Please, BPAL Recommendations Only In This Subforum

[ivyandpeony]

Please feel free to PM me with any questions or feedback.

 

I've noticed that people are recommending non-BPAL perfumes in their posts here a little more often lately. This really isn't appropriate here, and I'd like to ask you all to keep such discussions of other brands in the subforum designated for them, Retail Therapy, from now on. (This does not apply to posts seeking BPAL scents that are similar to a favorite perfume from another source - those continue to be welcome, of course.)

 

Recs is part of the section of subforums dedicated to Lab discussion, and its intent is for members to be able to seek others' advice about BPAL blends they aren't familiar with themselves. For another member to respond to a request by recommending a scent from a department store line, another e-tailer, or any source other than the Lab defeats this subforum's purposes and confuses people, especially the newbies that we want to welcome and assist.

 

Please feel free to PM me if you have any comments or questions about this or other issues in Recommendations. I don't feel like this is a huge problem yet, and I'm certainly not angry with anyone who may have done this previously. However, since we now have over 6000 members and are adding new members every day, I felt that spelling this out was important.

 

Thanks, everyone, for your enthusiastic participation in Recommendations!

 

I'm bumping this because this has been happening a little more than I'd like lately.

 

With the increased size of the catalog and the huge increase in membership, I think it's important that this area remain devoted to BPAL only. If members are interested in recommendations for other brands, we have Retail Therapy for that. It's hard enough to navigate the longer threads about more popular notes (vanilla, patchouli, etc) and keep track of the BPAL recs, and I don't like the idea of turning this General Perfume recs subforum for that reason and the reasons I stated in my first announcement.

 

The one exception that I think may be appropriate is when there truly is no BPAL scent that can be recommended - for example, the recent thread about cilantro or the bakery scent earlier this year, where someone wanted something that smelled like bread.

 

So if you are looking for recommendations for general vanilla scents or what have you, by all means visit Retail Therapy, it's there for you to enjoy and the sky is the limit. This subforum needs to be limited to BPAL questions and recommendations. Thanks.

[ivyandpeony]

I have seen just a few of these pop up lately so I figured I'd bump this in the hopes that more people will have a chance to read it. Thanks!

[ivyandpeony]

just giving this its every-so-often-bump. Thanks for reading and drop me a line if you have any questions!

[ivyandpeony]

The occasional bump, since there's so much info for us all to keep up with.

[ivyandpeony]

Just that every-once-in-a-while bump FYI. <img src="http://www.bpal.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" />

 

<!--quoteo(post=1046382:date=Mar 14 2008, 08:50 AM:name=ivyandpeony)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ivyandpeony @ Mar 14 2008, 08:50 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1046382"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Please feel free to PM me with any questions or feedback.

 

<!--quoteo(post=695788:date=Jan 23 2007, 11:19 PM:name=ivyandpeony)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ivyandpeony @ Jan 23 2007, 11:19 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=695788"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I've noticed that people are recommending non-BPAL perfumes in their posts here a little more often lately. This really isn't appropriate here, and I'd like to ask you all to keep such discussions of other brands in the subforum designated for them, Retail Therapy, from now on. (This does not apply to posts seeking BPAL scents that are similar to a favorite perfume from another source - those continue to be welcome, of course.)

 

Recs is part of the section of subforums dedicated to Lab discussion, and its intent is for members to be able to seek others' advice about BPAL blends they aren't familiar with themselves. For another member to respond to a request by recommending a scent from a department store line, another e-tailer, or any source other than the Lab defeats this subforum's purposes and confuses people, especially the newbies that we want to welcome and assist.

 

Please feel free to PM me if you have any comments or questions about this or other issues in Recommendations. I don't feel like this is a huge problem yet, and I'm certainly not angry with anyone who may have done this previously. However, since we now have over 6000 members and are adding new members every day, I felt that spelling this out was important.

 

Thanks, everyone, for your enthusiastic participation in Recommendations! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_biggrin.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

 

I'm bumping this because this has been happening a little more than I'd like lately.

 

With the increased size of the catalog and the huge increase in membership, I think it's important that this area remain devoted to BPAL only. If members are interested in recommendations for other brands, we have Retail Therapy for that. It's hard enough to navigate the longer threads about more popular notes (vanilla, patchouli, etc) and keep track of the BPAL recs, and I don't like the idea of turning this General Perfume recs subforum for that reason and the reasons I stated in my first announcement.

 

The one exception that I think may be appropriate is when there truly is no BPAL scent that can be recommended - for example, the recent thread about cilantro or the bakery scent earlier this year, where someone wanted something that smelled like bread.

 

So if you are looking for recommendations for general vanilla scents or what have you, by all means visit Retail Therapy, it's there for you to enjoy and the sky is the limit. This subforum needs to be limited to BPAL questions and recommendations. Thanks.

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[ivyandpeony]

The periodic bump!

[ivyandpeony]

just the every so often bump

[ivyandpeony]

Just one of those periodic bumps. Please feel free to PM me with any concerns, questions, issues, etc.