Totally OVFF topic: here's SATURDAY (daytime).

[cadhla]

Waking up Saturday morning and still being able to talk -- I regularly thrash my voice by talking too much during my Friday night Improv Workshop, which was canceled this year for reason of 'the instructor is so not in the physical place necessary for crawling around on the floor pretending to be a hermit crab' -- was a little bit surreal. Surreal

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[herefox]

I've had to tell myself no more BPAL until I finish at least one bottle that I have or at least give one of the 'do not want that much' things away. Sometimes I wish I had a second opinion when I get a new one though, I usually sniff at them and do the, "Well, I think I like it?"

Except for anything with musk, (Do not want to smell like randy goat. It is not appealing. I have to keep reminding myself when I think of an new one "Well, it couldn't be that bad, could it? All the rest of it sounds awesome") and white rabbit, which on me smelled like playdoh. I wear nothing that might make me devoured by a horde of toddlers.

[vixyish]

I still don't have much BPAL, but I do have an awful lot for someone who has never actually *bought* from them herself. :)

What I find utterly fascinating is the different scents that different people wind up with out of the same bottle. Trick or Treat (candy corn) becomes, on me, the *exact* scent of how I smell after I've just spent a few hours painting slightly lemony sugar cookies with lots of little bowls of powdered-sugar-and-milk frosting. One of the Pumpkin Patch ones, which is supposed to smell like some kind of pumpkin cake, when applied to me turns into-- no lie, I have two witnesses-- apple pie. These transformations are just fascinating.

I need to look up the do-not-wants that I took from Merav & Seanan, and the ones Seanan gave me; I want to compare what the site says they contain vs. what they smell like on me. I cannot imagine, for instance, that the Mock Turtle one is actually *meant* to smell like very subtle, soft apples.

But then, I guess 'alchemy' is right there in the name... :)

[vixyish]

...oh huh, I guess it does contain apple. I was expecting it to be more like some of their sea-creature scents.

Anyway, I've gotta get me some Drink Me. On me it smelled like OH GOD YES.

...yeah, I think they've got me. :)

[elisem]

On me it smelled like OH GOD YES.

*grin*

One night when Heather Corinna and I were testing the entire Carnival Noir, she put something on her arm, sniffed, sniffed again more deeply, and gave what has become our BPAL High Accolade: "OHMYGOD I WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH MY ARM."

[singlemaltsilk]

"I caught about half of Marty's concert, although I missed her acapella setting of one of my Iron Poet pieces, which made me sad. (Hopefully I can hear it sometime later."

Do not want to make The Blonde sad. Will sing it for you whenever we are together next :)

[cadhla]

Yay!

[kyrielle]

*grins* Yay!

[cadhla]

Sneaksy sneaksy yous.

(Like, the package arrived as I was packing. Which is why the radio silence. Next up: squealing.)

[kyrielle]

I'm just glad it didn't arrive after you'd left! I had visions of it managing to vanish before you even got it. ;) I'm glad that didn't happen. And I look forward to hearing if any of them worked good on you. *crosses fingers* :)

[kitanzi]

Just for the record, you may not have noticed but "Larissa in the lobby in the morning at OVFF" is ALWAYS a theme. This is because I wake up roughly 4-6 hours before almost everyone else in filkdom (with the exception of some folks with small babies - I ate breakfast with Melissa every day last year, as I recall), so that's a good place to lie on the couch, read a book, and watch for people to show up. I can generally be found there in the morning, if you're looking for me.

[cadhla]

Oh, I know! :) But me in the lobby with Larissa isn't as common, since normally, when I wake up that early, I'm either running laps around the second floor or doing Richard Simmons in one of the open function rooms (all hail the laptop DVD player).

[markbernstein]

It's possible that this is the memo you missed. I mean, who could look at that can and not think, "Seanan must have this!"?

[cadhla]

...you know, I think you're right.