Heavenlyrabbit
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So I took a gamble with picking this scent from Dogs Playing Poker series and it paid off big time.
I had two other definite "Dog" scents on my To Get List and wanted a third.
Distressed that my decants hadn't arrived (probably held up with an order suffering from the Bloody Mary component issue), I read the descriptions, held my breath and went for Pinched W/ Four Aces.
Cinnamon hates me. But it is perfect here.
Coffee smells wonderful on me, but Miskatonic U. lasts for a brief few seconds. Here it lingers.
Tobacco can be somewhat heavy and ponderous but here it's just atmospheric.
If only I'd known, this would have been a two bottle order (rare for me) cause this is close to being "Signature Scent" worthy.
The overall impression I get from this is stimulating conversation, late into the evening with old friends and a prospective beau thrown in for good measure.
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Taurus- somewheres in Ancient Greece or thereabouts, girls in long white dresses are draping wreaths of flowers around the neck of a young bull.
What makes this exceptional for me is the mint. This is a somewhat light, fresh floral and what keeps the freshness is that light touch of mint.
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From this scent I get a picture of a character in some Dickens novel. A young woman who's a street vender selling bunches of her posies to passersby.
Gentle, sweet little florals.
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Ecstacy in a bottle. Nothing else like it in BPAL. Nothing to compare it to.
Okay, take Mosterbait Closet and swap out the berry for cherry.
It's that good.
I've been selling off my LE duplicates to pay for acupuncture and cause there're too many bottles in my sphere of being right now. But this one scent has me in a tizzy.
Am ordering another from the Lab tonight.
Really impressed the heck out of me.
Edit to include two more words: CHERRY CHEESECAKE
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Smooth Vanilla Mint as Godzilla.
Doesn't make sense to me but in the most whimsical way.
It certainly kicks Lick It's candy cane butt.
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Apricot-Butterscotch hard candy in the bottle.
On me, the woods are VERY much to the fore. I guess a V.Dummy is made of wood, yes?
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An ancient sort of scent.
Resin that will only improve with age.
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On me, this is "Fig". Not that I don't detect other notes, but they combine to form an Uber-Fig scent.
I also smell something reminiscent of Rugelah.
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Since funds are limited for you, perhaps track down a sniffie of Cottonmouth. It's one of the most agreeable florals I've ever had the pleasure to wear.
Coral Snake is a 'citrus' fruit and also wears very well.
I would be somewhat wary of Australian Copperhead. The fruit note in that is very distinctive.
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Was hoping for the grassy notes.
What I get is the Cucumber.
More to the point, this smells like Raita (Indian cuke/yogurt dish) to me.
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Ostarta is an Odilon Redon painting.
And I don't know why this scent makes me think of Redon's paintings. Perhaps because it's such a nice, colorful blend of scents in soft focus with a classical feel to it.
Which one of his painting does this remind of in particular? Probably Mystery (as seen below).
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I get something minty.
What the heck is that all about?
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Just in time for Lent, cher! A native of Louisiana, this Cajun lycanthrope stalks the swamps, forests, and fields of Acadiana and New Orleans in search of prey. It is believed that if one breaks Lent by failing to give alms, fast, or pray for seven years in a row, she will be God-cursed, and will transform into this snarling beast at every sunset, a slave to her desperate, mindless hunger until dawn.
Spanish moss, swamp jessamine, bog water, cypress, hickory wood, lobelia, sweet flag, wisteria, and marsh milkweed.
Okay, I really like this in the bottle. There's floral notes topped by a slight aquatic and Beth has captured a murkiness.
Upon first application, I was really pretty skeptical. Something in here is very Pungent (capital "p") and masculine.
Within about 30 seconds the perfume started developing. So now this is an androgynous blend. Can smell the Spanish moss; can't smell the cypress.
An aquatic floral with a paradoxical earthiness to it. Much more substantial than most aquatics. WAY more complex.
This softens a bit more and becomes very centering.
This changes ALOT as it wears. And it also takes on a different character when smelled at a distance.
Later in the day, the florals give way to moss and still later the slight aquatic edge comes back.
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The yellowed country records containing her testimony and that of her accusers were so damnably suggestive of things beyond human experience - and the descriptions of the darting little furry object which served as her familiar were so painfully realistic despite their incredible details.
That object - no larger than a good-sized rat and quaintly called by the townspeople "Brown Jenkins" - seemed to have been the fruit of a remarkable case of sympathetic herd-delusion, for in 1692 no less than eleven persons had testified to glimpsing it. There were recent rumours, too, with a baffling and disconcerting amount of agreement. Witnesses said it had long hair and the shape of a rat, but that its sharp-toothed, bearded face was evilly human while its paws were like tiny human hands. It took messages betwixt old Keziah and the devil, and was nursed on the witch's blood, which it sucked like a vampire. Its voice was a kind of loathsome titter, and it could speak all languages. Of all the bizarre monstrosities in Gilman's dreams, nothing filled him with greater panic and nausea than this blasphemous and diminutive hybrid, whose image flitted across his vision in a form a thousandfold more hateful than anything his waking mind had deduced from the ancient records and the modern whispers.
A small, furry, sharp-toothed scent that will nuzzle you curiously in the black hours before dawn: dusty white sandalwood and orris root, dry coconut husk, creeping musk, and the residue of ceremonial incense.
Sweet incense. The coconut doesn't overwhelm as it's wont to do with my skin chemistry. A rather straightfoward scent with the coconut melding with the resins' sweetness.
The orris and sandalwood are definately there but seem to be more of the structure that keeps this from collapsing inward from the heavier notes.
GREAT sillage.
Reminds me a wee bit of Midnight Mass combined with All Souls. -
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in Wanderlust
And this is to die for.
Sweet without being cloying.
Fruity without being artificial.
Floral without being head inducing.
Just a wee bit of tartness. Some wood notes thrown in there for reference, so I don't get lost.
Perfection.
A complex yet well blended perfume. At turns I can pick out this scent or that, but mainly its just a divine fragrance.
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This is the house, the sacred box,
Where, always draped in languorous frocks,
And always at home if someone knocks,
One elbow into the pillow pressed,
She lies, and lazily fans her breast,
While fountains weep their soulfullest:
This is the chamber of Dorothy.
— Fountain and breeze for her alone
Sob in that soothing undertone.
Was ever so spoiled a harlot known?
With odorous oils and rosemary,
Benzoin and every unguent grown,
Her skin is rubbed most delicately.
— The flowers are faint with ecstasy.
The Scarlet Woman, aglow with sensual indolence: red musk, benzoin, caramel accord, golden honey, and spiced Moroccan unguents.
Takes its time unfolding on my skin. The red musk is in the forefront along with the spices.
I imagine this is what Smut might have smelled like if my skin chemistry reacted so adversely to it.
The sweetness is very laid back on me, as per usual.
Sultry blend that reminds me of Love blends, for sure. Unique but in the same vein as some of the Oriental Wanderlusts, too.
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At this moment the door was flung open, and a shrill voice was heard singing:
'To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said
"I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head.
Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be
Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me!"'
And hundreds of voices joined in the chorus:
'Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can,
And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran:
Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea --
And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three!'
Then followed a confused noise of cheering, and Alice thought to herself `Thirty times three makes ninety. I wonder if any one's counting?' In a minute there was silence again, and the same shrill voice sang another verse:
'"O Looking-Glass creatures," quoth Alice, "draw near!
'Tis an honour to see me, a favour to hear:
'Tis a privilege high to have dinner and tea
Along with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me!"'
Then came the chorus again:
'Then fill up the glasses with treacle and ink,
Or anything else that is pleasant to drink:
Mix sand with the cider, and wool with the wine --
And welcome Queen Alice with ninety-times-nine!'
Carnation, posies, and white amber with a hint of inky treacle, sandy cider, and wooly wine.
Spicy, creamy floral.
Carnations with cake and hard apple cider.
A more sophisticated and perfumey version of Harvest Moon.
No hint of plastic from the 'treacle'. The spicy carnation isn't turning into redhots. So this makes me very happy
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Fire Pig is beautiful bunches of fruit stacked neatly into piles in front of the Ancestors' shrine. There are also some flowers there, but mainly the smell of fruit.
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Attar of rose, violet, white pear, Queen Elizabeth root, and freesia.
This is a Wedding bouquet, IMO. florals wrapped with a white silk ribbon. This is wafting off me and making me long for spring.
At turns I can pick out the Rose and the Violet. Somehow the Violet seems to blend most into the Pear.
The Queen Elizabeth root seems to add the slightest touch of sweetness.
Divine but a bit 'old fashioined' and that's a compliment coming from me.
Yet another Classic. -
Bourbon vanilla, red musk, galbanum, ambergris, sweet clove, petitgrain, and golden amber.
Sweet wonderful and warm incense. The Clove is subdued at first but picks up as my skin brings it forward. Good news for those who like spicey. Since this is Passion, it makes sense it'd be a warm scent.
This is possibly the most beautiful scent I've got from BPAL yet.
It reminds one of Ahathoor and the like but sweeter.
I thought that red musk and I didn't get along, but this is orgasmic.
Addendum: further comparisons would be a richer Three Witches or more incensey/less foody Gingerbread Poppet (original blend) with Clove swapped out for the Ginger. -
Ohhh... Ahhh....
Peachy, Incensey, Slightly Spicey.
Patchouli, very laid back tinged with honey (though not too sweet). Almost refined which isn't an adjective I'd use for patchouli normally.
Yes, there's the Mandarin. I almost think there's also something boozy?
On opening I could identify the notes listed but within about a minute they all blend into an Oriental par excellence.
Great sillage. Not too 'girlie'. A gentleman could wear this.
The word that comes to mind is Classic!
sort of Al Shairan despoiled Tamora and they had a love child?
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What to say that others haven't?
Dark Delicacies is the perfect name for this blend. It describes it exactly.
I had to sell my bottle of Trick #1 to pay for acupuncture but this is very similar in its quiet, womanly sexiness.
Not much of anything in the bottle, it opens with a fast succession of patchouli, then florals, then fruit. I am left with a slightly fruity patchouli scent. How nice. It wasn't that long ago that ALL patchouli blends sent me screaming to a sink to wash it off.
Beautiful drydown that wears very close. This is a great anytime scent with such a nice earthiness giving it an understated sexiness.
I would love this as a soap and body lotion.
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Exotic tropical blend.
The 'fruity' comments definately makes sense.
I am reminded of Manila.
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Slightly sweet sandalwood incense.
Well blended so I keep sniffing it in to savor the deepness.
Very, very rewarding scent.
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I get something akin to a laid back Red Lantern mixed with a men's cologne circa 1920.
Perfection. But then, I love the components and they love me.