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    Please be aware that we do not permit swap-related content on profiles or in blogs. Please post this content only in the For Sale, Swaps, and Wanted forums, or in the Wishlists topic. ~from Swapping 101  Thanks!
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voodoobaby's Blog
 

Stuff I've Tried

This is at least a little incomplete. I used to keep a list of everything I tried on a web host that recently shut down, and I wasn't able to keep my official list. I had to go through all of the reviews and pick out what I had tried, but I'm sure I missed a lot. But alas, here is the best I could do.   Absinthe Aeval Aglaea Aizen-Myoo Al Azif Al-Shairan Alice All Night Long All Souls Anathema Anne Bonny Antique Lace Anubis Aperotos Eros The Apothecary Arkham Ashlultum Athens Australian Copperhead Ave Maria Gratia Plena Azathoth Aziraphale A Bachelor's Dog Baghdad Banned in Boston Baron Samedi Bastet Bathsheba Bayou Belladonna Belle Epoque Bengal Bensiabel Bette Noir Bewitched Bien Loin D'Ici Bilquis Black Forest Black Ice Black Opal Black Lotus Black Pearl Black Phoenix Black Rose The Black Tower Blood Blood Amber Blood Countess Blood Kiss Blood Moon Blood Rose Bloodlust Bluebeard Bohun Upas A Bold Bluff Bon Vivant Bonfire Night Bordello The Bow and Crown of Conquest Bread-and-Butterfly The Brides of Dracula Brimstone Brisingamen Brotoloigos Brown Jenkin Buck Moon Burial Cairo Caliban The Caterpillar Cathedral Cathode Chanukkiyah Chimera Circe The City in the Sea Clermont Cloister Graveyard in the Snow Cockaigne The Coiled Serpent Coral Snake Count Dracula Coyote The Cracked Bell Cristina Crossroads Czernobog Dance of Death Danse Macabre Darkness De Sade Dead Man's Hand Death Adder Death Cap The Death of Autumn The Death of Sardanapal Dee The Deep Ones Defututa Delight Delphi Depraved Desire Destroying Angel Devil's Night Dia De Los Muertos Diwali Dionysia Djinn Doc Constantine Dorian The Dormouse Dracul Dragon's Blood Dragon's Bone Dragon's Hide Dragon's Milk Drink Me Earth Phoenix Eat Me Eden Ekhidna El Dia De Los Reyes Elegba Emma Empyreal Mist Eos Event Horizon Fae Faiza, the Black Mamba Faustus Fenris Wolf Fledgling Raptor Moon Florence Follow Me Boy Forbidden Fruit The Fruit of Paradise Galvanic Goggles Gaueko Geek Ghoulish Glitter Gomorrah Grand Guignol Graveyard Dirt Greed Grog Gypsy Gypsy Queen Habu Hamadryad The Hamptons Harlot Harvest Moon Haunted Havana Hearth 2004 Hellfire Herr Drosselmeyer The Hesperides Hetairae Hexennacht The High Priest Not to Be Described Hollywood Babylon Horn of Plenty Horreur Sympathique The House House of Night Hunter Moon Hurricane Hymn to Proserpine Iago Iambe I Died for Beauty Ichabod Crane The Illuminati Cotillion Imp Incantation Inferno Intrigue Ivanushka Jack Jacob's Ladder Jailbait The Jersey Devil Jester Jezirat al Tennyn Jolly Roger Katharina Kathmandu Kill-devil King of Clubs Knecht Ruprecht Krampus Kroenen Kubla Khan Kumari Kandam Kyoto La Befana La Fee Verte La Petite Mort Lady Macbeth Lamia Lampades The Last Rose of Summer Leanan Sidhe Les Bijoux Libertine Lilith The Lion The Little Wooden Doll Lolita London Lorelei Loviatar Love Me Love's Philosophy Lucretia Lunar Eclipse Luperci The Lurid Library Lust Lysander Mabon Machu Picchu Mad Sweeney Mme. Moriarty, Misfortune Teller Madrid Mag Mell Magdalene Magus Maiden Makhanitis Malice Manila Mantis March Hare Marquise de Merteuil Masabakes The Masque Mata Hari Mead Moon Medea Meliai Mictecacihuayl Midnight Bell Midnight Kiss Midway Miskatonic University Mr. Ibis Mr. Jacquel Mr. Nancy Morocco Motley The Music of Erich Zahn Nemesis Neo-Tokyo New Orleans Niflheim Nocnitsa Noir Nosferatu Nuit Nyarlathotep O Obatala Oblivion October Odd Portents Ogun Oisin Omen Oneiroi Osun Othello Overprotective Possessed Talking Doll Oya Ozymandias Paduan Killer Swarm Paramatman Parlement of Foules The Parliament of Monsters Pele The Penitent Magdalen Penny Dreadful Penumbra Perversion Phantasm The Phantom Calliope Phantom Queen Philosopher in Meditation Pirate Moon Pomegranate III Pomegranate IV Pontarlier Port-Au-Prince Priala, the Human Phoenix Pride Prunella Pumpkin Latte Pumpkin Patch 2 (2005) Pumpkin Patch 4 (2005) Pumpkin Patch 5 Pumpkin Queen Queen Queen Gertrude The Queen of Hearts Queen of Sheba R'Lyeh Ra The Raven Ravenous Red Devil Red Lantern The Red Queen Red Moon Riding the Goat R.M. Renfield Roadhouse The Robotic Scarab The Sailor's Den Samhain Samhainophobia Santo Domingo Satan and Death with Sin Intervening Saw-Scaled Viper Scarecrow Scherezade Schwarzer Mond The Sea Foams Milk Sea of Glass Seance Sed Non Satiata Seraglio Seraphim Serpent's Kiss Severin Shadow Witch Orchid Shadowless Like Silence Shadwell Shanghai Shango The Shivering Boy Shub-Niggurath Shroud Silk Road Sin Sir Hugh Ockham's Winding Cloth Siren Skadi Snake Charmer Snake Oil Snow White Sophia Spellbound Spirits of the Dead Sri Lanka Stormclouds Over the Midway Stranger in Camp Sudha Segara Sunrise with Sea Monsters Swank Sybaris Talvikuu Tamora Tempest Temple Viper Tezcatlipoca Thanatos Thorns Tiger Lily Tintagel Tiresias, the Androgyne Tisiphone Tombstone Two Monsters Tzadikim Nistarim Ulalume Undertow The Unicorn Urd Valentine of Rome Vampire Tears Vasilissa Vechernyaya Velvet Venice Venom Vice Voodoo Vixen Wanda Wanton War Water of Notre Dame Western Diamondback Whip Whippoorwill White Chocolate and Strawberry White Rabbit White Rose Whoso List to Hunt Wicked The Wild Men of Jezirat al Tennyn The Winter of Our Discontent The Witch's Repast Wolfsbane Wrath Y'Ha-Nthlei Yerevan Yggdrasil Yorick Zombi
voodoobaby

voodoobaby

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Wishes and Things
 

Wishlist

Updated wishlist as of Jun. '12 Mokey Red Bourbon Vanilla Massage Oil Halloween: Las Vegas Halloween: Montreal Womb Furie Smut (any year) Snake Oil (any year) Womb Furie The Vine Blackbear Moon Jolasveinar Yule Midwinter’s Eve A Wonderful Light The Most Magnificent Christmas Tree Queen Mab Tamora Fae Katherina Le Serpent Qui Danse   Also, any BPTP massage or bath oils, or soaps!   Esp, BPTP STREUOBSTWIESE soap & yoga pants, too!   Notes I like: Peach, Violet, Coconut, Vanilla, sugar, anything like Snake Oil, berries, fruits in general, fruity florals   Try me! I’ve been out of the BPAL loop for a long, long time. I am also interested in Haunt products. Mostly scrubs and oils.
aessedai

aessedai

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blogging at the end of the world
 

a lesson in overspending!

Oops, I really overspent this month. But there was just so much yummy stuff that kept getting posted and well, I just couldn't resist it. I've found a few new loves and some stuff that I was hoping would work but drastically disappointed me (I'm looking at you Womb Furie!).   My bottles of Berry Moon and Pumpkin III (2007) came today. I'm in love with Pumpkin III and the jury is still out on Berry Moon- I'm gonna give that a couple of days and then try it again. If it doesn't work I'll stick back in the bottle box for a few months and then pull it out again. Who knows, I may end up liking it.   Selling off my bottle of Hellhound On My Trail and Litha 2006 on Ebay. I hate to do it, but both are pretty awful on me- Hellhound being the worst. I think it's the tobacco it just goes straight to powder and Litha just goes ick really fast. Oh well, I could use the cash anyway.   Speaking of that, the Lab has a cobalt of Samhain up for bid on Ebay. I am sorely tempted to bid on it because it could mean that its my beloved Samhain 2005- which smells the best on me. Of course they don't have a date listed but either way it'd nice to have an earlier scent. And if it is '05? Oh god yes!   Either way, I'm spending way too much money.
killerklown

killerklown

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HuldraGiusto's Blog
 

Why ohh Why

Did my bottle of Blockbuster run out just went I need the smell of cinnamon.. This week has been crap at work.. deal with other people's drama.. their ex's showing up and have to tiptoe around the boss who is freaking out over people not doing their jobs so she puts it into my lap.   I need.. cool weather, the fall to arrive and some eye candy and some new scent to replace my bottle of blockbuster.   Other news Sara P smells like honey and cherries on me with a tiny hint of leather.. need to find the perfect layering scent to go with it.. Smut is a no.. Dia de los Muertos .. no.. but might try Sugar skull.
HuldraGiusto

HuldraGiusto

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Greensleeves' Blog
 

Want to frimp me non-Bpal stuff? Here's what I like.

Favourite colour: Green Black is a far, far distant second, and only because it goes so well with green.   Favourite metal: Silver or silvertone. Will take other metal colours if the jewellery piece has green in it.   Favourite animal: Shark   Favourite tea: Anything green, preferably with caffeine.   Favourite clothing type: Medieval, Renaissance and Goth, Celtic   Favourite candy: chocolate or chocolate-mint, or chocolate with hazelnut. (I really hate anise/fennel)   Favourite music: Early (Medieval, Renaissance), Delerium, Era, Loreena McKennitt, Mediaeval Baebes, Azam Ali, Lesiem, Dead Can Dance, Lisa Girard, Deep Forest, Tulku, Celtic, Enya   Favourite books: Medieval/Renaissance historical fiction such as books by Phillipa Gregory   Favourite historical period: Tudor   Favourite historical personages: Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, Joan of Arc   Favourite television shows: Science fiction and fantasy shows, also animal shows (especially shark ones), plus historical dramas and documentaries, supernatural shows like Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted   Favourite design aesthetic: Celtic/Tribal
Greensleeves

Greensleeves

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Temporary wish list

Okay, I can't handle being w/out a wishlist, it's driving me crazy. I'm going to start a temporary one and then I will integrate when we get our old ones back.   5ml bottles......   The Great He-Goat Helios Mad Meg   GC Imps.....   Paramatman Old Demons Of The First Class The Old Goblin Rocking-Horse-Fly   Unimpable....   The Curator The Floating Market Hunter Lamia The Marquis de Carabas Night's Bridge The Velvets Witchblade   LE to try.....   Interfector Panther Moon Tombeur The Traveller
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forspecial_plate

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

breakdown, Joyful update

JOYFUL MOON White musk, French vanilla, ambrette seed, frankgipani, angelica root, white rose, orris, and honeysuckle. No white rose for me, especially with orris. Powdery soapy city.   LIBERTY Liberty was created for the CBLDF, inspired by Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People: frankincense, beeswax, olive blossom, chamomile, sampaguita, magnolia, apple blossom, gunpowder, and smoke. Nope.....not really in a floral mood, and beeswax might be honeyish.   Rappaccini's Apiary:   No honey for me! Thanks anyway!   MOONSHINE AND MIST Ethereal, otherworldly, delicate: ambergris, white musk, water violet, ylang ylang, magnolia, and white sandalwood. Ehh.....somewhat on the floral, papery/powdery side? I mean, I like white musk sometimes, it's not my favorite, but I can wear it. But white sandalwood is usually papery to me, and all these things together.....just don't call out to me.   OLD DEMONS OF THE FIRST CLASS Siberian musk, black clove, opoponax, tonka, black pepper, and neroli. Definitely want to try this! I have often coveted the Siberian Musk single note, never got to try it, and besides that the rest of those notes sound great too. Sometimes black pepper turns on me.....well, so does clove, sometimes, for that matter......but this is very much worth a try.   THE DEATH-HORSE Lily of the Valley and opopponax. I generally stay away from most lilies, because they turn into sharp soap of the apocolypse. I don't know, though, the simplicity appeals to me, and I think I do like opopponax. Could be worth a sniff but I'm not going far out of my way to find it.   THE GRAVE-PIG Fig, oakmoss, mushroom caps, and patchouli. This doesn't call out to me, despite being potentially dude-fume, which I usually do seek out. But I'm not a fan of mushrooms in any form (scent or taste), and oakmoss can be overwhelming at times. Could be worth a try.   BEER FROM THE MARSH WOMAN'S BREWERY A beer flavored with marsh arrow grass, yew berries, purple foxglove, and giant hogweed. Hmph. Another scent that is not calling to me, but who knows....it could be worth a try. Herbs and beer? Wow. Just can't picture it.   THE NIGHT-RAVEN Indigo musk, wild plum, rose geranium, benzoin, night-blooming jasmine, and patchouli. Even though I'm intrigued by indigo musk, I'm probably going to let this one pass by. I just don't like rose geranium. I do already have a dark purple-y Chaos Theory that I really like, so I'll just stick with that.   THE OLD GOBLIN A crown of hardened ice and polished fir-cones. Pine in any form gets my attention, so I really do want to try this. Snowball Fracas had some kind of sharp ammonia-like note, so that would be the only potential problem here, if this scent has it too.   CAT ALLINGHAM Distilled shadows, a bleak desert landscape at midnight: Myroswelia balsam, gaïac wood, obsidian musk, green cumin, patchouli, myrrh, Siamese benzoin, frankincense, champaca, and sand. Oh, crud. This one, sadly, does call out to me, and I'm unlikely to get to try it. It sounds good....kind of like a fancy schmancy relative of Oblivion.
forspecial_plate

forspecial_plate

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mimosa's Blog
 

My Wishlist-general

Keeping the list up to date whilst the swap section is down -Ok so we're back in business now I will update over there for BPAL stuff Good Vanilla, patchouli,mint,amber,lemon,grapefruit,tea ,cucumber Usually Red musk,myrrh,teak,oak,wine notes.cardamom.cloves,spice,incense Sometimes Violet,balsams,honey,blood,chocolate(usually not) cake,redcurrant Bad Roses,Jasmine,Pumpkin,Hot cinnamon   Other retailers I have tried some Villainess soaps my favourite so far is Kill Switch I would be happy to try more from here or similar For perfume oils I have been sticking with BPAL as I don't want to have another addiction, but I'm up for enabling if I'm missing out on something fantastic.    
mimosa

mimosa

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Nymeria's BPAL Organizer
 

Current Bpal Collection

Bottles   Bordello Candy Phoenix Clockwork Couture: Female Loli.Goth Ogygia Rosy Maple   Imps/Decants   Beaver'versary Bon Vivant Boomslang Cake Smash Cheshire Cat Glasgow Halloween: New Orleans The Heraeon of Argos Hermia High Strung Daisies Jack Josie The Knave of Hearts Lady Macbeth Lady Una Luna Mabon 2010 Mountain of Bone Nefertiti Nes Gadol Haya Sham Obatala The Perilous Parlor Pet Magah Bird Pink Snowballs Pomegranate II Punkie Night 2010 Red Tide Schrodinger's Cat Sibyl Skytyping With Chemtrails Snake Oil Spinning Multicolored Metallic Pinwheel Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener Thouros Tiki Princess   Non-BPAL Bottles   Arcana: Caffeinated Death Arcana: Velvet Underpinnings Villainess: Blood Villainess: Blush Villainess: Crushed   Non-BPAL Decants   Love Potion Magikal Perfumerie: Dead Man's Float Villainess: Canaan Villainess: Chloroform Villainess: Krakatoa Villainess: Villainess
Nymeria

Nymeria

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Through the Looking Glass
 

OMG! Get out imps, I have SO had enough.

They are everywhere. Practically crawling out my ears,and another one has started leaking after I snuck a quick sniff. (I can't seem to get them to stop sometimes). In the past two days, my first lady of the grindhouse (which I loved), Love's Philosophy, AND Peppered Caramel Chocolate have just leaked themselves to 1/2 way after all I had was a quick sniff. So that's it, I am putting up all the non-leaking buggers up and they need to go! I am tired of their unruly ways. I just can't take imps anymore!   LE’s- $3.50 13 (April 07) All They Had Seen (x2) Aquarius Fruitcake - $7 Gladdeners of Hearts Haloes - $4 L’Autumno (oil) Noche Buena Samhainphobia Sapphics Terpischore (discontinued) Tomo Gozen (oil)     GCs – $2 (Take 6 for $10) Bayou Black Cat Blockbuster Blood Countess Debauchery Deep Ones Defufta Djinn Frumious Bandersnatch Intrigue Hetairae Himerus La Belle Dame Sans Merci (taped label) Leann Sidhee Muse Pannychis Penny Dreadful Segalio Silentium Amoris Somnus Sophia Strangler Fig Thanatos Twilight Undertow Wolfsbane       Possets Ohio Snowflake in a Martini (peppermint note) Snow on Bare Skin   Nocturne Alchemy: Hapi’s Pumpkin Chai Crème Brulee Ra’s Pumpkin Eggnog Ra’s Mocha Egg nog   CBIHP- Chocolate Macademia - $4 Mint Tea (60%) Snow- $4   Blooddrop: Blood Orange $3 La Duchess Hante de Nez Dixie Elouise Adelaide Deschamps' Perfectly Legal and Innocuous Kissing Cake Cavity Creeps   Good Judy: Negligee Woobie: New Years 2010 –Blue Moon   PS. There are a few bottles looking for homes as well. Chaste Moon (50%) - $10 Dark Chocolate & Key Lime Truffle (50%) - $10 June Gloom 2009 (40%)- $8 Stimulating Sassafrass Strengthener (TOL) - $14 White Moon (40%)- $8   Shipping: $2 UK/ $4 US
poisondove

poisondove

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blogging at the end of the world
 

it's all chaos

After dealing with the pain of actually getting it to me, my partial bottle of Chaos Theory II: The Butterfly Effect has finally arrived. It's CCCXC (390) and seems to have aged pretty decently.   In the bottle it's very sharp, almost lemony- very clean smelling. Wet its still very sharp but with a hint of spiciness. Dry the clean lemon scent fades to the back and the spice really pops out on me. The seller thought it smelled like pumpkin but I think its more like allspice or a bit of cinnamon.   If the lemon would stay around it'd be the perfect summer scent.
killerklown

killerklown

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Through the Looking Glass
 

Addiction

I think BPAL is officially an addiction and needs a BA society to drink with coffee and smell coffee beans with. Little voices keep telling me to get more, but really I am not a slather-er and don't really have the miles of skin all my smellies will need to ever use them all up.   That said I am really piqued to have a sniff of   Tiki Princess (is she really Snow White's tropical cuz?) Panahoe Mahana Polynesian Pop   & Blood drop has just put out White Peach Watermelon Alpine Strawberry and * Apricot*     Oh dear, someone save my soul.
poisondove

poisondove

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Rachel's BPAL bloggity
 

Rachel's unloved smellies

All items will be considered for swap or can be purchased if there is a price. If there is no price, please ask - I don't know how much I should charge for the unloved smellies...   I'm in Australia and prices are all USD.   Decants Yew Berry Infused Honey - Lightly tested. $3 Durian Infused Honey with Brandy $3   Imps - lightly tested unless otherwise stated Gomorrah Voodoo Lily Salome - Damaged label, level TBC Black lily   Bottles Saw Scaled Viper - 1/2 full The Organ Brinder - Just under 1/2 Wood Phoenix - Direct from the lab, lightly tested from cap Earth Phoenix - Direct from the lab, lightly tested from cap Peach Moon - Direct from the lab, lightly tested from cap Mme. Moriarty, Misfortune Teller - 1/3 full C.andy P.hoenix - Direct from lab, worn twice. Will check fill level.
rachelyoung

rachelyoung

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Rachel's BPAL bloggity
 

Rachel's list of wantneedpleaseplease

Level of desire indicated by the number of *   GC O** Dragon's Milk* Dragon's Tears* Eat Me (bottle)** Drink Me (bottle)**   LE Mechanical Phoenix***** Beaver'versary/Beaver Moon 2005***** Pink Phoenix*** The Phoenix*** Werepuppy (decant)*** Velvet Tiki (decant)** The Host of the Air (decant)*** Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse ***** Ü*** Coral Snake***   BPTP H.ua M.ulan (perfume and oil)*** J.ingu (perfume and oil)***** Tomoe Gozen (perfume and oil)****   Sniffie/tester: Ded Moroz
rachelyoung

rachelyoung

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Forum Updates and News
 

[BANNED] SugarCookie (aka: shadowdoll, Cygnet, fairydoll, sakuratart, playingwithaloadedgun)

SugarCookie created several duplicate accounts on 14 June 2010 after receiving less than stellar feedback.   On 24 June 2010, we instigated an investigation into the duplicate accounts due to the sheer amount found by the analyzer (three mostly unused secondary accounts: shadowdoll, Cygnet, fairydoll; two primary accounts: SugarCookie, sakuratart) and gave them all restricted access.   Between 24 June and 10 July, we had PMed both accounts and found many inconsistencies, and abnormal similarities in IP addresses (including finding that a cell phone had been used to go between the accounts a few times).   On 13 July 2010, we received credible documentation from a member who had sold to SugarCookie and had reviewed their paypal account to see that sakuratart's email address was now listed. The secondary accounts were indefinitely suspended and the primary account (SugarCookie) was given a 30 day suspension.   On 15 July 2010, SugarCookie created another duplicate account, playingwithaloadedgun, and all accounts were subsequently banned.     Moral of the story: when on suspension for duplicate accounts, it is most unwise to create another one.
ipb

ipb

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

blogy

Bleeehhhhhh.........   My 5th night in a row at work.......do not feel like being here.......wish I brought my real paper journal with me........but I do actually have school work I should be doing. But I don't really have the attention span right now!   I'm finding myself very busy lately, and it seems like there's not enough time in the day to do the things I want or need to do. So I don't even try. With the time I do have I end up laying around playing video games. Ah well, life could be worse, and I really can't complain.   Spending too much money on perfume lately, but that's nothing new. I have Mad Hatter and Baron Samedi bottles on the way, which is awesome.   Can't seem to settle on one topic so that's all for now.
forspecial_plate

forspecial_plate

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sableheart's possessions
 

Wishlist

I really want... Snow, Glass, Apples Gothabilly - I can dream right? Lucy Westenra - need more bottles but I'll take decants Fairy Market Clockwork Couture: Female - want a bottle Tomoe Gozen bath oil - preferably a bottle Tomoe Gozen - preferably a partial, can be a full Black Heart - preferably a partial, can be full Vampire Tears   I want to try these LEs... Aziraphale Beanman & Beanwoman Prepare To Attack the Vagina The Buggre Alle This Bible Iron Phoenix Kaiden Lady Una Pepper Phantom Time Hypothesis The Floating Market The Stormhold Tin Phoenix To Helen - decants to fill my bottle Tristran Yvaine   I want to try these GCs... Belle Époque Delight Eve Maenad Nyx Poisoned Apple Rose Cross The Hanging Gardens Xiuhtecuhtli   That looks interesting... Bien Loin D'Ici Defututa Jezebel Kill-Devil Les Bijoux Manila The Little Wooden Doll Tweedledee Tweedledum Vice   I'm willing to try this once... Frumious Bandersnatch Kitsune-Tsuki Kurukulla Marquise de Merteuil New Orleans Niflheim No. 93 Engine Sophia Tempest The Black Rider The Red Rider The White Rider Versailles   It's popular so I should try... Antique Lace Morocco Shub-Niggurath TKO   Atmosphere Sprays - all those goblin squirts got me intrigued Alchemical Laboratory Mahogany Hall   edited 2010-12-23
sableheart

sableheart

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starfish327's Blog
 

current 7/8

imps and decants absinthe akuma-3x baobhan sith bien loin d'ici black cat black death black heart block buster-2x blood pearl boo bordello calico jack centzon chimera czernobog crossroad-needs to be relabeled, using as a ritual oil dana o'shee deadly nightshade honey (tester) dee 2x dioble en bote doc constantine* dracul-2x Dragon's Heart dragon's hide egle ehecatl ekhidna-2x el dia des reyes-2007 event horizon fae-2x faunalia feast for the greatly revered ones grief-low hemlock honey (tester) herbert west high john hod-original, very low partial incubus intrigue jazz funeral-dated 2007 2x josie la bella donna della mia mente (tester/sniffie) lady macbeth lampades Laudanum   Le Père Fouettard l'examen de minuit lilith victoria meliali milk chocolate, coconut, cardamom, rum, and ginger truffle needlework nephilim 2x obatala ochosi (need to check spelling) oleander honey (tester) paramatman pele perversion phantom queen sapphics sleipnir (spelling?) spooky res st. john's eve suck it sugar skull tavern of hell 2x the coiled serpent the ghost the great sword of war 2x the jersey devil the music of erich zahn 3x tiki princess proto v3 (tester/sniffie) torture king ulalume vampire tears-2x vice-3x villain yew trees yggdrasil yorick   the amazing red labeled mystery decant *only willing to trade for something in the same scent family   sniffies mr. croup ctvi: the amber series 154 sara pezzini anesthesia witchblade
starfish327

starfish327

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Helios

(I'm not happy with this review....this is just a first draft)   Resinous scents are kind of a no-brainer for me, to the point where I don't even try all the new ones. But I love, love, love Helios. This is kind of an updated Sol. There's also something reminding me of Doc Buzzard, although I can't imagine which note that would be.   Okay, sorry if you haven't had the chance to try Sol or Doc Buzzard. This scent is kind of woody and spicy, but transcends both of those categories. I guess it's kind of incensey, but really high-class incensey. It kind of makes me think of that ultra-expensive Amouage cologne, one of the Jubilation ones (I can't remember which one I've tried, XXV I think), only without the patchouli. So yeah, I guess I am picking up on the frankincense. But it's not being a big frankincense bully with the other notes, like it sometimes does for me. Everything is in harmony.
forspecial_plate

forspecial_plate

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Diplomatka
 

What happened part one

It was Saturday before I heard something had happened. Already for 72 hours dozens of baby faced teenage boys with bullets in their shoulders, and pregnant women with gunshot wounds to their knees had been bundled over the border by family members. Thousands more stood waiting in no man’s land by the time Al Jazeera reported on the shootings on Saturday morning.   At the time I wasn’t surprised—after all, things like this happen in Kyrgyzstan regularly now. The point about ethnic conflict was not really being reported until Monday morning. Even at that point the media said the violence was due to some gang activity, they didn’t mention men in Kyrgyzstan military uniforms were the ones setting Uzbeks on fire and pulling out their eyes.   By Monday, I was writing indignant emails to friends about how I had not one single message or phone call about the situation, and I work for the main aid organization in Uzbekistan! My boss sent an Uzbek colleague out to review the situation on Sunday and he returned Tuesday with sterile facts about the camps: 3,248 people in Jalalquduq, 4,200 people in Poktabod. My colleague didn’t mention anything about the rapes or the mutilations. He also didn’t mention anything about the toilets, shelters or meals at any of the 40-odd refugee camps being set up along the Kyrgyzstan border. My boss sent me out to investigate along with our health project manager, Adolat.   By then, late on Tuesday afternoon, I had some idea of what was going on. I knew the basic facts—37 camps, 80,000 refugees, mostly women and children—but I also had heard some of the rumors that were being reported, about the decapitations, shootings, and beatings of Uzbeks. I and my colleague drove the 5 hours out to the Fergana Valley and settled into our hotel in Margilan about 10pm. We had no idea what exactly we were doing, with whom we were supposed to meet, or what the implications of this trip (I am talking on a personal level) might have.   At 9:00 we reported to the Andijon airport where the main coordinating center had been set up. Adolat and I sat there for 3 hours waiting for someone to be identified by the government to accompany us to the camps. In the small “press center” where we were waiting, a DVD was being looped showing men and women being carried into the Andijon emergency hospital with gunshot wounds. The time stamp on the footage read June 10, 3:10am. Until this point, I thought the shooting had started on Friday rather than Thursday. Yes, the three press men sitting next to us confirmed, it started Thursday. The DVD lasted for an hour and showed at least 100 people dead and dying, and was accompanied by a small set of laminated, bound pages of pictures of corpses. These photos included men with gunshot wounds to the head, women severely beaten and the charred corpses of toddlers wrapped in blankets.   Our first stop was the emergency hospital where the injured were brought. We donned the requisite white coats (Adolat's actually an MD) and visited the wounded. Everything was white, clean, quiet and bleached. Young men stared languidly at the ceiling while doctors explained their treatments and the surgeons produced before and after x-rays to show to the American what action was taken. Thankfully, we were spared visits with the rape victims but were allowed access only to the ICU where the worst injuries were still recuperating. 170 people were brought to this hospital with gunshot wounds.
Confection

Confection

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Thyme and Rosemary
 

Thyme and Rosemary

Sunday, June 27th 2010         Today is Sunday, June 27th. I have decided to keep a blog of the scents I've tested, as well as the progress of my new garden. I am a black thumb, but the garden is very important. Rosemary for remembrance...Shakespeare. So far I have thyme, rosemary, mint and basil. I long to add more exotic plants to this aromatic garden.   The scent I have revisited today is the beautiful Calliope. The fragrance is everything I want to personify. Clean, fresh, herb-sharp and clarified. Nothing will induce gardening more than the lovely Calliope.   I have never kept a blog before and am unsure as to what I should even proselytize over! I suppose more will come tomorrow, as I hoping this blog with be therapeutic and fun for me to keep even if no one reads it.
Dwin

Dwin

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