Polyvore Collage - Mysterious Lady of the Forest

Mysterious Woman of the Forest by ladomna on Polyvore

I´m not dead yet, just a bit preoccupied with real life. And what time I spend online I spend either on netflix, fanfiction or polyvore... The piece of art above is one of my latest polyvore creations and I am rather proud of it! It is inspired by the Huldra of scandinavian folklore. Beautiful and treacherously enchanting female beings of the forest... 

Perfume - Winter Is Coming...

Beware of geekery below!

I am a huge fan of Game of Thrones! Huge! Tonight I watched the third episode of the second season... I have read the books, several times, but the show is still so exciting! (Though they could cut down on the randomely nude women and the excessive sex scenes... Sex scenes are soo boring!) I love so many of the characters and the story is such a wonderfully complicated web, constantly teasing me with little clues to the whole picture, but letting me slowly put it together myself!

So I love A Song of Ice and Fire (and isn´t the name of the book series much more intriguing, though rather a mouthful?) and the Game of Thrones TV series. As you all know I also love perfume, and who says you can´t combine the two! As I watched the show today I suddenly remembered that I had come across some Game of Thrones inspired perfume on Etsy... After the episode had ended I had a look, and I found some! Here are a few of the more wintry, House of Stark inspired, scents that I found!

A Stark Winter by SaraWen is inspired by the House of Stark. This scent contains notes of the nothern forest, cedarwood, ivy and vetiver with a dark base of leather and benzoin.
To me this sounds absolutely awesome!  I imagine the mild warmth of the hearth in the morning, the fresh and earthy woods outside and a warm scent of leather. Not too cliché, but still with strong ties to the inspiration, I like that!  Also, dark and masculine is how I like my scents nowadays!

Winterfell by Black Cat Creatives, inspired by the ancestral castle of the House of Stark, is more feminine with notes of fig, mandarin, heliotrope, jasmin, amber, myrrh, sandalwood and musk.
I don´t quite get the connection between the inspiration and the perfume with this one... I like the oriental resin base, it is warm and comforting like an old castle perhaps, but a bit too exotic for The North... Combined with the rest of the notes, I don´t think this scent would take me away to Winterfell. To Dorne perhaps, but not to Winterfell.

King in the North by Bubble and Geek is inspired by Robb Stark, the King in the North... It is described as scents from the weirwood forest together with notes of lavender, oakmoss, cardamom, mint and vanilla.
This could potentially be a very nice masculine scent, although I am personally not a fan of lavender and mint. I would like to know what is in the scent of weirwood forest, if it is evergreen or more exotic. I´m imagining a resiny evergreen scent, but you never know...

The last scent on my list is Winter Is Coming by False Nostalgia. "Winter Is Coming" is the motto of the House of Stark. This one is described as a cold woodland breeze, icy snow, weirwoods, moss, smoke and ash. I find the description of this one really fascinating! Snow, ice, woods, moss, smoke and ash... judging by the notes, I think this one would really take me away to the far north, maybe even all the way to The Wall and beyond!

My House of Stark perfume would definitely be evergreen and resiny, with woodsmoke and moss, some cold green herbs and a warm and woody base...

So, Game of Thrones, do you like it? Do you watch it? Have you read it? What would your Game of Thrones perfume be like?

Perfume - What Does a Hobbit Smell Like?

I guess that very few have missed that The Hobbit will be realeased soon. It will probably be the same procedure as last time, people camping outside the movie theaters dressed as hobbits, elves, dwarfs! And we all know  what hobbits look like, the pointy ears, short stature, hairy feet. 

But what do hobbits smell like?

According to Sarawen a hobbit, at least a Baggins, smells of "Sweet tobacco, ivy greens, and tilled earth" with "a hint of butterscotch and honeyed tea". That is her perfume Misty Journeys, inspired by The Hobbit. 

Another suggestion comes from rosemarygrace who has made a set of perfumes called Races of Middle Earth wherein  the hobbit smells of fig, cinnamon, vanilla and honeysuckle. 

Deep Midnight Perfumes has also made a whole set of perfumes inspired by The Hobbit. Of these The Halfling's Party is the scent that represents hobbitkind. Catrianna, who makes these perfumes, describes this scent as "freshly buttered bread, harvest apples baked into a caramel tart, rum, red wine (for the wizard), and a light citrus with background notes of old polished wood, sweet tobacco leaf, and a dusting of oak wood roaring in a welcoming hearth". She has herself written a blog post about this set of perfumes, you can find that here. 

At Green Nymph Grotto a whole range of Middle Earth inspired perfumes can be found. Out of these there are two with a hobbit connection. Baggins is a blend of tobacco, rosemary, orange and spice while Samwise smells of "herbal rosemary, fertile earth, and sweet vanilla, with a hint of sunny lemon". 

Finally I have found a perfume by Scent by the Sea that seems very appropriate for a hobbit on the road. according to the description this scent, that goes simply by the name of Middle Earth, smells of "essences of fruitwood, resinous pine, green herbal and a touch of elven magic."


I can conclude that if you want to smell like a hobbit when you go see The Hobbit, wear a woody/herbal/gourmand perfume with a hint of tobacco! That is what a hobbit smells like!

My dream hobbit perfume: honey, tobacco, oakmoss and spices.