Smells Like Old Lady
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mercy_angel_09So at Sakura-Con I bought three bottles of perfume at the BPAL booth. I was actually only going to buy two - Lolita and Wrath - and somehow decided that I needed the bottle of Lorelei. (I don't regret the Lorelei purchase, I wear it all the time.) The cool thing about BPAL is that when you buy perfume, they toss in a few handfuls of Imp's Ears - sample vials to entice you to buy even MORE perfume.
It works, by the way.
I've finally decided, as mentioned in yesterday's post, that I'm going to sample the crapton of Imp's Ears that I got. Yesterday was the Fascinum, which despite its inspiration, I really like. I like how it smells in the bottle and I like how it smells on me. I may actually get a bottle of that. Eventually.
Today's perfume is The Mock Turtle's Lesson, which is from their Mad Tea Party collection, inspired, of course, by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I have quite a few Imp's Ears from the Mady Tea Party collection, and The Mock Turtle's Lesson just happened to be the one that I pulled from the bag today. Smelling it in the bottle reminded me of this bottle of perfume I inherited from one of my great-grandmothers years and years ago. It smells heavily of irises. Interestingly enough, The Mock Turtle's Lesson also has iris in it, and the other scents mixed in with it make the whole perfume smell like that bottle that's currently hiding somewhere in my guest room.
I smell like my great-grandmothers.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Smelling like them takes me back to happier times - even if my childhood, in retrospect, wasn't all that happy. At least I was more or less oblivious to the shit storm at that point. Anyway, scent is considered one of the senses with the strongest ties to memories, and so smelling like my great-grandmothers takes me back. A walk down memory lane with a hint of nostalgia.
I wonder if they could make a perfume out of that.
It works, by the way.
I've finally decided, as mentioned in yesterday's post, that I'm going to sample the crapton of Imp's Ears that I got. Yesterday was the Fascinum, which despite its inspiration, I really like. I like how it smells in the bottle and I like how it smells on me. I may actually get a bottle of that. Eventually.
Today's perfume is The Mock Turtle's Lesson, which is from their Mad Tea Party collection, inspired, of course, by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I have quite a few Imp's Ears from the Mady Tea Party collection, and The Mock Turtle's Lesson just happened to be the one that I pulled from the bag today. Smelling it in the bottle reminded me of this bottle of perfume I inherited from one of my great-grandmothers years and years ago. It smells heavily of irises. Interestingly enough, The Mock Turtle's Lesson also has iris in it, and the other scents mixed in with it make the whole perfume smell like that bottle that's currently hiding somewhere in my guest room.
I smell like my great-grandmothers.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Smelling like them takes me back to happier times - even if my childhood, in retrospect, wasn't all that happy. At least I was more or less oblivious to the shit storm at that point. Anyway, scent is considered one of the senses with the strongest ties to memories, and so smelling like my great-grandmothers takes me back. A walk down memory lane with a hint of nostalgia.
I wonder if they could make a perfume out of that.
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Date: 2010-05-12 06:34 pm (UTC)