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This a rose like the one in Rose Red, with the green parts well included into the blend, but so pale and melancholic! The sadness I think is induced by the lily, and perhaps the (veeery subtle) golden, solemn myrrh. The wood and earth are in the background. I am grateful for that since, even though I love earth notes, they tend to overwhelm me if they are dominant. Luckly this earth is not that upturned. And the wood doesn't get to cut on the dampness of this fresh roses. Beatiful!

In the bottle it is very sharp, but on, wet, it is somehow contained by the lavender. Which is quite green, therefore a bit sharp, too; doesn't feel at all flowery. The lime seems to give it a bit of a fresh throw, but it is not too evident or sour, or juicy, or sunny. It is a bit dry, although not powdery at all. I like this leather note better than Quincey Morris' (which sadly I just didn't like, although the pear might be to blame) but less than the darker leathers of Loviatar or Crowley, which just... make me drool ^^ It is kind of velvety, so I associate it to suede. The scent is very nice, especially as it dries down; it stays close, in a second-skin way, but I don't think I would reach for it myself. I will keep the bottle since my boyfriend likes it. I really have to put my nose to it to smell it, and it sadly fades pretty fast. Perfectly suits the understated, earnest, and brilliant character of Dupin.

Fragile, pale lily, sweetened by the warm vanilla musk (which luckly is not overly sweet), and surrounded by a chorus of delicate flowers: it is certainly a fair young lady of transparent fingers and soft, clear voice. Slightly melancholic: this is not the girl when she was still full of glee. It reminds me of the honeyed lilies of Al-Araaf, but it is softer, somehow "milkier", and dreamier. So adorable, it is a pity this is a LE, because I bet so much people would love it.

This is the most beautiful mix of humid forest (wet wood and moss, clear air) and roses. The earth note is grounding but very understated. It is powerful, has quite a good throw; comforting, although not in an indoor way I must say; bold but somehow contained, introspective, and refined. It has immediately become one of my top favorites.

Incredibly soft. Skin-like, innocent, really innocent, in the way only non-rational creatures can be. This is like curling up among your kin into the warmth of the burrow. Furry, mammal

This perfume is duplicitous, misleading. Its an impersonator: it seems a fresh and clean ozoney perfume, almost citrusy - but quite isn't. There is something slighlty suspicious about it. Which I doubt I would have been able to point out if the perfume wasn't called Pollution. Like certain shades of green, it seems to turn to a sickly hue when you inspect it for too long. It is like making everyone in the office think you are one of them, while you smile to yourself. And it is very faint and subtle, with next to no throw on my skin. I had to slather and it still stayed faint... unfortunately my skin swallows it up. Certainly an interesting, sublter than I expected, take on the subject.

In the imp it is sweet fresh grass. On, too. Ohhh, lovely! This is so amazing! grass, more grass! a touch of sweet, greenery, sea spray, fresh wind, a and a little bit of flowers. It is the perfume for a fairy. Amazing, outstanding. If only I could find a bottle...

The sickly sweet smell coming out of the vial got me scared... the pear I guess. Fruit tends to go very wonky on me. But when I put it on, well this one doesn't, the first sniff is true pear! and fresh greenery, with nothing bitter about it, though, it is a very spring-like, very pale, freshly grown greenery. Sweet pea is note I like a lot, but it tends to overpower... not here, it just lends its loveliness, like a faint whiff you get in the breeze. Moist, most of all dewy, but also airy, dreamy, a little sweet. It's heavenly!

Thanks, I'll pass the compliments on to him

I was not at all tempted to test any astrological blend based on concept... but I am so very glad I was by the notes in leo... this is excellent! I simply love it The amber is the most gorgeous I have ever smelled (granted, only recently have I discovered that I love it and that it works great on me), I adore the nuttiness of it (it made me think of almonds at first, real almonds, since the almond note goes a little weird on me), and the light spiciness, and the background of golden incense, and something a little bit green that seems to stop it from going to sweet. The final balance is perfect for me. This is what I expected Jacob's Ladder to be! 24k gold in perfume form.

Whew, we've finally almost finished the database, after a break of, hm, months It was finished enough to upload it, at least. http://www.innershelter.net/bpal-database There are still a few details to fix, like the section list showing in all pages but linking only to the owned page, and some other stuff. Oh and I think it still looks weird in IE (all damn IE). It is completely dynamic (absolute overkill!) and the code is a complete nightmare for me to look at, haha! My geek boyfriend coded it. I figured, since you are not a handy person at all and cannot make a perfume cabinet for me, you are gonna have to do something else I did the graphics, html templates and the css. Since inserting all of the data directly in the database is insane and gave me headaches, he also made a set of backsites with drop-down menus and text fields from where I can enter all of the data, except a new section. Screenshot of that, it is password protected so you cannot see it online. I also have my "reviews", more appropiately called notes, there in the backsite. I don't really want to make those public, they are terribly messy. Now it is mostly up to date. Entering everything was some work, too.

This has to be one of the most amazing things I have ever smelled I had such high hopes for Crowley... well, it certainly didn't dissapoint, it is more than I could have ever wished for! Well, it is unmistakably masculine. I would not mind to wear it, but it is not that it is good for me... damn, since I cannot drag around a man drenched in this stuff all the time, I want to wear it myself, all the time! It is... just... What can I add that hasn't been said yet... there are several amazing masculine BPAL blends, but this has the best of them all blended togheter and multiplied by 100. Or 1000. Which makes me think... where the hell is my boyfriend!?

I cannot believe nobody suggested Yggdrasil!

Berenice if you can find any!

On the bottle it smells earthy indeed! gritty, a little bit woody, very brown, and a little bit spicy. It reminds me a bit of Alone, but it is not so desolate. On, wet, it is very similar to Samhainophobia, the same kind of greenish vetiver. And wet, decomposing leaves. It might have a bit of patchouli too, and perhaps moss. As it dries down the little sharpeness goes away, and it becomes a very deep, low note scent. This is SOIL in a bottle! moist, deciduous forest soil, with all the rotting leaves. I love that smell, and this is the scent that aproximates it the most from all those I have tried. Awesome, and it is spot on for the concept!

I will second, third, whatever, House of Night and Ephemera, these are very melancholic. I would add Nocturne. In general, lilac, wisteria and violet. For actual sadness, I would say Berenice, although it is a very cold, contained and interiorized sadness. I guess Melpomene is very sad, but due to memories it brings it is not the case for me. And Wings of Azrael, which is one of my favorites, has for me more a feeling of abandon than sadness.

Slobbering Pine is definitely not dark... I expected it to be, and it was a dissapointment it is objectively very nice, though, if you like pine of course

Oh, my favorites are dark! hehe So here is my list (* are LEs): Omen Black Forest Lenore* Sin The Masque* Hades Samhainophobia* Sloth Brimstone Alone* The Pit and the Pendulum* Wolfsbane Cathedral Gomorrha (not all that dark, but relatively very dark considering it is fruity!) Black Annis (this one was creepy even for me, my favorites being dark) Count Dracula* The Isle of the Dead Loviatar Umbra Iago Satyr is more wild than dark, in my opinion. In general, I agree that vetiver can make a scent dark, but not always. Patchouli, moss and dark musks, and even leather, can do that, too. Fro me, it is more a combination of the notes that gives a dark feeling to the blend, not one of the notes making the blend darken, if I am making any sense

Jolly Roger and Annabel Lee! Jolly Roger is definitely good for a man

Maybe knowing what kind of flowers where those might help? Where they many little white flowers? maybe in the family of the rose: pear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pear_tree_flowers.jpg cherry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cherry.jpg plum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Plum_blossoms.jpg apple http://biology.clc.uc.edu/graphics/taxonom...e%20Blossom.jpg These are all very similar... and BPAL has scents with them all, I think. I don't know if they are aquatics, though. Oh, and I have to suggest Annabel Lee, if you can find it

In the vial it smells gritty. I would think vetiver, but it is more grey than brown. On, uf! it smells of ashes! It amazes me how to capture this smell in perfume. It is not nice, however. Acrid, very pungent to my nose. Smoke. But as it dries down, the acridness and pungentness seem to dissapear. It softens a lot. And now it reminds me of something... Cathedral? Penitence perhaps? one of the gritty incense blends. Hm, this must be the smoke note, that I don't quite like. I expected to love the incense blends, so there this scent was a dissapointment, I was very afraid of Brimstone, so here it is almost a relief, hehe. But it is still not something I would wear. It is too... sterile. Dried down, I kind of get the pine and incense and wood people mention. This one is a morpher It is perhaps frankincense? It is a lot nicer. And it has a sweetness of pine. I am gonna keep the imp, it is certainly very interesting!

Watery indeed. Watery florals. It is kind of melancholic. Blue. It goes a little soapy as it dries down, though. It is pretty and evocative, but, I just don't think aquatics are very me, although I love water and rivers *shrug* As it dries down, the flowers seem to be more apparent. This one is overcast, dark blue, and a bit sluggish. A big river alright!

In the vial it smells very, very sweet. Vanilla and a bit of bubblegum (=dragon's blood) On it is a lot warmer. And weirdly, it reminds me of neroli o_O Very strange, but it really does. It is a lot nicer than I imagined it. I guess it is the honey that makes me like it, since it is the note I like the most from those listed. It is pretty soft and not cloying. I can smell the vanilla, vanilla bean, but it is soft and nice. And I still perceive something that makes me think of orange flower! weirdd. Not a scent I would reach for, I think, but who knows. I quite like it. I think that fae nectar is a good description. Dried down, I think it is too much of a sweet vanilla for my tastes :S But I can see why it is one of the favorites!

In the vial it smells of sweet myrrh (a bit bitter, the one in Wings of Azrael?) and gritty vetiver. On, wet, it is an earthy myrrh. Dark brown, humid, upturned and sweet earth. This is the earth note that I like the most from all those I have tried so far. On me, it is the most true to how the soil smells when it has rained, which is a scent I love. The throw is just myrrh, though. A bit darkened myrrh, but I do not especifically perceive the vetiver. As it dries down, the earth note becomes more dry (duh ) on to the vetiver note as I know it from the lab. I like it a little bit less. I don't know why, I think it would make a nice room scent. Overall, very nice. On "drier" dry down it becomes very, very dark, wow!

Overly sweet, cloying, and a bit play-doh in the vial. On, it is not as bad as that. There is also... saffron? something in Scherezade. *looks up notes* no notes are in both blends, hm. It definitely has that middle eastern air to it. It is very well blended and difficult to pick out individual notes, but I think that the result might be a little too sweet for me... I normally can do honey, but in this case it goes a bit weird. On drydown the rose is apparent, but, still, too sweet for me *shrug*