BPAL - Wishlist
The REALLY, REALLY Wants
Rangoon Riptide: Pineapple, mandarin orange, raspberry, passion fruit, and rum.
Category: Atomic Luau Lounge (LE)
Shango: The Master of Lightning’s ofrenda contains red apples, banana, chili pepper, coconut, pineapple, pomegranate and sugar cane.
Category: Excolo
The major wants
Centzon Totochtin: The Four Hundred divine rabbits of the Aztec pantheon that preside over parties and drunkenness. Bittersweet Mexican cocoa with rum, red wine, and a scent redolent of sacrificial blood.
Category: Excolo
Jack: The scent of warm, glowing jack o'lanterns on a warm autumn night: true Halloween pumpkin, spiced with nutmeg, glowing peach and murky clove.
Category: Bewitching Brews
Mictecacihuatl: Known as the Mistress of Bones and the Lady of the Dead, she is the Queen of Mictlan, the Aztec Underworld, who still presides over today's Day of the Dead rituals. Sometimes known now as La Huesuda, she brings peace and joy to the spirits of the deceased, and blesses the living who do honor to those who have passed before them. Copal, precious woods, South American spices, agave nectar, cigar tobacco, and roses.
Category: Halloweenie 2008 (LE)
SPIDER: White ginger, artemesia, vetiver, nutmeg, King mandarin, bergamot, and lime.
Category: Neil Gaiman (The Carousel)
Te Po: Jamaican rum, almond liquor, orange water, sugar syrup, lime peel, black cherry, vodka, and mint.
Category: Atomic Luau Lounge (LE)
TEZCATLIPOCA: Deep cocoa laced with patchouli, leather armor, ritual incense, and a touch of Xochiquetzal’s flowers.
Category: Excolo
Xiuhtecuhtli: Patron of the Aztec pantheon, he is the personification of light within darkness, warmth in the cold, and life in, and after, death. He is a creative and destructive God of Fire and Light, and is appeased only by sacrifice, trial, and the slaughter of his people’s enemies. Copal, plumeria and sweet orange and the smoke of South American incense and crushed jungle blooms.
Category: Excolo
The moderate wants
ABSINTHE: Fall under the spell of our Green Fairy! An intoxicating blend containing wormwood essence, light mints, cardamom, anise, hyssop, and the barest hint of lemon.
Category: Bewitching Brews
AKUMA: Devilish temptation, as sweet as sin: blood orange, neroli, and raspberry.
Category: Diabolus
BAOBHAN SITH: The ghostly White Women of the Scottish highlands. They seduce unwary travelers by night with their unearthly beauty and mesmerizing dancing. They engage their victims in a wild, hypnotic dance, and once they reach exhaustion, exsanguinate their partners with their vampiric kiss. Grapefruit, white tea, apple blossom and ginger.
Category: Diabolus
CATHERINE: Named for the ambitious, vengeful poisoner Catherine deMedici, who used perfumes to perform her dark deeds. A sinful blend of orange blossom, rosemary and rose... allegedly the exact perfume she utilized in her work.
Category: Diabolus
Drink Me: However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
Category: Mad Tea Party
Mama-Ji: Spices, cardamom, nutmeg, and flowers.
Category: Neil Gaiman (The Carousel)
Mr Nancy: Sugar cookies with bay rum, tobacco, and lime.
Category: Neil Gaiman (The Carousel)
PLUNDER: The scent of a pirate's bumboat, overflowing with stolen wares: tea leaf, cassia, cinnamon bark, clove, allspice, sandalwood, tobacco, peppercorn, and nutmeg.
Category: Bewitching Brews
WRATH: A scent aflame with rage, swirling in the red haze of hatred: dragon's blood spiked with black pepper, clove, and cinnamon.
Category: Sin and Salvation
The lesser wants
51: 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.
Category: Wanderlust
Chimera: The fiery, volatile scent of cinnamon, thickened by myrrh, honeysuckle, and copal.
CROQUET: We have some trouble managing our flamingos, too. Pink lime, pink grapefruit, white nectarine, wild rose, sage, woody patchouli, bergamot, and ornery hedgehog musk.
Category: Mad Tea Party
CTHULHU: A creeping, wet, slithering scent, dripping with seaweed, oceanic plants and dark, unfathomable waters.
Category: A Picnic in Arkham
DANUBE: Rhododendron and bellflower petals swirl through deep, cool, dark aquatic notes.
Category: Wanderlust
ENVY: Green herbs slithering through mint, lime and lavender.
Category: Sin and Salvation
GLASGOW: The rich scent of wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather.
Category: Wanderlust
INTRIGUE: A sultry, exotic scent that inspires devious plotting and clandestine affairs. It is a scent painted in artifice, veiled in deceit, and slithering with whispered secrets. Black palm, with cocoa, fig and shadowy wooded notes.
Category: Bewitching Brews
KYOTO: A gentle, soothing blend of cherry blossom, white sandalwood and star anise.
Category: Wanderlust
Miskatonic University: The scent of Irish coffee, dusty tomes and polished oakwood halls.
Category: A Picnic in Arkham
Monster Bait: Underpants: sexy sugar-smeared saffron sandalwood over lickable vanilla cream with a splash of butter rum. (Yes, I know this is uber-rare and has a legendary status, but a woman can dream!)
Morgause: Earth sorceress and mother of Mordred, she is, in essence, the harbinger of King Arthur's doom and the downfall of Camelot. She is a sister, or sister-self, to Morgan Le Fay. A bouquet of five night-blooming flowers deepened by dusky violet, purple fruits and the barest breath of medieval incenses.
Category: Bewitching Brews
Night-Gaunt: Their scent of their slick, rubbery hides is bittersweet, ticklish, and skin-creeping: something akin to yuzu, white grapefruit, and kumquat mixed with the snow-dusted flowers of Mount Ngranek.
Category: A Picnic in Arkham
Obatala: Obatala’s ofrenda is soft, white and pure: milk, coconut meat, shea butter and cool, refreshing water.
Category: Excolo
OTHELLO: Arabian musk with two roses and a bevy of Middle Eastern and Indian spices.
Category: Illyria
Persephone: Beautiful, radiant daughter of Demeter... her loveliness was so exquisite that even Hell itself could not resist her. Pomegranate and rose.
Category: Excolo
SATURNALIA: Unrestrained revelry, unchained licentiousness! Violet deepened with vetiver.
Category: Ars Amatoria
SERPENTS WITH GLITTERING EYES AND FORKY TONGUES: Serpentine green herbs, glistening red currant, sparkling yellow lemon rind, green musk, lime, and snakeskin.
Category: Marchen
SHATTERED: A scent as sharp as glass shards, and as brittle as a broken heart. The formula came to me - quite literally - in a dream, and is named after, and created in memory of, the last poem that I ever wrote… almost ten years ago to the day. A blend of white champagne notes, grapefruit, lotus, slivered mint and crystalline aquatic blooms.
Category: Bewitching Brews
SHANGHAI: The crisp, clean scent of green tea touched with lemon verbena and honeysuckle.
Category: Wanderlust
SUCCUBUS: The scent of their skin is bittersweet, dusky and terminally seductive. Mimosa, orange blossom, neroli and bergamot with a drop of sweet clove.
Category: Ars Amatoria
The Ifrit: Desert sand, red musk, blackened ginger, dragon's blood resin, black pepper, cinnamon, and tobacco.
Category: Neil Gaiman (The Carousel)
Yemaya: Her ofrenda is a bounty of melons and grapes, strewn with the petals of the flowers of motherhood, draped with sea mosses.
Category: Excolo