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Yay, the last backordered scent from my BPAL decant circle is out for delivery with the mailman! (I need to write up a step-by-step guide to everything I did this time around that made it sooooo much easier than last, in case it might be useful for others in the future.)

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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I asked this on the last free for all, but I posted kind of late and didn't get many takers (I did get a rec for Lolita Lempicka).

Here's a C&P of my earlier post:

Now that we are taking a little BPAL break and testing some more mainstream perfumes, Emma is worried that she isn't going to like any of the samples we've got or that they'll all smell too "old" for her to wear.

Anyone have suggestions for mainstream perfumes that might appeal to the pre-teen?

Of the BPAL stuff we tested, she kept Bread and Butterfly (heavy on the vanilla), Black Cat (mint, chocolate and rose), Titania (flowers), Elf (aspen leaves and honey), and Villain (classic lavender fougere).

This is one of those things where I end up convinced that I am qualitatively experiencing scent differently from others, because most of what other people describe as mellow/comforting scents are wholr worlds of "gah fuck you are STABBING MY NOSE!", whereas I don't find the idea of actual body-smells (sex ones included) going so surprising at all. Hnh.

There is that!

I did try Bess and the grape spirit went the wrong way for me - somehow it evoked mothballs and air freshener :-(

How times change. When I was a pre-teen I was stealing whiffs of my mother's Arpege and wondering how I would ever afford a bottle of Joy.

I love Lolita Lempika and love the adorable bottle, too.

You could try Miss Cherie Dior. Definitely a young scent. "Notes of chic, green tangerine, violette, and pink jasmine mingle with soft patchouli, musk, and delectably sweet strawberry leaves and caramelized popcorn make up Christian Dior Miss Dior Cherie eau de parfum." $3.99 for a one ml sample vial.

She might like a discontinued Avon Mark perfume called Bohista. "Infused with essences of ginger lily, orchid, rich chocolate & warm musk." So, flowery chocolate. It's yummy. My husband likes it, too, and he dislikes most perfume. I'm wearing it right now. No samples that I can find but you can get a rollerball on Ebay for eight bucks. I am trying to resist buying the body lotion which I ran out of years ago, naturally. I love that lotion.

And then on the other end of the price spectrum we have Love by Kilian. "Taking inspiration from the marshmallow, this fragrance is a sweet treat for sensuous connoisseurs. At first soft and tender, it unfolds into the intensity that graces truly great seductresses. Top notes of glorious neroli are like a shy, tentative kiss given by fresh lips. At the heart of the fragrance, Sambac jasmine caresses skin warm with rose and iris, reaching ecstasy in the embrace of vanilla and musk."

So...marshmallow flowers. Many people think it's too sweet but I kind of love that about it. $3.99 for a half ml vial.

Oh noes. that's a shame. :(

One of the things I find irritating about talking to my rl friends about my perfume adventures is that I have such a strong southern accent that I sound like a total hick when I pronounce the French names. LOL I think I'm going to Google the pronunciation of them and then do that thing newscasters do when they're just talking in their normal anchor voice but when they come to the name of a foreign city they go all uber foreign accent. LOL

I wore Charlie as a pre-teen; do they still make it?

Also Jean Naté, I think, is timeless.

I've had my first Adventures in BPAL-Land.

Reactions ranged from "oh. oh...yes. YES. YESSSSS..... OMG..... YESSSSSS!" to "Not just no. HAY-ULL NO." (the full-on dipthong sound of which can really only be successfully replicated with the American English of the Southern United States).

(And yes, I ordered a full bottle of the former... Hatta, to be specific)

Now of course this begs the question: what do I do with the stuff I'd be very happy to remove from my house?

Edited 2014-07-12 00:41 (UTC)

Now of course this begs the question: what do I do with the stuff I'd be very happy to remove from my house?

people trade or sell their unwanted samples. or you give them to someone you know who's interested in trying BPAL stuff or perfume in general.

Oh wow thank you. These are awesome recs. I will pass them on and see what she thinks. That Dior sounds lovely.

I don't think I've smelled either one of those. I'll add them to the list. Thank you. :)

What ended up disagreeing with you?

Two scents from the Only Lovers Left Alive LE series: Kit (which I want to love because of the sandalwood, and which I'm trying again because I just caught

synecdochic's heads up that it's in solution and has to be remixed before application, and Funnel of Love.

Also Severin (given the ostensible connections with that one, I'm quite disappointed in my disappointment though grateful as it, too (I believe) is LE.

And Emathides, which smelled to me like the sort of car freshener one could hang (if one was the sort of person who does this) from one's rear view mirror to "freshen" one's car.

Good luck!

(Jean Naté is technically, I believe, a bath splash (as in post-bathing use) so you'll more likely find it grouped with such things than at a cosmetics counter, if that makes sense)

*files that away*

(and yes, I know it technically doesn't "beg the question" (my inner editor cringed as I typed it) but hey, common usage and all...)

Yes! Thanks for the heads up.

Oh, that's disappointing. :(

I'm assuming that you're a Snape fan? If so, back before the BPAL forums went down, I read all the reviews of every scent I tested and I learned that the forums had once voted Incantation as the fragrance Severus Snape most likely smells like. Just FYI

You should make a review post here or in your journal link to it here and then list at the bottom of the post the stuff you're willing to trade or sell.

I've been able to get rid of all the stuff I didn't like, get some great stuff in return, and make some good new friends doing swaps.

I don't see disappointing; I see useful datapoints. :-)

Thank you for the advice.

And Charlie was like a Revlon fragrance, if memory serves... hey, I was a pre-teen... had cheap taste! but my mother liked it enough that she paid me for my bottle of it.

finding out that BPAL has a scent called the gatekeeper, makes my weird brain wonder if there is/will be one called the keymaster.

ghostbusters fans will get that.

That was the first thing I thought of, too! (It's new: they did it as part of a Kickstarter reward campaign. Hee.)

when I was a pre-teen, I was obsessed with Exclamation. But it smelled utterly awful on me. I was a sad panda. LOL

That's a great way of looking at it. You can't figure out what you do like without smelling some duds.

And this intervention would consist of asking your readers to suggest super-difficult perfumes, right?

*looks hopeful*

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