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Again, I was searching for the perfect summer honeysuckle. I just can't do lemon or tea. They just turn sour. That is not to say that this does not smell nice. It is just not at all for me.

Roses. Thick and syrupy roses.

Not as dark as I expected. This is a very yellow scent, like Eos. Heavy on the jasmine. The faintest touch of lemon and spice in the topnote, but it is mostly jasmine on me. I am doomed in my search for the perfect honeysuckle scent...

Darkness is quite like Hunger, without the orange (PLUS!). This is a great summer resin for me. I love narcissus; it is such a sexy, soft, round, sophisticated floral...almost edible. If you really want the narcissus to shine on her own, with a little smoky backup, give Darkness a sniffie. This one is a sleeper-I just don't know why there is not more to-do about her on the boards. She is so feminine and dark...vampy...so a la BPAL! Embrace the Darkness...divine submission.

Is Dragon's Musk anything like Smut?

I absolutely adore this scent. It is everything that I have looked, nay, sniffed for, in a truly gothic perfume. It has a similar deep earthiness, akin to Zombi, with a touch of the Nosferatu greenery. It is the drydown that is most spectacular; it is a slightly sweet, musky,creamy floral, much like Lancome's Poem...I could never imagined that my chemistry could handel all of this wood. It is divine. Uggggh...I must search out more. Damn you LE's!

Femme and earthy fresh, this is very floral, but a little masculine, too. Definately has that "natural" perfume smell. It reminds me of an old Victorian sitting room with fresh cut flowers. I know just the man that needs to wear this.

... The feral scent of the heat of the chase, deep woods, undulating musks, brushed by forest herbs, crushed grains, and touched by blood-dimmed lunar oils. Wood and spice. This smells like autumn. Drying out, it becomes deep, sweet, rich, like some delightful holiday cake. It reminds me much of Sin and Dana O'shee together but with musk...mmmm... I was afraid of the woods,it is what prevented me from buying a bottle,but now I wished I had a vat!

Very herbally in the imp. I know it is not for me. I will pass it on to DH who will give scents like this a chance. He likes it. Reminds him of juniper. Clean, alive, dark green, fresh herbal. Drying out it gets creamy and woody. It is much like how Gauko does on him...but not as complex or sexy. They have a similar sharp topnote and HOT wood in the base.

Litha is a sharp, bright floral at first that reminds me of Eos. Very sunny and spring-like. On the drydown, the florals turn to honey. A sweet, happy floral. Dried out, there is a bit of dry resin lingering, but it is not the incensy blend I was expecting. Too happy for me.

At first this is lemony, like tea scents usually are for me. It is sharp and white and clean smelling, soapy like a big hunk of ginger cut open. It dries down to something remarkably close to White Linen.

Wet this is very sweet and fresh. I was afraid of the pine, but here, it is just a slightly dark green natural scent...not at all like the dreaded Pine Sol or a Christmas tree. The rose is subtle, dark, and wet. Dried out it is soft, rich, and powdery, mostly a blessed union of amber and lotus. It is very both understated and sophisticated. Lovely...

Gypsy Queen smells just like Nag Champa while it is wet, to me.

This is clean and light and perfumey and is one of the closest BPAL's, I think, to "mainstream" perfume. That is to say, that it is complex, fresh, and sophisticated. It is lemony tea and then gets dusty (probably the orris), and yes, it is papery. The wood does not overpower at all. It is one of the few wood blends that do not smell like pencils. The tea is too sharp and sour for me, though. Dosen't smell dead enough.

Headshop. Like fresh Nag Champa. Resin and powdery florals and smoke. Then it dries down to the smell that is my crazy, pill addicted, sweaty neighbor. What the hell?! Sorry for the unencouraging review, but this is just TOO close to the way this guy smells! I wanted to love this.

Mmmm, I smell cinnimon and dragon's blood right off the bat. I can't wear cinnimon anymore (skin reactions), so this one is going to the boy right away. I will review it off his wrist. "Incense!" he cries with glee, and slathers. It is fresh and clean and deep and sweet all at the same time. I just love it when BPAL does that! (Lurid is MY current new fave that does that). The cinnimon is the dominant top note, but mellows out with the glorious red musk. It all really blends beautifully. Hot, spicy, lickable skin. This is like Sin and Blood Kiss come together, but fresher than either because of the vertiver.

I got this one for my little boy who loves anything Chinese or related to zombies. Perfect! I was a little afraid of the orange. It was very heavy wet, bitter and strong like oranges and their blossoms. Dried out though....oh! It rivals Fae for my fruity musky love. The mango is musky in itself, and then with the WHITE MUSK (mmmmmm....). I don't do woods well, but thankfully, they don't overpower here. It really makes it just a little masculine. If you are a musk and/or fruit lover you must try it.

I never thought that I would like strawberry perfume. I thought, "too sweet, too cheap, too little girl". I was totally wrong here. I did not search this one down. It found me in a swap, but I assure you, it will NOT be leaving my possession! First sniff: Fresh strawberries and insence. Very unusual. On me:The carnations are spicy, the sugar is a little sweet, and the flowers make it just fresh enough. Oh, it is DIVINE. Dried down: Light herbs, like a meadow, and the sweet, tart juice of real strawberries. No plastic. I can't believe it. It is not too pink, not too bright, not too fruity. It is like my new rose colored velvet bolero that my friend thought was vintage. I love it. LOVE it.

Antique Lace is a vanilla floral skin scent, to me (it is my everyday, smells like me, go EVERYWHERE scent). I haven't tried Mouse' yet. It is low on my list because, as a general rule, woods smell like pencil shavings on me. Eat Me is foody, but dry and spicy. It is not buttery like Grog or Jack (which are the super foodies to me). The vanilla in the cake scents goes a bit plasticy on me after drydown, which AL absolutely does NOT do. The current in EM is fruity, but not as fruity or sweet as BPAL's plum note.

The osmanthus and lilac with the woods make this very similar to Ouija to my nose. The lemon and tea make it sharper while wet, and the musk is creamy once it is dried down, but it is not the holy grail of lilac and musk that I was dreaming of.

Wet this is super sweet cake, a sour squirt of currant, and something smokey that reminds me of Sugar Skull and Snake Oil-not what I was expecting at all, happily. As it dries out, the cake is a vague, dry vanilla sweetness, and it gets spicier, which is also unexpected. Hours later she is creamy and sweet, but with a depth comparable to amber, really. This is amazing, and better than the description if you love orientals like I do. Eat me is an instant favorite! I must have a big bottle. "Let them wear cake!"

A fresh, dark green wafts from the bottle...like a graveyard in the rain. Fresh wet, earth, dust, flower stems, and grass. It reminds me of Zombie, but more alive and fresh, as vampires are in comparison. On application, the wine is a bit fruity...delicious. Drying out, though, it is very grassy on me and DH.

This is one of the few perfumes EVER that are like an instant olfactory orgasm to me. It really is the beauty of Beth's blending. Just when I think that certain notes don't work on me, I get completely blown away... I love that. It keeps me coming back for more. A bit sharp and sweet in the bottle, but beautiful and fresh. The ozone (which I NEVER do) blends seamlessly with the lavender, while the currants (oh, divinity!)quirt their sour juice all over it. The resin (which is it? amber...oh, I don't care~just keep it coming!) is rich...dripping with sensuous sweetness. The white musk keeps the clean ozone quality through the drydown and combines with my skin in that way that only Beth's white musk can do... At the end it is powdery and musky, like the curtain call of a can-can show. MUST...have...a BIG....bottle....(pant, pant...). I have been wearing this blend to bed. Lavender does not usually relax me, but this blend really seems to. Plus, DH likes it, too. He says it smells like lavender and ass, and that is a good thing! Edited to add: From Dracula by Bram Stoker(1897): "But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even in the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of white-hot metal. With a fierce sweep of his arm, he hurled the woman from him, and then motioned to the others..." (pg. 36). The hell-fire of currents and smoke, the white-hot combination of musk and ozone...the fierce power and sexual magnitude...this is the perfect scent description. Thank you, Beth. I think you did your homework!

This one broke my heart. I thought it would be a rich, pomegranate, musky golden amber from the other reviews...it was, and I hate to say it, "like a craft store" on me.

Sacred Whore is a spicy white floral~very creamy and heady. Hunger is my favorite floral (narcissus and orange blossom). Alice is light and fresh but not green with her roses, carnation, and milk and honey. Morocco has carnation and creamy spices. YUM! I love florientals!