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I feel a bit shocked reading the reviews above, it's like I've got a whole different perfume that's pretty much exactly what the description says. I got a year old decant from a friend and I've never tried the original hair gloss. I get mostly bright, zingy ginger and oudh, and these two are dominating notes from wet phase to the complete drydown. Ginger is very loud. Amber is softening and rounding the ginger and the frank, sweetening the scent only a bit. On my skin this isn't faint at all and I can clearly detect it hours and hours after applying. I like this very much and I hope I could find a full bottle.

Mary Shelley got me at "laudanum". I'm a huge fan of BPAL's deceased Laudanum perfume and I've treated my bottle like a treasure knowing I can never find a new bottle of it. I'm so happy I found Mary Shelley. Compared to Laudanum (nutmeg, sassafras, black poppy and myrrh) Mary Shelley is quite similar but more powdery, slightly sweeter and a little bit more feminine leaning. They are truly siblings, they both are medicinal, mysterious and licorice-like. In MS I get anis, ozone and definitely a hint of Victorian oriental perfume. I'm going to need a full bottle.

2024 version. In the bottle and wet on skin this is like smelling chilly, wintery forest. Green, piney, woody and a bit cool minty. Dry this softens and sweetens a lot as ambers are taking space, turning the scent to the most beautiful evergreen winter wonderland. Ambers are definitely the dominating notes but they come along wonderfully with the piney woods and sage. Overall this is sweet amber and chilly woods with sage. Very beautiful.

Joining the choir: this really feels like old BPAL GC perfume. What a joyful feeling. I blind bought The Kiss of the Sphinx mainly because I ADORE the painting, but the notes seemed intriguing as well. In the bottle and wet on skin I get strong whiff of black cherry but it fades literally in seconds, giving space to labdanum, smoked plum resins, musk and myrrh. Dry this reminds me a lot of The Wish (an incense of candied smoked fruits, Oman frankincense, red oud, labdanum absolute, sheer vanilla, patchouli, red musk seed, osmanthus, and datura accord), as they share resinous smoked fruits (I'm sure there's plum in The Wish), labdanum, pathouli and musk. I was a bit worried about the florals but I'm not actually getting any of the tuberose and only a hint of the iris. This is soft, resinous, musky and plummy scent, a bit dark and absolutely beautiful with quite a massive throw.

Absolutely beautiful perfume. I've never tried Bordello but I've been willing to try it for a long long time, but it's nowhere to be found. I'm happy reading that Sugar Plum Snake reminds of it. In my opinion Sugar Plum Snake is a sister scent of Serpent in the Berries. Snake Oil is definitely noticeable with vanilla, musk and spices, a bit medicinal too. I love the medicinal twist, but need to mention that SPS is only a little bit medicinal. Patchouli is more prominent in plum snake than in berry snake. Plum is juicy and fruity, absolutely lovely. I love this.

Ahhhh this is so good I want to bathe in it. I got my Death Adder last week so it's rested only a brief time but this is exactly what I hoped it to be. Snake Oil, roughed up with some dirty coconut and vetiver. Dry, a bit woody, musky, dark vanilla blend, addictively seducing. It reminds me of very well aged Snake Oil so I'm thrilled to wait how my fresh, baby Death Adder will age.

At first I was going to pass this one, rose isn't my favorite notes but I do like it combined with vanilla. Then I read reviewers comparing this to Pink Snowballs, which is one of my most beloved rose scents, if not the best, so I decided to give Millarca a chance. Millarca does remind me of Pink Snowballs a lot but it's still different enough to allow myself to keep this. Especially as I don't have backup for PS. I get lovely chilly vanilla forward rose and I can find the jammy blackcurrant lurking in the background. This is beautiful, soft scent, definitely romantic but also secretly cool. Absolutely lovely.

I've tested The Wish for a couple of times now but I still struggle to describe it. I can say for sure that I really do like it, it's very beautiful, but it's surprisingly difficult to catch specific notes. It's pretty skin scent on me, there's not much throw. I was also expecting it to be darker and giving gothy/ witchy vibes, but The Wish is light and ethereal. Definitely agree with @Cali about the middle eastern vibes. It's subtly sweet, softly resinous and incense-y. If I try really hard I can detect labdanum, vanilla, oud and frank, but it's more than that. Red musk is noticeable but not dominating - actually it's very soft and balanced. The Wish is elegant and there's something mysterious in it.

I got an imp of Solstice Scent's Conjure perfume oil (vanilla, amber, cedar, spices & cauldron smoke) and I think it's very much alike BPAL's Sin (amber, sandalwood, black patchouli and cinnamon). Looking the notes that's not a surprise.

Hi @omnistraight! It seems we have quite similar taste, I too love Antikythera, Perversion and Sin, and I'm not into aquatics. Actually my taste of perfume has gotten my husband to fell in love with BPAL too I gave him Antikythera Mechanism and after that his collection has evolved quite a lot. I wonder if you would like Port Royal (Spiced rum and ship’s wood mixed with the body-warmed trace of a prostitute’s perfume and a hint of salty sea air on the dry-down). Even there's "salty sea air" mentioned I don't find it aquatic at all. It's a bit spicy, woody and rum is noticeable if not very loud. This is one of my husband's favorites and I really like it on him. Another one I'm thinking is Ian (shaggy leather, sweet rum absolute, and patchouli). Leather isn't too strong in my opinion (I too have mixed feelings with leather). I was going to suggest Troll but sadly it didn't work for you! But maybe Golden Priapus (vanilla and amber with juniper, rosewood and white pine) would work..? I know there's pine but I've found it quite subtle in this one. Amber and rosewood are more on top. Oh and Wilde (A sophisticated traditional gentleman’s cologne, with just the slightest taint of patchouli’s passion, tonka bean’s decadence, the philanthropy of bergamot, moss’ cynicism, the sharp wit of lavender, and the hopeless romantic longing of jasmine and thyme)!

Thank you all! Right now I'm feeling I NEED ALL of them

Okay great, this thread is full of lovely suggestions but let's necrobump it a little. Please recommend clove scents that are available now, could you? The thing is, I have mixed feelings to clove. There's many clove-y perfumes I love but there's always the risk clove taking over drowning everything else behind. I like Kobold Barista, The Night Priestess (long gone LE) and Blood. Jack is good but I really can't find any clove in it. This year's Halloweenies includes many many clove scents that I'm intrigued, like Sinister Restlessness, but have not (yet) tried. Any suggestions?

I put the old caps in my wardrobe so every time I open it there comes a light whiff of beautiful perfumes. The scent is so slight that it does not stick to clothes. Though if I put ALL of the old caps in the wardrobe maybe it would be stronger, but I like to keep it in moderation

Reading the reviews it seems, either you hate Laudanum or you love it. There's a lot of reviewers who didn't like it, and I kinda understand them - this is unique, a bit weird and strongly medicinal. And I love it for that. Laudanum is very well blended and it's hard to pick out any specific notes, but let's be honest too: I'm not very familiar with the given notes. It reminds me of liquorice, but it's not only that. It's herbal, mysterious and unisex, if not masculine. It's like dry, medicinal chai spice, with nutmeg and opium, there's also something smoky in it. Myrrh gets stronger when dry and sweetens the scent a bit, but this is not a sweet scent at all. This smells exactly as you would expect something named Laudanum to smell like.

I knew I was going to love this serpent and oh my, I really do. The Serpent in the Berries reminds me of strawberry-flavored antibiotic medicine that I got when I was a child with an ear infection I get all the listed notes. Strawberry, or actually berries in general in this, are synthetic and a bit medicinal. Marshmallow and sugar sweetens the berries and musky Snake Oil is noticeable but subtle, earthy and lightly dark. I bet this is going to age wonderfully.