brittanygrace , will you marry me please??? 

BPAL ASPLOSHUN IN TEH MAILBOXXX!! 

The mailman can now live in peace, and safe from Summer attacking him with "Package? Package now? Is it a package? CAN I HAVE IT?" 

brittanygrace  you are my new idol and I bow down to your awesomeness. OMG It's the BPAL package that NEVER ENDS.

I keep opening more perfume. Ohhh, snifffffffffffffffffffffff

Can't smell now. Must find coffee beans.

Better. Omgwtf, you and your tape fascination, Brits. Aahhh, it's like a really frustrating Christmas morning!! 

I now have about a gazillion imps ears. OMG AND FULL BOTTLES TOO.

I hope Brit doesn't mind when I come find her and attatch myself to her leg for a few days. I'll be a really well-scented attatchment at least? Ooh, Bliss smells like brownies!! Sweeet.  I love brownies.

So, like 40 imps later or something...

Expect lots of BPAL ramblings in the next weeks. And I do mean LOTS.

Plus, my actual order from the lab came in too!!  Did I mention lots of BPAL ramblings? Cause yeah. It will probably get very obnoxious.

brittanygrace  I'm serious about that marriage. Like, you may wake up in Vegas and we might be married. The annulment will be fantabulous and we'll have bitter in-court arguments about who keeps the perfumes.


Numb - a singularly chilly, delectably ice-rimmed perfume. Revel in the gelid polar frostiness that is Numb, and forget about the heat for a moment. This scent is extremely limited, 
 brittanygrace : it goes to pure dishsoap on me.
 You are not alone, lady. Not. Alone. Dishes and soapy all the way through.

Oneroi - Created to invoke the ancient Greek deities of dreams. On the shores of the ocean, somewhere in the West, they dwell behind their gates of horn and ivory. Soporific, dark and unfathomable: a somnambular blend of deep lavender, white sandalwood, jasmine, bergamot and mugwort.
Oh. Oh wow. Very very sandalwoody but dries and fades out with a gorgeous faint floral-and-herby bit... last for a really long time. And smells like dreams should. Definitely leads to the gates of horn and ivory.

Tintagel -According to legend, the birthplace of King Arthur. The scent of a castle's great hall in the midst of joyous feasting. Spicy mulled wine flowing through the musky heat, warm leather and bright clash of armor, the damp branches of Cornish hawthorn, blackthorn, juniper, English elm and bayberry, and the magical tingle of dragon's blood resin. 
  Well it's definitely spiced wine at first- all I could smell was cinnamon and I think juniper at first... it evens out to a gorgeous sort of wine-and-warmth scent though, which I love. I think it's the bayberry and dragons blood but I could be wrong.

Cordelia - The essence of faith, love and devotion: lilac, lemon, green tea, wisteria, osmanthus, white cedar, and Chinese musk. 
 Still smells like overwhelming lilacs on me. However it smells lovely on my mother, who now refuses to let me have it back.

Venice - A complex, voluptuous scent that captures the robust beauty and of the Italian Renaissance: lemon, red currant, wisteria, red rose petals, heady jasmine, Florentine orris root, waterlily, red sandalwood, violet plum, and violet leaf.
Whoah, flowers. Alas, the roses have overrun the city when it gets to my skin. But it dies to a sort of exotic flower garden with a note lemon. Kind of a heavy scent on me but it fades out so prettily...

Bon Vivant - An effervescent blend of crystalline champagne notes and sweet strawberry.
Sweetness and light is what is smells like. It goes on with an undertone of strawberries but it's still a really sweet scent. I love it but it's making me want candy.

reason #232742724 that naeko  is awesome! I got the BPAL she sent me!!! Because of her awesomeness!! *gloms naeko *  She's amaaazing, and also seems to have opposite body chemistry of me except for Aureus.  It was seriously a BPAL convention in my mailbox today too. XD I got the imps from naeko and a bottle I'd ordered from ebay! And it came with a couple freebies too...

• Destroying Angel  One of the deadliest mushrooms to ever pop through Gaia’s soil. Papery white notes evoke the grace of this fungi, grounded by thin, crisp soil.
-It's too gray for me, and it clings to the back of my throat and it's ALL I can smell/taste when I wear it. It's too bad because, as a scent, I like it. I just can't wear it
-  Hmm... goes on very strangely and then seems to smell like soap. I sort of like it, in spite of that. I smell like I just got a good scrub with old-fashioned soaps. It doesn't cling on me, though. Still, a really nice fresh scent and one I'd happily wear for daytime.

• Aureus True, perfect golden light, refined into an incomparably glorious scent.
This smells like a baked good of some sort, to me. I can't pinpoint it, but it does NOT like my skin. Putting it on me is terrible, but it's nice in the imp
-... Oh. .... Dear... this did not go well. I can tell this would smell delicious on someone else but it goes straight to some strange patchouli place on my skin and just... lingers there for far too long. Definitely not my scent, but after a while I see where the baked goods came from- it smells faintly like the really old-fashioned candy they have in amish stores and stuff.

• Nymphs of the North (Midsummer Muse perfumes, not bpal) These women live on Hyperboria, the land beyond the North Wind. It is said that no traveler shall reach this land by ship nor by land, and neither shall one find the wonderous road to the gathering place of the Hyperboreans. Perseus finds the land with the help of Hermes and is welcomed by a host of happy people who are always banqueting and joyous. They show him great kindness and welcome him to their feast, and the maidens of the North, dancing to flute and lyre, pause to get him the gifts he seeks to kill Medusa. These gifts were a) winged sandals enabling him to fly, b) a magic silver pouch that would adjust itself to the size of whatever it held, and c) a cap or helmet of darkness from Hades which made the wearer invisible.

Frosty North wind, pearlesque snowflakes, distant laughter carried on snow-filled drifts, silver platters of candied lemon tarts, lemon tea, and vanilla-sugared citrus fruits.
This is the one that smells VANILLAAAA with a hint of lemon. I can't stand it, but the one day I wore it, EVERY female I came across said I smelled AMAZING
-Wow, I second the VANILLAAAA. But the lemon shows up and now I'm smelling lemon meringue pie and I want to eat my wrist... This could be hormones talking though. Hmm. the VANILLAAA calms down quickly on me, though, and it's still meringue pie... nope still want to lick it. Definitely a good sign!  btw- the lemon fades later and leaves me smelling like a cake, but I like it, just... not an every day scent. I definitely see where it might incite other girls to follow you around and try to lick your pulse points though.

• The Peach Tree (Midsummer Muse perfumes, not bpal) Dry white tea leaves, ripe golden peaches, late summer blooms, and a slightly-spiced humid, hazy summer evening.
This was a purchase I knew better than to get, but I got anyway. Peach is a scent/flavor that I'm convinced I love, even though I really really don't. This is a VERY peachy scent.
-millions of peaches, peaches for me! millions of peaches.... I usually am not fond of peach scented things because they usually don't smell like peaches to me, but this does... and it's a soft scent somehow.  I think I conclude that I quite like it. It's a good scent to wear when I want to remember summer days raiding the peach orchard by grandpa's house. :) 

*the small nonitalics is naeko 's review of the above.


• Maenad Orgiastic mayhem in the extreme: sweet strawberry and orange blossom distorted by carnation, black poppy and hibiscus.
this was a trade from zephyrofgod , on whom it smelled like old ladies, and she'd gotten it from a friend on whom it didn't work for other reasons (she smelled like a giant strawberry but not really a fun strawberry). On me it starts with a strangely stinging note with the strawberries and plays along, turning into wild strawberries with the hint of fires or incense somewhere in it. I really like it, and I think it is a perfect mood perfume for me.

• The Sportive Sun She who turns to love. Florentine iris, frankincense, violet, ylang ylang, amber, and orchid..
picked this one up on Ebay- it's a LE but I fell for the description, and I was not at all disappointed. It goes on heavily amber, but the frankincense adds some mystery and as it fades out it's no less lovely. I especially love the flowery notes that are girly without being opressive (read: roses).

• Queen Gertrude Imperial violet softened by wisteria and chrysanthemum, but edged with the regal iciness of delphinium.
Shiny! There is something very entrancing about this scent just in the bottle. I'm no good at identifying flowers really, but this scent makes me feel very dreamy. Putting it on pulls out the cool notes but the chyrsanthemum is what I think is trying to take over... luckily it evens out after a while and leaves a scent like a bouquet of flowers that stops just short of being too sweet. definitely one to apply sparingly.

• Boomslang Snake oil with cocoa, teakwood and rice milk.
My first thought when I sniffed the bottle was "Ewww." But putting it on it turns into cocoa and milk with the vague hint of the teak. Sort of smells like a chocolatini, honestly. Not bad, but I don't think it's something I'd ever order. It's interesting to smell like chocolate though, I gotta say.

Mag Mell - The Plane of Joy, eternal reward for a lifetime of valor and glory. A place of eternal youth and beauty, strength and honor, music and revelry. The warmth of amber, the puissance of white ginger and the clarity of verbena, with fresh green grass, lush sage and cleansing droplets of summer rain.
    -Smells amazing on me. No, really. It's the... I think amber and verbena and then... the rain scent thing going on... wow. I'll be over here having scented day dreams...

Cordelia - The essence of faith, love and devotion: lilac, lemon, green tea, wisteria, osmanthus, white cedar, and Chinese musk.
  -Starts off smelling like I rolled in a lilac bush, but calms down after a bit... Smells nice and... girly. Really girly. I think it's the wisteria. I smell like a Southern plantation or something now... I like it though.

Xiuhtecuhtli: Patron of the Aztec pantheon, he is the personification of light within darkness, warmth in the cold, and life in, and after, death. He is a creative and destructive God of Fire and Light, and is appeased only by sacrifice, trial, and the slaughter of his people’s enemies. Copal, plumeria and sweet orange and the smoke of South American incense and crushed jungle blooms.
 - Smells like incense and boy when I put it on. Like a nicer less obnoxious Axe body spray. :/  I like, but not sure if I like it on me. Maybe on someone else. 

Eve - The spirit of temptation, the essence of lost innocence. Apple blossom, rose, ylang ylang and golden honey.
 -I have to beware of rose scents. Something about my chemistry brings all the roses to the yard and I smell like I've been dipped in rose oil, took a rose bath, rolled in a rose-strewn bed and washed up with rose water. There is the vaguest hint of ylang ylang somewhere but I'm sad because where are the apples? Definitely not for me. I do not like rose perfume.

Ultraviolet: Electrifying, mechanized and chilly -- the scent of crushed blooms strewn on cold metal. Lush violet and neroli spiked hard with eucalyptus and a sliver of mint.
- I get WAAAY too much eucalyptus from this one. Hmm, calms down though, and the violet and neroli get a chance to appear. Nice, not sure it's my thing though.

The Haunted Palace: The moment before the ruin, frozen. The scent of captured glory, of glowing pearls and rubies, of golden sunlit joy and regal grandeur: red rose, Tunisian amber, blood orange, toasted vanilla, heliotrope, gardenia and red musk.
- OM NOM NOM. I want to roll in this and possibly lick myself, I'm not sure... I don't think it's polite to go around sniffing your own wrist but I want to... Amber orange gardenia with a soft waft of vanilla are what show up on me, and oops there's the gardenia... red musk too maybe? I don't know. It's all yumminess. Why is this only a Limited Edition? I want more of it already. :(   No one will get this one or Mag Mell away from me.

The Sportive Sun: She who turns to love. Florentine iris, frankincense, violet, ylang ylang, amber, and orchid..
 - Currently en route to me. And better get here quuick, dammit. I have an addiction to feed.

For those of you wonder what in the heck I'm sniffing, I give you: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, perveyors of awesome perfume oils.

*Perfume description things are ganked from the website, btw. I'm lazy.