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I smell glorious
 

Today I am Wearing: Pink Moon 05

I have a bottle containing about an imp of Pink Moon 05, and it doesn't get pulled out that often, largely because I don't /have/ a lot. But today I decided it was a Pink Moon day, and since Pink Moon 2007 is stuck in my mailbox in Boston, this was it. ((inhales wrist)) mm! I'm so glad I have this space to just ramble on about how much I love the scent of things, because honestly, Pink Moon 05 is beautiful -- a sweet, light, springy floral with a delicately candyish tone that just makes me smile. Nessa might like this one.   If I can find another 5mL of Pink Moon 05, I'll make up an imp of it for Nessa, along with an imp of my aged Snake Oil () and something else from my collection that she might like. Mayhap I'll send her some Shub, although I think that's more of a me scent than anything. Yaay enabling!     I am eating physalis and enjoying them immensely. The tiny tangy orange fruit taste weird, almost tomatoey except I detest tomatoes, and on occasion I quite like them. It's like eating a concentrated summer day, complete with everything I love and everything I dislike.
myoubi

myoubi

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Only A Few Weeks Or So
 

I have a Lab-related question...

First of all, this is a blog for my BPAL-related ramblings. If you want to know about my real life, I have a xanga and an LJ, and both can be accessed through my profile, I believe.   On 4/1 I placed an order for Taurus 2007 (which I doubt will work on me but I'm a Taurus so I had to have it), Milk Moon 2007 (which looked yummy), and some others I've been meaning to pick up: Kataniya the Clockwork Girl, Mad Sweeney, and Jailbait.   I'm seeing that people who placed their orders on 4/2 and 4/3 are getting their CnS notofications in their e-mail. However, I haven't gotten one, and some others who placed their orders on 4/1 and even 3/31 haven't gotten theirs. I've always been under the impression that the Lab brews, packs, and ships in the order that the orders were recieved. So I'm growing pretty concerned over here... I figure I'll look into it if I hear nothing of it by Thursday.   What I'm wearing now: Madame X (Possets) Mood:
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lizzy's BPAL journal
 

oh this is nice

i just put fenris wolf on and i love that one too. it's a little male but not so much that i can't wear it. this is completely different from brisingamen even if they're both inspired by the norse mythology.   i thought about incense once i put it on.   FENRIS WOLF The raw, untamable power of chaos. Rosewood, amber, red musk and a dribble of red sandalwood.   yeah sandalwood and musk. oh man i love it.   yep, this one also goes on the 5ml list   oh and i have been thinking i should make a wish list of scents i want to try, so that i know what my next order will be. and believe me it's not far away.:   13 (my birth date and lucky number. i know it's not on sale all the time but if i see it again i will order it. it's a must have for me.)   snake oil(i was going to order it this time but it slipped away from me, or he he should i say slithered away from me)
lefthandmade

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finally - eBaying 9 bottles

finally got around to organizing photos and ebay text and committing to mail schedule: 9 bottles on the block! Yew Trees Yerevan Suspiro The Sleeper The Masque Premature Burial Montressor Fortunato 13 (2006)
KymbaKhan

KymbaKhan

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I smell glorious
 

The Ex who Couldn't Let Go

^_- riiight.   Opened my PR journal today. Latest read: [username of my girl's ex-girlfriend]. This is the third or fourth time.   I can understand being curious. But especially since /she/ dumped /Amy/, it's getting a little odd.
myoubi

myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

Just checked my reads count...

Entries: 33 Reads: 282       those can't /all/ be me and h_f. I guess it never seriously occurred to me that anyone would ever flip through this.   ah well. I'll continue as I used to, treating it as a dumping-pit for my vapidity.
myoubi

myoubi

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lizzy's BPAL journal
 

introducing myself

i'm not sure i need a new blog but then again i want to follow up on this, because even if i got my first batch of imp ears in the mail yesterday and i have only tried two scents so far, i love it so much already i can feel it's gonna be a long relationship.   i haven't introduced myself yet. i am lizzy and i come from norway. i'm an artist and a grandmother. i am very happily married and we have two cats, one blue point siamese and a black oriental.   but this is supposed to be about the perfume oil. oh man what a perfume it is. they gave me envy for free with my first order and i tried it on right away. it was a little to grassy and light for me but i have a 15 year old niece who has a confirmation coming up and it will be perfect for her. at least that's what i'm thinking.   ENVY Green herbs slithering through mint, lime and lavender.   today i tried brisingamen on and i loved it. i think it's the amber that's so appealing to me. for years now i have stayed away from perfume oil (i used a lot of patchouli back in the day), except for a piece of raw amber i use behind my ears now and then. brisingamen stayed with me for may hours and as time went on it only got better and better. i'm not gonna attempt an analysis like many others do, but i thought it was gorgeous. my heritage is norse so that's why i ordered it. when i smelled the bottle yesterday i thought it smelled a little like pine but today it didn't.   BRISINGAMEN The amber necklace of Freyja, Norse Goddess of Love, Sex, Attraction and Fruitfulness. Her magnificent necklace was bough from four Dwarves [Alfrik, Berling, Dvalin and Grer] at the price of four nights of her passion. When Brisingamen graces your throat, no man can resist your charms. A glittering mantle of rich golden notes: five ambers, soft myrtle and apple blossom, myrtle, and carnation.   i had to move them from my bedroom though, the scent from those little bottles was too heavy to sleep in for me. maybe i'm very sensitive to this stuff. i found an old jar that used to hold facial cream and cleaned it and put them in that one.   oh and i'm posting the descriptions for me to remember for later. i know all the people here are very familiar with this stuff. it's just my own desire to keep it in order.  
lefthandmade

lefthandmade

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I smell glorious
 

Another cheer for Aged Snake Oil

**inhales wrists deeply** aaaaaah.   My gorgeous bottle is now about 10 months old. It smells duh-vine. I cannot wait until it is 3 years old... daaamn.   I'm done now   ---   My perennial worry that my collection is too large has reached its zenith, I think. After the July moon, which is going to be preceded by big purchases for me -- the July Moon, the Cancer astrological blend, Blue Moon (two bottles), Brisingamen, and Tarot: The Hermit -- I'm going to start seriously culling, and swapping for the things I want. The rares I want to collect right nwo are:   Ingenue Unseelie Storyville   and that's about it. Almost anything for those three, but once I'm satisfied that I have enough of those, collecting is going to take a back seat.     Here lies another possible-keepsies list: La Fee Verte Havisham Snake Oil Shub Snow Bunny Ingenue (duh) Dark Delicacies MB: Closet Hope Snow Angel Bruja Vieux Carre June Gloom (if I can collect enough... if not, she gets jettisoned) Unseelie (duh) Storyville (if I can collect enough)
myoubi

myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

Okay, that was weird.

I had a very strange reaction to something. Whether it was the fact that the stupid pharmacy gave me generic medication even when I wasn't prescribed generics (for those of us who are hypersensitive, yes, it doesmatter!) or something strange that my brain has been sitting on for a while -- yesterday I was terrified. Just generally. Terrified of getting raped walking from the cab to the side door in the dark, terrified that someone would break into the house while I was there all alone, and (curse my active imagination) terrified of SOMETHING being in the dark waiting to get me. I am not a superstitious person, but my imagination managed to conjure up more ghouls lurking in corners or squatting under my bed or peering beneath my door that when I woke up at 4AM and had to pee, I couldn't get back to sleep.   It's hilarious now, but then, it was just -- scarily unlike me. Especially because the rational part of my brain was in overdrive the whole time telling stupid-me to stop being so ridiculous.   Thank God for my kitty. she slept beside me all night -- n ot just on my bed, but pressed up against my leg, a warm comforting presence. after forty minutes of the-house-is-scarily-silent mute unreasonable terror, I finally got back to sleep.   I woke up twice last night. I remember dreaming but don't remember what I dreamed.
myoubi

myoubi

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cranberry's Blog
 

fiddledragon 1

got fiddledragon 1 today! Yay!   fiddledragon 1 Bliss - reviewed Crossroads** already reviewed Faustus** Masabakes - reviewed Masquerade** - reviewed Nero** - reviewed Ravenous** - reviewed Salome** - reviewed     woohoo! scents I haven't tried before!
cranberry

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cranberry's Blog
 

Diana #1 - all rev & sending to filigree_shadow

Picked this up at the PO on Wednesday.   Diana #1 Iago** - reviewed Delirium** - reviewed Empyreal Mist - already reviewed 9-5-05 Blood** - reviewed Burial** - reviewed Kumhio** - reviewed   so I've either got these or already tried them. It's ready to go to spacekitty or the next person on the list.   ETA: ok, I've got these all reviewed and sending this to filigree_shadow
cranberry

cranberry

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Forum Updates and News
 

Coming soon: close your own swaps!

This is a forum mod that's related to a forum update!   When we come back from our software upgrade, around the 26th, there will be a super cool new feature in the Swap forum, in the form of a little button.   This button'll only show up in the Swapping forums, and only in topics that you've started. Clicking it will do three things: Close the topic, so no more entries can be added to it,
Archive the topic to the Dead Swaps Cemetery, so it'll no longer be in swaps, and
Award you one point for the trouble of closing your swap topic.
Once the forum update occurs, you'll no longer need to click the "Report" button and wait for a moderator to archive your topic - you can do it yourself!
ipb

ipb

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I smell glorious
 

$$$

Cash: $15 Cdn CIBC Debit: $25-35 Cdn (?)   Citizens' Debit: $90 USD PayPal: $47.75 USD   OWING -$40.75 USD -- Ebay seller -$10.55 USD -- decants -$22 USD -- Fee -$17 USD -- Hunter Moon etc. =Citizens' Debit: ~$50   -$40 Cdn -- April rave tickets (Daniel) CIBC Debit: $0-$10   I can do this. Not easily, but I can do this   ____ MAY Citizens' Debit: $50 USD   CIBC Debit: $80 Cdn   Rave Tickets -$5 Cdn -- Cheap and Fun -$20 Cdn -- We're Old Skool -$20 (?) Cdn -- Funky Fresh -$20 (?) Cdn -- The Massacre =CIBC Debit: $15 Cdn     ...and I'll still need to sell off some stuff in time for June/July :S
myoubi

myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

Another (bad) dream...

although this one was more strange than bad.   This one was a bit hard to wake up from. I thought it was real for at least ten seconds after awakening, which is unlike me. I was me, and I still had a single mother -- but she wasn't like my mother at all. She was more like Isaac Meister's mother if Isaac's Mom was kind of vampy. My mother was five-foot-nine-and-a-half, had gorgeous feathery long brown hair, wore lipstick every day, always looked put-together, and hit on my boyfriend. SHe still had the same control issues though. In my dream, I was still dating Amy, and she still lived in MIchigan; but I was kind of seeing this fellow Dave (who doesn't seem to have a real-life analogue) who liked me but was also obviously attracted to my mother, who encouraged his attentions. I was worried that Dave was going to get the wrong idea, that he'd think we could date and have a relationship and all those things when according to Amy-rules, all I'm allowed to do is kiss him when she's not in the province (groping or clothing-removal counting as cheating -- these are the actual rules, by the way. so far I haven't exercised the privilege). In my dream, Dave and I had dinner plans for tonight, but because of Amy-stuff I was thinking about cancelling so Dave didn't get the wrong idea... and I coudl tell that my Mother was thinking of replacing me at hte dinner table...   it was /very/ strange. :/
myoubi

myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

Monies

decants of the Ladies and a half of 13 (shipped to Canada) -- $10.55 decant of Fee -- $22 shipping for H&EE -- $11.45 ___ $44.00   And I have $97 --> $52 remaining for the rest of the month. To be used to buy rave tickets only!
myoubi

myoubi

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Sourball Ho!
 

13 Update!

A mini-update, ain’t that great? I'm a poet; you bet I know it.   13 (new version) -- A base of cocoa absolute and white chocolate with thirteen baneful and beneficial bits: cardamom, fig meat, grains of paradise, rice flower, chamomile, sandalwood, catnip, clove, and a bundle of five blessed blossoms and herbs. -- by my count, this is the third version of 13. I bought the first one (May 2005) and liked it but didn’t love it. Off it went to swaps. It was revised in October 2006 and I still have a bottle of that; it’s more sophisticated and “perfumey” than the original 13. This latest revision sounds nice (with catnip! Hee!) but the cardamom is scary -- that’s what made Enraged Groundhog go totally cinnamon on me. I’ll pass.   Bad Luck Woman Blues -- Spanish moss, black pepper, mullein, sweet sage, vandal root, cypress, cigar tobacco, and a puff of goofer dust cloaked by a swarthy cologne of vetiver, lime, dark musk, caramel accord, and lilac. -- While I am intrigued by “goofer dust” (la cocaina, maybe? ) the rest sounds too masculine.   Lady Luck Blues -- Honeyed Bulgarian rose, vanilla flower, benzoin, tonka, black plum, peony, and iris. -- this one sounds great! Honey and roses, yum.   In conclusion: while I was hoping to save funds for the next update (Rose Moon! More Snakes!) I’m getting a bottle of Lady Luck Blues
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I smell glorious
 

Two Orders

Two Orders BLUE MOON -- in Early June   2x5mL Blue Moon $40 1x10mL Tarot: The Hermit $26.50 [$66.50] 1x5mL Brisingamen $15 [$81.50] s/h $7 [$88.50]   JULY -- in Early June   1x5mL Cancer $20 1x5mL /July Moon/ $20 [$40] 1x5mL Boomslang $18 [$58] 1x5mL Moxie $26.50 [$84.50] s/h $9 [$93.50]     I have some saving to do
myoubi

myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

Well, my imp box is getting full...

so I guess it's a good thing that I'm not crazy about this update. While I'm eager to /try/ all three, and am prepared for the possibility that I might like any of them, none of them are scents I can't live without. Although admittedly I have a good feeling about this version of 13. I don't know why, because it has The Dreaded White Chocolate in it... but I've just got a feeling.   there are only three spaces left in my "A" imp box, or will be when all of my scents arrive. My two Queen of Diamonds decants will be moved to their bottle and King of Diamonds will probably be swapped, filling up space that will be swiftly occupied by my shortie of Havisham. My "B" box is for blends to sell or swap, and my "C" box is intent blends. I need to start consolidating my collection... unfortunately, i'm emotionally attached to rather a lot of it. Which is absurd, given how many scents I have and how slowly I go through them.   And I still need to buy 5mL's of Tarot: The Hermit and Brisingamen! Tarot: The Hermit especially is one I see using a lot of next year, for quiet study and reflection.   On the up side, Snow Moon is lovely. I swapped my 5mL of Bitter Moon for it (as lovely as Bitter Moon is, the imp will suffice, I think -- I just wasn't wearing it that much :/) and I don't regret it. snow Moon is like all the parts I liked about Snow White, minus the parts that I didn't -- the watery coconut sweetness that drove me into headaches if I wore it for too long. Snow Moon is also a less-musky dead ringer for Ice Queen, which is good because I can wear it without feeling guilty about the cost of today's parfoom   I have decided to keep Snake Charmer. I have so many snowy icy scents that as nice as Snow White 2004 is, I'm only a little sorry to see my 5mL go, and I /like/ Snake Charmer. It stays.
myoubi

myoubi

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circe_blue's Blog
 

Geeky Love!

My favorite episode of The X-Files is on Sci-Fi right now! Of course, I have it on DVD but there's something to be said for coming across it randomly. Yay, "Bad Blood"!   "I'm in this as deep as you are and I'm not even the one that overreacted! I didn't do the--::makes stabby motions::-- with the thing!"   and of course:   "Shaft-He's a bad mother-shut your mouth!"
circe_blue

circe_blue

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grimms_creed's Blog
 

Harvest Moon 2006

My Harvest Moon 2006 arrived in the mail yesterday. At first sniff, I was convinced that it was my mystery Harvest Moon. They smell identical wet. However, once on, I can detect a subtle difference. The mystery moon is a tiny bit sweeter, and a tiny bit more apple. I will do another comparison to be sure, since it is soclose, but it looks like the mystery imp may be Harvest Moon 2005. Or not. I might be hallucinating the difference -- it's that subtle.   (oh, and my frimps were hilariously appropriate: rage (which was about right for my mood yesterday, what with finding out I am being evicted), black cat (which I had just been looking at wistfully) and a non-BPAL called brown sugar snaps that just smells divine)
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