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BPAL Dreams

Yes, I has them. Regularly too. Since we've gotten our first BPAL order in Dec I've had dreams about the scents, the names, the bottles. Sometimes the whole dream is about BPAL, sometimes it's just a component. It makes for interesting and far more pleasant dreams than usual since they aren't work-related or about family or anything. Last night's was cool, I dreamt that I'd woken up and gone onto the Lab's page to look at some of the scents (since I still haven't read about all of them yet) & instead of the Krampus image there was a grayscale image. I can't remember what it was, maybe a grayscale fluffy bunny or something like that, but done in a Victorian/Goth kind of way. The whole site hadn't been updated, only some of it. I can't remember the names of the scents, I think they were vaguely baby-related. Yes, I am offically a BPAL adict!

January 11, 2008

Order #3?! & Random Thoughts

I've confirmed with everyone at work so now I need to sit and organise myself and order their smellies. I was excited, looking forward to this but the news of Sir Ed's passing has taken that excitement away and has left a sadness in it's place. Not much to say. We weren't originally going to put anything in on this order, but Rose Red sounded like something that would be nice for Carol. I told her about the description, read her some of the reviews and she decided she might like to try it. Since we can't do an imp of it I've put a bottle order in for her too. So that makes 3 Rose Reds, the Vampire Tears, Phobos, and an imp pack. I'd originally planned on puttiong an imp for Carol on Sharon's request for 5. Since we are getting her a bottle I figured I'd get an imp of Coyote for me. So yeah, another big order, 4 days after the last one! I had expected it to be only 2 or 3 bottles at the most. 5 bottles and an imp pack later..... And this after a 7 bottle order on the 7th. Wow, that's us for the year! I walked home from the train station today. I realised that BPAL has re-introduced me to my nose. I was breathing deeply, I could say to experience the smells of summer but really it was puffing from being a bit out of breath from the hill. I was enjoying the occassion whiff of Satyr mixed with the different trees and plants; the cypress, the oak, the ?. It was really neat. So what BPAL do you wear for something like Sir Ed's death? I have Namaste on my wishlist, that would be perfect. But going off my current list I guess it would be something like Mechanical Phoenix (for when he used the tractors at the South Pole)? Or Titus Andronicus because he was a classical guy, but then Titus was a bloody play and Sir Ed was a man of peace so maybe not. Just some thoughts.

January 11, 2008

Rest In Peace Sir Ed

Rest in peace Sir Edmund Hillary. May the mountains be just high enough for you and the days sunny and warm for climbing. He wasn't just a man who climbed a mountain. He was someone who had a dream and followed it, when everyone at the time said that it couldn't be done. He was well-known in Nepal for his generosity. He didn't just go and climb their mountain, he tried to give back to the country that made him famous.

January 11, 2008

Getting Ready for Another Big Order

Tomorrow I need to finalise the order for the people at work. It's going to be a big one. And we've got a BPALer in Hamilton (hi Elizabeth!) and I've offered to put her Rose Red onto our order to help save her money on shipping. It makes it a bit lighter on the pocket. Exhausted. Had a bit of a grumbly bit at work. Won't go into it all but basically had 2 people kind of getting on me about a difference of opinion/difference of doing our work. I started feeling upset. Took a moment to put some Green Day on the headset and sniffed my Dragon Bone. It reminded me there is something bigger out there, that work doesn't matter. BPAL does! Bed time.

January 10, 2008

Snow White 2007

A chilly, bright perfume: flurries of virgin snow, crisp winter wind and the faintest breath of night-blooming flowers. Reviewed 01/09/2008 Wet, this is basically an almond single note on my skin. There isn't even a hint of floral. As it dries, well, it's still almond, but with a hint of something sweeter. Since I'm a foody to the core, that works perfectly well for me and I may try layering it. It doesn't feel cold to me at all, it has more of a spring feel. I only wish it had more throw; apparently, Snow White is quite a shy girl because it's so light that I could miss it entirely if I didn't have my nose pressed against my hand. It's not what I was expecting, but still definitely a winner.

January 10, 2008

Libra 2007

Cardinal air: the essence of balance. Rose, black cherry, carnation, fig, honey, plum, and black currant. Reviewed 01/09/2008 In the imp I smell lots of fruit; the cherry and currant dominate. It's very sweet and very juicy. That's really what I was looking for when I sought this one out. On my skin, however, it's a sweet, spicy, almost overblown rose. It took me a few minutes to place it, but finally I put my finger on it: this smells JUST like the rose character from the Rose Petal Place dolls produced in the eighties. It takes me back to some very fond memories of my childhood and it's a beautiful blend, but it has a very young feel so I don't think that I will wear it often.

January 10, 2008

Have I Become a Dealer?

I took our current imp horde into work to let someone have a sniffle. I ended up roping 4 people into sniffles. 1 had sniffled before but we've had the imps from pugmom since then. 3 of the 4 people are interested in doing an order!! Our order is in as of yesterday but if each of them want something I can put the order in for them. I know 2 of them (all 3?) don't have Paypal so I've offered to put the order in for them if they want. One is going for 5 imps so far, one for a bottle of Vampire Tears and one for a bottle of Phobos. I've passed the BPAL site on to all 3, I think 2 of them will look into it. On the side, I got an email from the one I ordered Diwali from saying "if you haven't ordered it don't, order Rose Essence". Um, BPAL doesn't just have a rose essense. I tried to tell her that yesterday when she mentioned it. And when I told her that & asked if she still wanted the 5ml of Diwali she said yes. I know I can hold onto it for a couple months and swap it once it's off list (more likely to go when it's off list) but really, we are out that $ and wouldn't have ordered it if I didn't have to. So & for enabling (we let one person try my wife's Phobos and gave the other person the Vampire Tears imp we had been gifted with). And & for enabling coworkers so that we can do group orders and keep our shipping costs down.

January 8, 2008

Argentwolf's Blog

Akuma

Category: Diabolus In the imp: Strongly sweet and fruity. Wet: Hellooooo Raspberry! It was incredibly strong and sweet, and, oddly enough made me think of 'generic candle smell'...that scent that most candles seem to have to me. I guess I've hung around a lot of berry-scented candles. Dry: This was the part that has changed the most. I wore this every day for over a week, just because I *wanted* to try to like this scent, or at least give it a fair shake. Initially, it dried as pure raspberry -- sickly sweet and very 'childish', in that I felt like I was about 15 years too old to be wearing this scent. As the days passed, however, I noticed that there was more of a mingling of orange with the raspberry...that was actually a *lot* more pleasing to me. And today, I've noticed that the scent has grown sweeter still, like faint cherries, but unlike the raspberry, it isn't annoying. Verdict: This scent just isn't for me. It's certainly not bad, and I would advise anyone who is initially put-off by it to give it a chance over time, particularly if you otherwise enjoy cherry-like scents. But there are other scents that I like a lot better. I'll quit beating this dead horse (or imp) and put it away; perhaps I will think of someone else who would give it the love it deserves. What I liked: The orange (when it briefly showed itself). What I didn't like: The raspberry. Just too sickly-sweet for me. Also, my skin just seems to eat up fruity scents. Waaah! So sad.

Argentwolf

January 8, 2008

Pink Moon 2007

A sweet and silly compliment to the first breath of Spring! Sugared carnation and phlox! Reviewed 01/07/2008 I admit, I've been prejudiced against carnations. I found that I like some blends with carnations, though, so I was willing to give Pink Moon a try. I really enjoyed the spiciness that I've come to recognize as BPAL's carnation note, but after that initial yummy spice it turned into pure play-doh on me the way Beaver Moon '05 did. One odd note about this one: my cats went crazy over it. Completely and utterly bonkers. They were fighting each other to get to the spot I applied it and wouldn't stop sniffing and licking it. I've never seen anything like it!

January 8, 2008

The Oval Portrait

Evil was the hour that she saw, and loved, the painter. Gentle beauty and innocent devotion: honeysuckle, carnation, stargazer lily, bluebonnet, vanilla musk, and rice flower. Reviewed 01/07/2008 My first impression is HELLO FLOWERS! Heh. It's almost overwhelmingly floral. There's an undernote of something tangy that makes the corners of my mouth pucker, something sharp and almost citrus-y. That fades out at about the same time the flowers begin to be tempered by the musk. I don't get much vanilla out of it, though I normally amp vanilla; it smells more like a skin musk on me. This is very feminine and adult, not like my normal foody inclinations but very wearable and pretty. I'm not sure I could use an entire bottle of this, but I might get another imp or two of it.

January 8, 2008

Chaste Moon 2005

Though March marks the end of the desolation and chill of winter, it is not yet Spring, the time of rebirth, fertility and the Earth's fecundity. March's Full Moon is a Virgin's Moon, pure, youthful, unsullied and innocent. This is the Moon of the Child, and the scent is as soft and gentle as a baby's breath: milky blossoms and soft cream touch the last buds of winter, coupled with crystalline, bright traditional Lunar oils. Reviewed 01/07/2008 I have been coveting this for months, ever since I was frimped a sniffie of it, and it was everything I was hoping it would be. It's spicy, with a base of sweet creaminess, and it blows me away. It stayed true, with no plastic or fake-ness in the undertones. It clings very close to the skin, with very little throw, the kind of scent you dab behind your ears and on the back of your neck before you meet a significant other and you want to draw them in close. Unfortunately, something in this makes me itch like nobody's business on every body part I tried it on, even places that I rarely react (like the back of my hand)!

January 8, 2008

Hooray! Order Number 2 Away!

Second order has officially been sent/paid for via Paypal. The imps from the first order haven't grown cold yet and we've officially become adicted Here's what I put in for us, 5mml bottles of each of the following: hers: White Phoenix Noche Buena Phobos mine: Mechanical Phoenix KRAMPUS 2007 Satyr Diwali has been ordered for a coworker. Neither of us liked it when we were gifted the imp and it only made sense to gift it on to someone who would appreciate it. Really glad I was gifted the imp before choosing to order it! Yay for another order--very dangerous. I want to order them all and just sniff and sniff! Re the previous entry: Blood Lust seemed to be good for today. It helped keep me calm and focused. Tomorrow maybe I'll do Mechanical Phoenix. I'd like to go for Satyr but it might be too early in the week for it.

January 7, 2008

Is Anybody Out There?

Rambly stuff

So my mom and I are a member of the organization TOPS, which is for weight loss. Since she joined in March of last year, she has lost approximately 130 lbs. There was a regional meet up in October, which my mom attended, because our chapter's leader said she'd entered all our numbers into the contest, and it was likely my mom would gain some recognition. The leader had lied, however, and had not submitted the paperwork. She'd filled it out and brought it with her. Dumbass. But every year, the organization recognizes someone on a national level. Each state crowns a king and/or queen, and then several of them are published in the monthly magazine. Now, the new year is pretty hard to miss. I would think that the paperwork would be well and truly filled out and ready to go by then. No. The woman calls ME to find out if I have my mother's membership information, and crap that she should have already, and I swear that if this woman fucks this up for my mom, I will tell her exactly how I feel about the situation (during a meeting), and then see if anyone else is okay with this turn of events, and then walk out. I'll find another damn chapter to attend. Screw them. And then I'll write a detailed letter to the national organization and hope for the best. Also, this seemed too petty to start a new topic over, and I'm no longer reading the confessional or the how are you feeling threads. I'm really bummed out about my local used bookstore that I've been going to since they piled everything into one small room. They've expanded, and have recently gotten a lot of new staff members. So I was in there the other day, and I asked one of them about Richelle Mead. I suppose I've been spoiled by the owner, who can cite titles based off a description of a cover, and list authors like woah... and even if she doesn't know, she'll go look herself, and check the computer. Nice things, right? But this woman asked me what genre she was, and I explained that it was paranormal, but it might be paranormal romance and she was like, "Ohhh. Well, I don't really know a lot about that genre, but the name doesn't ring a bell." Chompchompchompthegum. Uh, okay. Thanks for the help. I couldn't find her book anywhere, but that doesn't mean they didn't have it. That's kinda okay- she might've been really busy with other things or something, but here's what really makes me mad. While I'm looking for Succubus Blues, I overhear her talking to another customer, and she's saying, " ... I don't really read paranormal stuff, but she's really good- I read a little bit of that book and really liked it." That's compelling. So the customer asks if they have it in used, and the woman immediately says, "Oh, no. We NEVER get anything back by her. Everybody loves her." And I'm like, "Bullshit." Seriously. Not aloud, of course. So I walk past the customer and glance over and see that she's looking at a Patricia Briggs book, and I roll my eyes, because my mom is a huuuge fan of that woman and buys the used books all the time. So I take the time to walk the ten feet to the shelf, and sure enough, the book is there, in used. So I go up and ask the customer if she had been looking at Moon Called, and she said she had. So I raise my voice ever so slightly and say, "Well, they've got it in used." So she asks if I'm going to buy it and I'm like, "Nope, please have at it." I get that you might want to be selling new over used, but that shit is only going to piss people off. People like me. The owner, however, will go out of her way to see if they have a used copy of something- I've been at the register, and she's asked me if I want it used and then pulled a used copy for me, because I'll always take used books. That makes me sad.

smallvoice

January 7, 2008

Another day.....

Tomorrow is our first full week at work in 2 weeks. We've had 2 short weeks due to the holidays and our most of my team has had the time off on annual leave. I'm not looking forward to a full week at work and I'm not looking forward to most of my team being back. It's been nice and quiet without most the people there. Yeah, I've missed one or two but the rest of them can be a nuissance. And there is one in particular that isn't going to be fun. It's partly my own fault for the situation but she holds blame too. I noticed that she has on occassion left work. She's had her reasons but it seems that the harder stuff is left behind for me to pick up. I didn't do most of her training but when I have offered to show her some of the more complicated stuff I've heard things like "I'm not a morning person", "I'm too busy", "I've got it written down somewhere", "I'm not having a good day", "I'm tired", "It's too late", "I learn better by doing" (but when I offer to let her do so she can learn then she's got one of the other reasons). When I talked to her last time about how it seems she takes a particular type of easy stuff she said it was the way she was trained (which is odd because I know the person who trained her and I know she didn't do things that way). I thought it was resolved until I started noticing again some of the more difficult types of work were left behind and work from certain geographical areas was being left behind. And someone in one of those geographical areas that I never seemed to see work from made a comment along the lines of "Oh, I guess I should have asked X to do it". It was random, especially given that up to that point we hadn't divided into geographic areas. Then, one day just before Xmas I was finishing up a complicated request I had picked up. It was afternoon time & I noticed there was a complicated request that came in while I was engaged in it. This other person left it. Ok, not too bad as there is the chance that she didn't see it when it came in and it was too late for either of us to pick it up. The second day we had meetings and stuff that took up part of our day. On top of that I had some documents returned in the new stuff that I had learned. It was complicated and someone else was helping me sort it. Between that and the stuff I'd already had to do for that day, I wasn't able to pick up anything new until that afternoon. And yes, it was still in there. I was stressed and peeved. It had sat in there for 2 days and I knew I wasn't going to be able to do it at that point. I put it in my work queue because I konw there was no way in he!! she would at that point. Being upset and stressed I grumbled to 2 people in my old team about it. There was my mistake. I grumbled to someone about it instead of locking it in. One of these 2 people went and told her and she went to the team leader. I was told in my monthly meeting that I was "slagging her off" to the old team. No, not quite. Then the team leader made some comment about how certain work takes priority. WTF? Like I wasn't doing that work too?? WHATEVER. I knew it was no use saying anything but I did say that I told one person (I later remembered telling 2). I couldn't figure out how it got to my team leader. Both the coworker and team leader went on vacation right after this. I didn't learn 'til relatively recently that the person had been told that I'd said something & went to the team leader about it. So now I have people I know I can't trust that I used to trust. I'm not sure what BPAL I want to wear tomorrow. I'm considering Blood Lust because I feel like I've got to go to battle when I got work now. I could consider Dragon Claw, for the "sharp" factor. Or I could go with something more 'sophisticated'/masculine cologne-y like Mechanical Phoenix, the Music of Eric Zahn, Titus Andronicus or Black Forest. Wow, didn't realise I had that many choices. And we've still got an order to put in tomorrow night. I'll give my Diwali away because it went really nasty on my skin. Like, along the lines of cigarette butts soaked in coconut and burned on a rubber tyre pyre. Yeah, that good on me. I've held off our order in case the person I'm giving the imp to likes it & wants a bottle. On that note, I should get to bed. I haven't been sleeping well and got grumpy today. I am sure lack of sleep contributed.

January 6, 2008

Die Eier von Satan

More Quotages

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.” -The Sandman, Neil Gaiman I don't hate love, but the majority of that quote is definitely something I can relate to. “I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and they end eventually. I wake up. The terrible dreams are the good dreams. In my terrible dreams, everything's fine. I'm still with the company. I still look like me. None of the last five years ever happened. Sometimes I'm married. Once I even had kids. I even knew their names. Everything's wonderful and normal and fine. And then I wake up. And I'm still me. And I'm still here. And that is truly terrible.” -The Sandman - Dream Country, Neil Gaiman “There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.” -Douglas Adams “I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.” Douglas Adams

eternalargus

January 5, 2008

Package received and BPAL scent thoughts/ideas

We got an enabling package from pugmom! She totally spoiled us with imps of Mechanical Phoenix, The Music of Erich Zahn, Diwali & Dragon's Bone for me and Vampire Tears, Belladonna, Frumious Bandersnatch and Salome for Carol. Wow, really really cool of her! My spreadsheet is updated now and I'm testing Mechanical Phoenix. She sent it in plent of time for me to smell and test it before the lab pulls this Anniversary scent. It's definitely on the order list! I be a very happy and a very nice smelling Vulture now. Every vulture should have something to cut the smell of carion! I had an idea today. I thought it would be great if Beth could come to NZ and smell some of the typical Kiwi smells here. She'd be able to expand her single notes and add another dimension to the scents on offer. I would love to smell her interpretation of the NZ bush, with it's pungas and kauri and rimu. It would lend itself well to masculine scent, earthy and wet and natural-bush. I would love to smell her rendition of manuka/kanuka flowers, it would be a nice feminine scent. Not the tea tree kind of scent you get in essential oils but the sweet-florally scent that you get from the bushes when you walk through a patch of them. Then there are things like the native clematis, the flax, the pohutakawa and the Earina orchid (http://www.kaimaibush.co.nz/Orchids/orchid_frameset.html) I used to have one of those until it died. For such a tiny orchid it has an amazingly powerful scent. If I could get them to live I'd offer to mass-grow them and produce essential oils for Beth to use! I think for now I'll see what essential oils I can find. If all else fails, 'cause I don't remember seeing flax or clematis scents anywhere I can see if Cal will let me buy some of the nice lotions based on these scents I got at Craftworld for my Secret Santa. I'm sure Beth wouldn't mind getting them to at least smell the fragrance, and to use for her and the labbies if she'd share. I could see either a whole line based on Maori mythology (don't know if they'd go for that, she'd have to investigate it since they are sensitive about people using their culture to make money) or on Lord of the Rings or just on NZ native things (ie--a scent incorporating flax called The Tui or something like that. I'd like to pick up some essential oils made out of native plants/scents and mail them to the lab for her with the idea. Even if she didn't go with it, it's a nice thought. Though I can dream about her coming here to check things out and we pick her up and take her around places in AKLD like the Waitaks and the Botanical Garden to check the possibilities out. PS- along the dream of Beth creating Kiwi smells and showing her around, I imagine we'd bring her back to our hovel and make her manuka-smoked lamb shanks and for desert pavolva with passionfruit and kiwi fruit. I could see her adding pav as a scent that the foody-loving customers would...well, eat up.

January 5, 2008

Strawberry Moon

Strawberry moon is a blending of strawberries and cream with light, dry lotus and soft ylang ylang and a touch of green tea and sage to bring it closer to Earth. Reviewed 01/04/2008 This is absolutely beautiful. It's very true-to-life, like a bowl full of fresh strawberries and homemade cream. I don't get the plastic, fake note that other people have mentioned, but I also don't get any hint of tea or anything green at all. This is very fresh and summery and delicious, and it breaks my heart that I adore it so much because I know I'll never be able to afford a bottle of it!

January 5, 2008

Midnight Kiss

Eternal desire, unquenchable passion: red musk, cocoa absolute, Nepalese amber, red sandalwood, aged patchouli, nicotiana, and blood wine. Reviewed 01/04/2008 One of my resolutions for the new year is to be more on top of testing and reviewing my BPAL, especially the approximately 100 untried imps sitting in my imp box. So I've started randomly grabbing two each night and testing them out, whether I thought I would like the notes or not. Wet and Initial Drydown: Ew. EWW. I smell like BO and something flowery. Normally musks work with my skin, so maybe it's the nicotiana or the patchouli. Complete Drydown: Oh yes. This is finally coming together and smells wonderful. Now I get the cherry cola-ish scent that people mention. It's dark, but sparkling and not overpowering. I'm in awe, the lab made something that is dark and light at the same time. It's very sexy, in a commanding way. I think that I could get past the initial funky stage and wear this, but it's definitely not an office scent.

What ever happened to Generation X?

January 5, 2008

Friday, Jan. 4

I just arranged my first MUA swap in ages. I will be getting a bottle of LUSH Karma, for free! Well, I have to send the other person a bottle of fragrance, but it's something I never wear, so it's a win-win situation. It's kind of funny -- I have 238 swap tokens at MUA, from my heydey of 2003-2005 when I was really "into" high end and niche fragrances and was swapping, RAOKing and decanting like a madwoman. When I look back on those days, I realize I must have spent at least six hours a week just on swapping, sampling and "maintaining" my collection. For a variety of reasons, I drifted away from MUA in the summer of 2005 and haven't been as interested in (commercial) perfume ever since. It's like the obsession just burned itself out. I became interested in BPAL in 2005 and I've been "into" it ever since, but not to the strange, obsessive degree I was about perfume on MUA. I used to not be that interested in LUSH but I've changed my mind. I got all kinds of awesome deals at their sale last week; I now have enough soap and bath bombs/bubble bars to keep me clean for the rest of the year. I've discovered their skin care is pretty nice as well; I really like Angels on Bare Skin and Skin's Shangri-La. And the Karma Komba shampoo solid is to die for. It smells great and made my (long-ish, fine and limp, color-treated) hair fluffy, shiny and soft. Today I'm home with the kids all day; I hope to get some housework done as well and maybe place a DHC order. They're having a sale and I need to pick up a few items. My skin is starting to get that winter dullness/dryness/sensitivity and redness it always does, so it's time for some new products. I'd also like to do some reading; seems like it's been ages since I curled up with a good book, uninterrupted. I'd like to do something fun this weekend but DH and I are still kind of on the outs. If nothing else, I want to go to dinner at my favorite restaurant and do a little shopping, and I guess I can do that by myself or with a friend if necessary. I'm not sure how the weather will hold up; I wonder if we'll have more snow on the way. A lot of people hate the wintertime in Chicago but I find it tolerable. I'll be sick of it by March, but right now the snow is enough of a novelty that it doesn't bother me much. It's certainly preferable to super-hot temperatures.

parrot_suspect

January 4, 2008

Nuit

She is the Goddess of the Sky, one of the Ennead, daughter of the air [shu] and water [Tefnut], lover of Geb and Hadit, the Eternal Mother, and the Receiver, Reviver and Protector of the Dead, whose loving, divine embrace shields our souls from annihilation. She is love, rapture, splendor, continuous and eternal birth and rebirth, infinite space, and the “the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night”. Nuit is Earth’s guardian, and shields her lover and her mortal children from the primeval chaos that threatens Existence. Her perfume is starry and crystalline, a jewel-clad and glittering paean to night: dazzling white musks, white rose and night-blooming jasmine with the soft moss of moonlit meadows, a waft of Egyptian incense, and a gentle breath of moonflower. Reviewed 01/03/2008 Gorgeous. Florals aren't my normal favorites, but this is beautiful and calming. It's pure, feminine, floral. I rarely get a color feeling from a scent, but this 'feels' midnight blue to me. While sniffing I had an undeniable urge to just close my eyes and breathe very slowly and deeply, and I actually almost fell asleep. I think this would be amazing as a meditation oil or a sleep aid, maybe on an eye mask or a pillow. The throw is medium and it has a long wear time.

January 4, 2008

Incubus

Spectral white musk and the heart-stopping chill of sheared mint, fanned by caramel-touched body heat, and the diabolical sensuality of black musk, nicotiana, and sage. Reviewed 01/03/2008 I got this as a frimp from the lab, so I decided to try it without looking at the notes beforehand. This, on me, smells like vomit and cigar smoke. My arm smells like a bar bathroom at closing time. I don't know what happened between this and my body chemistry but oh, my dear gods. This is definitely going in the swap pile.