The Rose's Grove

Contemplation of perfume wants:

I desire Marmalade Tabby from ZOMGSmells due to, well, Theoden the Amazing Marmalade Lump-Cat, and Garden Nap from same, due to my love of green vegetal smells.

However, I also lust for The Phoenix in Spring, and possibly "Klara" or "Harlequin and Columbine" from the same general Limited Edition BPAL collection. "Valse Finale et Apotheose" draws me as well, but I can probably resist (...on the other hand, honey, white mint, and apple blossom? Oh my...). "Klara" is "Honey dusting powder, mandarin, iris, ylang ylang, tea rose, and carnation," while "Harlequin and Columbine" is "French vanilla, red currant, sage, balsam, rosewood, mandarin, lemon peel, pomegranate, and cedar."

The money some girls spend on haute couture or designer hand-bags, I spend on fancy and bizarre perfumes. And books. Always books.

All of that said, I'm still disappointed by my purchase of "Luna Moth," from the butterfly/moth LE's over the summer. It smells of bubblegum. This was not what I was given to expect. :( And that, despite the raging success of all my Halloween choices this year, is making me sulky and uncertain about continued perfume purchases.

It'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!

Valentine's scents are up at BPAL, and they have a Lovecraft themed set! If nothing else, the descriptions on those are nothing short of laugh-out-loud fantastic. How do these guys always know what will make me part with my hard-earned cash? ♥

Oh, and there's some proper Lupercalia/Valentines scents as well, and an "ode to Ares" series, too. But seriously - Lovecraftian Valentines! What could possibly be not to love about that?

Why do I get the feeling I'm going to end up wandering through these instead of doing my homework?