So today, I am at work. This will continue until Thursday. Then, off to Dragon*con. Yaaaay! (Of course, now this week is going ridiculously slowly. Move faster, damn you!)


Desdemona: Innocent, soft and pure: sweet pea, carnation and water lily.

Okay. This smells like little old lady to me. I don't smell any sweet pea, just carnations. Actually, it reminds me of rose potpourri. I'm not sure I'm ready to smell like little old lady just yet!

Bess: Inspired by the tragic, ill-fated love of Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester. This is our modernization of a 17th-century perfume blend favored by British aristocracy: rosemary, orange flower, grape spirit, five rose variants, lemon peel, and mint.

This one, on the other hand, is amazing. The rosemary is really strong in the bottle, but when I put it on the roses really stand out. And when I'm not thinking about it, I catch the grape scent just underneath. Are we surprised that a "historic" scent gets me off? Hell no.

Violet Ray: Though the doctor continued to assure her that the treatment was therapeutic, her anxiety increased. Ignoring her feeble protestations, the doctor produced a pair of glass wands, and set to work.

As the machine hummed to life, her misgivings were dissolved in a haze of unexpected pleasure. Warmth, contrasted sharply with a million white-hot pinpricks and a strangely cooling blast of electricity, surged through her thighs. The metal electrodes secured beneath her corset flared as the electrical current swelled through her nerve endings.

White mint, purple musk, violet, lilac, ylang ylang, lavender moss, and sandalwood.

This is a sweet scent, but not overwhelmingly so. And there's just a hint of spice underneath, to even everything out. Electric, indeed.


Red Devil:A sinfully playful lust blend. Inspires sexual spontaneity, a little bit of kinkiness, and new and inventive ways to get dirty.

I've come to the conclusion that my nose is fine tuned to musk. Anything with musk in it will smell of musk first, and whatever else second, if at all. This smells like most of my other musk blends. Musk. (Watch, now it doesn't even have musk in it.)

Whitechapel: A gentlemen's blend, possessed of dignity, charm and refinement, but in truth masking a corrupted, hideous, soulless core. White musk, lime, lilac and citron.

Wow. Lime and Lilac sounds like such a bizarre combination, but I like it. On me, the distinct lime smell fades into an overall citrus-y smell. With the lilac mixed in. Wow.

Titania: A nocturnal bounty of fae dew-kissed petals and pale fruits: white grape, white peach, iced pear, musk rose, sweet pea, moonflower and snapdragon.

This has a very clean, cucumber-melony smell. I can smell the sweet pea, but it's not the first smell I recognize. This totally smells like something you'd pick up at Bath and Body works. <3

Jack:The scent of warm, glowing jack o’lanterns on a warm autumn night: true Halloween pumpkin, spiced with nutmeg, glowing peach and murky clove.

This strikes me as a very buttery scent. Like buttered rum buttery. I don't really smell the pumpkin, which is disappointing. The nutmeg and the cloves are REALLY strong to start out with, and the peach comes out when it's on skin. Not really what I was expecting, but I'll probably grow to like it. (Somebody please tell me I do not need the 'pumpkin patch' Halloween set, no matter how much I like pumpkin-smells.)

I loff you and your superfast shipping. And the freebies.

<3

Yeah. This one is so not me. Ogun is sharp and strong, and incensy. But not the incense you burn because it smells good, but like Church incense. The kind you burn because it has some deeper meaning. Ah well. It was fun to try.

Since I know I've got a couple of BPALers on my friendslist, I'll try here first.

I've got an imp of Ogun that I'm pretty sure just isn't the right scent for me. I'm going to give it the rest of the day to grow on me, but if it still makes me wrinkle my nose every time I smell myself, anybody else want to try it?

* I just got the okay to go back to Monterey this year. California here I come!

* On the BPAL front, Lolita smells like juicyfruit bubble gum. Yummy.

* Today is my last day of work before Dragon*Con.

* I shocked the hell out of the ladies at Wal-Mart by producing valid ID that proves I am in fact just about to turn 24.

Mad Sweeney is one of the BPAL Neil Gaiman scents, and I bought a bottle because I'm a good little librarian and the proceeds went to the CBLDF. :)

So I first opened the bottle, and nearly fell over. I remember thinking "Jesus, the last time I smelled whiskey that strong, there was a cute boy involved, and a bottle, and oh god, the suffering the next morning... Did I really just buy, without smelling first, a bottle of oil that promises to make me smell like a boozy Irishman?"

But then I put it on, and it's like all the best parts of coming home from the pub at three in the morning. It's booze and smoke in just the right amounts, so that every time you notice you're reminded of the most fantastic night you just had. I think I just found my Renfaire scent.

Luckily the hangover is not included.


Bordello is sweet. Really sweet. Sort of cotton-candy, sweetpea-ish sweet. I like it a lot, but then again I like sweet scents. I like apples and honeysuckle and burn birthday cake candles in my room. If you're not into sweet scents, this one might just make you gag. By the end of the day it's not so strong, but driving to lunch I could still smell it with my hands on the steering wheel.

As if making up for my absolutely horrid day at work, the postal gods saw fit to have my BPAL order delivered today. I have smelly-good stuffs!