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My latest BPAL haul...
GEEK -- A snarling, feral scent, ever-so-slightly slightly deranged: hot leather, opoponax, cedar, pine, needle, mosses, dry grass, patchouli and cinnamon bark.
So far I love this one. It's earthy and also spicy; it kind of smells like Hobby Lobby. Since all the ingredients sounded like something I'd like, I got a 5ml of this.
PLUTO -- Covert Operations - Enigmas - Defiance - Psychoanalysis - Terror - Anonymity - Immortality - Sadism - Transformation - The Unknown - Discovery of Error - Detection of Injustice
I'll try this soon. The reviews all say earthy, metallic, with something minty or aquatic going on. It reminds me of a Scorpio blend someone made up for me once many years ago. It's a limited edition, so I got 5ml of it.
OBLIVION -- Salvation found in darkness beyond darkness, the blessed sleep of nothingness. Dark musk, wood spice, labdanum, patchouli, dark African woods, and saffron.
This is not a limited edition, so I just got a sample of it. Haven't tried it yet. It's a lovely green color though. They've also sent me samples of the following:
White Rabbit: Strong black tea and milk with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla, spilled over the crisp scent of clean linen.
Alice: Milk and honey with rose, carnation and bergamot.
The Coiled Serpent: A potent yogic oil that stimulates the kundalini, provokes spiritual awakening, and releases the energy seated in your root chakra.
Mandrake: Also called Djinn’s Eggs and the Weed of Ill Omen. Distinctive bifurcations shape this magickal plant into the form of human men and women. It is believed that mandrake grows where the semen of a hanged man has fallen onto the earth, and that when it is plucked from the earth, the plant itself shrieks in agony:
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad.
A plant of true arcane power, mandrake has been used in a multitude of ways by witches, magicians and thaumaturgists for eons to many, many vastly different ends. Whole pieces are carried for protection, or are used in poppet magick. Ground herb can be utilized in spells for money, lust or defense.
The lore of the mandrake does not limit it to magickal use. The root was chewed as a simple anasthesia, and it has been widely employed as a sleep drug:
CLEOPATRA: Ha, ha!
Give me to drink mandragora.
CHARMIAN: Why, madam?
CLEOPATRA: That I might sleep out this great gap of time
My Antony is away.
GEEK -- A snarling, feral scent, ever-so-slightly slightly deranged: hot leather, opoponax, cedar, pine, needle, mosses, dry grass, patchouli and cinnamon bark.
So far I love this one. It's earthy and also spicy; it kind of smells like Hobby Lobby. Since all the ingredients sounded like something I'd like, I got a 5ml of this.
PLUTO -- Covert Operations - Enigmas - Defiance - Psychoanalysis - Terror - Anonymity - Immortality - Sadism - Transformation - The Unknown - Discovery of Error - Detection of Injustice
I'll try this soon. The reviews all say earthy, metallic, with something minty or aquatic going on. It reminds me of a Scorpio blend someone made up for me once many years ago. It's a limited edition, so I got 5ml of it.
OBLIVION -- Salvation found in darkness beyond darkness, the blessed sleep of nothingness. Dark musk, wood spice, labdanum, patchouli, dark African woods, and saffron.
This is not a limited edition, so I just got a sample of it. Haven't tried it yet. It's a lovely green color though. They've also sent me samples of the following:
White Rabbit: Strong black tea and milk with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla, spilled over the crisp scent of clean linen.
Alice: Milk and honey with rose, carnation and bergamot.
The Coiled Serpent: A potent yogic oil that stimulates the kundalini, provokes spiritual awakening, and releases the energy seated in your root chakra.
Mandrake: Also called Djinn’s Eggs and the Weed of Ill Omen. Distinctive bifurcations shape this magickal plant into the form of human men and women. It is believed that mandrake grows where the semen of a hanged man has fallen onto the earth, and that when it is plucked from the earth, the plant itself shrieks in agony:
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad.
A plant of true arcane power, mandrake has been used in a multitude of ways by witches, magicians and thaumaturgists for eons to many, many vastly different ends. Whole pieces are carried for protection, or are used in poppet magick. Ground herb can be utilized in spells for money, lust or defense.
The lore of the mandrake does not limit it to magickal use. The root was chewed as a simple anasthesia, and it has been widely employed as a sleep drug:
CLEOPATRA: Ha, ha!
Give me to drink mandragora.
CHARMIAN: Why, madam?
CLEOPATRA: That I might sleep out this great gap of time
My Antony is away.
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Date: May. 31st, 2006 12:21 am (UTC)From: