BPAL review/How my night went
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beetigerI've been trying to test a developing backlog of BPAL scent imps I've acquired over the last few weeks. This means that in the mornings, I'm mostly alternating between something I know I like, and something new. In the evenings, I've also been trying some things that seem eveningish before bedtime.
Last night, at about the appropriate time, I tried on "Midnight", which the website describes as "An ethereal bouquet of night-blooming flowers. Evening primrose, ruellia, flowering nicotiana, wild petunia, panani-o-kai, night phlox, night gladiolus, moonflower and the elusive scent of Nottingham Catchfly.". That's pretty much right -- it's a lovely melange of white night-blooming flowers. But more dramatically, at least for me, it's the smell of insomnia. It's a walking garden somewhere in the South, on a day that was way too hot, but the evening's cooled down. You're alone in the moonlight after everyone else has gone somewhere else. Somehow you didn't want to join them but you're not ready to go to sleep yet.
So of course, then I couldn't sleep. I lay awake in my bed for an hour or two, sniffing the perfumed air and feeling a little melancholy.
This is a devastating scent for me right now, a calm solitude shot through with moody wakefulness, not at all what I need. But it's really perfect in terms of the design of a gothic perfume. It's beautiful, evocative, and brings forth a mood that's really not for everyone.
Last night, at about the appropriate time, I tried on "Midnight", which the website describes as "An ethereal bouquet of night-blooming flowers. Evening primrose, ruellia, flowering nicotiana, wild petunia, panani-o-kai, night phlox, night gladiolus, moonflower and the elusive scent of Nottingham Catchfly.". That's pretty much right -- it's a lovely melange of white night-blooming flowers. But more dramatically, at least for me, it's the smell of insomnia. It's a walking garden somewhere in the South, on a day that was way too hot, but the evening's cooled down. You're alone in the moonlight after everyone else has gone somewhere else. Somehow you didn't want to join them but you're not ready to go to sleep yet.
So of course, then I couldn't sleep. I lay awake in my bed for an hour or two, sniffing the perfumed air and feeling a little melancholy.
This is a devastating scent for me right now, a calm solitude shot through with moody wakefulness, not at all what I need. But it's really perfect in terms of the design of a gothic perfume. It's beautiful, evocative, and brings forth a mood that's really not for everyone.
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Date: 2006-05-04 05:07 pm (UTC)youve about got me conviced to get some samples next tiem i have $
:)
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Date: 2006-05-04 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-04 05:48 pm (UTC)these ones caught my intrest
skuld
Red Lantern
i keep adding to my store so thers plenty!(blujay.com/zkitten)
lemmme know if anything in there catches your intrest,
or if there was somthing that you remember that i dont have up yet,
i htink next month i will still buy a few imps,
i started browsing the whole site,
my god!
i will HAVE to! :)