put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch
First off, before I move on to my usual bullshit and blather, I'd like to point your attention to this post about an Air Force woman who is facing punishment for a crime. Her "crime," you ask? She was raped.
Uploaded these for a girl over at lunatunes, and x-posting them here in case anyone's interested. If you're not familiar with Black Lab by name, maybe you remember their song "Wash It Away" which was a minor hit ten years ago. They've also had songs featured in one of the Spiderman movies ("Learn To Crawl"), on Buffy ("Keep Myself Awake") and The Shield ("This Night").
Black Lab
From Your Body Above Me (1997):
- She Loves Me
- Can't Keep The Rain
- Gates Of The Country
From See The Sun (2005):
- See The Sun
- Dream In Color
- Wide Open
From Passion Leaves A Trace (2007):
- Ghost In Your Mind
- The Real You
- Gone
And a pretty little solo song by frontman Paul Durham: Postcards.
I finally got my bottle of Snow Flakes this past week, so:
Snow Flakes (Yule 2006 limited edition)
Description: Instead of a straight-up description, BPAL offered this vagueness via Longfellow:
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.
The radiance and desolation of winter.
My notes: Crystalline. Bright, wet and crisp like chill air. Most of the forum reviews mention mint, but it's not chewing gum mint. It's fresh mint leaves, green and subtle... so subtle, in fact, that I didn't recognize it until the third time I tried the scent. This likes to shift around, sometimes hanging onto the cool tones, sometimes warming up (with honey?). And maybe my nose is playing tricks on me (this scent is a trickster, deceptively complex), but I seem to detect something slightly fruity. A light, watery fruit like pear or plum that twines around the light floral notes (that, for the life of me, I can't seem to identify either). Overall, it succeeds in evoking a mood of fresh snow in a quiet, dark copse of trees. It's like the bite of new winter, waking you alive.
Exquisite. Feminine without smelling anything like perfume.
And since I never did a review of this other eBay catch....
Creepy (Halloween 2006)
Description: This season’s Ridiculous Scent! As creepy as Spooky was spooky, this is the scent of butterscotch-kissed, caramel-smothered red apples spiked with a blast of coconut rum.
My notes: It smells exactly as described. Foody, yes. Yummy, YES. I could do with a bit more apple in the mix. Might try wearing it with Hesperides and see if that mixes well. But on its own, it's fun and decadent, perfectly matched to the creeping in of autumn, suitable for the carnivals and fairs of summer too.
Apropos of smelliness, I watched Perfume last night. A creepily captivating movie.
The kid who played Grenouille, Ben Whishaw, reminded me a little of Dom. Maybe it was the monkey ears. And something around the eyes.
I loved the scene in which Dustin Hoffman's character attempts to figure out the ingredients of Amore en Psyche. Reminds me of snuffling up BPAL scents, trying to tell what's what in them. *g*
The film needed more Alan Rickman though. Who cares about scent when there's a voice as rich and sonorous as his? Scent and sound share a few common bonds however, don't they? Each being fleeting, difficult to discern at times, just as closely tied to memory and, with all certainty, as addictive.
Uploaded these for a girl over at lunatunes, and x-posting them here in case anyone's interested. If you're not familiar with Black Lab by name, maybe you remember their song "Wash It Away" which was a minor hit ten years ago. They've also had songs featured in one of the Spiderman movies ("Learn To Crawl"), on Buffy ("Keep Myself Awake") and The Shield ("This Night").
Black Lab
From Your Body Above Me (1997):
- She Loves Me
- Can't Keep The Rain
- Gates Of The Country
From See The Sun (2005):
- See The Sun
- Dream In Color
- Wide Open
From Passion Leaves A Trace (2007):
- Ghost In Your Mind
- The Real You
- Gone
And a pretty little solo song by frontman Paul Durham: Postcards.
I finally got my bottle of Snow Flakes this past week, so:
Snow Flakes (Yule 2006 limited edition)
Description: Instead of a straight-up description, BPAL offered this vagueness via Longfellow:
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.
The radiance and desolation of winter.
My notes: Crystalline. Bright, wet and crisp like chill air. Most of the forum reviews mention mint, but it's not chewing gum mint. It's fresh mint leaves, green and subtle... so subtle, in fact, that I didn't recognize it until the third time I tried the scent. This likes to shift around, sometimes hanging onto the cool tones, sometimes warming up (with honey?). And maybe my nose is playing tricks on me (this scent is a trickster, deceptively complex), but I seem to detect something slightly fruity. A light, watery fruit like pear or plum that twines around the light floral notes (that, for the life of me, I can't seem to identify either). Overall, it succeeds in evoking a mood of fresh snow in a quiet, dark copse of trees. It's like the bite of new winter, waking you alive.
Exquisite. Feminine without smelling anything like perfume.
And since I never did a review of this other eBay catch....
Creepy (Halloween 2006)
Description: This season’s Ridiculous Scent! As creepy as Spooky was spooky, this is the scent of butterscotch-kissed, caramel-smothered red apples spiked with a blast of coconut rum.
My notes: It smells exactly as described. Foody, yes. Yummy, YES. I could do with a bit more apple in the mix. Might try wearing it with Hesperides and see if that mixes well. But on its own, it's fun and decadent, perfectly matched to the creeping in of autumn, suitable for the carnivals and fairs of summer too.
Apropos of smelliness, I watched Perfume last night. A creepily captivating movie.
The kid who played Grenouille, Ben Whishaw, reminded me a little of Dom. Maybe it was the monkey ears. And something around the eyes.
I loved the scene in which Dustin Hoffman's character attempts to figure out the ingredients of Amore en Psyche. Reminds me of snuffling up BPAL scents, trying to tell what's what in them. *g*
The film needed more Alan Rickman though. Who cares about scent when there's a voice as rich and sonorous as his? Scent and sound share a few common bonds however, don't they? Each being fleeting, difficult to discern at times, just as closely tied to memory and, with all certainty, as addictive.