BPAL.
as some of you know, i am a BPAL fanatic. they just came out with their lupercalia collection, which is the valentine's day scent collection, and many of my absolute BPAL favorites come from this collection. i always want to like halloween the best, but it usually falls second in line with yule in 3rd. this year i didn't even find ONE yule that i would buy a bottle of! normally i find at least one. for halloween i bought 2:
SONNET D'AUTOMNE: Shivering white musk with vanilla-infused white cocoa, amber incense, and dead, dry leaves.
& THE VAMPIRE BRIDE: Icy skin touched by a perfume of violet leaf, white tea, olibanum, elemi, myrrh, wormwood, crypt dust, and saffron with a dribble of blood red musk.
i almost ended up getting this one too, it's really nice: A NOCTURNAL REVERIE: Violet musk and oudh with black amber, ambergris, agarwood, black currant, dark musk, fig, and lavender incense.
for the lupercalia, i am going to get samples first:
BODY, REMEMBER: Profoundly sensual. The echo of caresses: raw black coconut, ambergris accord, ambrette seed, champaca flower, and sugar cane.
THE DOOM OF BEAUTY (i love the name of this): An opulent, bittersweet Renaissance-inspired fragrance: Hungary water, parma violets, and roseated oil.
ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA: Incomparable loveliness: the perfect rose oude.
THE ROSE IN THE DEEPS OF HIS HEART: Golden amber, red rose, frankincense, Egyptian musk, galbanum, and immortelle.
and these are from the shunga line (japanese erotic art):
BLOSSOMS IN SPRINGTIME: Vanilla bean and vanilla blossom, golden honey, antiqued amber, beeswax, copal, lotus blossom, and helichrysum.
THE HELL OF GREAT HEAT: Indonesian patchouli, tonka bean, red musk, natural hedoine accord, black opium, cassis, styrax, costus, oakmoss, frankincense, and kief accord.
MEDICAL PROCEDURE: (LOVE the artwork for this one. basically a nurse sex fantasy): Linen, tobacco flower, white sandalwood, and dragon's blood resin.
VARIETY OF PLEASING AMUSEMENTS: (love the artwork for this one too): Honey, leather, tobacco, and myrrh.
i think maybe lupercalias tend to work well for me because they are dominated by florals and "sexy" notes like honey, musk, amber, leather, and those are my favorites. halloween scents are often very foody and herbal, neither of which do well on me and yule scents are often piney and snowy, which also aren't my thing.
these are some of my absolute BPAL favorites, all lupercalias:
DIA: White amber, coconut, white musk, oakmoss, and tobacco flower.
DOLCE STIL NUOVO: Our interpretation of Dolce Stil Nuovo is a blend of rose otto, carnation, vanilla flower, lavender and jasmine with the clarity of crystalline white musk and the warmth of golden amber.
EBISU MAKING LOVE AS TWO OCTOPUSES LOOK ON: Oakmoss, skin musk, and nectarine.
ABHISARIKA: She boldly goes forth to meet her lover, heedless of propriety, intoxicated by love, and radiant with youthful, innocent passion: Damascus rose, African orchid, cream accord, and Kashmir musk.
next up i am going to make a longass post about my perfume preferences which i am stealing from absolution :D
SONNET D'AUTOMNE: Shivering white musk with vanilla-infused white cocoa, amber incense, and dead, dry leaves.
& THE VAMPIRE BRIDE: Icy skin touched by a perfume of violet leaf, white tea, olibanum, elemi, myrrh, wormwood, crypt dust, and saffron with a dribble of blood red musk.
i almost ended up getting this one too, it's really nice: A NOCTURNAL REVERIE: Violet musk and oudh with black amber, ambergris, agarwood, black currant, dark musk, fig, and lavender incense.
for the lupercalia, i am going to get samples first:
BODY, REMEMBER: Profoundly sensual. The echo of caresses: raw black coconut, ambergris accord, ambrette seed, champaca flower, and sugar cane.
THE DOOM OF BEAUTY (i love the name of this): An opulent, bittersweet Renaissance-inspired fragrance: Hungary water, parma violets, and roseated oil.
ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA: Incomparable loveliness: the perfect rose oude.
THE ROSE IN THE DEEPS OF HIS HEART: Golden amber, red rose, frankincense, Egyptian musk, galbanum, and immortelle.
and these are from the shunga line (japanese erotic art):
BLOSSOMS IN SPRINGTIME: Vanilla bean and vanilla blossom, golden honey, antiqued amber, beeswax, copal, lotus blossom, and helichrysum.
THE HELL OF GREAT HEAT: Indonesian patchouli, tonka bean, red musk, natural hedoine accord, black opium, cassis, styrax, costus, oakmoss, frankincense, and kief accord.
MEDICAL PROCEDURE: (LOVE the artwork for this one. basically a nurse sex fantasy): Linen, tobacco flower, white sandalwood, and dragon's blood resin.
VARIETY OF PLEASING AMUSEMENTS: (love the artwork for this one too): Honey, leather, tobacco, and myrrh.
i think maybe lupercalias tend to work well for me because they are dominated by florals and "sexy" notes like honey, musk, amber, leather, and those are my favorites. halloween scents are often very foody and herbal, neither of which do well on me and yule scents are often piney and snowy, which also aren't my thing.
these are some of my absolute BPAL favorites, all lupercalias:
DIA: White amber, coconut, white musk, oakmoss, and tobacco flower.
DOLCE STIL NUOVO: Our interpretation of Dolce Stil Nuovo is a blend of rose otto, carnation, vanilla flower, lavender and jasmine with the clarity of crystalline white musk and the warmth of golden amber.
EBISU MAKING LOVE AS TWO OCTOPUSES LOOK ON: Oakmoss, skin musk, and nectarine.
ABHISARIKA: She boldly goes forth to meet her lover, heedless of propriety, intoxicated by love, and radiant with youthful, innocent passion: Damascus rose, African orchid, cream accord, and Kashmir musk.
next up i am going to make a longass post about my perfume preferences which i am stealing from absolution :D