Lycanthrope

Sweet, silken lather with a lightly floral honey. This is divine! The price point makes it an absolute luxury, but it matches that price with a truly lux experience. The scent I'd say is a slightly sweet, realistic honey, not cloying or sugary. There is a very faint thrum of an airy floral but again, nothing really brash or center stage like rose or lily. If I lather long enough, there's a tiny bite of a slightly dirty, menacing ginger, deep, and just giving it a hint of threat. Very good. Yes. Must be around forever so I can buy it when I want to be pampered. And so I can't spell it :|

Eat Me is a slightly musky, cake-y scent with a sharper berry note (it's drier than I expected). Not quite as fruity, it's more foody. Drink Me is on my skin mostly a pineapply bready scent, so less dessert-y, more fruity as in whimsical fruit, airier, sweeter.

Oh no, no no no. Citrus notes are not a go on my skin. Anise has only really worked on me when it's with ... well, gaufrette and leather like Pere Fouettard. Clove can be quite strong... and cumin, well... This smells very foody on me, sort of like that tamarind salsa that is served at Himalayan/Indian restaurants, way too much herbiness, not a 'perfume' aroma on me at all. I amp that, and the sharpness of the mandarin, and the dirtyness of the clove, and it's just too much. Oh ye Gods! It also has such tenacity!

Will be working on decanting tonight and tomorrow. Sorry decantees! They will likely not be there by V-Day But I have pics! No womb fury. My randoms contain: Metal Tiger, Olisbos, Two Loves, Signior DA D! Truffles Miskatonic Valley-entine Random Lupers (and a Tiger!) Ode to Ares Shungas 1 + Shungas 2 Whew! Now to get decanting...

It's very grassy, a little warm, and a dry musk. It dries down on me a lot like the Rat King and Clio.

A powerful attractant used by homosexual men to help them find love, ignite passion, and enhance their charisma. Again, just a dab test for scent purposes. If favorable (or unfavorable!) effects come out of this I'll update it. I suppose by posting this I'm outing myself, but it wasn't really a big secret anyways So... long story short, I've always felt abnormally inconspicuous and mundane in the gay world. I've never dated anyone, nor has anyone shown interest in me, I've fallen for a guy or two who have given me the 'just friends' talk, and I am inordinately shy and lonely. Perhaps a little oomph would be what I need. Bottle: Sweeter than I thought it would be. I'm getting notes of some kind of floral, rose maybe? There's also a hint of honey and amber over the top. Sugary, this definitely is. Maybe a brush of ylang-ylang, too. Dab: Whoa, interesting. I think I got a touch of mint, leading to a sort of smoky, fir-touched aroma. It's slightly fiery and warm, with an insinuation of ginger and pepper, but it heads back towards a musk with a bite. No more mint. Maybe it was hallucination. Dry: A musk that kicks you in the balls and says 'I'm here and I smell really good!' I don't know what it is, but I keep sniffing my wrist and Q5 gets nicer and nicer as it dries on my skin. I even think my heart rate is a touch quicker now. I don't know what it is in Q5, but it's making my fingers and feet kinda tingly in a weird way, I think that sorta feeling when you're catching your breath and someone you think you're interested in is looking right at you. Maybe this time, he won't look away?

Thick, gloppy oil, with a definite separation of oil at the base. Cocoa absolute... I love thee. On the skin, starts off a very thick loamy scent, not Graveyard Dirt-esque, but adds a touch of depth. This is followed by cocoa absolute, which on me is a very pretty, but quite single dimensional aroma. It's tasty, but also over time it starts turning a bit more... 'charred and burned,' with very thick, gloopy resins and a hint of scruffy sandalwood. Veers away from foody cocoa, and more into 'cocoa touched with something,' and that something is smooth, woodsy, but altogether not my skin's favorite plaything.

Any idea what the main notes in Hana were? I had 'Mizan' from the same purefume line, and its dominant notes are black pepper, and some real strong woodsy aromas (sandalwood, etc). It may help you start focusing in on a few BPALs that are similar. I found that the old Aveda purefumes had a very 'natural essential oil' quality that was a bit... rugged, compared to BPAL, so a direct match may be hard to find. The Aveda 'fumes were natural for the sake of being natural, so they tended to come across as strongly influenced by EOs.

Ooo, thank you! The anniversary bottles are beautiful. *Flail* Mustn't. buy. perfume. for. the. art. *flail flail flail* Totally off topic, but I love the bottle collection in the background. Very drool-worthy! Ah... they lurk in the background like little hammerhead sharks. I didn't think they'd show up...

This is really beautiful. It smells a little like a Chowards Violet mint from the bottle, which endears me to it immediately. On my skin, it's got the same sort of dry, soft, powdery violet-esque aroma without the sharp topnote of violet (if that makes sense)... more like the subtle earthy rootiness and a soft sugary note blended together. On me, this is like a hybrid lovechild of Faith, Midnight on the Midway, and something insanely beautiful. A little Sybaris. Jeez, I need how many bottles?

Ask and receive.

Mmm! Milky chocolate and... something very, very weird, at least on me. I can't quite describe the note I'm detecting. In the bottle and on me, it was very dry cocoa, like the Gelt/El Dia cocoa on me, not a super rich absolute, but a milky fragrance. There's another note, possibly a milk, or goat milk, or something that is not playing absolutely nice on my skin. Over a few moments, the odd, literally plastic-y cloth-y note seems to meld more with the cocoa. Cocoa is emerging gradually and now appears to be... the dominant note. Over time, this mellows out a lot, and I like it lots. Still sufficiently weird to make me debate whether or not I need to hoard, but it's cocoa! With something weird! And I like it.

Hrm, this seems to have a similar feel to Pfefferneusse, with the powdery sugar. Likely this from the lemon cookies. It has an overall ginger-y spicy feel that is deeper than the prior scent, also appears to have a very rich, sultry quality similar to Shub-Niggurath, but with less raunchy deep musks. Over time, this scent definitely veers a bit towards foody... I think, more yellow cake with a scraping of lemon gratings, powdered sugar. As above, this definitely has woodsy notes peeking out every now and then, so it's not a pure foody fragrance. I am confused. But I like it. Not sure if it's > than Pfefferneusse to me, but it's definitely moar different. I was afraid the lemon would amp on me, but it's quite subtle.

Again, I went into BPAL thinking as a manly man man, I would totally butch up on the dark, sleek, black musks, powerful, potent woods, fiery spices, and cool, ozone aquatics. Needless to say, I do like them, but I ended up finding out my favorite scents are apparently violets, marshmallows, and now, cake and cookies. MANLY! SO MANLY, LIKE TY PENNINGTON! (oh, wait). ... I digress. Pfefferneusse is ultimate win on me, because I love spices. The scent also really smells like dry, powdered sugar, and at least for the first 15 minutes continues to smell like that dry, powdery sugar. No burnt or crystalline, or brown sugar here, it's all powder and dust and sweet and fluffy. Over time, it starts to go more cakey and on my skin turns into that sorta dry, crispy cookie smell. Absolutely wonderful, and I need to find spare change, or kick out bottles from my to-buy list, because this is the year of the Pfefferneusse. Well... I guess I can pretend I'm a ferocious masculine man, but inside, I smell like spice cookies...

My favorite few are Sleipnir's BADASS SANTA (or is that Father Nick) ridin' sidecar. Also the very disturbing creepy 'what are they doing, leather bar / daddy 'how you doin'' El Dia de los Reyes...

Reddish, an amalgCARAMELam of notes that shoCARAMELuld work on me. When I first pCARAMELut this on, I really did smell the orange niceness of the petitgrain mixed with a sweet muCARAMELsk, deepened by vanilla, and I was pleasaCARAMELntly surprised. But I was teCARAMELsting in the vicinity of Eutectic, who can then atteCARAMELst that this turned to a sharp, unpleasant burnt sugar caramCARAMELel scent on my skin. My experience with caramel has been 'fail' as a noCARAMELte due to my skin chemistry, but the initiCARAMELal wet phase was promising... just not for me.

This starts off with the same Tiki-wet-ocean scent of Moana, but takes a different tack during drydown. Whereas Moana headed off towards gardenia-water, In Winter in my Room's yuzu really starts to add the sparkling sweet gummy-bear citrus to the mix. Sadly, yuzu and I do not get along, so the scent, bright and sparkling and tropical, pretty much shifts towards the uber-sweet yuzuness, on my skin at least. But... if you like yuzu... do it!

I can't add too much, except that I'm in the camp that really gets the drydown of Snow White, and the rose is a faint tickle. On me, that's saying a lot, since I amp rose!

What an interesting scent! I'd think from the name and notes that Diable would be a very masculine, red, spicy blend, but it definitely mellows out as it dries, and morphs, as noted above. The scent starts out as a very reddish, sweet redwood scent, with a hint of the sweetness of tonka, and there's a bit of something sharp and leafy in the first part of the oil's drydown. Over time, this really swings towards a juicy peach scent! It's akin to... that Inquisition scent... the patchouli-peach one that I can't recall right now. It's definitely peachy, but this peach has a supporting depth behind it.

I got lots of eucalyptus, menthol, or some kind of sharp cold mint variant as the topnote on this oil. On the skin, it starts to segue towards a Snow-White-like creamy cold scent, but stays more perfumey and cologney, like a faint aquatic. The eucalyptus burst / menthol coldness dissipates and it's a very chilly whisper on the skin, but without much throw. Several guys who happened to be at a baby shower I was attending commented that it smelled 'cold.'

So... here goes. YULES 1 YULES 2 YULES 3 YULES 4 FAIRE

Mmm. Anise-y at first, very black-jellybean-ish, crusted with sweet sugar, and as it dries, a sugary cinnamon. The anise burns off quick. It's like the lingering flavor, more of a red jellybean that you thought was cherry, but were surprised to find, was not.

Sent to me by accident, but I was so curious that I used a toothpick to test a drop. WHOA NELLY. Briefly: this is an aquatic, fresh lily-floral that has an odd, bicarbonate/baking soda mineral edge, maybe cherry blossom. Also, briefly: OMG, A BATHROOM. And holy frip, it amps like nobody's business on me. It's cold, chilly, sorta antiseptic, but wet, like ... toilet water... and the surface cleansers really do smell like 'masking odor floral' that they use in spray cleanser. There's that hint of dry, tickly floral that makes me thing 'cherry blossom,' very little if any citrus (so it's not a very citrussy cleanser), and a very potent sweet note that keeps amping up and up on my skin. I really have no words, it's so very evocative of bathroom cleanser without being lemon-pledge. Whoa.

Te Po (Tiki) was very cherry cola-almond esque to me.

At first, El Dorado was all like 'I'm sparkly like Festival of Anuket!', but then that odd bright lotusness trended towards as noted above, the slightly sickly smell of copal, and then I get an odd earthy dirtness. Over time, the drydown does get richer, but on me, the smoky incense is tending towards headshop - as copal is my skin's version of patchouli - I smell it all the time. I may try this in a burner, but on my skin, not so much. It certainly smells like incense and a bit of bright shiny gold, though!