Deipnophobia

[Tal Shachar]

Wine spilled across freshly pressed table linens, a wilted holiday bouquet, and a furtive hint of whiskey and baked bread.

I was so intrigued by this, and I'm not even sure why! I do love dinner parties and the smell of ironed linen. Wine usually gets too noisy on me and I don't like gourmand stuff...but I bought a bottle untested? Okay.

In the bottle, the cakey/bakey/bread note was quite strong, Eat Me-like with the berryish wine note. I wasn't going to give it the honour of First Tested, but I spilled a couple of drops so I decided to make this Deipnophobia night.

On my skin, the baked goods calm right down and I get barely a whiff of wine--that's really good, since the Lab's wine note often gets cloying on me. The linen dominates, with wisps of subtle whiskey, wine and bread. It's more of a perfumey "linen" note than a photorealistic slightly-scorched smell of ironed linen, but I'm really loving this. Are there florals? I can't pick them out, me. The bread reminds me of the yeasty sufganiyot note in Chanukkiyah (which I also got another bottle of in this order). Nom.

[barilace]

Love this. When I first put it on I get all floral and linen with a bit of whiskey but when it dries down I get a really strong bread note.

Edited December 31, 2014 by barilace

[Haltija]

In the decant all I got was wine and nothing else and I wasn't put off by that seeing as I love Beth's wine blends.

 

The moment it touched skin though WHOA LINDEN EVERYWHERE and I don't dislike it but it just enveloped my senses and I was so tempted to wash this off because it was really overpowering but I minded my manners and let it completely blossom on the skin and dry. So glad I did because dry it's so good. Foody but not obnoxious and a little, clean. The linden keeps this from smelling dark or heavy. The bread note comes forth once it's fully dry and it resembles the one in Bread-and-Butterfly. Truthfully when I smell this I think to myself "If Boober and Bread-and-Butterfly had a baby this would be it". A decant is enough for me but it's still a winner in my book. (:

Edited January 1, 2015 by Haltija

[tharsei-thanate]

Oh wow, I really like this! It's heavier on the linen than I anticipated, but I'm not complaining. The florals aren't particularly strong and they're mixed in well with the linens, it's more like a floral detergent was used on them rather than a bouquet is sitting on top of them. The wine adds a tart, red touch that works surprisingly well. In the dry stage the bread and whisky notes emerge. The bread and the wine pair up (kind of like the wine spilled over the bread and the bread absorbed it) and together they work super well. Occasionally bakery notes and wine notes go weird on me after a while (the former plastic, the latter sour) but throw 'em together and they're well-behaved, haha. The whisky is faint, it just adds a tiny little extra bit of boozy oomph overall.

 

This is pretty unique, I'm glad I have a decant! I think I may even need a bottle.

[Aviatrix]

The linen is not super strong on me, which is good, because I'm not much of a linen type of gal. The red wine is the strongest in the bottle and wet on the skin, but it fades rather quickly. What is left is a very sweet, slightly floral, but not too much so, scent that has a faint bit of booziness to it, too. The bread behaves nicely as well.

 

To my nose it is actually fairly close to this year's Mari Lwyd, which is also a slightly floral cakey/foody blend. I don't know which of these I like best.

 

Deipnophobia is definitely a sweet little adventure in scent, and if you're curious about any of the notes at all, I'd give this a try; it won't disappoint!

[Gwydion]

In bottle: Wine. So much wine. Wine nearly overwhelming the other elements. Of the other elements, the bouquet is most noticeable, with the bread blending well with the wine. The whiskey is a ghost.

[zankoku_zen]

Berry wine, whiskey, stale bread and stale flowers. If Christmas Pudding smelled like festive sangria to me, Deipnophobia smells like Christmas Pudding should smell like, a week later after its been left out. Good throw, good wear length.

 

Stale wine, whiskey, flowers.

[agirlnamedfury]

The description of this was too intriguing for me to pass up.

 

This is another in a long line of BPALs that I find "interesting" but not super wearable... for me at least. On me this is mostly linen unidentifiable florals -- it's surprising how accurate the "wilted" part of that is, as there is a bit of a flatness to them, something past their prime. I got a touch of yeastiness in the wet stage which faded nearly instantly, but then it came back in the drydown.

 

I thought there would be a more noticeable booze note in this, as both wine and whiskey are listed, but I can't detect either of them.

 

I preferred this one in the dry stage, once the florals had dissipated and the bread note became dominant.

[milo]

Clean floral. This is quintesential bpal. If I smelled this on someone out in public, I'd think "that person is wearing bpal". :-) A kind of sourish floral, rose I think and a bright linen. This isn't a scent that appeals to me. Fans of rose may like this...

[Little Bird]

Soapy, sweet floral and tart, sour red wine. I was excited for whiskey and bread, but neither of them show up to the party.

[freyasfae]

The BPAL wine note doesn't often work on me - it ends up smelling more ripe red and purple fruits and nothing else, but I got this one because the phobia appealed to me so much. Unfortunately, the wine note does the same thing here and while I get a bit of bread and whiskey, the linen and flowers are not showing up at all for me. It's mostly red fruits - I guess I really amp these fruits, I often can't wear a lot of scents with them because they overwhelm me.

[gloame]

So weirdly purple. Grape, but not gross candy grape. It's like grape preserves; sugary sweet to cover up the fermentation. There's a bit of dry spice rounding it out. The bread is way underneath, sopping up the spilled wine. Not getting too much linen but maybe I don't know what to look for. This is interesting and unique, but not something I'd probably use much.

 

Where I'd wear it: Holiday wine and Netflix party