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I bought my first ever back up bottles. It was so hard weeding it down to just the three, but I got back ups of Love and Pain (if I were allowed only one bpal for the rest of forever and ever aged Love and Pain would be it), Cleopatra Testing Poisons, and Schlafende Baigneuse. The ones that I love but still got cut off the list were Carceri d'Invenzione, Itaso Kansei, and Three Gorgons.

From the Salon: Itasô Kansei Nenkan Jorô No Fûzoku, Wada hori Yû. Osmanthus, white honey, ti leaf, hibiscus, and sugar cane. While the honey is a very noticeable presence for me, the white honey feels lighter than the usual BPAL honey. Nothing too rich or heady here. In fact, I wear this one a lot in summer.

ooh fun. Ned Stark: Highwayman Catelyn: Whoso List to Hunt Jon Snow: The Black Rider Arya: Anne Bonny Sansa: The Lady of Shalott Joffrey: Whitechapel Cersei: Hunger Jaime: The Bow & Crown of Conquest Tyrion: Perversion or Wilde Littlefinger: Envy The Spider: Viola Drogo: Wild Men of Jezirat al Tennyn Danaerys: Dragon's Milk Viserys: Wrath, or The Sea Foams Blood Now all I want to do is curl up and read... Oh! These are perfect picks

I've been looooving the dry, spicy bark-like cinnamons of Priala and All-Night Long.

Strangely enough, my first thought was Aziraphale, which is a scent I've never even tried. It's just that your personality put me in mind of the character Aziraphale from Good Omens: bookworm, religious studies, helping people, sci-fi/fantasy. And beyond that I'm just putting faith in Beth's interpretation of a scent for a people-helping bookworm geek to interpret another people-helping bookworm geek Which reminds me, why haven't I tried Azirphale and Crowley at one of the Meet n' Sniffs I've managed to go to? Me: Not anywhere near as creative and interesting a life as the other posters on this thread. I'm an Electrical Engineering gal which in practical terms means I'm a cubicle creature who spends the majority of her days communing with the work computers over the placement of millions of multicolored rectangles in 3D. While my body lives inside a small, padded box my brain often floats free in escapist fantasies. I'm a big sci-fi/fantasy geek and also like some historical fiction, and am a HUGE bookworm. My approach to music is the same. I like to listen to music that takes me to a place and time I've never been to, so I listen to a lot of international music and medieval/renaissance music. Well, except for days when I want to listen noisy noise and then I listen to the Pixies and Soundgarden and TV on the Radio. I'm an introverted person and don't talk much to people I don't know, but once I get to know someone, I will talk their ear off if I'm in the mood. I have a very dark, cynical, sometimes morbid sense of humor that I can never turn off, no matter how inappropriate. This is inconvenient. In spite of the fact that I'm introverted, I tend to dress colorfully. I'll wear retro 60s, 70s styles, or bright colors, or frou-frou confections of laciness, embroidery, and poof.

The most prominent notes for me are lemon peel, coriander (crushed seeds, not the whole plant), and gentle, mildly sweet woods. There's just the tiniest touch of fresh green mint, more green than minty and gone as soon as I register its presence. My impression is one of the dry, dusty outdoors. Not a desert, by any means, but a sparser, drier type of temperate forest on a warm, cloudless, windless day. Tristan also has the sense of light and elusive otherworldliness that I associate with the entire Stardust series. I love this. It's perfect for days when I want something light and nature-y smelling.

Second on the literary scents, such as Illyria or Mad Tea Party. Those are pretty bulletproof. While most people would be ok with faery associations (ex. Fae) or dragons or Gods, you can never tell....I grew up in a city where the school district got in trouble for allowing us to read classic science fiction stories and native American folk tales. The kids of the outraged parents told me it was 'witchcraft' and 'devil worship.' Seriously bizarre, it was like being in the Twilight Zone.....Hopefully, a generation of Harry Potter has inured them somewhat, but better safe than sorry. ETA. This little tale takes place in 1991. So, its been a while.

The reviewer's SO who said it smelled like old ladies drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes? Yup, that's what I get off this......and I like it. Lots. Yup, I smell like badass grannies and I love it.

Crisp, sweet fruit, bark, very mellow spices, and a bit of that smokey smell i associate with vetiver. The fruit part reminds me of apple, but no one else has mentioned apple in their review, so I have my doubts. Strangely enough, my overall impression is evil potpourri. There's this sweet, reassuring, homey fruit/bark/spices thing and underneath it all is this lurking, menancing ashy air smell. I love it

Man...I love this, but I'm not sure I have anything to add to the previous reviews of warm&golden. When it was all shiny and new and fresh from the lab, the notes I could sniff out were fresh-cut galangal, sage, copal, tobacco flower, and an underlying sweetness that must have been fig. A bright, light, sunshiny gold. Now that it's aged a bit, the galangal and tobacco flower have moved into the background and I'm sniffing out more frankincense. So the scent is more warm and resinous and less bright and sharp, but overall, it's still a light golden glow. Definitely in my top five

Have you tried Safari? I have no idea what the notes are besides lavender, but it's basically everything I'd hoped TKO would be. Whereas TKO smells like lavender cake to me and made me crave sweets, not sleep, Safari is mostly gentle lavender with some sort of sweetness in the background that I can't place. Very calming. Mind you, I was using this in an oil burner, not as perfume...

Love and Pain - Lavender, Balkan tobacco, black musk, dark vanilla, and golden copaifera This is my favorite ever. The vanilla is sweet, but not foody. When this is fresh, it takes an hour to dry down from this really aggressive lavender blast, but once it does, it's gorgeous. The first four notes have equal billing for me (after that long dry down...or after aging for a few months). The copaifera backlights the whole thing in a warm golden glow. Mr. Nancy - Sugar cookies with bay rum, tobacco, and lime. Manly sugar cookies. On me, this one is mostly lime sugar cookies, though the other notes are pretty easy to make out. Carceri D'Invenzione - Redwood, red sandalwood, black pepper, blonde tobacco and frankincense. Silky smooth woods and blonde tobacco. Very sweet, soft, and gentle for a woods and tobacco blend.

There's something about all the BPAL jasmine except for night-blooming jasmine that turns everything stinky on my skin, usually dirty socks stinky. Combined with the super-aggressive ginger, Siren on my skin smells like the cleaning spray that Satan uses to wipe down his kitchen counters. That said, this oil is my miracle migraine cure. As long as this little smelly is sitting in my oil burner, I feel no pain. So, perfume? No. Aromatherapy? Yes. My bottle of Siren sits with my vitamins and meds, not with the rest of the BPALs.

Me too! I love black musk. Red musk doesn't work well on me and white musk smells boring. But black musk...mmmmmmmm. yum. I really liked: 1. Love and Pain from the Salon. Don't know if you count lavender as a floral....for the first few months, this thing has a lavender that will kick you in the seat of the pants and leave you flat on your face. After a bit of aging, it becomes more balanced: a golden vanilla(non-foody vanilla)/tobacco/black musk with lavender on top. Lavender, Balkan tobacco, black musk, dark vanilla, and golden copaifera 2. The Smiling Spider, also from the Salon. Clove cigarettes. With lots of black musk. I get very little patchouli out of this. I wouldn't be able to identify it as a note without the description. Bitter clove, black musk, mahogany wood, and patchouli. 3. I totally second Bewitched. The green tea and sage in this really make an herb-y black musk smelly for me, with blackberries in the background for sweetness. Thanks for starting this thread! I get to look at all the other recs, especially CD, which I've only tried one scent out of so far.

Why does this smell like celery tobacco on me? Tobacco, pumpkin, vanilla, sage, honey, pine, and cedar usually smell as they shouldon me. I've never gotten celery out of a BPAL before. Maybe it's the cherry tobacco. I feel like a food and not in a good way.

Elegba. The description says 'crossroads,' YES/NO? Only, I kind of spilled it a bit and slathered on the spilled bit, so as not to waste. Um...now I'm sitting at work in a big cloud of boozieness. Oopsies.

I'm a statue! I've got a smelly that turns me into a nice aged wood statue. By aged I mean, sat in a nice dry climate for decades, probably in some sort of temple because I've absorbed lots of interesting resiny smells. But seriously, I smell like I've been carved out of wood. Hooray!

Does no one else get mocha with half a shot of orange syrup out of this? Sort of a orange valencia mocha, easy on the syrup? I can't really find the tobacco, red musk, or herbs in this, but maybe they've combined in a way that my nose interprets as coffee. I wouldn't have thought orange mocha would be something human beings should smell like, but it's strangely compelling. It brings to mind warm, soft, fuzzy old blankets. Drinking a hot cocoa while wrapped up in w.s.f.o. blankets, just as the weather starts to become a teensy bit chilly. It also comes off as kind of manly on me, but I don't care. It's just too much not to wear.

I second Love and Pain. It's unmistakably vanilla, but barely sweet at all and blended with all those lovely dark and sharp smells.

Mad Meg? It's got 'fire scorched earth' which smells like guns firing to me.