Diana

I really like Blood Rose. But it's rose + juicy freshness. Two Five and Seven is similar, but more rosey than Blood Rose. Persephone is good too, but has more of a juicy note as well. Zombi is a beautiful rose scent, but has a "dirt" note, which some people don't really like too much. Of course the ultimate is Rose Red, but that's tricky to get a hold of right now.

some suggestions: Blood Amber - really rich & warm Black Rose - if you like rose notes layered with your amber The Lion - I didn't like it all that much, it was a bit too "dry" smelling, but it is a good amber scent Sin - heavy & resiny & totally sexy Brisingamen - probably the most ambery BPAL scent i've tried. lovely. Verdandi - apple & black amber. yummy.

My initial notes on this oil, just smelling it from the imp consisted of "smells intimidating." hahah ...And how right I was! Putting it on, the top note is some sort of evergreen. Maybe pine, possibly cedar. Something needley. However that note fades after mere moments, and it quickly becomes pure vetiver. The dark, oily, peppery product of the devil. Yes, vetiver, my nemesis. However, in this oil, it didn't bother me. Go figure. And funnily enough, I felt really empowered and together all day (in the midst of a week of bawling my eyes out for no reason and having general depressive tendencies). I may actually order a 5mL of this for ritual use, at some point. It did make me feel like I had The Power, so thumbs up in that regard!

This is a crazy morphing, magical oil. I guess that's appropriate for the High Priestess card! I may edit this later once I get my 10mL, so I can slather without restraint! In the imp & wet on the skin it's very strongly of almonds. Spicy, sweet, quite similar to the inital rush of cinnamon from Black Phoenix or Chimera. A few moments later, the spicy note disappates, and the sweet almond smell is left behind. This reminds me a lot of almond syrup that my mom makes italian soda type drinks with. Again, after a few moments, this starts to change again, this time a bit unpleasantly. It starts to smell of burnt rubber. The almond notes are all but gone at this point. The rubbery smell has a familar base note to it, but I cannot quite place it. After a bit more time passes, the rubber smell starts to reveal a cedar note. This reminds me of the cedar closet in my parents' house. After a little more time passes, the cedar remains but with a very light and subtle and faint innuendo of cherry. (This whole morphing process probably took place in less than 45 minutes for what it's worth!) Quite an interesting blend, and I cannot wait to get my big bottle!

In the bottle, I can smell tobacco most easily. Everything else is kind of a weird mixture of scents, that oddly enough, remind me of commercial perfumes of my childhood (think Jean Naté or Love's Baby Soft). Going on, it still smells like that. Weird. Sharp, perfumey, 70's scent. And a touch of tobacco. It does start to change a bit after about an hour. The rosewood, I think, and possibly balsam are more evident. It's soft & powdery, slightly perfumey. Less tobacco. After about 4 hours though, it's quite lessened in intensity. It is still not really something typically me, something I'd wear with any regularity. But I don't dislike it. I just don't love it. I give this one a MEH.

This smells a lot like cracking open a chocolate orange. The white chocolate and the orange are the two main scents that I detect, and the white chocolate kind of changes in intensity. Some times it is more apparent, sometimes hardly detectable. The combination of it with the orange sometimes smells oddly like chewable children's aspirin... that saccharin orange smell. Not that I dislike it at all, it's just the scent I associate most with that note! Overall, I really like it, though I do wish it was stronger & longer lasting on me.

I love this. Typically any time I've tried honey scents, they turn really artificial, cloying, and plasticky smelling. This is such a glorious contrast. It starts out very strongly of honey. Real honey, like you've just squeezed one of those little plastic bears of it onto your skin. The next thing I notice is the soft, subtle eruption of thyme. It's soft but noticable. It kind of grounds the sweet note with a more earthy base. The flowers sort of just stay very subtle in the background, their sweetness intermingling and playing against the sweetness of the honey notes. The thyme stays fairly apparent all throughout the wear of this (which, I must say, is one of the longest lasting BPAL scents I've ever worn), though it's never overwhelming. This is so well balanced and wonderful!

I'd definitely echo Inferno & Chimera! All Night Long had definite cinnamon notes on me, but smelled more like cinnamon-oatmeal cookies than candy. Wrath is all around spicy. Clove + cinnamon + pepper. Dunno if that's up your alley though.

Putting this on this morning, it smelled sweet + buttery. I can definitely see it as an amalgamation of a variety of sweets and junk foods offered at a fair. There isn't one particular food I can pick out, but it's just that magical smell of funnel cakes and cotton candy and candied apples and popcorn and saltwater taffy wafting through the air on a warm night. I'm surprised this lasted as long as it did. I went to the grocery store after work and kept smelling Cream Soda. I realized it was coming from me! Nice morph! This is definitely one of my favourite LEs that has come out (and is so very close to a wanderlust suggestion I made for a Boardwalk scent). This is happy making. I'm so tempted to get a third bottle because I might accidentally drink one.

In the bottle: Sharp something. A tiny bit stingy, but not bad. Kind of ozone-ish? eh???(?) Putting it on, though, it just morphs in to More Different Snake Oil. I can't really detect amber, strangely. And I'm a huge fan of amber and I'd eat it if it weren't so crunchy. Maybe there is something wrong with me? Quite within the realm of possibilty. I'm getting a lot of spiced vanilla action. Red Musk, also, I think. Vanilla incense. To me this is a lot more earthy and swarthy and warm. On my flesh, it's warm. Coconut slowly starts to peek through after about an hour, but it is not a really strong note. I don't get any plum at all. I really like this a lot, and while it's definitely a keeper, I would pass on backup bottles, since to me it is so close to Snake Oil. My cat likes it too. >.< edit: the place where i put a heavier application smells musky. i did wipe some off onto another part of my arm. the lighter application does smell a lot more like amber. funky. EDIT: This is really Snake Charmer --Shollin EDIT: Fixed to reflect the correct oil

Utrennyaya smells to me very, very similar to Frost Moon.

CCC (300) In the bottle, it's very coconutty-fresh-fruity. Is that pineapple I detect? Putting it on wet: yes ladies, it's a Piña Colada! It stays rather coconutty through dry-down with the pineapple softening quite a bit to a background soft fruity/semi-floral note. It's not particularly long lasting (at least not with this application), not as long as say, Spooky. But that could be due to the 23098350234% humidity outside. Blech! This one is definitely a winner and a keeper. YUM. ... and of course I've got IF YOU LIKE PINA COLADAS AND GETTING CAUGHT IN THE RAIN stuck in my head. ETA: I wore this again for the first time in a while, and the scent is totally different. There is a pineapple note, which morphs into a dry, powdery lemon. Like taking a handful of powdered lemonade mix and sniffing it. The drydown is that dry, but citrusy note, and a slight leafy note ... reminding me of Samhain. I think I like this much better now! And it has me geared up for the new Chaos Theory oils.

something light. dorian, aunt caroline's joy mojo, sybaris, etc.

Black Pearl was just about all Iris on me; the coconut disappeared after 5 minutes (wah).

Skadi is piney. It does smell foresty, but in a cold winter evergreen way. Yggdrasil is woody. It also smells like clean, sweet grasses & herbs & leaves. Vinland is sort of similar to Yggdrasil. It's light and crisp. If you can get your hands on either: Hexxennacht and Samhain are kind of incensey-woodsy-smokey smelling. Noctnisa is in my pile of "to try" imps, so I can't comment on that just yet, and I haven't smelled Hamadryad yet, either. Maybe you should look into the more dirt-type scents since you said "earthy." Look for oils with moss or earth notes? They might work out for you. Along those lines, I'd give Burial a go; it's woodsy and dirt notes. Maybe also Thanatopsis. I got some piney notes from it, and woody. If you're not into the evergreen, though, it might not work out for you.

Bottle CII (102) I have to plead complete ignorance on this one. The one and only major note in this from wet application through drydown? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS. In the bottle, it smells very medicinal. Like something out of mysterious brown glass bottles in my parents' medicine cabinent out of childhood. There's a sort of Oregano-undernote in the bottle. It kind of smells like I always expected Benzoin or Gum Mastic to be, but I have no idea if that is what this is, as I've never been properly introduced. Wet application, the Oregano-like odor becomes almost citrusy. Like a really deep, bitter rind of a grapefruit. The overwhelming scent is still the mystery medicinal note. As it dries, there is almost a sweet "aftertaste" to it. I really actually like this stage, though it is short-lived. It kind of smells like Auyervedic therapy oils at this stage, slightly medicinal, tarry, tangy, undescribable. Further on in the drying process, it smells almost pine-like, but mainly just retains that wierd medicinal smell. I wish I could have someone else's nose in on this because honestly, I just really want to know what this note is. It's driving me insane. Overall, it's not bad. It's definitely different!

another vote for sybaris. just WOW. i get mostly violet with just a touch of powdery, faint incense. it's quite lovely.

I remember my first impression of Intrigue being thick Hershey's syrup... =)

This one has piqued my interest for a while, and has been on my "to try" list for some time. I finally gave in & bought a 5ml off of a forumite. =) Wet/in the bottle: it is strong pine smell. Reminds me a bit of Loup Garou minus the eucalyptus, or Skadi times 10. I can kind of pick out the astringent note of orange blossom too. Wearing: the pine softens incredibly, as does the orange blossom. It starts to smell of oranges a bit, rather than orange blossom. It starts to take on a woody scent rather than evergreen. There is a barely faint minimal trace of mint, but I have to really inhale deep & think to look for it to even get a hint of it. I'm not detecting much of the clove at all, nor the cumin. I think there is a basenote of the musk, which is quite nice. I musk! Overall, this is a lot softer than I expected. I really really like this! Then again, I'm a sucker for traditionally masculine scents.

I can detect lavender easily. I believe it is the common basenote in all the Somnium oils. There is something else there... something herbal. I really don't think it is rosemary, but perhaps a sage of some sort, maybe clary sage? It's almost slightly bitter, but not awful. As for how well this wears or if it changes, I really couldn't tell you. I fall asleep. By the time I wake up, I can't really detect it. This isn't really an oil I wear for the aroma, though, so it's a moot point. This does work for dreams. I would not say that I get especially prophetic dreams. But they are lucid, strange, interesting, and very detailed. This is awesome stuff! edited to fix my bad vocabulary.

Dead Man's Hand, hands down (no pun intended) if you can beg, barter, or borrow to get some. It smells like walking into a leather goods store. Wanda did smell like wine & leather to me. DeSade, on the other hand, smelled like bandaids. Yeah, I did the face too.

I'd consider these unisex, with traditionally masculine ingredients, but I am pretty girly and love them: Yggdrasil. Hellfire. Sin. Thanatopsis. Golden Priapus. Mad Hatter. Wilde. Hope that helps. =)

Lightning. It was very aquatic & ozone from what I remember. Maybe also look into obtaining an imp of Hurricane to try out. I have not sniffed that one personally, but it sounds like it might be up your alley.

In the bottle, I get a strong scent of violet. The slightly tangy & very sweet note that make it one of my favourite flower smells. There is an underlying note, but it is hard to pick out. After this has been on for a few hours, violet is still the predominant note. I can't really make out the clove, unfortunately. There is a slight powdery incensy note, which I can't identify as either tonka or "mediterranean incense" specifically. I will say that this scent reminds me of being in Italy a lot for some reason. Maybe it is the mediterranean incense notes, but this just smells like the air that wafts in on a breeze through my grandmother's house in Italy. This is just so pretty. I like it whole bunches.

I'd second Ides of March if you can get your hands on a bottle. Snake Oil is kind of spicey... it smells like vanilla incense. mmm Namaste is resin/spice with lemongrass. It does have rose in it, but it's very faint. Rome is fairly herby, too, from what I can remember.