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Halloween update!

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dawndie

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First off, the update last week! I was so surprised to see the Black Moon bottles appear. Nothing like a couple of unexpected LEs to totally throw me off! :) I went back and forth and decided to get just the Schwarzer Mond with all the smoky resins.

 

And Halloween! My favorite time of year, and my favorite bunch of BPALs. I already have bottles of Samhain, Dia, Sugar Skull and tried/swapped away Devil's Night. But I'm totally blown away by all the new blends! I'll wait for the next Lunacy to order and am interested in:

 

--All Souls-- I love the incense blends like Midnight Mass and Pit and the Pendulum, as long as they aren't too woody. Incense + currant sugar cakes sound great

--Creepy-- all the ingredients are favorites: butterscotch, caramel, apples, and coconut rum. This will be the first bottle ordered

--Pumpkin Queen--I liked 3 of the 5 Pumpkin Patch bottles (cider, cocoa and pomegranate) and will want to check out the mandarin/orange peel/ginger version

--Punkie Night--I love cranberries and these don't pop up very often

 

I fell over and died when I started reading the Order of the Dragon scents. While the original Bram Stoker novel was OK, Coppola's Dracula film is one of my all-time favorites. Swoon! ;) I want to try:

 

--Brides of Dracula--this sounds like another Smut-O-Rama with the skin musk and honey and Eastern spices

--Dr. John Seward--[tangent] don't even get me started on how great Richard E. Grant was in this role. My favorite scene is when he's dictating the latest diagnosis of Renfield while "self-medicating" and thinking of Lucy *sigh* [end tangent] Ahem. Anyway, another "poppy smoke" blend that sounds dark and brooding and great

--Quincey Morris--hello? Texas guy! This sounds more masculine with the tobacco and leather, but if I end up buying a bottle I can hopefully persuade DH to give it a try

 

And of course the Arkham bottles becoming GC! How great is that? I want to try:

--Al Azif--another dark incense that many people raved about

--High Priest Not to Be Described--yet another incense, but maybe too masculine with the leather. Great name, though!

--Night Gaunt--lots of fruit with that elusive "snow" quality that's so popular

--Shoggoth--this may be too much floral, but I want to test "green coconut meat"

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inkdarkmoon

I know I know I know! I am totally swooning over all the new scents, esp. swarzehausermoon ( I can't remember the actual name for the life of me)...it sounds to die for with that opponax.

 

Unfortunately, due to financial restraints, I have to pass on them all right now :eek:

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dawndie

Ugh, I know how it is with finances. Even if I could order all these bottles now, I would feel so guilty and dread the inevitable credit card statement, the ulcer wouldn't be worth it. :eek: Hopefully there will be bottles and decants floating around for the ones we can't buy right now.

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valentina

Mmmmm... Gary Oldman could bite my neck any time... :eek:

 

I am lusting for (and will probably order) The Brides of Dracula. It completely trips my trigger. I'm ordering it soon so if I love it, I'll have time to order more! Other than that, I might want to try the Pumpkin Queen -- but for whatever reason, I'm much more about the Lupercalia/Valentine's scents. (That might make sense for someone who chose "valentina" as her forum name.) I look at all the Halloweenie scents and think they look like so much damn fun, but I do know my body chem. I think when it's a LE with your name on it, go for it!!!

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darkitysnark

I think I like the Halloween LE's more in concept than in actual practice. As much as I like smelling foody scents on other people, on me they come off as... hunger inducing? Kinda distracting. My itchy trigger finger gets... itchier 'round the Yule updates.

 

Having said that, I'm still really tempted by Dr. Seward (ditto on the movie's interpretation of him... his torment far outstripped whatever poor Keanu could muster around his disappearing/reappearing accent). And of course Wilhelmina, because of that whole namesake thing.

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dawndie

Yeah, I understand the quasi-anti-foody stance. That's why I don't buy pure foody products like Philosophy -- those are way too realistic-smelling and would only leave me craving sweets after the shower.

 

But the BPAL blends are more ... mature? Sophisticated? Drunken boozy? They don't end up like food on me. For example, Sugar Skull sounded way too sweet, but I love it, it's like alcoholic hard candy.

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dawndie

Oopsie! :twisted:

 

Not to say that every BPAL foody blend is the same -- Beaver Moon and Monster Bait: Closet are definitely on the foody-cakey side and ones I rarely wear.

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