BPAL: Euphrosyne, Asphodel, Glasgow
Jan. 1st, 2008 02:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceruseeMy massive, self-indulgent, pre-Christmas no-one-will-ever-buy-me-BPAL order came in! In some ways, it's kind of a disaster, because I found out at Christmas that someone HAD bought me BPAL (off my Christmas list--this is is entirely my own fault!)--specifically, a bottle of my favorite ever perfume, Dorian, which I had included in my pre-Christmas order. I also have it on good authority that I have a present still coming to me, also BPAL, hopefully not also Dorian, but quite possibly something I've already gotten in this order, since my order practically duplicated the scents I liked enough to put on my Christmas list. I also found out, when I went to ask if it was possible to do a last minute substitution on the order, that I'd accidentally double-ordered Embalming Fluid. Alas, the lab is faster than it used to be, so I now have two bottle of Embalming Fluid, a bottle of Dorian which will soon be joined by another, and quite possibly yet another duplicate on the way. I also have bottles of The Dormouse (oh you lovely tea scent!), Theodosius the Ledgerdemain, and The Organ Grinder.
I'm toying with the idea of trading the duplicate bottles. I LOVE Dorian and Embalming Fluid, and can probably use them up without difficulty; on the other hand, I really like to try new scents, so it seems a waste to have so much capital sunk in a more limited selection of perfumes. Easing this dilemma a little is the fact that I also have 23 new imps to try! I'd ordered a set of imps as well along with the bottles--Rome, Delphi, Port-au-Prince, Glasgow, Whitechapel, and Kubla Khan (as you can see, I'm enamored with the Wanderlust line) and ended up with 15 frimps from the order, including the mysterious Fruitcake, plus another two frimps from the gift-Dorian.
The Gratiæ
Euphrosyne
Gardenia, tea rose, vanilla and jasmine. Frimp.
Light and floral, like a flower garden. I think the predominant note must be gardenia; I can make out the rose and jasmine, but the overwhelming impression is something else, all green and vine-y and like the whole essence of a plant, stems and roots and all, not just its bloom (it's so sharp-green-plant that I'm surprised it's not making me sneeze). I can't smell the vanilla distinctly, although I feel like it's there as a subtle underpinning to the florals, helping to blend them. Euphrosyne is joy, and this is a very happy scent.
Rappaccini's Garden
Asphodel
The grey and ghostly flower that fills the fields of Hades. Frimp.
Oooh, I know this one--lilac! Lilac, and some other flowers--definitely a sweet honeysuckle, maybe wisteria, and a very faint touch of violets? I didn't recognize the name, so I was expecting something dark and cruel, something demonic from the Excolo line, 'til I looked it up. It's pale and wistful, utterly floral. The longer I wear it, the blurrier and fainter it gets. Fitting, that.
Wanderlust
Glasgow
The rich scent of wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather.
Rich, lovely, enticing berry smell, very perfumey, with a very faint mossy undertone. I assume that's the heather, not that I'd know what heather smells like. In the bottle, it's intensely fruity, a little too much so, but it's much, much more fun to wear than I thought it would be--when it's less concentrated, i.e. on my skin, it still smells like fruit, but not like food, more like fruit vines in the sun. The longer I wear it, the less fruity and more summery it becomes. It's so friendly! The is a big YES.
I'm toying with the idea of trading the duplicate bottles. I LOVE Dorian and Embalming Fluid, and can probably use them up without difficulty; on the other hand, I really like to try new scents, so it seems a waste to have so much capital sunk in a more limited selection of perfumes. Easing this dilemma a little is the fact that I also have 23 new imps to try! I'd ordered a set of imps as well along with the bottles--Rome, Delphi, Port-au-Prince, Glasgow, Whitechapel, and Kubla Khan (as you can see, I'm enamored with the Wanderlust line) and ended up with 15 frimps from the order, including the mysterious Fruitcake, plus another two frimps from the gift-Dorian.
The Gratiæ
Euphrosyne
Gardenia, tea rose, vanilla and jasmine. Frimp.
Light and floral, like a flower garden. I think the predominant note must be gardenia; I can make out the rose and jasmine, but the overwhelming impression is something else, all green and vine-y and like the whole essence of a plant, stems and roots and all, not just its bloom (it's so sharp-green-plant that I'm surprised it's not making me sneeze). I can't smell the vanilla distinctly, although I feel like it's there as a subtle underpinning to the florals, helping to blend them. Euphrosyne is joy, and this is a very happy scent.
Rappaccini's Garden
Asphodel
The grey and ghostly flower that fills the fields of Hades. Frimp.
Oooh, I know this one--lilac! Lilac, and some other flowers--definitely a sweet honeysuckle, maybe wisteria, and a very faint touch of violets? I didn't recognize the name, so I was expecting something dark and cruel, something demonic from the Excolo line, 'til I looked it up. It's pale and wistful, utterly floral. The longer I wear it, the blurrier and fainter it gets. Fitting, that.
Wanderlust
Glasgow
The rich scent of wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather.
Rich, lovely, enticing berry smell, very perfumey, with a very faint mossy undertone. I assume that's the heather, not that I'd know what heather smells like. In the bottle, it's intensely fruity, a little too much so, but it's much, much more fun to wear than I thought it would be--when it's less concentrated, i.e. on my skin, it still smells like fruit, but not like food, more like fruit vines in the sun. The longer I wear it, the less fruity and more summery it becomes. It's so friendly! The is a big YES.