Maia

Well, life goes on. I'm standing still and the world keeps passing me by at a quickening pace. I have had that feeling for so many years now, and I have had enough of it. For a couple of months now a new feeling has started to grow; that it's time for me to move on. It's time for change. It's kind of a good feeling and I'm terrified that the determination and hope I've felt will fade away. I'm tired of crying over something that was probably just a hopeless, silly dream anyway. I'm tired of feeling left out from life the good stuff in life. Not that my life is really that bad - it really isn't, but I guess it's easy to focus on the stuff that's missing in our lives, especially when it's big, important stuff like love. It's spring, finally. I have very mixed feelings about spring, because it's a time of change and time seems to speed up a notch during these months. The blackbirds has started to sing at dusk when I'm on my way home from work. It's the most beautiful and melancholic sound in the whole world. Pondering whether I should make an order for Milk Moon or not. I probably will. Thank god(ess/whatever) for BPAL. ...and a little rant: my body chemistry has acted weird for a couple of days - none of my smellies smells like they use to! I miss the way they use to smell on me. Hope it changes back soon.

Since I love Dorian, I had to try Theodosius. Theodosius does indeed remind of Dorian at first sniff, and especially in the bottle. Once applied the scent develops in a different direction; the tea is stronger and more bitter, the vanilla is warmer and rounder and it doesn’t have the sugary sweetnees of Dorian. I also detect something that kind of smells like leather, which I think does make this more traditionally masculine to my nose. After a while the white musk emerges. I never really get the citrussy freshness that some of the other reviewers picked up – and which I had hoped for. This settles into an almost cloying but vanilla/white musk, yet masculine cologne on me. I’m sorry to say this didn't work out for me at all.

Gennivre is honey tea on me, with emphasis on the honey – which is just what I hoped for. Initial on application there’s something vaguely floral (which is quite pretty) in the background, but it soon mellows down. I don’t get any mint at all, but although this scent is almost entirely sweet honey on me, it still has a very fresh and light quality to it. This is a perfect spring/summer scent for me and I will be hoarding bottles of Gennivre. Absoutely lovely.

Ouch. He breaks my heart again and he doesn't even know it. It's been 5 years for f**** sake and I can't take this, whatever it is, anymore. Lobotomy please.

Thank you so much. This time I really need to move on.

Dorian was the first BPAL I ever tried (I bought a 5 ml unsniffed, my first order). I was not disappointed. In the bottle and at first on application: citrussy sweetened tea. As it dries this develops into a wonderful creamy white musk and vanilla with a fresh, sugared citrussy tea tinge to it. It’s a truly beautiful scent. To me, this blend has a subtle but confident sexyness to it – but also a bit of melancholy, I think. Kind of pining for someone really beautiful that you can’t have. Anyway, Dorian is one of my favorites and I love him very much.

My Jan 3 order finally arrived a couple of days ago. No love at first sniff this time, but I will try them all out again. My nose is really congested right now because of a stubborn cold that won't give up the fight against my immune system. But there's lots of snot making it's way out of my nose today and this usually means me and my immune system is about to win the fight. Due to a misunderstanding with my order I had Faiza herself instead of Saw-Scaled Viper (I had written: "Faiza's companions: Saw Scaled Viper" instead of just Saw Scaled Viper. Stupid me.) I will try Faiza again - and if the jasmine doesn't ruin the whole thing she might actually be a keeper. Smut was much boozier than I expected. My sister and I both agreed on this description of Smut: "Sexy girl that likes to have a lot of fun on her way home in the wee hours after a night of just a little to much fun." Now I'm waiting for Groundhog and Oborot. The postal service seems to be working veerrry slow these days. Since both my pending orders arrived/was sent I was allowed to make another one, so I've ordered Gennivre, Theodosius, 5 ml of Bengal and Saw-Scaled Viper (again! ) I've been so tired for the last couple of weeks. Some sunshine would cheer me up, we haven't seen the sun here for a week now - just clouds and mushy, slushy snow. Winter is long and dark up here, but I'm looking for some fresh, green, spring-time scents to include with my next order. Hopefully spring will be here soon.

Just a list to help me sort out what to order next. Bottles: Obatala Sudha Segara Lightning (for my sister) Imps: Eden White Rabbit Alice Arcana Dormouse Shanghai Kumiho Sed Non Satiata Dana O'Shee Hetairae Empyreal Mist Brisingamen Dublin The Unicorn Coyote Antique Lace Croquet Athens Pele Zephyr Water of Notre Dame Wolf's Heart Block Buster High John the Conqureror Van Van All of the Panacea blends

postal service. I really hoped my shiny, new little bottles would arrive today (Bakeneko with some friends). I needed something to cheer me up today, but no. Just needed to rant. Well, that's as good as any reason to start a blog a guess. And by the way, blog is one ugly word. Oh, I'm such a happy ray of sunshine today But, I did get a CnS for Oborot and Groundhog today. Please come soon, little groundhog.

Of course, it's always worth the wait when it comes to the precious If i'm lucky I might have two lovely packages arriving in my mailbox next week.

This is one of the first scents with honey as a prominent note that I’ve tried. I wasn’t sure if I would like it or not, or if it would work with my chemistry. And the first time I tried Bengal it wasn’t an immediate success – wet on skin it smelled wonderful, but as it dried it turned kind of weird and synthetic. I didn’t give up though, and tried it again a couple of days later. This time I was not disappointed. At first on application, Bengal smells mostly of honey on me. As it dries the spices emerges more and more, of which I can identify cinnamon. The honey blends wonderfully with the spices - gorgeous spiced, creamy, glowing honey with a hint of warm skin musk. It can be a bit cloying on some days, but most of the time it’s a very comforting scent to me. A bottle of this honey and spice gorgeousness will be ordered.

My first review! Dry on my skin I smell flowers and vanilla. After a while the vanilla mellows down, and the Mouse's Long and Sad Tale turns in to a light, milky floral which actually reminds me a lot of Morocco, which on me is a creamy, powdery, light floral (I don’t really get along with floral scents that well, and this is bordering on being too floral for me). A little later on the vanilla amps up again and the sweet pea slips into the background. It settles into a faint vanilla with a powdery, close to skin quality, which I assume is thanks to the amber. The sweet pea can perhaps be detected, but mostly because I know it’s there somewhere. It’s a pretty, innocent, “little girlish” scent – but I don’t think this is for me. I love vanilla and I love amber, but this scent is too “pale” for me.