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Bess didn't strike me as being boozy or smelling of wine at all... the grape in that was very herbal, sweet, and pleasant... it reminded me a lot of grapes hanging on their vines rather than grapes turned into alcohol. The only scent that I've really tried that smelled like alcohol to me exactly was Roadhouse. And it smells interestingly like cheap beer, lol. A lot of the boozy scents don't smell boozy to me... the red wine in particular smells like very tart, heavy fruit on me. The peach wine in Aglaea just smells like lovely, sweet peaches on me. The apricot brandy in Grand Guignol smells like sweet apricots on me. The Hamptons is limeade, cranberry, and a boozy edge on me. Anyhow, most of the boozy scents don't really scream "alcohol" to me... except for Roadhouse.

Wine notes often go really 'off' on my skin. They tend to smell sort of like thick, rotten, tart fruit on me. Most often though (on other people, lol), the wines just smell thickly fruity, not really boozy. I try to stear clear of the red, dark wine notes just because they're so strong on my skin, but you should definitely try a few blends just to see how the note works with your skin chemistry .

I'd been trying so hard to track down a bit of this one after reading the description. I was hoping that it would be mostly juniper, nutmeg, and black cypress. A great foresty blend. Unfortunately, it is the opposite of what I was looking for Arkham on me is Lemon Pine Sol. Cleaning products. Lemons. Not at all foresty, it's just a very sharp citrus. The only thing that I'm really picking up is the verbena, and my skin has amped it up into floor cleanser. It dries down and fades pretty quickly. So disappointing...

Golachab is one of my favorites of the Qliphoth blends. It starts off smelling peppery with a hint of something fruity in the background. I'm not sure what sort of fruit this is here, but I'm leaning towards saying it smells like plum with the tiniest hint of orange citrus. In the drydown I don't get as much pepper (drat) but I still smell that interesting fruity note and am getting a spicy, smoky incense fragrance as well. It smells warm, light and playfully sweet. I like this one a lot

My little half-decant of Mimosa was neither great nor awful on my skin. First on, it was a bit sharp and bitter... but it quickly dried down to a light floral, slightly powdery and with a hint of fruity sweetness. But it was so light that I could barely smell it, even with my nose against my wrist where I applied it. This fades *fast* on me.

Temple of the Trickster smells of lemongrass on me, but pleasant and sweet instead of sharp as it can sometimes be on my skin. It reminds me of lemonhead candies and the drydown smells exactly like LUSH's avobath bath bomb to me. It's simple and light in an airy sort of way, but I like it

This smells like a mix of earthy, powdery vetiver and sweet oranges. Strong and has a lot of throw. It doesn't smell awful, but it's not something that I'd normally wear as a perfume. Goes very powdery on me after a while. I have been wearing Blessing of Isis and using it as a room scent since my boy came back from New York. He was gone for months and I wanted something to comfort me as we went through the process of connecting with each other again. Strangely, the one day that I actually wore this when the boy came to visit, we ended up getting tangled up in an old issue of ours... rekindled an old (I don't want to call it a problem, but for lack of a better word) problem that we had. It didn't go badly though. I got weepy again and he completely softened towards me in that way where I just felt really in tune with and protected by him. At the time I really did feel like we went back a couple years with each other in terms of our emotions. Interesting.

I'm not sure what plum wine smells like exactly, but the best plum scents that I've found are Oya and Hymn to Proserpine. Hymn to Proserpine was sweeter than Oya on me, but they are both gorgeous

The smell of Aegis is herbal lavender and sharp lemon to my nose. Very unpleasant and kind of strikes me as a bitter scent.

I'm a teenager... and I wear pretty much anything, lol. And I hope that these aren't the best years of my life My teen years have been mostly about figuring out who I am and who I want to be or emulate. I try everything that I can get my hands on and am constantly trying to pinpoint exactly what a 'me' scent is (Voodoo has turned out to be that for me so far). Alice always stands out for me as the scent that I wore to all of my college orientation functions during my senior year of highschool. No other scent felt really right. I felt like Alice was a shy kind of grownup but not really sort of scent. Playful, but subdued and cautious. Which is how I was feeling. A lot of my perfume choices are about matching my moods. I only wear Underpants and a few other favorite BPALs when I'm seeing my boy, I have a few colder scents that I wear around my male friends, and I have depressed scents and happy scents and calming scents... I kind of always viewed the teenage years as a time to figure out what you want in adulthood and what works for you and what you like... and that's kind of how my approach to perfume has been. I try anything and everything, and now I'm starting to figure out what I really and truly like. If I was putting together an imp pack for a teenager or something, I would just try to pick out a wide range of scents for them to sample from different categories. /end rambling

I had such high hopes for this one, because orchid is one of the few florals that I have had good luck with. I loved the black orchid in Phantom Queen, The Premature Burial, and Shadow Witch Orchid. Unfortunately, this is much more perfumey on me than the orchid that I've come to love. I like florals that actually smell like flowers... I don't like scents that smell like floral perfume. And this is the sort of sharp, heady floral scent that makes me think of the dozens of cliche floral perfumes that line up department store shelves every day. I digress. On me... this smells like floral. Not really like the orchid note that I've come to recognize, just that nondescript floral mishmash. Perfumey and kind of metallic floral. It smells lush and slightly fruity for a second, but then morphs into that classic perfume scent that I loathe. The drydown is slightly powdery. It's not necessarily an overpowering fragrance, but it's strong enough to give me a headache. Black Orchid was a huge disappointment for me but at least there are still plenty of yummy orchid scents in the BPAL lineup that I *can* wear.

ETA: Ordered two bottles of this recently, and figured I should edit my review, because the two bottles smell nothing alike (and I bought them at the same time and they came in the same box together :/). Most of my imps and bottles of Black Lily are very pale yellow, almost clear, and smell like a vanilla-y, dark lily with hint of green stems. Somehow dark, spring-like and a perfectly wearable floral with just enough sweetness for me. When I got my recent lab order with two new bottles of Black Lily, one of them was clear and smelled as usual, and the other one is orange and smells *completely* different (honey, soapy red rose, berries and warm spices?). The orange colored version gives me a headache.

Peace is a light, rather sweet, slightly powdery lavender. Simple.

Jinx Removing seems pretty much like pure peppermint oil to me. Sort of like Lick It, only not quite as sweet. Unfortunately, I really do not like the smell of peppermint.

After having this on my wishlist for forever and a day, I finally got a chance to try it out. First on my skin, Noir was the dark and seductive fragrance of my dreams. It was all floral incense and myrrh, smoky and dark with a hint of sweetness and spicy clove in the background. Then, after about five minutes, it morphed into an unremarkable powdery scent with a horriby sharp, bitter floral at the helm. And it stayed strongly perfumey and powdery until I washed it off after an hour. I guess that the good news is that I won't have to mourn the fact that I'll probably never get more of this one, though it started off so wonderful.

Master smells completely amazing. I originally bought an imp of it for my best (timid) male friend... and when he tried it on, I was practically swooning. So then I ended up buying a bottle for my boy. It smells amazing on both of them, and really works especially well with my boy's skin chemistry. I love his natural scent, so I love that this isn't overpowering, just adds a subtle sexiness. On him it smells like misty pine and cool eucalyptus, plus a clingy, sexy, clean musk. It starts out very foresty and then dries down to that sweet heavenly musk. Cool and light and perfect. My guy friend confirmed that this was a major confidence booster for him, mainly because he got so many compliments on it from random girls when we went out. And I can't get over how well the subtle scent works on my boyfriend. Master is the kind of masculine scent that I adore and would love to wear myself, but I am content to curl up with the boy when he wears it

Hymn to Pan smells just like sweet lavender and limeade on me.

I haven't really used this one for any specific purpose yet, so this is going to just be a commentary on the scent. The smell of Foundation of Fortune is an earthy, dry, almost dusty sort of scent at first, with a spicier drydown. It's dry, earthy, and warm. The drydown does remind me a bit of the way that the red ginger singlenote smelled on my skin, kind of spicy-lemony, but still very dry and earthy. Perhaps a bit cedar-like on me as well. Not a favorite scent of mine, but not off-putting or unbearable in any way either.

Mantle of Venus smells like pure sweet clove on me, but a lighter and more wearable sort of sweet clove. It's well, sweeter, and less pungent than clove often is on me. The first time that I put this on, I was feeling really depressed because the camping trip that I'd been planning for months seemed to have fallen through, and my boy's work schedule has really picked up, so it was looking like I wouldn't see him for a while. After putting this on, my friend gave me a call and said that he got the needed time off work and the money to still go on our camping trip. My mother bought me a new tent that she found on sale. And the boy called me a few hours later to tell me that he has some free time this weekend to spend with me <3. Maybe those things are all just very pleasant coincidences, but I'm definitely in a better mood now and I'm feeling like my luck may have taken a turn for the better.

I've been using Euphony as a room scent, and I honestly don't see much of a change in anything around me. It's clean and powdery and I actually like the smell... it reminds me of the way that new houses smell, when you can actually smell the woodwork and all of the new carpet and everything. It smells new to me, but the environment is the same old drama.

This starts off smelling strongly of peppermint, but it quickly softens into something that reminds me more of spearmint and vanilla, as it isn't as sharp as peppermint usually is on me. And then after a half hour or so, this begins to smell rather cinnamony as well. It reminds me of Big Red chewing gum and mints.

Thagirion is very fruity and clean on me. At first I thought that it smelled very lemony, but the drydown was more reminiscent of sour apples. When I lived in Missouri, I spent a lot of time at our neighbor's house and they always had a line of laundry hanging up outside in the middle of a little orchard of crabapple trees. Thagirion smells just like clean laundry and crabapple trees. This isn't the sort of scent that I would normally go for, but I find myself loving this one, if only for the pleasant childhood memories

Nahemoth is interesting, though not the sort of fragrance that I'd ever really wear. I don't like musky-fruity blends, and this definitely falls into that category. At first on my skin, this one smells like amber and dark plum, which was a pleasantly sweet combination. Then it gets very musky and perfumey (the sort of musky that gives me a headache) and the fruity begins to smell like orange hard candies on me. The drydown of citrus and musk is really not a good combo for me; it has a sharpness that I'm not liking.

Mouse's Long & Sad Tale smells like a lighter and more powdery version of Monster Bait: Underpants on me. But they still have a striking similarity, especially for the first few minutes that they're on my skin.

Gamaliel smells like spicy woods in the bottle and morphs into a light herbal tea with lemon as soon as it hits my skin. After a half hour or so, this smells exactly like LUSH's Avobath ballistic. I'm not getting any of the other notes that other reviewers have mentioned... it's just a very strong lemongrass on me.