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Shaeon

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About Shaeon

  • Rank
    casual sniffer
  • Birthday June 6

Location

  • Location
    The South
  • Country
    United States

BPAL

  • BPAL of the Day
    Crowley
  • Favorite Scents
    Galvanic Goggles, Crowley

Profile Information

  • Pronouns
    Female
  • Interests
    Drinking tea, reading sci-fi and fantasy novels, watching sci-fi and fantasy shows and movies, musical theater, musicians that are dramatic and remind me of musical theater.

Astrology

  • Chinese Zodiac Sign
    Ox
  • Western Zodiac Sign
    Gemini
  1. Shaeon

    Scent Recs based on your PERSONALITY!

    I also have an imp of Red Rider right now, love it. Galvanic Goggles is the scent that I think of as my primary scent - I stop noticing it when I wear it, but others do and I get really good reactions from it. My best friend once told me she didn't realize that was perfume - she said "I just thought you smelled really good, like that's just how you smell." So I started thinking of it as the scent that is the most "me". I know I've tried both Ibis and Jaquel, and I can't remember which one I liked better. I seriously need to sample those again and figure it out. It's nice to see that based on my personality, people are naturally coming up with fragrances I already like a lot. I guess that's part of what I love about BPAL - it does feel like self-expression more than any other perfumes I've ever tried. That makes me feel hopeful about these recommendations as well, that it's naturally bringing up stuff I already love.
  2. Shaeon

    Scent Recs based on your PERSONALITY!

    Interesting recommendations! I'm actually wearing Fenris Wolf right now. I love it. Rogue has been recommended to me many times. I tried it at DragonCon, and did not like it. I'm beginning to think I may need an imp so that I can spend time with it, since it's been recommended so much. I've also tried Dorian and didn't care for it, but I gave away my imp of it and so I can't smell it now to remember what I didn't like. All the rest of these, I'm adding to my "to try" list. Trevor Bruttenholm has been recommended to me so much at this point, that I am beginning to really wish it were imp-able. Furo sounds interesting. I've never really tried a perfume with vanilla in it, so I'm not sure how I will react to it.
  3. Shaeon

    Different smells/colors, same perfume

    The masculine vibe I get off of it is a cologne sort of fragrance, maybe a musk-y scent. You mention aging it in a dark place - is darkness particularly helpful to the aging in some way? Right now it's sitting out on the counter in my bathroom, so it does get light exposure. It makes me really sad to know that Dee has shown up in batch variations discussions!
  4. Shaeon

    Scent Recs based on your PERSONALITY!

    Alright, this looks like fun. Basics: Gemini Ox female 40 I'm a no-nonsense type of person. I am a t-shirt and jeans girl basically because I like t-shirts and jeans and while I find handsome clothes appealing, I get annoyed at the effort if I try to dress up daily. So things like that are more for special occasions. When dressing up I do have a preference for "handsome" over "pretty" - I'm a lesbian that leans more towards tomboyish, and so I don't own any dresses, I like ties and structured jackets, and I will get emotional about a sharp looking pair of shoes. But what I really like best is a mix of the masculine and the feminine. I'm very independent, but not out of defiance. I think of independence as a survival skill: the more I can take care of myself, the better I am at getting by in the world. I ask for help when I can and when it doesn't seem like an imposition to do so. But I take pride in doing a lot on my own steam. This doesn't make me a lonely person though. I like to be social, particularly in a setting where I can just talk with people. At a big party, if I find someone I connect with, I'd rather find a place for us to talk than party together. I tend more towards a small group of really close friends rather than a large group of acquaintances. Among my friends, I'm known as someone who is pretty calm and laid back most of the time, who laughs easily and is often happy to go along with the group because what I value most is time spent together. I place an extremely high value on having fun, which probably sounds a bit obvious - who doesn't like fun?? But typically in situations where other people are uncomfortable because a situation is "high drama" or "high stress", my reaction is to say "this was supposed to be fun, and it's not." I'm far quicker to call out a person who is a fun-killer rather than a drama-queen. I like learning new crafts and almost always have something going on. Right now I'm learning leather working. I tend to like the masculine scents a lot. Florals make me sneeze. Anything that is heavily incense-like has what I call "the headache note"; self-explanatory. I love tea, love drinking tea so very, very much, and yet I've never found a tea perfume that I like because I think they tend to cross-over with my dislikes too often. Can't wait to see the recommendations.
  5. Shaeon

    Different smells/colors, same perfume

    I got an imp of Dee from a friend who saved all of her "masculine" imps for me (somehow I completely missed that at DragonCon, there were a lot of imps for the taking. Fortunately for me she did not miss this). I loved Dee instantly - whenever I would wear it, I could only describe the fragrance as "handsome". My reaction to it was completely emotional, so of course I got a bottle of it. Unfortunately, it doesn't smell the same in the bottle as it does in the imp. I can detect similarities (I still have a little bit of the imp left, which I am preserving), but the bottle is weaker than the imp and goes kind of powdery on me after a few hours, where as the imp stays handsome all day. I know some people have talked about various fragrances needing to age a little, and by the time I got the imp it had already been a little while since DragonCon. I also tend to assume that the imps age a little faster just because the seal on the bottle isn't as snug as with a screw-on cap. Has anyone had this same experience with Dee? Should I just let it rest for a while and try back later?
  6. Shaeon

    Ordering Imps

    Thanks! Thank you!
  7. Shaeon

    Ordering Imps

    I can't locate the thread about the new site. Link?
  8. Shaeon

    Ordering Imps

    I've added 6 imps to my cart and the price is showing as $24 instead of $22. This appears to be an issue of the cart not resetting the price for the 6 imp discount. I emailed last night noting the problem. Still waiting for a response.
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