othelloperrello

I get a light, fizzy spiciness - a vanilla egg-cream drank in a sunny meadow. Stays steady for several hours, very nice.

I feel the need to review this oil because it is my card, the one that most often means ME me of late when I do readings. What intrigued me when I sniffed it out of the bottle was that the scent was the most totally repugnant bpal I'd ever sniffed. It was like taking a good huff of that brush-on wet cement you use out of the can, it smelled utterly toxic. It started that way on my skin, but slowly changed. Over about 5 minutes the sweetness grew and the foul stench seemed to dry up. After 10 minutes I am left with a well-blended, sugery floral, still somewhat pensive like those last few summer days that are just waiting to end. Warm, comfortable, pleasantly spicy, one of those scents that feels like it belongs on my skin. It continues morphing and surging, and seems like it will stay fairly strong with a medium throw (it's been well over an hour). Yay

[Man review] What this really is to me, it's the spiced cider I'd been searching for and given up on finding. The pomegranate and the apple, no doubt aided by hyssop, combine into the perfect fresh red fruit note, I get ripe apples from the tree in deep fall. This is my first experience with Massoia, and from what I read of Cryptocarya massoia (Lauraceae) it's a sweet, coconut-milky blender, so I'm sure that works in this profile's favour (i.e., +++yumminess). I'm not sure if this is a common experience or it's just my skin, but all of the honeys add a great spiciness to the mix, as well as the sweetness. It's like when you get REALLY good raw honey and smell it up very close slowly, that spice within it but amped up to an overriding note. So yes, it is enough (with the massoia, I'm sure) to give it that mulled-spiciness on my skin. All in a festive sweet, spiced fruit. Once it settles it's solid, 3-4 hours which is a lot on my skin. :love!: Othello

Guy review: Here is my problem with this scent, dammit: wet on my arm it smells perfect, all the notes coming out exactly how I want them. It's the drydown that kills it for me, because within 10 minutes everything seems to depart - that coveted chocolate note, that gorgeous golden caramel - and I am left with peppery smoke. Why why WHY? I am going to let this age just another year or so, and see what I have at the end of that. ...to be continued!

Copaiba balsam, Tolu balsam, hay absolute, cardamom, and hiba wood. Guy review: I love this scent. The overall feeling I get is rare for bpals, it's a sweet, light scent that keeps telling me it smells like something specific but keeps eluding me. This has been going on for over a year, and I think that's just part of its mystery. I get the cardamom coming out fairly quickly, and I feel it plays an important role in rounding this out against the balsams, the woods, and the hay. Such an incredible combination. The cardamom in turn is deepened by the woods, and the hay absolute adds what I can only describe as a golden glow that makes this surprisingly light, sweet, spicy and wearable. I am a big fan of resinous, woodsy scents; to me this is the lightest, most golden of my beloved resinous blends. Playful.

Yes, this is as it sounds: wonderfully strong hemp, patchouli, and vanilla. On my skin, all elements were about equal. This is one of the most forthright oils I've run into. Definitely reminded me of tombstone for the patchouli, but whereas that had some strange subtlety I could not deduce this one comes out clear and strong. Unfortunately for me it's a little much. So glad I got the opportunity to give this one a try, though, it's exceptional.

I'll call it to my mind's nose rose, violet, and jasmine. Though it has become clear to me that there is, in fact, no rose in here to my way of categorizing the slight musk underlay fulfills the same function for me which is to give it a dignified floral scent, refined yet real. I feel it was caught best when it was said, "Sweet and gentle. The flowers are lovely and soft without powder. Just fresh and sweet... Slight incense in the background giving it a hallowed ethereal feel. A wonderful contemplative perfume." I'll keep her. O

A beautiful mix of wet white roses, and honeyed-cream. Really well balanced on those 2 sides, sweet and rose, a very nice scent. It reminds me of white chocolate in that I can appreciate it, but not really want to eat it personally. Someone should have it! think I'll frimp O

Guy review: Rose, and violets. Both at the height of summer, balancing rather well in power. Overall feeling is majesty, walking the royal grounds, and you feel perfectly at ease. I feel this is a necessary imp-keeper for the purity of it's scent, even for me. Thanks bpal! O

Guy review: Well, it's deep, it's earthy, it's on-the-line-of-too-much-cedar, but the patouli is there and balances it out. As' said, a good general masculine/cozy scent, not my favorite wood. Gracias, O

Guy review: Ah, a hardy, earthy, swarthy scent - scent of the woods obviously pine maybe fir, coming thru strong and prevailing through along with a heavy vetiver presence. Medium-to-strong throw. Yet there is enough wet rich earth and clove in there to keep it in play and more than just a Pine Scent. This, for me, is definitely wearable on an evening walk alone or with company, or on a morning flight to keep me grounded and fresh. AND * - * Combined with graveyard dirt brings out the musk (black, brown, earth-musk) and does some interesting things. So the total composition of this, then, would be pine, vetiver, musk of earth, clove . Well balanced, good mix potential.

Guy review: This continues to be one of my favorites, and as I sit here about to sell my backup bottle for hard cash, I find myself having serious second thoughts. It's so good, and what's more I think it's aging and getting better yet. So the obvious first notes are cocoa and cinnamon, and definitely ginger which gives a nice foody overtone to it. It's a given for me that chocolate notes fade quickly, which is sad, but there's lots of nice spice to fill in when that fades off. I think the maize adds to the wholesome baked foodiness as well, and reminds me very much of when I lived in southern mexico. There's a sourness over it all that seems to be blending a little better the longer the bottle ages, which is great because it plays really nice now instead of poking out. Looking at the notes I see "agave wine and octli" - well, I've never heard of agave wine perse, so I decided to look up "octli" and found that it was pulque! I couldn't believe that was in there! It was one of my favorite things in Mexico and totally unobtainable in the US. Wow. This really captures it too, because it's very fermented and fizzy, which I feel really comes through. One of the scent categories I collect are mexico scents, and this one really comes through. All in all, I would categorize it as a warm, foody scent with a lot of spice. Who am I kidding? I'm not selling my backup bottle!

Guy review I get an overwhelmingly strong pumpkin, immediately and irrevocably. Pumpkin so strong it's drunk. Seriously, this is has the strongest throw I have ever encountered in a bpal. It left an oily smear on my hand that is not going away. What I perceive is strong, ripe pumpkin liqueur and cinnamon. I am thinking that the pump + coffee + chocolate combo does this, with maybe the hint of vanilla to mellow & sweeten it out a bit. I can't understand where the sense of cinnamon comes from! Usually that alcoholic edge dies away on the drydown, but here it does not. So all in all it is to me exactly this: double espresso latte with extra squirts of pumpkin syrup and a nip from the flask poured in for good measure. I think I like it. For a guy this is a very wearable but noticeable scent, and the New Yorkers will know its smell!

Guy review. A note on the throw of this scent: My experience was that it faded quickly to the point where I thought it was going to disappear entirely after 10 minutes. Then, strangely, it seemed to settle in and grow in intensity to about medium bpal strength. Go figure. I think the comparison to condensed milk is a good one. On the drydown I get a nice warm milky froth, slightly spicy (but moreso on my than on my beloved's hand. The chevre makes a stronger cream, and the coffee note is just barely there in the back. Coffee notes never seem to last long on me. All in all, it reminds me of cookies just ready to come out of the oven. Oh Mother Shub, you shouldn't have! But I'm so glad you did.

Guy review: Have to put my two cents in to agree with most on this, it's a sweet/foody blend of hazelnuts balanced with vanilla, sandalwood, and honey. It reminds me of cozy-warm rooms filled with cooking concoctions, sweet nutty slightly alcoholic things; there's spice in the air and bustling people, friendly chatter, and a mug of something hot and nice in my hands. Great blend! Would really like to know what wezwanie/hold means. Guess I'll have to watch the movie.