Babylon

Shoot. This was what I was most looking forward to out of the Weenie batch. Incense and cake? Two of my loves, in one scent, together. It was not meant to be, however. Wet: Incense and the cake from Eat Me. Oh god, it's absolutely perfect. I need multiple bottles! This could easily be my signature scent. It clings to the skin, with no big nauseating throw. It's foody, yes, but deeply grounded by the incense. 5 minutes later: Oh no!!! It smells sour now. It's a weird sour wood note. This must be the currants? Whatever it is, All Souls no longer smells a bit like incense or cake. Yuck, so sour! It smells like rancid sweat. 15 minutes later: Gone. It vanished already, and has done so both times I tried it. That's ok, though, since the scent went so oddly awry. Never have I gone from so high to so low with a scent before!

Wet: Fruity with some menthol. It's reminiscent of being at the dentist's, getting a fluoride treatment. It also reminds me of the new-fangled flavored rubber gloves they wear there now. They're the usual gross latex scent, but with some generic fruit flavor. Dry: The same. Dentist! Darn that odd menthol undertone that's messing up this perfume for me.

Wet: A watery generic floral smell, like something you'd scent laundry detergent or dryer sheets with. Dry: Dusty dryer sheets.

Doh, how did I not think of that! lol. Hey, thanks for the download!!

Hrm. I checked it out, and went to do the Tutorial.... but I can't edit. I double click an entry, and get into Edit Mode. I can highlight text and copy it, but can't write or paste anything. There's no cursor either, if there's supposed to be one. I tried in Firefox and IE. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? I really want to try it! It does seem cool.

Aw, this is the first time a BPAL lemon has turned to Lemon Pledge (a cleaning product, used to polish wood) on me. Now I wonder if all lemongrass will do this to me. Must test. From the notes, I thought I'd love this. It smelled like a rose bush in a greenhouse at first, but quickly morphed to the Lemon Pledge scent. To make it worse, the sandalwood is creeping out so that it smells like Pledge freshly applied to a coffee table. After awhile, Namaste peacefully settles down into a lemon candy scent.

A vital, bold scent, throbbing with sensuality. Essence of dragon’s blood resin, thickened with myrrh and cherry, with a trickle of clove. Dragon's blood, cherries, and myrrh. It comes out smelling metallic, like blood! Hot, sweet, and sticky! I can't pull this one off though, it's way too heavy on me.

This is, overall, pretty much the best fall apple scent I've smelled yet. Spiced apples, and yes, a little potpourri. Unfortunately, each time I wear it, the scent fades away and within 20 minutes, hardly anything is left. This is one of maybe five scents I've tried that fade so quickly, and the first one I've really loved.

Wet: Oh, god, it smells like pure Lily of the Valley, my favorite floral scent (I grew them when I was a kid). Love it! *swoon* Dry: Holy hell, it changed quickly. Now I smell like someone's grandma's decrepit sock/jewelry/powder drawer. It's violets or a bad amber... something... all cloyingly powdery and chalky, surrounded by a sharp herbal note. Perhaps this is Come To Me for gmilfs. Special stuff: I wore this around the boyfriend, in very close proximity, yadda yadda. He didn't like the smell, and suggested we go play Baldur's Gate on the XBox. I think it would have worked much better had my skin not butchered the scent entirely.

Mmmm, dark cocoa, patchouli, and leather. I feel so comforted and protected wearing it. After awhile, it's mainly patchouli and leather. I like Centzon Totochtin better... its' chocolate sticks around longer, plus it smells like blood! But I definitely would like a bottle of this as well. I think it'll be a warm comforting scent to wear in the winter!

For the first few seconds, Suspiro smelled great, fruity like Budding Moon did on me. Then it all went wrong. Ylang ylang really doesn't like me, she came on strong, chokingly powdery. It hasn't worked in a few other blends I've tried either, but I wanted to give it one more try. The other notes were scared away, never to return. Now I know better and will not go near ylang ylang again.

Peach champagne, rich (and powdery) golden amber, and a light musk that's not going wonky on my skin. Pretty nice, definitely splendorous, but I like the throw of Grand Guignol's frootybooze better. This is too light on me, and I feel guilty wearing it. The scent's too innocent for me.

Wet: This is my new favorite chocolate scent! It's a delicious deep, dark chocolate milk. Dry: Plastic. The cream part went awry and took over. I can't even smell the chocolate anymore. Just kind of a burning plastic smell. I left it on for a couple hours to see if the weirdness ever went away, but it didn't. I'm so disappointed with my skin right now.

Haha, this is awesome! Drink Me is a perfect rendition of Pineapple Upside-Down Cake. I had to link to a picture of it (haha, there's a wikipedia entry for it), to show the few people who haven't had this that it's a yellow cake, with a melted butter and brown sugar top, topped with pineapple rings and maraschino cherries. It's my dad's favorite cake, and he asks for it every year for his birthday. That happens to fall on December 28th, so the pineapple upside-down cake always makes me think of Christmas-time too. I can't wait to wear this in the winter! I also get buttered toast *sometimes*. Not every time I wear it, and when I do sniff it, it doesn't stick around for long. Drink Me gives me the munchies.

Oh god, I've found a new love. This is gorgeous, a sexy, drunken chocolate. It pretty much stays the same on my skin for hours. Sinful dark chocolate, throbbing with red wine and rum. At the very end of your long, leisurely sniff, right as you're stopping inhaling, you can smell the hot blood. This really works as a sexy scent on my skin instead of things like Snake Oil and Smut. Maybe I'm just a monster. Who cares. Must get a bottle, asap.

I was disappointed with how floral Kali turned out to be on me. Wet, it's delicious chocolate with various flowers. But as it dried, the chocolate took a hike, and I was left with a bit of a floral girlie perfume. Had hoped Kali would be darker. I'll stick with Centzon Totochtin.

Wet: Soft ylang ylang, with sharp lavender and soothing lilac. Dry: Overpowering ylang ylang and violet powder. Wow, my skin just does not like this scent!

This is a weird one, and makes me giggle when I sniff it. I received two frimps of it, so I'd better review! In a nutshell, Laudanum is root beer and myrrh. I never would have imagined these together, but hey, it's not that bad! Just think spicy, smoky root beer. It's actually somewhat mouthwatering. I really like this one, it's unique. However, I don't think I could wear it every day. Not that much of a Laudanum junkie.

Oh no! I'm so scared when I first put Maenad on. It smells like strawberries and.... vetiver?! My arch nemesis! That burning tire smell of vetiver. But I can't go scrub it off. I booted up Guitar Hero right after I slathered, and now all my concentration is fully focused on trying to play (BS my way through) Smoke on the Water well enough to move on. I do notice throughout the song that I get pure strawberries wafting up to me and no vetiver. When I beat the song, I sniff my wrists again and there's no longer any heavy chunky burning rubber smell. Mostly it just smells like strawberries. To my nose, Maenad smells exactly like Pink Phoenix. So does that mean that my skin amps strawberries, of all things?

I hesitated trying Eve for awhile because I thought it had fig in it, and I don't like the scent of fig in other (non-BPAL) things that I've tried. So when I finally looked at the notes, I rejoiced and slathered some on. Unfortunately, my skin turned Eve into a monster! She's pretty roses mixed with the scent of air freshener/cleaner in a public restaurant's bathroom. Not even any honey to sweeten the deal. And the cap broke inside the imp. I think this means it's just not meant to be.

I'm getting the soapy note too, unfortuntely, and it kicked in within a minute of putting Ophelia on. Now that it's dry, it's a rose soap with a touch of lotus.

It's frankincense and myrrh! Frankincense lends its slightly musty woody note, and myrrh lends an almost raisin smell to Penitence. A comfy, heavier scent I can see myself wearing in the fall and winter a lot!

Well, it doesn't smell like weed. Actually, Amsterdam smells like Easter!! It's so fresh, clean, and reminiscent of a blooming, green spring. When it's wet, it's pure tulips and dryer sheet. But when it dries, I'm suddenly standing in the garden outside the house I grew up in. I can smell the peony bush that grew every year, and a scattering of tulips. Beside this is the crisp green of the other garden plants and our yard. This is a bit too fresh-light-flowers for me, but I might try making it into a lotion.

CCLX (260) To make it simple, this smells like the crumbling stone in Ozymandias, mixed with some incense, wood, and possibly amber. When I first put it on, I get the same "department store perfume" smell that Ozymandias gives me, but it goes away (for both Ozy and CT) in about 5 minutes, luckily.

Wet: cherry cough syrup Dry: Urinal cake! I'm really disappointed with how my skin reacted to this one. Cherry and star anise aren't my favorite notes evah, but still. Urinal cake? Come on.