surf-tormented

Wow, manly. MANLY. MANLY. MANLY. A oil for a men's man. A pirate. Shiver me timbers, matey. Where's me parrot? It smells great but as a woman, I could never pull this off. The ocean breeze, the spice, the rum, the leather. I would love to put this on Boy. He'd probably go wash it off though.

This smells like powdered candy on me. But not a strong grape or fruit, but that powdered root beer kind of sugar candy. Like root beer flavored Bottlecaps . I really enjoy those! Root beer candy and some kind of resin. With something medicinal. Maybe some kind of spice or copal? I get the idea of ritual, alcohol that smells a bit like root beer flavored rum, incense and spice offerings. Maybe even a little blood? Then hay...Obeah, is curious, it is morphing into hay like scents now. Hay, blood, sweet alcohol and medicinal herbage. A good night out. NOTE: I got zero patchouli, ylang ylang and orange out of this. I swear it is made out of other notes than those.

Is it myrrh that turns into hairspray on my wrist? I hope not. I ordered a bottle of Anubis, so I hope that isn't the case. It does smell good once the hairspray smell blends into floral, but it is really light. I can barely smell it now and it is turning to powder rather quickly on me. I could smell ylang ylang and rose. I may try this on my clothes and see if the Phantom stays longer. I have tons of Ylang Ylang Myrrh by B&BW in my closet right now and this is close enough that I don't think I need the imp.

Attic. This oil smells like attic to me...old books, steamer trunks and secrets. Real old decaying books, trunks and moldy secrets. My grandmother's attic where my mother grew up. Uncanny.

I have a statue of Bacchus on my altar and couldn't wait to make a perfume spray out of it. I love this imp. It is going to be blended with Iambe, Horn of Plenty and Blue Moon for ritual use and all of these oils go together wonderfully. I love the mix of grape and musky civet. I really enjoy civet. I know a lot of people don't. But this one would be a bottle order if it wasn't gone now. Sigh. Whimper. At least I got an imp!

I like this one. It is very herbal, forest like herbal. Refreshing. It smells like the color green. It isn't overpowering, just clean and beautiful, like a forest after a rain or a walk through an herbal garden in full bloom. But I would like this oil to be smelled by others since it is not available yet. I feel like these imps need to roam free and get feedback on them. I hate to see this one go, but perhaps it will be a bottle purchase in the future!

Yeah, people have said it before...shiny black. Sunny black, I suppose. The imp was just bursting with flavor and exploded across my bookcase when opened. Exploding with shiny black scent. I don't really like the beginning flashes of bergamot/citrus or the "Rain" type smell, I have smelled in many another oil. By the time the dark incense shows up, I am not very interested. These Diabolus oils, like Lilith and this one, end up almost sunny and joyful on me, not what I am expecting at all. Be darker, dammit. The citrus is now hanging over the resin enough for me not to like it. I think I need citrus or I need resin, not the two together. It confuses me nose. Still, I may keep the imp, just for kicks. I'll try it again in the future after I have just bathed and see if it has the same effect.

Reminds me of soap. Actually, it reminds me of a certain product, maybe Sea Breeze ? Irish Spring ? Eucalyptus Spearmint Aromatherpy stuff from B&BW? I don't think it is any of those, but I have smelled this scent before. It's a bit too medicially sweet for me. Once I find the actual product this reminds me of, I'll let those out in BPALand know. Right now, it is escaping me! I got it. Orange Ginger from B&BW! I just bought a body wash today from them and this smells a lot like it. Dead on really. Wait, it isn't that exactly...maybe that amber perfume that is solid and put into lockets...wow, this is going to plague me for awhile. I can see this as a bath wash. As an oil, I am pretty indifferent to it and wouldn't want to smell like sweet orange and honey all day.

Unseelie drifts on my skin from an almost rubbery Band-Aid smell to a nice almost Avon type perfume. Something I would expect to find in a bottle shaped like a butterfly. Brings up memories of childhood and happiness in me. It really isn't anything I could do without. The notes aren't really seperate from each other, so I can't pick out any one that I would say is a standout. It's warm and soft. Smells like honey and powder on me. I can't smell any grasses or strong floral. Just warm honey and powdery petals.

Wow, I put this is a lot to sell on Ebay because the idea of saying I am wearing Dragon's Bone brings up a childlike Beavis and Butthead "heh, heh, heh Dragon's Bone...she said bone...heh heh heh" reaction into my head. But I tried a drop of it on the wrists and then about an hour later in my car, I smelled something really good. I used to have a really good Dragon's Blood oil by Nuit Unlimited and never was able to find another bottle of it. This smelled a lot like it, but a bit deeper and woody. Needless to say I am in love. I suppose you can't judge an oil by its name alone. I think I may get a bottle of this or Dragon's Tears. Now that I am excitied by the thought of getting a dragon's blood based oil in my next order, I would like to try them all and see what the differences are. It smells like true dragon's blood resin on the floor of a boney tomb. Right up my alley. Fab!

Soft. This Ophelia is thin and wasting away. Drowning over her lost love. Which is odd to me, because if Ophelia was a Dane or of German decent, wouldn't she be more buxom and meaty? Oh, nevermind me. I always saw Ophelia as blonde, blue eyed and curvy. But this is more the Ophelia of Reviving Ophelia, the whole system of the world poisoning girls, driving them to eating disorders, madness and maybe suicide. The floral brings this out...a sad, fading floral...trying to become powerful, but falling into the river, lazy and depressed..."there's rosemary...that's for remembrance..." Soft, dying Ophelia. Wanting more than she got. Standing at the wall when she wanted to be in the limelight. Drifting, drifting, lapping under sweet water. I imagine people with anorexia wearing this or maybe The Fasting Girl, Mollie Fancher, wearing this. A girl who was trying to waste herself or live on air. It isn't a pretty vision, but the perfume oil is just that...the smell of the image of a girl wasting away.

Smells like the lesbian antics of two older women. Maybe like The Hunger. But seriously, there is something "old lady" about this oil. When I think of Les Fleurs du Mal, I think of the Baudelaire poem, "Women Damned - Delphine and Hippolyta". An older sexually experienced dark haired girl with a young naive blonde haired girl. That is always the vision in my head. Like Carmilla. The Victorian metaphors for virture and vice, oh, and vice wins. Imagine that. "May I in your deep bosom be annulled, Find on your breast a cool necropolis!" Which is neither here nor there because that poem wasn't in Les Fleurs Du Mal anyway, but I see those girls as The Flowers of Evil. Not being real flowers. Even so, I would think Black Rose would be the scent of these sinning creatures, not rose, lilac and wisteria. I would think the scent of dying roses, dark spices and dark stony places, like on the steps of a tomb. Ok, maybe that is a personal memory...but I need the stony crypt smell there, dammit. Maybe even the salt of skin after it has become hot with unnatural passions. Oh, I love the Victorian mindset...everything was oh so naughty! I am not too keen on floral like this, I tried Lucy's Kiss and this one at about the same time and the spicy tones in Lucy's Kiss were much better for me. I hate to say those four words but AIRS' Hearts of Rose. This reminds me a lot of that, but LFDM has lilac going for it. I enjoy lilac, but I can layer AIRS' Hearts of Rose over Angel Dreams (their lilac oil) and get about the same thing. I have to stay away from the rose oils. After while, they all smell the same to me. I was hoping for a lot more va-voom-voom from this oil. Those who like rose oils, will love this. Those who dislike rose, stay away.

When this first hits my nose, it smells very icky. Like burning rubber. No joke. Something also hurts my lip when I smell it. I can now smell something heavy and floral, but have no idea what it is. Oh no, honey...please not honey...not honey...noooooooooooooooooooooo... I think the honey is taking over here. The perfume is very sweet. I can smell a tiny bit of floral, but the sandalwood isn't to be found. It's just sweet. Like if you poured honey on yourself and then rolled through rose and orange blossom petals. It is better than the first two times I tried it. Both times the burning rubber smell wouldn't go away and I didn't know what was making it smell like that. I would say this is for someone who wants a sweet honey type of scent with a little floral thrown in. I still can't smell the sandalwood, there must not be much sandalwood in it. It would be for someone who would want to wear something that smells like B&BW's Warm Vanilla Sugar with honey thrown in.

Mmmm...menthol. Wait, maybe not menthol...maybe lemon or bergamot. Wow, it really smelled just like that stuff my mother used to put under my nose when it was blocked. Can't remember the name of it. This is very cheery for a perfume oil called Storm. I was hoping for a more dark ozony laden oil. This reminds me a lot of Embalming Fluid minus the tea. Very perky. I am a bit neutral to it. It reminds me of other oils I tried and now, minutes later, it smells like lemon on me and that is it. Hopefully, when it calms I will get more of a "storm" effect. It needs more dirt, more ozone, more rain, more lightning in a bottle.

The Caterpillar on me smells like jamine and patchouli. The vision in my head is of unwashed hippie girls dipping themselves in floral oil and then hanging out at the local head shop. Somehow, that seems fitting. The scent is good, a very nice blend of florals, resins and fruit. It is really weak on me and I have to bury my nose in my wrist just to get a good sniff of it. But what I smell, I like. I would rather not have to get so close to smell it. Ooh, the vetiver has come out to play. That makes it better and downplays the jasmine. I can see this getting richer as it wears, as long as it doesn't disappear quick, which it might. This smells strangely familiar to oils I have been wearing in the last 10 years of my life, so I will pass on this one.

Ooh, this is bright! Like fruitpunch with a kick in the bottle, Fae is a wonderful floral/fruit scent on the skin. It lifted my mood just to smell it! That's hard to do when I am grumpy. Unfortunately for me, I have about three bottles of BPAL oils that are musk based, so I am trying to stay away from buying new bottles with musk or rose in them. Yet, this is lucious. I may have to change my tune. The fruit is the loudest note on me, I smell a lot of peach, which I like, followed by a blanket of flowers and a bed of mosses. I am impressed. I would highly recommend this oil! Maybe for someone who likes florals and fruit based oils with a difference.

Reminds me a little of Bath and Body Work's Ylang Ylang Myrrh, a nice blend of resins like patchouli and myrrh with the floral of ylang ylang and rose. I'm not going to get too attached to it, since I have a ton of Ylang Ylang Myrrh stuff from their semi-annual sale and that too is a very limited scent. This kinda combo seems unpopular with the masses, but I love it. Glaya is great, again, something I would buy if I didn't have a closetful of Ylang Ylang Myrrh and it wasn't discontinued.

The name of this oil reminds me of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Anya, the ex-demon who is stood up at the altar in the episode called "Hell's Bells". Anya is the true Hell's Belle, she is funny, sultry, vengeful! This is also a great tribute to the South, the playful yet dangerous kitten in the form of Jezebel (the Bettie Davis movie) or Scarlett O' Hara. It reminds me of a flirt who is strong enough to be taken seriously. I love the floral in this, but there is something creamy in it that reminds me of coconut, which puts up my warning flag. I like the fact that it is spicy and it is hard to find a sensual yet sassy exotic floral. It reminds me a bit of Sacred Whore of Babylon and Night Elf's Morbid Mistress oil. Having those and not a strong love of florals, I will trade my imp to someone who can treat it better than me.

Smells like the desert. Dried strong yellow grasses heated by the sun. Dust and succulents. The darkness of the mountain's shadow. It is a scent of the great outdoors in a place beyond where the eye can see. This would make a wonderful scent for a man. Wild and free as the clouds in a storming Southwest sky. Fantastic. The scent of camping in the desert in a bottle. Wow. That said, it isn't for me. It's too male. It needs to be worn by a very muscular warrior. I think it might be the vetiver, pepper and woods that makes it so. I kept imagining a warrior raging down the mountains with an arrow or a spear. It is close enough to AIRS African Wind, which is high on the vetiver, but seems not too butch on me.

I have a love/hate relationship with Herr Cinnamon. I love it, it beats my skin into a rashy oblivion. It gets into my nose and burns. It makes me weepy with its sadistic glee. So coupled with pepper and clove, it proves "Love Hurts." "Bye-Bye, Mein Lieber Herr. Farewell, mein Lieber Herr. It was a fine affair, But now it's over. And though I used to care, I need the open air. You're better off without me, Mein Herr." Someone get me some open air. This one is making me run away. It reminds me, in a way, of Abramelin oil. You Thelema kids out there will know what I am talking about. So this is going on a lot I have on Ebay, it will hopefully do better on someone else than me. I love cinnamon, but think I must reserve it to foods and teas, no putting on the skin or in the eyes. No matter how much I want to. My nose is actually running. Yikes. This is incredible stuff. Just give me a vat of carrier oil so it doesn't burn me. I know that most people with less sensitivity will LOVE this. I can't get within 20 miles of a bottle WITHOUT breaking out. Unfair! Unfair! I do think the Three Witches would smell more like Blue Moon than this. Think rue, fennel, mugwort, mandrake and belladonna. Herbs in a big witches' cauldron at the coldest, darkest part of night, with fog, mist and ghosts all around. This is more like they took a break to eat some pie. More like this: "...Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble... " Ok, so butter scents are bad. Coconut bad. Vanilla bad, now cinnamon bad. Can I wear anything?

Wow! Very berry! Very plummy! Almost too much sweetness at first, but Bewitched settles into a very nice spicy fruity blend on me. If I would have come upon this one before I fell in love with fruit scents like The Red Queen, The Lampades, The Hesperides and Puck, it might be in my Top Ten. I am all fruited out though and this fades fast on me too quickly to be a Top Tener. Plus, I tend to be attracted to both tea and musk based oils and I am trying to get into new scents, not rehashing. But, I would highly recommend it because it's a very nice blend of fruit, spice and herbal scents. A scent for everyday. Smells like the woods at the witching hour!

I have a problem with nutty and cinnamon scents. This one smells like baked goods in the vial, but I thought I would try it out anyway. I normally don't like baked good smell. Decadence is another one of those Jack-like perfumes that gives me a headache. It gets really sweet and nutty on me. After a while, I thought it would mellow out, but it started to get stronger, more nutty, more cinnamon, more sugar. Yipes. Then a tidal wave of buttery yet unknown scent. At its best on my skin it smelled like a weak Snake Oil without the spices, with cinnamon mixed in. It faded fast, leaving a honey-ish glow behind. That was ok by me. I never have had to wash a BPAL oil off and I didn't want this to be my first. Note to self: Need to know if that "buttery" scent is a nut oil, coconut or vanilla. I have a feeling some of my bad reactions to these oils comes from fig or nutty based oils. Cinnamon burns my nose and if I apply it to my skin, I brake out sometimes. So off to trade this goes. Overall, I am pretty apathetic to this scent. Not my thing. Too sweet. Too buttery. A lot of the notes I can't stand. Smells like a very buttery spicy fruitcake on me.

This oil smells fresh and herby. Almost cucumbery. It smells a lot like Auric Blends Cucumber oil, which I like. I don't know if it works around people since the only person around me is my boyfriend and he is a hard sell. I will report if anything more happens with the voodoo effects of this one. Maybe Follow Me Boy would be better for my trickster imp.

This is the first BPAL oil that turned creepy on me. It surely lives up to its name. When I first put it on, it smelled of dirt and bubblegum, like gum thrown on the ground and stepped on. It was a forboding type of scent. Forbidden, the lost of innocence. Then, it turned into a sweaty, masculine odor. Perhaps an older man with an animalistic scent, sweating after doing a vile misdeed. This is the part that creeped me out. The deep dark stink of corruption or deflowering. Yipes. In this state it got strong, almost overpowering. When I couldn't take anymore, it jumped back into a perfume not unlike Snake Oil without the spices. Strong, sugary, vanilla yet masculine. It has lost all its bubblegum charms. The problem is that what I liked about Snake Oil was the spices, so the last notes do nothing for me...and the 1st and 2nd wave of notes creep me out into someone's underage fantasy. Yup, the oil lives up to its name. I need to trade this because it puts this whole defiling of young schoolgirls into my head and I don't want it to be there. Icky. NOTE: The coconut is getting way too strong now. I really don't like coconut. This really isn't for me. Smelling like tanning butter and honey...now it is creeping me out but in a totally non-perv way! It smells like the beach! This is truly Perversion!

I would put it a vote for Scarecrow. There was another one I tried that smelled grassy, but let me think about that because the name of it is escaping me.