Little Bird

I like violet when it's a sweet, violet candy type of violet, but this is more of a bright, wet, sharp spring floral on my skin. The jasmine adds a touch of sourness. The cucumber is watery. Sandalwood makes the drydown slightly powdery. Clean, watery, sharp spring floral. Not my favorite type of fragrance.

I think that Europa is my least favorite bpal ever. I bought two bottles, because the description sounded so amazing, and I've already re-sold both of them, after trying for weeks to let the scent settle and to keep an openmind about it. But it just smells awful to me. Europa smells nothing like vanilla, myrrh, resins, vetiver or coffee to me. Nothing at all. This is very baby powdery, dry, sour, and unpleasant. In no way sweet or gourmand. It's baby powder, sour and rusty metal (so much like rust), and green grass that smells half dead and like a dog peed all over it. That's the only way that I can describe it. It's foul. I'm going back on a firm no-buy for lunacies. No matter how good they sound or what notes they're supposed to have, they seem to show up as a completely different beast.

This oddly smells like the pink pepper note does on my skin - pink bubblegum, cinnamon potpourri and a weird, fruity candy scent. I don't get ozone and the fruitiness is just a sweet, nondescript candy more than strawberry to my nose. Very sweet and pink.

Metallic cologne with warm amber and woods. It kind of reminds me of a department store men's fragrance. Sort of musky, warm, and clean. This one was okay, but didn't leave much of an impression on me.

I find Cushing Manor to be very masculine smelling, with the bay rum and whiskey. Bay rum smells like sweet clove and warm, dry wood, with a slinky, dark, boozy whiskey note backing it up. I don't pick up on the carnation. Spicy, warm and boozy.

Lucille's fragrances are, in my opinion, the best of the Crimson Peak line. I loved the Lucille Sharpe and Black Moths perfume oils, and this is my favorite of the atmosphere sprays. The black amber is like a dark, rich amber musk with a vanilla edge to it (same as in the Thomas Sharpe blend, appropriately), mixed with swirls of cool, sombre florals. It's all purple shadows and gothic romance.

To me, this smells like warm, golden musk and warm, powdery, golden amber. Resinous, musky and powdery. Delicately sweet. Too powdery for my tastes.

Sweet, waxy honey and big, waxy, white floral blooms with something like baby powdery sandalwood. I don't really smell the leather, which makes me sad.

I agree that this is similar to the Crimson Peak perfume oil. Tons of snow note - sweet and slushy, slightly minty. Clean and cool. I only have a decant of this, but it doesn't smell earthy to me at all. Snow single note.

Starts off as screechy, hairspray, sharp jasmine and then settles into more of a warm, sweet, glowing beeswax. It smells like melting candles and sharp floral perfume. I found it much more floral when I first got the spray, but now I get more of the sweetness in it and enjoy it much more.

Overview: Hair gloss is a heavy, oily spray that quickly overwhelms my long, fine hair and makes it look and feel very greasy. I can't use this product anywhere but very sparingly on the ends of my hair, or else it makes my head look like an oil slick. I'm really careful with my hair and the products that I use on it. For a while, I was using this to fragrance the ends of my hair, but I find that it makes my hair fall out a lot, either from the high fragrance oil content, the heaviness of the oil itself, or something else. I wanted to love these and wanted them to work, because of the fragrances, but now I only use the hair gloss as a body mist on my arms and legs, not actually on my hair. Fragrance review: I enjoy pretty much any variety of coconut fragrance, as long as it's not that cheap, oily, suntan lotion type of coconut. This hair gloss is all about that suntan lotion coconut, and I find it oily, cloying and off putting. Suntan lotion coconut mixed with monoi (creamy gardenia scent) oil. It smells like a stereotypical oiled-up-on-the-beach scent and makes me feel sick to my stomach after a while.

Every time I read the name of this fragrance, I think of that saying: "My knight in shining armor turned out to be a loser in aluminum foil," and I laugh. That has nothing to do with the actual perfume, which I actually think is very good and not loser-y at all. I'm not sure why I'm even mentioning it. I digress. I enjoy so many of bpal's more traditionally masculine smelling blends. If it says fougere, cologne, or mentions being for 'gentlemen,' there's a high chance that I will love it. Knight in Shiny Armor is lots of cool, crisp, clean, musky lavender cologne paired with swirls of dark leather, sweet vanilla, hints of dry and earthy-herbal clary sage and oakmoss and a bit of carnation spiciness. It does have a sort of metallic brightness to it, and a Dorian-esque feel in it. It's manly, crisp and complex, but snuggly and so appealing. Clean, but dark, and with just the right amount of sweetness. A very good cologne that smells like a good, loyal boyfriend and makes me think of snuggling into a man's well worn t-shirt.

Similar to Anne Beany and En Garde, with lots of very sweet, butterscotchy, boozy rum and a bit of creamy vanilla. This one has a hint of warm, toasted coconut on me, though, and a dry vanilla cake in the drydown. Still, mostly a butterscotch rum on my skin.

This is such a fun, interesting fragrance. It starts off as a creamy banana candy (like banana laffy taffy or banana pudding) with a slightly boozy, caramelized goodness. Then a warm, slightly powdery, slightly smoky, soft, sweet incense note creeps in, reminding me of Midnight Mass and Feeding the Dead. I really enjoy bpal's creamy cake + incense blends, and this has a similar feel with the sweet, creamy banana caramel and incense. Over time, the cool vanilla muskiness of Dorian starts to come in and the banana fades away, but I still really love the experience of wearing this fragrance. It gives off wafts of incense, caramel and Dorian for several hours before it disappears entirely.

Nutty, buttery brown sugar and buttercream frosting type of scent. Very cloying and reminds me of foodie candle fragrances more than a perfume; it even has a bit of a waxy note to it. It's so overwhelmingly sweet on my skin.

Powdery, tart pomegranate (always reminds me of sweet tarts candies) with soapy rose and a sharp, perfumey/musky white floral something. Surprisingly, I am not getting any red musk at all, and red musk usually turns blends into red musk single note on my skin. I find this to be unpleasantly sharp and tart.

I like my lavenders to be creamy, cool and sweet, but this is a sharp, dry, herbal variety, made sharper, dryer and more herbal with the addition of the chamomile. The chamomile smells like yellowy, dried herbs, almost sage-like and sour. I'm not getting any vanilla, so this isn't working for me.

I wish that I were one of the people who got masculine/tobacco from this scent, because I love dark, earthy notes paired with sweetness. Unfortunately, though, I'm just getting all of the sweetness from En Garde. This actually smells a lot like Anne Beany to me (the Lilith blend with notes of rum, cheesecake, hardtack crust, rum ice cream and butterscotch topping). The rum note usually smells like a boozy butterscotch candy to me, and that's what I'm getting here, with an extra dose of creamy vanilla caramel. It's intensely sweet, but light and only lasts about two hours on my skin.

This is a fun scent and I wish that it were more readily available. It's pink, fluffy, almost fruity, sugary cotton candy goodness (very much like Velvet Unicorn) with a creamy undertone that, after reading the other reviews, is coming off as coconut cream. Pink, fluffy, fun and uplifting. I spritzed this on to a jacket and it was strong for about an hour and then just faded into a soft, light, nondescript (but still pleasant) sweetness. Lighter than most of the other atmosphere spray type products.

Red musk and smoke. I like the sweet, sultry, wine-like red musk, but the smokiness unfortunately is reminding me of stale cigarette smoke and dirty ash tray. I spritzed this on to a throw pillow and it smells like it's been around someone who has been smoking, lol. Unfortunately, I think that is a rather gross smell, so this isn't working for me.

Golden, smooth, sweet, slightly woody frankincense & myrrh combo with a hint of rich rose perfume. Light and slightly dusty in the drydown. I like this, but I have so many resin blends that are stronger and longer lasting.

Sugary lemon. More tart, fresh, juicy and sour than blends like Gobo, Snow Angel or Lemon Scented Sticky Bat (and I like all three of those more than this one). Less candy and more real lemons + sugar, if that makes sense. Light and pleasant, but Gobo is my lemon-love, and Yes only lasts about two hours tops on my skin.

Dry, dusty, funky patchouli (sort of sweaty armpit-esque) and sour, roasted coffee beans with sharp cognac and musk. I don't care for this one at all. Light and fades to a faint, powdery patchouli after about twenty minutes.

This is my favorite of the Snow Queen perfumes, but I really enjoy dirt scents. To me, this is soft, dry, dusty dirt with spicy, dry cedar chips and sweet, red, dried rose petals. Earthy, woodsy, dry rose. It's very gothic and haunting to me.

I love the lab's blue musk and still miss the Silence blend that featured blue musk so front and center (it's like an aquatic, slightly powdery musk and the smell of a perfectly still, clean, manmade pond and cold stones). This is blue musk, but I think the 'salt' note is adding a sharper quality to it that I'm not liking, and the labdanum and champa throw in a warm, powdery, headshoppy amber and nag champa incense feel that I don't love mixed with the cleaner aspects of the scent. I like some of the notes separately, but it doesn't work for me all mixed together.