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Not really specifically looking for GC equivalents but! One of my favorite blends is Falling Leaf Moon, and my bottle is now almost empty. The Halloweenies included Pile of Leaves scents this year, and now there's been time for people to try them! (the reviews made me want most of them, but limited funds, so) Which is closest to Falling Leaf Moon? (or if there are other currently available scents that come very close, lay them on me too, but I'm hoping one of the Pile of Leaves scents will work)

I am terrible about picking out most notes so I won't try. All I can say is that there isn't actually any chocolate to this one to my nose. In the bottle it was bitey and something that I hesitate to call spicy exactly, all over a sweet undertone. Very delicious. It smelled almost exactly like that wet but the bite changed a little and got wetter smelling. I want to say it almost smelled like there was a dash of dark rum in it? There isn't any rum listed in the notes though. Dry, there are two radiuses of scent. Away from the wrist, the bite is still there (spicier now but still rum-like) with a sweet, juicy undertone. Close to the wrist it's a very dry spicy scent that's almost smokey. I was desperately hoping this 13 would work on me and I am so glad it did. I almost wish I'd sprung for a second bottle.

I'm getting brand new leather rather than old and also the citrus-fruity scent that other people are getting. Just a touch of wood underneath--which is weird because I tend to amp a lot of woody notes. Now I'm curious which wood it is... The citrus was strongest wet but it stays when dry. Good enough to keep for me, but I doubt I'll get a bottle because the new leather is very sharp and I'll only occasionally wear it. I may kick myself if aging softens the leather up but ah, well. That's life.

Anyone know scents similar to Falling Leaf Moon? I've worn it for three days straight and I expect I will continue to wear it often once the honeymoon phase is over.

With this Thirteen my collection is complete! Thirteen being my special number, I just had to get them all, and thankfully they've all loved me back. This one is a thick chocolate in the bottle, but not a sweet chocolate. It's smooth and tangy. I'm going to agree with other reviews and say almost boozy too. On wet, it's still strongly chocolate but a little less boozy. There's something underneath I just can't place. A few hours dry it's a much...dryer scent. Hints of chocolate and a dose of spice (pretty sure it's clove, but a mellow clove). Something nutty too. I didn't really get much fruit (I expect my skin ate the fruit scent and possibly amped the spices) but it's still a very wonderful smell. I cannot express how happy the Thirteens working on me has made me. Overjoyed. I'll be wearing them a lot, I'm sure, and I hope the lab puts out a new blend for August.

The "cold" part of the description is absolutely perfect. Hypothermia is definitely very very cold. ...but I bought it unsniffed because I wanted mint, and the reviews said mint! Alas, no mint on me. I have tried it three times and my right wrist always smells of soap. The left is actually quite nice, just, no mint. (why they're so drastically different I've no idea but Ded Moroz does it too) I might keep a bit for summer but most, if not all, of the bottle is going to swaps. Back to searching for a mint-scent for me.

Got this as a frimp in my lab order! Not a full review because I had to wash it off almost right away but when I put it on I got dirt--not clean fresh earth but a rancid, overpowering dirt. I didn't get any apricot at all. And then it set off my asthma and I had to wash it off. Not a bad attack, thankfully, but my asthma definitely doesn't get along with something in Depraved at all. I need to figure out what. To the swap pile it goes And I was looking forward to the apricot.

I am mostly interested in bottles of the Shungas, Salons, and Lunacies though all the bottles have very aesthetically pleasing labels and I'd like to have one of everything. ...I just don't have enough room to collect everything so I'll just focus my efforts on those. These are the empty bottles I'm looking for: A Little Lunacy 2004 Blue Moon 04 Red Moon 04 Frost Moon 2005 Storm Moon Chaste Moon Flower Moon 05 Fruit Moon 2006 Budding Moon Peony Moon Hungry Ghost Moon Lycaon 2007 Hunger Moon Rose Moon Bakeneko Ivanushka Alison Gross The Emathides Minotaur Sea of Tranquility Swan Maiden 2008 Moon of Ice Lune Niore Cheshire Moon 2009 Strawberry Moon 09 Berry Moon Raven Moon Peach Moon Beth's Blue Moon 09 Brian's Blue Moon 09 2010 Whirling Wind Moon Candles Moon Chaste Moon 10 (pending??) Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements ...I actually have all of the first two sets; just looking for this year's. Autumn Moon of the Mirror Stand Beanman & Beanwoman Prepare to Attack the Vagina Harimise Kiss Amongst Discarded Tissues Koneishin the Penis God Lovers in a Carp Streamer Needlework (especially want! not getting a bottle) Octopus and Abalone Diver Okayaki Penis Admiration Picture Book and Pleasure Toys Pink Mood Prosperity of a Country Ronin Unveiled The Salon series Peacocks El Amor y La Muerte Judith and Holofernes The Black Swan Wezwanie/Hold Lucifer Autumn La Vague Haloes Heavenly Love & Earthly Love Mad Kate Rozpustnica Parsifal The Penitent Magdalen (I) Three Brides (I) The Fox-Woman Kuzunoha Leaving Her Child (I) Silence (I) Carceri d'Invenzione (I) And There Was a Great Cry in Egypt (I) The Death of Sardanapal (I) Two Monsters (I) Satan and Death with Sin Intervening (I) The Isle of the Dead (I) Lucretia (I) Resurrection of the Flesh (I) Bat-Woman (I) Orpheus (I) Death of the Grave Digger (I) Cloister Graveyard in the Snow (I) Lot and His Daughters (II) The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun (II) Melancholia (II) The Ecstacy of St. Theresa (II) Three Gorgons (II) La Mort Qui Danse (II) Garden Path with Chickens (II) The Lantern Ghost of Oiwa (II) The Sailor's Den (II) Itaso Kansei Nenkan Joro No Fuzoku (II) Les Anges Dechus (II) The Arrival at the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil (II) Cupid Complaining to Venus (II) The Cup of Death (II) Judith Victorious (II) The Great He-Goat (II)

OLD BOOK! My dream scent; I have found it! I've been pouring through descriptions and reviews since I found BPAL looking for an "Old book" scent and this is definitely the one. It is very green to start but then the green fades a bit and it really does smell exactly like an old book to me. My nose has been glued to my wrist ever since the dry-down started, but the beginning is very nice too. :D I get wafts of vanilla too, but I don't smell any when I sniff my wrist. Hmm. Either way, I must get more of this. A whole bottle, at least.

Now that I've tried all the Ars Draconis blends except for Dragon's Hide and Ladon, I thought it fitting that I should ramble about them as a group. I'll start with Dragon's Blood which wasn't what I tried first but is the base of the other scents. I'd tried both Dragon's Heart and Dragon's Claw and was expecting the warm almost spicy note I'd smelled in both to be what Dragon's Blood smelled like. Silly me, I put it on and "Waugh! Flowers" They weren't as strong as Dragon's Eye so I kept it on instead of washing it off right away. Good thing I did, because the flowers did go away (mostly) and revealed something kind of like I was expecting, though...brighter? I guess? Not bad, once the flowers leave, but I need to try it again to see if the flower stage is worth waiting through. Probably not something I want a full bottle of, however. On second try, the flowers stayed too long and too strong--into the swap pile it goes. Dragon's Heart on the other hand, I loved from first sniff. I can't pick out any notes in it (except that it has that warm, almost spicy hint in common with some of the others) but it smelled amazing. I'm glad I decided to try all the Ars Draconis, in spite of reservations about some of the names/notes, because otherwise I would not have tried this. I need to try it again to see if I can pick out notes, now that I'm getting more used to BPAL scents, but I'm pretty sure I want a bottle of this. Dragon's Eye was another one I wouldn't have tried, and I almost wish I hadn't. It was my first huge failure. "WAUGH FLOWERS" all the way. It was almost nauseating. If it changed later I'll never know because I could only stand it a half-hour or so before I had to wash it off. Dragon's Claw on the other hand, was a huge success. I think it's my favorite of the ones I've tried. A very warm and sharp scent and I was sniffing my wrist continually. Need a bottle. Dragon's Musk was nice, and turned surprisingly ...fruity? later. Not much to say about it--needs trying again. Second try: nice but not something I particularly need more of. Dragon's Tears ...is this the dreaded "baby powder" I've read about in reviews of various scents? I think it is. I had to wash it off 15 minutes later. Second try: actually the first few minutes are amazing but then it goes weird and baby powdery (not exactly baby powder on close inspection but close enough to be mistaken on random whiffs). If I could keep the smell of the first ten or so minutes I'd buy a bottle :| Dragon's Milk ...sour milk in the plastic bottle. That's exactly what this was. I need to check the notes and see what caused it D: ... I tried it again and let it sit for a while after reading the notes were vanilla--the sour turned nice and sweet but there's still a strong hint of plastic which ruins it. Boo. It would be nice without the plastic. Dragon's Bone very dry! Bone dry, even. I liked it, but I was still reeling from Dragon's Milk so I'm sure I didn't get the full effect. Need to try again for a detailed test, but I know already I want more. Dragon's Reverie flowers! But they started fading the instant I put it on. It got spicy after so I think it's a keeper. Tanin'iver Loved it! Spicy and warm. I definitely need more. All in all, I still love Ars Draconis and hope for more scents to try out someday. And I definitely want to try Dragon's Hide and Ladon (though I expect I won't like Ladon that much but I've been surprised twice already!).

Red scents are a priority and/or I want them the most in their section. Green are already on order/being swapped for. Purple are maybe scents. * are scents I am mostly looking for imps of (but might take a bottle) Anything else, unless it has "Bottle only" after it, I will take in any amount I also am wishing for: decanting supplies for my bottles I don't like enough to keep a whole bottle of and empty bottles for collection purposes: The list is here Things I have already tried (not sorted) Must. Have. More!!! Violens Ü Mütter Museum Tintagel Dragon Moon 06 The Bow and Crown of Conquest Odin Want more of: Grand Guignol Gold Phoenix * Silver Phoenix * Quicksilver Phoenix* Dragon's Heart Tanin'iver Dragon's Claw Sol Invictus 09 Leipreachan Pumpkin Patch V (unknown year) Dragon's Bone Malignant Dreams of Cthulu in Love Banshee Beat Wolfsbane Baku Yew Trees Pumpkin III, IV 07 Pumpkin I, III, V 09 White Phoenix Sachs Severin Falling Leaf Moon Will probably never turn down offers of: (unless it's already on my "scents I did not like" list) Any Thirteen blend any Celtic themed blend any blend based off of a country/culture in Asia (I happen to be an Asian Studies student ) Things I want to try (by rough category) LE Scents A Little Lunacy I would like to try any of them, but especially: Blood Moon 08 Wolf Moon (any year) Red Moon Bakeneko Berry Moon Roux-Ga-Roux Bony Moon Mead Moon Frost Moon Anniversary scents and/or LE with Phoenix in the name Wood Phoenix Orange Phoenix Mechanical Phoenix Blood Phoenix any of the others? Yules Sleipnir ...probably a lot forthcoming. This section under construction Lupercalia Section still under construction! Khrysee Ignarok Jewelers Novel Ideas for Secret Amusements (Shungas) ...get their own subsection because I want to try them all. If I don't have it already I want to try it. Especially strong wants: Butterflies and Plovers Lovers in a Ricefield Manners among men and women in the red light district Voyeurs among cherry blossoms Halloweenie Section still under construction! Tattie Bogle Any pumpkin related scent but especially: Pumpkin patch (05/06): 3, 1, 4 Pumpkin II 09 Pumpkin I, II, V 08 Pumpkin I, V 07 Springtime in Arkham Tulzscha Yog-Sothoth Oblation Thunderbird Oisin Cerberus Corazon ...Chiroptera (the flowers give me pause butbut bats!) Other LE and forum only scents The Deserted Village Werepuppy Discontinued De Sade Yerevan Hamadryad Yuki-Onna Hakkotsu General Catalogue scents (I am still looking through these and constantly changing wants as I find out what I do and don't like in notes) Neil Gaiman The Ifrit Mad Sweeney Mr. Nancy Spider The Bugger Alle This Bible Aziraphale Agnes Nutter Crowley Tristran Sunbird Bewitching Brews Anne Bonny Bewitched Blood Blood Amber Cathode Calico Jack Dana O'Shee Jolly Roger Plunder Yggdrasil Black Forest The Jersey Devil Juke Joint Kill-Devil Leanan Sidhe Velvet Wilde Has no Hanna Wolf's Heart Ars Moriendi Dance of Death Danse Macabre Deep in Earth Embalming Fluid Thanatopsis Hellboy Abe Sapien Sin & Salvation Envy The Great Sword of War Cathedral Dirty Les Infortunes De La Vertu Gris Grimly Diabolus Fenris Wolf Nocnitsa Akuma Baobhan Sith Dracul Kitsune-Tsuki Phobos Villain Ars Amatoria Golden Priapus Casanova Mad Tea Party Jabberwocky The Lion Mouse's Long and Sad Tale Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat How Doth the Little Crocodile Illyria Antony The Apothecary Iago Lear Wanderlust Havana Kyoto Port Royal Tombstone Ars Draconis Dragon's Hide Ladon Rappaccini's Garden Picnic in Arkham Arkham Excolo Ochosi Aizen-Myoo Old Scratch Alecto Marchen The Little Sparrow The Little Wooden Doll The Red Rider The Black Rider Phoenix Steamworks & Research Facility The Antikythera Mechanism The Robotic Scarab Doc Constantine's Pharmacopoeia Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener The District ...the home of lots of floral notes. will list when I figure out what floral notes like me The Salon And There Was a Great Cry in Egypt The Fox Woman Kuzunoha Leaving Her Child Cloister Graveyard in the Snow Itasô Kansei Nenkan Jorô No Fûzoku The Lantern Ghost of Oiwa Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Garment Nettle Tree at Oji Kiyohime Changes From a Serpent Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree The Chakras ...will need more time to figure out what I like first Panacea must read through reviews first Somnium Carnaval Diabolique Doc Constantine Gennivre Faiza and the Snake Pit (especially Habu) Wulric the wolfman Priala Retail Exclusive Haloes BPTP scents ... pity I don't take baths (no working tub, alas) or trust most soaps because some of the bath oils/soaps available on the site sound amazing. Some of the sprays interest me, and the scent lockets are amazing (and way to expensive for my poor bank account, woe). Sprays Saloon #10 Okiya Alchemical Laboratory Doc Constantine's Medicine Show Down the Rabbit Hole Scents Warrior Queens: Boadicea, Hua Mulan, Jingu Naughty or Nice Inquisition: (I don't like enough of the scents to attempt to buy) Nice: MONSIEUR PETITBLED'S FRIVOLOUS WHEELED FOOTWEAR Naughty: PLaying with a Loaded Gun (hahaha seems everybody wants this one)

So many packages came in over the last few days (and my bank account is wailing in agony but oh well) that I now have enough scents to create a stash post listing them. Legend: * bottle I might get rid of ** bottle I would be willing to swap as long as I could keep/get an imp or two of the scent *** amazing scent need more now # Imp I like but might be willing to get rid of ## Imp I need another imp or two of, at least ### Imp I need a whole bottle of, at least & untried && needs trying again Bottles! Hay Moon Makhanitis * Crypt Queen ** Devil's Night 09 Thirteen (April 07) ... (***?) Thirteen (Feb 09) ... (***?) Gunpowder Men Ringing Bells with Penises && Lovers with Rutting Cats && Ded Moroz Blood Moon 05 && Thirteen (Nov 09) Tamam-no-Mae Marotte * Chaos Theory III Strange Attractors DLXXXIV * Green Phoenix && Thirteen (March 09) Thirteen (June 08) Thirteen (Oct 06) LE Imps/decants Iron Phoenix #? Tin Phoenix ### (bottle on order) Quicksilver Phoenix Silver Phoenix ## Gold Phoenix ## Leipreachan ## Summer's Last Will & Testament && Hungry ghost Moon ## Dragon Moon 06 ### Couple Consulting an Enpon ##? Tissue Sol Invictus (09) ## Pumpkin Patch V (05? 06?) ## But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light Ü Mütter Museum ###!! Banshee Beat ## Malignant Dreams of Cthulu in Love ### Pumpkin III 07 ## Pumpkin IV 07 ## Joulumuori Mother Shub's Spice Lait de Chevre && Wind in the Willows: Mole Water Phoenix Pumpkin III 09 ## Pumpkin V 09 Luperci && Pumpkin I 09 ## Copper Phoenix Velvet Dogs Playing Poker GC Imps Himerus Grand Guignol ## Hetairae && Nefertiti && Nero ##? Pais del la Canela && Thy Godfather's Present && The Hesperides The Bow and Crown of Conquest ### Dragon's Heart ##(#?) Tintagel ### The Dormouse The Phantom Wooer && Violens ###!!! Dragon's Claw ##(#?) Dragon's Musk Dragon's Bone ##(#?) Dragon's Reverie Tanin'iver ## Snake Oil & Seraglio Sri Lanka Eclipse Glasgow 77 The Highwayman && Wolfsbane ## Baku ##? Perversion && Yew Trees ### Satyr The High Priest Not to Be Described # Magus The Ghost Zephyr && Odin ### Osun && Scents I did not like at all (+ means I still have it) Lead Phoenix (LE) Velvet Tiger (LE) + Rose Red (LE) Lilium Inter Spinas + Aeval + Dove's Heart 51 + Delirium + Iambe + Dragon's Eye + Hairy Toad Lily + Dragon's Tears + Dragon's Milk + Nyx + Follow Me Boy + Black Dahlia + Desire + Scents I do not like enough to keep Dragon's Blood (flowery for too long) + Sweet Life + Wind in the Willows: Nowhere in Particular + ...next, I need to make a wishlist.

I must have had something on my skin or something the first try because no soap smell with Himerus the second time either. However, it was a horrible sleeping scent. It aggravated my insomnia like whoa for some reason. It took a long while for me to drop off (the smart thing to do would have been to wash it off but, alas). It was still there when I woke up and I was still getting very faint whiffs when I did wash it off. I'm going to take a guess and say my average wear-time will end up around 10-12 hours. Note to self: check out the Somnium scents sometime. The reviews all seem to mention lavender, which I love on the plant itself (my poor dead root-shocked lavender plant, oh how I miss thee), but I have no ideas besides that. The name of Baku definitely pings me so maybe I'll try that first. My random pick of the day is Ded Moroz. It's so sharp and clean and amazing. I think I may have to get a bottle because I can see myself wearing it a lot. But definitely washing this one off before bed--I feel wide awake, even though I was tired before. And I haven't had any caffeine today. ... Huh, now that the Ded Moroz has settled I'm noticing that my wrists smell different! The left sweetened and got a bit flowery and the right is more like when it was first put on. Weird.

Wow, Iron Phoenix lasted even longer than Hay Moon. At 12 hours it was still very noticeable--I had to wash it off. Still having trouble washing them off too--I must remember to look for something that will help. Randomly picked out Himerus from my tiny tiny stash for tonight. I really like how this smells in the bottle, sharp and herby. It gets sweet on me very fast--my sister claims to smell honey--but it keeps that sharp scent too. I love it and when the imp runs out I will probably buy a bottle. Going to bed now; will report how long it lasts tomorrow. Hoping it's like Hay Moon and doesn't turn to soap at the end like they both did first try.

Lasted a good 12 hours before I couldn't smell it anymore. So long lasting! Applied with a toothpick this time and wasn't all overwhelmed--toothpicks from now on for me! Still can't quite figure out what it smells like, but this time I smelled a grassy scent in it--not hay, or at least, not the hay up in the hay-loft hay-- and it was nice. And no soap smell this time! Whatever it was the last time seems to have changed (or maybe I slept through the soap smell). I think I need to find a new container to store my imps in. When I reach in to pick one out my fingers come away smelling like the scents--maybe one is leaking? must check. Today I randomly picked a scent without looking and picked up Iron Phoenix again, and I really like how it smells about a half hour after applying. I'll see how long it lasts and then pick out something else to try long-term after it fades.

Since I don't feel confident enough to attempt giving actual reviews (I can't pick out scents yet, alas) I'll just ramble on about the scents I've tried here. :Dd I doubt anyone will read this, but that doesn't bother me. BPAL stays forever on my skin so far, which is good for wearing, but not so much for trying out more than new scent a day. I need to discover a good way to wash them off when I need to. So, hmm, might as well ramble about what I've already tried: Hay Moon-- I saw the name and notes and knew I had to get it so it was the first thing I actually bought, after the enabling scents my friends sent (and ironically, the first to arrive! lol). It doesn't smell like hay, unfortunately, but I do love whatever it does smell like on me. I used a Q-tip to apply and I think I got a little too much because it was kind of overwhelming at first. Warm and rich, with something that got sweeter the longer I had it on. Kinda got soap-smelling much later, but that wasn't bad either. I'm going to try some again tonight. Himerus-- mmm, spicy. There was that sweet hint again too, and something just a little flowery. ...also kinda soapy several hours later. Lilium Inter Spinas--smelled nice and...herby? in the imp but.... smelled exactly like cheap deodorant when I put it on. It didn't get better so I washed it off after a couple hours. Dove's Heart-- got a mostly empty frimp but even that had a completely overwhelming floral smell. I like the smells of flowers but I have yet to meet a floral perfume that I really liked the smell of on anybody. Aeval-- same deal, but this smelled more like store-bought perfumes to me. My sister might like it, though. I'll see about enabling her. Ded Moroz-- a friend raved about it so I found some to check out. And wow, this one is nice. Very sharp to start but turned quickly to sweet herbs and spicy flowers (I like the flower scent I get in this; very subtle. \o/) ... and some seven hours later: more soap, though slightly different from the soap of the first two. Maybe there's something these three have in common? Grand Guignol-- frimp and an amazing one. Fruit! but not too sweet. Peach or yellow plum, maybe? Something similar. And with that is something else that smells good but it faded well before the fruit-smell. (And hey, no soap!) Anniversary Phoenixes-- the descriptions sounded so cool but they were going away soon so I hurried and found some to test and see if I wanted a bottle of any. Didn't get Gold, Silver, or Copper yet though... Iron-- I loved the idea of it and thankfully it smelled really good on me too. Victory \o Could not for the life of me describe what I smelled but I definitely think I want more. Tin--lemon and something else! I like citrus and it doesn't smell like cleaner so definitely keeping it. Quicksilver-- sweet and sharp and fresh. No idea what it smells like but I definitely like it. Lead--I thought I would really like this, from the description, and it smelled very nice in the vial. It smelled good on my skin at first too, but then a new scent started up that was very very acrid and burnt smelling and I just couldn't stand it. Maybe the tobacco? I was thinking just dried tobacco leaf when I read the description and I do like the smell of that. On the other hand burning tobacco is very nasty to me. So, 7 and 4 out of what I've tried so far. ...maybe I can swap the Lead for one of the other varieties of Phoenix.