Snow Maiden

[kyrielle]

*sniffle* I like Snow Maiden. I like it better in the summer than I did in the winter, and I liked it then. Yet I have only one imp. Why?

Because it triggers my allergies. Not horribly, but it does. I think I need to put the imp in the swap pile even if I do like it. It's icy floral pine on me, which is funny since anything with an actual pine note (which this is not reported as having) normally amps into an air freshener-like smell, and this doesn't.

But something in it makes me all stuffy. Bah!

Comments

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of that. Scents can turn "peppery" on me.
My new favorite scent is Donna Karan's Cashmere Mist. It's a wonderful summer scent.

[kyrielle]

*grins* I enjoy watching what various people do to various scents on the BPAL forums. It is amazing to me what skin chemistry can do to a perfume.

And darn, I wish I were not allergic to this one. Alas!

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

what's in that one? (I'm lazy) It sounds wonderful!

[kyrielle]

The Snow Maiden is the daughter of Spring and Frost: as lovely as the first snowfall, and as striking as a sliver of icicle. Isolated because of her chilly otherworldly nature, and unable to know love, she longed for the companionship and warmth of mortals. One bright, white winter's day, the Snow Maiden came upon a gentle, handsome shepherd named Lel. She grows fond of him, and beseeches Mother Spring to grant her the ability to feel. Her mother is moved by her daughters plight, and blesses her, but the moment the Snow Maiden is struck by the depth of love she feels for Lel, her heart warms, and she melts. Ylang ylang, osmanthus, spring berries, and daffodil cloaked in hoarfrost.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

oooooooooooh. I'll have to look for that.

[kayre]

Oh, I sympathize. I enjoy both perfume and scented candles, but many scents induce either hay fever symptoms or migraines. And because I'm aware of allergy issues, I feel like I can seldom wear the okay-for-me scents out, for fear of affecting other people with different allergies.

[kyrielle]

*grins* I hear you on that one. I am very cautious about wearing my perfumes out of the house. However, I tend to put them on very lightly, so that I smell them as a faint wafting scent (or in some cases must sniff my wrist), and discussing it with Nancy one day, she asked, "You're wearing perfume?"

I'm wearing it for me, not them, so I figure that's about right. I wore Bliss more strongly yesterday but it seems a "safe" scent and also I was never going to be in a small space where anyone couldn't get away from me - just driving and then in stores, none of them tiny. So it seemed a decent compromise.

So far my office-mate hasn't had any problem with my perfumes - if she did with any of them, that would become a non-office scent immediately. And I never wear them on days I have medical appointments, and of course never to the allergy clinics for my shots (WOW would that be rude!).

But I do enjoy them very much, now that I've started experimenting. I didn't actually expect to when I started this. :)