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Jul. 24th, 2006 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joiedecombatMy Hungry Ghost Moon order came in! Happy ninja.
Hungry Ghost Moon: Offerings of ginger candy, sugar cane, smoky vanilla and rice wine mingle with a ghost’s perfume of white sandalwood, ho wood, ti, white grapefruit, crystalline musk and aloe. This scent is tapered by the presence of seven herbs, woods and resins used in the purification of the spirit and the purging of earthly concerns from the soul.
Smells like: Very complicated and hard to describe. Initially I wasn't sure I'd care for it; it's got some sweetness with the sugar cane and vanilla, but it's also rather smoky, and the white grapefruit gives it a bite that never quite becomes prominent enough to make it actually citrusy. In the wet stage, the notes conflicted in a way that made it kind of muddy and unpleasant, but it mellows out wonderfully as it dries and the ginger becomes more apparent. Later in the dry stage, I can semll the rice wine note, or something akin to it. I like it, once the wet stage is past.
Et Lux Fuit: Golden amber, heliotrope, vanilla musk, carnation, daisy and sunflower bouquet, neroli, lemon peel, ylang ylang and honeycomb.
Smells like: As advertised, a warm, comfortable golden kind of scent. With the amber and lemon peel, it smells a little like sugar cookies, but the other notes make it less of a baked-goods scent, and it's sweet and very pleasant.
Chaos Theory CDXXXII: Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, and exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.
Smells like: paperwhites. There's a not exactly pleasant whiff of something like crushed stems and sap in the wet stage, but that goes away as it dries, leaving just the floral smell, very much like the bulbs that bloom around my mother's house in the spring. I can't for the life of me pick out notes, but... smells like paperwhites. I like.
And the frimps:
Tenochtitlan: Amber, hyssop, coriander, epazote, Mexican sage, prickly pear and Mexican tulip poppy.
Smells like: Fruit. It's a nice fruit, though, not too sticky-sweet or artificial, like something dark red and slightly winey. It reminds me of something, maybe another BPAL scent, but I can't think of what.
Queen Gertrude: Violet, wisteria, chrysanthemum, and delphinium.
Smells like: Straight sweet florals, the kind that go slightly soapy. Nice enough, but not my thing.
Iambe: Sudanese amber, patchouli, rose, gardenia, gladiola and white tea.
Smells like: It's quite perfumey. The rose is apparent, but not strong enough to make it A Rose Scent, and fortunately I don't get any patchouli from it at all. Actually this, too, goes kind of fruity, but the florals also make it powdery in the way that tries to crawl up into my sinuses. The gardenia seems fairly prominent.
Plus imps of Tiger Lily, Tintagel, and White Rabbit, all of which I've already tried.
On a related note, I have scored a 5ml of Enraged Bunny Musk for reasonably cheap via eBay. ...What?
Hungry Ghost Moon: Offerings of ginger candy, sugar cane, smoky vanilla and rice wine mingle with a ghost’s perfume of white sandalwood, ho wood, ti, white grapefruit, crystalline musk and aloe. This scent is tapered by the presence of seven herbs, woods and resins used in the purification of the spirit and the purging of earthly concerns from the soul.
Smells like: Very complicated and hard to describe. Initially I wasn't sure I'd care for it; it's got some sweetness with the sugar cane and vanilla, but it's also rather smoky, and the white grapefruit gives it a bite that never quite becomes prominent enough to make it actually citrusy. In the wet stage, the notes conflicted in a way that made it kind of muddy and unpleasant, but it mellows out wonderfully as it dries and the ginger becomes more apparent. Later in the dry stage, I can semll the rice wine note, or something akin to it. I like it, once the wet stage is past.
Et Lux Fuit: Golden amber, heliotrope, vanilla musk, carnation, daisy and sunflower bouquet, neroli, lemon peel, ylang ylang and honeycomb.
Smells like: As advertised, a warm, comfortable golden kind of scent. With the amber and lemon peel, it smells a little like sugar cookies, but the other notes make it less of a baked-goods scent, and it's sweet and very pleasant.
Chaos Theory CDXXXII: Each bottle of Chaos Theory is truly unique, a fragrant fractal, and exercise in the joy of chance and uncertainty! Each is a one-of-a-kind, utterly random combination of scents, the composition of which is based on whim, mood and gut instinct.
Smells like: paperwhites. There's a not exactly pleasant whiff of something like crushed stems and sap in the wet stage, but that goes away as it dries, leaving just the floral smell, very much like the bulbs that bloom around my mother's house in the spring. I can't for the life of me pick out notes, but... smells like paperwhites. I like.
And the frimps:
Tenochtitlan: Amber, hyssop, coriander, epazote, Mexican sage, prickly pear and Mexican tulip poppy.
Smells like: Fruit. It's a nice fruit, though, not too sticky-sweet or artificial, like something dark red and slightly winey. It reminds me of something, maybe another BPAL scent, but I can't think of what.
Queen Gertrude: Violet, wisteria, chrysanthemum, and delphinium.
Smells like: Straight sweet florals, the kind that go slightly soapy. Nice enough, but not my thing.
Iambe: Sudanese amber, patchouli, rose, gardenia, gladiola and white tea.
Smells like: It's quite perfumey. The rose is apparent, but not strong enough to make it A Rose Scent, and fortunately I don't get any patchouli from it at all. Actually this, too, goes kind of fruity, but the florals also make it powdery in the way that tries to crawl up into my sinuses. The gardenia seems fairly prominent.
Plus imps of Tiger Lily, Tintagel, and White Rabbit, all of which I've already tried.
On a related note, I have scored a 5ml of Enraged Bunny Musk for reasonably cheap via eBay. ...What?
