Little Bird
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This smelled harsh in the bottle when I first got it, so I set it aside for a few weeks. Now it reminds me of a black tea that I own that's scented/flavored with bergamot oil. It smells like the dry tea, a little smoky, slightly bitter and very citrusy-lemony with only a teensy hint of dusty leather. After two hours of wear, all of that has disappeared and I'm left with a dry, spicy, sweet clove single note. I love clove, so that works for me.
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Hymn is one of my Yule loves. It smells like sweet wildflower honey drizzled into chilled cream (the cream is sweet, but also cool and fresh smelling to me). I actually don't think that this smells buttery. You definitely won't smell like you rolled around with a stick of butter or anything. The honey and refreshing cream are much more prominent to me. It makes me think of big, fuzzy bumblebees and makes me wish for summer and for things to go back to normal...
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Sweet Potato Musk
Little Bird replied to Ina Garten Davita's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
Purchased a bottle of this with the 2019 Yules and I actually do think that it smells like sweet potato pie. It's mashed sweet potatoes (slightly earthy-vegetal), whipped and soft, filled through with cinnamon sugar, and topped off with fluffy marshmallow cream and maybe walnuts? The cinnamon burns my skin where applied, so it'll be a scent for the ends of my hair or smudged on to the sleeves of jackets, but I love how soft and sweet the cinnamon in this is. It smells very cuddly, even while being skin burny, lol. -
Shub-Niggurath is my favorite gingerbread scent. This is more dry and spicy, like burnt gingerbread cookies that have been dusted with cinnamon sugar. First on, it reminds me of the cinnamon potpourri that my grandma used to have, and then it dries down to a much more sugary scent. The cotton candy, I think, is giving me that burnt sugar impression, but it doesn't smell like pink, fluffy cotton candy to me. It's burnt gingerbread cookies with caramelized, burnt sugar and a dusting of cinnamon.
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My guilty pleasure is a caramel latte and this does remind me of drinking a latte, so I must pick up on the hint of coffee in here somewhere, but it is hiding underneath a whole lot of butterscotch. This is intensely STRONG, long lasting, and smells like butterscotch amped up into a beast mode type of scent. It doesn't remind me of Werther's hard candy type butterscotch, but something like the butterscotch flavored syrup you'd use on ice cream or, I suppose, in lattes. It is so intensely sweet that it's kind of hard for me to wear, but I do notice this smelling more creamy and mellow as the months go by.
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Bpal makes the most realistic cheesecake and the most realistic eggnog scents; I love having a mix of both in one delightful bottle. I love the creamy, sweet, custard-y smell of eggnog, but most companies' eggnog fragrances are loaded with cinnamon and just smell spicy. Bpal's eggnog doesn't have that spiciness and smells like real egg nog. The cheesecake is vanilla-y and actually has that cream cheese tang with a little bit of buttery graham cracker crust. It truly smells like you're sitting in front of a vanilla cheesecake and just dumped a gallon of eggnog on it. Gourmand heaven. If you like vanilla gourmands, you need this.
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This was the first Yule scent that I added to my cart and it does not disappoint in any way. The description just sounded so unbelievably pretty, and the scent lives up to the description. I don't have the greatest track record with bpal's jasmine (often going soapy or very sharp on my skin), but this one smells just like the jasmine bushes in my yard. It smells sweet and almost like honeysuckle, but more sensual and heady. Then the vanilla foam smells like a non-soapy aquatic and sweet, creamy vanilla. After a couple months of aging, I love this even more, and I get lots of the vanilla and jasmine with this clean, but not soapy undertone that makes it feel so refreshing. It feels like wearing sunshine and being outside and it's so beautiful.
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This reminds me quite a bit of O, but I think I prefer O, because Honey Cakes turns rather powdery on me in the drydown. Like a brighter, more light gold toned amber and thick, sweet honey (reminds me of those bear shaped bottles of honey) that's been dusted with baby powder and some dusty, warm incense. I don't get much of a cake or baked goods impression from it, other than it being a warm scent. The incense comes out more over the hours and I do enjoy that part, where it's almost earthy and like dusty temple incense. I made a friend smell Honey Cakes on me and they told me, "You smell like fancy hand soaps in a fancy restroom." I have no idea where that's coming from.
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I like this better than regular TKO, which often feels a bit too sweet for me (like lavender syrup, sweet vanilla and cotton candy). Snow White / Frostbitten is sweet and vanilla-y itself, but it actually tones down the vanilla sugar sweetness of TKO by adding this cool, creamy layer to it. It feels more light and airy with the Frostbitten part. Even more cool toned and calming.
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Alice and Snow White are two of my favorite bpal fragrances. Snow White smells like super creamy, chilly, vanilla magic with the chilled green stems from a florist's fridge. Alice is deliciously spiced carnation (close to the scent of a bouquet of real carnations, but just a tad warmer and spicier) with honey, cream, and cup of warm, mild tea. Frostbitten Alice is all the beauty of the original Alice, but with a veil of chilly vanilla and a hint of green, cold stem. Throughout the day, I get more Alice or more Snow White, and back and forth, but one never completely overwhelms the other. A beautiful, creamy, gourmand floral. I was worried the Frostbitten part would be minty, but there is zero mint (yay!). This is one of my favorite Yules ever.
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Patchouli and chocolate are a match made in heaven and one of my all time favorite combos. Patchouli notes often have a chocolatey sweetness to them and chocolate itself tends to have an earthy quality to it, so I always find that they blend together very seamlessly. The earthy, patchouli part in this reminds me of scaling up creekbeds in Missouri, hanging on to tree roots and smelling clay-rich soil. Earthy and rooty, but also warm and super snuggly thanks to the creamy sweetness of the chocolate and dusting of cocoa powder. The chocolate and patchouli are evenly matched. Of all of the lovely Luper hair glosses, this is the one that I will likely hoard multiple backups of.
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This is so good and hoard-worthy. It smells like rich, fudgy brownies that are fresh from the oven and still sort of gooey in the middle. It has a really wonderful, realistic, baked chocolate scent. I was worried that the butterscotch would be too loud and sweet (I'm looking at you, Butterscotch Latte), but it is a well behaved, sweet, creamy hint over the brownies. It's nice and slightly vanillic here, like a pan of warm, gooey brownies with a butterscotch and vanilla cream drizzle. After an hour, it has more of a sugary scent to it, like butterscotch hard candies and brownies. Very sweet and perfect for someone who likes rich gourmands.
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Wild Cherry Chypre and Smoky Patchouli Hair Gloss
Little Bird replied to zankoku_zen's topic in Hair
Cherry is a least favorite note for me (except in Solstice Scents' blends where I seem to adore all of their cherry fragrances), but I absolutely adored bpal's recent "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary," which is the best, most realistic, juicy, dark, tart cherry and deep, dark patchouli incense with a slight smokiness. Wild Cherry Chypre & Smoky Patchouli hg is basically that blend's hair gloss counterpart for me. Sexy, black patchouli with a non-sharp, non-acrid, sweet incense smokiness and a hint of tart, dark cherry sweetness. It reminds me quite a bit of the Raven Black hg as well (one of my other favorites), like a goths at Hot Topic sort of scent. Deep, dark, sensual patchouli incense sweetened lightly with a dark cherry. I love this so much. -
I think I was expecting a darker fragrance, but this is very much lavender-forward on my skin. It's a slightly soapy, bright, clean, lavender cologne type of scent. Sort of white musky smelling on my skin for some reason. I never can pick out the darker notes or resins.
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I don't tend to enjoy cherry fragrances (too sweet and syrupy, or reminds me of cough syrup), but I adore patchouli, and this is a perfect mix of both elements for me. The patchouli smells really deep and dark, like black patchouli incense with that sticky, earthy tone and a slight smokiness that's sensual rather than sharp or gritty. It's so sexy and so good and it warms the gothic parts of my heart. If you love patchouli, you really should not pass this one by. The cherry is noticeable on me throughout the day, but it's this tart, juicy, black cherry dribble around the edges of the patchouli. It really reminds me of biting into a juicy, firm, dark cherry. Reminds me of black patchouli incense and the strappy black leather outfits that I used to wear back in the day. The touch of dark cherry adds just enough sweetness to make me fall absolutely in love.
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Snake Oil with orris, white frankincense, and black copal. My original, short review for King Cobra: "On me, King Cobra smells like someone removed the sweet parts of Snake Oil and added in some woodsmoke where the vanilla sweetness would have been. It smells like some sort of dark musk & wood smoke, and it's just too sharp and acrid for my tastes." Aged after several years, it's mostly sweet, powdery orris and Snake Oil vanilla with hints of woodsmoke. Aged, it seems like a lot of the Snake Pit blends have become more vanilla-y. I digress. This new version doesn't smell like orris, frankincense or copal to me. It smells like a very clean, perfumey, chemical musk. If I didn't know what I was wearing, I would have guessed some sort of white musk single note. I would never pick out the frankincense or copal. As it dries down, it's the same, but I'm noticing the smokiness of Snake Oil and some powdery vanilla. It's a cleaner, muskier Snake Oil to my nose. I'm very curious to read other reviews of these.
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I usually don't go for fragrances that are this outright floral, but I actually like all the floral notes listed for this, because they tend to be sweeter flower scents. It's mostly a beautiful, creamy, honeyed lilac in my hair, with hints of peach candy, sweet rose, and tropical plumeria that swirl in and out of the lilac. It's sweet and playful, and it makes me think of springtime. Like wearing a crown of beautiful flowers.
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Now that my hair is down to my waist, I find that I am loving the hair glosses for the dryer ends of my hair. I also love the lab's black musk, and it's featured prominently in this blend. It smells deep, warm and darkly resinous, with a powdery undertone that makes me think of crushed incense cones. Sort of like black amber and incense with a hint of cologne and a whisper of leather. The black tea smells warm and a little clean, and the creamy, honeyed-vanilla tonka and hint of black licorice add a fun, sweet edge. Sexy black musk and warm, sweetened, black licorice tea.
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Bpal's plum and black currant notes are just so good. The plum is juicy and slightly creamy smelling, and the black currant reminds me of sweet berry jam. I'm not crazy about mint + fruit and wish I could get rid of the mint, as minty fruit will inevitably remind me of cough drops. As it dries down, the red currant gives things more of a tart, sour edge. If you like candied fruit scents, though, this one is really fun. It's like a handful of exotic gummis (maybe wine gums!) with some mints thrown in.
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I was trying to talk myself out of buying a bottle of this because I own so many chocolate scents already, but this really smells like chocolate lava cake or brownies that are purposely underbaked so that they are still gooey on the inside (my favorite!). Warm, cake-y, fudgey chocolate that lasts all day on my skin. It does remind me of Chad a bit, but Chad has more of a caramelized edge to it (like fully cooked brownies with a swirl of caramel on top) and this has more of a creamy, pure, gooey chocolatey feel to it on my skin, if that makes sense. In any case, you can never have too many chocolate fragrances.
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The Dorian and Snake Oil are hard for me to pick out in this one. The lavender is a little on the herbal side, but still creamy and pleasantly cool smelling, and I love how the other notes sweeten it up and make it into an unusual gourmand-ish blend. The beeswax is sweet and golden and the vanilla and popcorn meld together into a milky caramel type of scent on my skin. The buttery quality smells more like a fancy dessert on my skin than movie theater popcorn. I'm always interested in recipes that work flowers into desserts and this is like a fancy lavender dessert with vanilla-caramel custard and a dusting of honey powder. Then there's a sort of dark, spicy muskiness from the Snake Oil and a dry, dark woodiness from the oak that keep it from being fullout gourmand on my skin. Very complex and unusual, in a good way.
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Starts off as moist and warm from the oven chocolate cake and then dries down to smell like a frosted chocolate cake with oodles of real buttercream frosting made simply with icing sugar and butter. After a half hour, I can smell more of the coconut cream, and it gets stronger on my skin over time. Buttercream frosting flavored with coconut and a hint of the chocolate cake underneath. Sort of like an extra coconutty German chocolate cake with a very generous heap of frosting. I don't find that the coconut smells too artificial or reminiscent of suntan lotion on my skin, so I like this one.
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Dark Chocolate, Black Carnation, Myrrh, White Sage, and Plum Atmosphere Spray
Little Bird posted a topic in Atmosphere
[No additional description given.] I get lots of cocoa powder and dark, sweet, glossy plum with hints of spicy, sort of black peppery carnation and dry sage. I don't love the herbal, dry sage part. I sprayed this on to some throw pillows and it quickly settled into a soft cocoa and dried herbs scent. Kept making me think of clary sage, with a bright, golden quality to the dry, herbal component. I wish the plum were stronger. -
I don't tend to like bpal's oud notes, but their 'wild plum' note is absolute heaven and I liked the other notes listed for this blend. Much to my delight, this is about 90% plum on my skin. Sweet, juicy, mellow, almost creamy, purple fruit. It's sensual and exotic, but also comforting and familiar. The other 10% is hints of dry, earthy, gritty tobacco, dry wood and slight smokiness, and what smells like black pepper. Dries down to plum on a dry, woody base.
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Apple can easily be too much for me (too clean or downright soapy, too tart, too reminiscent of cheap air freshener), but I'm really enjoying this one. It does smell sweet and like it has been sprinkled with sparkly, crunchy sugar, and it has a deep red, glowing sort of feel to it, like the prettiest apple skins. I agree that it has a hint of something like rose jam to it. Very sweet and juicy with that natural, rose-like hint that real, ripe apples have. This starts off very strong on me for about 2 hours and then suddenly starts to disappear and is gone by the 3 hour mark. Worth reapplying, though. I'd say this is my favorite bpal apple after the LE Sugar-Slathered Candied Apple. It smells like real apple with nothing off about it, just sprinkled with sugar.