Showing posts with label Mad Tea Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mad Tea Party. Show all posts

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Mad Tea Party: Eat Me (Bpal perfume oil)

The second Bpal perfume I review today is Eat Me.
It's also a Mad Tea Party (Alice In Wonderland Collection) scent, just like Drink Me & Alice.

Eat Me does have a part of the Alice In Wonderland Story by it (Alice doesn't and Drink Me does).
Here's the part of the story:

Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words 'EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.

'Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!'

She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, 'Which way? Which way?', holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

This is the scent description that is on the Bpal website:
Three white cakes, vanilla, and red and black currants.

When I had just applied Eat Me, the cake notes were really strong and a bit buttery.
I probably smelled the vanilla as well, but it was mostly drowned by the three white cakes.

Fifteen minutes later the cake notes weren't as strong as before and I could actually smell the vanilla.
Slowly a tarty, sweet, fruitiness emerged, but it wasn't till fifteen minutes later the fruitiness was actually apparent.

The cakes had really backed down.
I could still smell them well, but they did not smack me in the face anymore.
The cakes were well blended with the vanilla.
Into the cake and vanilla blend i could smell a tarty, juicy fruitness that was really nice and blended very nice with the vanilla and cakes.

The scent developed into a sweet and nice scent of cake, vanilla and berries, but not really strong or sickly sweet.
It actually smell like maybe there's a bit of flowers i this perfume, but that probably isn't the case.

Since I only have an imp of this, and I really like this, Eat Me might make it on my "I want a bottle of this"-list.





Mad Tea Party: Alice (Bpal perfume oil)

Today I tested 2 other Alice In Wonderland Bpal oils.

I started with Alice on my left wrist and Eat Me on my right wrist.

Alice doesn't have a piece of story to go with it.
I does have a scent description however.

The scent description on the Bpal site:
curiouser and curiouser. Milk and honey with rose, carnation and bergamot.

At first the carnation was pretty strong, which I loved since I'm a big fan of carnation.
Ten/fifteen minutes later when I tried to smell the different notes, I smelled carnation but also the rose, which was sweet and a bit soapy (but not actual soap, which I wouldn;t like).
I also smelled something citrusy (which must be the bergamot) and something sweet (which must be the milk and honey).

Ten minutes after that the scent was even more blended, so it was more difficult to identify the individual notes.
The rose was still rather strong and aided by carnation.
I also still smelled something sweet but I couldn't identify the milk and honey anymore.
The bergamot makes it a bit sharper though I don't smell the bergamot anymore, only the effect lingers.

I really like this perfume, though I love it the most at the beginning, when it was less blended and the carnation was still stronger than the rose.
I really like rose but I like carnation even more.

I only have an imp of this and I might put Alice on the list of scents I want a bottle of.

It is a sweet and flowery scent that is really lovely.




Saturday, April 24, 2010

Mad Tea Party: Drink Me (Bpal perfume oil)

Today I tried out a perfume from Bpal's Alice in wonderland collection.
It's called "Drink Me".
On the Bpal website almost every perfume have text by it (usually from story's or books).
This is the one that's by Drink Me:

There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, ('which certainly was not here before,' said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words 'DRINK ME' beautifully printed on it in large letters.

It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No, I'll look first,' she said, 'and see whether it's marked "poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.

However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.

The scent notes that are in this perfume are: cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee and buttered toast.

When I first applied the perfume, I was overwhelmed by the scent of custard, toffe and buttered toast.
It was like it punched me in the nose, and that definitely isn't a good thing.
There was a massive buttery like note and it made me nauseous.
Nevertheless, I didn't wash it off immediately.
I waited to see if the scent would change, and it did!

After approximately 15 minutes the cherry tart note (and probably also some pineapple) came seeping through the buttery scent.
It made it smell sweeter, fruitier and a lot less heavy.
I almost liked it at this point.

However, 15 minutes later it didn't smell that great anymore :(.
I could really smell the roast turkey, all though it smelled more like roast beef to me.
The fruit scent and the buttery scent both had faded a bit , so I smelled most like roast beef with a sickly sweetness to it.
I guess this just isn't my scent.
I'm just really glad that I ordered an imp instead of a bottle ;).

I think I'll like Eat Me probably a whole lot better.
I'm trying all my Mad Tea Party (Alice in Wonderland) scents, to see which one I like enough to wear to the Alice in Wonderland 3D movie :D.

I don't have a pic of the imp and I can't find one of the label art (that the bottle has) either, so I guess this is a picless blog post (weird).