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ladyhyacinthe

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About ladyhyacinthe

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  • Birthday 09/30/1988

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    I have a diverse range of interests, but they tend to coalesce around a few main hubs: performing, making and enjoying pretty things, spirituality, and roleplaying. I am a semi-professional lever harpist and fiddler, specialized in Celtic music. I'm an amateur potter and writer and seamstress, and I love books of all types, but particularly fantasy and sci-fi. I recently discovered yoga as an antidote to the physical damage I inflicted on my body with 11 years of ballet, and fell completely in love with the spiritual aspect of the practice as well. I LARP and play tabletop RPGs, and board games are a daily occurrence in my household. I'm a LUSH addict and a BPAL fiend and I love pretty things of all types. :)
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    GCs I would always love more of: Anne Bonny, The Antikythera Mechanism, Bordello, The Bow and Crown of Conquest, The Coiled Serpent, Dee, Dorian, Kubla Khan, The Lion, Miskatonic University LE loves: Glowing Vulva at Ryogoku Bridge, Harp of Cnoc I'Chosgair, Inez, Lilith Victoria, Luna Negra, Oak Moon, Rose Red, Sunbird, Taurus 07 I started out with warm spicy resin-y scents (and mostly love them - particularly patchouli and sandalwood), but I've begun branching out into more fruity and foody scents. It's a mixed bag, for sure, but I've discovered I LOVE the Lab's "dirt", "wine" and "plum" notes. I'm really not a fan of most florals, and honey is probably the note that I am most wary of.

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  1. ladyhyacinthe

    Anne Bonny

    This was one of my first-ever BPALs, and continues to be one of my favorites. It's very resin-woody, and the sandalwood in it is a very...creamy sandalwood, I guess. I don't get much frankincense out of this at all, and the patchouli is soft and sweet and plays nice. This is one of the sweetest (but not sugary-sweet, just light) woody blends I've tried, and it manages to stay very feminine without being floral or at all girly.
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    Whip

    This is a very sharp scent on me. Very, very strong rose (but then, I amp rose like CRAZY), with a spiky softness (oxymoron much?) beneath it that must be the leather. This isn't a soft rose, or a powdery rose, or a green rose, at all. This is all-rose-all-the-time, bright thorny red rose, and it isn't shy of telling you that. The leather is barely distinguishable as a distinct note, but it definitely interacts with the rose to create something...unique. I love this scent, but it is definitely not an everyday type scent for me. I generally prefer soft, warm, fuzzy, or juicy scents in my everyday rotation - and Whip is none of those. The only time this baby gets the love it deserves is when I go to the club or the renfaire. I'm happy with my imp, but I won't be getting a bottle.
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    Glowing Vulva at Ryogoku Bridge

    I was lucky, my first real toe-dip into buying LEs was when this one came around back in 2008. Got a decant of it, but fell in love with reviews of it before I even received the decant, and bought a bottle unsniffed. So happy I did! I wore it and wore it and wore it...and became sick of it, and relegated it to the back of my stash, and only just recently remembered it existed. So, since I never wrote a review of it back then... Wet: Very, very creamy, with just a tiny hint of bright sharpness poking through. Dry: The only word for it is "glowing". The cream mellows out, revealing a hint of the resin and the wood working together to make a very soft, aged-wood type scent, overlaid with deliciously glowing cream. It's warm, and it's very sensuous and sexy, and extremely comforting. I generally like mellow woody scents, and this one is perfect. Very happy to have rediscovered it, and it will be finding a place in my weekly rotation again.
  4. ladyhyacinthe

    Fairy Wine

    This should have been amazing on me. I love fruity, juicy scents. I love sweet scents. I love wine, and how it tastes and smells and especially all the different wine notes from the Lab. Alas. During drydown, this scent is amazing. It's sparkly and fizzy and bright, with a touch of sweet juiciness, and I can't stop huffing my wrist. If it stayed like this the entire time, it'd be perfect. As soon as it's dry, it's all fluffy dandelions. Slightly powdery (maybe the honey getting too sweet?), the fizziness completely disappears, and I'm left smelling like a patch of dandelions, covered in leaves. *sigh*
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    Ode on Melancholy

    Hmph...looking at the notes, this seemed like it could be something I'd like. I've now been frimped this twice by the Lab, and it hates me! This smells EXACTLY like an airplane bathroom (or maybe a clean port-a-potty) on me. No delightful lavender, no soft rose, nothing but bathroom. Into the swap pile it goes!
  6. ladyhyacinthe

    Arkham

    I'm normally wary of blends with more than about seven notes, simply because my skin tends to make an unpleasant jumble of them. Arkham, however, makes me glad I went against that instinct and ordered an imp of it. Wet, I smell a New England forest. No florals at all, yet. Having grown up in New England, this is a very familiar and pleasant scent to me. As it dries, the florals peek out, but very lightly! I'm horrible at identifying individual flowers, so this all just smells to me like a field of wildflowers, all of them mixed together, with the steadying forest still there in the background to keep all the flowers from attacking me. No, really. Flowers usually get overpowering on me, and I'm hoping Arkham doesn't go there - Lovecraftian flowers could be devastating! After drydown, the flowers are definitely out in full force, and the forest has retreated somewhat. It's a lot sweeter than I expected, but not sickeningly so. This may be a keeper.
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    Sri Lanka

    Someone mentioned this is like Anne Bonny's twin brother...I agree with that statement. Wet, I get a whiff of patchouli, sweetened by something...can't quite make it out. As it dries, the cedar and sandalwood come out a little bit more, but the patchouli stays the main scent. It might be the cedar or possibly the myrrh doing this, but I also get a hint of dry underground scent from this - like in a clean, cool cellar. After drydown, it doesn't change much on me, except that the hint of underground-cellar turns into a hint of burning sealing wax, for some reason. It's not unpleasant, but it is a bit odd. Not much throw after drydown...I have to stick my nose right on top of it in order to get anything. Overall, a very nice woody scent that I could see being very gender-neutral.
  8. ladyhyacinthe

    Bordello

    I ordered this because I was on a "fruity scents" kick and people mentioned this is a good one. WOW am I glad I listened! Warm, rich, dark red fruits - plum and what smells almost like sugared cherry? The amaretto is definitely there, keeping it from getting too sweet. Oddly, though, I'm not getting much of a "boozy" scent from this at all. That's fine by me! Definitely a keeper! This may even replace Lampades for me as my go-to dark-fruity blend, we'll see.
  9. ladyhyacinthe

    Ulalume

    This started out beautifully earthy - all wet dirt and forest, dark and cool. Lovely...for the first half hour or so. Upon drydown, however, the lilies come out full force, and the forest retreats behind them. It's beautiful, if you like florals. This may be a keeper yet, though - unlike most florals on me, the lilies don't go to powder. Seems like the wet earth and trees keeps them pretty well-rooted.
  10. ladyhyacinthe

    Eve

    Ehhh... This blend spends most of the first hour on my skin in a locked battle between crisp, tart apple and just-on-the-edge-of-powdery rose. Eventually the rose wins out and the apple fades back a little bit, licking its wounds and being comforted by the honey, and I imagine this would be quite nice if I liked florals more than occasionally. Alas, it's not meant to be. Into the swap/sell pile it goes!
  11. ladyhyacinthe

    Dorian

    Oh my. I only just ordered Dorian for the first time with my Sunbird order, after having been a BPAL fan for two and a half years or so... This is what my skin wishes it smelled like all the time. Everything else I put on turns slightly musky and vanilla-y after about four hours...and I love that, I really do. I've always been happy that my skin amps resins and vanilla and musk, because I love those scents - even the scents I can't stand turn tolerable after about six hours. But Dorian's like that from the beginning. Soft, silky, warm dark vanilla and tea with the undertone of Man. I don't get any citrus from this like everyone else - probably because it's hiding under the tablecloth while Dorian ravishes me. This is a definite keeper. I'll be getting a 5mL with my next order.
  12. ladyhyacinthe

    Sunbird

    Oh em gee. I think I just found my one true BPAL love. In the bottle: I was expecting it to smell similar to Priala, since I'd heard other people mention similarities...but I wasn't expecting it to smell like a deeper, warmer, sweeter (and less smoky) Priala! Very light hints of vanilla hiding behind all the spice and herbs. Wet: Again, very similar to Priala but sweeter! It's like Priala's big sister, all grown up and mellowed out. Hints of herbs and...evergreen? Something minty hanging out in the background, too. Drydown: TIGER BALM. Um. It's a good thing I've got years of good memories that the scent of Tiger Balm brings up, or this could be the one problem with this lovely scent, because while it's drying, Sunbird smells EXACTLY like Tiger Balm on me. Dry: Ahhh...there it is. My skin loves to amp sweetness and resins...and that's pretty much all I get from this now: the hint of vanilla that stuck its head out of the bottle, the myrrh of Priala keeping the vanilla from being too sweet, and something else very creamy-smoky swirling around like sunshine above it all. Love, love, love this. Considering that Sunbird is one of my all-time favorite Gaiman short stories, this makes me incredibly happy. Now to get my greedy mitts on another bottle or two...
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