Monday

Adam, our suicidally romantic scoundrel. His scent is a palette of somber colors, melancholy memories, and lupine, savage beauty: black leather, pale sandalwood, ambergris accord, and the memory of a long-lost Victorian fougère.His internal life seems to be reflected in his lair, so his perfume also possesses the scent of the wood of his guitars, the rosin from his violin bow, the musty wool of neglected Oriental carpets, the plastic, metal, and magnetic tape of his reel-to-reel, the dust that permeates everything. What with all the notes there isn't much of anything going on in here strangely. It just smells. It might smell of a herbal carpetty thing with a fading perfume of benzoin and sandalwood. I just know it doesn't smell of leather or rosin.

Immersed in his (eternal) life’s work, holding on to his memories, suffused with a love of life and literature, Kit’s scent is soft and dry as bone: Mysore sandalwood, a tattered and patched 16th century waistcoat, inkstained, still scented with the marjoram and benzoin dry perfumes of his youth. Kit smells like flour and powdery sandalwood with a hint of nuts (hazelnuts?) in the background, I don't get the majoram. Sweet and somewhat foody it reminds me of L'Artisan Parfumeur Bois Farine.

What a piece of work is a man!What is this quintessence of dust? The passing: beeswax and smoke, yellowed paper and well-worn leather books, droplets of spilled ink, faded incense, blood-tinged salty tears, and the metal of the knife that skewers that illiterate zombie philistines portrait. Lots of beeswax and honey with a little bit of dust. The beeswax/honey note does what it always does on my skin after a while which is smell bad and won't scrub off. If you can pull off honey/beeswax you might like this for me it's a no go.

Black musk accord, Ethiopian myrrh, and motor oil. For me this is the best one out of this update. The black musk accord definitely contains patchouli; it's in there somewhere. I tested the OLLA blind and first couldn't link this one to any of them. I don't get motor oil at all. I get unburned nag champa incense with a swirl of patchouli in the background. Gorgeous.

I get bananas and hazelnut. My guess is that the banana is probably a sort of mead or beer scent in disguise but I get ...bananas. It's a very foody and warm scent but for me the tropical aspect (see I avoided saying bananas ) is messing with the image of a beery Inn. Too foody for me.

Bottle procured from the Trunk Show overstock on Etsy. On my skin wet: Fresh harsh tree sap and woods. There is some sweetness in the background which smells a bit like licorice. Unusual but not bad. So far it smells brown and strangely cute. On my skin dry: The harshness has disappeared taking the licorice with it. It's now a fresh, sweet woodsy scent. I like it. I compared this to India Ink which I found closest to it at first but India Ink is more industrial and inky, Leptodirus holds its own. Nice throw. Do try this if you like resins and woods.

I checked the recommendation but couldn't find a topic about Pears. I love the smell of pears and am looking for the perfect pear! Any recommendations?

Tattie Bogle - Hay, gunpowder, patchouli, autumn herbs, and sun-baked wood, get it while you can. It's a great unisex smokey autumn scent.

Is it a warm cinnamon? It might just be a mislabeled imp of Chimera (-The fiery, volatile scent of cinnamon, thickened by myrrh, honeysuckle, and copal.) instead.

This smells so vintage. Very fruity and a bit floral. Maybe it's aging badly but I get no amber or patchouli at all. It's a bit of a jumble of notes, pomegranate is the most prominent then the wood and a bit of orchid. This isn't working for me.

On my skin wet: Peppery cinnamon in your face! That's a bit harsh. On my skin dry: Really peppery cinnamon! The leather is lurking somewhere in the background making the scent smell a bit dry. It ends up rather aromatic though. Nice throw. Too dry for me but overall a nice spicy scent.

On my skin wet: Sweet licorice with some fading perfume. It's very faint on my skin. On my skin dry: Still a sweet licorice with a perfumey quality to it. I'm rather underwhelmed with Mary Shelley I expected something more mysterious and dramatic.

I found Delight and Consternation almost identical to the Seekim which has the same lemon/ cocoa thing going on. For more foody-but-not-quite scents I'd recommend Wulric the Wolfman - cocoa absolute, French vanilla, birch tar, lavender, bourbon vetiver, wild musk, clary sage, and cistus.

If the Music of Erich Zann and Schwarzer Mond got together and had a baby this is what I imagine it would smell like. Smoke, patchouli and vetiver with some sweetness from the black musk. A true smoke blend from the lab like a smouldering campfire or stick of incense.

Champaca strikes again! This smells like a toilet deodorizer block.

Happy soapy floral, halfway through the dry-down it veers a bit into dishwashing liquid then goes back to a classy nightblooming bouquet. I kind of like it, it has a nice staying power and sillage but I don't think I'll wear it a lot.

This is a lot like Butterflies, Flowers and Jewels Attending with the freesia turned down a notch.

I smelled something like this in the BPAL catalogue before but I can’t put my finger on it. There is honey with lime, pungent woods and something reminiscent of menthol. The menthol disappears after a while but the chaos of honey and pungent woods stick around, smoky saffron backs the woods up. Light and dark, a bit of a muddle of notes with a good throw.

Bah overripe pears, pulpy overripe pears that have begun to ferment. After a while it has changed to chocolate covered raspberries with the pear still in the background. This one definitely takes you on an olfactory ride. The pear has revealed itself as sweet peach combined with geranium but it still hints of overripe pears. Together with the patchouli it’s a weiiird scent. It’s the opposite of Sarah here the notes sound good but the combined result is just odd. One of the weirdest things I’ve smelled but not exactly bad. I like the chocolate and raspberry stage.

Super soft and supple leather with herbs and a bit of gunsmoke. This my favorite scent from this update but it has an unfortunate flaw: it has virtually no sillage. I keep slathering it in the hope it will stick around a bit longer but the scent projects only about one cm from my skin. It is a liiiiiittle bit stronger than when I first got it so I hope aging will help. I guess you could call it a skin scent. This is one of those scents that you have to smell to ‘get’ it, the notes don’t do it justice.

Listerine. Sassafras and woodsmoke, the other notes are very faint. The sassafras and woodsmoke dominate the blend still. This isn’t a morpher, it just fades after half an hour.

Lily reminds me a bit of Vain Sorceress. Jamine, the bad kind...but it’s followed by magnolia, gardenia and red patchouli. I especially like the use of the patchouli in this blend it pierces through the florals and lifts them. After a while the jasmine blends into the other notes until it’s barely there. This is a very versatile scent. It’s heady and voluptuous but at the same time the woodsiness makes it smell adventurous. Quite fitting.

Right off the bat Ginny smells of air, cinnamon and tobacco flower. The cinnamon smell I get is probably the result of the cognac combined with pepper. It just smells like a friendly, airy cinnamon with tobacco flower. I associate cinnamon with autumn and winter but the whole scent is light and summery. Unusual but nice.

Starts out as a deep floral with something like elderberry in the back. Then rose unfolds together with oakmoss, the patchouli is there but it's nice and muted. Beauty ends up smelling like an old-timey rose-scented cream with the slight sourness and powder of oakmoss the patchouli is reclaiming some space. Very victorian, very evocative.

On my skin wet: Why hello again The Traveller I wasn't quite expecting to see you here. Greenness, leather and spices. On my skin dry: This isn't a morpher. The moss has come forward to play with the vetiver but the leather and spices stay firmly in place. I don't get a lot of black musk. As always the moss is taking over on my skin after a while. I would have liked more black musk and less moss. I can't get over how much alike the Traveller this is. I like the green, airy leather scent it feels magical and forest-y but it's not for me.