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Spice and Wolf
 

Scent Evaluations

This blog serves the purpose to keep my memory in check about what I've discovered about scents. I doubt it will hold much interest for outside readers, since anyone can just check the website to get thoughts on scents. If you happen to be interested in my opinion however, read on. Favorite to Least Favorite:     51 Luminescent, glowing, and otherworldly: green mandarin, neroli, honeydew, white amber, guava, freesia, white and green musks hovering over desert scrub, smashed wood, and the dry, biting scent of night air over the Groom Lake salt flats. Marvelous. Love this one too!   Absinthe   All Night Long As if the name didn't spell it out for you. This blend relieves all sexual inhibitions by simultaneously relaxing and arousing. Starts out as redhots, after about 20 minutes is changes to a wonderful warm cedar. I love love love this! I can't stop smelling it. This may have to be ordered as a 5ml.   Belle Epoque Sweet opium, Lily of the Valley, vanilla, mandarin and red sandalwood. A spicy floral vanilla. Delicious incense. I love this one. I'm getting the sandalwood as it starts to absorb and warm on my skin. Also the Lily of the Valley, which does amazing things on me. I will continue my review.   Black Dahlia Voluptuous magnolias strewn over orchid, star jasmine, black amber and smoky rose. Too dark for me. Bitter florals, sorta sour, too heavy. I think it's the amber that does it to me, I really can't do it.   A very floral soap scent...I'm throwing it in the bath! Black Opal A play of geological darkness and jagged brilliance. Soft and luminescent with flashes of black fire.   Barely there...vanilla, dirt, something a little unsettling, almost a plastic smell.   Black Phoenix Our signature oil. A dark, languid scent. Promotes hedonistic tendencies and extreme self-love. You won't stop kissing mirrors for a month.   Delicious vanilla spice. Warm and a little sharp. A great incense, but delicious on as well. Woody smell too, cedar. I love this scent, which is strange because the first time I tried it fresh from a new bottle I didn't particularly like it. Now to me it is like "Snake Oil" meets "All Night Long".   Brisingamen The amber necklace of Freyja, Norse Goddess of Love, Sex, Attraction and Fruitfulness. Her magnificent necklace was bough from four Dwarves [Alfrik, Berling, Dvalin and Grer] at the price of four nights of her passion. When Brisingamen graces your throat, no man can resist your charms. A glittering mantle of rich golden notes: five ambers, soft myrtle and apple blossom, myrtle, and carnation.   Smoky cinnamon at first... I'll have to test this again, the amber may have screwed me again!   Come To Me A phenomenally powerful attractant. Sexual and commanding in the extreme. Fantastic - Really Works. I get so much attention wearing this stuff. I don't even think it smells that amazing myself, but the boys LOVE it.   Dragons Tears Bittersweet yet powerful: salty aquatic notes and bursting with dragon's blood.   Starts out intensely floral with an overwhelming saltiness. Morphs into a nice spring floral, reminds me of lilacs. I don't think I'll be buying a bottle, but I will keep testing out the imp.   Eden   Disappears on me very fast. Sorta fruity and floral but for some reason I am unable to really distinguish the hints in this one. Ends up smelling like dried fruit on me. Nice enough but not a must-have.   Eros   Follow Me Boy A houdoun recipe dating back almost 150 years. This blend is favored by prostitutes, exotic dancers and others in the sex industry for its power to attract, seduce, and enthrall. Ensures financial gain and increased profits. Delicious.   Hanerot Halalu Yule '08   Hanging Gardens This perfume is an interpretation of the Hanging Gardens by night, based on further accounts of its fruit and flora: date palm, ebony, fir, pomegranate, plum, two pears, quince, fig, and grapevine with plumeria, three gardenias and dry rose. Need to test out more, seemed rather generic on me. Haunted A mournful, poignant scent, thick with foreboding. Soft golden amber darkened with a touch of murky black musk.   Getting some lime...maybe with barely some milky vanilla cream: keylime pie...Very subtle. Weird! More citrus than sweet cream. Getting the musk. sorta yummy, will try again soon.     Hi'Iaka mai'a, hibiscus, white ginger, akala, na'u, Hawaiian moon flower, yellow ilima, pink lokelani, jewel orchid, and fringed orchid. In Bottle: Banana Candy and Orchid   First Dab: Still smells like banana candy, warming into flowering leis. Very tart and sweet and tropical. I'm not sure what some of those ingredients smell like, such as the moon flower that it contains, but very floral. It also has the pungent resin base of most perfumes, a little astringent. ...Definitely a Spring and Early Summer scent... or just a Hawaiian scent, would go well will all warm and tropical climates, especially in the Morning. Getting sorta a Channel #5 after scent. 1.5 Hour Later: The Lokelani, a type of rose, is definitely coming out now and is giving the scent a very soapy smell on my skin. Rose comes out very strong on me and very soapy. I would wear it on a tropical island, that's about it.   Illustrated Woman Skin musk, smoky vanilla, pine pitch, patchouli, Indian resins, golden honey, and tobacco.   I love love love this, I need more time to test this in order to write a good review...   Inez Golden amber, vanilla musk, myrrh, cedar, carnation, and red sandalwood.   At first this was My All Time Absolute Favorite!!! But now that I've tried it again several months later it ain't so great...did it turn in the bottle? sad! Was: Vanilla, Woody, subtle patchouli ... Now: chocolate, a nice enough smell but not on my skin, I'm not a candy bar. I'm gonna wait and give it another go around soon, maybe it's just my mood, or the day...   Imp Devilishly playful: white peach, amber, golden musk and patchouli.   This really does put me in mind of an imp. I essentially like the scent, but it is not something I would wear around. Not sure what it reminds me of, not something I particularly want to keep smelling all day. No Amber for me. Jezirat al Tennyn The Dragon’s Isle: smoke and fire, earth and wind. The rage of the elements blasting over a primordial paradise. Wow! Very Smoky and Fire. Earthy...dirt. Meets its description nicely. Sharp and awakening. For some reason it reminds me wet aspens in the forest. Its overly masculine for me, but a guy would appreciate it...then again I might try it again for a whole day just to see how it does over a long period of time.   King Cobra   Lune Noire '08 LE   To be fair I tested it a long time ago and put it in the NO pile, but I think that's only because I didn't actually want to smell like it, but it has a yummy scent. Lune Noire on me is slightly soapy and powdery and floral like cherry blossom, with almost apple cider quality.   I am still deciding whether its "wear" quality or just a pretty scent. I have just enough to do a few more tests. After 2nd test and 2hrs: too sharply soapy/powdery for me! damn!   Midnight   Miskatonic University The scent of Irish coffee, dusty tomes and polished oakwood halls.   After awhile turns into a irish coffee-wood scent. Quite Delicious! It's a great pick-me-up in the morning, and that's when I'll be wearing it to go with my coffee, forget about having a pastry! By the end I'm not smelling so much of the wood, it's as if I spilled vanilla coffee on myself... in a good way!   Mme. Moriarity Red musk, vanilla bean, pomegranate, patchouli leaf and wild plum.   At first I enjoyed a tobacco scent, but it soon faded. Not a huge fan, too incensey for me. It's growing on me, very summery. I will save it for summer.   Morgause   Has too much resin in it for me. The other parts are too heavy for me as well.   Morocco   Moscow A rich, bold blend of imperial rose, carnation, lush jasmine, lily of the valley, dark musk, amber, bergamot and gilded tangerine.   A bit to rich and intense for me - heavy, run of the mill on me.   Moscow interesting lime undertones at first. Resin also, ends up smelling like old lady perfume on me. heavy, makes my nose twitch.   MotM   Namaste   Classic Incense...pretty generic scent - will use for that.   Nero   O The scent of sexual obsession, slavery to sensual pleasure, and the undercurrent of innocence defiled utterly. Amber and honey with a touch of vanilla. Seems to be everyones favorite... but I have to keep testing it to see if I like it. Starts out like cherry candy on me. Fades into that vanilla and honey and still has a cherry candy smell on me. Later - turns into honeysuckle almost. Yep lots of honey in the end. Still deciding.   Ode On Melancholy   Phobos Chilling white musk, lemon verbena, white grapefruit and lemongrass. Lemon Pledge. I wore it for 25 minutes and it I just reeked like house cleaner. It was bitter and astringent in the bottle and on my skin. I had to wash it off and cover my wrists in snake oil! Maybe I should apply less and find another scent to blend it with.   Queen   Slobbering Pine Dewy, wet, whiplike and sticky.   Starts as a masculine pine cologne on me, too masculine for me... but then morphed into a sickly sweet floral mixed with pine - not a great mix in my mind. I gave it to a guy friend to try out, maybe he'll have better luck though I doubt he'll switch it for his burberry.   Snake Charmer   Snake Oil By far, our most popular scent! Magnetic, mysterious, and exceedingly sexual in nature. A blend of exotic Indonesian oils sugared with vanilla. First Impression:   Instant Vanilla and spicy liquor scent with dry spices. Sweet and almost has a sauna dry wood scent. I love this scent, it's very comforting and warms the blood. I feel very sexy, confident and relaxed with this scent constantly keeping me company all day.   Sophia: My Namesake The Gnostic goddess of Wisdom. A solemn, deeply profound draught of lavender, soft musks, star jasmine, black rose, delphinium, and gentle spice.   In Bottle: I was surprised that the scent wave of ingredients gave off an impression of licorice, wintergreen, musk’s and spice inside the bottle. First Dab: Sweet and tart to start like candy hearts. Then deepens into a heavy rose/white musk - luxuriant. There is some lavender blended with the rose. Not getting too much of the spice. Child Sweet and Evolving into a Mature Feminine 1.5 hour later: Powder Rose and Musk: Baby Powder   Same Later ON... Just like Baby Powder on my skin. Not for me unfortunately!   Tintagel   Titania A nocturnal bounty of fae dew-kissed petals and pale fruits: white grape, white peach, iced pear, musk rose, sweet pea, moonflower and snapdragon.   Fruity, bubbly, delicious! Bright and sociable, flirty.   Thalia Plumeria, pear and white champagne.   Yummy Melons! Then pear and plumeria...wow, this is so delicious. I wish it would keep more of its initial brightness instead of fading so soft, but it's still wonderful!!!   Tiger Lilly   Twilight An enigmatic, otherworldly scent, brimming with power and mystery. Lavender and jasmine, with a touch of glowing honeysuckle.   Starts out like sunscreen on my. Very sharp to start. Softens into: Yuck...too soapy floral for me.   Venice lemon, red currant, wisteria, red rose petals, heady jasmine, Florentine orris root, waterlily, red sandalwood, violet plum, and violet leaf.   All I'm getting is Rose, Violet and Jasmine. On me it smells like an elderly ladies perfume, very strong and sour floral. Ick! It starts to warm up on me, the sour floral fades into soft generic elderly florals, like a potpourri sachet that goes in the linens drawer. Second Try: LEMONS!!!!!! Then Rose. Tea. More of an English scent than Venice... Limey Not so icky to me this time. Probably not my thing.   Viola Gentle tea rose, lilac, Calla Lily, and Somalian Rose layered over golden Peruvian amber, Spanish moss, red sandalwood, rosewood, and myrrh, with the lightest touch of Mandarin.   Amazing, smells just like spring/early summer when I pass my neighbors blooming garden. It is sweetly fruity too. LOVE IT!   Vixen Lascivious, flirtatious, and vampy as hell. A true heartbreaker’s perfume. The innocence of orange blossom tainted by the beguiling scents of ginger and patchouli. Wrecked havoc with my chemistry... either that or I just really don't like whatever is in there! After all the hype I am so sad, not my thing at all. I hope I can give her another home with someone who will truly enjoy her! After second try...That ginger and patchouli are a dangerous mix I think as far as my nose goes. Then it goes a bit vanilla-y on me...is it the orange mixing in? I don't know...it keeps confusing me. Wanda Along with Loviatar, she has become something of a 21st century Patron Goddess of all Dominatrixes. While Loviatar is the Goddess of Pain, Wanda govens Control. She is the breathtakingly beautiful sable-wrapped marble queen of Sacher-Masoch’s fantasies. Her scent is a deep red merlot with a faint hint of leather, sexual musk and body heat over crushed roses, violets and myrtle.   Tangy sweet and fruity at first. Softens quickly.   Wings of Azrael   Xiuhtecuhtli  
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Spice and Wolf
 

What I Got & What I Want

My very first imps:   Belle Epoque Midnight Queen Sophia (my name) Hi'Iaka Black Phoenix Wanda Venice Snake Oil All Night Long Come to Me Follow Me Boy   Bonus Samples: Phobos Brisingamen Miskatonic University Dragon's Tears   From Friends: The Illustrated Woman Morgause Tintagel Lune Noire '08 LE 51 Viola Inez Slobbering Pine Black Opal Twilight Ode To Melancholy Mme. Moriarity Imp MotM Morocco Titania The Hanging Gardens Absinthe Vixen Snake Charmer King Cobra Hanerot Halalu Yule '08 Wings of Azrael Namaste O Thalia Kubla Khan Xiuhtecuhtli Undertow Himerus Eden Manhattan Nero Tiger Lilly Dorian     I have been trying them all out, so far my favorite's are: The Illustrated Woman, All Night Long, Viola, Snake Oil and Come To Me, but I will a put up detailed descriptions when I get chance to really test them.       Wish List:   Endymion Red Devil La Belle au Bois Darmant Oberon Hunger Midnight Kiss Ars Amatoria   ANY BEWITCHING BREWS: THE CONJURE BAG all my favorites come from here.
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SultryWolf's Blog
 

eLiner Notes for SultryWolf’s “Essence of You” CD

Track 1: Yakety Sax (a.k.a. The Benny Hill Chase Theme) Artist: Boots Randolph This track represents my goofy side, which is fairly prominent. I often hear the theme running through my head as I'm doing one thing or another. Embrace fun!   Track 2: Take Me Down To The Infirmary Artist: Cracker I cite Cracker as my favorite band (though Murder By Death - see Track 7 - has achieved tie-hood for the title), so some song from their extensive discography had to make an appearance here. This track has a nice balance of great song with lyrics that really do represent aspects of my personality. The narrator wants to go to the infirmary so he won't have to drink or sleep alone. Also, I love hospitals.   Track 3: No One Driving Artist: John Foxx A favorite from my youth, and, again, one that speaks to me on a deeper level. In a marijuana haze one night, my friend and I 'realized' that the song is about athiesm (There's no one driving.) Even straight, I can see that interpretation; was it intended? Who knows. We also loved the line, "Someones gone liquid in the sheets. A sudden smell of burning leaves." which my friend 'realized' represents orgasm followed by the lighting of a cigarette! So cool. If you like this track, in any wise, I strongly recommend the whole album, Metamatic.   Track 4: Requiem (K.626), Introitus Composer: Mozart Performers: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields I have always loved the concept of the Requiem, music to commemorate a person's passing (and to glorify the host of heaven). Mozart's is arguably the finest example, and this brief movement its most dramatic, building as it does. It never fails to move me, fill me with the numinous, as they say. I particularly like taking it out of context, as I've done here. Its like a brief flash of the glory of the heavenly host, then on to:   Track 5: Queen of the Mountain Artist: Burning Spear Just a great song, and I do love the mountains.   Track 6: Danse Macabre Composer: Saint-Saens Performers: Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà The first classical piece that really resonated with me as a child. We listened to classical and jazz pretty exclusively, but this is the first one I remember loving and needing to know the title and composer so I could find it again. Ran across this version only recently on a collection called Infernal Violins, and it really captures the image of the risen dead, dancing in a mouldy graveyard.   Track 7: Until Morale Improves, The Beatings Will Continue Artist: Murder By Death Like Cracker, Murder By Death, a favorite band, had to make an appearance here. The title of this track doesnt really describe the content. Its from an album which tells a story, of a man tracking the Devil across the Southwestern US and into Mexico, and in this track, hes facing the seeming impossibility of the task. I particularly like the line, "I drink whiskey instead of water, 'cause I can't stand to be sober in this place." because whiskey is my drink. I can stand to be sober, but don't always want to be.   Track 8: Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty / I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts Artist: Barry ODowd & The Highlanders If I had a version with just Blighty, I'd have included that - nothing against Coconuts, but the purpose of the track's inclusion here is my love of England.   Track 9: Once Upon A December Artist: Deana Carter One of my favorite songs to sing along to! This is the end-credits rock-version of a song from the animated film Anastasia and, for once, is wonderfully done. I really like the guitar solo.   Track 10: Devils Artist: The Endparty Thinking back, Im not sure why I chose this track over Home ("Everywhere you are feels like home to me" - which definitely describes how I feel about Hubby *aww*). But I do love this track, and I am not without my own Devils crawling inside me!   Track 11: My Last Breath Artist: Evanescence Would you believe that I actually made an effort not to make my selections too dark? This track is a song of joy and hope and promise. The narrator is dying, in the arms of her beloved, and she sings of how everything will be all right. The lines, "I'll miss the Winter, a world of fragile things. Look for me in the white forest, hiding in a hollow tree" are of particular significance to me, as I do love Winter (not that we get much of one here in Los Angeles), and I love, love, love the concept of the beauty and majesty of nature reminding us of our loved ones who have passed.   Track 12: Smell of Home Artist: Jules and the Polar Bears My very first Favorite Band. Fortunately, I got to see them twice before they were gone forever. Nothing that Jules Shear has done since quite lives up to the greatness that was the Polar Bears. The song is about the desire in all of us to have and find home, and how elusive that concept can be. To me, theres another association, because I'm so dog-crazy: for a dog, theres great comfort in the smell of home.   Track 13: St. James Infirmary Artist: Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band I have lots of versions of this, my very favorite song of all time, and the one that I can, on occasion, be persuaded to perform. This version captures the Hot Jazz origins of the song rather nicely. (My very favorite version is not available as an audio track; it's the Cab Calloway version in the Betty Boop cartoon Snow White) This is an instrumental version, but the song is another dark topic: the narrator visits his beloved in the morgue, where she has died from a drug overdose, and he describes what he'd like his own funeral to be like.   Track 14: Little Room Artist: The White Stripes By no means the best White Stripes song, but it speaks to me on the nature of creativity. "When . . . you've got something good, you're going to need a bigger room. When you're in the bigger room . . . you might have to think how you got started sitting in your little room." Genius.   Track 15: Houdini Artist: Kate Bush Moving little work about Houdini's wife trying to reach her husband through a medium. Although I am not a traditional romantic, I have strong feelings about True Love, and that even death cannot sever such a link, and this song touches all those places. Makes me cry every time. Also, Houdini is just cool!   Track 16: Carrousella Artist: In The Nursery I really love this track. I can't come up with a really salient reason for having included it here, but because I love it so much, I associate it with myself, if that makes sense.   Track 17: Under The Bridge Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers I talk a lot of smack about Los Angeles, but it's my birthplace and my home, and I have a fondness for it born of that. Los Angeles has always, and always will, take care of me, just as described in the song. Thank goodness it didn't take a devastating heroin addiction (as in the song) to realize it!   Track 18: Libertad Composer: Michel Cusson Singer: Marie-Soleil Dion A beautiful song from the soundtrack to Cavalia, the equine-human dance show. An incredibly moving show. This track is here because of my love for animals, for working animals (hey, performance is work!), and because the track always fills me with such joy.   Track 19: Darkness Darkness Artist: Robert Plant What a great version of a great song. I love the dark, and this song is a rare tribute to all the wonderful aspects of darkness.   Track 20: Suffocate (EP version) Artist: The Teardrop Explodes Another track included mostly because I just love it. I haven't, thank goodness, had to suffer any relationship such as that described, though I've heard of plenty.
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No End to the Sky
 

Mine, All Mine! (Bottles And Imps)

Red listed bottles are available on my swaps and sales.   BPTP Atmosphere Sprays Dungeon decant more please! Unopened Bottles How Doth the Little Crocodile available for sale/swap received 08/28/09 from Lab Lawn Gnome available for sale/swap Lilith Victoria Yellow Dress with Snake, received 11/12/08 from Lab Pumpkin IV '08 x2 Shub-Niggurath Strawberry Moon '09 available for sale/swap Sunbird received 06/27/13 from CBLDF Opened Bottles All They Had Seen, and All They Had Lost 3/5 full Bezoar empty, received 05/15/10 Death of Autumn 1/5 full How Doth the Little Crocodile 2/5 full Lawn Gnome 3/5 full Lilith Victoria: Little Witch with Owl 2/5 full Mictecacihuatl 1/5 full available for sale/swap Pumpkin IV '08 2/5 full Shub-Niggurath 3/5 full Snake Oil 2/5 full, gift received 12/25/09 Strawberry Moon '09 3/5 full Sunbird 2/5 full Imps and Decants I'm keeping these, imps for sale/swap are here Bezoar 1 ml roller vial All They Had Seen, and All They Had Lost 1 ml roller vial How Doth the Little Crocodile 1 ml roller vial Lawn Gnome 1 ml roller vial Lilith Victoria 1 ml roller vial Pumpkin IV '08 1 ml roller vial Serpent's Tonic (custom blend of Snake Oil and Dragon's Milk) 1 ml roller vial Shub-Niggurath 1 ml roller vial Strawberry Moon '09 1 ml roller vial Sunbird 1 ml roller vial     boymonster's box The Bow and Crown of Conquest 5 ml 1/5 full, exactly what a boy should smell like The Bow and Crown of Conquest 1 ml roller vial Calico Jack Cthulhu 5 ml 2/5 full Cthulhu 1 ml roller vial Dee No. 93 Engine 5 ml empty No. 93 1 ml roller vial Jolly Roger Trevor Bruttenhelm 5ml empty Trevor Bruttenhelm 1 ml roller vial
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No End to the Sky
 

Notes and such

Items for sale/swap are here. I'm extremely flexible when swapping, so make an offer! I'm sensitive to and can't wear a bunch of notes, so please don't take it personally if I turn down a swap.   Earthy, gently spicy, and golden resinous blends work best for me.   Favorite Notes: aspen leaves, balm of gilead, balsam, benzoin, cardamom, carnation, cherry tobacco, cocoa, dragon's blood (non-floral), ginger, heliotrope, moss, myrrh, nutmeg, red grave loam, sandalwood (hot, dry, smokey varieties), smoke, storax, subtle spices (allspice, cassia, cinnamon, clove), tonka, vanilla, white sage, yuzu   Favorite Scents: Sunbird, Snake Oil, Aged Penny Greadful   Favorites that broke the rules: All They Had Seen and All They Had Lost (mist, dew, rose, floral, seriously this should be awful on me), Clemence (decant smelled funky, caused hives. lab fresh bottle smells amazing, no rash), How Doth the Little Crocodile (mint, but no skin reaction)   Notes that cause skin irritation and hives: anise/star anise, bay, cassia, clove, cinnamon, lemongrass, mint, pennyroyal, pepper (all forms)   Doom Notes: anise, aquatic, blackberry, booze, butter, caramel, clean, dew, most florals (especially gardenia, iris, jasmine, orchid, rose, sweet pea, water lily), frankincense, grapefruit, green, herbal, honey, heavy incense, lemon, lime, mist, heavy musk, oak, ozone, heavy patchouli, powdery, sugar, rosewood, sassafras, teak  
  Anti-Wish List Seriously. Worst skin chemistry ever! I can't believe how many beautiful oils I've ruined.   Scents that cause skin irritation, hives: 13 (Feb. '09), Absinthe, Alice's Evidence, Bengal, Clemence (only my first decant), Dark Chocolate Pepper Smoked Caramel, Death of Autumn, Delphi, Faustus, Hod '09, High Priest Not To Be Described, Kabuki, Kyoto, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Namaste, Ogun, Plunder, Pfancy Pfefferneusse, Port-au-Prince, Pumpkin V '09, Saw-Scaled Viper, Shoggoth, Shub-Niggurath, Tweedledee, Velvet (if I re-apply too often), White Rabbit, plus a ton more, I really need to update this...   Berry + musk or honey (Bewitched, Lady Macbeth, Lady Una, Berry Moon) ammonia, cat wee Black Musk (Isles of Demons, Pumpkin II '08, Haunted) evil stink coated in baby powder, induces extreme nausea Booze (Bon Viviant, Elegba, Lady Macbeth, Swank, Twenty-one) that's a no, ugh Bulgur Rose (Baghdad, Psyche) unripe green rose and stinky feet Gardenia (Blood Countess, Highwayman, Le Serpent Qui Danse, Pepper, Sacred Whore) sharp, sour, biting Green Tea (Bewitched, Embalming Fluid, Shanghai) super sharp and astringent Honey (Bengal, O, Osun) dirty, sweaty Iris (Florence, The Ghost, Nefertiti) sharp, bitter, almost metallic, hits high in back of throat Jasmine (Black Dahlia, The Caterpillar, Crossroads, Delight, Mata Hari, Nuit) harsh, chemical, bug spray Red Musk heavy (Dragon's Heart, Eat Me, Hollywood Babylon, Kabuki, Spellbound) so overpowering, I can taste it. Gah! Rose (Lucy's Kiss, Kurukulla, Moscow, Rose Red '08, Seance, Zombi) ammonia Sweet Pea (Desdemona, Agape) acrid, harsh, carpet cleaner Vetiver sometimes (Azathoth, Fallen, Highwayman, Nephilim, Saturnalia, Wolfsbane) burning plastic or rubber tires Water Lily (The Black Swan, Desdemona, The Lady of Shalott) sharp, ammonia White, Pale Musk (Black Pearl, Dorian, Lady Una, Pride) soapy, shrill, nails on chalkboard, makes my teeth hurt Wood (especially oak, rosewood, teak) butyric acid (vomit) covered in sawdust   Agrat-Bat-Mahlaht celery salt (from caramel), sour milk Alecto pizza with a burnt cedar crust Arkham sweaty, harsh floral, ammonia Baobhan Sith moldy grapefruit rinds and tea leaves The Coiled Serpent no, just no! Delight deet bug spray (from jasmine) and acetone Desdemona sweet pea and water lily? double fail! Eat Me knock me down red musk, bitter burnt sugar Falling Leaf Moon, Fascinum, Perversion, Samhain, Scales of Deprivation, Trevor Comet cleanser (from frankincense?) Gladdener of All Hearts sour milk, nausea The Hesperides green apple and butyric acid (from oak), reminds me of Firefly episode when River eats apples Hurricane soap (from ozone) and butyric acid (from wood) The Isles of Demons burning tires and ammonia Mourning Moon wintergreen and pond scum, ugh Niflheim soapy (from ozone), rotting flowers, menthol, dirty oil (from vetiver), acetone Saturnalia acetone, suede, dill pickles Wood Phoenix butyric acid (from woods), rancid nuts Zombi well, yeah, that's exactly what I'd expect one to smell like
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Molly's Blog
 

Want To Sniff/try

Mara Fox:   Bottles: Compromising Positions Darling Catalina Heart's Ease Lady Frost Pink Amber LAM Stealing Heaven Xuehua Xing   Samples: Armed & Dangerous Banoffee Coffee Breaking the Ceiling Butterbeer Frosted Halo's Lavender Musk Halloween Moon Hera's Eye JoAnna's Sweet Winter Chai Lady V's Sugar Kisses Love Potion: White Mara's Magick Moonholly's Daydream Naughty in Paradise Priscilla Presents: Your Hotness Scandalous Intentions 7 Minutes to Midnight Spirit Bottle Sugared Apples Sweet Gaia Tea-less Strumpet The Prince and the Showgirl Tyvey's Black Cherry Rose Tyvey's Musk, Peony & Plum Who's That Lady
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Bottles

LE 13 (April 07) 13 (November 09) A Wonderful Light Absinthe and Lace Arachne of Lydia Autumn Autumn Lace B340 Badgers Beaver Moon 2011 Black Butterfly Moon Black Cherry Amaretto Pudding Black Lace Black Orchid Blue Moon 09 (Elizabeth's Interpretation Bruja 10mL BTMEN But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light Caberet Goth Champagne, Chocolate and Cheap Sex Chaos Theory V: Recursive Self-Similarity V2 - The O Series CCXCI Chaos Theory V: Recursive Self-Similarity V4 - The Snake Oil Series CDXLVM Devil's Night 09 Diable en Boite Elegy: The Autumnal Faunalia Figgy Pudding Gacela of the Dark Death Geek Goth German Expressionist Horror Gothabilly Great Vampire Bat Gun Moll Gypsy Haitian Lover Hexennacht 05 Hygeia Infernal Lover Joyful Moon Kypris La Fee Verte Lenore Lilith Victoria Lucy, Kissed Midnight Carnival Mourning Lace Narkissos Ninon Now Winter's Nights Enlarge Odd Portents O v6 Pallas Athenae Pa-Pow Phoenix in Autumn Pinched with Four Aces Pumpkin IV 09 Sachs Set v3 Shub-Niggurath LE Smoky Moon Sugar Plum Fairy The Butterfly The Maltese Cross of Sanctus German The Shadowy and The Sublime The Spanish Dance The Tell-Tale Heart The Tree of Life Third Charm TKO TKO v3 Velvet Bandito Victorian Garden Virginia Voodoo Queen Witch Dance WILF Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse   GC Bastet Fairy Market O Opium Poppy Penny Dreadful Perversion Port Royal Scherezade Shadow Witch Orchid Shub-Niggurath Sin Snake Oil (x2) The Antikythera Mechanism   TAL Anthelion Aunt Caroline's Money Draw Bastet's Laughter Caliph's Beloved Fiery Wall of Protection French Creole Jinx Removing Peace Perpetuum Bonum Protection Road Opener Temple of the Mother Wealthy Business White Light   Haunt Winchester
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RedRoseMaze's Blog
 

BPAL: Faustus

Faustus Category: Sin & Salvation Quantity: sample   Description: FAUSTUS An infusion of incalculable power and irresistible temptation. Truly an exercise in megalomania and self-gratification: frankincense and cinnamon, darkened by violet.   Review:   In the bottle: What I smell is mostly frankincense, with a little bit of violet, and a drop of cinnamon.   Wet: My skin has just been attacked by frankincense in big quantities… And some dark violets are pushing from underneath.   Dry: It settled down to a mix of cinnamon and violet. It’s spicy, and a little bittersweet.   Verdict: I have to admit spicy cinnamon is very sensual and playful; but man, do I dislike frankincense on me… Also, it’s quite different from my usual feminine perfume oils, but it certainly is empowering and self-gratifying! It’s somewhat masculine, but I think it would fit better on a young man, filled with sexual energy; or as a neutral scent for a woman with an aura of power. When my mother smelled this on me, last December, she asked me where she could buy “a gallon of that stuff”, so I know to whom I can give my sample.   More reviews: Sin & Salvation: Faustus
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Ephemera

Category: Bewitching Brews   Oh goodness, this is absolutely gorgeous. This is my first time smelling violet so intently, and it is really, really lovely. This scent lasted all day, lingering particularly in my clothes, letting me fancy myself to be an exquisite, delicate, highly-feminine creature. Another one to add to my list of favorites.
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Death Cap

Category: Rappacini's Garden   Ohhhhh, yum! I get a lot of coconut from this, though at the beginning, if I lean down close and sniff my skin, I get the 'dirt' notes -- a musky, loamy sort of smell that is creamy in a way -- like, yes, mushrooms. Incredibly odd, but true. As it dries, the coconut smell takes over for the most part, with just a hint of that creamy 'shroom smell running underneath it. I have to admit that I wondered why people seemed to flip over this, but damn! It's delicious. Definitely on my list of favorites, now!   It has a gentle sort of throw, treating me to wafts of creamy coconut all day long. Yay!
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Dance Of Death

Category: Ars Moriendi   It starts out sweet, feminine, and just barely resinous -- very sexy. By the end of the day, the patchouli has come to the fore, and is all that remains. I'm thinking that in the beginning I was detecting the myrrh and possibly the orris, so if you like any of those notes, go ahead and give Lady Death a turn on the dance floor. She's quite alluring -- though one dance with her is enough for me. Good eve, Lady.
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Black Opal

Category: Bewitching Brews   Vanilla baby-powder -- that's pretty much what I get from this. And...I suppose that's what an opal *would* smell like, if it had an odor (though I get a lot more of the white, fiery opal vibe from this).   It has a decent amount of tenacity and throw -- I'd rate it a 3 out of 5, on that scale. More of a feminine, demure scent.   I'll probably hang on to my imp of this, just because it's something I'd like to share with my mom somehow, at some point.
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Black Lotus

Category: Rappacini's Garden   Several people have described this as 'flowery bubblegum', and I concur! It's very, very sweet -- and pretty, in its own way. I pretty much get just damp, juicy lotus, and that's it. Maybe a powdery hint of myrrh as it starts to dry, but it's mostly a floral, on me.
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Baku

Category: Somnium   I've been applying this every night before I go to bed for about ten days now...and for the most part I'd say it works really well. This is the first of the Dream Formulas that I've tried -- I didn't know that you could order them as imps, until someone in a decant circle thoughtfully included this.   The scent is predominantly lavender, with a strong thread of eucalyptus underneath it, and hints of anise here and there. They mingle to create a very medicinal odor -- as a perfume, this would be really bad, but as a component for relaxation and sleep, it's *very* useful. The strident quality of it is actually soothing...it reminds me of when I'd get colds as a child and my mom would smear Vicks on my chest and under my nose -- that same sort of 'OMG this is strong...but it's helping, so yay!' feeling.   By morning, it has worn off, so I never smell it when I get up...though I often can smell traces of the other perfume I've been wearing the day before. This is the perfect medicinal blend -- it does its job, doesn't interfere or interact with anything, and then evaporates.   The vast majority of nights that I use it, I can be asleep in under fifteen minutes, and sleep all the way through the night with no interruptions. While I rarely have trouble sleeping anyway, this past month I've been having lots of problems with anxiety and such, so Baku has been a blessing.   I tend to be a skeptic, but as far as I'm concerned, this stuff works pretty well.
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RedRoseMaze's Blog
 

BPAL: The Unicorn

The Unicorn Category: Mad Tea Party Quantity: sample   Description: THE UNICORN A misty, almost luminous perfume: wispy linden blossoms, white flowers, and a touch of sweet herbs.   Review:   In the bottle: A clean, fresh, and clear floral smell. It’s soft and light.   Wet: I get a sweet floral scent. I’m not accustomed to linden blossoms, so my first impression was something similar to lily of the valley, but I could be wrong.   Dry: It’s soft and faint. The herbs blend well together into a light, feminine scent. Unfortunately, it fades away very quickly.   Verdict: It’s lovely, but it doesn’t have much impact, which I think is really too bad because, otherwise, it would be the perfect blend for spring. On the other hand, someone who rarely ever wears perfume and wants to stay away from strong scents, would probably adore this.   More reviews: Mad Tea Party: The Unicorn
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Ceri's Info Page
 

Scents I've tried

Scents I love: Bakeneko Mme. Moriarty, Misfortune Teller Tamamo-no-Mae The Perilous Parlor Snake Charmer Resurrected Voyeurs Among the Cherry Blossoms   Scents I like: Antique Lace Black Lace Black Pearl Casanova Couple Consulting an Enpon Dee Glowing Vulva at Ryogoku Bridge Golden Priapus Love's Philosophy Luperci 08 Manhattan Perversion Samhain Snake Oil Snow, Glass, Apples Succubus The Illustrated Woman The Lurid Library The Unicorn Velvet Yvaine   Neutral Scents: Ashlultum Baghdad Belladonna Burial Chintamani-Dhupa Come to me Danube Darkness De Sade Dracul Dragon Hide Eight Views of Actors in Their Dressing Rooms Flowering Chrysanthemums Follow me boy French Love Giant Vulva Hermia Hunter Moon 07 I Married a Vampire from Planet X Inez Kali Kumari Kandam La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente Lady Lilith Lady Macbeth Languor L'Ecole des Filles Les Bijoux Lovers in a Ricefield Lovers With Rutting Cats Lysander Mad Hatter Man With Phallus Head Medea Miller Vs. California / 413 U.S. 15 Minotaur O Pirate Moon Poisoned Apple Prague Red Lantern Samhainophobia Smut 08 Snow White 08 The Head of Holofernes The Hesperides The Lady on the Grey The Organ Grinder Tissue Tombstone Vixen White Chocolate & Strawberry Wolf's Heart   Scents that are not for me: Ave Maria Gratia Plena Black Phoenix Bluebeard Blue Moon 07 Bordello Cockaigne Devil's Claw Diary of a Lovestruck Teenage Cannibal Dragon's Tears Eclipse Envy Euphrosyne Gluttony Grog Helena Khrysee Longing Lolita Love Me Mama-Ji Monster Bait: Biggercritters Monster Bait: Tokyo Stomp Moxie Muse Phobos Queen Rose Red 08 Sea of Glass Somnus Stardust Victoria Sugar Cookie Swank The Convocation The Dormouse The Hamptons The Lady of Shalott Theodosius, The Legerdemain Tiresias, the Androgyne Visiting the Temple of Auspicious Fortune Alone on the Winter Solstice Wanton Water Phoenix
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My Weird Chemistry.

Death Notes   Ambergris Caramel Cedar (Soapy) Fir Honey Incense Lemon Lily Lime Musk Orchid Pine Rose Violet Vetiver     Nice Notes   Cherry Blossom Plum Tangerine Vanilla
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confessions of an olfactory orgasm addict
 

imp testing Mon 26/1/09

Some good old-fashioned GC testing, people!   Devil's Claw - this truly is bright (yellow) and smoky black at the same time. How'd they manage that? Sadly, doesn't quite suit my body chemistry.   Wanton - ooh-er, rose attar likes me in this blend with sandalwood and patchouli. Holding onto my imp for further testing! It does smell of something else I've tried before in the Ars Amatoria I think. It's very Indian and sensual.   Tintagel - lavenderish vibe at first, then berries. I don't get all the notes listed but that's okay. Keeping imp for further testing.   Velvet - at first, this is the gentlest chocolate fragrance ever, but sadly goes sour. I guess it's to be expected as milk chocolate BPAL doesn't tend to like me.   Phantom Queen - floral - old-fashioned, clean florals. Apple blossom and meadowsweet love me, and it's just perfect for this summer day.   Magdalene - very sober blend - labdanum is a little too musty, and was worried that white roses wouldn't like me. Sadly, this has virtually no throw on me. It's a pretty quiet blend, but that's fine.   Vicomte de Valmont - very understated cologne. About half of the notes in this I love, and half hate me quite a bit. The sandalwood and musk are most prominent on me but the mint bothers me.
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Bathsheba

Bathsheba has been on my radar since my first BPAL order, I just always passed it by. It seemed too girly, too floral, too simple.   In fact, Bathsheba is simply elegant. This could almost pass for regular, commercial perfume, like a classic scent that's been around since the 1920's. It evokes the palest pink blush.   It's lovely and it's the first time I've been able to detect carnation in a blend and I like it very much. Florals don't do well on me, so this is a pleasant surprise. I suppose I had some preconceptions about carnation - something to do with high school dance corsages and green dyed St Paddy's day dreck. Despite their down market connotation, they are nice flowers   Sadly, it has practically no throw or duration on my skin so I reluctantly must put it aside.   Jewelbug's reference to Necco wafers is spot on. That's what I smell on my wrists an hour after application: Ghosts of Necco Wafers   Provided your skin does not consume it, this would be a good choice for those times when over the top BPALs aren't appropriate: job interviews, court dates, public executions . . .
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imp testing Sat 24/1/09

(We can has Obama, yea!)   Anyway, onto the fragrant stuff.   As received from Apple...   Buck Moon - not the usual Lunacy oil. I became more fond of lunar oil base last time in hospital and really like this one. It's more of a skin musk than an animalistic one, with a hint of forest scents. Also a little sweet and stays close to the skin upon drydown. It's beautiful in a dreamy way.   F5 - Reminds me a lot of Shanghai. I can imagine this would have been very popular when it came out. I really like it, uplifted me completely which was good as my mind was quite sluggish!   Les Anges Dechus - tobacco is lovely, but the other things that temper it on drydown means it's essentially not suited to me, which is a bit of a shame.   Keeping the first two, the latter will go in my "find new homes for" bag.
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