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Like brineydeep and elbow, Peacock Queen fades pretty quick. This is my second time wearing it, and I slathered it on this time as I had the same problem before, yet I think it faded even quicker this time! Maybe because this time I went out in the cold winter wind almost immediately after. It is definitely a velvety rose, but something that fades this quickly isn't a bottle for me. I will use up the imp, but Rose Red is still my Winter Rose of choice.

Hell's Belle is the scent that reminds me of Tennessee in the summer: Sweet, smoky and sensually wicked. A thick, steamy scent, truly sinister in its voluptuous sexuality. The perfume of a demon's favored consort, or of the devil herself. Oleander with wet, sweet mandarin, lush magnolia, a rush of deep musk and a touch of spice.

Thanks for the ref, and I love that the description says "the devil herself'!

 

 

 

 

 

Not a recommendation, but I am so excited to try my first snow scent (The Bear Prince) ! A rosy fuzzy musk is very safe territory for me so I can't wait to see what the snow does to it!

How was it? I tried several snows lately and have been bummed out by all of them - Snow White, Midwinter's Eve 2007, and Snowflakes 2006. They were all a lot sweeter on me than I expected, too sweet ultimately so I have yet to find my snow scent. I just missed the decant for The Bear Prince, but I did get Frau Holle, Hurðaskellir, and Le Befana. I will be trying those soon to see if they are the snow scent I am looking for.

 

I am eyeballing a few other Yules for my snow scent now...Nuclear Winter, The Snow at Dawn, Unmanageable Snowdrift, and Ded Moroz. Several others look nice, but I have to avoid benzoin, labdanum, and similar scents because they can go medicinal on me. Anyone recommendations would be appreciated!

 

 

What about Mat Night? I didn't even know I could like a snow scent until I tried Mat Night. It's amazing. caramelized tobacco and slowly

 

I can't seem to find it. Is it an LE?

 

 

Sorry!! It's a retail exclusive, from Pretty Indulgent

 

I'm not sure what the shipping is like to the US, as she's based in Canada, but you can get Villaness and BPAL in one place and it makes me so super happy! I order frequently and usually qualify for free shipping, so if you decide you want a bottle but it's going to be a fortune to ship it to the US, shoot me a PM. I have been looking at organizing a group order if there's enough interest and if it'll save folks money on shipping. I've also seen some used bottles floating around the forum.

 

Oh goodness, there's more ways to BPAL! I assume by retail exclusive, that means they only make it for this particular retailer?

I didn't think the rum note was very strong. And I love Perversion also! It's definitely worth trying

Oh, then I will definitely add it to my imp list! Thanks!

Give Josie a try! It has magnolia, instead of honeysuckle or jasmine.

 

I recently tried New Orleans, and while I loved how it captured the humidness and decay of my favorite city, I have learned that my skin cannot tolerate honeysuckle. I like how it smells on the vine, and I like eating them, ha, but on my skin, it is a definite nope. Further, jasmine can be iffy, depending on what it is in combination with. Anyone got any recommendations for American Southern scents that avoid those two florals? I know it just seems egregious, but my skin doesn't like them!

Try Bayou! (A lazy, warm deep green scent with a thick aquatic undertone: Spanish moss, evergreen and cypress with watery blue-green notes and an eddy of hothouse flowers and swamp blooms.)

I can't pick out any specific florals in it, and although it is "aquatic" - it doesn't have that cologne smell that aquatics usually have (on my skin, at least). It smells of summers in the South to me.

 

Jazz Funeral! Don't think I've seen that one mentioned yet. Louisiana native here

Thank you, these have been added to my wishlist.

Ziggystardust, how is the rum in jazz funeral? My skin is iffy about rum. Grog was awful on me, but Perversion was very good on me, and the rum in Santa Domingo didn't entirely put me off, but I do need to test it more.

I tried Ded Moroz for the very first time today and I was so pleasantly surprised by the snow note in this one. My only experiences with snow notes have been in Snow Glass Apples, Rose Red and Snow White. I find Snow Glass Apples and Rose Red have a similar cold, clear feel which I like but Snow White feels nothing like snow to me at all. Ded Moroz starts with what I can only describe as a wintery blast, it hits you like stepping out into the cold from a warm place. It is slightly herbal from the sage, but then starts to warm up a little from the woods and amber. However despite the warming effect of the other notes, the snow note stays prominent on my skin. It reminds me of walking through the woods after a heavy snow. The cold air, the smells of nature, it all comes together gorgeously and the rose note, subtle as it is, lends an ever so slight sweetness as it dries. I still have quite a few to try, but this is definitely one of my favorite yules this year. It's exactly what I wanted from a snow perfume.

Oh, you may have convinced me BlackLace!

 

 

Not a recommendation, but I am so excited to try my first snow scent (The Bear Prince) ! A rosy fuzzy musk is very safe territory for me so I can't wait to see what the snow does to it!

How was it? I tried several snows lately and have been bummed out by all of them - Snow White, Midwinter's Eve 2007, and Snowflakes 2006. They were all a lot sweeter on me than I expected, too sweet ultimately so I have yet to find my snow scent. I just missed the decant for The Bear Prince, but I did get Frau Holle, Hurðaskellir, and Le Befana. I will be trying those soon to see if they are the snow scent I am looking for.

 

I am eyeballing a few other Yules for my snow scent now...Nuclear Winter, The Snow at Dawn, Unmanageable Snowdrift, and Ded Moroz. Several others look nice, but I have to avoid benzoin, labdanum, and similar scents because they can go medicinal on me. Anyone recommendations would be appreciated!

 

 

What about Mat Night? I didn't even know I could like a snow scent until I tried Mat Night. It's amazing. caramelized tobacco and slowly falling snow muffling the scent of a distant fire.

 

I can't seem to find it. Is it an LE?

Hi. I've just started really expanding my collection of BPAL scents and would like to explore and acquire more. If you can recommend me anything (preferably general catalogue) based on the info below, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

 

Full Bottles I own: Kumiho, Veil, Whip, Wensleydale, Haloes, Snow White, White Rabbit

 

Imps of scents I really like: Antique Lace, The White Rider, Snake Oil, Manhattan, Cathode

 

Notes I like: fresh/green notes (I really like the smell of tomatoes--vine, leaf, etc., grass, etc.), ginger, tea, light florals, fruit notes, creamy notes, skin/soapy scents, citrus (bergamot, lime, etc.), incense, soft woods

 

Notes I avoid: aquatic or ozonic notes (they tend to smell like egg yolk on my skin), really grimy patchouli, teakwood

 

Notes I am cautious about: spices, jasmine, tuberose

 

I'm not a huge fan of foodie/gourmand scents for myself, although I like smelling them. I would like to look for creamy scents, though (such as Reflected Vulva--if anyone can recommend a GC dupe for it, that would be awesome).

 

 

Oh, oh, I just want to add that I think Apothecary would fit your green love perfectly! It is all the things you like: ginger, tea, citrus with some fig to add a little sweetness to it, but not too much. I adore it! Embalming Fluid, Squirting Cucumber, and Cordelia are also some other greens that I really like.

Anyone got an recommendations for a fall pear scent? To give you an idea, Bath & Body Works Perfect Autumn Day:

Key Notes: Bartlett Pear , Crisp Autumn Air, Maple Toffee, Amber Woods, Fig Leaf

Any suggestions? Thanks!

I saw someone mentioned The Jersey Devil and I totally second that. It smells like a snowy pine forest and has a festive hint of cranberry!

Snow White has strangely the same vibe to me, it's like a winter Leanan Sidhe, which is one of my favorite summer perfumes.

If you are looking for more "outdoors" you might try Skadi, or any of the "snowy" moons. The Garden in Winter also has that "outdoors " thing going on.

A really good readily available one is Neil Gaman's The Snowglobe.

I saw someone mentioned The Jersey Devil and I totally second that. It smells like a snowy pine forest and has a festive hint of cranberry!

I got Jersey Devil and it is definitely a festive winter scent to me! I love the snowy pine with the berry. It's not quite the snow scent I am looking for, but definitely meets my winter woods scent. Thanks for the rec!

Not a recommendation, but I am so excited to try my first snow scent (The Bear Prince) ! A rosy fuzzy musk is very safe territory for me so I can't wait to see what the snow does to it!

How was it? I tried several snows lately and have been bummed out by all of them - Snow White, Midwinter's Eve 2007, and Snowflakes 2006. They were all a lot sweeter on me than I expected, too sweet ultimately so I have yet to find my snow scent. I just missed the decant for The Bear Prince, but I did get Frau Holle, Hurðaskellir, and Le Befana. I will be trying those soon to see if they are the snow scent I am looking for.

I am eyeballing a few other Yules for my snow scent now...Nuclear Winter, The Snow at Dawn, Unmanageable Snowdrift, and Ded Moroz. Several others look nice, but I have to avoid benzoin, labdanum, and similar scents because they can go medicinal on me. Anyone recommendations would be appreciated!

Licorice then cherry cough syrup. Yuck! It gets a little more berry and less chemical cherry on the drydown, but I just can't get past the initial licorice and cough syrup.

I can't believe that this smells exactly like a fresh cut rose, there's just the right amount of rose, green, and dirt. Then swirling around it all is this cold dampness that is perfect - great as a winter rose and a rose for all year. Glad I bought a bottle, and I will probably buy another bottle before the Yules go away.

I participated in a Lilith decant circle and tried My Baby & a Baby Goat which is like a rice flower, foodie scent. I adore it - it's cozy and cuddly and perfect as a winter foodie scent for me because it makes me want to curl up under the covers with a good book. I definitely want to try more rice flowers based on this now.

I recently tried New Orleans, and while I loved how it captured the humidness and decay of my favorite city, I have learned that my skin cannot tolerate honeysuckle. I like how it smells on the vine, and I like eating them, ha, but on my skin, it is a definite nope. Further, jasmine can be iffy, depending on what it is in combination with. Anyone got any recommendations for American Southern scents that avoid those two florals? I know it just seems egregious, but my skin doesn't like them!

I really wanted to like this because Lilith, c'mon, but it ultimately just didn't work on me. That being said, it most definitely turned me on to trying some more red wine scents especially if in combo with rose. It's probably the myrrh as my skin often doesn't like that, but still really love the red wine and rose combo.

When wet, this one went almost (but not quite) lemon pledge on me, but then as it dried down it started to go more general perfumy scent. This has a lot of notes that tend to not like me so it's surprising this doesn't end up being terrible on me, but it also doesn't end up being anything special either. To the swap box!

This is such a strange scent. I can smell many of the notes, seemingly disparate, that many other viewers mention, but in the end it ended smell like a sort of generic BPAL perfumy scent (which of course is far superior to any generic perfume scent), but it just didn't stand out for me in any particular way.

Got this in an Ebay imp lot. I generally dislike melon and grape - that being said, the moss creeps in on the drydown and makes it less melon sweetness. Still not for me, but I like how the moss comes in.

I am a rose fiend so I was excited to receive this scent as in an Ebay BPAL lot. The lotus gives a lightness and delicate sweetness like others have said - I just think white flowers when I smell this. It's a simple scent and beautiful, but I prefer the more complex BPAL scents and this is just not that.

Lily and rose can easily go grandma on me, but in this case the myrrh (which usually hates me) comes through and keeps the lily and rose from going floral grandma! On the whole, it's just not for me, but I gave it to my mom as she loves florals and the spice of the myrrh added a depth she liked.

I really want to like this one - I love lilac and musks, and lilac musk, be still my beating heart, but ack the benzoin and the violet, and it hates my skin. Sigh.

I got this in an Ebay imp lot that I purchased so I could test out a bunch of BPAL scents that I might not select on my own. I really like honey scents, but they can very quickly go to this weird stale sweetness on me like really, old vintage candy. At first when wet, the honey wine is prominent while the incense takes a back note, which is great because my skin doesn't usually like incense - it even ends up being an incense I could like, but then...the drier it gets, the staler it gets on me. Into the swap box.

This is definitely a smoldering, dark scent. I got it with an Ebay imp lot because usually I avoid these types of scents...and for good reason, I need more notes to balance the darkness of this scent, but it is definitely its name!

I thought I would like this because I adore Pele, another tropical flower blend, but this just doesn't do it for me. I think I need other notes (like the ginger in Pele) in tropical florals to grab my attention.

I really wanted to like this as New Orleans is my favorite Southern city, buuut it's the honeysuckle that kills it. Despite liking honeysuckle (and eating it), honeysuckle does not like my skin. However, this scent does make honeysuckle more bearable for me than some of the other honeysuckles (or honeysuckle/jasmine blends like Twilight). I like the humid decay that creeps in, but the drydown gets more honeysuckle, and I am afraid this one has to go to the swap pile.