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Day 1422 – BPAL’s Smoky Moon 2009: Tristesses de la Lune

25 Tuesday Jun 2019

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a little lunacy, a little lunacy 2009, BPAL, cyclamen, elemi, Musk, nicotiana, orris, pale musk, sandalwood, stephanotis

I found some older Lunacy scents, scents, so I’ll clear those out while I wait for my Duets to arrive.

Scent Name:  Smokey Moon 2009: Tristesses de la Lune

Manufacturer:  Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab – A Little Lunacy 2009

Scent Description and Notes: “The Smoke-Veiled Moon of July brought a poem of Baudelaire’s to my mind:

Ce soir, la lune rêve avec plus de paresse;
Ainsi qu’une beauté, sur de nombreux coussins,
Qui d’une main distraite et légère caresse
Avant de s’endormir le contour de ses seins,

Sur le dos satiné des molles avalanches,
Mourante, elle se livre aux longues pâmoisons,
Et promène ses yeux sur les visions blanches
Qui montent dans l’azur comme des floraisons.

Quand parfois sur ce globe, en sa langueur oisive,
Elle laisse filer une larme furtive,
Un poète pieux, ennemi du sommeil,

Dans le creux de sa main prend cette larme pâle,
Aux reflets irisés comme un fragment d’opale,
Et la met dans son coeur loin des yeux du soleil.

– – –

Tonight the moon dreams with more indolence,
Like a lovely woman on a bed of cushions
Who fondles with a light and listless hand
The contour of her breasts before falling asleep;

On the satiny back of the billowing clouds,
Languishing, she lets herself fall into long swoons
And casts her eyes over the white phantoms
That rise in the azure like blossoming flowers.

When, in her lazy listlessness,
She sometimes sheds a furtive tear upon this globe,
A pious poet, enemy of sleep,

In the hollow of his hand catches this pale tear,
With the iridescent reflections of opal,
And hides it in his heart afar from the sun’s eyes.

(English translation by William Aggeler, 1954)

Soft sandalwood, nicotiana, and velvety orris drifting over lustrous pale musks, stephanotis, elemi, and cyclamen.“ -BPAL.org

Cyclamen seems to not have much of a strong, identifiable scent other than a very faint clean floral that skews lighter and sweeter than lily of the valley.

Nicotiana, also known as Flowering Tobacco, emits a sweet, strong floral scent that can smack of jasmine.

Stephanotis is an intensely powerful, sweet-smelling floral.

Oil Color: Colorless on my skin.

Bottle Design and Artwork: This is a 5ml standard brown apothecary bottle.  The label extends just under halfway around the bottom.  The label features the name of the company in a small light blue block font just below the name of the scent, which is in creamy white font that is a bit larger than the company’s name, both of which are in a warm grey text field.  The image art looks like a stylized ink drawing of a woman with a bouffant hair style, adorned with some kind of ornament, partially obscured by implied smoke.

Scent:

  • ITB: Gentle, watery, almost cucumber-like floral swathed in clean elemi, gentle, gossamer musks and a soft coil of sandalwood essence. It’s rather reflective and almost grey-cast, like looking in a gazing pool just as twilight falls.
  • Wet: Wow, the elemi just about sings on my skin next to the nicotiana, orris, and musks.  I’m getting something that reminds me briefly of ambergris without the heady animal tones, soothed and softened by the threads of sandalwood, stephanotis, and lightly sweet cyclamen.
  • Dry: After 10 hours, it still maintains some of that gauzy, gentle quality due to the staying power of the orris, pale musks, and sandalwood.  There’s a subtle faded floral under it all, but not distinct enough to tease out anything individually.  Beautiful.

Other Impressions: “It smells like those tiny rose or shell hand soaps, the ones you were never allowed to use.” -Tony

Day 363- BPAL’s Touched Twice

28 Friday Dec 2012

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angelica, BPAL, champaca, champaca flower, coconut, cyclamen, event exclusive, frangipani, Frankincense, Himalayan mogra, limited edition, mogra, Musk, Oud, red sandalwood, Rose, rose absolute, sandalwood, super limited edition, the last unicorn, vanilla, vanilla musk, white cyclamen, white oud

Scent Name:  Touched Twice

Manufacturer: Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab – The Last Unicorn: Super-Limited Edition: 8/6/11, 2p-6p PDT

Scent Description and Notes: “TOUCHED TWICE
It was long that the unicorn stood by Prince Lír before she touched him with her horn. For all that her quest had ended joyously, there was weariness in the way she held herself, and a sadness in her beauty that Molly had never seen. It suddenly seemed to her that the unicorn’s sorrow was not for Lír but for the lost girl who could not be brought back; for the Lady Amalthea, who might have lived happily ever after with the prince. The unicorn bowed her head, and her horn glanced across Lír’s chin as clumsily as a first kiss.

He sat up blinking, smiling at something long ago. “Father,” he said in a quick, wondering voice. “Father, I had a dream.” Then he saw the unicorn, and he rose to his feet as the blood on his face began to shine and move again. He said, “I was dead.”

The unicorn touched him a second time, over the heart, letting her horn rest there for a little space. They were both trembling. Prince Lír put his hands out to her like words. She said, “I remember you. I remember.”

As delicate as life, as gentle as death, and as powerful as love: sheer, luminescent vanilla musk with frangipani, red sandalwood, frankincense, champaca flower, coconut, rose absolute, white cyclamen, Himalayan mogra, angelica, and white oud.” -BPAL

Cyclamen: Is a flowering tuber that smells sweetly delicate, and often described as a “transparent” scent.

Mogra: This is jasmine sambac, or jasmine with a slight cedar quality.

Oil Color:  A slightly orangish pink peony color.

Bottle Design and Artwork: This is a standard vial / imp size (1/32 oz). Rlaenth decanting this one for me, recording the scent notes in cursive font along the back.    The front features the words in a dark grey or light black color that read “Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn” at the very top.  Just below that in a mavued fuchsia field box is white text that features the name of the scent.  The image is a beautifully rendered pencil drawing of the last unicorn giving life back to the fallen price by touching her horn to his chest.

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Label art was created by Renae De Liz, the artist on IDW Publishing’s six-issue comic miniseries of The Last Unicorn. Renae worked on The Last Unicorn comic with her husband, colorist Ray Dillon. – BPAL

Scent: 

  • In the Imp (ITI): Coconut, frangipani, rose absolute  sweet musk, and something that’s faint and delicate – perhaps the cyclamen.
  • Wet: Beautifully pink and frilly white with hints of pale lavender – for some reason, colors come to mind before notes.  Ocne I get down to business  I get ripe coconut flesh, white oud, vanilla, subtle mogra, blooming rose absolute  and exotic frangipani.  It’s something rather special.
  • Dry:  It’s faint after 14 hours of wear, but I can still make out the lush coconut, fragrant frangipani, sweet rose, and undertones of musk

Other Impressions: “It smells like rose and amber.  It’s interesting.  I like it!” -Tony

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