Moar klassic! Moar!

[primsong]

I was quite tickled to find my fic for the First Doctor, The Benefits of Being Monochromatic won for his category in the Children of Time awards - thank you to everyone who voted! :-) Good work, also to the others on my flist who landed awards, especially the exceedingly well-deserving jjpor.

Not that there was a lot of competition in some of these, unfortunately - we need more good Onefic out there, folks...! And Two! And Three! Poor Three didn't even have enough to compete with this time, that's just sad. Come on, you can catch those plot-bunnies, I know you can.

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[acciochocolate.livejournal.com]

As I started out with what we now call Classic!Who back in the old days, *grins*, I'm certainly a long-time fan. :) But I'll watch any of it, DW, new or old, Torchwood, SJA, whatever.

But it would seem that the vast majority of Who fans on LJ are female and young and only got into Who via the new show. Of course, my judgement could be totally wrong about this, but I'm just judging by what I have seen since the Ninth Doctor started his run on the show.

BPAL is the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, a wonderful site to get hand-made perfume oils (not perfume, as that has alcohol as a carrier base). For years, I've searched through dept. and other stores looking for perfumes that I could really like. One day, on Neil Gaiman's blog, he mentioned that this company was making perfume oils (about 30-80 pure perfume oil, so a lot of bang for the buck!) based on the Stardust story that he and Charles Vess, the artist, had created. I immediately zipped over to the site, and ordered a bottle of Lady Una (honey and blackberries, amongst other notes) and fell in love with the products.

Most of the General Catalogue perfume oils one can order samples to test, for a small fee. There are also Limited Editions, mostly seasonally timed, like for the winter holidays or Halloween, that one can't test in advance, at least not via the Lab.

The oils are lovely, and since they don't have fixatives or preservatives, they can smell different on different people. All the testing is done on people, and most of the oils are vegan. Also, some of the notes are what are known as bouquets, re-creations of things like ambergris, that one would not want to use nowadays because of the way it in which it was once obtained.

The scents range from floral to incense to foodie to candy-like, and everything in-between, and all sorts of things, including some wonderful combination of notes. :) Some would say that the site is for goths, but I would say that it's more for those who appreciate literature, music, drama, poetry, the arts in general, and the way that the Lab's perfumer re-creates some wonderful things, and also in how she puts her vision of ideas into perfume. :)

The site is here:
http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com

And there is the fan-run site, that is mostly a forum that started off for folks to talk about their perfumes oils, and grew from there. There's a lot of folks over there who are into fannish things, including DW and TW. :) That's the BPAL forum that I mentioned that I was spending a lot of time on.

The forum is a good place to read reviews of the various perfume oils and other products offered:

http://www.bpal.org/

You don't have to register just to read the reviews, but of course you don't see all the forums, and you can't post.

Hope this wasn't too much info! *blushes*

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing the variety of topics that a viable online community can grow out of? I still have a little box of essential oils that I used to use for perfumes because I hated all the commercial mixed florals, preferring just single/double scents to a generic basketful - used some when I went through a potpourri-making phase too. :-) I'll have to give their scents a look-see.