Yay! (Returned from Cruise and BPAL)
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windinthemaplesThe Cruise
I've just gotten back late this afternoon from our little ten day vacation. Graeme and I went on an Alaskan cruise while Daniel was working a conference in South Africa. We, all of us, had a phenomenal time. I'll get to uploading the rest of my photos and sorting some of my must-memorialize thoughts of the trip in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I'm happy, recharged, spiritually buoyed--filled up tip to toe with magick and Goddess-Presence. Good stuff.
BPAL
After a hiatus of like three years, I'm back to the scent-ual delight of sniffing and testing the amazing perfume oils of Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. I placed a few orders before I left--with both collector/resellers and direct from the Lab itself, so I came home to a mailbox full of smelly delights. Yum! We'll see how many of these I end up keeping and what needs to be rehomed. What have you tried? What are you interested in? What's your new, latest perfume love? Let's chat, yes?
5mL Bottles
STINKY
A cure for sweaty bits and sticky wilting. Stinky is a summer refresher 'foom for people that don't dig run-of-the-mill "clean" scents: newly-washed skin with a dusting of milk, white honey, and baby powder.
SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
Doomed summer, supported on the shoulders of winter and autumn: citrus-infused Baltic amber, red valerian, marigold, blood orange, and sunflower subdued by somber myrrh and dry geranium alongside the leaves of autumn and a breath of winter wind.
LAMBS-WOOL
A popular holy day beverage in 18th century Ireland: roasted apples mashed into warmed milk and ale, with nutmeg, sugar, ginger, and clove.
PUMPKIN V (Pumpkin Patch '09)
Pumpkin, chocolate, coffee bean, vanilla bean, and hazelnut.
Imps, Decants, and other small Sniffies
GLASGOW (Lab Order)
The rich scent of wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather.
THE HAMPTONS (Lab Order)
The scent of a Cosmopolitan cocktail.
MAG MELL (Lab Order)
The Plane of Joy, eternal reward for a lifetime of valor and glory. A place of eternal youth and beauty, strength and honor, music and revelry. The warmth of amber, the puissance of white ginger and the clarity of verbena, with fresh green grass, lush sage and cleansing droplets of summer rain.
COCKAIGNE (Lab Order)
The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth. The Land of Plenty, also called Luilekkerland – the Lazy, Luscious Land: milk and honey, sweet cakes and wine.
HOW DOTH THE LITTLE CROCODILE (Lab Order)
Chocolate peppermint, mint-soaked vanilla, pistachio, oakmoss, and green cedar.
AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF (Lab Order)
Pollen-dusted honey, diligent tonka, steadfast chamomile, and goodly hyssop.
Frimps with Lab Order (A.K.A. "Well, they *were* free!"
BON VIVANT
An effervescent blend of crystalline champagne notes and sweet strawberry.
BLACK FOREST
This is the captured scent of a cold, moonless night, lost deep within the darkest wood. Haunting and desolate, this scent evokes images of fairy tale tragedy and half-remembered nightmares. Thick, viscous pine with ambergris, black musk, juniper and cypress.
BLACK ANNIS
Black Annis' perfume is a mixture of damp cave lichen and oak leaf with a hint of vetiver, civet and anise.
TWILIGHT
An enigmatic, otherworldly scent, brimming with power and mystery. Lavender and jasmine, with a touch of glowing honeysuckle.
SOPHIA
The Gnostic goddess of Wisdom. A solemn, deeply profound draught of lavender, soft musks, star jasmine, black rose, delphinium, and gentle spice.
TO A WOMAN
Benzoin, cassis bud, patchouli, rose otto, and petitgrain.
THANATOS
One of the horrible, painful, cruel, brooding, mocking and malignant children of Nyx, he is Death Incarnate, and is seen as a willowy young man, accompanied by a butterfly, bearing an inverted torch and funeral wreath in his hands. In modern thought, thanks to Sigmund Freud, it is the Death Instinct: love of death, destruction and decay, and the desire to embrace the quiescence, silence and peace of the grave. Dry white sandalwood and soft Siamese benzoin over a lugubrious blend of myrrh, Moroccan rose, mastic, tomb moss and a thin whiff of Greek incense.
DRAGON'S TEARS (x2)
Bittersweet yet powerful: salty aquatic notes and bursting with dragon's blood.
BLOOD COUNTESS
Corrupted black plum, smoky opium and crumbling dead roses covered by a deceptive veil of Hungarian lilac, white gardenia and wild berry.
Decant Order
THE SCHOOL HOUSE (Halloweenie 2008)
Dandelion, white clover, balsam fir logs, and birchwood switches.
TO AUTUMN (Halloweenie 2008)
Mist and mellow fruitfulness: mist-swirled, moss-covered bark and dry red leaves, apple pulp and knotty galangal, with poppy juice and nutmeat.
SNOWBLIND: RESURRECTED (Yule BPTP 2008)
The perfect vanilla mint.
PHOBOS
Twin to Deimos and child of War, Phobos is the embodiment of terror and mortal fear. Chilling white musk, lemon verbena, white grapefruit and lemongrass.
DIRTY
A wonderful antidote to an all-nighter oozing with drunken, addled perversion and debauchery. A fresh, crisp white linen scent: perfectly clean, perfectly breezy.
INEZ (Freebie)
Golden amber, vanilla musk, myrrh, cedar, carnation, and red sandalwood.
OSUN (Freebie)
Her ofrenda is thick with honey and herbs of love, passion and desire.
WESTERN DIAMONDBACK (Freebie)
Snake Oil with leather, tonka bean, red sandalwood, and sage.
TUSHNAMATAY
Pure internal harmony and spiritual bliss: the perfected meditation blend.
Arcana Samples
LITTLE GHOULIE (LE Halloween )
All the scents of a small, terribly excited newbie to the trick-or-treat scene. Jack o’ Lanterns, ginger cookies, chocolate candy and a frisson of overwhelming delight.
LADY LAMB
Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron's eccentric mistress, was brilliant, beautiful, and infamously obsessed with him. Rich yellow gateau, strawberries, dark clove, vanilla, champagne, and a mad little dash of mint.
Conjure Oils
HARVEST MOON SEPTEMBER
A pot of steaming chai tea, frothy milk, brown sugar, and a slice of pound cake slathered in raspberry coulis.
I've just gotten back late this afternoon from our little ten day vacation. Graeme and I went on an Alaskan cruise while Daniel was working a conference in South Africa. We, all of us, had a phenomenal time. I'll get to uploading the rest of my photos and sorting some of my must-memorialize thoughts of the trip in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I'm happy, recharged, spiritually buoyed--filled up tip to toe with magick and Goddess-Presence. Good stuff.
BPAL
After a hiatus of like three years, I'm back to the scent-ual delight of sniffing and testing the amazing perfume oils of Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. I placed a few orders before I left--with both collector/resellers and direct from the Lab itself, so I came home to a mailbox full of smelly delights. Yum! We'll see how many of these I end up keeping and what needs to be rehomed. What have you tried? What are you interested in? What's your new, latest perfume love? Let's chat, yes?
5mL Bottles
STINKY
A cure for sweaty bits and sticky wilting. Stinky is a summer refresher 'foom for people that don't dig run-of-the-mill "clean" scents: newly-washed skin with a dusting of milk, white honey, and baby powder.
SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
Doomed summer, supported on the shoulders of winter and autumn: citrus-infused Baltic amber, red valerian, marigold, blood orange, and sunflower subdued by somber myrrh and dry geranium alongside the leaves of autumn and a breath of winter wind.
LAMBS-WOOL
A popular holy day beverage in 18th century Ireland: roasted apples mashed into warmed milk and ale, with nutmeg, sugar, ginger, and clove.
PUMPKIN V (Pumpkin Patch '09)
Pumpkin, chocolate, coffee bean, vanilla bean, and hazelnut.
Imps, Decants, and other small Sniffies
GLASGOW (Lab Order)
The rich scent of wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather.
THE HAMPTONS (Lab Order)
The scent of a Cosmopolitan cocktail.
MAG MELL (Lab Order)
The Plane of Joy, eternal reward for a lifetime of valor and glory. A place of eternal youth and beauty, strength and honor, music and revelry. The warmth of amber, the puissance of white ginger and the clarity of verbena, with fresh green grass, lush sage and cleansing droplets of summer rain.
COCKAIGNE (Lab Order)
The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth. The Land of Plenty, also called Luilekkerland – the Lazy, Luscious Land: milk and honey, sweet cakes and wine.
HOW DOTH THE LITTLE CROCODILE (Lab Order)
Chocolate peppermint, mint-soaked vanilla, pistachio, oakmoss, and green cedar.
AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF (Lab Order)
Pollen-dusted honey, diligent tonka, steadfast chamomile, and goodly hyssop.
Frimps with Lab Order (A.K.A. "Well, they *were* free!"
BON VIVANT
An effervescent blend of crystalline champagne notes and sweet strawberry.
BLACK FOREST
This is the captured scent of a cold, moonless night, lost deep within the darkest wood. Haunting and desolate, this scent evokes images of fairy tale tragedy and half-remembered nightmares. Thick, viscous pine with ambergris, black musk, juniper and cypress.
BLACK ANNIS
Black Annis' perfume is a mixture of damp cave lichen and oak leaf with a hint of vetiver, civet and anise.
TWILIGHT
An enigmatic, otherworldly scent, brimming with power and mystery. Lavender and jasmine, with a touch of glowing honeysuckle.
SOPHIA
The Gnostic goddess of Wisdom. A solemn, deeply profound draught of lavender, soft musks, star jasmine, black rose, delphinium, and gentle spice.
TO A WOMAN
Benzoin, cassis bud, patchouli, rose otto, and petitgrain.
THANATOS
One of the horrible, painful, cruel, brooding, mocking and malignant children of Nyx, he is Death Incarnate, and is seen as a willowy young man, accompanied by a butterfly, bearing an inverted torch and funeral wreath in his hands. In modern thought, thanks to Sigmund Freud, it is the Death Instinct: love of death, destruction and decay, and the desire to embrace the quiescence, silence and peace of the grave. Dry white sandalwood and soft Siamese benzoin over a lugubrious blend of myrrh, Moroccan rose, mastic, tomb moss and a thin whiff of Greek incense.
DRAGON'S TEARS (x2)
Bittersweet yet powerful: salty aquatic notes and bursting with dragon's blood.
BLOOD COUNTESS
Corrupted black plum, smoky opium and crumbling dead roses covered by a deceptive veil of Hungarian lilac, white gardenia and wild berry.
Decant Order
THE SCHOOL HOUSE (Halloweenie 2008)
Dandelion, white clover, balsam fir logs, and birchwood switches.
TO AUTUMN (Halloweenie 2008)
Mist and mellow fruitfulness: mist-swirled, moss-covered bark and dry red leaves, apple pulp and knotty galangal, with poppy juice and nutmeat.
SNOWBLIND: RESURRECTED (Yule BPTP 2008)
The perfect vanilla mint.
PHOBOS
Twin to Deimos and child of War, Phobos is the embodiment of terror and mortal fear. Chilling white musk, lemon verbena, white grapefruit and lemongrass.
DIRTY
A wonderful antidote to an all-nighter oozing with drunken, addled perversion and debauchery. A fresh, crisp white linen scent: perfectly clean, perfectly breezy.
INEZ (Freebie)
Golden amber, vanilla musk, myrrh, cedar, carnation, and red sandalwood.
OSUN (Freebie)
Her ofrenda is thick with honey and herbs of love, passion and desire.
WESTERN DIAMONDBACK (Freebie)
Snake Oil with leather, tonka bean, red sandalwood, and sage.
TUSHNAMATAY
Pure internal harmony and spiritual bliss: the perfected meditation blend.
Arcana Samples
LITTLE GHOULIE (LE Halloween )
All the scents of a small, terribly excited newbie to the trick-or-treat scene. Jack o’ Lanterns, ginger cookies, chocolate candy and a frisson of overwhelming delight.
LADY LAMB
Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron's eccentric mistress, was brilliant, beautiful, and infamously obsessed with him. Rich yellow gateau, strawberries, dark clove, vanilla, champagne, and a mad little dash of mint.
Conjure Oils
HARVEST MOON SEPTEMBER
A pot of steaming chai tea, frothy milk, brown sugar, and a slice of pound cake slathered in raspberry coulis.
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Date: 2009-08-31 05:08 am (UTC)And welcome back! I'm anxious to hear about everything before I head out (and leave behind the internet - and subsequently, LJ - in the process, eep!). :)
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Date: 2009-08-31 05:11 am (UTC)Ahem.
Hey! What's up! Got any big plans? ;)
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Date: 2009-08-31 05:18 am (UTC)I kid, but I'd definitely love to try and read what I can before we go! I was flipping through your photos earlier and enjoying the sunsets especially! What a beautiful state. <3
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Date: 2009-08-31 10:26 am (UTC)And you suck! I still haven't even gotten a CnS and I ordered my Weenies on the 5th. BAH.