Before the Finger: I got my box of goodies from Twilight Alchemy Lab! It contained my Hand of Hermes conjure bag, and bottles of Hymn to Pan and Hand of Hermes. yay! The conjure bag is orange and smells FABULOUS. I just want to hold it all the time. It's sitting right now on my altar.

Now, on to the Finger. Queen Gertrude is described as:
Imperial ( Read more... )

This is a scent Beth has released for at least a couple of Lupercalias now ( Read more... )

I'm so behind on my squee. Today I did two, because the first one, Titania, didn't have much staying power:
white grape, white peach, iced pear, musk rose, sweet pea, moonflower and snapdragon

This is a very sweet perfume, too sweet even for me. The first impression is the fruits; it's very sweet and fruity, with the peach predominant. It has a fair ( Read more... )

Today the Fickle Finger got Sybaris, the root of "sybaritic" if I'm not too far off the mark, and thus apropos for the current mood around these hyar parts. (She says, nursing her dishpan hands.) Described as:
Bright violet with sweet clove, Mediterranean incense notes and tonka bean

In the imp: Whoa! Not bright violet. Incandescent violet.

Wet: Did ( Read more... )

First off, the boy tried on Dragon's Hide, which I wore a few days ago. As predicted, it's good on him.

For myself, I picked Envy, described as:
Green herbs slithering through mint, lime and lavender

In the imp: Green! Extremely green! Lavender predominates.

Wet: Fresh lavender, a little bit of mint. No lime to speak of.

Dry: Where'd it go?! This has no ( Read more... )

I went through the non-BPAL section of the squee box and integrated its contents into the main squee section and the little girl box of squee with mere sniffs. Which is how Number One Girl and I found a couple of Possets that she loves and that work well together: Bat Fur Cloak and Bats in Your Hair. She wears them together and smells like a giant ( Read more... )

This was a limited edition in 2004 and 2005. This is the 2005, thus well-aged. It's supposed to be the "rich, ripe scent of juicy holly berries," whatever that is, but on me ( Read more... )

I had high hopes for Brides of Dracula. At BPAL.org, everyone squees over it and searches for it. It's a limited edition from 2006:

gleaming skin musk, honey and white amber, plum blossom, osmanthus, sandalwood, calla lily, and a light, sensual blend of Eastern spices.

Sounds nice, yeah? Well, "nice" is how it smells on me. Not edible, not sexy, not ( Read more... )

On me, Rosalind:

Dew-covered berries and fresh green grasses with a faint breath of spring flowers.

I'm optimistic because I'm all about the berries and the grasses. In the imp, I can't decide if it's a sweet green or a green sweet. :) Wet, I smell lavender and green flowers. Not much berry at all. On drydown, I smell lots of sweet green, no berry at ( Read more... )

Described as:

A vivacious, dazzling, merry scent: honey, ylang ylang, apricot, ciste, blood orange and gardenia with earthy, warm tonka.

Thaleia is inspired by the muse of Comedy. It goes on very, very sweet. I smelled the apricot right off the bat as the predominant note. Now that it's been on my skin a while it's the gardenia and honey with an ( Read more... )