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Violette Market
I dropped a chunk o' change on sample vials of perfume oil from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
vmperfumes, and now have a bunch to try out. :)
Review of Cathedral
Polished Mahogeny wood, golden musk, frankincense and myrrh resins, clementine, and amber incense wafting toward the Heavens.
Nice at first, a light incense-y scent that I like. Later on, it fades slightly and the warm amber comes out. And then at this point, I let![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
myrialux snif it and he immediately IDed it as root beer. And, by God, it smells exactly like root beer!
So, yeah, not successful, unfortunately.
I'm trying The Library of Alexandria next. Because HOW COULD I NOT?
Distant Travels
Along the Silk Road
Smoldering sweet sandalwood, golden amber, aromatic cedarwood, dark amber resin, fushia iris, saffron threads, opoponax, and glistening vanilla musk.
***Please roll sample or bottle prior to application***
Moroccan Market
The light of a hundred stars glistens from candle light to lantern light. All around the air is spicy and deep. Scents of passion, adventure, of deep longing and a moon-less desert night. Cassia, market spices, golden musk, pink carnation, and dark amber.
Journey to Zanzibar
Benzoin and sweet frankincense resins shimmer in vanilla musk spiced with cinnamon bark, cloves, toasted almond, peppercorns, and red carnation bundles.
Oaxaca
Deep dark chocolate and spicy cinnamon with a touch of resin. As rich as the city itself.
Oceania
Moloka'i
Coastal sand dunes, strawberry guava, osmanthus flowers, ginger root, sweet eucalyptus, and sand-swept cypress.
O'ahu
White sugar cane, mock orange petals, dark coffee beans, nectarine, Kahlúa, dark patchouli, amber resin, and rich vanilla bean
Bier Road
Johann Strauss
Pale pink rose, golden sweet apple, tart thorn apple, Bourbon vanilla, aged oaken barrels, and a hint of woodsmoke.
Long Ago and Far Away
Thorns at the Gate
Thick and twisting vines, jewel-red thorn apples, sweet pink climbing roses and sharp thorns concealed behind red rosebuds. Apple blossom, bois de rose, golden vetiver, blond patchouli, oakmoss, apple accord, and red rose.
Myths and Legends
Bunbuku Chagama
In Japenese folklore, Bunbuku Chagama (happiness bubbling over like a tea pot) is a racoon dog or tanuki, that uses its shapeshifting powers to reward rescuers for their kindness.
A playful blend of fragrant Keemun and Ying De Hong black teas, blood cedarwood, sweet pink peppercorns, dark chocolate absolute, and a jolly combustion of forest black raspberry, black plum, vanilla seed pods, and warm allspice.
Demeter's Lament
Demeter was the Greek Goddess of grain and fertility. She was the nourisher of the earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and sacred law. Demeter taught mankind the arts of agriculture: sowing seeds, ploughing, harvesting and planting. When her daughter, Persephone, is taken by Hades to become his bride, Demeter goes into a deep depression and freezes the earth resulting in winter.
Forest branches bare of leaf, barren fields and lifeless seed pods. Exposed roots and dried, wind-swept soil, a faint trail of woodsmoke and the lonely cry of a lone hawk in flight.
Guinevere
Guinevere was the legendary queen and wife to King Arthur. She was most famous for her love affair with Arthur's chief knight: Sir Lancelot. Guinevere never had any children and after her affair with Lancelot was exposed, and Arthur died in battle, she lived out her remaining years in a convent.
Silver lilac, sparkling white musk, white rose petals, golden peach, and just a drop of sinful red rose.
Hesperian Apples
The Garden of the Hesperides is Hera's orchard in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in Tanger, Morocco where a grove of immortality-giving golden apples grew. The trees were planted from the fruited branches that Gaia gave to Hera as a wedding gift when Hera accepted Zeus as her husband. The Hesperides were given the task of tending to the grove, but occasionally plucked from it themselves. Not trusting them, Hera also placed in the garden a never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon named Ladon as an additional safeguard for her precious apples.
Sparkling golden apples with a slight pink hue, and a distinct bronzing from the late Autumn wind gently rustling brown and yellow autumn leaves. Oaken tree roots reaching into deep forest loam with branches curling inward to protect the golden apples, and the warming glow of perpetual dusk. Golden apple, Oak branches, Autumn leaf, vanilla bean, blackberry accord, forest loam, and a hint of woodsmoke.
Niamh
In Irish Mythology, she is one of the Queens of Tir na nÓg. Niamh crossed the Western Sea on a magical horse, Embarr, and asked Fionn mac Cumhail if his son Oisín would come with her to Tír na nÓg. Oisín agreed and went with her to the land of youth and beauty.
Golden amber, tart pink apples, black vanilla, creamy tuberose, red guava, spring violet, dark vetiver, sugared plum, blackberry honey, bitter chocolate, lavender incense, red rose mist, shimmering fae dust, and apricot dew.
Persephone
In Greek Mythology, Persephone was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. She was the embodiment of the Earth's fertility at the same time that she was the Queen of the Underworld and the wife of Hades. Her four month rein in the underworld each year symbolizes the earthly winter.
Blood red pomegranate, dark amber, sweet myrrh, rich crimson incense, uprooted woodlyn trees, and a dusting of dried autumn leaves blowing into the opening of an earthen passageway.
Plor na mBan
In Irish Mythology, Plor na mBan was the beautiful daughter of Oisín and Niamh. Her name means "the flower of the lady".
White peach accord, jasmine petals, sugared red raspberries, gardenia, Chinese white pear, white lilac, heliotrope, forest ferns, creamy orris, white rose buds, lemon blossom, and soft velvet mosses.
Tea House
Golden Temple
Gold Darjeeling tea leaves dried by the sun, sweet honey musk, whole vanilla bean, and a touch of toasted white coconut
Smoking Plum
Smoky Lapsang Souchong black tea, sweet Mount Wuyi black plum, raw vanilla pods, and a hint of cedar and redwood, create a dreamy mid-afternoon mist of esoteric mysteries.
The Library
Cathedral
Polished Mahogeny wood, golden musk, frankincense and myrrh resins, clementine, and amber incense wafting toward the Heavens.
Library of Alexandria
The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was probably the largest, and certainly the most famous, of the libraries of the ancient world.
Aged paper with curling edges, worn leather bound books, ornate wooden book shelves, warm rich resins, deep cognac, heavy incense, and golden desert sand.
May I Give
Gardenia, golden frankincense, blond woods, white peach, ginger blossom, tuberose, honeyed resins, and dark amber incense.
My "bpal" tag is now being pressed into use as a general perfume tag until that far distant day when I get around to redoing my tags.
vmperfumes, and now have a bunch to try out. :)Review of Cathedral
Polished Mahogeny wood, golden musk, frankincense and myrrh resins, clementine, and amber incense wafting toward the Heavens.
Nice at first, a light incense-y scent that I like. Later on, it fades slightly and the warm amber comes out. And then at this point, I let
myrialux snif it and he immediately IDed it as root beer. And, by God, it smells exactly like root beer!So, yeah, not successful, unfortunately.
I'm trying The Library of Alexandria next. Because HOW COULD I NOT?
Distant Travels
Along the Silk Road
Smoldering sweet sandalwood, golden amber, aromatic cedarwood, dark amber resin, fushia iris, saffron threads, opoponax, and glistening vanilla musk.
***Please roll sample or bottle prior to application***
Moroccan Market
The light of a hundred stars glistens from candle light to lantern light. All around the air is spicy and deep. Scents of passion, adventure, of deep longing and a moon-less desert night. Cassia, market spices, golden musk, pink carnation, and dark amber.
Journey to Zanzibar
Benzoin and sweet frankincense resins shimmer in vanilla musk spiced with cinnamon bark, cloves, toasted almond, peppercorns, and red carnation bundles.
Oaxaca
Deep dark chocolate and spicy cinnamon with a touch of resin. As rich as the city itself.
Oceania
Moloka'i
Coastal sand dunes, strawberry guava, osmanthus flowers, ginger root, sweet eucalyptus, and sand-swept cypress.
O'ahu
White sugar cane, mock orange petals, dark coffee beans, nectarine, Kahlúa, dark patchouli, amber resin, and rich vanilla bean
Bier Road
Johann Strauss
Pale pink rose, golden sweet apple, tart thorn apple, Bourbon vanilla, aged oaken barrels, and a hint of woodsmoke.
Long Ago and Far Away
Thorns at the Gate
Thick and twisting vines, jewel-red thorn apples, sweet pink climbing roses and sharp thorns concealed behind red rosebuds. Apple blossom, bois de rose, golden vetiver, blond patchouli, oakmoss, apple accord, and red rose.
Myths and Legends
Bunbuku Chagama
In Japenese folklore, Bunbuku Chagama (happiness bubbling over like a tea pot) is a racoon dog or tanuki, that uses its shapeshifting powers to reward rescuers for their kindness.
A playful blend of fragrant Keemun and Ying De Hong black teas, blood cedarwood, sweet pink peppercorns, dark chocolate absolute, and a jolly combustion of forest black raspberry, black plum, vanilla seed pods, and warm allspice.
Demeter's Lament
Demeter was the Greek Goddess of grain and fertility. She was the nourisher of the earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and sacred law. Demeter taught mankind the arts of agriculture: sowing seeds, ploughing, harvesting and planting. When her daughter, Persephone, is taken by Hades to become his bride, Demeter goes into a deep depression and freezes the earth resulting in winter.
Forest branches bare of leaf, barren fields and lifeless seed pods. Exposed roots and dried, wind-swept soil, a faint trail of woodsmoke and the lonely cry of a lone hawk in flight.
Guinevere
Guinevere was the legendary queen and wife to King Arthur. She was most famous for her love affair with Arthur's chief knight: Sir Lancelot. Guinevere never had any children and after her affair with Lancelot was exposed, and Arthur died in battle, she lived out her remaining years in a convent.
Silver lilac, sparkling white musk, white rose petals, golden peach, and just a drop of sinful red rose.
Hesperian Apples
The Garden of the Hesperides is Hera's orchard in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in Tanger, Morocco where a grove of immortality-giving golden apples grew. The trees were planted from the fruited branches that Gaia gave to Hera as a wedding gift when Hera accepted Zeus as her husband. The Hesperides were given the task of tending to the grove, but occasionally plucked from it themselves. Not trusting them, Hera also placed in the garden a never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon named Ladon as an additional safeguard for her precious apples.
Sparkling golden apples with a slight pink hue, and a distinct bronzing from the late Autumn wind gently rustling brown and yellow autumn leaves. Oaken tree roots reaching into deep forest loam with branches curling inward to protect the golden apples, and the warming glow of perpetual dusk. Golden apple, Oak branches, Autumn leaf, vanilla bean, blackberry accord, forest loam, and a hint of woodsmoke.
Niamh
In Irish Mythology, she is one of the Queens of Tir na nÓg. Niamh crossed the Western Sea on a magical horse, Embarr, and asked Fionn mac Cumhail if his son Oisín would come with her to Tír na nÓg. Oisín agreed and went with her to the land of youth and beauty.
Golden amber, tart pink apples, black vanilla, creamy tuberose, red guava, spring violet, dark vetiver, sugared plum, blackberry honey, bitter chocolate, lavender incense, red rose mist, shimmering fae dust, and apricot dew.
Persephone
In Greek Mythology, Persephone was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. She was the embodiment of the Earth's fertility at the same time that she was the Queen of the Underworld and the wife of Hades. Her four month rein in the underworld each year symbolizes the earthly winter.
Blood red pomegranate, dark amber, sweet myrrh, rich crimson incense, uprooted woodlyn trees, and a dusting of dried autumn leaves blowing into the opening of an earthen passageway.
Plor na mBan
In Irish Mythology, Plor na mBan was the beautiful daughter of Oisín and Niamh. Her name means "the flower of the lady".
White peach accord, jasmine petals, sugared red raspberries, gardenia, Chinese white pear, white lilac, heliotrope, forest ferns, creamy orris, white rose buds, lemon blossom, and soft velvet mosses.
Tea House
Golden Temple
Gold Darjeeling tea leaves dried by the sun, sweet honey musk, whole vanilla bean, and a touch of toasted white coconut
Smoking Plum
Smoky Lapsang Souchong black tea, sweet Mount Wuyi black plum, raw vanilla pods, and a hint of cedar and redwood, create a dreamy mid-afternoon mist of esoteric mysteries.
The Library
Cathedral
Polished Mahogeny wood, golden musk, frankincense and myrrh resins, clementine, and amber incense wafting toward the Heavens.
Library of Alexandria
The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was probably the largest, and certainly the most famous, of the libraries of the ancient world.
Aged paper with curling edges, worn leather bound books, ornate wooden book shelves, warm rich resins, deep cognac, heavy incense, and golden desert sand.
May I Give
Gardenia, golden frankincense, blond woods, white peach, ginger blossom, tuberose, honeyed resins, and dark amber incense.
My "bpal" tag is now being pressed into use as a general perfume tag until that far distant day when I get around to redoing my tags.
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