graycat

it's snow white in a carmen miranda hat!

i once bought one of those visa gift cards and wrote for bpal only on it.

i can't believe no one has mention the sweet ginger root note in this blend. it smells like lavender and ginger candy dusted with vanilla sugar. but like me tell you how will this stuff works! i sleep the whole way through the night and i almost have a hard to waking up in the morning. i put a little dab by each ear and a few drops on my pillow and i'm drooling, quite literally. it's crazy i tells ya!

forest recommended this oil to me at the last full moon will call. i was telling her how my husbands company had laid off about 300 people and sadly ryan was in the cut. she told me that this was a great oil to use in ritual and to wear (just a little) when going on interviews. my husband doesn't do any traditional ritual work or have an alter but he does do his own little rituals of visualization and positive thinking. what he did was put a little on a green candle the night before each interview, while anointing the candle he would envision the meeting going smoothly and getting the call that he got the job. he would also have me put just a dab on each of his charka points before he would go. he told me that it was extremely comforting to get a little hint of the oil while in the interview, it made him feel more confident since he associated it with positive feelings and visions of getting the job. makes sense to me! with in a week he landed himself a job, not the one he was really looking for but it's turned out to be much better than he had originally thought and his very pleased with it and in the long run i think it's going to be better and have more room to grow. as for the smell it's kinda spicy, clove and nutmeg maybe. it kinda reminders me of the comme des garcons he use to wear when we first meet. thank you forest, your the best!

okay, so i understand the pennyroyal thing but what about all the other mints? i keep seeing conflicting lists, sometimes it's on the yes list sometimes it's on the no. the other thing i haven't be able to figure out is if it is bad, why? i'm the biggest spooky fan and i even buy water with spearmint oil in it. i can't image 9 months with out....

yum, i really like this one and i'm really picky about blends that have a lot of spice/incense notes to them. i think since it has a little sweetness to it it works well. i kinda reminders me of snake oil and the year old perversion i have. actually it really smells close to perversion now that i sniffed it, i wonder if that's the tonka? my husband even walking in the room when i was opening it and asked that it was, that's a good sign. the lasting power leaves a little to be desired, oh well.....

this smells so similar to monster bait underpants in the bottle, i would think it was almost the same thing if i didn't know any better. it does change on the skin a bit as it dries down, it has a little more bite to it. i would be tempted to say it has a little cinnamon or cassia in it but since i didn't get any big crazy red spots maybe not. if i where to guess the notes i would say something boozy, something spicy (maybe this is the ginger everyone is talking about), vanilla and sandalwood for sure. it is a little on the foody side. all in all i really enjoyed this one, it didn't have super lasting power but i did get a whiff here and there through out the day.....

CCCXL (340) in the bottle i can't really pin point any thing and sadly i got it when i had a horrible head cold. i haven't had time to really sniff and dabble until now. so, with-out farther to do! in the bottle, hmm, fruity but not in the fruit punch sort of way. i'm not sure.... on the skin pear blossoms and citrus maybe? wait no! it's guava and the only reason i know that is i got to sniff the xanthe the weeping clown at the last full moon. it's interesting but i'm not really a fruity girl, i love the blossom but the guava is a little too heavy for me. off to swap...... CXXXIX (239) rose, rose and more rose. rose red rose to be exact, fresh green and not a bit of powder. that's that! i'm not a super big floral fan, so saddly this is another off to swap too........

when i first sniffed the bottle i was surprised, i expected it to be heavy on the florals since night blooms usually are quite strong but not so. on the skin it really stuck out with a nice warm nag champa smell which was quite lovely, kinda vanilla and sandalwood if you haven't had the pleasure. on the dry down the white floral did come out more but not too bad. all though i don't really jive well with the flowers i would definitely like an imp, but not a whole bottle.

wow, foody?!? this was a smell i glazed right over and then got a imp some how and just tossed it aside. so one day i decided to have a imp testing night, you know armed with a bullet box, a pen and lot's of clean skin. as i worked my way through a handful of imp i kept smelling something at kinda reminder me of the creaminess beaver moon or midway . when i got my nose on chimera i found it! creamy cinnamon but not the burny welty kind, nice!

in the bottle the gin, sweet cranberry and lime stands out nicely but it doesn't hit me as a smell i would really wear too often. yet on the skin it warms up so nicely, the gin smell, which is super juniper berry, mellows out and the sweet cranberry and lime loss all the hard acidic smell. it's not something i would buy a bottle of but i have a cocktail party coming up and i know what i'll be wearing!

in the bottle it smells almost like dr pepper and lime syrup. odd, but yummy. then on the skin, it's changes, the patchouli stays nicly in the background but it turns kinda masculine smelling on me. maybe it's the clover and myrrh doing that. it's not something i would buy a bottle of but i'll keep the imp....

She's a muse. Check under Excolo. Yep. http://www.bpal.org/index.php?showtopic=4720 odd, when i searched it on the bpal web nothing came up......

okay, calliope? i can't seen to find it anywhere, on the forum reviews of the BPAL page. what is it?

i'm so happy that beth is make more foody scents lately because i loves me some sugar and good eats! in bottle i can really smell the boozy vanilla cream but the moment it touches my skin the sandalwood shows up, sandalwood has a very nostalgia place in my heart, so i'm happy. "hello saffron, the most expensive spice in the world!" when it dries the sandalwood becomes kinda powdery and sweet. NOTE: to all you bpalers that don't do foody. don't let the smell out of the bottle scare you, try it on then decide. my husband, who's signature scent is morocco, told me he likes underpants better. i'm going to have to hide this!

wow, this smells like sitting at the counter at the buena vista cafe, the famous san francisco irish coffee house. mouth watering! but as soon as it dries it turns dusty books on me. blah! this is why i love my scent locket, it's perfect for this kinda stuff.

A sweet reward for a worthy deed: caramelized sugar and sweet cream. i too get that creme brulee from the imp, in a way it smells like misktonic a little but with a bit more milk and caramel! but like misktonic it gets that kinda dusty smelling on my skin so, thank god for the scent locket!

in the bottle it's all boozy sweet buttercream (what heaven will undoutably smell like when i die!) the second it touches my skin the blackberry comes out and shouts "who's yo daddy!" my method of with this will definitely be a dab on all my pulse points (for the blackberry) and a healthy drop in my scent locket (for the drunken buttercream).

i'm going to have to hide this one from the mister. he took one sniff and he had that gleam in his eye. the "i'm going to go through this bottle so fast and then spill the last half just as i do to all the oils i steal out of you box" look. in the bottle it does smell allot like geek. on the skin it becomes very leather scented cardamom (all most spicy carnation). i really like it and i'm not really all that into the smell of leather (being a vegetarian and all) and i don't find it overwhelming at all. the mister says it reminder him of the comme des garcons he use to wear before bpal....

i ordered a bottle for a friend that i gave frimp to, i wasn't that into it at the time but i never tried it on. i just got our order that i put a small drop on my hand to see what she has been fussing over. the blend is simple, i can pick out the ginger, orange blossom and patchouli. it's okay but as it drys down it reminds me more and more of lust but sweeter. then it take a funny turn, it get's kinda plastic/pasty smelling. dummer, i was starting to like it....

have you put it on your fingers? somethings rudding alcohol will leave a funny white mark on the pads on my fingers and the imp of pele did that to mine. if you really think you got an imp with rubbing alcohol contact the lab and let them know. i emailed the lab and told them about my imp and sarah got back to me super quickly and let me know that they have been cleaning the measuring machine out and it must not have flushed out all the alcohol when it fill the imps. hope this helps....

it smells like a yew tree, really! it does have a kinda sweetness to it too. on the skin it get's a little more mentholly and sweeter. i'm not a really into the piney smelling stuff but i think i may save this imp...

in the bottle the white sandalwood is giving me me a headache and on the skin the iris is amping it up, yicks! i can't even smell any thing else.....

wow, i can really smell the mango but not like the flesh of the mango but the skin, which has always smelled kinda pine-ish to me. the mandarin orange also smell more like peel than flesh. the white musk and sandlewood balances it out nice though. i love musk and sandalwood but add the word white in front of it and it get a little too perfumey for me.

A gentle white scent, breezes laced with the scent of springtime blooms and citrus. Lemon, lemon verbena, neroli, white musk, white florals, white sandalwood, China musk, bergamot and a drop of vanilla. i love vanilla, bergamont and citrus, i'm on the fence on verbena, white musk and white sandalwood and i can't stand white florals. the white floral note isn't too strong, the vanilla, bergamot and citrus calm it down a bit but it's still not my thing. it kinda reminds me other this lady who use to live next door to my parents when i was a child, she was a typically 80's girl going to dance school, cute, a little too thin, super cool in the eyes a of an eight year old but addicted to coke.....