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I am of divided mind about this scent. It was on my wishlist and I was very happy when I got it as a frimp in my latest order. And dragon's blood and aquatics both work on me. However - it is neither the best dragon's blood on me (that's still, after all these months, Dragon's Heart, with Dragon's Bone as honourary mention), nor is it the best aquatic on me (still, after all these months, Lightning.) I am not sure I will want to wear it again, although it is indeed a pretty scent.

Green herbs slithering through mint, lime and lavender. I could not describe it better myself. Particularly one herb I know the scent of very well; the name or appearance of the herb does not come to mind, though. However, Envy does not last long on me. An hour, and it is gone.

Well, a lot of people love her, so I will give her a try. Slightly bitter, a little foody... And she does not blow my mind. It's ok. She is a bitter, woodsy with a hint of vanilla.

Wet: it doesn't smell like incense. It's been a long time since I've given incense a chance...maybe I'll like incense... Dry: Nope, still hate incense.

The Salon category is not searchable using the BPAL site search engine. I was trying to find oils other than Judith Victorious that have chestnut blossom and neither current scents search nor advanced search returned any scents for "chestnut" - they did not return Judith Victorious, either. I checked the possible categories I could search, using the advanced search, and saw that neither "Salon" nor "The Salon" was an included category. That adventure DOES answer my question - if any other oils include chestnut blossom, they are probably also in the Salon, or in A Picnic in Arkham, which is not a searchable category either. However, could this woeful (to Indi the self-confessed Salon whore) omission be rectified when you get a chance? ETA: Noticed that the issue did come up back in August; I hope I do not appear to be a nag, as that was not my intention.

In imp - ooh, dragon's blood and lilac, perfect! On skin: ugh, there is something else in there that makes it smell like the lilacs have wilted; will wear on locket. In locket: alas, the lilacs are still wilted! You know, I really should not pick blends with scents that I know very well - like apples, or the lilacs which flood all of Ottawa in the spring. The moment that something else gets mixed in with a very familiar scent, my brain thinks, "Oh, the flower/fruit has rotted, no!" And I have a bottle of it coming in a swap, I felt so happy with it. I suppose a room scent is good for Dragon's Eye. Or I will check out layering options.

There is a heaviness to this scent that I did not expect. It is sweet, although not cloyingly so; perhaps it is just my skin chemistry that wishes to announce to the world when it gets some sugar. There is a bitterish top note as well that may be the lemongrass.

This is so fresh and nice. I rarely use that imprecise word, but it is the word I am getting; Kumiho is nice. There is a sharp ginger, but it works perfectly with the tea. I hope it stays; else I can put it in a locket.

I think I like bamboo, since the same note amps in Dragon Moon and Holiday Moon, and I do not think it is tea. It is quite a...pale, pale green scent. I like it very much. Thank you to Macabre_fae for the bottle!

Darn, the other ones do not split into words so well.

Well, I am slowly making up mnemonic devices: PROSHITAPATHIKA Her lover is away on a long journey, (since he is a PROfessional) and she is pining for him, feeling that everything is SHIT, and feeling great APATHY when he is not there. Sleepless and disconsolate, she counts the days until he returns. Therefore she is PRO-SHIT-APATHY-ka.

I know not to mention how to pronounce them! "What's that lovely perfume you're wearing?" "It's...uh...ummm...ah....unpronounceable..." What's so hard about pronouncing them? Take it two or three letters at a time, my best guess using historical linguistics: Abhisarika - A-vee-sa-ree-ka Kalahantarika - easiest one - Ka-la-han-ta-ri-ka Khandita - Han-di-ta (like Han Solo's love child with Perdita ) Proshitapathika - Pro-shee-ta-path-ika (although I doubt I am the only one constantly thinking "Psychopathica" when I see that word) Svadhinaopatika - "dh" is the "th" in "then", so Sva-thee-na-o-pat-ika (although I am thinking of the Spanish word "simpatica" gone nuts) Vasakasajja - Va-sa-ka-saj-ja Virahotkantita - Vi-ra-hot-kan-tita (I admit I am mentally sounding it "Virago-Candida") Vipralabda - Vi-pra-lab-da and everyone here knows how to pronounce "lab", right? Now, I will need someone who knows Sanskrit to tell me what the stressed syllables are, but I always feel happy with transliterated words, because I KNOW they will sound the way they are spelled. ETA: Abejita, I think you and I were typing at the same time. Thanks for the stressed syllables! And I didn't know that v goes to b when between voiced vowels, thanks.

In Roman Latin, c's were pronounced with a 'k' sound - all of them. We know this because, for example, Cicero's name (which I still mentally pronounce Si-say-row), was transcribed by the Greeks as Kikero. I cannot recall hearing about the v's, but a check on the Wikipedia shows that they were indeed originally w-sounds - you are right, for_the_nonce. By classical Latin, c and k sounded the same. However, I have Spanish pronunciation encoded into my brain, so I mostly pronounce c's by the ka-se-si-ko-ku rule - pronounce it as k in front of a, o, u, and consonants, and s in front of i and e, as well as pronouncing v's as v's. I sin. Deal with that.

I am amused because Snowy got her Ladon from me - since, gorgeous as it is (thanks jj_j!) apples go rotten-apple on me. By that scent do I know the Hesperides and Ladon, both of which have found loving homes elsewhere -and which I heartily recommend, if you can wear apple and I, alas, can't.

With difficulty! Ba-dum-ching! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself. I am also curious about this one!) Someone somewhere in this thread pointed out the Lovecraft intentionally made up words that were difficult to pronounce, to give the impression of nasty alien creatures with alien tongues - so Columbus Jones is actually very right. I personally pronounce it Ee-Han-Thly (as if it was an adverb) in my head, but I think the German way, Ee-Han-Thlai, would also work. Anyhow, it's Lovecraft, no native speaker of Elder-Goddish is going to swoop down on you to correct you! ETA: I stress Han. But I suppose one may stress Y. Or both, in a sortof spondaic foot broken by the apostrophe.

If the email is from service[dot]intll[dot]paypal[dot]com, yes, that should be the one. However, it is funny that they took five days to send it to you. Mine usually arrives within a minute of hitting the final confirmation key in Paypal. Could it be something in your email slowing down messages? Or did you mean "just" as in "only", not "just" as in "a very short time before I wrote this sentence"?

Sweet! Lemon verbena likes me, and that is what I am getting. Along with a dash of bergamot. Persistently. No jasmine. Given all the dark scents in my latest order, this is a relief. I will be holding on to Yuki-Onna, and holding off my purchase of Polyhymnia or Calliope in large bottles, for they smell about the same.

First sniff: yep, dragon's blood reported in. After having a bit of a disappointment with Glasya, I cry yay! In locket- oh NO. Dragon's blood and dead leaves. Dragon's blood and dead leaves. I should have avoided ANYTHING with dead leaves in it at once. My nose is highly trained to pick out the scent of dead or dying organic matter of any kind, which is why I react instantly to grave loam scents, and why apples combined with anything else smell to me like rotten apples. Dead leaves, dead leaves! None of the OotD scents seem to work on me that well. A bottle of the Castle, off to swap!

It is floral, and it is booze, but, strangely enough, the two things work together pretty well. My mother loved that scent when I wore it in the locket. So, I am keeping it for now.

This is Winter of Our Discontent with a smoky note. It may be the bitter clove they share - bitter clove, apparently differs from ordinary clove in Al-Shairan and my spice box. It is a darker scent than Winter of Our Discontent, and though I love W.O.O.D, I will hold on to the Count for now, although I do not think I will wear him often.

Grr, I know I like patchouli, I know I like dragon's blood, I know I like musks, I know what civet and rose and ylang ylang smell like...but what is that metallic edge of a smell? It was in Hades; it was in Sheol; I had thought it were labdanum and vowed I will not wear labdanum. However, there is no labdanum listed for Glasya. Dear Glasya, I may have to let you go. i wanted so to like you, but even in a locket, you give me that metallic-edge smell, which I do not like at all. I may decant an imp, just in case, and swap the rest of you...

Citrus and aloe. This smells a lot like F5 but more piercing. A great deal greener, too; I am just getting green from it. I have a bottle of F5, but I am holding on to my Embalming Fluid imp - I can see why it is one of the most popular scents.

On my skin, at once the vanilla musk went wildly sweet - so I decided to wear Lucretia in the locket, since the other notes sounded so good, although I am still hoping for her to show her dark side on my skin like she did in the bottle. In the locket, she IS a dark lady; Kashmir wood smells beautiful, and I am getting the black amber too, although neither sage nor violet. This will be a keeper, though, just from the way she smells in the locket.

I have finally found this blog! And I am touched that you are quoting me!

When you use a Paypal account, it sends you a confirmation email almost as soon as you hit the final OK button, right? I checked through my old "The order was shipped today" emails, which we in the Internationals refer to as CnS even though they aren't. and usually they are in reply to the email that the lab also receives telling them that I have just sent them money with Paypal. Since the specifics of my order are in the comments field, I can tell from the email they are replying to what order they are talking about. However, once I got a "CnS" without anything it was replying to. Ten days later I received two orders at once, that were placed a month apart.