Boomslang

[MamaMoth]

Snake Oil with cocoa, teakwood, and rice milk.

What I have is a decant, not sure how aged. This it is the thickest, darkest, oil I've ever seen. It just coats the tester wand. So beautiful.

In the vial and wet on my skin, it is Snake Oil with rich cocoa. Not exactly dry cocoa, but rich and sticky, dark, and a little bitter under the sweet.

As it dries, it smells of vanilla and cocoa, with the rich sexy spices of Snake Oil whispering underneath.

Boomslang is so many things. It's totally warm and sexy, but it is soft and comforting too. I could put this on to go out on a date, and I could also put this on to cuddle up in bed with a book and read 'til I fall asleep.

A little foodier than what I generally like, but judging by how often I go back to huffing my wrists I call it a winner. Edited July 13, 2010 by Silvertree

[topazphoenix]

I was looking forward to trying Boomslang. Cocoa and rice milk = love. The oil in my bottle tends to separate so the cocoa stuff is on the bottom so you have to swirl it to get the deep dark oil everyone mentions.

 

Hmm...it's sweeter than Snake Oil, and smoother...I can kind pick out the cocoa if I try..but honestly the richness doesn't really stand out distinctly so much as it melds into Snake Oil seamlessly. So technically, this is my "aged Snake oil".

Edited September 30, 2009 by AmandaKay

[Venneh]

Got this as a tester in a recent swap. ...I think this is bottle material, just from the tester. Dark chocolate with what might be the milk balancing out, and then spicy wood. Oh, god, yum.

 

ADDED Oct. 18:

 

Got a decant of this, eager to test it, as it smelled so good in the tester I got. In the decant, which has been aged about a year, I get a spicy, woody chocolate sort of scent, really delicious. On my skin, it's a mix of dark chocolate and Snake Oil, and oh god so good, with just a hint of wood. Bottle. No questions asked.

Edited January 23, 2011 by Shollin

[saralaughs]

This just isn't my snake.

 

Very rich cocoa with a bit of milk balancing out the Snake Oil. I should like (or even possibly love) but I don't. Something about the mixture of the additions with the Snake Oil just don't call to me. It smells nice and rich but it is not claling my name.

[arsenicsauce]

Wow that is some thick, dark oil. This stuff is concentrated as heck.

 

Wet, it smells delicious. I get warm, soft chocolate caramel and a hint of dusty, nose-tingling resin that reminds me in effect if not in actual smell of miskatonic university. After a few minutes it dries into something unfortunately medicinal smelling, with a sweet cough-syrup overtone that I'm not fond of. Yeah, it seems to stop morphing after that for a while, and remains a heavy, sweet, chocolate-medicine with medium to low throw for the hour.

 

As the evening went on I did find it faded into heavy sweetened incense instead, with cocoa undertones, but by that point the throw was almost nonexistant. This is one I'll pass along to someone with better chemistry and different tastes- I like my cocoa very dark and bitter, and the sweetness of the rice milk or perhaps the vanilla of snake oil makes it too much for me in any case.

[rayvn1]

What is going ON with me?!? I usually hate foodie notes. And I haven't had much luck with the snakepit,

 

Until now.

 

It's cocoa and snake oil. It's amazing. And I'm carrying it around in my purse as my go to bpal. I never expected a chocolate scent to get me the way this one does. Fantastic!!

[levelek]

I ordered a bottle unsniffed. And I am disappointed The rice milk is far too strong. Together with the cocoa and the rest of the scent, it just comes across as far too cloying, dense, sticky and sweet on me. Boo hoo!

 

Back to Western Diamondback for me.

[teamilk]

I really, really didn't care for Snake Oil when I tried it the first time a couple years ago. I never had too much of an interest in aging it - especially since it takes two years to really get good - so when I saw that Boomslang was similar to an aged Snake Oil to another reviewer, I thought I'd go ahead and give it a shot.

 

I am so incredibly happy I did! It's a beautiful vanilla and chocolate scent, deepened by the teak but made nice and creamy by the rice milk. It's beautiful and like a delicious cuddle. I adore it, I really do, and when the Carnival is leaving, I'll scoop up another bottle or two, just so I can keep it around for a while.

[iletaitunefois]

This was a little bit of a disappointment to me. When I first opened up the vial, it was like a sharp blast of chocolate liqueur. Yum! And on my skin? Divine. It smelled like a very, very rich hot cocoa with just the slightest edge of cinnamon. Five minutes later though? This scent is almost completely gone. Just like good hot cocoa, this one got drank up fast. I'm now left with a fair amount of cinnamon and very little chocolate at all. So sad! I was hoping that I could easily go to this once my imp of Anaconda ran out, but no such luck.

[alioth]

All the spices of Snake Oil plus deep bitter cocoa and sweet milkiness. Love love love. It's kind of a mating of Snake Oil and chocolate-chip cookies, but totally unfoody. I think it's the rice milk that makes it so heady and soft, without the sometimes-astringent edge of fresh SO.

 

[misscoldheart]

Like the cocoa note in Black Temple Burlesque Troupe, at first its really overwhelming and slightly unpleasant, but dries down to a beautiful powdery scent that is AMAZING! once it settles, I get a spicy, smooth scent that isn't too heavy. I love it!

[kunoichi]

In the bottle, this has a very strong scent of sweet cocoa or dark chocolate, darker than that of Bliss. This becomes sweeter on my skin - it smells just like a milk chocolate version of Bliss, with a backing of Snake Oil in the background; yum! After a few hours this is a lovely sweetly musk Snake Oil (minus the pink musk stick scent) that has been softened by the rice milk, smelling vaguely reminiscent of the French chocolate candy I sometimes make for Christmas. Just lovely!

[DeltaCat]

Wet this smells exactly like a Crunch bar! It really smells like I just opened a Crunch bar to eat! When dry it still smells like a Crunch bar, just not as strong. Hmmm..I don't seem to get ANY Snake Oil from this! Hmmmmm <img src="http://www.bpal.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> This one doesn't say very long on me either. 30 minutes max then it's gone *poof*

 

Ok so I am gifted a 2 year old decant of this and HOLY CARP! I still get chocolate but the Snake Oil is more prominent now. Nice!

Edited November 25, 2010 by DeltaCat

[reynardine]

In decant: chocolate and spices

 

Wet: Got the chocolate, got the spicy Snake Oil, maybe a hint of teak?

 

Drydown: The scent is starting to blend now. Before, all the notes were very distinctive. The chocolate does help to ease the over-spiciness of the Snake Oil and the teak adds a weird tinge.

 

Later: Meh, it’s alright but I still don’t understand what all the fuss is about. Will age this six months and try again.

 

[loubric]

Chocolate. Chocolate. Chocolate.

It slowly fades to an aquatic choclate. Hints of chlorine and sea-salt mixed with chocolate!

 

Very intriguing.

 

 

(Boomslang = tree snake )

Edited February 8, 2010 by Lilly

[doublehelix]

in the imp: chocolate and snake oil!

 

wet on skin: smells very strongly of hot chocolate.

 

dry on skin: as it dries down, the spices and vanilla of snake oil become a little more dominant. this smells delicious! Spicey, warm, chocolate.

[Lill]

Wow, Boomslang is kinda great! And I generally don't care for chocolate scents. I just got some of this because of all the love it has been getting on the forum!

 

Wet, it smells a little like chocolate candy to me too-- maybe a tootsie roll? After it dries down I can smell a hint of the snake oil underneath all the cocoa, but the cocoa takes off the medicinal smell of fresh snake oil so it's a softer, smoother snake oil.

 

This reminds me a little bit of the (discontinued) commercial perfume Lea Extreme by Lea St. Barth. I think it's the cocoa/vanilla/musk combo.

 

Also, Boomslang lasts a good long time on me. I put it on in the afternoon and could smell it the next day when I woke up. I did, however, apply it multiple times so maybe the layering helped the lasting power?

 

I don't think this has replaced my love for plain old snake oil, but it is definitely good stuff. Highly recommended!

[topaz]

I loved this one from the start. I now have 2 bottles aged for over a year. Thick, rich, sweet dark chocolate (even stains my skin but I so don't care) with precious snake oil trailing behind. This one only gets pulled out for special occasions 'cause I'm not wasting it on just anybody! Hoarding this one.

[lahdeedah]

Ah, Boomslang. My first CD, ordered unsniffed. I've started to get a slight panic worrying about the next CD update and the eventual leaving of this fun carnival. So I'm concentrating my efforts on trying some out, ordering some like this one without any previous encounter.

 

So, OK, this is a pretty safe choice for me: I love Snake Oil, as I have testified in previous reviews. I have a LOT of it all of a sudden. So how could chocolate and SO be anything less than awesome? And it IS.

 

In the bottle:

I smell very serious chocolate. Dark, bittersweet, luxurious. Just the way I like it.

 

On Wet: Lots of cocoa, SO starting to slither out from underneath

 

Dry: Tame, tame snakey. Almost aquatic somehow. Rice milk must be tempering the cocoa, but it still maintains a hint of sharpness for me through the SO. It's all blending so well, it's a softer, cuddly snake. Boomslangs are small venomous snakes, but to me this feels more like a beautiful golden albino python coiling around me carefully, still warm from being out in the sun. (I happen to feel a strong pull to constrictors, so this imagery works for me.) In fact, it very much makes me think of Damballah Wedo, who seems to be trying to get my attention lately, so this is very fitting.

 

All in all, as people have said, if you like SO, this is a great one to try. I haven't had much luck with choco scents up to this point, but I'm pretty sure this one's a keeper.

 

 

 

[Deiicide]

I smell the snake oil, it's a note that I'm becoming familiar with in my bottle of Green Tea Viper. It's almost a slithery Candy Butcher to my nose, but not quite. The spices from the actual snake oil come out as the Teak grounds it all (Woods playing nice on my skin. I couldn't see it to believe it) . The rice milk grounds it adding a candy like quality to the skin and very huffable. It tempers down, and I know I'm in love. Bottle in the future, most definitely.

 

 

[mari4212]

They aren't kidding when they say this oil is thick and very dark. I rolled it rather thoroughly trying to get everything blended well.

 

I was all set to try this out, and then I spilled an imp's worth of the bottle down my skirt because I was careless when I was trying to put it on. And apparently, I had rolled it enough, because what poured out was evenly colored throughout.

 

After a bit of work patting the oil off of my skirt and putting it in the wash, I finally let myself actually concentrate on the scent.

 

People are right when they compare it to well-aged snake oil. I don't get the harshness and the tang that make fresh snake oil unwearable for me. It slips straight into the warm, spiced vanilla goodness that is snake oil after a year or so's worth of sitting. And then there's the chocolate undertone. On me, the chocolate is definitely an undertone, not the main attraction. It sits under the snake oil, warming and sweetening it somewhat, and helping everything set together nicely.

[wvgemini]

I kept reading very, very good things about this little snake so I decided to order me some. Who boy am I glad I did!

 

In the bottle: Cocoa! Wow this smells decadent!

 

Wet: Good lord this is dark. And rich. Cocoa layered thickly over Snake Oil’s sweet spiciness. This is good. Very good.

 

Dry: This smells like chocolate covered sex. Spicy, sweet, rich and decadent. Oddly enough, I am not a big fan of eating chocolate but I can definitely handle smelling like it!

 

[Ashmedai]

Okay, this blows me away, especially since cocoa normally turns to donkey pee on me. This seems to be a similar cocoa as in Velvet, or in Gelt, the only ones I've been able to handle so far. It's a heavy, almost black, rich and syrupy oil. It goes on as a deep, semi-dark chocolate sparkling with crystals of vanilla sugar. The patchouli and incensy components slowly weave their way through, along with creamy rice milk, twisting the rich cocoa from foody to the most blatantly in-your-face sexy thing I've ever smelled. It slithers, oozes and drips over a teakwood base that gives it a touch of the impossibly expensive, like the One you want and can't have because you can't afford him. You can watch, though, look but not touch, but it's enough, because anything more would be too much, and already anything else pales in comparison. This is edacious, self-indulgent and voluptuous chocoholic sex in a bottle, srsly - who needs Godiva?

[CitizenBree]

Like others, it's chocolate and snake oil. Unfortunately, I think the chocolate takes away from the snake oil. It kinda morphs the snake oil into something I don't really like.

 

For some reason, I get something minty in this.

 

Still no snake pits working for me. Not sure why since I love Snake Oil. I think it just does better on its own.

 

[lavender84]

This is sexy yum in a bottle.

 

Starting off with whiffs of chocolate mixed with snake oil and the chocolate is rather dominant at first, then fading eventually into more creamy vanilla.

 

The chocolate tames the snake's spicy wrath and that suits me real well.

 

I can't wait to try it aged. <img src="http://www.bpal.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/aroused.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="aroused.gif" />