BPAL Burnout?

There was a new update at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab today, and I found myself with no desire to order any of the scents, or even to join any of the decant circles people are running. I don't know if this obsession is just running its cycle -- it's been just over a year since I got into perfume, and that's a typical range of time for me to run through an obsession like this -- or if I'm just overwhelmed with the amount of stuff I've already got here, and just don't want to spend money piling on top of it. I've not made my way through the samples from the last two large decant circles I ran, and I've got over 100 General Catalogue scents I need to work my way through. I have to admit that for the last two decant circles I ran, I was much more into physically doing the decants and making other people happy than I was into actually testing the perfumes myself. Or it may just be that I'm stuffy and hormonal, so it's kind of hard to smell things.

I'm still enjoying wearing the perfumes in general, though. Putting them on has become a regular part of my self-care routine that I enjoy a lot. I'm just finding myself dropping out of collector mode. On the other hand, I'm currently signed up for a birthday swap and a Switch Witch swap in the BPAL communities, so I suspect that I'll either get reinspired and/or the lucky ladies matched up to me will get big piles of stuff from my collection.

I tried on the scent Eden from the General Catalog today, since I've been pretty into fig scents lately. It went on very sweet, on the border of cloying, but settled into a nice brown fruit scent with a bit of toasted nut, which I guess I liked. I can't imagine choosing it over either Hetairae or cb i hate perfume's revelation, though.

Lemming Central Boxes on Sale Right Now!

Lemming Central boxes are on sale now. If you're reaaalllly lucky, you'll get a nice big Dragonspice roll-your-own-incense kit and handrolled meditation cones, plus a cool "I <3 burning stuff" button from me, as well as boatloads of other cool stuff from other etailers of great smelly stuff.

(Actually, you don't have to get that lucky. I sent her a *lot* of samples, I should be in most of the boxes.)