Best. Mail. Delivery. Ever.

Hurrah for BPAL imps. I just got mine yesterday, and haven't tried them yet. Let me know how Dublin is -- I was tempted by that one. I'll be trying them and posting about them.

Herb-flowery poisonous? Sounds divine. You're welcome to come out here and smell that way any time. [grin]

I posted a full review of it here. I think you might like it - I don't think it has any of your major dislikes (musk and patchouli, right?) in it, anyway. But it's an odd and complicated sort of scent.

From the vial, Dublin smells like a forest full of flowers, and it will probably be my next to try, tomorrow, or whenever the Belladonna fades.

I'm interested to read your take on Dublin as well. Must have Skadi replacement!

By the way, started reading the Lovecraft. Rats in the Walls? Slow creep all the way. Excellent.

And now that I get the whole Old Ones Mythos, it makes watching the last season of Angel extra interesting.

old ones

hey yeah! i never did get that tie-in, but it totally makes sense!

Hm. I tend not to like anything too floral, and it sounds like that's a bit flowery for me. Undertone-floral is okay, but smelling like an air freshener or a chic-Paris parfumerie is overload. But yes, you're quite correct about the musk and patchouli as the main dislikes.

Well, I tried it out today and while I share your dislike of overly-floral scents, it's not bad at all. It does smell predominantly floral, at least on me - I've heard other people say it smells more forest on them, but I think my skin tends to sweeten things up, which is why I have to avoid overly sweet scents.

But it's not OMG floral - definitely not in air freshener territory, and while it seems in some way a "normal" enough scent that it could pass for a mainstream perfume, it doesn't annoy me the way nearly all mainstream perfumes do. The flowers in it smell like real live flowers, not nasty fake ones; there is an woodsy undertone to it; and the overall feeling is fairly light and airy, not heavy and sweet. Like catching the scent of wildflowers on the breeze while walking through a forest on a warm summer day. So possibly you might be OK with it after all - don't know.

The one complaint I do have is that it didn't last long. I put it on at about 11:30 this morning and it's totally gone now. Oh well, time to try Tintagel for this evening. That seems like the most auspicious follow-up, anyway - the other two new ones I have left to try are Malediction and Greed, neither of which seems appropriate considering I'm going to a friend's initiation tonight.

[nods] I don't know what my skin does; I'm sensitive to so many scents that I have to be very careful what I wear, as many of them give me some sort of freaky reaction. Thus far, the things I've worn regularly include the Body Shop's "Fuzzy Peach", which I was fond of in college right up until accidentally dropping the bottle on myself. Unable to wash off the residues, I was very very peachy for about a week. That sort of dampened my enjoyment of it, and my roommate became unable to stand the smell. I've also got a sandalwood bath oil that I make myself and am fond of (I think I owe y'all a bottle of that next time I go decanting), and have used clove oil in the past. But that's hardly a wide variety.

Tintagel sounds like a good scent for the initiation... yeah, the others might be less than ideal. [grin]

I tend to favor scents that are resinous, rich, or spicy without being overwhelming -- frankincense, amber, cinnamon, myrrh, vanilla, clove, allspice, pumpkin are all favorites. I also like some herbals... there's a German bubble bath that just smells like green joy to me, and I love it. (If only I could remember what it was called and order some.)

Nice surprie re: the GST cheque. I got one of those a few months back, but found out after I cashed it that it really belonged to H&R Block. Oh well, spending it was fun anwyay!! :-D

...and two of them from the government. Will wonderrs never cease?

i just figured out that my tax return is basically garbage, cause i forgot to write my SIN on it. so now i have to send the whole thing again, instead of having a nice happy check at my door. :P

yay for you though, because you do not do silly things like this!

I thought usually if you missed something like that, they'd just hold it and send you a letter requesting the missing information, rather than make you do it all over again. But maybe that's changed?

well, I haven't heard anything, and when I called the guy said that it was "basically garbage" and that they had so many to process that I would not get a nice letter informing me I had done something wrong. Especially since I'm new to the system.

Hurray for happy mail! I hope you pass your test with highest honours and get declared uber-Canadian.