Vaudenilla
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I wear this while reading Tarot. It feels, to me, to be in the same vein as the smell of Florida water. Crisp, bright and cleansing. This smells like the feeling of The Star card. It’s a little hard to describe
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Everything I ever want from a goth-ier perfume. I do own Goth Queen & wear it occasionally but this one is truly my preferred blend when it comes to wearing dark blends. At the very top I get a metallic opium tar, then it unfurls into a softer myrrh with smoky labdanum and amber. I also detect a creamy dark orchid vanilla. Very intoxicating and richly resinous. Sillage: Strong. Wear time: pretty long! 8-10 hours
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Ok. Here’s how this smells: you just walked into a haunted house that’s being reclaimed by the woods. There’s roots pushing through the ground, and a plush carpet of crunchy dead leaves coats the dusty wooden floor. The stairs look dubious- but something pulls at you to climb them. Upstairs, you find decadently decayed bedrooms wallpapered with fading floral patterns. Everything is dusty and soft and hazy. You pad quietly into the master bedroom and find an altar, a fading stick of incense, and a sepia toned photo of a beautiful woman from many, many moons ago. Dead leaves (sans that horrible bell pepper note), softly smoldering incense, and woody oud. Sillage: stronk. Wear time: long.
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It pisses me off greatly that I haven’t finished reviewing last year’s weenies and it’s already time for this year’s. What do you mean the passage of time is real? And I’m subject to it? Thats actually kind of how this perfume itself makes me feel. I echo @starbrow’s sentiment that this takes one’s mental state back 100 years with its warm, orange tinted clove swirled with woody oudh and fuckin sexxxyyy amber. It smells like the bedchambers of a sexually repressed vampire. Perfect. Sillage: More aggressive than most bpal but it’s inviting. Wear time: Long, definitely lasted from morning to night for me.
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Fruit-Chouli, Vanilla-chouli, Candy-chouli, Sweet-chouli???
Vaudenilla posted a topic in Recommendations
Hello beautiful people. I fantasise about perfume in between packing moving boxes… and as I sniff my collection, I’m struck by how much I love SWEET Patchouli and how shamefully little of it I have in my Oil perfume collection. For frame of reference: I’m positively Gaga over Mugler Alien (the ORIGINAL 2000s formula. RIP gorgeous cotton candy wood-bomb), and from BPAL: silky bat, Lydia, Luperci and Goth Queen. Are there any other sweet-choulis I can get my grubby little paws upon? *Preferably* BPAL (but doesn’t have to be, i guess? Is that illegal…) Thank you in advance gorgeous friends!! Sorry if this has already been asked a bajillion times. -
This is, perhaps, what I would like my hair to smell like for the rest of time. I heartily second @Amoraexcena 's assessment that this is what silvery fairy dust and unicorn tears smell like, but I would even go so far as to say that this is the smell of early morning sunlight hitting the unicorn's shimmering mane as it drinks from a tranquil lake. The lake is fed by a large waterfall, which is casting rainbows and misting everything in a shuddering layer of dew. This is what a moonbeam smells like, bottled. Powdery sweet amber, smooth and silky and almost skin-musky. Mineralic sparkliness that adds some salty, grounded complexity that keeps you sniffing for more... This thing literally lasts for up to 3 days in my hair. Granted I have long, unruly thick hair that I douse in hairgloss (Seriously, about 5 ish pumps every time I use gloss at this point).
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This is a sweet, almost juvenile cherry blend. I don't find the cherry medicinal at all either, but it is bright, and the other vague red fruits make the whole thing a cutesy cacophony of creamy cherry sugar. I don't get any "sweet cream" identifiably, but perhaps that's what is making this a little plasticky in the deep dry down. This does last a woefully short time on me, but it is a fun time while it lasts. I don't mind reapplying.
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Fruit-Chouli, Vanilla-chouli, Candy-chouli, Sweet-chouli???
Vaudenilla replied to Vaudenilla's topic in Recommendations
Oh, Ughhh wild strawberry and patchouli looks incredible 😭😭😭 gutted it’s no longer available. Feed me & fill me plus Goblin and Tricksy….. those are allll on my decant list now ehehe :3 thank you for those wonderful recommendations!! -
I undulate wildly between the filthy, dirt-y, patchouli-bound, leathery, musked up sex bomb perfumes and the delicate blossoms, silks, creams and laces that BPAL offers. Much like my personal style, the mood shifts from day to day! Silky Bat is an incredible middle ground of both. It’s patchouli, earthy raw and grounded, and yes, spun sugar clouds in equal parts. This really is the snuggliest, silkiest bat! very, very long lasting. Like aggressively so. And also the throw is INTENSE. I’m head over heels.
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This pairs well with convivial vulva. It's very cherry-blossom and pink rose forward. The frothed cream is present and pretty and makes this whole thing sweet and toasty and comforting. Something in this is powdery but I'm not picking up any detectable amber. I love this hair gloss but the usual amount of hair gloss I apply to my hair is far too much for this beauty. I am good with a solid 2 pumps for my black, mid-back length hair.
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I'm beyond in love with this. Sweet carnation, Creamy pink strawberry milk and bubble gummy lotus up top. Pearlescent, soft iris swimming in pink-powdered-strawberry-sugar milk in the deep dry-down. It reminds me of something nostalgic and comforting from my childhood, almost perhaps like a doll or a perfume I was given? It's girly and floral and milky. everything I could ever want. Other notes: Blue-tinged Glowing Vulva, minus the teak, plus strawberry. Makes me feel like a soft water fairy living on a waterlily pad.
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I am so obsessed with this that I own a positively absurd amount of bottles. I love it so much I almost cannot describe how beautiful it is. It's bright, and floral but not aggressively-so, moreso in the way that you're standing in a gorgeous stone villa, catching whiffs of olive and linden blossoms blowing gently in the breeze. The musky vanilla-cedar makes this so, SO sexy and pretty. It does have the same creamy orris quality that "From whose eyes" has. This is absolutely a skin-scent but it's also something *More*. Absolutely stunning.
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Sexy apple. Literally apple slices dipped in Amber and vanilla. I, too, do not get much fig but this thing is so beautiful I don't care. BPAL does the BEST effing apple note ever. The wear time on this is around 6 hours but the projection is gentle. I like to reapply throughout the day when I wear it.
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Slamming the "YES" button so hard on this year's release of Smut. It's plush and red-hued and sexy. Booze and musk and something... else. Something velvety. Something... vanilla?? In the deep drydown. I love how inviting and warm this is. I kind of can't describe how sexy it is because it's like a stripped-back heavy-musk. That makes no sense but it's somehow bold, not animalic. Smooth, not screechy. Warm, not sweaty. Sweet, not cloying. I don't know how... they did it..... I also get a solid 12 hours of wear on this and I find the projection to be quite strong. I only need a few small dabs to get a gorgeous scent cloud.
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SO lilacy but not at all indolic or weird. It's the PERFECT lilac-incense-sugared-vanilla combo. If you like snake oil and lilac, you'll like this. I get A LOOOOOOOOOOONG wear time from this one, and I do concur that this is a smoother variation of snoil, more vanilla-heavy. I am very into this and would hoard three bottles if I did not have,,, so much lilac already.
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Juicy berries and MARSHMALLOW!! I love this it's fun and simple and sweet. Something in the top notes is grapey and candy-like but the tart red Pomegranate juicyness shines through eventually before succumbing to a pillow of sweet marshmallows. (translation: the juicy redness fades into the marshmallow to make a swirl of pink-red-white)
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Something about this takes me to Watermelon-Gum-ville. It is nice but it's almost...... kid's shampoo vibes? Plus something tarter and more grown up. Idk. Not my vibe...
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I'm obsessed with this and it pairs so so well with "Women on the Harbour on the Island of love" or whatever the meow it's called. Sweet pink marshmallows, strawberry amber and frothy vanilla cream. The Cherry blossom floats delicately atop this wonderful pink explosion. Something about this makes me very nostalgic.
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ROSE! Pink! Chewy! Green! AAAAHHHH MAGICAL GIRL EXPLOSION!!!!!!!! That's how I feel about this. It's so sugary and frothy that I couldn't wear it for long and passed the bottle along to a friend (or sold it?). I prefer From Whose Eyes as They Glanced Flowed Love, but if you like sugar-splosions and rose milk tea...... do not pass this one up
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I actually love this. It's pink grass. There's definitely some herbaceous, weird mochi-esque vibes under the bright, pink tart berry. I think the neriki is what's making this read as Mochi-esque? It's powdery and grassy and pink and earthy and fruity. I do not know how to convey it to you much better than that, apart from literally inventing telekinesis technology to beam my thoughts into your brain.
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This really is a beautiful, creamy, sweet, fruity sandalwood. The tobacco never showed it's rump! I liked it but not enough to hang on to my bottle since I have,,, oh so many. Perfect if you like And though they are with you, and just generally sweet comforting creamy sandalwood perfumes.
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I shrimply must get my Luper reviews in before they come down for good this year. I may expand upon them later but for now, they shall be as succinct as they can be. The First Veil is a delicious smooth sandalwood incense with a little spicy peppery kick (very warm, very approachable. it almost leans a little tobacco-y.) that burns off quickly. After the Spicy(trademark) wears off, the silk & ambergris give a sweet smooth musk duet over the woodiness. I wear this one often and, somehow it makes me feel so grounded and peaceful. The seventh veil has caused strange dreams, but the First veil has made me prone to a soft, mournful reverie. Good throw and longevity.
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Hey yall! I’m obsessed with Nag Champa. I burn it a lot, along with sandalwood and frank, but I’ve got scents for those- it’s nag champa I’m after!! Thanks so much!!
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Something sweet and grapey, something clean and powdery, perhaps even silky. Something is clean and cold and glittering here, but I can’t but my finger on it. This is a really nebulous fragrance that I struggle to describe due to its complexity and uniqueness. There is a bit of a grapey undertone when wet, perhaps like wine? This is everything I wanted and more and I have *weird* dreams when I wear this. Like dreams that feel so real I genuinely think they are and am shocked when I awake. The other night I was standing on the edge of a cliff somewhere in aberdeen scotland with the wind just absolutely buffeting my face as a storm blew in. I could smell the thick creamy lanolin scent of my woolen sweater and the petrichor and grass. My hair whipped against my skin and it actually like physically stung. I’ve never experienced real pain in a dream before. Has anyone else ever experienced things like this with non-magical blends from BPAL?????? i’m like genuinely freaked out.
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Hi friends! I recently fell head over heels for Smut 2025, and I was curious about some GC recommendations for similar smutty/sensual fragrances? Or even non GC I love hunting fumes down hehe