A bit about lovely-smelling things
smellsgood is proving to be a lot of fun, even though I think I still haven't put on any BPAL since the community was created, and I'm mostly lurking.
I did, however, create an account at ScentBase, although I've only recorded three or four scents from my collection there so far. (It may not be the best tracking-your-perfume-collection site out there; someone on the comm. linked it, and I went and looked and signed up.) If any of you have an account there, let me know! Or if you're on a different site for tracking your stash, feel free to sell me on switching! I doubt I'll have a chance to update my scents list very quickly at all, given everything else that's going on, so switching to a different site wouldn't undo hours of work or anything at this point.
Or, you know, feel free to create an account and add me! ^_- That would work too.
In the last week or so I've been making a concerted effort to actually use some of the Lush haul from a few weeks ago, as well as some Lush things I'd forgotten I had. So far it's all bath-specific stuff (the kittens are very intrigued), and I think I'm going to have to ask around to see if anyone on the comm. (or here? Chime in if you know!) knows of BPAL scents that might smell similar to a couple of them. Specifically, the scents I'd love to wear for longer than it takes for them to fade post-shower are the Whoosh shower jelly, which is all citrusy and awesome (and makes me want to order the online-only Back for Breakfast shower gel--and Lush being Lush, shower gels and shower jellies bear essentially no resemblance to each other), and the Twilight shower gel, which seems to be a recurring limited edition? I'm seeing older versions/packaging online that say it's lavender and malt, primarily, but the one I have is lavender and tonka. Anyway, it's not currently available (although its bath bomb equivalent/namesake is), but I really like it.
That said,
wildpear has a lavender allergy (unless in my much-too-tired state I'm misremembering her allergy trigger), so even if I find a similar match, I'd want to be cautious with it. So that means I'm hoping that the part of it I especially like is the tonka. *g*
*pokes BPAL spreadsheet* Apparently the only BPAL I have that include tonka are:
--Mata Hari (Bewitching Brews line - "Five roses with soft jasmine, warmed by vanilla, fig, tonka bean and mahogany, spiced with a drop of coffee bean")
--Old Scratch (Excolo line - "A lavender fougere with tonka, amber, rosewood and a whiff of diabolical patchouli")
--Lover's Parodies of Sumo Holds (Lupercalia/The Salon LE - "Tangerine, pikaki, tonka, ti leaf, jasmine, opoponax, and benzoin"; also ack! at the apostrophe placement), and
--Love in the Asylum (Dylan Thomas LE - "Two roses, tolu balsam and ambergris with vanilla, labdanum, tobacco leaf, carnation and tonka"). Love in the Asylum is one of the very first BPAL scents I ever acquired/tried--I think my imp dates back to 2006--and all I can remember of it is that it smelled Very Perfumey and I think gave me a bit of a headache.
Backtracking! When the No Drought dry shampoo appeared on my Lush haul list, I told
lunabee34 I'd report back! I've used it twice now, and might wind up using it a lot more than I expected, since if it helps me wash my hair more like once a week than twice, that'll obviously help my dye color stay longer. (I've been dyeing my hair red almost constantly since the last '90s, not counting the period in the middle when I switched to henna for a few years, and I still can't believe how fast red fades! >.<)
The first time I used it I wound up washing my hair normally the next day, so that didn't tell me much about how long the effect holds up; the second time was this morning, and I won't be shampooing my hair until Saturday at the earliest, so that'll give me a better idea, but so far I'd say it works pretty well. It doesn't make my hair feel freshly washed, but it makes it look and feel about the same as day-after-shampooing (which is pretty good; again, I usually wash my hair every four days or so).
I think it smells pretty good, too--apparently I really like citrus in my Lush!--but the smell fades really fast. (Or, to be fair, today it may have been drowned out by the combo of Whoosh, Twilight, and shaving gel that followed it in my shower.) And it brushes out just fine, rather than making my hair look like my scalp's flaking (which is good, 'cause that's one of the bazillion things I'm neurotic about).
For context on the brushing-out, my hair is currently in a bob, and it's apparently quite thick but so fine you would never think so, and the dust shows up clearly on the red before I brush it. I've been brushing the powder out with a boar-bristle brush, followed by a quick combing-out.
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