MissHazel

Welcome! Good choices! I'm a big fan of upstairs, downstairs so if you ever find a bottle and want to split it with me, let me know! It will be interesting to see if your tastes change here at LPMP rather than at BPAL once you start exploring and getting random samples/sniffies to try with your orders.

I don't get it--why does she look so mad????

I had a little sniffee of this and initially the cherry is bright and sugary, like in a cherry tart. Then something weird happens-- I smell the lemon, but there's also like a dominant baking flour smell to it. I don't know but this one makes my head hurt a bit and my throat go a little scratchy even with the smallest dab on. bummer. I've been looking for some good cherry smells.

hm. I need to go through the ones that didn't work for me and compare. SA actually seemed to work best and it was the newest made one I tried. All the others, like Butterbeer but I know there's others, have all aged.... that's why I was hoping that perhaps ginger didn't have to be an automatic cancellation on considering a perfume, if I could just figure out which ones have the good kind and which ones have the bad kind (that is, if more than one type of ginger is used in the various perfumes.)

I just put them both on to compare: OCCO SLF is more sweet and a bit fruity off the bat applied to skin and still wet. Ripe fruit bordering into over-ripe, very juicy. I don't know why I never noticed this but Jouir De, by comparison, almost seems a bit metallic. There's still a bit of that powdery old lady bits thing going on, but then I smell a bit of the orchid which while I don't really know what orchid smell like-- I guess this would be it because my brain thinks "coconut" (it's not, it's just my brain thinking "tropical" and reaching for the thing it can recognize from tropical smells.) As it's drying OCCO SLF kind of has a honey cider wine thing going on. Still fruity, but less in terms of almost-to-the-point-of-rotting fruit and more normal fruit with a bit of zing-- it kind of has a cherry smell at the moment? honey cider wine with cherry? Jouir De is transforming and still has a very "flat" smell to me--stale would be a good adjective, but what's changing now is that there's something in the background and becoming a bit stronger that smells like conventional perfume. Overall it's definitely still not conventional perfume, but the back-end of it smells like that. I can see how mothballs might have come about because sitting here smelling this over and over again when normally I try to not smell this at all until it dries down and I cover it, it does have a stale, old-ladies-items have not been touched and they've sat around in a closed up space for a very long time but body odor and very strong perfume along with that staleness are the strongest sensory messages. It's very...palpable, like funky stale closed up humid air (my house isn't humid at all so that's why palpable works in this little air cloud. in comparison, the SLF is like juicy fruit bubblegum now and pretty much soaked in (though of course may morph later.) Now that I'm huffing, it's sometimes juicy fruit bubblegum and sometimes a jolly rancher-- like watermelon or apple? Wow, I did NOT get any of this at all when I first tested OCCO SLF. I think my nose is trying to keep me away from Jouir De by practically painting a yellow brick road to the SLF and making it turn all fruity glittery. I'm going to have to retest OCCO SLF all by itself later on to make sure that there isn't some weird manipulation going on to emphasize the whole "stay away from Jouir De" message.) Clearly, something strange is going on as except for honey none of the other ingredients for OCCO SLF indicate what I'm smelling: HONEY ~ Enticing, seductive; use to bewitch a straying or hesitant lover. Happiness, fulfillment. AMBER ~ Fertility, creativity, love, luck, riches. MUSK ~ Self confidence and strength, sexual attractant, heightens passions and arousal. CIVET ~ Musk derived from civet cats, now illegal except in synthetic form. Considered a strong aphrodisiac, has an intense, animal, 'sexual' aroma. Essence of Woman (EoW) Copulins ~ Strong and immediate sexual attraction.

I hope the sprays have been working out for him! Query: Why does the ginger in this one work, but in so many other ones I've tried that have ginger in it, it goes all stabby/dominant/mean? Was there something different about the ginger in this?

This one smells like 80% great to me, but alas, I think the ginger comes out and like to be mean to me. Why can't you be like Strange Attractors, Butterbeer? The ginger in that one likes me! Anyway, the sasparilla note in this is great and I'm actually going to see if there's any other ones that use this note.The vanilla is nice-- it's a bit cosmetic-- not foody, but the kind of rich vanilla that I've had in some lipglosses.

How funny-- love fig but apricot hasn't been kind to me thus far. will be awaiting reviews.

Got a bottle of this in a trade. It's nice and soft-- not as strong as some of the other rose perfumes I have. I'd be tempted to keep it if I didn't like Vampire Bait better (I know that's not rose but to me it smells that way.) It's almost soapy but doesn't go full-soap like a lot of rose ones do. I think perhaps it's the Amber that mellows it out nicely for me. I think this one is a good spring one.

Does anyone have any reviews for the pheromone MVP? (Or is there a link-- have been unable to find it despite searching) I got some of the UN for a friend and wanted to show him reviews.

hm....monarchs, or film/actors&actresses from the twentieth century or historical cities....

Hey Luna, how about we play a game: You give us two fake hints and one real hint all in the same post and have fun watching us go batshit trying to figure out which one is the real clue? It's even more fun if you do this two or three times? if it's true that it's not female dominated then no goddesses or ques ens BUT maybe it's monarchs of both genders or couples from history? I still think couples from history is a go.

more for you, right? actually, it doesn't seem to keep people from trying it

have you "volunteered" your kid's allowance for your mother's day presents? or farmed him/her out to the neighbors to mow their lawns for spare change to buy LPs? it's only fair

No but it is a great picture of her. I was trying to come up with a good avatar for Thaumaturgist, so I looked it up and it can translate as not only magician but wonder worker. So I was trying to think of a good wonder worker. Don't know of any real magicians that inspire wonder, and I guess because of a collection of influences today I was looking for a mere mortal who inspires wonder, amazement, and so much respect as to stagger me. That pretty little badass is one of my ultimate heroes: Mickey Shunick. If I ever have to go through something like her I hope I go down swinging and inflicting as much damage as she did. And as a side note that would not detract from her at all if it didn't prove true, supposedly she had sixteen pets not to mention caring for horses. Haven't verified that but I can hardly sanely handle my dog and my boyfriend's dog. Anyway, she's pretty much at the top of my list of heroes if I was to compile one.

urgh *dominated* hate typos from phone typing. Could we have a nice, big, fat, juicy hint?

yup, or request a hold and wait for the new releases so you can put one order in altogether.

with a matching avatar! very nice! what matches thaumaturgist?

Not that you'd necessarily be that patient.... But it's also nice to know that some bottles that one would get on the trade pages or from Mara if it's been awhile since the debut have aged. However I think it was Halo (perhaps not,.unsure) who said she prefered one particular perfume when it was new, and when it had aged she liked it but not.nearly as much. I think there's something to be said for smelling a newly arrived perfume and researching the notes again as if perhaps one may, by learning more of someone or item we are a bit iffy on, come to build a foundation on which to start appreciating it. I am not sure if Vampire Bait had travel shock or of, after reading everything on it that I could, I could appreciate the separate parts through the power of suggestion and, behold! suddenly vampire bait had a new fan whereas before I had actually listed it on my trade page. that being all well and good, sometimes you're going to hate or extremely dislike a bottle and there will be no changing that. ha ha ha, you didn't not expect a corrollary? Here's the but: but then you run into something so foul as Jouir De AND find out it WORKS that you wind up wearing something aesthetically unpleasant yet fuctionally badass.

I'm glad you reviewed it from a man's perspective. I have a male friend who loves soapy clean smells so when Fayha, something that reads as floral soap to my nose, didn't do it for me, I told him about it and he's going to try my bottle. To make sure I wasn't being crazy optimistic about something that had so many flower notes in it, I had my boyfriend test it on his wrist and he said it did turn kind of cologny after about ten minutes. Anyway, my point in bringing that up is I definitely wish there was more go between between those that are masculine or feminine (though there is quite a bit of unisex which I appreciate.) Plus, my favorite at the moment is Pashazade which I think is sexy as **** on me and not too masculine at all. so cheers to trying and liking one that's considered more perfume than cologne.

welcome! good choices! I like velvet kisses and TMI; cougar and BBM are very popular!

Does Mara need to put the following warning label on her perfume: "Not for internal consumption" ? or better yet "keep tongue firmly in closed mouth when spraying."

When do you think you'll decide on whether to make this again? I've finally decided that I really like this one, but it was REALLY touch and go for about 24 hours. Not sure if my nose adjusted and was able to make it past the initial what-came-across-as-rose period, or if it was just travel shock that made it initially disagreeable to me-- but I like it now Also, with a rebrew do you do new artwork?

new rank is..... drat. thought that post would count and push me over.

why not wait in case you want bottles instead of samples? or does it mean that you get them first?