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In the imp: Can smell the yuzu and a darker bitter smell which I imagine can only be the black tea. Wet: the musky smell comes out strong at first and the bright yuzu smell backs off a bit. A floral scent comes out. Drydown: Mostly same as the wet. The smell doesn't remind me of anything, even of other perfumes. The smell is not citrusy (at least in the traditional manner) I didn't get the tangy, and despite the dark smoky heaviness of the black tea and the floral it still remains kind of bright. It's also dry but a little sweet. It's light and stays close to the skin. After 15 min: The citrus is all but gone, I guess my skin must eat it which would explain maybe why I didn't get as much of a tang at the beginning. The tea and a bit of the floral is still there but light enough that I have to bring my wrist up to my nose and sniff to find it. After 30 min: It's gone. Overall: It smells good but isn't spectacular. I won't get any more since my skin eats it almost immediately. Since I didn't get much of the yuzu in this or any of the lemon in Herbert West I think this is an indication that I need to stay away from citrus based perfumes, which is a shame since I love the way they smell in the bottle. I guess I might try to put it on my clothes or in a scent locket (when I can afford one) or I might just give away this imp to friend with more forgiving skin.

In bottle: Warm, a sort of candle store medley of scents such as clean linen, spice, and vanilla. On skin wet: Has a slight scent reminiscent of dryer sheets...but not unpleasant. Also has a spicy scent but this fades quickly to a foody vanilla smell, almost like sugar cookies. It sits very close to the skin, but then again very few scents seem to throw with me. Drydown: As it dries the laundry and vanilla fade. The spicy scent is back now but more mellow. I imagine that it's the tea, ginger, and pepper, but it doesn't really smell like any one of them. It gets just slightly creamy as I have in on longer and reminds me of a chai tea latte. An hour later: The scent remains strong and similar. If anything it's developed a stronger warmer spicy smell. The complex spicy scent starts to remind me of Scheherazade after it's been on for many hours and is about ready to fade away, but only slightly since it still has this creamy sweet smell. There's the laundry smell again. I wonder if it's fading and coming back or if my nose just can't catch it along with the other scents. Creaminess gets stronger and starts to get powdery, but then it just fades away into a light linen smell after a few hours (guess that laundry scent was underneath there all along). Final thoughts: It's alright, but not spectacular. I think I may use up my imp, but I'll probably not bother buying another.

This smells the same to me in the bottle, wet, and dry. It's a very feminine floral scent with that lavender musky/medicinal quality, but it also smells kind of like dust and old books. I was hoping that it would smell like the honeysuckle in the air on cool summer evenings...but that "touch" is just that and I couldn't pick out the honeysuckle from the other scents. Unfortunately for me it smells a lot like elderly women. I'm not sure if it's similar to older perfumes or what, but it also smells a lot like the soap my grandma keeps in her bathroom, the ones shaped like angels and roses that no one is supposed to use. While I like the scent itself I don't think it's something I particularly want to smell like.

First impression: Could not narrow down what the smell was in the bottle. When I first put it on it was a nice bright and fruity smell with a little bit of spice in the background. After an hour: The citrus fades really fast and leaves with a soft musky/spicy scent, probably the oakmoss and lavender. It also has a peppermint smell, but it smells more like the dried peppermint that I use for tea rather than peppermint oil. Fades away rather gradually after that and ends up smelling like I just washed my wrists with that yellow Dial soap. Overall: I rather enjoyed both stages, but I would much rather it kept it's fruity citrus notes. It doesn't last long enough to wear all day so I guess I might just wear it when I go someplace after work. I probably will use the imp, but I don't see myself buying any more.

Out of the bottle: Can't really smell it that well. It keeps escaping me. Got this for a freebie so maybe it's just because I'm not sure what to expect. First impression on skin: It smells like hairspray. Like the old stuff in the aerosol cans, and a bit like the strong smelling cheap liquid soap they put in public bathrooms. I'm really not enjoying this. It's also rather strong on me. Strange because I've read quite a few comments saying that it was faint, but on me it's much much more strong than white rabbit or aizen-myoo. Later: It got lighter after an hour, and smelled a bit like the minty Listerine. I'm not sure why this scent keeps smelling like PCPs to me. It's not so bad though, and it definitely is starting to smell masculine. A few more hours later and it got musty and then faded away. Well overall it was rather disappointing. I was hoping it was one of those scents that I disliked initially but would get better when it dried. At least this was a freebie so I think I'll give it to one of my friends to try.

I don't like or wear perfume so I thought BPAL would be good to try since it sounded like it didn't have the alcohol smell that I despise so much (not to mention dries out my skin). This was a part of my first order...and also the first thing I smelled. As soon as I opened the shipping box I could smell this (although I didn't know what it was at the time). It was like a terrible overpowering version of the health food store that I used to go to; just a jumble of whole sale spices, incense, and hippie soap. Sniffing it straight out of the bottle was just more of the same. Definitely gave me a headache and I debated whether I would even bother to try this or not, but I paid for the imp so.... I put a very very small dab on my wrists. The smell was still overpowering even after it had dried a bit, and it had a decent amount of throw so I was reluctant to get too close to anyone. After about half an hour the smell mellowed out a bit (I unfortunately can't pick out the individual notes so I'm not sure what changed). And continued to do so the longer I wore it. It actually became a rather nice spicy scent that stayed close to my skin, something of the "second skin smell" that I hear about. It's been a full day and I can still smell it faintly so at least it lasts awhile. So despite my initial reaction I think I will wear this again, although I might put it on well before leaving the house so it gets to the mellow phase because I think that it's so strong at first to actually be offensive to other people. I doubt I will buy a 5mL version though since it only takes a little bit and it lasts so long.

it would be closer to "eye-zehn". the vowel sound for e is closer to "eh" than the a in "date". many, many people mispronounce the "e" sound and say things like sah-KAY (for sake) when it is more properly pronounced sah-keh. the long a sound is a common mutation (even among some japanese) but it is far more pronounced in people learning the language. so i pronounce it ki-tsu-neh. other than this very minor difference, i concur with your guide. Thanks, I think some of the problem is that I have an accent so that I pronounce "keh" and "kay" in the same way. "Eh" is probably a much better standard english approximation.

Since Japanese is a rather simple language to learn how to pronounce I'm going to post a few simple guidelines here in order to help people learn how to pronounce the Japanese inspired scents by themselves so they don't have to look them all up. Unlike English, Japanese has rather consistent pronunciation rules. So there is not much of a silent "h" in this word (ex. herb), but not in another (ex. help). Although, there are some exceptions and regional dialects. First of all you need to know the vowels. A- "ah", ex: bah, father I- "e,mii", ex: street, beet, wii U- "ooh" (not "oh"), ex: school*** E- "a", ex: a date*** O- "oh", ex. hoe, bow *** (This isn't quite correct, but will do for perfume pronouncing purposes.) Now unlike the English alphabet that is composed of consonants (c, d, f) and vowels (a, e, i) the Japanese one has the vowels and then each constant followed by a vowel. The exception to this is "n". ex: KA, KI, KU, KE, KO would be pronounced "kah, kee, koo (or cuu), kay, koh" For the most part, again with a few exceptions, these consonants are similarly pronounced to those in English. Using these guidelines you can pronounce most Japanese words that have been anglicized. Let's take the last name "Yagami", like from Yagami light from Death Note, and break it down to the consonant/vowel syllables. YA-GA-MI -> yah, gah, me (mii) Now for some of the tricker consonants. You may already know that Japanese has no separate distinction between "L" and "R". It's a different sound from both of them but from my experience it's usually easier for the casual person to err on the side of the "L". So the translation of Yagami Light's first name in English was "Lighto" in some manga and "Righto" in others (it was an English inspired name to begin with, which is why it doesn't follow the consonant followed by a vowel rule). There also is no "TI" or "TU", these are pronounced "CHI" (like the energy, not the statistical test or the tea), and "TSU" which is pronounced like "two" with the s sound added in or like "to sue" run together. So Kitsune (which means fox) is KI-TSU-NE -> kee, tsoo-nay Other consonant irregularities: "SI" is "SHI" (she) "HU" is "FU" "ZI" and "DI" both are "JI" There is no "C", but there is a "CH" (like church), CHA, CHI, CHO The consonants K, S, H, P, B, R, and G can be followed by YA, YU, YO rather than A, U, O. These can be tricker to pronounce but are basically slurring the consonant sound to YA, YU, YO. Also, remember that some words are anglicized differently, but are pronounced the same. ex: Aizen-Myoo could be "Aizen-Myu" -> AH, ZAY,N-MY-U (OO)" Sorry this was a bit longer than expected, but it should be complete enough for perfume pronouncing. Feel free to mention if I've gotten something wrong or left out something important. Also: DISCLAIMER- I am not a native Japanese speaker