Today from the Box of Squee: Smut 2008
There was joy in BPAL Land, for the April Fools scents were revealed late last night along with this month's Lunacy. The moon scent is Worm Moon, and luckily, I'm not terribly interested (overripe fruit? decaying flowers? erm, I'm a bit goth, but on the hippie side of goth). But the two accompanying scents? Damn you, Beth and Ted! April Fool is
Huckleberry, white rose, tangerine, nicotiana, lemon blossom, and Fool's Parsley
and Beltane 2008 is
Mugwort, French rose, Lily of the Valley, broom, frankincense, myrrh, benzoin, foxglove, woodruff, rowan wood, ivy, sandalwood, spring mint, thyme, iris, copal, and night blooming jasmine
I sprung for both, with a bottle of Passionate Shepherd out of the Lupercalias. There are so many more Lupercalias and Shungas I wanted--To Helen, Flower Song, Men Ringing Bell, Longing--but funds are short and so is time. I'm hoping I can pick up bottles in trades. At least I got my beloved Shepherd.
The three Lunacies weren't it, though. BPAL released an entire Tiki line of tropical scents that, I swear to God, I want all of. Every last bottle. One set are cocktails, the other set are beach smells, and I--want--every--last--damn--one, plus the Tiki Queen and Tiki King. Monoi!!! Ginger! Rum! Vanilla! Tonic! Pineapple! Coconut! I'm dyin here! I have until late April to come up with the scratch for them, and I've put out an appeal for donations at MeiLinMiranda.com, but I'm not optimistic. Ah well.
So I'm finishing up my Lupercalia decant imps to see if there's anything else I absolutely must have, and I put on Smut 2008, which is promising from just the name, but look at the description:
Three swarthy, smutty musks sweetened with sugar and woozy with dark booze notes.
Should be great, right? In the imp and wet on, it is massive do not want. Massive. Nothing but booze and sickening sweet sugar, not the good boozy sugar of Juke Joint, just ick. Once it's quite dry I get the musks, but it's not worth that first hour of sickly sweet booziness. Into the trades, and thank the gods because there's one more Lupercalia I don't absolutely have to have.
Huckleberry, white rose, tangerine, nicotiana, lemon blossom, and Fool's Parsley
and Beltane 2008 is
Mugwort, French rose, Lily of the Valley, broom, frankincense, myrrh, benzoin, foxglove, woodruff, rowan wood, ivy, sandalwood, spring mint, thyme, iris, copal, and night blooming jasmine
I sprung for both, with a bottle of Passionate Shepherd out of the Lupercalias. There are so many more Lupercalias and Shungas I wanted--To Helen, Flower Song, Men Ringing Bell, Longing--but funds are short and so is time. I'm hoping I can pick up bottles in trades. At least I got my beloved Shepherd.
The three Lunacies weren't it, though. BPAL released an entire Tiki line of tropical scents that, I swear to God, I want all of. Every last bottle. One set are cocktails, the other set are beach smells, and I--want--every--last--damn--one, plus the Tiki Queen and Tiki King. Monoi!!! Ginger! Rum! Vanilla! Tonic! Pineapple! Coconut! I'm dyin here! I have until late April to come up with the scratch for them, and I've put out an appeal for donations at MeiLinMiranda.com, but I'm not optimistic. Ah well.
So I'm finishing up my Lupercalia decant imps to see if there's anything else I absolutely must have, and I put on Smut 2008, which is promising from just the name, but look at the description:
Three swarthy, smutty musks sweetened with sugar and woozy with dark booze notes.
Should be great, right? In the imp and wet on, it is massive do not want. Massive. Nothing but booze and sickening sweet sugar, not the good boozy sugar of Juke Joint, just ick. Once it's quite dry I get the musks, but it's not worth that first hour of sickly sweet booziness. Into the trades, and thank the gods because there's one more Lupercalia I don't absolutely have to have.