bronwyn

In the bottle, it smells oddly like a silkworm/silk moth sort of thing - that leafy green and something else. (Did anyone else do that little bio sort of thing in gradeschool?) It's an odd, earthy mulberry scent. On, I smell rather like a cheap "autumn woods" sort of candle. The kind Glade won't even put their name on. There is no apple or spice, or woodsmoke, or grapes, or any other sweet-ish notes to cut through the leafy balsam note. Yuck! Here's hoping this mellows with age and/or a LOT more drydown, but right now, I smell like cheap candles and stale Christmas stores. 0 for 2 on my Autumn purchases this year from the Lab. So depressing.

I had such high hopes for this one - I love actual pumpkin scent. You know, the gooey stuff in the Libby's can, before you add spices. Or the sharp smell when you cut a pumpkin open for carving. And I love berry notes. And both of those aren't half bad on me. Reading the description, this sounded like a winner all around for me. But the description never once mentioned spices, and that's ALL this smells like. Stinky, rank spices that my skin chemistry can't handle. If you left a pumpkin pie in the back of a hot car for a week, that's about what my wrists smelled like. Adding this one to the eBay pile. *sigh*

I love this scent so much. I am SO SAD that I missed out on ordering it before it was D/C'd . [Anyone have imps they don't want? Anyone? Bueller?] I think I'll be despondent for weeks when my imp finally runs out... It's all leather, in a hot and heavy kind of way - this is a scent that hits you right in the reptilian hind brain and slithers straight down to the groin. It is seriously one of the best 'tease' scents in my arsenal - a dab of this worked onto the ends of my hair or just at the nape of my neck and it's party time! Loviatar is my other favorite, but the leather note in that is tempered by the other elements in the blend, and it just doesn't have the same impact. ^__^ Question: Are there other blends in the catalog that come anywhere close to this one? I've started ordering imp packs like mad with anything that has 'leather' in the description, but I'm certain there's something I've missed.

Interestingly enough, my weapon of choice with a previous male acquaintance (who is a chocoholic) was layering Bliss with De Sade. ^___^; It smells surprisingly good on my skin chemistry (which rots roses and amps up patchouli until I'm a head-shop-headache). My current object of pursuit has mentioned a fondness for De Sade, and I sent a few imps home with him to try on his end, so we're going to be BPAL lab rats on each other for a while, I think. Edit to add: Loviatar is now in my full-size shopping list, and De Sade + Bliss is still one of the better weapons in my arsenal.

Just got mine in the mail today -- In the bottle it smells like cool spring water with a hint of a cologne-like note beneath. Wet: I panicked for a moment - fresh on the skin it's some sort of overpowering, cheap men's cologne, like the CVS knockoff of 'Cool Water' or something. Aiee! Thankfully, that lasted all of 5 minutes and then it's back to the cool water note - I'm reminded of Tempest in some ways. I can't pick out notes if my life depended on it, and as I'm not rich enough to know what gold smells like... yeah. Dry: After a few minutes, it mellows down to a cool mountain spring sort of scent, but warmer. Like sitting in the sun smelling the spring, if that makes sense. I think there's a hint of amber in here, and a faintly powdery floral note I can't identify. (I'm probably way off.) It has almost NO throw on me once it's dry, making it a perfect office scent for warm weather. I feel clean and fresh. This is a good unisex scent, as others have mentioned - it's not too floral or girly, too heady... it's just a soft, clean scent that stays just shy of turning soapy or powdery on my skin. Definitely a keeper - I'm glad I took my chances ordering this.

Oooh, this is a new favorite for my 'work' blends - it's sleek and yummy and sexy but hasn't got a lot of throw to it with my skin chemistry. The lemon is bright, but the teak keeps it seductive. LOVE this. In the bottle, it's mostly citrus, but once it's on, it becomes this pleasant, dusky scent that stays to the nice side of powdery (maybe it's the orchid?) - I love it! And best of all, even if I slather on far too much, it isn't overpowering. I am definitely getting a full size of this when my imp runs out. :heart:

I just got my Strawberry Moon today -- As others have said, it's all sweet strawberry candy in the bottle, but once it's on... There's not nearly enough strawberry left - it's all grassy green leaves and lawn. (This isn't a BAD thing, but it isn't at all the scent I was hoping for.) Interestingly enough, my left hand smells sweeter than my right (I swabbed a bit on the back of each to test) - it really is true that we smell 'lopsided'. Where'd my strawberries go? Ah well - it's still a fresh, clean scent on me (at first it wasn't, and then I went and scrubbed my hands free of lotion and whatnot and tried again - much better!) and a good, light spring/summer smell. But I do wish the strawberry-sweet parts stayed longer. Ah well. I think I'll be digging out my scent lockets and wearing this scent that way, the way I do some others that smell fantastic in the bottle but don't agree with my skin chemistry.

Haven't been active here in a while, but I'm rekindling my luff of BPAL again after a hiatus of letting my oils just sit and languish in my cabinet. And I'm spreading the BPAL love - I convinced a coworker to start trying some, too. BWAhahah! (Along with Aromaleigh cosmetics.)

I was wary of buying this one when it came out, because jasmine and I are NOT the best of friends, as far as perfume goes. It's a love/hate thing - there is no middle ground on my skin - it's either all good or horribly, eye-wateringly bad. (Lily and I will never get along, I fear.) Wet in the bottle all I smell is the jasmine/iris, and on the initial application, my skin amps those up to horrendous proportions for a few minutes. Once it has had a bit of time to dry, though, I can smell the grapefruit and honeysuckle. I don't pick up much of the tea or wisteria, I don't think. (I'm not as familiar with those scents, though.) Once it's dry, it's a powdery-sweet scent that's mostly honeysuckle on my skin - but it's powdery in a GOOD way (unlike some scents that turn to baby powder on me, which I hate the smell of). I love this one!

I think I lucked out on taking a chance with this one - the previous incarnation of Milk Moon soured on me, but this one has more fruit to it... [i would like to note that I have no skill whatsoever in determining just WHAT fruit I'm smelling, as I don't eat enough fresh fruit to really have a clue what it should smell like.] In the bottle: It's a warm, sweet, cozy fruit scent - there's that sweet, creamy undertone, as if I were dipping fresh fruit in whipped cream or something. Wet: Still creamy fruit. Dry: This has an amazing throw without being overpowering. It's lost the heady sweetness in the fruits, but kept the creamy scent, creating a warm, sultry aura. I like it ever so much - it's like having a tangible aura of feminine allure and power, but warm and comforting at the same time. And it lasts - I could still smell it when I woke up the next morning. This is my new 'sexy' scent. o.O:: My boyfriend, normally a very reserved and polite fellow, couldn't keep his hands off me when I had this on. Fun times.

I'm finding that I just may be one of those people who will never find a purely floral scent that works. In the bottle, it was powder. Not even something soft like baby powder, but an unpleasant, chalky whiteness, like I just tried to do a line of chalkdust off the blackboard at school. Of course, that doesn't mean it won't smell good ON me, right? Wet: More powder, even stronger than before. If there were ever floral notes in here, I can't find them, and the budding headache this is giving me isn't helping. Drying, dry: Powder. And it's powder with throw - I have to wash this off now. (I even tried layering it with Snake Oil to cut the powder, and that just made it a sweeter, stronger chalkboard scent!) Those of you who can smell florals like this, I envy you - I would love to find something regal and feminine as the description of this implies, but it seems I'm out of luck!

Just got my order and promptly bathed in it. (Limited sympathy to my co-workers; this stuff smells GOOD!) In the bottle: It smells like Thin Mints, with a sweeter edge. Probably the vanilla. Wet: Still that Thin Mints vibe, but now it's a rounder, sweeter minty-cookie scent. Drydown: This is such a perfect summer scent - it's sweet, it's cool and refreshing, and while it has really good staying power and a medium-to-strong throw (it's been about 3 hours now since application), it isn't an overpowering or cloying vanilla scent, as some can be. Wearing this makes me want to go to the mall and find that Perfect Summer Dress, then go play at the beach. The vanilla keeps the mint from being too sharp, and the mint keeps the vanilla from being too much (or too food-y, as some scents become on me, especially the previous run of MBs ). It's like being surrounded by a sweet, pleasant cloud of Delicious. I have to say that the vanilla is mostly the topnote in this, because the mint isn't a sharp spearmint as much as it is more like peppermint candy. A++ on this one - I'll be wearing it all summer long!

I've been eBaying my posterior off, trying to get my grubby mitts on LEs that I missed out on when they were live on the site (dang unemployment leaving me flat broke) -- I dunno if there's an etiquette on feedback from eBay to here and back or not [next on my list of things to do tonight - look that up] but... I'm aoineko484 on eBay - lemme know if I should be posting to something here (and a link, please - I'm hopelessly forum-nav-challenged of late; it took me 15 minutes to find the 'new blog entry' link!). In other news... Everyone's gotten their order but me! Wah! *pout* I want my precioussssss..... Ah well. It'll probably show in the next couple days. If not, then I'll email and ask after it. 'Cuz, well... WANT.

Okay, Imps (or 5ml) that I have so far: === Kyoto Neo-Tokyo Aizen-Myoo Osun Nuit Hecate Bastet Obatala Blood Amber Snake Oil (Deliciously warm and vanilla, but very strong...) Rakshasa Endymion Suspiro Bewitched Phantasm Embalming Fluid Whitechapel Thalia (the Gratiae) Kitsune-Tsuki Tintagel (First whiff is "gift shop candles", after, it alternates between wine and florals. Nice.) Mantis Fae (Very bright, floral, but... not my style. Still nice, though.) O Tushnamatay (This one? Ordered a decant. I can't get enough of it!!) Leanan Sidhe (Similar to Fae - very floral, not entirely my style, though I like it.) Highwayman (Definitely not for me - swapped it over Naamah Darling's way.) The Lady of Shalott Yggdrasil (I must know! I'm too much of an early Anglo-lit geek to not know!) Twenty One Veil The Coiled Serpent Parlement of Foules Dorian

Hi. My name is Bronwyn, and I'm a BPAL junkie. Scents I've tried: Lilith (yes, please! this one likes me.) Rakshasa - there is no citrus in this, yet I smell like a citronella candle when I wear it. Veto. Kathmandu - Nice and spicy. A keeper. Tushnamatay - ZOMG!!! Luff this. Luff! 5ml is mine! BWAhahaha! Fae - A little TOO unicorns-and-rainbows floral for me, and yet, the anise note likes me. It fades very quickly, though. Leanan Sidhe - Love the scent. It, however, does not love me very much. A passing fancy would be asking a bit much, I think. Coyote - I've tried it twice now, and it seems to be flip-flopping between good and bad for me. Huh. Tintagel - I like it. It likes me. Life is good. 5ml is on its way next order. Highwayman - A little too men's-cheap-cologne to me. Naamah, however, luffs it. So. Swapped~! Vicomte de Valmont - I really need to get the Boy to wear this one. Oh yes... Snake Oil - Nice, vanilla... oddly strong, though. Needs another try or three to reach a solid conclusion. Akuma - Nice, citrus and spice, but not really 'me'. I don't have the nose for all the individual notes in these, so the above reviews are about as poetic as they're going to get, really. More to come later as I go through more of my stash (and get my next order ). So.