Τετάρτη 10 Απριλίου 2013

My perfume Week!



Hi guys! It’s been a week since I update my blog and I thought to share with you how my “perfume” week went.

First of all, I got a lovely package on the mail!
While ago I ordered a bottle from a lovely lady on Live journal. I love Arcana perfumes but sometimes they sold out quickly so if I find a bottle that I want second hand I go for it! She included three more samples and some candies as well.


Arcana-Frivolous aside
A silly, sexy little blend which flirts shamelessly, teases everyone at the party, and flashes the top of its garter on the balcony. Bubbly champagne cocktails, vanilla frosting, deep pink musk, sugar cubes, toasty coconut, and a soft compress for your head the next morning.

When I first put this on it is very bubbly and it remind me Bpal’s Old Man Ackerman's Instructional Toys.
 The bubbly top note it’s like when you open a bottle of sprite and you take a deep breath immediately. It stays quite a while on the skin that way and then the foodie notes come to play as well. Butter cream and toasty coconut flakes like the one that you sprinkle on the cake come to my mind and I am already hungry!
Then I get whiffs of pink musk which totally works here.
To me this is a foodie-cake scent for spring or summer. It’s fresh, sweet and yummy at the same time. Delicious!!!

The freebies that I got were:
Bpal-Kubla Khan
Sidhe Creations- Sluagh
Zomg Smells – Lizard Queen

This week I made my first eBay purchase ever! I won a L’artisan gift set with the following 15ml perfumes:

Timbuktu Eau de Toilette 15ml
Fou d’Absinthe Eau de Parfum 15ml
Méchant Loup Eau de Toilette 15ml


I am so excited to receive this but it will take a while till reaches me because I send it to my uncle in the UK and then he will send it to me.
I haven’t tried Timbuktu and Fou d’Absinthe but I love Mechant Loup. They are a little bit on the masculine side so, if they don’t work on me I will give them to my boyfriend.

My perfumes of the day were the regular Possets or Bpal blends, I wore:

Possets Nevada Heat
Nevada, it's HOT. It's exciting and it gets YOU hot! They work at that, and it's a natural phenomenon. Supersweet vanilla grabs a sassy orange/citrus for a fast ride through the desert at sunset. Resins drip into and out of the blend, and a blast of spice comes from nowhere to tie it all together. Heat isn't for everyone, and certainly not for the timid nor for the conformist, unless you really want to have a brief holiday from your hum drum existence. Gives you all the excitement of that last shake before you roll the dice. USA, spicy resin, long lasting.


If you like spicy orange scents you have to try this one! From the bottle I get a creamy sweet orange scent. On the skin I get spices and maybe a hint of patchouli. It’s borderline foodie and it reminds me a kind of Christmas cookies that we made in Greece with cloves, cinnamon and orange juice. I don’t know why I keep thinking of ginger whenever I put this on. It isn’t a listed note.

Bpal- Laudanum
The essence of the most debauched hunger encapsulated into a perfume. Desire beyond love, anguish beyond sanity. Nutmeg, sassafras, black poppy and myrrh.

From the imp get Nutmeg, myrrh and vetiver. Wet it smells like sassafras but it’s very well blended. In that stage it becomes a little bit medicinal but in combination with all the resins it works very well.
 I really like this and it reminded me their Midnight Mass scent.
Resinous, medicinal with a hint of spice but not very unique.


Possets-Perpetual Orgasm
The divine honey which the bees make on the dry and craggy plains is the starting point for such a melting blend. Malta is an arid country and the non populated expanses are covered with tough aromatic growth which needs little rainfall. It is in that hard herbal mat that the bees wrestle the tiniest drops of nectar out of sparse light blue flowers and somehow manage to manufacture honey of such brilliance it’s almost as if the sun was captured and liquefied. Added to this is a shard of sharp lemon zest and the smooth modification of orange, both citrus which can be found in abundance in the Mediterranean, and which naturally compliment Maltese honey, and you will have found a paradise in a bottle.

I can’t decide if I want a bottle of this or not. It lasted all day on me and especially on my clothes.  It’s a sweet lemon and orange blend. I don’t get the floral part but as I am thinking about it while I am writing this I get a hint of bluebell. I had a Bluebell fragrance oil for soap making and it smelled soapy and fresh. Very similar to that fresh note in perpetual orgasm. By the way what a lovely name!

Thanks for reading:)

6 σχόλια:

  1. Wow, so many gorgeous smells :) L'Artisan set looks amazing. I have tried all three scents but haven't been able to get any bottles.
    And I love the name Perpetual Orgasm :)

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    1. Can't wait to get it! I have smelt only mechant Loup but I didn't want to buy an 100ml of it and in Greece L'artisan is only available in that size.

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  2. Great post, Amanda! ❤
    I'm not sure if I'd like Frivoulous Aside because Possets-The Temptress was a pink, fizzy musk and I hatedddd it. But Frivoulous Aside sounds like it was wonderful on you! I haven't tried Arcana perfumes yet :)

    Congratulations on winning the gift set! It looks absolutely beautiful!

    I always wanted to try Nevada Heat since I live in Nevada, hehe! It sounds like it would be a good Christmasy scent :)

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    1. Thank you Rachel! I put two arcana decants in the parcel I sent you the other day. They have some great scents and the owner makes some really beautiful soaps too!

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  3. I love the sound of Frivolous Aside! I've been wanting to try that one for a while. And Perpetual Orgasm sound so good! Possets is a brand I haven't tried much of - but you're tempting me with that one!

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    1. FA is so good! I think it comes back every Christmas but I am not sure. I think the fist perfume oil I bought was Arcana, maybe that's why I love them so much!
      Possets sometimes is hit or miss with me but I always find something I love:)There is a new spring update too!

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