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smellsgood2014-08-24 08:41 pm
sine_nomine) wrote in smellsgood2014-08-24 08:41 pm
I did it for science!
Well, I finally am starting to sort out what scents I like. Or so I thought... after all, I finally have 6 BPAL scents that have me going WOW! to a greater or lesser extent (and a couple more to try of the current stuff I own; have an offer to go rummaging through a friend's Great Big Bowl of Impstm as well so not running out any time soon)... all things that I'm keeping and that seem to make me happy.
They are, in alpha order:
Cat, The (because despite BPAL alphabetizing using The as a word I refuse to)
Hatta
Lacus Solitudinis
Les Infortunes de la Vertu
Odin
Old Scratch
And so, because it's me and lo data! I set up a spreadsheet. Thought, initially, that there would be lots of overlap. After all, two scents (I didn't initially input them alphabetically) had rosewood. And some form of lavender.And two have some form of leather. Funny thing about data: once you put all of it into a sheet and start analyzing you get to realize that's exactly where the correlation stops. Oh joy! Oh rapture!
BUT... I said to myself... look.... Yucca Giant-Skipper has many of the same elements as things you've liked all in one blend; perhaps you should reach out tosynecdochic to see if she has any more of it that she can send you. And then I looked at her list of what all people wanted to order from that particular circle. I had already ordered it. I already ostensibly own it. Except I think that it's one of the scents that I opened, went "Not just no but heck no!", and promptly packaged it off to my friend G.
Either I don't have enough data or there is no accounting for taste. I am beginning to suspect the latter... because the only overlap I'm seeing is "there is usually something sweet-ish tying each of these together."
Well, clearly I have to do more research...
They are, in alpha order:
Cat, The (because despite BPAL alphabetizing using The as a word I refuse to)
Hatta
Lacus Solitudinis
Les Infortunes de la Vertu
Odin
Old Scratch
And so, because it's me and lo data! I set up a spreadsheet. Thought, initially, that there would be lots of overlap. After all, two scents (I didn't initially input them alphabetically) had rosewood. And some form of lavender.And two have some form of leather. Funny thing about data: once you put all of it into a sheet and start analyzing you get to realize that's exactly where the correlation stops. Oh joy! Oh rapture!
BUT... I said to myself... look.... Yucca Giant-Skipper has many of the same elements as things you've liked all in one blend; perhaps you should reach out to
synecdochic to see if she has any more of it that she can send you. And then I looked at her list of what all people wanted to order from that particular circle. I had already ordered it. I already ostensibly own it. Except I think that it's one of the scents that I opened, went "Not just no but heck no!", and promptly packaged it off to my friend G.Either I don't have enough data or there is no accounting for taste. I am beginning to suspect the latter... because the only overlap I'm seeing is "there is usually something sweet-ish tying each of these together."
Well, clearly I have to do more research...
no subject
Sadly, I found that (for me), it isn't about individual notes. It's about combinations. Foody-leaning vanilla doesn't work on me, but woody/resinous vanilla does -- usually the other notes will tell me which way the vanilla is leaning. Same with the way some resins have a metallic edge (on my skin), and some musks only work in specific combinations.
And once I figured all that out, I found out that I can't apply the same rules outside of BPAL.
no subject
(and yes,when I started playing with BPAL, I leaned towards notes that I love in the scent that was pretty much the only thing I ever wore... and NONE of them worked (at least not in the combinations that I was choosing)
At least it's fun research?!?
;-)