blueroses

Really good watermelon candy. Better than any I’ve ever encountered in real life. It’s a realistic fresh watermelon note with sugar cane giving it a candy feel. It faded to pure sugar with a splash of watermelon juice. I love both phases of its wear. Feels exactly like its description promised.

I tried this straight from the mail and then wore it the next day. Wet, it was predominantly a sugary dried cherry, not candy-sweet but the sugar was present. It’s a really nice tart cherry, not cough-syrupy on me at all. The incense only peeked through initially but becomes the essence of the scent as it wears. It’s not smoky but a light sweet rich incense. You definitely must like incense to enjoy this one, but I do find it more wearable (less intense) than other incense scents. I could still detect a hint of cherry throughout the day though its prominence faded. This immediately became one of my favorite cherry perfumes from any company, not just BPAL. And I’ll echo the poster above that it seems like classic BPAL, with its deep red cherry and incense-y base.

This didn't work for me at all. The rosy amber is dominant on my skin, but the tears make this scent distinctly salty and there's a metallic edge from the gold note. I can't smell the hay at all. The salt and metal notes just made this one smell sharp and odd to me at first. It does dry down to a very nice resinous amber and rose scent, but I'm just not into wearing resinous scents as perfume.

I've been meaning to try this scent for ages because I adore fizzy champagne notes and almost always enjoy strawberry. Sometimes champagne scents (not just BPAL, but in general) don't really smell like wine to me, but just ... fizzy. For me, that's not necessarily a bad thing, because I like fizziness. In the imp, Bon Vivant clearly smells like a berryish white wine. Once applied, there is an initial burst of effervescence and sweet strawberry, which quickly dries down to a light white whine with a pinkish note. If I didn't know it was strawberry, I'm not sure I'd be able to pick it out. It just smells pink. I'm pondering a bottle purchase of this one.

In the imp: Alcoholic. Rum! When I dabbed Polynesian Pop on my hand, it was initially a super-fizzy blast of ginger ale. The orange very quickly steps to the front-and-center ... and it pretty much stays that way. The fizziness doesn't last, and what I'm left with is orange and ginger ale, with the white rum adding sweetness and just a hint of booziness.

Sweet clove-y red rose. A little spicy, fir undetectable on me. I like this much more than I thought I would, better than White Rose. This does not strike me as particularly masculine. With White Rose: I like both scents individually but weirdly don't like them together very much. It's all clove and coconut on me.

This is almost super, a creamy vanilla white rose. I was hoping for more frankincense, but it's almost absent on me. Coconut does funky things on me though so the scent goes buttery, which I don't like. A little bit of tea peeps out as I wear this, reminding me of Dorian. There was something cloying about Dorian that made me ultimately sell my bottle, and it's bothering me here too. I wish this had worked but alas it doesn't. With Red Rose: I like both scents individually but weirdly don't like them together very much. It's all clove and coconut on me.

There is a surprising fizzy scent to this one right upon opening the bottle. Applied, it's a brash, fizzy, pure ginger scent. There's kind of a ginger ale vibe. It dries down to a pure, unsweetened ginger scent. This one was a major disappointment because I'd have preferred the ginger with French vanilla and marshmallow cream from the description, but I'm sure plenty of people will love the bold and fizzy reality.

Freshly applied, Fairy Market is candied grass, bluebells, and faint incense. It dries down to the scent of grass and exotic florals. Eventually the scent becomes a sweet floral. This one is beautiful and very evocative of its name. I hope it returns someday! I'm a big fan of the Stardust line in general and this one is my favorite.

Any scent with the word "butter" in it isn't likely to work for me, but I just had to try this one for the bread note and the concept. I really adore some of the Moonalisa scents with "bread" in the description and was eager to try one by BPAL. I certainly get a lot of toast put of this one. It definitely smells like toasted bread to me. Unfortunately, I don't get much cream or sugar (which might have saved this scent for me), and instead get a "buttery" herbal scent that makes the whole thing so sharp, bitter, and unpleasant. So not for me, but I do like the idea of bready scents!

I just sprayed this for the first time after a day of cleaning, to counteract that cleanser smell. I'm kicking myself for not spraying it sooner! Nuts are one of those items (like coffee) for which I am only slowly and recently acquiring a taste. But I've always enjoyed the scent of roasted nuts and like many, associate them with the holidays--for me, it's Thanksgiving, when my family has roasted nuts for dessert. This spray is the buttery scent of warm nuts. I'm not enough of a nut connoisseur to pick out the particular kinds of nuts. Warm, nutty, sugary sums it up for me. This will get a lot of use next fall and winter for sure.

Yep, it's strawberry gum! There's an initial burst of strawberry and the scent of plain bubblegum. But after that early sweet strawberry, I swear it morphs into cinnamon. It still smells like gum, only now it's Big Red. I was pleasantly surprised by this. I like this scent much more than I expected to because it's not too cloyingly sweet.

A freebie included with Trick or Treat Inquisition orders. No description available. This is pumpkin with white and/or vanilla musks to me. I hate to even say it, but it has an Antique-Lace-with-pumpkin vibe to it. It's light and sweet, so I think it would appeal even to people who normally find pumpkin too heavy or buttery. I LOVE this. I just wish it was something I could get a full-size bottle of!

#570: vanilla, sandalwood, and pear (could be apple--the note reminds me of the one in Agape, although my immediate thought was "pear!"). It dries down to a mostly vanilla sandalwood, but the pear/apple is still around and peeks out now and again. #626: I LOVE this one but am not sure about notes. It smells like buttercream in the bottle. At the beginning, still wet, I almost thought I could smell almond or cherry, but that goes away. It dries down to and remains an intense vanilla, almost like vanilla extract. Maybe there's still almond/cherry in the background? ETA that I think it might be orange. Not sure why I was getting almond/cherry anymore.

#213: stick o' firewood.