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I get...PEAR AND ROSE! Normally sweet pea in any blend amps on me, but here it's laying way low. I get some of the musk here...more and more as it dries but still, the rose dominates on me, lightened and sweetened by the pale fruits. Very nice!

I enabled a pretty macho guy with Othello, he had a big bottle order in by the next day.

Ahh! I waited a long time to get my hands on some of this and it was definitely worth it. I love sweet pea!! At first this is realllly candy-sweet. Strawberry and honeycomb and sugar sugar sugar. Quickly though it fades to a really soft, cheerful blend that last for hours on me. Sweet sweet pea and vanilla, with just a little fruity redness. Definitely a very pink scent.

Mmm cherry tobacco!! I don't get any tonka at all, and just a little hops. This a very evocative scent for me, reminding me of driving with my father as he smoked his old pipe. It's not so much wearable around town, it's really masculine and strong, but it's incredibly beautiful and I really enjoy the memories.

I can't wear sandalwood so I put this in my scent diffuser and oooooooohhh it smells so nice! I was instantly cheered and warmed. Sweet is exactly how I'd describe it. Not too incensey, more sweet amber really.

In the bottle: scarily sweet, like a jar of maraschinos in dark sauce. On wet: very strong cherry, very sweet and foody. Dry: Aaaah, creamy creamy! Sweet and creamy with a darkfruit glaze. Yum. Throw: medium Staying power: amazing. Lasts for hours and hours in that delicious drydown stage.

EW! I was so hoping for sweet/creamy/fruity/honey. Instead I got bitter, VERY bitter ick. Tangy, vinegar, bad, sharp, acrid. Milk Moon she hate me! I'm quite sad and I wish I knew exactly which note is disagreeing with my skin so intently.

I love acai berries. I was very excited to try this...I got the imp from a decant circle and have been waiting...waiting...waiting to try it out. I should never have waited, as I love this blend. At first the acai just POPS, it totally owns the room and works it. I can get whiffs of the amber and vanilla underneath already. The neroli is there to mix it up with the acai, giving it more interest and depth (and making me less hungry, as I have been in the past totally addicted to acai smoothies). It's very strong and fruity, I love that natural sweetness. When I wave my hand around, I can pick up a little more amber, and the cardamom coming up now. That is just so lovely and delicious. I could inhale the scent all day long, it's like joy to me. The most perfect stage for me is right here, when all of the notes are strong and balanced. The throw is awesome, too! Total.love. The fruit fades out as it must, and the leftover blend has more amber and less spice mixing with the vanilla than does the original Snake Oil. Which, me likey. It's comforting, soft and smooth.

One of Beth's countless accomplishments has been turning me on to rose scents. I love roses but have always been, frankly, sickened by the plastic rose in commercial perfumes. I have SO enjoyed sampling the many incarnations of rose offered by BPAL. And really, what is lovelier than the gloriously bottled scent of a freshly cut red rose. Peacock Queen is just beautiful...not shy, wholly without guile in her pride and just plain reeking of the joy of being beautiful. She smells like red rose in the bottle, on my wrist, and hours later. The scent does not change from application to dry down, only fades out gracefully after hours. Awesome!

This seems to be really different for everyone. I'm bewildered by this blend. Wet, it smells like straight up musk and dirt, and I don't really enjoy it, but I have to keep sniffing. It's kind of mesmerizing. The caramel and honey start coming out as it dries, but only if I keep my wrists away from my face. Up close, still musk and dirt. I'm glad that my coworkers will get to smell the sweeter throw. I definitely get the cannabis, as welll...definitely no more wearing to work! I should have read the reviews first. I get the feeling it won't scrub off easily, either.

Bilquis for sure.

The lab frimped this to me, and I put it right in the scentball diffuser...yum. Seriously YUM. This might be my favorite room scent yet, it's not too sweet, not too heavy....VERY appealing. I'm definitely getting a bottle.

I got a car diffuser as well and there are definitely a lot of scents that are too strong. I love Sundew in the car, also Neo-tokyo and Xanthe, but I made Xanthe into a spray parfum and spritzed. Sudha Seghara was nice but it was strong. Black Forest is fun...it smells like the most expensive pine air freshener ever made. I still have a baggie full of imps in the console to try, so I'll try to post back here.

As we've all noticed, there is a lot of pepper in Aries. I actually really enjoy that initial blast. It doesn't hurt my skin at all and it's aggressive, jarring and invigorating. The ginger tones the pepper, I can smell that as well up front. But after about 10 minutes, the dragon's blood takes over on my skin, and it seems to war with the spices rather than blend with them. It's very bull-headed, this scent. Nobody seems to want to play nice. The sweetness is sticky and the spices are bitter, and it's not a very pleasant sniffing experience. I think it will be very interesting to see how Aries ages, if all the players can make peace in the cool dark. I will let them out again in a few months and see if they've learned anything.

Black violet, eh? All I can say is...more more more! In the bottle, I can't smell violet at all. It's almost herbal..a very fresh and green scent. But as soon as I put it on, it explodes in that frost violet like Darkling Thrush, only darker and stronger. That is some NICE violet. As it dries, I lose the violet altogether for awhile. Which should really piss me off, but I happen to also love cedar and woods. In this stage the blend totally represents spring, the smell of the woods with the snow just melted and small flowers peeking up. It's the smell of nature coming out of hiding. But as the woods fade a bit, the violet comes back, along with the puffy-cloud white musk and at this point you can really start to pick out the other florals. They are bright and light, the essense of being in the moment of appreciating a spring day after a long, cold winter.

This is fresh enough to make my mouth water. I love apricot, and orange and musk, and I am enjoying the hell out of wearing this blend. It's very cheery, the springtime nature of the fruit, the sweetness and the soothing musk are lovely on a gloomy Monday. The apricot is definitely the star of the show here. The apricot does fade out a bit, but the orange blossom and musk are still bright and sweet. I wish the blend as whole lasted longer, it demands a refresh about every 2-3 hours.

I get almost all coconut from this, with a little hazelnut that I can only faintly detect. It's my first blend with coconut and I have to say...it reminds me just too much of suntan lotion. I'm sure that's a personal problem. I was definitely hoping to be one of the orris/musk people!

I have liked some dragon's blood blends, but haven't been able to carry off the wearing of any until Dragon's Musk. On me it starts and stays a warm, deep skin musk swirled around sweet resin. It is heavy, and incense-y, but the loveliness of the musk is just too seductive to resist. I put this on after a hard day's work and it was like the oil curled up on the couch and cuddled with me. I usually put any DB blend I receive in the oil burner right away but this one is definitely for wearing.

That's it - between Zarita and Pink Moon I'm officially a huge carnation fan. Zarita introduces herself as a doll girl might, all smiling sweetly and batting her eyelashes. Very sweet, very creamy orange. On my wrist, the carnation pops up instantly, it's soft and spicy and blending seamlessly with the other florals and the sugar and cream. After 1/2 hour or so, the sweetness begins to fade. Zarita settles into a kicky floral, the iris coming to the forefront with the orange and carnation forming a canvas behind it. I do like iris, it's one of the few flowers I could grow in the upper midwest and Zarita brings me back to being a young sociopath tending her first garden. It is going a little soapy on the 4th application of the day...I recommend reserved slathering. I have a cold but really wanted to get this review in. Really nice, definitely bottle-worthy.

Awww this is so sweet! Pink Moon is so feminine, and the bottle art so cute, it is one of the very rare things that can really make me feel like part of the girls' club. I'm so cute and dainty! So bubbly and flirty! I love Hello Kitty and I must go buy some lipgloss right now! My hair is perfect and my shoes are to die for! I AM GIRLY GIRL, HEAR ME ROAR! Love it, love it. Sugar and spice and everything nice. I might need another bottle.

Golden amber, hyssop, North African patchouli, and embalming spices. Mmmmm! I love amber more and more with every blend I try. I'm going to have a hard time describing this...at first I had my wrist held up to my nose and I was going to say, I get mostly amber, then ginger and pepper, then patchouli. But now that I'm typing, the throw is mostly spices, with amber and patcouli underneath. It's drooling-type delicious, like really. Fans of Bastet and Anubis must try this. It's not as similar to either as they are to one another but that warm cozy (someone said "fuzzy", and I agree) blanket of scent is at the core of Mr. Jacquel. He just takes it up a notch with the more aggressive spices and the earthy patchouli. Don't fear the patchouli either, it's a key note and rounds out the blend expertly. I'm not being as effusive as I should because it's early and I need coffee, but this is 100% must-have-a-bottle-or-five for me. Mr. Jacquel definitely sees your soul.

Ooh I love this blend. To me it smells quite a bit like Snow-Flakes; however instead of the candy-sweetness of that blend, it has a touch of the chilly-berry sweetness of The Snow Maiden, at least at first. I love that soft, smooth mint. It's just lovely. And I love the white musk, the way it sweetens your skin. I do not get too much ozone, just enough to wake me up a little. Cloister Graveyard is a wonderfully true represenation of the painting. I'm so glad I sprung for a bottle of this.

Oh, Bilquis has me by the short n curlies! As noted right above, if you are (as I am) a fan of Bastet, Queen of Sheba, Asp Viper or anything with that almond/myrrh headiness, you are morally obligated to try Bilquis. It does come on strong, and yet I slather. The experience of the scent morphing from dark to light, from earth-bound to sky-high, from introvert to extrovert is joyful. There are those BPAL days, when you get a package full of new imps and you can't wait to try them all, so you put one on one wrist, one on the other, one a little further up your arm, some on the back of your hands, etc..you know? I am covering myself in Bilquis. At work! At first it is all almond and myrrh. The first morph is the fading of the myrrh, and the going-bitter of the almond (when it gets up in the back of your nose), but the honey steps up just at the right time to smooth and sweeten the transition. It's just after this that I can smell the apple tartness, and you'd think it might be too much all at once, but it's really, really not. On me, the lily never comes out on top. It emerges after about 20-30 minutes and it just that perfect touch to freshen the scent, to make it float. Thanks to quickslvr's wonderful decant circle for this. Big bottle for sure.

Tezcatlipoca!