BPAl: Burial, Phantasm
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BPAL: The Dark Side of Earth: deep, brooding forest scents, including juniper and patchouli. The scent of upturned cemetary loam mingling with floral offerings to the dead.
Imp: It's somewhat pine-y, but not sharply so. I suppose that's the patchouli or something, not that I know what that smells like. Here's to hoping that the floral offerings part doesn't come out, because me and flowers don't seem to mix very well.
Wet: Yipes, the pine is intensifying! I'm still trying to decide if I like this or not. I am obviously showing a distinct dislike of flowers and cinnamon, but this is neither. I like clean scents, but this might be too much pine for me.
Dry: Hrm, this is actually really interesting! This is the first smell so far that I'm starting to change my mind on. Usually if I don't like a smell, it just gets worse and I keep disliking it, or if I like it, I keep liking it. This one, the pine has really subsided and the patchouli whatnot has come to the forefront, and it's really nice and mellow. It actually does smell somewhat of loam! Odd. I shall have to try again and see what happens.
(after another few minutes: nope, I should have trusted the first instinct, as usual! It turns all piney again. So much for that! I am actually amazingly easy to test perfumes on it seems. Sometimes things turn soapy, but usually if I think I will dislike it in the imp, I end up disliking it.)
Neither rat tried to attack me, which was of the good. Fool-rat smelled briefly of pine for a moment, but I've finally found a scent that doesn't seem to be sticking on their fur. Amazing! Rat-proof scent! Though I was kind of sad, as pine-smelling rat is the least strange rat smell I have encountered. Well, either that or I'm just getting used to scented rats.
Phantasm
BPAL: This delicate, spectral perfume gives rise to an eerie distortion of of the senses. It bestows an ephemeral, ghostly, and truly haunting quality to your presence. Green tea, lemon verbena, jasmine and neroli.
Imp: Some sort of cool floral. I suppose jasmine plus green tea. I can't smell the lemon verbena at all. Me sad.
Wet: Oooookay, this is strangely turning pine-y. Huh? Oh wait! There's the lemon! Ha! I can't smell it al the time though; it keeps getting covered over by what I suspect is jasmine, though it doesn't smell like any jasmine I have smelled. Maybe that means it's tea? Or neroli? What the heck is neroli? Anyway, somehow this is turning distinctly woody on me, with the very occasional whiff of faint lemon, which is extraordinarily strange.
Dry: Alas, this goes to powder, like every other perfume with a floral in it that I've tried. Sigh.
Fitz-rat again tried to bite off my wrist, so no perfume on him! I did scritch him a lot though, so maybe I will end up smelling powdery rat days down the line ;).
BPAL: The Dark Side of Earth: deep, brooding forest scents, including juniper and patchouli. The scent of upturned cemetary loam mingling with floral offerings to the dead.
Imp: It's somewhat pine-y, but not sharply so. I suppose that's the patchouli or something, not that I know what that smells like. Here's to hoping that the floral offerings part doesn't come out, because me and flowers don't seem to mix very well.
Wet: Yipes, the pine is intensifying! I'm still trying to decide if I like this or not. I am obviously showing a distinct dislike of flowers and cinnamon, but this is neither. I like clean scents, but this might be too much pine for me.
Dry: Hrm, this is actually really interesting! This is the first smell so far that I'm starting to change my mind on. Usually if I don't like a smell, it just gets worse and I keep disliking it, or if I like it, I keep liking it. This one, the pine has really subsided and the patchouli whatnot has come to the forefront, and it's really nice and mellow. It actually does smell somewhat of loam! Odd. I shall have to try again and see what happens.
(after another few minutes: nope, I should have trusted the first instinct, as usual! It turns all piney again. So much for that! I am actually amazingly easy to test perfumes on it seems. Sometimes things turn soapy, but usually if I think I will dislike it in the imp, I end up disliking it.)
Neither rat tried to attack me, which was of the good. Fool-rat smelled briefly of pine for a moment, but I've finally found a scent that doesn't seem to be sticking on their fur. Amazing! Rat-proof scent! Though I was kind of sad, as pine-smelling rat is the least strange rat smell I have encountered. Well, either that or I'm just getting used to scented rats.
Phantasm
BPAL: This delicate, spectral perfume gives rise to an eerie distortion of of the senses. It bestows an ephemeral, ghostly, and truly haunting quality to your presence. Green tea, lemon verbena, jasmine and neroli.
Imp: Some sort of cool floral. I suppose jasmine plus green tea. I can't smell the lemon verbena at all. Me sad.
Wet: Oooookay, this is strangely turning pine-y. Huh? Oh wait! There's the lemon! Ha! I can't smell it al the time though; it keeps getting covered over by what I suspect is jasmine, though it doesn't smell like any jasmine I have smelled. Maybe that means it's tea? Or neroli? What the heck is neroli? Anyway, somehow this is turning distinctly woody on me, with the very occasional whiff of faint lemon, which is extraordinarily strange.
Dry: Alas, this goes to powder, like every other perfume with a floral in it that I've tried. Sigh.
Fitz-rat again tried to bite off my wrist, so no perfume on him! I did scritch him a lot though, so maybe I will end up smelling powdery rat days down the line ;).