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> say "Thank you!" Lobster says "Thank you!" > inv You are carrying: 1 pending order > look pending order You see a pending order. It gives off a sweet, resinous scent. > open pending order The pending order contains: Tombstone Aureus Penitence Kathmandu Smut Bengal > jump Jump where? > jump up and down Lobster jumps up and down! > say "My coccyx is humming with delight to see how these scents play out! Thank you so much for your recommendations, you're all cooler than milk-chocolate asteroids with raspberry centers. Now to wait for two months. " ...Lobster gibbers like a dork.

I am a nutball for myrrh and cedar and resiny incenses of all kinds. Doing a search for "myrrh" on the main site nets about a thousand hojillion different results, and most of them look pretty good. I'd like some help narrowing the field a little. Here's how it all goes down: 1. My skin eats most perfumes. NAR NAR NAR. I need the strong stuff. 2. I hate florals. GOD I hate florals. What's the longest-lasting resiny scent in the catalog that doesn't involve flowers?

Hot damn, the packers at the Lab know how to pick 'em. I got this as a frimp with an order and now I surely must have a bottle. It's amazing! Unlike nearly every other BPAL scent I've put on, it STAYS TRUE from imp to skin to drydown. It seems like a very simple scent to me. Very, very sharp. I can make out only three notes, but they are STRONG notes and they don't change. 1. Juniper 2. Black pepper 3. Lemon or lime, hovering on the edge of the juniper. It has excellent throw; just a dab is enough. This is an aggressive scent that will grab people (and you) and do kung-fu stunts. Lobster Rating Better than: Spaghettios

In the bottle: Black tea, vanilla, old-fashioned violet laundry soap. The laundry soap is probably meant to stand for the 'linen' scent. On me: Tea. Yay, tea! Also, CURDLED FRICKIN' MILK. Boo. And the violets have turned to a faint black licorice smell. What bad craziness is going on here? The only reason I'm not washing it off right now is that I'm hoping the milk burns off. BLEARCH PLARTH BLOO. Dry: Sweet black tea and a whiff of 'linen', i.e. violet soap flakes. The vanilla and milk both seem to have gone. It's much more palatable now, but I don't think it's me. I'm not going to wear it when I've got other tea scents that don't have to pass through the Hell of Funky Dairy on their way to smelling good. Lobster Rating Better than: stapling your thumb by mistake

Never smelt Kyphi incense. Bought this unsniffed because I was on an incense-oil tear, and with the lemon it seemed like a nice change. In the bottle: The lemon says hello! It's a sweetish, candied-lemon-peel lemon, which I love. The lemon is jumping all over everything else, but there's some sandalwood and coriander in there somewhere. Not smelling the usual incense note. On me: Something gets more resiny, and the lemon and sandalwood break into MORTAL COMBAT. First one's on top, then the other. Occasionally the lemon veers into Pledge territory but quickly finds its feet again. The classic incense note has arrived and is sneaking up behind both of them, ready to sap the lemon and sandalwood and steal their kidneys. Drydown, 2 hours later: The lemon's sweetness has worn off, leaving a very pleasant lemon-oil scent commingling peacefully with the sandalwood. The resin seems to be cedar or myrrh, which blends beautifully with the other long-lasting notes. Incense is still there. Throw: Quite strong at first, still scentable at friendly conversation distance as it dries. I put too much on, the second time I tried it, and the cat ran away from me at a distance of eight feet. Overall, the scent starts out sweet and quickly becomes less so as it dries, taking on a fantastic resiny incense feel touched with bitter lemon. NICE. Really, really nice. It's a smell that wouldn't feel out of place in any season, but would probably be awesome on sun-warmed bare shoulders in the summertime. I'm going to be wearing this one a lot. Lobster Rating Better than: blackberry pie!

In the bottle: Orange, tobacco, black tea, and ginger. Faint chocolate rounding out the scent. It's complicated and delicious, like a very expensive dessert. Nicely spicy, tangy, warm and sweet. On me: Orange and ginger jump out and go WOOO YAAAAY I AM ON SKIN PAAARTY. Tea comes up underneath that, sweet and dark and a little bitter. The chocolate or musk is probably the background glue holding all of the stuff together, because even with so many sharp smells it's still very SMOOTH. Extremely sexy. Dry, about 2 hours later: HOT DIGGITY DAMN! IT'S SHUB-NIGGURATH! That does it, Great Sword of War is my new favorite scent of all time. I'm signing up for a couple big bottles of this stuff. Srsly. It's the perfect scent. Ginger and orange all the way through, with tea and something creamy gradually fading and leaving the ginger to stand out among some background citrus and musk notes. My socks are rocked right across the room by Great Sword of War. Lobster Rating Better than: 4-star pad thai!

The scent description of Bastet stoked me grandly; I LOVE amber and almond, and every single other note in it. This was the first one I hoiked open after my order arrived. <3 I was completely undisappointed and had to sit there for a few minutes huffing it. Delicious. In the bottle: ZLOMG sweet almond sex. Mostly almond, honey, amber, and something that's probably lotus in the background. I don't get any of the spice notes. Wet on me: smells exactly the same as in the bottle, only warmer. Maybe more almond. Dry on me: The amber's coming out a little more, and I THINK maybe that saffron and cardamom are lurking around in the background, very faint. 30 minutes later: WAUGH! Where the hell did it go? My skin ate it! I can barely detect a little amber resin, but the rest of it is GONE! Damn damn DAMN. To swap for something that doesn't disappear, or to use in a bath or something? Obviously it's not meant for me to wear. Lobster Rating Better than: Tom's of Maine fennel toothpaste

When I got married in October, in a rather chilly outdoor ceremony, I wore Tezcatlipoca. I have to recommend it for anyone who gets married in cooler weather; the chocolate is warm and soothing while the leather note helps you feel sexy and keep your head high for a long, busy day. It also blends well if you want to slap some O over it for the wedding night, which is also something I would recommend. Rowr.