Biocarbons

I love white ginger! Wet: I get a burst of sweet green grass, white ginger, and something that smells like the best fruit gummy candy (sage + ginger?). Dry down: now it smells like a fruity chapstick or candle. Synthetic fruits and wax. A bit powdery. Yeah, I've definitely had a lip balm this flavor and it wasn't my favorite.

The leather in this makes it smell masculine me, but it doesn't smell cologne-y at all. This morphed a lot. Started out with a sunny aquatic breeze, a cloud of brown leather dust, and blonde woods. It morphs to be kelp dominant for a bit (the same kelp in Cthulhu). Then the musk picks up and goes a bit powdery. Now the driftwood (different from the blonde wood) is dominant. This does live up to the description of a weathered deck of a pirate ship, all dry and salty/spicy drift wood with some underlying musk and leather. An interesting journey, but not something I would choose to put on again.

A fart of lemon, limp green weeds from the flower bed burned in a fire pit, and dried out crusty moss. An absolute, revolting rotting compost heap of a scent thanks to my skin chemistry.

2018 version: Applied to the skin, this smells like I spilled cherry cough syrup and zima and myself.

Within five minutes of applying, this was CINNAMON x 10,000 and I couldn't smell anything else long after it had dried down. I had to wipe it off eventually.

This instantly became Irish Spring soap on me the millisecond I applied it. -roll commercial -

Wet: banana laffy taffy and an orange circus peanut candy. Yes, you can smell the foam texture of the peanut candy. Dry: calms down very quickly into a light vanilla with a hint of marshmallow and the faintest tinge of banana, and rum? Very close to the skin, with that touch of frankincense peeking out at the end. I wish it would have lasted longer, and I'm surprised I liked it.

Tracked this down finally. wet: Same dried chocolate note in gelt, chocolate rum scarab, and bliss with a bit of sugared cream, and something pretending to be caramel (a touch of amber, brandy?). The chocolate smells more 'melted' as the oil warms up on my skin. Dry: a close to the skin, warm and sweet chocolate scent. The cream note stands out a bit, and smells a little bit synthetic on me but my skin chemistry has trouble with BPAL cream notes. It's softer than Chocolate Rum Scarab which is loud and heavy on the rum. It has less amber than Gelt. Hexennacht also makes a cream egg scent, and the Hexennacht version is louder, sweeter and heavy on the booze.

You go to the salon and get your hair washed with a fancy, fruity salon shampoo and get a trim. You come home. You can still smell the fancy shampoo clinging to your bouncy hairdo. You have a fresh salad with apple and power greens and add a dribble of melon juice.

Hellllllo, fancy beeswax LILAC soap. Like a an $18 dollar, French milled, paper wrapped soap from a boutique shop. The scent, even from inside the paper, is intense so you put it in a decorative basket next to the sink instead of using it. I amp the lilac in this, and the lilac IS STRONG AND STICKING AROUND. I often lament how faint and weak lilac notes tend to be, but this one is really impressive. Great throw and wear.

I wanted to like this and was hoping it would be Snow, Glass, Apples goth cousin (It's not). In the bottle, I get sweet apple and a similar frosty note to the one in some of the ice themed blends. Applied, it smells like tangy sour apple + melon gummies. It's not bad, but I'm not much of a scent foodie and I don't like smelling like candy. ....30 minutes in and it starts to smell like rotten orange deodorant and bo a bit. Bleah

It was pouring rain and bitterly cold, but this smile kept me warm. Wrought iron lattice and sparkling amber lights.  It ALMOST does smell like rod iron, says the kid that used to smell and (maybe lick) rod iron. As it dries down, I get Pine! A citrus! An Amber!

In 2020, I got a hold of a bottle of whip HG with about 1/3 left in it. I already had the whip perfume, which I adore. The hair gloss is a bit different from the bottle of the perfume I have. While the perfume oil has a deep red rose with supple black leather jacket, and a salty aquatic breeze, the hair gloss simpler: I get a strong rose with a strong leather and the salty aquatic is barely there. Upon application, the rose and leather threaten to go soapy/ astringent, but after 10 minutes it settles down (the rose is still a bit more astringent than the perfume oil). I like it, but not quite as much as the perfume oil. I would totally buy a bottle if it gets re-released.

Wet: musty gingerbread with a little cedar. Dry: hella cinnamon, stale gingerbread and musk. Meh Several hours later: this smells like cinnamon sugar gram crackers with a little marshmallow fluff (I don't know what happened). If you amp cinnamon and you don't like it, this probably isn't for you. BUT, if you like red musk and gingerbread you'd probably enjoy this.

More confirmation to me that laces aren't my thing. Wet: Vanilla, something astringent, and Jergens lotion. Dry: the lotion smell mostly fades and scent becomes a warm smoky Vanilla. Later: And now it smells like powdery vanilla sunscreen. This is a nope for me.

Wet: sharp, perfumey, old burnt tires & spilt motor oil. Dry: Still smoky and and now the leaves have come out. The jasmine hangs out in the background. Pretty sharp and it sits in the top of my sinuses goading me into a sneeze. This would give me a headache, but I'm probably going to keep the imp because I bet it will vary a lot depending on the person.

Wet: sweeter than expected, this is roasted pumpkin pulp, butter and green herbs (tomato leaf, majoram, bell pepper). I like the less obvious foody quality of it, and I will place it on the altar next to my roast beef perfume sample because they should be friends. I can vaguely smell the tomato leaf note. I don't really get cucumber at all. Dry: This burned off fairly quickly. I can still faintly smell it but I wish it had more throw. This would have to be a locket scent for me as it was pretty much gone with an hour.

Wet: The year is 1993 and someone has left a partially sucked red apple jolly rancher in the autumnal potpourri section inside the halloween section of hobby lobby. Dry: it wavers between smelling like herbal tea with dried apple bits in it and old potpourri. It's right on the edge of being powdery. Devil's night has a similarity powdery apple.

Wet: green, dry dead leaves. Very sharp, and a little citrusy. As it warms up it smells more and more like lemongrass with wood in the background. I was expecting more spicy oak dried leaves, but not so far. So far I don't mind it, but I suspect this one will give me a headache. Woah, suddenly it went powdery and now it smells like fancy laundry dryer sheets. It's dry now and smells like fancy hand soap. ....and now it smells like clean laundry again (several hours later and it still smells like clean laundry). This is a scent for people who like "clean" smells or want to smell like towels at a fancy spa.

I love dark aquatics, but this one isn't for me. This smells like bpal's Cthulhu, that is to say, fancy irish spring (but darker). I do not want to smell like irish spring and dark water, but somewhere there is someone who loves Cthulhu and will love this.

A year later, and this is still a weird one. In the bottle, it smells like a green, sharp patchouli. The lemon note isn't nearly is prominent in bottle as it was a year ago. Dry, this is patchouli with a dry green apple in the back, and a paste filled middle of macha and cacao. Part of why I find it so unsettling is my brain is telling me it should be sweet, but it doesn't smell sweet.

Important: This needs time to settle on your skin. Wet, this is a revolting, screechy generic perfume smell. After dry down, it becomes a light, slightly sweet (frankincense), eucalyptus and ozone scent over a clean, thin musk. I find something about it to be antiseptic and clinical and headache inducing, but on the right person it would smell delicately ethereal and unsettling.

Wet and in the bottle (I tested an imp), this was really screechy and had a LOOK AT ME, IM A {{generic salty aquatic cologne}} smell to it. After it dries down, that screech stops and it's a nice slightly smoky (patchouli), woody aquatic. Like having a driftwood campfire at the beach. As an aquatic person, I quite like how it settles down and I will probably buy a bottle barring any strange morphing.

A fresh aquatic with a thicc floral and a bit of pear for sweetness. The rose blends well and is a soft background blush of rose, and not A HELLO PLEASE YES I AM ROSE, ROSE or a powdery, sour, bitter, musty rose. This is a close to the skin, more intimate blend on me and I find it very simple, fresh and girly, but I wish it had olive blossom instead of magnolia/plumeria. Try this is you like clean aquatics but don't like cotton or linen scents.

this reminds me of a modern day grocery store cologne/aftershave my father used to wear which I find very comforting in his absence. I can see the green bottle in my head, but I can't remember the name of it (Brut, Stenson, or Ralph Lauren Polo). I have a new bottle purchased in 2019, and an old colbalt bottle. The old bottle is much smoother and a bit more aquatic, while the new bottle is very screechy possibly due to the bpal ambergris and sandalwood notes which I always find screechy in new bottles. I see several older reviews saying this has lavender in it, which I'm not sure about. I'm mentioning it because I'm mildly allergic to Lavender and try to avoid it. Lavender isn't listed in the ingredient list but I know the lab doesn't necessarily list all the notes used and it is a common ingredient in historical gentlemen's perfume. I personally don't smell lavender, but do smell an earthy, grounding elements which I attributed to rosemary, sandalwood and moss.It's possible there's a small enough amount of lavender that I'm not getting triggered and my brain is choosing to be noseblind rather than admit it. ? I find the scent comforting and relaxing, but it's definitely a more traditonally masculine smell.