OK, I am so glad this was a small update because there were a few Salon bottles I wanted to get and now I can b/c I actually was good and saved up money all month. Now the Smiling Spider and friends shall be mine! Mwahaha... anyway...here are my thoughts as usual:

THUNDER MOON

This is the scent of a summer storm: thick black clouds pass over this full moon, the Goddess roars, and Her Beloved hurls his forked bolts of lightning in the distant sky. Ozone deepened by liquid amber, and a spray of hot nighttime rain mingled with the scent of lightning-struck wood, water-soaked summer blooms, and sun-scorched grass.

Now I am turning into a bit fo a crazy collector, and even though I think this might go the way of the soap I ordered it anyway. Rose Moon proved me wrong and was amazing on me, so this might be too. I love grass notes and wood, so we shall see; annnd, as someone mentioned before, Hunger Moon had ozone and I love that one. You never know.

SELKIE

.The chill waters of the Orkney coast, tea-leaved willow, honey-touched Grass-of-Parnassus, sea aster, and Scottish Primrose.

I honestly have no idea how this will smell, but it sounded so lovely with the song...and it's selkies, so cryin' out loud! Bottle, please.

CANCER

Cardinal Water: the essence of feeling.

Wild lettuce, wild pear, chamomile, germanica orris, sweet pea, and mallow.

Yes, please. Not just cause I collect the astrological signs, but because I love chamomile and pear. Let's hope the sweet pea doesn't act up in this one. I have found, though, that these astro. blends have really smelled completely different than I thought they all would, and in a good way.

HELENA

Rose amber, calla lily, night-blooming jasmine, water lily, and white rose.

Night blooming jasmine will occasionally behave on my skin. however I think pairing it with white rose and calla lily will totally make it misbehave on my skin. Pass.

HERMIA

Pink pepper, golden amber, honeysuckle, and passion flower.

This sounds so happy and summery. I adore all the notes in it so I bought a bottle unsniffed. Yay

LYSANDER

Lilac musk, tonka, wood violet, and urbane lime rind, with a Venus-kissed tangle of myrtle, blackberry leaf, and benzoin.

Whitechapel went horribly wrong on my skin. This might not go horribly wrong. I like myrtle, tonka, benzoin and violet, so I ordered an imp.

ROBIN GOODFELLOW

Dark musk, moss-covered wood, ragwort, heather, and sage.

This sounds like it could be just my thing OR too masculine. I am going to wait for reviews and see. I'm hoping the former 'cause I love me some sage.

DIAN’S BUD

Be as thou wast wont to be;

See as thou wast wont to see:

Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower

Hath such force and blessed power.

??? I ordered an imp.

LOVE-IN-IDLENESS

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:

It fell upon a little western flower,

Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound,

And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

OK call me retarded, but I ordered a bottle of this because I love Love-Lies-Bleeding and it amused me to have it sitting next to Love-In-Idleness. I hope I like it!

I'm sad about a few of the DC scents, but they were not top 10 loves. I do like Dublin very very much and have a bottle of it, mainly because it is one of the only scents the bf had complimented me on. I wanted at some point to get a bottle of Mantis, but my imp will have to do for now. I had a bottle of Neo-Tokyo once but I swapped it 'cause I never wore it. Soo...I feel bad for the company that went under. I hope they all turn out OK and whatnot .

And now that I've blabbered about smellies for long enough, I figure it's high time I update about how life is going. Boy is it going, lol. I have one month left of school, and then it's on to summer of fun. I am planning to do some concerts in Basel, Dusseldorf and LA, all of which make me incredibly excited. Dusseldorf will be great because all of my favorite composers and people, basically, will be there making music for the whole month of July. I can't wait to see Michael and Kathy and James and Doug again (and Radu...yay.) Hopefully I can organize a performance of John Cage's Music For. So many people know it that will be there and I've been busting my butt learning the rest of it, so we'll see.

It'll be great to go to LA for a few weeks Maybe I'll even be able to swing by a WillCall... I am planning on getting another tattoo done by Graham while I'm there, too. It will be a lovely rendition of Posada's La Cantilena with marigolds strewn about her on my left calf. i plan to get her male counterpart on my right calf but that will have to be done next year.

Lately my life has consisted of sewing weird things (a virgin of guadalupe tote bag, lol) and practicing for my concerts in the end of June. Nice and relaxed, just like I like it. Pepper's allergies have been doing much much better, which makes me feel like a good dog parent She's lost a bit of weight which is good b/c the winter/early spring put a bit of weight on her (why, I don't know b/c I don't over feed her and she runs every day a LOT, but anyway...) I have to play in this fucking stupid orchestral flute masterclass- why, I don't know- I don't play orchestral music and I haven't since HIGH SCHOOL!- in two weeks. I am not happy about that. but it's only going to be a few hours of pain and then I can ignore it.

I'm really contemplating dreading my hair this summer. I am sick of dealing with 'product' and haircuts and the like. My hair is so thick and knotted already- if I don't brush it is dreads on its own, lol. Plus, I love the look of dreads and know that I don't have to have an office job....ever. However, I know that they shrink at first and my hair right now is down to my shoulderblades. I don't like the look of short dreads (on me) that much, so I might wait til they grow a bit longer...although I suspect soon I will break down and do it in a fit of impatience.

OK, there is much more to write, but I have to go do some more flute-ing. Yay, update, yay.