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greylen

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About greylen

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  • Birthday 10/11/1980

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    Random list of interests: 420, 80's stuff, absinthe, adhd, ageplay, alex grey, alternative medicine, american studies, american visionary art museum, ancient history, aromatherapy, art, astrology, autumn, avocados, bailey's irish cream, balance, baking, ben nye makeup, bbw, bdsm, being barefoot, belly dancing, black phoenix alchemy lab, bacon cheeseburgers, blogging, bpal, bright colors, books, bubble baths, buffalo wings, cadbury creme eggs, candles, cats, chai, chakras, chacha, chanting, chick-fil-a, childfree, chinese food, cheese, children's literature, chipotle burritos, chocolate, coffee, community, cooking, cotton candy, cozy mysteries, crafts, creativity, croissants, crystals, cuddling, cupcakes, dancing, diet cheerwine, diet coke, digital music, dogs, dreams, drum circles, ebay, erotica, essential oils, faeries, faery festivals, family, fantasy, fat activism, femme, fetlife, flavored coffee creamers, fondue, foxes, food, fraggle rock, fragrances, freaks, furry fandom, gender, glitter, glittery things, goddess, greasy garlic bread, greek yogurt, guacamole, halloween, healing arts, hedonism, herbs, hippies, hugging, ice cream, incense, indian food, ipods, italian food, jem and the holograms, kink, kissing, kitchen witchery, kryolan makeup, lack of conformity, las vegas, laughter, leather, libraries, love, luxury, lush bath products, mac cosmetics, magick, making my plushies talk, making a spectacle of myself in public, makeup, maine coons, maryland, massage, meditation, misanthropy, mocking the stupid, moronic yet addicting facebook games, moon, movies, museums, music, musicals, mythology, new orleans, not fitting in, nudism, nutella, orgasms, orange tabby cats, outsider art, paganism, pagan festivals, partylite candles, paul laffoley, peanut butter, people watching, perfumery, pimping my facebook, pirates, pizza, poetry, polyamory, pride, punks, purple things, pink things, queers, quizno's, rainbows, randomness, reading, reiki, relationships, renaissance festivals, rent, rhiannon, rice krispy treats, ritual, rumi, runes, sacred fire circles, sacred sexuality, sabbats, sacred whore, sapiosexuality, sarcasm, sashimi, saunas, science fiction, sensuality, sex, sexual freedom, shamanism, sheela na gig, shiny things, shopping, size acceptance, sleeping, snark, snuggling, soapmaking, spirituality, sunshine, sushi, stickers, stripey socks, stumbleupon, sugar skulls, sweat lodges, swimming, sybarites, taco bell, tarot, tea, teddy bears, tequila, the ocean, theater, tie dye, torrid, trader joes, transgender issues, travel, trees, usb toys, visionary art, weirdos, wenches guild, wicca, wine, witches, wizards, writing, yemaya, yoga, young adult literature
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    Tori Amos, Blackmore's Night, Harry Chapin, Dropkick Murphys, Melissa Etheridge, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Indigo Girls, Kiva, Krishna Das, Loreena McKennitt, Stevie Nicks, Patti Smith, Telesma, Rent, Avenue Q, Wicked, The Pyrates Royale, The O'Danny Girls, The Rogues, Albannach, tons more!


    TV Shows:
    Alien Nation, Angel, Birds of Prey, Bones, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Early Edition, Earth2, Eureka, Farscape, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, Lost, Monk, My So-Called Life, Nowhere Man, Pushing Daisies, Quantum Leap, Queer As Folk, Road To Avonlea, Sliders (early seasons), seaQuest DSV (season 1), Space: Above and Beyond, Star Trek (TNG and DS9 especially), Supernatural, That's Life, Torchwood, The X-Files, Witchblade, Young Indiana Jones

    Movies:
    Labyrinth, Lord Of The Rings, Ever After, The Neverending Story, Harry Potter movies, Pirates Of The Caribbean movies, The Princess Bride, Gypsy 83, 13 Going on 30, Uptown Girls, The Goonies, Star Wars, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Willow, many more to be filled in later

    Books:
    Grace Chetwin (best author no one's heard of), JK Rowling's Harry Potter, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, Francesca Lia Block (Weetzie Bat series especially), Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books, anything Neil Gaiman, anything Lucy Maud Montgomery, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, tons more! In general I like scifi/fantasy, cozy mysteries, chick lit, children's and YA lit. Nonfiction preferences include foodie stuff, biographies, cultural studies, how-to books, and whatever else looks interesting!
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BPAL

  • Favorite Scents
    GC Favorites: The Antikythera Mechanism Bastet Chimera Dorian Fae The Fairy Market Dana O'Shee The Lion Mr. Ibis Morocco Mouse's Long And Sad Tale Perversion Scherezade Shub-Niggurath The Smiling Spider Snake Oil TKO Yemaya Carnaval Favorites: Asp Viper Faith The Illustrated Woman Inez Mme. Moriarty Priala Temple Viper LE/Discontinued/Retail Exclusive: Antique Lace Banshee Beat Black Lace Cake Smash Egg Nog Fearful Pleasure Glowing Vulva Haloes Harvest Moon 2005 Humbug Khrysee Le Pere Fouettard Love's Philosophy The Lurid Library Marianne Midnight Mass Monster Bait: Tokyo Stomp Monster Bait: Underpants The Perilous Parlor Pink Phoenix Pirate Moon Pumpkin King Schwarzer Mond Snake Charmer Sunbird Sleepy Moon Smut Snake Charmer Snow Angel Story Time At Dark Delicacies U Mutter Museum Vanilla Bean Single Note Favorite non-BPAL perfumes: Aquolina Pink Sugar Philosophy Amazing Grace Pilar and Lucy Exact Friction of Stars DSH Sudanese Frankincense Kuumba Made Amber Paste L'Artisan Parfumeur La Chasse aux Papillons Auric Blends Amber Lush Karma Lush Icon Favorite notes: vanilla, vanilla vanilla--- regular, black, madagascar, tahitian, smoky, what have you. I am a vanilla whore. MARSHMALLOW. Any books/library/parchment notes, especially when paired with incense (oddly the Buggre Alle This Bible and I don't like each other tho). Cake, frosting, spun sugar, warm golden amber, leather, mulling spices, candy/sugar without that butterscotch feel to it, clove, almond, ginger, pumpkin (the rare pumpkin that doesn't do that buttery thing), pomegranate, sugared pear, lemon, patchouli, resins/incense, clean light florals, some lavender, linden, moonflower, some tea notes, some chocolate, lighter musks (i.e. Egyptian musk), dry cinnamon bark (like Priala and Sunbird) Least favorite notes: Jasmine-- it smells like poop on me, literally. butter/milk like in Milk Moon and the like--- very sour on me, too much ozone/aquatic a la Storm Moon-- I end up smelling like a 'brah' with too much Axe on, strong "burned" cinnamon (think cheap cinnamon candle), cloyingly bowl-me-over sweet brown sugar or butterscotch syrupy smell, (a la Sugar Skull), too much civet, too much vetiver, dark heavy musks, strong florals like gardenia, too much dragon's blood, too much jasmine, too much rose, metallic or "blood" notes. Cypress tends to ruin all the Roman-themed blends for me. Honey does that weird-ass musty thing on me. Least favorite non-BPAL perfumes: I despise Thierry Mugler's Angel. I cannot understand how something with such great notes can smell so FOUL. Most anything that smells chemically, which is kinda everything in the mass department store market-- there are a few odd boutique fragrances other than BPAL that I enjoy.

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  1. greylen

    Fairy Lobster Foam

    I'm leaning into cherry recently. I've always loved to eat cherries of all kinds but fruits are hit or miss notes for me in perfume. I know Dragons Milk lists no cherry but I love the cherryesque honeyed sweetness of it and also loving the Cherry Incense Luper scent (hey, I should review that!) and Fairy Lobster Foam starts with a big blast of that screamy delicious maraschino cherry. I also get the condensed milk in the can smell at first when I open FLF but it calms down into powdery soft vanillic marshmallow that I smell in TKO and the rare AF Marshmallow Poof. The milkish smell is popping up here and there and it's not a note that I love so much. I'm sure it will settle, but this is a like, especially around my one lover who favors cherry scents, but not a hoardable love. Cherry Red and Cherry Incense are absent of the milky-syrupy note so I favor those.
  2. greylen

    Lavender Buttercream

    I'm not a prototype chaser generally. They feel "incomplete" largely to me as they are by their very nature, but sometimes it's fun to experience the BPAL creative process this way by getting to smell a "rough draft". I wasn't able to get this when it came up but it came up on FB for sale so I nabbed it. I am a slut for lavender especially with vanilla so I was all about this. I would eat this. I want to make lavender buttercream frosting now. It's not as foody as TKO. I find TKO to be poofy lav vanilla with a bunch of marshmallow, which this blend lacks. Lavender Buttercream starts herbal, goes through a little powdery phase before the vanilla buttercream shows up to smooth it all out. I can see how this was going to be a Lilith, especially when they were younger, the scents were very simple and childlike, but their love of lavender has continued. Is this something super unique and special that you should sell your soul for and chase down? Not in my opinion. Is it nice? Yes! It will stay happily in my sleepy lavender subcollection of bottles near my bed, I sleep with a CPAP so I can't really smell while drifting off, but I try to make it a habit to dab some on and/or scent my pillows and stuffies to calm my brain for sleep. Doesn't always work, but smells great!
  3. greylen

    Dragon's Milk

    Confession--- I did NOT love this way back when when I ordered my first imps. It smelled sickly sweet to me, like a very specific air freshener used in the bathrooms of a specific restaurant. Yuck. And then I let it age. And it smoothed out from cherry-bathroom-air-freshener to this vanillic resiny goodness, so sweet and creamy and wafty. Honey and I can be a bit difficult of a relationship sometimes, it goes musty on the drydown in some blends but not in this one. I'm not entirely sure what dragon's blood comes from but it's divine. Big fan of the hair gloss too. Current bottle is a cobalt from 2005 and it's exquisite. I hoard this stuff and hope the dragon's blood components are available again soon.
  4. greylen

    Pumpkin Spice Snake Oil

    Six year old Snake Oil in all its glory, but with SPICE---- cinnamon, cardamom, musk, and that super aggro red ginger found in Saw Scaled Viper and Lovers With Rutting Cats---- I mean, it just pushes its way to the front and is like IT'S GINGER, BITCH! but this diva calms herself and settles in to the rest of the notes and mellows beautifully. This is definitely different than Snakes In The Pumpkin Patch, too!
  5. greylen

    Snake Oil in the Pumpkin Patch

    This is 10 year old Snake Oil in all its glory but with the creamy/buttery pumpkin note added. That note and I are tenuous friends but here it mixes with the vanilla in the Snake Oil and is delicious.
  6. greylen

    Pumpkin King

    With Tom's review challenge, I plan to skip around and review whatever the spirit moves me to---- I thought I would start with this absolute treasure. It helps me to read reviews of rare things to satisfy my curiosity and this will be the first review here since 2016! I have just under a half bottle and I wear it once a year, on Halloween. I wore it for my wedding. I built it imp by imp on eBay I think. It's been awhile since I've seen it pop up for sale bc not many bottles were made and no one who has it wants to sell it. And rumor has it Beth has lost the recipe for this. Pumpkin King is the MF holy grail. I've physically handled one other bottle and some of you know where/whose it was. I dearly hope it found a loving home and is treasured. My bottle does not leave my house. I did put a couple drops in a decant for Meet and Sniff purposes, back when we had those. Pumpkin King is the only pumpkin that ever really, REALLY worked for me. Not a hint of butteriness or squashiness. Just impeccably blended fall spices and a sweet patchouli. The cinnamon is dry and so beautiful-- cinnamon is usually cheap craft store candle on me and/or burns my skin. And I guess owing to its age, nearly 20 years at this point, it lingers and has the most amazing sillage. The closest I've smelled to PK is Pumpkin Spice Silky Bat HG and Pumpkin Spice Antikythera Mechanism perfume, so if you want the next best thing, try to find those!
  7. greylen

    I want Popcorn!

    It's very old so it may be hard to find, but Shill is a spot-on buttery pocorn smell!!!
  8. greylen

    I want Popcorn!

    It's very old so it may be hard to find, but Shill is a spot-on buttery pocorn smell!!!
  9. Oooh... recipe plz?? :: end hijack :::
  10. here's a challenge......... are there any BPALS that smell like the dearly departed FLORABUNDANCE ballistic? and what do folks wear with CREAMY CANDY/ROCK STAR?
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