Aveya

Mostly tonic. Gin isn't giving it that BURST of pop I've seen with other gin scents. it's a sort of flat drink. It's mellow-fruity ; nothing standing out too much. nothing crazy juicy poppy fruity like I always hope for. That said, this feels well balanced. It's a wearable gentle fruity, and doesn't smell like you're wearing booze. It's light and gentle, and tropical for sure. Swapper for me personally - but the scent is nice.

First note I get : PINK LIME. I didn't know what that would smell like, but this tart almost floral citrus zap has GOT to be pink lime. It's like all the worst scents are compiling on this one for me. Pomegranate is adding a tart edge, lime is adding sour. There's a zippy pep to this scent, but this lingering threatening clean/floral/powder from somewhere that's ready to overtake in moments. Nothing like how it smells in the imp - which is a rich, fruity, promising scent. Really disappointing for me. Verdict - Bright bubbly sour/tart drink. Hints of a soapy edge on me that's scaring me away.

I was super excited about this scent. I love pumpkin spice - that is, I like the spice only and not the pumpkin that often goes along with it. What in the name says pumpkin belongs? Nothing. It's Pumpkin Spice people. SPICE THAT YOU PUT IN PUMPKIN PIE. Anyways - This scent smelled exactly like pumpkin spice hersey kisses. There's something slightly off about it. Something maybe plastic but maybe intended. I've been running into it in a lot of wheenies that I've been testing lately. Verdict; I'm just going to tell people I like Masala Chai and solve this pumpkin vs pumpkin spice debate.

Runts. That's all she wrote.

This is an odd one to me. It's surprisingly CLEAN smelling on me at first. I don't know if that's the pepper? Or if the basenotes take too long to show up so it feels empty? At this point it's slightly fruity but in a tart way. Currant seems to go that route for me. Given a little time the blackberry pops up a little bit more. It's reminiscent to me of Crawdad's berry, but not the same. It's juicier/clearer, and a bit more tart. This maintains an odd level of floral for me? It's not floral proper, but it's a clean/floral/powder hit, I'm assuming the amber + pink pepper is making my brain go odd. To me this is in the realm of early-stage Lady Una (I just tested, fresh on my brain). Reminds me of elements of Red as well. Verdict; Feminine, bright, juicy without going dark, gently sweet. Low throw. Swapper for me, but nice for others I'm sure.

This scent is unfortunately a vanisher on me. Just POOF nothing. I can jam my face in there and get hints, but I just soak this one up. How sad! It has a pineapply/coconut rum thing going for it. Very beachy and appropriate. Just wish it had some throw.

Honey. Honey honey honey. Light, clear, sweet, gentle summer honey. On top of that is a sharp herbal/floral. Smells like nothing specific to me, so going to randomly attribute it to the "leaf"s Honey. Sweet, behaving, spiced, herbaled, pretty honey. An underlying sweetness creeps up. Or, let me explain since honey is sweet. An underlaying unique different level of sweet pops in that cuts through the thickness of honey. Has to be vanilla bean. Verdict: Feminine, behaved light sweet honey, with herbal/floral hints. Not for me personally - I don't really love the "leaf" aspects, but this will be (and is) a loved one for those who work it.

This is a weird feeling. The reviews so far for this scent is GLOWING. So I figured it'd be a smash hit for me. I love patchouli like a fiend, the more gnarly the better, I tend to pull off masculine scents well, etc etc. But this scent? I hate this scent. And not exactly how it smells. But it's so PRETENTIOUS. It's absurdly rich when it has no right to be. SIR, YOU HAVE PATCHOULI IN YOU! WTF are you doing being so flippin' fancy? It's powdery/airy/musky. That has no right being in a gnarly patchouli blend (lol opinion time). It FEELS, to borrow from the description, paranoid and garish. It's a bit overwhelming for me and clouded. It smells like a salesman. A cold-calling salesmen that snuck his way past reception and is now wandering around acting like he belongs and talking up everyone. GTFO WE DON'T WANT ANY. There are a lot of comparisons to #occupywallstreet with this one. I'll stick to the dirty patchouli mob, thank you. Verdict; This feels like a commercial scent to me. Rich, overwhelming, pretentious. It is, to me, EXACTLY like the description intended. I... imagine this is what Trump smells like and I start to feel nauseous. So - Swapper for this one. But I will say I haven't ran across a scent like this in BPAL before. Golf-clap for the accuracy. Edit: Correction, Trump's Caddie wears this scent.

Oh god this is 100% nilla banana pudding. I got nothing else. That's it. 100%. I mean I can get fancy and start to just smell segments and pick the scent apart - but overall it's nilla banana pudding. You know, those nilla wafers? Banana pudding. Yup. It has an element of "fake" to it, but not any more fake than nilla wafers are Drydown tames the banana but I've still got nilla wafers. Some other reviews called it stale cake. I mean - Yeah. I guess nilla wafers are inherently stale, aren't they? Unique scent. I traded for a bottle for funsies, but might decant some imps out for trade and keep a handful. Fun foodie/gourmand scent.

In contrast to the dirty sexy gritty east African patch, the Sumatran red is smooth, mellow, sweet, musky, and yes mentholy. Personally on me, it goes a little tad plasticy/fake leather. I think it's just my skin. But yes, 100% this is hippy shops in Yellow Springs. This is... comfort. This is tea, second hand stores, army surplus, and street fairs. This is an emotional accurate scent for me. This scent is what home should be. Love it. Not the same way I love black patchouli - but still love it. Emotions aside; this scent as just a scent in late dry-down tends to go powdery almost floraly on me. It's not something I love, so red patchouli in blends isn't my favorite.

This is God. This is like, patchouli dreams. I can't believe I haven't reviewed it yet. My bottles (Yeah maybe I hoarded these a tad!) have aged a touch, and they caps are getting thick and sticky. Which is exactly how this smells. Wet, rich, deep, gritty, pungent. This is Depraved's patchouli. Almost every amazing BPAL patch scent is in this bottle. NOM. This has throw, staying power, it gets almost spicy on my skin. I'm constantly trying to re-create "Depraved" versions with creams and fruits. Gonna be trying this and Bitches Love Unicorns soon. Yeah. That'll be a disaster or amazing. In any case - this is thick, sweet, dirty, sexy patchouli.

This was hefty floral, way too much floral for me. The rose was light and definitely pink. It wasn't until late late drydown that it sweetened up and the honey poked through. I always underestimate the power of floral.

Imp: ... Dubious ginseng for sure. Skin initial: Slap in the face. Zesty ginger/ginseng right up in there. Kind of funky smelling, rooty. Drydown: The spice sticks around. This is peppery, ginger-fresh, zesty, but earthy. It's like the feeling the gin/fizzy soda BPAL give you, but while staying firmly in herbal territory. It kind of grows on me. But it's definitely got it's own swaggery funk. Verdict: It's a romp through a witches spice garden while everything is bursting with ripeness.. But that curious funk will prevent me from getting a bottle / wearing this much. I bet some will love it though. Fun to sniff - you should try it out.

Imp : Gritty, dark, dirty citrus Skin initial: incensed honey Skin drydown: Citrus cinnamon-spice honey. Really low throw, I gotta shove my nose into my skin sadly. The honey is going a bit... wonk on me. I would say there's cream in this going sour. Then after a little more time, it flips a switch and goes floral-esq powdery to me. I think the amber kicks in and brings some of the other notes with it. Verdict: Low-throw spiced citrus musk, that fades quickly into a floral-amber haze.

Imp: All foody. Citrus cookies Skin wet: Nom nom orange-glazed gingerbread cookies. Very classic BPAL foodie to me. Skin drydown: Ginger becomes prominent. I've now iced my gingerbread house and moved my gingerbread bedbug into the house. I have no idea why she called this bedbug, I hope there's an inside joke there somewhere. This is such an awesome scent. Verdict; starts off foodie and quickly tames to a wearable ginger-orange cookie scent. Absolutely love it.

Imp : Clean, bright, poppy. Skin Initial: Lemony clean. Skin Dryer: Lemon balm must smell clean, since a scent earlier I tried had the same sort of feel. This is clean clean clean with a faint waft of white herbal (sage I suppose), on a backdrop of... fuzzy. Neat soft scent. Not for me, but I think others could like it. The lemon fades off for me pretty fast, leaving a vague floral clean air.

Imp: Wet green. Aloey/cucumber. That's apparently my generic "green wet" smell. Skin Initial: Stickin with it. Cucumber face peel lol. (Maybe it's Eucalyptus?) Skin Drydown: Gets a little floral-er but still an herbal-forward scent. Morphs into something like Dandelion sap. Something in it starts to dry, and gets more prairie grass and sunshine. Reminds me of Passionate Shepard's greenness. It wafts between dandelions and cut grass. I fully excepted a marijuana accord when I first got this, but none of that nonsense. This is all bright, nature-loving green optimism.

Imp: Tangy. Gin-citrus fizz Skin initial: CLEAN fizz. Based on other reviews people are calling this lemon .... I guess. It's NOT lemon-sticky-bat lemon, or any lemon I'd like to call it. It's citrus for sure. But it just smells too... clean. Lime, lemon, citronella. I dunno. Skin Later: It does envoke lemon-pledge, but personally I think it's because it smells so CLEAN. It must be a floral, likely a citrus floral. Well, whatever it is. Verdict: Fizzy moscow mule while you clean the house.

Imp: Floral. Rose most prominent to me. Then a mashing of what I'll call white floral. I'm bad at my floral scents. Skin Initial: Brief vanishing act then pops back to a gentle floral. Skin longer: Dark and musky. It's trying to act like blueberry does on me, where it gets all... warm and slathered and ripe. But it's having a battle with that. I think my nose is blurring Plum going ripe and dark and the "wild berries" staying a bit tarter. I'm also pretty sure gardenia smells like a rancid-butter-floral to me, so I probably should have just passed on this imp instead of trying it out. Gave myself a headache huffing my arm on this one trying to understand it. I'll pass this on to those who like it and miss it. Verdict; Odd buttery floral-fruit, fractured between being dark and light. Nice throw, staying power.

CLEAN. I'm clean now, thank you Wensleydale. It's actually a white floral, aquatic kind of clean. Makes me think of sun-dryed sheets. They don't get that fuzzy warm dryer smell. They get a sort of crisp clean. I'll sniff myself one moment and get an almost cucumer-aloe vibe, then the next moment get MUSK like I literally just inhaled full foamy soap up my nose. It's interesting. If you love the clean smells you'll want to add this. If you don't, this isn't going to magically change and be something new lol. That said, I'm not a huge fan of being so clean. I'ma go roll around in Depraved now, thank you.

In the imp this is a bright faux leather (its like leather everything to my nose lately :| ) Disclaimer: I've never been a snake oil fan. I just don't see it. People say it gets better with age - sure. I've had some seriously aged imps I gave a shot and still don't see it. I'm betting it's a skin chemistry thing just not working the right way. Which is all good - but that means I got Fruit Phoenix sort of randomly and with skepticism. Also never tried Schwarzer Mond. Fresh on skin: Sweet, dark, tart, wet. Drydown skin: Interestingly sweet. Yet remains dark. Not very spicey or fragrant in any other notable way to me. It's got that BPAL musk to it, almost like when I open up boxes of my favorite imps and get hit in the face with musky deep overtones of random darkness. But sensual and deep. Overall; Goth pomjuice-injected Pomelo.

This is my first Dead Leaves~ blend I've tried out. So forgive any obvious redundancies. Wet in imp ; masculine, boozy/tart, smoky? Skin Initial: Cherry tootsie pops Skin drydown: Cherry calms down from tootsie pop land and blends into smokey woodsy. It smells like a really well mixed cocktail, to be honest. Because of that it comes across a bit masculine. The longer it sits, the more it settles into masculine territory as the cherry sweetness fades. It reminds me of my Italian step-grandfather. Expensive booze, nice leather shoes, smell-good aftershave & lotion, and (likely) illegal cigars. That's INSANE this smells exactly like him. Useless to other people looking for review scents, but hey! Low throw, but a nice warm masculine scent with a touch of sweetness. Not "too" masculine though, this is near gender-neutral. Because it reminds me of my grandfather I'm twisting it a touch more masculine than it really is.

Mmm. This almost comes across like a fizzy booze drink, but isn't. It's like apple ginger ale. Light florals aren't overpowering, they just add an air of fluffy femininity. Underneath is a gentle light vanilla. This could be really beautiful. Unfortunately it does have a prominent floral that my anti-floral nose can't get itself over. Sad!

2012 Version, From an original Decant circle, not traded around. Just got around to sniffing it. It's just a faint trace of sugar on clean clothes. But with a slight wonk to it - almost buttery waxy. That wonk throws this scent out of my keeps and to the swaps. Hopefully someone else can enjoy this!

This is very... clean. Like, soprano floral with tart berry bouncing. It's bright and uplifting. Laundry-esq in a good wet clean way. But too much floral for me personally. I also don't get "dark green" from it. It does smell fresh & wild though.