Beckiemort

I find that pink lace is more of an innocent sexy - the strawberries create a sense of purity but it is still a cousin of black lace which is v. sexy.

Or lolita only for the name - a little innocent but still debauchery-like.

i have this dress which i love but when it comes to wearing a scent that matches it and how i feel in it i seem to fall flat if you get what i mean? i thought bright red fruity scents but they aren't sexy enough and then i thought red musk but i think most scents i have with red musk in are too heavy for the dress since its cotton..... i feel i over think.

 

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I also thought Bordello - maybe with something a little darker underneath like White Rider, just to give it a little edge but not become too heavy.

Me, I'm a publishing student studying editing and book marketing. I eventually want to work for a small press, hopefully doing something with YA literature. So it comes to no surprise that reading and writing are two of my passions. I majored in English during my undergraduate years, and I still get geek joy out of anything literary. I have a special fondness for Virginia Woolf. When I'm not being a lit. geek, I study three different styles of belly dance (I used to do modern dance but switched after undergrad). If it were humanly possible, I'd buy all my food at local farmer's markets. I love the arts and am very creative. I prefer to walk to get where I'm going. I also strongly identify as a feminist and have a passion for social justice.

 

Oddly enough, I'm pretty shy despite having outgoing interests, and I have this cutesy youthfulness to me, but sometimes I wish I were a little more badass (see Emma Peel).

Bugger aille this bible (its one of the gaimans) because it's a book scent

Perhaps even a softer scent girly-ish like Vasilissa layered with something 'badass' like white rider

My first thought was Tweedledee, just because I identify as cute and silly and Tweedle's one of my signature scents. Also, Xanthe the Weeping Clown might be awesome for you, as would Jailbait (that whole sweet-candy aspect). Dee for the English major, always. Maybe Phoenix Steamworks for the architecture side?

 

I'm an English major too, and I really love cooking, reading, climbing trees and riding horses. I'm also a writer and I love creamy black tea (really adore fruit-infused black teas). Boarding school fiction is one of my favorite kinds and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is my favorite Shakespeare play. I also love music. Amanda Palmer, Vienna Teng, Ben Folds and Flogging Molly are a few of my favorites. Theater also makes me happy. My friends describe me as quirky, quiet until you get to know me, and intelligent. Go go, reccs thread!

I instantly thought of Dorian - englishy, tea, lemon (fruity) and lavender always reminds me of midsummer night's and its quirky enough (at least in my opinion) for your personality and music tastes. All this Dorian talk makes me realize how I have been neglecting it and must wear it today.

Double major in my case - Dance and Communications (basically like Sociology but focusing on media). I'm artistic and creative yet methodical. I have long red hair and at times a temper to match - especially when it comes to topics of justice. My ultimate goal after being a professional dancer for a few years is to become a human rights lawyer and deal with the ridiculousness that occurs in society. I love food - to eat but not necessarily to smell foodie. People describe me as energetic, enthusiastic, intelligent, old beyond my years (or as my mother says an old soul - you were born old) passionate and responsible. I suppose I seem like a bit of a paradox but that's what I am. Any reccs?

Beckie, I looked through some of your recent reviews. I'd really suggest Snake Oil or Black Lace, as you seem to love both of them, and they're both wonderful smelling and great for when you want to feel a bit sexy.

 

And as a fellow long-red-haired person, do you have any hairsticks that you could pull your hair up with into a bun of some sort? I think that dress would work wonderfully with an updo, plus it keeps your hair off your neck when the dancing makes you sweat. (Plus, people tended to catch my hair a lot when we were dancing if it was down, which was never fun.)

Thanks - I was thinking about Snake Oil and am glad that someone else thought it would go too. An updo is also a great idea on the hair front - so it doesn't get everywhere.

On Saturday a bunch of friends and I are going out to celebrate a couple birthdays (not mine) at one of the new clubs in our city and I need to decide on perfume (and hair for that matter - I have no idea what to do with my long, red, front banged hair). I am wearing this dress in black. With a pair of dark purple/plum suede ankle boots and a gold clutch.

Any suggestions - I'm lost.

ETA: Punctuation. Because it helps.

Is anyone from Canada waiting an abnormally long time for their package?

 

I ordered on the 6th of March and recieved my CnS on the 19th and my package still isn't here on the south-west coast of BC none of my packages have ever taken this long before and it's now outside the 6-10 business days USPS states that my package should arrive. When should I start getting alarmed - I guess I am just particularly antsy about this package because it has goodies for other people in it as well

 

Did it ever get to you? Customs processing can be really slow. I've had the odd package take two weeks from CnS to door, when it usually takes 5 business days.

yes it did - apparently customs got a hold of it

Is anyone from Canada waiting an abnormally long time for their package?

I ordered on the 6th of March and recieved my CnS on the 19th and my package still isn't here on the south-west coast of BC none of my packages have ever taken this long before and it's now outside the 6-10 business days USPS states that my package should arrive. When should I start getting alarmed - I guess I am just particularly antsy about this package because it has goodies for other people in it as well

I am a big fan of mysterious sweet-ish with an edge scents.

Snake Oil

Dorian + White rider

Black Lace (sometimes with Black Death on top

Sin

Vixen

It's been quite warm here (Vancouver, Canada) lately and I can't get enough of Mlle. Lilith - that scent just screams warm weather to me. It's a little tropical but utterly light and beautiful. Plus the note that bothered my nose when I first got it has softened and the scnet is amazing now. Cheshire Cat is another scent that is getting a bit of wear with the warmer weather, all citrus-y and fruity with a chamomile calmness...yum

Of the 2009/2010 batch

Wet: Smells a little like caramel on top of a slightly floral laundry degtergent on sun dried sheets (This may sound a little disgusting, but is actually quite a unique and beautiful scent).

On the skin: Eventually I start to pick up a little spice underneath the soft sweet quality and I alternate smell the sugar-y quality, the linens and that lovely spice. The tobacco is starting to make itself known in combination with the other scents as well. Having never tried a linen scent before I am surprised (well I really shouldn't be though with Beth's uncanny and amazing ability to create seemingly impossible to create scents) at the exactness of the linen. Finally I am getting more of a soft vanilla, that still has a caramel quality but is now identifiably vanilla.Starts as this nice sweet linen-y vanilla with a little incense-y spice for the rest of the wear. The scent starts off innocent but the tobacco adds something to tarnish the innocent reputation, it is a great scent, and its not to heavy for day time wear but still sexy enough for going out on the town.

In the Bottle: Smells like vicks vapor rub...its weird but a really nice version of the scent

On Skin: Starts off smelling nice and earthy quickly losing most of the vicks type scent, which I guess is my nose identifying the bay. Its definitely a 'dirty' scent. I can smell the patchoulli in the background and pick up a very spicy wood quality from what I assume to be the blackened sandalwood and the clove. This is very spicy and beautiful. However I am getting an almost vetiver quality (not a bad thing just unexpected) out of it at points and the amber warms and sweetens up the blend beautifully. I am amping the clove as the blend is very spicy but in combination with the other notes the blend isn't foody just absolutely lovely.

I love this blend, and layered with Black Lace it is AMAZING, there's a little vanilla and booze with spice and a little bit of a 'dirty' feel. They are great both separately and together.

Very similar to Sin in all aspects (at least to me), just switching out the cinnamon in Sin for ginger here. I get a nice warm amber with spices all grounded by a nice earthy patchoulli from both blends. For me the patchoulli is definatlely a grounding note, with amber in the forefront mixing with the spices. There is also the addition of a little brightness on the top of orange blossom that Sin doesn't have (and on me it doesn't last long). To me Vixen seems like the feminine counter part to Sin, and even though I am fairly feminine I think I like the cinnamon in Sin more than the ginger (if I had to put them in a death match that is), although I really love both scents. And layered with the Lion tte amber is super amped and drop dead sexy on me adding just a little sway in my hips when I walk and giving me a boost of confidence.

Starts and ends up a lovely warm amber with a little bit of dry grasses and spices. Sweet and Spicy - I think it is one of my favourite scent categories. It matches the scent description perfectly. It reminds me a little of a more tame, less sweet chimera. Great for layering with things that I want a little extra amber in.

I absolutely <img src="http://www.bpal.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wub2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wub2.gif" /> this scent. One of my friends described it as positively made for me - a little fruity a little sweet and certainly spicy.

In the bottle: fruity - a little like dragon's blood actually (and dragon's heart was a complete disaster on me which was a little worrying), there is definately a sweetness as well and a little kick of spice.

On: This is a complete morpher on me. At first it smells exactly like it does in the bottle on, which is nice, but nothing super special. Then it starts to go powder-y and floral (which makes me think there is dragon's blood in it as it reminds me of dragon's heart, but not enough to make me take it off) with a little sweet vanilla, but mostly powder. About 15 mins or so later the powder recedes and there begins to be a balance of vanilla, incense and spices (personally get a foody type of spice like cinnamon). Eventually as I continue to wear it it ends up as a spiced, vanilla with a little incense in the background (this last phase is my favourite and it is undeniably sexy).

Wear time: FOREVER...it feels like the scent was made for me as it just attaches itself and won't let go. I have put just a little dab from the bottle top on one wrist and then spread that between my wrists and neck/cleavage and elbows at about 7:30 in the morning and it lasts through 4 hours of dance classes and I can still smell it at the end of the night at about 11 pm. I am sure it would stay on if I didn't shower at that point.

This is in my top three scents (with Dorian and Sin)and I find myself craving it all the time. Plus if I love the scent this much and it is practically brand new I can't even imagine how amazing it will be aged.

ETA: I still have this bottle from early 2010 and it has become even more amazing - if that's possible. The scent has become smooth and velvety and has lost the powdery effect I used to get at the beginning. It is still in my top 3 and is the scent I go to when looking for a bit of a confidence boost.

I know sometimes I get a smokey lavender vibe from Dorian (which I believe is coming in your first order), but it seems to happen some days.

Wet: Sugar with a hit of sharpness underneath it, perhaps this is the heliotrope. It's not a very pleasant scent to my nose.

Dry Down: Something about this blend just smells 'off' on me. I can't figure out where it goes wrong on my skin but some thing does, which is unfortunate because I like most of the notes, although I haven't tried heliotrope before.

Wet: Smells like those little hard fruit shaped candies. In particular the banana ones.

Dry Down: Its still smelling mostly the same, but I thnk I am beginning to smell the neroli just a little in the background, but the fruits seem much too sweet on my skin. It is just too sweet for both my tastes and my skin, it is still a lovely scent, it's just not 'me'

Wet: Bright sugar-y fruit scented candle.

Dry Down: It starts to have a more vanilla-ish vibe but still really light and innocent. It is morphing into a vanilla scented candle, which is odd with no vanilla notes, unless that is the amarretto I am detecting. I am finally detecting why it is called Bordello now it really does seem like something you might find one of the 'girls' wearing. However, it reminds me of a vanilla incense stick my parents used to burn, at least on my skin which is a lovely scent but not something I want to smell like all the time.

Wet: It smells very masculine to me, the cedar is definitely pronounced.

Dry Down: I feel as though I smell like a man for sure. The cedar is still there with a little citrus and other background notes but definately man. However I can just imagine how it would smell on a guy…now I only need to find one to slather this with.

Wet: HOLY Vetiver. That’s all I get from this blend.

Dry Down: Same thing, and I don't particularly like Vetiver. Not the scent for me.

Wet: Berries and lilies…and that’s all. I HATE lilies, they are beautiful flowers but the scent always makes me sneeze. That being said I don't have the urge to sneeze with this blend.

Dry Down: I can identify the berry as a cranberry because of the specific sharpness and crisp scent and the lily begins to receed and turn slightly powdery on me. The amount of lily left after 5 mins is definately tolerable to my floral hating nose, it acutally gives the blend a little intrigue. The cranberry is sweetening up and I am beginning to really fall in love with this blend. I think I can sense the ginger tang but it smells almost like candied ginger on me with a little sweetness and the musk seems to ground all the notes to keep them from being too sweet or just floating away.

This has completely shattered my expectations as I thought I might like the blend or hate it. I didn't expect to it, and I think I might.

Wet: It's a really fresh herbal berry scent. Almost as though one is up on the mountain in the summer picking berries to bring home for dessert. The thyme and sage are definitely right at the top, its quite sharp but lovely.

Dry Down: I start to get a tingly feeling, almost as though I need to sneeze when I sniff the scent after about five minutes and it begins to smell slightly floral which would explain the need to sneeze but then the berries become a little more pronounced but not super sweet, more like just before they ripen and the tickley feeling disappears. I really like the freshness of this blend, it seems like more of a spring/summer scent because of the freshness but it is very nice. Later on in the dry down the berry becomes more pronounced but still remains a little sharp. It's nice.

First I will preface this with the fact that I absolutely despise carnation but the other notes and review intrigued me enough to buy an imp. Thankfully I detect no carnations at any point in wearing this scent. I detect no morphing on me really at all, I really like the warmth that happens when it is on my skin but mostly it just smells like spicy vanilla. It's smells tasty.

It seems to fade fairly quickly on my skin as well.

I didn't like this scent at all at first but I wanted to test it anyways becaue of the great reviews. Well that and the fact that I like to see how things react with my chemistry.

Wet: The first time I tried this I thought ewww….patchoulli and the second I thought the same thing. But I don't dislike patchoulli as much as I used to and decided to see how the scent ended up on my skin.

Dry Down: I could still detect the patchoulli for a while, but now it is definately a very subtle background note and the cinnamon is wonderful and hovering at the top with what I thought was vanilla but must be the amber but the patchoulli and sandalwood prevent the blend from becoming too sweet or wood. This is definately a sexy scent. Its very intoxicating and I am quickly growing to love it.

ETA: I :love!: this scent. I also have decided that Beth is completely amazing for making me not only like but seemingly love patchoulli. On me I have decided that I amp amber (which is nice) so the scent has a very warm, sweetness about it esp. with the cinnamon but the patchoulli grounds the whole thing and makes it undeniably sexy. At the moment it tops my favourites list.