Little Bird

I like the released version of this a lot more than the prototype. The released version is more complex on my skin and I get a definite cake & cocoa smell from it. The prototype is pretty much all spices on my skin, like cinnamon, sugar, and more cinnamon. It makes me smell like red hots candies, which I don't really enjoy.

I love gardenia, but I don't get a strong gardenia feel from this. It's definitely floral, but gardenia is usually creamy, sweet floral on me, and this is very sharp, perfumey, chemical white floral. It smells cheap and heavy, and reminds me of the lab's iris note...

A lot of bpal's limited edition leather blends tend to smell a bit softer and sweeter to me than the GC leather blends. The Traveller was a more recent LE that smelled like soft, well worn leather. Dee is a softer, sweeter leather that's in the GC. Iago and De Sade are both pretty dark, intense, and masculine, I think, so you might want to try some of the more complex and feminine leather blends, like Liz or Tezcatlipoca.

Underworld Cup Bottles. There's the four o' them. The labels are the same as the mini images on the Post site. I love the Frostberry Pie Filling and its "black ribbon award" label <3.

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This scent is spa-like and kinda medicinal smelling on me (probably thanks to the menthol/eucalyptus smell that I'm getting). I get lavender, minty menthol, and some sort of greenery that smells very fresh and clean on my skin. The drydown is rather sweet lavender. It has a soothing, calming sort of feel to it. I like this and might keep my partial decant, but I'm not sure if it's a scent that I'd wear as a perfume. I might want to smell a drop of this every once in a while though.

I get a dark, slightly smoky leather from this and what smells like a very dry, dusty, slightly sour amber on my skin. Maybe a little bit of creamy/powdery sandalwood in the drydown as well. It's okay, but I have leather scents that I like a lot more than this one.

154. This smells a lot like a stronger floral version of The Harp of Cnoc Ichosgair. Creamy, tropical, gardenia-monoi-tiare goodness and warm, dry, dusty amber.

42. I kinda love this one. At times it reminds me of the clean vanilla tea in Dorian, and then of the warm vanilla floral in Liz that's slightly powdery. But it also has a bit of a buttery, cake-y sort of vanilla tone to it and a hint of vanilla muskiness as well. It's like all of my favorite vanillas tucked into one perfume. It is really light and subtle on me, though. It doesn't have much throw and only lasts about a half hour on my skin. Still, very lovely, and it makes me wish that I'd gotten a couple bottles of vanilla chaos theory (and more than a partial decant of this one in particular, lol).

#21. In the decant vial, this smells fizzy and slightly like champagne, but sweeter and not as sour as bpal's champagne blends tend to be. On my skin, it smells so fizzy and bubbly, like a mix of sprite and spiced cola (almost smells a bit like cinnamon on me, but I know there isn't supposed to be cinnamon in any of these blends). The boozy champagne smell fades in and out. Oddly, I don't smell any frankincense, just a fun mix of sodas and alcohol. I probably won't ever wear this, but it's interesting.

In the bottle, this is an intense, perfumey, fruity-floral with a dark, smoky feel to it. On my skin, something about this smells really familiar, and I can't place it and it's driving me crazy :/. This version doesn't smell anything like the 2006 version. I really like this one. Opium is usually awful on me, but there's a very well-behaved, dark smokiness to this and none of opium's usual hairspray-esque sharpness. Mostly this is darkly resinous on me, with a dry, sweet, rich floral smell and a touch of dark smokiness. Every once in a while I can smell a hint of fruity pomegranate, but the fruitiness isn't very strong on me at all. Lotus Moon 2010 is a dark, dry, sexy, exotic, resinous floral on my skin . Gorgeous and unique. It smells like an expensive perfume without being unoriginal or sharply musky. I've been craving dark floral scents lately and have trouble finding any that appeal to me, and this is definitely something that I'll wear. I hope that I can track down more than my one decant of this'n.

I recognize the huckleberry from Jester (which kinda smells like sugarplum or watery blueberry on my skin) as the main note here, backed up by clean, breezy floral notes. As it dries down, the floral is stronger and more perfumey. I was hoping for more vanilla, acai, and candy floss, but right now all I smell is huckleberry and floral. It's pretty and kinda reminds me of The Little Bird's springy floral & berry mix, but more perfumey. I can't really pick out the rose, and rose is usually super-strong on me. This is okay, but I'm hoping that it gets better and more complex with age...

I used to see Luna moths all over when I lived in Missouri, and they're one of my favorite things ever <3. I wanted to love this scent, but it's not really Me. It's a very clean and citrussy scent that goes too sharp for my tastes. I get mostly zesty lime and clean tea, with a bit of smooth, green musk. The overall feel smells a little like lime scented dryer sheets on me in the drydown, as the citrus gets a little too sharp on my skin. It's the sort of scent that gives me a headache, so I had to scrub this one off after about an hour. I'll keep my empty bottle (love the label <3), but I think that I'll have to find a new home for my decant.

Spicebush Swallowtail is my least favorite of the Moths and Butterflies scents. It smells like someone ruined a glass of root beer by dumping cloying brown sugar and spicy clove powder into it, lol. It's cloying at first, but thankfully not as sickly sweet in the drydown. Unfortunately, the dry, sharp spiciness here makes me think of potpourri and gives me a headache after a while. I usually like clove, but the spiciness here smells like a mix of clove and sharp cinnamon potpourri on my skin, with root beer. Not good. This scent is overwhelming and headache-inducing for me

Monarch smells similar to Pumpkin V 07 on me at first. I'm happy that the pumpkin here isn't buttery at all, and that the spices aren't sharp or overwhelming. I get mostly a soft, sugared cinnamon, foodie ginger, and a dry, resinous warmth from the amber. I can smell the orange at first, but it disappears in the drydown, and then I can only smell the tiniest hint of tropical, fruity mango underneath the sugar, spice and amber. Monarch makes me wish that fall were here... for me, it's a pretty, warm, spicy, foodie/sweet fall blend with the amber grounding it and keeping it more wearable and perfume-like.

I would have guessed that there was lemongrass or verbena in this scent, because it's mostly an herbal lemon smell in the bottle and on my skin. I can't pick out any of the listed notes, except for maybe the white sugar. The drydown is all sweet, creamy, lemon candy. Lemon candy wasn't what I was expecting from this scent at all, but it's nice, simple, and pleasant. After a couple hours, it's like creamy lemon candy + the cool, vanilla-violet powder of Staged Moon Landing.

On me, this is like a summer version of Goblin, and it really does make me think of a garden full of butterflies <3. Common Jezebel is mostly warm, fuzzy, sunny apricot, with the coconut giving it a creamy edge, and the vetiver adding just a hint of earthiness. I was worried about the lemon and red currant going too sharp or sour on me, but I can't pick out either of those notes. There's a hint of something in here that smells slightly green to me (like green leaves <3), though I'm not sure what it is. The vetiver is actually very subtle on me in this scent, and it's the good, non-smoky sort of vetiver. It's just enough to keep the blend from being too fruity for me. This isn't my favorite butterfly, but I do really like it, and I'm happy to have a partial bottle.

I'm surprised at how much I love Gypsy (and I think that this is actually my favorite of the Moth scents). I usually don't get along well with Egyptian musk, but it smells more of a warm, dry amber than musk in this scent. It's like dry amber with warm, sweet, creamy vanilla and a hint of dry spiciness from the cardamom. The vanilla and sweetness get stronger in the drydown and it smells so gorgeous, warm, and exotic. Gypsy smells very much like Ambra del Nepal on my skin (notes of amber, vanilla, and cardamom), and like Arcana's Nepalese Amber layering note. I'm very happy to have a bottle of this vanilla-y goodness, and might pick up a second bottle. It has decent throw and staying power on me too

Paper Kite is my favorite of the Butterfly scents <3. It's mostly a cool, sweet, coconut cream on my skin, with a touch of clean floral and a little sharpness from the black pepper that keeps it from being too sweet. I just love the coconut here. It somehow smells chilled and so refreshing and pretty, and it's sweet without being cloying or too heavy. Love it. It smells simple on me, but really beautiful. I'll wear this one a lot over the summer.

Obscene, lewd, lascivious, and decidedly objectionable. A filthy, post-coitus scent: sweaty and sweet, laced with laudanum, splashed with booze, and stained by tobacco. In the bottle, this sort of reminds me of Sara Pezzini. It smells like clean musk, honeyed sweetness, and sweet booze. On my skin... I love this. I don't usually like tobacco or smoky notes, but this is a sweet tobacco with a hint of sexy smokiness that almost reminds me of the slight smokiness that I get from some black leather notes. I also still get that honeyed impression, and it makes me think of honey flavored dusting powders on clean skin. I was a little worried about the booziness in the bottle, but it doesn't smell alcoholic at all on my skin. It still reminds me of Sara Pezzini, but this is a little naughtier, warmer, and smokier smelling. As it dries down, it starts to remind me more of a sweeter, warmer, sexier Dee. So, on me, this smells mostly like warm, sweet, smoky tobacco with clean skin, honey powder, and leather. Verrry sexy and I think I'll get another bottle of this one.

Hopefully this is the right place to post this... I have multiple bottles of both Inez and Priala. My older bottles don't really smell much at all like the new bottles that I ordered (and I've ordered them all directly from the lab). Old Inez is sweeter and warmer and the new Inez has a weird, sharp, musky, almost masculine thing going that I've never smelled in the earlier bottles. My older bottles of Priala have always smelled resinous and spicy, and the new bottle smells like it has vetiver in it. It's really dark, earthy, and smoky. The oil colors of the old vs new bottles also aren't quite the same. Were these scents reformulated at some point?

I've tried wearing this a couple times since I got it, and it's always a bit different, but never very good on me. I usually like the lab's gin notes, but this doesn't smell like the fizzy, sweet, juniper-y gin that I'm used to. Something in the blend makes it sharper and more citrussy-soapy, and it reminds me of cleaning fluid at times. The first time I wore this, I got that strong, slightly soapy, cleaning fluid smell and not much else. Wearing it again today, Alana Patel smells mostly like cheap cologne (soapy-fresh and with a lemon-citrus edge), maybe a hint of gin, and a drydown that smells like a hint of dirty ash tray :/. Something about the whole thing is very sour, sharp, and off-putting on me. All in all, this is pretty bad. I usually like gin and liked the idea of "faded perfume," but this is more cheap cologne, cleaning fluid, and dirty ash tray on me...

I'm not getting the lavender or coconut that others have mentioned with this blend. This is like a dryer, sharper, cleaner, more sophisticated Dorian to me. It makes me think of dry vanilla musk and hints of clean laundry, but all wrapped up in this arrogant, well polished, cologne-like smell. I actually think that this fits the concept of Dorian even better than the released version (but I'm crazy about the released version as well). I normally don't like anything clean or sharp, but the sweetness and edge that this has keep me coming back to it again and again... The drydown on me is pure heaven and so hard to describe. I'd love this on a man or a woman.

I get the very sweet, slightly plastic-y, buttery, butterscotch note that other reviewers have mentioned. My husband instantly hated this one and said that it's too sweet and too buttery. I don't get the chocolate/cocoa smell, but this reminds me very much of Gluttony... sickly, cloying sweetness that smells like it should be in a candle rather than in a personal scent. It's like butterscotch and buttercream icing on me, but toothachingly sweet and artificial smelling, with an edge to it that smells like melted plastic on me. Ick.

This is too boozy for me. It reminds me of the sour, kinda pukey champagne note in the Champagne And blends, but the drydown is more like the lab's juniper-y gin note. I thought that it smelled a bit more citrussy than usual at first, and reading the other reviews, I guess that I can see the lime. The citrus goes sharp and a bit sour on me. It's an odd mix of fizzy, dry, and sour smelling on me. It almost smells a bit like dryer sheets, but not that soapy, and obviously very boozy. I like a lot of the lab's booze blends (especially the gin ones), but this is too much for me...