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Maybe: ARCANA: The essence of magickal enigmas and long-forgotten esoteric mysteries. Frankincense, rosemary, lavender, neroli, and verbena. or Bewitched:Deep, luscious green and berry scents that evoke images of woodland witchcraft and the raw power of nature: blackberry, sage, green tea, wild berries and dark musk. or Phantasom:This delicate, spectral perfume gives rise to an eerie distortion of of the senses. It bestows an ephemeral, ghostly, and truly haunting quality to your presence. Green tea, lemon verbena, jasmine and neroli. When I think of her, I think of a powerful loyal lover and mother, and couragous witch. She may like Dana O'Shee or Dragon's Milk with the little one around!

I get red sometimes if I put on spicy BPAL's (do I even have any that aren's spicy...?) right out of the shower. Cinnimon often does it no matter, which makes me really sad b/c I love a strong, blood red smelling cinnimon like Sin...OMG.

My father in law says that Snake Oil smells like the talc his Scottish mother used to wear. (Runs to read more powdery reviews herself!)...

Almost everything I like is sweet, though I like my sweets dark and not too foody. O, Snake Oil, Brisingamen, Mme Moriarty, Eat Me, Kali, Florence, Hetaire, Black Phoenix...just some of my faves.

Black Opal, Darkness, any Lunars, the Apothecary, La Befana (what I imagine Honeydukes to smell like)...

Another lilac lover who has yet to meet her match. I do worship Ouija and Dragon's Eye but they just do not bloom on my skin. Alas!

Luna: anything moon, maiden, soft, or fae...Maiden, Eve, Ouija, any lunar (of course!), Alice, Fae...Antique Lace even, really. She is so soft, pale, and wistful...

The Raven, naturally! I always wear Snake Oil to openings. It IS my signature and I fancy being from Slythern House... (though any snakes would do). Other scents that evoke HP world: Bewitched Hellcat the Unicorn Ouija (so wispy and etherial!) Zombi (for the infiri!) I think Malfory would smell like Severin...just...REALLY! Dragon's (blood) anything

V4 A dream come true: Snake Oil with wistful violets and powdery orris! I would expect such a thing to be heavy like La Befana, but it is much lighter and flowery with less sweetness. I have been mixing my various violety BPALs with SO (Raven, Saraglio, Violet Ray), but this is so much more soft and lovely. It feels more like Antique Lace, but with a dark musk. Oh, god... Love, love, love!

Big, bad vetiver! It's thick and rich, slightly tangy, like rich, churned earth, drying down slightly sweet and powdery. This imp will wait and be whipped out at just the right moment. Powerful stuff.

I am loving this. I have been majorly stressed out...lots of changes in my life, some disturbing, others exciting but still mind cluttering. White Light has definitely helped calm my ass down. I think I will start wearing it to work. It smells light but not at all innocent or girly...just what I have been looking for. If I had to compare it to other BPAL I would say it smells something between Sacred Whore, Morocco, and Namaste. It is slightly herbal and astringent, which could be good frankincense, with a soft, clean white floral, and incensey spice. It sits close to the skin and gets nice and creamy without being too sweet. I feel like a temple. Om....

I am all about Euterpe with her honeysuckle goodness. WHY in the world was this scent discontinued?!

Sed Non Satia has honey is a bit nutty to me. Judith and Holofernes is also in this category on my skin, but is a little less nutty and I prefer it. Definately try O. Amber, peach, apricot, resins, and sometimes patchouli all smell like warm skin to me, and that is really what I love in a perfume.

Bordello and Mme Moriarty are my favorite plums.

Animalic musk, with amber, patchouli, ho wood, cypress, almond blossom, golden sandalwood, and strange spices. I really don't find this feral. Wet it has a sweet chewyness/herbal thing going on that reminds me of TKO but without the lavender. Then the spice really comes out. It reminds me of the more cinnimony blends like Bengal and Chimera. It dries out more complex than these, though, with a slightly fruity drydown (lotus?). Beautiful, powdery musk but alas, the wearlengh and sillage is not in your face like this Mme wants. Must slather repeatedly... ETA: Raven Moon's GC sister!

Deep, diry patchouli and something a little sweet on the drydown. Love it. I'll mix it with O.

Watery, ozoney melon. Dries out salty and sour on me. Not my type of scent.

Whooo-la spicy, smokey vetiver! On the skin there is a blast of orange, then onto...MORE vetiver! On me, it gets really dank. DH loves it. Dries out to an orangey, powdery...VETIVER! Lovely, if you like that sort of thing.

This little drop of decanted heaven does not have a number and it was gifted to me in a swap. Sorry folks! To me it is almost all O with a hint of somthing slightly more sugary floral, like a little Mouse's Long Sad Tale or something...sweet pea? cotton candy? Yum!

A chakra's system's delight! It is mostly lemon dried out to a woody patchouli on my skin. The heart is very subtle. It is stimulating and focusing...a working scent, less of a perfume than my usual BPAL tastes.

Smokey, sweet and dusty. If you liked/loved/missed On Darkness, try out this baby. It is very similar, but less fruity. Yum!

I don't think it's particularly lilacy. It was very dusty and dry incense on me...

I'm waiting to see how Ms Lupscaru (sp)does... ETA: It's really almondy at first and then gets dry and spicy. I like Hecate and Snake Oil better.

Kiiiind of like White Rain shampoo initially; DH says it's like scented toilet paper. SHUT UP!!! Give it a minute...Fresh lilac, fruity red tea, and sweet, dry resins. There we go! It gets fizzy, then slightly creamier and more transparent as it dries-like honey incense dust. It's a great warm weather scent for a dark scent lover like me. It's clean without being soapy or girly or too "nice". It's slightly herbacious, and not too floral. I love lilacs, but in perfume sometimes they make me feel too wistful, like a child or a grandmother. Not here. Mixin' with the beloved myrrh and sexy honey. YEAH!

This reminds me of Bengal, more more like an advent calander I had when I was a child: kind of lemony and spicy with the amber. Dries out a little musty like Haunted does on me. Swap.