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:)

Loup Mechant- L'artisan

L’artisan boutique was on my way today and I couldn’t lose the chance to try another perfume of theirs!

I tried Mechant Loop which means Bad wolf and actually reminds me the little red riding hood story. Actually, this fragrance is designed for men but who cares?

As a teenager, I used to wear men’s perfume a lot. Aqua di Gio and Gaultier were my favorites.

The description of this one is: The scent of the forest, with a fairytale twist

Bertrand Duchaufour’s abstract portrait of the hazelnut tree. Méchant Loup (Big Bad Wolf) is alive with forest scents: dry leaves, smoke and woods.
liquorice, hazelnut, cedar, honey

On initial application I got the liquorice! I love that top note. It’s sweet here and really balanced. It goes away quickly thought….
Then it turns to a green perfume.  The main note is cedar. Now that I know that this has hazelnut I can definitely smell it in my clothes. Before, I was smelling something toasted and smoky but I couldn’t place it! I thought that this has a tiny bit of green apple too.

All in all,This perfume it’s lovely and quite unique but unfortunately it doesn’t really last on my skin.

What I got today!

When I read last night on perfume shrine that L’artisan is going to discontinue Vanille Absolument I panicked! So, I bought it today first thing in the morning! This was in my full bottle wish list for a long time but it was quite expensive and that’s why I hadn’t bought it right away.

The first time I smelled it was in a small L’artisan boutique in France but I was backpacking and I was afraid that my precious will brake in transit… It still reminds me my trip in France when I smell it!

From L’artisan site:

A golden harmony of vanilla, leather and rum

Vanille Absolument was created by Bertrand Duchaufour to showcase the natural beauty of the vanilla pod. This is a uniquely textured interpretation of one of perfumery’s most sensual notes.
rum, narcissus absolute, vanilla absolute

I love this! Is a light, clean vanilla. It’s not sweet but boozy and deep. The narcissus gives a golden quality to the blend as well. I am so happy that I finally have a big bottle of this!!