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The first breath of Umbra screams “Crunchy peanut butter!” “Wood!”

Then, before I know it, I’m whooshed back in time. It’s the school holidays, I’m ten years old, staying a few days at my Grandparent’s. I’m in the guest room, sitting by an old wooden chest of drawers, a little pile of tiny pink musk sweeties in my hand. I’m eating the sweets one at ( Read more... )

She smiles at you coquettishly…eyes peeking out from beneath a dark fringe, her long, black eyelashes all aflutter. You're intrigued, drawn in by a sugary sweetness and something else you can't quite define. You move in closer, closer, as if it's the most natural thing in the world to do... until you are breathing in the scent from her neck, her ( Read more... )

Next week is going to be exciting, ‘cause I’m gonna beeeeeeeee… innnnn … Hawaii!!!!

Flip!

My sister told me at the end of February that she was planning on going and asked did I want to join her. I’d just found out that week that I would have to
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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Cockaigne and Arcana Soaps Frilly Underpinnings. YUM!!!

My boss just said, "What's that perfume you're wearing?” Very curiously, which had me worried he was going to say it was hideous. Then, thankfully “It's quite nice ... But it's making me hungry, I'll have to go get some morning tea now!" It's the Cockaigne. He said he ( Read more... )

Trying to pick my diary up again, there's so many scents every day and so much going on lately, but I like seeing at least a few of what I've been wearing...will see how I go again...

For Valentines Day, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Dark Delicacies released two new BPAL scents: “A double feature tribute to B-movie sci-fi horror romance”. A very ( Read more... )

A girlfriend at work said yesterday that she's trying to stick to just the one fragrance. Need I say, that would be hell for me!

For most of the day I wore these two:

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab ~ La Fee Verte
Balthazar and Seamus are two of BPAL’s resident imps. Back in 2006, BPAL released 300 statues of each of these wee dudes. Each came with their ( Read more... )

I am going to try to do a fragrance diary for a week or so. Just very short reviews/thoughts of perfumes I'm wearing that day...and evening, if I'm diligent. I've been wanting to do this for a wee while, but this past weekend when I reorganised all my perfume oils, etailer scents and miniatures, I rediscovered a bunch I haven't worn for ages; so ( Read more... )

Well, foiled in a good way! By another etailer :D I tried to resist Villainess for a long time.
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