annemathematics

this one is totally unexpected on me: it smells like a young girl's perfume blended into a tropical cocktail. the dead leaves and pineapple didn't go tropical but this one did. zz's mention of coconut milk above makes complete sense to me. bright, sweet, creamy pretty perfume.

Blackened cacao with thirteen herbs for navigating your fortunes through lucid dreaming and trancework: lemon verbena, helichrysum, nut sedge, Roman chamomile, naab, lavender, citronella, galangal, wormwood, patchouli, tulsi, hoja madre, and mugwort. I have not yet attempted to navigate my fortunes with lucid dreaming or trancework. I have instead come home from work and torn open my box and tried on this scent first thing. And I love it. I'm still trying to make sense of it. The whole is so nice that I'm not motivated to sleuth out the individual notes, but fresh on I get the rich dark cacao and a chorus of high and bright notes: the lavender, wormwood, citronella, verbena. It dries down to a pretty perfume mostly featuring these notes. The cacao drops back and I get some warmth from the patch. A few hours in, it's mostly patchouli. Slightly funky patchouli. Kinda like if patchouli went to a costume party dressed up in a dirty vetiver getup. I know this 13 won't be for everyone, but for me this perfume continues my winning streak with bpal blends containing mugwort, wormwood and cacao. Looking forward to seeing how this shifts with time and age.

thank you to puddin and the goblins for making this, and for my lovely fairy for getting me a bottle! I love these three notes but I got it for the champa. I've been spraying House of Unquenchable Fire on my entry hall curtains and the beauty of that atmo lit a grabby hands fire on all things champarific. however, where HoUF is big and bold and baroquely opulent and regal, SFMD is soft and gentle and natural in feeling. i thought SFMD might be kindred to ask the nearest hippie, but there's nothing stoned or filthy about this scent. light and pretty patchouli perfectly balanced with the smooth comfort of well-worn sandalwood supporting a beautiful, light, feminine champaca. this is so so pretty.

and if you venture over into the realm of trading post wares, the amber patchouli hair gloss is one of my favorite scents ever. exactly what it says it is, but perfectly so!

czernobog the gc for the musks! interfector for the tobacco exorcist for the labdanum (a note used in many glorious amber blends) coyote for that musk qandisa and the cat and the many fine honeys in the rappaccini's garden doc constantine and wild men of jezirat al tennyn from the carnaval hmmm, most of my fave patchouli scents seem to be LEs

how does it compare to the irresponsibly unwatered christmas tree?

The Phoenix bird, dost thou not know him? The Bird of Paradise, the holy swan of song! On the car of Thespis he sat in the guise of a chattering raven, and flapped his black wings, smeared with the lees of wine; over the sounding harp of Iceland swept the swan's red beak; on Shakespeare's shoulder he sat in the guise of Odin's raven, and whispered in the poet's ear "Immortality!" and at the minstrels' feast he fluttered through the halls of the Wartburg. Night-black feathers of patchouli slick with Oman frankincense, opoponax resinoid, King mandarin, polished terebinth, sweet myrrh, and lavender. I reallly love this dapper glossy raven. the more I wear it, the bigger the love grows. very juicy mandarin swirled with lavender and a touch of sweet pine over dark patch-centric resins. this is a mood brightener for me, each time I've worn it. the opening reminds me of a non-sugared Pere Noel, with the citrus-lavender combo, only here instead of candy and anise, it's dark, rich (but not entirely without sweetness) patchouli with resins and the barest hint of pine. this wasn't at all what I expected (I anticipated dark and brooding) but I'm so happy to have my expectations dashed and blown away. what a beauty!

a sweet and creamy rose scent that reminds me a lot of the 2016 luper BO, Frau bei der Selbstbefriedigung. big throw and lasts overnight!

well they can't do anything with orders that don't exist, so you should prob place your orders first.

the lunacy scent is usually only up for a few days, so don't hesitate if you're wanting a bottle. as for combining TALs and BPALs, your best bet is to message customer service directly, being sure to include all relevant order numbers (and the order dates might be helpful as well).

I don't think I've run across valerian in a bpal. I have and adore my nature's gift essential oil, but I can see this note not being used in something intended to be popular with the masses as many find the funk of valerian quite off-putting. I adore it it's weird ways. and effectiveness. two essential oils that share elements and qualities with valerian are agarwood aka oudh and spikenard. the lab has many scents featuring the former, and a few featuring the latter. these are in perfumes intended to be worn out and about, and nothing I've run across in bpal fumes with them listed has made me sleepy. the somnium blends don't have listed notes, so you'd have to message the lab to get the official word, but I'd wager that they are all valerian-free. are you familiar with twilight alchemy lab? there are two amazing TAL sleep blends, nocturne and ebon night, that pop up on the etsy page every now and again. neither is sweet like TKO. nocturne has a nice lavender, ebon night doesn't smell very lavender-heavy to me at all, but it is floral.

I always think of quince as being in the apple/pear family. a fall fruit with seeds that oxidizes vs the spring stone fruits. so maybe light pear or apple blossom/applewood notes?!?!? fave peaches are 2014/s peach vii: "Dried peach, black musk, and North African spices" it's amazingly perfect musky peach...or is it a peachy musk? dry and complex and perfumey and headily seductive yet still also fun, with just enough bright and sweet. also a fan or awabi divers from the 2014 lupers: "Polished ebony, ho wood, apricot peel, patchouli-infused vanilla husk, Lebanese cedar, and vetiver." and 2014's peach viii: "Whipped jasmine cream and peach blossom with vanilla orchid and white frankincense" is beautiful and a rare foodie scent that I can enjoy on my skin chemistry. fave bptp peach is the golden peach and bergamot HG, also containing "patchouli, white jasmine, and glimmering golden musk"

dark musk with the coffee working here like a resiny base note. the sweet factor here is perfectly balanced for me and isn't over the top toothache-foodie-kinda-sugar-rush. this reminds me of destructive vagina of the fox spirit and dusky shroud. I love it! might be my fave of the grindhouse gang.

An incense of myrtle leaf, sweet bay, white myrrh, stacte, and the golden frankincense. first applied there is a bright, slightly camphoraceous herbal note, sharp but not unpleasant. as this scent dries down, the myrrh and frank come forward and do "that bpal thing." this is a lovely incense blend. actually very soft and light when it's dried down. I'm hoping a few weeks of aging will improve it's wear length, which currently is under a few hours.

a beautiful rich velvety rose sexxxed up with some honey. I can see this honey being too musky/funky/naughty on some folks' skins, but on mine it's just right. I really love this and have been reaching for it as soon as I get home from work at night. snaps me right out of "work" mode by rinsing away the stench of wage slavery and replacing it with fabulous fantasticness. happy long life, here I come!

was curious if the circuit boards would be kindred to some of the notes I love in OLLA adam, but in fact, said note reminded me more of of the plastic note in OLLa Edge of doom, sans rosemary. instead there's almost a "lite" foresty waft caused by a pine-y bit of frankincense, some bloody dirt (dirty blood?) and myrrh. the exhaust puffs out in little bursts here and there. being fairly true, this is my least favorite note of this scent. the exhaust made America's New Gods hard for me to even test; instead I found myself instinctively gagging and gasping for air. fortunately said note is much much lighter in GOC. I do actually kinda love this blend, and ultimately find it quite wearable, but not sure if I'd reach for it enough to need a big bottle. leans quirky and unisex.

Startlingly loud: Himalayan citron, white musk, and pink peppercorn with peppermint, yuzu fruit, lemon verbena, and green tea absolute. the weather here is swelteringly hot and dry. venturing outside is treacherous. I've got this magic potion on and it's so beautiful I wish I could drink it. on me this is all about the luminous glory that is citron. backed up with a little yuzu, given warmth and depth from the musk, made summerific and flowing by the tea. I love mint; here is it minimal to the point that i would never guess it was here. the pepper and verbena add elegance but I only find them because I'm looking for them. there is a sweetness to this, but it's not a candy scent on me. (although it might please those who do love hard candy smells, it's a little more complex and not so over-the-top sugary). I'm so grateful to my fairy to have this. fingers crossed that this and black bar make it to the CBLDF site for sale, so that others can mind their mouths, minds and aromas with some solid and stunning censorship. this is fantastic.

on me this is a pure, soft cedarwood SN. the lab's cedar does amp on me like crazy, rarely letting other notes come through. I am a sucker for the label art and all things cat, so I may still keep this even though wearing straight cedar isn't my thing. I did discover that it layers fantastically with the Buffalo Man, which helps tone down the cedar and allows the fluffy musk to emerge.

this is a BIG scent. booming throw and lasts for ages. it's honestly too foodie for me to wear, but I do appreciate its richness and complexity. the label art is stunning. thunders open with a big voluptuous chocolate, fruity sweetness shining underneath. in the background, smoke and musk make this different from straight-up foodie scents. I get the coffee both supporting the chocolate and swirling with the smoke. big! booming! rich! all from a tiny spider!

Petrified woods bound in a rigid leather cord. strong and strange. leans manly. while there's a bit of light leather in the background, what is prominent is mostly a mishmash of other notes...the woods? I assume--and I'm sorry that my nose hasn't yet sussed out which and what woods/wood notes are present. there's something green and almost herbal as well, as thought the woods are closer to fresh branches still alive and green in the center rather than petrified. very unique and intriguing, although not really my style.

this is a bright and happy beauty. might lean unisex to those who who typically go for the more out-feminine scents, but otherwise this feels pretty neutral. getting a lot of the lab's fantastic asphodel note. I smelled something bright and happy; rereading the notes, I can see it's the frankincense, but pre-reading I couldn't i.d. it. ozone is a note that doesn't play well 100% on my skin, but this scent is pure fabulousness. nice, medium sillage and lasted a few hours into the night, but completely dissipated by the next morning.

sweet labdanum, woodsmoke that bounces between campfire and non-offensive almost ciggie-esque and the lovely musk from faunalia, coyote, ivanuschka, etcetc. very lovely. that musk and labdanum are two of my favorite bpal notes. this starts out with a nice strong oooomph but (freshly landed, keep in mind) faded away within a few hours. smokey sweetened musk still detectable at the skin, but not much waft.

AL 2017 reminds me of Dorian without the tea, or NAVA moonstone vanilla. it's very "young goth" in spirit, transporting me back to hanging out with friends in bedrooms, that mysterious scent aura (alluding to but not including wafts of RIT black dye and manic panic) that surrounded us while we played records and made brilliantly bad art. it smells so nostalgic yet this is the first time I'm smelling this legend. it's nice, layers wonderfully with deeper, darker scents. it's divine against oud. not getting much floral and it doesn't smell like any marshmallows or cheesecakes that I've eaten.

this has a pretty innocence to it, but with something a little bit...macabre? ...underneath. sort of like how in those 70's horror movies, they use children's voices in the soundtrack. slightly sweet pale floral notes (no specific flowers are standing out) over a big blast of fuzzy moss. I can see some folks rocking this in utter delight, finding it to be feminine and sophisticated perfume, while others will lament it smells like a fancy toiletry. blame my libra moon, but I get both in equal measure. eta this is in the same family as esbat (a lighter, less patch-heavy hm scent) or closer to the dark del cemeteries than to the previous deeeeeep darrrrrrrrk hm graveyard scents from last year)

Where I come from, ghosts are not to be taken lightly. Terror by birthright. A legacy of sorrow, violence, and undeath: chrysanthemum petals, crushed violet leaf, and funereal incense. [from the prototype at loved to death] the incense on me is lovely wafts of soft frankincense. ghosts is a skin scent, very light; it truly wears like a spectral and otherwordly veil. the flowers are dried and restrained: the chrysanthemum not too honeyed, the violet not sweet. the whole thing feels translucent. I think it really does capture the image of a victorian ghost wonderfully. it's light enough that some might miss it but for those who can tune into it, there's a lot going on here. one of the employees at ltd mentioned it had become one of her favorite perfumes to wear.