Meow! BPAL!
Aug. 31st, 2010 08:17 amEarly 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 lines available for purchase! These are their BPAL lines & o, I'm just in a whirl about which two to get!
I've decided for sure on J-Horror (. . . This scent is spectral, draped in funeral white, and surges with otherworldly, malevolent rage: stargazer lily, white sandalwood, chrysanthemum, and shincha, with white mint, eucalyptus, licorice bark, and blood orange.) which has a lot of notes that I like & just sounds very me, somehow (how pretentious of me, yes? Teehee.), but I'm torn between Giallo (. . . Profoundly passionate and singularly sinister: opopponax, black plum, night-blooming jasmine, benzoin, red musk, violet leaf, orange blossom, mimosa, mandarin, smoky vanilla, tobacco, patchouli, and black amber.) & German Expressionist Horror (Casket dust, black musk and khus, musty velvet, black pine needle, patchouli, myrrh, and black pepper.), though I'm not as wild about all of the notes of it. I like the casket dust, the musty velvet, black pine needle & patchouli, but I'm not so sure about how the black musk & black pepper will work on me & if it would come out too masculine, possibly. But I adore German expressionist horror films & have ever since I was a child. (My aunt was very progressive & I got to see a lot of them when I was very young) I like most of the notes of Giallo & it sounds like a very warm scent, in comparison to the cool, chilliness of J-Horror.
I'm also considering a bottle or two from the most recent limited edition release, specifically from the Gothic Literature: Vol I & one from the Halloween: Mnemosyne line. The one bottle I want from the latter is Halloween: San Francisco: Salt air wafting in from the bay. Rain falling on rain-soaked leaves. How can I not buy a bottle of a BPAL scent inspired by my home?
As to the Gothic Literature: Vol I line, I am over. the. moon. that they have one based on Byron's work - The Byronic Antihero, which I've mentioned here before: An aristocratic cologne of titanic passions, moody and brooding. This scent is dark with disillusionment and cynicism: a Victorian fougère and a dashing carnation boutonnière tainted by a cloud of khus, yew, and patchouli. I know it will probably be quite masculine, but . . . o, I really want to try it! It's a Byron-inspired scent! There's already a scent inspired by Shelley's Ozymandias (which, I should possibly get an imp of if I get this one, to match, since I'm so silly), but there's no general catalogue one for Lord Byron. Swoon!
The others that I'm quite enamoured of are The Madwoman (Dusty white sandalwood, ragged cloth, and a dry, long-dead bridal bouquet.), The Unsavory Grave-diggers (An unearthed oakwood coffin, cemetery weeds, and a hint of booze.) & I'm debating The Unsteady Governess, but it sounds a bit too simple a composition for my taste, with only two notes of white tea & violet leaf. I think I'll pass on that, since it doesn't really catch me as the others do.
So, poll time!
[Poll #1613157]
(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 lines available for purchase! These are their BPAL lines & o, I'm just in a whirl about which two to get!
I've decided for sure on J-Horror (. . . This scent is spectral, draped in funeral white, and surges with otherworldly, malevolent rage: stargazer lily, white sandalwood, chrysanthemum, and shincha, with white mint, eucalyptus, licorice bark, and blood orange.) which has a lot of notes that I like & just sounds very me, somehow (how pretentious of me, yes? Teehee.), but I'm torn between Giallo (. . . Profoundly passionate and singularly sinister: opopponax, black plum, night-blooming jasmine, benzoin, red musk, violet leaf, orange blossom, mimosa, mandarin, smoky vanilla, tobacco, patchouli, and black amber.) & German Expressionist Horror (Casket dust, black musk and khus, musty velvet, black pine needle, patchouli, myrrh, and black pepper.), though I'm not as wild about all of the notes of it. I like the casket dust, the musty velvet, black pine needle & patchouli, but I'm not so sure about how the black musk & black pepper will work on me & if it would come out too masculine, possibly. But I adore German expressionist horror films & have ever since I was a child. (My aunt was very progressive & I got to see a lot of them when I was very young) I like most of the notes of Giallo & it sounds like a very warm scent, in comparison to the cool, chilliness of J-Horror.
I'm also considering a bottle or two from the most recent limited edition release, specifically from the Gothic Literature: Vol I & one from the Halloween: Mnemosyne line. The one bottle I want from the latter is Halloween: San Francisco: Salt air wafting in from the bay. Rain falling on rain-soaked leaves. How can I not buy a bottle of a BPAL scent inspired by my home?
As to the Gothic Literature: Vol I line, I am over. the. moon. that they have one based on Byron's work - The Byronic Antihero, which I've mentioned here before: An aristocratic cologne of titanic passions, moody and brooding. This scent is dark with disillusionment and cynicism: a Victorian fougère and a dashing carnation boutonnière tainted by a cloud of khus, yew, and patchouli. I know it will probably be quite masculine, but . . . o, I really want to try it! It's a Byron-inspired scent! There's already a scent inspired by Shelley's Ozymandias (which, I should possibly get an imp of if I get this one, to match, since I'm so silly), but there's no general catalogue one for Lord Byron. Swoon!
The others that I'm quite enamoured of are The Madwoman (Dusty white sandalwood, ragged cloth, and a dry, long-dead bridal bouquet.), The Unsavory Grave-diggers (An unearthed oakwood coffin, cemetery weeds, and a hint of booze.) & I'm debating The Unsteady Governess, but it sounds a bit too simple a composition for my taste, with only two notes of white tea & violet leaf. I think I'll pass on that, since it doesn't really catch me as the others do.
So, poll time!
[Poll #1613157]
