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brigdhI have been insanely busy for the last week. Also my apartment had no water this morning. HELLO DECEMBER HOW ARE YOU.
Bayou
Website Description: A 'Wanderlust' scent. A lazy, warm deep green scent with a thick aquatic undertone: Spanish moss, evergreen and cypress with watery blue-green notes and an eddy of hothouse flowers and swamp blooms.
In vial: A very strong green scent, sort of like how the stems of cut flowers smell. It's sweetened with some sort of floral - orchid, maybe? Or could be magnolia. Or even jasmine. Something in that range of super-sweet, strong and tropical, but the green smell is the strongest.
Wet: The floral, plus a a complicated green: like cut-stems plus moss plus pine. It's very good; the overall impression is of being in a hot house or garden store. This scent sometimes makes me sneeze at this stage, though I don't think I'm allergic to it, because it doesn't itch on my skin or anything.
Dry: A woody smell comes out and dominates; it smells like cedar to me, but I suppose it's actually the cypress. The floral is still there too, but it's become less sweet and more plant-y, if that makes sense. Overall, it reminds me a lot of Snow Moon, but if it was warm and green instead of cold and icy.
Black Lotus
Website Description: A 'Rappaccini's Garden' scent. Born in the shadows of a Temple to Set, this corrupted Egyptian scent evokes images of black pyramids, river demons, and bleak, deadly desert sands. Black lotus flower, amber, myrrh and sandalwood.
In Vial: Amber is the strongest scent, a warm watery sort of amber. Makes me think of golden colors.
Wet: Mmm, a cut-flowers green scent, with amber. Sandalwood is faintly in the background, giving it a sort of spicy, woody base.
Dry: The sandalwood and myrrh come out to dominate, and it becomes a warm, sexy, smoky-wood scent. There's still that green floral scent and the warm, almost muskiness, of the amber, but they're in the background, giving a round fullness to the sandalwood. A very sexy scent, like a bright, warm, totally decadent lazy afternoon.
Bien Loin D'Ici
Website Description: An 'Ars Amatoria' scent.
This is the house, the sacred box,
Where, always draped in languorous frocks,
And always at home if someone knocks,
One elbow into the pillow pressed,
She lies, and lazily fans her breast,
While fountains weep their soulfullest:
This is the chamber of Dorothy.
— Fountain and breeze for her alone
Sob in that soothing undertone.
Was ever so spoiled a harlot known?
With odorous oils and rosemary,
Benzoin and every unguent grown,
Her skin is rubbed most delicately.
— The flowers are faint with ecstasy.
The Scarlet Woman, aglow with sensual indolence: red musk, benzoin, caramel accord, golden honey, and spiced Moroccan unguents.
In Vial: A strong, thick scent. Reminds me a lot of Lust. I think that's the red musk; it always make me think of dark, slow-pouring ooze, pathouli-like. Which I know a lot of people like, but I have to say, it doesn't do it for me; way too dark and there's just something about that heaviness to it that I don't like.
Wet: Red musk, lightened with something sweet, probably the honey. Dark and sweet. Improving!
Dry: The spices come out. It becomes a sort of sweet, spicy scent, a bit like some kind of pastry or sticky treat. There's still some of the musk providing a warm base, but the spice is mostly dry spices. Which is nice, but I have other BPALs which smell similar, without having to go through the weird opening scent.
Note: I was trying and trying to remember what this scent reminded me of, and then it finally occurred to me: in the dry state, it smells exactly like Bath & Body Work's Honey and Date lotion in their Moroccan line. Which I love, and so makes me fonder of this perfume. So, uh, if you've ever smelled that lotion, now you know what this BPAL is like.
Bayou
Website Description: A 'Wanderlust' scent. A lazy, warm deep green scent with a thick aquatic undertone: Spanish moss, evergreen and cypress with watery blue-green notes and an eddy of hothouse flowers and swamp blooms.
In vial: A very strong green scent, sort of like how the stems of cut flowers smell. It's sweetened with some sort of floral - orchid, maybe? Or could be magnolia. Or even jasmine. Something in that range of super-sweet, strong and tropical, but the green smell is the strongest.
Wet: The floral, plus a a complicated green: like cut-stems plus moss plus pine. It's very good; the overall impression is of being in a hot house or garden store. This scent sometimes makes me sneeze at this stage, though I don't think I'm allergic to it, because it doesn't itch on my skin or anything.
Dry: A woody smell comes out and dominates; it smells like cedar to me, but I suppose it's actually the cypress. The floral is still there too, but it's become less sweet and more plant-y, if that makes sense. Overall, it reminds me a lot of Snow Moon, but if it was warm and green instead of cold and icy.
Black Lotus
Website Description: A 'Rappaccini's Garden' scent. Born in the shadows of a Temple to Set, this corrupted Egyptian scent evokes images of black pyramids, river demons, and bleak, deadly desert sands. Black lotus flower, amber, myrrh and sandalwood.
In Vial: Amber is the strongest scent, a warm watery sort of amber. Makes me think of golden colors.
Wet: Mmm, a cut-flowers green scent, with amber. Sandalwood is faintly in the background, giving it a sort of spicy, woody base.
Dry: The sandalwood and myrrh come out to dominate, and it becomes a warm, sexy, smoky-wood scent. There's still that green floral scent and the warm, almost muskiness, of the amber, but they're in the background, giving a round fullness to the sandalwood. A very sexy scent, like a bright, warm, totally decadent lazy afternoon.
Bien Loin D'Ici
Website Description: An 'Ars Amatoria' scent.
This is the house, the sacred box,
Where, always draped in languorous frocks,
And always at home if someone knocks,
One elbow into the pillow pressed,
She lies, and lazily fans her breast,
While fountains weep their soulfullest:
This is the chamber of Dorothy.
— Fountain and breeze for her alone
Sob in that soothing undertone.
Was ever so spoiled a harlot known?
With odorous oils and rosemary,
Benzoin and every unguent grown,
Her skin is rubbed most delicately.
— The flowers are faint with ecstasy.
The Scarlet Woman, aglow with sensual indolence: red musk, benzoin, caramel accord, golden honey, and spiced Moroccan unguents.
In Vial: A strong, thick scent. Reminds me a lot of Lust. I think that's the red musk; it always make me think of dark, slow-pouring ooze, pathouli-like. Which I know a lot of people like, but I have to say, it doesn't do it for me; way too dark and there's just something about that heaviness to it that I don't like.
Wet: Red musk, lightened with something sweet, probably the honey. Dark and sweet. Improving!
Dry: The spices come out. It becomes a sort of sweet, spicy scent, a bit like some kind of pastry or sticky treat. There's still some of the musk providing a warm base, but the spice is mostly dry spices. Which is nice, but I have other BPALs which smell similar, without having to go through the weird opening scent.
Note: I was trying and trying to remember what this scent reminded me of, and then it finally occurred to me: in the dry state, it smells exactly like Bath & Body Work's Honey and Date lotion in their Moroccan line. Which I love, and so makes me fonder of this perfume. So, uh, if you've ever smelled that lotion, now you know what this BPAL is like.
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Date: 2009-12-04 01:04 am (UTC)I made the mistake of ordering full bottles of a couple of things I hadn't tried before. One, a LE Yule scent a few years ago, I actually really like, though it makes me smell like cake, and one is a perfectly nice sort of Violet thing, but the other is hideously full of oakmoss and something else cloying and I hate it.
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Date: 2009-12-04 11:39 pm (UTC)The one I'm planning to buy soon (Crib Girls) only comes in the bottle-size. I probably could get an imp to test it by buying it second-hand from someone, but I know I like all of the things in Crib Girls, so I feel pretty confident about it.