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Pixie - -this is a bit late, but I just tried Masquerade, and it reminded me of a more well behaved Karma. Not as head shoppy, but all the good spicy smells.

GAAAH Lost my post! Wet, I smell cocoa in with the rest of the scents mentioned. Odd... Initial dry, creamy spicy orange Full dry - Lush Karma. (Never smelled Icon) It's a better behaved, more balanced Karma. I used to wear that perfume.... and get lots of compliments. It's not something I find really lovely now, but I may have to try this in public. Overall, a very nice blend. I'm more of a floral girl these days, so the fate of my imp is in question. But, it does bring back fond memories of walking around Scotland (where I found Lush).

Queen Mab! It's very pink. Innocent in it's purity (on me, it's fresh flowers, very true-to-life), but not little girly innocence. It's carefree. Not sure I would call it romantic, though.

Whooo-ooo! This took a while for me to test, as in the vial it was way too much. The chocolate smell was so melted rich that it gave me a hint of a stomachache (sniffing first thing in the AM, before breakfast). Today I was ready for the plunge.... and YUM. All the notes are there, playing happily on my skin. Today is a snowy winter day, and I feel like I'm snuggled up with a cup of cocoa by a fire, instead of plodding along at work. Yay!

I wanted to like this very badly, because it does smell great. I adore the smell of cedar woods, and this is perfection. But I never attempted cedar as a perfume, and it does not work as such on me. It's overpowering as a personal fragrance. Sighhh. I guess I like to smell more girly. But I agree that this would make an excellent room scent.

Just got around to trying this one. Normally I'm mad for new imps, but Queen Mab and Magdalene were being jealous. First sniff. Hmmm. Reminds me of Lady of Shallot. I thought it was a dark aquatic smell. Looking at the notes, it's the gardenia that the two oils share. First wet - Blooming gardenia, but darkened. I could not place the scent, so it must be the violet that gives it such a mysterious air. Initial dry - Very lovely shadowy floral,. I'm intrigued. Full dry - There's the vanilla. I'm thrilled. It's so well blended that it does not go foody or over sweet. I'm really liking this one. It's going into regular rotation, and just may be a candidate for a bottle.

High hopes for this, as Red Devil worked like crazy for me. On, I thought it smelled pretty nice. Spicy and warm.. so far, so good! But my chemistry found a smoky note and pulled it out. WAY out. All I could smell was tobacco - like cigars. Now, I actually like the smell of cigars, but as a perfume, not so much. And since Red Devil satisfies all my romping needs, I'll pass on this.

I found that Darkness smelled very incense-y, without being too heavy. Well, that it until I doused my DH in it... then it was a bit much.

A stirring yet gentle perfume. The scent of love and devotion mingled with an undercurrent of heart-rending sorrow. A bouquet of white roses, labdanum, and wild orchid. First sniff - Yikes. It bites, and is nasty. But of course, I knew that would change, so on it went. Wet - Oh no, there's green herbs. We just do NOT get along. It is extremely soapy and harsh... Drying - the mean green is retreating, and I start to smell rose. Hmm. They dry is taking longer than most blends on me, but this is getting nice. Full dry - So beautiful. I thought I could not do rose, but rose and orchid are fantastic on me. I had not read the description before trying this (it was a swap surprise), and I thought sad white roses. It does have a hint of Queen Mab, in that the rose is dominant on me, and smells so true to life. But Queen Mab is happy, this is subdued. I adore this - so worth the wait until dry.

Lovely, ethereal, luminous floral. This one faded extremely fast on me, but the faint drydown was beautiful. It's a bit too pure and airy for the dead of winter, but I will break this out again in the spring - and I will slather.

Whooo. This one has staying power! Too bad it went wrong on my skin. I got all the herbal piney scent that the other reviewers mentioned. The nuances of the blend were lost, as my body only let the pine through. Not unplesant, but I discovered I'm not an herbal/woody girl. Still, I gave this a dry down attempt - and my body protested. I started smelling like sweaty pine. Very strange indeed. I think that's what the bitter citrus turned into. Ah well - the blends that are nice more than make up for the ones that don't like me. And this is one more to add to my enablement stash for friends.

MMM. Buttery. A little spicy, a little sweet. Another perfect blend that doesn't go one-note on my skin. I smell wood, but I'm not woody. I smell incense, but I'm not Karma'ed out. There was one odd moment when it was first fully dry that I swear I smelled Xmas pine, but it quickly went away. There is very little waft off of me (which is great for work), and after 3 hours I'm already fading. This is a candidate for slathering instead of dabbing. Mmmmm. And this blend now marks my offical worship of BPAL, and the start of my enabling to others. I'm carting my imps with me to the New Years Party... except the ones I lovelovelove - I'm also a selfish wench.

This was not my list - I saw rose and thought no way! But I got it in a surprise packet, and I must say WOW! It is such a pure, perfect floral. It smells like heady, fully blown fresh roses in the dry down. My skin takes rose and runs with it, but YAY - these roses are perfection! There is no hint of the powerdey old lady smell I associated with rose perfume. On me, this is pure, sweet, summer garden bliss.

I was initally worreid - the sweet cherry/almond blast from the vial was immediately backed up with a animal musk when dabbed on my skin - but hooray! The musk quickly fades to the background, providing an earthy an naughty base for the spicy florals. The almond (again, hooray!) turns nutty, and the cherry departs. This is a very mysterious and sexy oil - if I were to slather instead of dab, I think I might get up to no good. And now what has become a regular part of my reviews: This scent reminds me of Santuary Crystals, the magick shop where I used to live. (Which was not "head shop" smelling - more demure than that). I don't know if my chemistry is weird or I have a cold coming, but this seems to fade pretty quickly on me - but I seem to have that with a lot of oils recently. Well, I plan on using my imp, so we'll see.

This is simply lovely. I'm not even sure I'll share it with DH... well, maybe. First sniff - it's very bright and fresh. I smell green grass (but not mowed lawn grassy), a hint of lemon, and what must be the basil. It's a beautifully clean, sunny scent. First wet dab - it turns masculine, and a bit generic. It's still quite nice, but not me. There's the tang of most cologne. Initial dry - Mmmm. Spicy, and still fresh! The herbs are back, and they've been peppered. I do not smell musky, incense or leather as separate notes, instead they deepen the freshness, make it very sexy and intriguing. Fully dry - The nose-tickling pepper has calmed, and I'm left with sweet herbs and spice, perfectly balanced. This oil makes me feel very narcissistic. I'm overflowing with confidence - I'm sure eveyone is finding me as witty, charming, and pretty as I do.

I am having the oddest time with Wanda! I put her on, she vanishes. A few hours later, she's back, but not for long. She's completely abandoned my left wrist. I can't even smell her long enough to analyze the scent! The whiffs I do catch are very nice - a sexy musky floral that's balanced and not overdone. I'll try her again in a few weeks - maybe my skin will behave better.

You know how sometimes when you apply and oil, your skin just eats it? It vanishes without a trace? Well, this oil ate me. One tiny dab, and I was overwhelmed with a garden is full, wet bloom. This is a juicy, deep purple scent, with lots of damp green moss. Lucious, heady, and in the end too much for me. I'm kind of in love with it nevertheless... the blend is so well crafted. Off it goes to my friend who loves intense scents.... I hope it suits her.

Very aptly named oil. It's beyond decadent, but just short of gluttony... it's eating a large box of assorted chocolates in one day, as opposed to one sitting. If sweet and rich (but mostly sweet) is your thing, then this is the oil for you.

I was so hoping to love this. I love the smell of woods, and pine, and juniper. But my skin likes to take a note and run with it. It was eucalyptus this time. I smelled like Vicks/Halls/NyQuill... and it never morphed into something else. The florals never came out - and while there was a hint of the pine, it was in a vapor-rub choke hold. This could make a nice room scent, though.

When I sniffed the vial, I thought this was going to be a fantastic oil on me. It smells lovely, very warm and golden as others have said. And familiar.... My very first boyfriend gave me a flannel shirt of his, and this is what it smelled like. I think it's the amber - it's what his clothes always smelled like, before they started smelling like teenage boy. Wow - had not thought about that in a decade... So this is yet another BPAL that brought extremely vivid memories to the surface. I dreamt of exes all night long, though... so this will be swapped. It is a sweet, comforting (and yet uncomfortable for me ) oil.

OMFG!!!! BPAL orgasm. At first sniff, I was in love. Cocoa, but not candy-bar. I figured it would go rottenly sweet on me (as almost all food scents do), but had to try it anyway. Oh... oh.... oh..... It is smooth, rich, lovely. I smell the cocoa throughout the wearing, but it is grounded with the ripeness of fig. Hmm - not ripeness exactly - maturity. There's none of the sticky death smell of ripe fruit. I get a touch of creamy coconut - is that Black Palm? It't more buttery than tropical, whatever it is. I do not get any wood at all - not even the faintest hint. It must be what is keeping this oil from going foody on me - it is luxurious and earthy. I agree that this is a personal scent. Not because I think it might smell odd to others, but because it puts me in a private mood. It's an oil for all the little things you need to be alone for - curling up with a good book, watching a film DH would never sit through, pampering yourself with a long bath.... Thank you, thank you Beth - this is heavenly.

MMmmmmmm. I have been looking for a scent for my husband, and may have found it. This smells of incense to me - it's the smoky myrrh. Mmmmm. It's not thick - he did not smell like a head shop. It's not the smell of a Catholic mass, either. It reminds me strongly of the cone incense I used in college - smoky and delicious, but not in the least overbearing. This is a romantic, masculine smell (but not traditionally masculine - there's no sharpness or musk). I wanted to snuggle up in his arms and inhale him all day.

BPAL does the most unexpected things. In my most recent batch, there were 2 instant OMFG oils - one heavenly and one hellish. This was my heavenly scent. Sighhhhh... but only in the vial. In the imp, Endymion smells fresh and light and airy, but juicy and lush as well. It's a gorgeous sparkling summer day. On me, it's pure antibacterial soap. But everything balances... the blend I wanted to keep miles away from me was a huge success. Since this is so lovely before it touches my skin, I will experiment with scenting a room or perhaps just clothing.

In the vial, maraschino cherries. It made me want to pour the imp into 7up and have a Shirley Temple. Mmm. On - still cherry, but there's a poisoned scent beneath it. It's very sinister. If you can do foody/sweet perfumes, this is a must-try. Very interesting.

When I got this, I forgot what it was classified as. After trying it, I knew it had to be a Voodoo Blend. And I will be trying more of them. Wow. At first sniff, I was very put off. I was going to swap it without even trying, but some got onto my fingers. The overwhelming musk dies down on contact with my skin and it turned into something pleasant, but nothing I would wear (so I thought). DH was in the room, so I had him take a sniff. He (gasp) asked me to put some more on, which I did. I held out my wrist for him to sniff, and I got pounced on. Grrrrrr. Let's just say we had a very fun and energetic weekend. The smell itself - my skin tends to pull out the sweet notes, and this did turn a little sweet - but it stayed hot and spicy. DH called it a "come-hither" smell. I think that's a little to gentle - it's more a "You. Here. NOW." scent. I am getting a big bottle of this!