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I needed a place to keep track of all the BPAL scents that I've tested, so here we are. We'll see what else happens.

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OPYL - Sorted & Reviewed

Last update: January 20, 2026   Anfar 1950 Luna Odyssee IV Sabbia - I immediately get hit with leather after I spray this on my skin. Then, a whisp of saffron, and the passionfruit fights to make its way to the front. There is an insistent front of that oud, reading to me as woody leather. I'm thinking on the dry down I get the amber and vanilla, joining the faint fruit in bringing an understated sweetness. I can eventually catch the rose, which despite being a floral only adds to the wood and leather aesthetic. This is marketed as unisex, and though I enjoy many unisex scents, there is unfortunately too much leather and oud in this for me (typically masculine notes).  Zenit Rouge   Dolce & Gabbana D&G Anthology: La Roue de la Fortune 10 - The second perfume I ever loved, bottle purchased from the duty-free on an overnight ferry from Kristiansand, Norway to Aarhus, Denmark. The scent of hopeful spring, with the promise of love and adventure in the coming season. It's a daytime scent for me, bright for sunny days. The Only One - Sample: Oooh, this is nice. It is immediately complex, with homemade caramel twining with violet and bergamot. Sweet yet warm, floral yet citrus. This seems to me a scent for sunny, cold days. Though coffee is listed as a heart note, I do not easily grasp it (thankfully). Perhaps that's the genius of blending it with vanilla and patchouli. It's not too powdery; pure luxury. Though I do not love florals as a whole, violet remains one of my favorites, and it alongside the iris brings just the right hint of femininity. I would quickly say yes to a full bottle of this.   Fear BOOtique Enchanted Forest   Jimmy Choo Illicit - Sample: Right away you get the sweetness, and soon enough the alcohol burn dries away to reveal honey, warm yet fresh, and something slightly spicy. Oh, is it ginger? Not resinous enough to be amber forward, and not woody enough to be earthy. Bitter orange keeps it from being too sweet. A wee bit of "department store" scent lingers, but only a wee bit so I don't mind. There's some vanilla hiding, as well. As it dries down, I may pick up a bit of rose, but not in a dusty way. Fully dry, it's warmer, like the softest sweater. Good for cold weather. This veers towards gourmand, which I'm okay with. I wouldn't say no to a bottle of this. Sweet, warm, fresh.   Origins Ginger Essence - One of my first adult scents. My mother wore this when I was a teen, and I got a free bottle from a college roommate who was going to discard it. It is brilliant in its simplicity: spicy citrus invokes fresh ginger; a bright scent for fall days. It is that snap of ginger zing that prevents it from being a too juicy, too tart. An elevated ginger ale! This would also be enjoyable as a linen spray, a candle, or a soap. Warm, fresh, bright.    Paco Rabanne 1 Million - The first perfume I ever loved. My father bought me a bottle after I showed him the beloved sample, and when I packed my life into a single suitcase to move across the world, it came with me. It's definitely a winter scent for me, the epitome of "warm & spicy" to cut through the Norwegian snow.  Olympea - Sample: Wet on my skin I get an immediate fresh citrus burst, which quickly crystalizes into salty warmth. The vanilla and florals then come through. I'd say that the ginger flower is stronger than the water jasmine. The soft, warm, and woody base notes stop this from being a summery scent, for me. It seems to straddle the line between luxury and casual. Fully dry, I want to say that this is a spring scent when the weather is still chilly, or a late fall scent to ease you into winter. Not unappealing, but not extraordinary either. Soft, warm, simple.   Paris Hilton Passport in Paris   Seance Cemetery
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BPAL Scents I've Tried, Sorted

Latest Update: January 20, 2026   A Picnic in Arkham Arkham Azathoth Miskatonic University   Activism Abolish ICE Hard Luck Lollipop (Transanta 2023) No Coward Soul Is Mine Obergefell V. Hodges (2024)   Ars Amatoria Bathsheba Bien Loin D'Ici Brisingamen Debauchery Defututa Harlot Hunger Kabuki La Petite Mort Le Lèthè Le Serpent Qui Danse Lolita Maiden Sed Non Satiata Snake Oil Spellbound Vixen   Ars Moriendi Deep In Earth Jazz Funeral Les Fleurs Du Mal The Ghost Twilight Zombi   Bewitching Brews Anne Bonny Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo Belle Epoque Bewitched Black Forest Black Pearl Bliss Blood Blood Kiss Blood Pearl Brimstone Chimera Come To Me Dee Highwayman Jack Jolly Roger Juke Joint Kubla Khan Lampades Leanan Sidhe Ouija Plunder Rakshasa Scherezade Schrodinger's Cat The Coiled Serpent The Forest Reverie The Harlot's House The Jersey Devil The Raven Yggdrasil Zephyr   BITCH PLANET Non-Compliant The Catholic   Carnaval Diabolique The Chapel   Conjure Bag Love Me Van Van Wolf's Heart   Diabolus Baobhan Sith Bloodlust Dracul Fenris Wolf Goblin Hell's Belle Kitsune-Tsuki Maenad Marie Nephilim Nosferatu Phobos Wicked   Discontinued Scents Baghdad Eris Danube Niflheim Slobbering Pine The Music of Erich Zahn Umbra   Doc Constantine's Pharmacopoeia Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener   Duets & Menage A Trois
Snow Moon: Yuzu & Blackcurrant (2024)   Event Exclusive Chaotic v3 Shark Tooth Surly Dragon   Excolo Al-Shairan Alecto Baron Samedi Coyote Czernobog Gaueko Hades Hecate Kurukulla Nyx Pele Persephone Shango Sjöfn Thanatos Xiuhtecuhtli   Gifts with Donation or Purchase Marshmallow Chick Sanguinem Menstruum (2019) Pumpkin Pie Musk Sanguinem Menstruum   Halloweenies All Souls (2006) Bobbing for Blood Kisses (2022) Indescribable Solemnity and Fear (2024) In Night When Colors All Are Black To Cast (2020) Melancholy Fire (2024) October (2023) Please Scream Inside Your Pumpkin Patch (2020) Pumpkin Booze (2020) Pumpkin Spice Absinthe (2021) Pumpkin Spice Champagne Pumpkin Spice Perversion (2017) Pumpkin Spice Snake Latte (2021) Pumpkinville (2021) Samhain (2021) The Dead Lips That Thirst To Kiss (2016) The Necromancer (2022) Traditional Sheet Ghost (2024) Voluptuous Wantonness (2019)   Illyria Iago Katharina Lady MacBeth Othello Robin Goodfellow The Apothecary Titania   Inspiration Bram Stoker   Liliths A Demon and Her Unholy Basketball (2020) Cerberus'ish (2021) Cruor (2021) Étienne De Boray Oak (2020)   Limited Editions Black Swallowtail Cat Churning Butter Champagne and Blood Every Day You Play With The Light Of The Universe Irish Coffee Buttercream Jareth Luke 10:25-37 Northern Lights On Imagination The Divine Scientist The Hierophant's Benediction The Woman at the Edge of the Woods Thirteen (13) January 2012 Woman As Dragon   Lupercalia Blissful Domesticity (2021) Box of Chocolates (2011) Coy Mermaid with a Vulva-Shaped Head (Shunga 2021) Famous Kabuki Actors in Imagined Scenes of Lovemaking (Shunga 2021) Right Atrium (2019)   Mad Tea Party Alice's Evidence Cheshire Cat High-Strung Daisies The Dodo The Queen of Hearts White Rabbit   Marchen Baba Yaga The Black Rider The Grave-Pig The Sea Foams Blood The White Rider   Neil Gaiman Lemon-Scented Sticky Bat American Gods Shadow The Small Brown Cat Good Omens Madame Tracy (2007) The Vampire Tarot The Pope   Only Lovers Left Alive Adam Blood Popsicle Café Mille et Une Nuits Diamond Star Eve Hal In Templum Dei July 23, 1868 The Diamond's Gong This Is Your Wilderness   Panacea TKO   Phoenix Steamworks & Research Facility Galvanic Goggles The Antikythera Mechanism The Obsidian Widow The Robotic Scarab   Rappaccini's Garden Belladonna Black Lily Black Lotus Black Rose Blood Rose Deadly Nightshade Honey Strangler Fig   Retail Exclusive Descent (Haute Macabre)   RPG Bard Cleric Drider Crossing Guard Dwarven Ale Elf Evil Fighter Lawful Monk Neutral Rogue Thieves' Rosin Tiefling Therapist Vial of Holy Water   Sin & Salvation Death On A Pale Horse Envy Greed Lust Oblivion Parapatman Roadhouse Rose Cross Sin The Bow & Crown of Conquest Vice   The Last Unicorn Schmendrick The Lilac Wood   Twilight Alchemy Lab New Beginnings (2020)   Vampires Don't Sleep Alone Interfector Misericordia Sanctus Silenti Transeo   Wanderlust Cairo Eden El Dorado Hollywood Babylon Paris Port Royal Shanghai Tenochtitlan Whitechapel Windward Passage   Yules Gingerbread Witch (2020) Gingerbread Snek (2023) Hard Luck Lollipop (2023) In Splendoribus Sanctorum (2019) Midnight Mass (2023) Up the Stairs We'll Dance the Tango (2022)
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