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juushikaWhile I'm spamming you all with BPAL reviews, I might as well pile on some pictures of my BPAL collection. I've not taken pictures since October 2008—and my collection has grown a bit in the passing year, mostly as far as bottles go.
My BPAL collection as of 10/2009.
I stocked up on bottles of some of my GC favorites, and have indulged in some LE purchases, and so my bottle collection has more than tripled. It may not be a lot by some people's standards, but it more than keeps me happy. As a result I've been more-or-less forgetting my imps lately, though I did move them into a new storage container (see below) so that they were more accessible and so that their old box had a chance to air out its so-strong-you-don't-want-to-open-me perfume haze.
Anyway, from left to right, top to bottom (also you can click through to see notes, or view it in a larger size if you're the type that likes to read labels):
Top row—rejected imps, empty bottles (for testing purposes), GC bottles, LE bottles.
Middle row—non-BPAL perfume, GC imps.
Bottom row—LE decants, imps to test.
My BPAL collection, boxed up.
My current storage solution is nothing too special—everything's just filed away in BPAL shipping boxes, now that I have one large enough to hold standing 5ml bottles. But as mentioned, the larger containers prevents them from gathering too much of a mixed-perfume fug. Boxes, from top to bottom, are: rejected imps, imp collection, and bottle collection. I have a temporary box full of imps to test, too.
I've currently been doing a lot of testing, which has been fun—but when I'm not testing out various unlikely blends on my skin, I'm neck-deep in autumnal scents. My late birthday/early Halloween order was wonderful success, and the Pumpkin Patches in particular are getting a lot of use. I'm also wearing a fair bit of Fearful Please (dried orange peels floating in simmering cider, roasted apples, smoldering firewood, chimney smoke, sassafras beer, warm hawthorn wood, and oakmoss) and Penny Dreadful (soft perfume evocative of noir heroines over rich red grave loam)—the latter of which is finally starting to age to its perfection of sticky gingerbread-ish dirt. I love autumn and cold weather for the chance to wear foodier, darker scents as well as my beloved musks and resins.
While I'm picspamming, I have a random photo for you:
The view out my window just before daybreak.
And larger:
Last winter I posted a picture of the condensation on my window—this is the same window this fall. The picture is entirely unedited save for cropping. Weather's been cold and wet as hell (yes, having just posted I am now realizing the irony of that statement) lately, but I'd not trade it for anything.
My BPAL collection as of 10/2009.
I stocked up on bottles of some of my GC favorites, and have indulged in some LE purchases, and so my bottle collection has more than tripled. It may not be a lot by some people's standards, but it more than keeps me happy. As a result I've been more-or-less forgetting my imps lately, though I did move them into a new storage container (see below) so that they were more accessible and so that their old box had a chance to air out its so-strong-you-don't-want-to-open-me perfume haze.
Anyway, from left to right, top to bottom (also you can click through to see notes, or view it in a larger size if you're the type that likes to read labels):
Top row—rejected imps, empty bottles (for testing purposes), GC bottles, LE bottles.
Middle row—non-BPAL perfume, GC imps.
Bottom row—LE decants, imps to test.
My BPAL collection, boxed up.
My current storage solution is nothing too special—everything's just filed away in BPAL shipping boxes, now that I have one large enough to hold standing 5ml bottles. But as mentioned, the larger containers prevents them from gathering too much of a mixed-perfume fug. Boxes, from top to bottom, are: rejected imps, imp collection, and bottle collection. I have a temporary box full of imps to test, too.
I've currently been doing a lot of testing, which has been fun—but when I'm not testing out various unlikely blends on my skin, I'm neck-deep in autumnal scents. My late birthday/early Halloween order was wonderful success, and the Pumpkin Patches in particular are getting a lot of use. I'm also wearing a fair bit of Fearful Please (dried orange peels floating in simmering cider, roasted apples, smoldering firewood, chimney smoke, sassafras beer, warm hawthorn wood, and oakmoss) and Penny Dreadful (soft perfume evocative of noir heroines over rich red grave loam)—the latter of which is finally starting to age to its perfection of sticky gingerbread-ish dirt. I love autumn and cold weather for the chance to wear foodier, darker scents as well as my beloved musks and resins.
While I'm picspamming, I have a random photo for you:
The view out my window just before daybreak.
And larger:
Last winter I posted a picture of the condensation on my window—this is the same window this fall. The picture is entirely unedited save for cropping. Weather's been cold and wet as hell (yes, having just posted I am now realizing the irony of that statement) lately, but I'd not trade it for anything.
