BPAL Scent Reviews V

[naamah_darling]

Round five of the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab reviews. I'm not even close to working through my backlog of already-written reviews, let alone the box of imps I'm hoarding.

First, a word about the allure of perfume, and the peculiar problems posed by scent.

Comments

[naamah_darling]

I don't like smelling food-y, but I like the smell of food itself, which is frustrating when I get hold of a very foody perfume. I've often considered taking up coffee as a habit just because I love the smell of it. The taste is horrid, but the aroma is so pleasant!

[pixxelpuss]

Cheap coffee smells okay and is, as I've said, cheap. You should just take to making coffee in the morning, pouring it into a cup, smelling it, warming your hands on the sides of the mug and then tossing it when it gets cold. I think I might do that too. I hate the taste of coffee, but I like the smells and rituals associated with it. I even like MAKING it. But I feel the same way about a good black tea (plus I like how those taste).

[frostedblossom]

Coffee-and-cream scented candles is the way I go about that, being averse to the actual taste of coffee myself. (And I'm such a lazy bint I can't be bothered to actually, you know, go to a coffee shop to write.) Ah, well.

Your reviews make me die. DIE. I am so jealous of the way you've mastered the art of making us see the scents as well as smell them. If we have a hard handle on describing scents, you certainly make it seem a lot less so. Now I really, really wish my imps were here.

[naamah_darling]

It's still a daunting task, and a very subjective one. But it's a lot of fun, as I'm sure you'll discover when you get your stuff!

[liminalia]

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