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For something that's more 'manly' sounding in its description, I'm finding Tony to be quite un-manly! As everyone else has said.. this is the smell of clean laundry - that 'busy day at the laundromat' fragrance of warm soap and clean towels. The smell of a bathroom after someone's just had a shower and the room is still a bit warm and foggy and soapy clean smelling. It's a bit more complex than that though.. I swear there's something floral in here - lilac maybe? A hint of violet? I dunno - it's a pale and slightly sweet floral, not a herb-y one on me. Iris? Orchid? Gah - this is going to make me nuts, trying to figure out what it is!! What's also driving me nuts is that Tony smells very much like another BPAL that I've encountered.. but I can't remember what it is. When I first put it on (and I confess, I did slather rather a bit) - it was a bit too heady and overly sweet, and I was concerned that it was just too much of a good thing. But it calmed down within about five minutes, and has now settled into being a lovely warm and snuggly soft scent. It's almost got a baby powder fragrance about it - not that it's powdery at all.. it just smells a little like baby powder. And I'm pretty sure there's a skin musk of some variety in here. Good throw, and excellent staying power. I think I will wear this one quite a bit - it's one of those BPALs that don't really have a distinct or obvious fragrance.. it just smells good. Oh.. and I'm adding my voice to the chorus of "this would make a great room spray". And although I did say that I don't think this is a particularly manly smell.. if more men actually did smell like this, I certainly wouldn't be complaining

Hi willrollinsnow Welcome to the forum! There's a couple of topics in the Recommendations topic that you might find helpful: Best winter blends Best snow scents But in general, the best snow/winter/ice/frost etc blends come out in the Yule collection each year, so now's the time to check those out since they're still available at the Lab here - just scroll down a bit and you'll see the 'Yule 2011' blends listed. For a crisp/sweet candy-cane type vanilla mint, there's the 'Lick It' series - this year's is called Lick It Discreetly. For a lovely windy mountain snow, there's Ondurdis, and Snow White is a huge favourite for many.. it's a lovely vanilla with a cool wintery vibe. You could also check out the reviews for Yules gone by here - you'll see that some do contain a pine-type note, but there's lots that don't I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all of those are old Limited Edition (LE) blends, and they're going to be hard to find Some of the others in the longer list you posted are also either past LEs or no longer available so it's not going to be easy to find them all. I would suggest you stick to current LE blends and/or General Catalogue (GC) blends for now, until you have a better idea of what you like/don't like - there's so many scents to try, and looking for old LEs can be frustrating. I've seen a lot of the current Yules up for sale here on the forum - look for decants, or even half-decants (those are a great way to try a bunch of things without spending quite so much). Oh, and to try and get as many imps/decants as you can at once - you could post an 'ISO' (In Search Of) in the 'Wanted' topic here - hopefully someone who has a whole bunch of your wanteds will be able to help you out. Good luck in your search!

Oh.. oh my That ^^ was my first impression. I did one of those 1870's type swoon thingy when I opened the bottle and was greeted by a sensuous, heady blast of leathery patchouli and oudh. On my skin though, I got something completely different - lime! Err.. what? Wait a minute - maybe it's not lime, it could be orange. No.. it's neither - it's like a mix of citrus-y something-or-other that smells like orange+lime. So this is the matcha tea, I'm guessing - I'm not a tea connoisseur at all, so I confess to complete ignorance about what matcha tea smells like, but I see previous reviewers have said it's got citrus tones. And at this stage I can also smell the rose - it's dancing around there in between the sharpness of the citrus - and the narcissus is also noticeable, along with the frankincense which almost always goes citronella/lemon-y on my skin and is totally doing that here. OK.. this isn't what I was hoping for, so I leave it alone for five minutes to see how it develops. Five minutes later - WTF? All I smell is lemon. This is not looking good. Let's give it another few minutes. At the 10-minute point, I start to worry that this just is not going to work for me.. it's still all lemon but the rose has perked up and amped quite a bit. And it's faded a lot already - it's now very powdery and faint. Where is the oudh, the patchouli, the star anise, the leather? WHERE?!?!? But I will not give up.. so it's now 20 minutes since I first applied the oil.. and finally, Leather Phoenix is rising. There's the oudh - smoky and slightly sweet, and there's the patchouli - dark and rich but also slightly sweet. And the leather - well, it's more of a top note here than how leather usually is on me, but it's definitely come through. The star anise isn't really featuring, but I can tell it's there. The lemon/rose thing is still a bit too dominant for my liking, but it's not bothering quite as much now that it's mellowed into more of a sweetgrass sort of tone.. and what's really strange is that the whole scent has come back in full force when ten minutes ago I thought it had almost faded away - it came back with a pretty decent throw. But that only lasted for a short while before it disappeared again. It takes about 30 minutes on my skin before I really start digging this, and that's probably what will see Leather Phoenix ultimately ending up in my swaps box - I didn't enjoy the early stages of it at all, and even when the leather/oudh/patchouli finally does come out it's still not really winning me over, and that lemony/rose thing never really goes away. If I had my Note Removal MachineTM and could take out the frankincense, rose and matcha tea.. oh, that would be perfect! But alas I have not, so I can not. I know I'm being selfish here, but I kinda wish Leather Phoenix had stuck to being one thing or the other.. I just don't think that citrus tones partner well with woodsy/earthy/leather tones in general, and they certainly don't on my skin at all. Overall, I'm bummed

VioletChaos pretty much wrote my review for me! We must be skin-twins YUM YUM YUM - it's HOT BUTTERED RUM! Boozy, smutty, hot, buttery, gluggy - it's all good. I guess I expected this would smell like.. you know, hot buttered rum, but I'm surprised at just how much it actually does smell like hot buttered rum. Is that my most useless review ever? Yes! I think it might be! Sadly, the initial YUM YUM YUM thing dries down to the awful smell of burnt brown sugar and melting plastic, as these kinds of things tend to do, so it ends up being not so great. Big to the always lovely Dark Alice for sharing this with me

Sweet, buttery pumpkin.. with an undertone of orange candy. Nothing particularly impressive, unfortunately - to me, this type of buttery pumpkin has been done already in previous pumpkin-related blends so this just doesn't stand out as anything special. It's not horrible or anything - it's just.. nothing new.

Usually I can discern individual notes, but with Senelion I'm finding it's just so well-blended that it's difficult to do that. On my skin, the amber is very noticeable (dry, dusky, slightly powdery but in a nice way) - and the combination of musks also gives a very soft/snuggly and dry tone to the overall scent.. so the amber + musks together lay down a beautiful foundation that really does feel like a dusky velvet night sky. The red musk is definitely there, and I would say that Senelion overall fits in the red/warm category, but it's not all HI I'M RED MUSK like it sometimes can be - the black musk is toning it right down. I was worried about the chamomile, which generally goes horribly wrong on me, but I'm not having any problems with it here. On the not-so-wow list - I was hoping the star anise would be more of a feature, but it's really not all that noticeable at all once the oil has dried on my skin. The cedar is adding a slightly sharp/bitter tone, as cedar tends to do on me, but I know that it will tone down with some aging so that's OK. I'm also picking up something flower-y and earthy here - not floral as such, but just a general kind of smell - I guess that's the lotus root, orris and zdravetz influence. The red musks are definitely the most dominant here. Side note - Senelion reminds me of Glowing Vulva but without the cream... also it's similar to Elephantine Colossus but without the sweetness/foodie factor of the root beer. Overall, this is a lovely scent that stays pretty close to my skin - minimal throw, but it smells good up-close. And as others have said, I'm sure this will get even more sensuous with some age on it. Edit a few weeks later.. my earlier comparison to Elephantine Colossus still holds true - except where before I said it was similar, now it's more than that - it's almost the same on my skin. And where before I thought the red musk wasn't too strong a player.. I was wrong about that (or possibly just these couple of weeks of age have changed the musk balance). I'm beginning to think that red musk might not be a good note for me . .

Hi chewy I'm not an O lover myself (the honey doesn't work on me ) but some suggestions for that similar warm/snuggly feel: Bastet - luxuriant amber, warm Egyptian musk, fierce saffron and soft myrrh, almond, cardamom and golden lotus. Dana O'Shee - milk, honey and sweet grains. The Lion - a golden, spiced amber, proud, regal and ferocious. Werepuppy was a forum-only blend from 2010, so you would need to look for a decant in the For Sale area, but I think you might like it - it definitely has the 'snuggly' thing going on. The notes are: a fuzzy brown honey-dusted musk covering freshly-washed baby skin and a howl of milk breath. In the background, there's the barest hint of upturned soil and dew-covered squished stems from a trampled flowerbed. I would also second Victory's recommendation for Comforting Plush Companion, but that one may be hard to find. Good luck with your search!

OK.. so your Sugar Skull isn't 2008, or 2010 - those looked like this ('08 on the left - photos from TwilightEyes' flickr page): So yours must be from 2004, 2005, 2006, or 2007. I had some old SS bottles, '05 and '06 I think they were, and if I remember correctly both were cobalt bottles, however I swapped them away ages ago and I can't remember now what the labels looked like but your description does sound familiar. Is the bottle blue or brown? ETA: I searched the Sugar Skull review thread, and found this description in a review for the 2005 bottle: "a lady, arm aloft ~ standing amongst flames... with bars in the background " - is that your label? If so, you've got the 2005 one! Edited again to add this, because it might be helpful for future queries - I found that post by opening up the review thread for Sugar Skull then typing 'label' in the search box (search within topic).. the search results then brought up any review in the whole thread that contained the word 'label' . .

Yep! Meeee!! I have found a few distinctly different types of 'leather' in BPAL blends - DeSade was sharp and harsh on me.. with almost a chemical-like udertone - like shiny new leather. I actually put together a list of leather 'types' that I have encountered about 18 months ago - it went like this: There's been a few more since then - I would add Fetish.Goth to the sharp/fresh category, and Captain Cully should be in there too - maybe in soft/suede or perhaps old/worn. But these are just my impressions - when you read reviews for all these blends, you'll see that the leather notes give very different results from person to person. I would recommend Western Diamondback or Dee if you haven't tried those already, or try layering your favourite leathery BPAL with a little Snake Oil

Great job archergrl - thank you!

Hey SNAP! I wore Snow White for Christmas Day today, too! Mine was the 2004 version though Perhaps an odd choice when it was a beautiful summer's day today - sunny and quite warm - I chose Snow White because it just smells nice on me.. it's the BPAL that I usually grab when I don't want to smell of anything particularly, but want to just smell good

Tossing in another vote for Morocco! I think it's a great mix of 'pretty' with the soft vanilla and 'exotic' with the spices. Try dabbing some in places that are less likely to be right in the direct smelling zone.. like behind your knees, lower back - that way, the perfume won't be right in your/his face but there will still be an air of smellygoodness around you From your list, the other ones I'd consider would be Boomslang, Snow White, and The Shadowy and Sublime. I hope your date goes well! And I sure hope he isn't wearing Old Spice or Brut, after all the thought you're putting into how you want to smell

sharkdiver - that looks like the same style label and bottle as my GCs that I bought in early 2007, so my guess would be that your bottle is a vintage of somewhere around 2006/2007 - maybe even 2008. It's definitely at least a couple of years old though

First up - I must give some big love to mimers99 who gifted a little bit of this rare beauty to me When I first put it on, I was in a haze of buttery spiciness - on me, it's not a popcorn-like smell.. it's just not that sweet. About one minute in, I realised it was reminding me of another BPAL so of course then I spent the next fifteen minutes trying to remember what I've smelled recently that's like this original Hellfire. I think it's a lot like two BPALs - one is Paper Kite (which on me is a slightly burned cream and brown sugar-ish smell that I really didn't like at all), and the other is Bread and Butterfly (which on me, is buttered raisin toast). I also very much agree with the lovely cfrancesca's review above - it definitely has a similar feel to Hearth '05, and maybe even slightly Sugar Skull-ish (old SS, that is) - there really does seem to be some brown sugar element in here. After a full dry-down, it ends up being somewhere in between the two - buttery raisin toast with brown sugar and cream. Much later in the piece - a soft muskiness does come out and the 'raisin toast' vibe has significantly mellowed, but it's almost completely gone from my skin in less than two hours. Not what I was expecting at all - from the description, I was hoping for a musky/spicy bourbon-ish scent with a smooth cream feel.. but nope, it's nothing like that on me. I'm really happy that I've been able to try this - as one of the BPAL unicorns, it's been on my wishlist for ages, but thankfully I won't need to sell a kidney or an eyeball so that I can find any more of it

Hmm.. I'm not familiar with the Ferrari Black fragrance, and that is an interesting mix of notes! So here's a couple of ideas that might be worth a try: Mr Nancy - sugar cookies with bay rum, tobacco, and lime - not as sweet as it sounds, the 'sugar cookies' have an interesting slightly peppery/spicy smell, and the lime is really nice but not 'girly' or sweet. The bay rum and tobacco together give the whole thing a lovely woody quality. You can't get this as an imp from the Lab, but I'm sure you could find a decant in the For Sale area. Casanova - a rakish blend of leather, anise, lavender, bergamot and amber with tonka, lemon peel and lusty patchouli the lemon peel will give you a similar citrus vibe, and the bergamot in this one is lovely. Rapture - Moroccan rose, Sumatran rose, mandarin, Egyptian myrrh, night-blooming jasmine, bergamot and neroli thrust into Arabian musk - mostly for the exotic rose notes, but also the jasmine + bergamot with the musk are really nice here. Baghdad - amber, saffron and bergamot with mandarin, nutmeg, Bulgar rose, musk and sandalwood - softly spicy but with nice deep florals and a warm/dusky feel from the amber and sandalwood. Spider - white ginger, artemesia, vetiver, nutmeg, King mandarin, bergamot, and lime - gorgeous lime, softly spicy from the ginger and bergamot. Also not impable.. but again, check the sales area. I dunno.. maybe those recommendations are a bit off, but check reviews and see what you think

Big hugs to my dear friend stargirl who sent me some of her SOHG to try OK.. so I guess someone had to come along eventually to put a dent in the perfect record of rave reviews that have been posted so far.. and yes folks, that person is me Firstly, I should tell you about my hair. It's very fine-textured and light, but I have a decent amount of it and it has pretty good shine in its au naturel state. Length is just above my waist at its longest point at the back. It's blonde - natural, not bleached or coloured (although a little sun-lightened in places, I think), and it's in good overall health although I do have some shabby ends. And it's naturally curly - depending on the day (weather, hair mood or whatever) it can be anything from soft waves to curls to full ringlets, and on days when it wants to be a bitch it goes stringy. It has magical abilities to form tangles and knots all by itself, don't ask me how.. it just does. Oh, and one more thing - I don't brush my hair. I can't brush my hair. Best I can do is run my fingers or a wide-toothed comb through it, but even that's asking for trouble. Brushing turns nice soft curls into floofy candyfloss mayhem. Anyway.. on to the hair gloss. I received mine as a decant in a bottle not a sprayer, so I splotched about 6-8 drops into the palm of one hand and then rubbed my hands together until both palms were slicked with the hair gloss. Then I swiped it over my hair (slightly-damp almost-dry hair, not wet) very carefully to make sure I didn't get too much on. I concentrated more on the ends and sides rather than the top of my head or close to the scalp. I could definitely smell the Snake Oil, and the gloss has a nice slippery texture that isn't sticky at all. Result - well.. to be honest, I didn't really get a result. I thought perhaps there was a bit of extra shine in a few places, but I'm not sure there actually was - I think I just wanted to see it. And even though I was really careful about applying it lightly, it went on too thick in a couple of spots and made my hair look wet/greasy. My hair did feel quite soft after I had first applied it, but it's usually very soft anyway.. then a couple of hours later it was feeling dry and looking really dull and my hair was just as tangled as it normally is so definitely no help there. The fragrance was very mild - I could smell it, but I certainly wasn't walking around in a little waft-cloud of SO all day. And when I tried to smell it again after about 8 hours, it was pretty much gone - I get better results from a couple of dabs of Snake Oil itself through my hair. So I guess this hair gloss just isn't for me - I've tried it four or five times now, but I'm still getting the same non-results - I think my hair is just too fine/light for it. Maybe it's because I'm not able to brush it through my hair, or use it as a styling product - I dunno.. perhaps it's just my silly hair. I'm disappointed, of course, but not surprised - I know my hair pretty well and I was kind of expecting this would happen. I'm going to give it another try on damp hair, and use more of it, to see what happens. If the results are better/different, I will edit this review edited for clarity .

aww.. poor little dude, it must be horrible I think the ones you mentioned could all work.. let's see.. Mint is generally soothing, so I'd go for something with a sweet feel - Snowblind would be nice, with that vanilla softness. Lavender - well, TKO is the main one I'm thinking of - this might help just for general relaxation too. I always find ginger good for nausea - but I can't think of a really ginger-heavy BPAL.. maybe Moxie would be worth a try? I hope the nausea passes soon

I have been SO excited about this, and I've waited patiently for my bottles to arrive.. and they're here! Finally here!! Why have I been so excited? Well - a couple of reasons; first, my love for Banshee Beat knows no bounds.. so I was hoping that #occupy is going to be like BB's naughtier, chocolatey-er sister. And second, because when Beth uses the words "filthy friggin' patchouli" followed by "dark, deep, rooty, and strangely sexy" I know we're in for a treat I do not have a disappoint. I am so glad I bought more than one bottle, and now I shall set off on a quest to hoard several more, because I love love LOVE #occupywallstreet - it's exactly what I wanted.. it is a filthy friggin' patchouli that's dark and deep and sexy. And it's the perfect patchouli for my skin.. it doesn't smell mouldy, it's not too earthy, it's not bitter, it doesn't climb up my nose and assault my head, it's just dark and warm and sexy. Patchouli is definitely the dominant note here, and for the first few minutes on my skin it's pretty much all I can smell, but then the cocoa comes out.. and it's just the perfect mix - not too much so that it overrides or mixes weirdly with the patchouli.. the cocoa makes itself known, but never oversteps its boundaries - the patchouli holds its place as the star of this show. The tobacco is a bit lost for me - it's a note I often have trouble finding on my skin, and in #occupy it's just a slight hint of tobacco - not strong at all, just a soft tang. The bourbon vanilla is not sweet or sickly, nor particularly strong - like the cocoa, it sits nicely behind the patchouli rather than dominating it (I actually would have liked the vanilla to be more prominent, but I'm not complaining). It took about an hour for the patchouli to mellow out on my skin, and that's when I could smell the cocoa and vanilla at their best - it does take a while for the oomph of that patchouli to fade So is this a sister to Banshee Beat? Yes.. but more in spirit than in fragrance. BB (on me) is all about the heady richness from the vanilla and hemp, with the patchouli underneath. #occupy (again, on me) is all about the patchouli, with the vanilla and cocoa underneath. So they both have that kickass hippie goddess thing going on, but actually they are quite different. Banshee Beat is what I would have worn for Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in August 1969, where #occupy is what I would have worn for the Rolling Stones at Altamont in December 1969. And if you don't get those references, then you have no business wearing patchouli EDIT! Just adding this as a PSA a few weeks later - in an effort to get a bit more of a cocoa-licious thing going on with my OWS, I sat the bottle on its head and left it that way for half a day, figuring the cocoa would eventually release itself from the bottom of the bottle and mix a bit better with the rest of the oil. But what did I discover? The cocoa was STILL sitting at the bottom of the bottle! Even when it had been sitting upside down for hours!! So I just had to investigate this further.. I grabbed a plastic coffee stirrer and poked at the stubborn bottom-dwelling cocoa.. except that it wasn't soft mushy cocoa down there - it was solid. Yes, solid - like a lump of tar! When I pulled the stirrer out, it had a blob of black goo on it.. so solid that it wouldn't even wipe over my skin. I'm not sure what to do now - this stuff is probably never going to mix with the oil, it's pointless trying to mix it - I'll just have to hope that over time the solid glob of cocoa will be softened by the oil and eventually come free of its mooring at the bottom of the bottle. But the point of me telling you all this is that I didn't notice at first just how separated the cocoa actually was, and I'm seeing a lot of reviews with people saying they're not getting any cocoa out of their OWS - so check your bottle! Poke something down there - have you got a solid glob of cocoa goo too? .

This one went through an interesting sequence of note reveals on my skin.. here's how it went down, over thirty minutes. 1. Sweet juicy sugary green apple. 2. Sweet strawberry. 3. Sweet apple + strawberry together. 4. Pomegranate bubblegum with apple. 5. Some sort of pink sweet apple-ish thing. 6. Dusty sandalwood over the pink sweet apple-ish thing. 7. Stale, dusty apples. The end.

I love apple scents, but I don't really enjoy wearing them.. so I thought I'd try this one because I figured the resins and black musk might balance out the apple-ness of the whole thing. I was also hoping it wouldn't be too sweet. And cypress hates me like a centipede hates pedicures, so I was hoping that wouldn't spoil everything. Yay for the triple win! This is much much more than just an apple scent, and it's not too sweet! And I can't even smell the cypress at all! Huzzah!!! It's warm, kinda waxy (myrrh and opoponax are usually very similar-smelling to my nose, and both tend to go a bit waxy on my skin), and the tobacco gives a lovely dry gold tone. But the star of the show here is the black apple.. it's got a sweet base, but a dusky dry top layer - really lovely, and unlike any other apple I've tried in BPAL so far. Sadly, it does end up getting overly sweet after I've had it on for about 30 minutes.. that nice dryness goes away, and a little bit of soapiness creeps in. So ultimately, this ends up being just another pretty apple blend that smells lovely but isn't wearable as a perfume for me. Bummer.

Whyyyyyyyyyyy did I even bother trying a decant of this? I read the notes.. I saw the pine, I saw the cyrpress - did I really think that black sandalwood and woodsmooke would conquer? Was I really so deluded as to hope that the pine and cypress would behave on my skin? I'm a fool.. a FOOL So yeah - hello pine, hello cypress, I hate you. Well.. to be more fair, you hate me. And the styrax isn't particularly helping.. it's taken the side of the trees, so I'm just not winning this one at all. I can smell the lovely black sandalwood, and there's a gorgeous smokiness here too, and even the nutmeg is here - very faint, nice and soft, but there. THe frank and chamomile are completely lost to me though - they're just buried under the greenery. Note to self: next time, remember you will not win against pine. Save yourself the disappointment, back away from the pine.

Yep - no surprises here.. this is exactly what the label says - sweet pumpkin with fluffy vanilla, soft powdery chocolate, sweet honey, sticky meringue and a bit of tang from the guava and tiare. The only thing I can't really find is the red currant, but there's so much sweet fruitiness in here already that I don't really mind its absence. And the pumpkin here is quite mild, it's a timid little pumpkin.. not a big old fat meaty one. This smells just like it should - soft, sweet, fluffy - perfect for a pumpkin princess. Unfortunately, I'm not a pumpkin princess.. this is another Weenie decant that I bought just for interest (I wanted to try it!), not for keeping, so off to the frimpies box with this one

This is really interesting - I could swear there's something nutty in here, like hazelnut. It reminds me very much of Wezwanie/Hold from The Salon when it first goes on - it has that same warm golden nuttiness. I do like blonde wood (hehe.. she said blonde wood) - and it's lovely here, soft and clean with just a hint of sweetness. I get the linen swaddling, but more in feel than in fragrance, although it's definitely the same linen note that I know from other BPALs like Wensleydale and Dirty, and Antique Lace. And I love the pumpkin in this - it's not the usual pulpy, fleshy sweet-ish pumpkin that we see in Weenies.. I do like this 'pumpkin rind' - it's a nice change, slightly woody, and it gives the pumpkin smell without making the whole thing smell of pumpkin. And bourbon vanilla - I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I love you. After a full dry-down, the nuttiness does mostly go away - I'm still reminded very much of Wezwanie/Hold though - minus the honey, add pumpkin. The Changeling is really quite nice, but I've got my favourite pumpkin blends already and there's nothing new enough in this one to tempt me into needing a bottle

What was I thinking? Why would I want to smell like the exterior of burnt marshmallows? I wouldn't, simple as that. And since this is *exactly* how The Gorobble smells, I don't want to smell like The Gorobble. I bought this decant just out of curiosity really - knowing it wouldn't be a keeper - I just wanted to smell it It's nice, if you like the smell of burnt marshmallows. But on me, it's too burnt-smelling - that burned brown sugar smell - and I also detect something cinnamon-like, or even coffee-ish, which isn't sitting right with the sweetness of the marshmallow. Interesting, but not for me.

Yes! I get this, too.. it smells like sticky buds *ahem* So this is a bit more 'red' than I was expecting.. that red sandalwood has a totally different feel to regular sandalwood - it's warm, and a bit snuggly. Interestingly, the black patchouli and vetiver are very subdued - having tested Expressive Head earlier, which was OMG VETIVER, I have to say I was a bit scared to try The Triumph of Death (there's only so much VETIVER my nose can handle in one day!) but this one's safe I'm really liking the peru balsam here too - very nice. This is really quite a lovely scent - it's one of those BPALs that doesn't have a distinct fragrance - like I couldn't say "oh it's really musky".. or "it's dark and smokey" - once everything's fully dried down, Triumph of Death is so beautifully blended that it's hard to distinguish individual notes. I'm glad I tried it, but there's nothing particularly outstanding about it.. not enough to justify a bottle purchase - it smells nice, but it's not knocking my socks off.