Yesterday's Osun was still lingering this morning when I got up! And it smelled pretty good! The hubby agreed.

Today the Finger picked out El Dia de Reyes, a limited edition from Yule:

Hot cocoa with cinnamon, coffee, and brown sugar.

Wet: Bitter almond. ick.

Dry: Ooh! Coffee and cocoa and pastries! mmmmm....

I hope she does this again next year.

I've only had to wash off one BPAL, Melpomene. Now I can add two more to that unfortunate roster--Queen of Sheba and Christmas Rose. In one day! Queen of Sheba is described thusly:

Her scent is a bounty of golden honeyed almonds and a whisper of African and Middle Eastern spices.

It is described by the mister as "HOLY JESUS WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ( 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 was looking forward to trying Glasgow, because by now you may understand the depths of my "problems" with Scotsmen. And also! It's Burns Night!

Described as:

The rich scent of wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather.

by the lab, I don't know if this smells like Glasgow (I suspect not), but I like it. A lot. In the bottle it smells like ( Read more... )