Don't-Want-To-Starve BPAL sale.
Bottles (All full, cleanly tested once.) - $17 each
Chant D'Autumn - The scent of the year's fall and the setting sun, ominous and foreboding: dried leaves, charred wood, blood musk, amber, khus, and Nicotiana tabacum. (Smells like a wonderful bonfire to me.)
Fearful Pleasure - Dried orange peels floating in simmering cider, roasted apples, smoldering firewood, chimney smoke, sassafras beer, warm hawthorn wood and oakmoss. (The essence of apple cider.)
Meditation in Autumn - A desolate scent, dusty, bleak, and withered: old wood, burnt brown sandalwood, and twisted vines.
The Schoolhouse - Dandelion, white clover, balsam fir logs, and birchwood switches. (Like an olden times wooden schoolhouse.)
LE and Unimpable Imps (all very full, acquired 2nd hand, tested once cleanly) - $3 each
Anactoria (08) -Golden amber, white honey, red currant, daemonorops, kush, and Arabian musk.
Baku - Astringent. Lavender. Licorice? Eucalyptus
Erato - a crush of roses with sweet pea, myrrh, ylang ylang, orris and stephanotis.
Goneril - White geranium, calla lily, cedarwood and black orchid
Khajuraho (08) - honey, date palm, tuberose, davana blossom, amber, white sandalwood, vanilla bean, Damask rose, and champaca flower.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (08) - Heather, clover, Irish moss, English ivy, tea rose, and carnation. (Love confessed in the grassy hills)
Valentine of Rome (08) - Ecclesiastical incense, Roman flora, and the fruits of martyrdom: cypress, olive blossom, frankincense, myrrh, and blood accord.
GC Imps (all very full, many lab-fresh, some acquired 2nd hand, tested once cleanly) - $1 each
51 - The scent of Area 51. Green mandarin, neroli, honeydew, white amber, guava, freesia, white and green musks hovering over desert scrub, smashed wood, and the dry, biting scent of night air over the Groom Lake salt flats. (Green and sharp and alien)
Ave Maria Gratia Plena - Rosewood with Sicilian lemon peel, red Mysore sandalwood, pale musks, sweet mountain sage and a dusting of lily, night-blooming jasmine and orris
Blood - Essence of dragon's blood resin, thickened with myrrh and cherry, with a trickle of clove
Bluebeard - Violet, lavender, white musk and vetiver.
Delphi - The smoke of Sacred Incense of Apollo twined through laurel branches, bay, and honey wine.
Dian's Bud - Wormwood. (Like an whiff of absinthe)
Florence - Elegant iris, bright berries, gilded amber and velvety spices.
Gaueko - Blackened sandalwood and misty lavender, with curling wisps of smoky tobacco, nag champa, and labdanum.
Grog - This be the scent of pirate rum.
Iago - sinuous black musk, wet leather and vetiver
Intrigue - Black palm, with cocoa, fig and shadowy wooded notes
Jailbait - Sticky pink bubblegum and the thick, sweet scent of orange and cherry lollipops smeared over a breath of heady womanly perfume
Jezebel - honey, roses, orange blossom and sandalwood
Kubla Khan x2 - Through sunlit caves of ice, roses unfurl amidst dancing waves of serpentine opium smoke and amber tobacco, golden sandalwood, champaca, tea leaf, sugared lily, ginger, rich hay absolute, leather, dark vanilla, mandarin, peru balsam, and Moroccan jasmine.
Kyoto - cherry blossom, white sandalwood and star anise.
Madrid x2 - Bold red wine, mimosa, and a trickle of clove.
Olokun - His ofrenda is the scent of the lightless deep: the glorious, unknowable gloom of the ocean floor.
Ophelia - lotus, water blossom ivy, stargazer lily and white rose
Phantom Queen - Black orchid, apple blossom, meadowsweet, and rue over Irish moss, hawthorn and red clover.
Phobos - Chilling white musk, lemon verbena, white grapefruit and lemongrass.
Pride - Moroccan rose and narcissus.
Queen - Sage and black pepper.
Queen of Sheba - golden honeyed almonds and a whisper of African and Middle Eastern spices.
R'lyeh - 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.
Saturnalia - Violet deepened with vetiver.
Seraphim - alla lily, wisteria, white sandalwood, Damascus rose and frankincense
Serpent's Kiss - Dragon's blood, vetivert and spice.
Shoggoth - white amber, green coconut meat, iris, palmarosa, Chinese peony, lime, water lily, snowdrop, muguet, lemongrass, osmanthus, wisteria, glassy musk, and hinoki.
Silk Road - A panoply of cultural treasures, spanning the herbs, flowers, oils and balms of the Romans, the Byzantines, the Mediterranean, the Levant, Northern China, Eastern Europe, Iran, the Bulgar-Kypchak, Mesopotamia, the Crimean Peninsula, Anatolia, Antioch, and North Africa.
Skuld - Ylang ylang, honey, Egyptian and Arabian musks and labdanum.
Sybaris x2 - Bright violet with sweet clove, Mediterranean incense notes and tonka bean.
The Apothecary - Tea leaf with three mosses, green grass, a medley of herbal notes, and a drop of ginger and fig
The Unicorn -
Troll - vetiver, pine pitch, troll musk, black basil, clove smoke, and scorched cumin.
Tzadikim Nistarim - Frankincense, olive, spikenard, hyssop and galangal
Umbra - East African black patchouli, cedarwood, vetiver and a dribble of cinnamon
Water of Notre Dame x2 - Very green and fresh.
Whitechapel - White musk, lime, lilac and citron.
White Rabbit - Strong black tea and milk with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla, spilled over the crisp scent of clean linen (Alice in Wonderland)
Wrath - A scent aflame with rage, swirling in the red haze of hatred: dragon's blood spiked with black pepper, clove, and cinnamon