I've put the signup date on my phone, so hopefully I won't miss this one!Sort of off topic, but I hope all of you ladies participate in Secret Santa this year.
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I think we have a motto: We're Team Indie, and we recruit! There's no reason you can't talk up indies elsewhere and point people over here. Except the no-buy thread, just out of respect for what they're doing. This thread is pretty much the exact opposite of that thread.
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join the IMAM subreddit and get in on indie gift exchanges =) I think they happen a few times a year, the fall one is going on right now (too late to sign up for it though)
Scent is the sense most strongly tied to memory, so it totally doesn't sound weird! A lot of indie perfumers strive to do precisely this: Make your flash back to a particular time and place in your life.
I still just don't understand reddit. I've been lurking for years and I don't really understand how to search/find things. It seems so disorganized to me & I always feel like I'm missing important posts!
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Too heck with new friendships, except for the nail polish thing, I think we may be long lost sisters...lol
Yeah, I am not even sure if I am going to do SS this year. My heart pretty much belongs to Indies right now. I may just have to figure out some way to share gifts with those who share my interests. Or maybe I will just send Christmas presents to my Summerswap buddy again...she likes herself some Indies
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I am so jealous. Mine won't be here until Monday. And I really wanted to try Celebration before she shut down today so I could see if I liked it enough for full size. I did place a second order Thursday or Friday. She had some more Momotaro in full size in stock. So I picked one up. I figured I can always trade it if I don't care for it. But what's not to like about peaches. I also got some Bavarian Apfel Cider based on Vee's glowing recommendation. Did you all see that GDE and BV will have some type of collaboration coming up? Vee said to like Black Violet on FaceBook so that you stay in the loop.My Black Violet order arrived!
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I ordered: Momotaro Perfume Oil (full-size), Snow White Tea (full-size), Komorebi body butter, and Bavarian Apfel Cider body butter. I didn't request a particular free sample and I ended up with a sample of Snow White Tea body butter in addition to the Celebration sample-size perfume oil and the Shiro Everything Counts shadow.
Momotaro and Snow White Tea are discontinued - and I think I managed to grab one of the last Momotaro perfume oils (and I'm happy I did!)
Initial thoughts are:
Snow White Tea: sniffed directly from the roller-ball I thought that it kind of smelled like a flavor of Bubble Yum (that I can't recall). I've had it on my wrist for about 45 minutes now, and it's slightly sweet, fruity, and warm. If I hallucinate a little I guess it smells like a fruity tea... even if I can't pinpoint what it smells like exactly, I really like this.
Momotaro: someone on IMAM told me it smells like actual peach trees. When I directly sniffed it from the roller-ball (and after initial application), I thought it smelled like the little single-bite jello cups (staple treat of my childhood) you can get in Asian supermarkets and that it smelled nothing like peaches. I have it on my other wrist and now I can detect the peaches (but I'm not sure if that's because I'm looking for it). It doesn't smell ripe, juicy peaches though (when I was really young (less than 7), my family had a peach tree in the backyard that produced so many juicy, yellow peaches that we gave them to friends and neighbors in buckets... and this doesn't remind me of that). Momotaro smells sweet, but it seems more fresh than fruity to me. I also like this a lot.
Celebration: I have only sniffed this from the vial so far - it smells kind of sour? I'll try it out sometime next week.
I have only sniffed Komorebi and Bavarian Apfel Cider from the tubs - they definitely smell like fall! I am planning on using Bavarian Apfel Cider tonight after I shower.
This might sound really strange - but Snow White Tea and Momotaro both remind me of Taiwan (where my parents are from and where I have visited very often) and I'm getting so many nostalgic feels. ^_^ /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />
/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> (it smells like heavily spiced apples). However, I can already tell that the scent is not going to last a long time - which is unfortunate (though I'm not sure if this is because I'm using the body butter sparingly because it's thick and there's not that much in the tub).h34r: /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />I am still on a whipped soap quest, but I don't know what to get. Was thinking about Solstice Scents, but there's got to be something new I can try. Who else has whipped soaps in stock besides Haus of Gloi?This is making me want to shop for more indie perfumes and body butters - my low-buy though
Alchemic Muse has cream soaps - do those count? (Alchemic Muse is at the top of my wishlist right now)
I was looking at this shop earlier & they have whipped soap souffles
