Scented things
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petroniaGot a couple of BPAL imps from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calintz. I don't understand how you people can be so systematic about testing these things! Um... but I'll try? XD Allow that I have greasy skin that needs to be "powdered down" (works best with notes like ylang-ylang and rose), and that aesthetically speaking I prefer to smell like a 1920s flapper. The last perfume I wore regularly, a 70-year-old Frenchman told me I smelt like his mother.
Oberon: I knew I would like this by the list of components, meaning "I like other perfumes containing these ingredients" as the only two notes I can really conjure up mentally are bergamot and juniper, and... I don't smell them at all here. ^^; When I first opened the bottle I got a whiff of something green but it disappeared as soon as it hit my skin. That leaves orchid, white musk and patchouli, which seems about right.
It's quite sweet and vaguely old-fashioned. My first thought was of a scratch-and-sniff book I had as a kid (strongly reminded of it actually), second thought was a guestroom in a posh country house, third thought was old cosmetics - like a decades-old powder tin you dig up out of your grandmother's drawer. The sort of thing I'm into. XD I don't get this as a masculine scent at all, but then again one of the perfumes I like best on me is Polo Classic.
Sri Lanka: sandalwood, rounded out by everything else. It's a bit one-note, I wish the cedar was stronger... In the bottle and wet there's a touch of something heady and sweet (gum mastic? myrrh? who knows), which I can identify mainly because I know too much of whatever-it-is gives me a headache. Thankfully that doesn't happen here.
The real test of this one is going to be what it smells like after I dump it in my hair and leave it there for two days. :D Especially since I just bought Lush shampoo today - Godiva solid - which has the same scent as the Youkihi sparkly pink bath bomb I used in Antwerp. It's a strong, pure oriental jasmine, the sort of thing people either love or can't come within a mile of. I expect sandalwood + jasmine + my hair = Count D's pet shop.
calintz. I don't understand how you people can be so systematic about testing these things! Um... but I'll try? XD Allow that I have greasy skin that needs to be "powdered down" (works best with notes like ylang-ylang and rose), and that aesthetically speaking I prefer to smell like a 1920s flapper. The last perfume I wore regularly, a 70-year-old Frenchman told me I smelt like his mother.Oberon: I knew I would like this by the list of components, meaning "I like other perfumes containing these ingredients" as the only two notes I can really conjure up mentally are bergamot and juniper, and... I don't smell them at all here. ^^; When I first opened the bottle I got a whiff of something green but it disappeared as soon as it hit my skin. That leaves orchid, white musk and patchouli, which seems about right.
It's quite sweet and vaguely old-fashioned. My first thought was of a scratch-and-sniff book I had as a kid (strongly reminded of it actually), second thought was a guestroom in a posh country house, third thought was old cosmetics - like a decades-old powder tin you dig up out of your grandmother's drawer. The sort of thing I'm into. XD I don't get this as a masculine scent at all, but then again one of the perfumes I like best on me is Polo Classic.
Sri Lanka: sandalwood, rounded out by everything else. It's a bit one-note, I wish the cedar was stronger... In the bottle and wet there's a touch of something heady and sweet (gum mastic? myrrh? who knows), which I can identify mainly because I know too much of whatever-it-is gives me a headache. Thankfully that doesn't happen here.
The real test of this one is going to be what it smells like after I dump it in my hair and leave it there for two days. :D Especially since I just bought Lush shampoo today - Godiva solid - which has the same scent as the Youkihi sparkly pink bath bomb I used in Antwerp. It's a strong, pure oriental jasmine, the sort of thing people either love or can't come within a mile of. I expect sandalwood + jasmine + my hair = Count D's pet shop.
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Um. I've always been curious about Aizen Myoo and Shanghai (for stoopid reasons = MoB and it's my old hometown, respectively). And I'm attracted to descriptions like Venice or Delight. But anythingisgoodreallyyoudon'thavetolove.
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Date: 2005-12-03 06:45 am (UTC)That you are willing to have me force this stuff on you is like the greatest windfall of luck ever.
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