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Date: 2009-04-05 10:19 pm (UTC)
I received some imps/decants of BPAL scents through a holiday swap I participated in for Christmas this year. If you would like to try Slobbering Pine, I have an imp of it (though it may have been decanted, I can't tell) that I would be more than happy to send you. It's an absolutely beautiful scent, with hints of the sweetness of the forest wrapped up in a kind of feeling that the morning glow of the sun is kissing the dew off the trees.

Unfortunately I'm not too well-versed in scents myself, as I tend to stray away from them as much as possible. In my childhood I found myself absolutely overwhelmed by the scent of my mother's perfume. She wore a sort of rose scent early on in my childhood, and I found it anything but comforting. When she switched to vanilla, I ended up with headaches every morning from being made to stand around her as it was applied. The entire experience turned me off perfumes and oils for quite a long time. Now that I'm working with children who by and large have their own sensory difficulties, I choose not to wear perfume out of respect to them.

With my job coming to an end shortly, I'd love to experiment with different types of scents and find what I might like the best. I can tell you what I preferred from those that I received this Christmas to give you an idea, but this isn't something I've considered too terribly much, so do be aware.

Hemlock - This has no description on the website, but to me it smells herbal, like lemongrass and pine mixed with rainwater. It's sweet and fresh and crisp, and I am sadly out of it now.

Lurid - Bulgarian lavender and white musk with a dollop of thick resin and a voltaic charge of ozone notes.

Debauchery - Mingled heady civet and red Egyptian musk, thickened with opium.

Black Hellebore - Hellebore resembles the wild rose, but does not belong to their family. The scent is a pale green herbal, darkly rooty, with a faint rose and peony-like overtone.

Those above are scents I have already experienced. On my wishlist are:

Jabberwocky - An earthy yet buoyant scent: pine, eucalyptus and orange.

Crossroads - A chill twilit garden of blooms over dry earth and mosses, heavily laden with incense and offertory herbs.

Bayou - Spanish moss, evergreen and cypress with watery blue-green notes and an eddy of hothouse flowers and swamp blooms.
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