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cyberianhussy

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  1. I just spent over $200CND on an order that runs the gamut of LP's lovely scents. Luckily, I included the monthly pack for march. I'm TOTALLY cut off from my credit card! So happy I thought to buy the monthly, but I won't know what to do if I end up wanting full bottles of some of them (la fleur cremeuse and the venus one have me waiting impatiently)....i can see how getting samples simply set you up to really want big bottles-particularly with ominous threats of scents going on the endangered list. What a conundrum!
  2. From one newbie to another Welcome. I found this den of scented wonders less than 3 weeks ago and just put in my third order last night. I can't seem to stop....i have a month until my visa bill gets here, that might put a cork in it for me. By then I'll have close to 30 samples and 5 full bottles, I'll be so busy sniffing and writing that I may be okay for awhile. These perfumes are so distracting, in a beautiful way!
  3. Hi Ladies, this was an extra sample that I received yesterday in my (very first !!) order. Rather serendipitous, I never would have thought to order it based on the description. I'm pleasantly surprised at how this smells Blessed sacrament does smell like bread, in the bottle. Yeasty, warm, a bit cake-like. Almost like you were eating a thick hunk of artisan bread while spritzing a light perfume on yourself. Once I applied it this suggestion immedietly started to dissapate, the yeasty-bread smell faded and the scent became brighter (not cold though) and feminine. Frankincense resins are sharp smelling when burned (i lived in Saudi Arabia for 1/2 my later teens-i have burned enough frankinsence, myhrr and gorgeous sandlewood enough times to qualify as an honorary magi!),this fragrance is well blended, the myhrr & frankincense are there but softened by a dusty, soft incense blend. After awhile, all the individual notes really got to know one another and the result became a light/soft incense with a smidgen of dryness, round and warm on my skin. There is a mere whisper of the bread, could be what's making it warm. It doesen't screech at you at all, it's a lovely warm and light fragrance-it holds hands nicely with my body chemistry. Yesterday I overloaded myself with all my new samples ( I now know not to eat and have a couple of vodkas while covered in perfume oils)! One of the first ones i tried was sugared patchouli-i'm new here and haven't figured everything out yet, but so far the sug. patch. was a bit cloyingly sweet on me (duh, sugared, now i know what the 'sugared' does to scents). I'm dissapointed! Like you gals say, perhaps I'll shelve it for awhile and let it age, too bad, it's a bottle. I put my second order in yesterday and amongst the many vials, I included a sugared honeycomb full bottle; now I'm leery of the sugar component turning the honeycomb into that cloying sweet effect i got with sug. patch. Oh, well, if i don't like it i can always trade with one of you lovelies! But I digress...to quote my heroines Patsy and Eddie (ABFAB), this scent is absolutely fabulous. I would/will wear it in the daytime as it is so soft and warm.
  4. Angels, thanks for the welcome. I've never joined a forum or chat group before, so glad i chose this one-who'd have thought there was a perfume store that had a forum? Everyone seems so friendly and lovely. I am currently staying at home raising our 16 month old son; my maternity leave finished after a year, my partner and i decided against daycare/homes for now. They are brutally expensive in Alberta, 600-1000$/month, didn't seem to make sense to go back to work and have to put that kind of $$ out on Dom's (our son) child care, and have him get raised partially by someone else. The point is, I have time on my hands for once in my life and can make my own schedule with Dom. It's nice to be part of this group and be able to do two of my favorite things, delve into gorgeous scents and get to know new people. Smell On!
  5. Howdy ya'll, I have lurked amongst you for a few weeks, reading up on what everyone had to say about the perfume oils here...perfume afficionado's the lot of you-I feel so at home! My name is Melodie and I suppose I've loved fragrances since before I could speak. The book 'Perfume' (later-a movie) took fragrance infatuation to a new and deadly level: I'm not like him!! I am from Montreal, Canada but currently live outside of Calgary, have a 16 month old son and a kind and gentle man who is said tiny man's father and likes to sniff me and ask what I'm wearing. I lived in Africa and later Saudi Arabia in my teens-Saudi really sent me over the edge into fragrance paradise. I have bottles of unpronouncable oils that remind me of the desert, souks, the heat and the essence of the middle east. Perfumes help to define my moods and augment facets of myself at various moments. I am in love with 'eau de monteil', it smells like a certain type of suntan oil from overseas and the beach, 'opium' my childhood and still favorite and 'gala loewe', a perfume from spain that is sold in Saudi (so deep dark and intense, like lying in a fragrant garden of dying flowers). Oh, I love nikki de st phalle as well. Having 'googled' perfumes for awhile I stumbled upon this site; with it's myriad of possibilities for fragrance diversity i thought, "hey, this may be the place for me"! I have so many designer' scents and tons of oils from saudi, but I still seek the unusual, original and elusive smells not often offered to us commoners. The level of creativity here looks great and I hope to develop a few of my own scents here too, once I figure out how the heck one goes about doing this. So, salutations fellow perfume addicts!
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