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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Conclusion

So, after all that fuss, it turns out I was right after all.....my current lease is from December to December. With a little more planning and communication, I could have avoided that whole awkward situation.   The good news is that I'm moving next month. My new apartment is almost exactly halfway between work and school (a mile and a half to either one). In a pinch if my car broke down, I could walk to either work or school. It also has: off street parking, secure entry/building, laundry in the basement, and paid heat and water. I am really excited.   Now for the big pain in the ass of moving again. Once again, I should just throw a lot of stuff away, useless junk that I tend to hold onto. Time to look for boxes!
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HuldraGiusto's Blog
 

Fall day and too many things to do

The day called for me to enjoy and play, since it is my day off I had to enjoy it... but laundry, cooking, bills and life tends to cuts short all hopes or doing a day of driving and playing with my camera...   Add to that I am homesick.. I know I only have till May to be here but I hate it.. I miss the Mountains, wood and ocean. The midwest is so flat and well flat... home is in full fall swing, leaves are changing, nights icy.. friends all have Samhain plans while i am looking a night alone.   Taste of Samhain   At least I have unpacked my big box of BPAL.. and I now have have plenty of Sugar skull and Ginger Bread poppet.. Devil's night, Snow moon to play with.
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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

The continuing saga

I talked to my landlady and she might let me out of my lease even though I'm technically already into my next year. Not only that but I might have to be out by the end of October.....which is faster than I was planning on. I need to get all this resolved soon, because it's making my anxiety worse than ever. I need to know where I'm going to live! She's going to look over the lease and call me back (I guess tomorrow....I thought she would call me back tonight but she never did).
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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Chaos Theory IV.....I forget the number

.....and the bottle is at home. I'll edit later with the Roman numeral.   Herbs? Licorice, black leather? Eucalyptus?   This is scent is weird. Very weird. It starts out herbal and..........jeez, I can't even think of a word. It reminds me of chemicals, magic markers, or maybe hairspray, with eucalyptus.   After it dries for a while, I would still call it herbal, but the nearly menthol quality fades. It changes to something like black jelly beans with no sugar, more synthetic, not like anise the herb. I also smell asphalt, and something that reminds me of sleet. The slightly sour hairspray note can still be detected.   This reminds me strongly of a conceptual scent, an H.R. Giger painting, maybe? Grey pipes hissing with mist......cold, not hot. The colors would be all grays and blacks. There is not a drop or ounce of color in this scent. It could be called Black Ice if there weren't already a Black Ice. This one has no flowers or sweetness whatsoever (unlike the existing Black Ice scent). I'll be honest, at first I hated it, but I have to admit that it's strangely compelling.
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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Possets wish list

This is for my future swap post. I'll have some Possets bottles up for grabs, and here are some that I would swap for:   Adamus The Awakening Conscience Cootie Dark Lady Margot Queen Of The Night Risk Sex With The Spirits Tulipomania Warmth
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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Grrrr

I am an idiot.   My lease is over at the end of this month (October, not November). It's too late for me to move out. And the landlady already told me she won't go month-to-month.   The reason I got confused, is because the last time I moved, I got sick in the middle of the process. I spent 2 or 3 weeks recovering, and had to stop the whole moving process, which means I stayed over a couple weeks at my old apartment. I actually should have paid them another month's rent, but they let it slide.   Anyway, looks like I'm staying put for another year after all.
forspecial_plate

forspecial_plate

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my scent ramblings
 

so I ordered a scent locket

[she says, casually] and it arrived. And it's a beauty -- the phoenix design. And I should mention that I got no less than 6 frimps with it. And they even sent one that's on my list of ones to try. Here's what I got:   Lilium Inter Spinas Czernobog Thanatopsis The Last Squished Jellybean Tenochtitlan Dragon's Milk   I've already speed-sniffed through all of them, and the one that stood out most positively was Dragon's Milk. Tenochtitlan had an instant, really unpleasant, old, dried sweat undertone. The rest I'll have to spend more time with.  
Graphica

Graphica

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Terpsichorean Ramblings
 

ISO / Wishlist

LEs that I want to swap for bottles/partials/imps of:   Saint-Germain
Blue Fire
Kingsport   General Catalog (Bottles)
Kumiho
Aizen-Myoo
Kabuki
Night-Gaunt
Phobos
Hunter   Non-Impable GC Decants I want to try:   The Marquis de Carabas
The Ifrit
Mr Ibis
the Buggre Alle This Bible
Pollution
War
Miss Lupescu
Goblin Cider
Red
The Butterfly
Arachne of Lydia
Captain Cully
Prince Lir
Iole
Pandy
Bette Noir
Volt
Sachs
Violens
Lady Death: Savage
fallingfortruth

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Klepz's Blog
 

Wishlist

WISHLIST
updated 6.27.2016

BPAL Bottles
Samhain in the Pumpkin Patch
Stekkjarstaur
Sonnet D'Automne 2014
Love
Gattapefur
Under the Harvest Moon
Lick It Vigorously / Lick It Softly / Lick It with Consent / Lick It Til It's Sticky
Shub Niggurath 2005 (LE version)

BPTP Stuff
Morocco Hair Gloss

Arcana Bottles
Glittering White

BPAL Decants
(Not So) Penitent (Mini) Magdalene
Alice in the Pumpkin Patch
Anne Beany
Askasleikir
Captain Lilith and her First Mate
Catch Me Dad
Chocolate Espresso Gingerbread
Chocolate Stout Cupcake
Dark Chocolate and Pepper Smoked Caramel
Edith Cushing
En Garde
Evening Cicadas and Red Peppers
Glowing Vulva at Ryogoku Bridge
Go to Sleep Darlings
Great Grey Witch Moth
Ice Queen
Kitty**
Lick It: I have only tried the original and Lick It Softly
Lilith Victoria
Little Lady Macbeth
Mari Lwyd
Marshmallow Poof
Meus Amor Aeternus
Mlle. Lilith, Fortune Teller
Monsterbait: Underpants (or bottle, but trying to be realistic here...)
Muddy Puddles
MVJBA Pancake Breakfast
Once Upon a Time
Peach Pie
Pumpkin Lace
Sarah
Snake Oil in the Pumpkin Patch
Snowblind
Sticky Eyeballs and Floppy Entrails
TAL: White Light
Treasure Ship Coming In
White Chocolate Strawberry

Notes I love & am curious to try more of
peppermint & vanilla combinations
dark chocolate, white chocolate
ANYTHING EGG NOG
Gingerbread anything!
mandarin, orange, tangerine
Klepz

Klepz

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Terpsichorean Ramblings
 

Things What I Love

These are my forever bottles, aka my favourite things. I'm posting this partially to give people ideas, but also so I can guilt myself into finally reviewing all of them.   LE/Discontinued Precious   Blue Fire City in the Sea De Sade Green Tree Viper Gun Moll House of Mirrors Infernal Lover Kingsport Loviatar my review Monster Bait: Tokyo Stomp Opuhi Pickled Imp Putrifincation v3 Severin Snake Charmer Spirits of the Dead Spooky The Hellgate of Ireland my review Val Sans Retour Velvet Pink Kitty   GC Precious:   Aglaea Blood Pearl my review Kuang Shi Kumiho Neutral Phobos my review Snake Oil
fallingfortruth

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

HOOOO-boy

Lots on my mind, and lots to do in the next week or so....and beyond. I've pretty much decided to move when my lease is out which is at the end of November, which means I'm looking at an apartment tomorrow, so I can get things moving ASAP.   The apartment sounds really great, and it's in an area that I like, so I'm really excited and I hope that I like it. It has many more pros than the place where I live now, and honestly, I can hardly wait to move out of there. Cat friendly, laundry in basement, off-street parking, secure building, paid heat and water, nicer neighborhood.....and the landlady seems okay to me, just from the phone conversations we've had. Also it's only a couple of blocks away from the Cincinnati Zoo, which I think is really great (the Zoo is in kind of a bad area but that's not the part where I'm looking.....I'm a little further south of that which is more of a college- and medical-student area).   Other than that, I have a whole bunch of smaller stuff that I need to get done, including cleaning up my current apt so I can be sure to get my deposit back. I will feel a little bad telling my current landlady that I'm not staying, but......well, I can't think of a but. I just never felt at home there, can't stand the neighbors, can't get comfortable in the space....what more really needs to be said? It's a nice apartment but I just for whatever reason couldn't get myself adjusted there. And I'm definitely not staying for another year, and she won't go month-to-month, so there ya go.
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forspecial_plate

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ephemeral minutiae
 

witched again!

huzzah! i was witched!   an interesting thing to note: this is the second time my witch has had something mailed to me and both times my package has arrived the same day as a bpal order... interesting... i think my witch and her helpers have a spooky power...   anyway... my postal carrier had both of my packages scanned and waiting for me by the time i had walked down the hill to the mailboxes. i spent the whole mad dash back up to my apartment trying to feel through the wrapping to guess what was inside.     okay, i'll confess. i squeed a little when i saw the pouch. i have this wonderful weakness for pouches and treasures hidden inside pouches. and dots? it never even occurred to me to check and see if they were vegan. in my brief checking so far, they appear to be! they are almost too cute to eat, little ghost dots.   anyway, i had to see what was in the pouch. i'd been patient for, what, five minutes?     agapē! one of my favorites! and full! i took a good, long sniff and sighed with happiness... thank you so much!   but then i wondered: my witch must have had someone send this to me. but there was no note... so i went back to the package and sure enough, there was a business card with a note on the back. seems that schackjj was my witch's helper this time!   so i'm off to huff agapē some more and ponder who my witch could be...
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Lemonlife's Blog
 

Sulking

I'm so sad Tweedledee doesn't work for me. I didn't think there was such a thing as too sweet for me. I love sugar. But, it failed on me.   I'm slowly working my way through my box of Imps & reviewing them, one or two at a time. I've reviewed all of my bottles.   I'm flat out broke, & behind on rent. So, there's no hope in the near future of buying anything. Luckily, my box of imps is large. So, I'll have entertainment for a long time with it.   I'm disappointed that so many of my "high hopes" are turning out to not work on me. But, I guess in the long run, that's easier on my pocket.   It's starting to look like my tropical fruits are limited to pineapple & kiwi, & my citrus to oranges, lime, & lemon. Lemongrass over lemon as well. Most non berry fruits turn bad on on me as well. Some melons work though.   I guess this is why I never wore little girl perfumes when I was a kid. They're all jumbles of fruits. My first perfume was Charlie white. watermelon, violets, sandalwood the only thing that didn't work so well for me in that was the jasmine. I'm told it reeks of sandalwood, but, I can barely smell sandalwood. So, it's no wonder I liked it.   Anyway, back to the search.
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Falling Leaf Moon

September 2009 Lunacy   This one is sort of a roller coaster for me. At first, it smells a little off -- almost like there's some mustyness in among the leaves, but not quite. Then it actually gets sort of sweet. At its peak, it does evoke a misty autumn day with piles of falling leaves all around; not really rainy or wet, but definitely not dry or smoky, either. It's really like nothing I've smelled before, and I can't put my finger on anything else to describe it...but all things considered, I rather like it.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Mourning Moon

October 2008 Lunacy   This was actually the first lunacy that I ever purchased, and it was a really great choice.   Initially, I get a light, sort of tart citrus scent -- definitely grapefruit, there. As it dries, it quickly picks up...a sort of body and depth, from the violet leaf and other, darker notes, while the citrus notes keep it sweet and feminine. This is a beautiful, rich, classy perfume, not entirely woeful to me; more like the air of a mourning widow who is determined to keep her head held high and keep carrying on. There's a sort of sad determination to it, as well as a hopeful appreciation for the beauty of life in the here and now. Truly gorgeous.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Chanukkiyah

Category: Limited Edition -- Yule 2007   Oh. My. God. Wonderful warm BEESWAX mixed with amber, and I think I'm even smelling the olive oil a bit...a warm, smoky sort of smell. Must...have...more!!
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Malice

Category: Diabolus   While this shares the same note (red patchouli) as Malediction, it's sweetened considerably by the myrrh, making this a scent that's earthy in a sensual way.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Malediction

Category: Sin And Salvation   Phew, dark, evil, romantically cruel hippy. (With average throw and staying power.) I think this will be a pass.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Maenad

Category: Diabolus   Very sweet: strawberries and poppy, definitely. It's more evocative of slumber parties and lipgloss than orgies, but...that's just me. Pretty decent staying power.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Lysander

Category: Illyria   I smell violet, and possibly benzoin and tonka. It actually kind of reminds me of a sweet herbal liqueur...kinda like Galliano, for some really weird reason. It's a pretty durable scent, lasting all day long.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Lyonesse

Category: Wanderlust   This delicious, albeit powdery, vanilla. I just wish that it was stronger and more durable, because while it's around it smells so very nice.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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