Moryssa

Hope this is the right spot to ask this:

Do orders over $500 require a signature upon delivery?

I've never had to sign for the package.

--M

For the life of me, I cannot find the review topic for Hod! I'm pretty sure it's there somewhere... but I've searched and searched and I can't find it. It's not in the list of Sephiroths, it's not in the Limited section...

It's in the Limited Editions.

Hod

--M

Apologies in advance if I'm just McStupid - but how would I have found Vampire Tarot on the Lab's website if a forum post hadn't pointed me to the right place? Am I overlooking a link to them?

The Vampire Tarot blends are based on short stories by Neil Gaiman, so they're under his section. If you look at the menu on the main page, there's a section of all of the co-branded lines, with a link for Neil. Once you click on that, it brings up another page with a menu of the different Gaiman lines, and "15 Painted Cards From a Vampire Tarot" is the first thing on that list.

--M

How is it that I've never reviewed this one, since it's one of my absolute favorite scents?

I don't even remember where I first got a tester of this one, but I've since managed to get my hands on a bottle, and it's one of the very few bottles that would have to be pried out of my hands.

It's like Bayou and New Orleans got together and had a lovely smelling baby. It's got the mossiness of Bayou, with the jasmine (yum!) of New Orleans. I get no rose at all from it (nor from New Orleans) but that's most likely because my skin amps jasmine to high hell and back.

--M

You know those orange slice candies that are kinda the consistency of the chewy part of jelly beans, and are covered in grains of sugar? These things.

Yep, that's what this smells like to me. It's definitely fizzy and citrus (it's orange to me, not lemon).

Unfortunately, it dries down super fast, and becomes orange-scented hand-soap on my skin. Not that "soap"="bad" in my world, just that it's unfortunate because I wanted to keep that fizzy orange scent.

--M

Ok I see some UFO reviews are coming in ... anyone want to share some pictures of the labels??

The only one I bought was Traipsing Through The Crop Circles, so it's the only one I have to share...

(Sorry... cellphone pic, so it's blurry and icky...)

--M

Thanks for sharing, fairnymph! I like the U one, that's very stylish.

 

As for putting the code in your actual posting, you need to go to the webpage where your photo is - copy the URL and then come back here, click the little button that looks like it has a picture in it (is everyone's layout the same? for me it's the 7th button from the left above the text space, to the right of the emoticon button - see below) - that will open up a little box where you can paste in the URL (image location) - click OK and you're done!

 

 

If you want to go back and edit your post to do that, you'll need to choose 'Full edit' from the drop-down options so that you get the toolbar with the buttons you need

 

Yeah, I tried that and it doesn't work, it gives me an error saying that the url needs to end with .gif and my image URLs don't. And they're jpegs.

 

But thanks for trying!

 

ETA: I think maybe it's cause my pics don't end in .jpg either, but....I use LJ to host my pics and I would like to continue doing so, and LJ's pic urls simply don't end in .jpg. Also I believe I have tried to post images in that format before (when they did end in .jpg) and it still didn't work. I've modded forums and post on many, many forums in a variety of codes and this is the only forum that won't let me post pics!

 

Actually, you can fake it with the LJ pictures.

The link that you have for your picture is:

http://pics.livejournal.com/fairnymph/pic/001h5t6k/s640x480

All you have to do is add '.jpg' to the end of that address, and it should work...

So you just have to remember to manually add ".jpg" to the end of the address when you copy and paste it.

--M

PS: I agree with TwilightEyes... and there are enough of us that work with PhotoShop that I'm sure we could find SOMEONE who'd be willing to make the pictures look vintage for you.

Venneh:

prefab does not equal synthetic. (at least I don't think it does.)

I don't know... the whole "what's the definition of natural and what's the definition of synthetic" question confuses me anyway, but I do think that jayne's question is a different one than the one you're answering.

--M

Can one of the mods pull out Beth's response here and sticky it to the top of the whole freaking message board?

, Beth.

I've never met you, and probably won't ever have the chance unless you decide to visit Chicago (and you're welcome to do so... I'll make dinner! ) but I still (heart) you to pieces.

--M

This is going to sound weird, but this smells like Cracker Barrel to me.

I can't figure out what it is that's triggering that association, since I don't get it with other honey or amber blends. I can't pick out any specific notes in this one-- it's just a really nice sweetness (but a tangy sweetness, not a cloying one). I don't get rose (which I usually amp), and I don't get patchouli (which I normally turn up my nose at), and I don't even *really* get honey, although that's probably where the sweetness is mainly coming from.

--M

I'm really glad I don't read the reviews here before I do my testing, for the most part. I'm also glad I didn't check the notes in this one before I sniffed it and thought it interesting enough for a full skin test. Because ozone is one of the notes that make me nauseous and occasionally triggers a migraine... and with all the "This is very ozone-y" reviews, I would have put this aside and never even looked at it again.

I don't smell ozone. At all. It's lemony, and I get a sort of effervescent fizziness that someone earlier mentioned, but no ozone. Thank GOD! I really like this a lot, but it's hard to pin down exactly what I'm smelling. I'm definitely keeping the imp... and now I have to decide quick if I like it enough to add a bottle to my collection.

--M

I need an updated complete list, oooor stuff added over the summer and til now. If anyone has such a list, I would totally appreciate it if I could, like, borrow it

Kristana:

Try Hackess' spreadsheet. All of the new items are added at the bottom of the sheet, so all you have to do is find in Hackess's spreadsheet the last thing you remember/have in your current spreadsheet, and then copy everything below that and paste it into your permanent one.

--M

Sorry, this is not really about pronunciation (although feel free to throw that in) – what does Schlafende Baigneuse mean?

According to one website's translation that I saw, it means "The Sleeping Bather". Most of the pages that I translated came up with "Sleeping", but weren't quite sure what "Baigneuse" was... this was the first that gave me more than "The Sleeping Baigneuse".

--M

I pretty much agree with Apple above, but I will say that almost EVERYONE that I've handed an imp of 51 to has talked about how much they love it. It's one of the very few scents that both I and my best friend (who is a complete scent opposite from me) both have bottles of... so it's one that I definitely pull out to share with people when I'm trying to enable them.

I usually use some of the more unique ones, too-- like Love's Philosophy (cake batter!) and Graveyard Dirt (dirt!)-- just to show them how amazing Beth is... but obviously this is for enabling when I'm sitting with someone handing them a bottle to sniff, not when I'm telling them what to order.

--M

Because you asked, Hackess:

I'd appreciate it if the categories on the spreadsheet match the ones here on the message board, simply because it makes it easier for me to find the review threads once I've identified a scent that interests me.

But you're awesome and I'm happy with the spreadsheet just the way it is, too.

--M

Got this in a package yesterday, and I immediately had to try it...

Someone else said up-thread that this smells like Strawberry Jelly -- not just strawberry, but specifically strawberry jelly. I have to agree. I was trying to describe it to a friend over the phone last night, and after fumbling around for a minute (ie: It's got a strawberry/cherry/raspberry vibe, but not like the strawberry of Strawberry Moon, which went all plastic-y on me... and there's something vaguely vanilla-y, but not overwhelmingly so...) I finally said "The strawberry is more like a strawberry filling... like... I dunno... a Pop-Tart."

Then I stopped and sniffed my arm again.

That's it... a strawberry/cherry Pop-Tart. (which goes along with the strawberry-filled donut that everyone else is mentioning.)

After I while, it did start to remind me of the Strawberry Shortcake dolls... not that it really smelled plastic-y on me, just that for some reason, it smelled like Strawberry Shortcake. *shrug* I don't get it either.

edit: Aha! Myotis got the non-plastic-y Strawberry Shortcake scent, too! )

--M

Ok... I'm about to place a humongous order.

No, seriously... I'm ordering 29 bottles, which puts me over the $500 mark, and I'm a little freaked out by this. (It's partially for decant circles, so it's understandable, but STILL! 29 BOTTLES! At one time!)

Anyway... I know that there's no possible way to include all the info in the comments field in PayPal, so what's the best way to get the info to the lab? What do I need to put in the comments field in PayPal, and how should I list the bottles in an email? Since I'm ordering multiple bottles of some scents, is it easier to understand if:

I list each one multiple times,

or if I put "name of the scent x2",

or if I say "I want 2 bottles of each of these: blah, blah, blah... and 1 bottle of each of these: blah, blah, blah"?

Do I send the email to the same address that the PayPal money goes to?

(again: )

--M

What about Xanthe? Is it ZAN-thee like I've been saying or is the X more of an S or what?

I ignore the "e" when I say it -- so it's one syllable and comes out more like "Zanth".

--M

This is probably an easy one but I wasn't quite sure on the pronunciation; Dana O'Shee.

 

Is the last part like "Shay" or is it like "She" as in "She went shopping"?

 

Thanks!

I don't know for sure... I just know how *I* pronounce it. Which is like "Shay".

And both of the a's in "Dana" are short a's... so it rhymes with "susanna".

Now I'm curious whether it's correct, though. Heh.

--M

I'm not sure exactly which thread this should go in, but this seems the most likely to me...

Day Of the Skulls 2008 = Penthus

Except I don't think DotS lasts as long on my skin. But they're errily similar in the way the smell, to me.

--M

This smells just like Penthus to me... and I was surprised when one of my friends walked into the room after I'd put on Penthus and asked why I was wearing a rose scent, since rose is a death-scent for me... so it doesn't surprise me that there's rose in here, even though I couldn't have named it as rose if I hadn't read the notes.

I think it's because it's more of an incensy, resinous rose instead of a truly floral rose.

It does remind me VERY much of Penthus, though. So if you like Penthus, I recommend this one.

--M

In the imp: Is there almond in this? No... huh... must be cherry. I swear it smells almondy, though. Maybe it's the red musk for me, since I occasionally get almond from other red-musk-containing things.

First scent, as it touches my skin, is that of Cherry Tootsie Roll Pops. It's got the cherry, but there's something else underneath that gives it an almost chocolate-y scent that reminds me of Tootsie Roll Pops instead of just straight cherry lollypops.

A few minutes in, however, the anise comes out to play, and unfortunately, that's all I can smell.

And, unfortunately, since I absolutely HATE the smell of anise/black licorice, this is going to have to go.

--M

Is there any way to do insured mail or registered mail or whatever it would be called when you're shipping overseas?

I ordered something from someone in the UK via ebay, and after 2 months, it still hasn't been received. I opened a complaint with ebay (which I didn't really WANT to do, because I truly believe that the person-- who's on the board here-- DID send it out... but I didn't want to miss the opportunity to get my money back because the deadline went past), and the person responded with something along the lines of "I'm not responsible for shipping problems. That's why I always state in my listings that you should use Royal Registered Mail" (or whatever the official name of the UK registered mail is). While I understand her point, I'm just curious if that's even an *option* when you're shipping internationally?

--M

I preface this with the following: I like florals. I like rose sometimes, but it can get REALLY overpowering REALLY quickly. I also don't mind the "soap" smell, because it just smells clean to me.

Initially: Rose. Like, OMGRose!!! Like, "Someone please cut off my arms at the elbow so that I don't have to smell this any more" Rose.

10 Minutes later: Huh. It's not quite so cloying any more. It smells more like the decorative rose-scented soaps that my aunt used to give all the girl-children for Christmas. It's calmer, with a soapiness that I assume comes from the lily.

10 minutes after that: Ok, there's still rose there, but the skin musk is coming up to play... I don't smell any of the other notes enough to pick them out, but the whole thing is now a musky, soapy, mild rose and quite lovely. As someone else said-- like you just had some fun in the rose garden, and then did a quick clean-up to make yourself presentable to mom.

Overall, I love this one after it's dried down... I'm just not sure I can stand the complete overpowering nature of the rose in the first 15 minutes or so. 'Cause it's *bad*. I'm definitely keeping the imp, though.

--M

*opens imp*

Hmm... this reminds me of Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo, which gave me a headache... it's not as strong, though, so maybe it won't be as bad?

*dabs on back of hand*

Oh yeah, definitely ACJM... sharp and icky.

*waits 20 minutes or so*

What is that smell? Huh... apparently, it's me. It's still got a sharpness to it, that I'm 95% sure is Ylang-ylang... but there's something else there smells like "dirt". And that's a GOOD thing for me. I know it's weird, but "dirt"=clean-smelling to me.

Maybe it's just because I got a good night's sleep last night, but I'm not as frustrated as I expected to be considering 2 of my 3 co-workers are out sick today, so I'm having to do their work as well as my own, my boss scheduled a meeting with me to discuss my attendance (which I know is more because of the fact that I was 2-3 minutes late every day last week than because of any actual "attendance" issues. *sigh*), my car is on its last legs (so to speak) and the brakes are making horrid noises, and my boyfriend's going to be gone for the next week.

So overall... I get the hint of dirt, which is nice, but there's the sharpness of the ylang-ylang, which I just don't think I can get past. I don't get any jasmine in this whatsoever, and my skin amps the tiniest bit of jasmine into a single note.