Little Bird

I find this to be such a pretty, unusual fragrance. There's a lot going on, and it's vanilla-y and chocolate-y without being really gourmand or overly sweet. It smells like laying out on a green lawn on a picnic blanket in the early fall, eating squares of dark chocolate and white chocolate, and writing in a leather-bound journal. The drydown is even more soft leather, black ink, and the scent of a distant fire, with a soft, vanilla-y sweetness that weaves its way through the other notes. The smokiness picks up more and more over time, but I still love this, and the first half hour is complete magic. It makes me think of being outside in the fall, writing in leather notebooks and enjoying the cool weather. I wish I'd gotten a full bottle of this one, but I will cherish my decant.

This is like a red patchouli single note on me. I literally can't smell any of the other listed notes. It's a woody, slightly sour, slightly body odor-ish, cedar-ish patchouli. I thought that I could smell mushrooms when I first applied, but the drydown is all woody, sharp patchouli. I'm confused by the previous reviews calling this a morpher and talking about other notes, because it just falls flat on me. Scratchy, dry, sweaty, woody patchouli...

Dusty, woody, dry amber with sweet fig. Hints of clove and saffron start to dance around in the drydown. I love clove, but saffron always smells a bit strange on me (like a little citrusy and a little sour/metallic, and kind of honeyed smelling). I don't get the patchouli at all. Fades quickly into a warm, dusty wood scent with an overlay of spices. This one doesn't even last a full hour on my skin.

The red musk and wine smell like fruity, warm, deep, rich, sweet red wine, and the honey is very realistic and slightly bitter. The oudh and spices come out a lot in the drydown, with a good burst of cinnamon over a dry, woody base, and hints of cardamom. I feel like the honey is sweeter in the drydown and there's something of a dry, incensey haze, but it doesn't smell sharp like opium usually does on me. A warm, spicy, honeyed, woody scent. I like the red musk opening more than the spicy drydown, and it fades very quickly to a honeyed, sweet cinnamon on me, and disappears around the 3 hour mark.

Black musk can either be smoky and remind me of men's cologne or it has a plush, deep, dark, resinous cloud that I adore. This is the awesome, resinous, sweet black musk that makes me think of rich incense cones. Almost like a black amber note. On me, Jiaolong is like 70% black musk and 30% sweet, warm, toasty, sugared coffee. Gourmand-but-not. A little powdery and vanilla-like on me in the drydown. Black incense/resins, vanilla and warm, sweet coffee.

Mint must amp up on me, because all I'm getting is the vanilla mint, and that's mostly peppermint with a hint of vanilla. Smells like the Lick It series of fragrances. I get nothing of the other notes

I don't get cardamom or black currant at all. This is a nutty, woody, earthy type scent with what smells like balloon rubber (like when you stretch out a rubber balloon to blow it up) and burnt tire rubber. Not a fan of this one at all.

First on, this reminds me of Chrysanthemum Moon's dry, golden floral with swirls of clean, slightly soapy opium (is that the champaca giving off that impression). I also smell an herbal and slightly bitter honey note. Dries down to a pretty spectacular golden scent that's like dried, spicy, golden flowers in a temple room full of smoky incense haze and golden flower and honey offerings. Spicy, dried, golden flower petals dipped in honey in a room full of incense smoke. After about a half hour, the honey and sweet myrrh reminds me of beeswax and the whole thing reminds me of The Lights of Men's Lives blend, but with a spicy, dry floral added in. Really good, and a great scent for fall.

I received a sample spray of "The Inn (Prototype)" in one of my bptp orders and guess I never reviewed it. I agree with everyone saying it smells like peanut butter cookies and bananas dipped in peanut butter. I actually like it and don't think it smells too artificial, because the banana has a fresh edge to it like it does in Splatter Comedy. The peanut butter/vanilla-y tone is like a mix of natural peanut butter and warm peanut butter cookies. I sprayed this on to throw pillows and the banana fades off after 10-15 minutes to a hint of creamy banana-vanilla pudding and warm sugar cookies. It reminds me of banana pudding and nilla wafers, actually. A creamy, lovely gourmand spray.

Whiskey burns off quick, thankfully, because the alcoholic edge in the initial spray was kind of reminding me of bugspray. Once the booziness wears off, I'm left with a calm, powdery/creamy white sandalwood that's sweetened and warmed up with cigar tobacco. It's actually not very smoky on me and I don't get bay rum or spiciness at all. It's a mellow, woody scent with warm, sweet tobacco and a spark that makes me think of the scent of matches or fireworks (not the smoky, burnt scent of those, but the way they smell before being burnt, if that makes sense). Very warm and cozy, and doesn't remind me of the lab's French or Bulgarian tobacco, and isn't smoky like tobacco absolute. It's a gentle, sweet tobacco and creamy sandalwood.

This smells kind of funky on me, like minty-metallic cologne mixed with herbal anise. I don't smell amber at all, and if there's vanilla in this, it's a dry and herbal sort and not really creamy or sweet. Dry wood comes through after a while, but mostly this is clean and minty-ish metallic with herbal black licorice on my skin. I don't really enjoy it at all. Light and strange.

Has a muddy or muddled quality to it, like when you mix a lot of notes together and just wind up with a perfumey, nondescript sort of fragrance. The patchouli and oudh add a woody earthiness, the opium a perfumey, sharp, white musk-ish note, and the tobacco or champaca is adding some ashy incense smokiness. It's a smoky, woody, perfumey, incensey thing. After about ten minutes, it just smells generic-perfumey, like sharp drugstore musk over some dry, dark, slightly smoky woods. I never smell the red musk or pomegranate.

A light, barely there fragrance that left wafts of pine and powder in the ends of my hair. I get a hint of chill at first, but then it's all light, sweet pine and a powdery edge. I don't get blue musk or opoponax at all. Smells like a Yule fragrance and like the pine from Golden Priapus without any supporting notes. I tried it again on my wrist and it functioned the same - light, barely there pine. Like the sweet, green needles and warm wood.

Very dry wood, sour and bright red currants, and hints of sharp cinnamon and dry incense. Goes powdery from the sandalwood after a few minutes, and I don't like how sour the fruitiness is.

Smells like a caramel apple scented Yankee Candle, complete with the waxy/plasticy scent, cloying and artificial apple, and a strange, powdery undertone. It also has a funkiness that makes me feel like one of the oils in it has turned. I like gourmands, but this was too sweet, chemical, and bothered me.

Anyone hoping this would smell like cotton candy or like Midway will be disappointed (as I am). I get cinnamon-spiced dragon's blood and a dry incense undertone. Nothing candy-like or reminiscent of cotton candy. The dragon's blood smells a bit floral and a bit like red wine. I don't like the sharp cinnamon at all.

The new version of Antique Lace doesn't smell like the original. It has a bright, plasticy-clean, sweet vanilla that reminds me of Bath & Body Works' Warm Vanilla Sugar. It's not the same vanilla and the new version doesn't have the dried floral edge of the original. The hair gloss goes more baby powdery on me than the perfume oil, and dries down to what reminds me of vanilla flavored pudding mix, the dry mix and not actual pudding, and a sour, plasticy, musky edge. Fades quickly.

Nope. I smell none of the listed notes for this. Nerves smells like Big Red chewing gum - a big blast of sharp, candy cinnamon. Nothing else. So strong and gives me a headache.

Smells exactly as advertised - ozone and plum. This doesn't go as soapy and dry as most of bpal's ozone notes do, though. This is tangy and clean, but has a damp quality to it that I actually enjoy, and hints of sweet, purple plum. The ozone takes on an edge that makes me think of lakes and green water plants, and the scent of water on a chilly night as a storm rolls in. Clean and zingy. Dries down like a clean, sexy, men's cologne in a thunderstorm scent that's pretty awesome.

So pretty, and I think this is reminding me of the original Pink Snowballs. Pink roses, chilly and crisp, with lots of creamy, cool vanilla. Definitely a sugared vanilla rose. Such a lovely, creamy vanilla and delicate rosewater type of drydown. It makes me feel gorgeous and makes me think of old fashioned dressing rooms with the big mirrors and cozy benches to put on your makeup, perfumes and powders...

Goes on like generic red fruit punch with an extra pound of sugar dumped in, and a really artificial red apple note rolled in even more sugar. As it dries down, it moves away from fruity candy and smells more like hints of melting milk chocolate and caramel drizzled over piles of white and brown sugar. Just a hint of apple air freshener. I like gourmands, but this is like an overwhelming, cloying, foodie candle fragrance.

When I first put this on, I thought that it smelled like Monster Bait: Underpants and was ready to sign on and buy all the bottles. The rich vanilla cream and smooth woods opening is so familiar. This quickly shifts to more of a pencil shavings wood and rosewood with hint of warm vanilla and pink rose, though. Much more woody and with an obvious rose scent. 15 minutes in, I'm left with a faint, perfume/musky rose and dry wood with a hint of salty vanilla cream. Wish it were stronger and had more vanilla. Becomes very dry and dusty wood with sour rose and disappears before it's even made one hour on me. Starts off promising, dries down not so great, and then quickly disappears.

Like taking an ice cold shower with generic white bar soap (Irish Spring?). Very cold and very soapy. The metal smells like silver shower handles chilled by that water, and gives off a feeling of metallic men's cologne. The honey adds a touch of sweetness at first, but isn't really noticeable in the drydown. I like that this smells so cold and clean without really being minty or mentholic. Ice cold shower with a lot of soap and the room is full of musky, metallic, crisp men's cologne. I like this in the same way I recently enjoyed The Forgettable God, but The God is softer and less cold.

On me, this smells like a dirty ash tray and that cold, metallic, dirty, menthol cigarette wrapper smell that I used to get from the bottom of my mom's purse, where bits of cigarette filling and foil would accumulate. I hated that smell. A bit of sweet incense and the pine that others have mentioned in the drydown, but I can't shake that earlier impression of dirty cigarette scraps...

This hair gloss was surprising. It smells black leathery, cold, and scary in the bottle, but immediately turns into a fluff of sweet vanilla and lavender in my hair. It actually reminds me a lot of TKO. It has a fluffy, vanilla-y sweetness from somewhere. I catch whiffs of black leather every once in a while, but it's mostly all about sugared lavender to my nose.