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Terrible of me, really. I've had the Arkham blends for a year now, and there are still several that I've sniffed in the bottle and though - 'ooh, nice, I'll try that one day'... and one day hasn't arrived. Still, I'm determined to address that!

Azazoth has been following me around all day. Every time I answered the phone or pushed my hair back from my face, there he was, singing and screeching. Vetiver is definitely the most prominent note on me, and has been going strong for well over 8 hours now.

I've been having a phase of wearing the floral and fruity scents recently, and this is a very nice contrast to that. Unlike several other reviewers, it doesn't smell too blokey on me to be comfortable.

I'm wondering if the fact that it's been in storage for a long time has aged the cedar - I'm certainly not perceiving any of the sharpness that reviewers mentioned when it was new. Instead, it's a warm wood note, very much in the background and muted. Tangerine never comes out on me in the slightest, but the black amber is just now starting to come out as the top note fades a little.

All my scents are keepers but this one may be moving a little closer to the front of the box

Okay I'm new here Hello!

 

I was about to make an order for 6 imps ($16) using my Paypal account. And then I realized I don't know what to add for shipping cost. I am in the United States (Tx). I just can't seem to find a chart or post with a list of how much I need to add. Can someone point me in the right direction?

 

Thank a million

Here you go.

I e-mailed the lab, with the correct addy, about two weeks ago and haven't heard anything.

 

How much longer should I give before e-mailing again?

 

ETA: where the heck did my icon disappear to?

anyone?

Give us a chance, your post's only been up there a day

While I'd normally say that two weeks probably means your email might have gone astray, there have been a few festivities over the last two weeks. In this instance I'd give it until the end of the week, just to make sure it's well out of any holiday backlog.

As for your icon - not sure. Was it one from the forum gallery or one hosted elsewhere?

A very short note - I never do reviews!

This will probably only resonate with the Brit contingent, I'm not sure if you guys get these over the water but... Cherry Tunes!!!

Just a note, as a non-Potter fan on the mod team, if anybody needs anything I will be around quite frequently this weekend! 

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Me too

Tunes. You know, the throat sweets that you suck when you've got a cold.

This is the lemon and honey syrup centre that floods out when you get bored of sucking and crack it open with your teeth.

There was a big problem with getting hold of cobalt blue bottles a while back, and the Lab switched to using amber ones just to make sure that orders were filled. It could be an availability problem again, perhaps.

On the BPAL website's contact page...

EMAIL ADDRESSES

Customer Service: answers@blackphoenixalchemylab.com

Wholesale Inquiries: wholesale@blackphoenixalchemylab.com

I don't really feel this is an area we'd want a forum section on - wholesale negotiations are probably best kept private between the Lab and the (potential) vendor.

AFAIK her last day is tomorrow so she's still on the case at the moment.

Hmm. I'm probably completely wrong here! (but then, I still say 'samhain' as 'samhain'!)

R'lyeh - 'ruh-lie-eh' (with a bit of a gap between the ruh and the lie)

Nyarlathotep - 'nuh-yar-le-toe-tepp' (only kind of slur the nuh and the yar together)

It probably doesn't help that most CoC games I've played have never once used the *names* of any of the beasties we meet... or where they live!

That's because it's an up and coming scent: it's a new one that the Lab hasn't released for sale yet, so it isn't on the website.

This forum has a really powerful search facility. If you type in 'kweku anansi' then it takes you to two results, the second one down is the three page review thread in the 'up and coming' section.

Please note also that this thread is for questions *about the forum*, not general ones. I've asked for this to be moved to the BPAL chatter thread.

My boyfriend's first comment when I walked into the room wearing this was 'Samhain'! I think the only real similarity is the pine note - there's a certain earthiness that's present in them both.

This makes a wonderful head-clearing scent. I was awake much too early today, and I have lots of routine, dull stuff to do, and this oil has done a fantastic job of brightening me up.

I've been wearing it for about an hour, and the sharp pine scent has mellowed into a more gentle, sleepy musk-pine. I'm not getting any juniper at all, but I think that's because the sharp pine notes drowned it out when I first put it on.

Quite lovely.

Decadence, on me you're apricot and almonds. Apricot first of all, loudly so and reminding me of the way I fell in love with Depraved.... but then it mellows to a strongly almond and Amaretto note. I'm thinking of cyanide! Maybe I'm just in a morbid frame of mind.

It will make an amazing scent for Halloween, mysterious and darkly sleepy.

I have bottle number X. (Or is that letter X, number ten? I can never remember how you reference Roman numerals. )

Anyway. The scent.

In the bottle, this smells citrussy sweet, with an underscore of ... mm, something reminds me of Gluttony, is it hazlenut? For some reason I'm thinking of Christmas.

On, wow and kaboom, coconut. For those of you who have tried Spooky, it's the nutty part of that without any of the rum or mint. Ah. That's why I was thinking of Christmas then! However, instead of the festive air of Spooky, this makes me think of summertime. It's coconut and lime.

It's actually the photograph from an old cookery book I have, one by Delia Smith of all people, of coconut ice cream with lime zest sprinkled over, and thick sweet lime sauce poured over the top. The picture is lit in glorious liquid golden sunlight, and looks sublimely tropical. That's what my lovely Chaos Theory smells like to me.

In the Imp: Very light and clean smelling. Reminded me a little of kumiho.

Applying: Lemon! Where did all this lemon come from all of a sudden? I'm one of those people on whom June Gloom is little other than lemon verbena for the first hour or so, and this seemed to be starting to do something similar.

Wearing: OK, the lemon is calming down a lot now, and it's moving more towards a soft green scent. I was hoping to be able to pick out more of the notes from the description but they're so well blended they all go into one.

Lasting: This has faded to almost nothing after about an hour. I think I'm going to need to apply this in quantitiy if it's going to have any throw or lasting power. (I used about 6 wand-swipes, my normal amount)

To me, this was Samhain with a berry base rather than an apple base... I picked up the same smokey-incensey-spicey notes, but a 'red' colour rather than the green-gold that I get from Samhain.

I loved wearing it - it's warm and soothing, and feels comforting.

The oddest reaction I got while wearing it was from my Dad - he took one sniff, pulled a face and said 'I didn't think you smoked!' He gave up cigarettes many, meany years ago, but there was something within this scent that made him think I'd been smoking and crave a smoke himself. I hadn't been anywhere near cigarettes, I hasten to add

I think it's an older scent that was being re-forumlated, and Beth was intending to add it back into the collection in June but it hasn't actually made it yet.

Perhaps the ones in the order received thread are prototypes for people to try out?

exactly, Beth , already told everyone about add ons ,so we dont need to be lectured to like we are children.

But this is an FAQ thread! The point is to provide quick answers to questions people may have: of course there's going to be an element of reiterating information available elsewhere.

from someone who doesnt work at the lab ,but if you do work with Beth let us know.

Not sure how this is actually helpful to anyone reading this as an FAQ post... but then, carrying on a row about it isn't either so I'm going to bow out here.

wow, velvetsky, i didnt know you knew Beth  that well, do you work for the lab? was just curious as you seem to know so much more than everyone else,and feel free to speak for her.no less.

Beth herself has said how inconvenient the add ons were here:

Once you place your order with us -- through the web site, by mail or through CcNow -- it is final. No swap outs, no substitutions, no add-on's, no combining orders. I hate to do this, but it has caused far too many problems and is slowing up the packing and shipping process terribly. We do not have the manpower to cross-reference everything, and since every third order required some sort of post-order alteration... we were running into too many problems.

Black Forest is very *very* piney - and definitely smells like that sort of forest. Normally, just-woody forests, I'd suggest zombi or ulalume.

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as a warning, the xls does have a macro, but you can disable it. it does three things: replaces NULL with nothing, fixes the case for the name & area, and creates links from the number in hte review id.

 

i don't remember if it has ingenue in it, but it does have hemlock + some of the up&comings + the rest of the lunacy series.

Wonderful, many many thanks for that!

As soon as I read Beth's description of how she came to formulate this one, I ordered a 5ml straight away That's in an order that's still on it's way: but I got a freebie Imp in my recent order anyway, and oh wow I'm so glad I have more coming.

In the vial: Cold and refreshing: I got the mint immdiately, but only after a couple of sniff anything else. However, it's not a single type of mint - spearming or peppermint - more a complex layered minty scent.

On me: This actually cooled my skin when I applied it: wonderful as I was stuck in a hot hotel room without air conditioning I put it on just before I went to bed, and was struck by this initial cooling. After a moment or two though, the minty scent evaporated and I was left surrounded by a cloud of irridescent sweetness: I do get the sparkle of champagne as well as a crisper note that must be the aquatics.

Over time: Good grief. Not sure if I can blame this on the scent, but wearing it that night I had the most amazingly vivid dreams. I woke up still smelling wonderful.

I ordered this one for a couple of reasons... I adore the apricot in March Hare and especially Depraved, and noticed from the reviews that both are very prominent in this scent. Orange blossom is also one of my all-time favourite scents, and I'm still on a quest to find the perfect one.

So, I ordered a 5ml of Katharina, and I'm trying it out for the first time today.

In the bottle: Initially, I was disappointed as this smelled exactly like Depraved to me, the same richly fruity, slightly fermentingly decayed apricot scent. However, on a couple of deeper sniff, the musk came through a little more. Still no orange blossom though.

On me: This is definitely a lot lighter than Depraved: the white musk definitely lifts it. I'm wearing this as a daytime scent, and it's hanging around me in a sweet and gentle cloud.

Over time: I'm still not getting an identifiable orange blossom note, but this is beautiful. It's shiny and mellow, like a pool of sunshine puddled on cream satin sheets.

Zombi layered with ulalume would be perfect... I was actually just thinking this last night as I went out walking after the rain...

I know that I got much too excited when I saw that you guys had got the delay down to being only 3 weeks behind and thought that you were seeing some light at the end of the tunnel...

I'm trying to train myself to forget all about the orders I've placed for at least a month, unless I'm told otherwise that they've gone out earlier than expected.

I am desperately longing for the 'one-day' when the Lab has an integrated order placing and tracking system and we can just log in and see the real status for ourselves. Think of all the hassle that could save! For me, I don't care - really I don't! - if an order takes 2 months as long as I know that's how long it'll be (I should say, I don't know anything about any Lab plans to do this, I'm just wishing!)

I'd just like to add another huge thank you to Beth for sorting out a recent order of mine that had some problems: I'm excitedly anticipating its arrival.

I am grateful.