Trying to pick my diary up again, there's so many scents every day and so much going on lately, but I like seeing at least a few of what I've been wearing...will see how I go again...
For Valentines Day, Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and Dark Delicacies released two new BPAL scents: “A double feature tribute to B-movie sci-fi horror romance”. A very nifty idea, and I love the taglines! I got a bottle of Teenage Cannibal (because I am a sucker for cream and candy floss) and a decant of Planet X. They arrived from
“The scentmasters of the WEIRD
In their LATEST and most TERRIFYING!”
Diary Of A Lovestruck Teenage Cannibal
The NIGHTMARE TERROR of TEENAGE love gone GRISLY!
She’s HELL-BENT on romance, THRILL-CRAZED, and HUNGRY!
There’s NO ESCAPE from her clutches!
Notes/Description: A deranged darling, sweet and sociopathic! Clotted vanilla cream, pink pepper, grapefruit, blood lily, red ginger, English pear, and lemon-squeezed candyfloss!
I was so looking forward to this one but sadly, it’s not quite as amazing on me as I’d hoped and even more sadly, I’m a little allergic to it. Little red splotches. It could be the cream note, I randomly get mini rashes from some creamy, cakey or almondy notes. Or it could be the pepper and ginger mix.
First on it’s light, sweet and cheesecakey! That thrills me no end. Really yummy beginnings. Soon a hint of sugared lemon appears, mingling with a touch of tart grapefruit, spicy red ginger and a touch of rounded pear. As it starts to fade though, so does my thrills, it becomes a little less exciting, albeit a nice soft sweet scent. I think the slight rash is what’s putting me off. I either need to wear this in smaller amounts or try it in a locket or as a room scent as I do like it and don’t want the rash to spoil it for me!
and
I Married A Vampire From Planet X
Unspeakable HORROR and SHOCKING supernatural space SEX!
Can they find MARITAL BLISS on EARTH?
A blend of blood-soaked daemonorops, black amber, dark musk, glistening leather, caraway, smoky myrrh, cinnamon, and clove that is glowing with a luminescent, space-addled coating of clary sage, lemon balm, white grapefruit rind, mandarin, green melon, and white musk.
Wow, this one is unusual. Not easy to describe, but I get a light cinnamon and clove and what I’m guessing is some very lightly savoury caraway and clary sage mixing strangely with but kinda nicely with the sweet and mildly fruity notes, all backed by a stark white musk and dark powdery amber and black musk…I don’t get much of the leather in this one. The result is very different, oddly sniffable (sometimes a bit too odd) and definitely otherworldly! It’s in a very similar vein to BPAL’s 51 – another outer space scent, expect much less fruitier and spicier. I don’t need a full size of this one, but Beth’s really managed to capture the feel!
Notes: Artwork from the BPAL and DD sites.
