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.

BENEVOLENT TRIPLE CONJUNCTION May 11th, 2011 saw the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and Mercury in the 24th degree of Aries. Both the Greater and Lesser Benefics joined forces with the Winge’d Messenger in a helpful conspiracy to renew our faith in ourselves and each other. Our experience of this alignment was filtered through a pragmatic moon in Virgo, making it all the more possible to intuitively know what must be done if we are to bring about necessary positive change. A celestial weather pattern like this is - if consciously directed - uniquely supportive of growth beyond those conditions in our lives that have become outmoded and stale. It was a singular moment in time during which Mercury guided the very same conversations held months ago so that they might yield far superior results, now. (So much for the definition of insanity.) Through Aries, we felt the amplified primal impulse to take decisive and effective action. It was a galvanizing current in which Venus propelled relationships forward and buoyed our tired spirits. Jupiter’s expansive energy cleared a path for new momentum in our career endeavors. But, it was all pure potential. The choices and actions were left to each of us. The same as it is with electricity, in the absence of a lamp there is no light. Without human participation, even a great moment like this can pass entirely unheeded. We have the wisdom and good fortune to familiarize ourselves with planetary cycles in order to skillfully navigate each transient energy as it arrives. We also have the means by which to hold onto that energy if we so choose, even after an alignment has passed. We thereby recapture what would otherwise have been a missed opportunity. Beth's blend for the Benevolent Triple Conjunction is created with impeccable astrological precision on an immeasurably auspicious day. Just as one might hold an electrical charge in a battery, she has - quite literally - kept time in a bottle. -- Forest Cobalt This liquid talisman was created on May 11, 2011 during the conjunction of Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter in Aries. The oil unites the energies of the two Benefics with Mercury, resulting in an oil of movement, adaptability, expansion, optimism, creativity, confidence, attraction, and inspiration. It holds the qualities of positive fearlessness, expansive courage, and helps to bolster the spirit so barriers that we have erected for ourselves in the past can finally be overcome. Through this liquid talisman, your possibilities are limitless, and reality is yours to create. 283 bottles were created. Okayyy! It just came in the mail, and we know that isn't the best time to get the most accurate impression, right? But I have to review it now, because I'm too excited! In the bottle: herbal and green. Ooooo, I'm excited! I want to say there is a little magnolia? in this, because it reminds me slightly of Unheavenly City Wet: Spicy and green, something lemon-y like lemongrass, the lemon is taking over... This is very bright and sparkly. It's a little sweet but only slightly, not cloying at all. Okay, this is just the lemon-y goodness for now. *waits* Drydown: Okay, now I am detecting some of the herbal-ness again. But it's still primarily the lemon-y. Energetically: This is very optimistic and bright and happy. But I do get the sense that I could get some serious work done with it. About half an hour later: Wow, this changed a lot! Now I can smell what people at Will Call had said was rosey. I'm not sure it is really rose, however. It reminds me strongly of BPTP Red Rose from the Unity set. It's really really lovely. Very beautiful! ETA: It's been a few days and I've had time to test the results. I wore it to a party this weekend. I've had this weird subconscious thing going on when people ask me what I do for a living, and this time I manged to talk about what I'm doing confidently instead of half apologizing for being unemployed and sounding slightly defensive. I didn't even think about it beforehand, so this was totally out of the blue. Nice.

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.

Nepalese amber, white sandalwood, black peppercorn, ambrette seed, neroli, coconut sugar, cardamom pods, ginger, fennel, bitter almond, liquorice root, henna, copaiba balsam, and spikenard. 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.

I do want that.

LEO STELLIUM This liquid talisman was created over the days of August 15th through 17th during the conjunction of Mercury, Venus, and Sol in Leo. This oil endeavors to capture the energy of the Leo Stellium: it is an oil of rediscovering yourself, and achieving a better understanding of who you really are. Filtered through the splendid golden majesty of Leo, Venus is manifested in this oil as an internal mirror and a reminder of the immortality of the soul. Mercury manifests in this blend as a force for dynamic movement and change, and as a roadmap illustrating all possibilities. Mercury also manifests in its Trickster aspect, forcing us to confront self-delusion as exposed by the bright light of Sol. In this Stellium blend, Sol itself shows us how to bolster our self-esteem, confidence, and courage by confronting, understanding, and accepting our true will. Through working with this energy, we can reinvent ourselves through serious and profound reflection regarding who we want to be and how we want the world to see us. I can't believe I may be the first to review this! Well it just came in the mail. At first, I thought it smelled similar to Benevolent Triple Conjunction, but now it is different, though it will be difficult to explain what makes it so. The label is identical except for the date and, oh wait, I think the symbols are different. In the bottle: Medicinal and citrusy, like menthol and lemongrass. Wet: herbs, lemon verbena? menthol, geranium, uplifting lemon, lavender. Dry down: During the dry down, I get a halo of something slightly resiny. I want to say tonka, but I have no idea. I was getting some kind of rosey floral for a moment, but not anymore. As for effect, it's too early to tell. Will update if I notice anything. Update: I wore this to a small gathering yesterday evening. I had no expectation about meeting anyone who could further my ambitions at all. I've been trying to transition into an art and children's book writing career. Last night I met a woman who asked me what I did for a living. I told her of my plans, and she said she had been approached about writing a children's book, but needed someone to do the illustrations. I did expect Leo Stellium to make me feel more capable of reinventing myself, but I did not expect it to immediately attract an opportunity offered out of the blue. I am very impressed!

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.

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?

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.

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'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.