BPAL review: The Lady of Shalott

[telophase]

The Lady of Shalott
BPAL description: From the Love Potions collection. The scent of calm waters just before a raging storm, limned with achingly-beautiful blooms, an icy scent, but somehow warm, and mirror-bright: bold gardenia, crystalline musk, muguet, water blossoms, clear, slightly tart aquatic notes and a crush of white ginger. (Gender neutral)

In vial: A little bit floral, but a little bit turpentine. Which isn't bad - reminds me of art rooms.

Wet: Warm, smooth turpentine. Again, not something I hate, really, because I have good associations with turpentine smells, and it's not harsh.

Dry: Mellows out and loses the turpentine edge. Well-blended; I can't really pick out any distinct notes. Eventually becomes a sort of nice, smooth, warm scent, but very faint on me.

Notes: Cat had no reaction. I think she's realized that if she ignores me, I go away and take the smell with me. Pleasant scent, but not really worth me getting a bottle. The turpentine thing was rather interesting, in a weird sort of way, although I'm pretty sure I'd rather not go around smelling like an art room most days.

Comments

[blissfish.livejournal.com]

Your description of this one makes me want to go buy some immediately. I want to smell art rooms all the time - I miss that smell so very very much.

*nostalgia*

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I've kinda envious. I would have liked an art room over a shallot. I don't think that's what the name is supposed to refer to... D:

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD It's a poem by Tennyson about a drip of a lady who's stuck in a tower weaving, condemned to only see the world trhough a mirror, and then she catches a glimpse of Lancelot and looks out the window at him, realizes she's now doomed to die, and goes out of the tower and dies in a boat and then Lancelot sees her and says "Eh, not bad."

Er, that's what I get out of it. Here's a slightly less biased webpage (http://www.pathguy.com/shalott.htm) about it with the text of the poem. XD

But everyone misspells it as the onion instead. XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD *enables (http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com)* Mind you, the 2-month shipping time is a bit tiresome, but you can poke around on Ebay or the various BPAL LJ communities and see if anyone's selling.

If you want to try the tester I've got and see if it works on you, you'e welcome. :)

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know it refers to the Tennyson poem. (Excuse my delirious early morning comments. You'd think I'd have a stop button or something.)

Which is why it's kinda sad I smelled like the onion instead! The irony! It burns!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD Hee. I still don't like the poem very much, although that webpage was interesting and I learned more about it. I think it's the "I broke my curse because I fell in love with the image of Lancelot" bit that annoys me.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

It was the "I'm going to go out in a boat and die now" part that always annoyed me.