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The glittering crimson and gold musks of Sparta enveloped in gilded white swan feathers of pearl orris, white oudh, white sandalwood, and translucent spiced petals. So lovely. It reminds me of a more refined version of nag champa incense. Very dark, resinous oil, the perfect marriage of orris and incense.

Thus saying, from her side the fatal Key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took; And towards the Gate rouling her bestial train, Forthwith the huge Porcullis high up drew, Which but her self not all the STYGIAN powers Could once have mov'd; then in the key-hole turns Th' intricate wards, and every Bolt and Bar Of massie Iron or sollid Rock with ease Unfast'ns: on a sudden op'n flie With impetuous recoile and jarring sound Th' infernal dores, and on thir hinges great Harsh Thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of EREBUS. She op'nd, but to shut Excel'd her power; the Gates wide op'n stood, That with extended wings a Bannerd Host Under spread Ensigns marching might pass through With Horse and Chariots rankt in loose array; So wide they stood, and like a Furnace mouth Cast forth redounding smoak and ruddy flame. Before thir eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And CHAOS, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal ANARCHIE, amidst the noise Of endless warrs and by confusion stand. Solace in darkness, the personification of shadow: lavender, black vanilla, white melon, night-blooming jasmine, rose, cedar, cyclamen, violet, and hyacinth. OH.MUH.GUH. It's TKO!!!! With maybe a touch more vanilla than the oil but OMG it's lovely. It's softer and less medicinal than the perfume oil but it's still a dead ringer. Thank you Beth...that's one more dream that's come true.

OCEANS OF LOVE AND MILLIONS OF KISSES Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? Orange blossom and honey. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. The orange blossom is definitely floral, and the honey is not the same honey as in, say, Tomoe Gozen. It's more of a musky floral than anything else, lightly sweet but not cloying. I love it!

Very grassy, soapy and cologne-like at first sniff. On my skin it reads as expensive men's soap. I can't tell yet if I like it or if it's just too soapy.

Slightly more intriguing in the bottle than on me; in the bottle it was spicy vanilla whereas on my skin it's all apricot, all the time. Not unpleasant, but I had hoped for less fruit and more vanilla. I'm going to keep trying it though and give it some time to mellow out.

Chalk me up as another who smells Snow White + SGA. However, unlike SGA, the apple is totally under control here and plays nicely with the musks. It's more vanilla than floral to me, and I love it every bit as much as I hoped I would. Definitely need a bottle

Harry Potter - a fan? If so, what house are you?Not so much If you were to receive a gift card, what places would you like to get one from? Villainess, Amazon, Paintbox Soapworks, Sockdreams, L'occitane...really though - anything! What are your thoughts on comics? Any you like? Any you have been wanting to try? Favorite characters?Not so much a fan of the comics... Does anyone garden? And if you do, what do you grow? If not, would a starter garden kit be something you'd be interested in?My yard is not conducive to gardening but I would lOVE a pretty flower garden someday. If you are in to beauty and makeup related stuff, what kind of stuff do you like? What is your skintone and hair color? Are there any beauty products you've wanted to try but just never purchase?I LOVE glittery stuff, crazy colors, and colored mascaras. All stuff I love to use but hate to buy for myself since they're not practical. Do you like coffee or tea? Would you be interested in trying some different types?lovelovelove both, especially a really good dark coffee or jasmine green tea. Are you going away for any part of this round? I will be visiting family in Texas this weekend (Sept 23-26) and will be in Pennsylvania Oct 6-8. If your witch were going somewhere on a vacation during the round, would you want a little souvenir? Sure! Would a gift or a postcard from Disneyland make you squee with delight or puke into your mail box? I would have never thought so previously, but I'd probably love it what are your favorite types of Halloween candy?lollipops and sour gummies! Do you prefer soap or shower gel? Please give examples of your favorite scents or brands.Soap I'm open to anything, truly. If you have kids, would you be interested in getting things for them? And if so, what are they interested and what sizes are the wearing now? I don't have any kids but my husband and I are trying, and any cute baby stuff would be welcome Witchee, would you be interested in having a special tea cup/coffee mug/glass to drink out of? Absolutely! Do you enjoy puzzles/riddles? (Cryptograms, Sudoku, Crossword, Jigsaw, etc) Love em but we're all full up on em! Can you sum yourself (whether it be personality, life's goals, ethics, whatever) in 10 words or less? I wish I could. What are your views on fudge and brownies? (Also, if you live in a warm place, where the fudge might melt, that'd be helpful to know. Or, if you're diabetic and fudge is death, that'd be useful to know, too.)Yesssssssssss Also, what about mochi? Love it, hate it, baffled by it? Eh. Anything from the update ya'll are liking? I updated my wishlist. Would you be interested in a sample box(from somewhere like Birchbox or loosebutton)? Definitely! What constitutes ultimate luxury to you? (go crazy!)Time with my family, an amazing meal, and a looooooong massage. Possibly some cashmere undies too do you like real sugar skulls? Things with sugar skull designs? YESSSSS!! Are you more prone to order out or cook at home? Would you be interested in cookbooks, kitchen utensils, and the like? If so, anything specific?I cook but I have NO STORAGE in my kitchen, so kitchen stuff is a no-go for me. New question: How do you feel about maple syrup?Blech Do you like beef jerkey, I know some may be vegatarian, but where I live beef is a staple and beef jerkey abounds. If so do you it really thin, hard and crunchy or thicker and softer. (OK that borders on obscene)-Love jerky, mostly thicker and softer, but not always. Also loved smoked cheeses and dried sausages. Also do you like or racier ecards from time to time and do you need to be warned if something may be not safe to open at work. Sure. A warning is nice, but maybe not 100% necessary. How would you feel about gummies? Like, gummy bears? Gummy werewolves? Gummy vampires? Sour gummies :love: How would you feel about a totally original Gela-skin for your laptop/iPod/phone? Stickers? Decals? Sure! I have an iphone 3GS Are your ears pierced, Witchee? Do you have any other piercings? Would you like to receive any items of jewelry for these piercings? Ears are pierced, once each. SOCK PREFERENCES? Any and all! Is there anyone here who likes toe socks? You know, those socks with a place for each toe? I was just thinking last night that I need some toe socks

BPTP Down The Rabbit Hole room spray Okiya room spray Exotic Bazaar " Unspeakably Evil Temple " Gertrude Dix's " Dia de los Muertos (regular tee, size large) More coming!

...I am a compulsive giver-away of things I love if I know someone else will love it too. My feelings toward BPAL is that as much as I love something, there will always be something else to love, so if I can make someone else happy then I will do it without hesitating. This means I've given away rares and bottles I love more than anything, but in the end it was worth it. I'm actually not sure if this is a GOOD thing, but it's a big part of who I am. ...having said that, I do *not* give away gifts. My feeling on gifts is, someone thought enough of me to gift me something, what kinda jerk would I be to give it away? Basically what I am saying is that I am weird.

My witch: this is strictly for reference - no pressure! BPTP: SGA soap Harvest Festival room spray Sugar Skull soap FRUITBAT FRUITBATH BATH OIL (all caps because I am copy + pasting - not shouting!) SPUN SUGAR SPECTRE BATH OIL FIG AND WHITE SANDALWOOD HAIR GLOSS SNAKE OIL HAIR GLOSS BPAL: LA CALAVERA CATRINA REGINA EREBI THE GLITTERING APPLE OF THE STARS THE GOLDEN APPLE OF THE SUN THE BLACK APPLE OF SATURN DEATH EMBRACES A YOUNG MAIDEN AN INCUBUS LEAVING TWO SLEEPING WOMEN MUSE OF THE NIGHT NIGHTMARE THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH THE ZOOM

Uh...this smells straight up like cherry chapstick. The same weird chemical cherry/menthol/waxy smell. Incidentally, I happen to like the smell of cherry chapstick, but I don't think I want to smell like it.

It was so sharp and pungent I couldn't pick out any notes, just rushed to wash it off. I'm going to keep trying it, just with way less. Very "perfumey" and sharp.

Gorgeous pink rose and expensive soap, but in a VERY pleasant way. Normally I'm not one for soap/rose scents, but this is soft enough that neither becomes sharp, cloying or aggressive. Beautiful clean scent, perfect for work

I totally get the apples. It smelled like L'Autunno for the first hour or so, that incensey-appley smell. Now a couple hours later it just smells faintly spicy.

Hod is Alice's sexy grown up cousin. Gorgeous, spicy, enticing...my husband couldn't stop sniffing me! It has incredible throw and longevity, too. It's got the spicy carnation edge but it's rounded out a teensy bit by the sweetness of the amber. It'll be my very first multiple bottle purchase, I'm in love!

Unreleased Prototype....no description given Well, with a name like Viola I figured it would be a floral scent, and it certainly is! But it's more of a "purple" floral, a pansy or petunia or something you would find growing in your garden rather than in a florist's refrigerator. It doesn't have that sharpness that white florals so often do; rather it's all soft edges and wispiness. Amazingly it does not go powdery or soapy on me and it retains that "purple" feeling. Maybe that's the influence of the name. It reminds me of nothing so much as my mother's flowerbeds in her front yard - flowery as opposed to floral, with just a teensy hint of green. No soil. It's really lovely and I'm glad I took a chance on it unsniffed

I dunno what in this blend is smelling like mimosa to me, but it's lovely. Soft mimosa with the teeniest hint of lily, and dries down to a very pretty floral (but still heavily mimosa-y) musk.

I fully recognize that this smells lovely, but to me it's got this cloying, sickly aspect that is a total turnoff. In a way, that's good for a scent named for the God of the Dead Final summation: sickly sweet mummy + ornate coffin wood.

Ok, right out of the bottle I smell bubblegum, which I always associate with lotus. TBH for the first hour it's bubblegum and bathroom air freshener, which is not exactly appealing. It does calm down as it dries though and ends up smelling almost exactly like Flowering Chrysanthemums. Very nice, but not really me, and I already have a bottle of FC.

Burnt plastic sugar and dirt Whatever note is in Snow White and other "sugary" scents that turns to a weird-ass dirt scent is also present here. I think I just have to accept the fact that I just cannot wear foody/sugary scents.

For me, Thalia is All Plumeria All The Time. It's be a good thing if I liked plumeria, but it's so sickeningly sweet that it makes me feel nauseous. I had the same problem with Tiki Queen...it's not bad but you gotta really like it to wear it.

This is just about the only "foody" blend I've tested that hasn't made me queasy. It's definitely cake, but a white cake. It doesn't have even the barest hint of the sickly buttery scent that I associate with foody blends (Beaver Moons, I'm lookin at you guys). Lovely lightly spiced fruit with vanilla in the background that gives the cakey impression. I'd call it gourmand rather than foody. It's VERY nice

Straight up lime juice with a teensy bit of sugar in. It's so sour to my nose it made my lips pucker! Not unappealing but not something I'd likely wear, either.

If rock candy came in carnation flavor, this would be it! It's definitely a clean, sparkly sugar note, as opposed to the caramel-y sugar in Sugar Skull. It's not terribly floral on me, I get mostly the sugar with a little carnation. And it just smells...pink. Seriously! It's definitely going to be a bottle-buy!

Blazingly sharp lilies and a teensy bit of citrus. I don't have more detailed notes than that because I had to wash it off almost immediately - headache city