More BPAL

[telophase]

I haven't bought any BPAL perfume oils in a long time,* so when I discovered that they had a limited edition series called Black Helicopter up in honor of April Fool's Day, OF COURSE I had to indulge. :)

They arrived last night, and today I am wearing Staged Moon Landing. The Lab's description:

O, moon landing hoax.
Incontrovertible proof:
Fake rocks, fake footage.

Determined to win the space race at any cost, the US government staged moon landings in an empty hangar at Area 51 in the Nevada desert and presented the spurious footage to the world as fact.

Prop moon rocks: muguet, orris, white sandalwood, galbanum, cistus, and dusty vanilla.

Unfortunately, hoaxed moon landing rocks are apparently made of Play-Dough, as that's what I'm getting now that it's been on for a while. I think it's the vanilla interacting with me - it tends to go to plastic on my skin, but I'd hoped that the orris and sandalwood would overcome it.

What else I got, which I will try to remember to report on:

THE AURORA SPACESHIP TAKES A DIVE -
Texas thistle, bluebell, red corn poppy, magnolia, sunflower, cedar sage, and smashed, flaming windmill.

PHANTOM TIME HYPOTHESIS -
A traditional Medieval perfume that never existed: balm, benzoin, damask rose, gumdragon, lignum aloes, orange water, ambergris, and vegetal musk.

SKYTYPING WITH CHEMTRAILS -
Incapacitating poofiness: spun sugar, white amber, white musk, citron, and lemongrass masking a sinister, almost chemical undernote of elemi, zdravetz, and ravintsar

TRAIPSING THROUGH THE CROP CIRCLES -
Miles and miles of flattened wheat, barley, and maize.


And you get an imp of Tin Foil Hat with every order ... I got five of them. One of which had unfortunately smashed on the way here but, y'know, as I had four others that merely made for a fragrant package and was not a big deal otherwise.

Perfumes I didn't get, which I may have to order anyway:

THE COMMITTEE OF 300: MEETING MINUTES -
An ominous round table for the quintessential Round Table Group: polished wood, tobacco smoke, faded cologne, and neon discharge.

ILLUMINATI COTILLION -
Ceremonial incense, pipe tobacco, temple roses, and shittim wood.

MENACING IONOSPHERIC RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
Electrically charged white amber, violet, sage, mint, and neroli flanked by dazzling metals and shining wires.

The Black Helicopter series goes away on May 29, so if you're intrigued, order before then.



* I mean, there may be people who read my LJ/DW who have no idea what BPAL is, it's been so long since I posted about it! Now that's a scary thought!

Comments

[cynthia1960]

My Black Helicopters showed up yesterday ;). Looking forward to a sniffathon.

[telophase]

All right! :D

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I am REALLY intrigued by The Aurora Spaceship Takes a Dive, so I'd love to see you report on that.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I shall endeavor to remember!

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

I was beginning to wonder if you'd given up on tht particular hobby. :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

No, just scaled back as I had too many bottles already in hand. :)I wear it regularly, though not always. I did buy three of the Phoenix Steamworks scents - Gold Phoenix, Silver Phoenix, and Copper Phoenix, but never got around to reporting on them. (Short form: Copper Phoenix smells best on me.)

There's a couple of ones in the update I got today that I'm considering trying, though. :)

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

I second the interest in Aurora Spaceship Takes a Dive and add Menacing Ionospheric Research Instrument.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I want to know about TRAIPSING THROUGH THE CROP CIRCLES!!

It sounds heavenly. I love the ambers and sandalwoods, but so often they add in sage and on me sage goes HELLO I AM SAGE HEAR ME ROAR, which is less than ideal. I end up smelling like a slightly moldy headshop.

I've been thinking about reading some of the comics and then reviewing the comics and their respective scents for HU, just because I think it will make all the comic geek guys twitchy. What do you think? Do you think that would be interesting?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think that would be awesome - twitchy guys FTW! (And you can certainly make the argument that it would bring in a different audience - the sort of audience who buys perfume at BPAL. XD)

On a more serious note, I think it would be interesting to talk about how the characters were interpreted through the scents. They're being done with the blessing of the creators, after all, and I *think* that the creators might even get a chance to say yea or nay to them.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to do it. I've never read Witchblade seriously, and I like the sound of the Sara Pezzini scent. Any suggestions on the others? I was looking at these: http://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/boomstudios.html
And I know nothing of Hellboy....

I like to order all at once to save on shipping. I'm going to get the Marquis De Carabas scent because, well, I have to.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hellboy-the-comic is AWESOME. I like the movies as well, but the movie Hellboy is not the comic Hellboy. In the movies, he's played as if he were 18 years old and trying to figure out who he is and where he fits in the world, whereas in the comics, he's a cynical, weary 40ish guy who already knows that and just wants to gt the damn job done. Mike Mignola can't draw feet, so he puts simple squiggly things at the ends of everyone's legs, and it's been long enough since I read them that any of the usual feminist/colonialist/etc. critiques I might have of them are completely forgotten. ETA: There are Hellboy novels and anthologies out as well - I like the short stories better than the novels.

For the Boom Studios scents, I know nothing of the characters but am intrigued by BETTE NOIR, KAIDAN, and YÜREI. Actually, I'd be willing to throw money (and 1-mL vials and decanting squeezy thingys) at you for samples if you get things. :)


ETA: Looks like you can get issue 1 of Hellboy: Seeds of Destruction free on iTunes for a while (http://www.darkhorse.com/Features/Mobile).

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

My only knowledge of Hellboy was from the movies, and I didn't like the youth of the character. An older guy seems much more fun!

I will get the first issue of Hellboy and try it and then *looks a bit shifty*, we'll see. Heh.

I'd be happy to decant around some! The scents I was thinking about for the Boom Studios are the Yurei and the Kaidan. I'm leaning more towards Yurei, because it's a bit different than what I normally get.

I'm thinking of the Sara Pezzini, Hellboy or Trevor (or Liz, I'm easily confused about which one of the Hellboys to get, obviously!) and the Marquis De Carabas and maybe the Velvets. Er, because. Any of those sound good to you? I'd also be happy to take imps of the crop circles or skywriting, rather than money, but maybe you just got imps. Wheeeee, BPAL! I haven't tried anything new in FOREVER.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in Hellboy and the Marquis just because they're those characters. XD And although most of those you mention wouldn't work on me (dark musks turn into Dead Skunk on me AAAUUGH!), I'm interested in seeing what they smell like in the imps.

I can trade, as I got the full bottles of the Black Helicopters (And you want an imp of Tin Foil Hat? They gave me FIVE.) I also have Copper Phoenix, Silver Phoenix, and Gold Phoenix from whatever they were from, and can trade imps of those. :)

[herchuckness.livejournal.com]

You are the second person to link me to BPAL today! Stop tempting me, people

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*tempts you more*

[chomiji]

Darn you, you just made me decide to order some imps for the first time in ages.

At least this time I'm doing it semi-systematically, by trying to find things that have similar combinations of notes to mainstream scents that I like.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D *is enabler*

I ordered totally at random until I started figuring out what worked and what didn't on me. And now when I try mainstream perfumes, I am overwhelmed by the sheer amount of alcohol I get until it evaporates off.