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White Rabbit and the Tweedles.

Unsweetened baking cocoa combined with baby powder and cherry kool-aid mix.

This is the dreaded craftstore smell on me. Apple, mulling spices and some butter.

Rawr! Smells like sweet red and black musk, patchouli, cinnimon and jasmine.

Tuberrose with osmanthus, honey, and white musk, PLEEEEEZZZE!

Not that I have found. I actually just bought a new bottle of Magie Noire. Loooooove her. It smells like rapberry dark chocolate, dried roses and incense on me. This is exactly what I'm waiting for from a BPAL oud. It's a hot note right now in the perfume world. I want it dark, dank, and dirty!

Ooh, fun! I really thought this was going to be fruity when I saw it (hadn't read reviews). It was at once cinnimon and absinthe. It dries out almost clovey but with more of a feel of carnation with a touch of vetiver-not too sweet. A playful yet really wearable candy frag-not too kiddo, if you know what I mean!

I think Raven Moon and Miss Lupascru are sisters.

Honestly, when I smell straight up vanilla-musk at Whole Body, it smells just like Antique Lace on me. When I wear AL people have even said, "Oooh, vanilla musk?".

Lots of lilac and plum, with an earthiness from the leather, herbs adding some green. This is like a less sour Blood Countess on me. A spingtime scent that is not too innocent...keeper.

<img src="http://www.bpal.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thud.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="thud.gif" /> Yes, yes, yes! This IS special...and slatherable. Raven Moon has complexity, silage, and depth without being heavy. There is a sparkle when wet, almost what some would call "collogne-y", or soapy, which would be the "shine" of the musk with the myrrh. It quickly darkens, though, and all the notes blend beautifully, almost a clovey in it's spiciness; not at all a sterotypical spiciness (aka "craftstore"). The rich patchouli/vanilla/musk drydown is downright edible without overt sweetness. If you like other spicy/resiney BPAL's (Chimera, Bengal, Cathedral, etc) it should be right up your alley. If you missed it, try Miss Lupescu-they are very similar; ML has a slight fruitiness from the almond blossom that RM does not have, & all dried out RM is just a bit bolder, rounder-sillage is medium, wearlength is nice and long. Definitely a keeper for me.

I'll add Inez to the list. AL is mostly vanilla musk on me, which Inez has. She's definately a sister scent.

yes. please. i have one bottle of la befana left, it is so incredibly beautiful. interestingly enough, the raven is also my 2nd choice. Are we scent sisters, I wonder?

Pleeeeeeze, Beth, bring back La Befana for Yule. It is my favorite violet: candied but dark and smokey (with no vetiver or mint, which I really don't pull off well). The Raven is my 2nd choice.

Please add, in addition to the lovelies mentioned: Sin Dragon's Heart Antique Lace

Hetaerie is hella sexy, as is Inez and Hand of Glory.

I have been transformed into a pumpkin pastie! The pumpkin is the slightly buttery, spicy autumn scent we all know and love here. The almond and honey musk combine seamlessly to give the blend a slight nutty, creamy, skin sweetness. These almonds are not being brash cherry girls, though there is a slight fruity/juicyness. It smells like O and Dana O'Shee are having a pumkin late, really. Delicious, sensual, Faerie Harvest feast!

Cinnimon is a note that will be making its appearence again very soon: Sin and Chimera are on the top of the list. I remember how I wanted the Death of Autumn to be my ultimate fall scent and it ended up smelling just too chared on me. Le sigh.

A combo of Heiterae and Blood Lotus may come close w no almond!

I will be breaking out the Snake Oil again during the day, but I'm so looking forward to Pumpkin 1 (w almond and musk). Ooooh....

Posting b/c I had forgotton how much I love the yummy, dark, juicy, sexy, fruity/muskiness of Dragon's Heart! I need some more right now! If I am completely honest, I love it more than Mme Moriarty.

Oh, this is GLORY! It goes on with a fresh wood note and a spark of saltpeter that dries down quickly. The beeswax warms up honey sweet, combinging with the nutmeg making an almost eggnog note. Leather does not usually agree with me, but it is brilliant here, slightly dry and dark, like mummified flesh. Delicious and evil. It has sillage like WOAH, too, which is something comming from me b/c I can't slather on enough of anything! It's another lovely, dark, gender neutral skin scent (my favorite kind!). It smells like I've been preparing and altar and now I'm having a lovely tea party in the underworld! IMMEDIATELY into the favorites category!

I can't think of a scent that I wear that dosn't get put on wrist/fringertip to bottle and get applied to wrists, neck, hair, and other pulse points....and reapplied at least once a day! I seriously don't gag people out, either. Ok, ONCE I know I gave someone an allergy attack, but they were fine in a few minutes and kept sitting next to me and they totally could have moved if they wanted to! I don't like rubbing pokey plastic on my skin and I wouldn't be able to smell anything if I only put on a drop of anything.

Pumpkin pulp, beeswax candles, smoke, asphalt, and beer! I was afraid of the beer. I really don't even like to drink beer and I sure as hell don't like the smell of it! This is pretty yummy, though! Slightly buttery pumpkin and spice, like a pumpkin pastie, with an incensy, smokey drydown.

Oooh, this is fantastic! DH commented that it smells "fresh" on me, which I could see a bit...in a fresh wood way. It reminded me a bit of Theiry Mugeler's Angel first off...like a clean, sweet, earthy scent. On the drydown it reminds me of Haloes without the sour apricot note that kept me from keeping her..plus it dries out way darker. SCORE! The woods and tobacco smell very much like patchouli, and it stays creamy with just enought vanilla. It is not as uber sweet as I expected, and the woods are not "splitery". I am so pleased! I think this is truly gender neutral, and a nice dark skin scent. This is going on my bottle list right away!