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riverdresses

Meow! BPAL!

Aug 31, 2010 08:17

Early morning browsing about on Flickr because I'm not going to work today! ♥

(I'm keeping vigil for my iTouch, which Amazon said should be here today. If not, they're in trouble! ::shakes fist::)

I'm planning a bit of a BPAL spree this weekend & with luck, it seems that Dark Delights still has the Summer Blockbusters & Great Duets in Horror ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

infinitejoys August 31 2010, 15:29:07 UTC

I probably have a bias, because when I read descriptions on the BPAL site, I tend to shy away from scents that have funereal things in their descriptions (caskets, coffins, grave dust...). What do those smell like, anyway?

The Byronic Antihero does sound rather masculine, I agree, but oh, I love the description.

riverdresses September 1 2010, 14:11:03 UTC

Well, their dust note is rather good, I think - another oil I like is Miskatonic University, which has notes of wood & dust in it - think of an old library & a bit of Irish Coffee & you'll know just how it smells - wonderful! So I would surmise that a casket or coffin note would be a sort of wood-scented one, which I like.

& if you're not as fond of funeral-themed scents, you might not want to look at the Ars Moriendi catalogue - it's ALL funeral-themed oils. (but there are some nice greens & florals there, particularly two of my favourites, The Ghost & The Phantom Wooer.)

I'm in love with that description - wonderfully evocative! & I'm convinced that Zagreus would probably wear The Byronic Antihero, which probably helps in my mad adoration of it. :P

kisstheviolets August 31 2010, 22:32:01 UTC

I have Giallo, it's lovely!
&I absolutely adore the Halloween update on the BPAL site - I must admit I splashed out quite a bit & ordered rather a few!
Bpal is love, indeed! ♥

riverdresses September 1 2010, 14:14:12 UTC

Giallo is looking to be the one I might get! It sounds just wonderful!
Eeeeee, do tell, what did you order? I'm so curious!
I ♥ BPAL so - I don't know if I could wear anything else. :D

kisstheviolets September 1 2010, 20:53:40 UTC

I splurged quite a bit! I ordered bottles of: Boo, Ghoulish, Lambs Wool, Punkie Night, Samhain, Sugar Skull, the Pomegranate Grove (I to V) & The Infernal Lover; and decants of almost everything else!
BPAL is my big luxury >

westminster_son September 1 2010, 02:06:30 UTC

I'm voting Giallo too - I've tried German Expressionist Horror and it's really very dark and masculine. Too dark even for me, which is saying a lot :p I haven't tried Giallo personally but I hear a lot of people love it :)

I voted The Madwoman mostly because I did hear the Byronic Antihero is going to be quite blokey and more cologne-like, especially with the Victorian fougère. I considered The Unsavory Grave-Diggers for myself but have recently heard it's mostly really heavy on the booze with just a bit of greenery . . . I don't really know if that's something I want to smell like. There's a wee bit of booze in one of my favourites, Mr. Hyde, but I've also tried BPAL scents heavier on the booze and they always smell like I'm an alcoholic :p Also, the cloth and sandalwood notes in Madwoman sound very pretty :)

riverdresses September 1 2010, 14:27:21 UTC

After sleeping on it (& reading your comment yesterday!), I'm ninety-nine percent certain that I'll go with Giallo - it's so full-bodied & voluptuous, in composition to J-Horror, which is so delightfully chilly & spectral.

I'm a bit sad that German Expressionist Horror is THAT dark & masculine - but then again, so are German expressionist horror films! :P Ah, well - Herbert West isn't getting worn much either & that's so light, so I probably wouldn't be wearing any of German Expressionist Horror.

You know, The Madwoman reminds me of the currently unavailable Antique Lace - I believe that one has cloth notes to it as well. But I adore it all on its own merits, however. :D

BOOO! Another strikeout with The Byronic Antihero? :( But thankyou for letting me know; once again, I rarely wear Herbert West, so I probably wouldn't even wear The Byronic Antihero at all & it would have been a bit of a waste. (but I do hope you'll try it! You're just the kind of fellow who should wear it. :D) It's also a little sad that The Unsavory Grave- ( ... )

westminster_son September 2 2010, 02:02:40 UTC

If I was a girl I'd definitely try Giallo, it sounds brilliant :D

My mum has a bottle of Antique Lace! I bought it for her in my first BPAL order, and two weeks later it was discontinued. What luck :P It's sort of creamy, soft, vanilla kind of cloth . . . I think Madwoman might be similar!

I'm somewhat torn on whether to get one of the Gothic Horrors. It's usually that I like the story / theme of one but then there's always one note or two that really make me worry! With Byronic Antihero it's the carnation, which is often very intense on me, and the victorian fougère is sometimes to lemony. Howl in the Darkness, I only just realized, has mint, another failure on me . . . I like the theme of Ecclesiastical Excesses, but the rose! Though I'm still considering it, because sometimes, sometimes the rose works. The Unsavory Grave-Diggers I'm still considering. I really want to like it, because I'm anticipating John Landis' new movie after long years of semi-retirement, Burke and Hare, and it's of course their story. I like the oak and ( ... )