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Costume National's 21 smells a lot like Bastet.

Snake Oil-Always and forever. Agrat Bat Mahlat (musk,honey,apple)gets LOTS of unsolicited complements from the boy and strangers...in the South, no less.

MINAMOTO NO YORIMITSU CUTS AT THE EARTH SPIDER – Toasted sandalwood, tobacco flower, teakwood, castoreum accord, bourbon vanilla, and patchouli. Blood Kiss

I really wish the Organ Grinder didn't have pine. How about a blend with almond, patchouli,tobacco, and some musk, for good measure?

#325: Vanilla and what smells like apricot and light spices and honey! Mine, oh, mine, oh, miiiine!

OMG! I forgot Old Demons of the First Class!!!! Tobacco Honey, too. They are both smokey sweet AND have a nice, light lift to them.

I cannot believe I haven't tried this before: it's a well established GC with myrrh and violet, two notes I stalk! Whatever. It's beee-u-tiful. I love that cinnamonmel says "it fickers": The greenery and violet really flirt with each other here. It's sun-lit-forestry, like that, with the myrrh grounding it all in this soft, deep sweetness. I want this as incense! I want my SHEETS to smell like this. I will totally wear this when I want to feel clean as a breeze (violets always remind me of a Victorian bath).

Oh, there's that traditional fougere thing going on, so I slap it on my man. This is very reminiscent of Gaueko but I-iiiiii think I like this one better! It's less lavender-y, and while I don't usually like lemon, it's very subtle and lends way to the tangy/creamy/smokey/sweet labdanum (god I love labdanum-it's the closest thing to amber I can get on him-dosn't turn to powder, ya know...)even sooner and more seamlessly. The highs and lows of the Scales are more prominent than in Gaueko. It's got that "freshly shaven sexy professor" thing. Yeah...!

Rawr! The man grabbed this first and slathered it on with a lusty groan. It smells like...a clean, warm man, sunning himself outside smoking sticky pipe tobacco. The drydown is so sweet and musky and hmmmm-mmmm-mmmm-DIRTY honey! Snuggle, snuggle, snuggle... On me it smells really floral, buzzzzzzzzz......!!!!! It dries down quickly, getting kind of powdery and resin like in it's hony goodness...Door?! Is that you?! No, no, it can't be you! Tobacco Honey isn't as strong or complex as Door (which I have to keep a steady supply of), but is so similar on me that I'm giving it to him. It smells REALLY GREAT on him. Like, "Woah".

Wet this is RED MUSK! brightened with the herbs. Drying out, the florals are head-y, and yeah, a little tart, but it's ok, it's ok...the red musk is backin' it up. It has a very Indian feel. The patchouli is deep and woody, but the massoia/tonka/white flower thing it has going on gives it a gently creamy, almost buttery sweetness on the drydown. Mmmmm...sweet patchouli musk, my favorite kind of blend. It feels like Phantom's sibling in in how it is a rich, musky, floral incense scent. I'll be wearing this out in the Spring and Summer- it has a freshness that is undeniable, but it's still dark and sexy. I think she'd cut through a bar crowd like a bitch on wheels, too. I love it enough to have back up!

Katherina is all peach (really it's apricot but I've only ever had peach...) soda on me, waaaaaay more than Fae.

Dana O'Shee smells like warm, sweet rice with almondy milk to me (and it's GC!).

Door Antikythera Mechanism Hecate

How would you compare and contrast Door and DNHoney? On a totally unrelated note, I think Tzadikim Nistarim smells and feels a lot like Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse.

Playtex scented tampons. I really can't get past the reference right now. It's a soft, powdery, rosy scent...with a little spice, I get the spice and I know, I know, I could train my nose and learn to like it because it is so darn likable. It's fresh. It's wearable. It's lovely. It just reminds me of my first periods. Sorry.

This was NOTHING like I expected! Earthy, delicious, creamy, juicy, woody, mango incense?! OMG! I love this so much. It is my new "happy" BPAL! I wore it hooping and I smiled the whole time. I don't like traditionally bright scents, as I've said before when I have to make an exception, but this is GORGEOUS! I it feels like when I went to a Hindu temple, surrounded by a haze of sacred smoke, with offering of fresh fruits all around. I am so, so GIDDY about this scent!!! It smells like how happy it makes me to see kids on their birthday. CRAAAAAZY! Craaaazy good! Ya know what it's like...it's a lot like Winter Solstice Luna Eclipse!

Door has stolen my heart. She is such a lovely juxtiposition of bright herbacious notes, sweet/creamy honey, and a deep, smokey/dusty, yet tangy resininess. She reminds me of a more mature, esoteric Honey Moon, which was my little one's favorite when he was a baby (sigh of nostalgia...). It is calming, yet not soporific; fresh, yet not grating; grounded, yet gentle and approachable. This is perfect for me to wear to work as a psychotherapist. There are many doors I am called to open.

A Mutter wedding sounds so wicked awesome! Will the ceremony be upstairs or down?

Delicious, waxy honey. This smells both green/floral fresh/honey, and smoldering/sweet/creamy. It's like Hand of Glory "light". I'll wear it to bed (snuggle, snuggle).

ZOMG! Wet: Bright raspberry, bitter orange blossom, and snapped bright green stems. Drying down the honey note emerges more, still so fresh with the tart fig, the musk is all breezy but starts to get creamy. I'm so glad. I have to have a scent that melts into my skin. Dry: The berries and fig darken and meld with the honey, like tart filling, but the musk keeps it lifted and not too foody. I imagine that if I wore Fae, Honey Moon, Heitaerie, and washed my hair with my VO5 Sun Kissed Raspberry condishioner I would smell something like this. But I don't have to! I have my very own PRECIOUS bottle! And how often do we get RASPBERRY in our BPAL??? Crazy, happy, Berry Moon LOVE!

Very very very much lavender-purple flowers and green stems. It dries out like lavender water, a bit lighter. If there are herbs and honey, they simply mingle with the green part of the lavender to my nose. A pretty little posy. That is it.

This. Smells. Just. Like. The. Mutter! I opened the bottle in the gift shop and was totally creeped out and amazed. On the opening it is a bit "green", balsamy, yes, but it smells like old, polished wood, like Bezoar. It starts to dry out and get really leathery, dusty incensey, and waxy/sweet, like the remains, wax casts, and antiqued paper that line the cabinets upstairs and down. However, it gets a "Mmmm, you smell gooooood" from the man, so don't be too afraid... This scent has oomph-silage and wearlength are strong and long, just how I like it.

If you are brand new to single notes, you can get a bit of an idea by going to a health food store an sniffing EO's. Eden Botanicals also sells sample of their EO's.

I love raspberry but haven't found a BPAL one that suits me. You may try plum, currants, and pomegranates (especially paired w red musk) for a similar juicy red fruit feel.

Phantom, Darkness, and Inez are my creamy, spicy, floral babies.