BPAL: Blood Rose and Dirty
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oyceterBlood Rose
BPAL: Sensual, robust, and silken: voluptuous red rose bursting with lascivious red wine and sultry dragon's blood resin.
Imp: Ew. Ew ew, wine. Ew, alcohol smell. Ok, I do not like.
Wet: Ewwwwwwwww still gross. Ew, it smells like bad, fake grape juice laced with alcohol. Ew ew ew ew. Gack. Ok, a little more rose is coming in, but still really gross. It smells like sour grape juice, ew.
Drydown: Ok, a little better. Now it just smells sickly sweet. I think that's the dragon's blood, because that's sort of what Wrath briefly turned into before going all cinnamon-bomb on me. Still gross though.
Unsurprisingly, there is absolutely no way I am keeping this. Ew!
Rat review: Fitz-rat tried to eat my wrist again. Apparently we do not agree on the appeal of this scent! Fool-rat was indifferent. I think Fool-rat is not very into perfume, but Fitz-rat is really quite curious about it. He sniffs and sniffs and sniffs. And then I was mean and put some on his back. It smells a little better on him because he's all ratty smelling and I guess rat smell works better with resin smell, but he still smells weird! Great. My rat smells like sour grapes.
Huh. This is really weird. Now my rats smell like jam! Weirdness!
Um. Is it really bad to have rats smell essential oils? For some odd reason, my rat health care book doesn't cover this, and I don't want to be accidentally poisoning them or something =(.
Dirty
BPAL: A wonderful antidote to an all-nighter oozing with drunken, addled perversion and debauchery. A fresh, crisp white linen scent: perfectly clean, perfectly breezy.
Imp: It just sort of smells fresh and wet. Hard to describe, and the BPAL description isn't giving me anything specific to go on, alas.
Wet: Now it smells even wetter! I have no idea how to talk about this. It just smells sort of wet and clean.
Drydown: I still have no idea what it is, but it becomes a little less wet and a tinge spicier, almost. I really like this. It doesn't smell like a smell; it's just sort of there and being its nice, anti-perfume self. This is very good, given that I tend to dislike heavy smelling things.
Haha, maybe I need a bottle of this too! Man, and I just placed an order for bottles of Severin and Embalming Fluid. On the other hand, it's nice to discover that I don't actually hate perfume, like I originally thought!
Rat review: Got another nibble from Fitz-rat! But not the "Yay! Food! Must eat!" reaction that I get from Severin and Embalming Fluid. Doesn't smell like anything on the poor fuzz, quite possibly because he still smells faintly of jam from the Blood Rose with an itty bit of cinnamon still (my god, STILL) from Wrath.
BPAL: Sensual, robust, and silken: voluptuous red rose bursting with lascivious red wine and sultry dragon's blood resin.
Imp: Ew. Ew ew, wine. Ew, alcohol smell. Ok, I do not like.
Wet: Ewwwwwwwww still gross. Ew, it smells like bad, fake grape juice laced with alcohol. Ew ew ew ew. Gack. Ok, a little more rose is coming in, but still really gross. It smells like sour grape juice, ew.
Drydown: Ok, a little better. Now it just smells sickly sweet. I think that's the dragon's blood, because that's sort of what Wrath briefly turned into before going all cinnamon-bomb on me. Still gross though.
Unsurprisingly, there is absolutely no way I am keeping this. Ew!
Rat review: Fitz-rat tried to eat my wrist again. Apparently we do not agree on the appeal of this scent! Fool-rat was indifferent. I think Fool-rat is not very into perfume, but Fitz-rat is really quite curious about it. He sniffs and sniffs and sniffs. And then I was mean and put some on his back. It smells a little better on him because he's all ratty smelling and I guess rat smell works better with resin smell, but he still smells weird! Great. My rat smells like sour grapes.
Huh. This is really weird. Now my rats smell like jam! Weirdness!
Um. Is it really bad to have rats smell essential oils? For some odd reason, my rat health care book doesn't cover this, and I don't want to be accidentally poisoning them or something =(.
Dirty
BPAL: A wonderful antidote to an all-nighter oozing with drunken, addled perversion and debauchery. A fresh, crisp white linen scent: perfectly clean, perfectly breezy.
Imp: It just sort of smells fresh and wet. Hard to describe, and the BPAL description isn't giving me anything specific to go on, alas.
Wet: Now it smells even wetter! I have no idea how to talk about this. It just smells sort of wet and clean.
Drydown: I still have no idea what it is, but it becomes a little less wet and a tinge spicier, almost. I really like this. It doesn't smell like a smell; it's just sort of there and being its nice, anti-perfume self. This is very good, given that I tend to dislike heavy smelling things.
Haha, maybe I need a bottle of this too! Man, and I just placed an order for bottles of Severin and Embalming Fluid. On the other hand, it's nice to discover that I don't actually hate perfume, like I originally thought!
Rat review: Got another nibble from Fitz-rat! But not the "Yay! Food! Must eat!" reaction that I get from Severin and Embalming Fluid. Doesn't smell like anything on the poor fuzz, quite possibly because he still smells faintly of jam from the Blood Rose with an itty bit of cinnamon still (my god, STILL) from Wrath.
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Sat, May. 21st, 2005 12:26 am (UTC)((laughing too hard to type anything at all coherent))
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Sat, May. 21st, 2005 06:27 am (UTC)Would you like to trade your Blood Rose for my Phantasm (green tea, jasmine, neroli, lemon verbena)? I thought rose was evil on me, but now that I've tried more scents, I realize that rose + jasmine or rose + lily of the valley are the real culprit. Jasmine on its own does icky things to me, too.
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Sun, May. 22nd, 2005 06:25 pm (UTC)And I would love that trade! Phantasm sounds promising!
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Sun, May. 22nd, 2005 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Sat, May. 21st, 2005 07:39 am (UTC)And suddenly I feel a lot more sympathetic towards Riley when he says in The Replacement something to the effect of, "This is fascinating! Does anyone else want to just lock them in a room and do experiments?"
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Sun, May. 22nd, 2005 06:25 pm (UTC)You want rats, you know you do ;).
Hee, your cats probably want rats too, but not quite in the same way.
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Mon, May. 23rd, 2005 04:08 am (UTC)Charlie actually ran away. She is an outdoor cat and we haven't been home much the past couple of months to feed her (crazy work schedules got even crazier) so she started wandering. She's been showing up a couple of times though, so maybe we can lure her back.
She tends to hunt lizards and squirrels. And birds. And the one random bunny that showed up once. She probably hunts palm rats too (live in the trees). I think we shan't introduce our pets to each other.
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Mon, May. 23rd, 2005 10:53 am (UTC)She hunts bunnies? Wow. Someone I knew had a bunny, and man, that thing was not nice! It didn't bite me, but if you tried to give it a treat, it would totally lunge at you with bunny claws extended.
It's like Bun-bun from Sluggy Freelance!
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Tue, May. 24th, 2005 04:32 am (UTC)The only bunny I know was a formerly abused bunny and has since been adopted into a loving home. She's very sweet but skittish, though she makes an excellent guard bunny. She thumps on her owner's bed to wake them up if something's amiss. And then she goes and hides.
"Now my rats smell like jam!"
Sat, May. 21st, 2005 08:53 am (UTC)Oh. Dear. *wipes eyes* That's just....too good.
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Tue, May. 31st, 2005 12:20 pm (UTC)And yes, bunnies will bite. *smiles sweetly*
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Wed, Jun. 1st, 2005 12:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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