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.

[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. :(

[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.

[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.

[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.

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).

[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]

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.