Reaver

I've tried looking for both through the search thing and can't find a thing. Unless i've got the smellings wrong. Which I will now try. But then someone might know of a blend that smells like either but doesn't necessarily have then in there. Anything guys and dolls?

Seconding the above (a few posts) poster. I've just tried them side by side and Boomslang is SIMILAR. Boomslang = more aromatic, like PUNGENT. Burlesque = more chocolaty. Bear in mind this is fresh oil in comparison to near 3-year-aged Boomslang.

This reminds me somewhat of Cola and Refreshers fizzers sweets. The one I've got is from Dark Delicacies. I don't know what it is about BPALs 'incense' blends; I get Cola and Refreshers from most of them. Unfortunately, this is too similar to other loves such as The Goblin Rider and Ghulheim that although I've kept it to age it and it does age BEAUTIFULLY, I think I may have to swap away. If you don't have anything in this catagory already, I can recommend this WHOLE-HEARTEDLY as it's dark and gloomy, yet sweet and bright. A great juxtaposition! I don't get the Pit and the Pendulum link though?! (7/10)

BLUEBERRY KAPOWWWW! Blue goo suckerpunch. There isn't a lot that I can add to this review party except that I get a LOT of coriander on my skin throughout. It's almost enough to put me off but it does calm down when it goes from Blueberry pie-filling to just a warm spiced blueberry. This isn't your everyday fruit scent; it's wacky and unpredictable. It seems from the reviews that everyone gets blueberry + one of the other notes. It's like blueberry russian roulette. I bit disappointed mine was coriander, not vanilla or something awesome, but I'm happy enough with the blueberry POP! that I'll be keeping this. (8/10)

Astringent, green and spicy. I don't get any of the kiwi other than a watery-ness that I can blame on it. The greenery is quite herbal, there is no sweetness when it's on me. I can't say I'm a fan. 3/10

I should love this as I LOVE LOVE LOVE musk, woods, fruits, VIOLET! but this just comes off on me as an overly sweet rosey green mess. I've tried to love it on numerous occasions, pulling it out of the box, dabbing a tiny bit on, but it just over-powers me with syrupy choke-inducing punches and I have to keep my wrist away until it dies down to just a green, vaguley fruity yum. I don't dislike this scent but I have so many like it that it just doesn't stand out on its own. The bottle art is FAB though. <3. 6/10

Burnt dead grasses and hayfever laiden wildflowers. I wish I got the beautiful sounding experiences of the above posters but I just don't enjoy this scent. There is nothing fresh to it and it just reminds me of farmers fields. Nothing too special. This came with my MVJBA tee shirt and I didn't really care which oil came with it as I didn't fancy the one before it either. I <3 my shirt though! Go Whipoorwills! 2/10.

This scent has the same heavy dusty note that amps on me from Miskatonic University. It's almost a dupe until it dries down. Were Misk U goes woody and creamy on me, this goes sickly sweet. It's really hard to describe other than that! It doesn't smell like rum to me at all, but I like it nonetheless. 7/10

… A deep, resonant scent, both comforting and soft: lovers’ roses, solemn chrysanthemum, dark vetiver and dazzling cactus flowers. This is deliciously deep and very fresh. The rose isn't a green rose; it's more dusty and 'antiqued' but the other notes stop it from becoming too powdery. I'd safely say this as a unisex floral and it's 'dangerous' as most vetiver blends are but it's not heavy and oppressing, just quite hot-house-ish. I'd wanted to try this for quite a while and got my hands on an aged imp as a frimp from a friend – Yay! This is a summery scent for after the sun goes down. 7/10

Straight on, this is the normal vetiver-based green cloud with super strong astringent throw. Thankfully, I know my skin and vetiver and gave it two minutes. Were I new to vetiver, it would have been washed off and discounted. After this, it's still quite astringent but it's almost a medicinal calming smell. Frankincense always smells calming to me as it's usually so sweet and I have so many good associations with it, and combining it with lavender makes this a really chilled scent. It's bright and clear due to the vetiver and cypress but it's so comforting as well. I wouldn't recommend this unless you know that you get on well with a few of the notes though - this scent seems to have every big-name failure in it, save for rose. Give this one time on skin. It's a morpher. 7/10 I like this and it's for times when I need a clear head without blasting myself with happy go-go scent.

I always see comments that people love the smell of their BPAL box/cabinet and want that in a perfume. Well, I've found it. Or at least what my box smells like! (Lulz) With added peach. Kind of fruity, kind of resiny, kind of floral, kind of earthy. It all blends together to make a kind of expensive-smelling, well-rounded scent that I would never wear, ever. It's really pleasant, quite sweet and it brings brilliant thoughts to mind - stagecoaches and big frocks and for some reason, frogs (that'll be the vetiver kicking in) but I really think that this perfume is quite specific in the person that will want to wear it. It's almost like it was blended for a specific persons personality and I would find it quite hard to carry as it's so strong. As I'm not the right person, this will wear me not vice versa. 4/10 as it's nice enough, just a bit confused and too much in it to make it wearable for me.

Pine toilet cleaner. Dead on. I can see how this could be a hit with people that use a different brand to me as the association might not be the same but I can't see myself wearing this without being conscious of people thinking I should be made of porcelain - for the WRONG reason. Nay-ta. 1/10

This is rose (d'uh) but not overly sweet red red roses. This is like a dusky pink rose after it's been watered. For someone that really doesn't do florals too often, I'm surprised at how much I like this!? It's not my usual choice but it smells so clean and fresh that I could see myself using up the imp quite happily. It has a bit of a cheap bubble-bath scent feel to it but I think it's a good thing as it's not trying to be a posh rose. It's quite happy being just what it is - simple and cute. Keeper! 7/10. I really like this! It defies all previous logic, but I'm keeping it.

This is the scent of the Lemon Flash wipes I used to clean my uni house kitchen. Nay-ta. 1/10. It doesn't smell BAD, I suppose.

Sweet, almost sugary soil. It's almost got the mossy note from Black Annis in it (which I love) and I can't believe this was sitting in my 'to-try' pile for so long!? This is gorgeous! It's like curling up and hibernating, it's so comforting. It's very nuzzly and I really wish that I had applied this to a more accessible place on my arm. This scent is so 'friendly' you almost want to have a tea party with it. It won't offend you mum, and your boyfriend will probably think it's alright as long as you spend time with him as well. The downside that I can see with this scent is that it doesn't last too long on my skin, but I can handle re-applying every hour or so to smell this good. 9/10... why can't you last longer?!

Crazy sweet and smells like baking. This smells very spicy too, more like pumpkin pie than pumpkin and the peach is pretty clearly in the mix! This is a really great smell although it's not something I'd want to smell LIKE. I also wouldn't scent my room with it. It's more of a smell of something I'd like to eat. I 'get' the whole foody thing. I've even got a few of the stars of the foody catagory. But this is just TOO reminiSCENT (haha) of pie. 6/10. It's a good scent. Certainly an experience. But I don't know if I'd ever wear this so I have to pass on it. Lickable, yes. Wearable? Not so much.

Bitter sweet floral - very 'hot-house'-ish. Smells more tropical than English flower garden and there is a twist of fruit, but it's not a fore-runner. This dries down to a rose-tinted tropical floral and I'm not too impressed - there are nicer BPAL florals out there for me! 3/10 Nice, but a bit confused. Are you tropical fruity joy, or sweet rosiness?! You're not amazing while trying to be both.

Sugar-coated christmas trees with Vicks inhalers as baubles. I really don't like this at ALL. I've aged it, I've re-tested it in all seasons and all parts of the month. Still gross. 0/10 - this is supposed to be perfume?!

Lemon and tea all the way. I had to re-apply after about 15 minutes as I usually apply and then sniff for a while (applying - when it's fully dry to get all the stages of the scent ) before writing reviews but this was faded before I got the chance to! It gets a little soapy too, which is a bit of a downer. Looking at the notes in this, I would have thought it would stick around a LITTLE longer but no. Fail. I get no leather or teak out of this, which are some of my favorites. Fail. All kinds of fail after wanting so much from this. Darn. It smells really nice before it disappears though. Maybe save it for summer when I want really light scents? 7/10 as it's so nice before it vanishes!

Sweet and dark with strong vetiver. Very o-zoney on application - sharp and strong - but calms down quickly to a mellow vetiver. I wouldn't describe this as 'watery' as the description suggests with the rain, but more the scent of everything a hurricane plows up in its wake. I only really recommend this if you like vetiver as it's mainly that. It's a much cleaner version of BPALs vetiver, but vetiver nonetheless. 6/10. I like vetiver but I like it WITH something and have too much vetiver already... passing it onto the man who will love it!

This is fairly generically sweet scent in the bottle and on first application - nothing standout but pleasant enough. After it's warmed to me, it turns into a close, sexy pomegranate-monster. It remains a strong pomegranate scent for a good while, to the extent that it could be a dupe for a dried down Swank, before letting the fruit subside and the tobacco and woods rule. I don't recognise any of the purple musk, and don't think of this scent as shouting 'PURPLE!', more pink or red, which is a shame as I was really looking forward to adding purple musk to my musky line-up. 8/10... I prefer Swank and this is a lot simpler than I expected from looking at the notes list. Keeping the bottle, for sure. But only because I DON'T have a bottle of Swank. Yet.

Recently, HUMBUG It's not just got licorice IN it, it IS licorice. Win. L'HEURE VERTE It's a more sweet Absinthe. Still nice and anise-y and... CARLIN Haven't got my decant of it yet, but it's got anise in the ingredients so I'm sitting in anticipation for a package! Just in case more people come looking! I feel like this recommendation thread is my baby now, even though my search for the perfect licorice/aniseed is over (Humbug and Kabuki = love.)

Faintly seaweedish and salty, almost like a salt lick. A wet mustiness that seems similar to Sturgeon Moon and a faint echo of Cthulhu. It's a light scent and it reminds me of summer daisies. This can never take the place of my beloved Cthulhu and therefore, as the imp will probably not get the love it deserves, it goes for the swap! Overall, this is the smell of hayfever at the side of a marshy river. No open seas here... move along! 5/10. Nice, but nothing I don't already know.

Strong strong vetiver, less earthy and more rotten green than most vetivers that I've tried. I'm not the greatest fan of this scent but I think that's because I'm so used to most of the BPAL vetivers that this seems to be vetiver with very little else. Once dry, it becomes warm and slightly floral. The orange never really makes itself known and if anything, it just makes this scent slightly more sickly. 2/10. Yawn.

Wet-ish, this smells just like an almond bakewell. And I hate almond bakewells, but given the rest of the notes, I shall just keep my arm away from my face and wait until it dries. Almond is ONE of the notes and it's all I can get at the moment. [Twenty minutes later...] Nope, still gross. Maybe this is what people smell with patchouli and vetiver when I usually get yummy love. 2/10 as it's not quite so bad as some I've given a 1, but I'm still gonna scrub this off. Yuck.