Lists of things can be fun.

[entelein]

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab scents that I have tried thus far:

Velvet
Oneiroi
Vice
Dorian
Midway
Geek
Medicine Show
Miskatonic University
13
Alice
Glitter
Intrigue
Kumiho
Jabberwocky
Centzon Totochtin

... and today, I am wearing Dragon's Milk. It smells like something comforting, like taking a long bath with a really expensive, milk-based soap, that has this resiny undertone to it that reminds me of preparing to play the violin as a kid (the rosin for the bow, natch). This is a scent to wear when I am feeling a bit low, and want nothing more than to curl up on the couch and be sad or cranky or whatever. It keeps wafting gently over me, and it's making me smile.

Comments

[pencat.livejournal.com]

It grows exponentially, you know.

[ozy-y2k.livejournal.com]

So what exactly DOES Miskatonic U smell like?

[entelein.livejournal.com]

This is the description at the website:
A venerable New England university, whose vast library holds many rare, diabolical and obscure arcane works, including one of the few surviving legitimate copies of the Necronomicon. Home to innumerable scholars of the esoteric and the occult, and the notorious Dr. Herbert West.

The scent of Irish coffee, dusty tomes and polished oakwood halls. (Gender neutral)

On me, it smells a little tiny bit of coffee, and then maple syrup. And a bit of dust.

[ozy-y2k.livejournal.com]

That actually sounds kinda interesting. What about "13", what is that all about? I tried going to the website but they have so many categories I have no idea what I should even be searching under to find this stuff, so sorry if it's already out there and I am just being a dumbass.

[entelein.livejournal.com]

13's description is long, but fun:
13 is significant, whether you consider it lucky, unlucky or just plain odd. Many believe it to be unfortunate…

… because there were 13 present at the Last Supper.
… Loki crashed a party of 12 at Valhalla, which ended in Baldur’s death.
… Oinomaos killed 13 of Hippodamia’s suitors before Pelops finally, in his own shady way, defeated the jealous king.
… In ancient Rome, Hecate’s witches gathered in groups of 12, the Goddess herself being the 13th in the coven.

Concern over the number thirteen echoes back beyond the Christian era. Line 13 was omitted form the Code of Hammurabi.

The shivers over Friday the 13th also have some interesting origins:

… Christ was allegedly crucified on Friday the 13th.
… On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and sixty of his senior knights.
… In British custom, hangings were held on Fridays, and there were 13 steps on the gallows leading to the noose.

To combat the superstition, Robert Ingersoll and the Thirteen Club held thirteen-men dinners during the 19th Century. Successful? Hardly. The number still invokes trepidation to this day. A recent whimsical little serial killer study showed that the following murderers all have names that total thirteen letters:

Theodore Bundy
Jeffrey Dahmer
Albert De Salvo
John Wayne Gacy

And, with a little stretch of the imagination, you can also fit ‘Jack the Ripper’ and ‘Charles Manson’ into that equation.

More current-era paranoia: modern schoolchildren stop their memorization of the multiplication tables at 12. There were 13 Plutonium slugs in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Apollo 13 wasn’t exactly the most successful space mission. All of these are things that modern triskaidekaphobes point to when justifying their fears.

For some, 13 is an extremely fortuitous and auspicious number…

… In Jewish tradition, God has 13 Attributes of Mercy. Also, there were 13 tribes of Israel, 13 principles of Jewish faith, and 13 is considered the age of maturity.
… The ancient Egyptians believed that there were 12 stages of spiritual achievement in this lifetime, and a 13th beyond death.
… The word for thirteen, in Chinese, sounds much like the word which means “must be alive”.

Thirteen, whether you love it or loathe it, is a pretty cool number all around.

… In some theories of relativity, there are 13 dimensions.
… It is a prime number, lucky number, star number, Wilson Prime, and Fibonacci number.
… There are 13 Archimedean solids.

AND…
… There were 13 original colonies when the United States were founded.

Says a lot about the US, doesn’t it?

In our paean to all the mysteries surrounding this enigmatic number, there are thirteen lucky and unlucky components, including white chocolate, tangerine, currant, mandarin, white tea and iris. (Gender neutral)

It's a Limited Edition scent that is up for ordering every Friday the 13th. :)

On me, it's oranges and chocolate and omg more chocolate and then orange chocolate and then more orange, and chocochocochoco.

Mmmm.

You can do a search for fragrance names (look towards the bottom of the left navbar), but some of these are Limited, so you'll wanna go to Advanced Search, and click the option to search 'all scents.'

[firesign3000.livejournal.com]

the first time i read the list, i read dorian as durian. i couldnt imagine anybody wanting to smell like durian.

Ewwww

[entelein.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ew.

Although, there are plenty of foodie scents.

Midway smells like funnel cake.

Re: Ewwww

[ozy-y2k.livejournal.com]

I knew a girl named Dorian once. She smelled pretty nice.

[pencat.livejournal.com]

It could have been stranger reading it as Duran. DURAN DURAN SCENT.

(and hi firesign! ;)

[firesign3000.livejournal.com]

would it make you smell like a simon le bonbon?
OW OW STOP WITH THE HITTING!

(and hi pencat!)

[dancingkids.livejournal.com]

O
M
G

how is it that I have NEVER seen this website CHOCK full of GOTHIC SCENTS...

they are SO going to rip up my old goth union card now. waaaa

[kablooey.livejournal.com]

i'll have to try Dragon's Milk next; i've only worked through a few from my last biggie. woo la la!!