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I still periodically buy perfume, but I never actually get around to posting about it. I'm posting about this one a couple of months after I got it, because I wore it today and just happened to remember.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab Duets Italian Lemon Peel and Orange Blossom Perfume Oil.

I got it because it reminded me of the milieu of Deadfall and Deadwater, obviously. :) What it smells like for the first half hour or so is, basically, formal Froot Loops. Then the top notes wear off and there's a soft semi-floral scent underneath that's a bit vanilla-y and a bit herbaceaous, and a bit like those little soaps your grandmother used to have in the guest bath that you weren't allowed to actually touch, which I assume is the orange blossom mid and bottom notes.

I like it. I'm not sure it's Calli's scent, but hey.

Because the newest Limited Edition Art of the Unicorn perfumes sound great, and I can't find anyone running a decant circle. Is there enough interest here to make one?


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I numbered everyone who commented on the posts about the BPAL and then used the random number generator at random.org to generate a number. The winner is settiai!

Sorry to the rest of y'all. :( Keep tuned--I'm sure that at some point in the future I'll have more to destash. :)

ETA: Winner, winner, chicken dinner: it's settiai!

OKAY. In my attempt to declutter, I've got a box of BPAL perfume bottles and imps from roughly 2010-2013 that I haven't worn and obviously am not going to. It's mostly limited editions, including a Chaos Theory or two, and a few general catalogs. Some of them are from decant circles, and those tend to be partial bottles and imps. [ETA: I forgot to add that a couple of them are from the Shunga collection and thus the titles and/or bottle art on those are NC-17. If you plan on handing them off to someone else, be warned.]

ONE PERSON IS GETTING THIS BOX because I don't want to deal with mailing a bunch of different boxes out. If that person wants to mail it out to others, you go right ahead. Also if you decide to sell them and get a lot of money, you can kick a few bucks back my way, but that's not a requirement. :D

Anyway! If you want a mystery box of BPAL drop a comment here (LJ or DW) and I will pick ONE LUCKY WINNER at random to receive this smelly bounty!

(I'll pick the winner on Monday, to give the people who don't check LJ/DW on the weekend a chance to throw their names in the pot.)

Have discovered another BPAL perfume that gives me nasal allergies, Water Snake (limited edition).
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