BPAL destash

[kaberett]

A'ight folk it turns out I'm mildly allergic to the carrier oil BPAL uses, alas, and consequently I am finally getting around to a destash. I have not yet looked up current prices for everything but the only thing I'm particularly precious about is the March Hare. Otherwise, you lot get first shot at Making Me An Offer (or indeed straight-up expressing interest - I am very likely willing to gift things) before I stick everything on the forums; I mostly want to not be lugging it around and am v happy to do 3-5 frimps with every 5ml bottle. BEAR IN MIND that getting to the post office is a somewhat Difficult thing for me, so it might be a little while before stuff goes into the post, but you Will Get It.

Almost everything here was acquired (by me, not originally) in 2012-2013; I'm happy to use Teflon tape or not on bottles for shipping; recycled padded envelopes + bubble wrap are the order of the day.

All acquired 2013 (by me) or earlier.

BOTTLES
Alecto - 2mm below top of label
All Souls 1917 - 1/2 bottle
Bensiabel - dip from shoulder
Chaos Theories VI #570 - full to neck
Dragon's Milk (10ml) - 2/3 bottle
The East - 1mm below top of label
Glasgow - dip from shoulder
Goliath Birdwing - 1/2 bottle
Grand Guignol - slight dip from neck
Hope & Fear Set Free - full to just above label
Katharina - full to neck
Kunstkammer - 1/3 bottle
Luperci - top of label
Marquis de Carabas - dip from shoulder
Mason Jenkins Port Jelly - 1mm below top of label
On The Death Of His Mistress - 1/3 full
Pilologus - full to neck
Philommeides - just below top of label
Phoenix Steamworks - full to top of label
Red-Spotted Purple - 1/2
Spicebush Swallowtal - empty (sniffy/label!)
Strings in the Earth and Air - empty (sniffy/label!)
Tarantula Fascinator - dip from shoulder
Valse Finale et Apotheose - 1/3 botte
Whitechapel - full to top of label
Winter of Our Discontent 2006 - just above label
Winter of Our Discontent 2008 - dip from shoulder

BPAL SAMPLES (quantities approximate)
Aelopile - 1/2
Aglaea - 1/2
Ahathoor - 1/2
Akuma - 1/3
Alecto - full (decanted from bottle)
Al-Shairan - 2/3
All In The Golden Afternoon - 2/3
Amsterdam - 2/3
Anathema - 2/3
Ave Maria Gratia Plena 0 1/2
Azazoth - 1/2

Baba Yaga - 2/3
Bewitched - 2/3
Black Lily - 2/3
Black Phoenix - 2/3
Bluebeard - 2/3
Bordello - sniffy
Bordello - 2/3
Bordello - full
Bruised Violet Compound - 1/2

Casanova - 1/2
Cthulhu - sniffie

The Dodo - 2/3
The Dormouse - 1/2
Dragon's Heart - 1/2
Dragon's Hide - 2/3

E.F. Essential Oils - 1/3
Epitaph - 2/3
L'Examen de Minuit - 2/3

Faustus - 2/3

Galvanic Goggles - 1/2
Goblin - 1/2
Grand Guignol - 2/3
Grand Guignol - 2/3
Grand Guignol - 2/3
The Great Sword of War - 2/3

Herbert West - 1/3

Incantation - 1/2

Jezirat al Tennyn - 2/3
Juke Joint - 2/3

Katharina - 1/2
Kathmandu - 1/2
Kitsune-Tsuki - 2/3

Libertine - 1/2
Lysander - 2/3

Mage - 1/2
Malediction - 2/3
Masquerade - 1/2
Mommy Fortuna - sniffy

Nero - 1/3
No. 93 Engine - 1/2
Nocnitsa - 2/3
Nostrum Remidium - 1/3

Old Demons of the First Class - 2/3
The Old Goblin - 2/3
Old Scratch - 1/2

Paladin - 2/3
Penitence - 1/2
Plutonian - 2/3
Prunella - full
Prurience - 1/4

Rakshasa - 1/4
Ravenous - 1/4
Red Devil - full
Redoul Honey - 2/3
The Red Rider - 2/3

Sed Non Satiata - full
Shango - 2/3
Sin - 2/3
Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener - 1/2

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil - 2/3
Twenty-One - 1/2

Umbra - 1/2
Uncle Travelling Matt - 2/3
Undine Comes into the House of the Fishermen - generous sniffy

The White Rider - 1/2
Wicked - 1/2
Wilde - 1/4
Windward Passage - 1/2
Wolfsbane - 2/3
Wrath - 2/3

Yew Trees - generous sniffy

Zephyr - 2/3


BPAL SPECIAL/LE SAMPLES

A Farewell to Lost Love - 2/3
Ae. Albopictus - full
Aremeata Popoa - 1/2
Autumn Cider - 1/2
Belgian Chocolate, Honey, Cubeb Berries, Black Mission Fig, and Avocado 2013 - 1/3
Berry Moon ?2006 - full
Berry Moon 2009 - 2/3
Blue Fire - sniffie
Butterscotch Balls & Black Beetles - sniffie
The Cat - 2/3
Chaos Theory 3: DXLVIII (#548) - full
Durian Fruit Infused Honey with Brandy - 1/2
Forgive Us Our Virtues, Forgive Us - sniffie
Goatweed Leafwing - full
Gula Bath Oil - 1/2
Lacus Solitudinis - full
O Daughter Of Death And Priapus - sniffie
The Other Hot Chocolate - 2/3
The Nutcracker 2010 - full
March Hare - very, very sniffy
Paduan Killer Swarm - 1/3
Philommeides - sniffy
Pumpkin III 2012 - 2/3
Sonnet d'Automne - sniffy
Strawberry 2005 - 1/4
Theodosius the Legerdemain - 1/3
White Chocolate, Black Raspberry and Apricot Cordial Truffle - 2010 - full
13 - July '07 - pink label - 2/3


OTHER

Bitch Away - 1/3

Conjure Oils:
- Shakti - 1/2

Haunt:
- Winchester - full

Love Potion:
- Cocoa Mama - <1/2
- Evil In Carnation - small, 1/2
- Happy Ending - ~1/2

Les Nereides:
- Imperial Opoponax - 2/3

Nocturne Alchemy:
- Plum Om Ali - 1/2

Possets:
- The Star - 5ml bottle, top of shoulder
- Fireflies - 1/2
- Prettytini - 1/2
- The Scent of Angels - 1/2
- Vim - 1/2

Solstice Scents:
- Celobite - 1/2
- Chantilly Cream - 2/3
- Cocoa Mallow - full
- Shoikan Grove - 1/2

Violette Market:
- Smoking Plum - 1/3

Comments

[musyc]

Oh, what serendipity, I just looked at my old wantlist this morning! And thought "I'll probably never fill this, I should delete it". XD I would love the bottles of Glasgow, Bensiabel, and Whitechapel. Discuss!

[kaberett]

Haaaaaa. :D Anything you'd particularly like frimped?

also um oh gosh those three are all discontinued or at least out of stock? okay, I am now having a hell of a time working out reasonable prices :-p honestly I'm happy to have them go for $15 each and not having to think about it any more (unless that's undercharging enough that you feel bad); I've also got an imp of Glasgow I've just unearthed and would be happy to throw in.

d'you wanna pay in dollars or sterling? say $7.50 for shipping to the US?

[el_staplador]

How would you feel about my sending you a suitable sum and your sending me a suitable package - picked at random or as you think might suit me? Because I keep meaning to investigate perfume, but have no idea where to start, and this seems to be an opportunity to experiment.

(Goes without saying, but 'I'd rather not!' is of course a reasonable answer!)

[kaberett]

This is indeed an opportunity to experiment! The standard going rate for BPAL seems to be $10 for 10 "imps" (samples), which at current exchange rates is ~£7.50 -- let me know how many you'd like, and if you know there are things you particularly like or dislike (fruit? coffee? musk?) I can choose on that basis, or I can just Choose A Selection.

Also happy to chuck some alcohol-based perfumes your way -- I have 50/100ml bottles of from Penhaligon's, Etat Libre d'Orange, and Joan Malone, plus a whole bunch of 1.5ml sample vials and will happily do you decants.

[recessional]

I am v interested in the Madacascar Vanilla Rum, the Arcana Black Amber, and I THINK in the Hellcat (think, because I think it's one of Liz's, but she hasn't answered my text yet).

[kaberett]

Heads-up that the Madagascar Vanilla Rum has a label that's been decidedly water-damaged so it's not suuuuuuuuuuuper legible any more -- can dump a photo at you if you'd like?

Will set all of these aside for you :-)

[worlds_of_smoke]

I caaaan't afford bottles, because of the insurance fuckery going on.

But if you have imps of Delirum, Florence, or Has no Hanna, I would love them. (ESPECIALLY Has no Hanna.) I can send some money for shipping and the imps.

Also, I am ALL OVER anything that's SUPER STRONGLY BERRY in the bottle/imp. I don't have the brain to look all these up right now. And I don't want to take LEs if I can't pay for them. But if you have some imps that are berry strong*, let me know.

* pun totally intended.

[kaberett]

Delirium, Florence and Has No Hanna imps set aside for you!

Arcana's Murder Ballad Blues is blackberries so I'm setting that aside for you too. I'm super happy to wait until insurance fuckery is a bit more sorted so you can see how you feel about picking up the various berry-esque LE decants? <3

[vass]

Yes please, I am interested in Wererat Infested Sewer, Antikythera Mechanism, Bard, Iago, Jolly Roger, and Miskatonic University. Does USD$20 plus shipping to Australia sound fair? (I don't know how much the shipping would actually cost you, and don't want to underestimate.)

[kaberett]

$20 sounds well over the going rate given that that's 6 samples! Granted the Wererat Infested Sewer is a larger sample than the perfumes, but even so -- definitely no more than $15 plus shipping? Send over your preferred postal address and I'll let you know totals once I've dropped things in the post? Your call as to whether to pay me in USD or sterling. xx

[rootsofthestories]

At the moment my attention is shot, so I'm going to ask questions instead:

Are there any scents that are
- Woodsy
- Sweet (like cotton candy sweet, not like vanilla sweet)
- Patchouli
- Bonfire-like
- Food-like (more like baked, rather than fruity)

On the other hand, Do you have any that remind you of
- Autumn
- Reading
- Creativity in general
- Calming down
- Getting energy

If neither of these ways of sorting work for you, let me know and I can try and come back later with specific requests. My brain is just not on right now and doing anything really involving focus is hard.

[kaberett]

Yes, these are ways of sorting that work! I so hear you on the brain.

For "Baking" I've got Pumpkin I and Hellcat (recessional has first dibs on the Hellcat bottle, but I've also got a decant of Hellcat I could throw your way).

Appalling Abattoir manages to smell simultaneously of dried blood and warm stone AND of chocolate chip cookies on me.

For "Books" I've got Casanova, Philologus, Theodosius

For "Honey" I've got Alecto, Valse Finale et Apotheose, Defutata, and Hellcat (spot the overlap).

"Smoke" is And There Was A Great Cry In Egypt, Black Tower, Defutata.

"Woods" are Aperotos Eros, Defutata, Manor.

Scents including patchouli include Depraved, Goblin, Luperci, Masquerade, Old Scratch, Rakshaka, Ravenous, Samhain 2004 (bonus autumn-y and baking!), Sin, Umbra, and Love Potion Perfumes Sugared Patchouli (which might be exactly your thing :-p).

This is NOT exhaustive -- I stopped keeping up with that tab of the spreadsheet at some point -- but is hopefully something to start with?

If you'd like me to send you over a copy of my spreadsheet, I've compiled (a) the Lab's notes and (b) my notes on what all of these smell like!

[longmagpieroads]

Miskatonic University, Iago, Brown Jenkins, Jolly Roger, Prague, R'lyeh,
Robin Goodfellow, and Al-Azif are the ones I am interested in.

[kaberett]

Vass got in ahead of you on Miskatonic U., Iago and Jolly Roger -- happy to send the rest your way, though!

I make that ~$6 plus shipping?

[staranise]

Oooh, I'd love perfume, but I have no idea what any of these are or what scents I should ask for. :/

[kaberett]

I am v happy to send you over the Great Big Spreadsheet for you to have a roll around in if you'd like? <3

[kaberett]

Alternatively, if you give me a ~mood~ or like ~some keywords~ I'll pick some things out for you. ♥

[sporky_rat]

What exactly does Mommy Fortuna smell like? I've read the description, but it's not working in my head.

[lebannen]

For the ones I'm not familiar with I've been getting interesting results from the BPAL forums - Mommy Fortuna - this one ranges from 'The best way I can think to describe Mommy Fortuna's scent is, "Cramming stanky magnets up my nose."' to 'Two words: evil honey. And I love it.', with a slight diversion by way of 'I get a resiny vanilla lemon that dries to an indescribable earthy lemony scent.'

... and I mean really this kind of range seems about average for BPAL reviews, so.

[forthwritten]

As you may remember, I'm really interested in smelling things but haven't actually got anything myself - would it be possible to pick out some stuff that you think I'd like? I think there were some scents that went much spikier on me than on you.

I lean towards androgynous/slightly masculine and know I don't like patchouli (usually), sweet or floral stuff.

[kaberett]

I will attempt to sort through things usefully at some point in the next few weeks! :-)

[jedusor]

I am entirely uninterested in perfume (scent bothers me to the extent that I had to ask my officemate to knock it off) but would like to say that am v impressed at the sheer volume of the stuff you've amassed, and sorry that you have to get rid of it all after going to such effort for it. :( ♥

[kaberett]

Ha! It was a cheerful hobby for a while in my last year of undergrad, and now I additionally have a bunch of stuff I CAN wear. Most of this is <1ml volume and accumulated gradually, and I'm actually really enjoying getting to matchmake :D

(And urgh, yeah, I am intolerant of/mildly allergic to a LOT of scents, which makes my having a Definite Hobby even funnier from some perspectives -- but yeah, I reckon that if anyone can smell my perfume and their face is more than 3" away from my skin, I've overdone it.)

[lebannen]

Hello!

I have had this post open for several days and keep coming back to it going 'so ... many ... things ...' - and haven't yet managed to check through my own spreadsheet, which turns out to be on the old computer and therefore Effort to check (the old computer is ... all the way on the other side of the room! not even in an inaccessible cupboard!) but I know there are things I want and more things I will probably want! So is it ok if I put in some requests now and add to the list in a few days?

Things I know I definitely want, mainly for reasons of location and piracy, are:

Antony
The Bow and Crown of Conquest
Calico Jack
Mary Read
Tintagel
Tombstone
Windward Passage (*1)

[kaberett]

Sure thing!

I'm happy to combine the two Windward Passage and treat them as a single imp if you know you like it; if you're just trying to work out what you like I'll let someone else have a stab :-)

I've got a sniffy of Tombstone as well as the quarter imp -- by default I'm going to chuck it your way!

I've set all of these aside for you; as I've said to other folk I've been meaning to get these out of the house for a couple of years now so there's really no hurry :-) it'll take me a while to get my act together to head to the post office in any case!

[azurelunatic]

... I have just realized that perhaps I had best not collect more Katharina (which is my headcanon scent associated with Ekaterin) because my partner hates peach. Woe!

Late to the party , but sugar plum fairy?

[elyrachan]

Hello, I don't know you, so I hope this is allowed; I saw you have my ultimate favorite scent for sale, sugar plum fairy. If it's still available, I would be ecstatic if I could buy it from you. I was so excited that I made a dreamwidth account just to comment haha. Please let me know!

Re: Late to the party , but sugar plum fairy?

[kaberett]

Ha, hello! Yes, this is absolutely allowed, welcome to Dreamwidth, I do still have Sugar Plum Fairy available, I would be delighted for it to go to a good home, and I'd be even more delighted if I didn't have to work out what a fair price is! Make me an offer? :-) (And let me know if there's anything else you'd like -- happy to do at least 3 imps free with a bottle!).

ETA the other thing is, I'm heading down to Cornwall for a few days to visit my 99-year-old grandpa, so I'm not going to be able to make it to a post office until the middle of next week at this point. Sorry!

Willing to trade/sell any March Hare

[(Anonymous)]

I know you mentioned you are specifically hanging onto your March Hare, but if you are willing to sell/trade any, please let me know? Please contact me at loopy@gaminglady.com

Re: Willing to trade/sell any March Hare

[kaberett]

FMOR: this is indeed where it ended up!