Carmencita

In the vial: Lemon so fresh I literally had to stop myself from licking the rim of the vial. Wet: Lemon drops and ice. Wet fresh cut lemons glazed with sugar. This is bright, fresh and distinct. Dry: Now a floral comes through, something like buttercups, very unobtrusive, like buttercups if they smelled of lemons. Still with a piercing lemon. The piercing part must be the rosemary? I want a bottle of this someday, but it's not a priority.

In the vial: Dirty and nuts Wet: Dirt, nuts, woods, slight bit of mold... yech. Dry: Now a slight cedar note, and a hint of evergreen It's interesting to smell, but not something I'd want to smell like. Also reminds me of several other BPAL GC oils... which I cannot remember.

In the vial: Like silver, if silver had a scent. Clean, light, bright, mystical. Wet: It must be something floral, but it doesn't smell flowery. Like snow and silver threads also. Dry: Starting to go a bit claylike so it might not be a bottle. There is also a very VERY vague hint of apple. Arachne goes to clay and play-dough on me. I loved it so in its earlier stages. Maybe I'll try it in a scent locket and see if the problem is just my skin.

Okay, I think maybe the lab accidentally mislabeled the imp I got of this because I'm not getting what any of you guys are getting. On all stages in me it smells like cold marble and white, white flowers. Horribly strong and over-watered white flowers just choking me. White flowers white flowers, argh. Stop chasing me, white flowers.

In the vial: Intoxicating. Clear, sparkling, deep, dark, sinister. I can't pick out specific notes. On my skin: Cave water, green flower stems, and something creamy. I don't love it but I love black opals (they're my birthstone and my zodiac stone). I think I might have to get a bottle anyway.

In the vial: Overripe apples, green with a nutty overtone. Wet: Odd. Apple stems and rotting apples. Cinnamon, dry cinnamon and clay-like apples. Dry: Clay, rotting apples and their stems, wet falling apart wood. Neh. I was actually sad about this because I love Punkie Night and was looking for a catalog scent to be like it in case I can't get my hands on Punkie.

In the vial: Oranges, cool grass, rain. This reminds me of another BPAL scent but I can't place it. Alice maybe? Could be way off. Wet: It's like Yggdrasil with ripe berries grown in shadow. Or like a sweeter Nephilim. Dry: I'm smelling all these things I smelled before.. but also peanut butter. Nutty, freshly pounded nuts. Yep. Berries in shadow, forest, rain, and peanut butter. I like this! But I'm not sure if it's quite bottle-worthy for me.

In the vial: Sweet marzipan, with a sharp bitterness behind it. On my skin: Freshly spilled blood. This smells like my own blood. Hmm. Later: Still smells like blood. I don't think I'd have the balls to wear this alone, but I think it would be perfect to layer.

In the vial: Almond and cold milk On my skin: Toffee, sugared tea, pepper, fire, cinnamon and black pepper. Gets creamier but overall maintains the purity of its scent over several hours on my skin. Mmmmm.

In the vial: Almond milk, milky black tea. This is what I expected White Rabbit to smell like (it didn't) Wet: Almond soap. Specifically it reminded me of Villainess Soap's Silk and Cyanide. Corn silk and almond extract. A soft almond creme. It morphs quickly though, into what I'm not certain. Dry: A milkbath with a hint of sugar. It smells very natural and comforting. Like Earl Grey with lots of milk. I do get some of the soft clean furry animal and dry plains now that I read descriptions, but the milk and tea thing is what I thought with my mind uninfluenced. It's definitely a comforting scent. Very much a natural skin scent. No way this could offend anyone's nose, it's so organic, in a sense. I want a bottle.

In the bottle: A sweet indistinct tartness. On my skin: A salad of cut up melons, guava, and I can smell a bit of pomegranate too. It's fruit chunks that have been recently sliced and are now soaking in their own juices. OH MY PTB. Drool. I love this. Perfect for summer. It's so... ripe. Later: No, no, no! Fading. This is turning into dust. Literally, it smells like dust. Clay and dust. I'm going to cry. The optimist in me wants to try this layered with something. Maybe if I wear it with a dab of SWANK or in a scent locket the fruit scent will be invigorated and cajoled into lingering longer in its truest manner. I'll come back and edit this if I can entice it to stay by way of said layering.

Ack. Delete this. Somehow it double posted.

Is baking something you taught yourself, or did someone teach you? I cannot bake nor cook although I'd like to learn how to bake, because in fresh-baked goods are where you can really tell the difference between store-bought and hand-done-from-scratch.

BSG rocks. So say we all. Yeah, when she did that head smash thing it was so brutal and animalistic and scared the crap out of me. And Starbuck walking in on Gaius. Priceless.

I like Blog Island. It's warm and dark here. Glad to have you.

Congrats! Ooo, Mildly Illegal Proposal. Very sexy. And private and sweet and all. What BPAL do you think you might wear on the wedding day?

In the bottle: Slight almond, slight orange sweetness, and bookstore incense. On my skin: Weird. Candle wax and a charred wick. Some sweet incense behind it. Dry down: It gets a little powdery but still has that smoke-and-wax essence wafting. It gets a little playdoughesque on me, however, so I don't think I'll be keeping it.

In the bottle: Ripe syrupy fruit with a touch of booze. Complex, with different types of fruit notes stepping forward and then retreating. On my skin: This makes me feel sick, but (oddly) in a good way. Like the essence of debauchery. Fully realized and syruped (but not fake) fruits, and then alcohol and ... sleaze. I feel woozy smelling this. Like I'm at some crazy party and the music is pounding and I'm having a good time but I have a slight headache. I don't think I'll be getting a bottle of this, but I think I'll be ordering imps semi-regularly. It's a confusing scent. Certainly fruity and a little sour as others describe it.

In the bottle: Designer Perfume. Something baby boomers wear. Lemon and baby oil and cologne On my skin: Baby oil and ozone. Lemon and sweet lime. Smells nothing like I expected. After a while: Baby oil and sweet citrus. Mostly baby oil. Conclusion: Not for me. Maybe my chemistry fracked with it.

Firstly, I hate florals. Hate. Except when they have been blended so as to be unobtrusive. However, I purchased this because peony has a special place in my heart. In the first piece of historical fiction I ever read, a wonderful and under-appreciated novel by Muriel Jernigan called "The Forbidden City", 'Peony' is the private nickname of the protagonist. I thought this would just sit in my BPAL box in homage, since I didn't expect to like it. I was wrong. In the bottle: At first it's grassy pink flowers, new buds, not fully bloomed, their perfume not fully explored... and then a harsh note of violet which SCARED me. On my skin: No violet, just that soft, new-bud pink peony, with a hint of something ripe like fruit behind it, but very subtle. If I wear this in my hair it has some throw, although it fades on my skin within a couple of hours. Hair or scent locket. It is beautiful. The only floral I could ever wax poetic about some day.

In the bottle: Butterscotch and Caramel ice cream On my skin: It's like within the dab I put on my wrist, the apple scent moves to one section of the dab, and the caramel-butterscotch moves to the other side. I can smell each distinctively and separately. The apple is like it has been marinated in pure sugar water. Very tart and super super sweet. The caramel/butterscotch overwhelms it though. The apple throws just a little, the caramel element throws a LOT. Too much. On the dry down, the apple mellows even more, and the caramel/butterscotch becomes (if possible) even STRONGER. It's too rich for my blood. I wanted to like this because I love PUNKIE NIGHT sooo much and was hoping this was similar, but to my nose, they are entirely different animals. I think I'll stick with trying to find more bottles of Punkie.

I tried this last night when I had a head-and-neck ache. I filled the tub with hot water and used the entire fizzyBoom. The scent was very mellow (which is good as strong scents -even good ones- can aggravate a headache or be a trigger for a migraine). It was a mint, but not a hard mint, something was softening it. It was pervasive but the scent lingered close to the water. I sat in the yellow-green water, reading, my headache becoming sedated. By the time I stood up to rinse off, my skin was luxuriously smooth and lightly oiled, and aside from the blood-rush pain immediately when I stood up, as soon as I had righted myself, the headache had eased almost entirely. I was able to go to bed later and sleep solidly, with no head or neck pain to wake me. Yay. I need to make another order of these to insure I always have Grr.

I've been reading about the switch witchery, but no where are there explicit directions. I see a link to an old questionarre and a mention that we have to make a wishlist? But there are no directions or explanations about how this works. All I can gather is that it's like a care package swap with forumites. There is no spending limit or minimum, but the average is between $15-$20 to spend on your giftee. You have to wait until there is an announcement for signups and then you send your questionare to the starter of that thread? I don't understand the entire process. Is there a Spring Fling Switch Witch FAQ somewhere?

I totally agree with you on all points, particularly the one about there being no 'good' guys in the Spanish Civil War. That boths sides did irreprehensible things and it was just a nasty situation with no one ultimately right. That being said, I still liked experiencing the movie and think it's cool that it's nominated for so many Oscars. Another issue I had with it is it kept spoon-feeding the audience certain things. Spoiler Like the whole similar-looking antibiotics vial, and how the doctor used the same ones as were found at the camp of the rebels. The used so much over-explanation in the dialogue and the screenshots, I was like WE GET IT ALREADY.

I'm sorry.