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    By Silvertree

    Please be aware that we do not permit swap-related content on profiles or in blogs. Please post this content only in the For Sale, Swaps, and Wanted forums, or in the Wishlists topic. ~from Swapping 101  Thanks!
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Argentwolf's Blog
 

The Ghost

Category: Ars Moriendi   Well, 'ethereal floral' certainly applies here...I get a whiff of light florals, with maybe a bit of dusty ivy...and then it's gone. Very faint, very fleeting.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Black Cat

Category: Bewitching Brews -- The Conjure Bag   I get a lot of mint -- as in spearmint, a sweetly herbal scent. As it dries, I get maybe a hint of lemon, and a bit of a...fuzzy note. Not exactly powdery, but more like the light fuzz atop a cat's head; that sort of aura.   While the scent itself isn't really my cup of tea, I think it's a really cute concept, and it was definitely worth a try!
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Bensiabel

Category: Marchen   Initially, this is plum, leather and musk like woah. After a bit, it softens, and the lilac comes out. Believe it or not, this is a fairly manly sort of floral. I am discovering that plum is one of my favorite notes, and this perfume does not disappoint. It has good staying power and some pretty decent throw from time to time.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Belle Vinu

Category: Marchen   I get a lot of peach from this, though this perfume is in general a very light scent. There may be some other florals hovering around, but they never really seem to take anything over. The faint aroma lingers all day long. This reminds me of the Gaoler's Daughter, but Belle Vinu is braver and possesses more personality.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Apple Of Sodom

Category: Rappacini's Garden   The apple in this is rather medicinal-smelling...almost like eucalyptus, as someone else noted earlier. However, I don't find it unpleasant at all, due to the way that the ashy notes blend in with it. Honestly, to me it's like a mixture of the appletini smell of Mock Turtle's Lessons and the wondrous charcoal of Brimstone. I like both of those scents, and really like this one. It is a scent that soaks into your skin and gives little wafts here and there, and seems to last for a goodly time. One of my favorites, now.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

The Antikythera Mechanism

Category: Phoenix Steamworks   Dark wood, seasoned with a splash of manly vanilla. (Do you doubt that there is such a thing as manly vanilla?) It hugs fairly close to the skin, and seemed to evaporate after a while...didn't last the whole day on me.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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Argentwolf's Blog
 

Aelopile

Category: Phoenix Steamworks   At first blush, I get a blast of citrusy smell, and then the cedar kicks it to make it smell like woodsy polish.   It has decent staying power and throw...not sure if this is a keeper for me, though.
Argentwolf

Argentwolf

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BelleAnge's Blog
 

Scents that don't work on me

I decided that I needed to start a list of BPAL scents that don't work on me. Some of these scents just seem to haunt me. They never work on me, but I keep getting them in swaps and such. If you are swapping with me, please don't send me any of the following.   Absinthe Blood Kiss Bon Vivant Coiled Serpent Grand Guginol Grog Highwayman Juke Joint Magus Namaste Omen Ouija Sudha Segara Twenty-One VooDoo Fire of Love Darkness Haunted Jazz Funeral Midnight Twilight Zombi Envy Gluttony Greed Wrath Les Infortunes De La Virtue Malediction Rose Cross Serephim Black Phoenix Bluebeard Marquise de Merteuil Nocnitsa Pain Bathsheba Carnal Jezebel Depraved Desire Endymion Kabuki Les Bijoux Love's Torments Muse O Salome Saturnalia Suspiro Wanton Croquet Knave of Hearts Mock Turtle's Lessons Queen of Hearts The Red Queen Two,Five,and Seven Juliet Katharina Ophelia Tamora Titus Andronicus Athens Cairo Delphi Eden Havana Niflhiem Rome Sri Lanka Uruk Belladonna Devil's Claw Hairy Toad Lily Mandrake Opium Poppy Shadow Witch Orchid Strangler Fig Aizen-Myoo Gaueko Grandmother of Ghosts Hades Nemesis Nuit Oya Santa Muerte Euphrosyne Tisiphone Zorya
BelleAnge

BelleAnge

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Purrsnikety's Blog
 

Sorry I'm behind lovely Witch!

Do you ever send out your witchee's stuff and then get really anxious that they won't like it? Yeah. And I waffle on what to buy them because "what if they hate it".   Retro candy So! New question! Are you interested in/do you like any of this candy! Sure!! I like trying neato stuff like that!   Cheese & Jam? is this something that's combined together, cause I dunno if could eat cheese flavored jam.   Bacon? Its good, but not amazing. I ate it for breakfast today and zapped it in the microwave to get rid of all that extra nasty grease. Ugh.   Do you all like board games (like Scrabble, Yahtzee, etc)? I like Apples to Apples, Scrabble, chess, and Star Wars Monopoly.   Figs? Nomnomnom!   Tomatoes? ::gag::   what are your thoughts on masks? Hmm... masks...dunno. It'd have to be something really cool.   are you going to reveal yourself or do you want your witchee to let you know that they know if they do?? I have a plan.... ::grins::   would you wear a name necklace (like carrie has from sex and the city?) I have my name in Arabic that I wear. I'd only do my name if it's in another language.   do you like/collect any toys?? I collect glow toys and LED toys, and cool little knick knack toys (star wars, creepy looking vintage toys.)   Chestnuts? I don't know if I've ever had them before.   So, with the recent slew of discontinued GC's - are you panicking, and which GC's are you now desperate to order now? SIN, Black Rose, Morocco, but for sure, SIN!     Bug phobias? I have no problems with bugs unless they are in one of three following situations: 1. They're in my apartment/work/car/. 2. They're in my food. 3. They're trying to bite me.     (No need to change that answer!! Applys to me as well!)   Disney? I don't collect any disney toys, but I do love disney movies. I am in need of Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. I have them on VHS but the ol' VCR is coughin and sputterin and weezin and there's no need to spend money on a new one when we have all these new fangled technological advancerismims like yer DeeVeeeDee players and such. Them kids from across the street... they knows how to press play for me when I ask em too. ::spits wad of tobaceee::   Wallace & Gromit? erm... who?
heathercaley

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carwoman's Blogarama (with comments by Chumwick)
 

in case my witch is wondering.....

My witch is a wonderwoman-she is the best ecard and post reader ever and shes really stalking me dear witch-you asked how I feel about antique lace-yeah its one of my faves-but Im basically a vanilla lover so I have othr faves now   and must do some ordering now-FEEDING THE DEAD &DETESTABLE PUTRESCENCE am saying this because you asked and dont want you to feel compelled to try to get me bpal!   bw-today wore the little blue car earrings you gave me, and they are just adorable!!|   and I can dream about all the weird cars in the car book you sent me!so really, dear witch o' mine, just tell me you'll reveal to me, ok?
maproot

maproot

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levelek's Blog
 

What does God smell like?

An entertraining entry I found while tracking down the various scent components of Heavenly Love and Earthly Love.       And a carol it links to - Quelle est cette odeur agreable?
levelek

levelek

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ducky's Blog
 

Noodle

Just relaxing and watching re-runs of the Office right now. Laundry is in the dryer, I am clean and wearing VS Pink sweats, dinner has been put away. *sigh of relief* My boyfriend has stolen my DS to play Scribblenauts, which I just got and it's amazing! I'm enjoying some Assam black tea with soymilk and agave.   I picked up my books on hold at the library today and I'm quite excited to read Wesley the Owl. Maybe I should get off the computer.
amandette

amandette

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Forum Updates and News
 

[BANNED] ebonykawai, aka httpoo, aka raineygirl; shelldoo

After some drama blazed about her e-tail business, Atropa's Cottage, ebonykawaii created a sock puppet account, httpoo (on 17 May 2006). We were aware of its existence, but didn't do anything about it because initially, it was not being used.   On 11 Sept 2009, httpoo was used to troll in a topic about the Black Butterfly Moon (August 2009) update. At this point in time, httpoo was put on the restricted duplicate account group and ebonykawaii suspended and warned that if another duplicate account was linked to her, she would be banned.   On 22 Sept 2009, ebonykawaii created the raineygirl account, and was promptly banned.     When we say we do not tolerate duplicate accounts, especially for sock puppet and trolling purposes, we mean it!   ---   In 2008, shelldoo and two other forum members collected money and goods for Beth and Ted's wedding present from the forum. Shelldoo insisted on collecting the money for the charitable donation and was supposed to donate over $1,500 of the collection to the ACLU in Beth and Ted's name. The donation was never made. While we didn't ban her for the massive swaplift that she also did around this time (spanning from approximately October 2008 - April 2009), when this problem was brought to our attention, we felt that this sort of abuse of our members' trust is intolerable and she was banned.
ipb

ipb

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therhoda's Unduly crazy rambles
 

Newest additions to GC

okay to add to my wanted list i have gone through and would like to try these GC Add ins-   THE LIGHTS OF MEN’S LIVES THY GODFATHER’S PRESENT GODFATHER DEATH THE LITTLE WOODEN DOLL FIRE FOR THY STEPMOTHER’S DAUGHTERS VASILISSA PAÍS DE LA CANELA   It is going to be some time before i can order more from the lab. Also on a weird side note. If i could get an imp of Crowley from somewhere it would be great. Mine went home with one of my friends a year ago I am going to be doign a MnS here at the house next month and somehow it dosn't seem right to have people try Aziraphale without Crowley there to try to. Which i didn't think of when my friend fell in love with my imp.   As with anything these are just things i want and being older than i want to be my wants won't hurt me.
therhoda

therhoda

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my scent ramblings
 

The Apothecary

Tea leaf with three mosses, green grass, a medley of herbal notes, and a drop of ginger and fig.

in the bottle: Tea and herbs. Nice, actually. I'm hoping the tea scent lasts longer for me in this than in Embalming Fluid.

on wet: Mostly tea. The herbs have gone.

drydown: This is interesting. The tea no longer stands out enough to distinguish; instead I'm getting a well-meshed clean scent that reminds me of having just stepped out of a shower after using a nice, expensive, french-milled herbal soap. It doesn't smell soapy, just clean. Seriously -- clean. If I had to define the scent of clean skin with a scented oil, this would be exactly it.

one hour later: Still clean, though there's some light sweetness asserting itself. I don't think it's a particular component (or maybe it is -- perhaps the fig?), but rather the sum of the whole. The whole thing is very light in a way which makes me think it might not last the day.

end of day: Still here. The herbal effect went away and left me with a sort of light, sweet tea thing. Not sweet tea as in sugar added, but more like a cup of non-tannic, delicate tea with ... or, near ... it's really hard to describe. Just ... sweet. And light.

compared to official description: I didn't really get the ginger, which is a shame. I'm thinking now that the fig contributed to the sense of sweetness, but I never once thought "Oh, that's fig!"

notes: The final result was a tad too sweet for me. I like how light it was, though. This might be a good one for the locket.

added to forum reviews
Graphica

Graphica

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Hestia's Not Addicted...
 

Wishlist

LE Full Bottles   Mircalla- Holy Clovey Goodness Batman! I am so in lust with this. Perfect with my skin chemistry Planting Moon- Had a 1/2 bottle, daughter loved it, borrowed it, spilled it, lost the bottle... Countess Dolingen of Gratz- Loving my imp, really clean. Not going to buy a bottle from the lab, but if someone wants to swap...   GC Full Bottles   Velvet- it's a hug in a bottle! Sri Lanka- love using this before yoga Snake Oil- Really should keep some in the house at all times, right?   Imps to try-   Namaste Somnium (Is it Somnius?) All the Chakras Saw Scaled Viper Thirteen (13): February 2009 Mad Hatter Robin Goodfellow Sea of Glass Ulalume
Hestia

Hestia

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Yule

Another one I tried at Sally's, and I've been wanting to try this for a long time. I don't like it nearly as much as I thought I would, but again, this was tested along with about a hundred other scents (exaggeration), so that can distort my impressions. But the wood had a different quality than what I was hoping for (more fuzzy or powdery or something), and it smelled somewhat reminiscent of Rat (I think) from last year's Yule scents, which I already have a decant of, so I probably don't need to hunt down any Yule. It's a good thing to know, and I'm glad I got to try it, because I was really going to try to get a bottle unsniffed.
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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Suck It

I tried this at Sally's house, but it was kind of drowned out by the 50 other scents I was wearing. I smelled the cherry and a little booze, and it might actually be a nice, subtle scent, but I would have to re-test to give a real impression. Just posting this here for my own future reference (sorry that it's a useless review). : )
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forspecial_plate

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Falling Leaf Moon.....first impressions

First applied, this is lovely! Right away it's very sweet to me, and I don't really know which note is so sweet unless it's the opoponax. Anyway.....I can also smell the rain note, and it's the most lovely, delicate aquatic scent that I have experienced. It's so light and fragile that it's almost lost in the blend, but just strong enough that it stands out if you're 'looking' for it. I love aquatics and this aspect is stunning, but overall I don't consider this an aquatic scent.   After the scent warms and dries on my skin, it seems to actually get stronger. It loses a little bit of the complexity of the very first stage, and the sweetness starts to get to me a little bit. I don't like honey in perfume, and this starts to remind me of honey somewhat.....a little cloying. And this stuff really has staying power and strength!   I can really understand the comparisons to Samhain, but this reminds me even more of Autumn, except without the rose in that scent. I'm going to try applying with a lighter touch, and I refuse to give up on this scent, even though it turns too strong and a little cloying with the honey sweetness. What I learned from Samhain is that after 3 years, the sweetness balanced out with the other notes and it became something almost heartbreakingly beautiful. I hope for the same thing to happen with Falling Leaf Moon!
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CaudaPavonis' BPAL Blog
 

Bottle Stash

Bottle Count: 100 (142)       Absinthe and Lace Almond Blossom *Ambergris SN Antikythera Mechanism Antique Lace Archangel Winter As Above Autumn Autumn Lace Autumn Moon of the Mirror Stand Ava Banded Sea Snake Black Butterfly Moon Black Forest Black Lace Black Opal Black Pearl Black Phoenix Blood Kiss Bread and Butterfly Buck Moon Cake Smash Caliban Celeste Champagne and Roses Chaos Theory: Amber (champagne) Chrysanthemum Moon Cloister Graveyard in the Snow Court of Honor Coyote Crypt Queen Darkling Thrush Defututa Dorian Dragon's Milk Eldritch Dark *Elf Eve Giant Vulva Gingerbread Satyr Glowing Vulva Gypsy Moth Habu Halloween: Las Vegas Haloes Harvest Moon 2013 Haute Macabre Haunted Hellcat Hesiod's Phoenix Hod Resurrected Ice Queen (DD '09) Illustrated Woman Io Kiyohime Changes From A Serpent King of Hearts L'Estate Little Maggie Liz prototype Love's Philosophy Lyonesse Madrid Mechanical Phoenix Midnight Kiss Mopsfledermaus Mornings in New Orleans Mouse's Long and Sad Tale Nosferatu Not so Penitent Mini Magdalene Nothing Gold can Stay November O Old Moon 2011 Olokun Oak Moon Oval Portrait Parsifal Philommeides Phoenix in Summer Pile of Fallen Leaves Pink Phoenix Poisoned Apple Pumpkin V 2012 Raven Moon Raptures and Roses of Vice Sachs SN: Siberian Musk Snake Oil Snow Angel '05 Snow Moon '05 Snow White '10 So Below Sonnet D'Automme Spell of the Eastern Sea Sugar Skull Sylvia the She Wolf Thunderbird Torture Queen Under the Harvest Moon Unveiled Vain Sorceress Voyeurs among the Cherry Blossoms Wensleydale White Light White Phoenix White Rabbit White Rider     nonBpal: Ava Luxe: Ambra Tibet Cobalt: Black Sugar Flourish: Almond Milk Flourish: Applewood Flourish: Vanilla Amber HAEE: Voodoo Punani Inesscents: Tunisian Amber Island of Eden: Tucked In *Lathers and Lights: Quiet Moon Lathers and Lights: Vanilla Spirit Moxie Nouveau: Bonfire Toffee Moxie Nouveau: Coquette Moxie Nouveau: Flaunt It Moxie Nouveau: Goodbye Kiss Moxie Nouveau: Hallowmas Moxie Nouveau: Twelfth Night Nocturne Alchemy: Amber Grey Possets: HopHead Possets: Silver Chypre Possets: Silver Amber Possets: the Moon *Possets: Velvet Lust Possets: Venus Black Possets: Pauline *Solstice Scents: Foxcroft *Solstice Scents: Blossom Jam Tea Cakes Starring custom: Bohemian Eyes Starring custom: Rain Shower Starring custom: the Writer Starring custom: Lamplight *Starring: Burlesque Starring: Just Baked Starring: Lemon Chiffon Starring: Peppermint Icemilk Starring: Red Velvet Almond Cupcakes *Starring: Tiger's Eye Villainess: Scintillating Villainess: Kill Switch Violette Market: After Dark
jizatt

jizatt

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I smell glorious
 

Monster Bait: Closet -- a love affair

Monster Bait: Closet was one of the first three BPAL scents I ever tried. The other two were Monster Bait: Underbed, which got jettisoned pretty quickly, and Freak Show, which is a dear favourite. I have a stockpile of MB: Closet -- at one point I had three bottles, which since I have never used up an imp of anything seems a tad excessive. So today, I gave up on my usual policy of using BPAL sparingly, and just slathered. OM NOM NOM.   I need to reiterate my love for this scent. It's blackberry booze on me, at least at first; underneath is this heavy sorta-chocolatey sweetness that I guess is the Red Velvet cake. It stays true the whole time I'm wearing it, and envelops me in this heavy, creamy, sweet-berry warmth which nonetheless isn't too tart. It is one of the first scents I ever fell hard for, and remains firmly on the "Can't Live Without" list. If you have never tried it, do so. It's a stunner.
myoubi

myoubi

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

The Hell-Gate Of Ireland

The first time I tried this, I didn't like it at all. I gave it a couple weeks and tried it again, and it's better....but still not something I need a lot of. It's very dry and I do like the clove, but the black musk keeps wanting to fight with me. I have been having trouble with black musk lately. This scent reminds me of Velvet Bandito, but I think I like that better, and at any rate a decant of this is enough for me. I will probably keep it but not go for a bottle.
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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Bite Me

I was really curious about this scent! So glad that Sally let me try hers. As it turns out, it's just not for me. At all.   I see where people are getting rose from this, I smell it too. Actually this has more rose than some rose scents that I've tried. I think I wanted more sweetness or caramel/cake out of it. It's kind of strong and cloying, and almost plasticky for the first half hour to an hour. However after that, it does reach a middle stage where it smells kind of good to me. It takes on almost a hint of chocolate, and has a nice, complex cake-y smell.   Much later on.....stale dusty roses. : ( Or maybe : ) because that means I one less scent for me to hunt down.
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