Ondine

This is great on me because it's basically Mme Moriarity lite (as others upthread have described it). Whereas Mme is usually not appropriate for my work because it's heavy, this would be perfect! I'm super happy to have a lighter, sweeter version of one of my favorite BPALs that I can wear in places where heavier musks are too much.

So I was very confused when I skin tested this and it turned into HOPE plus HEARTH 2004.

I guess if you like roses and cherries, this is the blend for you!

In the vial it smells like a can of creamed corn, but on my skin it's pure cinnamon. Weird!

Boo smells exactly like Velvet Unicorn on me. Exact.

Wow. This baby's got throw. Unfortunately, as much as I like rose, this is like crazy-amped-up rose plus "white florals" and it is rapidly becoming nauseatingly sweet and cloying on me.

Weirdly, it smells like roasted chili peppers on me

Sadly, White Rabbit amped the milk note of doom from Milk Moon 07 and The Phantom Cow. It sounded beautiful but smelled like sour milk on me more than anything else.

Hmm. Cherry Kool-aid, then gone after 5 minutes. I had high hopes of this being like Hearth 2004 but no go.

Thanks! That gets me close, but because I no longer have the order date (it was for Snake Charmer Res.) I'd have to guess. Maybe I'll try this weekend.

I'm not quite sure this is the right place for this, but it seemed most like what I'm after.

Is there any way to log in to CC Now and see my old orders? I didn't write them down when I made them, and now I'm wondering if I ordered one fewer bottle than I thought of something or if I have lost a bottle.

Thanks!

XLVI

Previously reviewed by onetheycallLuna

Penitence with a sour, bitter edge. It almost smells like a cleaning fluid or something to me. Fairly unpleasant to my nose.

CCCLXX

Previously reviewed by anartfuldodger

Dorian and some form of mentholated chest rub ... Vicks or Ben Gay or something. Really not very Dorian-y anymore.

I don't find anything really bad about this scent, but it's nothing really amazing on me, either. It's a sort of generic vanilla candle scent on me and it fades fairly quickly.

Hello thurr, Hearth 2004! If anyone was looking for you and couldn't find you easily, I would direct them to Hideous Hearth Heart.

EDIT: It's interesting that I went back to my decant, which was all cherry last time (ala Hearth 2004) and when I put it on this time, the cherry burned off super-quick, leaving cinnamon. I don't know if my decant has changed over time or if the cinnamon was always there, but it's a lot less like Hearth 2004 now.

I can't believe I haven't already posted a review for this scent. Hhm. Anyway, to me it smells exactly like LUSH's Potion scent. Carnation and spices. It's pretty, but since I have Potion already I don't need to grab a bottle of this.

I really like the effect of this oil. I use it and definitely feel more confident and talkative.

However, something in it seemed to give me a rash where applied today. I saw mentions of mint above and mint is not problematic on me. Does this possibly have cassia or cinnamon in it? That's the one component that does make me react regularly.

I have bottles of both the 2006 and 2007 versions and a decant of 2008. To me, 2006 is heaviest on the fruit, especially apple. It's the warm apple of Fearful Pleasure rather than the chilly apple of Snow, Glass, Apples. 2007 is much spicier. The apple and fruit hardly show up and instead it's cinnamon, nutmeg, patchouli. 2008 balances both 2006 and 2007 and presents a version with apple and spice.

I love them all

This seems to have a heavy cedar or cedar-like note on me--maybe that's the ebony?--coupled with some thick incense. Not bad, but not really my thing either. A very thick oil, too--it makes my wrist somewhat tacky/sticky.

Oh SAD This smelled beautiful in the imp, all red musk-y and patchouli-y and dark and deep. Just beautiful. Then I put it on and was rewarded with that red musk and thought, "Yes, this is good."

But then the leather came out with a vengeance and threatened to take over everything else. It pushed its way to the forefront, saying "OH HAI I AM LEATHURRRRR AND I AM HERE TO STAY." And it was the kind of leather that is in Quincey Morris and Brom Bones, the kind that reminds me of a hot leather jacket on an Arizona summer afternoon, and makes me want to heave.

Man! This could have been awesome on me had leather not decided to dominate.

This smells like cola syrup on me. Sexy! (No, really!)

When I was young, I used to stay over at my aunt's house sometimes while my parents worked. My aunt had traveled the world and had all sorts of interesting treasures at her house. She had a little perfume coffret and I can't recall what scents were in it at all, but one of them reminds me incredibly of The Wild Men of Jezirat al Tennyn. As soon as I put it on, it was an immediate olfactory memory of sitting in my aunt's house and smelling her perfumes.

Sadly, this scent fades fairly rapidly on me, but I do really enjoy it while it's fresh and potent.

Wow, this is *completely* different than the prototype I sniffed and didn't like (I smelled a lot more vetiver in that one). And I can tell you exactly what this smells like on me: LUSH's Icon fragrance. Which I love, and I'm kind of surprised I'm getting out of this, but it's exact.

The components of LUSH Icon are myrrh resinoid, orange blossom absolute, bergamot oil, sandalwood oil, mandarin oil, and a bunch of things I'm not familiar with (Citral, Geraniol, Benzyl Benzoate, Farnesol, Limonene).

I feel like I'm really picking up on potential myrrh and bergamot in Sunbird with the bits of citrus others are picking up on, too. This is a beautiful blend, glad I got it and (obvs.) it will be awesome to layer under my Icon fragrance

This is another one of the really unique scents BPAL has put out. Unlike many of the other Box of Chocolates, which were either really sweet and syrupy or just odd on me (blue cheese?), Dark Chocolate and Pepper-Smoked Caramel is like a chocolate bar I once had that had curry in it, curry and coconut. Now I'm not getting any coconut in this, but the overall effect is much like that candy bar: chocolate with curry spices. It sounds gross but it really works beautifully on!

I really didn't get the white chocolate note in here like I did in some of the other Box of Chocolates scents. Instead, this one is pretty much Faith on me: sugary violets. Pretty, but on me the similarity to Faith is strong enough that I can just keep that bottle instead.

I get the cedar most of all in this blend. It was one of those that I didn't expect to like but then really fell in love with. The rose in the background tempers the cedar so I don't smell like a closet. It's one of the more unique BPAL blends I've smelled, to be honest.