Ghost_Light

I've just discovered that I adore Hellion and it is one of the very few that my hubby likes on me. Luckily I've also discovered that Imp is similar on me - less patchouli and less wow from the hubby, but similar.

I would add an "oddity" to that - something like Zombi or Scarecrow or a totally foody-scent. I really misjudged what I would like/what would work on me when I made my first order and the frimp of Scarecrow was my first love. Something really out of the ordinary might just be the thing that keeps a total newbie from going "but it's just perfume!"

In the imp: Apple with a bit of caramel. Very sweet. Wet: A blast of caramel that vanishes quickly under a steamroller of coconut. Dry: Still coconut. Big time. A get a little whiff of apple every third sniff but this is mainly coconut. Long-wear: This picks up a strange waxy overtone. I smell like a big waxy apple and coconut candle.

Fire Pig A review in dialogue in which, through the wonders of muscle relaxants, Ghost Light has been split into Logical Ghost Light and Drugged Ghost Light Drugged Ghost Light: Yay!! My decant arrived with barely a day to spare! Look, Hubby, it's Fire Pig. It has peony in it! Hubby: Girlfriends, Ghost Light, Girlfriends Geolingist: Hey! Drugged Ghost Light: Just for that I'm putting it on right here on the couch. Mmm...I can smell the peony just in the vial. (slather) It's really similar to Peony Moon but with a fruit base. This is really nice. Hubby: That's nice. I like that. Drugged Ghost Light: Really?!?!?? Hubby:....sure. Drugged Ghost Light: I like it. Oh, but it's getting that teaky-smell that Peony Moon gets. Drats! It started so nice! Logical Ghost Light: YOu know, since you only get that note when you take muscle relaxants, maybe you should try Fire Pig when you aren't stoned out of your gourd. Drugged Ghost Light: Wow! I bet that works! You're really smart. Hey, Geolinguist, want to try Fire Pig? Geolinguist: Oh, okay. But just Fire Pig. I don't want to go back to the office smelling like a French Brothel. Drugged Ghost Light: Oh, you won't, it's pretty fruity. What do you think? Geolinguist: (sniffing) I'm getting a lot of tangerine. Drugged Ghost Light: Some of the reviews have said the citrus can go really wrong, so watch out. Geolinguist: Uh-oh. I'm getting that. Smell this. Drugged Ghost Light: (sniffs, gets the giggles) I don't know if it's wrong, but you do smell like a great big orange Pez. Geolingist: Harumph, you're on drugs. Acey: Can I try it? Drugged Ghost Light: Just the Fire Pig, sure. Acey: (slathers) Mmmm...I like the orange. Drugged Ghost Light: It's so funny that you both get the citrus from that and I don't. Acey: It's....uh-oh! I don't like this orange! I smell like baby powder and deodorant. This one is NOT Perfect. Drugged Ghost Light: (doing a little dance and singing) It smells best on meeee! It smells best on meeeee! Logical Ghost Light: You know, if you keep making fun of your friends in reviews, eventually they are going to find a way to get even with you. Drugged Ghost Light: Maybe, but Fire Pig still likes me best!

I have to admit, I didn't know the notes when I first tried this one. I put it in my imp box before heading to the theatre and I had it utterly confused with Whip. I was expecting a huge burst of thick black leather and wet red rose when I sniffed the imp. Imagine my surprise when it was light and very slightly floral... Wet I got a bit of rose, but mostly a sexy sweetness. Long-wear it faded down to a warm, spicy, sexy musk. Geolinguist swears I smell a bit like a bayberry candle, but I just swear at him for that. This is one my very favorites!

This is really a novelty scent. I'm rather obsessed with zombies right now, so I wore it most of October (so often, in fact, that I was catching whiffs of it on clothes well into December.) I rather like the blend of rose and dirt in this one. The earth note dominates on me and smells like digging outside when I was a kid. Not in the uncovered flower beds or in the damp where the hose dripped, but the one under the patio where the ground was so dry I would get to water it two or three times a day and dust would rise up when the water first hit it. This is not a scent for daily wear, but it a wonderfully novel smell. Keeping the imp? Oh yes! Bottle? probably not, but I will get another imp when this one is gone.

Anne Bonny A Review in Dialogue Ghost Light: Oh good, my bottle from Ebay arrived today and they threw in some frimps! I need these to help improve a bad day. And look! Anne Bonny! I've always wanted to try this one (slather slather) EEk...that's a little sharp. I really get the patchouli strong. This one may need a second opinion - Geolinguist? Acey? Hubby? Damn, just me. Oh well. Better go back to work. Littlest Actress (enters 2 hours after slather) Hi Ghost Light. Ghost Light: Hey, Little. I'm trying a new perfume. Would you smell my wrist and tell me honestly if I put on too much? Littlest Actress: Okay (sniff) Wow!! (sniff sniff) You didn't put on too much (sniff sniff sniff)...you didn't put on ENOUGH! You should BATHE in this! (sniff sniff sniff sniff) Ghost Light: Okay, honey, thanks. I really needed that. Littlest Actress: (sniff) Mmmmm..... Ghost Light: Okay, Little. I need my wrist back now.... Littlest Actress: (sniff) mmmmmmm.... Ghost Light: Now, Little...look, you're going to miss your entrance! Littlest Actress: But! But! (shuffles off, dejected) Awww... Ghost Light: Wow, that never happened before. I wonder how the other Pirates will like it at the meeting tonight. (and, through the magic of time telescoping, Ghost Light arrives at the meeting) Hi everybody. Hey Val, I got Anne Bonny today, want to smell? Val: Of course! (sniff) Mmm....I like the patchouli. This is really nice (sniff) I really like this. (sniff) I...mmmmmm Angel: I want to smell! Ghost Light: Okay, just a sec. (attempts to walk over to his chair) Um, Val? Val (still holding on and sniffing) Mmmmm.... Ghost Light: Umm, Val...I need my wrist back.. Val: But! But! Awwwww.... Angel: This better be some good..(sniff)..mmmmm... Stymie: You're holding out on me! Ghost Light: (giggling now) I'll be there in a second, Stymie. I just (tug) need (tug) Um, Angel? I need my wrist back. Angel: But! But! Awwww... Stymie: (sniff) Mmmm....Hey, Ghost Light. Exactly how committed are you to Hubby? Hubby: (watching the whole thing, rather amused) I'd say my lack of commitment to BPAL is going to be the real problem here. Stymie: Mmmm.... Ghost Light: Hubby, do you want to smell it? I can get my wrist back if you want it. Stymie: But! But! Aww... Hubby: Okay...(sigh. Sniff) Everyone in Unison: Weeeeellll? Hubby: It's...nice? (people begin to boo and throw things) I said "nice"! (more booing) Okay, that's it. I'm taking Ghost Light and her wrists home with me. Everyone: But! But! Awwwwww....

Does anyone know of a GC that shares the incense in Jacob's Ladder? I had the same thing happen at first, then Snake Charmer kind of smelled like the cake was burning...

Bakeneko A review in dialogue Ghost Light: Yay! My imp is finally here! I can't wait to try it! (dabs on one drop per wrist. Really. Sniffs) Mmm...(sniff) Cherry! (sniff) and lots of cardamom! (sniff) And the tangerine! (sniff) It's like cinnamon in the back of really great, spicy tea! (gives up individual sniffs and simply superglues nose to wrist) Wow! I really...wait! Don't fade! Come back! Awwww...it's only been 20 minutes and now I kind of smell like Sure. Hubby: You want me to smell that, don't you. Ghost Light: Here! (thrusts out wrists) Hubby: (mutters to self and sniffs) No, I kind of like that. Ghost Light: Really? Because I like the starting notes better. Here, let me show you. (dabs on just a whisper more than one drop per wrist.) Hubby: Ack! Ack! Too strong! (tries to climb over back of the couch to get away.) Ack! Ghost Light: I didn't put on that much. (doesn't even get nose to wrist) Ack! Too strong! (tries to climb over back of the couch to get away from her own wrists) Ack! Acey: Can I try it? Ghost Light: Sure. (holds nose, slathers) Acey: It's Perfect! (wanders around for hours, happy smelling wrists) Honey? Remember that website? Keeping the imp? maybe... Bottle: Only for Acey.

The Red Queen a review in dialogue Non-Forum Friend: Okay, I ordered 18 imps,but this one is going to be my favorite. This is going to be my new signature scent and it's going to be Perfect. I can't wait (slathers on for the first time.) Ghost Light and Geolinguist: Well? Non-Forum Friend: I...I...I don't like it! It's not Perfect!! (gives all of her imps to Ghost Light and runs away to join a BPAL-free convent.) Ghost Light: Wow. Okay. Well, let me just try this one on and see what I think. Geolinguist: Well? Ghost Light: It's very cherry, and I like cherry, but that's fading fast and now...(sniff) eh, I smell like wood. It's teaky or something. I kind of feel like a Pier 1. Geolingust: (sniffing) It's not that bad. It's kind of nice. Ghost Light: It is kind of nice, but it's not Perfect. Here, you try it. Geolinguist: I like you, Ghost Light, but I am a gay man. I'm not wearing anything with "Queen" in the title. Ghost Light: Chicken. Hey Hubby? Let me put this on you... Hubby: Fuck off, dear. Acey: What is this BPAL you guys are always talking about? Ghost Light: (exchanging evil glances with Geolinguist) It's....well, here, let me put this on you. Acey: (all innocence) Okay. Geolinguist and Ghost Light: Well? Acey: It's Perfect! (immediately gets on the phone while still in the booth, during a performance) Honey? I want this. Go to this website and order.... Ghost Light and Geolinguist: (high-fiving each other) Heh, heh, heh.

Peony, plum blossom, water reeds and soft Asian woods. I was blessed to get an imp of this from my first Switch Witch, Salixnoir In the imp: I looooove me some Peony. Wet: Richly peony, but the bamboo and plum blossom give it a really different tang. It's a very sophisticated scent. Dry-down/long wear: Lovely. Pure lovely. The peony mellows out from being the dominate note without disappearing and the sophisticated feeling I got from when it was wet only grows. For some reason, this is one that changes when I take a muscle relaxant. It is the only one that I've found that does. It gets an odd teak note that doesn't appear if I haven't taken a pill. I prefer it without the teak but it is lovely no matter what.

This was my first chocolate/candy scent. From the moment I opened the imp, I could tell that this was not going to be the Ultimate Chocolate Scent for me. It wasn't bad. It wasn't too strong. It wasn't too sweet. It was just...not quite right. To my nose, it had kind of an imitation chocolate overtone which only amped on my skin. One of my friends has a chocolate perfume that makes my stomach growl every time she wears it. I am going to swap Candy Butcher and hold out for that kind of scent. Keeping the imp? Nah. Bottle? Nah.

Pumpkin Queen a review in dialogue Ghost Light: (sniffing the imp) Mmmm....people keep saying this is buttery, but it's really rich and kind of dark and...very spicy and....mmmm.....(slather) Pumpkin Queen: Ohm you poor, poor dear. Has Jasmine been bullying you again? Ghost Light: (sniffing) Uh-huh. Pumpkin Queen: (drawing Ghost Light onto her lap and cradling her against her ample bosom) Shh...shhh...it's okay. I'm here now. Don't be afraid. Ghost Light: Wait a minute! I know you! You're not pumpkin at all! You're FIG! And you, you're cardamom! You're lovely! You're so deep and regal. You're perfect. Pumpkin Queen: (preening) Why yes, yes I am. Ghost Light: Geolinguist! Geolinguist! Smell this, isn't it perfect? Geolinguist: (sniffing) You smell like a Fig Newton. Ghost Light: (stamping foot) I do not! Sniff again. Geolinguist: (sniffing) No. You smell like a spicy Fig Newton. Ghost Light: (appealing to a high power) Hubby! Huuubby! Smell my wrist. What do you think? Hubby: I think you need to find some girlfriends. Geolinguist: Hey! Hubby: (sniffing with an all-suffering sigh) I don't like it. You smell like a Fig Newton. Ghost Light: Well, I don't care. I like it and I'm keeping it, so there. Pumpkin Queen and Ghost Light: Geolinguist and Hubby: Newton. Keeping the imp? Hell yes! Bottle? Hell yes!

Venice A review in dialogue Geolinguist: Hey, Ghost Light, I got some new imps in the mail. Want to try one before rehearsal? Ghost Light: (casually leaping over chairs and small children to reach the imp box) Oh sure, why not? Geolinguist: Here, try this one. It's Venice. Jasmine: (lurking in the imp) Heh, heh, heh. Ghost Light: (sniffing imp) That's really floral. It's pretty. Jasmine: (hiding behind Rose Petals with a hand over her mouth and a gun to her head) Shhh.... Ghost Light: (Dabs, sniffs. Wisteria and Waterlilly attempt to make a run for it.) Ooo! That's really floral! It's really pretty, smell this. Geolinguist: Ooo...you smell like an English Lady's garden in Venice. That's nice. Jasmine: (snaps poor Rose Petal's neck with one casual gesture. She rises up like a bad ass Chow Yun-Fat in some Hong Kong action film. The other notes scream in terror, trying to flee their inevitable doom at the hands of Jasmine.) Ghost Light: (sniffing again, oblivious to the carnage) Yeah it's...aughghgh! It's JASMINE! Geolinguist: No, it's nice. It's (sniffs)....go was that off, it's Jasmine! Jasmine: Heh, heh, heh. Keeping the imp? It's all Geolinguist's Bottle? hah!

Whitechapel a review in dialogue Ghost Light: Happy birthday, Geolinguist. I bought you some imps. Geolinguist: Oo! It is a happy birthday! Let's try this one. Ghost Light: (opening imp and letting the birthday boy have the first sniff) Well? Geolinguist: Well. That's......well. That's lemon. Ghost Light: (sniffing imp) I know that scent! Remember when you were little and you ran out of the store-bought stuff to blow bubbles so you had to make it yourself from Joy? That's exactly what this smells like! Home-made bubble fluid! Geolinguist: (dubbing on both) Hmmm... [Non-BPAL conversation while Whitechapel dries] Geolinguist: Boy, that smells like lemon lollypops. What is it like on you? Ghost Light: (sniffing) Lemon lollypops! Hubby, Hubby! Come smell this! Hubby: You really need to get some girlfriends. Geolingist: Hey! Ghost Light: Shut up and sniff. Hubby: What is that supposed to be? Ghost Light: Whitechapel. (trying to recall the Lab Description) Um...a gentleman's perfume layered over...um...a dark undercurrent of.... Hubby: A dark undercurrent of what? Gin and 'ho? Ghost Light: (collapsing in fits of giggles) I'm blogging that! Keeping the imp? Well, it was a present... Bottle: Not that into lollypops, thanks.

In the imp: Woodsy, definite cream soda, kind of nice. Wet: dusty leather and vanilla-touched cream soda. Dry-down/long wear: Tobacco smoke and cream soda. I smell like a bar in a town that has gone dry. Keeping the imp? Not for me, but I am sure it will find a good home. Bottle: Not for me, thanks.

Danube A review in dialogue Geolinguist: Ghost Light, my new imps came. Do you want to try one? Ghost Light: (Coyly leaping tow couches and a green room full of small children in a single bound.) Imps? What did you get? Geolinguist: (wiggling an imp inticingly) Danube. I got it for you especially. It has rhododendron and aquatic notes. It should have been named "Tacoma", all it needs is the papermill. I can't wait to see how it smells on you. Ghost Light: (eyeing the imp and considering that it might very well end up smelling like papermill) Umm... Danube: But...but...I have aquatics. Geolinguist: But it has aquatic notes. You like aquatic notes. Ghost Light: Oh..okay...(closes eyes and extends wrists for application) Geolinguist: (Slathering, then sniffing) Wow! That's....that's lovely... Ghost Light: It...is is lovely! I do like rhododendron! I like Danube! Thank you, Geolinguist! Entire Greenroom: (in unison. Sniff. Sniff.) Wow! That's lovely! Ghost Light: Hubby! Hubby! Smell this! Isn't it lovely? Do you like it? Hubby: Yeah, it's okay. Ghost Light: (while reheating dinner) Really? You like one of these? Hubby: (sniffing again) Yeah! Now you smell like rhododendron and pizza! Ghost Light and Danube: Keeping the imp? Geolingist took it home, but I neeeeeeeed one of my own. Bottle: Oh yes, yes!

Sea of Glass a review in dialogue Geolinguist: Okay, Venice was awful on you. We know you and jasmine are sworn enemies...what are the notes in this one? Ghost Light: (working the on-line mojo. Poorly) Hmm...no notes. It sounds pretty, though. Let's try it! Jasmine: (Lurking beneath the waves like some Lovecraftian horror) Heh, heh, heh. Ghost Light: (dabbing, sniffing) EEEEEEEE!! This is great! I love aquatics! (begins running around the room waving her arms like a muppet) I'm the prettiest girl in the room! I'm the prettiest girl in the room! Geolinguist: (politely refraining from pointing out that Ghost Light is, in fact, the only girl in the room) Yes, it's very pretty. Jasmine: (rising from the waves like the monolith in 2001, monstrous in size and demeanor) HEH, HEH, HEH. Ghost Light (Running in more frantic circles) Agh! Jasmine! Get it off! Get it oooooooff! Jasmine: (marking the tally - Jasmine 2, Ghost Light 0) Heh, heh, heh. Keeping the imp? Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out, Sea of Glass. Bottle? Not even allowed in my house.

Boy - reading the notes from this one, I think my sniffer was broken. This is one that Geolinguist picked up for us to try. In the imp - floral and dusty...uh-oh, and there's soemthing similar to F5 (which I didn't like) and Usher (which gave me an asthma attck) Being a silly addict, I let Geolinguist put it on me anyway. Wet - Really fairly plesant. Very floral but not obnoxiously so. Dry - My skin amped the florals into a powerful muddle and there was something under that that made me feel as though I had stuck a stick of Sure into each nostril. I had a headache within the hour and the Sure aroma was one I could not wash off. Keep the imp? Nope, it left with Geolinguist Bottle? Oh hell no.

I was rather apprehensive about trying this one, since I have honey issues. As I always say, it's not that I hate smelling like honey and nothing but honey, I just find that I like the starting notes better in most blends and which those would stick around longer. anyway. In the imp - Sweet oatmeal. A really wonderful, intriguing blend of the oatmeal and sweet notes. I hope it will hold. Wet - A huge bowl of oatmeal drowning in milk and brown sugar. Fascinating. Dry-down/long wear - The notes stay really true on me. The honey brightens the scent, but the oatmeal seems to keep it in check. Somehow that brightness makes it go from being a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast to fresh-baked cookies. My favorite part - My Hubby tends to characterize BPAL as "too foody", but this one had him grabbing my wrist for a better sniff "What is that? That's nice!" All in all, a fun scent. I don't think I need a bottle, but I am keeping my imp and might replace it with another when it is gone.

I should have known better, but my heart got in the way. King Lear is my very favorite play. Regan is my favorite character. I amp both vanilla and florals. From wet through a few hours in, this scent is like being stuck in a BPAL remake of Chinatown It's vanilla! It's orchid! It's vanilla! It's orchid! Eventually it turns into the candle scent that vanilla always does on my skin. My husband proclaimed it "Old lady smell". I should have know better, but I really wanted it to work. Keeping the imp? Already sent her off to a better home. Bottle? No thank you.

I put some of this on before going to rehearsal. As I say (a lot) I work for a youth theatre. Wet, it smelled like a Butterrum Lifesaver. I was kind of grooving on that. As it dried, it picked up a very strong, inexplicable coconut note. By the time I got to the theatre, it was all coconut with a strong sugary undertone. One of my friends took a sniff and proclaimed that I smelled exactly like an Almond Joy. One of the girls told me she would do anything I said as long as I smelled like this. I'm directing, so that would be a good thing, but I still can't quiet get behind smelling like an Almond Joy full time. Keeping the imp? maybe, but just to try to enable the other wenches at Ren Fair. Bottle? No, thank you.

I just got an imp of this from Shug today and I could not wait to try it. I put some on each wrist (since I have discovered oils will smell different on each hand). It was very cherry, but with a dark, mystifying undertone. It was wonderfully spooky. I put some in the crook of one elbow. It was totally different - all cherry and licorice at the same time. No spicy, no dark, but still wonderful. The scents were so different that even my hubby commented on them. Then the crook of my elbow started to burn. My skin turned bright red. Genius that I am, I thought maybe I might have dabbed on a scratch. Let me just put a dab on my other elbow, I thought. Redder. Itchier. Hubby took one look and suggested I go wash it off. I looked at my wrists. Bright red welts there as well. Hubby told me to go wash it off. Now. I loved this one so much! I am so upset I had such a bad reaction to it. But I am glad that I didn't go with my first instinct and dab it all kinds of places to see how the scent would change. Keeping the imp? Bottle?

I was so excited to get Tricked by the inquisition... ...and almost equally apprehensive to try the oil when I peeked at the notes. Vanilla bean? I amp vanilla and it tends to go candle waxy on me. Black leather? That can be really strong and leather stores sometimes give me headaches. Honeycomb, honeysuckle? eeep! Honey tends to mug other notes so it can have me all to itself. Magnolia? I amp florals too. and patchouli....while I have nothing against it really, I've just been avoiding it because it can be so strong. That said - I am utterly in LOVE with this scent!! In the imp - it is powerfully musky. Leather-wearing, patchouli scented sex in a bottle. Wet - Everything blended together perfectly. I can smell the florals playing nice with the leather, balancing the roar of patchouli..it's perfect! Dry - Everyone compliments this scent on me (well, except for one friend who always goes "Oh! That's too strong!" But she later admitted it's nice, just too much for her. I love how dark and sexy this scent it. When I first tried it, I danced around in delight. My leather jacket tends to be my own scent-locket. Trick #1 got into it and has yet to leave. When I tried another BPAL that didn't quite work on me, my hubby complained "I got used to you smelling faintly like vanilla. That's nice." I hadn't put on Trick #1 for over a week, I'd just been wearing my coat. Now that I know that leather, musk and patchouli aren't really that scary on me, I'm going to try all kinds of things!

Oooo... In the imp - all rosy-sweetness. Wet - Big, wet red roses. Dry - Rose powder. A perfectly red-rose powder, but with something darker and sweeter under it. Almost grape-y, but not enough to be off-putting. I like this, but it is not quite me. Keeping the imp? Nah, someone will give it a better home than I can. Bottle? Only if I can make Geolinguist wear it. This smells divine on him.