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Yes cake here!

I know that I will be in the mood for this from time to time, nothing wrong with smelling like a cake...

And the label art is way cute.

After pushing this one to the back of the list so many times, I finally ordered my big bottle last night with my OMG NEED MOAR OF THIS WILF order.

Haunted to me has the same top note as Shalimar, one of my penultimate perfume loves. Unfortunately I could never wear Shalimar, as I have a sensitivity to something in it. Strangely the only BPAL that ever did this to me was Queen of Hearts (sob loved it so much). However I tried Haunted as an imp and was just fine with it.

My impression of Haunted is soft but strong, and very rich. I react to it in the back of my nose. The only other BPAL I can compare it to is Temple Viper. 4.5 out of 5 stars for me.

I hate the smell of this oil. It does not smell like lemons to me, it smells like yuck the worst kind of Burts Bees bug spray citronella candle ewwwwww. I love lemons. This is not lemons.

And on me it smells bad. Really bad. However I have to say, it works. Really works.

sigh.

Zomg another vote for Black Opal. It's all powder over here.

TKO V3.

It's a fluffy pink marshmallow. Not like that's a bad thing.

Of course because I am perverse, I had to get a bottle of Imp.

Love this, it's in the same amazing fruity group with Josie and Kitsune Tsuki.

It fades PDQ though or maybe that's just because it's getting over the trip here still.

If it stayed like the top note it would be number one on the hit parade...

Edit * This is what they make scent lockets for...this lives in my Mad Hatter locket, very appropriate.

Oh noes, another hit!!!! from Grendel for me. This one is fantastic, and although it is very "masculine" I still (as a girl) love it for myself, it's very complex and amazing. I could even smell it in the shower, after using actual soap. Need this.

Thanks to Melifluous for her gorgeous decant circle.

On my amazing husband (whose mother was a perfumer, and who himself has a wonderful nose) his favorites so far are Hellboy, and Debauchery. I also love the Dawn guy one, I forget his name now but he smells fantastic.

I also love Tombeur on him.

Zomg heaven. this one starts off sharp to me, but then ends smooth with rich vanilla spice at the end. Beautiful, perfect, getting a bottle ASAP.

Edit : Have my big bottle, and this has turned out to be one of my top ten. Amazing. Spicy, warm, lively, wonderful.

This is wonderful, there is a sharp lemony note at the start, and it ends up rich and resiny, love love love it.

Ooh another powder lover!!!

I think it's the amber that does it to me, it's fabulous.

That said my favorites are Crib Girls, and Spellbound.

Love love love this. It is a bit "masculine" as it is a wonderful almost totally green deep blend, so very well blended and rich. It doesn't scream one note, it's a melange of gorgeous.

Licorice Bats!!!!! Shoot me and kill me, I love this. It's total candy on me, but heavy and weighted down with something more substantial. I was lucky enough that my Best BPAL Pal did not care for the sugary note in this. Love, love, love, more proof to my theory that all Bats is good Bats...

I got this for my DH, he loves red musk (he wears Debauchery all the time, it's fantastic on him). We are both wearing Tombeur today, and loving it. I don't get much red musk however, mostly the antique patchouli (the same as Schwartzer Mon, yay!) and vetiver. This is a big big win for me! Oh and him, yeah I got it for him right??

So, I saw the link on the forum the other day and I ordered the two oils. I paid with Paypal. I did not realize that you should put your forum name down on the order form. I hope I am not in trouble! I did send an email to customer service, maybe that will fix it?

This the the Emperor's New Perfume for me, my husband says it is wonderful, but I can barely smell it. I feel it more than smell it, OK then.

Lucky for me, my BPAL pal says she can't smell Two, Five and Seven (which I surely can) so I am assured that it's a weird chemistry thing not a OMG I am broken thing.

I like this though, it seems quite soft to me, but it tickles the back of my nose and throat, though not unpleasantly.

It was worth it to buy for the bottle art alone, I'll try the Mother next...

Edit* OK! So it's been a few days, and now the Priestess and I are getting along much better, and I can smell her. She dries down to a nice medium bodied sweet incense, however I would have thought that she had an opium note, as I smell a similarity between two others that I love, Stormclouds over the Midway, and L'Heure Verte???

another Edit* This has become one of my favorites, the rose note is like a sharp tea rose kind of rose. The incense underneath is beautiful.

Further Edit, just bought my second bottle of this, it aged into the most wonderful rose and resin.

I'm new to BPAL so I'm also looking for fruity scents minus the spice. I as far as non-fruits go I like sandalwood, a mute cinnamon, and a light patchouli but no incense. I enjoy fragrances that have these scents/accords: candy, fruity (apple, black current, strawberry, banana), citrus, clean, champagne, and anything else that is similar.

 

Some of the scents that have caught my interest are: Snake oil, Poisoned Apple, Akuma, Shango, Hollywood Babylon, The Hanging Gardens and The Hamptons. I am also looking for a scent that is one of the "seductive" scents that I may be able to wear that may be a little fruity.

 

Thank you for your suggestions!

I second the nomination for Bon Vivant for champagne with strawberries.

Another amazing strawberry is Bat of Virtue, which you can buy from Etsy right now.

Ooh here's one I forgot, Lemon Scented Sticky Bats, it's like a lemon cookie, and you can buy it GC! Meaning it's available through the General Catalouge.

Also helpful for me, if you have say a million hours of spare time and are reading the Lab's offerings, I make notes about the stuff that looks interesting and then I look at reviews. Of course you are not going to jibe with every review, if say you LOVE vanilla and the reviewer does not you will smell the scent differently, but I find even the negative reviews helpful ie, "Eeew gross me out man smells like lemons" I know it's for me because I love lemons.

My favorite food are Josie (peach) and Hungry Ghost Moon (which I call The Evil Cookie). Thirteen from this year has an amazing chocolate top note, but it's only the top note that is "foodie"

Luck to you, I think you will find many things you like here.

Sin is pretty amazing. I also love Clemence but you cannot buy her right now as the Carnival is down, unless someone is selling some.

Oh, and OMGosh, Lust. I lust for Lust.

Lust and Sin are from Sin and Salvation.

This is quite beautiful. It smells to my philistine nose like a classic Chanel perfume, gorgeous. To me this is an elegant lady in 1925, in a dark smokey jazz club, wearing some gorgeous couture black silk dress. Love this, it's on The List.

I could not stop myself from ordering a big old bottle of this one since I almost inhaled my arm the other night. This is so juicy to me, but not straight out fruit like Josie, there is a sharpness there that is very subtle. I love this, it's summery and just sweet enough.

I had to order a big bottle of this, I just could not stop trying the imp. It is so delicious, woody and sweet dark cherry. I was wearing it the other night and my friend said Wow you smell soooooo dirty, you know, in a good way? so okay then, one large Red Queen please.

This does not morph so much, just stays wonderful. Very rich and heady, and the wood is not overpowering as I found it with The Wooden Doll .

This is a mystery to me, it starts out for me with the same lemon as Crib Girls, then promptly takes a hike and is so faint, I can barely smell anything.

Much better in the Zocket, as it's just the amazing lemony topnotes.

Well I was lucky enough to receive this from my Bpal pal, who does not dig the gin note.

WTFaery? Orange? I must be broken.

However I do love this, I have it in my purse and it is just as reviving as a charming cocktail.