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I cannot even belive that I love a scent with MINT! This is a lovely scent...truly...it is like sitting at an open window in Springtime, lilacs blooming in wet, fresh earth...I have just bathed in lavender water, dusted with violet powder, and have but on a crisp white nightgown. I blow bubbles lazily out the open window and watch them float into the dusky evening. Ahhhhhh....She is Ouiji's violet sister. Dried out this is very much like Guerlain's Apres L'Ondee, which is very expensive and difficult to find, in it's fluffy, sweet purpleness, but has a deeper edge. I just love it and must have a big bottle!

Sed non Satia is the nuttiest nut on me! Seriously, it smells like almond/peanut butter on me through the drydown.

Hunger

Of course, the LE Katrina Van Tassle is very milky if you can do a light white rose. It is pure sweet cream with just a touch of floral.

I can't wear spicy BPAL's right out of the shower b/c I flame up with red welts. I have to save them for the evening. But this dosn't include Snake Oil. I think if there was cinnimon my skin would know: Chimera, Bengal, Shub all flare up...

I love Judith and Holfernes just as much as I thought I would. It is the perfect blend of freshness and sweet for my skin. The musk, carnation and magnolia give the incense notes just enough lift without being too bright. There is a freshness that is subtle but welcomed with the rest of the rich notes that emerge in the drydown. Next, it is a bit woody, but the honey, immortel, and musk carry this scent down to a soft, warm, cloak of a scent. It is very much like Sed Non Satia without the nuttiness and more cream. This is what I have wanted so many fall LE's to smell like on me. It is like the fading light, the sun setting on my skin. I have fallen, people, and I have fallen hard... Edited to add: DH has begged me not to wear this to work... (Too..eeehmm...sexy. Honey can do that on me...). I will save it for romantic nights in.

Yup. Smells like whiskey!

Thank you for clearing up pages of speculation. I, for one, would not care if BPAL WERE made of garbage (now THAT's artistry! ), it is the best House on the planet.

This is my favorite BPAL violet. I love Sybaris, but she can be a bit too sweet sometimes. Violets that are too sweet remind me of grape lolipops and I just can't smell like that. The Raven is sweetened by ylang ylang, which is not an easy note for me to play with. However, I do love it in Skuld, and the Raven is like her purple brother. The iris is a nice "dusty purple" note that complements the violet beautifully and logicly. Woods and musks are always hit and miss with me, but here they are romantic and melancholy, rather like dimmed lights.

I think Inez smells quite like silk when dried down. It is kind of woody/creamy and soft.

Maybe Phantom Wooer. Or look up moonflower...

Anything with blood, wine, earth or musk are unusual. IMHO nothing beats a BPAL musk!

Skuld!

There is a reason everyone says "Snake Oil". It's enchanting, sensual, and has major sillage. After all these years of BPAL wearing, it is the #1 complement getter from the general populous: children, teens, men and women, young and old, strangers and close friends.

I am always on the hunt for another lovely violet. La Befana calms my fears about the smoke and brimstone I was expecting. It is very much like Arrival of the Sabbath...on me, but with violets. The violets are fuzzy and dark, the candy is rich and sweet, and the dust is like powdered incense. DH says I smell like a Victorian candy store. It is my favorite sitting-by-the-fire-smoking-a-pipe kind of scent. Glad I got a bottle. Yum...

Lurid is cool, relaxing and sexy. It is the only ozone scent I can do: lavender makes it sleepy, white musk makes it fresh, and the resins make it a yummy skin scent. I need more!

Yum! Honey Moon and Haloes had a baby and draped her crib with garlands of honeysuckle and jasmine, and served almond tarts to all the Faereie Queens who came to bless her. Thank you to the kind forumite who gifted me with this treasure, as I missed out on the offer first go 'round.

I am not getting a floral, spring/summery feel at all, which is what I was expecting. This is a thick, syrupey sweet berry note, not tart and "fresh" (like in Bewitched). It is if patchouli oil was infused with overripe berries. I love iris, but am not really getting any strong feel of it. There is a wonderful "old world powdery" note that reminds me of Shalimar (that I get with Snake Oil to a lesser degree) that must be the amber. It evokes Annik Goutal's Eau de Charolette (which is a department store natural perfume-notes of blackberry jam and chocolate) but this is much richer, denser, longer lasting, and more "mature". She is instantly in my Top 10 for the dark berry/powder combo. Love, love, love...

Shub and Inez have a similar denseness that I think smell like cookies (and sexy lady!): evil gingerbread and deep vanilla spice respectively. ETA: Ditto on the aged Chimera!

I got a whole bottle of Inez unsniffed...and I love it. I will be using this up very quickly because I, the Sillage Queen, am going to have to slather! She reminds me of a combination of Morocco (light, musky, spicy), Sed Non Satiata (similar slight nuttiness...must be the myrrh, as it is the only note they share...but the amber in Inez may have some honey), and Shub (for the depth and sexy-spicy-cookie vibe). It is not at all overpowering. Inez is a skin scent for sure, slightly sweetened, warmed and spiced. This is the queen of ambers in the BPAL catalogue. Amber is in itself a blend of many components, and all of the notes here mearly support it, make it more sophisticated and sexy. This is not a strong incensey or "hippie" amber...it is creamy and entirely feminine, and because of it's light sillage is a perfect oriental for warm weather. It reminds me of my beloved Bellogdia by the house of Caron (my favorite carnation to date) before the dreaded reformulation. Thank you, Beth, for a new classic!

For me, it was mostly leather and clove.

Like a combo of Perversion, Depraved and the March Hare, but without the apricot and coconut. Hmmm...maybe someone has a better suggestion.

I love orientals in the summer too! Something about spring brings out the lighter florals, but once the heat really hits, florals and fruit turn wilted and sour on me! Musks are particularly lovely. Snake Oil, Scherezade, Smut, Bastet, even Bordello, smell so good warmed up!

Is pennyroyal poisonous to animals? I am thinking that I read that somewhere...

Now that I have fallen in love with violet, I have to go back and try the violet scents again... I love Bois de Violette by Serge Lutens (and am not going to spend $200 on it). It is very green on top, but dries out kind of mossy and sweet at the same time, like how wet earth is almost chocolatey.