Little Bird
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The Anise Swallowtail is a creature of wide open spaces. She flies through wide open spaces, over hills and through lots abandoned by humankind, dancing among dill, parsley, fennel, and wild carrots. Bourbon vanilla, star anise, cypress, juniper berry, a drop of blood orange, and bronze fennel. Anise Swallowtail reminds me of Golden Priapus with its smooth, cool evergreen notes and lots of creamy, lightly sweet vanilla. The cypress, juniper and fennel are green, frosty, slightly herbal, and slightly camphorous, without smelling like full-on menthol or mint or anything harsh. This reminds me quite a bit of Tokyo Milk's "Arsenic" fragrance as well, especially as it dries down (that one is notes of 'absinthe, vanilla salt, cut greens and crushed fennel'). Cool, green, and lots of vanilla.
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I should love this, but I don't. It's sort of herbal and sour-metallic and reminds me of clary sage with a dusty, sharp cedar undertone. After a half hour, I can smell the vanilla and sweet, golden resin underneath the herbal, woody tones, but it's very faint and still has a strong, sour, dry, herbal quality to it.
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Sickly sweet and very baby powdery. Orris, white sandalwood and Egyptian musk all go powdery on my skin and I usually love the sweetness of orris, but it's coming off rather funky in this blend, like rotting, damp flowers covered in baby powder and dust. Clean, white musk and baby powder smelling drydown.
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Everything is well blended and swirled together. Hints of sweet plum, sharp white smoke, and patchouli that is both chocolatey and woody, with whiffs of pencil shavings and dry cedar. The oud gives off an edge of Off Deep Woods bug spray for a while in the opening. The drydown after a half hour is mostly white tobacco with smoke, powder, and dry woods. After an hour, still that powdery white tobacco and dusty wood, but I also get a weird vegetable oil smell from this.
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Super sweet honey and champagne (slightly fizzy and very boozy and sour). The sweetness is intense and cloying. The drydown doesn't change much, except something starts to turn baby powdery mixed in with all the sugary honey and boozy champagne scent. I had to scrub this one off after about a half hour because the sweetness was too much for me and I didn't care for it with that dry, powdery quality mixed in.
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First on, this is surprisingly clean smelling, like the scent of clean, chilly skin, cold marble, and the way that pine smells on a misty, foggy day. As it settles, those lovely top notes disappear and this takes on a powdery scent that makes me think of lightly vanilla scented talc dusting powder. There's a darkness underneath the powder that reminds me of the musk in Satyr, but mostly this is just incredibly powdery on my skin. I wish the clean, misty pine stuck around. 20 minutes into wear, this is all baby powder and dustiness on me.
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Heavy, dry chai spices with woodsmoke and soft, powdery sandalwood. I get no buttercream, honey or marshmallow and I was most excited for the marshmallow. I feel like the scent does need some extra sweetness and creaminess, so I wish the more gourmand notes came through. Very dry and spicy smelling on me.
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This smells very similar to regular Lemon-Scented Sticky Bat. I thought it would have more pumpkin or some pastry and spice to it, but I get zero spice and not much pumpkin or pastry feel. I did a side by side comparison of regular Bat and Pumpkin Bat and they both have the same lemonheads candy thing going on (like syrupy-sweet, hard candy lemon coated in a sour lemon shell) with Pumpkin Bat just having a kind of buttery undertone (like Jack minus the peachiness and hint of spice) and creaminess that original Bat doesn't have. I actually do prefer this one a bit, but they're not different enough for me to justify upgrading my decant to a bottle when I rarely even wear the original bottle of Bat that I own. I like fresher lemon scents or lemon cake type scents and this one is very candied.
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I was hoping for lots of clove and dragon's blood, but all I'm getting from this is intensely sweet lavender (like a lavender flavored bubblegum), Play-Doh and something that's reminding me of the sweet bubble bath that I had as a child. I get nothing spicy or resinous or incense-y. It makes me want to take a bubble bath and it feels playful and very sweet.
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I expected this to be more fresh and clean with the lavender and coconut, but there is no lavender to be found and the coconut is very sweet and slightly buttery smelling, perhaps with some extra sugary oomph from the vanilla. The hazelnut adds a toasty warmth and the sandalwood a little bit of powdery in the drydown. It does veer a little towards coconut suntan lotion smell on my skin (a little oily and waxy/plasticy), but is mostly a very sweet, warm, gourmand scent. I almost find it a little too sweet.
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Starts off with a blast of almond extract, but dries down to a soft milk chocolate and marzipan almond, which is more of that creamy, honeyed almond paste and powdered sugar scent. Not a lot of throw, but I do enjoy this one. Soft milk chocolate and honeyed almond paste.
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I'm so jealous of anyone getting cola from this (one of my favorite scents & flavors) because all I'm getting is tart, powdery, fruit-ish candy. It does remind me of Sweet Tarts and Pixie Stix with a powdery/dusty edge to it in the drydown. I'm not even getting any of the fizziness. I wish it smelled like cola or Fizzy Pop incense!
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On me, this starts off like green apple scented shampoo (slightly soapy) and dries down to mushy red apple turned Febreze air freshener. I never seem to get along with apple scents unless they're caramel apples or more tart and green. The association with cheap shampoo and sweet air freshener is just too strong for me.
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I wanted the amber, cream and tea, but all I get is the wool and dead leaves notes. The wool is dry and a little dusty/powdery and smells like freshly cleaned, soapy laundry while the dead leaves smells more like men's cologne and green leaves than dead leaves. It's fresh, clean, cold and masculine leaning rather than the cozy gourmand that I was hoping for.
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My skin holds on to spice notes and often amps them up to a screeching level. This has a super sharp cinnamon in it that irritates my skin and I don't know what is going on with the other notes. It's like cinnamon and a really sharp, sour, citrus scented household cleanser of some sort.
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Mostly this is a dusty amber and glowing, warm, perfumey scent. It doesn't read floral or fruity or gourmand to me at all. It reminds me of blends like Morocco and The Girl. Amber and warm, soft musk in a powdery, dusty, perfumey cloud with a little nondescript spiciness. Drydown has a hint of dusty, baked earth and clay scent on my skin. Maybe a hint of sultry jasmine? I only had enough in my decant to wear this once, alas.
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I think that the Fire Down Below series is one of my favorites ever from BPAL. A'Rovin, Leave Her Jonny, and Haul on the Bowline are all so wonderful and The Wellerman is like a refreshing little palette cleanser. This isn't really boozy to me at all, but I do smell a caramelized tone that makes me think of creme brulee, and then there's this freshness like sugar water and lemon zest, with a note that's like fresh cream in the drydown. Gourmand yet clean. Settles into a fresh cream and lemon zest scent after about an hour and it's really lovely.
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I should have gotten a bottle of this because I got a decant recently and I love this so much. Blood Kiss is one of my favorites and it really holds its own against the pumpkin spice. This smells like a slice of creamy pumpkin pie, crust and all, stuffed into a bottle of Blood Kiss, not just the dry, overwhelming spices that I was expecting. Blood Kiss is such a great scent with the honeyed vanilla, rich red wine and cherries, and the spicy, earthy, dark mix of vetiver and clove. It kind of gives off Samhain/Samhainophobia vibes when it's mixed with the pumpkin. A whole sexy vampire mood. If anyone has an unloved bottle of this one, I would definitely love to purchase a full bottle. So beautiful and sensual.
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Le Lethe smells like honeyed, super sweet chewing tobacco and is actually too sweet for me, but Frostbitten Le Lethe is really lovely. It's sweet, warm tobacco behind a veil of ice covered evergreens and I can smell the chill, the pine needles and the evergreen sap. It has a sharp, crisp iciness to it, almost a little mentholic. In the drydown, I can pick out the resinous, amber-y labdanum as well, which I couldn't in the original Le Lethe.
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I didn't try this until today, so it's aged and in a decant, but it smells very faint and has almost no throw. I get sweet plum candy, a hint of rose, and something slightly soapy, but it's so very light.
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Perfumey rose with dry, flaky, buttery biscuits and cold, slushy snow (like snow melting with a hint of evergreen sap - I do love bpal's snow note, but not paired the way it is here). I think that this could have been really beautiful if the Frostbitten was Snow White and not just snow note, but the combination of musky rose, stale biscuit and snow is pretty weird to my nose.
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This is sinus clearing at first. I smell it and can kind of feel it stinging all the way up into my eyes. Good old eucalyptus and a very bright, chilly mint. I also smell something lemony and sweet, which is maybe the variety of frankincense used, and it goes just a wee bit soapy and aquatic before settling into the drydown. The drydown isn't soapy on me at all, but more creamy, smooth and cool toned. I was worried about the white musk being sharp, but the musk has a creamy, mellow, cool feeling to it. Over time, this is a really pretty, chilly, clean yet sweet type of scent that makes me think of frozen ponds and snow on a quiet day. The blue musk and white mint reminds me of the discontinued blend Silence and the feeling that Silence gave me. This is very spa-like, cooling, creamy and serene and I actually think that I want a bottle of it, which is surprising because I was sure that it was going straight to my giveaway pile based on the notes list.
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This totally has that 90s Hot Topic smell with the slightly grape-y, slightly powdery, hazy, nag champa incense and dry sandalwood. I feel like I can smell the way all of their new clothing smelled with the belts, buckles and leather (fake leather?). Usually bpal's sandalwood goes to pure baby powder to my nose, but this actually smells like good sandalwood incense, especially in the drydown. Good sandalwood incense, nag champa, and Hot Topic clothing. It makes me feel very nostalgic.
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I love bpal's plum notes and still hope for a wild plum single note, but I'm loving all of the plum scents that have come out lately. The plum and fresh astringency of the tea reminds me of Velvet Void, which is another bpal that I tried and loved recently (except Velvet Void is sweeter, richer, and deeper with the resin notes). First on, the black pepper was a little too sharp, but it quickly settles under the plum tea and the woody, sweet, slightly coconutty fig scent comes out more. It winds up smelling like a lovely, creamy, fig dessert and a cup of clean, plum flavored white tea. A bit sharp, but still very good.
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Kobold Barista is a dark, dry scent, more like smelling a hint of roasted coffee beans and lots of dried spices rather than smelling like an actual drink. The spices are also a lot stronger than the coffee, especially on my skin that amps spices. It reminds me of mixing together spices to make gingerbread cookies, so mostly dried ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon. I think I can smell the cream after about a half hour, something like a hint of buttermilk in a bowl of spices with the toasty warmth of coffee beans. I actually really enjoy this layered with vanilla scents, though it isn't my favorite spice or coffee scent overall.
