Blood onmy hands

The new version doesn't smell like the original, which I have some bad feelings about. I don't think it's really right to sell something with the same name as a highly sought after blend, at a marked up price, when it's not actually the same fragrance. Original AL and this new version have the same name and both have vanilla in them, but that's where the similarities end as far as I can tell. Original AL lasts all day on me and is really strong, and it is powdery and has an old fashioned, dried florals and vanilla dusting powder with heavy vanilla cream thing going on. Almost buttery vanilla as it dries down, with the vanilla powder and dried flowers... there's also something like a hint of clean, starchy fabric. It makes me think of old wedding dresses, love notes and dried flowers in an attic. New version AL has none of the powder, old fashioned, dried floral or heavy vanilla... this is more like a bright vanilla musk and burnt vanilla sugar. It's quite similar to Bath & Body Works' Warm Vanilla Sugar, actually. It has a clean, plasticy edge to it as well. New version AL also doesn't have very good throw or staying power. I can barely smell it past the one hour mark and it's definitely gone by two hours.

I was hoping for more carnation spiciness and resinous tones to this, but I don't smell them at all. This is a very perfumey (like department store white musk) rose with a soggy, green, plant-like something from the belladonna and yew. Smells like a Rappaccini's Garden blend, and almost none of those actually smell pleasant to me. It's a cold, artificial, musky rose and cold, artificial, soggy herb thing... incredibly sharp and, after an hour, has a strange, dusty sharpness as well.

I love this show and was so excited for the fragrance, and it does not disappoint. The black leather in this is that dark, slightly smoky, black whip leather. The strawberry is loud for the first minute or so and then immediately fades to the background where it becomes more of a creamy vanilla with a hint of sweet strawberry candy. It reminds me of the original Le Pere Fouettard, but with vanilla and a hint of strawberry instead of black licorice. I love the Nobodies, and I love this sweetened black leather scent.

Starts off as powdery, kind of bitter honey on my skin, with the whiskey smelling like alcohol spilled over a dark, polished, wood bar. The booze is a bit too sour for me. As it dries down, the 'gold' seems to come through as that soft, amazing, metallic cologne scent that I've enjoyed in a few other bpal blends. It's sort of sweet and cool and makes me think of gold coins glittering in green grass, and sexy man cologne. Still, the whiskey is too much for me here, and I think the blood note might be adding a rusty lilt to the scent in the far drydown.

Goes on smelling rather like pineapple on my skin, with maybe a warm, fuzzy amber note. Something slightly green, herbal and spiky smelling as it dries down (a little reminiscent of sage). Mostly very sweet with a clean, fruity freshness... and... all I can think is pineapple. It's not boozy or honeyed at all to my nose.

A very creamy, fruity orange blossom with golden, sweet honey. The drydown gets some powderiness from the amber, but I can't pick out oudh, and this is a pretty straightforward fragrance. Orange fruit, creamy and airy blossoms, sweet honey, and a powdery finish. A very soft orange blossom that lasts about an hour and then fades quickly on me.

A perfumey/musky sort of sweet, pink roses dusted with sparkling honey powder. It is just as advertised. I like creamier roses and fresher roses than this one is, as it leans more musky and dry smelling, but this is still a pretty, pleasant blend. Musky, pink roses and dry, sweet, bee pollen sort of scent.

Sour, tart red currant with swampy moss that reminds me of the Spanish moss note, and a little bit of dry, powdery sandalwood. Another American Gods scent with heavy notes where I can't smell the heavier notes at all. No vetiver or opoponax for me.

I get fizzy lime with a little bit of soapiness. Reminds me of some of the lab's champagne blends (was there a lime one?), but not quite as boozy smelling. Fades very quickly on me.

I put this on and get... burnt coffee and sweet lemon candy? Kind of a sweet incense, maybe, in the background. This doesn't have much throw on me for a blend with vetiver and dragon's blood, but I can't really smell either of those (unless the vetiver is doing the burnt coffee thing). The oil is a pale, almost clear yellow, so it doesn't have the usual red or dark brown color of those oils. Maybe that sweet, lemony tang is the frankincense and chamomile. Faint, lemon candy with hints of burnt coffee, wood and sweet incense. I can't get over that super-sweet lemon sorbet scent. It kind of reminds me of Gobo. Really strange.

Iris is always so unbearably sharp and chemical smelling to me. It's that sharp, artificial, department store white floral smell. Very screechy. Bpal's white tea also tends to be very sharp smelling to me, so it doesn't help matters here, and the bergamot is a sour, sharp lemon. The whole blend smells very cutting, cold and white. Drydown has a hint of soapiness. Gives me a headache.

The grapefruit comes off sour and smelling a little like sweaty BO to me, with an undertone of metallic, white musky men's cologne.

Warm, amber-y labdanum that turns just slightly powdery on me, with thick, animalic musk (like a warmer version of black musk with maybe a hint of civet) and straightup woodsmoke, like standing next to a bonfire. Starts off strong and growly, but dries down to mostly that powdery amber veil on my skin.

If I describe something as smelling like cigarettes, cigarette smoke, cigarette ash or dirty ash tray, that's generally a bad thing, but this isn't bad. It's more like the sweet curl of cigar smoke than the harsh blast of cigarette smoke. It does have a sort of melancholy feel to it, and you smell it and can imagine someone burning sweet incense and smoking cigarettes, lonely and looking out a window with nowhere to go and no one to see. I don't know why it comes off as so somber to me, but it captures the mood perfectly. Sweet frankincense and myrrh in a cloudy room full of cigar and cigarette smoke.

This is one of those rare fragrances that I put on my skin, leaned in to sniff, and recoiled in horror and had to choke back some vomit. It smells maybe like when my uncle came to our house to hunt one summer and was skinning deer in the garage where my father usually worked on cars and did metalwork, and there was just this stench of blood and filth mixed with metal and grime. This is, to me, not like bpal's idealized blood note (not dragon's blood or red musk or blood musk), but like a strange, slaughtered scent and filth. I have a really hard time smelling this at all. Maybe a little minty and antiseptic. A dirty hospital smell. I can't stand this at all.

This is too medicinal for me. The hint of mint mixed with powdery, tart orange just makes me think of vitamin tablets and cough syrup. I don't get the rosemary, but I can pick out a bit of bitter clove in the drydown.

I first tried this without remembering the notes, and thought that it smelled like really good pencil shavings (must be the woody oudh) and melting dark chocolate. Opoponax lends a thick, dark, resinous sweetness. I smell hints of black pepper, but it's mellow and rich rather than sharp, and I don't get much of a patchouli impression, but perhaps it lends to the richness of the cacao. This winds up smelling like a more rich and dark chocolatey version of Velvet on my skin, or a plum-free version of Tarantula Fascinator. I quite like this one.

Goes on very green, pulpy, refreshing, and wet smelling. It smells like the lab's bamboo note and reminds me a bit of the original Banded Sea Snake. Sweet aquatic cologne, wet greenery, and an overall men's cologne feel. This has a huge note list, but I don't smell amber, cinnamon, incense/resin, blood, rose, or honey, and I don't think that it's particularly floral. After about 15 minutes, I agree with the reviewers who mentioned ozone, because the greenery fades and it's more of a high pitched, sharp, dry soapiness.

Reminds me of "Numb." Like the scent of a cold shower (not exactly minty or mentholic, but somehow like cold, refreshing water) and mountains of that fluffy, white, generic men's shaving cream (that my dad always used when I was little, so I love that scent). I think that I will buy a full bottle of this at some point. Simple, clean, slightly masculine, smooth fragrance. This is my favorite clean type scent from bpal.

On me, this smells like honey musk with an extra dose of white musk, very sweet and perfumey and powdery, and a hint of something almost like soapy aquatic, which is perhaps the 'oak leaves.' I'm kind of disappointed that All-Father smells so powdery and sickly-sweet... I wanted and expected something more dark, complex and powerful. This is more girly and tween perfume-ish on me. It's strange.

If you liked the strawberry in Diligent Instruction for the Bridal Night, this is the same thing, minus the creaminess that Diligent has in it. It smells like the original Bath & Body Works' Sun-Ripened Raspberry and Sugar Plum Fairy lotions - a very tart, slightly perfumey/musky, slightly plasticy berry. It's basically the berry single note version of Diligent, and I don't like it at all without some extra vanilla and creaminess to round it out. Simple and reminds me of the girls' lockerroom in middle school. Aggressive and overwhelming fake fruit. I find it to be too strong, tart and sour for my tastes.

Mithras reminds me of the original Chaste Moon. A milky, clean, creamy floral sort of scent. I was expecting dragon's blood and something like Dragon's Milk, but it's nothing like either of those. I keep thinking that I smell dry tea leaf and something like craft store cinnamon potpourri in the drydown, lingering underneath the creamy, sweet, milky white floral. Drydown starts to give me a headache and I'm thinking there's some sort of white musk in this. Overall, Mithras isn't as foodie or sweet as I was hoping for, and leans towards being clean, musky and white floral on me more than anything.

On me, this is herbal, bright, white musky smelling honey (I like a creamy, sweet honey). Sort of an herbal, slightly soapy, wildflower honey. Golden amber always turns into an overwhelming splat of baby powder on my skin, and that's what it does here as well. I can see the cocoa, but I can't smell it, no matter how much I shake up the bottle. A little cardamom spiciness in the drydown. Mostly an herbal honey (reminds me of dried, savory chamomile and honey after a while, which reminds me of the Sachs perfume). Too powdery for me, and I don't like the honey note, and maybe I don't like this bourbon vanilla, because it reminds me of Sachs, which I also disliked.

I full bottled this immediately, because I love cardamom, vanilla and cedar, and it has a cat on the label. Cat on the label will always win (along with bird on the label). Thankfully, this oil is gorgeous and one that I'm going to be wearing a lot. I am absolutely crazy about Solstice Scents' unfortunately discontinued 'Attic' fragrance, because it had the most realistic and beautiful cedar in it, and the cedar in The Small Brown Cat is that type of cedar. It smells like true, dry, spicy cedar wood chips with a tiny hint of green to it. The vanilla adds the creamy, delicate sweetness and the cardamom a hint of spiciness that just makes it more true smelling. I don't get any musk or powderiness that I usually get with 'fur' notes. I think this is a great fragrance, and a perfect kitty scent. Outdoorsy, but sweet and warm.

Nope. This is sickly-sweet and powdery on me. I like a few of the lab's paint and plastic scents, but this is like sweet, maybe lime scented, carpet powder, a hint of cucumber-y freshness, and wet paint. It's cloying, but also weirdly sour and dirty. It smells like someone used scented carpet powder to try to cover up a cat pee smell after a while. Dirty, dusty, horrible carpets and cloying powder...