LadyLuckless

Roses are my favorite flowers, Pomegranate is my favorite fruit, and Persephone is one of my all-time favorite deities, so I didn't even want to think about this not working! Thankfully that wasn't an issue- this is beautiful! It's rosy and juicy and sparkly sweet, just wonderful. It's maybe in the same family as Hope, if you swapped out pink rose for red and sugar for juice. It felt like a scent I always should have had, and I stepped into it like a pair of bunny slippers from the Underworld. So glad I swapped with the lovely Catwoman30 for a (cobalt!) bottle! It's lurve!

I'm dying for a scent like Tetley's Vitality herbal tea, which is apparently 100% peppermint. I never liked mint (too toothpasty and mouthwashy, I thought) but when I opened the canister of this, the most refreshingly gorgeous, natural, sweet, delicious scent just slapped me upside the head! I was smitten! I posted about this in the mint thread but got no reply, but I just realized it fits here too! So what do you think? Green Tree Viper? Juke Joint? Please help!

I'm bumping this because the other day I opened a canister of Tetley's Vitality herbal tea (100% peppermint) and the scent that hit me was gorgeous! I just kept huffing it, it was sooo good. I always associated mint with the smell of toothpaste and mouthwash, but this was the most glorious sweet, green, natural smell. I'd love to find something like it! I have Gennivre, and she's one of my absolute favorites but I don't get much mint there...

I can't help thinking that Rose Red would be wonderful with a red dress, plus I find it to be a really beautiful calming, happy scent.

Mmm, I've finally got my own bottle of Snow White! I'd tried a decant of the '05 version and was in love, but I was afraid I wouldn't get the same glorious scent from a new bottle. I happily get the same beautiful cherryblossom/vanilla/snow/greenery scent I adore. With a few weeks of aging it should be utterly perfect. This will most likely be the scent I'll be wearing for my wedding in May.

I just emailed the lab because along with my order, I got a second package with an Earth Ox, a Miller vs. California, 4 frimps and a postcard. Which is cool, but it's clearly someone else's order, so I wanted to bring it to their attention. I wonder if they'll take them back, or just let me keep them and send out new ones.

Ok wow, if you take the most perfect garden of red roses and cram the whole thing into a bottle, then sprinkle some love and kisses on top, you get Rose Red. Seriously, this is the whole shebang: vivid red roses, stems, leaves, even the surrounding grass, soil, and a bit of rain! I felt like some mythical being wearing it, because this is not how a person wearing perfume smells. It's a masterpiece, how does Beth DO this!?

Oh GOD this is gorgeous! Mmm, it's dark, incensy, spicy, fruity and sweet. It's deliciously decadent and drop dead sexy. It's making me really wish that this bottle didn't get to me on day 1 of my guy's week-long business trip.

Gennivre!!!! Sigh. I can't really wear it any other time of the year, because it actually makes me feel too blissfully summer-day lazy! It's just the most beautiful mellow summer's day in a bottle, I can't recommend it enough!

I've had some good reactions to Hellcat from my fiance, which isn't so surprising, but the one that really gets him, bizarrely enough, is Mouse's Long and Sad Tale! He's not really one to go nuts for a scent, and he's hated vanilla as long as I can remember due to his sister's overuse of Vanilla Fields and such, so I was floored when the Mouse got such a response! He's been happily huffing me while I'm wearing Snake Oil too lately! I'm hellbent on getting him over this unnatural vanilla aversion by wearing lots of *good* vanilla, and it's working! My next order will include bottles of Snake Charmer, Snake Oil, and if he's very good, Mouse's Long and Sad Tale. Oh and on the flipside, I've discovered Dee is a completely jump-his-bones-ROWR scent on a guy, and a big bottle of that will be joining us too!

I find Morocco and Fairy Market to be beautiful sleep scents. I think Fairy Market would be really nice for little ones too.

Mmm, beautiful creamy vanilla and sweet violets. This could be a great substitute for Faith when I run out of it!

This is an odd scent... I'm a complete rosaholic, but I can't do this one. At a sniff, I get rose with an odd fruity undertone, like a rose-flavored jellybean would have. Sometimes I can't smell the rose at all! I think I'm going to blame the fruity weirdness on the "wine rose", and will avoid it in the future. Thank goodness I discovered the glorious Rose Cross in the same pack of imps, or I'd be crushed through rose sadness!

Sigh, this was such a delicious honey in the imp and first on, but for some reason it turns into the smell of singed cotton on me! Too bad.

I love roses and I love Rose Cross! The rose and frankincense mingle beautifully together to make a cloud of the most perfect rich and sweet rose incense. It's both grounding and uplifting, and would be a great go-to scent when I want to feel calm and in control, but still sharp. There's a bottle of this in my future!

Oh Rose Red is sweet, I like it! Thanks for posting pics!

Ah, I get it, Snow White's label is the blood on the snow that inspired her name! Pretty, I wonder what Rose Red's label is like.

Lol that last one IS kinky! Here are some of mine: Rolling on the River Styx 1.Hades 2.Persephone 3.Lampades 4.Hymn To Proserpine 5.Hecate 6.Nyx A Dozen Roses 1.Alice 2.Jezebel 3.Maiden 4.Spellbound 5.Persephone 6.Rose Cross 7.Eve 8.London 9.Black Rose 10.Moon Rose 11.Zombi 12.The Rose Jewelry Box 1.Black Opal 2.Black Pearl 3.Blood Pearl 4.Les Bijoux 5.The Obsidian Widow 6.Blood Amber

I'm wearing Samhain today... I have to! It's my first holiday where I have the appropriate BPAL to wear!

Grog definitely. It's pure butterscotch!

Heh, it's funny, like Obsidienne, I got my imp of Bon Vivant from the super-wonderful Undream! I wasn't expecting anything really from this, but as a hardcore lover of Arbor Mist strawberry white wine, I had to give it a shot. I'm sooo happy I did. It's...bubbly! Fun and bubbly! It's real, fresh sweet strawberries and effervescent champagne sparkling in the sun! I love it, I may actually want a bottle before Spring comes around. Champagne and strawberries, who knew!?

This just about broke my heart! I've always been in love with the imagery of the poem, and the poem itself- I love the paintings, the Loreena McKennitt song, heck I even had a couch-sized Waterhouse print in my living room until it pretty much disintegrated from moving from house to house! I was so hoping this would work on me, and it almost did! The initial wet stage was a gorgeous watery sweet white floral: I squee-d a bit! Then it all went horribly, horribly wrong... I smelled like a dentist's office!!!!! You know that sickly sterile smell when you walk past a dentist's office in a mall? Yeah, that's what was on my wrists. Oh the humanity.

I got an imp of Snake Oil in a very generous swap (much love for Undream!!! ), and the first thing I thought when I sniffed it in the vial was "huh!?". It smelled weirdly dirty and stale! But trusting in the wisdom of more learned BPALers than I, I slathered on a goodly amount and waited. I waited for about 30 seconds. Then the dirty stale stuff on my skin performed a transformation sequence worthy of Sailor Moon and became an intoxicating spicy-musky-smoky-dark-sinful-vanilla! Oh yeah, Snake Oil and I are going to have a long, passionate future together! I'm just mad my fiance is sick right now and can't smell me!

I recently layered Melisande and Athens, and it was in the Flying Fox / Youki-hi / Godiva ballpark. I'm thinking a honey-intensive blend layered with a jasmine-heavy scent is the way to go, though BPAL jasmine and LUSH jasmine seem pretty different. Something dark and smoky or some ylang-ylang in the background of one of the components would be a plus... can you tell I'm experimenting? lol

Hehe, hi Paperrose (AKA "She who brings the awesome recs") You always seem to point me to things I've never thought of, as well as reminding me I have a frimp of something- In this case Tezcatlipoca! As soon as he gets home, he's slathered! I tried it on myself and it was all flowers, but maybe he'll hit different notes. I have to check out the rest of these too. Our wedding is drawing nigh and it occurs to me I'll have a much better time if he smells amazing!