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Been trying out more of the Black Phoenix goods. Dragon's Heart was a bit of a disappointment. I expected it to be more fruity/spicy from the description. It came off as dragon's blood resin blunted down/diffused with musk, was very "perfumey" (like, say, something by Guerlain), and took about half an hour to not smell sick-sweet. I'll have to try it again at a different time of month and see if my biological happenings are doing weird things to it.
Random thought: several of my friends have, independent of each other, expressed the desire to sound "scientific" or "empirical" in talking about things that don't have a lot to do with either. My first thought is, why on earth? The reason that so many laypeople try to make their ideas sound like research and end up with results that vary from confusing to hilariously terrible is that, generally speaking, laypeople aren't interested in, hence don't know what scientists have to say. They don't actually read published research, and they require one or more journalists or popular authors to (badly) translate and re-translate it before it becomes fit for their consumption. That doesn't seem like a level of credibility anyone would want to emulate to me.
Random thought: several of my friends have, independent of each other, expressed the desire to sound "scientific" or "empirical" in talking about things that don't have a lot to do with either. My first thought is, why on earth? The reason that so many laypeople try to make their ideas sound like research and end up with results that vary from confusing to hilariously terrible is that, generally speaking, laypeople aren't interested in, hence don't know what scientists have to say. They don't actually read published research, and they require one or more journalists or popular authors to (badly) translate and re-translate it before it becomes fit for their consumption. That doesn't seem like a level of credibility anyone would want to emulate to me.