mooncityminx

Whoa lime! Whoa orange candy! Whoa lemon candy! Whoa Skittles. Whoa raspberry candy! Whoa powdered sugar! Whoa rainbow Snowcone! Whoa fruit punch with extra sugar!

*waits a few minutes* Whoa, things are getting fizzy now. It's so fizzy! I feel like I put ten Lush bath bombs in the tub and they are all fizzing around me, while I drink sparkling cider.

Powdered sugar is snowing down on me. Now my whole neighborhood is blanketed in powdered sugar. It's up to the windows now. It's sticking to my eyelashes and now it's gone.

Now I am holding the candy dip stick that comes with a package of Fun Dip candy. There is no Fun Dip, just the stick. The stick is the best part anyway. It's still kind of fizzy though. How is fizzy a smell? I don't know, but it is.

I love this so much. It never gets syrupy like Sugar Skull and Sticky Pillow Case used to do. It's truly a work of art and it makes me so happy to smell it. This must be what my dog feels like when she smells something so good, it makes her want to roll around in it.

At first Ghost Houses is a pretty white floral. It's got different floral notes that I can't identify, except maybe the lily. It starts out more simple and clean. But then after it has mingled with my skin chemistry for a while, it becomes more complex and well balanced. It's slightly sweet in a clean floral sort of way, soft and slightly warm with resin. It's exactly what I expected Lady Amalthea to smell like. I smell like a super fancy lady who is secretly a unicorn.

Blue Moon 2015 is SO lovely!

When I first opened the bottle all I could smell was herbs, mostly sage, and I was associating it with pasta salad or something, lol. But then the musks and green tea came out and after drydown I am left with something expertly blended. It strikes me as a new more conventional perfume scent than a typical bpal (if conventional perfumes were a million times better) because it is so complex and well balanced. The main notes on the surface are green tea (like the fragrance not like the tea itself, akin to Sea of Glass) with musk (like Pisces) and something soft and almost floral in the background. I can identify the palmarosa, which is ginger grass and has a non-spicy ginger feel, and together there is an overall ethereal feeling.

This fragrance is very much like a Twilight Alchemy Lab blend, because it most definitely has a feeling to it, a mood. I noticed right away when it had dried that it was nudging me into sort of a soothing dreamy happy mood. I feel awake, but serene and optimistic, inspired. It's so uplifting! As an oil painter, I can tell that this is going to be a go-to when I am thinking up new paintings. What a masterpiece!

I got frimped this in a trade that came today, and it wasn't even on my radar. But I saw it and couldn't remember trying it before so I put some on.

MMMmmmmm! Incense incense incense! *huffs self* It reminds me of the way shirts smell when they come from the trading post, and also a little of a Lush store, but less fruity. I wish I had discovered this before I placed my recent lunacy order, because now I have to have a bottle of this. It's kind of effervescent.

I guess evil is in the eye of the beholder? Because to me, this is just fabulous, and not at all evil. There are a lot of resins in this, which remind me of Lyonesse, minus the aquatic notes. The incense seems to dominate this blend. There are some spices, woods, and even a tiny bit of sweetness. To me, there are a lot of parallels between this and The Trackless ERG.

My sample of Exotic Bazaar smells like peaches and some kind of berry and bubblegum that come together to create a Christmasy fragrance. It's like a tooty fruity Christmas. Maybe it's bayberry that is Christmasy and fruity? There is a little bit of spice in it, but mostly it is a juicy juicy Christmas scent. lol It's so happy. I'm saving the rest of this sample for the holidays.

resinous and spicy in a dry sort of way. Mmmm Reminds me of sandalwood. It's got a vary warm and bright feeling to it. The energy is comforting like the sun shining on my shoulders. This would be especially excellent for fall or winter. It's going to be really hard to choose between this one and Unspeakably Evil Temple to use in my art studio. I want to say this one is more spicy, some spice that is reminding me of cinnamon, but is probably not cinnamon. I will continue to ponder the differences between the two and update if and when I figure it out.

This is a lovely aquatic. The leather note makes this come across as slightly masculine, but overall, I think this is a fun aquatic room spray for summer. There's nothing dank or ratty about it, thankfully! I am going to need a full size of this.

Interesting. When I first put this on it was very intensely cherries and lime. It was very sweet and very fruity. I wasn't sure about it. But after a few minutes it became Aunt Caroline's Mojo (which is very candy-ish and a favorite of mine) with a subtle cherry note. It's like I layered Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo and Perpetuum Bonum. I'm really enjoying this now! I think I need a bottle of this, afterall.

Fresh on the skin I am getting mostly sandalwood. It starts out very quiet and the sandalwood blooms. Then the champaca comes out, like beautiful incense. Now the pepper comes out to play and there is a wonderful resinous mix here like (forgive me) like a Lush store that also sells Nag Champa incense. I worked at a Lush store over the holidays one year, and there was a saying that customers would come in and ask what product they could buy to capture the whole smell of the store, and there wasn't one. I think it is the vanilla in this that is triggering my association with Honey I Washed the Kids, but there is also a spiciness and a beautiful beautiful resinous glow. OMG I want to smell like this forever. Can we make that happen, please?

Interesting how on Lycan this became masculine, and on me it is sweet and spicy and resinously feminine.

This is an atmo spray, but it really smells like snowy evergreens—Blue Spruce and Snow-Capped Pine from BPTP's Yules. It's wonderful! And you could always spray your clothes if you want to wear it.

I do want that.

Powdery and herbal, and something screaming white that is very clean.

I mentioned this in a previous review, but I tried several decants from this collection, and they all have a very otherworldy evocative scary vibe, like horror movie smell-o-vision.

This one is harshly clean, with a little sage. Sinister.

I envision a character from a horror movie. She's an older woman who wears expensive perfume, but something old fashioned, she cleans constantly, and she has a very dark secret.

I have no idea why my review is so different than the others, I blame my skin chemistry.

I got a few decants of the "an Evening with the Spirits," series, and as a whole, I found them all to be evocative and otherworldly in a disorienting and kind of scary way. I mean that, like if a horror movie had smell-o-vision, these would be the smells.

I get a huge amount of leather at first, menacing leather, then something that smells like an large antique store. I can smell the ginger, but the way it combines with the musk and the leather, makes me think of a creepy old man who works at an antique store, the kind that has lots of old books, and old machines and just stacks of strange things. There's just something very unsettling about it, like being in someone else's personal territory. I think it also smells a little boozey.

It's interesting how these notes are all things that I like, and sounds really sexy, and yet, turns out really creepy, at least on me.

Oooo Thank you! Now I have a fun list to try.

Is there an evergreen scent left in the general catalog? Slobbering Pine and Yew Trees were both discontinued, and I was wondering, because I am on an evergreen kick. I love my LE bottles, but I treasure them too much to use them like I would like to slather them all over my home.

When it's fresh out of the bottle., there's this note that reminds me of pimento. It's the same one that was in Oborot. It's very masculine. It also kind of reminds me of something from Privilege.

Then as it dries down, it starts to smell a lot like Haloes, the retail exclusive that I've been trying desperately get my hands on. Autumn Overlooked my Knitting is better, because it also has that wool note, that smells to me, like fur. I really love whatever accord that is, and I really hope Beth continues making new scents with it. Maybe one for the general catalog would be fun?

If you like this, also try Antikythera Mechanism. AM also starts out kind of masculine and then mellows.

I love AOLMK so much, that I have ordered two back up bottles. I really think this one is going to age well. I don't want to risk running out.

In the bottle this is butterscotchy, but fresh on my skin, I do get a buttercream note. My chemistry is weird sometimes, so on my skin this becomes a Snowcake (Lush) type scent. I have a Chaos Theory that is very similar.

I just got this in the mail, yesterday, so it may not be settled, yet. But it already smells awesome. So, I am going to review it anyway.

At first this starts out smelling exactly like Mme Moriarty, a favorite of mine. I think it is the red musk. Even unaged, this smells wonderful, sort of like incense, to me.

But then, at that point where Moriarty would be all BAM patchouli and currants, this becomes soft resins and understated floral elegance. It's so well blended, that I don't know what I am specifically smelling. Resiny goodness abounds.

I got this, thinking it would age beautifully. But I want to wear it now, because damn.

Yeah, I really love bees. I recently had a dream about a bee landing on my forehead, above my left eye. It had a profound effect on me. I did some research about bees in dream language, and the dream had a very shamanistic feel. I would love to someday see some bee scents, celebrating the qualities of bees. Maybe a Medicine Bee or a Queen Bee.

I'm an oil painter, so I am planning a self portrait, based on that dream.

Have there ever been any bee themed scents?

I remember Honey Moon (I think) had a bee themed tee, at the Post. And we have the honeys in the garden (awesomeness.) But besides that, any bee themed scents?

I traded for a bottle of this, shortly after it came out, because someone had compared it to Shangai Tunnels' "wet stone" note. Initially, I wasn't feeling it. The bottle gives off a top note of what I think is generally considered dirt, but on me amps to something like mildew. It's in Zombi and a few other popular blends that just don't work on me.

However, it has aged a few years since I last tried it. I am going through an expected aquatic phase in my bpal fandom. Suddenly, I want to smell like a salty mermaid. So, I decided to give Singing Moon another try. Boy am I glad I did!

The bottle still smells like damp earth, but on, I smell like cool water. It's very slightly musky, and very slightly floral. It has a mist-like quality. It makes me think of taking a dip in a cold creek during a full moon. I feel very mysterious. It's very evocative of coldness and moonlight. I just love it. It is perhaps a little more swamp-maiden than mermaid, but I can live with that.

Sorry, but I really can't pick out any individual notes.

I just realized that I should have received my order yesterday (according to the tracking number) but it still isn't here. The tracking says delivered. I replied to the blackphoenix@ address, is that okay? I mean, instead of customer service. I was having a missing-perfume-panic, but I don't want to bombard them with my hysterical emails.

It's so weird, because I usually get orders within two days of shipping. I wonder what the heck happened. My porch is really far and you can't even see it from the street, so if it was stolen, it would have to have been stolen from my mailbox.

I'd love to find a scent similar to L'Artisan's La Chasse aux Papillons, I'm not very good at identifying notes, but it's listed as tuberose, orange blossom and spice.

 

I love that it smells very natural on me, more like a big bouquet of spring flowers than a perfume, but for me, the scent just vanishes in half an hour or so. Any tips would be totally welcomed! Thanks much!

I've tried that one, and loved it. To me it is almost a single note orange blossom (neroli.) I love neroli so much. Vixen has a lot of neroli. It also has a lot of other things, so it isn't a dupe, but if you like neroli, it is a must try. Vixen is my bpal neroli go-to. But I'm sure there are others in the catalog that might be more floral.

I recently bought an imp's ear of this from the lab, with the intention of wearing it to the opera, which is still many months away. I may very well have to order a whole bottle before then. I expected this fragrance to be pleasant, but I was not expecting to fall in love. I'd never sniffed it before.

In the vial is the only time I can smell the almond, and it's not the sweet almond of Dana o'shee. This is the dry realist almond, as in a handful of almonds. It is very faint, though. Mostly, I smell incense and sandalwood.

On, the Jasmine comes to the forefront, making the fragrance decidedly feminine. This is, thankfully, the rare Jasmine type that I can wear. Sometimes (as with Monsterbait Bigger Critters) Jasmine can go a bit baby-diapery on me. Sorry to put that so indelicately, it's just something that happens with my skin chemistry. But, as I said, this is the heavenly Jasmine of Parlethenope (of the Carnivale Grindhouse) and I am very thankful for it. I do adore Jasmine.

The Jasmine mingles with exotic incense, and sandalwood. Together, there is a phantom of smoke and leather. I get a sense of decidedly feminine power, very badass, but also sensual. This fragrance is for a woman who is in control, perhaps an alpha female. Perhaps this is the perfume "Coco" (by Chanel) wants to be, but falls short as a mere imitation. Salome is the real deal.

Salome is the fragrance of the woman I hope to grow into, and I am very thankful to have found her.

Anne Bonny is what I wear whenever I do anything pirate related.

Thanks for the ideas