BPAL review: Golden Priapus

[telophase]

Golden Priapus

BPAL description: From the Love Potions collection. Insatiable lust, unending vigor! A truly carnal, energetic men's blend: vanilla and amber with juniper, rosewood and white pine.

In vial: Soft smooth warmness with hints of pine

Wet: The rosewood starts coming out, with almost a minty smell (but not the cloying mint of Spooky). Sort of the sharp note of fresh-cut wood.

Dry: Faint vanilla wood. I rather like it.

Notes: The cat sniffed quite intently, but then went back to sleep. This seems pretty nice - after a while it's just subtle vanilla and amber. I think I shall keep the imp and try it again, or see what happens when I slather. I think it's making my nose stop up a bit, but I can't tell if it's this or if my nose was doing that before. I know I'm mildly allergic to at least some evergreens, so that may be it.


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Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's in the mail! Not sure how long it's going to take because the customs service have been known to be wack about it, although they're usually wackier about stuff going from Canada to the US rather than the other way around, from what I understand.

I did what everyone recommended I do and put "Non-alcoholic perfume oil samples" on the customs form, so we'll see what happens there.

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Yes, the customs rules for sending things from Canada to the US have gotten pretty extreme. For the last few years it's been illegal for anyone outside the US to send any food item into the States (even a single sealed chocolate bar or a tin of homemade cookies for xmas) unless the individual sending the food goes through a huge amount of paperwork registering themselves as a food exporter and having all shipments pre-approved. It's put a serious cramp in my care-package sending to friends in the US.

Thanks again! I'm really looking forward to getting it!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

That reminds me in a totally roundabout way that I'm going to have to see where I can track down some maple candy (er, the softer stuff, not the hard candy). A Canadian friend once brought some down and I fell in love with it, and I never remember to look for it except in the dead of summer when sending soft sugar-based products to Texas is not the smartest of choices. I think I tracked down someone in Maine who sold it, but I don't remember...

Er, sorry for the digression. XD