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For me, both fresh out of the mail and when retested a few days later, this is mostly white tea. I get a bit of jasmine, and maybe a hint of leather, but not enough to make it truly dynamic. The jasmine and leather were the biggest draws for me - I like white tea and white musk, but mostly as background notes - so I don't think it will be a keeper. I do like it, though. I just can't see myself reaching for it over a number of other scents.

I know this is the kind of scent that will particularly benefit from some rest after travel, but I’m going to give you my fresh impressions anyway. First whiff, fresh from the bottle, fresh from the mail: soft, pretty incense. Mostly champaca, but rooted in sandalwood and coconut. When I apply it to my skin, before I even lean forward to sniff it (on my wrist), I smell coconut wafting. It’s a soft kind of coconut – not heavily foody and tropical. Wet on the skin: gosh, this is soothing and lovely. It’s hard to say if I get any leather, because everything in here is in the same color scheme, and I think if I am smelling leather, it’s sort of golden brown as well. So, for now at least, it’s blending right in. This scent is light, pretty, and meditative as of now. I would wear it to yoga. Dry: Much of the same, through and through. Soft, incensed coconut, bathed in a soothing gold light.

I don't think this belongs in general layering recs and I haven't found a thread for this, but please merge me if I'm wrong. I'm wondering which bath oils, hair glosses and other BPTP products people like to layer with which perfumes? I find that Nymphes de Pave perfume layers perfectly with The Wars of Venus bath oil, and Yellow Snowballs perfume is delightful with Lightning Storm hair gloss. Unhappily Ever After BO enhances the effervescence of any champagne scent. I would love to find a hair gloss and bath oil that complement The Girl, suggestions for a more or less neutral hair gloss that goes with everything, and more perfumes to wear with my Sudsy She Wolf bath oil.

just orange flower for days on me. the jasmine may be giving the headiness some oomph, but jasmine (sambac included) is in my top two notes, and i'm not detecting any of its usual characteristics other than the overall headiness.

the recent event exclusive Mrs. Valentine Lacy white vanilla, mallow flower, white sandalwood, sweet oudh, and a drop of red musk.

try Madame Moriarty, Morgause, Countess Willie, and The Witch Queen

So, first of all, thanks for sending me on a search for a likely new obsession! I love Nirvana Black, but somehow hadn't heard about Nirvana Bourbon. it sounds amazing. my number one suggestion for you, unfortunately, is an out of stock/discontinued limited scent that's pretty highly sought after. it's beautiful. AvaSheer vanilla musk with tuberose, red mandarin, and the sweet poison of white almond. My second suggestion is also a past LE, but maybe sliiightly easier to find, or at least less expensive to find: Blossoming Vulva Golden amber and bourbon vanilla with sweet oak, blue lotus, and tea blossom. Some other possibilities: Bard A ridiculously charismatic blend of bay rum, honey, and white musk mingling with the scent of harp wood and lute strings and the twang of horn brass. Beauty, The AggrievedA white rose draped by a delicate, pale, sheer veil of vanilla, the depth and darkness of her black lace embodied by tobacco absolute, Indonesian patchouli, Bulgarian oakmoss, frankincense, white sandalwood, and myrrh. Faiza, The Lady of SerpentsA sensual blend of twisting, exotic, serpentine oils: black amber, oakmoss, green sandalwood, bergamot, jasmine sambac, gardenia, orange pulp, black cardamom, vanilla, blackberry, black musk, blackened vanilla husk, white honey, ti leaf, and ginger. Good Shimmering celestial musk with vanilla, white honey, acacia, and sugar cane. Iole A serious, studious scent: fig, night-blooming jasmine, red sandalwood, bourbon vanilla, oak bark, leather accord, and black amber. Kill-DevilSugar cane, molasses, oak wood, and honey. Mad Sweeney Barrel-aged whiskey and oak. PaladinImmaculate white musk, sweet frankincense, bourbon vanilla, white leather, and shining armor. This one layers really well with Good. The RPG scents are meant for layering, and I love the combo of those two, which might be similar to what you seek.

Bestiaire du Moyen Âge Watery cerulean musk winding through crushed grass, apple blossom, wild mint, and pine needles. The Unicorn, Rushing Against the Tree, Fixed its Horn so Fast in the Trunk that it Could Not Draw it Out Ethereal white orris, pale early lilacs, mallow flower, Queen of the Night, white moss, and dusk-lit mist. The Virgin and the UnicornThe palest of green mosses, mist rose, white pear, white incense, white sandalwood, and a hint of vanilla. AlcieJust a hint of gorgon blood: bright nectarine, honey, sandalwood, green musk, sea buckthorn berry, and oakmoss. Banded Sea Snake Snake Oil with oakmoss, sea moss, white moss, and olive leaf. Bayou A lazy, warm deep green scent with a thick aquatic undertone: Spanish moss, evergreen and cypress with watery blue-green notes and an eddy of hothouse flowers and swamp blooms. Elf Pale golden musk, honeycomb, amber, parma violet, hawthorne bark, aspen leaf, forest lily, life everlasting, white moss, and a hint of wild berry. FaeA brilliant, ethereal scent: white musk, bergamot, heliotrope, peach and oakmoss.

Neutral Good Wanda!!!!!!!!!! Dana O'Shee Firebird (still available on the CBLDF website, soooo desert-like) Kathmandu

The Girl is my favorite as well. The closest I've ever found is general catalog, but not impable - Lady Death: Savage. You might also like (GC): Elf, Mage, Lyonesse, White Rabbit, the current Bestiare unicorn, Mouse's Long and Sad Tale, Le Serpent Qui Danse Past LE/DC: Winter-time, Nuclear Winter, Ava, Fairy Market

While I'm not familiar with that scent and don't always find B&B Works smells like its listed notes, based on the description I would recommend these (all of which I personally love as well, i'm not just plucking them from the site blindly): WANDA Her scent is a deep red merlot with a faint hint of leather, sexual musk and body heat over crushed roses, violets and myrtle. COUNTESS WILLIE Chocolate plum musk, red musk, amaretto, candied fruits, and red ginger. MADAME MORIARTY (second of her name) Red musk, vanilla bean, pomegranate, black currant, patchouli leaf and wild plum. Please note, for the madame you do NOT need to like patchouli - in fact, i don't like almost any of the notes on their own/in most blends, but together they are stunning. and all of these suggestions are based on the overall impression i get of what that would smell like, as opposed to a note by note breakdown.

When I tried this on fresh out of the mail, there was a sort of high pitched note that has ruined several scents for me. It's a note I attribute to blue musk, but which also may be the result of a flower I've yet to peg as the culprit. I was leaving town the next day for a week, during which I also went through the peak of my monthly cycle, so upon return, I tried it again. MUCH better. It's soft and sweet, with an elegant powdery quality. At first you think it's mature, it's what your classy great aunt's boudoir smells like, but then you realize it's also what you, a child trying to wear her high heels, would put on yourself while exploring said boudoir. It has a sort of end of the evening glow about it, like the embers of the fire of your adventures of the night (without anything remotely smelling like fire or embers or smoke). A soft scent which lingers close to the skin, beckoning a loved one to lean in for a hug. It's very early 20th century glamour, but not at all outdated. I think it would appeal to a similar group as The Unicorn Rushing, but particularly recommend it for lovers of sweet, powdery florals, such as violets and irises.

I'm glad I only got a decant of this one, because I definitely don't think I would ever need to own both this and De Vos. if, however, you collect every sweet, pink scent you can find, then you do need them both. Whereas De Vos had the mysterious, crackling kind of sweet fluff I described earlier, this one has pure, fluffy, bountiful clouds of sweet cream. And the rose definitely makes itself known. In fact, for the wet and early dry phases, all I could smell was aggressive pink rose. But then it settled into a beautiful, creamy rose scent. Ultimately, I don't need to own this - I loved Pink Snowballs and Love, but ended up passing both along because I just didn't reach for them enough and didn't quite feel like ME when wearing them - but it's a great one. I didn't notice the jasmine *at all,* and it's my favorite note and stands out to me greatly, so I think you're safe to try it if you're not into that, but I probably wouldn't recommend a blind bottle if you're only here for the jasmine. I recommend for fans of Love, Pink Snowballs, Vasillissa, Volcano in Springtime, and all pink rose scents.

This will definitely be super popular. it smells sweet, pink, and fluffy. there's a note i can only describe as almost having a dash of static electricity about it which sometimes pops up in these fluffy scents. i get it in araña as well. that's in here. rather than a fully smooth, creamy kind of fluff, it's this richer fluff that's innocent yet somehow *slightly* mysterious or otherworldly. i don't detect any one flower over another - it's just fluffy, pink, sweet, and you can tell it contains florals. i guess i can pick out the rose a bit more than the others, but i hesitate to say that, because it really is only rose TINTED as described - the rose isn't loud or stealing the show or anything. It's basically just what I'd hoped it would be and it's really pleasant - I would say I definitely like it - but it might prove to be too strong and girly for me to actually wear on its own for a full day or evening. i like scents that are neither girlish nor mature, but are still feminine, as though they might be worn by an elf or an Aes Sedai, belonging to no age group. this one leans just a bit girlish, although i could see it working as almost a young Aes Sedai still working on her ageless face, as opposed to a giggling middle schooler. regardless of whether or not it turns out to be for me, i give it at LEAST a solid 8.5/10 for what it is. I recommend for fans of Araña, Love, Pink Snowballs, Mouse's Long and Sad Tale, Serving Fish, Stekkjarstaur, Rosy Maple, and basically all sweet, pink scents.

This smells golden brown, with what I know to be the rum note, but which never smells boozy to me. It smells like liquid gold. If you DO find the rum note to be generally boozy and that's not your thing, then steer clear of this one, because while I don't notice any actual alcoholic element from it, it's definitely the note I smell the most. I get some tonka and some tobacco. This scent would be at home in a collection belonging to an autumnophile or a Mexicophile. It's rich, sweet, offertory, and extremely universal. It's strong enough and comforting enough to be a 'Weenie, but not so overwhelming that it couldn't be worn year round. It's unisex, and in fact would probably smell amazing on a man, but I definitely wouldn't say it veers masculine. I think it would smell appropriate on all genders, and that your own chemistry would probably make it work with you to seem juuust right. I recommend for fans of Litha, Hellcat, Bard, Wezwanie/Hold, Elegba, Kill-Devil, Star Promenade.

So far, this is my favorite of the unicorns. It's everything I'd hoped it would be, and nothing I'd feared it could be. If De Vos is a unicorn, this one is a unicorn scene. It's coming over a hilltop on a hike and being startled by a misty glen just before you, just below. Your eyes skim the scene, which is mostly an array of flowers - somehow you both recognize them all by scent and smell, and yet can't distinguish or hone in on any one, so well do they work together in their shared garden - and there, in the middle, looking up at you through the mist, is a unicorn. You can't believe your eyes; you tell yourself it's a trick of the mist, a trick of the air in this queer place. And yet, there it is. Staring at you, both calm and assertive, the master of its realm. Perfect. Stunning. I recommend for fans of Fairy Market, Moonshine and Mist, and basically any scent you think of as ethereal, well blended, ageless...really, so long as you like florals at all sometimes ever, give it a try. It's a winner.

Oh, wow. This guy - and he is definitely a guy - does not just talk the talk when it comes to his disrespect. He struts the walk. He's a big Sex Pistols fan - hell, he might BE a Sex Pistol. He smells like the freshest, most golden tobacco, as though he rolls his own cigarettes from really high grade tobacco that is his only fancy indulgence. Well, that and the extremely high quality black leather jacket, which is broken and beaten from constant wear, but still retains its natural smell. I don't really get any vanilla in its own right, but the tobacco smells sweet. I recommend this for rock stars, Johnny Depp, and fans of Ruddy Daggerwing, tobacco single notes, and masculine scents.

Thick brown ale and aged port with cinnamon, black clove, lemon zest, allspice, cardamom, ginger, and brown sugar. So I didn't buy a bottle of Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Pyre last year, but this year I can't get enough of my decant and have been on a wild hunt. When Wassail appeared I bought a blind bottle immediately, hoping it would fill that warm, spicy, wintry comfort void. And it does! It definitely does. I definitely smell the ale and port, but it doesn't make my house smell like alcohol or anything. More like if you dumped a bunch of flat but not gross beer down the sink, that kind of lingering smell - but in a good way. I'm making this sound gross but it's really nice! I've been utterly dousing my living room furniture. The spices are very present as well, and it provides just the snuggly feel I was looking for. For those of you who hoard squirts of The Inn, this in no way smells like The Inn, but you might want to try it for that same effect of warm, sweet comfort that is foody and yet not foody. I might need a backup of this one.

fresh out of the mail: this is like Feed Me And Fill Me With Pleasure, but with a deeper, darker vanilla that doesn't threaten to turn cloying on a hot day or anything. It's a very sweet patch, which is great, because I don't much like patch but this kind I can do. I will add to this review after it's sat for a week, a month, etc., as it's the type of blend that will likely deepen with age.

it's eventually being re-released as a general catalog scent called Revenant Rhythm, which is already available in hair gloss, atmosphere spray, and bath oil form at the Trading Post.

i absolutely love this scent. it's a bright, candied tangerine-orange above all for me. i don't specifically detect the lavender, and the anise darkens it around the edges a bit but isn't especially prominent. but they both work to make this scent complex, simple, calming, and uplifting all at once. the throw and longevity are surprising for a citrus, too. if i put on too much it can become cloying, but applying just a little with an optional afternoon touch up is perfect.

In the bottle: I recoiled! Strong, syrupy cough medicine. Always skin test, my pretties! Always skin test. Wet on skin: this is eyes rolling back in the head good. Bright pear and a hint of coconut. Just pure joy. Drydown: check out the throw on this lad! I first tried it this morning, an hour before leaving for work, by using a headless Q-tip to put one dot on my inner left elbow. I was testing other scents in the same manner on my wrists, but by the time I got to work I smelled this one wafting around me. Good thing I love it! In fact, I tossed it in my purse before leaving this morning and reapplied an hour ago. There is a darker, deep richness to the pear, probably coming from the other notes, but the pear is definitely the star of the show. It's gorgeous and fun, just the thing for a long workday.

This is one of my favorite Lupers from last year. On me it's a creamy, effervescent, cherry-type of almond. My fiancé thinks it smells like pure gummy worms, which is unfortunate for him because he loves almond, and also because I'm going to keep on wearing it.

The BPTP Snow Queen update isn't officially live yet, but they're putting it up right now, and this is one of the perfumes: DARK AND WEARY PERFUME Somber oudh, grey benzoin, raw bourbon vanilla, and tobacco.

The beautiful love child of The Mahogany Tree and Picture Books in Winter. Yet another scent to support my lack of belief in death notes - cinnamon never works for me, but it doesn't mess with this scent at all. The overall scent is sweet but not cloying, leathery but not masculine, resin but in a very subtle way, and just a bit spiced. My boyfriend often dismisses scents immediately as smelling like incense or food, and he liked this one. It's just very well blended, comfortable, and absolutely perfect for curling up with a book and a glass of scotch under a thick blanket on a winter's night.