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In the Imp: Floral patchouli. Makes me flash back 40 (plus) years to my teens. Wet: The fruity notes come to the forefront to round it out and give it less of a head shop scent (though I actually LOVE head shop scents and not so much fruity ones). It's quite beautiful and almost, oddly, outdoorsy, like being in a lush dark wooded area (probably with my fellow head shop fans). But it's not "fruity" per se. Dry: On drydown this goes back to head shop ... it almost completely disappears on my wrist but lasts longer in the crook of my arm. It's really huffworthy for the first hour or so. Result: I love love love the scent but after the early drydown it doesn't love me quite as much ... blaming my body chemistry for that ... I would love is as a candle or incense.

In The Imp: Fresh, sharp citrus yet somehow mellow and creamy at the same time. Sweet and slightly metallic. Without having seen the list, I would have been able to identify exactly ZERO notes on sniffing it out of the imp. Wet: Boozy creamsicle! Fresh and minty. Smells the same on my wrist as in the crook of my arm, and very similar to the scent in the imp. Drydown: Still slightly minty (I think that's the star anise I'm reading as mint instead of licorice) but the orange has almost completely dissipated. Very very clean but not quite soapy. Result: This is a gender-neutral scent that I think would work better FOR ME as a bath/body product than as a perfume. It's not something I see myself reaching for in my "box o' imps" so it will instead go into my "boxapalooza" that I'll be putting out there once I finish sniffing ALL of the decants I've bought (through Weenies) but if by chance the Trading Post were to make this in a bath oil I suspect I might buy a bottle!

SINGLE NOTE: PASSION FLOWER An elegant botanical sigil representing the crucifixion of Christ, this plant is said to grant blessings of peace and love (philía and storge) to a home, especially when grown around the door, gate, or fence. While I have tended to straddle the fence on buying floral single notes, I've found that the ones I waffled about and didn't get, I really regretted ... and Passion Flower is a scent that, to me, has been a rarity. Coupled with the mystery of whether this is the last offering in the SN series, I had to bite the credit card bullet. IN THE IMP: Very light (reflected by the color, nearly clear) and hard to pin down. Slightly floral, but not the lush tropical floral I would have expected from this. And very slightly fruity. Also surprisingly fresh. I admit it was hard to find a spot to apply this but I didn't have the patience to wait ... I was already test-driving two other scents, one on each arm, so I dabbed this on one upper arm and the opposite mid-arm. WET: Once it hits the skin, the fresh floral definitely rises to the surface. It's still very light and very clean. It's somehow a cross between floral and fruity to me. I wouldn't call it "green," but it's light and springlike. It's also got the sexy happening but in a subtle way. DRYDOWN: The drydown is sweet, subtle and very lovely. I am looking forward to trying this again when I can test it without any other competing notes elsewhere on my skin, but my basic read on it is that while it is not what I had "expected" from passion flower (having tried the old Lili Bermuda passion flower note way back when), it's a floral that is not "in your face" at all. OVERALL: I think this is the kind of note that could play well with others ... other florals, greens, spices. I'm not sure it's something I would wear alone (a la Wisteria, Ylang Ylang, Lavender, etc,) but I hope the Lab will use it as a component in other blends more often. I'm holding out on a score until I get a chance to give it my full attention without distractions. It's definitely a keeper, though. And I am so thankful to the Lab for releasing it.

Hard to do two but here you go ... Scherezade for shmexy exotic amazing (Indonesian spice, saffron and musk) Shub Niggurath for the most hot AND warm ginger spice! It doesn't smell like gingerbread or baked goods ... just hot-baby-hot ginger, yet somehow manages to be comforting and delicious at the same time. A third JUST IN CASE you do not like ginger (some people are very sensitive to it) ... Anne Bonny which is not unlike, to me, Scherezade in its shmexy (patchouli and frankincense)

Then copious poisons from the moon distils Mixed with all monstrous things which Nature’s pangs Bring to untimely birth; the froth from dogs Stricken with madness foaming at the stream; A lynx’s entrails and the knot that grows Upon the fell hyaena; flesh of stags Fed upon serpents and the sucking fish Which holds the vessel back though eastern winds Make bend the canvas; dragon’s eyes; and stones That sound beneath the brooding eagle’s wings. Nor Araby’s viper, nor the ocean snake Who in the Red Sea waters guards the shell, Are wanting; nor the slough on Libyan sands By horned reptile cast nor ashes fail Snatched from an altar where the Phoenix died Copious poisons from the moon distils: frankincense, mugwort, toxic moonseed, lemon balm, pale yellow musk seed, and elemi. First ... oh, the pressure! I honestly had no idea what to expect here ... Anything with frankincense gets a head start and ditto for musk, but the other notes were either unfamiliar or of possible concern. IMP: Getting zero frankincense or musk here ... totally acidic, citrus, even a little bit sour (maybe tart would be a better word, because it's not BAD sour, just not sweet). Maybe the lemon? Maybe the mugwort? WET: LIME LOLLIPOPS! Putting that in all caps because as soon as I applied this the image just jumped right into my mind ... the kind of my childhood that they'd scotch-tape onto birthday presents at our local toy store, with the clear ruffle cellophane wrappers. DRY: The drydown on this is very quick and leaves barely a trace of the scent on me. At the end, it's only the faintest bit of citrus. OVERALL: While it's not a keeper for me, it was actually a really fun "experience" to have such a blast from the past scent memory from childhood.

I bought this as a last-minute impulse buy to go with the Black Light 420 scent and am IN LOVE. Anise is absolutely amping up a storm on my wrist (not as much in the crook of my arm) but in a really good way ... kind of mellow and incense-y and golden spicy. Pretty much EVERY note in this is working for me and working TOGETHER without anything other than the anise on my wrist jumping out to make itself known. And, happily, the vanilla is NOT playing badly with the others (which vanilla often does on me) but may help in some of the mellowing effect. I can't stop taking whiffs of my wrist and arm. If you are a lover of BPAL's incense-y spicy "can't really put your finger on what it is" scents, this is for you! I know it's for me.

I was massively looking forward to this one ... "head shop smell" is one of my very favorite scents and the description above just hearkens me back to my awesome teenage years growing up in New York City (though, that said, some of my favorite stores are elsewhere ... I think Loose Lucy still exists somewhere in the Delmarva beach area, and I remember a place I think was called something like Octopus Sunshine, also a hippie beach town area ... plus my beloved and long-gone Faces of Earth in downtown Amherst where I decorated my dorm room all four years of college ... but I digress). Upon first application I was "oh God please don't make me wash this off" because to be honest the first note i got was ... well, sweat. And not hard-working person sweat but kinda ... well ... salty body odor. I was about to go out and hesitated because I was afraid people would stare at me and not in a nice way. So I did a few little errands, emptied some wastebaskets, and waited to see how it would dry down. Now, about 15-20 minutes later, it is quite lovely ... ALL the nasty in-your-face (and armpits) sweaty smell has disappeared and the scent is more faint and definitely headshoppy. (Okay, it's a little "sweatier" in the crook of my arm than on my wrist but that tends to be the issue with a lot of scents for me, so I will simply make this an apply-it-where-you-don't-create-body-moisture scent (goodbye, crook of arm and cleavage, hello wrist and neck). I DO get headshop. I don't get as much weed. I am wondering if maybe the sweat smell is what weed actually smells like these days (I am pushing 60 and I know there's a lot of skunk weed out there, whereas I'm old-school weed smoker from back in the day when we had different varieties I think). I like this and will keep it and I'll just be very conscious about when and where I wear it.

Soothe your cares with a blend of dull, dolorous, soporific lavender, weighed down with opoponax and thick labdanum, spiked by an unpredictable, unsettling slash of black pepper. Proceeds from the sale of this scent benefits the Southern Poverty Law Center. There was no way I couldn't get a blend that not only is brilliant in its purpose but also featured four of my favorite notes. IN THE BOTTLE: Predominantly lavender but with a "tang" I could not place or at least could not attribute to one of the other notes listed as far as I remembered them being on me in the past. Applied to one wrist and the crook of that arm (I always go for a dry and a moist spot, because they can dry down differently). WET: Super duper lavender (which I adore) still with that slight "tang" which I saw in my mind as being slightly "coppery," almost like a penny (which is about one cent more than Drumpf is worth). It smelled identical on both my wrist and in the crook of my arm. DRYDOWN: The drydown on me becomes SO much more complex ... the lavender fades or, more accurately, blends into the other notes so that, for me, NONE of them are identifiable as such but they unite to become something stronger and different and unique. I want to say there is something slightly woody (as opposed to woodsy) but I don't see any of the notes really resembling that remark so I can only attribute it to my weird sensory read. OVERALL: I would call this a very gender neutral scent ... it's clean and, weirdly, "organized" ... It brings to mind a modern, clean office space, one that has yet to be moved into but is waiting for someone to come and take over the desk and do brilliant things (things that are not being done at that one big office we all know right near me in DC) ... It reminds me of the sticks you light in a beautiful vase to bring an aromatherapeutic cleansing to a place. Crazy as it sounds, to me this is like a TAL blend ... I feel like it clears my mind, helps focus concentration and just gets rid of all the cobwebs as a cleanser. Plus, it smells good.

The Fortune of the Seas A hymn to calming lifes storms and a blessing of serenity and level-headedness: champaca blossom and jasmine with a curl of lavender. When I read the notes here, it reminded me SO much of my very first BPAL buy and BPAL love, Twilight (which was lavender, jasmine and honeysuckle rather than champaca), and I have found champaca blossom to be my favorite new BPAL note, that I could not resist getting this and I am SOOOOOO happy I did!!! IN THE BOTTLE: YES!!! Definitely has the same aura that Twilight had for me all those many years ago (in fact, this inspired me to buy a new bottle of Twilight LOL!) ... somehow it's lush and beautiful and floral but without being all "in your face" ... a subtle and amazing loveliness. Applied to one wrist and in the crook of one arm, as I like to have a dry spot and a "moist" spot because they sometimes dry down differently. WET: OMGOMGOMG so perfect. For me, the champaca just blooms off my arm and embraces me in its warm, sweet (but not TOO sweet) embrace, lush and delicious. I know I keep using these "foodie" terms for a blend that is decidedly not foodie, but it's almost edible in its sweet perfection, not unlike the honey from honeysuckle. It's very much THERE but without being too strong or in your face. DRYDOWN: Sweet in the best possible way but also so complex ... the lavender sits in the back like "don't mind me, I'll shut my mouth but I'll be sure to keep the others in line" in a perfect way. It's unbelievably huffable. OVERALL: I know there are people who are not jasmine fans ... I happen to love jasmine, but know that sometimes it can just crash the party and take over and be all in your face. THIS jasmine does not do that. It hangs out with its sweet buddy champaca and wafts gloriousness all over the place. This is a perfectly purple and beautiful and complex blend and absolutely a new favorite for me! Now, if only the Trading Post would complement this with a bath oil, all would be perfect!

IN THE BOTTLE: Light incense with a touch of sweetness I can't put my finger on without looking at notes, so assume is the bourbon vanilla or possibly the myrrh. WET: Really, really nice when wet! Sweet incense with a touch of someplace far away that I've never been but it smells of travel and intrigue. I may be out of shape or maybe it's that I was coming off of a cold but I could not place a single individual note so it blends well. DRYDOWN: As feared, the oudh (which doesn't always play well with me) and/or the myrrh (which can be grand in a bath oil but sometimes goes sweaty socks on me as a perfume) are more prominent than the benzoin and/or labdanum, two of my very favorite notes. OVERALL: This is a really, really nice and unusual and complex yet well-formed blend but in final drydown it's just not "me" enough to be a keeper.

IN THE BOTTLE: Spicy carnations. Not really getting the honey or the orange peel, and can't tell if the white ginger is adding spice, but I'm getting something close to single note carnation (I'll add that I adore SN Carnation so this is not a bad thing). WET: Super HOT but in a good way (and no red welts) ... I keep thinking I am smelling cinnamon or red-hots, neither of which is in the description, so that's probably just more ginger and carnation. I definitely do NOT get any honey on me and maybe a tiny bit of orange peel ... BTW, glad it's orange peel and not orange, because the mere word "orange" in the description was almost a deal breaker ... yet I love the scent of orange peel. DRYDOWN: The original scent stays very true on the drydown but with more sweetness which I assume is the honey asserting itself ... I'd really call this, if I had to sum it up in two words, sweet carnation. OVERALL: I absolutely adore this scent and it's something that if I happened to sniff someone else wearing it I'd hunt them down to find the culprit so I could ask what it was ... BUT it does not love me as much as I love it as a perfume. If this was made as a bath oil, I'd buy a vat of it.

Prefacing this to say that in all my BPAL years (coming up on 14 or so, I think) I'd like to think that I have finally gotten to a point where I'll usually have a pretty good idea of what will "work" for me ... and when I read the notes in this, I felt like if THIS was not a keeper then I'd just give up ... that's how perfect it sounded to me unsniffed and unreviewed. IN THE BOTTLE: The only way I can describe this is that is smells like comfort. WET: ALL THE FEELZ. Gorgeous, incensey, all the warm and comforting smells of BPAL favorites of the past rolled into one ... truly huffable. DRYDOWN: Comforting and still ever-so-slightly incensey. This is a perfect perfume. It's the kind of scent I'd be totally comfortable wearing "out," not afraid to offend someone that I smell too this or that ... it dries very subtly ... when I say it's kind of "perfumey" I do NOT mean that as an insult but rather it has a subtle high-end scent that just elevates it ... OVERALL: WE HAVE A WINNER and I can still pick'em (and of course Beth can still make 'em) ... and now my box is full.

IN THE IMP: Very very very CLEAN. Lavender for sure and a clean, fresh, bright note that just makes me think of a clear cloudless blue sky rather than something with an actual scent. Stillness is the perfect name for this. WET: Still just very very clean. I think it may be the chamomile that is predominant ... it is "soapy" but not in a bad way for me. Hey, I like soap. DRYDOWN: The lavender comes out more as it dries but more like a dried lavender sachet. I smell sort of old ladyish, but hey, I AM an old lady! OVERALL: I find this really lovely and calming. I don't think it's right for me as a perfume scent but I'd buy it in a heartbeat as an atmo or bath oil.

IN THE IMP: I actually did not "get" ANY of the listed notes and definitely not the lavender ... if I had not known what the notes were, I would have thought it was some sort of fruit. I got lightly fruit and clean and clear. WET: Still somehow overall "fruity" on me. Can't place the lavender OR the gardenia OR the cedar. I get fruit and a dry, cold air. DRYDOWN: Still that ineffable fruitiness but it's going more herbal ... like a sachet or air freshener but not in a bad fake way ... it's possible, I suppose, that what I'm reading as "fruit" is the rich lush gardenia, and the sachet is the cedar and the fresh clean scent is the lavender. OVERALL: This is really interesting to me. I like all three listed notes but wouldn't have thought to have them together, and on me (take that as a grain of salt) they are interacting nicely but all totally morphing from how they tend to react to me individually. Not a keeper but a very interesting and appealing scent.

I confess that I am not a big "hair gloss" user ... for whatever reason (possibly age or just the texture of my hair) it doesn't really "do" anything for me ... that said, every so often there is an HG scent that speaks to me so much that I'll buy a bottle and just use it as a light body spray or something ... This was one of them and I am so glad I got it! LiberAmoris put it perfectly (as she usually does!) ... I love the ginger in it ... often for me, gingerbread per se goes a little too cakey/foody, but ginger itself is divine (as in Shub, all things Shub) ... I also love champaca (my golden champa attar SN is one of my most beloved BPALs ever) ... and the two are both perfectly represented in this scent, just enough and not too much of either one.

Almighty God! no, no! They heard! they suspected! they knew! they were making a mockery of my horror! this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now again! hark! louder! louder! louder! louder! A pulsating dragons blood and blood musk bath fizz. Vegan, handmade, cruelty-free bath bombs crafted by Dream Drop Bath Bombs. OMG FIRST? I will take the plunge (heh heh bath joke) simply because right now I'm just completely fakakakakakata verklempt over this scent! I am massively regretful that I only bought two ... I had a very good feeling about the combination of dragon's blood and blood musk fizz, but you never really know what something will smell like until you get it. I will try to describe ... it's shmexy, sensuous, ever-so-slightly sinful smelling. The musk is, indeed, somehow fizzy and bloody and the dragon's blood (which often to me smells like a lush hothouse white flower, which is not a bad thing at all) just blends with this to make it smell like ... well, a spicy hot incensey resiny boudoir that you never ever ever want to stop sniffing. This is maybe the single most truly huffable scent ever ... The bath bomb itself is GORGEOUS ... with little tiny "droplets of blood" I think on top LOL ... If you love your bath smelling sexy and sensuous and kind of the way I'd imagine Theda Bara's baignoir would have smelled, and you can get your hands on one or more of these babies (or perhaps Puddin' will consider taking this amazing scent and offering an entire line of bath goods in it ... bombs, bath oils, lotions, candles, you name it, I'll buy it!) DO NOT HESITATE ... and I promise you that if you get it and don't love it, I'll take it off your hands

Thought I was going to go away from the Weenies empty-handed until I stumbled across the notes in this one. IN THE BOTTLE: OMFG. Glorious golden resiny awesomeness. Something ever-so-slightly "soda" (probably for me the labdanum). Dabbed on wrist and in crook of arm. WET: One of the most divine (no pun intended) ecclesiastical scents this nice Jewish girl has sniffed. The saffron, I suspect, sets it apart (since that is also a note in Scheherezade -- sorry for misspelling of the scent but that's how I'm accustomed to spelling it so not even sure what is CQ -- and Schehwhatever is one of my favorite GCs and I have two beautiful bottles, one to wear and one to age). DRYDOWN: Stays true to its wet beauty. Pure resiny glorious gold. VERDICT: The first blind bottle buy that's been a keeper in YEARS. It somehow stays strong and true and yet also light enough to not get overwhelming later on. I won't buy a second bottle because I do have many scents from this "family" (I loves me the churchy resiny stuff) but do hope this might be released in some similar forms!

To preface, I SO get so many of the descriptors in previous previews ... elegant, classy, sophisticated, etc. IN THE IMP: Ageless, light, perfumey (in the sense that I do not get specific notes from this but rather the evocation of "perfume" of old, when everyone knew its name). Dabbed on my wrist and in the crook of my arm. WET: An elegant, classic perfume. I do not actually "get" any of the notes or scents in the description ... no Chanel, no snake oil, no lilac, not even the lavender. I get clean but not "soapy" quite ... more like, to be honest, baby shampoo. That clean clear scent. INITIAL DRYDOWN: I don't know if my nose if just not on point today but I cannot identify a single note. And the drydown remains pretty much identical in description to how it smelled when first applied. And that continues throughout the entire time I am wearing it until my nighttime bath. OVERALL: Like others have said, this is a classic, elegant, timeless blend. Beth seems to conjure up something that is at once familiar of the generations past and yet unique and fresh in her own read of it ... if they only had a Project Runway for scent geniuses, she would run away with the title as I think she could come up with something unique for every challenge they threw at her. Sadly, though, it's just not really "me" and as such I will cherish having gotten to enjoy all of these beautiful (and beautifully evocative and descriptive and filled with love) scents I've gotten to try and know that down the road in May they will find a wonderful home somewhere. My loss will be Boobiepalooza Box's big gain

I confess I sort of bought this on a whim. I was not looking to blind bottle buy but when I saw the list of notes my inner clove and stuff lover just hit "BUY." IN THE IMP: This is SOOOO hard for me to describe. Smoky incense tempered by something weirdly fruity and fresh, aquatic or green. I cannot for the life of me figure out from the notes listed what those would be. Applied to my wrist and in the crook of my arm with clean toothpick. WET: If there is such a thing as an aquatic smoky incense this scent is it. I don't know much about churches but I think this is pretty ecclesiastical smelling. But it's not stuffy. It's green and fresh. INITIAL DRYDOWN: As it dries, it becomes less resiny and more green and oddly mysterious. FINAL DRYDOWN: In the end, for whatever reason and whatever note, it ends up going kind of fruity on me (a green fruit, maybe one that is not yet ripe). I think this is a scent people would really love but given my box of keeper bottles and my limited life expectancy, I can't see reaching for it over my glut of other churchy-resiny scents (IF, however, this were to be released as a bath oil, I'd buy it in a heartbeat). ... and so this beautiful bottle will go into the Boobiepalooza box to find a happy home this spring.

IN THE IMP: Resiny rose. Applied to a wrist and in the crook of my arm. WET: Rose and myrrh in its lovely wet stage (myrrh has a tendency to sometimes turn "sweaty socks" on me when it dries down in perfume blend form though it stays awesome when it's, say, in a bath oil). Very resiny and rich and best of all NO IRIS at this point. The wet scent is quite simply exquisite. INITIAL DRYDOWN: I dabbed this really sparingly for fear of the myrrh but it's got a TON of throw even so ... the initial early drydown stays true to the wet scent. FINAL DRYDOWN: This is a really great great great blend. It's resiny and rosey and incensey and I get no iris floral from it (yay!). It stays really very true, on me at least, from imp to drydown, though I would say in the very final stages it leans more towards rose petals than anything else. VERDICT: So, this is a toughy. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this scent. I would suggest people use it very sparingly because a little goes a long way. If you like frankincense and myrrh this is something for you! I tend to be reluctant to wear perfumes that might bother others, and this may be a YMMV scent ... OTOH I don't go out much so I think this is one where I'll just dab some on when I'm home alone In the end, this will come as no surprise to Puddin' if he's reading this because he knows I am absolutely ADDICTED to his Frankincense and Myrrh AND Frankincense, Myrrh and Rose Petals bath oils, but I wish the Post might turn this one into a bath oil because I'd buy it by the gallon. It would be SOOOOO good in so many other forms as well ... candle? Bath bomb? Atmo? Hair gloss? I could keep going but I won't.

SO interesting that Ragamuffin mentioned metal because at least I know I'm not going crazy here! IN THE IMP: I know this sounds weird but the first image I got was when I was a kid and would root around in my mom's old pocketbooks, filled with old tissues and lipstick and loose change and tobacco. That musty and musky and metallic blend of nostalgia. Applied to wrist and in crook of arm. WET: I'm getting the weirdest combination of "new car smell" and something almost industrial ... metal, leather, rubber (like rubber footmats) ... very masculine. INITIAL DRYDOWN: The lavender does rise as it dries down but it's ... for lack of a better way to describe it ... "guy" lavender and not "girl" lavender ... more of a cologne than light sachet and herbs blowing in a Provence field. FINAL DRYDOWN: It is a very interesting and complex scent. It evokes cars, machines, manly men doing things with calloused hands and then putting on cologne for an evening out. VERDICT: Definitely not for me but buy some for the man in your life if you like lavender and maybe fool him into thinking it's called God of Mischief.

Just to preface, I admit I bought this for the OB. I ADORE OB, don't see it often, and held out hope after reading the reviews. IN THE IMP: Sweet and golden and round but not quite fruity and not a note I can put a finger on. Applied to wrist and to crook of arm. WET: Interestingly, the first note to really rise on me is the amber, but a wet and sweet amber, perhaps tempered by the vanilla, with a teensy-tiny bit of wood (the oudh?). Very pleasant, soft, nice. INITIAL DRYDOWN: There is something slightly perfumey about this, like a scent that would be a huge hit with younger girls/women who are just venturing into finding "their first scent." The one that will lead them down all sorts of paths but will always remind them of becoming a young woman. A little creamsicle-y for me. FINAL DRYDOWN: It actually goes a little "nutty" on me, as if there were almond in it ... which I guess could be the vanilla. Sweetly nutty, pleasant, soft. VERDICT: Definitely not "me." Sadly, I never got anything that I associated with orange blossom. But I can see this being a very popular scent and one that I think would be a great gift, as mentioned, for the young woman/girl/teen in your life that you might want to "turn on" to BPAL ... the message of course is a wonderful one, and it's a lovely scent. It's just not for me. To the Boobiepalooza Box with the jumbo imps.

IN THE IMP: Very very honeysuckle which for me is a good thing (admit to having been a little leery of the lilies and sage, but loves me my honeysuckle and honey). Applied lightly to one wrist and crook of arm (to get the dry skin and the wet skin responses). WET: Honeysuckle and a little honey. Yay! In fact, for me (and YMMV) when wet this is MUCH closer to a SN Honeysuckle than the Wild Honeysuckle SN of a few months ago was, because for me that was very "green" and this is hothouse floral honeysuckle like the bush in my yard. INITIAL DRYDOWN: Fingers continue to be crossed. The initial drydown remains pure-on honeysuckle. LATER DRYDOWN: And heeeeere is where the lilies and sage start to pop up which takes me out of my euphoria. Lilies really are not my friend. The throw is VERY long and VERY strong ... to the point that even after taking a shower that night, I could still faintly sniff it in the crook of my arm the next morning (at that point it was back to just honeysuckle). FINAL VERDICT: This is a tough one for me. I love love love honeysuckle and this is a really good one. The attack of the lilies and sage was very brief (though not much fun). BUT ... given how very little I applied and how long and strong the throw remained on me, I think I would be very reluctant to wear this anywhere for fear of bothering people who do not like smellies. Honeysuckle and that ilk tend to be a love-it-or-hate-it thing. Looking at my life expectancy versus my box of keepers, I believe both of these (beautifully oversized) imps will be going into the Boobiepalooza box for 2018.

IN THE IMP: Sharp and yet not acrid. The tar is prevalent but ever-so-slightly sweet and resinous so there is hope! WET: Sharp, resinous and rich. Not sweet at all. INITIAL DRYDOWN: Woody/woodsy, sharp but not acrid ... the sad thing for me is I'm not really getting the "oppo" which to me tends to turn "cola" and as such becomes one of my favorite notes. FINAL DRYDOWN: Woody/woodsy and dark. I really really like this scent but it is somehow (I hate to put it like this but can't find a better way) too "masculine" for me. A few notes ... it goes oddly "salty" on my wrist but stays truly resinous in the crook of my arm ... I'd love this on "my man" but he does not like smellies ... I think this would make an AMAZEBALL candle or atmo spray or even bath oil but I don't think it works for me as a perfume which makes me sad because it smells FABULOUS.

IN THE IMP: Cannot put my finger on these notes AT ALL. Clean, fresh, resiny. Oddly, when I ordered to decants I missed the part about leather which tends to be a dealbreaker for me ... yet, even more oddly, the leather is never an issue for me during my testing. WET: Ohhhhhh ... amazeballs on my picky skin. NO leather at all! Lovely and what I call "medicinal" (a term I coined for certain BPAL scents in a very positive way). Resiny goodness. INITIAL DRYDOWN: An unbelievably comforting scent. FINAL DRYDOWN: I love this. LOVE it. Total keeper. Not quite enough to buy a bottle (I've found as I get older that two imps are enough since I have SO many sniffies and don't wear then every day and don't expect to live to be 100).