rachelandrade7

I was frimped this by the lab, and while I'm eternally grateful for it I must concur with a few other posters... The vetiver smells like a dirty ashtray! However, I've learned through reading the forums never to let an oil go to the swap pile until you've at least tried it first, and I'm a little glad I did. Key phrase: a little. The ashtray scent is overwhelming, but if you sniff a little past that you get an almost black pepper thing going on. That in itself kept me from scrubbing my arm down in hot water. After about an hour this sweet, smoky, tobacco/leather, man scent emerged. I'm seriously considering dousing the hubs in it. Then it went away. As in totally gone. An hour of stale cigarette smell for that? IMO, the violent vetiver assault on my nostrils was not worth the final result, however nice it (fleetingly) was.

OH MY WORD Sweet, sexy, coconutty, hazelnutty deliciousness melting into a soft floral-tropical-skin scent. The coconut/hazelnut settled into the background along with this magical effervescent fizzy scent that tickles the back of your nose. Sex on the beach in a bottle (and I'm not talking about the drink!). This is my "magic scent". You know, the one you're probably secretly hoping is in your next batch of imps. The one that everyone swears is Snake Oil or O, that will make men turn heads and women jealous. The one that will turn your bf/hubby/gf/sig-other into a total nympho for you. The one where, after Snake Oil turned to baby ass and O turned to sickly sweet corn syrup (try not to cry at the memories), you vowed to keep searching for. I think it's important when trying these oils to remember that everyone's tastes/skin chemistry/circumstances are totally different. I pouted for a good hour when Snake Oil went bad on me. But then I realized that half the fun is the search for the perfect scent! This just happened to be mine Final Verdict: Snake oil, Shmake oil. Black Pearl is wayyy better for me!

By far, our most popular scent! Magnetic, mysterious, and exceedingly sexual in nature. A blend of exotic Indonesian oils sugared with vanilla. I read somewhere in this obscenely long thread that reviewing Snake Oil is like a rite of passage in BPAL land, and since it was part of my first order that I received today I figured "sure, why not" After reading the first few reviews I was a little confused as to why this obviously incredible fragrance that everyone loves smelled like straight baby butt on me. As in baby powder to the nth degree. I felt a little better when I started to read the "play-dough" reviews. I pretty much begged my arm to smell like something remotely sexy but all in vain I suppose...there were a few moments where I got this incredible cherry-vanilla-saffron thing but in the end the baby powder came back with a vengeance. It got this kinda cool incensey after-smell but it's something that would smell good on one of those uber cool and sexy indie/hippie/goth chicks, which I sadly am not. Which also may explain why most other people here like it! Final verdict: I'll try that whole aging thing, but I'm not sure if this is my type of fragrance