ModderRhu

I'm a rabid red velvet fan and this sounded perfect for me. However, I found it to be thin-smelling. It wasn't rich to my nose at all, but like watered-down red velvet instead. I didn't smell any Snake Oil or Dorian either and I wish I had. I don't know what Doc Constantine smells like. I guess I might have smelled something woodsy in there. Cake Smash smells a lot like Miskatonic University to my nose, but far weaker. Definitely did not live up to the hype for me! So glad I only bought a decant.

anne bonny, no contest!

love's philosophy is the creamiest ever, but good luck finding it snake oil (with at least a few months' worth of aging), dorian, white rose (from the BPTP's unity set), detestable putrescence, and black opal all smell like a "creamy" vanilla to me. maybe morocco too? but it's creamy vanilla + soft florals. boo doesn't have vanilla in it, but it has that creamy type of feel. we really need more GC creamy things...

ohhh man that's good sandalwood! it's got almost a creamy, sour quality to it. the patchouli smells like fabulous dirt. i can't really pick out the frankincense, it must just be in the background holding everything together. this is so simple but it's a masterpiece. ETA: Bizarrely, this scent makes me hungry.

smelling this makes me feel like i'm gonna die i don't even...i can't even... this is so... ewwwww it smells like something you shouldn't be inhaling. am i a wuss? this seriously smells toxic. i guess pennyroyal is not my friend.

cthulhu in love is one of my favorites. it's a salty, incensey chocolate.

this totally smells like corn pops. yummy, but not something i'd ever wear again

Hi! a few recs: Szepasszony The Deep Ones Lightning I don't even like aquatic scents as a rule, but I like those!

try seeking out scents with very few listed notes. a few of my favorites are: Urd Imp Goblin Haunted Black Pearl Unsteady Governess (Halloweenie LE, still available til later this month) if i think of any more, i'll add them

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!! omigod... dude... i want to be constantly basted in this stuff!! before i ever smelled this, i pictured it smelling like those vanilla-flavored tootsie rolls. the ones that come in the blue wrapper. it totally DOES. it smells like that, and fresh laundry. and maybe some whipped cream. with extra sugar. true, it does also kind of smell like buttered popcorn jelly beans and plastic, but i LOVE that about it! mmmmmm...

This is awesome. I don't care for many "clean"-type scents, as I prefer to smell like a dirty hippie who rolled in sugar, but this really is AWESOME. It smells juicy to me. Juicy and refreshing! I would so love to drink a violet-flavored white tea, if it tasted as good as this smells My only gripe? It's not really a gripe, because it's already awesome, but I wish this had creaminess in it. It would probably be my holy grail scent! Oh well. I'll continue my experiments with layering for now!

This actually lasts a really long time on me, and has great throw! It's ozone-y apples. I only get mint from this blend when I sniff it out of the bottle. There might also be white musk here, but I'm not sure. It's very perfume-y, but in a good way. It smells...posh. I'm really loving the combo of ozone and apple! Need to hunt down more blends like this...

First off, let me say that I won this and a few other BPAL things in Katie Puckrik's giveaway and I'm very thankful that I won. I never win anything and it was an amazing prize. Many thanks to Katie and Beth! That having been said, I shall proceed with my review. This smells horrifying. I have never recoiled from a scent the way I did from this one. It smells nightmarish. I'm proud of myself for even putting a half-drop on my skin. I'm struggling with how to describe this! To me, it smells like ashes, burning rubber, burning hair, rust, blood, dirty leather, and rancid nuts. I love metallic notes and I love leather, but this is just so horrific. It's like a crime scene or something. I'm guessing that the vetiver is causing most of the nastiness. Ooh, a fishy note is coming out now. Nice! Smelling this is making me upset. It makes me uneasy just having it in my house I cannot wait to get rid o--I mean, I can't wait to re-home it with someone who will give it the love it deserves! Someone who appreciates vetiver, I suppose. I have met my BPAL match. I thought I was into "dark" scents, but I guess I'm just a wimp!

i don't get sexiness out of this blend, but it still works for me! the honey is very sweet and smells kind of cleaned up, if that makes sense. i would have preferred the smutty, dirty kinda honey like the kind in womb furie for a sexy scent. there's also something in here that smells like strawberries. maybe that's the red musk? i'm sorta smelling something salty, too, which makes this smell a bit like pastries, but not quite. overall, i like this. it's smooth and sweet. though this actually smells quite girlie to me, i can see myself wearing it a lot.

i find Alice to be quite similar, though not identical.

Oooh, I like this one! I get the juicy, fruity aspects of the scent first. Very lime-y and tart, with a little booze. Then after a while, the jasmine comes out. It's the kind of jasmine I love. The super SKANKY stinky kind just like in Flying Fox from Lush. There's also something in there that reminds me of the way rice smells. A couple hours after application, I'm left with the non-sweet, dry components of cedar and moss. This is the most morphtastic BPAL I've smelled. My only complaint is that I can't smell Dorian or Snake Oil! I guess "a little" means very very little. Oh yeah, and the label is friggin adorable.

This is just plain awesome. I love the vanilla (I think I recognize it from the Antikythera Mechanism) mixed with the hemp and the patchouli. I LOVE this kind of patchouli. It smells dry and dirty and I adore it. It is very sweet, which is why I don't get the comparison to Snake Oil. I don't find S.O. sweet at all compared to this. It's a dark sweetness, though. Definitely lives up to the hype. Go on and get it if you're on the fence and if the opportunity comes along...

God. This smells like pure cinnamon on me. At first anyway. After a WHILE the pumpkin starts to come out, with kind of a planty blackberry smell. Like if you took a bunch of blackberries and squished them. If I sniff reeeeeally hard, I can kinda get the cotton candy. I'm gonna hold onto it, but if the cinnamon doesn't calm down with age, I will try to find my bottle a happy new home.

At first, this smells like dirt and caramel on my skin but then after a while, the iris kicks in and it starts smelling like eating caramels while wearing lipstick. The first stage is so nice that I want to like this but I'm not yet sure if I do.

i like patchouli, but this version is a little thin. it's like watered-down patchouli. it's alright, but not for me.

Origin: frimp! In vial: Oooh! Happy citrus!! This reminds me a lot of the BPTP spray Down the Rabbit Hole!! With the dirt and the marmalade...*looks at listed notes* Wait, huh?! Fresh on skin: Smoky, spicy tangerine and incense! I feel a little crazy just about now. I'm liking this A LOT so far, and if I'm wrong I don't wanna be right! This doesn't smell frozen or hollow or dolorous to me at all. It smells pretty damn cheerful! At this point I've taken out my goblin squirt of Down the Rabbit Hole for a side-by-side comparison. Yep, smells very similar to me. Almost the same, with K.K. being a little less candied-smelling and a smidge darker. Drydown: Same as when it was wet. Spicy citrus. I like!

This smells like a bag I had made out of goat leather () long ago that my dad got me. Like a stanky farmyard! It also reminds me of Black Opal A LITTLE bit. It doesn't smell like it, but I get the same kind of "vibe." It's like a totally unsweetened Black Opal with animal funk and maybe a tiny bit of metallic stuff and incense. As funky as it is, I still kinda like it!

When I smelled this in the bottle, I was thrilled! It smelled like fresh dirt I LOVE dirt smells! It reminded me a lot of a greenhouse or nursery or something. Sadly, when I put it on my skin, it started to smell like something from a chemistry lab. Something you aren't supposed to breathe in. As it dries down, it alternates between that and expensive-smelling tobacco. I just got this in the mail today, so maybe I'm not giving it a fair chance. I really hope it settles down to something I like more. Also, it's sooo unlike any other BPAL I've smelled, and maybe I just have to get used to this type of smell. Will definitely hold on to this one. It intrigues me ETA: This is hands down the strongest BPAL oil I've ever tried. I used a tiny drop on ONE of my wrists and, well, it's all up in my grill. Never experienced that before! I will probably add more thoughts as they come to me, as this is just such a WEIRD one and I'm trying to understand it. ETA 15 minutes later: WOW. This is the most moving oil I've tried yet. It's amazing. It rocked my world and turned it upside down. Who knew I would ever love something like this?

Honeyed milk, baby powder, lavender, orris root, sage, carnation, angelica, frankincense, and rose otto. This reminds me a lot of Alice, but even more innocent-smelling. I can definitely smell all of the notes, especially the honey and orris. I like this a lot! Very comforting!

At first this was very yummy, juicy lemon in the vial and wet on my skin. However, it dried down to a strange, chemical grassy smell. I wish I got more of the spun sugar! I'm gonna hold onto my decant and see if I like it better with a bit more aging.