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updated: includes Dragon Moon/Steamworks/Pharm, plus BPTP four-season teaser soaps.

Sorry it took me so long to update! The Frederic and Worm Moon groups have been added to the bottom of the spreadsheet, and the room sprays were added to the BPTP tab.

Oh! I get packages of bath salts that smell like this! It's an awesome soft sweet mint and dry herbal/floral scent. Very soothing -- I will hoard my tiny half imp of it.

Edit: I have since obtained two bottles of it. It's geranium, sage and peppermint. It's calming and uplifting all at once. I can't wait to get my bath oil of the same scent!

Saw-Scaled Viper is very dry, and very heavy on the ginger, IMO. I don't get cinnamon at all from it.

A note to all: Frederic's entry will be included in the spreadsheet with the next big update. In case you were looking for him.

I don't maintain one with full descriptions, but you might find something here. ScentScribbles is maintained by foxfirefey of LJ and is a great online resource.

Is there a new csv or xls of all the scents available anywhere? The link doesn't seem to work, and I'd love to take it home to show Mum next week...

The link in my sig? It works just fine...right click and "Save as" to download the .xls. In fact, I just updated it with Sugar Moon & friends, and the recently publicized unreleased blends.

I received a nice large decant of TKO yesterday and immediately tried it. The consistency is perfect, very light, and it soaks into the skin without being greasy or leaving a film. It left my hands very soft!

The scent is...well, I woke up this morning and thought I smelled shortbread. I have no idea how I made that association, but it was definitely shortbread, and it was definitely wafting from my hands. It's not an overpowering scent, and I did fall asleep pretty quickly last night. There's more creamy vanilla in it than lavender, but I amp vanilla, so YMMV.

Now to get the boyfiend to use it on me...

You're welcome.

 

When there are updates, I put the new lines at the bottom of the spreadsheet, and will change the date in my sig to reflect the last time the sheet was updated. The easiest way to get the updates is to open the version I have on my webspace, copy out the new lines, and paste into your local copy. I recommend changing the filename of your local version so that you don't accidentally wipe out the entire thing.

 

Thanks, I've only managed to mix up all the columns twice. I can't seem to get my sorts to apply to the entire sheet, as opposed to just one column, leaving all the others in thier previous orders. More experimenting in order...

Well, you could hit Ctrl+A, and then hold the Ctrl key again and click the first row (line 1 on the left) to remove the header row (all the column titles) from the selection. Or you can click and hold row number 2 in the left column with your mouse and just drag your cursor all the way down to select everything. Then sort!

Everything's current.

 

Still working on getting the review threads added, and I'm tweaking the released/discontinued dates by breaking each into its own column.

 

Oh my goodness! I can't believe the amount of work and love that went into this. I just manually searched the forums to track down the category/subgroup names for the imps I just acquired in lots, so that I could look them up on the lab site, so I could log all the scents and their notes to create a listing to help me get familiar with things before my first imps arrive. It took me four hours. And then, about five minutes after I was done, I found this!

 

So, I feel about 3 parts silly, and 97 parts grateful beyond belief!

Thank-you.

 

Now, silly q. When there are updates to this (or any other) sheet, do I need to copy and paste to insert or do they update on their own? I know, I know, but I haven't used excel since the early nineties, and I'm a mac girl to boot, so one can only hope I don't accidently wipe the entire thing in one fell swoop until I reacquaint myself with the program.

You're welcome.

When there are updates, I put the new lines at the bottom of the spreadsheet, and will change the date in my sig to reflect the last time the sheet was updated. The easiest way to get the updates is to open the version I have on my webspace, copy out the new lines, and paste into your local copy. I recommend changing the filename of your local version so that you don't accidentally wipe out the entire thing.

I'd like to find a BPAL that resembles BB&W's Night-blooming Jasmine:

 

* Fragrance Top Notes: Lilac, Jasmine

* Fragrance Mid Notes: Violet Leaves, Freesia Petals, Spring Rain Accord

* Fragrance Base Notes: Orris, Musk

 

My future SIL likes it, and I'm coming up with a BPAL/BPTP/Arcana/etc. gift basket for her shower.

 

The only thing I have found in BPAL that even reminded me of B&BW's Night-Blooming Jasmine was the floral in Snow White.

Thanks; I'll have to get to the mall one of these days to see if there's any resemblance. I have a decant of Snow White '05, but I have no idea what Night-blooming Jasmine smells like.

Does the rose in Pulcinella and Teresina come out a lot?

 

I wanted something heavy on the labdanum but was scared of the rose because I amp it so much but dont like to wear rose so I never gave it a try.

 

Oblivion is dark and resinous but was not labdanum in particular.

The rose barely came out for me on the drydown, but if you amp rose...

I'd like to find a BPAL that resembles BB&W's Night-blooming Jasmine:

* Fragrance Top Notes: Lilac, Jasmine

* Fragrance Mid Notes: Violet Leaves, Freesia Petals, Spring Rain Accord

* Fragrance Base Notes: Orris, Musk

My future SIL likes it, and I'm coming up with a BPAL/BPTP/Arcana/etc. gift basket for her shower.

Pulcinella & Teresina is the most labdanum heavy blend I've ever tried, but I do love Magdalene. The latter is pretty heavy on the florals, though, and the labdanum just gives it a rich note. If you don't want florals, you probably wouldn't want it.

I don't think it's percentage so much as top notes, middle notes, and base notes. It tends to be the case that the first notes listed are the ones I smell first, and so forth. Of course, that's not always the case, so I could be way off.

I use GRR when I've got a serious alcohol-induced headache. It's the only thing I can wear that doesn't make my stomach roll over.

The Panaceas all come with a triple dagger in heart label, like the BPTP locket.

Not all of 'em. Grr, Ugh, and Oof, at the very least, are white labels that have the scent's name in big colored letters.

I have to preface my review with the caveat that BPAL's chocolate note hates me.

In the bottle, Gula is decadent and rich. It's warm melted chocolate fudge and caramel over pure vanilla bean ice cream. When it hits my skin, I get a brief waft of the currant and a much heavier caramel note, and then it's nothing but cocoa-scented baby oil.

It's been bitterly cold in the Midwest, and my skin is paying the price. The oil did leave my skin feeling soft and silky, everywhere except my hands, which felt almost like I'd just taken off powdered latex gloves.

So, as far as function goes, Gula was pretty great: not moisturizing per se, but it left my skin feeling nice and supple and lightly scented. However, I'm not a fan of the scent itself. My own fault, I suppose, for knowing that cocoa absolute turns to fake chocolate powder on me, but I had hoped it might've been different.

Foodies, especially fans of BPAL's other chocolate scents, will love this one.

Yep. They can either go in your carry on luggage inside of your one quart-size Ziploc bag, or packed safely inside checked luggage. Check the TSA (http://www.tsa.gov) for more information, but when I went to Italy in May, they didn't even blink at the 5mL and several imps I had in my liquids bag.

I've tried Et Lux Fuit and didn't find it to be heavy on carnation at all. I definitely recommend Hod, though, if you can find it: it's almost Carnation SN. I LOVE Alice. You might also want to try Maiden.

Having recently tested it, I think that Gypsy Queen is very "old lady." It's perfumey, but not in a dimestore cologne way. It's soft and sophisticated.

Not sure if this is the right place for my question - mods, please relocate me if necessary...

 

Can anyone give me a compare/contrast of Smut & Devil's Night 2006? (Yes, '06 specifially - '05 is super mild & innocuous on my skin) DN '06 is one of my favorite blends - boozey, spicy, sweet & smoky, with a healthy smack of musk. I'm contemplating a bottle of teh Smut because, well, I mean come ON. But if it's going to end up DN minus the spice & smoke, I don't know that I'd need to splurge for a bottle... Thoughts?

Smut is straight up syrupy musk. No spice, no smoke.

Lightning gives my boyfriend and I both immense headaches and nausea, and Ave Maria Gratia Plena makes me itch a lot. No fun.

Yike. Do other ozone scents provoke the same reaction?

Everything's current.

 

Still working on getting the review threads added, and I'm tweaking the released/discontinued dates by breaking each into its own column.

 

Thank you

Yay! I'm so glad people still find it useful. I'm keeping the link to it in my signature, too, with the date I've last added an update so I don't need to clutter up this thread with numerous *bumps*.

I'm anointing myself with TAL Energy and White Light, for sure. As for BPAL, possibly Green Phoenix or Priala; I like the phoenix allegory.