My BPAL + other e-tailers sale/swap post!
Hello, all! I'm maintaining a central sales post on my ElJay for ease of editing and keeping things in one place. I have bottles and imps, LE and GC, all sorts of goodies to be found, and I include freebies with every shipment! Links for each scent lead to the review section at bpal.org, and I do my best to include a notes list with the non-BPAL items. My feedback post is over here (with a link to my bpal.org feedback), and my wish list is right here.
Necessary Stuff: Shipping is $3.25 within the US (includes DC). Please buy at least $8.00 worth of stuff pre-shipping. LET ME KNOW if you want insurance; I will not be responsible for uninsured packages. I accept CC and non-CC PayPal, but PLEASE do mark your payment for goods and services. I very much appreciate that people want to save me PayPal fees, but I generate my US postage through there and have anxiety about them putting payments and shipments together and saying WAITACOTTONPICKINMINIT. X-D Plus, paying G&S keeps you eligible for PayPal Buyer Protection. If you feel flush enough to throw a little extra in for fees, I will gladly accept, but of course there's no requirement.
If label condition is a concern for any items, please let me know in your request. If you want to buy or swap but don't have or want to make a livejournal account, please either PM me on bpal.org (I'm karihan) or email me at karihan (dot) chris (at) gmail (dot) com.
FOR MY INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: I will ship internationally, but please contact me for a quote. Since USPS has decided to raise its international rates so high, I've decided to offer two shipping options: One is for my usual sort of package, where I've added candies, teas, and other little extras. The other is for a package pared down to just the purchased items plus requested free sniffy. My free sniffies vary somewhat in weight; I'll let you know if the one you pick is heavier than the usual. I'll give you the total for each option and the difference between the two, so that you can decide whether you'd prefer the shipping savings or the extras.
NOTE ON BOTTLE FULLNESS: I measure the oil levels of my bottles in millimeters. For comparison, from bottom to where the shoulder starts on a standard BPAL bottle is 30mm and the neck starts at about 32mm. I include the to-neck measurement as well for any bottle that doesn't fit that measurement. For those who would rather not do math, I've also included an estimate of "how full" based on the mm measurement. If you'd like to see a photo of any of my items, let me know which ones and I'll be happy to provide. Of course I can also provide pictures of labels, if you want to see what state those are in.
Newly added items are in Bold.
Bottles -- LE (including Discontinueds, Trading Post and all Unimpables)
13, April 2012 version (32mm w/dip, full), $19.00
Agrat Bat Mahlaht (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder, w/pitch card), $21.50
Albedo v5 (34mm, full into neck), $20.00
An Appraisal of Sensual Pleasure in the Four Seasons (32mm, full to neck), $22.00
Aremata Popoa (32mm w/dip, full), $18.00
Avenger (24mm, 4/5ths full), $20.00
Before the Snowy Window (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Blooming Rose (31mm, full), $22.00
Butter Rum Cookie (33mm, full into neck), $20.00
Candied Pumpkin (32mm, full to neck), $21.00
Chanukkiyah '07 (32mm w/dip, full), $17.00
Couple Engaged in Lovemaking (31mm, full), $22.00
Dark Chocolate with Merlot-Infused Black Cherries and Star Anise (32mm, full to neck), $22.00
Diary of a Lovestruck Teenage Cannibal (27mm, full to top of label), $24.00
Evening Stock (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Geisha in Orange Kimono Admiring a Samurai (34mm, very full), $22.00
Ghost House (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Ghoulish (33mm, very full), $19.00
Gods of Intercourse (30mm, full to shoulder), $22.00
Golden Wave (34mm, very full, LE release), $18.00
Großvater Tanz (29mm, full to barely under shoulder), $18.00
Ho Ho Ho (32mm, full to neck), $20.00
Hot Buttered Rum (31mm, full), $20.00
In Brightness and in Joy (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
An Incubus Leaving Two Sleeping Women (31mm, full), $19.00
In Winter In My Room (31mm, full), $16.50
You-Know-What Galbanum SN (32mm, full to neck), $22.00
Kypris (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
Lilith vs. the Giant Crab (30mm, full to shoulder), $16.50
Litha '06 (27mm, 9/10 full), $14.00
Little Flora (32mm, full to neck), $22.00
Mahana (31mm, full), $17.00
Maison en Pain d'Épices (28mm, full to top of label), $18.00
Metal Tiger (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $17.00
Moon of Small Spirits (30mm, full to shoulder), $17.00
Mother Shub's Gingerbread Temples (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Mother Shub's Pfancy Pfefferneusse (32mm w/dip, full), $17.00
Mrs. Grose (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Nabby Gardner's Holiday Globules (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Nymphes de Pave (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $23.00
Pahoehoe (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $18.00
Passion Butterfly (32mm w/dip, full), $19.00
Peacocks (32mm w/dip, full), $27.00
Peony Moon '13 (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Poisson d'Avril '12 (32mm w/dip, full), $19.00
Pumpkin I '08 (28mm, full to top of label), $16.50
Pumpkin V '09 (32mm w/dip, full), $19.00
Rangoon Riptide (original LE release, 29mm, full almost to shoulder), $17.00
Rigorous Love (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Snowy Mountain and Kingfisher (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
The Spell of Amorous Love (32mm w/dip, full), $25.00
Suck It '09 (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $19.00
Sweet Lavinia's Risalamande (20mm, 2/3 full), $14.00
Tanuki no Yudachi (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $21.00
Tears of Lilith (22mm, about 2/3 full), $14.50
Te Po (32mm w/dip, full), $18.00
Treat #2 (32mm w/dip, full), $20.00
Vespertilio Proterus (32mm w/dip, full), $30.00
The Volstead Act (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
Water Dragon (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
Weeping Branches Moon (30mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $19.00
Wezwanie/Hold (33mm, full into neck), $27.00
White Chocolate, Lemongrass, Coriander and Almond Cream (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
Bottles -- GC
Aizen-Myoo (32mm, full to neck, older label), $16.00
Bastet (10ml bottle, 33mm w/neck at 43mm, about 4/5th full, well-aged), $30.00
Bordello (32mm w/dip, full), $16.00
Dragon's Milk (8 years old, cobalt bottle, 27mm, full to just below shoulder), $17.00
Eden (32mm w/dip, full, older label), $16.00
Good (30mm w/ dip, full to a hair below shoulder), $16.00
Hollywood Babylon (older-style label, 32mm, full to neck), $16.50
Redoul Honey (32mm, full to neck), $16.00
The Zieba Tree (32mm, full to neck), $16.00
All of the imps below, except for the ones marked otherwise, are at least 80% full (lab-full) as far as I can tell. In fact, many of the GCs are as I received them from the Lab, untouched and even unopened. The others were either opened only to sniff or tested cleanly with a tiny dab. Please let me know if you care about label condition, as some have been rolled and others are slightly marked. All are legible unless marked otherwise. Please buy at least $7.00 worth (pre-shipping) to make it worth the packaging. 8^)
Decants -- LE/Discontinued/Unimpables, priced as marked. (*) = decanted by me.
Belgian Chocolate with Honey, Cubeb Berries, Black Mission Fig and Avocado, $3.50
Batty, $3.25
Chaos Theory 3 - MCCLIV (1254) (no reviews, I get rum, fruit and light florals), $3.00
Garden Path with Chickens, $5.00
Heretic, $4.50
Narrow Opening (1/2 decant), $1.50
Noche Buena x2 (a '07 and a '10), $3.25 each
An Omen of Good Fortune (1/2 decant), $1.50
Öndurdis, $3.25
Ruddy Daggerwing, $3.25
Sanctus, $4.00
Sparkling Apple Cider, $4.50
Third Charm, $3.50
Imps -- GC, $2.00 or 7 for $10.00
Athens
Azathoth
Bathsheba
Chaotic
Death on a Pale Horse
Dragon's Eye
Egle
Gaueko
The Great Sword of War
Hairy Toad Lily
House of Night
Kabuki
Laudanum
Love in Idleness
Ogygia
Veritas
Wolfsbane
Wrath
Xiuhtecuhtli
Ya-Te-Vo
Yellow Jessamine Honey
Zombi
Non-BPAL, priced as listed, standard imp-sized vial unless marked otherwise.
Arcana:
Chai (5ml LE, 34mm, full into neck), $15.00
One of Arcana's Layering Notes. Smells like spicy-sweet tea indeed!
Namaka (decant), $1.50
"Coconut, vanilla bean, rice milk, golden amber, watermelon, banana leaf, aged patchouli, and lemongrass."
Sturm und Drang (decant), $1.50
"Big bold candy grapes face off with an ecstatic blend of apricot, caramel, sugary coffee, three rich ambers, and a pinch of dark patchouli."
Conjure Oils:
Achocolypse (5ml, 29mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $14.00
"This is too much love, chocolate style. Really. White chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate truffle, cocoa nibs, rich cocoa butter and a splash of vanilla bean liqueur. Don't say I didn''t warn you!"
Bête Noire Brew (5ml, 27mm, full to just below shoulder), $13.00
"Honey infused with blue ginger sweetens blood red tea. Lychee, frangipani, night queen, haunted woods, Egyptian musk and golden copal round out this rogue remedy."
Mamihlapinatapei (5ml LE, 29mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $18.00
"Yagan, Tierra del Fuego. A silent, aching look shared by a couple who long for one another that is shadowed by a mutual, bashful reluctance. Sweet pea, cardamom, fresh fig, Baltic amber, ginger and stargazer lily."
Mlle. C. de Villers (5ml, 29mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $17.50
"Pink grapefruit, red musk, French vanilla ice cream with a brandy soaked Moreno cherry on top."
Mlle. Eva Martin (5ml, 32mm, full to neck), $17.50
"Toasted coconut, caramelized vanilla bean, peach, and heady magnolia ignited with red musk."
Good Judy:
Calabaza en Tacha (5ml LE, 31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $15.00
"Sweet Pumpkin, cinnamon sticks, piloncillo, orange juice, spices."
Haus of Gloi:
Absinthe, $1.50
"Hauntingly herbal. Wormwood and anise swim in a creamy green sea of lemon balm, green lemon, soft glowing mints, a hefty lump of sugar and the tiniest drop of suggestive deep green moss."
Honey Tree (5ml, 32mm, full to neck), $14.50
"Right from the bee hive honey, amplified by seductive essence of resinous vanilla, darkened by a passing waft of woody smoke."
Imp, $1.50
"Peculiar passion fruit mingling with sun cured apricots, perfectly pink grapefruit juice and innocent whispers of wet mimosa blooms."
Parkin (LE), $1.50
"Glorious ginger cakes celebrating Guy Fawkes Day! Brown sugar, black treacle, oats, a peculiar blend of white spices tossed with chopped roasted chestnuts and coated with the lightest of icings."
Heaven and Earth Essentials:
Beloved's Return (5ml rollerball, 25mm w/neck at 31mm, abt 5/6 full), $12.00
"Vanilla FO, Pineapple FO, Pink Grapefruit EO, Blood Orange EO, Indi Sandal Sambac EO and Tonka Bean EO."
Blue Tango (5ml, 33mm w/neck at 33mm, full to neck), $14.00
"Blue Raspberry, Fresh Sugar Cane, Attar Rose Musk, and Woodland Themes."
Brandied Fruitcake (5ml LE, 30mm, full to shoulder), $14.00
"Dried cherries, pineapple, yellow cake soaked in Brandy."
Brandied Pears (5ml, 28mm w/neck at 31mm, full to shoulder), $14.00
"Exotic tree-ripened pears, bathing in expensive brandy, with dark cherries for company and a dusting of cinnamon to meld the flavors."
Ghoul's Dessert (5ml LE, 30mm w/neck at 31mm, full), $14.00
"Bitter Chocolate, Marshmallow, Toasted Maple, Graham Crackers, Cheesecake, Deep Fried Banana, and Caramel."
Something Different (5ml, 21mm, full to just below TOL), $14.00
"Apricot FO, Sweet Currant FO, Caramel FO, Warm Woods EO's, Buttercream FO and Black Patchouli EO."
Spirit (5ml, full to at least shoulder (tricky to measure w/reducer cap), 6 years old), $14.00
"Toasted Sugar FO, Indi Sandalwood EO, Cardamom EO, ButterCream FO and a shaving of Black Coconut FO."
Love Potion Perfumerie:
Christine's Tropical Musk (2ml sample at least 1/2 full), $1.50
"Shining sun-warmed skin evoked by three kinds of luscious coconut (including a decadent coconut cream accord) paired with white, green and Egyptian musk, given a fresh breezy aura with bamboo and a dash of pineapple."
Sugared Hazelnuts (LE), $1.50
As the name says!
Nocturne Alchemy/VApothecary:
Bastet's Chocolate-Covered Apricots (5ml LE, 25mm, 5/6th full), $13.00
"Vanilla Musk, Apricot, Chocolate, Cocoa, Passionfruit, Honey and a little bit of chocolate fudge."
Bastet's Moonstone Incense (5ml LE, 29mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $16.00
"For my first Incense perfume, I chose the Nokturne 'Moonstone' as the base note, because it is one of my favorite Vanilla Bean notes to blend with."
Bastet's Warm Buttered Choco-Rum (LE), $1.50
Couldn't find a notes list for this one. In the vial it smells as the name describes, with a hint of ... banana possibly?
Bast-um-RA (5ml DC, 31mm w/neck at 30mm, full), $14.00
"Warm Caramel, Sweet Milk, Brown Sugar, Sweet Cinnamon Bark, Wallflower and Pale Vanilla."
Coconut Kh'aramel Ma'athiato (5ml LE, 30mm, full to shoulder), $15.00
"Coconut Milk, Egyptian Espresso, Frothy Milk, a dapple of Vanilla creamer and a rich plop of
butterscotchy caramel goodness."
Egyptian Black Raspberry (5ml, 33mm, full into neck), $14.00
"Egyptian Black Raspberry with the subtlety of vanilla and fig."
Hapi's Pumpkin Chai Creme Brulee (5ml LE, 4yo, 25mm w/neck at 30mm, full to just below shoulder), $14.00
"Pumpkin, Vanilla, Clove, Allspice, Nutmeg and Gold Sugar."
Hathor's Cherry Pomegranate Tea (5ml LE, 31mm, full), $15.00
"Cassis, Pomegranate, White Tea, Cherry, Iris and Hathor's Summer-time Blessing."
Hathor's Creamy Vanilla Almond & Chestnut Tea (5ml LE, 23mm w/neck at 30mm, about 4/5 full), $11.50
"Ginger, Creamy imported Vanilla Pod essence, Roasted Chestnut, Sweet Almond, a touch of White Cinnamon, Black Tea and Egyptian Amber Musk."
Hathor's Crystal Ginger & Spiced Cranberry Tea (5ml LE, 29m, full to shoulder), $14.00
"Australian Crystallized Ginger, grated nutmeg, Oolong with dried ginger and freshly candied cranberries blended with allspice seasoning."
Memphis, $1.50
"Sandalwood, Spicy Berries, Egyptian Musk, Citrus and Heliotrope."
Mummy Daddy Espresso 2010 (5ml LE, 25mm, full to top of label), $15.00
"A shot of Egyptian Espresso (pure Coffee bean E/O), Cocao E/O, Cocoa Bean E/O, Hazelnut Cream, White Chestnut E/O, Chai Spices, Vanilla Coffee and the reason why it is called what it is called - the extra large shot of Egyptian Black Amber Espresso."
NA Spa: Egyptian Bergamot & Nile Grapefruit (5ml LE, 28mm, full to just below shoulder), $15.00
"Egyptian Bergamot, Nile Grapefruit Essential oil, Persian Myrrh Resin and Egyptian Tea Resin."
Nokturne: Crystal Bloodstone (5ml LE, 28mm, full to just below shoulder), $16.00
"A romantic Bloodstone perfume version of sensual vanilla with musk undertones and overtones of spice and Dragon's Blood."
Pakhet Amber, $1.50
"Royal Amber Resin, Blue Peppercorn, White Clove Bud, Virgin Nutmeg Shaving over the warmth of Ambers from Nepal and Egypt and sifted through Sapphire (Amber Musk)"
Queen Dreams (5ml LE, 31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $15.00
"Elderberry, Papaya, Nokturne:Sapphire, White Strawberry, Toasted Coconut, Coconut Cream, Soft Egyptian Market Spices and Mango Flesh drizzled in NA's deep and rich Egyptian Black Honey."
Ra's Hazelnut Cocoa (5ml LE, 29mm w/neck at 30mm, full), $15.00
"Three Cocoa Creams, Cacao, Arabian Sandalwood, Hazelnut, Coconut Milk."
Possets:
Bauble (5ml LE, 33mm w/neck at 31mm, full into neck), $9.50
"Yum, yum sugar plum and cream and a drop of calendula."
Charlotte the Halloween Sweet (5ml LE, 32mm w/neck at 31mm, full), $9.50
"Foody smooth beautiful, Charlotte is a gourmand's dream. Concentrated vanilla is swirled round with the most smooth of amber and caramel, topped off by a sprinkling of Saigon cinnamon (the finest kind) and a deep crust of sugar."
Haute Love, $1.50
"Ginger, you say you want ginger? Like love it's hot and burns so beautifully! Imagine chocolate covered ginger which is forced to marry a gooey sticky sweet and all consuming center. It is so clean...it is so very sinful! Characteristics: Foody, spicy, chocolate, vanilla, scent locket, unisex, home scent, long lasting."
Hot Cross Buns (5ml, 25mm w/neck at 31mm, full to top of label), $8.50
"Yeasty bread with a glossy top and a thick "X" of sugary icing, a generous helping of currents and European citron and that is a classic Hot Cross Bun."
Lily, The Halloween Vixen, (5ml LE, 31mm w/neck at 31mm, full to neck), $9.50
"Beautiful lychee-quat and nut butters just take the best of exotic fruits and line them with the most appealingly unctuous roasted nuts. This is a treat fragrance which combines all of the best parts of either end of the sharp to smooth spectrum. There is nothing about Lily which is astringent but she is not entirely tame. Fruity, foody, gourmand."
Limoncello: La Dolce Vida (5ml, 31mm w/neck at 31mm, full to neck), $9.50
"Neapolitan Lemons spike the Limoncello here, with the most creamy of panecotta (a triple cream custard with a subtle vanilla and not too sweet). All this is accompanied by a homemade almond biscotti."
Nigel (5ml LE, 31mm w/neck at 31mm, full to neck), $9.50
"Fresh and yet sweet, Nigel has a hint of fir around his fur but a heart which is pure candy and nuts. Nigel would love to curl up on an expensive wreath and have a snooze next to a big box of caramels. A beautiful scent with the pairing of unexpected pine and candy, maybe he is a citizen of the great indoors and the holidays are his best time!"
Passion (5ml, 33mm, full into neck), $9.50
"A supersaturated chocolate solution of chocolated chocolate with a smooth chocolate interior and a chocolate shell covered in chocolate sauce and floating in a puddle of chocolate. All manner of chocolate in one place and that place is heaven."
Penelope (5ml, 30mm, full to shoulder), $9.50
"Penelope combines a red currant and pomegranate base with playful foody and sweet topnotes. Very sexy and pretty, feminine and grown up but retaining just enough of the kitten to keep the tone light."
The Ruined Reputation (5ml LE, 33mm, full into neck), $9.50
"A work of intense sophistication, very dry and very chic. The Ruined Reputation starts out as a strong part of spice and carnation and then slides into a wonderful almost foggy crystal musk. It is ravishing and a bit dangerous, too!"
Silver Violets, $1.50
"Imagine the first violets of spring poking their heads up above a thin covering of snow and sparkling with a silvery light. Silver Violets is sweet but refreshing and welcome at any time of the year."
Sugar Puss (5ml LE, Moxie exclusive version, 30mm, full to shoulder), $10.00
"A quintessentially English cream tea as only Possets could imagine it, with thick red fruits and hand churned cream."
Sweet New England - Vermont (5ml, 35mm w/neck at 31mm, full well into neck), $10.00
"The Possets version of Vermont is sweet and very smooth but not cloying. Slightly herbal, shot of lime, with a thick overlay of part of the smell of maple syrup."
Titanium White, $1.50
"Titanium White is white tropical flowers on a white sheet with white sunlight streaming into the interior. White snow playing outside your windowpane as you sit on a white silk tufted pillow drinking fragrant Chinese white tea out of tissue-thin white porcelin cups. The many facets of white. Characteristics: crisp, cooling, summer scent, dry, perfumy."
Victory, $1.50
"This is a simple and straightforward fragrance which concentrates on fighting fatigue while keeping you alert and motivated to get to the next level. Thyme and sage, lemongrass and light camphor, a bit of rosemary, and the lightest hint of white sharp amber to keep it all knit together without being dulling."
Western Hills, $1.50
"Western Hills is a sweet but daring rendition of that part of Cincinnati. Like the real thing, it's sporty, foody, rich and robust but with a heartbreaking familiarity like what you feel when you go home again. Characteristics: foody, sporty, cutting edge, unisex."
Starring Fragrances:
Villainess (10ml, about 1/2 full), $11.00
"She schemes and plots in her den of black vanilla beans, Tonka vanilla and whispered rumors of resinous sultry sugar!"
Super Bad:
Devil's Snack Cakes (10ml opaque roller bottle, used twice cleanly since purchase), $9.50
"Honey cakes, caramel and toasted almonds."
Girls' Guide to Compromise (10ml opaque roller bottle, used twice cleanly since purchase), $9.50
"Snappy and slightly bitter, gingered grapefruit yields to summer's sweet honey."
NOTE: I also have a roughly 1/6th full spray bottle of EDP in this scent (14mm with the shoulder at 72mm), $1.00 or free w/purchase of GGtC perfume oil.
Miss Behaving (10ml roller bottle, 46mm w/neck at 54mm), $9.50
"Wildflower honey infused with vanilla beans."
ZOMG Smells:
Chocolate Orange Cordial, $1.50
"A dead ringer for that first whiff of orange-tinged dark chocolate when you unwrap the foil. Rich chocolate, not overly sugared, mingles with bright, honey-sweet citrus in this dessert cordial for your nose."
Cider Drink, (5ml LE, 33mm, full into neck), $14.50
"Crushed and fermented honeycrisp apples, nutmeg, bright ginger, some truly amazingly nice cinnamon leaf-- and because this is a scent and not a beverage, a little bit of frankincense to sweeten up the sharper spices and help it all stick around longer."
Dr. Zomg's Renovative Cherry Bitters, $1.50
"Dr. Zomg's favorite ... she makes hers with sweet cherry fruit, bitter cherry pits, grapefruit rind, galangal root, geranium leaf, grains of paradise, and brandy."
Lovely Lady Lovelace, (5ml LE, 33mm, full into neck), $14.50
"Heliotrope, white musk, and dainty touches of honey, lavender and vanilla: a throughly delicate and refined fragrance."
Marmalade Tabby (5ml, 28mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $14.00
"By 'the distilled essence of helpless doofy affection' we actually mean sweet orange and peach, fuzzy musk, sweetroll accord, and a dab of caramel sauce right on the nose AWWW NOSE, WHO'S GOT A LITTLE KITTYNOSE ON A LITTLE KITTYFACE? YOU DO!"
Meddyglyn (5ml LE, 32mm, full to neck), $14.50
"Honey, cinnamon, golden ginger, and basil."
Melomel (5ml LE, 32mm, full to neck), $14.50
"Melomel is the mellifluous term for a mead brewed with fruit.... This melomel's honey was brewed with apricots into a rich tart succulence."
Spacebat (5ml, 19mm w/neck at 31mm, about 2/3 full), $9.50
"Cave stone and memorial myrrh lifted by nutmeg and delicate leather wings."
Yellowcake Uranium (5ml LE, 40mm, extremely full), $15.00
"It's a supple lemon-curdy lemon cake, with a bit of black tea and some Slavic spice to make it feel at home: pitchblende was first identified in what's now the Czech Republic."
Sniffies -- one free per purchase, first ask first served. BPAL/BPTP: Aelopile, Aeval, Alcie, Cthulhu, Darkness, Dove's Heart, Dragon's Eye, Envy, Fallen Angels in Hell, The Grave-Pig, Kathmandu, Kill-Devil, Nadie Se Conoce, Paramatman, Phantom, PX117, Queen, Saturnian Phoenix, Solar Phoenix, Suspiro, Thanatos, Thieves' Rosin, 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster, Vice, A Wonderful Light, Yew Trees. Arcana: Grasshopper, Three Bears. Conjure Oils: All Around the Mulberry Bush (bottle w/testable amount), Blood Type A, Rose Hip Jam Paczki. HaEE: Breakfast in Bed. Love Potion Perfumerie: Love Potion Perfume. Nocturne Alchemy/VApothecary: Amber Sun: Diurnal, Eternal Alexandria, Miss Witch, Pharaoh Ducksses, Pomegranate Kobalt Crimson. Possets: Fluoxetine, Friction, Infinite Sky Montana, Mania, Perpetual Motion Machine, Puce. Super Bad: Calendar Girl, Summer Blondes. ZOMG Smells: Spacebat. Most of my sniffies are actually testers or partial imps, so feel free to ask about oil levels, or if you have questions about any of the scents.
NON-PERFUME ITEMS:As with my perfume oils, I am willing to consider swap and swap/sale offers for all these items, as well as other price suggestions. Shipping may vary according to the weight of the item, but I have a postage scale for accurate quotes. PM me or email karihan (dot) chris (at) gmail (dot) com if you have any questions or would like additional pictures. ^_^
SCENT BOTTLE PENDANT, $50.00 obo: I bought a unakite and sterling silver scent bottle pendant from Offerings Jewelry some months ago, but I've never worn it. It is 3 inches (7.5cm) from the top of the bail to the bottom tip of the bottle. The other stones are a moonstone and a mother-of-pearl flower with a peridot center. Offering's stamp "sajen" and a sterling silver stamp show on the back band. The sterling cap is a little loose, but the unakite cap fits snugly. Click on the pics to see full-size versions:
I paid $50 originally. For that price, I will include a necklace to wear it on, either a sterling snake chain or a beaded strand of my own creation to match, design details to be worked out with the purchaser, plus a set of matching earrings! I can also include the pendant, with or without necklace, in a swap or swap/sale. If you'd like to see a few other strands of beads I've strung, you can check them out here and here.
Juliet of the Spirits and Opulentia bottles - swapped to murmur
Sarabba Sulawesi, A Strychnine Kiss, Hathor's Pomegranate Wine and Krakatoa bottles - swapped to bellemadame
Feast for the Greatly Revered Ones and Two-Barred Flasher bottles - sold to greyhat
Greed, Intrigue, Lolita, Dorian, Black Phoenix, Libertine, Kitsune-Tsuki, Dracul, Wicked, Uruk, Grand Guignol, Ogun, Djinn and Voodoo Lily - sold to rockstarsex
Burlesque bottle - swapped to mellifluant
Mabon '08 bottle - sold to flameelf
Cornucopia and Michelle bottles, and Pink Pepys - sold to jackie_o8
Dessicated Frostberry Pie Filling, Pumpkin Masala Rooibos and Red Tide bottles and Bon Vivant - sold to cherryice
Haloes bottle - sold to ttlarue
Black Heart bottle - sold to honey_chain
Blood Countess bottle - sold to knitsnspins
Ecstasy of Passion, L'Eau de la Passion, L'Essence de la Passion, Mitzvah, Tissue, Litchi Milk Tea and The Girls Love a Good Posset - sold to waterdaughter
Beaver Moon '07 bottle - sold to soapysophielove
The Vine bottle - sold to splatterhouse
Body, Remember; Whoop and Young Pine Saplings bottles - sold to divrgrl8
Pink Phoenix bottle and Morrigan - sold to wicketbird
Lampades and Prunella bottles - sold to divrgrl8
Forever is Mercy Built bottle - sold to retropersephone
Araw Ng Mga Patay, Blackbear Moon, Flower Moon '05, Kajuraho and Mlle. Whiard bottles and Fairy Bites - swap/sold to greyhat
Red Velvet Truffle, Absinthe, Debauchery, Dorian, The Red Rider and Wilde - swapped to sresla
Gloomy Sunday bottle, Sacred Whore of Babylon, Velvet, Haydee, Queen of Broken Hearts, and Shakti - sold to Mooberry
Goliath Birdwing and Katharina bottles, Robin Goodfellow, Burlesque and Shakti - sold to kaberett
Nevada-HEAT and Sunshine in a Bottle-California bottles - sold to softlywhispered
Mlle Lilith Fortune Teller and Strawberry Hearts bottles, plus Golden Dragon Tarot - sold to reynardine
Marae bottle - sold to ellocentipede
Changing the Shadows, Coral Snake, E Pluribus Unum, Philommides, and Pomegranate III bottles - sold to ext_2024139 (G+)
Pumpkin Queen bottle - sold to bludiscus
Half Elf v5, Alms, and Pumpkin Cake Pops bottles, Evil - swapped to agameofthree
Cherokee Rose, Countess Willie, Cranberry Cookie Bark bath oil, Lady Una and Miss Jenny bottles - swapped to mcfly85
Vasakasajja bottle, Te Ubesc, Inspiration, and Blood - sold to twistedfiligree
White Chocolate Mango Buttercream bottle - sold to feather_armor
Skadi bottle - sold to kisstheviolets
Enlightenment of the Courtesan Jigokudayu bottle, Bakunawa, and The Lotus Tree - sold to ellocentipede
Blueberry & Gardenia Paczki and Plum Jam Paczki bottles - sold to pinkstardust420
Previous sales posts: 12/01/12-02/13/13, 08/13/12-11/30/12, 03/14/12-08/12/12, 08/30/11-03/14/12, 06/02/11-08/29/11, 12/16/10-06/01/11, 08/11/10-12/15/10, 04/11/10-08/10/10, 01/15/10-04/10/10, 09/30/09-01/14/10, 07/17/09-09/29/09, 03/29/09-07/16/09, 11/02/08-03/28/09, 05/04/08-11/01/08, 03/03/08-05/03/08, 12/29/07-03/02/08, 11/06/07-12/28/07, 09/18/07-11/05/07, 5/23/07-09/17/07, 01/07 - 05/22/07, 11/06 through 01/07. Earlier posts were on sinandsalvation and alchemylab.
I pride myself on good communication and good results, so please contact me if you have any questions. And I do enjoy giving little extra goodies, tea, soaplets, candies and the like. ^_^ If there's anything in that line you would rather not get, just let me know.
Necessary Stuff: Shipping is $3.25 within the US (includes DC). Please buy at least $8.00 worth of stuff pre-shipping. LET ME KNOW if you want insurance; I will not be responsible for uninsured packages. I accept CC and non-CC PayPal, but PLEASE do mark your payment for goods and services. I very much appreciate that people want to save me PayPal fees, but I generate my US postage through there and have anxiety about them putting payments and shipments together and saying WAITACOTTONPICKINMINIT. X-D Plus, paying G&S keeps you eligible for PayPal Buyer Protection. If you feel flush enough to throw a little extra in for fees, I will gladly accept, but of course there's no requirement.
If label condition is a concern for any items, please let me know in your request. If you want to buy or swap but don't have or want to make a livejournal account, please either PM me on bpal.org (I'm karihan) or email me at karihan (dot) chris (at) gmail (dot) com.
FOR MY INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: I will ship internationally, but please contact me for a quote. Since USPS has decided to raise its international rates so high, I've decided to offer two shipping options: One is for my usual sort of package, where I've added candies, teas, and other little extras. The other is for a package pared down to just the purchased items plus requested free sniffy. My free sniffies vary somewhat in weight; I'll let you know if the one you pick is heavier than the usual. I'll give you the total for each option and the difference between the two, so that you can decide whether you'd prefer the shipping savings or the extras.
NOTE ON BOTTLE FULLNESS: I measure the oil levels of my bottles in millimeters. For comparison, from bottom to where the shoulder starts on a standard BPAL bottle is 30mm and the neck starts at about 32mm. I include the to-neck measurement as well for any bottle that doesn't fit that measurement. For those who would rather not do math, I've also included an estimate of "how full" based on the mm measurement. If you'd like to see a photo of any of my items, let me know which ones and I'll be happy to provide. Of course I can also provide pictures of labels, if you want to see what state those are in.
Newly added items are in Bold.
Bottles -- LE (including Discontinueds, Trading Post and all Unimpables)
13, April 2012 version (32mm w/dip, full), $19.00
Agrat Bat Mahlaht (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder, w/pitch card), $21.50
Albedo v5 (34mm, full into neck), $20.00
An Appraisal of Sensual Pleasure in the Four Seasons (32mm, full to neck), $22.00
Aremata Popoa (32mm w/dip, full), $18.00
Avenger (24mm, 4/5ths full), $20.00
Before the Snowy Window (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Blooming Rose (31mm, full), $22.00
Butter Rum Cookie (33mm, full into neck), $20.00
Candied Pumpkin (32mm, full to neck), $21.00
Chanukkiyah '07 (32mm w/dip, full), $17.00
Couple Engaged in Lovemaking (31mm, full), $22.00
Dark Chocolate with Merlot-Infused Black Cherries and Star Anise (32mm, full to neck), $22.00
Diary of a Lovestruck Teenage Cannibal (27mm, full to top of label), $24.00
Evening Stock (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Geisha in Orange Kimono Admiring a Samurai (34mm, very full), $22.00
Ghost House (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Ghoulish (33mm, very full), $19.00
Gods of Intercourse (30mm, full to shoulder), $22.00
Golden Wave (34mm, very full, LE release), $18.00
Großvater Tanz (29mm, full to barely under shoulder), $18.00
Ho Ho Ho (32mm, full to neck), $20.00
Hot Buttered Rum (31mm, full), $20.00
In Brightness and in Joy (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
An Incubus Leaving Two Sleeping Women (31mm, full), $19.00
In Winter In My Room (31mm, full), $16.50
You-Know-What Galbanum SN (32mm, full to neck), $22.00
Kypris (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
Lilith vs. the Giant Crab (30mm, full to shoulder), $16.50
Litha '06 (27mm, 9/10 full), $14.00
Little Flora (32mm, full to neck), $22.00
Mahana (31mm, full), $17.00
Maison en Pain d'Épices (28mm, full to top of label), $18.00
Metal Tiger (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $17.00
Moon of Small Spirits (30mm, full to shoulder), $17.00
Mother Shub's Gingerbread Temples (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Mother Shub's Pfancy Pfefferneusse (32mm w/dip, full), $17.00
Mrs. Grose (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Nabby Gardner's Holiday Globules (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Nymphes de Pave (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $23.00
Pahoehoe (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $18.00
Passion Butterfly (32mm w/dip, full), $19.00
Peacocks (32mm w/dip, full), $27.00
Peony Moon '13 (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Poisson d'Avril '12 (32mm w/dip, full), $19.00
Pumpkin I '08 (28mm, full to top of label), $16.50
Pumpkin V '09 (32mm w/dip, full), $19.00
Rangoon Riptide (original LE release, 29mm, full almost to shoulder), $17.00
Rigorous Love (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
Snowy Mountain and Kingfisher (32mm w/dip, full), $22.00
The Spell of Amorous Love (32mm w/dip, full), $25.00
Suck It '09 (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $19.00
Sweet Lavinia's Risalamande (20mm, 2/3 full), $14.00
Tanuki no Yudachi (31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $21.00
Tears of Lilith (22mm, about 2/3 full), $14.50
Te Po (32mm w/dip, full), $18.00
Treat #2 (32mm w/dip, full), $20.00
Vespertilio Proterus (32mm w/dip, full), $30.00
The Volstead Act (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
Water Dragon (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
Weeping Branches Moon (30mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $19.00
Wezwanie/Hold (33mm, full into neck), $27.00
White Chocolate, Lemongrass, Coriander and Almond Cream (32mm, full to neck), $19.00
Bottles -- GC
Aizen-Myoo (32mm, full to neck, older label), $16.00
Bastet (10ml bottle, 33mm w/neck at 43mm, about 4/5th full, well-aged), $30.00
Bordello (32mm w/dip, full), $16.00
Dragon's Milk (8 years old, cobalt bottle, 27mm, full to just below shoulder), $17.00
Eden (32mm w/dip, full, older label), $16.00
Good (30mm w/ dip, full to a hair below shoulder), $16.00
Hollywood Babylon (older-style label, 32mm, full to neck), $16.50
Redoul Honey (32mm, full to neck), $16.00
The Zieba Tree (32mm, full to neck), $16.00
All of the imps below, except for the ones marked otherwise, are at least 80% full (lab-full) as far as I can tell. In fact, many of the GCs are as I received them from the Lab, untouched and even unopened. The others were either opened only to sniff or tested cleanly with a tiny dab. Please let me know if you care about label condition, as some have been rolled and others are slightly marked. All are legible unless marked otherwise. Please buy at least $7.00 worth (pre-shipping) to make it worth the packaging. 8^)
Decants -- LE/Discontinued/Unimpables, priced as marked. (*) = decanted by me.
Belgian Chocolate with Honey, Cubeb Berries, Black Mission Fig and Avocado, $3.50
Batty, $3.25
Chaos Theory 3 - MCCLIV (1254) (no reviews, I get rum, fruit and light florals), $3.00
Garden Path with Chickens, $5.00
Heretic, $4.50
Narrow Opening (1/2 decant), $1.50
Noche Buena x2 (a '07 and a '10), $3.25 each
An Omen of Good Fortune (1/2 decant), $1.50
Öndurdis, $3.25
Ruddy Daggerwing, $3.25
Sanctus, $4.00
Sparkling Apple Cider, $4.50
Third Charm, $3.50
Imps -- GC, $2.00 or 7 for $10.00
Athens
Azathoth
Bathsheba
Chaotic
Death on a Pale Horse
Dragon's Eye
Egle
Gaueko
The Great Sword of War
Hairy Toad Lily
House of Night
Kabuki
Laudanum
Love in Idleness
Ogygia
Veritas
Wolfsbane
Wrath
Xiuhtecuhtli
Ya-Te-Vo
Yellow Jessamine Honey
Zombi
Non-BPAL, priced as listed, standard imp-sized vial unless marked otherwise.
Arcana:
Chai (5ml LE, 34mm, full into neck), $15.00
One of Arcana's Layering Notes. Smells like spicy-sweet tea indeed!
Namaka (decant), $1.50
"Coconut, vanilla bean, rice milk, golden amber, watermelon, banana leaf, aged patchouli, and lemongrass."
Sturm und Drang (decant), $1.50
"Big bold candy grapes face off with an ecstatic blend of apricot, caramel, sugary coffee, three rich ambers, and a pinch of dark patchouli."
Conjure Oils:
Achocolypse (5ml, 29mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $14.00
"This is too much love, chocolate style. Really. White chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate truffle, cocoa nibs, rich cocoa butter and a splash of vanilla bean liqueur. Don't say I didn''t warn you!"
Bête Noire Brew (5ml, 27mm, full to just below shoulder), $13.00
"Honey infused with blue ginger sweetens blood red tea. Lychee, frangipani, night queen, haunted woods, Egyptian musk and golden copal round out this rogue remedy."
Mamihlapinatapei (5ml LE, 29mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $18.00
"Yagan, Tierra del Fuego. A silent, aching look shared by a couple who long for one another that is shadowed by a mutual, bashful reluctance. Sweet pea, cardamom, fresh fig, Baltic amber, ginger and stargazer lily."
Mlle. C. de Villers (5ml, 29mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $17.50
"Pink grapefruit, red musk, French vanilla ice cream with a brandy soaked Moreno cherry on top."
Mlle. Eva Martin (5ml, 32mm, full to neck), $17.50
"Toasted coconut, caramelized vanilla bean, peach, and heady magnolia ignited with red musk."
Good Judy:
Calabaza en Tacha (5ml LE, 31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $15.00
"Sweet Pumpkin, cinnamon sticks, piloncillo, orange juice, spices."
Haus of Gloi:
Absinthe, $1.50
"Hauntingly herbal. Wormwood and anise swim in a creamy green sea of lemon balm, green lemon, soft glowing mints, a hefty lump of sugar and the tiniest drop of suggestive deep green moss."
Honey Tree (5ml, 32mm, full to neck), $14.50
"Right from the bee hive honey, amplified by seductive essence of resinous vanilla, darkened by a passing waft of woody smoke."
Imp, $1.50
"Peculiar passion fruit mingling with sun cured apricots, perfectly pink grapefruit juice and innocent whispers of wet mimosa blooms."
Parkin (LE), $1.50
"Glorious ginger cakes celebrating Guy Fawkes Day! Brown sugar, black treacle, oats, a peculiar blend of white spices tossed with chopped roasted chestnuts and coated with the lightest of icings."
Heaven and Earth Essentials:
Beloved's Return (5ml rollerball, 25mm w/neck at 31mm, abt 5/6 full), $12.00
"Vanilla FO, Pineapple FO, Pink Grapefruit EO, Blood Orange EO, Indi Sandal Sambac EO and Tonka Bean EO."
Blue Tango (5ml, 33mm w/neck at 33mm, full to neck), $14.00
"Blue Raspberry, Fresh Sugar Cane, Attar Rose Musk, and Woodland Themes."
Brandied Fruitcake (5ml LE, 30mm, full to shoulder), $14.00
"Dried cherries, pineapple, yellow cake soaked in Brandy."
Brandied Pears (5ml, 28mm w/neck at 31mm, full to shoulder), $14.00
"Exotic tree-ripened pears, bathing in expensive brandy, with dark cherries for company and a dusting of cinnamon to meld the flavors."
Ghoul's Dessert (5ml LE, 30mm w/neck at 31mm, full), $14.00
"Bitter Chocolate, Marshmallow, Toasted Maple, Graham Crackers, Cheesecake, Deep Fried Banana, and Caramel."
Something Different (5ml, 21mm, full to just below TOL), $14.00
"Apricot FO, Sweet Currant FO, Caramel FO, Warm Woods EO's, Buttercream FO and Black Patchouli EO."
Spirit (5ml, full to at least shoulder (tricky to measure w/reducer cap), 6 years old), $14.00
"Toasted Sugar FO, Indi Sandalwood EO, Cardamom EO, ButterCream FO and a shaving of Black Coconut FO."
Love Potion Perfumerie:
Christine's Tropical Musk (2ml sample at least 1/2 full), $1.50
"Shining sun-warmed skin evoked by three kinds of luscious coconut (including a decadent coconut cream accord) paired with white, green and Egyptian musk, given a fresh breezy aura with bamboo and a dash of pineapple."
Sugared Hazelnuts (LE), $1.50
As the name says!
Nocturne Alchemy/VApothecary:
Bastet's Chocolate-Covered Apricots (5ml LE, 25mm, 5/6th full), $13.00
"Vanilla Musk, Apricot, Chocolate, Cocoa, Passionfruit, Honey and a little bit of chocolate fudge."
Bastet's Moonstone Incense (5ml LE, 29mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $16.00
"For my first Incense perfume, I chose the Nokturne 'Moonstone' as the base note, because it is one of my favorite Vanilla Bean notes to blend with."
Bastet's Warm Buttered Choco-Rum (LE), $1.50
Couldn't find a notes list for this one. In the vial it smells as the name describes, with a hint of ... banana possibly?
Bast-um-RA (5ml DC, 31mm w/neck at 30mm, full), $14.00
"Warm Caramel, Sweet Milk, Brown Sugar, Sweet Cinnamon Bark, Wallflower and Pale Vanilla."
Coconut Kh'aramel Ma'athiato (5ml LE, 30mm, full to shoulder), $15.00
"Coconut Milk, Egyptian Espresso, Frothy Milk, a dapple of Vanilla creamer and a rich plop of
butterscotchy caramel goodness."
Egyptian Black Raspberry (5ml, 33mm, full into neck), $14.00
"Egyptian Black Raspberry with the subtlety of vanilla and fig."
Hapi's Pumpkin Chai Creme Brulee (5ml LE, 4yo, 25mm w/neck at 30mm, full to just below shoulder), $14.00
"Pumpkin, Vanilla, Clove, Allspice, Nutmeg and Gold Sugar."
Hathor's Cherry Pomegranate Tea (5ml LE, 31mm, full), $15.00
"Cassis, Pomegranate, White Tea, Cherry, Iris and Hathor's Summer-time Blessing."
Hathor's Creamy Vanilla Almond & Chestnut Tea (5ml LE, 23mm w/neck at 30mm, about 4/5 full), $11.50
"Ginger, Creamy imported Vanilla Pod essence, Roasted Chestnut, Sweet Almond, a touch of White Cinnamon, Black Tea and Egyptian Amber Musk."
Hathor's Crystal Ginger & Spiced Cranberry Tea (5ml LE, 29m, full to shoulder), $14.00
"Australian Crystallized Ginger, grated nutmeg, Oolong with dried ginger and freshly candied cranberries blended with allspice seasoning."
Memphis, $1.50
"Sandalwood, Spicy Berries, Egyptian Musk, Citrus and Heliotrope."
Mummy Daddy Espresso 2010 (5ml LE, 25mm, full to top of label), $15.00
"A shot of Egyptian Espresso (pure Coffee bean E/O), Cocao E/O, Cocoa Bean E/O, Hazelnut Cream, White Chestnut E/O, Chai Spices, Vanilla Coffee and the reason why it is called what it is called - the extra large shot of Egyptian Black Amber Espresso."
NA Spa: Egyptian Bergamot & Nile Grapefruit (5ml LE, 28mm, full to just below shoulder), $15.00
"Egyptian Bergamot, Nile Grapefruit Essential oil, Persian Myrrh Resin and Egyptian Tea Resin."
Nokturne: Crystal Bloodstone (5ml LE, 28mm, full to just below shoulder), $16.00
"A romantic Bloodstone perfume version of sensual vanilla with musk undertones and overtones of spice and Dragon's Blood."
Pakhet Amber, $1.50
"Royal Amber Resin, Blue Peppercorn, White Clove Bud, Virgin Nutmeg Shaving over the warmth of Ambers from Nepal and Egypt and sifted through Sapphire (Amber Musk)"
Queen Dreams (5ml LE, 31mm w/dip, full to shoulder), $15.00
"Elderberry, Papaya, Nokturne:Sapphire, White Strawberry, Toasted Coconut, Coconut Cream, Soft Egyptian Market Spices and Mango Flesh drizzled in NA's deep and rich Egyptian Black Honey."
Ra's Hazelnut Cocoa (5ml LE, 29mm w/neck at 30mm, full), $15.00
"Three Cocoa Creams, Cacao, Arabian Sandalwood, Hazelnut, Coconut Milk."
Possets:
Bauble (5ml LE, 33mm w/neck at 31mm, full into neck), $9.50
"Yum, yum sugar plum and cream and a drop of calendula."
Charlotte the Halloween Sweet (5ml LE, 32mm w/neck at 31mm, full), $9.50
"Foody smooth beautiful, Charlotte is a gourmand's dream. Concentrated vanilla is swirled round with the most smooth of amber and caramel, topped off by a sprinkling of Saigon cinnamon (the finest kind) and a deep crust of sugar."
Haute Love, $1.50
"Ginger, you say you want ginger? Like love it's hot and burns so beautifully! Imagine chocolate covered ginger which is forced to marry a gooey sticky sweet and all consuming center. It is so clean...it is so very sinful! Characteristics: Foody, spicy, chocolate, vanilla, scent locket, unisex, home scent, long lasting."
Hot Cross Buns (5ml, 25mm w/neck at 31mm, full to top of label), $8.50
"Yeasty bread with a glossy top and a thick "X" of sugary icing, a generous helping of currents and European citron and that is a classic Hot Cross Bun."
Lily, The Halloween Vixen, (5ml LE, 31mm w/neck at 31mm, full to neck), $9.50
"Beautiful lychee-quat and nut butters just take the best of exotic fruits and line them with the most appealingly unctuous roasted nuts. This is a treat fragrance which combines all of the best parts of either end of the sharp to smooth spectrum. There is nothing about Lily which is astringent but she is not entirely tame. Fruity, foody, gourmand."
Limoncello: La Dolce Vida (5ml, 31mm w/neck at 31mm, full to neck), $9.50
"Neapolitan Lemons spike the Limoncello here, with the most creamy of panecotta (a triple cream custard with a subtle vanilla and not too sweet). All this is accompanied by a homemade almond biscotti."
Nigel (5ml LE, 31mm w/neck at 31mm, full to neck), $9.50
"Fresh and yet sweet, Nigel has a hint of fir around his fur but a heart which is pure candy and nuts. Nigel would love to curl up on an expensive wreath and have a snooze next to a big box of caramels. A beautiful scent with the pairing of unexpected pine and candy, maybe he is a citizen of the great indoors and the holidays are his best time!"
Passion (5ml, 33mm, full into neck), $9.50
"A supersaturated chocolate solution of chocolated chocolate with a smooth chocolate interior and a chocolate shell covered in chocolate sauce and floating in a puddle of chocolate. All manner of chocolate in one place and that place is heaven."
Penelope (5ml, 30mm, full to shoulder), $9.50
"Penelope combines a red currant and pomegranate base with playful foody and sweet topnotes. Very sexy and pretty, feminine and grown up but retaining just enough of the kitten to keep the tone light."
The Ruined Reputation (5ml LE, 33mm, full into neck), $9.50
"A work of intense sophistication, very dry and very chic. The Ruined Reputation starts out as a strong part of spice and carnation and then slides into a wonderful almost foggy crystal musk. It is ravishing and a bit dangerous, too!"
Silver Violets, $1.50
"Imagine the first violets of spring poking their heads up above a thin covering of snow and sparkling with a silvery light. Silver Violets is sweet but refreshing and welcome at any time of the year."
Sugar Puss (5ml LE, Moxie exclusive version, 30mm, full to shoulder), $10.00
"A quintessentially English cream tea as only Possets could imagine it, with thick red fruits and hand churned cream."
Sweet New England - Vermont (5ml, 35mm w/neck at 31mm, full well into neck), $10.00
"The Possets version of Vermont is sweet and very smooth but not cloying. Slightly herbal, shot of lime, with a thick overlay of part of the smell of maple syrup."
Titanium White, $1.50
"Titanium White is white tropical flowers on a white sheet with white sunlight streaming into the interior. White snow playing outside your windowpane as you sit on a white silk tufted pillow drinking fragrant Chinese white tea out of tissue-thin white porcelin cups. The many facets of white. Characteristics: crisp, cooling, summer scent, dry, perfumy."
Victory, $1.50
"This is a simple and straightforward fragrance which concentrates on fighting fatigue while keeping you alert and motivated to get to the next level. Thyme and sage, lemongrass and light camphor, a bit of rosemary, and the lightest hint of white sharp amber to keep it all knit together without being dulling."
Western Hills, $1.50
"Western Hills is a sweet but daring rendition of that part of Cincinnati. Like the real thing, it's sporty, foody, rich and robust but with a heartbreaking familiarity like what you feel when you go home again. Characteristics: foody, sporty, cutting edge, unisex."
Starring Fragrances:
Villainess (10ml, about 1/2 full), $11.00
"She schemes and plots in her den of black vanilla beans, Tonka vanilla and whispered rumors of resinous sultry sugar!"
Super Bad:
Devil's Snack Cakes (10ml opaque roller bottle, used twice cleanly since purchase), $9.50
"Honey cakes, caramel and toasted almonds."
Girls' Guide to Compromise (10ml opaque roller bottle, used twice cleanly since purchase), $9.50
"Snappy and slightly bitter, gingered grapefruit yields to summer's sweet honey."
NOTE: I also have a roughly 1/6th full spray bottle of EDP in this scent (14mm with the shoulder at 72mm), $1.00 or free w/purchase of GGtC perfume oil.
Miss Behaving (10ml roller bottle, 46mm w/neck at 54mm), $9.50
"Wildflower honey infused with vanilla beans."
ZOMG Smells:
Chocolate Orange Cordial, $1.50
"A dead ringer for that first whiff of orange-tinged dark chocolate when you unwrap the foil. Rich chocolate, not overly sugared, mingles with bright, honey-sweet citrus in this dessert cordial for your nose."
Cider Drink, (5ml LE, 33mm, full into neck), $14.50
"Crushed and fermented honeycrisp apples, nutmeg, bright ginger, some truly amazingly nice cinnamon leaf-- and because this is a scent and not a beverage, a little bit of frankincense to sweeten up the sharper spices and help it all stick around longer."
Dr. Zomg's Renovative Cherry Bitters, $1.50
"Dr. Zomg's favorite ... she makes hers with sweet cherry fruit, bitter cherry pits, grapefruit rind, galangal root, geranium leaf, grains of paradise, and brandy."
Lovely Lady Lovelace, (5ml LE, 33mm, full into neck), $14.50
"Heliotrope, white musk, and dainty touches of honey, lavender and vanilla: a throughly delicate and refined fragrance."
Marmalade Tabby (5ml, 28mm, full to just shy of shoulder), $14.00
"By 'the distilled essence of helpless doofy affection' we actually mean sweet orange and peach, fuzzy musk, sweetroll accord, and a dab of caramel sauce right on the nose AWWW NOSE, WHO'S GOT A LITTLE KITTYNOSE ON A LITTLE KITTYFACE? YOU DO!"
Meddyglyn (5ml LE, 32mm, full to neck), $14.50
"Honey, cinnamon, golden ginger, and basil."
Melomel (5ml LE, 32mm, full to neck), $14.50
"Melomel is the mellifluous term for a mead brewed with fruit.... This melomel's honey was brewed with apricots into a rich tart succulence."
Spacebat (5ml, 19mm w/neck at 31mm, about 2/3 full), $9.50
"Cave stone and memorial myrrh lifted by nutmeg and delicate leather wings."
Yellowcake Uranium (5ml LE, 40mm, extremely full), $15.00
"It's a supple lemon-curdy lemon cake, with a bit of black tea and some Slavic spice to make it feel at home: pitchblende was first identified in what's now the Czech Republic."
Sniffies -- one free per purchase, first ask first served. BPAL/BPTP: Aelopile, Aeval, Alcie, Cthulhu, Darkness, Dove's Heart, Dragon's Eye, Envy, Fallen Angels in Hell, The Grave-Pig, Kathmandu, Kill-Devil, Nadie Se Conoce, Paramatman, Phantom, PX117, Queen, Saturnian Phoenix, Solar Phoenix, Suspiro, Thanatos, Thieves' Rosin, 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster, Vice, A Wonderful Light, Yew Trees. Arcana: Grasshopper, Three Bears. Conjure Oils: All Around the Mulberry Bush (bottle w/testable amount), Blood Type A, Rose Hip Jam Paczki. HaEE: Breakfast in Bed. Love Potion Perfumerie: Love Potion Perfume. Nocturne Alchemy/VApothecary: Amber Sun: Diurnal, Eternal Alexandria, Miss Witch, Pharaoh Ducksses, Pomegranate Kobalt Crimson. Possets: Fluoxetine, Friction, Infinite Sky Montana, Mania, Perpetual Motion Machine, Puce. Super Bad: Calendar Girl, Summer Blondes. ZOMG Smells: Spacebat. Most of my sniffies are actually testers or partial imps, so feel free to ask about oil levels, or if you have questions about any of the scents.
NON-PERFUME ITEMS:As with my perfume oils, I am willing to consider swap and swap/sale offers for all these items, as well as other price suggestions. Shipping may vary according to the weight of the item, but I have a postage scale for accurate quotes. PM me or email karihan (dot) chris (at) gmail (dot) com if you have any questions or would like additional pictures. ^_^
SCENT BOTTLE PENDANT, $50.00 obo: I bought a unakite and sterling silver scent bottle pendant from Offerings Jewelry some months ago, but I've never worn it. It is 3 inches (7.5cm) from the top of the bail to the bottom tip of the bottle. The other stones are a moonstone and a mother-of-pearl flower with a peridot center. Offering's stamp "sajen" and a sterling silver stamp show on the back band. The sterling cap is a little loose, but the unakite cap fits snugly. Click on the pics to see full-size versions:
I paid $50 originally. For that price, I will include a necklace to wear it on, either a sterling snake chain or a beaded strand of my own creation to match, design details to be worked out with the purchaser, plus a set of matching earrings! I can also include the pendant, with or without necklace, in a swap or swap/sale. If you'd like to see a few other strands of beads I've strung, you can check them out here and here.
Juliet of the Spirits and Opulentia bottles - swapped to murmur
Sarabba Sulawesi, A Strychnine Kiss, Hathor's Pomegranate Wine and Krakatoa bottles - swapped to bellemadame
Feast for the Greatly Revered Ones and Two-Barred Flasher bottles - sold to greyhat
Greed, Intrigue, Lolita, Dorian, Black Phoenix, Libertine, Kitsune-Tsuki, Dracul, Wicked, Uruk, Grand Guignol, Ogun, Djinn and Voodoo Lily - sold to rockstarsex
Burlesque bottle - swapped to mellifluant
Mabon '08 bottle - sold to flameelf
Cornucopia and Michelle bottles, and Pink Pepys - sold to jackie_o8
Dessicated Frostberry Pie Filling, Pumpkin Masala Rooibos and Red Tide bottles and Bon Vivant - sold to cherryice
Haloes bottle - sold to ttlarue
Black Heart bottle - sold to honey_chain
Blood Countess bottle - sold to knitsnspins
Ecstasy of Passion, L'Eau de la Passion, L'Essence de la Passion, Mitzvah, Tissue, Litchi Milk Tea and The Girls Love a Good Posset - sold to waterdaughter
Beaver Moon '07 bottle - sold to soapysophielove
The Vine bottle - sold to splatterhouse
Body, Remember; Whoop and Young Pine Saplings bottles - sold to divrgrl8
Pink Phoenix bottle and Morrigan - sold to wicketbird
Lampades and Prunella bottles - sold to divrgrl8
Forever is Mercy Built bottle - sold to retropersephone
Araw Ng Mga Patay, Blackbear Moon, Flower Moon '05, Kajuraho and Mlle. Whiard bottles and Fairy Bites - swap/sold to greyhat
Red Velvet Truffle, Absinthe, Debauchery, Dorian, The Red Rider and Wilde - swapped to sresla
Gloomy Sunday bottle, Sacred Whore of Babylon, Velvet, Haydee, Queen of Broken Hearts, and Shakti - sold to Mooberry
Goliath Birdwing and Katharina bottles, Robin Goodfellow, Burlesque and Shakti - sold to kaberett
Nevada-HEAT and Sunshine in a Bottle-California bottles - sold to softlywhispered
Mlle Lilith Fortune Teller and Strawberry Hearts bottles, plus Golden Dragon Tarot - sold to reynardine
Marae bottle - sold to ellocentipede
Changing the Shadows, Coral Snake, E Pluribus Unum, Philommides, and Pomegranate III bottles - sold to ext_2024139 (G+)
Pumpkin Queen bottle - sold to bludiscus
Half Elf v5, Alms, and Pumpkin Cake Pops bottles, Evil - swapped to agameofthree
Cherokee Rose, Countess Willie, Cranberry Cookie Bark bath oil, Lady Una and Miss Jenny bottles - swapped to mcfly85
Vasakasajja bottle, Te Ubesc, Inspiration, and Blood - sold to twistedfiligree
White Chocolate Mango Buttercream bottle - sold to feather_armor
Skadi bottle - sold to kisstheviolets
Enlightenment of the Courtesan Jigokudayu bottle, Bakunawa, and The Lotus Tree - sold to ellocentipede
Blueberry & Gardenia Paczki and Plum Jam Paczki bottles - sold to pinkstardust420
Previous sales posts: 12/01/12-02/13/13, 08/13/12-11/30/12, 03/14/12-08/12/12, 08/30/11-03/14/12, 06/02/11-08/29/11, 12/16/10-06/01/11, 08/11/10-12/15/10, 04/11/10-08/10/10, 01/15/10-04/10/10, 09/30/09-01/14/10, 07/17/09-09/29/09, 03/29/09-07/16/09, 11/02/08-03/28/09, 05/04/08-11/01/08, 03/03/08-05/03/08, 12/29/07-03/02/08, 11/06/07-12/28/07, 09/18/07-11/05/07, 5/23/07-09/17/07, 01/07 - 05/22/07, 11/06 through 01/07. Earlier posts were on sinandsalvation and alchemylab.
I pride myself on good communication and good results, so please contact me if you have any questions. And I do enjoy giving little extra goodies, tea, soaplets, candies and the like. ^_^ If there's anything in that line you would rather not get, just let me know.