling to fire up the oven when it's actually cool outside. So warm and cozy!   So obviously I'm really happy that the Halloween update will be coming along soon. Usually I buy one or two bottles unsniffed based on the descriptions, which is always fun because it adds an element of chance. Then I go nuts with decants. I think the one series that held the most favorites for me was the Order Of The Dragon. I just love Quncey Morris, Dr. John Seward, and of course Count Dracula. And then there are the old favorites like Samhain, Devil's Night, and now Death Of Autumn. It's funny.....Samhain is something I don't wear very often, probably less than 10 times during the whole year, but it's something that I just don't want to be without. When I want to smell it, nothing else will do. I think 2007 is the only year that I didn't at least try the new one, and I have a nearly full bottle from 2004.   I just can't wait to see what autumn brings us this year! :love!:
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DjarumCloves' Blog
 

Wishlist

Constant wears/Holy Grails: Pumpkin I 2005 Elegba Poisoned Apple (good for now) Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener (need bottle with BPAL art) Beaver'versary Pumpkin II 2009 (good for now) Head of Holofernes (good for now) The Haunted Palace (good for now) Old Moon (good for now) Fearsome Pleasure (almost gone!) Arcana's Ganesh (the only cocoa I can wear!)     To bring my collection up to speed: #20 Love Oil - pending A Countenance Forboding Evil Aelopile Aeval Aglaea aizen-Myoo All in the Golden Afternoon Antique Lace - yeah right Antony Anubis Aperotos Eros Baku - pending Bastet Bathsheba Belladonna Belle Vinu Bensiabel Bien Loin D'Ici Black Lily- pending Black Opal Black Pearl Black Phoenix Bliss Block Buster Blood Amber Bordello Brisingamen Brusque Violet Burial Cairo Calico Jack Casanova Centzon Totochtlin Chimera Cockaigne Coyote Crossroads Czernobog Darkness De Sade Deep in Earth Depraved Dirty Dorian - need more imps Dracul Dragon's Milk Eat Me Eden El Dorado Embalming Fluid Eris Fae Fenris Wolf Fire for Thy Stepmother's Daughters Follow Me Boy Forbidden Fruit Gaueko- pending Goblin Godfather Death Hellfire High John the Conqueror High-Strung Daisies Hi'Laka Horn of Plenty How Doth the Little Crocodile Hymn to Proserpine Incantation Incubus Intrigue Jezebel Juliet Kabuki Kali Katharina Kitsune Tsuki Kuang Shi- pending Kuman Kandam Kyoto La Bella Dame Sans Merci Lady Macbeth Laudanum Le Serpent Qui Danse Leanan Sidhe L'Ecole des Filles Lilium Inter Spinas Loralei Love-In-Idleness Machu Picchu Magus Maiden manhattan Mania Marquise de Merteuil - pending Masquerade Mata Hari Miskatonic University Morocco Mouse's Long and Sad Tale Muse Namaste No. 93 Engine O Oberon - pending Oblata Oblivion Ogygia Omen Pele Prurience Queen of Sheba Rakshasa Rapture Ravenous Red Devil Rosalind Saint Germain Salome - pending Santa Eularia des Riu Scherezade Séance - pending Serpents with Glittering Eyes Severin Shanghai Sheol Sin Snooty Rose Sri Lanka Succubus Swank Thanatopsis - pending The Black Tower The Chicken-Legged Hut The Lights of Men's Lives The Little Sparrow The Little Wooden Doll The Pool of Tears The Sea Foams Milk The Sluggard The Temptation The Unicorn The White Rider The Witch's Garden The Witch's Repast Thy Godfather's Present Titania Tushanamay Tweedledum Undertow Utrennyaya Vixen Windward Passage Wrath Xiuhtecuhti     Other:Red are pending, green are most wanted Spare Change Last Squished Jellybean Any Tarted Imps - doubles are absolutely okay. :love!:   I also need a bottle for my Mircalla 09 decants, would prefer the label art from BPAL.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Velvet Dogs Playing Poker

Category: Limited Editions -- The Salon -- April Fools   This...smells so familiar. And delicious. I think...I think it might be reminding me of that one magical time when I was wearing Fearful Pleasure, and it had that woody sarsparilla smell with just a hint of vanilla beans and other stuff...so hey, if cigars, coffee, and Irish creme is what makes it smell like that, FINE! There is definitely a smooth, woody tone pervading the sweetness throughout. As one reviewer noted, it does smell more like the mess left in the room afterward, as opposed to the actual doggy poker party itself...but that's fine by me. I think I need a bottle now.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Loup Garou

Category: Diabolus   I really wanted to like this one, both for the name and ingredients! All I get is pine trees and eucalyptus, though, and it's not even that awesome. It could have been the heat and sweat, but even with trying to slather it, the scent just disappears. So sad.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Desdemona

Category: Illyria   This is another pretty sort of 'bouquet of flowers' smell. The florals all just kind of bunch together and I really don't get any defining characteristic out of it. It seemed to fade fairly quickly and did not throw much.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Kabuki

Category: Ars Amatoria   Initially, I got lots of syrupy cherry with a hint of cinnamon; subsequent uses brought out the licorice. Now, it's blended (in that very mysterious way that a lot of scents seem to have gotten their shit together a month after I originally tested them) into a nice mix of cherry and anise, with the licorice smell diabolically present and tempting. I was on the fence about getting rid of it, but now that I've read the reviews again, I think I'll hang onto it. :love!: It stays and throws decently.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Come To Me

Category: Bewitching Brews -- The Conjure Bag   Why do you want me to come to you? Because you just cleaned and disinfected the room? That's sort of what it smells like. Oh, okay, well, there is something that smells pretty nice, here...jasmine, maybe, or a lily. It's pretty enough, I suppose, but as far as being amorous, let alone sexually commanding...I just don't get it. Fire Of Love fills that niche for me.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Cathedral

Category: Sin and Salvation   Another woody, sort of piney scent (to me), but it's clean and full of light, too...like sunlight spreading across curved rafters and pillars of polished wood. If anything, it makes me think of sitting in a church, perhaps before a big ritual or holiday, in the hour or so before everyone else starts arriving; you're alone and you have time to savor the quietness and intimacy. Even though it's not a keeper for me, it's a beautiful image to evoke.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Burial

Category: Bewitching Brews   Piney dirt, mostly. Not a rose (or any other flower for that matter) in sight. Not bad, but it doesn't linger long, and I don't think it would be a 'me' scent, anyway.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Brown Jenkins

Category: Picnic In Arkham   This is another one I really wanted to like, and I do...I just don't know how well. It has a really nice, coconutty air to it, along with what smells like hints of chocolate...I think that sandalwood smells like that to me sometimes. I think it ultimately must bow down to Death Cap.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Brisingamen

Category: Ars Amatoria   I really wanted to like this one -- and it was pleasant, no doubt about it. I get amber, pretty much, with the apple blossom and myrtle adding something sweet around the edges...and then it goes away. Just doesn't stand out enough for me, alas.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Brimstone

Category: Bewitching Brews   Oh, wow! It took me a while to figure out just *what* this smelled like, but once I did I was in love. It smells *exactly* like those little round pieces of charcoal that you buy in rolls of six, wrapped up in white paper like Ho-Hos. (LOL) One can practically hear the gunpowdery crackle of it as it lights and gets red-hot. It's just the charcoal -- right before you drop the incense in. Absolutely fantastic
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Bow And Crown Of Conquest

Category: Sin and Salvation   Well-worn leather is predominant, though I can also smell cedar and some sage in there. After a while it went all Generic Boy Cologne on me, but it was sure nice for a while. It stays and throws very decently.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Bordello

Category: Ars Amatoria   I had a hard time envisioning plum as an appropriate scent, but this fits the bill entirely. It really does seem like the sort of perfume that a five-dollar whore would wear (in 1880 dollars). It's sweet and feminine but definitely not innocent; it's one of those ladies that makes a point of putting a roll in her hips to make sure you keep following her up the stairs. Lasts all day, like a working girl should. Another winner!
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Bon Vivant

Category: Bewitching Brews   Slightly-sour champagne, with candy-like strawberry. It's not bad, but it never really steps up and asserts itself much, and drifts away.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Bluebeard

Category: Diabolus   At first it smelled like funky vase water after you've just dumped out a rotting bouquet. But it gets better. It works its way upward from ugly rottenness to a twisted, vetivery musk tinged with violets, and eventually becomes a clean scent, floral but not quite unmanly...as if the murderer has washed his hands after his crimes and is ready to lay on the charm with a new victim. Conceptually this makes it *very* interesting, and as a scent it's a winner. Lasts most of the day with enough wafts throughout its transformation to mind you of how interesting it is.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Blood Rose

Category -- Rappacini's Garden   A rather innocuous rose. The dragon's blood gives it a sweetness that threatens to send it into the same icky rose territory that I amped like crazy in Rose Cross, but it stays okay for the most part. It actually ends up smelling soapy more than anything. Decent throw and staying power, just not for me.
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Review Round-up!
 

Zombie Apocalypse

In the bottle: Caramelized sugar - almost maple-y.   On wet: Maple sugar and something decidedly RED n' FRUITY! Quite a jarring combination.   Drydown: Sweet, red berry jam. Thick and gloppy. Caramel sugar is glowing underneath. The entire effect is almost...hazy, if that makes sense - like there's this vapour trail of heavy, goo-ified, sugar-berry NOMness wafting up from my skin. It's absolutely *incredible*.   Overall: I all but cried when I heard the preliminary reports on this scent - that one of my all-time favourite concepts was going to be a *gasp* FOODIE blend! - not quite what an anti-foodie like me had been hoping for. With much trepidation and little optimism, I ordered ZA anyway...and I am SO glad I did! YES, it's a foodie scent, and YES, it's super sweet, but holy smokes, does it ever smell GOOD! And it actually works on my skin! I don't forsee slathering it on *every day* or anything, but it's definitely wearable, it's totally fun, and my nose can't seem to get enough of it! DELICIOUS! 4.5/5
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Psychological Horror

In the bottle: Mmm...candied violets that've been smooshed into a delectable powder.   On wet: YUM! Still getting that sweet musk/candied violet - which is actually going more candied rose the longer I sniff - combo. Absolutely delicious!   Drydown: Loving this. Smells like a bolder Tushnamatay that's been dusted with sweet candy powder. What an amazing blend. As others have mentioned, there definitely is something *else* underneath all those good notes, something I can't quite put my finger on, and it does indeed smell "off". Not in an icky way, mind, just something...sharp? biting? metallic?...that kind of peeps out from beneath that powder puff of yumness every now and then - especially when I get in close for a good whiff. I quite like it.   Overall: I'm a fan of sweet powdery-musky stuff, so this scent definitely works for me - it's got great throw, too. An easy 4/5.
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Creature Feature

In the bottle: Light, smooth, *clean* musk.   On wet: Soooo soft! Sweet, almost soapy, incredibly faint.   Drydown: Sweet, clean powder - instantly evokes a "vintage" feel - like I'd find a bottle of this on a movie star's dressing table back in the 50's. Definitely getting an amber vibe now, too, which I'm not 100% crazy about (amber and I do not click, unfortunately).   Overall: I was really enjoying the soft, almost candy-like muskiness of the wet stage, but the drydown didn't quite work with my skin chemistry. We'll see what happens as it ages. Currently, it's a 3/5 for me.
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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Sapphics

The amber stands out, and it really is grey amber, but everything else is just seamlessly blended. I smell a marshmallowy sweetness, and I would think that's tonka, but it's not the warmth of tonka that I usually can pick out. I have been known to really pick out the sweeter notes in scents, for example, Oblivion also dries down to a very marshmallow sweetness when I wear it.   Anyway, this is really a great scent. As long as I've had it, I have kind of neglected it, but I always knew I liked it. It just got lost in the shuffle of my other oils. But I'm wearing it now, and it's one of those great, sophisticated, gender-neutral scents that I think are my favorite category, if you can call it a category. This could be worn equally by either men or women. It's ambery, slightly sweet, a little woody, and somewhat velvety. There is a nearly dusty grey quality but it's not a dusty scent. Very sophisticated and definitely one of my favorites of all the Lupercalia scents.
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Lawn Gnome

This scent is quite unusual, and I appreciate the artistry behind it. I have found over 3 tests that I probably won't wear it out and about, but I will keep my decant. It's so unique, I'd like to have it around for when the mood strikes.   Mostly I smell a heavy sweetness, and fruit. I enjoy cooking with molasses, but it's not something I ever thought I'd want to smell like! I found that the molasses combined with the moss and patchouli give this scent an earthy, almost smokey element that is truly compelling. After multiple tests I noticed that the sugary element comes close to banana when I sniff up close, kind of like Mr. Nancy did (until it aged and didn't smell like banana any more). In fact, Lawn Gnome is almost like Mr. Nancy's rugged, outdoorsy cousin. Same family, but more into camping and gardening (duh), not cocktail lounges or fedoras.   The only problem is that something about this scent turns on me far into the dry-down. It becomes just a little flat and almost ashy, but I can't pin down what's causing it. I truly loved the opening stages enough to keep this around.
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