Tarantula Flash Sheet

[doomsday_disco]

Wish we had eight arms – then we could get more sleeves! Tattoo ink afuzz with caramelized pumpkin pulp, bourbon, cranberry juice, sweet patchouli, and red peppercorns.

[Invidiana]

Hairy with soft, fuzzy patchouli, this tarantula is covered in red-orange stripes of cranberry and caramelized pumpkin with that golden brown candied crust that makes it all the more tempting, especially with a splash of sweet bourbon venom. Underneath all that deliciousness is an undercurrent of what can only be tattoo ink. Don't worry, this one doesn't bite. 

[leptonpyr]

My first experience with BPAL's ink accord, and it was such a strange one! It went on smelling like sweet, buttery caramel corn that someone had dipped in a great big tub of ink. Very weird feeling to smell a sugary sweet gourmand paired with such an acrid ink note. After maybe an hour or so, more of the other notes started coming out a bit, I got just a hint of berry and something that smelled a little candied, maybe also the cranberry juice, maybe the caramelized pumpkin. It went on a bit stronger at first but then stayed very close to the skin, as oils tend to do on me. After more hours of wear, I noticed that on first sniff (English really needs better language and idioms for talking about smell...) it smelled remarkably like real ink from a ballpoint pen: sharpish, a little chemical-medicinal, a little earthy (although I suppose that could've been the patchouli)--I've never tried describing the smell of ink before! But if I kept inhaling more deeply, underneath the ink I got something that smelled remarkably like spiced cider very clearly. Such a strange olfactory experience! I can't say it's going to become an everyday fragrance for me, but I'm really glad I got to try BPAL's ink accord and I will definitely be coming back to try this one again.