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For no better reason than a simple "because I can," I took pictures of my entire BPAL stash. It's been a while since I did so last (12.4.07), and my stash has grown a little bit since then. Plus, I was sorting imps, and I like how everything looks all laid out. I usually keep it packed up in a pair of boxes.

Click through the picture to go to the Flickr page, which has all the contents marked—in the likely case that my descriptions are hard to follow.

From top to bottom, left to right (LE means limited edition; GC means general catalog)

Trading cards
Top: Bottles, 5 LE, 2 GC, 1 empty sniffy
Below: 14 LE imps
Travel case holding many of the imps I wear most often
The box that holds my imp collection

25 GC imps
Top: 3 non-BPAL decants, 4 reject imps
Below: 8 GC imps which I still need to test

Behind all of that are my to-read/currently reading stacks: books I own on the left, books I'm borrowing on the right.

The benefit of having a collection instead of just a few bottles means that I can switch scents on whim. I've been a bit burned out lately because of the hot weather, but when I'm staying in under the AC and reading, I've been wearing a lot of:

THE TELL-TALE HEART (LE, Dark Delicacies) Blood musk, cocoa, black pepper, allspice, dragon's blood resin and vetiver.

sisterite, bless her, bought me a bottle of this, so now I can wear it frequently without guilt—and I do.

IVANUSHKA (LE, Lunacy) Soft, velvety fur and warm musk, brushed by forest woods and dusted by dry leaves, FENRIS WOLF (GC) Rosewood, amber, red musk and a dribble of red sandalwood, and SATYR (GC) no notes, sexual, vigorous, and truly wild. These are all varieties (blond, red, black) of predominant musks, which on me are furry animalistic and slightly sweet. They're comforting, and I wear them often.

As well as moments of O, VELVET, and AGRAT-BAT-MAHLAHT.

I wish I had endless amounts of money, because there's still so much that I want. Being rather lax about BPAL over the summer so far has been nice—and has meant no updates to my wishlist. I'm wearing and wanting a lot more now, though, and my wishlist is still incredibly long. I'm itching for a bottle of Ivanushka, and the most recent update was tempting—Penumbra (rich purple musk, moonflower, red sandalwood, black amber, oakmoss, copal, lavender, neroli, tobacco, and pomegranate) from the current moon release looks lovely, and the lab just opened Chaos Theory IV. Each bottle is a one-of-a-kind random combination of scents, and it would be wicked fun to pick up a few decants. Bottles are cheap, too ($15) ... and mostly I just wish I had cash. But right now, I have no BPAL funds—and the autumn update goes live in August, so I should worry about that instead. Autumn was when I originally found BPAL, and it produces the best LEs for my tastes, no question. Hopefully I can snag at least another bottle this year, or jump on a decant bandwagon.