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Yesssss. This is simply stunning. And for me also, it wars with Sin for the most loved. This is for me, both comforting and inspiring, and I love it to death. I have waist-length thick hair and have been loving this- it's the red musk that is delicate enough to be work-safe, but dramatic enough to keep me in a happy place as long as I am wearing it. I only wish I could have gotten a bit more.

In the bottle and wet on my arm, I actually made my "ew, why did I get this again?" face. It was all - stale tobacco in a rusted tin, maybe? But once it's dry? ohhhhhhh. Oh, my. I don't get any orange here at all. This is a lovely licorice, faint and light, much like Le Pere Fouettard. It clings to darkness and shadows, heavy and dragging, and more than a little evil. The tobacco is tempered by the musk and myrrh to give an aura of sweet, heavy darkness and candied whispers. This has made me all but swoon. Here's the thing- tobacco notes usually hate me. French Tobacco SN was horrid on my skin. This, unlike almost any other tobacco note ever, works. It blooms and blends into a whole scent experience where the notes are nearly indistinguishable from one another. If you're someone for whom tobacco doesn't usually work, and you liked Le Pere Fouettard for its dark licorice, you may love this.

For me this is mostly anise. Which is great, because I love anise, licorice, absinthe and such. It make me think of a pomander ball with star anise in place of clove, and a little bit of smokiness. It is bright and warm and comforting and invigorating all at once, and I want to surrender to it and sink down into a cloud of this, close my eyes, and surrender to vivid, vibrant visions in my slumber.

This one on me started out REALLY pungent. Almost unpleasantly so, and I suspect that was the balsams. I was about ready to discount it- but you know... always give it a chance. And then I started reacting to it- a bright red spot on my skin for about 10 minutes, which is odd since I regularly wear inferno, uranus, autumn cider, and such things known for reactions. That calmed down. And so did that first blast of WHOA! And now I like it. A LOT. All dried down 30 minutes later, this is a dry, woodsy, cinnamon resin. It reminds me of Egg Moon and TAL Exodus Anointing Oil. There isn't any sweetness to it at all really, but it's also not "oh, hello spice!" like walking into a spice shop. It's more of a dry desert scent. So I strongly dislike the wet stage on this, but the level of gorgeous that comes with the dry-down makes that half hour completely worth it. This is one that I really want to see how it ages, also. I suspect that it is going to be even better with some time in my cool, dark, aging drawer.

Your friendly neighborhood sex shop: gleaming black leather, latex, and musk. Unnnnnffffff. There's a reason I got 5 of these just on the notes. A very very good reason. The prelude to the review goes something like: sniff. sigh. sniff. moan. sniff. groan. sniff- reach for partner and start biting their neck and begging for more. several hours and several rounds later, roll over in bed and reach over for the computer to finish writing the review I really did mean to start when I first sniffed this. From the notes listed, I thought this might well be a candle version of fetish.goth, which I adore and slather myself in on a regular basis. The shiny, gummy resins are absent here, leaving raw, unfettered sex. Or maybe- unrestrained, but definitely cuffed. This is the black leather of De Sade, Loviatar, fetish.goth, Black Rider, Whip. The latex isn't the sort I think of with swim caps and rubbers, but the sort that is shiny, black, and wrapped skin-tight around a body mounted on stilettos and stalking toward you with intent. What kind of intent, I'm not sure. A little nervous about that, in the most shivery, goose bumpy way. It smells like a dungeon... and I adore it. Now, where did he go? I need more. again. It's a primal scent if ever I encountered one.

A goblin'y take on Smut! Smutty Goblin Musk sweetened with sugar and tonka, and woozy with dark booze notes. Every other post candle I've gotten has been white or a creamy off-white. This one is so heavily perfumed that the candle wax itself is actually pink-hued. It's the musky, boozy, sexy, sweaty, salacious Smut I know and love so dearly. Sweet, dark, potent, this joins Spanked as an all-time favorite rendered in candle form, which lets the scent continue even after it's been worn off my skin in the best of ways. I haven't burned it yet, so I can't say the throw. This is going to be a bedroom sexytimes candle, so it only really needs to have a few feet of throw into the bed area. It has that even just sitting on the shelf, as I smell it a few feet away sending its wanton, lascivious scent my way.

Aw, man. Puddin' got me good. I ordered all the other candles, and a tea light of Snow White came along for the ride. It is stunning, to say the least. This is another one I can't wear on my skin, but in my home is a completely different story. Soft, sweet, vanilla snow through my living room- yes, please. The previous version of Snow White candle apparently had minimal throw, but this tea-light is spreading this chilly, soft sugary sweet creamy loveliness throughout my living room. And now I do believe I may need the full sized version. Thanks, Puddin'!

This is the most remarkable, unexpectedly gorgeous scent! Sweet, almost sugary ginger, and the frankincense and bergamot ground it remarkably. This almost makes me think of Ginger Skulls with some incense. I think I'm in love!

This is a perfect boozy cider, to me. It is much less fearful pleasure, more autumn cider. In comparison to Mulled Cider candle, this is a more fermented red apple with spice, where mulled cider is more of a crisp fresh apple spice.

This is more pumpkin-y than I had hoped, but it's quite lovely. Decidedly fall spice, it's excellently blended and true to its name. I've gambled on the pumpkin notes, and I lost on this one. It's just too much pumpkin for me.

I don't do well with the lab's tobacco note on my skin or in the bottles. I also don't do well with the pumpkin notes. So this candle was a gamble for me. This gamble paid off. I'm deciding that I should just get every candle the post puts out. The tobacco is not the gummy, chewy, potent tobacco that is french tobacco SN. It is more of the dry papery but still rich tobacco that I smell in pinched. And the pumpkin is not the sweet foody kind that I don't like- it's more of a pumpkin field in the sun, fall gourd kind. This actually... I like it! Not too powerful, and it's a fall scent that is seasonal without being blatantly so.

This is a gentle, warm scent. The pine note is there, but it's not a sharp green needle note, more of a sticky sap and pinecones. This is making me think of amber resin as well. I'm going to enjoy every little bit of this, as it appeals to the nature-girl in me without being overwhelming.

Dead Leaves and Desolation was a purely leafy scent, and was too much for me. This has the same leaf note, but is given depth and richness from the incense. THIS is what I think when I consider nature as a temple. Dark and sweet resin, not too strong in terms of throw, which is nice. It's complex and simple at once.

I adore this candle! I am in love with the rich resinous spice of shub-niggurath, and this candle smells exactly like the oil. I love to open a bottle just to huff it, and this makes it better by 10x. This fills my entire house with rich woody, resinous spice. *happy swoons*

This candle is rich, dark, and decadent. It's dark and sexy with red musk and vetiver, bright and juicy from dragon's blood, and spiced. I gifted my candle to someone I love dearly, and often think of it longingly. Generally around the same time I think of them longingly!

The most delicious, dark, pure clove candle I've ever smelled. The patch is barely there, and I'm not sure which is grounding which. I absolutely love it. Dark, rich, velvety-soft and stunningly spicy. It's hard for me ever to imagine a better scent for my home, and I would bathe in this as well, if I could. Every time I burn this, I sigh release and go into my happy place. It helps me both let go of my stresses and makes me feel free and alive. My productivity always skyrockets when I have this going.

I actually actively dislike pumpkin. So the fact that I love this scent is a tribute to the mad genius of Beth, Puddin', and company. This is delicious, mouth-watering, harvest cooking. It's buttery, creamy, perfectly spiced, fresh out of the oven pumpkin pie. And it is amazing!

I'm in agreement with everyone above- it is the perfect autumn leaves scent, freshly fallen, slightly damp. I like it quite a lot, but I'm not sure about having such an ideal outside scent inside my home. At least, when I have so many other incredible BPTP scents for my home!

I have tried a lot of apple cider candles and scents, and I love this one for its purity, clarity, and deliciousness. It captures everything I love and all the rich spices of mulled cider without losing the sweet, juicy, fresh apple note. Another incredible product!

Bottle XVI: My husband and I determined that of all the scents, it is most like Wezwanie-Hold, very nutty and rich, with a caramel/brown sugar coating. After about 30 minutes the strong sweet and nutty fades to a musky dusky smokey spice with a rich sweet base. It's deliciously amazing, and I think it will go beautifully with Wezwanie, Goblin Sack, Brown Thrasher, and similar. I've been testing my full sized bottles of Chaos Gloss one a day for a while now. I've been really amazed by how well they age and blend and have changed with their time waiting in the aging drawer, in just this amount of time. Some of them bear no resemblance now to what they did when I first got them. (decant and tester impressions to come with the next round) Impressions! ETA: LVII: Strongly reminiscent of Planting Moon- soft soil, light green sprouts, definite tomato leaf, I think squash blossom. Definitely green, grassy, fresh new growth- nothing sharp or herbal, all young and fresh. This pairs stunningly with planting moon, Karme, Witches Garden for the green, even better on me with Graveyard Dirt, Chellah, Worm Moon, Burial, or Zombi for a stronger earth and loam scent to carry me into the scent experience of burying my hands in the soil of a fresh spring garden, working the earth, surrounded by the scents of life. XVI: husband and I determined that of all the scents, it is most like Wezwanie-Hold, very nutty and rich, with a caramel/brown sugar coating. After about 30 minutes the strong sweet and nutty fades to a musky dusky smokey cinnamon spice with a rich sweet rummy base. It's deliciously amazing, and I think it will go beautifully with Wezwanie, Goblin Sack, Brown Thrasher, and similar. XCVI: Impressions of Marie Antoinette’s rumored lavish celebrations, the scent of bubbly champagne, croquembouche, and petits fours! XLI: Spot on for Two, Five, and Seven. Or The Rose. Not Rose Red, though. This is a soft and true rose, with the full bush- leaf and thorn lurking beneath the petals, possibly a slightly grassy leaf, but it’s hard to tell because the bloom never burns off, just softens enough to allow the hint of live plant through. XLII: This one, to me, smells… lunar. Like it is has the “lunar oil” sort of mood. I would guess moonflower, lavender, blue musk, and maybe ambergris. It’s got a soft, fuzzy, pale grey-blue feel- this is the mane of night as she spreads across the sky with a soft cloud of ethereal mist in the twilight. Also, this one has a different texture than the other hair glosses in my hair- where some like snake oil make it slick and shiny, this one- it doesn’t make it crunchy or anything like that, but it is holding in place almost like a commercial hairspray (without the yucky hairspray stuff). This would be exactly the thing to help keep curls or strays in place and still be soft and gentle and pliable. LXXXV: I wrote myself notes on this one all day long. In the bottle it smells like- not much. Wet on my hair, it is a blast of sweet sugary cake and fruity-ness. Dried, initially this turns into a boozy apricot sandalwood (is there musk too?) with a side of tea cake- baked good,but not overly sweet, the boozyness is the sweet part. the span from 30 min to 7 hours later- this is so freaking amazing. It’s like a sweet musky sandalwood with just a hint of apricot. I wrote that this is in my hair much like Jingo-Kojo v6 was on my skin, if it had apricot instead of orange in the sandalwood creamsicle- mellow and creamy and delicious but not quite verging into foody. (and no BEEF). Second wearing- hmm… maybe it’s closer to Haloes than Jingo? XXXII: white sandalwood and iris- very white, dusty, floral. XCVIII: this one smells to me just like layering smut and gooey French tobacco. Boozy and rich and musky and gummy and sweet. At first it started just a little grapey and confused me, but that vanished almost instantly, and now it is heaven. XXXVI: In bottle- well this is… odd. it’s something sweet and warm. Not foody. not fruity, although I tried to put fruit in because of the sweetness. Freshly applied to hair: yeah no, definitely not fruit. But it’s sweet. Kind of gummy/resin sweet maybe? it’s a little spicy- is that desert spice or something else? and maybe a teensy hint of smoke? (This is a Hard one!- I am condensing a couple page of impressions jotted down during the day trying to figure it out) Dry, it stayed fairly constant but I had a terrible time putting my finger on it. Then finally figured out at least two of the notes! Honey. the sweet and the sticky/gummy impression I think are coming from honey. And Carnation- that’s where the spice and “something else” feeling was coming from. Honey-Carnation is in Hod, so I ran to sniff that when I got home. Yeah, this is somewhat Hod-esque. not perfectly, but in the same neighborhood. LVIII: Oh, it’s Rose Cross! or at least, remarkably similar. rose with incense notes, blended beautifully so that it is a soft, dusty incense with rose blossoms drifting on the tendrils of holiness. If there is more to it, I can’t smell it. Lovely. XXXIX: OH! OH!!! I know this one! This smells to me like Manners Between Men and Women in the Red Light District! Also, I’m starting to think the series of bottles I got might have been variations on a theme in apricot. LVI: In the bottle- weird, almost sour and astringent. I am seriously nervous about testing this. Wet: herbal mint- there is a bite to it. The wet stage lasted about 2-3 minutes. F First 30-45min dry: Minty for sure, but soft- the initial bite vanished completely. It is not a gourmand soft mint though, more of a woodsy (sandalwood?) essence. It is making me think strongly of Hamadryad- the minty version. It lacks the sharpness of a the mint of Nuclear Winter, or in the eucalyptus/citrus blends- this feels more like a “peeking up out of the snow” sort of mint. Several hours later: very soft, almost vanillic. At this point it is reminding me of the vanilla-snow of Waltz of the Snowflakes with a soft and almost creamy mint whispering through it. For something that started so scary, this ended up being just gorgeous. XLIV: mild, spicy and sweet. This one did not live long in my hair, which is a shame because it’s SO BEAUTIFUL! Note guesses: sugared sandalwood, vanilla, either orange blossom or orange peel for a nonfoody hint of orange. Very soft and almost creamsicle without being overpoweringly sweet. I just wanted to bury my nose in my hair for the first few hours of the day. And then it was gone, and I was sad. I don’t know if it doesn’t have staying power or if my hair ate it. XLIII: Charles says he can’t place it, but it is warm and really really nice. This is reminding me of Pais de la Canela without the balsam/pine in terms of being very tropical without being in-your-face leafy or coconutty or pineappley. It is mildly sweet, vaguely musky-spicy, soft, shimmery and fuzzy oranges and reds- I think there is vanilla orchid in this. GAWDS I CAN”T STOP SMELLING MY HAIR!! LIII: A very strongly scented gloss! It is a buttery, cakey rich and indulgent scent, with a fruity liqueur to go with it. Very reminiscent in character of Decadence, monster bait closet, Halloween Las Vegas XCIV: Pear blossom? peach blossom? it’s not apple but definitely some kind of fruit bloom. Dried down this, to me, is the stony note of Three Swords with petals lying on it. Stony, metallic sort of earthy without being dirty, with just enough of a bloom to keep it from begin all gritty rock. I really really seriously love this. CIV: This one on me was a soft, gentle, almost fluffy cloud of creamy floral, perhaps a light musk. I’m wondering if this may be champaca. My note at lunchtime (5 hours of wear time in), says "it's the springtime fairy flitting through new blooms, leaving a soft puff of fairy essence wherever she lands" CV: wet- Violet!! My skin hates, it but apparently on the hair it is remarkably wearable! It is a regal scent. I’m thinking this has a light amber as well, a light musk- in fact, several hours on it is giving me impressions of a violet version of L’Estate LXXXIV: Lemon/Lime, fresh and bright and cheerful- it’s like the fresh squeezed juice. This dries down a little spicy/smokey, with a definite woodsy note- I’m wanting to say balsam or pine. This manages to smell fresh and clean without going “floor cleaner”, which I read in a lot of reviews of lemony-citrus scents. XXXVII: Wet: Peach Schnapps! Immediate drydown: oh, no I was wrong. This is apricot, this is dry, warm sunshiny, with a hint of… stone? dewdrops? 4-10 hours later: apricot musk, soft and fuzzy, with a grey note- I think this is ambergris! It’s got an attitude of aloof sexiness “You want this, but no- never. You only wish.” LXXV: PINK PEPPER! this is bright and pink and spicy- I think some grapefruit as well. incredibly cheerful and focusing. LXXVIII: WAKE! Grapefruit, mint, pink pepper- invigorating and alert in my hair! I pulled out my bottle of Wake to wear with it, and they are *almost* twins. Definitely siblings. See also: TAL Concentration.

Thank you guys! I think I can do the quart sized restriction- and definitely at least mostly GCs. So... probably skip the ammo cases, and stick with- perhaps the small baggies I use for frimping. I'm pretty sure I have most to all of the GCs on hand at this point, so I can have a lot of options- and yes... all the frimps will definitely happen there. I'm looking at anywhere from 10 to 40 people- we'll have a grand old time! and there will be BPAL converts at a medical convention *laughs*

In a couple months I'm going to be flying to an international convention for my profession. I usually carry 5 or fewer imps in a velvet bag when flying, but... the board of directors within my specialty have commented on how I always smell so good, and have asked me to bring a sampling of the many flavors of BPAL to have a nighttime sniffie party. Which ones to bring for a good "intro-to" is another post altogether, but I'm mostly concerned about being able to fly with them. I usually fly with just one carry-on and nothing checked, so I'm wondering if a couple of ammo-cases of imps and decants might pose a problem with airport security. Does anyone have experience flying with BPAL or guidance on how I should do it? Thank you!!

I skin tested Visions III straight out of the mail, and was rather disappointed. I was hoping for more vanilla and cinnamon, but it was all honey and patch- and I amp the honey to the sky! It stayed that way for about 3 hours and faded away. Now, several days later, I test it and while it is still a burst of honey for the first five minutes, the gorgeous vanilla (yes, BB reminiscent) is really starting to shine along with the patch. At this point it's making me think of a cross between BB and Badgers with the now-much-gentler honey note. I'm planning to keep it aging and test periodically, because I suspect that if it continues as it is starting in that process, it is going to one of my most treasured scents.

I'm with everyone who smelled vetiver in this. The first half hour of the scent for me smelled exactly like Malediction. Vetiver and red patch. Very dark, very fierce, very in-your-face. After a while the tobacco starts smoothing it out just a bit (side note, this is the only blend I've tried with a tobacco note where it hasn't amped to obliterate all other notes). Weirdly, I'm really not picking up the musk. Conclusion: on me this is a smoother, more well-rounded Malediction with the tiniest hint of herbal bite hidden away in it. Malediction is one of my favorite blends when I'm in a take no prisoners mood, and this suave older brother is stealing my heart.

2008 and 2013 side by side: 2008: Gritty with dusty leather and a very subtle hint of not-too-sweet holiday cookies left out on the plate. No licorice on me, but it has a dirty old leather smell (which I like on me), hangs close to the skin- lasts a full workday of little unexpected whiffs. 2013: Sweet and foody out of the bottle, this one is all Christmas celebration cookies with a hint of the dark lurking around the edges- I get a little bit of the licorice, but 2013 is primarily a wickedly dirty (oh so dirty) kuchen. Also has excellent staying power. Verdict: I'm going to age the 2013 and see if the notes blend similarly to '08.