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Obligatory current affairs reference
Feb. 17th, 2006 05:13 pmNow that I actually think about it, I do feel safer knowing that Cheney can't handle a gun.
I am, after all, not his friend.
Off to request vampire porn, the Little Red Book, and that thing with the farting dog from inter-library loan.
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I got ten DSH samples, the one I've got on now, "Silk Road," is the ninth I've tried, and it's the first one I've really liked just on its own. Bois du Chocolat works *really* well layered with BPAL's Black Pearl, as I have previously indicated, but by itself it's just incredibly harsh. Straight Bois du Chocolat's tagline could be "Doing lines of cocoa powder as if you believed it was cocaine apparently, and it *hurts* - The Experience." That would make a poor tagline, I think you will agree.
Anyway. Silk Road. Not shockingly, it's mainly a tea scent, but it's got lemon, bergamot, rose, and beeswax in it (I looked at the ingredients list - I think you can tell the bergamot pretty easily without it, though), so it's a sweet one - it doesn't just smell like Earl Grey, which I was kind of expecting and would have been okay with. And it isn't all dry, either. I feel like with some of the other samples I didn't like that the woman had one particular ingredient in each that she was really into, and she overdid that one so things came out kind of unbalanced, but this seems pretty well-balanced to me - the tea is kind of muting the other stuff now that it's drying out, but not overpowering it.
In summary, Smells Pretty.
I'll talk about the others behind a cut, because I know you're all just fucking philistines anyway. (Should I capitalize "philistine?" I'm not going to. I'm not totally sure what ethnic group we're even talking about there.)
( Musk is for ICKY BOYS. )
BPAL also has something called "Silk Road," which sounds like it actually hasn't got tea in it - I may have to get an imp, just because.
I am, after all, not his friend.
Off to request vampire porn, the Little Red Book, and that thing with the farting dog from inter-library loan.
-
I got ten DSH samples, the one I've got on now, "Silk Road," is the ninth I've tried, and it's the first one I've really liked just on its own. Bois du Chocolat works *really* well layered with BPAL's Black Pearl, as I have previously indicated, but by itself it's just incredibly harsh. Straight Bois du Chocolat's tagline could be "Doing lines of cocoa powder as if you believed it was cocaine apparently, and it *hurts* - The Experience." That would make a poor tagline, I think you will agree.
Anyway. Silk Road. Not shockingly, it's mainly a tea scent, but it's got lemon, bergamot, rose, and beeswax in it (I looked at the ingredients list - I think you can tell the bergamot pretty easily without it, though), so it's a sweet one - it doesn't just smell like Earl Grey, which I was kind of expecting and would have been okay with. And it isn't all dry, either. I feel like with some of the other samples I didn't like that the woman had one particular ingredient in each that she was really into, and she overdid that one so things came out kind of unbalanced, but this seems pretty well-balanced to me - the tea is kind of muting the other stuff now that it's drying out, but not overpowering it.
In summary, Smells Pretty.
I'll talk about the others behind a cut, because I know you're all just fucking philistines anyway. (Should I capitalize "philistine?" I'm not going to. I'm not totally sure what ethnic group we're even talking about there.)
( Musk is for ICKY BOYS. )
BPAL also has something called "Silk Road," which sounds like it actually hasn't got tea in it - I may have to get an imp, just because.
