bpal update
++ MARCHEN: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
BELLE VINU
Red sandalwood, vanilla, rosewood, osmanthus, and white peach.
This sounds very me.
THE ROSE
The promise of a rose: red rose petals, fresh sap, and the sharp green scent of stem and leaf.
You had me at rose..
++ MARCHEN: EGLE, QUEEN OF SERPENTS
EGLE
Ocean water, hyacinth petals, star jasmine, and fir.
Ew.
THE SEA FOAMS MILK
Milk cresting on an ocean wave.
No.
THE SEA FOAMS BLOOD
Blood rising through an ocean wave.
No.
++ MARCHEN: PRUNELLA
PRUNELLA
Ripe purple plums, wildflowers, and cream.
Sure!
BENSIABEL
Plum juice, lilac, leather, and a smattering of herbs.
Eh, lilac.
++ MARCHEN: RAPUNZEL
RAPUNZEL
Angel’s trumpet, bois de rose, orris, and wild lettuce.
Not sure!
THE WITCH'S GARDEN
Morning glory vines twisting around a patch of rampion, carrot, and parsley, with monkshood, hemlock, elfwort, sage, wormwood, and mandrake.
Ugh, no.
THORNS
Thorn-spiked vines, blood, and tears.
It sounds interesting in concept.
++ MARCHEN: RUMPELSTILZCHEN
RUMPELSTILZCHEN
Firewood and ash with an oddly otherworldly blend of patchouli, cardamom, nutmeg, black pepper, tonka, vetiver, and myrrh.
Vetiver usually ruins it for me.
THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER
Spun gold, tear-soaked straw, and rose-infused amber.
Maybe...
++ MARCHEN: THE SPARROW WITH THE SLIT TONGUE
THE LITTLE SPARROW
Dusty seeds, sedge, brown amber, and sandalwood.
Meh.
SERPENTS WITH GLITTERING EYES AND FORKY TONGUES
Serpentine green herbs, glistening red currant, sparkling yellow lemon rind, green musk, lime, and snakeskin.
This sounds really nice..
++ LIMITED EDITION: YULE 2008
BUTTER RUM COOKIE
A boozy addition to the devil’s bake sale! Rum-soaked butter cookies, crusted with sugar, soaked in almond and garnished with orange rind.
Sounds too much like Huesos de Santos.
FRAU HOLLE
Snow-covered pines, witches herbs, bestial musk, flax, and ethereal flowers that represent both birth and death.
Yes! Only because she protects spinners.
GELT
A bounty of chocolate coins! Dry cocoa and golden amber!
Maybe. If it doesn't work I have a friend who is a an amber nut.
HANEROT HALALU
Olive oil, beeswax, and smoke.
Nope.
THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES
Dried blood, boiled wine, leather, galbanum, onycha, tonka bean, and pomegranate.
Maybe?
JACOB’S LADDER 2008
The meeting of Heaven and Earth: golden amber, galbanum, benzoin, ambrette, rockrose, costus and tonka.
No.
LARENTALIA
A Roman funeral garden: cypress, thyme, oleander, crocus, gladiola, amaranth, and myrtle shrouded by herbs and flowers sacred to the Silent One.
No!
LE PÈRE FOUETTARD
Whip leather, coal dust, gaufrette, and black licorice.
Maybe.
LICK IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT
Peppermint candy cane with an extra jolt of sugar.
Already have lick it again, so no..
LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS
Skin musk, white sandalwood, balsam fir, frozen black berries, cedar, winter rose, and white amber.
Maybe, rose and berry sounds good.
THE MAGI
An offering of frankincense, gold, and myrrh, with coriander, cumin, ambergris, white wine grape, and vanilla bean.
Maybe?
MIDNIGHT MASS 2008
Maybe!
NUCLEAR WINTER 2008
Annihilation. The ice, desolation and barrenness of nuclear devastation shot through by a beam of radioactive mints.
Sure!
ON DARKNESS
An embrace: black poppy, lavender, thick black incense, black amber, rose geranium, Brazilian rosewood, and benzoin.
Possibly, lavender and rose are pluses.
PERCHTA
Her scent is a blend of wild musk, snow, and alpine flora: Nigritella lithopolitanica, aconite, crocus, touch-me-not, edelweiss, Iris variegate, and violet.
Maybe, decant first for sure.
ROSE RED 2008
The perfected winter rose, dew covered and freshly cut.
Me and roses=yes
SNOW BUNNY 2008
Not so spooky, right? Here's to finally being able to hit the slopes again! Soft white powder snow with a touch of youthful girlie perfume.
Er, no.
SNOW WHITE 2008
A chilly, bright perfume: flurries of virgin snow, crisp winter wind and the faintest breath of night-blooming flowers.
Maybe?
SUGAR COOKIE 2008
Affectionately nicknamed 'The Devil's Bake Sale'.
No, I have too many similar.
THERE’S A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT
Thin, tinny ozone with frankincense, white sandalwood, white amber, hyssop, bitter violet leaf, and shadowy wisps of smoke.
Maybe?
VISITING THE TEMPLE OF AUSPICIOUS FORTUNE ALONE ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE
Temple incense, rain, and dust.
Uh, no.
WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT 2008
Embrace your villainy: balsam, myrrh, mandarin orange, bitter clove, artemesia, rosewood, nutmeg, dark musk, smoke and cypress.
Sounds good...
++ LIMITED EDITION: THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
ALL THEY HAD SEEN, AND ALL THEY HAD LOST
Mist and dewy roses, aspen leaves, and translucent yellow blossoms.
I do love floral...
BADGER
Warm earth, deep-reaching roots, dark myrrh, galangal, and Atlas cedar.
Sounds masculine.
THE GAOLER’S DAUGHTER
Gardenia, neroli, and white peach with vanilla amber, cream, and honey.
Sounds good!
MOLE
Antiqued sandalwood, patchouli, and soft mosses.
Intriguing, but not sure..
NOWHERE IN PARTICULAR
The scent of a moonlit night on the road, orchards in the distance, and swirling dust.
I like this idea, but I don't know..
THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
Sublime peace, ecstatic joy, and thunderstruck awe: terebinth pine, patchouli, brown musk, linden blossom, honey, mallow, blood orange, heliotrope, and golden amber.
This sounds yum!
RAT
Orangewood, pine, wood moss, and vetiver.
I don't think so..
THE SEA RAT
Seaweed, ambergris, and sea buckthorn berry with exotic herbs, incense smoke, ship wood, and Burmese musk.
Ew.
TOAD
Dapper cologne, scorched waistcoat, a bit of pipe tobacco, and motor oil.
No, no, and no.
BELLE VINU
Red sandalwood, vanilla, rosewood, osmanthus, and white peach.
This sounds very me.
THE ROSE
The promise of a rose: red rose petals, fresh sap, and the sharp green scent of stem and leaf.
You had me at rose..
++ MARCHEN: EGLE, QUEEN OF SERPENTS
EGLE
Ocean water, hyacinth petals, star jasmine, and fir.
Ew.
THE SEA FOAMS MILK
Milk cresting on an ocean wave.
No.
THE SEA FOAMS BLOOD
Blood rising through an ocean wave.
No.
++ MARCHEN: PRUNELLA
PRUNELLA
Ripe purple plums, wildflowers, and cream.
Sure!
BENSIABEL
Plum juice, lilac, leather, and a smattering of herbs.
Eh, lilac.
++ MARCHEN: RAPUNZEL
RAPUNZEL
Angel’s trumpet, bois de rose, orris, and wild lettuce.
Not sure!
THE WITCH'S GARDEN
Morning glory vines twisting around a patch of rampion, carrot, and parsley, with monkshood, hemlock, elfwort, sage, wormwood, and mandrake.
Ugh, no.
THORNS
Thorn-spiked vines, blood, and tears.
It sounds interesting in concept.
++ MARCHEN: RUMPELSTILZCHEN
RUMPELSTILZCHEN
Firewood and ash with an oddly otherworldly blend of patchouli, cardamom, nutmeg, black pepper, tonka, vetiver, and myrrh.
Vetiver usually ruins it for me.
THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER
Spun gold, tear-soaked straw, and rose-infused amber.
Maybe...
++ MARCHEN: THE SPARROW WITH THE SLIT TONGUE
THE LITTLE SPARROW
Dusty seeds, sedge, brown amber, and sandalwood.
Meh.
SERPENTS WITH GLITTERING EYES AND FORKY TONGUES
Serpentine green herbs, glistening red currant, sparkling yellow lemon rind, green musk, lime, and snakeskin.
This sounds really nice..
++ LIMITED EDITION: YULE 2008
BUTTER RUM COOKIE
A boozy addition to the devil’s bake sale! Rum-soaked butter cookies, crusted with sugar, soaked in almond and garnished with orange rind.
Sounds too much like Huesos de Santos.
FRAU HOLLE
Snow-covered pines, witches herbs, bestial musk, flax, and ethereal flowers that represent both birth and death.
Yes! Only because she protects spinners.
GELT
A bounty of chocolate coins! Dry cocoa and golden amber!
Maybe. If it doesn't work I have a friend who is a an amber nut.
HANEROT HALALU
Olive oil, beeswax, and smoke.
Nope.
THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES
Dried blood, boiled wine, leather, galbanum, onycha, tonka bean, and pomegranate.
Maybe?
JACOB’S LADDER 2008
The meeting of Heaven and Earth: golden amber, galbanum, benzoin, ambrette, rockrose, costus and tonka.
No.
LARENTALIA
A Roman funeral garden: cypress, thyme, oleander, crocus, gladiola, amaranth, and myrtle shrouded by herbs and flowers sacred to the Silent One.
No!
LE PÈRE FOUETTARD
Whip leather, coal dust, gaufrette, and black licorice.
Maybe.
LICK IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT
Peppermint candy cane with an extra jolt of sugar.
Already have lick it again, so no..
LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS
Skin musk, white sandalwood, balsam fir, frozen black berries, cedar, winter rose, and white amber.
Maybe, rose and berry sounds good.
THE MAGI
An offering of frankincense, gold, and myrrh, with coriander, cumin, ambergris, white wine grape, and vanilla bean.
Maybe?
MIDNIGHT MASS 2008
Maybe!
NUCLEAR WINTER 2008
Annihilation. The ice, desolation and barrenness of nuclear devastation shot through by a beam of radioactive mints.
Sure!
ON DARKNESS
An embrace: black poppy, lavender, thick black incense, black amber, rose geranium, Brazilian rosewood, and benzoin.
Possibly, lavender and rose are pluses.
PERCHTA
Her scent is a blend of wild musk, snow, and alpine flora: Nigritella lithopolitanica, aconite, crocus, touch-me-not, edelweiss, Iris variegate, and violet.
Maybe, decant first for sure.
ROSE RED 2008
The perfected winter rose, dew covered and freshly cut.
Me and roses=yes
SNOW BUNNY 2008
Not so spooky, right? Here's to finally being able to hit the slopes again! Soft white powder snow with a touch of youthful girlie perfume.
Er, no.
SNOW WHITE 2008
A chilly, bright perfume: flurries of virgin snow, crisp winter wind and the faintest breath of night-blooming flowers.
Maybe?
SUGAR COOKIE 2008
Affectionately nicknamed 'The Devil's Bake Sale'.
No, I have too many similar.
THERE’S A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT
Thin, tinny ozone with frankincense, white sandalwood, white amber, hyssop, bitter violet leaf, and shadowy wisps of smoke.
Maybe?
VISITING THE TEMPLE OF AUSPICIOUS FORTUNE ALONE ON THE WINTER SOLSTICE
Temple incense, rain, and dust.
Uh, no.
WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT 2008
Embrace your villainy: balsam, myrrh, mandarin orange, bitter clove, artemesia, rosewood, nutmeg, dark musk, smoke and cypress.
Sounds good...
++ LIMITED EDITION: THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
ALL THEY HAD SEEN, AND ALL THEY HAD LOST
Mist and dewy roses, aspen leaves, and translucent yellow blossoms.
I do love floral...
BADGER
Warm earth, deep-reaching roots, dark myrrh, galangal, and Atlas cedar.
Sounds masculine.
THE GAOLER’S DAUGHTER
Gardenia, neroli, and white peach with vanilla amber, cream, and honey.
Sounds good!
MOLE
Antiqued sandalwood, patchouli, and soft mosses.
Intriguing, but not sure..
NOWHERE IN PARTICULAR
The scent of a moonlit night on the road, orchards in the distance, and swirling dust.
I like this idea, but I don't know..
THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
Sublime peace, ecstatic joy, and thunderstruck awe: terebinth pine, patchouli, brown musk, linden blossom, honey, mallow, blood orange, heliotrope, and golden amber.
This sounds yum!
RAT
Orangewood, pine, wood moss, and vetiver.
I don't think so..
THE SEA RAT
Seaweed, ambergris, and sea buckthorn berry with exotic herbs, incense smoke, ship wood, and Burmese musk.
Ew.
TOAD
Dapper cologne, scorched waistcoat, a bit of pipe tobacco, and motor oil.
No, no, and no.