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To me, this is similar in feel to Unspeakably Evil Temple. However, LL doesn't have that firy sense. It does smell almost like something roasting though. (Must be spices.) I get some spice and probably myrrh and wood. Edit: After reading the ingredients, I get mostly moss, but moss tends to smell a bit spicy to me sometimes anyway. Or it could be the acid. Anyway, the incense is still amazing and autumn-like. Nice scent for a laboratory. Or, excuse me, a la-BOR-a-try. May not be for you if you think moss smells fusty or you dislike any scent that could be considered manly.

see if you like The Phantom Wooer. That's a little more "white stone" to me than lemony and it doesn't actually have lemon, I think. It still smells a little citrusy to me.

Airy, dusty, earthy/green botanical I didn't expect to like this, since I dislike Zombi. The "mildewed rose" description sounded pretty unpleasant too. It does smell sort of rosy, or rose-geranium like and it does have a fuzzy gray overtone, but somehow this smelled good to me. It has a clean aspect that evokes dry, dusty bathroom drawers that used to hold soap. It also reminds me of a zoo, somehow. Not the animal smells of course, but the deep green humid tropical-ness of a botanical garden.

This is an odd fruity floral. It reminds me of Poison Apple, probably because of the oleander. There is a faint smell of fruity dish soap underneath, but it's not high pitched or acrid enough to be unpleasant. It's sweet and exotic. I'm keeping this one.

Yep. If this had a color it would be lilac or light blue. It's powdery, but not offensively so. Maybe a little like orris root? The general tone is cool. It's also a bit soapy, but like an expensive milled soap with a delicate scent. As another poster said, this reminds me of Easter somehow. This may be too soapy for me.

OMGosh, really?? I received a frimp of that from the lab that I haven't tried it yet. Ghoul is in my top 5 BPAL scents of all time. I will have to go and test this, thank you! That's funny- I don't get that. To me it smells green/woody and dark (more dirt-like than ODFC's smooth musk) and a little misty.

First I get a blast of butterscotch. I don't love butterscotch, but this is pretty good and doesn't smell plasticy or overly buttery at all. I get a hint of patchouli with it too. Also vetiver? Somehow I could swear there's vetiver. After only a few minutes, the butterscotch dies down a bit and the vetiver begins to separate into smoky myrrh and sweet anise. The anise is very faint, though. A nice, foody scent for fall. Edit: I was wrong. The vetiver scent did not disappear (though it was never overwhelming or unpleasant). I think it is the dirt note. Funny, I was expecting oakmossy or dusty dirt. It's a lot like something I get from Black Annis.

I have no idea what year my sample comes from. Lovely sweet resins here. The golden amber is the strongest though there is some powder from the tonka. It reminds me faintly of Sheol, though it's not as dark or morbid as Sheol at all. The sweetness of the amber is offset by the somewhat darker costus and rockrose and overall this is just gorgeous. Recommended for fans of amber and labdanum. Edit 2016 version: I don't remember smelling this last time, but I must have. This reminds me strongly of an old fashioned perfume, I can't think what. It's powdery, almost cloying yet oddly compelling. It smells a bit like bug spray, yet I can't stop wanting to smell it? Confusing. As it warms up, the bug spray effect goes away.

This scent starts off in the imp and on the skin as profoundly unpleasant: strong pine and burning grapes. However, possibly due to my skin chemistry, this turns into a forest in the warm afternoon sun with hanging muskedine grapes everywhere. It's sweet and there's an undertone of patchouli. I'd say this is generally on the masculine side due to the deep patchouli and pine. This smells a lot like Arcadia, if that imaginary place had a smell. I expect Pan to show up at any moment.

"U" a retail scent smells like paper, leather and binding glue (not the awful smelling stuff.) The discontinued Pluto smells like linseed oil. Rumplestiltzchen reminded me of charcol and bonfire, but that might be just me.

I have to admit I'm sad for the Spider's disappearance.

Whoa. Now that is some powerful cocoa. I can detect a tiny hint of red dragon's blood underneath. I get cherry cordials only because I've never had raspberry cremes. Sad but true. The honey makes this syrupy and wonderfully sweet, but I'm concerned that the faint tinge of baby powder it adds will amp and ruin the scent for me eventually. Right now it's mostly dark and rich with buried resins. This is like a chocolate flavored Womb Furie on me. I may not be a big fan of chocolate in perfume, but this is really nice. Edit: Powderiness has not amped. Instead there's some pitch and myrrh coming out underneath lending a slightly spicy smell. This gets better and better.

I get the leather first, it smells a bit like the leather and saffron in Leather Phoenix, then a curry note comes out. I can't smell the ozone, but it gives a cold feeling to the scent. Cold curry? I wouldn't go so far as to call this body odor, but it is like tumeric and leather covering the freshly sweaty skin of someone dancing outside during an electrical storm.

This smells like magic. This is a machine shop from an alternate reality where engines are made of burnished copper and run on beeswax and imagination. Alternately, it's a nice bright yellow/ lemony scent with soft musky sage. It reminds me of herbal cough drops I had once, but that's not a bad thing. The herbs are somewhat medicinal, the metal is a little musky in the way heated metal sometimes is. These elements are not overwhelming on me and add more than they detract. (The resemblance to the smell of hot metal is really striking.) This isn't very strong on me.

Days and Nights in Vaults and Charnal Houses. I put some on before I went to sleep and yes, there are flowers and it's a lovely springtime scent, but the sour nitre and under-earth smells didn't exactly help me sleep. As for darkness itself and not creepiness, Dance of Death or Sloth fits.

Oh, if you don't mind a little sugar with the rose and violet, how could I forget Faith and Hope?

I'm not sure if this smells much like Dorian, but it matches my memories of the scent. Sadly, Dorian turns to burning tires on me. This doesn't. There's plenty of soft vanilla (tonka absolute). It has a fresh/gleaming edge that suggests green tea or metal accord (not as sharp as it sounds.) That must be the ti leaf. Underneath that, there's a faint floral and even fainter leather. The leather note is neither sharp nor chemical, just a very soft brown leather. The vanilla and white musk are comforting and the fougere lends a bit of freshness, but this isn't something I have to have.

Ok. I have a confession. I love Sloth. Embarrassingly enough, it's one of the most "me" scents I've tried. It certainly helps that myrrh is my favorite resin. I've tried a myrrh single note (not the lab's), but it smelled cloyingly sweet and oddly like raisins. The vetiver's sharp/smoky/grassy/bonfire/dank basement qualities only serve to enhance the myrrh. It may start out old-spice manly and too sharp for me, but it soon becomes wearable. To me, this is a great comfort scent despite its intensity. It smells of relaxing, of burning incense in a room with curtains drawn on a sweltering day in summer. I can see how it might feel oppressive to some, but usually the effect is really quite cozy (and occasionally sexy in an earthy kind of way.) This is not one for daily wear, though. Note: Impolight's review is awesome.

Epitaph has lilies and roses "through a faint, ghostly mist." It doesn't smell aquatic to me though. or maybe I'm confusing that one with Eternal. That has stephanotis, cyclamen, heliotrope, white rose and gardenia. Anyway, one of these impressed me with its delicacy. Les Fleurs du Mal is mostly roses with lilac and wisteria. I liked this one but some people found it to be faintly soapy. Nocturne is violet, lilac and tuberose Twilight is lavender, jasmine, and honeysuckle Oh! And if you don't mind a tiny bit of leaf in the smell, I find The Rose (from Marchen) innocent and gorgeous.

The blackcurrant is very evident. This is tart and somewhat powdery, close to a traditional perfume. It's in the Odd Portents and On Darkness family, though this seems more simple. I like those two better, so I will not be getting a bottle.

I did a search and didn't turn up this specific request, so can anybody tell me some good GCs or LEs with moonflower? I tried the Phantom Wooer and it's just awesome. The creamy white scent there is gorgeous. I've also tried Nuit, (which has been discontinued anyway) but for some reason (probably sandalwood or the white musk) it turned bad after a while. Midnight (also DC'ed) was just a sharp floral mix and I couldn't really pick out the moonflower. So, recs?

Onions? Really? I get cucumber body wash with aloe and maybe grass, just a big juicy mix of everything green. It's almost a floral on me.

Initially this is a strong, sweet rose hip scent with a faint bit of dryer sheet. The dryer sheet almost disappears and I'm left with the smell of an old trunk crammed full of rose hip jelly and dried rose hips. Also there's some stone. This is simple but very pleasant. The rose hips are the most predominant note. There's the tiniest similarity to the Halloweenie Salon La Mort. It must be the rose and myrrh. Note: I'm trying this on a sweltering day, so it's probably stronger right now than it would be in cooler weather.

I didn't think I'd like this one so much. Ginger can sometimes smell like a cleaning agent on me, but this smells more like dried ginger. Dried ginger, something earthy (tumeric?), and some other spices I can't pick out. Anyhow, the cider note is wonderful and I want to eat my arm right now. Very autumn scent, now that I think about it, it reminds me of Blue Pumpkin Floss, but that was more cinnimony, and it turned into a candle like scent.

Resinous. Not church resins or hippie shop resins, but it smell like tree resin. I can tell there's some dragon's blood, pine and cedar here as well as something herbal. It smells very much like a damp forest, full of scorched patches. Actually, now that I think about it, it smells perfectly like a place where a dragon would live. Note: after a while the patchouli comes out. It smells a bit like baby powder, but aging should fix that.