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At first this is almost citrusy (which must be the linden), which makes me almost run away screaming. But I remember that I love narcissus and Snake Oil, so to hang the f*@& on and get my nose OFF of my wrist and let the scent settle and waft... I just might like this best of all out of the Snake Pit. It is clean but creamy, floral but musky, sweet and deep. This is Snake Oil for when it is warm outside. I will save it and wear it all summer. We happen to have a lot of cottonmouths around here. Maybe it will appease them!

I got this for the acai berry ( I love berries...I wonder what this one smells like?)and smoked vanilla. I HATE neroli, so I was a bit out on a limb. This really smells...like air freshener, gummy candy, or apple/berry dishsoap. Up for swaps.

This is quite like Red Phoenix was on me. The cassia/cinnimon thing is just overwhelming and does not play nice with my chemistry. Can't do it.

The copal here is a lot like the sweet note that I thought was the honeysuckle in Chimera. The resins are not sharp at all. This is sweeter than I expected. There is a likeness to sugared bubble gum.

Sweet and spicy white floral. Kind of like a cross between Ouija and Brides of Dracula.

Ooooh, yeah....you are not going to be seeing this one on my swaps page! If you like Snake Oil, Perversion, and/or Blood Kiss, this is for you. It is dirty, sweet and so sexy. Yum.

My long awaited has arrived at last... and I am just as infatuated now as I was anticipating. There was no reason for me not to love this scent. It is composed of everything I love. It is an orgy of sticky candied incense. Very caramel at first, drying out with a soft, dark, deep, sweet floral. It's perfect. So glad I bought a bottle unsniffed. If you wanted to love Snake Oil but it just didn't work, I would try this for sure.

I received a frimp from the Lab back in the day and fell in love. She is quite like Black Phoenix without the almond, a smokier, more earthy rose, and more myrrh-longer lasting and less powdery.

Yes: very thick and gritty in the bottle...like the bottom of a homemade cup of hot cocoa; that is the smell and consistency of Boomslang in the bottle. It is very much like Velvet and SO together when wet. It must be the extra bite of woods that gives it that effect, but I always assumed it was the myrrh in Velvet that gave it that minty bite, and here it is for a moment in Boomslang. Hmmm? Drying down, it's Snake Oil with just a light dusting of cocoa. Love it! It will be my "extra sexy and delicious" Snake Oil blend! This morning DH came to wake me up and he was surrounded in a thick, dark, delicious, sweet cloud of muskiness. I could not identify what is was, and was shocked to find out it was Boomslang! He dosen't wear Snake Oil!?! He said the cocoa was very prominent wet, but it dried out on him by the time he got upstairs. I think we may need another bottle soon!

Oooh, I love this! It smells as if I have been working in the garden in the Spring (what I wish I could do here in the dead of January): there is dirt, a faint composting smell, with the freshness of flowers and the tang of a damp breeze. It is like Zombi but lighter and not as scary!

Yeah, I was thinking Fae. I thing someone has an avitar for Fae with Sara and the peach...

Oh, yeah. This is good stuff. If you like Blood Kiss this, too may for you, if it is not too similar. The vertiver is sharp and dark to begin, with a squirt of pomegranate instead of cherry. It seems to heat up with my skin, and instead of slightly souring, as Blood Kiss does for me (but not on DH, which is why it is still one of my top 10) it sweetens with the amber. Spicey, dark, sweet lit incense. I love it, and I hope He will, too.

Almond with the Voodoo undercurrent: a kind of honey/powder/herbal blend. I think it smells fabulous, and am giving it to my brother with a great deal of need for a change...

I never thought that lotus smelled like bubblegum, but here I definitely get it when it is wet. Drying out it gets much more juicy, rich and sexy. For a single floral it is very wearable for me.

Smells like a freshly Pledged antique table.

A great twist on the classic frankincense and myrrh scent. The olive is a little green and fresh, the ginger is a little fruity (like citrus), the patchouli and musk and dark and deep. Really wonderful. A great incense scent. It will smell great with some cake scented lotion! This is one that me and the boy can definitely share.

Grrrrrraaaapey . It is very sweet, like grape bubblegum, just like I hate. I don't want to hate Purple Phoenix! I love purple! I love the Phoenix! I love almost every other note listed! Drying down, the dusty, dry floral incense notes come out, but the grape is still there and I really don't like it. I know this will get more love somewhere else.

This is DH's new favorite. He loves juniper, but had not found his holy grail BPAL juniper. This is it. To me, it begins smelling like a forest. I don't usually like the smell of pine, but this is not at all pine-sol like...it is fresh and real. What are the Christmas trees that smell like oranges if you rub the needles? Are they fir? I don't know, but WM has that same fruity air about it. The orris is lovely, one of my favorite notes, and as it dries, it takes on the scent of an Advent calender that I had as a child. This is a magical, Narnia evoking scent for me. Dry this is pure glory~brooding musk and glowing amber with winter air, like the hunter come home on a blustery evening. I will be hunting down bottles.

Absolutely Lyonesse...I, too, am a stargazer lover. My happiest memories that I share with my sister are of smelling them in our father's garden. Lyonesse comes the closest to capturing that. I think that the amber and vanilla take the sharp edge off that stargazer SN's usually have. Peitho is more floral, but I think the jasmine is more prominent.

Blood Countess scared me.

This is so RED, juicy, sexy, pulsing, powerful and delicious. It starts out bright red and flowing, drying down to a maroon, brooding scent. Dragon's Blood is always sweet and fresh, drying down to a powdery incense, on me. The fruits with the red musk are made for each other. If I didn't love the lilac in Dragon's Eye so much, or the pure sex of Dragon's Musk, or if Dragon's Milk did not chase my son's monsters away, this would be my favorite Ars Draconis.

Lyonesse

I thought that this was violet, but no...it's orris. Hmmm. The musk here is divine. Have I smelled it before? I don't know....but I am a musk LOVER and this is very different from anything in my collection. The coconut is just sweet enough with the freshness of the floral and musk. Simple, but I like it!

Mmm...dragon's blood, rich and deep, slightly spicy and creamy, with a bit of that powdery Voodoo note. There is a floral quality evocative of honeysuckle and lilac. I love this blend so very much. It is both soothing and uplifing, as someone has said before. It is like Dragon's Eye and Eos together. I expect to wear this as I wish for Spring, as well as when I need renewed faith in my ever changing creative abilities.

This is beautiful...dark purple tangy plum with pink carnation swirl and dead sexy musk. I can pick out each individual note clearly. A wonderful example of what I love to call BPAL's "fruitientals".