Weekly Free-For-All

[synecdochic]

(I might move this around in the week a few times until I work out when it works for me to post these.)

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!

Whatcha wearing today? (Me: BPAL's "Brimstone", which I am absolutely perplexed by. I can't decide if it smells amazing or hideous on me.)

Comments

[musyc]

Oooh, today I am ... well, I'm on scent #3. XD BPAL's Croquet and Bewitched were my first attempts, and they were nice but not wow. Then I tried Dirty and OH MY GOD, I wanted to lick my own wrists. It was amazing and it's all the delicious smells and it might actually approach my feelings towards Storm Moon for fantastic yumminess delight. I put it on and was instantly happy. Like, bounce around the house singing smiling like a loon happy.

Unfortunately, it's one of those scents that BPAL went creative-writer on the description, so there's no scents listed. The forums reviews lean towards plumeria. Anyone have their own notes as to what notes are in Dirty? It's definitely something I like enough to hunt similar smells.

[synecdochic]

Sarah and I tried Dirty this week! My money is on plumeria, white musk, and orris, and I'm iffy on whether there's also pear. (I was amping the plumeria and white musk so loudly that I couldn't ID the rest.) There's at least one other thing in there (it's whatever note that goes peppery on me after about 45 minutes), but I couldn't figure it out.

The forums seem to think Shanghai and Embalming Fluid are similar!

[musyc]

Hmmm, orris! That could be. Several of my yes-good testers have had orris in it, so I wouldn't be surprised to be reacting to that so positively. Pear, possibly? I smelled something fruit very faintly, under my TROPIC BEACH feelings. XD

[synecdochic]

Orris is one of those notes that appears in SO MANY THINGS and can be really nice or really Bounty-dryer-sheet, depending. (I did get a bit of Bounty dryer sheet from Dirty, but not in a totally bad way? So!)

[musyc]

Hahahaha, yes! I do get that clean laundry feeling. XD Sometimes it's overpowering but it didn't happen in Dirty, for which I am much pleased. It's facedown in fresh linens, not dryer sheets stuffed up the nose. XD

[lunabee34]

Yeah, I get that it's all about site aesthetics, but I do wish that some of the descriptions were less of a poem and more of an ingredients list. LOL

[musyc]

HAH, yes. I thoroughly agree I mean, the fantastical and poetical descriptors are lots of fun, so give them for entertainment value, but pleasepleeeeeeeeeeeease tell me what notes are in something so I know what to look for (or what to avoid!) next round.

[lunabee34]

So say we all.

LOL

[archersangel]

if you look at the BPAL forums under reviews, you can get an idea of what other people detect in stuff;
http://www.bpal.org/forum/3-reviews/

you may have to use the search to find what you want. there's an option to click to search only the titles, which is a big help.

[lunabee34]

Those are definitely cool. I can see where I'll be spending a lot of time. :)