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I did put the wrong set of prices up, so scroll up a bit

We have indeed been updating the price cap list for the BPTP stuff - so do check out the list if you've got any questions.

5mL decant La Fee Verte or Hellion - $13.50

5mL Naughty or Nice Inquisition - $20.00

10mL La Fee Verte or Hellion - $20.00

BPTP Shirts - Price of shirt new

Naughty or Nice Inquisition Shirts - $25.00

Naughty or Nice Inquisition Set - $45.00

10mL Imp Statues (alone) - $30

10mL Imp Statues (w/ oil) - $50

a little got on my fingers accidentally (i got one of the leaky bottles as my sister's pressy, but since she doesn't store her oils horizontally, i don't see a problem!)... on me, this smells like a warm floral vanilla, with just a hint of the honeydew when it's dried. i love it - and so does she (she hasn't opened it yet, but she passed me in the hallway after i wrapped her present and told me how good i smelled!)

sarada, that depends on the size of your dropper & the viscocity of the liquid. the kind i use (which i bought from a science supply store back when i was decanting with pipettes) is calibrated to give ~0.04 mL/drop with water (~20 drops/imp)

nia, i use something along that method for applying from imps, and some of my imps i've had for nearly two years...but i don't apply from imps daily (my usual suspects are in bottles )... for the most part, i use imps to test if i like a scent before buying a 5mL, so except for a few that i don't like enough to buy a bottle of, i try to not have too many imps around. they're harder to organize!

As many people have noted, the warning decay function that removes your warnings after 3 months is buggy. It's almost rewritten - there's still one or two things that need to be fixed before we can test it out on the forum. With luck, we'll have that done in the next few weeks.

haha imbrium, i heard that ogre was whining about the temps there this week

it was 1F/17F when i got my yule order last week. nothing was frozen (except my toes) and everything was a-ok!

i thought lick it dried to a minty vanilla-musk but ymmv

(of course, i thought snake charmer smelled nothing like snake oil once i got my proper HoM and SC from the lab!)

dorian, lick it, bearded lady, antique lace, black opal, snake oil are all winners in the musky vanilla race. none of these are pure vanilla-musk, though.

dorian's got a bit of a lemon-tea note

lick it's got a bit of a minty note

bearded lady's got a bit of a floral note

antique lace's got a bit of a linen-floral note

black opal's got a bit of a mineral note.

snake oil's got a big spicy component.

i especially love lick it and bearded lady and black opal.

The report stuff is now working (and better than ever!), so feel free to start reporting threads again

let me quote from the front page:

"Please note that all orders, including domestic orders, are currently taking an excess of 21 - 45 business days to process, pack and ship out due to a heavy workload, the process of hand-blending and the nature of our product. "

they're currently filling orders from 10/16.

The response time also applies for communication regarding moderating issues, for the same reasons plus one: if it's serious enough that there's conversation going on about it between you and a moderator, chances are that there's conversation going on about it between the moderators as well, and it may take more than a few hours.

Use some common sense, people. Night time is a dark time, and much of the world (including our mods) sleep during this time. This means that a question you send someone at 8PM (-6:00GMT) will probably NOT be answered come 6AM (-6:00GMT) unless you manage to catch them awake.

(And like warning labels: I wouldn't be saying this if it hadn't cropped up a few times.)

this is rose red, all grown up. definitely haughty and vain. brilliant!

a lovely white musk scent. the champagne bubbles up now and again... there's only a hint of florals on me, and that's just fine with me. i second (third) the "notice me!!!!!" sentiment. i'm really tempted to go get jazzed up an dgo clubbing

I love Lick It!

Wet, it's a vanilla mint - EXACTLY like the smell of candy canes. It makes me want to lick my wrist.

Once it's dried, it's a musky vanilla with a hint of mint.

Decant circles that break the price cap must be preapproved. Please submit an itemized breakdown of the costs for the circle when requesting approval and include the breakdown in the initial post once it has been approved.

Breakdown of costs

BPAL Order (7 Pancea 5mls + shipping): $23.00x7 + $12.50 = $173.50

Decanting supplies (35 imps, and 7 pipettes): $0.18x35 + $0.11x7 = $7.07

Packing supplies (bubble wrap and mailers): $1.10x5 = $5.50

Shipping to 5 people (shipping with delivery confirmation): $3.85x5=$19.25

Paypal fees: $173.50*2.29% + 5x$0.30 = $5.48

Total: $210.80

Per person: $42.16

 

Cap cost: $5.25*7 = $40.25 + shipping

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Since we were asked recently:

The $16 Yule '05 and Samhain '05 update LEs can be sold for $19 if full, and the imps can be sold for $4.

As the policy states, "5ml bottles can be sold for purchase price plus $3. Imps can be sold at one-fourth of the purchase price of a 5ml bottle." (And in both cases, that does *not* include shipping expenses and fullness is assumed.)

So if the lab were to make BPALaversary LEs $17.50, then the full bottles could sell for $20.50 and the imps for $4.38. (Er, not saying that there ARE any, or that they would go for that much. This is an entirely hypothetical case. I don't know one way or the other if there will be LEs for the BPALaversary)

Since single notes are unavilable, I'm closing this thread and have moved questions about alternative note providers to the Single Note Alternatives thread in Retail Therapy.

reiterating:

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Is it safe to refrigerate BPALs? I'm wondering if it might extend their shelf life, but I'm afraid that it might make them go screwy!!

search "freeze" in bpal chatter, there's a thread about refrigerating/freezing oils.

the seasonal help plus their now-larger space should help a ton in speeding up order fulfillment - after all, it wasn't THAT long ago we were down to what, 5-6 weeks!

it says 21-45 BUSINESS days, not 21-45 CALENDAR days. there is a significant difference.

21-45 calendar days is 3-6.5 weeks.

21-45 business days is 4.2-9 weeks.

there's still three weeks left on their disclaimed shipping times, and it looks like they're almost to the blood moon orders. i'd guess another week, two on the outside, before yours hits the queue -- there was no doubt a bit of a slow down in shipping with the whole one week's notice to move loc stuff.

"Is it OK for someone to sell BPAL-scented products" is a complicated issue.

Unless the Lab posts something saying "hey, we're looking for someone who makes [x] because we want to extend our product line", the probability is INCREDIBLY HIGH that the answer will be a very strong no regardless of the terms you offer.

Like most other businesses, they carefully license the right to use their fragrances in derivative products (including, but not limited to: incense, powder, solid perfume, body spray, candles, bath bombs, bath oil, bath gel, soap, other bath & beauty products, sachets, potpourri).

However, it's perfectly acceptable to create such items for personal use (and in fact, the Beyond Perfume forum is full of ideas of things you can do with your BPAL other than "just" perfume), and to help others to do the same.

We take no stance on gifting derivative products, but none of that "$5 for shipping with a free gift -- a 2oz jar of O-scented shea butter" y'hear?

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