smellsgood | Entries tagged with reviews: black phoenix alchemy lab/bpal

Welcome to reviews of 11 BPAL scents: Carnal, Hetairae, Dee, Dragon's Heart, Ladon, Lyonesse, The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Black Annis, Cthuhlu, Darkness, and Mary Shelley.

(The first two I knew I love, the next five were ordered, the last four were frimps.)

( Many reviews )

musyc

Boilerplate: I smoke, and I have difficulty, as a rank neophyte, with differentiating scents, especially in the floral categories. But I'm learning! XD My process with BPAL is to test and sniff before reading the catalog descriptions so I'm not persuaded by words over smells. Under the cut, sniff reviews, again cross-posted from my journal.

( Nineteen sniffs! )

elfin

Notes on R'Lyeh, Mr. Jacquel, Ghûlheim, 2008 Blood Moon, Has No Hanna, and Thorns at my journal.

lunabee34

I wanted to like this so much, but it didn't work for me. :(

Plus 500 words of Leonard McCoy/Emony Dax. (At the bottom of the post so completely skippable if you aren't interested.)

FYI: A03 already had a Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab fandom tag, but I created a Perfumes fandom tag for anyone who writes fic not based on a perfume from that line. I'm also personally using the Perfumes tag in addition to the BPAL tag for BPAL inspired fic. :)

lunabee34

Review of Incantation + 1000 words of Tara-centric BtVS gen; warnings: child abuse and the canonical death of her mother

The fic is at the end of the post to make it easy to skip if that is not your cuppa. :)

musyc

The usual personal caveats: I smoke, and I have difficulty, as a rank neophyte, with differentiating scents, especially in the floral categories. But I'm learning! XD My process with BPAL is to test and sniff before reading the catalog descriptions so I'm not persuaded by words over smells. Under the cut, sniff reviews, again cross-posted from my journal.
( 22 Reviews )

synecdochic

In my journal: reviews of Fighter, Whip, Mage, No 93 Engine, Bensiabel, Dirty, Dragon's Musk, The Lights of Men's Lives, The White Rider, Venice, Brimstone, Brisingamen, The Robotic Scarab, Twilight.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road.

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.)

musyc

Personal caveats: I smoke, and I have difficulty, as a rank neophyte, with differentiating scents, especially in the floral categories. But I'm learning! XD My process with BPAL is to test and sniff before reading the catalog descriptions so I'm not persuaded by words over smells. Under the cut, my impressions of fifteen BPAL scents, crossposted from my journal.

( Smells for a non-smeller )

owlectomy

( Reviews: Serpent from Patch NYC, Arsenic from TokyoMilk, Croquet and The Forest Reverie from BPAL )
Finally, I would be very happy for some recommendations! I've tried very little perfume outside of BPAL but I'm open to just about anything. I tend not to like strong florals (except for jasmine), strong leather and tobacco notes, and I think there's something around clove or cumin that I have a problem with. I'm especially interested in herbaceous and woody notes, perhaps something similar to the wet green note in Arsenic.

thatyourefuse

In which I liveblog BPAL Mme. Moriarty, Misfortune Teller.

synecdochic

[xposted from my journal]

Latest round of BPAL arrived yesterday. (Four full-size bottles of "stuff that was awesome" from the last order, plus another two dozen imps we ordered and 15-16 "frimps", aka 'free imps', where 'imp' = 'small tester'.) I promptly went for "variations on a theme" and (over like 15 hours, not all at once) tried a few of the ones containing dragon's blood, which is one of my absolutely favorite notes of all time.

This entry: those + a few stragglers from the last round.

( also, my fingers smell like a blend of every other oil we ordered thanks to opening and sniffing all the imps. the forums call this 'imp spit'. )

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It's all about the smelling good

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