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synecdochic ([personal profile] synecdochic) wrote in [community profile] smellsgood2014-07-18 05:24 pm
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friday free for all

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!
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[personal profile] synecdochic 2014-07-18 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
1) I made it through surgery! This is not perfume related, but still, yay.

2) I finished my Kabuki/Gatekeeper bpal decant circle in 24 hours even despite being post surgery. My wife is awesome and amazing, all hail.

3). I wrote up my guide to how to run a decant circle, or at least how I do it and get such fast turnaround time.

4) If you've been in my decant circles before: I made [community profile] synecdochic_decants for news and updates in the future, and will fill it out a bit when i am no longer post surgery.

5) I have samples of 3 perfumes I got as freebies in an ebay buy, and will send them to anyone for cost of shipping: Love Chloe, Lolita Lempicka, and Ed Hardy Hearts and Daggers. Comment if interested so others know it's spoken for, and then PM me your address.
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[personal profile] byzantienne 2014-07-18 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
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?
Edited 2014-07-18 22:52 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sathari 2014-07-19 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Not sure if this warrants a separate post, so I'm throwing it out here:

Something I'm struggling with as I try to write reviews for scents to post here is that... I don't know the common vocabulary for scent-notes, is I guess the best way to put it. Like there are common "themes" in scents that I recognize, but I don't know if there are common terms for them (like with wines you can talk about "dry" and "sweet" even though those words don't exactly mean what they do in the general usage). So I can go, "Oh, this is a THAT KIND of scent" but I don't have a good way of explaining it for review purposes.

Anyone else having this trouble? Are there guides for this sort of thing? I have lots of write-ups of scents (oh BPAL, you and your frimps!) that I'm holding back on posting because I'm not sure if they're actually intelligible to anyone but me.
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[personal profile] momijizukamori 2014-07-19 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
So I'm sitting here with the problem of.... my ScentBase shows I have 159 scents in my collection, not including D's decant circles, and I only know what a handful of them smell like.

Unfortunately I have the attention span of a goldfish, so sitting and reviewing batches is maybe not going to work because I suspect that I'll maybe get as far as drydown and then forget to write any more notes past that.

Any ideas? Other than attempting to write a bot to remind me to take notes (which is a solution, but maybe not the most immediate one...)
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[personal profile] cleverthylacine 2014-07-19 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
Any Piguet geeks here? The last time I bought a lot of perfume there were four Piguets available and now it seems like there are about 8 million.

I love Fracas but I don't love it quite as much as I did in the 80s (reformulations argh argh), I love Bandit and I love Visa. Baghari makes me smell like a nursing home, minus the pee. What are the new ones like?
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[personal profile] cyprinella 2014-07-19 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I was at Vitamin Shoppe today for scent-unrelated reasons and passed their essential oil stand on my way to check out. I finally remembered to stop and huff some of the oils for scent notes I hear described but don't know what they are. It was awesome to realize that I knew what patchouli is and I hate it! It's a scent that I have for some reason always associated with old lady houses (perhaps in potpourri?) and fragrances. So it was a very useful detour.
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2014-07-20 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
I tested Streets of Detroit: http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/7299158.html
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Why the top notes?

[personal profile] lunabee34 2014-07-20 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Question!

If they burn off fairly quickly, sometimes in a matter of minutes, why does perfume even have top notes? Why not jump straight to the middle/bottom which will dominate the fragrance?

My husband Josh and I debated this and we wondered it if had something to do with masking the fragrance of the alcohol in perfumes but IDK.
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