BPAL reviews -- clearing out the imp backlog a bit.

[cadhla]

As I study my shelves, I realize that I have a great deal of BPAL that's never actually been reviewed. This needs to be corrected, if only so that I will know which of the many, many imps currently cluttering my BPAL collection are safe to get rid of. And some of them need to go. They're threatening to overflow the bowl I store them in. Review

Comments

[kyrielle]

Rose...dipped...weasels. EW.

[nimitzbrood]

It's just cool to say for some reason...

My IM status now says "Rose-dipped weasels are eating my eyeballs!". ;-)

[netpositive]

I was able to control myself when it was just rose-dipped weasels, and even when they started cavorting on her skin, but *moldy* rose-dipped weasels? Caused the fun pain of that type of laughter which is only silent because the unsuspecting mouth was too firmly closed when the laughter began unexpectedly.

[ceosanna]

Your BPAL reviews make me giggle.

[alemya]

As a friend of mine commented when he read these reviews - "Rose-dipped Weasels? That sounds like an AWESOME band name."

As a note, Tombstone smells kind of like a hot, humid night in a New Orleans cemetery. If that cemetary had been filled with dead versions of the "Time to Make the Donuts" guy. And each one was buried with a second casket filled with rotting donuts. The notes don't simply blend. The put you on the teacups ride, crank it to ten, break the console, then walk away laughing.

[tikiera]

Huh.

On me, Tombstone is the smell of a vanilla rootbeer float - with good rootbeer, the kind you get where a place makes it own homemade - out in the middle of nowhere - the smell of woods and wood, a summer's day.

[alemya]

Oddly, the scent changed even more after it dried. I had a wet scent (graveyard with undertones of sweet), a dry scent (dear God, it's the Candyland Cemetary, where they buried all the dead candy), and a super-dry scent which was, kind of like you mentioned, root beer. It reminds me of standing smack in the middle of an A&W store with just a hint of leaves in the background.

[tikiera]

Tombstone is one of the ones that puzzle me - no one that I have talked to gets the rich, good scent I do.

It's very complex. It's a good vanilla, like a good bourbon vanilla paste (Trader's Joe's kind) instead of a cheap vanilla extract - and then there is ROOT BEER - homemade, dark, rich. The root beer settles down to a base note, rich, creamy, goodness - and then some moss, some ferny smell, and then lots of fir and wood - summer wood - dry, but not yet decayed - and the wood scent is NOT fir or pine. It's also not oak, and I can't place what it is. But it's a very rich scent, and the root beer isn't that sweet.

And I have smelled someone who wore it and it was all just very bad handcrafted ROOT BEER with plasticy fake vanilla.

[arseaboutface]

If you like Debauchary and I still have my imp, you're welcome to it. I wasn't a big fan of the stuff.

[keristor]

Rose-dipped weasels are cavorting on my skin

Oh. My.

I am /so/ glad I wasn't at work reading this, they would have thought I was seriously in pain. Apart from the giggles.

BPAL ought to pay you to be a tester and write reviews...