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Something...nutty, rich, maybe woody. Huh? It dries down to apricot, quite orangey, with a tiny hit of floral, a tiny bite of spice and...pencil shavings? This is not at all what I would expect a Siren to smell like. Oh, well...I can't sing anyway!

After trying Fae, with heliotrope/white musk combo, and thinking that I had died and gone to heaven, I had to try Juliet. I love honeysuckle (I have some tattooed on my shoulder, even...) but I haven't found a BPAL honeysuckle that was "me". Juliet, you are my tender flower... Wet, she is creamy lilies, fresh, light and alive. I get a "Mmmmm, you smell goooood" from the DH, who is no flower fan. 10 minutes later someone around me asks if there is honeysuckle blooming around my house (there isn't!). They have fallen under Juliet's spell. Dry, this is the glorious heliotrope (a light, fresh, vanilla type scent) with the sweet, clean baby laundry scent of white musk. The pear emerges here, for me, like the ripe fruit should smell, right up close to my nose. It is not at all fake or cloying (I am thinking B&B type...it is NOT!!!). She is sister to Fae and Alice. Juliet is light, clean, fresh, and slightly fruity, with a tragic edge. I love it! On the big bottle list for sure!

Have you tried anything with civit? It was origionally squeezed from sex scent glands. Sometimes it goes "poo" on people; on me, it is like death. For some people is IS the scent of sex. I was just looking at the reviews for Satyr. I think it may be really sexy on a man... Something in Blood Kiss is JUST like sex to me, but only when DH wears it.

Ah, YES! Dragon's Milk is a favorite around here.It is still our monster spray a year later...

Perversion. I was wary of the leather note, but after the drydown it is just a feral quality. There is a slight coconut sweetness like is like hot, clean skin to my nose (not at all like suntan lotion, if you are afraid of that!). It drives me wild.

I have scented my littlest boy's hair with Honey Moon since he was teeny tiny. Mmmmmm. I second the Dana O'shee. My 4 year old loves Snow White, Eos (because he knows there is honeysuckle and buttercup~his favorites), and O (honey sweet). We are falling in love with Alice all over again, too! We love to check the mail together, especially for swaps packages, secretly hoping for little candies and fruity tea! BPAL brings families together!

Fae is my flirty scent, but Morocco is pretty damn sassy!

I have been waiting so long to try this, and finally, right before Beltane, it is here for me to try. This is really sharp on the jasmine at first. I am so sad. It dries down to a very true honeysuckle, but the jasmine is staying a bit sour, like it always does on me. Dried out, I am trying to fight of the "this smells like a pantyliner" impulse to swap. There is a bit of sweet musk poking out...I think I like it... The jury is still out.

Fresh and clean, like French soap, but mixed with the seamy man who washed with it. I can almost do the mint. It is cold. The slight blackberry hint is delicious. It is not for me, and I tried it on the boy, but he gives it a "hm.". For blackberries, musk, and tea, I'll keep Bewitched (it is darker and more feminine).

Heady, sweet, and a little dark, this floral is quite like narcissus to my nose. 'Not as complex as I demand my florals to be. I like her, but I don't love her.

My new love of carnation, the Spring blooms, and white musk drew me here. I was leery of the lemon, but it turns out it is just perfect in this blend: fresh and clean and inviting for the warm Spring and Summer mornings. It dries out to a sweet, creamy, but still haughty musk. I love it. She is Fae's gifted sister, and she will not be leaving my imp box!

Mmmm, NASTY! I was afraid this musk was going to be too dark, but it is ferocious and lovely!Dark and sweet and tangy, it smells great on the boy and myself. I find this more playfully sexual than Snake Oil, like sex and candy...

Morocco is the new, "Mmmmmm, come HERE!" from DH!

MUSK LOVE in the floriental department! Antique Lace's more incensey sister! Morocco smells more pale pink, while Antique Lace is more violet pastel. With a touch of spice that doesn't burn me and a hint of fresh wood, all wrapped up into something completely sexy, fresh, and confident, this is very wearable! It's like a oomphed up vanilla musk! Yuuuuuuum! SLATHER!!!!!!!!!!! MUST have a big bottle!

Three white musks with poppy and patchouli. I keep going back and forth on this one. I really have to slather to get the inital cold blast of the white musk. The patchouli is STRONG on me, very nutty and woody, like others have said; this is a big surprise to me, because I was expecting that characteristically earthy smell to just be binding the musks together. Ah, well. This is quite manly for my tastes. I really didn't EXPECT this from this scent! It is like a rich old man. A damn good smelling rich old man, but STILL. When I think of a glittering star I do not think of a rich old man. I need to just enjoy the white musk...wipe away the preconceptions. There is a creaminess there. Beth's white musk is the only one I have ever liked EVER and she is here! Center stage! Why did someone say PEANUT BUTTER?!#%& I smell peanut butter!!!!!!!!!!!! Think: night sky...bright stars...your beloved white musk! I think I need an attitude adjustment.

"Ylang ylang, I thought that Skuld was the only exception to me hating your guts!" How is this blend so deliciously creamy? I would never have thought so from the description. Is that the lily and orchid combo? Jasmine is there, being a bit of her sour self, but the delicate OMG white floral dominates. I am not going to get a big bottle or anything (my loves in this category are Skuld and Sacred Whore), but if you are looking for something lighter and slightly less sweet or spicy than my 2 faves in parenthesis there, than go for Suspiro.

Lime. Limety-lime-lime. I like lime in my margiritas, but not in perfume. I keep trying these tuberose blend for that creamy white floral, but I am learning it is gardenia that is my flower. I don't know if it is the jasmine with the lime, but this is sour...a really sour floral. Not for me.

Black Opal is very much like a "stone" scent. It literally smells like a very cool rock. Quite amazing. Zombi is dead on roses and dirt...very creepy. Many have said O is very like p*&$y (including my DH!) That is pretty darn natural!

Very, very STRONG rose. It smothers the narcissus, which is the reason I tried this scent in the first place. Oh, well, I have Hunger and she is all I really need in the narcissus department.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Fae, and it is a fluke that I do because I am not fond of peach as a note. I have finally tried Aglaea, because I am an amber, white musk, and booze fan, and the herbs sounded a bit like those in Fae, so, why not? It's the peach wine. It is just too much. It is like a springtime Jack to my nose. The peach is in the forefront and does not QUIT (!!@#$@%). The musk attempts to hold the other notes together, but Peachy is the boss here.

Wet this is quite green and fresh. The tea rose is the inital dominant floral, but this is not Grandma's tea rose. The jasmine emerges with a bit of a sour note, but it is quickly overshadowed by the creamy, white gardenia and sweet, vicious vanilla! It is very lively but sophisticated. This is the beautiful woman at the tea party with the big ribboned hat and lace gloves. This is my Spring vanilla. PS: Dry, this is so very like Sacred Whore, but with more vanilla. Whoa.

Many, many thanks to the great forumite that presented me with this beauty! Upon application, it is a bit like (gasp!) Irish Spring, but it dries down quickly to a bunch of complex fresh florals and clean white musk. It reminds me of Zephyr without the citrusey bite. I think this is a great scent for DH and me to roll in together in the warmer months to come.

Sparkely, boozy strawberry. If Bordello were a cheaper whore, this would be it! ADDED 1/30/09: Blech. Sicky sweet/sour/nasty. Smells like a strawberry airfreshner. Thanks, though.

Sharp, heady and viciously carnivorous. This is Tiger Liliy's slinky older sister. Since Snake Oil is my all time favorite, I love lilies, (and secretly wish the Sorting Hat had put me in Slytherine) I had to try this baby, with her snakey reference. I am not disappointed. It is sweet and fresh with a spicy bite. No sneezy soap smell here. This may be my favorite BPAL floral.

Bewitched (green tea and blackberries) and Phanotom Queen (apple blossoms and herbs which smell to me like the damp, spring forrest floor) are my favorite "clean wood's" scent, though they remind me of naughty encounters in the woods rather than wood itself! Fae is also LOVELY! It is my favorite "clean" scent. The bergamot makes it so, but it is also very sexy with white musk, peach, and oakmoss (again, a bit like forrest floor...not exactly wood). What a wonderful friend you are to enable!