Loup Garou – BPAL

And so I’m getting my swap on over at MUA and I see a bunch of BPAL (Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab for those of you who just aren’t hip and don’t know…which was me until like 3 weeks ago) and I get overly curious. A trusted scent-o-phile friend of mine has spoken positively about the stuff and so I trade away…for Loup Garou which kind of brings back some semantic recognition from somewhere in the late 80′s but I’m just not sure…could it be perhaps Beowulf? Maybe. But that’s a different post on a different journal. Ok so back to the fragrance…

it totally does not rock my world. And it’s pretty oily, which I guess is ok but it kind of brings nostalgic memories to mind of bootleg ‘black love’ scent from the slauson swapmeet or the ladera park african market, which is exactly where I am going to have to classify the BPAL stuff too. Kind of hippy meets the vinyl record shop meets the backpacker meets a gothgirl at the county fair with cotton candy and carnies dancing on the gates. Very incensy – very goth-granola which definitely has it’s cool factor, but it’s just not for me. Sorry kiddos, the goddess has grown up. Does anyone want to swap for some Loup Garou?