BPAL Burnout?

[beetiger]

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.

Comments

[foolonthehill.livejournal.com]

I think its true for anything, I know ehn I first got into loose leaf teas I was buying everything, and now that I am more settled into it all I am kinda taking it a lot more slowly.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling, I do that with certain things. I'm going to try NOT to do that this year with gardening. But I think that's the way I'm headed.

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, have you personally tried Crow Moon?

In any case, IKWYM, although not with regard to BPAL... but I've found myself no longer caring as much about particular webcomics and their storylines, and slowly drawing away from some fannish contexts, the more I sort of mentally reenter the Poetry World (tm).

I still have to use huge self-control to keep from eating that chai lip gloss like a stick of candy. Haven't tried the others yet. Just being Chai Lip Woman.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I didn't end up getting any Crow Moon. It's just hitting people's boxes now, though, so I suspect there'll be some around ofr sale over the next week or two.

I'm glad you're enjoying the lip gloss. I'm out of tubes right now, but I definitely have more of the chai flavoring left. If I do another run I'll be sure to send you more. :)

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

I definitely empathize here, too -- I get that way with both interests and specific projects, unfortunately. :/ I hope that you can get through this, or at least find something else to catch your interest in the wake of it. *hug*

[apexofgrace.livejournal.com]

we kind of do that too. we probably will with bpal too but right now it's so much fun just collecting stuff and trying on different scents because q has asthma so this is the first perfum we can really wear you know? anyway i know i'm way more into it than she is but that's just how i am. i am ... 'enthusiastic.' :) what's fun is getting some of the really rare ones to try like queen of spades and monsterbait underpants and that stuff. i'm having fun like a collector right now. but i see what you mean and i know one day i won't be OMGBPAL anymore. i hope you can still have fun with it tho.