BPAL squee-age!

I wake up to a nice hefty update over at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab this morning.

Lotus Moon: Soporose and lenitive: opium-laced golden lotus with rich amber, pine resin, and rose otto.

Litha: Honey mead with honeysuckle, oak wood, ivy leaf, wild thyme, carnation, daisy, vervain, gum arabic, frankincense, yauhtli, and liquid copal.

Both are a given. I'm ordering them. THEN I see The Salon! In there, what grabs me most are:

And There Was A Great Cry In Egypt: Dark myrrh, white sandalwood, amber, hyssop, frankincense, honey, cypress, red musk, cardamom and saffron.

Lucretia: Iris, black amber, sage, Kashmir wood, vanilla musk, mandarin and violet.

And I'm going back and forth on this one:

Two Monsters: Oakmoss, vetiver, black musk, champaca flower, leather, patchouli, ginger, Japanese pittosporum, ambergris and white pepper. (Heironymous Bosch!! But what is pittosporum??)

There are a couple of new Ars Draconis too. I may end up ordering four bottles (OMG) between the LE, Litha and The Salon, and getting imps of the rest of the Salon scents in a decant circle or something. I haven't decided. After work I'll sit down and give it a think.

BPAL squee-age! (Squee #2 for today)

Put in my order for Litha and Lotus Moon. I've decided I'll go in on a decant circle for the Salon scents.

I was going to do another imp pack this time but just decided this second not to. I will order one maybe next week. I wanted imps of:

Death Cap
Strangler Fig
Antique Lace
Sudha Segara
Baobhan Sith
Bliss

So yussss. There ya go.

Came home to some wonderful smellies in my mailbox! *squees!*

UNDERPANTS!! Sexy sugar-smeared saffron sandalwood over lickable vanilla cream with a splash of butter rum. I'm such a fan of foody scents, and this one is all vanilla rum in the bottle to me. The saffron and sandalwood give it just the right "bite". YAY for underpants!!

More monsters were in my mailbox...

Underbed! Cassia-caked cocoa coconut over angel food cake. Something quite comforting about this one. It does smell like angel food cake with just a powdering of cocoa.

CLOSET! Bourbon blackberry buttercream over red velvet cake. In the bottle I do get the bourbon... but it's like the bourbon has been drizzled over a piece of cake with tons of buttercream frosting. Just delicious.

All the monster baits are very cake-y and foody... I want to actually eat them! LOL!!

And with the monsters came...

Beltane ! In the bottle it's just a beautifully mixed floral. I like this so much! Green and flowery makes me feel like going outside and picking wildflowers! This one and Flower Moon I think are my very favorite florals of Beth's so far.

Enraged Bunny Musk! Soft cotton blossom, white musk, baby's breath, clover and pale powder notes. In the bottle I smell that clover right off! And there's the white musk! I like it... you'd expect it to smell really sweet and powdery and cuuuute... but then... the TEETH!! LOL!! Theres a "bite" underneath.

Frimps galore!

Grog ! Yarrrrr. Rum me 'earty!

Amsterdam! Pretty aquatic floral!

Brimstone! Woah... this one is really resin-y and smoky. Interesting.

Black Lotus! Black lotus flower, amber, myrrh and sandalwood. Just those notes have me squee-ing with glee. I love this in the imp!!

Asphodel! Pretty, light floral.

Pain! Yes... I feel like I've been slapped when I sniff the imp! LOL!! Lavender and pennyroyal.

DeSade! I had gotten another as a frimp earlier so yay! More.

The Bow & Crown of Conquest! OMG yay! A frimp of one of the Four Horsemen! I hadn't tried any of these yet. If this is what the Antichrist actually smells like, he smells GOOOOD. LOL!!

Tombstone! Mmmm... vanilla. I can't go wrong with vanilla. This one is sasafrass, cedar and vanilla. It smells quite foody, kinda sexy though.

Black Opal! Beautiful. Soft and luminous.

Okay that's all of it. Whew!

/squee-age