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BPAL Halloweenies
It's the most wonderful time of the year! What are you planning on getting, if anything? Notes behind the cut.
All Souls 2017 – An incense blend that invokes the higher qualities of mercy and compassion, mingled with the soft, sugared currant scent of offertory soul cakes.
Apple Butter Rum – Spiced rum with cinnamon, apple butter, nutmeg, and thick vanilla cream.
Cardamom Cream Pumpkin Cake – Thick lumps of pumpkin cake with cardamom-cream frosting and a dusting of cinnamon.
Chocolate Blood – A sideways ode to Hitchcock’s Psycho, by way of Bosco Chocolate Syrup.
Cinnamon Chai Cupcake – A cozy accompaniment on chilly autumn nights.
Day of Skulls – White sandalwood, beeswax, and frankincense crowned by hydrangea, rose, and kantuta blossoms, dressed with tobacco, cocoa leaves and flowers from the sacred Cactus of the Four Winds.
Dead Leaves, Hemp, Mossy Soil, Frankincense, and Oudh
Dead Leaves, Pineapple, Patchouli, and Vetiver
Dead Leaves, Tuscan Leather, White Amber, and Mimosa Blossom
Dirge – Yew berries and cypress boughs, ropes of kelp and sea spray.
Feeding the Dead – A barrel of beer, a pyramid of cakes, and three sticks of incense.
Hallow-e’en, 1914 – A welcome for the home-coming dead: an incense of dried ivy and maple leaf with honeyed fig, black cypress, and grave dirt.
Haunted Seas – Seaspray and flecks of foam welling with opoponax and labdanum’s sepulchral moans.
In a Whispering Gallery – Marbled white iris, white tobacco flower, Italian bergamot, white leather, and Mysore sandalwood.
La Calavera Catrina – The Lady of the Graveyard! Autumn leaves, wild roses, bourbon vanilla, dry chamomile, and a bouquet of bright chrysanthemums and Mexican marigolds.
October – Dry, cold autumn wind. A rustle of red leaves, a touch of smoke and sap in the air.
Pumpkin Brownies – Swirled with caramel and topped with sour cream frosting.
Pumpkin Chypre – A gleaming auburn chypre shot through with streaks of pumpkin.
Pumpkin Sugar 2017 – Crystallized glittering shards of lightly spiced pumpkin sugar.
Samhain 2017 – Truly the scent of autumn itself — damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein.
September Midnight 2017 – A myrrh-darkened amber chypre sweetened by newly-ripened black pomegranate.
Sugar Skull 2017 – Vibrant with the joy and sweetness of life in death! A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits.
The Apparition – Quicksilver-cold and heartless: white sandalwood, immortelle, zdravetz, and oudh.
The Witch Bride 2017 – Pale and lovely, with eyes belladonna-wide: hemlock blossoms and ghostly nightshade veiled by wisteria, white frankincense, black amber, and narcissus resin.
++ HALLOWEEN 2017: PILE OF LEAVES
Dead Leaves and Squished Candy Corn
Dead Leaves, Black Plum, Bitter Clove, and Oudh
Dead Leaves, Bourbon, Black Cherry, and an Orange Twist
Dead Leaves, Coconut, and Champaca Blossom
Dead Leaves, Lemon Verbena, and Cedar
Dead Leaves, Tuscan Leather, White Amber, and Mimosa Blossom
Dead Leaves, Violet Candy, and Sugar Crystals
++ HALLOWEEN 2017: PUMPKIN SPICE WHATEVER
Pumpkin Spice Cathedral – Pumpkin spiced incense smoke!
Pumpkin Spice Embalming Fluid – Pumpkin spice that funeral home!
Pumpkin Spice Harlot – Pumpkin spice that brothel!
Pumpkin Spice Opium Poppy – Pumpkin spiced euphoria!
Pumpkin Spice Perversion – You dirty bird.
Pumpkin Spice Shoggoth – Bursting bubbles of self-luminous pumpkin spice!
Pumpkin Spice Snake Oil – Pumpkin spice them carnies!
++ HALLOWEEN 2017: SAMHAINOPHOBIA
Chiroptophobia (Fear of Bats) – A flutter of leather becomes a swarm of buffeting musks, tangled with a white flash of sandalwood and near-inaudible shrieks of eucalyptus and elemi.
Coimetrophobia (Fear of Cemeteries) – Upturned earth, moss-damp and thick with creeping things. A shard of mahogany from a broken casket. Creaking marble doors pushing open under moonlit skies.
Hemophobia (Fear of Blood) – Crimson splatter, pulsating with blackened vetiver.
Nebulaphobia (Fear of Fog) – Sinuous, suffocating tendrils of grey ambergris, white frankincense, and cade.
Samhainophobia (Fear of Halloween – Menacing vetiver, patchouli, and clove with a shock of bourbon geranium, grim oakmoss, and dread-inspiring balsams pierce the innocuous scent of autumn leaves.
++ HALLOWEEN 2017: SINGLE NOTES
Blood Squib
Bobbing for Apples
Graveyard Dirt
Papier-Mâché Ghost
Plastic Pumpkin Candy Tub
Pumpkin Spice Everything
Unsettling Clear Plastic Mask
++ Weenies 2017 - The Tell-Tale Heart
Groan of Mortal Terror – Opaque grey amber and opoponax swelling up like thick smoke, pressed under the weight of baleful tobacco.
I Heard Many Things in Hell – Hearken and observe: black iris, French lavender, Roman chamomile, and frankincense.
Over-Acuteness of the Senses – Hyper-aware, swirling with delusions: orange blossom, lemon balm, and clove.
Singularly At Ease – Rum cakes and black tea, blueberry scones and biscuits.
Stealthily, Stealthily – A dim ray upon the vulture eye: smoked violets and bulbous orris, threads of crumbling lavender, and wet iris butter.
Suspicion of Foul Play – Clean wood floors, a clean tub, clean, clean, clean, with no stain of any kind, no blood-spot whatsoever.
The Dead Hour of the Night – Mist-shrouded pine and moonflower creeping over flaccid opium poppies.
The Dreadful Silence of That Old House – Polished mahogany blanketed by myrrh.
The Eye of a Vulture – Milky white fluid obfuscating a pale, lilac-blue iris.
The Hellish Tattoo of The Heart – Blood musk and pulsating black pepper, a throb of bitter almond, and cracked pimento.
The Mournful Influence of the Unperceived Shadow – Unutterable dread: thick black patchouli, shadow musk, myrrh, and threads of hot saffron mired in sweet, viscous labdanum.
The Wild Audacity of My Perfect Triumph – A jubilant and deranged lime absinthe.
Violent Gesticulations – An erratic pomegranate mint, high-pitched and flailing with eucalyptus, above a throbbing core of black musk.
You Fancy Me Mad – Percolating with derangement: flashing spikes of orange blossom, neroli, lemon, and bitter clove in a bubbling mass of opoponax, patchouli, and thick, black vetiver.
All Souls 2017 – An incense blend that invokes the higher qualities of mercy and compassion, mingled with the soft, sugared currant scent of offertory soul cakes.
Apple Butter Rum – Spiced rum with cinnamon, apple butter, nutmeg, and thick vanilla cream.
Cardamom Cream Pumpkin Cake – Thick lumps of pumpkin cake with cardamom-cream frosting and a dusting of cinnamon.
Chocolate Blood – A sideways ode to Hitchcock’s Psycho, by way of Bosco Chocolate Syrup.
Cinnamon Chai Cupcake – A cozy accompaniment on chilly autumn nights.
Day of Skulls – White sandalwood, beeswax, and frankincense crowned by hydrangea, rose, and kantuta blossoms, dressed with tobacco, cocoa leaves and flowers from the sacred Cactus of the Four Winds.
Dead Leaves, Hemp, Mossy Soil, Frankincense, and Oudh
Dead Leaves, Pineapple, Patchouli, and Vetiver
Dead Leaves, Tuscan Leather, White Amber, and Mimosa Blossom
Dirge – Yew berries and cypress boughs, ropes of kelp and sea spray.
Feeding the Dead – A barrel of beer, a pyramid of cakes, and three sticks of incense.
Hallow-e’en, 1914 – A welcome for the home-coming dead: an incense of dried ivy and maple leaf with honeyed fig, black cypress, and grave dirt.
Haunted Seas – Seaspray and flecks of foam welling with opoponax and labdanum’s sepulchral moans.
In a Whispering Gallery – Marbled white iris, white tobacco flower, Italian bergamot, white leather, and Mysore sandalwood.
La Calavera Catrina – The Lady of the Graveyard! Autumn leaves, wild roses, bourbon vanilla, dry chamomile, and a bouquet of bright chrysanthemums and Mexican marigolds.
October – Dry, cold autumn wind. A rustle of red leaves, a touch of smoke and sap in the air.
Pumpkin Brownies – Swirled with caramel and topped with sour cream frosting.
Pumpkin Chypre – A gleaming auburn chypre shot through with streaks of pumpkin.
Pumpkin Sugar 2017 – Crystallized glittering shards of lightly spiced pumpkin sugar.
Samhain 2017 – Truly the scent of autumn itself — damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein.
September Midnight 2017 – A myrrh-darkened amber chypre sweetened by newly-ripened black pomegranate.
Sugar Skull 2017 – Vibrant with the joy and sweetness of life in death! A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits.
The Apparition – Quicksilver-cold and heartless: white sandalwood, immortelle, zdravetz, and oudh.
The Witch Bride 2017 – Pale and lovely, with eyes belladonna-wide: hemlock blossoms and ghostly nightshade veiled by wisteria, white frankincense, black amber, and narcissus resin.
++ HALLOWEEN 2017: PILE OF LEAVES
Dead Leaves and Squished Candy Corn
Dead Leaves, Black Plum, Bitter Clove, and Oudh
Dead Leaves, Bourbon, Black Cherry, and an Orange Twist
Dead Leaves, Coconut, and Champaca Blossom
Dead Leaves, Lemon Verbena, and Cedar
Dead Leaves, Tuscan Leather, White Amber, and Mimosa Blossom
Dead Leaves, Violet Candy, and Sugar Crystals
++ HALLOWEEN 2017: PUMPKIN SPICE WHATEVER
Pumpkin Spice Cathedral – Pumpkin spiced incense smoke!
Pumpkin Spice Embalming Fluid – Pumpkin spice that funeral home!
Pumpkin Spice Harlot – Pumpkin spice that brothel!
Pumpkin Spice Opium Poppy – Pumpkin spiced euphoria!
Pumpkin Spice Perversion – You dirty bird.
Pumpkin Spice Shoggoth – Bursting bubbles of self-luminous pumpkin spice!
Pumpkin Spice Snake Oil – Pumpkin spice them carnies!
++ HALLOWEEN 2017: SAMHAINOPHOBIA
Chiroptophobia (Fear of Bats) – A flutter of leather becomes a swarm of buffeting musks, tangled with a white flash of sandalwood and near-inaudible shrieks of eucalyptus and elemi.
Coimetrophobia (Fear of Cemeteries) – Upturned earth, moss-damp and thick with creeping things. A shard of mahogany from a broken casket. Creaking marble doors pushing open under moonlit skies.
Hemophobia (Fear of Blood) – Crimson splatter, pulsating with blackened vetiver.
Nebulaphobia (Fear of Fog) – Sinuous, suffocating tendrils of grey ambergris, white frankincense, and cade.
Samhainophobia (Fear of Halloween – Menacing vetiver, patchouli, and clove with a shock of bourbon geranium, grim oakmoss, and dread-inspiring balsams pierce the innocuous scent of autumn leaves.
++ HALLOWEEN 2017: SINGLE NOTES
Blood Squib
Bobbing for Apples
Graveyard Dirt
Papier-Mâché Ghost
Plastic Pumpkin Candy Tub
Pumpkin Spice Everything
Unsettling Clear Plastic Mask
++ Weenies 2017 - The Tell-Tale Heart
Groan of Mortal Terror – Opaque grey amber and opoponax swelling up like thick smoke, pressed under the weight of baleful tobacco.
I Heard Many Things in Hell – Hearken and observe: black iris, French lavender, Roman chamomile, and frankincense.
Over-Acuteness of the Senses – Hyper-aware, swirling with delusions: orange blossom, lemon balm, and clove.
Singularly At Ease – Rum cakes and black tea, blueberry scones and biscuits.
Stealthily, Stealthily – A dim ray upon the vulture eye: smoked violets and bulbous orris, threads of crumbling lavender, and wet iris butter.
Suspicion of Foul Play – Clean wood floors, a clean tub, clean, clean, clean, with no stain of any kind, no blood-spot whatsoever.
The Dead Hour of the Night – Mist-shrouded pine and moonflower creeping over flaccid opium poppies.
The Dreadful Silence of That Old House – Polished mahogany blanketed by myrrh.
The Eye of a Vulture – Milky white fluid obfuscating a pale, lilac-blue iris.
The Hellish Tattoo of The Heart – Blood musk and pulsating black pepper, a throb of bitter almond, and cracked pimento.
The Mournful Influence of the Unperceived Shadow – Unutterable dread: thick black patchouli, shadow musk, myrrh, and threads of hot saffron mired in sweet, viscous labdanum.
The Wild Audacity of My Perfect Triumph – A jubilant and deranged lime absinthe.
Violent Gesticulations – An erratic pomegranate mint, high-pitched and flailing with eucalyptus, above a throbbing core of black musk.
You Fancy Me Mad – Percolating with derangement: flashing spikes of orange blossom, neroli, lemon, and bitter clove in a bubbling mass of opoponax, patchouli, and thick, black vetiver.
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Actually, the Halloweenies are a collection that is pretty much guaranteed not to work on me. My skin doesn't do earth, apples, pumpkins, leaves, or any of the thin, icy scents of this time of year.
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I don't like earth, apples, leaves, or icy/snowy scents either. I do like apple scents, but I have a lot of them. I'm pretty disappointed in the Pile of Leaves and Pumpkin Spice and Single Notes, and most of the Poe scent won't work on me.
(ICON LOVE) (I used to have one of Darla and Dru I think)
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I'm completely over smelling like dirt and dead stuff. LOL I'm also not interested in foodie smelling perfumes.
I wonder if I'd like the dead leaves accord; if so, several of those sound good, but of course if you don't like that accord, then you won't like anything with it in there.
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(A thought prompted by your nom de net: do you by any chance like pomegranate? Narcissus?)
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Altho lately I've been trying to find scents-for-characters rather than stuff for me, which results in my finding something like Alan McMichael from the CP line (
But there were other bay rum scents I got that went FAUGH immediately. It's always such a crapshoot til I put the perfume on, which is part of the fun.
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IAGO: Malevolent, dark and shadowy: sinuous black musk, wet leather and vetiver.
From inside my skin, it emerged as a soft dry weathered leather, whose synaesthetic color was a muted clay-red--reserved, wistful, and gentlemanly. I paid for something more epitomizing Tom Hiddleston's Loki--only to be surprised by a reassuring Good Guy fragrance.
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It's so funny how noses and skin chemistry differ. Here's a C&P of my review of Iago:
I am going this alone. Emma took one sniff of the vial, gagged, and retreated to the other side of the room. LOL In the imp, I smell overwhelming leather. On the skin, it starts to mellow and smell a little more like leather than the chemical approximation of leather. Maybe there’s a smidge of coffee as well. I can see how people might think this smells like a worn leather couch warmed in the sun, but I don’t like this at all. LOL So far with BPAL, I either don’t smell the leather at all (as in Ranger) or don’t like it at all. I am starting to suspect I don’t like leather fragrances. Bandit was waaaaaaay too aggressively leather for me. The only leather scent I’ve tried so far and liked is Chanel Cuir de Russie, and the leather in that one is extremely mild on me. In the middle of testing this, Josh came home, opened the door and immediately said, “What’s that smell?” while making a gaggy face. I convinced him to sniff more closely, whereupon he announced that Iago smells like the sharp and chemical stench of the tannery. I know plenty of people love this one. Pretty sure it was recced to me by several people; it just doesn’t work for me at all. :(
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I think the one BPAL that affected me like that was Saturnalia. One whiff and I wrapped that imp in a sock, put it in a plastic baggie, and buried it underneath some sacrificial ugly Santa Fe-bought Christmas sweaters I don't think I've ever worn in Seattle. Maybe I should put a copy of those nuclear waste warnings that made it into Yuletide on top.
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That's definitely one to immediately swap.
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Can you sell it?
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