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Ursa

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  1. Ursa

    Scent Recs based on your PERSONALITY!

    Thanks Balame! I'm making a wishlist.
  2. Ursa

    Scent Recs based on your PERSONALITY!

    Cimorene, I am going to go out on a limb here since I only received my imps yesterday and haven't had time to test most of them yet...but maybe Jabberwocky for you? It's a unisex, and very light so one problem some people seem to have had with it unfortunately is that it fades away too quickly. Personally, I don't like to feel drenched in scent, I want something that works subtly with me, and I am loving Jabberwocky and it works A-MA-ZING with my skin. My preschooler son was interested in all the little vials so I let him try one on last night and I applied a little Jabberwocky to him. On him, it smelled really brightly foresty, you could clearly pick out the Eucalyptus and Pine, but it didn't smell aseptic or medicinal at all. I was really surprised at how well it worked on a four year old boy, ha ha. But then this morning I tried it on myself, and it is fantastic on me, too, a woman in my late 30s. It smells very different than it did on him--on me it is warmer, more citrusy, there is less eucalyptus and I can really only smell the orange and evergreen. It really sank into my skin and it's my favorite of the three I've tried so far, even though I was expecting to strongly prefer White Rabbit for the tea scent. Anyway, it's a highly unusual scent, modern, confident and I think feminine but without being cloying or "pink" at ALL. If you like forest or citrus at all I'd say give it a try. White Rabbit, which I was expecting to be my favorite as I love complex notes and tea scents, is a little too complex, or maybe it just doesn't love my skin. On me it's less tea and milk, more ginger and pepper. About four hours later it faded to a tea with honey and parchment and I LOVED it, but it took four whole hours to get there. Anyway, those are the only recommendations I can make since my experience is so limited so hopefully that was of some small use to you. I'd love to impose further for recommendations for myself, now that my other thing is covered. I'm in my latter 30s, but people still think I'm in my late 20s as long as my hair's been recently colored, ha ha. I'm very tall, and full-figured, plush, but I do work out so I'm not really as soft as I look. Long dark hair, fair skin, freckles, blue eyes. My heritage is Celtic and Native American and I got the Celtic coloring but the Native bone structure. I grew up in a marine, urban environment, shrouded in cool fog, surrounded by a lot of alternative culture. I have always been a bookworm but I had a wild, somewhat dark youth, traveled a lot, experimented and screwed up a lot, fortunately usually managed to learn from my mistakes. Throughout my late teens and 20s I never had a job, an address or a boyfriend for longer than 2 years, I was restless and moved a lot, lived in several different countries and tried on a lot of different career options because I always figured I'd fall back on my writing. I studied writing, music, languages and the biological sciences. I've worked with computers, in creative fields, and with children, animals, the elderly. I speak three languages besides English, but I'm honestly pretty rusty with them now. I've had a plethora of interesting pets, cats, iguanas, snakes, dogs, fish. I was specially licensed to care for endangered tortoise species, I can't have them at the moment but I probably will again. I had a lot of piercings and purple hair and dressed in velvet and leather a lot at one stage. Then I went corporate chic for a while, had to for work. Now I'd say my style is more casual bohemian, if I had to pinpoint. I'm quite a bit more settled now. Happily married, a mom. I spend a lot of my time momming around, so the heavier, more lush, more seductive perfumes I used to enjoy don't see as much use now that I spend so much of my time at playgrounds, the beach, the library and farmer's market. I still have a streak of that wild dark girl in me, though, too. I'm still a little bit of a cynic and a smart ass, but I'm kinder, way more mellow. I live on an island now, I spend most of my time windswept and in jeans. I work in my garden a lot, getting dirty growing food and flowers, I take the kids for nature walks in the evergreens and the redwoods. I go sailing or on the ferries when I can, not often enough. I beachcomb on the beach in chilly weather. Once in a while I still glam it up to seduce the hell out of my husband on date night, or to go out with my friends and remind myself that I've still got it, but I don't do the bar scene much anymore. I love my island beach town but I miss living in a city and I still go there often to go to museums and art galleries,sometimes to the opera or to a small venue for a live show, not the huge concert arenas where I'm going to be crushed by a bunch of bros. I love going wine tasting. I read a lot, I drink an inordinate amount of black and green teas, I am a bit of a sci fi geek and an Anglophile. I only ever watch the BBC or sci fi stuff on TV, and I'm the one who turned my stepdaughter into a rabid Whovian. I still love to travel...the big exotic trips are fewer and more far between now that there are kids to accommodate, but we manage it once in a while, and a lot of smaller, long-weekend getaways along the coast or in the woods, or a romantic weekend up in wine country. I am still a struggling writer, and I work in writing and editing. I do a lot of volunteer and charity work with abused animals and adult literacy programs. And, just throwing this out there, my fella tells me my skin naturally smells like slightly sweet paper. I loved the help on suggestions for my stepdaughter so I'm hoping people will be generous enough to come back with suggestions for me. Cheers.
  3. Ursa

    Scent Recs based on your PERSONALITY!

    Awesome, thanks for the replies. And yes, she is a great kid . I am making notes and I'll check the reviews. Somebody suggested Dormouse--I actually already ordered an imp of that for myself so I will be sniffing it with an eye towards the kid, as well. I really appreciate ALL of the suggestions, I haven't even looked in all of the sections yet (there is such a BIG selection on BPAL!) so it really helps narrow things down for me. Cimorene, I'm sorry I don't have any suggestions for you since I'm not well enough acquainted with the product lines yet, but hopefully someone will have great ideas. EDIT: I think I am definitely going to try Dorian and Elf for her, and maybe Shanghai, Sticky Bat and Lyonnesse. Door sounds fantastic but I don't think they have imps for it and I really want to start with testers. I just got my own shipment of testers and she can try on my Dormouse. Thanks again!
  4. Ursa

    Scent Recs based on your PERSONALITY!

    Is this thread still active? To start with I'd actually like some recommendations for my stepdaughter. I'm a supernewb, recently steered here by a friend whose taste and olfactory palate I trust, and I have an order of a few imps ears being delivered for me, but I haven't actually received/sniffed any of them yet. I do love the BPAL names/ideas/themes, and I thought it might be fun to surprise my thirteen year old stepkid with a few imps ears for her upcoming half-birthday and/or Valentine's Day. So. She's thirteen, as mentioned. Kind of a sci fi/fantasy geek, has been studying martial arts and music for years, likes animals, cooking, interested in film, computers, math, Romance languages. She's traveled a LOT, more than most adults. She's smart, shy, has kind of an understated but goofy/surreal sense of humor, kind, but pragmatic. She loves her cats. She's tall and still growing, pretty like a Viking with white blond hair and light eyes. She's just starting to get interested in makeup, fragrances, etc. Spends hours doing designs on her nails and then goes and wrecks them immediately playing in the backyard with her little brothers. She adores her brothers and they adore her. She tries to hide the fact that it bothers her a little bit that she grew up in two houses. She loves to swim, and go to the beach, even on cold days when she'll go beachcombing. She usually wears a fedora and dangly earrings and boots, likes to put streaks in her hair with hair chalk. She's still pretty innocent, definitely not looking for the sexy, super glamorous or heavy scents here. If I close my eyes and think scent plus her, I personally think of things like fresh cut grass or herby lavender or homemade lemonade, but not anything really frilly or syrupy. I am wondering about other things I might not have even thought of, though. Ideas?
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