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For a very fresh green I love Rosalind--it smells just like fresh-cut grass... mmmm! Also would second Squirting Cucumber.

My favorite happy/spirit-lifting scents: Amsterdam (just so fresh and light) Has No Hanna (it's supposed to be an uplifting scent, and it really works, very bright smelling if that makes sense) Hermia and Pepper (I find pink pepper is a very cheerful note)

Video Game Systems Owned (mostly courtesy of the boyfriend): Nintendo Super Nintendo Nintendo 64 GameCube Wii Playstation 2 Playstation 3 Gameboy Advance Nintendo DS Video Games I Play/Have Played and Enjoy: Brain Age Clubhouse Games Final Fantasy I, IV, VI, VII, and VIII Guitar Hero Karaoke Revolution 1, 3, and Party Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari Mario Party 4 and 6 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Justice For All, and Trials & Tribulations PixelJunk Monsters Puyo Pop Fever Rock Band Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 Computer Games I Play/Have Played and Enjoy (on a Mac or iPad): Battle for Wesnoth Civilization Drop 7 King's Bounty Lemmings Mah Jong Medley Plants vs. Zombies RollerCoaster Tycoon The Secret of Monkey Island Shadow Era SimAnt SimCity Solforge Warlords Words With Friends Zoo Tycoon Board & Card Games I Like Apples to Apples Carcassone Cockroach Poker Euchre Magic: The Gathering Scrabble Skip-bo Uno

I like to watch. Movies I Like (* means particular favorite; all anime and foreign films best subbed over dubbed): The Adventures of Baron Munchausen All About Eve Amelie Annie Hall Back to the Future Battle Royale* Being John Malkovich* Blade Runner Brazil Brick* Broken Flowers Cold Comfort Farm* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Dawn of the Dead* Die Hard Dogma* Donnie Darko* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* Fargo Ferris Bueller's Day Off* Fight Club The Frighteners Ghostbusters* Ghost In The Shell Ghost World The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly The Graduate Groundhog Day* Heathers Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hot Shots How The Grinch Stole Christmas The Hudsucker Proxy* Inglorious Basterds Jaws* Joe Vs. The Volcano Labyrinth The Last Unicorn Legend Lord Of The Rings (all three) The Matrix Memento Men In Black Monty Python And The Holy Grail* Monty Python And The Meaning of Life Mulholland Drive The Never-Ending Story* The Nightmare Before Christmas Perfect Blue The Player Pulp Fiction* Punch Drunk Love The Purple Rose of Cairo The Princess Bride* Princess Mononoke The Royal Tenenbaums Rushmore* Say Anything The Secret of Nimh Space Balls Stand By Me The Star Wars Trilogy (the original one)* Stranger Than Fiction Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original live action one) The Terminator Terminator 2* This is Spinal Tap Time Bandits The Truman Show 12 Monkeys* Unbreakable* Wait Until Dark Wall-E Wayne's World* Watership Down* When Harry Met Sally Whisper of the Heart* Willow* TV Shows I Like (* means particular favorite; all anime best subbed over dubbed): Alias America's Next Top Model The Big Bang Theory Breaking Bad Buffy The Vampire Slayer (mostly just the first three seasons)* Castle Cowboy Bebop* Dead Like Me (mostly the first season) Degrassi Jr High (the original) Dexter (mostly just the first two seasons)* Elementary Homeland House Hustle Jeeves and Wooster Justified* Mad Men* Misfits (UK) Monty Python's Flying Circus* Mr. Show My So-Called Life* Nurse Jackie The Office (UK) Princess Tutu* Roswell Seinfeld* Serial Experiments Lain Sherlock (UK) The Simpsons (mostly the earlier stuff) Skins (UK)* The Sopranos* Star Trek: The Next Generation* 30 Rock Trigun True Blood Twin Peaks* Veronica Mars (mostly the first season)* The Vision of Escaflowne* The West Wing The X Files (the first few seasons)

Musicians/Bands I Love: Tori Amos (Scarlet's Walk and earlier) Bjork Ani Difranco Lisa Germano Yoko Kanno Metric (and Emily Haines' solo work) Beth Orton (first three albums) Liz Phair (first three albums) Radiohead R.E.M. ('90s and earlier) The Smashing Pumpkins Tangerine Dream Throwing Muses Amon Tobin U2 (mostly the '80s and early '90s stuff) Vangelis Suzanne Vega Faye Wong Musicians/Bands I Like: AFI The Antlers Fiona Apple David Arkenstone Badly Drawn Boy Sara Bareilles Barenaked Ladies (the first two albums) The Beatles Beck Belly Bloc Party Boards of Canada Bright Eyes The Brilliant Green Kate Bush Catatonia Neneh Cherry Counting Crows The Cranberries (first two albums) Julee Cruise The Cure Dead Can Dance Lana Del Rey Dessa Dido The Dresden Dolls Duran Duran Enya Esthero Evanescence A Fine Frenzy Florence + the Machine Matthew Good P.J. Harvey Sophie B. Hawkins Imogen Heap Kristin Hersh Veda Hille Hole Hum Michael Jackson ('80s stuff) Jimmy Eat World The Juliana Theory Ladytron La Roux Letters To Cleo Love Psychedelico Madonna Aimee Mann Sarah McLachlan (first three albums) Mediaeval Baebes Moby Moist The Mountain Goats Moxy Fruvous Muse My Chemical Romance Joanna Newsom Nirvana Nine Inch Nails (some) Heather Nova Sinead O'Connor Babatunde Olatunji OneRepublic Paramore Pet Shop Boys Pink Portishead Elvis Presley Pulp Rasputina Damien Rice Rihanna Santigold The Shins Sloan Snow Patrol Regina Spektor Supertramp The Tragically Hip ('90s and earlier) Weezer Kanye West (some) The White Stripes Amy Winehouse Musicians/Bands I Can Take or Leave: Bryan Adams (some of his early songs are all right; don't like the newer stuff) Aerosmith (like a few of their hits) The Beach Boys Christina Aguilera The Cardigans Collective Soul Crowded House (love a couple songs, not so keen on the rest) Delerium Depeche Mode Garbage Goo Goo Dolls Green Day Heart Whitney Houston Led Zeppelin Lisa Loeb Matchbox Twenty Alanis Morissette No Doubt Oasis Our Lady Peace Pearl Jam Poe Red Hot Chili Peppers Maaya Sakamoto (mostly just like the stuff Yoko Kanno composed for her) Skunk Anansie Soundgarden TLC Musicians/Bands I Dislike: Backstreet Boys Toni Braxton Coldplay Celine Dion Avril Lavigne Limp Bizkit Nickelback N Sync The Offspring Rammstein Britney Spears Spice Girls Sum 41 System of a Down Shania Twain Musicians/Bands I've Liked A Song or Two By, But Haven't Pursued Further Yet: A Fine Frenzy The All American Rejects Aqualung Azure Ray Bif Naked The Birthday Massacre Bloc Party Butterfly Boucher The Colour Death Cab For Cutie Fall Out Boy Alana Grace Gary Jules Lifehouse Modest Mouse Morcheeba Placebo Remy Zero Tool Yellowcard Veruca Salt Classical Composers I Like (my exposure is admittedly limited): Bach Chopin Mozart

Definitely try Jolly Roger! I don't get any leather from it on me--just a lovely, salty ocean breeze.

Never smelled Gap's Grass, but if it smells like, well, grass, I'd suggest trying Rosalind, which smells almost entirely of fresh grass on me.

I recently discovered Tulzscha and it's wonderful! But also horribly difficult to find more of. I'm going to keep my eye out for it, but in the meantime, anyone know any GC scents that smell similar? I used the lab search engine and found that the only current scent with cucumber is just cucumber (the Squirting Cucumber one) and most of the mint scents have florals in them. Envy sounds like it might be the closest... Any suggestions would be most welcome!

This is a list of all the BPAL scents I have tried (as far as I can remember--I haven't kept very good records and most of this was a couple years ago). Scents I Like - * means I have a bottle Amsterdam* Belladonna Bengal Brimstone* Cheshire Cat* Chimera The Coil Coyote* Door* Gommorah Grr Has No Hanna* Hermia* Jezirat Al Tennyn* Jolly Roger* Lady Amalthea* Litha* Marquis de Merteuil Mistletoe '07* Nine Muses (TAL)* Oof Orpheus (Salon I)* Pepper* Persephone Robin Goodfellow* Rosalind* Schrodinger's Cat Shattered* Squirting Cucumber* Tempest Three Gorgons* Tweedledee Tulzscha* The Unicorn Vinland* White Light (TAL)* Wolf Moon '06 The World (Tarot)* Yellow Jessamine Honey Yggdrasil Zephyr Scents I Didn't Like Enough to Keep - * means I'm open to trying again (some of these were a long time ago, and I got trade happy ) Absinthe Aelopile Aeval Ahathoor Alice All They Had Seen, And All They Had Lost Anne Bonny The Antikythera Mechanism The Apothecary Arkham Aureus Baron Samedi Bastet Belladonna Bess Black Forest Brass Balls (TAL) Caliban Calico Jack Charisma (TAL) Christmas Rose The Clod and the Pebble Cobra Lily Come To Me Croquet Crossroads Danube Death Cap Desdemona Dirty Dorian Dragon Moon Dragon's Eye Dragon's Tears Dream of the Fisherman's Wife Dyan Moon Earth Rat El Dia De Reyes Egle Envy Erato Eros Eternal The Evening Star Fae Fire of Love French Love Gibbous Moon Gingerbread Poppet '07 Goblin Green Phoenix Hades Hamadryad Helena The Hierophant (Tarot) Holiday Moon Humpback Whale Hurricane Imp The Jersey Devil Jezebel Jolasveinar '07 Kabuki Kali The Lady of Shalott Libertine Lightning The Lilac Wood The Lion Lionheart (TAL) The Living Flame Lyonesse Mad Hatter Mag Mell Malediction Manhattan Mantle of Venus (TAL) March Hare Marcilla Megaera Midnight The Miller's Daughter Moon Rose Morocco My Mom With The Sun In Her Hands Nemesis Night Thoughts No. 93 Engine Nosferatu Nowhere In Particular Nuclear Winter Oberon Pannychis The Passionate Shepherd to his Love Perchta Perversion Phantom Queen Plunder Poisoned Apple Queen Gertrude Queen Mab Quietude Ra The Ragged Wood The Raven [Redacted] Dragon The Rose Rumpelstilzchen Salon I: Carceri d'Invenzione Salon I: Cloister Graveyard In The Snow Salon I: The Isle Of The Dead Salon I: Satan and Death with Sin Intervening Salon I: Two Monsters Samhain Santa Muerte The Sea Foams Blood Sea of Glass Shoggoth Shroud Singing Moon Skadi Snake Oil The Snow Storm Snow White '07 Succubus Summoning Stone Play Structure Sundew Szepasszony There's A Certain Slant of Light Thunderbird Tzadikim Nistarim Ugh Ultraviolet Undertow Venice Vicomte de Valmont Viola Vixen Voodoo War White Rabbit Whippoorwill Whitechapel Windward Passage Wrath Yew Trees Y'ha-nthlei Zombi Scents I Dislike Cathode Centzon Totochtin Dracul Dragon's Blood Harvest Moon '06 House Of Night Jack O Scherezade Venom

Thanks! I'll have a look at her reviews.

The main thing I've been searching for is a good forest scent. There are some pine-y blends I haven't tried yet that sound good, but I'd also like more of a deciduous forest scent--green leaves, oaks and maples... I've tried some of the common recommendations, like Hamadryad and Yggdrasil, but they faded fast and didn't smell very foresty on me. Anything with much flowers or fruits, those tend to dominate the forest smells, also. I just want forest, nothing else! Well, a tiny bit of floral might be okay. Any ideas for an ultimate non-evergreen forest scent?

I can't recommend any particular BPAL scents off the top of my head, but I know, for aromatherapy, citrus scents are mood lifters. So any scents with a lot of cirtus--orange, tangerine, bergamot, etc.--should help keep you in a good mood. And let me also say, I hope that coworker finds herself a new workplace (far away from you) soon!

In the imp: dark, watery, a little tang of vetiver. First on: Wow, the vetiver really jumps out, dark and a little bit burning, a little wood, and some soft, somewhat sweet musky undertones. Dry: This faded on me so fast. I only put it on an hour ago and I can hardly smell it with my nose pressed to my wrist. Just a hint of that sweet musky smell, and a faint whiff of that burn-y vetiver.

The Unicorn has some nice herbal notes in it.

My favourite cinnamon scent is Wrath--which I find is better for fall/winter, a little heavy (or hot? ) for spring/summer. My favourite scent overall is the sadly discontinued Tarot: The World, which has a nice hint of cinnamon in it, too. It's balanced enough that I wear it all year 'round.