The Friday Free-For-All

[synecdochic]

Good Friday morning, fellow sniffers!

This post is a free-for-all for people to:

a) post links to perfume-related content they posted elsewhere (on or off DW)
b) talk about anything they want to talk about that isn't big enough for a full post
c) socialize and hang out without worrying about "off topic"
d) or anything else that comes to mind!

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[synecdochic]

(Randomly: Ugh, I need to finish working out the tagging system and create the tags for this community. Mutter. I have Firm Ideas about how it should be, I just haven't done it yet.)

This week, I:

* Got the package from the one eBay auction I won for a huge bunch of BPAL imps and a smaller bunch of imps. Our "to be tested" box (we use empty pipette tip boxes Sarah brought home from work and the imps move back and forth based on tested, one of us but not the other has tested, tried it and keeping it, tried it and trading it, and tried it but I think it needs more aging) is now ridiculously full. We will definitely need another when the following arrives:

* Bought, off the BPAL forums, somebody's giant pile of 98 LE decants/unimpable-scents decants/discontinued GC imps. The price was so low that I actually made the seller re-invoice me so I could at least pay for the shipping, because otherwise I would have felt like I was ripping her off! (She was at the "I can't even deal with these, just get them out of my house" stage, heh.) I am totally set for ages on the "older LEs" front now between that and the previous. (This will not stop me from bidding on imp pile auctions on eBay.)

* Managed to snag a spot in a decant circle for the new Pretty Deadly scents announced yesterday, and the lady who did the first round of the decant circle for some of the Neil Gaiman scents (which can't be gotten in imps, only in bottles) that I snagged a spot in earlier this month is doing another round for another section of the Gaiman scents. This round includes several I really want to try. I am excite.

* jenett came to visit and brought her BPAL stash. I got to sniff a bunch and found that Bard, which I hadn't looked twice at on BPAL's site, actually smells great on me. I love it when random stuff like that happens!

* Started signups for my decant circle of several of BPAL's unreleased/prototype scents! If you're interested, signups will be open until Weds and it's $25 for 5 random prototype scents. (US shipping is included in that price.) I am super excited to try some of the prototypes and I hope more people will sign up so I can have an excuse to order more bottles. Heh.

[lunabee34]

Yay new stuff to smell!

Oh man. the catalog description of Bard sounds awesome. I love BPAl's white musk and all their wood notes. I bet that would smell good on me too. LOL *adds another scent to the list*

We just tried Druid, and I didn't think it was going to be a favorite but I was so wrong. It smells amazing on me. I love it. Like grass and woods and mint and dirt. Yum yum.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Heh, it really does sound like your taste for green-outdoorsy scents lines up fairly well with undomielregina - she really loved Druid too. I'll have to nudge her to make a list of a few of her other top faves in that category, she's been trying a ton of samples...

[lunabee34]

Oh that would be fantastic! :)

PM me your address. I want to go ahead and send you that imp of Antony. (I also have imps of Croquet, Somnus, Endymion, Thy God-father's Present, and Kerosene by Black Vines for giveaways. I also have a nearly full bottle of Kate Spade's Beauty if you're interested in that.

[chomiji]

I got my Fig-Figgety Fig Fig samples from Surrender to Chance and have been experimenting with them. I will post my results on the comm in a couple of installments. The winner so far (in terms of my perferences) is the relatively mainstream Un Jardin en Mediterranee from Hermès.

[lunabee34]

Yay for figs! :)

And remember, mainstream just means a bunch of people like it. Ice cream is mainstream. Because it is awesome. LOL

[rydra_wong]

And Un Jardin en Mediterranee is by Jean-Claude Ellena, who gets a lot of respect -- it's the perfume that got Hermes to hire him as their exclusive in-house perfumer.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

There's a pretty fascinating in-depth article here - http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/03/14/050314fa_fact - covering the process of the development of one of Ellena's earlier Hermès scents, Un Jardin sur le Nil.

[synecdochic]

Oh, that article is fascinating.

[rydra_wong]

Can't get the article to load properly, but I see it's by Chandler Burr --- he actually wrote a whole book, The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris & New York, describing the development process for Un Jardin sur le Nil and Sarah Jessica Parker's Lovely. This article must have preceded that, I think.

[synecdochic]

I've had that book in my "read someday" wishlist for a while, but reading the article made me actually get off my duff and order it :)