BPAL Reviews IX

[naamah_darling]

Well. I've spent all week rubbing and sniffing and rubbing and sniffing, and now have opinions on all the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Lupercalia Limited Editions.

Comments

Re: Body chemestry

[naamah_darling]

Yes, but I've learned that if I read enough of someone's reviews, I can compare what they can/can't wear to what I can/can't wear, and get a pretty good idea of how it will behave on me, so reviews are still very useful.

I find it helpful to know, for example, that "I can't wear most florals, but this smell is great anyway" or "if it weren't for the way civet goes to cat pee on me, I'd be fine." I can evaluate such statements based on my own chemistry when I read them in someone else's reviews.

I have one friend who can wear florals, I have to pay attention to her reviews and read them knowing I can't, but I also have a couple of people who have the same reaction that I do to those kinds of scents, and I can count on their opinions pretty much bookmarking mine. It's like having a friend with the same size shoe; even if your taste in shoes don't always match, you can still wear the same things. That was the girliest metaphor ever.

Most helpful of all is a string of reviews of one scent done by many people, because then an overall picture of the scent emerges. I've yet to be wrong about any smell I picked after reading the review threads on the official forums.

Re: Body chemestry

[amazon_syren]

Re: "Like haveing the same size shoe...":

Metaphor?

Simile. :-) (Not that I can spell...)

But a good one, what-ever it's called. :-)

I can wear flowers. I just tend not to like them (on me) -- too perfume-y, like the stuff at the chanel counter: All alcohol base and hit-you-in-the-face-with-my-pearl-necklace. No... sense of 'touch me' to them. (Usually).