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perfume: a bad run-in with jasmine, an excellent time with Bandit, then a dark omen for the future
The major revelation of this batch of smelling was that I am NOT INTO jasmine or lily of the valley. If I had to rank them, I have an easier time with jasmine: I'll drink it in tea and put up with it in soap. But overall: no to those! There is therefore some crankiness in this round, because I ran into a lot of both of them. However, I started with ( Read more... ) -
I have smelt some smells some more (working notes)
So what I did not realize when the entirety of fandom seemed to start talking about perfume was that at least two people I know in real life are super huge perfumery nerds, the kind who have a million carefully-organized samples, and that I can therefore actually smell some of the things that Dreamwidth is talking about in real life instead of just ( Read more... ) -
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Welp, you all made me do this and I have Smelt Perfumes now. One of my arms smells like a rich old lady and one smells like cotton candy. In fairness these are samples from a friend's Birchbox and one was made by Chanel and the other by Selena Gomez. I leave it to you to guess which ( Read more... ) -
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I am trying to read Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's Long Earth books and ( it isn't going very well (I'm on Book 2). ) -
December meme: WHOOPS.
Guys, I have had a Month (I feel like every December is the December of my December), but I especially forgot that I wasn't going to have much time at a computer with a keyboard in the last half of December. It makes a difference!
... I am just going to start posting these, and best of luck to all of them.
( December 10th, for Melannen: porcine aviation! )
