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Just stalk me! LOL! Some of my favorites from the GC: Snake Oil, Sin, O, Dance of Death, The Other Miss Forcible, Ekhidna, Le Lethe, Medea...

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Let's add the newest addition: Love and Sleep, from 2014 Lupercalia update: fig milk, vanilla, orchid, ylang-ylang...can't wàit!

Yes, much like Snow White, but not as rich and creamy. It's a soft, buttermint scent...cool, but not mentholy. It stays close to the skin and is very soothing. I see myself wearing this on hot nights.

Phantom Wooer smells like the green life of summer, to me. Goblin smells like hot bodies by the pool!

I got this as a frimp in my last order. It's now my favorite green scent, and I need a bottle. Wet, it's damp moonflowers, freshly bloomed at nightfall: lemony, in a way, yes, but not at all sour...distictively moonflower...I grew them for years and they totally tug at my heart. I smell their pallid greeness and can hear crickets...feel the humid air...walking home, breathless...in love with the shadowy, dangerous night, and excited by my solitude. The other florals are a faded yellow, and honey sweet. This moss note is divine: so velvety soft, earthy, and wet. I love how alive it smells, how floral, yet is a believable skin scent. The powdery drydown is a earthy, musky lullaby. It's to be my summery Whoso List To Hunt. Swoonworthy.

Y'ha-Nthlei

White Noise Fragrance Above is the link to an article from Perfume Shrine, that claims to coin the term "White Noise Fragrance". From the article: "Contrary to "skin scents", a term loosely used by numerous perfume aficionados to denote either a subtle scent that hover over the skin or mimics the latter's living, heaving aura, White Noise Fragrances do not attempt to appear any more "naturally occurring" than static. You can perceive them all right, they expand and detract minimally, just like an equal power signal with fixed width, always at the realm between comfort and annoyance...White Noise Fragrances project at a steady, perceptible, above the skin volume which you can almost taste, but their buzz is sotto voce, unwavering, yet forceful like an inner bleeding that is pouring with no apparent source and no outlet." Exploring and discussing White Noise BPAls with others, Snow White, Antique Lace, The White Rider, The Red Rider, Violet Ray, Lurid, Lightening, Namaste, St Germaine, Katharina, and Luna Negra came up. What are your favoirtes? Let's compile a list here!

At first I smell something bitter and earthy, drying down quickly to a crush of herbs and green, fresh honey. Then it totally morphs into a scent that reminds me of childood: my gramdmothers's clothes! She always used Downey fabric softener and wore sweet, musky perfumes and powders (Shalimar, Chantilly, Cody Wild Musk, Tea Rose), that melded into a scent that was just HER... here, her arms a full of the pale pink and white peonies that she proudly raised in the rich earth of her back garden. I ran and played in that garden...I felt happy and free in my white lace dressses and sturdy brown shoes. I can burry my face, even now, in those giant blooms, her soft, loving embrace all around. She's been dead for years...this is like a resurection stone of scent for me. Oh, thank you, Labbies! I want to go try straight up Black Hellebore now! I'd been craving a peony scent that matched my darker sensibilites! This is more than I could have asked for...

This SMELLS like abundance! Rich, golden, sweet wood...it reminds me a bit of a Variety of Pleasing Amusements. I'm thankful for my imp, and wish it was GC!

When I saw this blend up, I was SOOO excited....ALMOST as excited as when I saw Snakes in the Pumpkin Patch!! Then, I thought..."oh, it may be just like Shub layered with Snake Oil...I can live wirhout it". I quickly dismissed that last part and insisted that Santa immediately buy me a bottle outright- then I snuck it a week early because I just HAD to have it and compare them side by side. Shub is often described as "evil gingerbread". Gingerbread Snake now owns that title. Shub is sharper, almost lemony in its fresh ginger bite and bright resins. Gingerbread Snake is more baked, cinnomony, molassesy, chewy GINGERBREAD, with the ever famous, all time favorite, sexy assed Snake Oil!!!! Dried out, it smells like a potion of spices and black honey. OMG. It's way more than the sum of its parts, and while I smell delicious (if I do say so myself), I don't really think I smell like food, which I appreciate. Serge Lutens and Chanel can SUCK their gingerbread notes-BPAL NAILED it! Sophisticated, sexy, gourmond, brilliance! I love, love, love, LOVE it!!!

The Other Miss Forcible! I've been surrounded by lustful sniffers several times. Baked goods sweets+musk=sexy on me

Yes! So much like The Book when wet: well worn leather and dry, vanillic paper. The flowers are tiny, mossy, soft, pale things-I hardly notice them unless seeking them out, until the drydown, where they become a bit more prominate: tea dyed pasel colored, and delicate. Scottish tablet is crumbly, carmel sweet, but here is only strong as the smell left on my lips after eating it. I'm tearfully happy!

When I was at the BPAL booth at Dragon Con 2 years ago, someone asked Beth if she had a vanilla single note. My ears perked up, and Beth made some witty retort about how she had the vanilla of all vanillas, and I was introduced to Detestable Putrescence. (I was also sucked into a BPAL time warp where I lost 4 hours, nearly blinded by the glory of our beloveds, but that's another story...). I wouldn't guess it was melted vanilla ice cream. It reads to my nose like a Godiva liqueur: sweet, thick, vanilla, boozy, cream. It also kind of smells like raw sugar cookie dough, with a TON of vanilla extract...like, the Devil's vanilla extract: the bottle's shoved full of sticky, black vanilla pods and filled up with the richest, most magical extract EVER. It's not human. It has a tangy note that could be cherry/almond, booze, or milk, but I don't recognize it from other blends. It's strangely not straight up foody, though, as it dries on the skin. It's fleshy, sexy, and absolutely wearable for me. It's a dark, dark vanilla for SURE. Yeah. It's awesome. I have a bottle. Aaaand people want to eat me.

Violet Ray!

Here's the Snow thread! Go To Sleep Darlings is to be sweet snow. I can't wait to try it!

Necro bump because we've got 2013 Yules!!!: Almond Blossom: almond blossom, hoar-frost, and snow-wind Go to Sleep, Darlings: Kiss-soft clouds of spun-sugar snow Purple Snowballs: Sugar plum snowballs with a touch of currant and cardamom The First Soft Snow 2013: Heavy drifts of snow blanketing winter’s narcissus The Garden in Winter: Swaths of red poppies, white roses, graceful winter lilies, and sun-bright primroses beaming from beneath a flutter of snowflakes Winter Stars: starry blue musk with mugwort, white mandarin, rockrose, and snow

"Classic make up table" suggests powdery or leathery (galbanum) scents to me: Haunted, Dance of Death, Velvet, Florence, and No. 93 Engine.

Go ahead and kill my dreams- this stuff's amazing! Sweet patchouli wins my heart every time! Almonds are nearly always welcome, too! The cumin is spicy and kiiiinda skanky, but isn't overwhelming. The resinous notes add a bit of a golden glow, but this is all about the patchouli: woody, grounding, dark, round, roll in the vardo sexy! (If you missed it, get thee to some Goblin for a similar sweet patchouli fix....ooh, layered with some Hecate!)

Tricksy is all about the aquilaria aguillocha, otherwise known as oud, slightly sweetened by gentle, musky, dark, crystalized honey. The patchouli is smooth but secondary. It's a very linear scent, close to the skin, earthy and...kinda skanky. It's the most wearable oud scent I have; I appreciate that it's not medicinal-many ouds smell like band aids to me. It's a deep, damp, woody scent that stays close to the skin. I hope it goes GC, too!

This smells like the dementor love child of Old Demons of the First Class and Antikythera Mechanism; the golden glow, richness, and spices of his parents has been sucked dry. It's slightly sweet but not creamy; the tobacco reminds me of a fresh pack of smokes. It's very soft for a resinous patchouli musk. While I think of classic perfumes like leathery Bandit when I smell it, it reads as masculine to my nose. Achluophobia creeps me out like only Zombie does, though they don't smell the same. This is a masterful conceptual blend. Don't be afraid of the dark...

Ooooh! Green, musky, light floral with an earthy, dusty drop off (earth? vertiver? patchouli? there's so little it's hard to say-very subtle...), all in one sniff. It's BRILLIANT, evocative, and beautiful-a light scent I can and will wear. It's not sharp, or soapy, or overly anything! I was hoping for a Halloween light musk, and this is it!

Pumpkin spiced Snake Oil?! It's a forum dream come true, and a Snake Oil lover's Weenie fantasy. 'Starts out slightly buttery, creamy, golden, pumpkin, and mellows into an extra spicy Snake Oil. It smells really cinnomony, but, YEA!, does not make my skin red, even fresh out of a bath. Dried out, it reminds me a bit of maple and brown sugar oatmeal, but sexy and musky: dark, sweet, thick, and delicious. Wearlength is loooong, sillage varies on how much you apply, and is gender neutral. Beth, thank you for hearing us and making magic! We lovez it!!!! Please make it the new, much awaited annual! It's CLASSIC!

Defututa feels most like HP, but it's missing almond.

Hey there, Sumatran Red Patchouli! Come on over here and stay with MEEEEEEE. Forever. And Ever. And E-VER...! Ya know, this does seem a bit rosey! Hey, I'll take rose over menthol, like some patchoulis throw. This Sumatran Red is smooooo-ooth, warm, velvety, deep, and rich. It's woody, neither dry nor dank, but still earthy. The drydown is a-mazing: like dark cocoa incense. OMG. I die. Agreed, THIS is the one patchouli to rule them all! THIS. Coming from a life long patchouli wearer. THIS!!!!! I gave up straight patchouli oil years ago in favor of BPAL blends (Snake Oil, Depraved, Dance of Death, Mme Moriarty-all my companions), but I will do this single note. Oh, yeah, baby! I will DO it!