BPAL Reviews 8

When I was chitchatting with my family this evening, my father (hi, Dad!) mentioned the scent reviewing I've been doing and inquired about whether I had reviewed them all yet. The short answer is, "No, and I'm not going to!"

The longer answer: Black Phoenix handblends scents and creates them only to order. Consequently, there is no financial disadvantage to having a lot of recipes... if no one orders the scents, they just don't get made. So there are a lot of recipes. To be specific, there are around 475 "impable" scents (by which I mean the scents that have sample sizes available), not to mention the limited editions and so forth. I am aware of someone who is trying to obtain and review every scent that BPAL has ever produced (supremegoddess1) but... yes. No. Not me. Even through the secondary market, it would be expensive.

However, I am having great fun with my reviewing; it is silly and it makes me happy. I've decided that I will review any scent that comes into my hands; since most of my scent samples are purchased in bulk on eBay, I wind up with things I would never order (Thanatos) and wind up trying them anyway (Thanatos) and occasionally discover that I really like them anyway (Thanatos).

If anyone is curious about the Twilight Alchemy Lab creations, naamah_darling has started reviewing a set. These are the religious/magical ritual oils. I'm not planning to do them myself; I'm curious about the Tarot oils, but that's as mystical as I plan to get.

On to the good stuff.

( Eris, Verchernyaya, Zephyr, Queen of Sheba, Jabberwocky, The Coiled Serpent, and Knecht Ruprecht. )