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In imp - ooh, dragon's blood and lilac, perfect!

On skin: ugh, there is something else in there that makes it smell like the lilacs have wilted; will wear on locket.

In locket: alas, the lilacs are still wilted!

You know, I really should not pick blends with scents that I know very well - like apples, or the lilacs which flood all of Ottawa in the spring. The moment that something else gets mixed in with a very familiar scent, my brain thinks, "Oh, the flower/fruit has rotted, no!"

And I have a bottle of it coming in a swap, I felt so happy with it. I suppose a room scent is good for Dragon's Eye. Or I will check out layering options.

There is a heaviness to this scent that I did not expect. It is sweet, although not cloyingly so; perhaps it is just my skin chemistry that wishes to announce to the world when it gets some sugar. There is a bitterish top note as well that may be the lemongrass.

This is so fresh and nice. I rarely use that imprecise word, but it is the word I am getting; Kumiho is nice. There is a sharp ginger, but it works perfectly with the tea.

I hope it stays; else I can put it in a locket.

I think I like bamboo, since the same note amps in Dragon Moon and Holiday Moon, and I do not think it is tea. It is quite a...pale, pale green scent.

I like it very much. Thank you to Macabre_fae for the bottle!

Darn, the other ones do not split into words so well.

I noticed that, and thought about changing it. I actually sat here and tried to memorize the letters, then said screw it!

Well, I am slowly making up mnemonic devices:

PROSHITAPATHIKA

Her lover is away on a long journey, (since he is a PROfessional) and she is pining for him, feeling that everything is SHIT, and feeling great APATHY when he is not there. Sleepless and disconsolate, she counts the days until he returns. Therefore she is PRO-SHIT-APATHY-ka.

 

Hee, I love how we're all posting the Heroine scents in all caps because we're copy/pasting them from the site.

 

Congratulations to Beth on coming up with blends I can't spell!

 

I know not to mention how to pronounce them!

 

"What's that lovely perfume you're wearing?" "It's...uh...ummm...ah....unpronounceable..."

What's so hard about pronouncing them? Take it two or three letters at a time, my best guess using historical linguistics:

Abhisarika - A-vee-sa-ree-ka

Kalahantarika - easiest one - Ka-la-han-ta-ri-ka

Khandita - Han-di-ta (like Han Solo's love child with Perdita )

Proshitapathika - Pro-shee-ta-path-ika (although I doubt I am the only one constantly thinking "Psychopathica" when I see that word)

Svadhinaopatika - "dh" is the "th" in "then", so Sva-thee-na-o-pat-ika (although I am thinking of the Spanish word "simpatica" gone nuts)

Vasakasajja - Va-sa-ka-saj-ja

Virahotkantita - Vi-ra-hot-kan-tita (I admit I am mentally sounding it "Virago-Candida")

Vipralabda - Vi-pra-lab-da and everyone here knows how to pronounce "lab", right?

Now, I will need someone who knows Sanskrit to tell me what the stressed syllables are, but I always feel happy with transliterated words, because I KNOW they will sound the way they are spelled.

ETA: Abejita, I think you and I were typing at the same time. Thanks for the stressed syllables! And I didn't know that v goes to b when between voiced vowels, thanks.

In Roman Latin, c's were pronounced with a 'k' sound - all of them. We know this because, for example, Cicero's name (which I still mentally pronounce Si-say-row), was transcribed by the Greeks as Kikero. I cannot recall hearing about the v's, but a check on the Wikipedia shows that they were indeed originally w-sounds - you are right, for_the_nonce. By classical Latin, c and k sounded the same.

However, I have Spanish pronunciation encoded into my brain, so I mostly pronounce c's by the ka-se-si-ko-ku rule - pronounce it as k in front of a, o, u, and consonants, and s in front of i and e, as well as pronouncing v's as v's. I sin. Deal with that.

I am amused because Snowy got her Ladon from me - since, gorgeous as it is (thanks jj_j!) apples go rotten-apple on me. By that scent do I know the Hesperides and Ladon, both of which have found loving homes elsewhere -and which I heartily recommend, if you can wear apple and I, alas, can't.

How would Y'ha-nthlei be pronounced? Thanks in advance!

 

With difficulty!

 

Ba-dum-ching!

 

 

(Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I am also curious about this one!)

Someone somewhere in this thread pointed out the Lovecraft intentionally made up words that were difficult to pronounce, to give the impression of nasty alien creatures with alien tongues - so Columbus Jones is actually very right.

I personally pronounce it Ee-Han-Thly (as if it was an adverb) in my head, but I think the German way, Ee-Han-Thlai, would also work. Anyhow, it's Lovecraft, no native speaker of Elder-Goddish is going to swoop down on you to correct you!

ETA: I stress Han. But I suppose one may stress Y. Or both, in a sortof spondaic foot broken by the apostrophe.

If the email is from service[dot]intll[dot]paypal[dot]com, yes, that should be the one. However, it is funny that they took five days to send it to you. Mine usually arrives within a minute of hitting the final confirmation key in Paypal. Could it be something in your email slowing down messages? Or did you mean "just" as in "only", not "just" as in "a very short time before I wrote this sentence"?

Sweet! Lemon verbena likes me, and that is what I am getting. Along with a dash of bergamot.

Persistently. No jasmine.

Given all the dark scents in my latest order, this is a relief. I will be holding on to Yuki-Onna, and holding off my purchase of Polyhymnia or Calliope in large bottles, for they smell about the same.

First sniff: yep, dragon's blood reported in. After having a bit of a disappointment with Glasya, I cry yay!

In locket- oh NO. Dragon's blood and dead leaves. Dragon's blood and dead leaves.

I should have avoided ANYTHING with dead leaves in it at once. My nose is highly trained to pick out the scent of dead or dying organic matter of any kind, which is why I react instantly to grave loam scents, and why apples combined with anything else smell to me like rotten apples. Dead leaves, dead leaves!

None of the OotD scents seem to work on me that well. A bottle of the Castle, off to swap!

It is floral, and it is booze, but, strangely enough, the two things work together pretty well. My mother loved that scent when I wore it in the locket. So, I am keeping it for now.

This is Winter of Our Discontent with a smoky note. It may be the bitter clove they share - bitter clove, apparently differs from ordinary clove in Al-Shairan and my spice box. It is a darker scent than Winter of Our Discontent, and though I love W.O.O.D, I will hold on to the Count for now, although I do not think I will wear him often.

Grr, I know I like patchouli, I know I like dragon's blood, I know I like musks, I know what civet and rose and ylang ylang smell like...but what is that metallic edge of a smell? It was in Hades; it was in Sheol; I had thought it were labdanum and vowed I will not wear labdanum. However, there is no labdanum listed for Glasya.

Dear Glasya, I may have to let you go. i wanted so to like you, but even in a locket, you give me that metallic-edge smell, which I do not like at all. I may decant an imp, just in case, and swap the rest of you...

Citrus and aloe. This smells a lot like F5 but more piercing. A great deal greener, too; I am just getting green from it.

I have a bottle of F5, but I am holding on to my Embalming Fluid imp - I can see why it is one of the most popular scents.

On my skin, at once the vanilla musk went wildly sweet - so I decided to wear Lucretia in the locket, since the other notes sounded so good, although I am still hoping for her to show her dark side on my skin like she did in the bottle. In the locket, she IS a dark lady; Kashmir wood smells beautiful, and I am getting the black amber too, although neither sage nor violet. This will be a keeper, though, just from the way she smells in the locket.

When you use a Paypal account, it sends you a confirmation email almost as soon as you hit the final OK button, right? I checked through my old "The order was shipped today" emails, which we in the Internationals refer to as CnS even though they aren't. and usually they are in reply to the email that the lab also receives telling them that I have just sent them money with Paypal. Since the specifics of my order are in the comments field, I can tell from the email they are replying to what order they are talking about.

However, once I got a "CnS" without anything it was replying to. Ten days later I received two orders at once, that were placed a month apart.

What can I say? I can't list notes, but I can say this: They are dark but very comforting, friendly, protective monsters.

I was very wary of the tobacco smoke, but when I had an option of getting an imp of the Organ Grinder in a swap with the lovely NDcent, I decided to take the opportunity. And thank goodness for that, for I have worn the Organ Grinder twice now and I do not smell the tobacco smoke; instead I smell almond milk indeed, but a dark almond milk, if that makes sense. The other ingredients blend in to make it darker. It is indeed, as many have said, a unique scent.

It is very lovely and I will be holding on to my imp, and splurge on a bottle if I find myself very drawn to it.

No, there was a reason why I asked honey and my skin NOT GO TOGETHER. People adore this blend more than any of the other Ars Draconis, and while I love or like most Ars Draconis blends (Heart and Bone being my favourites) I have tried, and most other things with dragon's blood like Wilhelmina Murray, Dragon's Milk is turning into that medicinal plastic stuff when it hits my skin again, reminding me of O and NOT in a good way. So it is going somewhere where it will get loads of love, and I am disappointed.

Well, I'm not good at using the little symbols that represent certain sounds (the word for which escapes me this morning ),

IPA. International Phonetic Alphabet.

But around my workplace, we call it "Life."

(Just kidding, I actually do not use the IPA in my daily life and have relegated a whole bunch of it to the back burners of my mind.)

C&S's come from USPS, unless you're international and if so... someone else might have to help you there.

I'm international. Sometimes you get an email from the lab (mine have always come from blackphoenix@ but when I emailed Sara at answers@ with a concern (wonderfully resolved) I got the reply from the grazzt@ address) and said emails usually say the same thing except for my name, so I suspect they are either automated or someone does them automatically

However, S.B., if you are international and are not getting a CnS and are worrying about your order - I have had several orders, including the last one I made, which came in last week, come in without any notification (but great joy at the surprise!). Trading Post orders never have international CnS emails (Puddin' explains somewhere in the "Black Phoenix Trading Post" thread how it is only him doing everything in the Trading Post, and if he had to send out international CnS emails as well, it would take half the day).

So, unless orders made at the same time as yours have appeared in the "I Got My Order" thread a month ago and you have still seen neither hide nor hair of your oils, do not worry. This last sad scenario has never happened to me, but it has happened to a few people (PilotKitten's story a couple of weeks ago in the "Come Squee With Us" thread is particularly noteworthy) and if you email the lab (at answers@ address) about it, usually they will be beyond considerate and accommodating.

Well, it's Tamil, a classical language of India and older than sanskrit. It's supposed to be, when pronounced and spoken correctly, rather sing-songy. Kumari Kandam, I am extrapolating, wouldn't have stresses on the first syllable (so no CONdom)...I'm no linguist and no student of classical India, but from what I've read and trying to make guesses based on the cadence of a couple of other languages of India I've heard spoken I pronounce it kuMARee kanDAM with all A's short.

Research was unable to confirm where the stresses are, but you are right on the A's, Juniperus.