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Dec. 2nd, 2007 05:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiercebunnyHey, my bottle of Black Lace came in the mail after ordering it about a week ago. That's the fastest I've gotten any BPAL ever. Huh
"The embodiment of Victorian funereal elegance. A delicate sugar-spun vanilla cream cotton, stained by tobacco and incense, Indian musk, and drops of cognac."
My first impression? Black Lace smells like Antique Lace, only darker. I R ARTICULATE. (This is why I don't do a lot of in depth reviews, because usually my descriptions are like "Well, this smells red. This one smells green." So on and so forth.) Anyways, where Antique Lace smells sort of old fashioned and innocent, Black Lace is a much more grown up, going out evening kind of scent. Not unlike Black Pearl for that matter either, it has a softness to it. Me likes. And the scent lingers for forever too. Now I kind of wish I had bought more than one bottle. I bet Black Lace is going to skyrocket on the secondhand market, the way Antique Lace did back when it was discontinued.
Oh and I bought an imp of Poisoned Apple off the forum marketplace. Hesperides is one of my all time favorite scents and I was eager to try another apple based perfume. While Hesperides was sort of a nutty green apple scent, Poisoned Apple is juicy red apples.
A perfect, lovely, gleaming red apple whose sweetness masks a swirl of narcotic opium, oleander, and hemlock.
I didn't care for it as much because it rather reminded me of apple-scented candles. But the interesting thing is that there's sort of a chemical hint to it that grew stronger after application. It took me awhile to recognize that it reminded me of the glassy notes in House of Mirrors. Apples and mirrors, get it? Interesting as an olfactory experience, but I don't love it the way I do Hesperides.
"The embodiment of Victorian funereal elegance. A delicate sugar-spun vanilla cream cotton, stained by tobacco and incense, Indian musk, and drops of cognac."
My first impression? Black Lace smells like Antique Lace, only darker. I R ARTICULATE. (This is why I don't do a lot of in depth reviews, because usually my descriptions are like "Well, this smells red. This one smells green." So on and so forth.) Anyways, where Antique Lace smells sort of old fashioned and innocent, Black Lace is a much more grown up, going out evening kind of scent. Not unlike Black Pearl for that matter either, it has a softness to it. Me likes. And the scent lingers for forever too. Now I kind of wish I had bought more than one bottle. I bet Black Lace is going to skyrocket on the secondhand market, the way Antique Lace did back when it was discontinued.
Oh and I bought an imp of Poisoned Apple off the forum marketplace. Hesperides is one of my all time favorite scents and I was eager to try another apple based perfume. While Hesperides was sort of a nutty green apple scent, Poisoned Apple is juicy red apples.
A perfect, lovely, gleaming red apple whose sweetness masks a swirl of narcotic opium, oleander, and hemlock.
I didn't care for it as much because it rather reminded me of apple-scented candles. But the interesting thing is that there's sort of a chemical hint to it that grew stronger after application. It took me awhile to recognize that it reminded me of the glassy notes in House of Mirrors. Apples and mirrors, get it? Interesting as an olfactory experience, but I don't love it the way I do Hesperides.
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Date: 2007-12-02 01:06 pm (UTC)Hesperides - nutty green apple??!- sounds lovely. Have you ever tried The Caterpillar? Dude, I can't even tell you what it smells like - it's not floral, it's not dark, it's not incense-y or bitter... it just undulates. At random times when I'm wearing it I have a bad tendency to scream "I am so hot for myself right now."
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Date: 2007-12-03 10:18 am (UTC)I need some sexy smells. And what smells like werewolves?
At first I thought Black Lace might have vetivert in it which confused me because normally I hate it as it smells like Evil Peanuts. And of course, there turns out to be no Evil Peanuts in it after all so I don't know what it is.
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Date: 2007-12-03 12:05 pm (UTC)