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A sinful, licentious scent: self-indulgent and luxurious. Mingled heady civet and red Egyptian musk, thickened with opium. This is heaven. It's subtle yet potent. Very sensuous and heady. One of my favorites and today's the first day I've smelled it. It's that good. Sweet, spicy musk.

To me this smelled like candy cigarettes from the 70's. Or Pepto Bismol. I liked it when I thought it smelled like candy cigarettes, but once hubby said Pepto, I have to bow out. He's right. One Thanksgiving as a child I was sick and my mother fed me three teaspoons of Pepto Bismol every half hour. I was just about retching after the first two hours. To this day I can't eat those round pink soft candies that are wintermint flavored. ACK! ACK! <<they look like this!!

In the vial: Patchy babe-ay, where you been, man? This is a mellow nice leather. Catching a hint of something green too. Like a dandylion. Sunflower seeds too. Maybe a sunflower smell. Nice. 10 minutes: getting more leathery. The greeness is stronger also. Maybe a touch of sweetness? It reminds me of a new leather handbag that's made of rough leather that hasn't been processed too much into an unsmelling super soft piece of nothing. 30 minutes: wow it's getting greener! Possible floral coming on? This is how a cowboy should smell. Green, leathery and cologney. A splash of cologne in the morning, then riding all days bringing in the cattle or mustangs, mending fences, baling the hay....then coming in to eat, and giving a kiss before he goes to wash his hands. Ahhhh! Is this what Ree Drummond the Pioneer Woman experiences every day! DAYUM! This is thigh slappin good!

I love this. I had received an imp a while back and was truly intrigued with the black sludge at the bottom. I almost hate shaking the bottle to combine the sludge with the oil! The smell reminds me of metal. That stark iron smell that's been charred in a fire. I was disappointed to learn it was no longer available, so I created a search on ebay so when was listed I'd get an email. I was rewarded and it was BPAL selling it so of course I got 6 wonderful imps along with the bottle of Dangerous Toys. This is smoky, calming and so unique. Nothing else out there smells like this. I love smelling unique and this gets me there and then some.

I get cherry too when this is wet and in the vial. Then it mellows into this lovely floral soap. I myself love roses and old ladies soaps, so this is a keeper for me. Big bottle too. LOVE this!!

I always review my oils before I see what's in them and in this I got musk, dragon's blood and a floral like carnation or chrysanthamum. What a crazy combo and I was so far off! Love this!

Hi, my name is Lori and I'm a Patchaholic. I've loved patchouli since I was in 8th grade and still have a bottle of patchouli oil that I bought way back then. I also bought a bottle of sandalwood at the same time and still have that too. My fave bpal patch scents are Solitary and Abhorred, Marianne, Sentimental Initiation, Samhain 06 and 04, and Loviatar. All of these are HEAVY on the patch. I also love Voodoo, Fenris Wolf and Imp, though they are lighter on the patch.

This is too cloying on me and I LOVE rose, jasmine, musk, moonflower, incense....everything in this. It was so strong that I had to wash it off. I only got jasmine and rose from this. Very strong. It'll be great in my bathwater.

Spicy gingerbread heaven! With a citrus twist. As it dries down it goes ALL cinnamon on me. I have hopes for it though as it dries down longer because I can still smell that ginger waiting in the background. Waiting, waiting, waiting...like a bed bug waiting for you to get home......

This is an amazing scent. Smooth smooth smooth. Sultry, sexy and perfect for both genders and all genders in between.

Earth Rat was all banana to me and it stayed that way. I was surprised there wasn't any banana in it. Score! on your getting a bottle of Pahoehoe!

Here's what I wrote back in August: My new fave....wearing Black Hellebore and A Countenance Foreboding Evil at the same time....... Makes me want to sleep with myself.

THIS is my favorite BPAL scent of all time, and I have over 300 with another 50 on the way. It's a magical blend of patchouli, musk, floral and sweetness. When I look up the word PERFECT in the dictionary, I find BPAL's Marianne. Seriously. So many adjectives come to mind when I smell it at ALL stages. In the vial, wet on the skin, dried for a few minutes, an hour later, 4 hours later and 12 hours later. Seductive, sensual, strong, playful, feminine, masculine, subtle, enveloping, haunting, evoking, head turning, bewitching, sinister, angelic, velvety, smooth, heady,... I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on.....

This scent doesn't make me sleepy at all! in fact it wakes me up! I must say the drydown is much better than the inital wet stage.

No one has reviewed this since 2010!! OMG! This scent is the bomb! I wore it to work today without knowing what was in it and thankfully I took the imp in my purse to dab all day! It's the perfect mix of sin and soft. Like a librarian with leather undergarments on. It is strong but in a subtle way that only people really close can smell. The amber makes it bearable to everyone, even those that don't like resiny hippie smells. It's sexy, creamy, masochistic va-voom.