Well I started to write a long-winded and whiny post about how craptacular the past few days have been, but I decided that sharing my misery with y'all won't make me feel any better, it will only make me sound long-winded and whiny. So take my word for it, it's been a rough week.
But on the bright side, today was BPAL lunar update. yay! I ordered:
5 ml Fruit Moon: "The bountiful, bright and vivacious prelude to the Harvest. A horde of wet, ripe fruits: green apple, apricot, blackberry, black cherry, black and red currants, cantaloupe, English pear, guava, lemon and lime, orange, mandarin orange, kiwi and mango, passion fruit, papaya, Georgia peach, raspberry, plum, tangerine, pomegranate and strawberry over a luminous blend of lunar oils." I'm leery of the blackberry and black cherry being listed first. I tried Lady Macbeth, which is grape and blackberry, and it was awful on me. But maybe with so many fruits the blackberry won't be so overwhelming. And if it doesn't work for me I'll have no trouble selling it.
5 ml Numb: "This icy blend was something that we were saving for the upcoming [not soon enough!] winter months, but since Brian and I watched the thermometer slap 107 today, we decided that thereç—´ no better time than the present to introduce a singularly chilly, delectably ice-rimmed perfume. Revel in the gelid polar frostiness that is Numb, and forget about the heat for a moment." Sounds wonderful! I only wish we could get it now, not 2 months from now when it isn't so hot anymore.
5 ml Oneroi: "Soporific, dark and unfathomable: a somnambular blend of deep lavender, white sandalwood, jasmine, bergamot and mugwort." I've been wearing this to sleep at night and loving it. I'm going to be crushed when my imp runs out! I should have ordered a bottle immediately.
6 imps:
- Hesperides: "Sturdy oak bark, dew-kissed leaves, twilight mist and crisp apple." I'm searching for an everyday autumn scent that I'll love as much as I love Embalming Fluid in summer.
- Hamadryad: "Seven dry woods with mossy lichen and a gentle breeze of forest flowers." Another possible autumn scent. People describe it as smelling cinnamony.
- Phantasm: "This delicate, spectral perfume gives rise to an eerie distortion of of the senses. It bestows an ephemeral, ghostly, and truly haunting quality to your presence. Green tea, lemon verbena, jasmine and neroli." I tried this at the sniffing party.
- Temple of Dreams: "For use when working with the many Gods of Sleep, Dreams, and Nightmares." The plan is to try all the somnium blends eventually.
- Black Tower: "Long-dead soldiers, oath-bound; the perfume of their armor, the chill wind that surges through their tower, white bone and blackened steel: white sandalwood, ambergris, wet ozone, galbanum and leather with ebony, teak, burnt grasses, English ivy and a hint of red wine." A new catalog scent. I love white sandalwood, and the wine and leather in Wanda worked so well for me, I'm hoping this will too.
- Bengal: "A sultry and unruly blend that emulates the ambient scent of the markets in ancient Bengal: skin musk with honey, peppers, clove, cinnamon bark and ginger." Another new one. I hope it doesn't end up smelling incensy, because it sounds divine.
i'm psyched for fruit moon and numb, but i'm going to wait to hear some reviews before i go for bengal . . . although i do love the clove scents! i've also been dying to try hesperides so i'm looking forward to seeing what you think of it.
I will be interested to know how the Black Tower is, seems like it would be up my alley, since I get along with grass scents (Scarecrow is one of my favorites), sandlewood, ambergris, and alcholic notes- not sure how they would all work in combo.
Thinking about Bengal too, although in my case I sort of hope that it smells incensy.(Sri Lanka is my newest love in this category)
If they come up again, you may want to try Samhain and Mabon for fall scents. Samhain is a bit like pumpkin pie shoved into fall leaves (minus the peach note that Jack has). Mabon starts out smelling like cherry beer but seems to give way to a more outside fall smell.
Oddly enough I also associate Baron Samedi with fall scents, because it smells like the "Autumn Leaves" candles at Yankee Candle. It can be a bit too masculine for some folks, though.
Hoping my Carnivale Noir scents start arriving soon. I ordered Geek and Medicine show on one order, Torture King and Bed of Nails on the other.
-Bree
Sorry to hear it's been a rough week!
Loved the update too. I didn't order Fruit Moon (most fruits tend to be iffy on me, I find) but I did order one bottle of Numb, as well as some CN and some catalogue scents.
Like you, I wish Numb would arrive in time for the hot weather, like a month ago... Oh well, I'll just have to hoard it for next year I guess.
I ordered an imp or Oneiroi in my first order, which should arrive in about 3 weeks... starting to wonder if I shouldn't have ordered a bottle right away too!
That reminds me, I have an imp of Somnus I haven't tried yet. Should do that in time for my next order.
I missed Fruit Moon, being out of town. If you don't like it, I might be willing to take it off your hands (purchase or decant swap), since Lady MacBeth and other berry scents generally work well for me.
Black Tower sounds as though it might be interesting. Bengal sounds as though it might be *fabulous*!
I had a meet-and-sniff over the weekend, which I'll be posting about later.