friday free for all

[synecdochic]

Now in the correct place, oops.

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

[byzantienne]

So I'm totally in love with a couple of these Only Lovers Left Alive decants (thanks, Syn!) and I ... really wish I could get them in a spray, or /make/ some kind of atomized version. Do people do this? Is it verboten? I don't usually play in BPAL, I'm a commercial-perfume-house girl.

How would I do it?

[asciident]

Short answer is yes - people have mixed BPAL with alcohol (either perfumers alcohol or vodka) and put them in atomizers. Occasionally you can even find people selling/swapping them. :)

Unfortunately with the BPAL forums down I don't know where to find tutorial that could give you the right proportions. Hopefully someone will come along with that for you!

[cleverthylacine]

Honestly as far as proportions go I mostly go by "does it smell right"? this may or may not be helpful.

[cleverthylacine]

Fancy meeting you here!

I have to do that. Oils sink into my skin and lose their scent incredibly fast. I have in a pinch used isopropyl alcohol but perfumers alcohol is best.

I may or may not have also mixed BPAL Morgause with Bond #9 Broadway Nite, which is nice...but has enough violets in it you could probably conjure up Jim with it...

[sathari]

That is fascinating about perfume oils--- I am just the opposite in that "mainstream" perfumes with their alcohol bases mostly barely smell like anything (except the alcohol!) on me and disappear fast; BPAL was a revelation for me because suddenly scents did cool things like lasting and changing (to something besides alcohol!) on me. Fun with individual skin chemistry!

[byzantienne]

Fancy seeing you~

Yeah, I have the same problem. Also I like being able to put perfume in my hair, and you can't really do that without some kind of atomizer! (my current deep desire is to make my hair smell like Eve, from the Only Lovers Left Alive collection.)

Where do you usually get perfumer's alcohol?

[cleverthylacine]

I don't recall quite where I got the big bottle I have right now (if I were home I could run and check), but you can find it online like everything else.