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Trying my imp of Galvanic Goggles out at the moment, which I was lucky to receive free in my last BPAL imp order.
Metallic notes with Indian musk, tobacco flower, and African balsam.
Erm . . . well, I did just put it on a few minutes ago, so maybe I need to let it sink in better, but so far, it's proving just too masculine for me. Plus, it's quite strong & I wasn't expecting it to be so strong, & I've got a fair bit on one wrist. (& it might have even got on my nose during my usual obsessive wrist-sniffing after I put it on)
I've been listening to the heap of audios I acquired in preparation for my new iTouch, which, somehow, Amazon is now informing me, has been lost in the mail. (Well, near enough, anyhow; they're going to call me back on Monday & if I haven't got it by then, they'll send me another one) Incredibly frustrating & disappointing, yes, especially since I've been waiting nearly a whole month for it & have been waiting years to actually get one.
But, audios! I have Situation Vacant, Nevermore, Solitare, Medicinal Purposes, Assassin in the Limelight, The Juggernauts, No Man's Land, City of Spires, Wreck of the Titan, Night's Black Agents, Legend of the Cybermen, Cobwebs & the stageplays. I've actually listened to City of Spires, Legend of the Cybermen, Solitare, Medicinal Purposes, Assassin in the Limelight, The Juggernauts & No Man's Land, along with a relisten of An Earthly Child earlier tonight.
No Man's Land was actually kind of disturbing, I have to say, but not on a Natural History of Fear level . . . it was more of a story I found very disturbing in how dark it was, rather than anything else. (& now I'm debating just how much Seven & Ace even care about Hex now) Medicinal Purposes & Assassin in the Limelight are loosely related, but I found the latter not quite as engaging as the former. It dealt with American history, which, despite bad Amercian accents, I love when the Doctor gets involved in, but . . . it just sort of left me cold. I think I preferred the conflicts between Six & Evelyn much more in Medicinal Purposes.
Also, I . . . I feel bad for saying this, but I just didn't enjoy Solitare. It didn't feel like a Companion Chronicle at all; more of a solo Charley story. I liked it in that regard, but I listen to the Companion Chronicles for - well, I suppose insight to how a companion feels about getting into scrapes & intrigue with the Doctor, or without, but . . . something about Charley's felt really, really off. It wasn't what I was expecting at all, & I wasn't impressed with the format of it, I guess - I loved the Celestial Toymaker & the Eight!doll, but I was hoping for a story. Not a full audio, I suppose.
That said . . . I ♥ the Celestial Toymaker & his creepy doll obsession, Charley's oddly adorable confusion & DOLL!EIGHT WAS LOLZ. ::pets him:: & I DIED at Nick Briggs recounting India's total creeped out-ness when she was in studio with it. I COULD JUST SEE HER FACE! ::dies:: Aww, poor India . . . I think. ::giggle::
Now I wonder if Paul saw the doll. Someone needs to find this out!
(& now I'm gigglesnorting over the idea of Paul seeing himself in ventriloquist dummy form . . . poor dear!)
& yes, I was a very bad girl & listened to City of Spires, then went right into Legend of the Cybermen - very, very bad Betsy! I couldn't help myself! THERE WAS ZOE & CYBERMEN & SIX & JAMIE & SIX & JAMIE & ZOE, I HAD TO DO IT!
If it makes anything better, I know there were bits I didn't understand due to not having heard the other two. But I wanted to save them to listen on my new iTouch. But I might end up listening to them sooner, since it's been lost. ::sigh:: Nothing's ever simple with me, alas. Ah, fuckery.
Also, I'm in a really big Eight mood for some reason. Not EDA-related, but solely audio-related. & maybe the TVM. & lots of Eight/Charley fic. & possibly some Zagreus-related fun. Hmm. Must find all of that, & quickly, if I may.
Hmm. How ironic this should happen when I'm nearly done with my silly little Eight/Fitz mix . . . thing. That I'm still not sure I should really be doing at all, because everyone I know & some that I don't know have done it all before & all far superior to what I could have done. But . . . I just like embarrassing myself, apparently, eh? ::shrugs blithely::
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I was thinking back to this silly, whimsical post I made once, what feels like eons ago today. Goodness me, I was a silly bunny, wasn't I? Silly bunny, yes, but it was a fun exercise, thinking up each of the different bedrooms that the Doctor would have in all his different regenerations. Silly & delightful!
& so, I did it with BPAL after a while.
O, honestly - I always do this! It's really too much fun. ::giggle:: It's a lovely, silly, fun little game to play that I should play more often with people!
Though it can be rather hard. One is a very hard Doctor to pick for - he's the classical gentleman of the lot! Even more than Three & Eight! So it would have to be very subtle or traditional . . . as odd as it may sound, I might actually pick something from the Phoenix Steamworks Research Facility line - perhaps No. 93 Engine or even Galvanic Goggles - I keep thinking of One working on the TARDIS controls & engines a lot, for some reason, which makes me think of mechanics. Galvanic Goggles has a hint of tobacco flowers, which would also fit him, since One is said to be the only Doctor ever seen smoking a pipe once. Though No. 93 Engine matches the idea of him working on bits of the TARDIS better. Hmm. But Velvet in the Bewitching Brews section would be welcoming & cosy for him - after all, he is a grandfather: Envelop yourself in the soft, sensual embrace of gentle sandalwood warmed by cocoa vanilla and a veil of deep myrrh. I would actually say it's a perfect match!
Two's also a bit hard, I think. Something clean, but hardly easy to pin down. Nothing too traditional either, or anything honestly flirty - whatever it is, it's very quiet, yet memorable, like Two himself. Perhaps 51 from the Wanderlust collection: Luminescent, glowing, and otherworldly: green mandarin, neroli, honeydew, white amber, guava, freesia, white and green musks hovering over desert scrub, smashed wood, and the dry, biting scent of night air over the Groom Lake salt flats. It could be slightly overpowering, but if worn lightly, could be perfect!
Though he's also a very Zen space beatnik, so perhaps he'd enjoy Kathmandu: The scent of sacred incense swirling up the steep slopes to Swayambhunath Stupa. Saffron, blessed sandalwood, Himalayan cedar and the miraculous lotus of the Buddha with chiuri bark and Nepalese spices.
Of course . . . maybe he prefers Glasgow, to tease certain hot-blooded young Highlanders that he knows . . .
Three's a bit easier, but o, so many choices for him! Once again, something Steamworks-oriented would be perfect for him, what with all the TARDIS tinkering & scientific mechanics that his work on Earth entails. But with Three, one can go a bit over the top, since he's one of our three dandy Doctors - so he needs something a bit powerful & mysterious. Possibly the The Robotic Scarab for a gentleman scientist: Polished metallic notes, glossy leather, frankincense, star anise, and thin lubricating oils. Or maybe even Rome: Refined, austere and graceful. A recipe gleaned from Classical Rome: cypress, juniper, chamomile and rose. I'm not so sure about the rose, though . . . a bit too feminine, possibly. But refined & graceful are very Three indeed!
Four . . . now how do you encapsulate space bohemianism in scent form? Well, I'm certainly looking up the right perfumer to do so! Strangely enough, however, I find myself feeling that perhaps Miskatonic University would also work very well for him - the Doctor, in any form, loves his books, after all.
Five, surprisingly, is my favourite to ponder this question for - I want to give him something from the Mad Tea Party collection! Might I suggest either Mad Hatter (A gentlemen's lavender-citron cologne unhinged by the feral pungence of black musk and a paroxysm of pennyroyal.) or March Hare (A twisted teatime tart: apricot and sweet clove.)?
(seeeecretly . . . I feel that when he was the Doctor, Peter Davison would have made the perfect boy!Alice. He had the innocent little face & sweet demeanour for it. Boy!Alice!)
Six is - o, Six may be a bit hard, now. I have a bit of a silly notion of Six seeing himself as a bit of a ladies' man, though I know that honestly, he probably doesn't, but either way, Six is the dandy Doctor who needs a bold, charming number to match his fashion sense, of course. Believe it or not, I could see Six enjoying Wilde from Bewitching Brews: A sophisticated traditional gentleman's cologne, with just the slightest taint of patchouli's passion, tonka bean's decadence, the philanthropy of bergamot, moss' cynicism, the sharp wit of lavender, and the hopeless romantic longing of jasmine and thyme. He is, after all, the most poetic & wittiest of the Doctor's regenerations. So it's only fitting that he should wear something named after one of the wittiest men to ever walk the Earth.
Seven's BPAL is almost terrifying to contemplate - I think of him as the darkest of all eleven of the Doctor, after all & he can frighten me quite well in his audios. You'd think I might try something from A Picnic in Arkham, but no. Not for Seven. Seven gets a scent from the Ars Moriendi catalogue - the funeral oils. I offer for him Thanatopsis: A meditation upon death. Inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem. A deep, solomn earthen scent containing pine, juniper and musk. It brought to mind some of the things he says in Night Thoughts, which, barring Zagreus & The Natural History of Fear is one of the most frightening audios I've ever heard.
& speaking of Zagreus . . . o, yes, I'll admit it, trying to select just the right BPAL for Eight was the most fun of this whole exercise. It was utterly fun, but gah! it was also very hard! Something romantic, but not over the top or too outrageous, something somewhat dark, but not so frightening, & yet, playful & whimsical, as Eight often is. I found myself tempted to suggest Vicomte de Valmont (. . . Based on an 18th century gentlemen's cologne: ambergris, white musk, white sandalwood, Spanish Moss, orange blossom, three mints, jasmine, rose geranium and a spike of rosemary.), but I worry it's a bit much for Eight.
In one of my favourite Eight&Charley audios, I do believe Charley says he smells like tea at one point. (o swoon!!), so perhaps The Dormouse would fit Eight well: A dizzying eddy of four teas brushed with light herbs and a breath of peony. That's very Eight, is it not?
(as a side note of fangirlishness, one of the limited editions just released for Halloween & entitled Gothic Literature, Vol, I contains a blend called The Byronic Antihero & is described as 'An aristocratic cologne of titanic passions, moody and brooding. This scent is dark with disillusionment and cynicism: a Victorian fougère and a dashing carnation boutonnière tainted by a cloud of khus, yew, and patchouli.' I . . . THAT'S ZAGREUS IN A BOTTLE, I SWEAR. ::keels over from happy lust:: & yes, I'm debating whether or not I should buy a bottle of it. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT OF ME WITH A TITLE LIKE THAT?!)
Nine, I actually just associate with leather, but I'm sure there's something for him as well! Why not Darkness? Bottled gloom; the essence of oblivion. Blackest opium and narcissus deepened by myrrh. Leather yes, but he did just blow up an entire planet one regeneration ago. So he can have a gloomy scent.
(a side note: I actually have Darkness, but it just didn't work on my skin. It smelt too much like generic perfume, so it's in the trade pile.)
Ten . . . now it shouldn't be a secret that I absolutely hate Ten for many different reasons, but for the sake of the game & the exercise, he can have one. I don't promise it won't be unbiased, however.
Hmm. For the self-proclaimed Time Lord Victorious, the destroyer of worlds (perhaps the only thing I would ever agree with Davros upon), the last of the Time Lords, I offer up Faustus: An infusion of incalculable power and irresistible temptation. Truly an exercise in megalomania and self-gratification: frankincense and cinnamon, darkened by violet.
One day, I'll figure out something for Eleven. Promise. ::beams:: For now, I'm feeling quite weary & am longing to retire to bed. Goodnight all,
Metallic notes with Indian musk, tobacco flower, and African balsam.
Erm . . . well, I did just put it on a few minutes ago, so maybe I need to let it sink in better, but so far, it's proving just too masculine for me. Plus, it's quite strong & I wasn't expecting it to be so strong, & I've got a fair bit on one wrist. (& it might have even got on my nose during my usual obsessive wrist-sniffing after I put it on)
I've been listening to the heap of audios I acquired in preparation for my new iTouch, which, somehow, Amazon is now informing me, has been lost in the mail. (Well, near enough, anyhow; they're going to call me back on Monday & if I haven't got it by then, they'll send me another one) Incredibly frustrating & disappointing, yes, especially since I've been waiting nearly a whole month for it & have been waiting years to actually get one.
But, audios! I have Situation Vacant, Nevermore, Solitare, Medicinal Purposes, Assassin in the Limelight, The Juggernauts, No Man's Land, City of Spires, Wreck of the Titan, Night's Black Agents, Legend of the Cybermen, Cobwebs & the stageplays. I've actually listened to City of Spires, Legend of the Cybermen, Solitare, Medicinal Purposes, Assassin in the Limelight, The Juggernauts & No Man's Land, along with a relisten of An Earthly Child earlier tonight.
No Man's Land was actually kind of disturbing, I have to say, but not on a Natural History of Fear level . . . it was more of a story I found very disturbing in how dark it was, rather than anything else. (& now I'm debating just how much Seven & Ace even care about Hex now) Medicinal Purposes & Assassin in the Limelight are loosely related, but I found the latter not quite as engaging as the former. It dealt with American history, which, despite bad Amercian accents, I love when the Doctor gets involved in, but . . . it just sort of left me cold. I think I preferred the conflicts between Six & Evelyn much more in Medicinal Purposes.
Also, I . . . I feel bad for saying this, but I just didn't enjoy Solitare. It didn't feel like a Companion Chronicle at all; more of a solo Charley story. I liked it in that regard, but I listen to the Companion Chronicles for - well, I suppose insight to how a companion feels about getting into scrapes & intrigue with the Doctor, or without, but . . . something about Charley's felt really, really off. It wasn't what I was expecting at all, & I wasn't impressed with the format of it, I guess - I loved the Celestial Toymaker & the Eight!doll, but I was hoping for a story. Not a full audio, I suppose.
That said . . . I ♥ the Celestial Toymaker & his creepy doll obsession, Charley's oddly adorable confusion & DOLL!EIGHT WAS LOLZ. ::pets him:: & I DIED at Nick Briggs recounting India's total creeped out-ness when she was in studio with it. I COULD JUST SEE HER FACE! ::dies:: Aww, poor India . . . I think. ::giggle::
Now I wonder if Paul saw the doll. Someone needs to find this out!
(& now I'm gigglesnorting over the idea of Paul seeing himself in ventriloquist dummy form . . . poor dear!)
& yes, I was a very bad girl & listened to City of Spires, then went right into Legend of the Cybermen - very, very bad Betsy! I couldn't help myself! THERE WAS ZOE & CYBERMEN & SIX & JAMIE & SIX & JAMIE & ZOE, I HAD TO DO IT!
If it makes anything better, I know there were bits I didn't understand due to not having heard the other two. But I wanted to save them to listen on my new iTouch. But I might end up listening to them sooner, since it's been lost. ::sigh:: Nothing's ever simple with me, alas. Ah, fuckery.
Also, I'm in a really big Eight mood for some reason. Not EDA-related, but solely audio-related. & maybe the TVM. & lots of Eight/Charley fic. & possibly some Zagreus-related fun. Hmm. Must find all of that, & quickly, if I may.
Hmm. How ironic this should happen when I'm nearly done with my silly little Eight/Fitz mix . . . thing. That I'm still not sure I should really be doing at all, because everyone I know & some that I don't know have done it all before & all far superior to what I could have done. But . . . I just like embarrassing myself, apparently, eh? ::shrugs blithely::
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I was thinking back to this silly, whimsical post I made once, what feels like eons ago today. Goodness me, I was a silly bunny, wasn't I? Silly bunny, yes, but it was a fun exercise, thinking up each of the different bedrooms that the Doctor would have in all his different regenerations. Silly & delightful!
& so, I did it with BPAL after a while.
O, honestly - I always do this! It's really too much fun. ::giggle:: It's a lovely, silly, fun little game to play that I should play more often with people!
Though it can be rather hard. One is a very hard Doctor to pick for - he's the classical gentleman of the lot! Even more than Three & Eight! So it would have to be very subtle or traditional . . . as odd as it may sound, I might actually pick something from the Phoenix Steamworks Research Facility line - perhaps No. 93 Engine or even Galvanic Goggles - I keep thinking of One working on the TARDIS controls & engines a lot, for some reason, which makes me think of mechanics. Galvanic Goggles has a hint of tobacco flowers, which would also fit him, since One is said to be the only Doctor ever seen smoking a pipe once. Though No. 93 Engine matches the idea of him working on bits of the TARDIS better. Hmm. But Velvet in the Bewitching Brews section would be welcoming & cosy for him - after all, he is a grandfather: Envelop yourself in the soft, sensual embrace of gentle sandalwood warmed by cocoa vanilla and a veil of deep myrrh. I would actually say it's a perfect match!
Two's also a bit hard, I think. Something clean, but hardly easy to pin down. Nothing too traditional either, or anything honestly flirty - whatever it is, it's very quiet, yet memorable, like Two himself. Perhaps 51 from the Wanderlust collection: Luminescent, glowing, and otherworldly: green mandarin, neroli, honeydew, white amber, guava, freesia, white and green musks hovering over desert scrub, smashed wood, and the dry, biting scent of night air over the Groom Lake salt flats. It could be slightly overpowering, but if worn lightly, could be perfect!
Though he's also a very Zen space beatnik, so perhaps he'd enjoy Kathmandu: The scent of sacred incense swirling up the steep slopes to Swayambhunath Stupa. Saffron, blessed sandalwood, Himalayan cedar and the miraculous lotus of the Buddha with chiuri bark and Nepalese spices.
Of course . . . maybe he prefers Glasgow, to tease certain hot-blooded young Highlanders that he knows . . .
Three's a bit easier, but o, so many choices for him! Once again, something Steamworks-oriented would be perfect for him, what with all the TARDIS tinkering & scientific mechanics that his work on Earth entails. But with Three, one can go a bit over the top, since he's one of our three dandy Doctors - so he needs something a bit powerful & mysterious. Possibly the The Robotic Scarab for a gentleman scientist: Polished metallic notes, glossy leather, frankincense, star anise, and thin lubricating oils. Or maybe even Rome: Refined, austere and graceful. A recipe gleaned from Classical Rome: cypress, juniper, chamomile and rose. I'm not so sure about the rose, though . . . a bit too feminine, possibly. But refined & graceful are very Three indeed!
Four . . . now how do you encapsulate space bohemianism in scent form? Well, I'm certainly looking up the right perfumer to do so! Strangely enough, however, I find myself feeling that perhaps Miskatonic University would also work very well for him - the Doctor, in any form, loves his books, after all.
Five, surprisingly, is my favourite to ponder this question for - I want to give him something from the Mad Tea Party collection! Might I suggest either Mad Hatter (A gentlemen's lavender-citron cologne unhinged by the feral pungence of black musk and a paroxysm of pennyroyal.) or March Hare (A twisted teatime tart: apricot and sweet clove.)?
(seeeecretly . . . I feel that when he was the Doctor, Peter Davison would have made the perfect boy!Alice. He had the innocent little face & sweet demeanour for it. Boy!Alice!)
Six is - o, Six may be a bit hard, now. I have a bit of a silly notion of Six seeing himself as a bit of a ladies' man, though I know that honestly, he probably doesn't, but either way, Six is the dandy Doctor who needs a bold, charming number to match his fashion sense, of course. Believe it or not, I could see Six enjoying Wilde from Bewitching Brews: A sophisticated traditional gentleman's cologne, with just the slightest taint of patchouli's passion, tonka bean's decadence, the philanthropy of bergamot, moss' cynicism, the sharp wit of lavender, and the hopeless romantic longing of jasmine and thyme. He is, after all, the most poetic & wittiest of the Doctor's regenerations. So it's only fitting that he should wear something named after one of the wittiest men to ever walk the Earth.
Seven's BPAL is almost terrifying to contemplate - I think of him as the darkest of all eleven of the Doctor, after all & he can frighten me quite well in his audios. You'd think I might try something from A Picnic in Arkham, but no. Not for Seven. Seven gets a scent from the Ars Moriendi catalogue - the funeral oils. I offer for him Thanatopsis: A meditation upon death. Inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem. A deep, solomn earthen scent containing pine, juniper and musk. It brought to mind some of the things he says in Night Thoughts, which, barring Zagreus & The Natural History of Fear is one of the most frightening audios I've ever heard.
& speaking of Zagreus . . . o, yes, I'll admit it, trying to select just the right BPAL for Eight was the most fun of this whole exercise. It was utterly fun, but gah! it was also very hard! Something romantic, but not over the top or too outrageous, something somewhat dark, but not so frightening, & yet, playful & whimsical, as Eight often is. I found myself tempted to suggest Vicomte de Valmont (. . . Based on an 18th century gentlemen's cologne: ambergris, white musk, white sandalwood, Spanish Moss, orange blossom, three mints, jasmine, rose geranium and a spike of rosemary.), but I worry it's a bit much for Eight.
In one of my favourite Eight&Charley audios, I do believe Charley says he smells like tea at one point. (o swoon!!), so perhaps The Dormouse would fit Eight well: A dizzying eddy of four teas brushed with light herbs and a breath of peony. That's very Eight, is it not?
(as a side note of fangirlishness, one of the limited editions just released for Halloween & entitled Gothic Literature, Vol, I contains a blend called The Byronic Antihero & is described as 'An aristocratic cologne of titanic passions, moody and brooding. This scent is dark with disillusionment and cynicism: a Victorian fougère and a dashing carnation boutonnière tainted by a cloud of khus, yew, and patchouli.' I . . . THAT'S ZAGREUS IN A BOTTLE, I SWEAR. ::keels over from happy lust:: & yes, I'm debating whether or not I should buy a bottle of it. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT OF ME WITH A TITLE LIKE THAT?!)
Nine, I actually just associate with leather, but I'm sure there's something for him as well! Why not Darkness? Bottled gloom; the essence of oblivion. Blackest opium and narcissus deepened by myrrh. Leather yes, but he did just blow up an entire planet one regeneration ago. So he can have a gloomy scent.
(a side note: I actually have Darkness, but it just didn't work on my skin. It smelt too much like generic perfume, so it's in the trade pile.)
Ten . . . now it shouldn't be a secret that I absolutely hate Ten for many different reasons, but for the sake of the game & the exercise, he can have one. I don't promise it won't be unbiased, however.
Hmm. For the self-proclaimed Time Lord Victorious, the destroyer of worlds (perhaps the only thing I would ever agree with Davros upon), the last of the Time Lords, I offer up Faustus: An infusion of incalculable power and irresistible temptation. Truly an exercise in megalomania and self-gratification: frankincense and cinnamon, darkened by violet.
One day, I'll figure out something for Eleven. Promise. ::beams:: For now, I'm feeling quite weary & am longing to retire to bed. Goodnight all,