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vultureguy's Blog
 

Our CnS, We Has IT!

I was really hoping to get this today, really needed to get it after a bad day. Just about ready to go to bed and thought "I'll just refresh my inbox". Desperate times call for desperate measures, yes??? Didn't expect it with it being 11pm here, 1am in Calif. But We gots it My Precious!!!   This will be our 3rd order from the Lab, mostly stuff for coworkers. I tacked an imp onto someone's 5-imp pack so they could get the reduced cost & I could get one of the many imps on my list, and we got Carol a bottle of Rose Red before it was pulled from the site.   Look *proud*     This ship notification is being sent to you by the U.S. Postal Service at the request of SHIPPING DEPARTMENT. If the "Shipped To" address information is not correct, please contact the Shipper.   A package with a Click-N-Ship label created on usps.com containing the following information is scheduled to be shipped on 01/25/2008. From: Shipped to: SHIPPING DEPARTMENT BLACK PHOENIX ALCHEMY LAB 12120 SHERMAN WAY N HOLLYWOOD CA 91605-5501     Our 7/1 order should be at the PO tomorrow (fingers crossed). I've got several private sales going, mostly decants so I can make our minds up about some of the stuff coming down from the Lupercalia & Lunacy updates. I have some decant supplies coming too, hoping to decant into 1ml rollerballs and stash a scent or two at work for the really stressful days when I need a boost and my scent is wearing thin. Also would be nice to decant some of the coworkers bottles into the 1ml rollerballs for the same reason. Also looking at picking up some wand caps for the same reason. Just nice little gifts for them this time around.   Bedie bye time. I've got our 3-legged right next to me purring, the deaf white one crashed out next to him and Freeway, our CRF kitty curled on his pillow on the coffee table. Eyeball (the one-eyed) is crashed out in a heap on the scratch post. Adorable little monsters.
vultureguy

vultureguy

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LieanaIylea's Blog
 

blog entry title

*sniff* i'm sick. sore throat and something with my stomach. T_T i'll get over it. i'm going shopping with my bestest buddy EVER tonight!!! eep eep eep i'm so excited. i really shouldn't be goofing off but the project is'nt due until 1/25 so i can just really goof off until tomorrow. *sigh* back to work. *cough cough* god damit go away cold!
LieanaIylea

LieanaIylea

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vultureguy's Blog
 

BPAL and Cat-Related Things

Feeling pretty low & needing a BPAL lift. I'm hoping our 7/1 order that I got the CnS for is at the post on Sat. I've got some decants and imps coming but I don't think they'll be here quite yet. Maybe SH's Vampire Tears but that's all. She's so excited about it.   3rd night of my Baby's sub cutaneous fluids. He meowed tonight when Carol put the needle in. She didn't want to hurt him & couldn't do it so we switched out. He meowed when I put it in too. He was ok through most of it, struggled a bit at the end. He didn't want anything to eat after but I gave him some brushes & he seemed to appreciate that.   I've been going over our BPAL wishlist on my Excel spreadsheet & refreshing the decant circle forum & watching the LJ swaps page. Not only do I want to pick up some LE decants from our wishlist instead of ordering because of our new expenses for Freeway, but I know I'm trying to help myself feel better, trying to find That Perfect Scent or Those Perfect Scents that will bring me some comfort while I go through this.   I sent an email out to my enabled coworkers, the ones who ordered the last time, and gave them the links to the updates. I let them know I'll be putting an order in early to mid-Feb and that I won't be able to do any big orders for awhile after that. At the end of the day, SB came up and asked if I had my 'samples' (my imps). I told her no but that we were hoping for an order this weekend and if so I'd bring some in. She's got 5 imps on the 11/1 order.   I'm also looking forward to some decant supplies I ordered off an LJ person. They are 1ml rollerballs and some pipettes. I figured I can either give a rollerball/pipette to each person who ordered a bottle or decant 1 ml for them to have/carry around if they want (SH I think said that she wasn't comfortable doing it herself so I offered). I think they'll all appreciate that, they can then safely carry their imps and not loose their bottles.   Down. Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday but it's going to be a busy day for me. I'll have to just get through and I have a 3 day weekend. Tomorrow might be another Western Diamondback day.
vultureguy

vultureguy

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Abstract Associations
 

The Fruit of Paradise

While Persephone visited the realm of Hades, she tasted one single pomegranate seed, an act which compelled her to remain connected to the Land of the Dead for all eternity. Demeter's grief over her beloved daughter's absence that brings on the bleakness and barrenness of the winter months.   The Fruit of Paradise, the Nectar of Death: bittersweet pomegranate.   Reviewed 01/22/2008   I was a bit nervous when I first put this on. I got a hint of the Vicks-ish note that makes Crypt Queen awful on me, but thankfully it faded after a few moments. It became a gorgeous, juicy fruit scent, just tart enough to make things interesting. I'm so in love. I wish it had more throw, and it fades out very very quickly, but it's so beautiful that it's worth hoarding so that I can slather myself in it repeatedly without guilt.
Rovylern

Rovylern

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Abstract Associations
 

The Red Queen

Deep mahogany and rich, velvety woods lacquered with sweet, black-red cherries and currant.   Reviewed 01/22/2008   In the imp: Cherries! Is this finally the so-juicy-it-makes-me-thirsty scent I've been dying to find? Wet: Yummy, juicy, ripe to bursting cherries. Oh yes! Drydown: Wait, what is this? I smell like...sawdust? Freshly cut wood and sawdust. It's very interesting, and quite well blended, but sawdust isn't really on my top ten lists of things to smell like.
Rovylern

Rovylern

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Abstract Associations
 

El Dia de Reyes

The Day of Kings, the Celebration of the Magi. In Mexico, on January 6th, children place their shoes by their windows. If they have been good during the previous year, the Wise Men tuck gifts into their shoes during the night.   Hot cocoa with cinnamon, coffee, and brown sugar.   Reviewed 01/22/2008   In the bottle: Chocolate, lots and lots of it.   Wet: This smells just like hot chocolate. Not the powder stuff that gets mixed with water, but the real stuff. YUM. It's incredibly rich, decadent, and lifelike.   Drydown: Now I'm getting hints of cinnamon teasing me through the chocolate. There is no coffee, just sweet, thick chocolate and swirls of cinnamon. I am enthralled by this perfume, it's absolutely gorgeous. It's definitely a winter scent, I can't even imagine wearing something this warm and thick during the summer months. Like Midway, this is best described as NOMNOMNOM. The absolute best, most true-to-life chocolate scent I've ever tried.
Rovylern

Rovylern

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FG's smellies obsession
 

The "long list" of GCs, or wishlist for swaps

Please nothing with cinnamon, I am seriously allergic to bpal cinnamon -- it burns me and leaves welts, and besides makes me cry cuz it smells so good but I cannot has. http://www.bpal.org/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/icon_smile.gif   DISO: Cafe Mille et Une Nuits, Templum Dei   I will always purchase or swap for Gypsy Queen, Minotaur, OISIN, or LA FEE VERTE   I tend to neglect GCs for some reason. I should not. I am interested in the following:   Bottles: LADON TOMBSTONE Morocco The Chicken-Legged Hut BURIAL Crossroads Blood Kiss Athens Pretty much anything from the Dragons series is a possibility       To try decants/imps: Alecto Blood Libertine To a Woman Mandrake Ouija Malice Sundew Hemlock DEATH CAP VAN VAN Al Azif Kumari Kandam Elixir: Bitch, Safari, Succor, Quietude Nanshe, Baku
fountaingrl

fountaingrl

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vultureguy's Blog
 

Sadness Day

I'm watching the live feed of Sir Edmund Hillary's funeral. I'm feeling emotional, melancholy already from it. We also took my oldest cat to the vet today. He was diagnosed last month with the beginnings of renal failure and hyperthyroid. We have been feeding him special food and have been giving him meds for the kidneys but he's been loosing weight. They are doing blood work today and we're going to have to do bloods every 2 weeks for awhile to see if we can get him stabilized.   He's my boy. We have 4 but he's the one I got after spending 8 months in Nepal. He's the one I brought over from the US because I couldn't bear to leave him behind.   I'll have to cut down our BPAL orders. We'll be paying for 2 different meds, the special food (which is expensive), blood work every 2 weeks and we'll also be doing sub cutaneous fluids daily. It's a lot of expense and it will start to pinch. I'd like to get an order or 2 in before it pinches too much. Maybe I can find a scent that is comforting for me through this time.
vultureguy

vultureguy

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Abstract Associations
 

Centzon Totochtin

The Four Hundred divine rabbits of the Aztec pantheon that preside over parties and drunkenness. Bittersweet Mexican cocoa with rum, red wine, and a scent redolent of sacrificial blood.   Reviewed: 01/21/2008   In the imp: COFFEE!   Wet: COFFEE! It's screaming. I'm picturing someone hyped up on 15 espresso shots chanting coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee. It's nothing but coffee. If I liked coffee it would be wonderful, but I don't drink it and I'm not a big fan.   Drydown: This is still screaming COFFEE! at me. It's very in-your-face. Every now and then a swirl of booziness will bubble up, like someone trying to sober up after a long night, but only rarely. This would be perfect for the teacher my kid had last year who adored coffee and was a wine connoisseur, and I think I may pass this on to her for her birthday. It's very well done, it has a good throw and it lasts a long time, but it's just not for me.   Edited to fix spelling. Apparently, I need some of the caffeine from the coffee in this perfume. *L*
Rovylern

Rovylern

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Semi-precious
 

Waiting for the precious...

I don't think I have ever wanted anything so hard in all my life. Not getting into theatre companies, or shows, or this course at uni. Not even my six-inch heeled goth boots.   I am waiting on *deep breath*   Imps of: Cheshire Cat Alice Fae La Belle Dame Sans Merci Crossroads Bordello Harlot La Petite Mort The Lady of Shallot Lolita Muse Salomé Succubus Whip Dragon’s Musk Ladon Ophelia Viola Bastet Erato Frumious Bandersnatch The Queen of Hearts Shub-Niggurath Black Phoenix   5mls of: Agnes Nutter Yvaine War Lady Una Zarita, the doll girl   First order, and I'm wanting to try as many things as possible. Next month is the gentleman's order, where my poor boyfriend will be inundated with scents, bless him. He's not quite as keen as I am. So yeah, I had to type everything out firstly so I remember what I've ordered (I need a spreadsheet as soon as I get my own computer back) and also out of a whimpering sort of desire to share my antici - pation with the rest of the world. My friends are already sick of checking the post with me. It's going to be a long wait.
Sanguine

Sanguine

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Abstract Associations
 

Midway Resurrected

A bombardment of edible carnival indulgences. Funnel cake, caramel apple, cotton candy, salt water taffy and sugar tart.   Reviewed 01/21/2008   In the bottle I get mostly sugar, a touch of something tangy, and a hint of coconut suntan lotion.   Wet: It's hovering on the edge of that plastic, playdoh scent Beaver Moon '05 gave me. NOOOOOO!   Dry: My skin eats every other note and leaves funnel cake, dusted generously with powdered sugar. NOMNOMNOM is the perfect description for this. I don't get any apple at all, which is a shame, because I love caramel apple and was hoping for some of that to come out. It doesn't have much throw, and fades out quickly, but it's worth the repeated slathering. I'm glad I nabbed two bottles of this while it was up, and I'm sure I'll be on the hunt for more.
Rovylern

Rovylern

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elbow's scentblog
 

While I Were Out

I took 4 small vials with me for my 5 months crewing a tall ship: Jabberwocky and Delphi for being brave and tough, and Coyote and Aglaea for being sexy and feminine. I never wore the second two -- there just weren't a lot of occasions where I wanted to feel girly. (I also never wore the one set of dress-up clothes I took.) I only wore scent on really hot days and on my days off, both to mask the smell of my own sweat (Delphi does this really well for me) and to add an extra "yay!" to my day. Both hot days and days off were few and far between, so I didn't go through a lot of oils.When we went to Tacoma, C. came down to the boat to visit, and she brought the BPAL samples she'd ordered. The only one she wasn't delighted with was Laudanum, which she described thus: "it reminds me of foul bandages (taken off a bloody cut after a week of being blood and water soaked)! and it has a moldy eucalyptus tinge. bleuck...!" So of course I was terribly curious about it. Turns out Laudanum smells great on me -- no blood or mold, just warm spicy goodness. Even C. admitted it was nice on my skin. She gave it to me, and it became the scent I wore most often on my days off.Here are our notes on a couple of other scents she let me try:Rose Cross: purest rose with sacred frankincense.C: the scent is like dried roses left on stone (a grave?)...not an overbearing rose smell but light and mossy. lovely!L: very rosy, perhaps a little too reminiscent of cheap incense sticksDesire: bittersweet neroli, black patchouli and black musk, gilded by apple, bergamot, blood red rose, teak, and vanilla.C: it is very woodsy but not pine...like ferns and bark and sunshine. yummy.L: absolutely gorgeous.Oh yeah, I also took my bottle of TKO aboard, for which I was glad many, many times. Sometimes a reassuring smell is just what a body needs to relax.When I settled in back at home, I opened up my BPAL box and basked in the smell. Now I leave it open all the time so I can catch a whiff as I pass by. I haven't bought anything new (yet), but I revisited some scents I've had for a while:Nephilim: I love how it starts out with a lot of fig and patchouli, very complex and delicious; but as that fades, the church-incense smell gets stronger until it's just... whoa. Nostril-jabbing. I think that's frankincense I'm smelling, in which case my take on Wise Man gifts is that myrrh smells awesome, frankincense stinks, and gold is shiny.Osun: I rated this as "not too bad" on first try-on, but it's not too good either. I think I only like it when it's really, really faint; the late-phase honey smell I liked on first test seems sickly-sweet in any significant quantity. To be fair, since I got the sample used, there's always a possibility that it may have been contaminated and that's not what it's supposed to smell like at all.Wrath: makes me feel like I could kick some ass, but I need to remember to go easy on the application -- this is a strong scent in more senses than one.
elbow

elbow

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Fruitcake

Category: Unreleased   Perhaps I should preface this with that I'm really not that familiar with fruitcake, my only exposure to it having been a nasty, cold concoction that had all the charm of fossilized Jolly Ranchers buried in road tar. I don't recall it having a scent, and the experience left me with no desire to ever make any of my own, so I've never smelled a freshly-made, *good* fruitcake.   That being said...   In the imp: It reminded me of a sort of bread...a dark, moist, spicy bread with a definite sweetness to it.   Wet: A candy-like scent came out, like gumdrops; it also made me think of brown sugar, and molasses, and, yes, booze...perhaps rum. Definitely something sweet.   Dry: It settles down to a more reserved version of those ingredients...sometimes a more spicy element pokes out, but there's always that sweet tone, as well.   Verdict: I like *this* fruitcake. It's a very evocative scent. I can't see wearing it a lot, but now that I've used the imp I think I'll justify hanging onto it. It's really cute and I'm glad I've gotten to experience it.   What I liked: It's sweet and comforting. I love the mental pictures it gives, even if I do get a vague craving for something moist, sweet, and chewy.   What I didn't like: Hm, nothing really...except perhaps that it makes me fear that no real fruitcake could ever compare to this.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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FG's smellies obsession
 

On LEs, GCs, and hoarding.

I just majorly destashed. I am keeping bottles of:   Blue Moon (x2), Minotaur, Death of Autumn (x2), Gypsy Queen, Tarot:Hierophant, Morocco*, Black Lace, Angeronalia, Thunder Moon, Centzon Tetotchtin, Velvet, Smut, Three Brides, Oisin. Also keeping my Holy Terror from Arcana, it is amazing how it smells like a roaring fireplace. (this does not include TAL of course, most of that is decant tho.)   I sold my backup bottles of all but my most favorites. I even sold my partial of Oisin, but at a waaaaay low cost $20 incl ship for 60%) to share the rare love. I am trying to enjoy what I have and not be so GRABHANDS!!!! about it all. I'm also trying to remember that I love a good number of scents, and if I run out and it was an LE there will be another love that comes along.   Perfume should not be stressful. Also, I am selling or swapping to get the funds for the new scents, that is how I do updates as I don't have a huge 'me spending' budget.   It occurs to me: I need to learn to love GCs more. I probably wear Morocco most of all.   Ordered Lupercalia scents, but only three and only one is actual Lupercalia -- Harikata (from the new Salon wing), Valentine of Rome, and the new GC Deep in Earth. I think I need to remember that I really some tried and tested GCs -- I never end up ordering bottles because I always gamble on an LE after raising paypal with a sale. I would wear the heck out of Dracul, Tombstone, or Great Sword, yet I don't have bottles. Silly!       *this is rapidly becoming one of my favorite scents, it is one of my top four easily and is often my go-to scent...
fountaingrl

fountaingrl

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Die Eier von Satan
 

One Of Those Days

Title: Rubicon Artist: VNV Nation Album: Empires   Praying for myself. These thoughts I try to hide. I have faith in me and hope this will survive. But it's tearing me apart. I can't hear the words by which I guide. So I must ask again who will carry me.   I will not deny that nothing can defend from the helplessness that's cutting deep inside, and I cannot prevent the thought that nothing's real. Seems I've waited years for this day to end.   The strength I need to feel, the pride inside of me, Are not there behind the face staring back at me. The anger and the pain of knowing where I am. I have come so far and I cannot return.   Nothing I can do that I have not done. No words I can say. No truth left that I can see. So must I let this end so everything falls apart. Before I live the life as I have always done.   Tell me what to do so I do nothing wrong. Something I can hope for. Something real that I can see. So nothing falls apart. So that it does not end. I cannot return. I can't start again.
eternalargus

eternalargus

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Sistinas' Blog
 

Books read of 2008

I am going to keep a list of the books I read this year, in hopes of reaching my goal of reading 100 to 150 books this year. Later I will add a list of books I would like to read and a list of books I have read in the past that I absolutely love.   1. Native Speaker Chang-Rae Lee 2. Day Watch Sergei Lukyanenko 3. Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Sistinas

Sistinas

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vultureguy's Blog
 

I Can Has CnS Pleze?

I've been eagerly waiting for my CnS for our 7/1 order. I know the lab is busy and I'm not worried, just anxious I didn't know how long it was taking to process an average order. But on the CnS chatter topic it looks like some of the people who have ordered 7/1 and are getting their CnS's today. Since ours was a 7 bottler I expect it will take a bit longer. Like I said, I'm not worried, just eager.
vultureguy

vultureguy

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vultureguy's Blog
 

:( RIP Hone Tuwhare

Following after the death of Sir Ed Hillary, NZ has lost another good man. Hone Tuware has died. I don't know a lot about him but have read some of his poetry and have a cd with some NZ artists speaking/singing his poetry.   Here's one of his poems. I hadn't read it before but it seems appropriate. Haere Ra Hone. May your ancestors greet you in the Afterlife singing Haera Mae Haere Mae Haere Mae.   Toroa ~ Albatross - Hone Tuwhare   Day and night endlessly you have flown effortless of wing over chest-expanding oceans far from land. Do you switch on an automatic pilot, close your eyes in sleep, Toroa?   On your way to your homeground at Otakou Heads you tried to rest briefly on the Wai-te-mata but were shot at by ignorant people. Crippled. You found a resting place at Whanga-nui-a-Tara; found space at last to recompose yourself.   Now, without skin and flesh to hold you together the division of your aerodynamic parts lies whitening, licked clean by sun and air and water. Children will discover narrow corridors of airiness between, the suddenness of bulk. Naked, laugh in the gush and ripple — the play of light on water.   You are not alone, Toroa. A taniwha once tried to break out of the harbour for the open sea. He failed. He is lonely. From the top of the mountain nearby he calls to you: Haeremai, haeremai, welcome home, traveller.   Your head tilts, your eyes open to the world.
vultureguy

vultureguy

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ymmat's Blog
 

Wish List

Want:   LE CARNAVAL DIABOLIQUE - Straight from the twisted alleys of Dis, by way of the City of Angels: opium smoke, lemon flower, heliotrope, tuberose, black musk, vanilla, coconut, apricot flower. TIRESIAS, THE ANDROGYNE - Dark, moody, and bittersweet: black currant, patchouli, tobacco, cinnamon leaf, caramel, muguet, and red sandalwood. [*]GC DEFUTATA - Olive blossom, honey, smoky vanilla, cinnamon, jasmine, sandalwood, and champaca flower FASCINUM - Golden amber, golden musk, litsea cubeba, cedar, and saffron. THE DODO - Red musk, lemon peel, sugar cane, cassia, white sandalwood, mango, and agarwood. KABUKI - Compelling, complex, and utterly enigmatic: a luxuriant, exotic blend of cherry, red musk, and star anise. KALI - Kali, the Black One, is the fearless Goddess of Destruction, Creation, Energy [in her Shakti aspect] and Dissolution. Also named Kaliratri [black Night] and Kalikamata [black Earth-Mother], she is the fiercest aspect of Devi, the supreme mother goddess. Kali is a protector Goddess, the destroyer of evil spirits and guardian of the faithful. She, along with her consort Shiva, represent the unending cycle of death and birth, sexual union, creation and destruction. Kali annihilates ignorance, maintains the natural order of the world, and blesses those who strive for spiritual awareness and knowledge of true holiness with infinite tenderness and motherly love. The constant, unending Work of Creation is called the "The Play of Kali". This perfume is a blend of the sacred blooms of cassia, hibiscus, musk rose, Himalayan wild tulip, lotus and osmanthus swirled with offertory dark chocolate, red wine, tobacco, balsam and honey. OBATALA - Obatala's ofrenda is soft, white and pure: milk, coconut meat, shea butter and cool, refreshing water. SHANGO - The Master of Lightning's ofrenda contains red apples, banana, chili pepper, coconut, pineapple, pomegranate and sugar cane. SHATTERED - A scent as sharp as glass shards, and as brittle as a broken heart. The formula came to me - quite literally - in a dream, and is named after, and created in memory of, the last poem that I ever wrote… almost ten years ago to the day. A blend of white champagne notes, grapefruit, lotus, slivered mint and crystalline aquatic blooms. SHUB-NIGGURATH - The lust incense of a corrupted Astarte. A blend of ritual herbs and dark resins, shot through with three gingers and aphrodisiacal spices. TO A WOMAN - Benzoin, cassis bud, patchouli, rose otto, and petitgrain. TWEEDLE DEE & TWEEDLE DUM [*]Empties! N/A Discontinued N/A
  Curious: None right now
ymmat

ymmat

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Is Anybody Out There?
 

On being sick

For the sake of keeping track, I've read Twilight thus far in 2008. 60lbs-4lbs=56lbs to go!   Anyway. I think being sick is good for my diet. I don't know that I've ever been this sick without also being depressed and had utterly no appetite. My husband has resorted to trying to retrieve me all manner of sweet things to try and get me to eat, but nothing tastes good, and I have no inclination toward any of it. I've lost 4 lbs since my last weigh in, which I've noted above. I think I may have lost most of it in the last four or five days. But the not eating thing probably explains the no energy thing.   Hopefully tomorrow will arrive and I'll be doing much better. If nothing else, I'll be able to go to school. (I've missed this entire week!)
smallvoice

smallvoice

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Magda's Blog
 

Lupercalia Update Notes

Anactoria: honey, amber, musk--yes currant takes it to maybe Khajuraho 2008 -- eh, never too thrilled with this Luperci 2008 -- patchouli, beeswax, juniper, honey, musk? yes Parlement of Foules 2008 -- white rose, resin -- maybe Red Lantern 2008 -- black coconut and currant say no Smut 2008 -- hell yes Valentine of Rome -- nothing stands out A Farewell to False Loves -- lavender, violet, balsam of Peru, narcissus -- yes The Clod and the Pebble -- rose otto, clove, patchouli, sandalwood, nutmeg, cedar -- YES The Flower Song -- wine, lotus root, reeds,hyssop, barley -- wait for reviews Her Voice -- vanilla amber, beeswax, honeysuckle, and carnation say yes -- wait for reviews La Vita Nuova -- champagne grape -- nope Longing -- wait for reviews Love's Philosophy -- vanilla, saffron, and cream -- yes Night Thoughts -- lilac, musk, cedar, neroli say yes, ozone says no The Passionate Shepherd to His -- maybe, if carnation is strong The Presence of Love -- maybe, love musk and amber, wary of grapefruit and jasmine Sapphics -- yes The Ragged Wood -- maybe, if the pine isn't overwhelmed by the florals To Helen -- ozone and opaline notes? No Butterflies and Plovers -- no Dream of the Fisherman's Wife -- honey and mint say yes, but unsure of ambergris Ebisu Making Love as Two Octopuses Look On -- nah Glowing Vulva at Ryogoku Bridge -- maybe Harikata -- no Lover's Parodies of Sumo Holds -- no Men Ringing Bell with Penises -- yes The Spell of Amorous love -- no
Magda

Magda

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Diplomatka
 

Serena Attacked

This is a big deal.   Like the UN getting blown up in Baghdad, this incident portends much worse for Afghanistan. Thank Allah (most merciful) I am not living there anymore.   The only question remaining is: how can someone who works for Save the Children afford gym membership at a 5-star hotel?
Confection

Confection

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Al Azif

Category: Picnic in Arkham   In the imp: HELLO I WILL BE YOUR CARAMEL SMELL FOR THE DAY   Wet: Still very strongly of caramel, mixed with chocolate...it was almost too overpowering, making me feel as if I had glutted myself on forbidden Halloween candy and eaten myself sick.   Dry: It morphs from the crazy 'wtf?'-inducing candy smell to something...else. I'm wanting to say 'musky', but I don't think that's the right word. Yet it doesn't smell like straight incense, or straight florals. To accurately describe it eludes me...but this is not to say that it is unpleasant, now. In fact, it's a really lovely odor.   Personally, I realized that the candy-like smell actually smelt a lot like the very dregs of burnt-out incense...I am wanting to say myrrh, simply because that's what I've burnt in my house before, and the 'memory' of smell that I have is from that. (And wouldn't myrrh be appropriate, in this case?) Once I realized this, I saw the perfume from an entirely different perspective -- that of smelling an area where a ritual took place, long after the fact, with just enough sweet, seductive malevolence to draw one's attention and keep it.   Verdict: It's a very interesting scent, which I find works on several different levels (especially since the obnoxious caramelness has toned down quite a bit in subsequent days of testing). I don't know if it demands bottle status in my collection, but the imp is definitely worth hanging on to.   What I liked: The caramel was okay, once it calmed the hell down. I like the ultimate end result. It seemed to have a little more throw than what I've been wearing lately, which was nice.   What I didn't like: Getting to that beautiful end result is a bit uncomfortable.   I will simply have to compare this to other 'incense' scents to see if I like anything better. It's not bad by any means, it just may be one of those scents that I'd only wear once in a while.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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