Hippiesh, spicy, musky scents - without patchouli

[shelldoo]

i am one that doesn't find o and snake oil similar, but i *do* find morrocco and snake oil similar. i also agree w/ g.p. but not so much w/ snake charmer (it was all plummy on me not spices like snake oil), i love patchouli so i love snake oil, but prefer it aged about 6 months. also my reccomendation would be to go back to snake oil after being getting familiar w/ bpal for a while. i didn't like snake oil so much when i was new, i wondered why people raved about it. but now i love it, i think my nose needed to get used to the feel of bpal, and then snake oil smelled fabulous.

[Spring Snow]

I vote for Eat Me too. I tried it just the other day, and I was surprised at how the cake-in-the-bottle scent melded into a very smooth Snake-Oil-esque vanilla without the patchouli. Hyphen hyphen!

[ayelienne]

It could totally be just me, but Bathsheba feels like a summertime (lighter) non-patchouli version of Snake Oil.

[Scrangie]

I find Snake Oil and Eat Me to be very similar. At first I thought my new bottle of Eat Me *was* Snake Oil. It smells cleaner, though.

[judas_kiss]

It could totally be just me, but Bathsheba feels like a summertime (lighter) non-patchouli version of Snake Oil.

 

While I love them both, those two smell nothing alike on my skin. Snake Oil is lacivious, yet sensual wheras Bathsheba is my girlie, playful perfume. They are both sweet, though.

[ivyandpeony]

I'm late to the party, but Silk Road is my summertime substitute for Snake Oil. It seems to have the same spices but much less heavy sweetness (and while I don't really get patchouli from Snake Oil, I definitely don't get it from Silk Road).

 

I was very patchouli-averse until entering the BPAL universe, so I sympathize - but we have the best smelling dirty hippies anywhere. And I have really grown fond of a lot of patchouli blends in the almost-two-years of BPAL sniffing and wearing I've experienced, so write yourself a note and see where you stand two years from now. A lot of people find that their tastes change!