Another BPAL package today! yay! First I have to try Baobhan Sith. It was discontinued (along with Cheshire Cat and some others) three weeks before I started exploring BPAL. I heard it was due to bad weather messing with the grapefruit oil supply. Lee recommended it and it sounded like exactly what I wanted, so I snapped up the first imp I saw for sale on LJ.
Baobhan Sith: The ghostly White Women of the Scottish highlands. They seduce unwary travelers by night with their unearthly beauty and mesmerizing dancing. They engage their victims in a wild, hypnotic dance, and once they reach exhaustion, the demonesses exsanguinate their partners with their vampiric kiss. Talk about a quick courtship. Grapefruit, white tea, apple blossom and ginger.
In the bottle: Grapefruit.
Wet: Mainly grapefruit. Not sweet. Nice, but this phase didn稚 last long.
Drydown: The grapefruit disappeared fast (10-15 minutes!). What痴 left is a bit sweeter, is that the apple blossom? It still has the ginger to keep it crisp and not too juicy-fruity. I知 not really getting tea, but my nose probably isn稚 able to detect fine undertones yet.
Cold Moon made me fear floral. I never got those shifting tones as it blended with my body chemistry; it just sat on top of my skin and said 的 am PERFUME!� But this is predominately apple blossom after a half hour, and it痴 lovely. Maybe it痴 the 斗unar blend� (whatever that means) in Cold Moon that didn稚 work so well for me.
Lasting: Four hours later all that remained was the faintest whiff of ... play-doh? What the ?!? This is not nice.
Repurchase: It痴 kind of a moot point, but I知 not sure.
Overall: It痴 interesting to wear this the day after Embalming Fluid. They池e similar (both light scents w/ citrus and tea) but Baobhan Sith is sweeter from the apple blossom, and a little spicier from the ginger. It also faded faster, and turned into that weird play-doh scent.
I'll have to try it again and see if reapplication can stave off the play-doh effect. But if not, well at least I'm not so crushed about this being discontinued.
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hey, play-doh totally smells good!
it was a very hot day and I spent some time outside. maybe my sweat was what gave it that salty play-doh smell.
Tried Baobhan Sith again today and got no play-doh scent. Whew! Just lovely apple blossom and tea and ginger. On the downside it faded after a couple of hours. Looks like I'll run through this pretty fast, and alas I can't get any more.