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I find these to be the bpal masculine blends with strong lavender notes: Casanova: "A rakish blend of leather, anise, lavender, bergamot and amber with tonka, lemon peel and lusty patchouli." Old Scratch: "a lavender fougere with tonka, amber, rosewood and a whiff of diabolical patchouli." Wilde: "A sophisticated traditional gentleman's cologne, with just the slightest taint of patchouli's passion, tonka bean's decadence, the philanthropy of bergamot, moss' cynicism, the sharp wit of lavender, and the hopeless romantic longing of jasmine and thyme."

I could really picture you smelling like Story Time at Dark Delicacies (available at darkdel.com): "Heavy oak shelving, cracked leather bindings, incense-soaked parchment, ancient inks, baneful aromatic herbs, and crumbs of spilled sugar-glazed lemon butter cookies that have been accidentally dragged from the kiddie section of the store." Dee is my favorite for a bookish scent in the GC lineup: "His scent is soft English leather, rosewood and tonka with a hint of incense, parchment and soft woods." Maybe Jazz Funeral (for the morbid side and the musical side, and the floral gives it a romantic edge, I find): "Bittersweet bay rum, bourbon, and a host of funeral flowers with a touch of graveyard dirt, magnolia and Spanish Moss." Dragon's Bone (notes: dragon's blood resin with white sandalwood, dusty orris and crisp blondewood) or Bony Moon for a bone scent? And if you're interested in berry scents, you might want to check out Akuma, Bewitched, Blue Fire, Florence, Glasgow, Hollywood Babylon, The Jersey Devil, Red Tide, and Slippery Poppy Tincture...

Manon, some of the ones I'd recommend based on your description and fondness for Karma: *Hunger - "Evokes sheer, unadulterated carnal lust. An undeniably warm and sensual scent. Black narcissus, orange blossoms, and vanilla." *Ravenous - "An utterly feral, thoroughly rousing perfume. Red patchouli sweetened by orange blossom." *Vixen - "Lascivious, flirtatious, and vampy as hell. A true heartbreaker's perfume. The innocence of orange blossom tainted by the beguiling scents of ginger and patchouli." (and for more Karma-like orange-y scents, you might want to check out Polynesian Pop, Tweedledee, Meliai, & Jabberwocky) I like to recommend Voodoo as a sexy dance scent, and it could almost be in the same family as something like Karma (and I'm biased, as its one of my favorites, lol): *Voodoo - "A midnight scent, evoking images of flickering golden firelight reflecting off the sheen of glistening skin and the jerking shadows of bodies suffused with spiritual ecstasy. A deep, powerful, resonant blend of myrrh, patchouli, vetiver, lime, vanilla, pine, almond and clove." Also, I really like your artwork <3

I agree that this definitely seems to be in the family of Snake Oil/Snake Charmer. If I didn't know better, I would have thought that someone actually put Snake Oil on me instead of WILF, except this doesn't immediately turn to a weird dirty hair smell on my skin the way that Snake Oil does. I get lots of heated, heavy red musk, sweet & creamy vanilla, and touches of sexy, dark resins. The scent goes through a phase where I'm getting hints of a cool mint (no chocolate, though) that adds a very medicinal feel to the blend for me. But then the mint disappears after fifteen minutes and is replaced with hints of a dirty, earthy patchouli and smoke that I'm really liking. So this goes from being Snake Oil-but-better to medicinal Snake Oil to Snake Oil with a slap of patchouli and incense smoke. I like it. This also is super-strong and has tons of throw.

I was pretty hopeful for this, as I like almost all of the listed notes. The overall scent smells very muddled and cheap on me, though. It smells of sharp, chemically, drugstore floral perfume, but also is reminiscent of cheap potpourri and has a medicinal edge that turns soapy in the drydown. Everything that could go wrong here seems to turn on my skin. Sharp white floral, something that turns cloying sweet, and something that smells sharp, dry, and soapy, like dryer sheets. Blech. It's hard for me to pick out any one note here. It's a little white floral, a little musky, a little sweet berry, but mostly just bad, sharp, and soapy... I can't pick out anything like red musk, rose, or patchouli, and those are usually strong on my skin.

Polynesian Pop is my favorite fizzy scent. It's like cool creamsicles and tons of fizzy sprite on my skin.

I like this better than the previous two Wolf Moons (which were total fail on me), but I still don't really like this blend. It smells like a lot of other snow blends to me (cool, slushy, slightly sweet aquatic) with an extra bit of a dry, perfumey edge that turns slightly powdery on my skin. It's okay, but I don't see myself ever really wearing this.

Very fizzy champagne with that sour/pukey edge that turns me off from these scents. As it dries down, I get a strawberry candy smell along with the boozy qualities, and a bit of a soapy edge. And after fifteen minutes, there's just a hint of a clean smell left on my skin. This one fades super-fast on me.

This starts off as fizz and a hint of clean apple and quickly dries down to dry laundry soap powder and a hint of floral-y apple. Soapy and not so much on the apple or cider... this one only lasts about a half hour on my skin as well.

I don't seem to really get along well with bpal's champagne note. I think that this is the only "Champagne and-" scent that has even come close to working on me, though. This starts off as mostly fizzy, slightly sour champagne on me, and then goes through a stage of dry cakiness and buttery vanilla with hints of fizz, and then dries down to a faint booze and cleansers smell on my skin. It only lasts about an hour on me, though I do like its foodier stages. I don't need to track down more of this, but I might keep my decant and see if it gets any foodier with aging.

The labels are the same as the pics posted for them on their sale page on the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab site. I can't take pictures at the moment, but all of the bottles I have from that series have the black & white sketch type images from the site and then a bit of pink and black text.

As usual, I really like this room spray. I'm a huge fan of bptp room sprays and love that they do incense, leather, and more exotic type scents that are harder to find in a room fragrance from other companies. I also love that the scents are a lot stronger and longer lasting than the ones that I get from places like Bath & Body Works. My first thought with Villa Diodati was "Old Spice." It smells masculine-spicy, a bit perfumey, and a bit of dry woods, which is all very warm and cozy to me. It goes through a phase where it smells so much like dusty wood (but in a good way, somehow) and sweet incense that I feel like I'm strolling through an ancient church temple. This is more spicy and somehow more bright & sunny smelling than a lot of the incense/woods scents that I already have from bptp. If this were released, I would buy some for sure, most likely to spray on my husband's shoes and jackets. <3

I'm sososo happy that Holiday Stress Relief was put in a more affordable massage oil form this year. The massage oil is strong on me, somehow even stronger than the perfume oil version. I can wear this as a perfume and it lasts for about six hours and has decent throw, which makes me insanely happy, because I love this scent. Oddly, I get a little more lavender and amber from the bath oil, and this smells a bit smoother and not as geranium heavy on me as the perfume oil. It's still mostly geranium, just not quite as intense somehow, a bit sweeter and softer. The mint adds a bit of sweetness to the spicy herbal geranium and the lavender smooths out the edges. So pretty and calming <3. I'm very glad to have a bottle of this and wonder if I should have ordered two or three... ETA: It is a good thing that I didn't order backup bottles of this, because this went off and very sour before I could use up the whole thing (which didn't happen with the perfume oil version). I wound up pitching the rest of the bottle.

I'm really surprised that I haven't reviewed this yet, as it's been one of my favorite soothing scents for a while now. It looks like I've just reviewed the bath oil so far, though. This perfume oil smells like the Holiday Stress Relief bath oil, except I get hints of the lavender and amber from the bath oil and this is more powdery, sweet spearmint and tons of rose geranium all the time <3. I normally don't like mint or herbal blends, but something about this is just sooo calming and dreamy. I love the geranium's spicy green smell, and its softened perfectly by the sweetness of the mint. Smelling this is like an instant spa visit...

I think that this scent is really masculine, wild, and sexy. It conjures up images of cowboys, old wooden saloons, and chases on horseback through shadowy pine forests. There's a delicious mix here that smells like spicy black pepper and sweet cola to me, over the dry woods (kinda like cedar chips) and a tiny hint of sweet pine that keeps it from smelling too dry to me. It's foresty, spicy, masculine, and just sweet and warm enough for me to really love it. I love masculine type room scents, and this one is swoon-worthy for me <3.

My first thought when I sprayed this was, "Sephora!" This smells exactly like the scent that I always pick up on when I walk into a Sephora store. It's like expensive, perfumey musks, sweet and delicate powders, and whispers of sweet vanillas twisting through everything. The husband and I are staying in a large-ish bedroom at my in-laws' house while our new home is being built, and one little spritz of this filled the whole room with tons of glorious scent that has lasted over 16 hours now. I was amused when my husband got home last night, walked into our room, and instantly said, "Why does our room smell like Sephora? What did you order?" Sephora makes him nervous, lol. Anyhow. This stuff is amazing. I'd have a hard time picking just one bptp room spray if I could only have one, but this one would definitely be in the running for most favorite. It smells so expensive, classy, and vanilla-y. This is going to be one that I spray on my shoes and jackets quite a bit. :love!:

This bath oil is just a heavenly, foodie dream. I love the scent so much that I keep dabbing it on as a perfume (the scent is really strong and has tons of throw at first, and lasts for a couple hours that way). It really does smell like sweet, crumbly cookies, oodles of creamy white chocolate, and a hint of mellow fruitiness that makes me think of cherry. I was worried about the fruity parts being too sweet or too tart, but it's a subdued, cheerful, creamy scent overall. I get a hint of a hard candy feel at first, but it never smells outright minty to me. In the bath, this is like bathing in creamy white chocolate and swirls of cherry cream. It's almost impossible for me to be in a bad mood when I'm smelling this. My husband usually hates foodie scents and says they're buttery smelling to him, but he even liked this bath oil. Cranberry Cookie Bark actually layers really well with my all-time favorite bpal, White Chocolate & Strawberry <3. I'm very happy that I decided to just take the plunge and order a bottle of this.

I was a bit afraid of the citrus, chamomile, and ylang ylang in this (all notes that don't do well for me in perfumes), but this is mostly a beautiful, sugared carnation scent. It smells like dry, spicy carnation dipped in sugar, which I'm guessing is the vanilla bean adding some sweetness. It actually reminds me of one of my favorite trading post perfume oils - Very Slightly Haunted Dollhouse. It's also a bit reminiscent of Hod for me. I get a little burst of sweet, bright lemon at first, but it quickly mellows down into sugared carnation with hints of tart citrus giving it a bit of a cheery lift. After about an hour in my room, the lemon-y aspects have faded and it's carnation spice plus sweet, creamy vanilla. Gorgeous.

Most of the lovely orchid scents have sadly been discontinued. You might want to try some of the other tropical floral type blends - Pele, Santo Domingo, Machu Picchu, Manila...

I was hoping that this would be like Snowblind in bath oil form, but I don't get any vanilla or much sweetness from this. It smells like snow, ozone, and a hint of minty evergreen. It's clean smelling, but a bit too sharp for me.

I'm so glad that Snow White was offered in so many different products this year. It's such a perfect bath fragrance. Snow White is mostly a sweet, frosty sort of vanilla to my nose, but unique and hard to really describe. It's both clean and sweet smelling. Being able to literally bathe in it is so decadent and soothing <3. I'm really picky about oils and moisturizers. If I use the bptp bath oils in the bath, I can't get my hair or face wet, or else my face breaks out and my hair turns into a greasy mess. And I find them a bit too heavy and overpowering to use as an after shower moisturizer directly on my skin, as many people here do. I really love pouring these on to my legs before I get out of a shower though (or as a body soak in the tub with my hair up), and rinsing them off a bit before getting out. That leaves me moisturized and with a nice sheen on my legs. The scents always linger nicely as well. That said, this bath oil is awesome. I don't think that my partial bottle will last long, and I should probably stock up before this is no longer available...

I love Snow White in any form <3. The soap slice that I got of this one is more strongly scented than most of the bptp soaps I've tried. I can smell the cool, frosty, vanilla-y awesomeness that is Snow White. The soap itself has great lather. I find it to be a bit drying (but most bar soaps are drying to my skin, and it's nothing an application of lotion doesn't take care of). The scent is clean and pretty in the shower, but doesn't really linger after the bath.

:love!: I picked up a bottle of The Waltz of the Flowers from the sale forum here, just because I liked the label. I wasn't expecting much, because I don't usually like florals, and jasmine tends to be especially awful on me. But wow... this scent is amazing on me. I slathered this on when it came in the mail and didn't remember too much about the notes. I thought that it smelled like the most gorgeous, soft, honeyed, creamy lily note ever with hints of clove warming it up and a sweet vanilla edge, all wrapped up in a clean, girly dusting powder. It's a dreamy, realistic, non-soapy lily. I don't pick up on anything like bpal's usual jasmine notes, though I can see the similarity to LUSH's Alkmaar/Silky Underwear scent. I just can't even begin to explain how pretty and decadent this smells to me. It's like sweet bubble baths, old hollywood glam, decadent dusting powder... it smells expensive and feminine, but still youthful and innocent to me as well. And my husband kept complimenting me on my perfume choice all night <3. I need more bottles of this for sure. I think that this is actually my favorite of the 2010 Yule blends.

Like the released version of Apothecary, this scent is really light and fades quickly on my skin. This scent has the green feel that I always expected to get from the released Apothecary. I get green herbs, maybe some citrussy tea, and a background of soapy, dry, floral laundry sheets. It dries down quickly to just a barely there, green, soapy smell.

The released Hua Mulan is a clean, slightly soapy white floral + a bit of sugar on my skin, and this is more of a clean, slightly soapy white floral + touch of citrus (kinda lemony). It's slightly less sweet & delicate and more fresh smelling & heavily floral on me.