Photo credit. I am kicking myself over this one. When I bought Pumpkin IV from the lab, it was nice enough. Quite an overpowering pumpkin, and not quite honeyish or deep enough - my skin seemed to...
Photo credit. Dolly Mixture was made by my first Switch Witch, a very talented perfume maker who runs Moxie Handmade. It's one of the very, vanishingly few citrus scents that stays true and works...
Picture credit. The picture's not perfect, but I wanted golden. That's mostly what Chanukkiyah is about on my skin: golden, candlelit, warmth. There's amber, which is warm and soft and slightly smoky...
Photo credit. Blood Kiss. The first scent I fell in love with, before I owned any BPAL, when I was still teetering on the brink of committing to what, I admit, has become a lifelong hobby and a massive...
Photo credit. There's a gorgeous creamy pumpkin in All Hallow's Eve Pixie, smooth and buttery and soft like pumpkin pie. This is a defiantly sweet scent - even the components that might normally give it some tartness and balance the sweetness (like the apple and pumpkin) are smothered in toffee and marshmallows and pie and pastry and sweetness. It's enough to give you cavities. Sadly, and weirdly for this sort of foody scent, it vanishes on my skin. I can't work out why, but it seems to be an issue for me with...
Photo credit. Polyhymnia starts out as a really lovely green herbal scent with loads of bright lemon up front. It reminds me instantly why I decided to hang onto it after a short skin test - cool deep...
Photo credit. This is a distressingly accurate scent. Something about it on me smells, well, ratty. Not in a good way. Like sodden fur. Most BPAL aquatics are frankly terrible on me - something about...
Photo credit. Devil's Night was the first scent that really got me in to smoke scents. It's soft and very smooth, a slow burning fire, and definitely industrial. It smells like burning buildings much more than burning wood. It's colder and harsher than a woodsmoke scent - I get the feeling it doesn't see the point in the countryside and much prefers cement and concrete and cold hard pavements. Where it gets interesting is when the smoke starts to fade. Underneath the cynicism and the harsh and the aloof sophistication...
If you've been following this blog for a while you'll probably have noticed I've trailed off a little on posting. I still wear a scent a day and blog about it, but I've started posting in batches, two...
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