BPAL Thoughts Part Five

[missmiah]

Whip (Love Potions)- Agony and ecstasy: black leather and damp red rose. Wet rose. Seriously, it smells like lush, damp, fresh rose.



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Inferno (Dark Elements)- The Dark Side of Fire: cinnamon, bitter almond, and neroli. Heavily spiced, torrid, and possibly conflagrant. It's RedHots with a hint of bitter almond, I'm in heaven! I'm not sure what conflagrant means, but I suspect it has something to do with short lived because Inferno burnt up and disappeared in under two hours, possibly less.



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Dorian (Sin & Salvation)- Refined, elegant, and lovely, with a noble bearing and seemingly gentle air. This blend is an artful deception: a sweet gilded blossom lying over a twisted and corrupted core. A Victorian fougere with three pale musks and dark, sugared vanilla tea. Oh, the sugared vanilla is to die for. There's something underneath that twinges enough to almost bother me, but I can't pinpoint it. I forgot what order I put the smellies on and spent several minutes yesterday sniffing Dorian and trying to figure out what the hell it was, which means the sugared vanilla had faded enough I couldn't tell it was there.



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Saint-Germain (Bewitching Brews)- Said to have lived for centuries, the Comte de Saint-Germain is truly a man of legend and mystery. He was an aristocrat, master alchemist, adventurer, magician, artist, and seer with a lust for exquisite jewels, and was reputed to have attained knowledge of the Elixer of Life. His knowledge was so vast and all-encompassing that his claim to have lived hundreds of years - he allegedly knew Jesus and was present at the Council of Nicea - was widely accepted as true. He is a Hermetic Magician's hero for the ages, and his scent is an elegant, timeless, truly refined cologne, bold yet classic: gilded amber, hypnotic lavender, brash carnation and deep mosses. Whoa, this is... it bites at me. Floral but not, sort of spicy. I don't think I like it at all, but I don't hate it.



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Lightning (Bewitching Brews)- Lightning slashing the midnight skies over the endless reaches of the ocean. The electric tang of ozone, marine notes, and a drop of sharp rain. As I suspected, I don't like this one. I'm not fond of the water/marine based scents. It's not as sharp or annoying as some of the others I've smelled but it's not anything I enjoy. Almost reminds me of Ocean Breeze scented candles.



The real question - having tested these 21 scents on my skin and narrowed down what I like and don't... do I really want to order 5 larger bottles? My next proposed order (which I was thinking about holding off on until the next full moon and the Lunacy blend came out until rewil reminded me that the next one is Beaver Moon) comes out to probably close to $100. On perfume. So maybe not.

Comments

[rewil.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on how long you think the imp of a scent will last and how many other scents you want to try -- if there's something like Inferno that you like but goes away real quick, put that higher on the list than something that sticks around long enough that you won't be using up the imp that quickly.

I dunno. Most of the bottles I have right now are LE, because there's more of a rush to get them. Out of the 70 or so imps I've got, there are four regular cataloge ones so far that I've gone ahead an ordered a bigger bottle of, and four or five that I want to upgrade in the future.

And I'll swap you something for Lightning, mebbe, if you wants. :D