Anyone else really into their perfumes? I used to collect them years ago, but god knows what happened to my old collection, and I'm building a new one. I'm the kind of nerd who keeps a spreadsheet and I love talking about perfumes.
Right now, I'm trying out Arcana. I'm totally in love. It smells like a metaphysical shop, in the best way.
A long shot: Anyone have any Bordello that they're willing to part with?
@tek There are a few scents of theirs I still go back for, either because I'm too lazy or haven't figured out the combination for them to make myself.
I'm a huge fan of the RPG ones: Rogue, Bard, etc. as well as the alignments. Good, Evil, Neutral, Chaotic.
@macha I love Rogue.
@Aria I feel like this might be something you want to check out.
I looove BPAL but I haven't let myself get into it. I have some imps from like 15 years ago now, and my most recent purchase was a bottle of Nasty Woman, so whenever that was sold.
My favorite is probably O, but I also love Coyote, Whip, Dorian, Juliet... so many. My only other bottle is Purple Phoenix. Mmm.
@puppybreath I got a few from the recent activism lines (Georgia election, RAICES). I actually have ImPEACHment and Alternative Facts coming in my next order.
UHM. I can talk indie scents ALL DAY.
My most recent purchase was Ü from BPAL and the Mütter museum.
A mélange of balsams, leathers, and raw vanilla designed to evoke images of unearthed secrets and dusty, ancient libraries.
I have a pretty decent BPAL collection...somewhere in my room.
My favorite scent is an old one: MVJBA: Spring Training 2008. Scents from edibles (candy, fruit, coffee, etc) for some reason suit my body chemistry the best.
I do miss having BPAL parties, passing around scents and bowls of coffee grinds to clear our noses and making trades.
I don't have a problem. I can stop any time I want! >.>
(PS - Yes, the other two drawers are also full.)
For reference, for those of you who may be interested in other lines, I also recommend:
If you want decants/samples of newly released collections, you can pre-order them from Angi at Ajevie and if you're into the whole luxury independent fragrance thing more than perfume oils, I recommend Perfumology. The owner, Nir, is a complete and total mensch and his mother is lovely and hilariously funny. Nir once tracked down a bottle of 4160Tuesday's Bodhi Language just for me, as well as selling my husband one of the few bottles of Buddhawood Box available in the US, and they're indescribably lovely.
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There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello
@aria I've got a few Sucreabeilles in my collection. I find that they either don't work well with my skin or my skin eats them, but I've only tried a couple of the ones I bought so far.
BPAL is one of my favorite places for random impulse purchases that aren't video games or dice, but WOW y'all are organized. I just have a plastic box in my sock drawer where I hoard them and apportion tiny amounts of nice smells to portion out to myself as a reward for surviving weekdays.
@tek said in Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab:
@aria I've got a few Sucreabeilles in my collection. I find that they either don't work well with my skin or my skin eats them, but I've only tried a couple of the ones I bought so far.
Yeah, I've definitely had the skin-eating problem with at least one of my Sucreabeille perfumes. Winter hardly helps, when my already dry skin likes to just suck up every bit of moisture it can.
@saosmash said in Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab:
BPAL is one of my favorite places for random impulse purchases that aren't video games or dice, but WOW y'all are organized. I just have a plastic box in my sock drawer where I hoard them and apportion tiny amounts of nice smells to portion out to myself as a reward for surviving weekdays.
Mine are in a little box and I regularly forget that they exist until something (LIKE THIS THREAD) reminds me of them. So thanks for that! 
But absolutely no organization at all here, haha.
@aria I'm sure you've heard this before, but a little bit of vaseline on the inside of your wrists will help make it laaaaaast.
@badger
Years ago I bought the Embalming Fluid BPAL at the Muetter. It smells almost exactly like Tokyomilk's Everything and Nothing (which I refuse to believe WASN'T named after a David Sylvian album).
I got a sample of Titania at a Halloween party in the French Quarter many years ago, fell in love, and have been addicted ever since.
I have a playlist: http://musoapbox.net/topic/91/tributary-s-playlist
@tributary That's the one I love best and that loves me best. (There's one that's pennyroyal and...something, and I love it in the bottle, but on me it smells like zombie abortifacent.)
God, I miss BPAL parties.
@reimesu This reminds me of my review of their Jacob's Ladder release, which is one of their more common Yules.
"I was really looking forward to this one, but I have the exact problem with it that it appears everyone else is saying they didn't have -- the amber in this went straight to baby powder on my skin. Fancy baby powder for a baby with a fancy ass that needs fancy scents to keep it dry and comfy in its satin nappies, but definitely baby powder. And I don't want to smell like a fancy baby's fancy ass."
Skin chemistry is weird.
Anyone else really into their perfumes? I used to collect them years ago, but god knows what happened to my old collection, and I'm building a new one. I'm the kind of nerd who keeps a spreadsheet and I love talking about perfumes.
Right now, I'm trying out Arcana. I'm totally in love. It smells like a metaphysical shop, in the best way.
A long shot: Anyone have any Bordello that they're willing to part with?
