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By Silvertree February 7, 2012

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The Music List

Musicians/Bands I Love: Tori Amos (Scarlet's Walk and earlier) Bjork Ani Difranco Lisa Germano Yoko Kanno Metric (and Emily Haines' solo work) Beth Orton (first three albums) Liz Phair (first three albums) Radiohead R.E.M. ('90s and earlier) The Smashing Pumpkins Tangerine Dream Throwing Muses Amon Tobin U2 (mostly the '80s and early '90s stuff) Vangelis Suzanne Vega Faye Wong Musicians/Bands I Like: AFI The Antlers Fiona Apple David Arkenstone Badly Drawn Boy Sara Bareilles Barenaked Ladies (the first two albums) The Beatles Beck Belly Bloc Party Boards of Canada Bright Eyes The Brilliant Green Kate Bush Catatonia Neneh Cherry Counting Crows The Cranberries (first two albums) Julee Cruise The Cure Dead Can Dance Lana Del Rey Dessa Dido The Dresden Dolls Duran Duran Enya Esthero Evanescence A Fine Frenzy Florence + the Machine Matthew Good P.J. Harvey Sophie B. Hawkins Imogen Heap Kristin Hersh Veda Hille Hole Hum Michael Jackson ('80s stuff) Jimmy Eat World The Juliana Theory Ladytron La Roux Letters To Cleo Love Psychedelico Madonna Aimee Mann Sarah McLachlan (first three albums) Mediaeval Baebes Moby Moist The Mountain Goats Moxy Fruvous Muse My Chemical Romance Joanna Newsom Nirvana Nine Inch Nails (some) Heather Nova Sinead O'Connor Babatunde Olatunji OneRepublic Paramore Pet Shop Boys Pink Portishead Elvis Presley Pulp Rasputina Damien Rice Rihanna Santigold The Shins Sloan Snow Patrol Regina Spektor Supertramp The Tragically Hip ('90s and earlier) Weezer Kanye West (some) The White Stripes Amy Winehouse Musicians/Bands I Can Take or Leave: Bryan Adams (some of his early songs are all right; don't like the newer stuff) Aerosmith (like a few of their hits) The Beach Boys Christina Aguilera The Cardigans Collective Soul Crowded House (love a couple songs, not so keen on the rest) Delerium Depeche Mode Garbage Goo Goo Dolls Green Day Heart Whitney Houston Led Zeppelin Lisa Loeb Matchbox Twenty Alanis Morissette No Doubt Oasis Our Lady Peace Pearl Jam Poe Red Hot Chili Peppers Maaya Sakamoto (mostly just like the stuff Yoko Kanno composed for her) Skunk Anansie Soundgarden TLC Musicians/Bands I Dislike: Backstreet Boys Toni Braxton Coldplay Celine Dion Avril Lavigne Limp Bizkit Nickelback N Sync The Offspring Rammstein Britney Spears Spice Girls Sum 41 System of a Down Shania Twain Musicians/Bands I've Liked A Song or Two By, But Haven't Pursued Further Yet: A Fine Frenzy The All American Rejects Aqualung Azure Ray Bif Naked The Birthday Massacre Bloc Party Butterfly Boucher The Colour Death Cab For Cutie Fall Out Boy Alana Grace Gary Jules Lifehouse Modest Mouse Morcheeba Placebo Remy Zero Tool Yellowcard Veruca Salt Classical Composers I Like (my exposure is admittedly limited): Bach Chopin Mozart

melusine

November 25, 2007

Abstract Associations

Review: Lick It, Lick It Again, Lick It One More Time

Lick It: What else could possibly be more lickable at Yuletide? This is a candy cane perfume, minty, sweet and sugared. Lick It Again: Every holiday season should be full of lewd suggestions and filthy double entendres, right? This is a new take on last year's Lick It -- a peppermint candy cane with an extra jolt of sugar. Lick It One More Time: Every holiday season should be full of lewd suggestions and filthy double entendres, right? This is a new take on Lick It and Lick It Again -- a peppermint candy cane with a flash of vanilla and an extra jolt of sugar. Reviewed 11/23/2007 I realized that I have never reviewed any of the Lick It line when my bottles of One More Time came. So what else was there to do but put all three on and do some comparisons? Bottle: The original '05 Lick It is a very sharp, intense peppermint in the bottle, with just a hint of something sweet underneath. The '06 version is much more mellow to my nose, but '07 is very close to the '05 version. Wet: On application, all three go on very strong. '05 is immediately very sweet while still maintaining the sharpness of the mint. '06 softens as soon as it touches my skin, with the vanilla and sugar pushing the mint into the background. '07 reminds me of the original again, the peppermint staying strong as the sweetness swirls up, just like smelling a real candy cane. Drydown: The best wear comes from '05. It mellows considerably and has very little throw, but it lasts for hours if I bring my wrist to my nose. Smelling it is like licking your lips an hour after you've eaten a candy cane, a minty memory on your tongue. '06 has very little throw as well. The mint tends to fade out after a few hours, but the soft vanilla sugar lingers on my skin for much longer. There's something seductive about it, and it reminds me a bit of Snowblind. My skin drinks '07 like water. After less than an hour it is completely gone, with only a faint dusty smell left like I've been carrying around old books. Even the vanilla, which my skin normally holds on to for dear life, disappears without a trace. It's the closest to '05 in scent...while it's there. I love it enough to keep it and just slather it on every hour, but I'm wondering if the aging of the original is a factor in how well it stays so I'll be tucking a bottle away in a dark corner to see if it helps. If not, there's always a scent locket, right?

Rovylern

November 24, 2007

Ambitionless

Serenifly Tree

Kaylee: She is a mechanic and an engineer who loves strawberries, so a wrench, hammer, grease can, strawberry, or toolbox ornament would suit her. Jayne: He is a mercenary, so a gun, a holster, a jayne hat, boots, or something like that would be good. Book: He is a preacher. Well, books. Or prayer bead garlands, or a cigar (he likes cigars) Inara: She is a Companion, so anything fancy or Indian or Eastern would be good. A lipstick, a necklace, a lute ( I think she plays) Wash: He is a pilot and a goof. Hawaiian shirts and toy dinosaurs! River: She is childlike and ethereal and strange. A rag doll, or anything weird... ooo a mind-bent spoon Zoe: She is hardcore. A gun, A mustache (fan joke) Mal: He is the captain. A gun, boots, a spaceship Simon: A doctor's stethoscope (sp?), glasses, etc General: Christmas balls that look like planets, western-themed stuff like little tin cups, or leather saddles, ornaments in red, yellow, and orange (the Serenity logo's colors), and Chinese-themed ornaments.

Carmencita

November 22, 2007

FG's smellies obsession

Current obsessions, wishes, yucks

I hoard/utterly LOVE and have in 5ml (but if you want to swap with me, I'll likely take more!): DEATH of AUTUMN, Spirits of the Dead, Minotaur, Oisin, Gypsy Queen GC loves: Morocco, Dracul*, Great Sword of War*, Black Forest I am fascinated by in theory but have not yet tried: Brown Jenkins, Hunter Moon, Voodoo Queen, Plunder, Great Whore of Babylon, Two Monsters, Eshe, Gennivre, Wezawine/Hold, El Amor et La Muerte, Green Phoenix, Mechanical Phoenix, Ivanushka, Shivering Boy, Christmas Rose* (for sentimental reasons want bottle even unsniffed) I *DETESTED*: Storyville (earwax!), Corazon (bile), Kingsport (underside of a dock), Monsterbait: Closet (cough syrup and metal), MB: Bloody Mary (cough syrup and feet), Zarita the Doll Girl (burning Barbie doll) *eventually to be a bottle buy

fountaingrl

November 21, 2007

Janet's Breeze

Jezebel

JEZEBEL
Biblical witch, priestess of Astarte, and general troublemaker. A true role model for today's upwardly mobile Modern Woman. A gloriously decadent blend of honey, roses, orange blossom and sandalwood.

I received Jezebel in a rollerball, mixed with jojoba.

Jezebel is SWEET. All orange blossom and honey when I first put it on, almost candy-like in it's intensity. It dries down into a softer orange, almost powdery on my skin but retains the sweetness.

I have to be careful with this one as it can overpower me with a sugar rush.

breezefaerie

November 20, 2007

Janet's Breeze

Hellfire

A scent celebrating Sir Francis Dashwood's Order of the Knights of St. Francis of Wycombe, also known as the Hellfire Club. A swirl of pipe tobacco, hot leather, ambergris, dark musk and the lingering incense smoke from their Black Mass.

Hellfire is the first imp I have ever owned and tried. I received it as a rollerball, mixed with jojoba oil.

The first time I wore Hellfire, I got all the rich smoky tobacco, the leather and smoke that the description promises. I wanted to be in a smoky cigar bar somewhere, listening to jazz and swirling warm brandy in a snifter. That only happened the very first time.

Since then, Hellfire smells very warm and sweet, very creamy on me. I really think that my skin amps sweet scents from the few imps I have tried. I like Hellfire very much as it makes me feel very warm inside.

I do miss that smokiness from my first wearing though ...

breezefaerie

November 20, 2007

Janet's Breeze

My Intro to BPAL

I was introduced to BPAL through another online community that I am an active member in, the LHC. Since first reading about BPAL I have spend countless hours pouring over the boards here, reading recommendations and reviews, reading about the different notes available in the different scents and how they play with one another. Apparently I have a new addiction! I have a huge list of what I want to try and a very small list of the few imps I have collected. I love the fact that BPAL takes inspiration from so many of the things I love, like HP Lovecraft and astrological signs. It amazes me that the names of the scents really do match the scent itself. I wanted to have a place that I could list what scents I have tried and what I want to try without having documents on different computers. (I'll admit, I'm bad and sneak minutes at work to read more reviews! ) That's what this blog will be for, a journal detailing my reviews for myself and my wish list.

breezefaerie

November 20, 2007

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