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Leather and wood and an underlying sweet warmth. Masculine. Creamy. The leather is the kind that is bound around books, not the kind in motorcycle jackets. This is so what Rupert Giles on Buffy smells like. He's just been measuring out herbs for customers at the Magic Box. Now he's sitting down with a thick book of disturbing prophecy, in Latin. More books are piled up on the table in front of him, and on the shelves behind him. Smells great on my husband, and fortunately he likes it. His personality doesn't entirely suit the scent. He's too fizzy and silly for it, somehow. But hey, I can deal with that slight mismatch.

Dry and hot. These bones have been bleached white by desert sun and scoured smooth from years of blowing sand. The wood notes and orris take over, and the dragon's blood isn't all that evident on me. I like it.

Sweet sweet fruity-berry dragon's blood over all those warm musks. Not honey-sweet, but thick and substantial resin-sweet. Very strong at first, fading down to a bed of sensual musk. I love this, as I've loved all the dragon's blood blends so far. Doesn't last a long time on me.

Headshop. All the way. The one that's been there forever and has had what looks like the same stock in place for the last 20 years. Nag champa and stale tobacco smoke and something sharp (the sandalwood?). I don't know that I want to smell like a headshop, but wow, this is another one of those scents that evokes a place and sense-memory strongly.

Sweet, warm, creamy vanilla. Delicious, easy to like. I can't pick out the sandalwood, but I can detect the ambers warming this up. This might make a good intro to BPAL for somebody who already liked vanilla scents.

This one is more evocative for me than something I can pick out individual notes on. Leather, definitely, but not fresh new leather. An old leather jacket you've been clubbing in a lot, so the cigarette smoke has soaked in. But the dragon's blood sweet/spicy/red thing is overlaid. In general, I like, but I would wear it to get a specific effect or to put myself into a particular mood.

A spicy forest when wet, all evergreens. The orange and clove are sharp at first. As it dries, the forest subsides, leaving the clove over a base of musk. Love it to pieces. It smells wonderful on my husband, too.

BPAL newcomer here, with my first review. I've only tried a few scents thus far, and this is by far my favorite. Soft and warm. When it's wet, I get an almost sharp green grassy note that slowly fades down to warm gold amber. Definitely dry plains in the sun. Well-named.