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
Appalling Abbatoir - 2mm below top of labelc
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
Hellcat - full to neck
Hope & Fear Set Free - full to just above label
Katharina - full to neck
Kunstkammer - 1/3 bottle
Luperci - top of label
March Hare [1] - top of label
March Hare [2] - dip from shoulder, slightly clove-heavy
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!)
Sugar Plum Fairy - dip from neck
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
Al-Azif - full
Alecto - full (decanted from bottle)
Al-Shairan - 2/3
All In The Golden Afternoon - 2/3
Amsterdam - 2/3
Anathema - 2/3
And There Was A Great Cry In Egypt - 1/3
The Antikythera Mechanism - 1/2
Antony - 2/3
Ave Maria Gratia Plena 0 1/2
Azazoth - 1/2

Bard - full
Baba Yaga - 2/3
Bewitched - 2/3
Black Lily - 2/3
Black Phoenix - 2/3
Black Tower - 1/2
Bluebeard - 2/3
Bordello - sniffy
Bordello - 2/3
Bordello - full
The Bow and Crown of Conquest - 2/3
Brown Jenkins - 1/2
Bruised Violet Compound - 1/2

Calico Jack - 1/4
Casanova - 1/2
Cthulhu - sniffie

Dee - 2/3
Defutata - 1/3
Delirium - 1/2
Depraved - 2/3
The Dodo - 2/3
Dorian - full
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
Fenris Wolf - 1/2
Florence - 1/2

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

Has No Hanna - 2/3
Hellcat - 1/3
Herbert West - 1/3

Iago - 2/3
Incantation - 1/2

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

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

Libertine - 1/2
The Lion - 1/2
London - full
Lysander - 2/3

Mage - 1/2
Malediction - 2/3
Mary Read - 2/3
Masquerade - 1/2
Miskatonic University - 1/3
Mommy Fortuna - sniffy

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

O - 2/3
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
Prague - 1/2
Prunella - full
Prurience - 1/4

Queen of Hearts - 2/3

Rakshasa - 1/4
Ravenous - 1/4
Red Devil - full
Redoul Honey - 2/3
The Red Rider - 2/3
R'lyeh - 2/3
Robin Goodfellow - 2/3

Seance - 2/3
Sed Non Satiata - full
Shango - 2/3
Sin - 2/3
Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener - 1/2
Swank - 1/4

Tintagel - 2/3
Tombstone - 1/4
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

Water of Notre Dame - 1/2
The White Rider - 1/2
Wicked - 1/2
Wilde - 1/4
Windward Passage - 1/2
Windward Passage - 1/2
Wolfsbane - 2/3
Wrath - 2/3

Yew Trees - generous sniffy
Yggdrasil - 2/3

Zephyr - 2/3
Zombi - 2/3


BPAL SPECIAL/LE SAMPLES

A Farewell to Lost Love - 2/3
Ae. Albopictus - full
Aremeata Popoa - 1/2
Autumn Cider - 1/2
The Beldam (prototype) - sniffie
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 (+2 prototypes)
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 (+1 prototype)
The Nutcracker 2010 - full
Madagascan Vanilla Rum - full
March Hare - very, very sniffy
Paduan Killer Swarm - 1/3
Philommeides - sniffy
Polynesian Pop - 2/3
Pumpkin I 2009 - sniffy
Pumpkin III 2012 - 2/3
Samhain 2004 - 1/3
Silas 2 & 3 (prototypes)
Sonnet d'Automne - sniffy
Strawberry 2005 - 1/4
Sugar Skull 2004 (year now illegible on hand-written label, but recorded in my Great Big Spreadsheet) - 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

Arcana:
- Black Amber - 2/3
- Murder Ballad Blues - 2/3

Conjure Oils:
- Shakti - 1/2

Haunt:
- Winchester - full

Love Potion:
- Cocoa Mama - <1/2
- Evil In Carnation - small, 1/2
- Happy Ending - ~1/2
- Sugared Patchouli - top of label

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
- Manor - 2/3
- 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?

[musyc]

I know little about the different notes, but apparently I did make this discovery a while back? I am finding that I gravitate to plum, carnation, musk, white patchouli, amber, black currant/berry/cherry, sandalwood, spice.
Notes I really don't seem to like are rose, pine, ginger, most lemon.

:DD After looking at my bank account, my COVET was a little larger than my dollars! I have to cut the Bensiabel and focus on Glasgow and Whitechapel. $15 sounds fair for those, shipping sounds fair. So $37.50?

I may have to wrestle around with how to get the payment to you? I don't have a paypal account. DW points is easy, if you're not needing digital-cash-in-hand.

[kaberett]

I've an account with a US Federal Credit Union if transfer to that is something that would work for you? (I... honestly have very little idea how it works but PRESUMABLY they'll accept transfers...)

I've got a bunch of Interesting Plum imps I'm happy to throw at you. :-)

If you PM me a shipping address I'll PM you bank details? Everything will come wrapped in Teflon tape unless you say otherwise. :-)

[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.

[el_staplador]

OK, so if I send you £20, to include P&P, and you send A Selection accordingly?

Let's not rule anything out (but obviously hold back on picking anything for me until the people who know what they're talking about have had their shout!) - I don't think there's anything that I know that I dislike.

[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 :-)

[recessional]

I think I'll be able to recognize it so I'm not fussed.

Thaaankyou. <3

[kaberett]

Have you turned into a definite yes for the bottle of Hellcat? Is your address As It Was Before? :-)

[forests_of_fire]

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

[forests_of_fire]

Oooh, thank you!

That sounds good to me. :) Hopefully, shit will get sorted out super fast.

[kaberett]

YEAH IT SOUNDS LIKE PRECISELY NO FUN, I have been Wincing Along just... really short on brain for making words. <3 (AS U CAN TELL I am currently doing a bit better due to... not... being... at work...)

[forests_of_fire]

IDK. It's not fun, but it's PRECISELY the type of stress I need RIGHT FUCKING NOW. /s -sigh- I'm just praying that it's fucking sorted out quickly.

Thank god I'm in a lull point between pain treatments. If I was in need of an ablation or steroid shots, it would be approximately 671374236% less fun, because I'd be in assloads of pain and unable to do any of the treatments I normally get.

[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

[vass]

*looks at list again* Oh I see, I thought the Wererat was a half bottle, you had it in between the bottles and the samples so I wasn't sure. $15 plus shipping it is, then.

[kaberett]

I was just being hideously unclear! Happy to drop the price further if you'd like. :-)

[vass]

$13 then, if you're sure?

[kaberett]

Absolutely certain. You get as much discount as you want for doing the work of looking up/estimating reasonable going rates. ;)

Is there anything else from the UK you'd particularly like? I'm likely to have some spare weight in this parcel at this rate...

[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!

[rootsofthestories]

Okay, that sounds amazing. Like...all of it. *rubs hands together* Let's get a list going, shall we?

I would love to get my hands on all your smoke and woodsy scents that you listed as well as Appalling Abattoir Pumpkin I, Samhain, Love Potion Perfumes Sugared Patchouli and Hellcat.

I may not be able to pay you until later in the month, as I am on a fixed income and need to see how my money falls but yes, I will figure something out to acquire these and give them a good home.

[kaberett]

... damn, looks like I've actually passed on Aperotos Eros already :-( Otherwise, that's everything set aside for you; I'm going to finish doing parcel prep then go back through my BPAL message history to work out what I paid for these.

Are you okay with alcohol-based perfumes? If yes I'd be very happy to throw a couple of decants of my ridiculous smoky Getting Energy And Armour perfumes...

And: absolutely no rush at all, I've been meaning to get around to selling these since two house-moves ago, it can wait a little longer ;)

[rootsofthestories]

Yeah, I'm god with alcohol based stuff! :D

Oh, excellent! <3 bounces Thank you so much for being wonderful and willing to work with me. You are lovely.

[bethany_lauren]

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?

[bethany_lauren]

Unfortunately some massive bills just hit me. I will have to pass. Thank you though.

[kaberett]

Y'know what, you're not on my list of people to send small presents to sometime this year but unexpected massive bills are no fun for anyone and I want these out the house, so... PM me an address if you're comfortable with that? x

[bethany_lauren]

Thank you.

[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.

[kaberett]

In addition to what lebannen says, my notes on it say:

In the bottle: Rich complex honey, with a hint of buttery metals.
Wet: Sharpness of the gunpowder starts coming through almost immediately, but it stays sweet and golden and lovely. :-)

... but everyone's skin chemistry varies!

[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!

[lebannen]

Hello again, with apologies for the delay. In addition to the above - which are mainly guesswork, so only one of the Windward Passage please - if still available I would also be interested in the imps of:

Dee
Golden Priapus
the Lion
Water of Notre Dame
Yggdrasil

It's probably easiest for me to pay with Paypal, and that's with postage within the UK - and I'm not in any hurry because I'm not actually going to be at home again until late August (how is this my life, etc).