bpal weirdness
Dec. 21st, 2009 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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shadawyn gave me a bunch of BPAL she didn't want anymore on Friday night, and one of the imps was "R'lyeh." I'd heard before from other folks that this smelled like grapefruit, and sure enough, smelling it in the bottle it smelled like grapefruit. Weird, but awesome, I thought - I love citrus scents. So tonight I was entering my new acquisitions into my spreadsheet for BPAL (yeah, I'm trying out being organized... sort of), and I noticed that the description doesn't match at all what I was smelling in the bottle.
For R'lyeh, BPAL says: A hellishly dark aquatic scent, evocative of fathomless oceanic deeps, the mysteries of madness buried under crushing black waters, and the brooding eternal evil that lies beneath the waves.
Strange, I thought. So I opened it, smelled in in the bottle again - yup, definitely grapefruit - and then put it on my hand. Took my hand away from my nose for a second. Brought it back and instantly noticed that the grapefruit was fading fast. As in, after a half a second it was gone. It's gone through a few phases that I didn't quite catch (and I have "Fallen" on my other hand, so I can't test again right now), but at the moment it's very aquatic and oddly sweet, almost sugary, with a weird cinnamon-y sort of edge. It's like... something watery with maybe a little cucumber, mixed with cinnamon sugar and... something I can't quite identify but really like. o_O
Anybody had similar experience with "R'lyeh," or should I put this down to a very weird personal chemistry thing?
shadawyn gave me a bunch of BPAL she didn't want anymore on Friday night, and one of the imps was "R'lyeh." I'd heard before from other folks that this smelled like grapefruit, and sure enough, smelling it in the bottle it smelled like grapefruit. Weird, but awesome, I thought - I love citrus scents. So tonight I was entering my new acquisitions into my spreadsheet for BPAL (yeah, I'm trying out being organized... sort of), and I noticed that the description doesn't match at all what I was smelling in the bottle. For R'lyeh, BPAL says: A hellishly dark aquatic scent, evocative of fathomless oceanic deeps, the mysteries of madness buried under crushing black waters, and the brooding eternal evil that lies beneath the waves.
Strange, I thought. So I opened it, smelled in in the bottle again - yup, definitely grapefruit - and then put it on my hand. Took my hand away from my nose for a second. Brought it back and instantly noticed that the grapefruit was fading fast. As in, after a half a second it was gone. It's gone through a few phases that I didn't quite catch (and I have "Fallen" on my other hand, so I can't test again right now), but at the moment it's very aquatic and oddly sweet, almost sugary, with a weird cinnamon-y sort of edge. It's like... something watery with maybe a little cucumber, mixed with cinnamon sugar and... something I can't quite identify but really like. o_O
Anybody had similar experience with "R'lyeh," or should I put this down to a very weird personal chemistry thing?
