Velvet Lilly

I adore this. What a win of a scent for me! In the bottle: Lime-y citrus and mandarin blend wet: now comes the gorgeous petitgrain and amps into the citrus, blending well... dry down....All the pretty petitgrain, with a whisper of lime and a bright glint of mandarin. It reminds me a bit of an old general store - deliciously herby in a quiet way. I've paired this with The Norn's Farmhouse and it's stunning together as well. Really amps that "old general store" vibe in the very best way. Storytelling in scent!

SO beautiful and softly glowy. This doesn't feel or smell like "RAAWWRR" Courage..... this fells and smells like "Aaahhh... all is well....we got this" Courage. I love people have pointed out it's like Lionheart with extra florals. I love how those notes all blend together. It's very soothing to be surrounded with as it blooms on my skin. Safety, Comfort, Calm. Everything is handlable. <3

ZOMG.......:::fainting couch:::*thud. If Tree of Life, Eastern Comma and Anactoria made sweet, sweet love and fed each other ginger..... it would be this..... I've never blind bought a bottle before....ever...... and I did with this. And sweet mother of Pearl.......I cannot even... The creamy heaven....the gorgeous mellow, warm oak and tonka lulling me into a Bottom's Dream like stupor of bliss.......haloed by the whisper of flowers and ginger and apricot... This is ridiculous, spell binding, soul singing heaven. MOAR HALOES.... all the Haloes.....<3

Really lovely! Am I the only one that seems to get a lovely wood smoke note from this? Like smoldering piles of fallen leaves outside, amid a few dried wildflowers..... It's amazing and soft and warm and cozy in the outdoors.... This is definitely sweater weather days kind of a scent! I understand how someone said "fuzzy", almost fizzy brown leather.....like a doeskin shirt.... It wears very close to my skin and dissipates pretty fast but that's okay - it's one of those, "get closer" and smell me... and " your skin but better" kind of blends. It's not my normal note profile, but I really really dig it! I love Lookingglass' description of "a lovely epic journey across Canadian wilderness" That's a perfect way to say it!

Oohhh this is so lovely! Bright, beautiful lemongrass .....with sugar underneath as well as a lovely herbal something.....I love the balance of this. It's both beautiful and feels gently, flowingly powerful.....in a gentle happy way. This is so uplifting! Wow.....I adore it and I wish a full bottle could be had. <3

A Masterpiece with a funny name. (I’m rather going to enjoy telling people the answer to “What are you wearing?” with this debonaire beauty.) In the bottle I get the bevy of notes in a saucy display, like a spiritualists ornate window display…….then on my skin the leather raced with the red musk, and as it warmed…..the leather won….blooming into soft, *perfectly tailored glove leather dancing softly with the red musk and coconut meat. As it dried down, the other notes played all around that leather, giving it different facets of tone and scent. On the dry down it got a bit sweet and an incense kind of note lingered....and lingered...A truly remarkable journey. This is one of the sexiest bottles in all of ever..... Where Whip is a definite "you must be in this specific mood to handle her" kind of thing. THIS is a "come one, come all, the night is young" kind of beckoning, sexy, thing I can wear all the time. This is definitely my favorite of the Spiritualists and maybe of the Yules. I think this will be a huge, much sought ofter bottle. This is what I imagine Cullen Bohannon, Mal or River, Wyat as well as Josie Earp and Lestat smelling like....... sex in a leather duster....

I. Love. This. Scent. I truly love it. This is a fresh light green field covered in buds and tiny wild flowers. Almost lily of the valley-like in a wash of other blended, fresh notes. It's so casual chic and still sophisticated, in a light, airy way. It's refreshing and calming as well. This is spritzers in the Hamptons on a balmy day with a light breeze. This is afternoon gatherings with friends. This is a luxe garden party with champagne and small bite petit fours. It wears close to the skin. I wish it was a bigger throw....but that's exactly what sophistication is......Just enough scent to be there and whisper in the air as you sip a tall something in the grass at Tanglewood. <3 I cannot love this more. <3

I knew... I just KNEW Peanut Musk was going to be amazing, and it is! In the bottle: Hello dark musk, you handsome devil. You lead the way and are almost juicy and caramel-y as you pair up with whiffs of lovely, roasted, salted peanut hull. Something else, the peanut leaves, which aren't a green note, meld with hints of a spice....faint whispers of cassia? Cardamom? Something.....sandalwood? All together it makes an amazing blend and balance of warm, rich umber-liciousness. On my skin: a better blend of musk and roasted hull and mild umber spice. Somehow I'm amping a cinnamon like note (but my skin is strange and amps cinnamon/cassia to a bajillion jiggawats) Dry down: a TRULY gorgeous, luxurious blend of what seems like skin musk, sandalwood, roasted caramel-ish cassia that becomes the coveted "your skin, but much much better" thing....but even more so. It's "your skin but better" that's been gilded and warmed with musk........ just... wow. For the foodie folks....... in the bottle, this smells similar to Mary Janes candy. <3 But then on the skin it does it's beautiful warm up and change (on my skin at least....my skin morphs things a lot) "Mary Jane is a peanut butter and molasses flavored taffy-type candy with peanut butter in the center. Originally made in 1914 by The Charles N. Miller Co., and later by Stark Candy Co., it is now manufactured by Necco." All kinds of yum.

Yup..... Total Snack Bar smells! I love it. It smells like sweet fried things and then Twizzlers.....wonderful delicious juicy Twizzlers. I'm so glad to have a bottle of this. It's my perfect Late Summer weekend days scent.

Oh so Beautiful......and it's a bit of a morpher......which I love. I get the rosehips and honeycomb right away......tempered by the wheat. Then the nectarine gets juicy and forward and, exactly as people say, small pink roses bloom. I also started to throw a very interesting citrus note as it started to dry down.....it became a real medley of notes that flashed around all mad cap for a minute..... And now on the dry down.... it's a very forward blend of roses...English and hips and tea buds, creamily mellowed by the wheat and the honeycomb. I just love it! Thank you to Sara for pointing it out to me. I'm a walking Summer Garden Party!

An amorphous mix of Delicious! I loved this scent and I remember how much everyone loved smelling it for the first time, eyes would light up and smiles would gleam with surprise and delight. To read these notes, it sounds improbable....impossible to smell lovely.....but IT IS. It's perfectly aquatic chocolates! It's so delectable and unique and chocolate and deep ocean water! Perhaps the first real ..... gourmand with Umami scent I ever encountered and I love it.

A Victorian bathing beauty: wisps of vanilla cream, caramelized tobacco absolute, white opium poppy, summer honeysuckle nectar, effervescent white mandarin, apple blossom, and green cognac. This is SO beautiful! I loved it wet, and then my skin amped the sweetness of the vanilla to overpower the rest. I thought.... too sweet..... and now I'm kicking myself for missing the last bottle. So lovely. SO perfectly sweet and tobacco, and vanilla but so fresh and airy light from the blend of the other notes.

Mad Kate is dear to me. I went hunting for BPAL in Silver Lake before I ever visited the Lab and I can remember that day with crystal clarity. Smelling all those beautiful bottles..... I *Am Kate..... an untamed Kate.... and I came away with her. She's a mystery and a morpher. She's beguiling. She starts off angry and clangy.....sharp and undefinable, and then she softens and blends.....and florals start coming out....and it gets a but fruity and lovely. And then as she dries down she changes again. Even more beautiful and my nose keeps chasing it.....like loving something more even after it's gone. Ahh, Kate. Mad Kate. Come and kiss me.

Dearest SMUT, I love you. I love you most dearly and ardently. You have stolen my heart and I give it gladly..... Not a day goes by that I don't think of you fondly.......remembering your boozy, smutty, juicy musk..... I am quite beside myself with want of you.... Let the world laugh at me, curse me, revile me......but I shout to the Heavens... You. Are. Sublime! Our love will burn until the stars grow cold...... I wait... until I am in your, red musk, boozy, sugared arms again..... Forever yours, Lilly

I JUST discovered this scent when it's label caught my eye .......no reason at all, and there it was.... all gorgeous and light and enchanting.......I need a bottle of this.

I adore this stuff and can't get enough of it. It smells like the most intoxicatingly delicious brownies, and it works better than any scrub I've ever tried. Exfoliates well, moisturizes well and, best of all, rises clean off my skin and the tub (!!!!! no oil slick!!! yay!) yet still leaves it soft and smooth. I'm in love with this. It throws beautifully in the shower, but doesn't linger in my skin, which I prefer, actually, so I can dry off and use my BPAL oils without carry over.

Gosh I LOVE this - but I swear I'm smelling bright christmas trees and butter mints…. is the tea making my nose think pine? Either way I just adore it. It smells like sophisticated, playful fun. <3

Zomg……this is incredible. It smells just like my full wooden box of all my BPAL oils….. I've heard several people sigh wistfully, "I wish there was a scent that smelled like my BPAL cabinet" Well….this is it! <3 My body PH amps cinnamon on a nuclear level, so I can't wear it on skin…..but I'm so glad i have an imp! Gorgeous.

Plum musk, ambergris accord, matcha tea, oakmoss, patchouli, violet leaf, and cypress.[/bpal] I LOVE this scent for many reasons. Not only that it smells enigmatic, and feminine and evocative, but I also really love that I can't detect any specific notes in it to name. It's partly my lack of note knowledge, I'm sure but also, it's such an interesting combination and does such interesting things. It smells comforting for some reason, resin or incense-ish…..but also the plum and violet leaf makes it juicy and lush……there's even an animalistic warm furry feeling to it that I adore. I love that this smells so unique and lures me back to sniff again and again as it morphs just a wee bit on my skin. This is an Intelligent woman of a Victorian or Edwardian era……beautiful and driven to learn as well as be social. Blissful.

OH….MY…GOSH…… juicy red musk and leather…… i'm swooning. This reminds me a lot of SMUT 2013, but without the booze and sugar, but still sweet and naughtily luscious, in a "hungry trouble" sort of way….. It's got a dark woodsy, dusty smell on top , just in the bottle……it's those wooden switches! But on my skin (thank Krampus) it warms up and gets all beckoning red musky. I love this! I must have more bottles.

I found this candle tonight and I can't stop huffing it! Such a gorgeous blend…. I get the wonderful sweet wine of the sugar plum first…..then immediately get the cold wind carrying the lingering scent of flowers, as if they're outside in the cold, and the breeze has carried just their chilled fragrance indoors….. This is a truly special scent and I'm so thrilled to have stumbled upon it today at the shop…… <3 HUGE Love to the Candle Goblin <3

OOOO now I have to try those........ I tend to layer October with a lot of different scents... October +Boadicea, October +Tea, October + Noche Buena, October + Whip October + Bearded lady October + Soothing System <3! October + Harvest Moon Soothing System + Incantation + Bearded Lady Tea also tends to play very well with others.....