Let’s clear out the draft folder, shall we? It’s not feasible for me to keep comparing BPAL fragrances but thought I’d publish this post anyway. Golden Priapus – on me, too pine-ish! It gets beautiful, golden, radiant and sweet but more so on my male friend. The pine is not so prominent on him and [...]
Tagged Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, body chemistry, fragrance, perfumeAgain, I have had the pleasure of testing more BPAL goodness on a member of the opposite sex. I apologise in advance if this sort of thing is not to your liking; I suspect there will be more such posts so if this doesn’t interest you, hop along and go and read a good book!
Tagged Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, body chemistry, fragrance, perfumeI recently made the choice to stop supporting Possets Perfumes in favour of those by Blooddrop Clothing & Fineries. I like Possets, but the fragrances are not different enough from each other, and Astrid from Blooddrop is just lovely. There’s a new collection at the moment called ‘The Entomology of Miss Amnesty Mapleleaf’, much to [...]
Tagged Blooddrop, childhood, fragrance, perfume, reviewI had the good fortune yesterday to test some wonderful BPAL on a good male friend who happily donated an arm, behind the ears and neck all to the cause of olfactory science. I thought it best to document how the various fragrances differed on both of us. Tristran – more colognesque on male than [...]
Tagged Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, body chemistry, fragrance oil, perfumeGot some Villainess decants – I don’t think these are available on the actual Villainess website? Anyway, impressions as follows: Masala – as the name suggests, very (south Asian) Indian-inspired. Initially, it smells like chai (which I happen to think is glorious). This would make a fantastic room fragrance – it’s very sensual and evocative. [...]
Tagged fragrance, review, VillainessA while back I got some fragrance oils from a company called Blooddrop. They are nothing short of stunning, and sadly, many were limited edition. A few did get kept on, I noticed. As always, I’m most fond of the non-foody ones, though a few foody ones snuck in to charm my pants off me. [...]
Tagged Blooddrop, fragranceOkay, here we go. Lost the last post with such a title – it was probably due to the fact that my blog has been migrated to an external server. End of an era, lads and ladies: my blog is no longer housed on a server that lives under a sink! At least, this is [...]
Tagged fragrance, VillainessAgain, reading Karen’s Makeup and Beauty Blog, I stumbled across an excellent article about how pleasing scents apparently grant us better sleep. The article is here. Perhaps that was why I slept so wonderfully when I was wearing BPAL Alice to bed at the beginning of the year? BPAL Oneiroi, which had a lot of [...]
Tagged fragrance, sleepWe’re a vain lot. I remember reading in a fantastic book about Helena Rubenstein and Estee Lauder called War Paint by Lindy Woodhead (published by Virago) that makeup is financial-depression-proof. Yep, sales of makeup does not diminish in times of financial depression or recession. Karen at Makeup and Beauty Blog reiterates this interesting fact and [...]
Tagged lipstick, makeupSupposedly the first day of summer in Australia, when I started testing these. Still the first week. It’s been pretty bloody cold, not that I mind. I rather detest the hot weather, as does my newly shorn head (it burns!). I found a metal box with some Midsummer Muse decants I’d not tested. Whoops. So [...]
Tagged fragrance, Midsummer MuseThis is going to make no earthly sense to anyone but big sis and CL so the rest of you might want to skip this entry.
Tagged Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, fragranceGot this quite a while ago from CL but haven’t had the time to properly unwrap and investigate…I did, however, promise to take pictures and brag about how wonderful everything is, hee hee. Plus my posts are so texty.
Tagged Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, books, eyeshadow, presents, teaI’ve been a bit neglectful of the whole olfactory pleasures of late… And naturally, I’m up after having slept some weird hours, so thought I would test my ‘I Smell Good’ decants. I don’t really know much about this company, but thought I’d give the decants a shot because someone was running a circle for [...]
Tagged fragrance, perfumeI’m actually revelling in the fact that I have nothing to do on a Saturday night and just spent most of the day in bed being lulled to sleep by Anner Bylsma’s recording of the complete Bach cello suites…oh my god, can you spell bliss? I need to add more of my classical music to [...]
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