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When I first applied this it was very soapy and strong on the orange blossom scent -- pungent and clean at the same time. I wasn't crazy about the orange blossom side of it. The drydown is a nice champaca/sandalwood combination. It smells like good-quality incense right out of the box. This would be really good for someone looking for a nice Indian-type scent, but I'm still deciding if this is "special" enough to keep.

I really can't break this down note-by-note. All I really can say is that it's very beautiful, very deep and kind of earthy. This is a gorgeous resin/wood/floral scent with a heavy emphasis on copal and rose, but I get a lot of spice as well. Basically, if you like deep resin or wood scent but are looking for something fairly sweet, then this is definitely one to try. So gorgeous.

Soft incense notes, dried roses, deep tobacco, and polished wood. This is gorgeous. It smells sacred and just...lovely. It's surprisingly gentle and comforting, yet still really deep and solemn. This is a must for incense fans.

At first it was hard to place what the smell was like wet, but as I thought about it, I figured it was some sort of household cleaner. Pleasant for cleaning the bathroom, but not something I'd want to smell like. As it sat, it started smelling like a generic man's cologne or deodorant -- again, pleasant on a man after a shower, but not for me. It sat some more, and I recognized a dominant note from R.M. Renfield, probably the balsam. I like it now, but considering I already have a bottle of Renfield and the two are really similar to my nose, I think I'll pass this on to someone else.

Most of what I get is the various woods. At first it starts out kind of sharp, but the longer it sits the warmer and softer it gets. Eventually the vanilla and clove make their way into the picture, and that is lovely. I would most definitely describe this as a warm scent. Very comforting and nice, but not TOO soft. I think it would be good for both men and women. Definitely a keeper!

Wet, all I smell is opium. It's sweet and almost acrid, but not unpleasant. As it dries, the Damask rose comes through; I recognize it as the kind of creamy rose scent from Maiden. Here, however, it's made darker by the opium. Though this is very reminiscent of Maiden to me, I think I'll probably keep it just because it is darker and more "me" than the other.

Wet on my skin, there's some springy tree-like notes, but then as it dries the scent becomes a light floral. It's really fresh, clean and light-smelling, and there's a note here that smells "pink" and reminds me of commercial perfumes designed for teenagers and young women. It's a lovely scent, especially for springtime, but it's definitely not me. Also, it's barely detectable on my skin. This will go to someone who will appreciate it for what it is.

In the bottle and freshly applied to the skin, the ozone is pretty heavy, but in a pleasant way. The other notes serve to ground it. However, the ozone doesn't last long on me, which I was hoping for. I'm left with the deep floral scent of opium, a smoky incense note that reminds me of Medea, and a not-so-subtle hint of wormwood that I recognize from Absinthe. Wow, this is nice. It's dark without being overpowering. Incense fans should be happy about this as long as the ozone doesn't take over on them.

This one is really hard for me to pin down. From wet to drydown, the only note I can pick out is the verbena; it's definitely lemon verbena, not the vervain I have in my herb cabinet. It smells like a combination of lemon candies and this incense I had when I was in my early teens, but again, I can't really pick out notes. There's a sweetness, which might be some kind of amber? I don't know. It's sweet and tangy smelling and that's really all I get. This is a lovely scent, but on me it fades really quickly and has little to no throw. It would be great for people who like light, fresh scents.

There is very little difference between the smell on the bottle and the smell wet on the skin...and the smell dry on the skin. For the first hour or so, all I get is pungent metal and motor oil. Sniffing it stings the back of my throat. There is a very faint hint of myrrh every now and then that disappears as quickly as it comes. As the scent sits, the metal is tempered by very intense leather. I generally really love leather, but this is way too pungent for me. Still, it smells better than the metal/oil scent from before. Catching whiffs of it in this stage isn't so bad, but I really just don't think I can handle how strong and sharp it is. While I wouldn't consider this a pleasant scent, I am so glad that I got to try it. It's incredible that Beth was able to capture the scent of sharp metal so effectively. This IS the smell of steampunk in a "dripping with testosterone" sense. For someone looking for a steampunk scent that will punch them in the face, this is fantastic. However, I was looking for a steampunk scent that I could cuddle up with. I really wanted to love it, but judging by the responses above, there will be plenty of other people who will.

When I first put it on I smelled an almost overwhelming floral scent from the ylang, with something sharp underneath (frankincense) and a hint of hyssop, which always smells vaguely, weirdly fruity on me. I wasn't really feeling it. A little later the violet came out, and at that point I really actually liked it and was considering keeping it; it was really pretty and well-balanced with the frankincense. However, not too long later it turned into powder. How sad! Mind you, it's a powder I think smells kind of pretty, but I can't see myself wearing it.

Upon first applying, I got the aquatics plus some pretty smelling plants and a bright, fruity wine. Wow...this is really nice. It's a pretty, clean aquatic. I sniffed some more and found that one of the plant smells was a tropical floral of some type. I don't know what, but I think it might have been in Pele. I'm usually not a floral fan, but mixed with the greens and aquatics, it really is lovely. As it sits on the skin it does smell a little murkier, but for the most part, it's not bitter, unpleasant or masculine smelling hardly at all. I think either sex could wear this, but it might be more at home on a woman.

This is a really interesting blend. At first I got a light tea scent with lots of cream. Not exactly foody, but not perfumey, either. I suppose it smells buttery, but not LIKE butter, if that makes sense. Then, after a bit, baby powder takes over. I am so not a powder fan, so at that point I had dismissed it. However, the powder scent fades after maybe an hour, and then I mainly get a grainy smell with vanilla and a touch of tea. This phase is really mellow and nice, but I don't know if it's worth sitting through the powder phase to get to it. It's a really, really interesting blend, which is the only reason it was on my wishlist to begin with. I'm glad to have tried it, and it's certainly not unpleasant, but I'm afraid it's not really me.

Out of the bottle and when I first apply it, it's very heavy on the myrrh, which is nice. However, after a few moments it really starts to blossom into a beautiful, full-bodied, slightly bitter scent. The musk and resiny smells take over, and it's really gorgeous. Mostly, I get delicious musk. The only problem I get is with what I'm guessing is either the ambrette or the benzoin; something is giving off a faint burnt plastic smell that vanilla often does on me, but I can only smell it if I inhale really deeply. Overall, I love it.

This is at least a little incomplete. I used to keep a list of everything I tried on a web host that recently shut down, and I wasn't able to keep my official list. I had to go through all of the reviews and pick out what I had tried, but I'm sure I missed a lot. But alas, here is the best I could do. Absinthe Aeval Aglaea Aizen-Myoo Al Azif Al-Shairan Alice All Night Long All Souls Anathema Anne Bonny Antique Lace Anubis Aperotos Eros The Apothecary Arkham Ashlultum Athens Australian Copperhead Ave Maria Gratia Plena Azathoth Aziraphale A Bachelor's Dog Baghdad Banned in Boston Baron Samedi Bastet Bathsheba Bayou Belladonna Belle Epoque Bengal Bensiabel Bette Noir Bewitched Bien Loin D'Ici Bilquis Black Forest Black Ice Black Opal Black Lotus Black Pearl Black Phoenix Black Rose The Black Tower Blood Blood Amber Blood Countess Blood Kiss Blood Moon Blood Rose Bloodlust Bluebeard Bohun Upas A Bold Bluff Bon Vivant Bonfire Night Bordello The Bow and Crown of Conquest Bread-and-Butterfly The Brides of Dracula Brimstone Brisingamen Brotoloigos Brown Jenkin Buck Moon Burial Cairo Caliban The Caterpillar Cathedral Cathode Chanukkiyah Chimera Circe The City in the Sea Clermont Cloister Graveyard in the Snow Cockaigne The Coiled Serpent Coral Snake Count Dracula Coyote The Cracked Bell Cristina Crossroads Czernobog Dance of Death Danse Macabre Darkness De Sade Dead Man's Hand Death Adder Death Cap The Death of Autumn The Death of Sardanapal Dee The Deep Ones Defututa Delight Delphi Depraved Desire Destroying Angel Devil's Night Dia De Los Muertos Diwali Dionysia Djinn Doc Constantine Dorian The Dormouse Dracul Dragon's Blood Dragon's Bone Dragon's Hide Dragon's Milk Drink Me Earth Phoenix Eat Me Eden Ekhidna El Dia De Los Reyes Elegba Emma Empyreal Mist Eos Event Horizon Fae Faiza, the Black Mamba Faustus Fenris Wolf Fledgling Raptor Moon Florence Follow Me Boy Forbidden Fruit The Fruit of Paradise Galvanic Goggles Gaueko Geek Ghoulish Glitter Gomorrah Grand Guignol Graveyard Dirt Greed Grog Gypsy Gypsy Queen Habu Hamadryad The Hamptons Harlot Harvest Moon Haunted Havana Hearth 2004 Hellfire Herr Drosselmeyer The Hesperides Hetairae Hexennacht The High Priest Not to Be Described Hollywood Babylon Horn of Plenty Horreur Sympathique The House House of Night Hunter Moon Hurricane Hymn to Proserpine Iago Iambe I Died for Beauty Ichabod Crane The Illuminati Cotillion Imp Incantation Inferno Intrigue Ivanushka Jack Jacob's Ladder Jailbait The Jersey Devil Jester Jezirat al Tennyn Jolly Roger Katharina Kathmandu Kill-devil King of Clubs Knecht Ruprecht Krampus Kroenen Kubla Khan Kumari Kandam Kyoto La Befana La Fee Verte La Petite Mort Lady Macbeth Lamia Lampades The Last Rose of Summer Leanan Sidhe Les Bijoux Libertine Lilith The Lion The Little Wooden Doll Lolita London Lorelei Loviatar Love Me Love's Philosophy Lucretia Lunar Eclipse Luperci The Lurid Library Lust Lysander Mabon Machu Picchu Mad Sweeney Mme. Moriarty, Misfortune Teller Madrid Mag Mell Magdalene Magus Maiden Makhanitis Malice Manila Mantis March Hare Marquise de Merteuil Masabakes The Masque Mata Hari Mead Moon Medea Meliai Mictecacihuayl Midnight Bell Midnight Kiss Midway Miskatonic University Mr. Ibis Mr. Jacquel Mr. Nancy Morocco Motley The Music of Erich Zahn Nemesis Neo-Tokyo New Orleans Niflheim Nocnitsa Noir Nosferatu Nuit Nyarlathotep O Obatala Oblivion October Odd Portents Ogun Oisin Omen Oneiroi Osun Othello Overprotective Possessed Talking Doll Oya Ozymandias Paduan Killer Swarm Paramatman Parlement of Foules The Parliament of Monsters Pele The Penitent Magdalen Penny Dreadful Penumbra Perversion Phantasm The Phantom Calliope Phantom Queen Philosopher in Meditation Pirate Moon Pomegranate III Pomegranate IV Pontarlier Port-Au-Prince Priala, the Human Phoenix Pride Prunella Pumpkin Latte Pumpkin Patch 2 (2005) Pumpkin Patch 4 (2005) Pumpkin Patch 5 Pumpkin Queen Queen Queen Gertrude The Queen of Hearts Queen of Sheba R'Lyeh Ra The Raven Ravenous Red Devil Red Lantern The Red Queen Red Moon Riding the Goat R.M. Renfield Roadhouse The Robotic Scarab The Sailor's Den Samhain Samhainophobia Santo Domingo Satan and Death with Sin Intervening Saw-Scaled Viper Scarecrow Scherezade Schwarzer Mond The Sea Foams Milk Sea of Glass Seance Sed Non Satiata Seraglio Seraphim Serpent's Kiss Severin Shadow Witch Orchid Shadowless Like Silence Shadwell Shanghai Shango The Shivering Boy Shub-Niggurath Shroud Silk Road Sin Sir Hugh Ockham's Winding Cloth Siren Skadi Snake Charmer Snake Oil Snow White Sophia Spellbound Spirits of the Dead Sri Lanka Stormclouds Over the Midway Stranger in Camp Sudha Segara Sunrise with Sea Monsters Swank Sybaris Talvikuu Tamora Tempest Temple Viper Tezcatlipoca Thanatos Thorns Tiger Lily Tintagel Tiresias, the Androgyne Tisiphone Tombstone Two Monsters Tzadikim Nistarim Ulalume Undertow The Unicorn Urd Valentine of Rome Vampire Tears Vasilissa Vechernyaya Velvet Venice Venom Vice Voodoo Vixen Wanda Wanton War Water of Notre Dame Western Diamondback Whip Whippoorwill White Chocolate and Strawberry White Rabbit White Rose Whoso List to Hunt Wicked The Wild Men of Jezirat al Tennyn The Winter of Our Discontent The Witch's Repast Wolfsbane Wrath Y'Ha-Nthlei Yerevan Yggdrasil Yorick Zombi

So far I've visited two Hindu temples for different reasons, and both times I was greeted with this beautiful floral scent that permeated everything. Tonight I celebrated Holi at a local temple and noticed that some of the powders had that scent. Problem is that I have NO IDEA what it is. It could possibly be rose, but it doesn't really smell like any rose I've ever smelled. Perhaps it's a mix of different things, I'm not sure. Does anyone know? More importantly, can anyone point me in the direction of a BPAL that has this scent? I would kill to be able to smell it whenever I wanted to. My apologies if anyone has asked for this before or if it belongs in a thread, but I searched as well as I could think to.

Alrighty. In two weeks I'm going to go visit my sister in California. The main event we have planned? DEVO at the House of Blues in Anaheim. Woohoo! So yeah, we're both majorly excited about it since they're a longtime favorite of ours. I am so excited that I'm already trying to figure out what BPAL to bring along for the show. This might sound like a silly inquiry, but I'm serious. Does anybody have any recommendations for a night of silly new wave in a tiny, sweaty venue?

I am a little disappointed by this one. It smells identical to Urd on me and I never really cared for that one anyway. Maybe it's just that my skin latches on to wine notes and turns them into cloying grape popsicles, but that's pretty much all I get. It is not unpleasant, but I am kind of sad that I spent extra money on an LE that smells just like a GC. Off to the swap pile it goes!

This is kind of a weird blend. I was expecting something thick, dark and decadent. What I got was something light, delicate, yet still fairly sexy. If I had to compare it to anything it would be Black Opal -- it doesn't smell like a rock, but it is just as powdery. I'm pretty sure I smell a light amber, more akin to Bastet or The Lion than something like Hymn to Proserpine. The amber with a touch of musk and honey is most of what I smell, like these amber/musk candles that my friend and I bought one time. Definitely a skin scent. I was hoping for a whole lot more patchouli -- or, indeed, something other than amber/honey/musk -- but whatever. It's gorgeous, but I'm not completely sure the powder smell is really "me." I'll keep it for a while and see if I actually wear it.

My mother one time wore patchouli oil (it was some really nasty, super strong stuff that didn't smell a thing like BPAL's) around a cat we once had, and...erm, he liked it a little too much. If you don't want to be molested by a cat, you might want to avoid patchouli. He loved the scent of strawberries, though, in a much less sexual way. If you do end up wearing perfume around the kitties, maybe that would be good?

Wet, this smells just like the tres leches cake I made for my best friend for his birthday last year. Mmm. I think I just got a cavity from sniffing it. After the initial wet stage, Cockaigne is one of the weirdest scents ever, and not necessarily in a good way. Sniffing directly from my arm, it smells strongly of burnt rubber bands as creamy, extremely foody scents are wont to do on me. However, the throw is a glorious, pure honey scent that makes it worth wearing. My boyfriend told me I smelled like maple syrup. I'm totally OK with that. It lasts forever. That's the mistake here -- the long-term drydown. Many hours later I kept smelling, well, what can only be described as unwashed crotch that I assumed was coming from the old couch I was sitting on. I informed said boyfriend of this and he didn't know what I was talking about. I went home and I still smelled it. Decided to sniff where I had applied the perfume on my arm and was horrified to realize that it was ME, or rather, it was Cockaigne. Straight off my skin it's ammonia with a bit of sweetness behind it, which is gross enough without the throw smelling like crotch. I am terribly disappointed. I've worn it before and not had any extreme effects either way...maybe my chemistry is screwed up (very likely). I'll try it again next week and see if the problem has remedied itself.

I was expecting Oblivion to be sharp, a bit generic and unforgivingly dark...thank God I was wrong! This is beautiful. My nose was plastered to my wrist the whole time, and my boyfriend's brother said I was creeping him out. It is very masculine, but in a comforting, deep, cozy way rather than seeping with testosterone. It's very smooth, natural scent that isn't really sweet. It's so hard to describe in terms of notes because it's so well-blended. Just keep in mind that if you're looking for a dark masculine scent that isn't dripping with vetiver or black musk or some weird piercing note, you must try this one. So pretty! ETA: Also, this burned a bit upon application, and I don't have super sensitive skin. So if your skin is sensitive, proceed with caution!

Medea is...wow! I went in not having high hopes, but decided I'd try it since I'd heard such wonderful things. Let me just say that most florals and I do not get along. Like, hardly at all. With the exception of rose, usually they end up turning either soapy or sour on me -- pretty disasterous either way. Medea smelled quite floral and pretty in the bottle, which I thought for sure would be the mark of death for me. Not so! This is beautiful! I don't know what the difference is. I mainly get orchid (which is lovely and not overpowering) and currant in the first stages, but on the drydown there's this beautiful, smokey incense smell that gradually emerges. I can also smell the poppy, but it doesn't smell rank like I have usually experienced. Everything comes together in this deep, mysterious, very sweet combo that is perfect. This is feminine, sparkly, purple and magical. Not my usual cup of tea, but I really like it. I imagine this is how a night elf would smell.

Cannot stop sniffing myself! In the bottle it smells very green, almost bittersweet, and a bit toasty. On my skin, all I really get is vetiver. That's OK, though! My skin does lovely things with it; this smells like burning cedar wood. I do still get the dead leaves smell, which just adds to it. So good! When I sniff, my face even feels warm and I get the illusion of the feeling of woodsmoke in my eyes. To me it smells like October (the scent) on fire. This is incredibly evocative and I love it.

My first thought was that this smells very similar to Skadi. It starts out very heavy on the frozen evergreen backed with berries smell, but the more I sniff it, the more I think it smells a lot more complex than Skadi, perhaps a bit earthier or spicier. It's still very similar, though. My opinions are very much the same for both blends -- it's pretty and pleasant and I'm glad to have tried it, but blends as wintery as this don't really suit me. If you want to smell like Christmas, though, this is a good bet!