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F5 A refreshing scent! GET IT?! Aloe, white musk, lime peel, fresh mint, seaspray, verbena and green tea. Wow, am I really the first one to review this? *amazed* Hope I did this right... In the bottle: Green tea!! Yum. I love green tea. It's reminding me a bit of Shanghai. On me: I put it on and the green tea is still very much present. It is indeed refreshing, definitely. There's also something else there that is reminding me a bit of Mock Turtle's Lessons. I looked up the notes and it's the mint, but there's also a slight aquatic smell as well. I didn't like The Mock Turtle's Lessons all that much, but mainly because of the mint mixed with fruit. This is mint mixed with green tea mainly with that hint of aquatic, so much better! I can't decide if I like it more than Shanghai, but it's still a very nice scent!

In Vial: My immediate reaction was "EW!" and I said it outloud. I was actually afraid to put it on my skin. I have no idea what it is yet; it's just extremely strong and gross. On me - wet: I got the nerve to try it out and I swear it smells like pine or juniper. Something green. I don't like green smells especially ones that smell like pine. Judging by the notes, I would guess Lavender and Nag Champa mixed together is what is producing this smell. On me - Dry: Okay, it becomes a lot nicer. Smells like a strong oriental designer fragrance. It borders on smelling even like men's cologne almost. I still get absolutely no tobacco from this which is weird because it tobacco usually is very strong on me and it's the note I was hoping would come out. Hours later: I think it's still very unisex and smells like an ordinary oriental perfume would dry to, without the nasty rubbing alcohol of course. Overall: It's not for me. I like oriental fragrances, but this one is a wee bit strong and too musky smelling for me. I'd be interested in seeing what it smelled like on a man. I know one thing for the ladies, this is not a summertime scent. Can definitely be worn by a woman though who likes strong fragrances.

In the vial: It smells like a mixture of amber and oddly enough lemon. There's no lemon in this though, so I think it may be the chamomile, because chamomile sometimes gives off a lemon scent to me. On me - Wet: Amber gets to amping up and then something not so great is in there too. It must be the walnut bark, because there's nothing else in here that smells close to this. On me - Dry: Okay that weird smell is gone and it's turning into a lighter smell of amber which is reminding me of Lionness (I have not yet tried The Lion) in a way. Also the chamomile is settling into not so much lemon but the lovely scent of a sweet, light tea. It has a decent throw to it as well. Hours later: Still there 9 hours later. It smells like chamomile now with a hint of amber. Makes an almost vanilla-like impression that reminds me of Dorian. Overall: I really like it! It's Dorian and Lionness' love child!

I was really iffy about this one. I remember it was on my wishlist when I first came to bpal and then took it off, put it back on, took it off, put it back on again. The description really appealed to me, being in an opium daze seems pretty good. But no, it doesn't work on me at all. Tuberose hates me and narcissus smells way too much like a strong musk for me to like it. I kept sniffing at my arm cause it reminded me of another scent that I dislike and I finally figured out which one... Peitho. The strong musk with floral, but at least this one doesn't have cloves!

Lots and lots of floral. Smells slightly spicy as well. Then... it dissappears. Which was strange cause the florals were strong and then the scent completely vanished! O.o Okay... I didn't like Sheol much I'm afraid.

Oh, Spanked. You have become my #1 heartbreaker. I love Perversion, it's my favorite scent and I love leather scents in general actually. I was hoping in Spanked to get a boozy leather which is combining my 2 of my favorite scents. Unfortunately though all I got was leather and patchouli. No bourbon to be found. So on me it ends up smelling exactly like De Sade. If this was a GC, I'd keep it purely for the name but it's not so this has to be given a new home.

HYACINTH!! This is the only BPAL scent that is listed with having hyacinth in it. I LOVE hyacinth. My favorite commercial perfume is Happy Heart and that has hyacinth. *in love* Anyways, yes this is fantastic. It is very, very floral but these are GOOD florals! I am so in love. This has jumped automatically into my top 10 and I am glad I bought 2 bottles recently.

OMG omg omg omg. I tried this awhile back while I was working but I didn't pay much attention to it because I was busy, but I kept catching whiffs of it floating up and it made me feel so pretty even though I was filthy. I'm actually testing it for real this time, studying it. Honestly, when it came out I thought Al-Araaf would work on me better than this one but I was so completely wrong. This smells FANTASTIC. I love the mix of sweet pea and cucumber. It is very perfumey, but I kind of like that personally. >.> Then it dries down and it becomes more subtle and even more beautiful. WOW. I am kicking myself for not ordering a bottle of this when I had the chance and taking this long to test it out. Wanna know what's strange? Annabel Lee is my favorite poem. Has been for like 10 years. So it's like it was made for me or something. Going in my top 10.

Hmmm. I put it on and it smells slightly soapy, but not like soap but more like shampoo. In fact it smells a lot like the ever so old school Prell. My mom hates that shampoo, heh. It has absolutely no throw on me whatsoever and I have to put my nose up right against my arm to smell it. I dunno. I really wanted to love this because it sounds like something I would love but it's not really appealing to me at all. At least it didn't turn plastic this time like all scents with honey on me tend to do.

When I looked at it, I was scared to try it because it looks like a dark scent or seems that it would be a dark scent. (I got it and didn't look at the description first hah) Opening it up and it smells strong, very musky. I put it on and it maintains the muskiness probably from the narcissus. It's also quite smokey. Then all of a sudden it morphs into a floral! What a wuss! The floral smells oddly like jasmine and I hate jasmine, but florals tend to love me so I was stuck smelling like a flower. Bleh. Off to someone who will love his dark exterior and oh so sensitive interior.

My skin chemistry is being weird again. I tried this on about a week or 2 ago and it went straight to soap! (I was on my period, that may be why... shhh) So I thought for sure that this was a no go but then I tried it on last night... And it smelled very pretty!! Smelled like a commercial scent actually but in a good way. A very happy commercial perfume, but not like Happy hahah. A rich, bright, floral perfume smell. I like it and I'm keeping it unless it goes soapy again.

Holy floral, batman! This went very very gross on me. My skin loves roses and the feelings aren't returned. It just went straight to rose on me and covered up all the pretty notes. Just rose and nothing else. *sigh*

As soon as opening the imp, the smell of cupcakes wafts out and it's divine. On me, it's not quite as divine but still decent. The cupcake smell is still there, but I have a suspicion that this is hiding honey in it somewhere because I'm picking up a slight plastic smell to it. Not straight to plastic as honey usually does, but just slightly which makes me think there's a very small amount. It's still good though! Might be better in my scent locket.

I got the feeling I would have loved the old Hearth, but the 2005 version doesn't work for me. It smells like caramel almost like Red Lantern quality, and it smells slightly nutty but because it contains honey, it goes straight to plastic on me. I'm not too disappointed though because I get similar satisfaction out of Red Lantern and Midway without the dreaded plastic.

Popcorn is my favorite food. Especially movie theater popcorn DRENCHED in butter. Shill definitely did not disappoint. I put it on and had to force myself to not lick my arm. As others have stated, this isn't a very perfumey scent and it's not something that I would wear out in public because smelling like butter is not all that appealing to most but this scent really, really comforts me. So I'm going to wear it in my own home when I need some comfort or maybe put some in the oil burner. I love it.

Something very strange is going on with my chemistry... Smells wonderful in the imp, smells a lot like Strawberry Moon to me almost. The first time I tried this it went straight to plastic, just like Dana O'Shee, Alice, and Snow White does to me. I even posted in bpalanonymous on LJ about my woe. Everyone figures it's honey that is doing it to me. Well then I tried it again last night and it didn't turn plasticky! It turned very strawberry which is good because I like strawberry. Now I like it a lot. So I'm keeping it for now and see what happens with it in the future.

O.M.G. perfectly sums up my reaction. I'm usually not the biggest fan of foody scents, as I usually like the boozy and this does have boozy but it is more of a foody scent. Cake to be exact. This is like a very expensive wedding cake. A moment of "eh, I normally don't like white cake but I'll try it anyway" and then being completely blown away and devouring 3 slices. This is Underpants to me. I walked out of my bedroom and my husband was waiting for me to go somewhere, I gave him a hug and he literally gasped and said "You smell so good!!!" You wouldn't think he'd be surprised since I wear BPAL everyday but this one really blew him away too. Wow. Figures, I have to fall in love with the scent everyone wants. I sense years of torture coming on unless Beth someday puts out some more which I am praying for hahah.

I wasn't too pleased with it's brother Montresor, and sadly I'm not pleased with Fortunato either. In the imp: Oh no, it smells dirty. Not in a good way either, but in a dirt way. Stage one: I put it on and suddenly it's wonderful berries! Mmm yummy. Stage two: ... What happened to the berries?! *cries* Now it smells purely like dirty rocks! Stage three: The berries come back slightly and mix with the dirty rocks. Smells as though I've been out berry picking, but not in a good way because of all the dirt. I don't like smelling dirt! Within a half hour it disappears completely. *sigh* So even if it would have been wonderful, I would have ended up disappointed when it disappeared so maybe it's better that I didn't like it.

Oh Montresor, you broke my heart. I wanted to love you forever and call you Monty. NOTE: boozy and fruity are my favorite notes. I was dreaming of wine drenched black fruit with subtle hints of vanilla. Doesn't that sound amazing? Instead when I put it on I got COUGH SYRUP! *cries* The Red Queen did the exact same thing to me. I am so disappointed by this one.

I love wine scents, but I don't like chocolate scents. So I was hoping that this one would fully amp up the wine and leave the cocoa and "blood" (dragon's blood perhaps?) subtle... Sadly this was not the case. The "blood" mixed with the wine turns a bit like cough syrup on me and then mixed with the cocoa is kind of a sickening combination. I sent it off to a friend, hopefully she has better results with it.

I had got 2 almond blends lately, this one and Queen of Sheba. I love almonds because they remind me of amaretto *looks fondly at Bordello*. Anyways, in the imp it smells like a nice cherry almond. Makes me wanna drink it. On me however it gets sickenly sweet with medicine smelling cherry-ish almond mixed with cinnamon. WAY too overwhelming, so I'm not very fond of this one. Not horrible, but I think I'll hang onto Queen of Sheba instead.

This intoxicates me for some reason! It smells slightly herbal which I usually hate and slightly powdery which I also hate and yet the berries are so nice that it makes this into a very lovely scent. I wish it lasted longer on me though. Definitely a keeper regardless because I couldn't get it out of my head.

Is this hiding jasmine in it? Hmm I can't remember as I gave it away quickly after I got it, so I only tried this once. All I remember is aquatic, which tends to hate me and I think it smelled like jasmine which also hates me. Totally unforgettable though, so it must not have been too bad but bad enough that I sold it.

This smell really nice. I really love pears and this comes out a lot in this fragrance, it's very sweet but at the same time grounded. It also lasts FOREVER on me. It especially smells nice once it's really faded. But there's a huge "BUT", for some reason that I cannot place, it makes my anxiety act up. I dunno what it is about this scent but even though it smells nice, I actually had a nightmare about it! It's something that I can't place but it's giving me a very bad vibe. I do live in the Southwest and this is a very Southwest sort of scent so that may be why, but this is weird as I have never has such a strange reaction to cause me to not want a scent that I actually like.

For being a very masculine scent, this isn't all that bad. It's a bit too green for my tastes, but the leather covers that up nicely. This would be wonderful on a man, but I like smelling like a girl.