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Sunlight wipes the sleep from cobblestones
I have had an absolutely wretched day. I resort to BPAL for therapeutic purposes.
(Cut for Bluebeard. Paging Angela Carter.)
Description
A scent swirling with dark rage, unbridled jealousy, and murderous intent. Violet, lavender, white musk and vetiver.
Vial
I have to say, this is the first perfume in the vial that has reminded me of sushi. Well, the sidebar to sushi. There's the usual floral this-that-and-the-other, and then there's a prickly sweetness that after a moment I placed as pickled ginger. Yeah. I have no idea how that works.
Wet
So far I can't detect either the violet or the lavender, which are at least two scents I can recognize, and what I have right now is an almost loam-like odor: is this the vetiver? The ginger has subsided into a variant on the cloudiness I associate with musk. There are flickers of crushed green stalks. It's a weird scent. Every time I decide it's actively repugnant, there's some stray note that changes my mind. I suppose that's not an implausible interpretation of a sociopathic husband, but I'm not sure that I should be so fascinated.
Drydown
Still no flowers. I smell like earth and musk and rotted leaves. Forget "The Bloody Chamber," I'm wearing "The Erl-King."
Later
The flowers are AWOL. Rather than fading, the rest of the scent has warmed and intensified and does not smell sweet at all: green bitters and, for once, dark; an almost queasy richness. I suspect other people might ask what the hell I doused myself in, but I keep compulsively sniffing at my wrist. Damn. It's like crack for the nose.
. . . okay, that simile failed on all levels, but the perfume's a keeper. And now I am out of BPAL. Ototoi.
(Cut for Bluebeard. Paging Angela Carter.)
Description
A scent swirling with dark rage, unbridled jealousy, and murderous intent. Violet, lavender, white musk and vetiver.
Vial
I have to say, this is the first perfume in the vial that has reminded me of sushi. Well, the sidebar to sushi. There's the usual floral this-that-and-the-other, and then there's a prickly sweetness that after a moment I placed as pickled ginger. Yeah. I have no idea how that works.
Wet
So far I can't detect either the violet or the lavender, which are at least two scents I can recognize, and what I have right now is an almost loam-like odor: is this the vetiver? The ginger has subsided into a variant on the cloudiness I associate with musk. There are flickers of crushed green stalks. It's a weird scent. Every time I decide it's actively repugnant, there's some stray note that changes my mind. I suppose that's not an implausible interpretation of a sociopathic husband, but I'm not sure that I should be so fascinated.
Drydown
Still no flowers. I smell like earth and musk and rotted leaves. Forget "The Bloody Chamber," I'm wearing "The Erl-King."
Later
The flowers are AWOL. Rather than fading, the rest of the scent has warmed and intensified and does not smell sweet at all: green bitters and, for once, dark; an almost queasy richness. I suspect other people might ask what the hell I doused myself in, but I keep compulsively sniffing at my wrist. Damn. It's like crack for the nose.
. . . okay, that simile failed on all levels, but the perfume's a keeper. And now I am out of BPAL. Ototoi.
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Hm. And the lavender? I may simply have not been able to find it through the vetiver and the musk.
We should get together, and you should try some of my imps.
That would be awesome. Do you want me to bring the ones I have, or have you tried them all already?