BPAL order

[annwfyn]

I have now spent money on BPAL courtesy of ebay.

I have many little vials of interesting scents arriving, hopefully by the start of next week.

I have ordered:

• Jazz Funeral, which is apparently bittersweet bay rum, bourbon, and a host of funeral flowers with a touch of graveyard dirt, magnolia and Spanish Moss.



• Dublin, which, I am told, is the scent of misty forests, damp alder leaf, and the gentlest touch of white rose.



• Sensual, decadent, and enigmatic Paris. It is made up of lavender, softly underscored by lotus and spice.



• Queen Of Sheba, whose scent is a bounty of golden honeyed almonds and a whisper of African and Middle Eastern spices.



• Baneberry, which is a poisonous fruit-bearing member of the buttercup family. The scent, like the plant, is dark green, herbal, and plump with bulging black fruit.



• Morella, made up of sage with orris, Florentine iris and a drop of civet.



• Queen Mab, which claims to be 's very complex scent, both shadowy and fierce', made up of black orchid, sandalwood, night-blooming jasmine, osmanthus, Somalian rose, and Chinese musk.



• Masabakes, which has a long blurb which tells me that Masabakes is a Cantabrian demoness that governs lustfulness and lechery. In order to tempt virgins to corruption she employs the aid of her lackey, the imp Tentirujo. Under the cover of magickal invisibility, the imp caresses maidens with mandrake root, instilling uncontrollable passion and wantonness in the unsuspecting girls. Thick black currant with the darkest, deepest myrrh, a drop of bitter mimosa and the slightest touch of mandrake dust.



• Jester, which is huckleberry and red currant with the incisive bite of neroli.



• Red Queen, which comes from the Alice in Wonderland collection (but is sadly not the Cheshire Cat) and is apparently made up of deep mahogany and rich, velvety woods lacquered with sweet, black-red cherries and currant.



• Kumiho, which is apparently a sharp, biting blend of crisp white tea and ginger.

I wants them all to arrive now! I wants them! I wants them!

*dances impatiently*

My current prediction is that the myrrh based scent - masabakes - will work on me, as I've always loved myrrh based oils in the past. I don't think the lighter, more floral ones will do much for me, and I have no idea what a scent based on bourbon and graveyard dirt will smell like at all!

I am also growing tragically addicted to the rather purple prosey description of the BPAL oils. I know it's mostly a marketing ploy, but it did keep me reading the bpal website for a large chunk of the early evening. I now want to work my way through their Alice in Wonderland section. How could I not buy a perfume named after the Cheshire Cat?

Comments

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I have loads of BPAL reviews in my memories :) Queen of Sheba, to me, smells like sugared almonds; snapesbabe thinks it's like Lush's Snowflake soap ("lovely, but it made [her] sneeze") :)

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I've just been looking at them. It's really interesting the extent to which people have these radically different views of the same scents. lanfykins and slappersire seem to have had diametrically opposed experiences of 'come to me', for example.

Like I said, I think myrrh works on my skin, but I've really not got a clue with much else. Hence the mass number of imps, which I can then send to run wild and free if they don't suit.

[blueberrycowboy.livejournal.com]

I've just checked the bpal site out and I'm very intrigued. How does it work? You just dab a bit on, or do you have to mix it with something to make perfume?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

You just dab it on, and get interesting smells. Is very very cool.

[blueberrycowboy.livejournal.com]

Damn... you're going to make me order something, I just know it.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

You can get a load on e bay, although it's then very random what you get. I'm thinking about an international order, but only if this lot go well. But some of the scents described on their main website just sound so very very interesting...

[blueberrycowboy.livejournal.com]

They do indeed. Plus it'd be nice for someone to ask "What are you wearing?" And for you to answer "Why, it's called Hellfire."

[cage-this.livejournal.com]

I now want to work my way through their Alice in Wonderland section. How could I not buy a perfume named after the Cheshire Cat?

gasp! I might have to check out this 'BPAL' sounds cool =D

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Black Phoenix Alchemy Laboratories. Google for them and you'll find the website. They are quite shiney.