Kay Torres

No worries! Lol. I immediately ran to the website to throw them in my cart, and when I saw that two weren't there, I figured it out. I'll stalk the sales. Thanks again for the recommendations.

In the imp this smells like a spicy, smoky floral. I always wonder what poppies are supposed to smell like in perfume, since to me, real poppies smell like dirt. Wet, this is pure opium - very narcotic. Absolutely NO florals make it to my skin. When it dries, it's sweet, spicy smoke. Nothing more. While I like the smell, it's pretty one dimensional. I always layer this with Slippery Poppy Tincture to give it interest. Together, they're magical.

In the imp this is tart and VERY green, almost grassy or sappy. Like the cut stems of flowers. I don't really pick up honey, and I'm assuming that the tartness comes from the acai berry. Bear with me, my sniffer isn't well trained yet. Wet: This is a green assault on the nose. It's quite strong and LOUD. It's not unpleasant, but it's not a "wow, that's yummy scent" either. It will wake you up, that's for sure. Dry: This doesn't really smell like poppies to me. To me, poppies smell like dirt. This smells like very strong, very tart spring grass. Bottom line is, I'm not wowed by it. I always layer this with Opium Poppy and they make a very pretty almost commercial perfume together.

Definitely gonna recommend Coraline Jones: No, said Coraline. I don't want to do those things. I want to explore. Dry grass, clean skin, and a little bit of mossy berry. Squirting Cucumber: Yikes! A spurt of wet, grassy greenness. Hopeless romantic in love that gets vengeful? How about Edith Cushing: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind: pearlescent vanilla musk with white sandalwood, grey amber, white patchouli, ambrette seed, and oudh. Fairy Wine: An ethereal vintage, steeped with dandelion, honey, and red currants. Host of Air: Peat and rolling grass-covered hills, with wine-dappled heather, white clover, cloudberry, juniper berry, bluebell, dandelion, and cross-leaved heath. Depending on how stereotypically hippie you are, you can't get much more hipppie than Ask the Nearest Hippie haha!: patchouli, hemp, smoky vanilla bean, and cannabis accord. Coraline Jones, Edith Cushing, Fairy Wine and Host of Air sound PERFECT! I have more scents to add to my wishlist! Squee! I might go straight ahead and put Coraline and Fairy Wine on my next order to try! Excellent recs! Thank you! And also, I might have to throw in Ask the Nearest Hippie for the man. The cannabis accord scares me, but it might drive the man nuts. Lol.

This looks like fun. I'd like to play. I'm a voracious reader who loves to learn and really digs nature... But, not in that "purposeful hiking" way. I mean that I have to be outside. I like to just sit and feel the grass, watch the trees and listen to the water. Meandering, I guess. I like to grow things. It doesn't matter what I'm growing as long as I do, but my preference is for growing food. The man calls me a hippie because I grow food expressly for the pleasure of feeding people with it. I forage for the same reason. I love flowers, especially the ones that people consider "weeds" - like dandelions, periwinkle, violets and daisies. I try to be more cynical, but I'm a hopeless romantic that's in love with the idea of love, and I like to get along with everyone. It takes me a long time to get angry, but when I do, it's really bad. So, any recs for the book loving, tree-hugging, dandelion-picking, cucumber-growing, occasionally vengeful girl??

Not a rec, since I haven'tried it yet, but maybe Gorg's Garden? I want to try that one because I think it would be amazing to smell like my garden.

The first time I tried this, I absolutely hated it. I smelled nothing but headache-inducing jasmine. I put the imp away and forgot about it. A month or so later, I was experiencing a bit of a rough patch with the man when he asked me out to dinner. I wanted a little confidence boost, and that's when I remembered that I had this oil. I put it on again. The scent had completely changed. On my skin this turned to baby powder with a tiny bit of something peppery and musky underneath. That was definitely one of our wildest nights together. I won't say that he was mad for the scent, because I don't think the scent had much to do with his response at all. I think it was the confidence I felt while wearing it that made the difference. This is now my go-to scent when I need a confidence boost... Doesn't hurt that I now associate this scent with the very pleasant memory of being tackled by the man.

The first time I tried this scent it took on a Play-Doh/plastic smell that made me ill. But, I had a hunch that my special time might change it. So, I waited. And when I tried it again, let me just say, "Ooh!!" It's pure sex appeal... This smells like rumpled sheets and midnight romps. It's a skin smell - lushly vanilla, sugar, and oh-so-much-spice... I'm at that point where my happy time should come around again soon, so I added a few drops of this (around 5) to my bath and a few more to my lotion (about two for my entire body). Let's just say that I'm very happy that I'll be going away with the man tomorrow and I'll report his reaction... I'm hoping he loves it every bit as much as I do right now...

Wow. It always amazes me to read how much individual chemistry affects a scent. Wet, this smelled like sugared plums with a miniscule hint of spice. After it dried, I thought that I smelled lilies - but not the bad lilies - but who knows, it could have been any flower, I was too busy digging on that plum. And it was still the sugar plum smell on top, with an almost wine-ish quality at that point. I wore this out with the man and he said that I smelled like "flowery Kool-Aid". Lol. I don't know if that was good or bad, but I actually really love this one. It just smells bright and pretty.

I received this as a frimp from the Lab. In the Imp: Well, it's definitely heady. Very, very strong floral wafting out. My temples are beginning to throb. Wet: Oh God, LILY. This. Is. So. Loud. I MUST figure out why some florals are perfectly beautiful and why others give me this insta-headache and overpower my nose... This is definitely a nose-clogger. The rotting sweetness... it suffocates... Dry: After lily hell dries down, I smell spiced orange on my skin. Juicy and sort of clove-y. Unfortunately, there's still that migraine inducing floral tainting the spiced citrus. Not worth the headache that I won't be able to get rid of for the rest of the day, though. Or the memory of the smell of lily that's now stuck in my nose even after this scent has been frantically scrubbed off. This is indeed a vicious scent.

I received this as a frimp from the lab, and oooh, I think I'm in love! This is GORGEOUS. I read through the reviews for this and balked a bit at trying this. I didn't like the sandalwood & incense descriptions, but that's not what I get from this at all. It's a golden scent; bright, soft and mildly sweet. It makes me think of days spent in a boat on the bayou watching the sunlight filter down through green leaves. It's a green, wet floral, but not swampy... I should know this scent, I've smelled it before... A water flower... water hawthorn maybe?? Idk, but it's a fresh, shining floral with a touch of fruitiness. The closest that I can even come to describing it is almost a vanilla syrup... But, not quite. Not quite vanilla. It's going to drive me nuts that I can't name this when I've smelled it before. This scent brings back so many happy memories of lazy summer mornings spent basking in the sun on the water's edge. This definitely merits a full bottle.

I received this as a frimp from the Lab. I absolutely hated the way it smelled in the imp - like a bottle of suntan lotion that's been sitting for too long. Wet: I distinctly get hazelnut AND the coconut. It's a little odd. But, within five minutes these sort of merge to my nose and just become a nuttier sort of coconut, if that makes sense... Think coconut on steroids... Ten minutes in is when this becomes ABSOLUTELY FREAKING BEAUTIFUL! I smell like a softly spiced, coconut cream pie right now, with a little something cool that keeps this from being overly foodie. This is a masterpiece in simplicity. The only drawback is that it doesn't last long, but I honestly don't think I'd mind rolling around in this. I'm in love and this is definitely full bottle worthy.

This did not work for me. It had a heavy sweetness to it that gave me an instant headache. However, on my youngest son, it smells like breakfast cereal with cream, honey and nuts. But there's something else there, a clean herbal scent that I can't quite name that seems to cut the sweet. It makes this a beautiful scent for him.

I got this as a frimp. In the imp this smells overwhelmingly like a thin mint. I had high hopes for this, but once it hit my skin, it turned into sickeningly powdery, burnt cocoa. It actually made me nauseous. I was trying to decide what to do with it when my boys asked me for cologne. Serendipity. I put a drop on my oldest son (he's 9 so I don't want him to smell too grown up yet). He now smells like nutty, smooth chocolate deliciousness. It's a dream on his skin. Kudos to BPAL, when this isn't on my skin, I'm impressed with it; it's a perfectly blended chocolate masterpiece.

I tend to avoid jasmine like the plague, but I've learned in my short time with BPAL to try things that I think I'll hate - they usually wind up being better than what I picked for myself. Having said that, Delight was anything but delightful on me. When I opened the frimp, a very, very heavy floral wafted out and filled my room. I was a bit apprehensive, but I dotted one drop on each wrist. This turns into a jasmine single note on me. And it lasts, and lasts and lasts. And lasts. So A+ for longevity, I guess.

Try searching "olla + eve" under death matching and in reviews. The above aviatrix suggestion was what I pulled from this thread. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For both!

I'm having one heck of a time trying to search the forum for a recommendation for something similar to Eve. I guess it's really just too short to search. Can anyone recommend anything similar?

In the bottle - It smells like something that I'll love - fruity and sweet. There's just a delicious bursting berry ripeness to this with a sharp sugariness. Wet - Holy mother of tropical flowers... gardenia overload! Drydown - Ugh. Gardenia. So much gardenia. My head hurts from the heavy, sticky, sweet smell of it. I can't get it out of my nose and I can't smell anything else. After about 30 minutes it smells like crystallized gardenia petals and pepper. One hour in and it smells like chai tea. Definitely not at all what I was expecting from the description. I actually like it now that it smells like chai tea, but I'm unsure if it's worth the headache from the initial gardenia explosion. I'm sad. I wanted to be in love with this. edit** Idk if it's because it's my happy time, or because this sat for a week, but the gardenia has calmed down immensely. It's still there, but it's tolerable. The strawberry actually shows up on my skin now. Something in this has gone a bit powdery, but in a good way. So now I get strawberry powder and chai tea. That makes me a happy girl. Also please note that on me this has an insane throw...

My first review! I was very reluctant to try this because patchouli can either be very, very great on my skin, or it can be an absolute nightmare that lingers for days. I am glad that I took the plunge with this one. In the imp: I was concerned because it smells like some sort of industrial cleaning fluid - very fake citrus and overwhelming pine. Wet: Holy lime, Batman! Lime, lime, lime with something darker underneath. I can't pick out any individual notes with the lime shouting at me like that. Dry-down: More notes coming out to play, but still not in a way that they can be separated (other than the lime which is still going strong). It actually smells like Coke and lime at this stage. It smells edible. Dry: I want to say that it's pretty, but pretty is far too tame a word for this. It's not pretty. It has a sort of thick ripeness to it... It's primal. The notes blend perfectly into a sort of sweetly earthy, smoky spiciness with a hint of something freshly green. Every time I catch a whiff of myself, I find myself thinking of maenads... This is beautifully done and will be going on my full bottle list. Edited by capnbinky, 13 April 2015 - 05:03 PM.