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This is not exactly in regards to the original post, but I did a search for "mislabeled" and this is what came up. I got my shipment from the lab today and I got a freebie imp that is labelled "Hamadryad." I decided to give it another shot today but when I opened it I KNOW that this isn't what it's labelled to be! I have had Hamadryad before and know that it ended up being a powdery library smell oo me. This imp smells exactly like Hesperides, and I have an imp with the original BPAL label on it so I know it's Hesperides! Crisp green apple, oak bark, the whole nine yards. I highly doubt that things could get mislabeled, however there is always a magin of error with human labor! Is there a chance that someone else who received their 3/15 order got an imp of "Hamadryad" that they think might be Hesperides, too? Just wondering. I can't imagine how many hundreds of imps get filled every day at the lab!

I have never agreed with anyone more! This brought the exact same image to mind. I had expected Graveyard Dirt to be a dark scent, but to me it's actually not. I feel like I am walking down a wet dirt path in the woods, perhaps in the summer where the rain was brief and fog remains. Clean, pure, fresh, wet dirt. I had expected this to be like Zombi sans rose, but I think this is more earth than moss. I can't get my nose away from my wrist! Edited to add: I have trouble wearing this all by itself as it tends to dry to a very very light earth scent fairly quickly, but this is absolutely phenomenal when layered with pretty much any floral I've got. I might burn through my 5 ml after all.

This was one of those "what the hell, why not?" scents that I put on my wishlist and got.... during the great Forum Outage of March 2005 so I had no reviews to base my thoughts on! Wow, I am very surprised. Its very herbal, but not that "herbs" that are in Nosferatu... these are more of a dark green, perhaps even purple or brown. There is a hint of sweetness underneath that makes me think of dark berries hidden amongst the leaves of a plant. At first whiff, this was the epitome of summer for me. I had not known this scent came out in a summer update until just now! I don't like summertime because of the cruel, unrelenting heat and smothering humidity, but this scent reminds me of all the early summer days when I was still in school and the first heat wave kicked in. When I walk outside in the blazing heat and pass a row of bushes or a patch of ivy on campus... this is the smell. It's almost like a tomato leaf, but different. Earthy, rich, with a bite. It dries down to mainly fruit, and reminds me of a raspberry potpourri, or maybe a raspberry wine. Not entirely bad but I miss the leaves. I think I will be keeping this imp to wear in the summertime -- when I'm safely at the office in the air conditioning.

I LOVE THIS SCENT! Ahem. I knew I would love this scent the moment the update was made, and I instantly ordered a big bottle. Oh. My. God. I should have bought two! I understand sarada's thoughts when she said it smells like lime, but I think of it as a bright green forest color... not in the daylight, though but more fresh evergreen needles carpeting a forest floor. The trees are endless, separated by slivers of darkness, and the rich, heady green scent is all around, softened by the dirt underneath. So uplifting, but probably because I love green scents. So far I haven't had any luck, but now that Nocnitsa is here I am giving a million thanks for this scent! It's perfection in a bottle. Edited: Now that I've given it a good long time to dry down, it comes out with a slightly fruity aquatic smell. Not unpleasant, but I'm sad that the fir and the dirt didn't stick around on me.

This is gorgeous! I actually bought this for a friend but I HAD to sneak a dab before I package it up for her. I don't do florals but... wow, I smell the jasmine (but not too heavy), rose (very faint), and some lily. But it's a perfeect bouquet, very balanced. The longer it sits on my skin, the more I can feel the jasmine and lily poking through. I almost feel like I'm walking through an old European flower market on the most beautiful spring morning! I think this is very.. white. I don't know why I think that, but it's so gorgeous. I might have to beg an imp off her!

I absolutely hated this scent at first! I smelled coconut and decided I simply could not stand to smell like sunscreen all year when it's bad enough during the summer. But I always try scents at least twice before giving them up for swaps, and I fell in love the second time. It's nutty, yes, but not so much coconut now that I think about it. It's almondy and very faint. That's what I love about this... it's faint but very long-lasting. And it's a light vanilla-almond which is strange to me because there is supposed to be floral in this. I don't get any florals unless I really concentrate on it. I can understand how this scent evokes the color white, however this is not at all the image I had gotten from the name "Snow White." It's white, yes, but a warm, soft white, perhaps so warm because it's snowing outside and you're in the kitchen baking angel food cake and filling the house with a comforting, delicious scent. Some years ago I baked an angel food cake and sugared my own flowers to decorate the top. This is exactly what I think about when I smell Snow White: the understated almond and vanilla with a hint of orange zest, and the crystiline sugar sparkling on the purple flower petals.

I agree with chupachup here, in that I thought this scent would be a smoky, ashy scent. However what I got from it was 100% pure unadulterated fresh cut POTATOES. I have no idea where it came from but it was exactly the noseful I get whilst peeling and chopping potatoes in the kitchen. It's flat and starchy. After a while the scent turns to fresh-cut-potatoes-with-lemon, so off to the swaps it went. I don't think I agree with incense notes.

I wanted very much to like this one, but on me - from start to finish - all I got was the acrid chemical smell of wet nailpolish. I was so intrigued by the images that people here were bringing up when they reviewed it, but I guess my chemistry just doesn't agree with it. It's a shame, because I still have a savage, yellow image in my head of what I wanted it to smell like on me. Very much like the crop duster scene in Hitchcock's North By Northwest!

I won this off of Ebay and am quite surprised at this. I know there are fruit notes in it, and those tend to not work so well with my nose, but I think I like this quite a bit. I was a little worried because I bid on this before I read the reviews extensively, but as we see here, everyone has such a different reaction to it, though the overwhelming response is YES! As I said before, I don't tend to like fruit. But I thought by reading the description that the earthy notes would make up for them. At first it is a bit overwhelmingly fruity. For the first 20 minutes all I could smell was fruit punch, and I really hated thinking that because I don't like to think BPAL scents smell like anything that cheap and simple. I know these blends are not without extensive alchemaic consideration. And I was very concerned because Mabon is such a strong, long-lasting scent.... .... but then the fruit dies down a little and the spices start coming through. Not overwhelmingly, but I can pick out a touch of sage and maybe something like the earthiness of bark and myrrh. Yum. I can see the resemblance to Cherry Sucrets, but I honestly would never have tnought that if I didn't read it here. What I think I love the best is the coy apple cider hiding in there somewhere, and the bold blackberry... I really do like this scent. It is such a nice surprise to find a fruit scent that I like to wear. I am very glad that I got a 5 ml of this because it will make me happy in the days I miss autumn!

I am not familiar with what vetiver or civet smell like, and I'm sort of glad that I didn't read these reviews before I tried Black Annis. Even before I opened the imp, I was scared. I had not heard of the hag myth before BPAL and was instantly fascinated. How deliciously scary! And I do believe that this scent does an EXCELLENT job of capturing my image of her. It really does smell dark, dank, and Earthy... this scent is pure evil! Just smelling my wrist instantly brings an image of a dark, hulking cave hidden behind a huge skeletal oak tree. I see the tendrils of mist drifting down the hillsides, the pale fingers lacing with the naked branches. I am not getting the licorice jumping out when I smell this, or the cat pee (so I guess civet works with my body chemistry?). In fact, I like how subtle the licorice is for me. It gives it a slightly more softened edge to this when it could purely be dirt and lichen. Amazing. I get goosebumps when I smell this. I love it, but I think I need to reserve it for cold, misty, brooding days.

I love Zombi so I knew this one would be good for me. And I just got an imp from a friend last night. I definitely smell the freshly-turned earth, but I also smell cold, damp stone and... flowers and herbs? But not happy, light, sweet flowers. I am tempted to say I smell rose in it, but this is not at all like Zombi. I have no idea how Beth can capture such profound silence in a scent, but she has. It's disturbing to me, too (I have noticed a lot of people used that word for this scent), but because I feel as though I've somehow gotten lost from the group and am trapped in a maze of crypts and stone, suddenly alone in dead silence. And I am not getting any red wine in here, at least red wine that I am familiar with in scents like Hunters Moon and Tintagel. Which is a bit of a shame but after reading the other reviews I was a little worried about the "blood" smell. I like this scent a lot. I am not sure I would want to wear this every day because it's so amazingly unique and dark, but I definitely am loving this.

I adore this scent. I don't want to repeat what's been said here so many times, but it really captures the description perfectly: dried roses, earth, moss, yum. For me I think of New Orleans and the heavy, moist air, the Spanish moss... This is the only scent I've found so far that retains all its notes on my skin - and to make things better, it has lasting power. This is my first official Everyday Scent. I am not particularly partial to florals but the earthiness in this makes it perfect to wear. It's not ROSE! and it's not potting soil, but something totally in between. I think what is best about this is that it's not too "weird" to wear every day. For some of my favorite blends sometimes I worry people I walk by will give me a quick whiff and wonder what the heck is going on because they don't have the time to discern all the notes. But Zombi is rose - which everyone knows - but with a darker twist to it that makes it so much more appealing. Bravo, Beth! I've never been turned onto a floral scent before, and this is one unexpected scent that won me over.

This is my first review because I generally don't have anything to say that a hundred other people haven't said, but I loved this scent so much I think it deserves it. Plus I saw before I received this that it didn't work for most peope, and I was nervous. But I wanted to confirm that for at least a few folks like me, it works. I loved this as soon as I saw it on the website. I knew I had to order it, and I was so glad I did. It smells just like someone described it earlier: Warm, woody, but like a mahogany table in a cozy room with firelight dancing off it, with a chess set and perhaps a glass of red wine. Not so much like sticking your head into a cabinet! I don't really smell the cough syrup cherry that people are smelling, mainly notes of wood, berry, and vanilla. On my skin it turns to a sultry wood scent laced with vanilla around the edges. I wish the cherry and currant would stay, but they don't. I discovered today that when I streak the imp wand in my hair ALL of the notes remain! Yay! I might be doing that from now on until I incorporate this into a bottle of hand lotion. I am in love with this scent. It is so mature, so womanly, and so unique. I ordered a 10 ml of this, even though I have two imps to go. I know I'll find some more uses for this, even if it drives my husband crazy.