Katie McMahan

Thank you very much, Haltija! These look right up my alley - you managed to hit a few of my favorite notes without me even mentioning them. You're also correct in assuming that I'm fine with androgynous or masculine scents. Time to dig into the reviews for these. I appreciate it!

Hello everyone! I'm Ada, and I've recently tumbled down the BPAL rabbit hole. I've been poring over the exhaustive selection here, and I'm both intrigued and a bit overwhelmed - if you'd lend me your expertise, I'd be grateful. I'm a 24 year old woman in the sciences (I'm pursuing a Masters in Biology - I study territorial behavior and gene expression within the context of evolutionary biology). I am very serious about scientific and evidence-based thinking as an approach to daily life, and try to conduct myself dispassionately - though I can have a weakness for issues surrounding justice, which I'm working on. I'd like to work in a field that allowed me to apply and investigate scientific methods in a criminological context - my undergraduate degrees are in biology and psychology. I'm also big on research surrounding neuroabnormality in general - neuropsychological research really gets me fired up. I have a "to the point" sort of personality, though I sometimes come off as detached or 'spaced out'. I'm not really the type for small talk, but people tend to come to me with their problems. I love puzzles and mysteries, and am big on games (particularly video games) that incorporate those kind of elements into gameplay - I live for moments of epiphany when I've figured something out. I like to analyze characters and stories and can get a bit too into literary analysis on occasion. Lately I've developed an interested in more understated Victorian era-inspired fashion. "Personality typing" assessments seem popular in this thread, too. I'm an INTP on the MBTI. I don't put weight into astrology so I don't know the specifics of my'rising' or 'falling' signs, but I do know that I'm on the Libra/Scorpio cusp. I generally test as a Ravenclaw on Harry Potter assessments (it's been nudged out by Slytherin on a few occasions). I'm hazel-eyed with pale skin and freckles, reddish-brown hair, and a slender, boyish build. I'm new to BPAL and fragrances in general, though I don't like anything too sweet or cloying, or anything with overpowering patchouli. If it smells like it came out of a drug store, I'm not likely to be interested in it. If you've bothered reading this far, thank you very much. I'd love some suggestions!