Friday Free-for-all

[synecdochic]

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!

Comments

[lunabee34]

I am wearing Caron Pour un Homme, and it is very yummy. I love lavender; I just wish my skin didn't eat it so quickly.

[synecdochic]

Isn't it interesting how some scents just disappear on your skin? I have a few of those, and it's always the ones you love :(

[lunabee34]

*nods*

Lavender goes really, really quickly on me.

I've got a vial of lavender essential oil, and I can get five good minutes out of an application before I'm struggling to smell it. My daughter puts some on, and she smells like lavender forever. LOL Which is probably why BPAL's Villain works so well on her; the lavender lasts.

I think if I use Aveda's Stress Fix lotion (which is lavender and clary sage) beforehand, that will up the staying power. Also, my cleavage spray got on my clothes and the fabric seems to be retaining the scent better than my skin. Maybe I just need to do a torso spray rather than wrists.

[elfin]

Construction both inside and outside my office is kicking up a ton of dust and I'm so congested that I can't smell anything. Stuck my nose right in a vial of Wolf Moon and got nothing. Woe. :(

[lunabee34]

Blergh.

That sucks. And can't be good for you at all to be breathing that junk in.

Do you think you should wear a surgical mask? *Has seen too many mesothelioma commercials*

[kaberett]

Mostly this week I am deeply amused that Perfume describes ELdO's Vierges et Torreros as "Bulgari Black without the green velvet that made the original so plush."

On me, Bulgari Black spends the first five minutes smelling like I've doused myself in a bottle of very expensive vodka; the next five minutes like I decided to chase it with a bottle of very cheap vanilla essence; and the subsequent six hours smelling like vanilla cookies fresh out of the oven.

I therefore conclude that "vanilla cookies minus green velvet" smells like a three-day sex-marathon with no shower breaks.

[lunabee34]

Hahaha.

Skin chemistry is so weird.

[minim_calibre]

I have hit the stage of my life where I look in sorrow at my Comme des Garcons because they are failing to be difficult enough for me.

This may mean I require an intervention.

[kaberett]

heeeeeeeeeee

[minim_calibre]

It doesn't HELP that something about my body chemistry makes smells tame down. I swear, I could dip actual body fluids on my pulse points and they'd wind up just smelling mellow and comforting in 15 minutes.

[rydra_wong]

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

*looks hopeful*

[woldy]

I've got a bunch of BPAL reviews here: http://woldy.dreamwidth.org/tag/interesting+smells . The posts are flocked, but I'm happy to add people :-)

Wearing BPAL Seance this evening, which is thusfar the only rose scent I've ever liked. Usually rose smells old ladyish to me, but this is a fresh, leafy rosewood and is on its way towards seducing me into buying a bottle.

[lunabee34]

Have you tried Bess? It's the only rose BPAL I've liked so far. On me, it's a grapey rose, which sounds weird, but it keeps the rose from being cloying somehow.

[woldy]

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

Scents for a pre-teen

[lunabee34]

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).

Re: Scents for a pre-teen

[wendelah1]

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.

Re: Scents for a pre-teen

[lunabee34]

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

Re: Scents for a pre-teen

[sine_nomine]

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

Also Jean Naté, I think, is timeless.

Re: Scents for a pre-teen

[lunabee34]

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

[lunabee34]

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

[sine_nomine]

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?

[archersangel]

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.

[lunabee34]

What ended up disagreeing with you?

[archersangel]

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.

[synecdochic]

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