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BOON-FIIIRE! Burninating the countryside, Burninating the peasants, Burninating all the peoples, And their thatched-roof COTTAGES! So yeah. I've been looking for smell that approximates the smell of leaf-burning/wood burning fireplaces for a while but 'Leaf' on me, apparently means 'Stinky Bandaid feet cologne' so I decided to go out on a limb and try Bonfire. Let's do this. In the bottle: Peppery. I can smell that weird acetone base smell that is the usual harbinger of Stinky Bandaid Feet Cologne. Under that there's a true woody smell but I am sceptical. Wet: First five minutes edges closer to acetone and then- hard right turn into BURNINATING. Yes! Fiiire! I feel like Jimmy Hendrix worshiping his flaming guitar. This legitimately smells like super hearty, burnination and woodsmoke. The acetone is long gone and it smells exactly like what it says on the tin- pure smouldering bonfire. I don't get pine- more of a slight ceder smell. Dry: A burning leaf pile with some sticks in it. This definitely smells like stepping outside on an autumn day when your neighbor has a fire going. It isn't overwhelming though- just really pleasent and exactly what I was looking for. It has a pretty mild throw for something that starts off so assertive and as it drys down further it isn't gone per se but gets really subtle. Great layering scent and smells like exactly what it's meant to.

Oh...ooo...*This* is why people like Snake Oil. So, Snake Oil perfume might actually be the most foul thing on earth on me- It tends to smell *exactly* like burning band-aids and skank so even putting this on was a questionable decision. Still, it smelled *way* less harsh in the imp than normal Snake Oil so I figured, eh, what the hell, worst comes to worst I take another shower to wash it off. I used about half an imps worth as a moisturizer. First impression was like Snake Oil proper but sweeter, with that sugary incense vanilla smell everyone raves about in the perfume. It was good the minute it his my skin and as it dried down it just got better. Definitely more foody then standard SO without that sharp herbal note. And no burning rancid band-aid stench. Can you wear these as a perfume? I lurve this...

Scored a whole bottle of this! My first MonsterBait, mmmmm- let's see how this goes. In the Bottle: Cinnamon schnapps? Errr. A super sharp, unpleasant blast of booze-y red hots. Cake? Are you in there? Wet: ARGH! Cinnamon explosion! This is *not* nice. It's a super dry single note cassia- it smells like I covered myself in spice rack cinnamon and nothing else. Sharp- like a cinnamon room spray. No way is this supposed to smell like this. Maybe it's gone off? Thirty minutes later: And it burns too. Boo. This might win the prize for single worst BPAL on my skin. Dry: I should just go wash this off this is just disgusting...HOLY CHRISTMAS! I smell gorgeous! Where did this come from? It's coconut pound-cake drenched in maple syrup. Seriously though, this goes from horrible to perfect at *exactly* the 45 minute mark each time I've tried it. It's the strangest thing. Loving it now- I can live through the wet stage to smell like this. It smells foody but totally grown-up, sophisticated foody. The only issue is the fact that it's still burninating my wrist a bit. This goes away at about the hour mark. Final Tally: Wet- 0/5 Dry 5/5 Skin- Burninating.

Possets Alisoun (The Miller's Tale) Thick veil of white vanilla starting off, building up to a crescendo of special Australian apricot and a layer of honey musk. The Big Black Cat Buttery creme with a smooth caramel undercoat, bourbon vanilla (the kind with the tiny black specks), gourmet candy corn crushed and put in the mix, and a crust of burnt sugar with a crunch from some indefinable but thoroughly delightful source. All this with a kiss of cinnamon, a very small puff of clove, and one grain of allspice. Hot Cross BunsYeasty bread with a glossy top and a thick "X" of sugary icing, a generous helping of currents and European citron and that is a classic Hot Cross Bun. Madame XWicked, sinful, hedonistic, and irresistable. You may not have the heart to play the femme fatale, but you can at least smell the part. It's musky, creamy, enticing, perfumy, slightly foody, but very skin-like. Reason About 6 vanillas and three toffees and a big glop of butter and cream on it all. I have envied chocolate lovers as their favorite treat comes to them in a bar, whereas we vanillaites have to go through lots of exercises to enjoy our obsession. Reason will make you feel totally catered to, with vanilla on top of vanilla with a very gooey and butter laden liquid toffee encapsulation. The Girls Love a Good PossetThis is the best French pastry cream, so buttery and makes love to your tongue. This is the stuff you find under those excellent plums, a thin coating of heavenly custard (no plums here though...nothing good for you at all). The Girls Love VanillaFor anyone who loves loves loves the smell of vanilla, this is the supersaturated honey soaked, sinful, hedonistic custom rare and unabashed blend you have been waiting for. Fireflies Fireflies rises again in a pother of sweetness, citrus, humidity and languid gauziness. This is a fragrance light enough to wear without cloying on the most humid of evenings. Violette Market Butterscotch Cotten Candy Clouds of ivory cotton candy infused with butterscotch accord, white sugar cane, vanilla cream, and boozy vanilla bean. Antoinette's Tea Cakes Sweet vanilla sugar tea cakes covered in pink glaze and infused with pearled China musk, French rosewater, and shimmering amber dust. Pumpkin Chai Ripe harvest pumpkin, sweet black tea, clove bud, vanilla bean, cardamom, warming Masala spices, and sweet vanilla cream. Marty (Magic Fingers) McVay Smoky vanilla, golden resins, sweet vanilla tea spiced with cinnamon, and dirty white amber. Lydia's Firefly LanternsWhite peach, warmed sandalwood, golden amber, honey sugar, cedar wood, white autumn rose, blond vetiver, and sparkling pink and gold fairy dust. Fireflies Lydia's golden fireflies glowing among raw agave sugar crystals, toasted marshmallow creme, and a pinch of golden amber dust. General Store Leaf GatheringAutumn leaves, crisp and crinkled by too many October afternoons, touched lightly by aged amber and dusty vanilla. Miss Danie Doe, The Cathouse Kitties Creamy Harvest pumpkin cheesecake with a hint of cloven spice. Washington IrvingEarl Gray tea, bergamot peel, lavender, golden amber, cedar wood branches, creamed honeycomb, frankincense, clove tobacco, vanilla flower, pale myrrh, cinnamon dust, and lemon leaf. Solstice Scents Snowshoe Pass White Amber, White Musk, Vanilla Accord, Peppermint Cream, Cold Winds Villianess Dulces en Fuego Musky bitter chocolate sweetened with vanilla and touches of citrus then positively inflamed with black pepper and nutmeg. Ginger Snapped A slightly psychotic blend of sweet cinnamon, rich cardamom, spicy ginger, and a faint touch of innocent vanilla. Killer Beez Sheer lethal cream and honey and a barely-there touch of nuts. Because you catch more bees with honey... Jai Mahal - Fall O7 A lesser palace infused with the sweet scent of victory. 4 rich vanillas and tonka, Mysore sandalwood, bourbon and coconut. Expensive woods, incense and imported spices - cedar, amber, myrrh, cardamom and nutmeg. Brats Ribbon candy spliced with butterscotch, salted caramels and a resinous melange of sticky sweets. Jack O. A cheerful gush of pumpkin and buttercream against a backdrop of fall - sere leaves and sweetgrass, bonfires and candle flame. Conjure Oils Guardian Angel Thirteen vanillas, butter cream, angel food cake and layers of heavenly coconut cream Cyanide Crumpets & Nightshade Jam Toasted crumpets slathered in almond butter and seeded blackberry and nightshade berry jam. Nocturne Alchemy Queen Amber Egyptian Honey Incense and Amber Eternal Ankh White Amber, Powdered and reconstructed oil of Egyptian Vanilla Husk, Vanilla fleck, African White Vanilla and the scent of soft Egyptian Sands. Eternal Alexandria NA Sand Note (Papyrus, Vellum and Amber Oils), White [/b]Amber, Egyptian Amber Musk and just a few drops of Egyptian Organic Cardamom. Eternal Egypt White Amber, Red Egyptian Musk, Egyptian Amber and the sands of Egypt. Bes Vanilla Cream Vapour, Caramelized Egyptian Sugar Dust, Vanilla Musk, Cardamom, Sandalwood and Egyptian Black Clove Buds. Aurora Slightly sweet and buttery vanilla, slightly toasted coconut Hathor's White Cinnamon Vanilla Earl Grey Earl Grey tea leaves imported from India, Sweet Bergamot E/O, White Cinnamon of subtle woods and spice extracts harmonizing with Red Tea and Egyptian White Tea leaves, Egyptian White Sugar, Brown Sugar, Vanilla Cream and a drop of Cardamom Whip. Blooddrop Boo! Marshmallow & pumpkin! Boo Bees The most feared, reviled, and terrifying monsters of the insect world! Beware the ghostly bumbles! Shriek at the wee, sheeted wings of doom! Behold! Boo bees! Honey, marshmallow, honeysuckle, valerian, and apple blossoms. Happy Halloween Happiest of spooking to all! Come to my party! Pumpkin cupcakes with white chocolate buttercream frosting. Calaveras Marshmallow, condensed milk, white sugar, brown sugar, maple sugar and a touch of frosting. Lantern A warm, glowing gourd, carved in an intricate pattern to light the dark and chilly nights of Autumn. Pumpkin, soft amber, quatre-quarts cake, dried stalks, honey, sweet orange, golden resins and spices, and candle wax. Sugar Cone Apple Cider Doughtnuts Spun Sugar Fluffy, summery, fair-time cotton candy, but without the cavities! Haus of Gloi Troika A trinity of soft milks, almond, oat and coconut, lashed with sweet agave nectar and the ethereal scent of clean white. Maple Sugar Crystallized maple sugar. [size="4"]Customs:[/size] 1.Gulub Jamun Fried Dough Sugar Syrup Cardamom Rosewater 2.Pure Honeysuckle Honeysuckle Wet soil 3 Underbed Angel Food Cake Cassia Cocoa Toasted Coconut 4. Closet Red Velvet Cake Buttercream Frosting Vanilla Bourbon Cassis 5. Underpants Bourbon Vanilla Mysore Sandalwood Buttercream frosting Sugar Buttered Rum 6. Tres Leches Butter Cake Sweetened Condensed Milk Toasted Coconut Dulce De Leche 7. Cinnamon Roll Pastry Cinnamon Vanilla Icing Brown sugar Copal 8. Chaste Sweet Cream Vanilla Carnation Almond Milk Honeysuckle Tiare 9. Peach Cobbler Peach Brown Sugar Graham Cracker Vanilla Musk Cardamom Nutmeg 10. Pie Crust White Sugar Black Current Myrrh Sweet Cream 11. Cinnamon Roll Vanilla Butter Cinnamon Nutmeg Sugar Clove 12. Autumn Leafs Dirt Rain Pumpkin

Oh, the possibilities. 413 U.S. 15 / Miller Vs. California Leather, cognac, fig, ripe berry, and cream, stuffed into a plain brown paper bag. Aglaea Three golden ambers, bright musk, peach wine and myrtle. Boo Eerie billows of spun sugar, fluttering white cotton, and sheets of cream. ( Can get plastic-y. Almost SN vanilla) Crib Girls Seven honeys under one unkempt roof, with fiery-tart cubeb and dusty cardamom. Detestable Putrescence Melty vanilla ice cream! ( Possible plastic vanilla) Eclipse A delicious blend of bitter almond, vanilla, frankincense and heliotrope, with a drop of cinnamon. ( Can have over-powering cinnamon. Some people think it's similar to Snowcake Soap) French Love A warm, soft, sexual blend. Sweet and alluring. Used to entice new lovers and add an aura of temptation and carnal sin to your environment. Golletes A circular pastry glazed with pink sugar that symbolizes the sweetness of life and the certainty of death. Giant Vulva Skin musk, sugar cane, honey, beeswax, vanilla flower, and copal. Horse chestnut honey Horse chestnut honey (Supposed to by really cloying/caramel-ish) Imp Devilishly playful: white peach, amber, golden musk and patchouli. Josie Heady magnolia and honeyed peaches. Kill-Devil Sugar cane, molasses, oak wood, and honey. Lyonesse Golden vanilla and gilded musk, stargazer lily, white sandalwood, grey amber, elemi, orris root, ambergris and sea moss. March Hare A twisted teatime tart: apricot and sweet clove. Molly Grue An angry little beetle with her own kitchen beauty: fig, sesame, hazelnut, and cooking spices softened by rice flower. Mouse's Long and Sad Tale ( Perfect Vanilla. Disappears *fast*.) Vanilla, two ambers, sweet pea and white sandalwood. Redoul honey Redoul honey Skuld Ylang ylang, honey, Egyptian and Arabian musks and labdanum. Sugar Plum Fairy Queen of the Kingdom of Sweets: sugar plums, vanilla-infused sugar, tiare, amber musk, apricot peel, and a light dusting of cacao. The Vine Bradford pear, honey, and vanilla cream.

In the bottle: Generic perfume smell mixed with iced tea and a little lemon. Completely unoffensive, but nothing to go into raptures about. Hmmm. Wet: Nice black tea smell, but with a vanilla sweetness coming out-- After about twenty seconds this turns into the world's most beautiful sweet vanilla smell. No lemon on me- just vanilla sugar with maybe a little lavender waaaay in the background. Wrist glued to nose. Omigod. This is just lovely. I don't think I understand people saying this is a unisex scent- this smells *really* gorgeously feminine to me. This is the kind of smell that makes people want to stick their nose right up to it- not super assertive- just wafting awesome that makes you feel like the sexy goddess of smelling bloody wonderful. Dry: Stays mostly the same, but powdery. Not baby powdery, just dry vanilla powder with a little lavender instead of vanilla syrup. Want to lick this. Only problem is it fades a little faster on me then other bpal. Totally worth a re-application though. TL:DR: Want to lick myself. This is amazing. Buying more as soon as possible.

Notes/Oils... also of DOOM The ones that just don't work. Notes Jasmine Ceder Pine TEAK (Note to self, no matter how much you like all the other notes, NO TEAK.) Smoke/Vetiver Civet Tobacco Metals Mint Chocolate Cherry Meat (big surprise) Pumpkin Scents Grog Mata Hari Night Raven Pumpkin III 2007 Hellcat Bliss Queen of Sheba Snap Dragon Fly

In the imp: Really nice, subtle, earthy green but not 'Oh, HAI, cut-grass' smell. Interesting and really promising. Seems nicely balanced- I still don't get much of the fig that I've been searching for but, such is life Wet: Still like but...someone mentioned that this reminds them of commercial perfume and that's mostly what I'm getting from it too. The notes sort of disappear behind a smell of Perfume. Tautology perfume smells like itself, I guess. And there is no dry. Sorry. Just like with normal perfume I started to sneeze like a motha'. I've always been allergic to scents- something quite a lot of BPAL hasn't triggered. This seems to have just the right Perfume smell or chemistry to punch my nose in the face. Sorry Apothocary. TL;DR; Actually really nice perfume-y smell. Punched nose in face. Beware people who tend to react badly to normal perfume.

In the bottle- Hmmm. Undecided. I opened the package it came in and recoiled a bit. Opening the bottle and taking a snort- pretty nice. I can smell pumpkin, but not aggressive pumpkin and a sweet cream smell like white chocolate. Not bad. Not absurdly sweet. Cool. This might be better then expected. Wet- AGH! Diabetes. And I *like* sweet. I like Trick or Treat and that smells like I took a bath in caramel. This is SWEET. The white chocolate note jumps out, punches you in the face, and demands your wallet. I can't smell anything but kind of off-smelling chocolate now- it's super familiar. I know this smell and I'm getting a very specific sense memory of stuck together teeth and eating bits of candy wrapping.... wait a second.... Dry- This is Tootsie rolls on me. Washing it off with extreme prejudice. Goodbye BPAL chocolate note, I hardly knew thee. TL:DR- 'Effing Tootsie rolls. 1/5

In the bottle- Interesting...this smells like booze and...something else. Definitely not fruity. Maybe the bread note... Wet- Oh. It's meat. Yep. That's totally meat. This actually has a meat note. Well, that'll teach me for thinking it's some kind of metaphorical mince-pie note. This smells a hell of a lot like a real Christmas-y meat pie when wet. There's a rasin-y booze smell in the background, but it's behind the mince pie and holly. Dry- Okay, here we go. Holly and fig and booze start to assert themselves past the suet/mince smell. This is interesting... academically this smells nice- and avoids smelling like potpourri or a Christmas shop- but this is not a sexy scent. This is really thick and savory in a way that's good but not nice. I can't imagine a boy smelling me and wanting anything except maybe a pork-pie. I think this goes in the 'good room scent' category for me, because it really does smell like Christmas without being *obvious* Christmas but...don't want to smell like this all day. TL:DR I smell like meat. But interesting meat. 2/5

In the decant- Marshmallow crust. Exactly, exactly like the brown, bubbly crust of a marshmallow when you're roasting it over a flame. Wet- MARSHMALLOW! It stays exactly the same. No cinnamon scent on me, this is such a perfect reproduction of a roasted marshmallow it's actually a little unsettling. Like, you think you want to smell like delicious roasted marshmallow but you don't actually want to smell exactly like roasted marshmallow because then you smell like you're carrying around a boy-scout troupe in your blouse. Dry- Okay, so marshmallow smell starts to fade, unfortunately on me it fades into a woody, smokey smell, like the campfire they're cooking the marshmallows in. My skin tends to bring out any possibility of a burn-y smell though, so it could be that, but now I smell like a ceder chest. Eh, not for me as a perfume- think I'll try putting it into a lotion to distribute it better and hopefully avoid the smell of burninating.

I was looking for a sexy scent and this one was on my radar for a blind bottle purchase. Happily, I got it as an free imp from a lovely forum member...who therefore saved me twenty bucks. In the Imp: Ugh. Upsetting right off the bat. Bathroom. Strong bad bathroom. Opening it scared off my cat. Wet: Bathroom/ Ashtray. I have no idea what jasmine smells like, but people seem to be blaming the rotting/decomposed smell on it so I'll just assume it's that. This is not promising at all. Dried: Well, at least it's consistent. It smelled vaguely floral for about ten minutes, then returned to the nasty decomposed smell. I'd be happier with old coffee grounds. 0/5. This is the only scent so far that I legit dislike. This is anti-sexy on me and didn't seem to change much from the imp to my skin. Same rotten smell. Maybe the oil has gone off because I can't smell any coffee at all, and certainly no rose. Just stink.

Hi everyone! I'm pretty new to Bpal and just got my first bottle and well, erhm. Same sort of story that as everyone else. I got an imp of Strangler Fig- it smelled unholy good. Deep, thick, smell like figs poached in honey and a little earth. I wore out the imp almost instantly and jumped at the chance to grab a bottle from the forum. And its so different, man. Not just slightly different- almost 100%. This one smells like the white stuff in dandelions wet and drys down to sharp green vegetation in a hothouse, it makes me sneeze and burns on my skin which the other most assuredly did not. So, to anyone who owns this one or knows these symptoms- HELP! Is this a case of one being aged? Storage? How is it that one triggers allergies and one doesn't? Which is the normal state of affairs for this scent? Is there some strange alchemy that I can do to make this turn into the gorgeous imp smell? I can't imagine this type of difference is normal- no one could have a favorite if it smelled this different every time. Anything anyone could tell me would be hugely appreciated.

Favorite Scents and Notes O Dorian The Mouse's Long Sad Tale Sugar Skull Morocco Aeval Notes: Vanilla Honey Sugar Sweet Pea Lavender Musk Sandlewood Tea Sage Amber Cake Fig Honeysuckle

Just got a bunch of imps to sample- first time ever using any BPAL stuff. Of all of them this is the only one that I'm inspired to go write about. I smell so awesome it's not even funny. In the Imp- Brown (slightly burnt) butter and vanilla. A little rummy at the end I think, but that's probably just because I'm not used to perfume. Very sweet- it sort of smacked me around a little- and while delicious, slightly concerning that it would be a very little-girly free- with- your-barbie type of smell on me. Wet- Sweeet. Not absurd, but quite sugary. Very strong smell of butter and vanilla still but instead of smelling like extract it turns into delicious cake. Actually- St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake, almost exactly. No real current smell. Just cake-y goodness. Dry- Sugar cookies! I smell exactly like sugar cookies. It gets much more powdery and adult smelling. Still no current but I'm happy with the baking smells- I don't doubt that this would be amazing if you layered a fruity scent on it-I'm tempted to mix a little March Hare on top of this and see if I smell like peach pie. I'm off to buy a bottle of this. I smell like everything good in the world. At once. Definitely the best of my sample group. (P.S. Yep. I smell like peach pie. Might have to find a bottle of that too.)