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I think Count Dracula is the closest I've tried to clove cigarette smells. It's an explosion of of clove and cinnamon with dusty slightly smoky dry down. The Smiling Spider would be my second closest bet. Even though you don't like cinnamon, I think Count Dracula is more of a clove cigarette scent, while Smiling Spider is more of a clove scent. You might want to just give it a try if you get a chance sometime. Good Luck!

Fresh from the lab, Snake Oil smells exactly like Satyr + vanilla on me. Very musky, a wee bit resinous, and some sweet vanilla. Not exactly what I had expected. I also get a synthetic, plasticy smell at some points, that I think others have mentioned. I will definitely be keeping this to age, though, and I'll revisit it in a year or so.

I'll be wearing Theodosius the Legerdemain...

Has anyone come across a BPAL scent that was similar to the old "Bone Daddy" fragrance that was sold at Hot Topic as part of their Nightmare Before Christmas stuff? Not long after I fell in love with it the formula and packaging were changed, and all the bottles up on ebay and that I can find are the new kind. I have no idea how to describe it, except it's dead sexy. I've been around BPAL for a while and I still have no idea what this is. Vetiver? musk? black amber????? My bottle is not quite uniformly rectangular, sorta slanted, clear frosted glass with a tubular brushed aluminum lid and the box it came in was like a squished and stretched cube, looked like a diamond from the top. I REALLY want to smell like this again. Help!

At first, this almost completely myrrh and opoponax on me. Lots of strong resins with that cola/fruity note others get. I have no idea what it is, but it's like cherry coke or something, if cherry coke actually tasted at all like cherries. But basically, strong, peppery resins. As it dries down I get more of a sweet patchouli, not as earthy as other blends, but still definitely itself. The pimenta racemosa (bay rum) also starts to appear, giving a wonderful rounded spiciness to the back of the blend. The terebinth note is very interesting. The turpentineish astringent resin is present and gives a more woody scent to the blend. I also get the musky green sort of herbal zdravetz as well. The Tunisian black amber and night musk don't stand out to me, although I get some of the amber at the end of the dry down and can tell that the musk is there supporting things. This is a pretty awesome scent, but I don't know if I'll go searching it out since it's hard to get and I have so many others that are in a similar category. I like it a lot though, and it's not nearly as masculine as I had assumed it would be. I'll definitely keep my imp.

In the bottle, and on first application, the patchouli, amber, and hyssop mix together to make a strong, almost biting resinous scent. Soon those wonderful embalming spices show up and remind me a lot of Eclipse. It dries down to something softer and more powdery than I had hoped for, but the initial scent is an amazing spicy ambery patchouli kick that I absolutely love. This is a wonderful exotic, sexy, eastern scent that would be good on anybody. The drydown may be a little too soft and feminine for me to wear often, but I still love it. This is a perfect incense-sex-spices scent. Amazing.

some how i got two decants of this. one smells like very spicy rubber bands at first. they both dry down to a similar blend of dragons blood, opoponax, and a bit of honeysuckle. quite nice.

Yes. Count Dracula smells EXACTLY (well, almost) like clove cigarettes. It's got the clove, plus a bit of smokiness. I put it it on a jacket a while ago and when I pulled it out I thought it was the one I'd worn when I saw a friend who smoked tons of clove cigarettes. Plus, Count Dracula is an awesome scent period. After that, I'd try Three Witches. It was also heavy clove, but not as smoky.

Wonderful. My ultimate resin blend. Beautiful mix of churchy resins with a woodsy drydown that reminds me of Miskatonic University (without the coffee of course.)

I still get little wafts of this throughout the day. I love the scent of course, and the soap is wonderful. Leaves me soft and smooth. Average amount of lather, and a good sized bar. It is disappearing quickly, although that's probably due to how much I love it. This is awesome and I can't wait to try the others. I'm especially stoked that it's all free trade and eco friendly!

On me, this is all vetiver and patchouli at first. Usually I either absolutely love vetiver or absolutely hate it, but this managed to be sorta in the middle. The musk and amber come out in the dry down to give it a little softness, and finally the ginger is evident as well. I was hoping for a big blast of ginger & darkness, but this ok. Not amazing, but it fits the artwork and I'll definitely be keeping my imp. And who knows, maybe it'll grow on me. ETA: Several months later, and I LOVE the great he goat. It has aged wonderfully, and is completely what I had hoped for it to be originally. Deep, earthy patchouli grounded by a bass note of that beautiful haitian vetiver. I had worried about the carnation, but I can't detect it at all. The black amber is wonderfully gleaming in that darkest of night way, and the black musk is able to present itself without turning to powder. The crown jewel of this scent is the smoked ginger. I don't even know what to say. It's smoked ginger. WHAT MORE COULD I WANT?????!?!?!?!? My favorite scent right now.

Soo good. Musky and sexy with a little spice. It didn't go cat pee on me, which is very good. I normally hate civet but this is amazing.

Count Dracula is very clovey, you might try that.

I find Umbra, Samhainophobia, and Schwarzer Mond to be the epitome of darkness. Not dark things, not gothic things, etc., but truly the darkest deepest black hole. haha. you get the picture. dark.

I would definitely recommend Scarecrow!