my city: a teeny bit bipolar
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rivendellroseIt's summer! All of a sudden!
That's right - two days after being cloudy, rainy, nasty and grey, Seattle is now Bright And Sunny and 85 degrees, headed for 90, as if it'd been summer for weeks. This morning was a rush to find my straw hat, my sunscreen (don't laugh... I'm uber-pale and my skin burns easily), my sandals and a tank-top that would work with the skirt I wanted to wear. Oh, and a white blouse to wear over the tank-top. And then to close our blinds so that our living room doesn't bake while we're gone today. Don't get me wrong, it's lovely and beautiful and I'm happyhappyhappy to finally have summer here, but... a little warning or build-up might have made it all easier. Still, it's great fun being outside in it.
Which makes it sad that there is a baseball game tonight, which is bound to balls up my commute so badly that it could very well be past sunset by the time I actually make it back home. And, while I'm nattering about nothings - BPAL has a lovely line of limited edition perfumes themed around varieties of moths and butterflies, and I'm trying to decide which one I should get. My favorites are:
GYPSY - Bourbon vanilla, Egyptian musk, tonka, white sugar, and cardamom.
LUNA - Touareg tea, Asian pear, carnation, lime sugar, green musk, armoise, and thyme.
ROSY MAPLE - Lemon blossom, vanilla bean, huckleberry, sweet pea, rose sugar, acai berry, and candyfloss.
SPICEBUSH SWALLOWTAIL - Brown sugar, sassafras, clove, and wild plum.
I'm leaning toward the Rosy Maple and maybe the Luna, but they all look lovely, and I'm not totally sure about the huckleberry in the Rosy Maple one - sometimes fruit scents overwhelm everything else, and that would make me awfully sad. At least I have until August 26 to make up my mind!
That's right - two days after being cloudy, rainy, nasty and grey, Seattle is now Bright And Sunny and 85 degrees, headed for 90, as if it'd been summer for weeks. This morning was a rush to find my straw hat, my sunscreen (don't laugh... I'm uber-pale and my skin burns easily), my sandals and a tank-top that would work with the skirt I wanted to wear. Oh, and a white blouse to wear over the tank-top. And then to close our blinds so that our living room doesn't bake while we're gone today. Don't get me wrong, it's lovely and beautiful and I'm happyhappyhappy to finally have summer here, but... a little warning or build-up might have made it all easier. Still, it's great fun being outside in it.
Which makes it sad that there is a baseball game tonight, which is bound to balls up my commute so badly that it could very well be past sunset by the time I actually make it back home. And, while I'm nattering about nothings - BPAL has a lovely line of limited edition perfumes themed around varieties of moths and butterflies, and I'm trying to decide which one I should get. My favorites are:
GYPSY - Bourbon vanilla, Egyptian musk, tonka, white sugar, and cardamom.
LUNA - Touareg tea, Asian pear, carnation, lime sugar, green musk, armoise, and thyme.
ROSY MAPLE - Lemon blossom, vanilla bean, huckleberry, sweet pea, rose sugar, acai berry, and candyfloss.
SPICEBUSH SWALLOWTAIL - Brown sugar, sassafras, clove, and wild plum.
I'm leaning toward the Rosy Maple and maybe the Luna, but they all look lovely, and I'm not totally sure about the huckleberry in the Rosy Maple one - sometimes fruit scents overwhelm everything else, and that would make me awfully sad. At least I have until August 26 to make up my mind!
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Date: 2010-07-09 02:38 pm (UTC)Gypsy does sound lovely, doesn't it? As for being a perfume person... I'm not, with normal perfumes. With most, they all smell roughly the same to me and have a lingering alcohol scent that makes me a bit "eugh." Fancy, geeky, artsy perfume oils like BPAL, though? I'm a total sucker. My collection... is frankly getting a bit absurd, but they always have something new, so I can't resist!