Aveya

In the imp this was all green musky. Skin initial - HONEY. Bloomed beautifully. Reminded me of Crib Girls with the intensity at first. Settled on skin ... this is Crib Girls Light. Actually this smells a lot like Diabolical Offspring did on me (from years ago). It had a "Baby sweetness"; this is basically this scent entirely. Like really well taken care of baby butt. Kind of lovely but uh, you know.

On a never-ending quest for Peaches and Blueberries. But ... I don't know how I feel about strawberries yet. Thankfully I don't need to know yet, because while the initial add was all strawberry Jam, it quickly faded on me. What it leaves behind is a soft, warm, musky vanilla concoction with the faintest peach stirred in. It's almost like my blend is entirely different from some of the other reviews. Oh this gets so beautiful as it wears and melds. Gentle, sultry, musky, sweet. Sweetness is all fruit (no added sugar ) and I don't care to dissect peach from strawberry. The musky base is probably benzoin + sandalwood - I don't even care. It's just the warmest, softest, best thing ever. makes me want to sunbathe in the grass while eating a bowl of fresh picked fruit. Flipping amazing scent. These peach scents I swear. I love you so much. EDIT TO ADD: My bottle was thick with ribbons of something in the oil. Within ten minutes of setting my bottle down after rolling and mixing, it's separated again. Worth checking to make sure it's well mixed for applying.

I'm on a hunt for amazing peach scents. So there is not a single Dragoncon I do not want to sniff. So - Bottle swapped for one. I'm VERY concerned about the Jasmine, as I haven't found a single blend with Jasmine I can wear happily. This scent however, may be that exception to prove the rule. This is a zippy, bright, tart citrus first, with juicy fruit sweetness underneath. It is not peach prominent, but it IS there strongly for me. Jasmine is not a prominent note, thank god, but is a backer playing well to tie everything together with a soft white light. I don't notice the green tea much - except that I felt this peach was unripe. Everything in this scent feels like an ALMOST ripe note - as in it's still green, living, pulsing. This is really beautiful to me. The more I inhale the more it grows on me. Jasmine usually gets cloying/heading/up-in-my-face in a way I despise. But this scent is blended together in a way that I barely notice the Jasmine. It adds a feminine element to the blend that I think otherwise would be too bitter from the citrus prominence. I'm really fascinated by how these notes are blending and playing so well together on me. Yum. Like it a lot.

Basically just a mead scent to me. Honey heavy and a bit yeasty. The yeasty part kills it for me. Literal foodie scent.

Imp: Oh god sickly sweet. Sugariest syrup ever. Thick & heady sugar. Wet on skin: Yup still thick. Almost butterscotch-y in how thick sweet it is. Caramelized, condensed? Uh, or aged maybe. Dry: It's like the sugar starts to unwind from each other. It was so heady sweet because it's like every sugar possible wound together. They're still eternally glued together and will never be completely apart. This is so much sugar - but it is NOT the sugar like in candy phoenix or bitches love unicorns. This is thick sugar - like wet cotton candy re-hardened in the bag. It's the goo and the gunk that is making this so so heavy of a blend. This is the male counterpart to Candy Phoenix. It is dark on the sugar spectrum vs Candy's bright light upper tier. I can grab the upper notes when i sniff this scent that are in candy phoenix/Bitches love unicorns - but it's overwhelmed by the abundance of what's almost a deep caramelized toffee. Swapper for me personally, but a really neat scent. I also remember this scent- I did test it back in 2008. It doesn't smell like it's changed at ALL.

Imp ; mmmmm cider Wet on skin ; mmmmmm cider Drydown; mmmmmmm cider. Perfectly apple cider. The good kind of apple cinder. Tons of vague spices and apple pulp. Much more clear than other "cider" scents I've tried. I love this so much. Another review said it was just like Pure Applesauce. If so; I'ma stockpile me some bottles. Off to swap for that lovely since it'll be easier to get than a bottle of this one. Verdict; Love it. Perfect Apple Cider. If a version gets remade I'm going to be all over it. Flawless love.

This is my first New Year scent I think I've tried. Right away on skin this is just simply delicious. Juicy and sweet. I don't identify it as honeydew or melon off the bat, it's not that clear-cut to me. This scent is really blended together well; so I'm going to toss all the individual notes and give the vibe. This is gently earthy, sweet-musky predominant, spicey, fruity. This is a really clear scent to me - that is there isn't any floral/amber/soapy/powdery anything happening. It's very deep and rich to me. It reminds me of what I love in Crawdad and other berry scents - a sort of musky fruit that blooms as you wear it. This is startling beautiful. I believe I was frimped this one in a swap; really grateful for that! I'm learning that the lab scents that have a trillion things in them I tend to absolutely ADORE. Love this scent. Love it.

So I'm firmly planted in the "Aquatic cucumber" camp as well. I do get a layer of leather though. When I huff the leather I think the "Aquatic Cucumber" better blends in and then becomes Cologne. But if I back off again - back to aquatic cucumber. I think this one is all skin chemistry. I purchased this for my husband on a whim-buy. As he said; "I don't want to call it basic, but... I mean if I look at the counter and go 'Lordy or Dee?' I think the answer is obvious". I love him. Yes, Dee is the obvious answer <3 That said ; on him this is ENTIRELY leather cologne. 100% that's all it was. Morphed into a musky, "generic" man scent. And, to him, this was just a really crappy version of Dee. Completely different than how it smells on me.

Very Green scent. I didn't 100% know what lilac smelled like (Florals are not my strength) but now I sure do! This is a nice gentle floral/woodsy scent. It's not powder/soap or in-your-face floral. It's really comforting and natural. This warmed me up to lilac for sure. Initially the florals come across strong, but after a small wait they mellow down. It makes this scent truly unisex to me. If you're actually non-binary this scent could be perfect. It's got such a beautiful balance between trees and flowers, it feels like... exactly what it should. The lilac wood. Innocent but with shadows. New growth but old as earth. Hmmm this scent gets to the heartstrings somehow. Probably a swapper for me due to the floral slant, but there's something mystical about this one.

Mostly tonic. Gin isn't giving it that BURST of pop I've seen with other gin scents. it's a sort of flat drink. It's mellow-fruity ; nothing standing out too much. nothing crazy juicy poppy fruity like I always hope for. That said, this feels well balanced. It's a wearable gentle fruity, and doesn't smell like you're wearing booze. It's light and gentle, and tropical for sure. Swapper for me personally - but the scent is nice.

First note I get : PINK LIME. I didn't know what that would smell like, but this tart almost floral citrus zap has GOT to be pink lime. It's like all the worst scents are compiling on this one for me. Pomegranate is adding a tart edge, lime is adding sour. There's a zippy pep to this scent, but this lingering threatening clean/floral/powder from somewhere that's ready to overtake in moments. Nothing like how it smells in the imp - which is a rich, fruity, promising scent. Really disappointing for me. Verdict - Bright bubbly sour/tart drink. Hints of a soapy edge on me that's scaring me away.

I was super excited about this scent. I love pumpkin spice - that is, I like the spice only and not the pumpkin that often goes along with it. What in the name says pumpkin belongs? Nothing. It's Pumpkin Spice people. SPICE THAT YOU PUT IN PUMPKIN PIE. Anyways - This scent smelled exactly like pumpkin spice hersey kisses. There's something slightly off about it. Something maybe plastic but maybe intended. I've been running into it in a lot of wheenies that I've been testing lately. Verdict; I'm just going to tell people I like Masala Chai and solve this pumpkin vs pumpkin spice debate.

Runts. That's all she wrote.

This is an odd one to me. It's surprisingly CLEAN smelling on me at first. I don't know if that's the pepper? Or if the basenotes take too long to show up so it feels empty? At this point it's slightly fruity but in a tart way. Currant seems to go that route for me. Given a little time the blackberry pops up a little bit more. It's reminiscent to me of Crawdad's berry, but not the same. It's juicier/clearer, and a bit more tart. This maintains an odd level of floral for me? It's not floral proper, but it's a clean/floral/powder hit, I'm assuming the amber + pink pepper is making my brain go odd. To me this is in the realm of early-stage Lady Una (I just tested, fresh on my brain). Reminds me of elements of Red as well. Verdict; Feminine, bright, juicy without going dark, gently sweet. Low throw. Swapper for me, but nice for others I'm sure.

This scent is unfortunately a vanisher on me. Just POOF nothing. I can jam my face in there and get hints, but I just soak this one up. How sad! It has a pineapply/coconut rum thing going for it. Very beachy and appropriate. Just wish it had some throw.

Honey. Honey honey honey. Light, clear, sweet, gentle summer honey. On top of that is a sharp herbal/floral. Smells like nothing specific to me, so going to randomly attribute it to the "leaf"s Honey. Sweet, behaving, spiced, herbaled, pretty honey. An underlying sweetness creeps up. Or, let me explain since honey is sweet. An underlaying unique different level of sweet pops in that cuts through the thickness of honey. Has to be vanilla bean. Verdict: Feminine, behaved light sweet honey, with herbal/floral hints. Not for me personally - I don't really love the "leaf" aspects, but this will be (and is) a loved one for those who work it.

This is a weird feeling. The reviews so far for this scent is GLOWING. So I figured it'd be a smash hit for me. I love patchouli like a fiend, the more gnarly the better, I tend to pull off masculine scents well, etc etc. But this scent? I hate this scent. And not exactly how it smells. But it's so PRETENTIOUS. It's absurdly rich when it has no right to be. SIR, YOU HAVE PATCHOULI IN YOU! WTF are you doing being so flippin' fancy? It's powdery/airy/musky. That has no right being in a gnarly patchouli blend (lol opinion time). It FEELS, to borrow from the description, paranoid and garish. It's a bit overwhelming for me and clouded. It smells like a salesman. A cold-calling salesmen that snuck his way past reception and is now wandering around acting like he belongs and talking up everyone. GTFO WE DON'T WANT ANY. There are a lot of comparisons to #occupywallstreet with this one. I'll stick to the dirty patchouli mob, thank you. Verdict; This feels like a commercial scent to me. Rich, overwhelming, pretentious. It is, to me, EXACTLY like the description intended. I... imagine this is what Trump smells like and I start to feel nauseous. So - Swapper for this one. But I will say I haven't ran across a scent like this in BPAL before. Golf-clap for the accuracy. Edit: Correction, Trump's Caddie wears this scent.

Oh god this is 100% nilla banana pudding. I got nothing else. That's it. 100%. I mean I can get fancy and start to just smell segments and pick the scent apart - but overall it's nilla banana pudding. You know, those nilla wafers? Banana pudding. Yup. It has an element of "fake" to it, but not any more fake than nilla wafers are Drydown tames the banana but I've still got nilla wafers. Some other reviews called it stale cake. I mean - Yeah. I guess nilla wafers are inherently stale, aren't they? Unique scent. I traded for a bottle for funsies, but might decant some imps out for trade and keep a handful. Fun foodie/gourmand scent.

In contrast to the dirty sexy gritty east African patch, the Sumatran red is smooth, mellow, sweet, musky, and yes mentholy. Personally on me, it goes a little tad plasticy/fake leather. I think it's just my skin. But yes, 100% this is hippy shops in Yellow Springs. This is... comfort. This is tea, second hand stores, army surplus, and street fairs. This is an emotional accurate scent for me. This scent is what home should be. Love it. Not the same way I love black patchouli - but still love it. Emotions aside; this scent as just a scent in late dry-down tends to go powdery almost floraly on me. It's not something I love, so red patchouli in blends isn't my favorite.

This is God. This is like, patchouli dreams. I can't believe I haven't reviewed it yet. My bottles (Yeah maybe I hoarded these a tad!) have aged a touch, and the caps are getting thick and sticky. Which is exactly how this smells. Wet, rich, deep, gritty, pungent. This is Depraved's patchouli. Almost every amazing BPAL patch scent is in this bottle. NOM. This has throw, staying power, it gets almost spicy on my skin. I'm constantly trying to re-create "Depraved" versions with creams and fruits. Gonna be trying this and Bitches Love Unicorns soon. Yeah. That'll be a disaster or amazing. In any case - this is thick, sweet, dirty, sexy patchouli.

This was hefty floral, way too much floral for me. The rose was light and definitely pink. It wasn't until late late drydown that it sweetened up and the honey poked through. I always underestimate the power of floral.

Imp: ... Dubious ginseng for sure. Skin initial: Slap in the face. Zesty ginger/ginseng right up in there. Kind of funky smelling, rooty. Drydown: The spice sticks around. This is peppery, ginger-fresh, zesty, but earthy. It's like the feeling the gin/fizzy soda BPAL give you, but while staying firmly in herbal territory. It kind of grows on me. But it's definitely got it's own swaggery funk. Verdict: It's a romp through a witches spice garden while everything is bursting with ripeness.. But that curious funk will prevent me from getting a bottle / wearing this much. I bet some will love it though. Fun to sniff - you should try it out.

Imp : Gritty, dark, dirty citrus Skin initial: incensed honey Skin drydown: Citrus cinnamon-spice honey. Really low throw, I gotta shove my nose into my skin sadly. The honey is going a bit... wonk on me. I would say there's cream in this going sour. Then after a little more time, it flips a switch and goes floral-esq powdery to me. I think the amber kicks in and brings some of the other notes with it. Verdict: Low-throw spiced citrus musk, that fades quickly into a floral-amber haze.

Imp: All foody. Citrus cookies Skin wet: Nom nom orange-glazed gingerbread cookies. Very classic BPAL foodie to me. Skin drydown: Ginger becomes prominent. I've now iced my gingerbread house and moved my gingerbread bedbug into the house. I have no idea why she called this bedbug, I hope there's an inside joke there somewhere. This is such an awesome scent. Verdict; starts off foodie and quickly tames to a wearable ginger-orange cookie scent. Absolutely love it.

Imp : Clean, bright, poppy. Skin Initial: Lemony clean. Skin Dryer: Lemon balm must smell clean, since a scent earlier I tried had the same sort of feel. This is clean clean clean with a faint waft of white herbal (sage I suppose), on a backdrop of... fuzzy. Neat soft scent. Not for me, but I think others could like it. The lemon fades off for me pretty fast, leaving a vague floral clean air.