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Prototype: no scent description. I wasn't sure whether to post this in the Copper I thread, but it clearly says "Copper VI" on the label. Anyway, thanks to someone BRILLIANT, I got a bottle of this from DD. A couple friends and I sniff-tested it, and here's what we thought: There's almost an alcohol note in here, like something mixed with ginger ale, along with a citrus and - one of my favorites- black pepper! I haven't skin-tested this yet (I'm on meds that might change my skin chem), but I'm so excited to. This blend reminds me really strongly of something - I'm just not sure what. It's great, though.

This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite BPAL scents. On me, it smells exactly like Red Hots candy. Warm and spicy, but a little sweet too. It just makes me happy inside. And maybe a little frisky.

I got my bottle of Gluhwein, and smelled exactly what everyone else is describing: hot red wine. Not hot as in spicy, but hot like it's been warmed. It's an amazing smell. Unfortunately for me, I knew my godmother would absolutely LOVE it... so I didn't test it on myself, but gave it to her as her Christmas gift. She was ecstatic.

You can go through google spreadsheets to put yours online! I just figured that out. Mine's in my signature.

DCLXXIV (674) In the bottle this is all oranges and cloves - a wonderful, warm, tart and spice scent. Sadly enough, when I put this on my skin et the orange, but the clove stays behind and is still lovely. Eventually the orange comes back, but the clove has good throw and the orange stays close to the skin. Deeelish! I got this from another forumite, and I'm so grateful to them! Previously reviewed by GirlInDenial.

I said earlier in the SW list that I'd make a list of the About Face eyeshadows I liked from the Shespace, so here it is. Here they are, in order as you look down her complete list on the site: - Killer Bees (i'm covered in bees!) - Bright Outlook - Aphrodite Screams - Fire and Brimstone - Looked and Leaped - Acid Reign - Far too fabulous - Euphoric Madness - Pinch of Magic - Twisted Psychic - Firecracker - Powder Burn - Kitty Cat - Root of Evil - Art of Noise - Mesh and Lace - Tear Jerk - Reap and Sew - Moral Enemy so, yeah. There it is! Loads of fun colors.

Eisheth smells wonderful in the imp. I'm pretty sure it would smell wonderful on me too, but... well... it disappeared as soon as I put it on. If I put my nose real close to my arm and snort like crazy, I still get a whiff of deliciousness, but I have to literally place my nose on my arm.

Daiyu smells amazing in the imp, and just as good on me, which is fantastic because the other grindhouse gals seem to dislike me. The acai berry is definitely the strongest note (which I like 'cause I'm a fruit sort of person), but everything else rounds it out very nicely. I loves it.

This is a very woody, herbal, floral scent on me, which I thought was odd, because I was expecting it to be all orangey and delicious. It's very refreshing and clean-smelling, but it's not for me.

From the notes, I would have assumed that this would be my favorite of the Grindhouse ladies. Unfortunately, it's not. It smells like fruits, yeah, but fruits layered on something rotten. It's the patchouli and frankincense, I guess. Even sniffing the bit on my arm makes my head hurt and my stomach roil.

Oh, sunblock.... sadface. It smelled so good in the imp, but as soon as it went on, it was a fakey lilac sunscreen. I can barely stand it on myself. I'm going to have to wash it off.

This is a great blend. It goes on nice, strong and fruity. For about 10-15 minutes there's an odd note I'm not particularly thrilled with - I'm assuming it's the oak and the leather. It only lasts another ten minutes or so, and then it's back to the fruity deliciousness. This has great throw on me and lasts several hours, which doesn't happen for almost any other blend. Other than those couple odd minutes, I love it.

I didn't even order this bottle, because I saw the notes and thought "there's no WAY I'll be interested in that". I got frimped the empty bottle of it from my decant circle and it's so incredibly interesting that I don't really know what to do abotu it. I know I want at least one imp, but do I want a bottle? Who knows? The upshot is that this is, like someone else said, all green and spice mixed and mingled together. I can't really separate out any of the ingredients (noob is me) but it's something that I just want to sniff over and over until I figure it out.

I've been thinking lately that I really want to try a number of the TALs, and I know a number of people on the SwitchWitch boards do too. So this is just a note to myself to consider running one. TALs I'd offer decants of: Caliph's Beloved Charisma Block Buster/Road Opener Aunt Caroline's Money Draw Brass Balls Nine Muses So they'd be 5.50 per imp maximum, to go with the lab's price cap thingie (although maybe just $5 sounds better). It looks like I could only order 4 bottles... hmm. This is hard to start out with. But there'd be 5 slots for each TAL bottle. Which is exactly the price of the bottle. That sounds nice, 'cause I don't want to screw anyone, but at the same time, I'd have to buy all the decanting supplies and shiz.... Maybe I'll just put this on the backburner for now.

I was nervous to try this scent, as I've heard a lot of people say that vetiver can be tricksy and overwhelming, and I tend to really dislike the smell of tobacco. Luckily for me, I got a fruity but incredibly spicy and complex blend from Three Gorgons. I bought this as a partial, but I may add a bottle of it to my next order!

So. I started out with BPAL the same way I think of all perfumes: foods. Fruits. Nummy. It's the way I've always been with perfumes- I hate florals, I hate musky stuff. I'd rather smell like a meal then smell like perfume. So when I began collecting, I started with the same things. I picked up anything that I thought had a dominant fruit note, and avoided anything else like the plague. Here's the weird thing though: I've been finding (through frimps. Hooray frimps!) that there is stuff that is NOT a foody scent predominantly that I love. Like La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente. Myrtle? Rose? WTF, I HATE rose! And yet I love this scent. It's fabulous. Or Blood Countess. Yeah, it's got plum and berries, but there's opium! and rose! and lilac! Crap, I thought I hated florals? Also, there's foody scents that I've discovered I don't like. Wow. Like 13. I've got a bottle of it, but it's so bitter and yuk - like a bar of chocolate that sat out on the counter for a month and is now all dessicated and gross. Every single ingredient in there sounded delicious, and I just can't wear it. What a shame. And then there's Ventriloquist's Dummy - there's supposed to be apricot in there, but I can't even stand the smell in the bottle enough to try it out on me. But then, there's the obvious: I LOVE Titania. Love. and I love Yemaya, and Fruit Moon.... It's just neat to see the other notes in there that I could have sworn I hated.

In the bottle, this is all sweetness and pop - it reminds me more of champagne then white wine, to be honest. And the scent keeps going once I put it on, and stays deliciously the same, a nice fruity tart bubbly smell. This one lasted the longest of all the scents I've tried. I immediately sought a bottle.

In the bottle: sharp and fruity. Wet: same. Delicious! Drydown - 1.5 hours: an interesting smell. Very sharp and sour... to be honest the real scent memory I get is of the sour apple BubbleYum gum. It's deliciously sour and fruity. 1.5 hours on: a little more mellow. But still delicious! Throw: you know, after all the scents I've tried, I think that my skin just EATS them. I haven't tried anything that has a real good throw, so that might just be me. Result: Totally bottleworthy. I love it.

I got a bottle based entirely on the fact that there was tangerine in the blends. Unfortunately, I opened the bottle to sniff and it was insta-headache. I think I blame the vetiver. It just smells... dirty. And not in a good, clean, dirt way - in that "moldy used book with pounds of dust on" way. I couldn't even bring myself to try it on. I wanted to like all the Lovecraft scents... but I fear it is not to be.

I'm very definitely a fruit smell lover, so this would have been perfect for me - and it is, in the sense that I love the way it smells both wet and on me. The only problem here is that it doesn't have much throw, and that it fades so gosh darn fast! I'm afraid to wear it for a whole day, since I'd have to reapply it so often I'd run out, and then where would I be? I'd be Fruit Moon-less! I wish that this had better throw and staying power, I'd wear it every day.

I purchased this on a recommendation from someone on the LiveJournal forums whom I'd told that I loved fruit and foody smells. When I looked at the ingredients (after I'd purchased it, of course, since I'm practical that way), I went "PEONY? EW. Bamboo? Willow? WTF? I hate these floral smell things!" Luckily for me, none of those came to the immediate forefront - they all blended really well to create a scent that I can't really define, except to say YUM. Now that I have it, it's the one scent that I can count on to consistently smell BEAUTIFUL on me, and I've gotten a number of compliments from coworkers (including those who routinely complain about others wearing too much perfume). All I want is MORE. More bottles! What will I do when I run out of this? The throw isn't wonderful, but the scent is great - smooth, mellow, and comforting. It's a very happy blend for me.

Here's another noob question. I got an imp of bella donna della mia mente. I LOVE it. LOVE LOVE LOVE. Any other recommendations? Same family scents?