I'm probably the only person in the world selecting a scent to wear to run her campaign.
As a side note, the Unicorn is a character in Alice. His scent would be cool and crisp, which honestly reminds me more of the White Rabbit BPAL.
The Unicorn
From the Mad Tea Party Collection
A misty, almost luminous perfume: wispy linden blossoms, white flowers, and a touch of sweet herbs.
In the imp: Very sweet, a very clean, light floral scent. The sort of scent one might like walking into a clean room after a long day. As someone comforted by clean smells, I like it.
Wet: Less sweet now, more delicately floral. I think the herbs make it just a little spicy. Very nice.
Dry: Subtle, pretty, floral, herbaceous. I find that, unlike many BPAL users, the scents do not change much on my skin, nor do notes disappear or reappear in the process, they just mellow with time.
The verdict: A relaxing scent, very gentle and pleasant. Not my favorite, but there is something comforting about how clean and delicate it is.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
BPAL Review: Euphrosyne
Picked this one because of the character in my play. In my version, Euphrosyne's the mean one. :-)
Euphrosyne
The Grace of Mirth
Gardenia, tea rose, vanilla and jasmine.
In the imp: Very sweet, very floral. Nice, but could use something to balance it.
Wet: I think I'm mostly getting the gardenia and the jasmine. It's a little less sharp on the skin, which I like.
Dry: Still intensely floral, but pleasantly less intensely sweet and more delicate now. I was hoping to detect more of the vanilla, but it's not coming out on me.
The verdict: I like it, but I like it more once the sweetness mellows out. I like delicate floral scents, though they are less exciting than some. I think I would enjoy it more if the vanilla gave a richer tone to the flowers; as I said, it could use something to give it more complexity.
I know it's not usually a good idea to choose scents for other people, but it might be a nice congratulations gift for the Graces in the cast to give each of them a bottle of the scent named after the one they played.
Euphrosyne
The Grace of Mirth
Gardenia, tea rose, vanilla and jasmine.
In the imp: Very sweet, very floral. Nice, but could use something to balance it.
Wet: I think I'm mostly getting the gardenia and the jasmine. It's a little less sharp on the skin, which I like.
Dry: Still intensely floral, but pleasantly less intensely sweet and more delicate now. I was hoping to detect more of the vanilla, but it's not coming out on me.
The verdict: I like it, but I like it more once the sweetness mellows out. I like delicate floral scents, though they are less exciting than some. I think I would enjoy it more if the vanilla gave a richer tone to the flowers; as I said, it could use something to give it more complexity.
I know it's not usually a good idea to choose scents for other people, but it might be a nice congratulations gift for the Graces in the cast to give each of them a bottle of the scent named after the one they played.
Monday, January 11, 2010
BPAL Review: Dorian
Because I decided to wear this today, and it's interesting enough to talk about.
Dorian
from the Sin and Salvation Collection:
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." Inspired by and created for my beloved Tedwin: my eternal, beautiful, wicked Dorian Gray. 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.
In the imp: It's lovely, the musk making it very rich while the vanilla tea keeps it light and delicate. I have a taste (or a nose, rather) for old-fashioned soft scents like this.
Wet: Much the same, a scent that is full and deep but not heavy.
Dry: It mellows nicely, maintaining the richness but more subtle. Rich but delicate is a perfect combination for me.
The verdict: I love it; really beautiful and elegant. I actually think this scent could work on a man as well as a woman. I could see this becoming something I wear frequently.
Dorian
from the Sin and Salvation Collection:
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself." Inspired by and created for my beloved Tedwin: my eternal, beautiful, wicked Dorian Gray. 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.
In the imp: It's lovely, the musk making it very rich while the vanilla tea keeps it light and delicate. I have a taste (or a nose, rather) for old-fashioned soft scents like this.
Wet: Much the same, a scent that is full and deep but not heavy.
Dry: It mellows nicely, maintaining the richness but more subtle. Rich but delicate is a perfect combination for me.
The verdict: I love it; really beautiful and elegant. I actually think this scent could work on a man as well as a woman. I could see this becoming something I wear frequently.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
New BPAL to play with!
In thanks for letting her store some stuff at Elsinore over the summer, blendedchaitea gave me a bag of BPAL imps to play with. I am not certain, actually, if they are for keeps or just to try out, but either way, it was very generous of her and really made me smile. I am inventorying them and their collections so I remember which ones I got from her:
Ars Amatoria
SALOMÉ
A scent that is both coquettish and sinister. Exotic and lush, brimming with grace and viciousness: almond with star jasmine, oakmoss, red sandalwood and Egyptian musk.
Diabolus
AKUMA
Devilish temptation, as sweet as sin: blood orange, neroli, and raspberry.
LOUP GAROU
The wild, untamed essence of lycanthropy. Primeval in its raw power and insatiable hunger: juniper, cypress and galangal with the barest touch of eucalyptus.
BLUEBEARD
A scent swirling with dark rage, unbridled jealousy, and murderous intent. Violet, lavender, white musk and vetiver.
A Picnic in Arkham
THE HIGH PRIEST NOT TO BE DESCRIBED
Monastic incense, blood musk, black leather, cypress, pimento, white pepper, and Roman chamomile.
Excolo
GRANDMOTHER OF GHOSTS
Her scent swirls with a high-pitched tumult of laurel, stargazer lily, splintered woods, peony, mandarin and white musk, and is spiked with pale pepper. (A very garden scent, not only the flowers but the rich earth as well.)
EUPHROSYNE
The Grace of Mirth
Gardenia, tea rose, vanilla and jasmine.
OLD SCRATCH
Old Nick, the Devil himself, as seen through the eyes of Victorian New England. A jaunty, dapper scent, deceptively genteel: a lavender fougere with tonka, amber, rosewood and a whiff of diabolical patchouli.
PANNYCHIS
An attendant of the Goddess Venus. She presides over nocturnal pleasure, nighttime festivities, and all the joy and delight that can be found in the darkness. In later ages, it became the name of the all-night festival that closed the Eleusinian Mysteries. Night-blooming jasmine, moonflower, cardamom, sandalwood, black currant, ylang ylang, frankincense and lily.
GAUEKO
Blackened sandalwood and misty lavender, with curling wisps of smoky tobacco, nag champa, and labdanum.
Ars Draconis
DRAGON'S EYE
A piercing, radiant perfume: dragon's blood resin, lily of the valley, lilac and galbanum.
DRAGON'S MUSK
Dominant, passionate, devastating. Dragon’s blood and five deep musks.
The Mad Tea Party
THE MOCK TURTLE'S LESSONS
Not quite Turtle Soup: blurry aquatic notes, with a confusing, contrary splort of iris, ambrette, green apple, vodka, white mint and a squish of lime.
THE DODO
‘Red musk, lemon peel, sugar cane, cassia, white sandalwood, mango, and agarwood.
THE UNICORN
A misty, almost luminous perfume: wispy linden blossoms, white flowers, and a touch of sweet herbs.
Ars Morideni
THANATOPSIS
A meditation upon death. Inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem. A deep, solomn earthen scent containing pine, juniper and musk.
WINGS of AZRAEL
Azrael is the Angel of Death, marked as the last being to die in the Apocalypse. Though a harbinger of doom, his duties are an act of mercy: he curtails human life before world-weariness and despair destroys our spirits. Warm myrrh swirled with a bittersweet blend of violet, Lily of the Valley, juniper, cypess and cajeput.
Illyria
TAMORA
Amber, heliotrope, golden sandalwood, peach blossom and vanilla bean.
REGAN
A deceptively sweet orchid vanille with a faint trace of stephanotis.
Wanderlust
ROME
Refined, austere and graceful. A recipe gleaned from Classical Rome: cypress, juniper, chamomile and rose.
FLORENCE
The pearl of the Italian Renaissance. Elegant iris, bright berries, gilded amber and velvety spices.
VERSAILLES
Grand, courtly and robust: a glittering, golden scent that would do Louis XIV proud. Gilded red and gold citrus with amber, ruby roses, jasmine and orris.
Bewitching Brews
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
The name translates to "the beautiful woman without mercy", and is the title of an old French court poem that was later revamped by John Keats. A bewitching, seductive scent, rife with mystery and foreboding.
BLACK OPAL
A play of geological darkness and jagged brilliance. Soft and luminescent with flashes of black fire.
JACK
The scent of warm, glowing jack o'lanterns on a warm autumn night: true Halloween pumpkin, spiced with nutmeg, glowing peach and murky clove.
LAMPADES
Their scent is the crisp, inviting bittersweet tang of cranberry with smoky dark lilies, heady, sensual musk, a tingle of ginger and a brush of Mediterranean spices.
EPHEMERA
The scent of loss, love and the echo of time without end: sorrowful violet and chamomile with muguet, white geranium, calla lily and tea rose with a hint of autumn leaves.
ULALUME
Starry white lilies lend an eerie brightness to the deep black wooded scents of cypress and oak, layered with a touch of crushed dried leaves and the faintest aquatic note.
Ars Amatoria
SALOMÉ
A scent that is both coquettish and sinister. Exotic and lush, brimming with grace and viciousness: almond with star jasmine, oakmoss, red sandalwood and Egyptian musk.
Diabolus
AKUMA
Devilish temptation, as sweet as sin: blood orange, neroli, and raspberry.
LOUP GAROU
The wild, untamed essence of lycanthropy. Primeval in its raw power and insatiable hunger: juniper, cypress and galangal with the barest touch of eucalyptus.
BLUEBEARD
A scent swirling with dark rage, unbridled jealousy, and murderous intent. Violet, lavender, white musk and vetiver.
A Picnic in Arkham
THE HIGH PRIEST NOT TO BE DESCRIBED
Monastic incense, blood musk, black leather, cypress, pimento, white pepper, and Roman chamomile.
Excolo
GRANDMOTHER OF GHOSTS
Her scent swirls with a high-pitched tumult of laurel, stargazer lily, splintered woods, peony, mandarin and white musk, and is spiked with pale pepper. (A very garden scent, not only the flowers but the rich earth as well.)
EUPHROSYNE
The Grace of Mirth
Gardenia, tea rose, vanilla and jasmine.
OLD SCRATCH
Old Nick, the Devil himself, as seen through the eyes of Victorian New England. A jaunty, dapper scent, deceptively genteel: a lavender fougere with tonka, amber, rosewood and a whiff of diabolical patchouli.
PANNYCHIS
An attendant of the Goddess Venus. She presides over nocturnal pleasure, nighttime festivities, and all the joy and delight that can be found in the darkness. In later ages, it became the name of the all-night festival that closed the Eleusinian Mysteries. Night-blooming jasmine, moonflower, cardamom, sandalwood, black currant, ylang ylang, frankincense and lily.
GAUEKO
Blackened sandalwood and misty lavender, with curling wisps of smoky tobacco, nag champa, and labdanum.
Ars Draconis
DRAGON'S EYE
A piercing, radiant perfume: dragon's blood resin, lily of the valley, lilac and galbanum.
DRAGON'S MUSK
Dominant, passionate, devastating. Dragon’s blood and five deep musks.
The Mad Tea Party
THE MOCK TURTLE'S LESSONS
Not quite Turtle Soup: blurry aquatic notes, with a confusing, contrary splort of iris, ambrette, green apple, vodka, white mint and a squish of lime.
THE DODO
‘Red musk, lemon peel, sugar cane, cassia, white sandalwood, mango, and agarwood.
THE UNICORN
A misty, almost luminous perfume: wispy linden blossoms, white flowers, and a touch of sweet herbs.
Ars Morideni
THANATOPSIS
A meditation upon death. Inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem. A deep, solomn earthen scent containing pine, juniper and musk.
WINGS of AZRAEL
Azrael is the Angel of Death, marked as the last being to die in the Apocalypse. Though a harbinger of doom, his duties are an act of mercy: he curtails human life before world-weariness and despair destroys our spirits. Warm myrrh swirled with a bittersweet blend of violet, Lily of the Valley, juniper, cypess and cajeput.
Illyria
TAMORA
Amber, heliotrope, golden sandalwood, peach blossom and vanilla bean.
REGAN
A deceptively sweet orchid vanille with a faint trace of stephanotis.
Wanderlust
ROME
Refined, austere and graceful. A recipe gleaned from Classical Rome: cypress, juniper, chamomile and rose.
FLORENCE
The pearl of the Italian Renaissance. Elegant iris, bright berries, gilded amber and velvety spices.
VERSAILLES
Grand, courtly and robust: a glittering, golden scent that would do Louis XIV proud. Gilded red and gold citrus with amber, ruby roses, jasmine and orris.
Bewitching Brews
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
The name translates to "the beautiful woman without mercy", and is the title of an old French court poem that was later revamped by John Keats. A bewitching, seductive scent, rife with mystery and foreboding.
BLACK OPAL
A play of geological darkness and jagged brilliance. Soft and luminescent with flashes of black fire.
JACK
The scent of warm, glowing jack o'lanterns on a warm autumn night: true Halloween pumpkin, spiced with nutmeg, glowing peach and murky clove.
LAMPADES
Their scent is the crisp, inviting bittersweet tang of cranberry with smoky dark lilies, heady, sensual musk, a tingle of ginger and a brush of Mediterranean spices.
EPHEMERA
The scent of loss, love and the echo of time without end: sorrowful violet and chamomile with muguet, white geranium, calla lily and tea rose with a hint of autumn leaves.
ULALUME
Starry white lilies lend an eerie brightness to the deep black wooded scents of cypress and oak, layered with a touch of crushed dried leaves and the faintest aquatic note.
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