twilighteyes

I find myself using things like Lilith Victoria, Gladdener of all Hearts, Katrina Van Tassel, Hope, White Rose, Bitch, Grr, Victoriana Goth, Depraved, Ecstasy of True Love, Alhambra (Arcana), Black Cat (Heaven and Earth Essentials), Elizabeth's Blue Moon 2009, etc. for perfume. Sometimes I'll experiement with layering essential oils such as ylang ylang, lavender, rose, geranium, sandalwood, patchouli, jasmine, cedar, mandarin, neroli, frankincense, basil, rosemary, pine, spruce, vetiver etc. as those are supposed to be soothing or uplifting essential oils. Peppermint helps if I have a headache or am fatigued. There are more soothing/uplifting EO's (chamomile, lemon, etc.) that I'm not too fond of. When it's really bad I break out the Peace, White Light, Energy, Bastet's Laughter, Anthelion, Lionheart, etc. (depending on whim, sometimes I wear them all but in different places.) I use Baku on my pillow when I want to relax. (it seems to perform the same way as TKO for me but I like the smell better) At night I'll break out the Aveda tea as well (peppermint, basil, licorice, sweet fennel) -- very comforting and soothing, usually helps relax me enough so I can sleep.

Unreleased prototype, no scent description given. If this is not the correct place to put Hearth, since it did eventually become a released scent, please let me know. I haven't smelled the released version of Hearth, but this one doesn't seem like it is very close. This is pine, winter berries, and snowy notes. It actually reminds me quite a bit of Skadi.

In the vial, this smells like wet stone, green with moss. On my skin? Leather and stone. I had to go read through the notes again because I don't remember leather being listed. Maybe it's the musk? But it's a dry, warm, sweet leather scent to my nose. A little smoky. Love it and was so happy to get frimped with a sample!!

Unreleased Prototype -- no lab description. I expected (and am getting) chrome and metal. But Android is also tangy -- I can feel it on the sides of my tongue and it makes my mouth water a teeny bit. A sweet citrus sort of tang, more orange than anything. But it is a very sugary orange with layers and layers of shiny shiny chrome.

Unreleased prototype, no scent description given. Pure cherry or almond. Very strong! Similar to Black Phoenix or some of the notes in Eclipse.

*hyperventilates about upcoming hbo series*

Unreleased prototype, no scent description given. I think I expected more honey or floral, possibly jasmine or ylang. Instead what I am getting is a very green floral. It's very fresh. I want to say possibly aloe and green tea, perhaps some melon, and lotus or lily. Possibly freesia?

Poor Cam! I did the same thing to her. I have photos on my bpal flickr gallery (and there are more photos on the BPAL Fiends Flickr group, but I wouldn't add them to ScentBase without their owners permission.) You can add any of mine to ScentBase.

I updated the BPAL Fiends group on Flickr with the C2E2 exclusives including the Room Sprays. I also uploaded my lone bottle from the Black Helicopter update (the Illuminati one.) And Egg Moon.

I wish I wasn't so busy at night now -- I sat for many nights and put things into ScentBase (and entered all of the Black Helicopters and C2EC, Neverwhere, Irredemables, Witchblade, etc. today) and I wouldn't mind doing it for Perfoom too. But we're going to be superbusy at work until the beginning of August at least. O_o

Not sure how I ended up with a bottle of this. I don't recall purchasing it.. It's an older label so maybe I got it as part of a lot. (My desktop computer at home is dead so I don't have access to my spreadsheet right now.) In the bottle: Jasmine! On my skin: Jasmine! There might be a hint of vanilla but to me this smells EXACTLY like the "Purple Jasmine" perfume that I still have a 5ml roller bottle of from The Body Scent which was a perfume/incense indie store in Seattle that used to be my favorite thing ever but has since closed down. I love this Jasmine. Love love love.

I bought this bottle in January 2008 right before they were discontinued. I can't believe I haven't reviewed it yet! In the bottle and wet, this is a subtle wintergreen. As it drys down, the wintergreen recedes and I'm getting a beautiful woody floral with a bit of tang and a hint of snow note, yet it seems fuzzy and comforting. Very close to the skin.

I have a bunch of chaos theory v in my flickr bpal gallery (under "other le's") and starting here.

Put up the SakuraCon exclusives on flickr in the BPAL Fiends Group... (the Bards of Ireland are there too.)

Hmmph. Double post.

I finally got my photos of Banshee Beat, Sweet Life, the Clockwork Couture scents, etc. posted on my flickr page!

CCNOW preauthorizes immediately but that drops off after a few days. Once your item is actually "harvested", you get the real charge. Unless you're using PayPal through CCNOW which would take the money immediately AND which BPAL asks us not to do on the Shiny & New page (http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/new.html, right at the top.) If they spent all of their time contacting their HUGE customer base individually to let them know that their product is still being made, wouldn't that just make *everything* go more slowly? Or they'd have to hire someone SPECIFICALLY to do that one job.. and raise prices more. That's why we have the update threads on the forum... They usually are good about updating the "packed through" and "backordered" threads. If that doesn't work, you can always watch the CNS thread to see which dates are shipping and what the people ordered. BUT -- the reason I came in here -- I am VERY unhappy with CCNOW right now. Last lunacy I got one "your security code is incorrect" e-mail and had to place my order again. This month I've had TWO. Same card that I always use. I always check very carefully to make sure all of my information is correct. So as it stands right now, CCNOW has preauthorized my account THREE TIMES for one order (the two that "failed" and the subsequent order which hasn't failed yet) so I'm missing 3x the money out of my account until the preauthorizations drop off. Which does take a few days. And I'm VERY poor until Friday. GRRRRRRR.

Sorry, been very busy decanting -- got the rest of my bottles on Saturday. Had to work today. Ugh. Anyway, they are up on my flickr but I haven't sorted them into the BPAL set/collection yet.

There are at least three labels for Womb Furie. I forgot to post in here that I took photos of my first set of Valentine's day stuff. Just got the second CNS today so hopefully I'll have the next set of photos up by Saturday or Sunday. My BPAL Flickr Collection & Sets are here -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/miss_twilight...57606846994887/

I'm send some cute butt pictures of my boy.... Make 'em sepia and fuzz em a little and voila! vintage!

There are all those boys that work in the lab and the post....

You could try hosting on flickr. Flickr is free. (of course you can only host 200 photos at a time...)

I looked at the Museum's web site and could never find it (they do have Shrunken Heads!) and since I didn't CALL them to get any perfume.... no, I didn't get any. *weep* My original Black Lace label is a different color, darker blue. The new Black Lace label is the same design but more of a teal blue.

beachbabealways: yay! I'm glad it doesn't detract too much. Black Heart and Black Death:

I know how to do transparent/digital watermarks but neither of those are going to stop people from downloading the photo to add to their ebay auction; I would still have to jump through the same hoops as now to get it removed and by the time eBay gets around to it, the auction is over. The point of making it visible across the photo is a deterrent for that kind of theft. It's hard to go, "this is my photo of XXXXX" when it has *my* username across it. I guess they could always crop my name off (but in order to do that, they'll lose the neck and lid of the bottle too) but if they wanted to spend that much time on a photo why not just take their own? If they just ASKED ME if they could use it, I would give them permission as long as they credited me in the auction and admitted that it was not an actual photo of their perfume. I use Gimp for photo editing.