Trixie

It's a delicatel floral on me. Reminds me of a sweet little avon perfume they used to have back in the seventies or early eighties. If memory serves, this reminds me of their honeysuckle scent (or maybe lilac? I'm not good at this). It's a very cute, pleasant, sweet, innocent little thing but ON ME, at least, not very cucumbery. And I very much want the cuke, not the floral. I've tried this twice at different times in my cycle and still am not getting much cucumber. I'm not sure if cucumber would even come to my mind if I smelled this without a hint that's what it's striving for. My perception is probably strongly influenced by my chemistry and nose since I find myself having very different experiences with these oils than other reviewers in general.

My favorite BPAL scent so far, it comes the closest to yummy pipe tobacco of anything I've smelled so far. My imp seems a little cherrier than the bottle I just got, but it's all perfect. In the bottle I smell cherry, something alcoholic without striking ME as medicinal, something peppery, and rich, wet tobacco. On me it gets deliciously smoky; the new bottle seems to have a little more of something green in it (but not headache green, just something alive and wet which balances out the smokiness so it never gets chokey/throat-drying which tends to happen to me with incense, etc.). As far as the artificial smell some people have remarked on, I don't get that (and I don't actually *mind* fakey plastic smells so I would say, since they often appeal to me). I also don't smell anything as being sugary or too sweet (though it *is* a half-sweet smell). It's the perfect, swirling, spicy, secure pipe-n-leatherbound-book sex-in-the-gentleman's-library smell. Someone else felt like it smells more like a room than a person; it does have an atmospheric appeal to it, but not in a yankee candle or even a foody way to me. If it is a room, it's a rich wood-paneled room with a devilishly powerful person sitting in it, tamping tobacco down in a pipe and lacing everything with booze and chocolate covered cherries and heart-thumping heat. Again, not in a kitchen-like way; more like the afterglow of sex, food, and smokes. As far as vanilla goes, I never smell anything I recognize as vanilla. Example: snake oil on me smells WRETCHED, powdery, and awful. I like vanilla, I just never receive it or it turns on me or something so yeah -- I don't sniff Horn of Plenty and recognize any vanilla. It's probably just me. In terms of attracting wealth, I do like wearing this because it keeps me focused on that and makes me FEEL rich, like I smell like a powerful, hedonistic book-reading man or lazy velvet-robed plump whore-lady by the fire. I can't say that I've noticed money suddenly appearing every time I wear it, but I do feel like I'm *destined* for great wealth when I wear it. I put it on before I sit down to work and feel like I've already built empires. Both the scent and the purpose are exactly what I want and love. Absolute perfection. I wish I knew what was in it so I could find more like it since my skin is so hard-to-please and I'm sensitive to so many things that give me headaches or make my throat dry and scratchy. Horn of Plenty agrees with me very well. I LOVE THIS STUFF!

SO WARM and enveloping. Like apple cider, and sweet, maybe like the caramel people have mentioned. Like apples and a sweet wood in a dehydrator. Dry, but not green at all which is great for me since green = headaches. I got an imp of this and *love* it; hope that a bottle will smell the same way for me.

In imp: exactly what I was hoping for: a huge bowl of tropical fruit sitting on a table for hours under the sun, softening to overripe. Wearing? Almost immediately all the fruitiness was gone. On me it's musky powder and I'm sad as hell. I smell no banana, no pineapple, no coconut, no apples. Maybe something is just wrong with me though since other scents aren't working right with me today. I'm on my third day of clomid (fertility drug) so maybe that's throwing everything off.

Mmmmmm, finally a new-agey scent I can wear that doesn't overpower me! I don't know if I smell the wood others have mentioned, but I do smell something spicy, some nag champa, something lemony and maybe some sandlewood. I'm very fond of Cairo, it's very balanced and rubs my spirit exactly the right way. I'm the kind of person that likes the idea of incense, but always gets overwhelmed by burning it -- it's just too much and too chokey; Cairo gives me exactly what I want out of an incense scent-experience but without the smoke. It's like walking into a peaceful room where nag was burned earlier, without the actual burning. I LOVE it!

Methinks I don't like sandlewood. I couldn't wait to wash this off, didn't want it to stick around to see if it would morph into something more pleasant for me, but it's still hanging around -- it's stubbornly sticky, and sick smelling like vomit on honey. I don't smell any tobacco. Not for me. I *do* have a touch of PMS though . . . maybe that's throwing things off.

If not for the name & description I don't know if I would think "coyote" by the scent. The "gentle" adjective definitely applies, though. I'm not very good at understanding amber and tend to think it too strong, so I bought a handful of amber-laced imps (plus my boyfriend loves it). He really is drawn to the other ones (Haunted, etc.) but he seems apathetic about Coyote, while I really love it. It's perfumey, but not strong. Very warm and soft, like a mirage on the edge of a desert of a big luxurious bed planted there for no reason except to tempt you. Genderwise it's shifty: I can't stop sniffing my wrist, and one sniff feels distinctly masculine, while the next sniff seems like a warrior princess on her night off from battle.

Really strong roses and some other something, like cat pee and weasels. I don't smell anything I'd recognize as coffee the way other people did. I also don't smell jasmine. I don't smell vanilla or fig. And I couldn't wait to see if they would appear -- had to scrub it off (though it's still clinging to me). It's just way too strong and rosey for me.

Not what I was expecting, but better and more complex. It's not the all-leather scent I was looking for, but is sort of what I hoped Hellfire would be (Hellfire wound up powdery and too sweet on me). During the first 45-60 seconds between opening the imp, slapping some on, and watching it melt into my wrist it morphed almost visibly about five or six times from chemical (I actually like this smell, like test-tube leather), to bandaids and something lewdly like sweaty ass, to something my boyfriend described as acrid (like stale cigarettes). After all of that happened and it settled in, it became a sweetly sinister tobacco on me and isn't anything I would associate with leather (but I like it). We took a walk, my boyfriend and I, and I kept getting whiffs of his mint chewing gum blowing over my De Sade and I must say, it was a sexy combination. Very kinky. It's definitely masculine, the kind of masculine I like wearing. I'm interested to see how it smells on my boyfriend -- it might wind up more leathery on him. Edit: I should also mention it has great staying power on me, even through scrubbings.

On me it smelled like someone Dark and Naughty sneaking around in a New Agey/Craft store at midnight, steaming with some kind of temple of doom scent. I didn't smell any vanilla. I held my wrist out for my boyfriend and he LOVED it! I gave it to him knowing it would smell different on him, and it does. Sweeter, sweatier, sexier. HOT. I love it on him, but don't want to wear it myself. It makes me imagine him naked, oiled up at midnight in front of a ritual fire with people chanting around him ready to gobble him up.

Mmmmm!! I love it! It smells really well-balanced to me with something floaty and salty cleaning up the sweetness. Nothing too sharp or, on the other hand, TOO sweet. Not too light or too heavy -- really perfect for me, enjoyable and noticeable without being overpowering or fakey. Like cookie crumbs and a seaside spring rain.

I smell the jasmine, buzz of musk, and another floral right off the bat. With a little wear the plum starts to balance those higher notes out, giving it a lush round aroma. Reminds me a bit of Yves Saint Laurent's(sp) Paris (not sure if they make that anymore), sweet, rich and sophisticated. Reading some of the early reviews it sounds as though my experience is an upside down version of other people's, for me the floral is initially strongest, with the plum getting bigger and darker as time goes on. Jasmine is one of my favorite floral scents and I love the way it's blended here with round warmth. Another favorite in terms of scent, but that I'm slightly unsure of as far as compatibility with my personality. Some people said it wore off quickly or was really light, but for me it's very long-lasting and fairly potent/strong.

Mmmmmm -- pretty and soft, like a drowsy blonde girl. It's delicately floral, not at all overpowering, and wears like a pretty secret on me. I very much enjoy wearing this one -- would love if the cheap beer & tobacco were just a TINY bit more prominent (they're very subtle), but regardless I like it a lot. Disregarding the "sleazy" description, contents and name, it seems like the perfect scent to let a seven year old girl wear. Maybe that doesn't sound appealing to adults as a fragrance, but I can't think of another way to describe something this gentle that could provide delight to a wearer who doesn't want to impose a strong aroma on anyone nearby. This is something I could wear on a near-daily basis. Floral, but not intrusive, with a dry sweetness. Lovely.

Wet, it's a big purple television BERRY bursting wetly on the screen. It reminds me of these make-your-own makeup/cosmetics things they used to sell in toy stores when I was little in the late seventies or early eighties -- definitely brings back fond memories for me. It starts out pretty heavy, but becomes a nice fizzy fruity dark purple scent . . . I love the little whiffs of amaretto that tease me after it's been on awhile. It has a deep enough pitch that it doesn't give me a headache the way some scents do. For all of its initial robustness, it gentles or absorbs fairly quickly. I'm not sure it goes with my personality, but I do enjoy wearing it to step into a state of decadent whoriness and am considering a 5 ml.

Very Rue McLanahan/Blanche Devereaux (the slutty southern one on the Golden Girls) . . . I like and admire her, but I don't want her draped all over me. I smell something floral/perfumey -- I'm guessing the magnolia (but maybe the oleander - not sure) -- and the musk. It reminds me just a little too much of an old whore who powders herself between the legs with baby powder, sort of dried up and too obvious, with a lot of hot steamy stories to tell (of which SHE is the main protagonist). Maybe I'm just really suggestible when it comes to names & descriptions, though. I don't get any coconut, cream, or sugar the way other people do and think I would like it more if I did. Not one I intentionally ordered, so it was nice to sample it without having any great expectations going into it.

(My first review here on the day of receiving my first yummy box of goodies from the lab): The first whiff from the vial was of minty cocoa. Upon application and further wearing I don't get any of what I anticipated from reading the reviews and description: I don't get gentleman's quarters, leather chairs, and pipe or cigar smoke at all. I don't get creamy/buttery. I get something else that's more high-pitched and powdery . . . something I've smelled before but as yet cannot recall by name or memory. I anticipated Hellfire being very masculine but this is not a scent I associate with any gender. It's not deep, resonant, dark, leathery, or smoky to me at all. I asked my boyfriend what it smelled like to him and he said, "some kinda soap! Zest? No . . . Irish Spring". But I think he might just be teasing me and wants me to stop sticking my wrists in his face. I think I'm going to have to order a whole bunch of imps to find the smokey leatherman I'm looking for, because Hellfire is not him.