Aveya

In the bottle and my brief skin test I loooooved it. Bubbly, bright, zesty champagne peach. But on skin during a work-day test it just zapped away to nothing. Sadly a trader for me

Got my bottle in a happy swap. Wet in bottle: Creamy rum *drool* Wet on skin: ... Sharp tartness? I'll give it a few. Dry on skin: Weird scent. My nose doesn't understand it perfectly well. I think the alcholic part of Rum is coming across weirdly tart. the coffee is not prominent, but it's there. The longer it sits on skin the more it creeps up. It starts to ramp up with the spices in the drydown and goes a little bit Pumpkin Latte on me. Mm. Yep. it's the same coffee (to me/on my skin) as what's in Pumpkin latte if you know. But minus the heavy frump pumpkin adds, and instead add in a lighter sorta tart rum note. Spices are similar (but any PSL without spices needs to die) as well. I think cardamon gets a little off-kelter on me personally. I'll give this one a full-day wear at work to see how I feel after before I decide if I'll swap or keep. It's a nice solid scent, but nothing remarkably drool-worthy like some other lab scents. Might be fun to layer with this one though .

2012 Version Wet in bottle: Wet musty. Wet on Skin: ... Wet musty Dry Initial on skin: This is a strangely calming scent. I don't like it - but every time I sniff it to try to understand the notes I feel so very very calm. So, that's something. This is an almost nice scent for me, but I'm thinking this ebony musk is just too dank for me. It's just musty to my nose. Now, that said I do appreciate it. So I'm going to set aside my generic "It's wet basement" which I always say about both vetiver and myrrh it seems, and just accept that it's how those two scents smell. Or I grew up with a really bizarre basement. So - Got past that. Underneath it, there's a soft sweetness. Almost a leathery smokey sweet. Spicy without being abrupt and in your face like say, Bengal can be. This is mellow and as others have said, seamless. It's a waste of time to pull apart the scents because that's not what it is. This is feathered darkness. Incense-riddled insomnia. Warm sadness. What's the opposite of bittersweet? This feels like the answer. Calmingmadness, warm depression. Ok done now. TLDR; Sweet and Spicy Black musk. low-moderate throw. I think this will cling to my skin for days too. But man that mustyness is bordering baby-powder-amp on me. Edit: And there it goes, about an hour in POOF babypowder. : (

Oh my gosh. I didn't read reviews before I purchased - but such a cute surprise that the label is hand drawn moon-unicorn (yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a moon with a horn omg) with stars. Adorable In bottle : Dat's bubble gum in there. Wet on skin: Vanilla bubble gum! Drydown: Blueberry vanilla gum Also, by bubble gum I mean the pink bazooka kind that's hard to chew. So this scent throws something a little pink into and makes me think cherry. But calling that cherry is misleading cause lol it's bazooka gum. At first I was a little sad I don't get as much blueberry as others do. It's there, but I was actually hoping for a juicy smack-me-in-the-face blueberry. BUT - The longer it's on the warmer it gets, the more the sugary fades, and a vanilla blueberry afterglow is left. Sweet creamy blend of my childhood at the stop-n-go. Bazooka gum, blueberry icecream. Not wanting to spit out my gum and eating the ice cream anyways. Then the wafting remnant smell of all that all over my shirt on the car ride home... This is a keeper for me, for sure. Overall: Subtle and soft creamy sweet blueberry. Very low throw on me, a close-skin scent. But a guilty pleasure. Side note : My fav lab scent of all time is Irrelevant and Distrubing Surreal Crawdad Dream. And the blueberry in this on the drydown reminds me strongly of that scent. So, yum.

Snagged off the lab's Etsy page. Wet in bottle: sweet cloying pruney plumy. Wet on Skin: SUGAR. PLUM. Drydown: Tones down a bit and is really beautiful. it's a bit like gummied candy, in that it's not raw sugar, but definitely sweet. it's got a little bit of a spice on me, and I think it's the plum note. Makes me think of a plum gummy andy. Late drydown: Blooms into something new. Something spicy but softly sweet. My poor husband is scent challenged and when I asked him what he smelled, he lit up and said "Cinnamon!". NOT lab cinnamon we've seen before for sure, but the remnant of Christmas spices. My skin tends to amp spicey-esq things (Carnation as example). So this is following a beautiful trend. I dub thee my Purple Spice Musk.

This is one of those imps I got because I just... purposely ignored the scent I hate in hopes it would just get drowned out by everything else. But alas. Jasmine, my nemesis. I thought you being PINK might make you act differently. Wet in the imp; Jasmine. Wet on skin; JASMINE. Drydown; JASMINE. I mean, it's a very pretty Jasmine. I was hoping since I amp carnation they'd duke it out and I'd be able to survive without smelling like babypowder flowers. There's still hope. I'm going to wear it for a while and see how it plays out. But for now - it's probably the PRETTIEST Jasmine I've ran across from the lab. Sweet, rounded, beautiful for a Jasmine. It's got pretty tame throw (considering it amps to china for me), but compared to normal scents it's got mid-far throw. But it's still jasmine. I'm just waiting for the end-game to see if Carnation can come play. As you can tell, all the other elements are just background for me. I'm not familiar with Elemni, but I hear it's lemon/peppery? So that could be the tipping choice. Plum sugar is not here, as far as I see. It might be adding that gentle dab of sweetness, but it could be the "nectar" too. It's pretty, light, floral, slightly sweet, non-cloying, non-powdery. It's very well defined for being so floral. I think if I decided I wanted to try being a girly carefree floral person, this would be a great gateway scent. The longer it wears the more green it feels - what I mean, is it actually smells like a living flower I could pluck. I don't usually get that with Jasmine, I usually just get pounded with FLORAL. So it's refreshing. Defined, sugary floral. Jasmine predominant.

Wet; unimpressive cologne Wet on Skin; Musky-ish "dry" mess of scents Drydown on skin: SIN a MON. Yeah it's spicy spice. It's like dry Bengal. There's other stuff in there so it's not quite big-red gum on me. But there's no doubt. I made my eye water when I wafted it too close to my face, whew. That said, I think this is a very unisex scent. It's masculine without being overwhelmingly so. It's feminine if you like leather and stilletos, that Tonka I think is creeping in and softening all the edges deliciously. It's pretty powerful but my head really can't get licking flames imagery to go away. Feels really apt. I want to layer it on something for a little more depth, but if I do that I just venture into a different scent BPAL offers instead. Like it, but will trade it for someone more appropriate to adore to.

I was really excited about this scent, but it took me AGES to get it, then AGES to try it once I got it. So here we go. In the bottle it's alarmingly tart to me. Full disclaimer I despise grapefruit; but usually the taste not the scent necessarily. But I wonder if that will mess with me. I think that's what the "tart" is. Wet on skin, same as bottle plus some depth sneaking out. Dry on skin, right away, tart goes away (shew) and I can tell it's just turning into carnation. Which, I adore. But I know I amp it. Mid way it's a sort of sweet carnation for me. The cake scents don't seem to do much on me, but I'm hopeful every time. I think in this case it's keep the carnation in line. For now. Few hours of wear; Becomes a very low throw, close to skin, warm creamy/fizzy scent. It reminds me of something I've smelled before but I can't place it. It's kind of like vanilla coke, if it were a baked good. Pleasant, but the super low throw means I'll be trading it. Too bad!

BAM Fudge right out of the gate. Then ... Smokers eating fudge (like, classy smokers with nice smellin' stuff). Then I'm eating fudge in my great grandma's barn in Kentucky with tobacco drying in the rafters in the middle of summer right after picking grapes and berries in full juicy goodness off the vines right near the shed. This is fun. I like this.I like this so much. So much more than I thought I would. I'll see how it ages. The tobbacco note is pretty strong, and people at my work act pretty uppity about smoking. But this would be a fun personal weekend scent. I've smelled this chocolate-tobacco sent before, randomly. There's something people smoke that smells EXACTLY like this. But no one's been able to tell me what it is. You can tell I'm totally not a smoker, can't you? Love it. Smells like chocolate cigarettes if those are a thing

Wet in the bottle this is tart blackberry. Wet on skin this is literally the phrase "heat and wax of scared candles". it's instantly Bengal (GC) - esq, but doesn't stay that way. Quickly there's something sharp and stinging to me that pops out. Green, Herbal, (Ozone? That one wafts randomly). I don't get the blackberries I was hoping for, I feel like this is more blackberry leaves. Ignoring individual scents I just decide to embrace the overall image. It's perfectly as described. This is a slightly dark rite with a pure undertone. Crisp dark winter depression being thwarted by warm candles and a beckoning begging to bring Imbolc. Just the faintest whisps of the green of spring combating the ever-pressing winter. All underlined by the safety of the candles. Random, but it's an entire scene. Dissecting each scent almost feels wrong for this one. There's an interesting feeling this one envokes. The feeling of being in the darkness and danger, but someone you love and trust holding your hand. That someone just smells like cinnamon wax. It's a very interesting scent. Which is why I love BPAL! The cinnamon wax part is really lovely actually, almost honey-esq on me. But then while sniffing and enjoying I'm whapped in the face by a slash of ozone-y wind and gag a little. lol. Very worth the sniff though! Grateful I was able to get a sample of this one to try.

Oh. My God. So I've been dying to try this, with no luck finding. And it was on the lab's Etsy shop randomly so had to grab. So, I'm reading the other reviews and everyone is saying Cedar. I don't... get cedar at all? Is there Cedar in this? I'm wondering if this is an aged bottle from the lab and maybe something changed since release? This scent closest reminds me of their GC Goblin. In that sort of mixed muddy delicious patch. Their most beautiful patchouli I looooove. LOVE. I think it's tempered black patchouli. Then it does have a soft "woody" undertone, but on me it's more like Miskatonic University (amusingly they added as a frimp in my batch, what good pairing they do ). Not too strong or too cedar, just hinted at. Present but not imposing. I think the hazelnut keeps things at bay. I don't get strong sugar or apricot notes, which I was really excited about - I was hoping for like a glorified Depraved. But it does all whirl together into a dirtier version of Dee for me. They almost mimic a sweet soft leather. It's like the dirty partner to Dee -s lightly more feminine because it's got this barely-there hint of sweetness. I agree - I could see this smelling fan-freakin-tastic on more masculine people. To fit not just the smell but the whole atmosphere. I can sport it pretty well, but I have to be in the right mood. I'd slather it on my boy, but his skin literally eats scents. Just a waste :| I'm probably going to try to layer this with a sweeter single note to see if I can girly it up just slightly. But I love it . Add to the list of fantastic patchouli's from the lab. THANK YOU.

Bottle : Woody apricot? Wet on Skin : Wood. Drying on Skin: Wood. Then perfumey blend of wood sake? Then it sweetens up into a lovely fruity floral. The overall vibe is floral-esq, with spikes of fruit and an underlaying light-handed musky wood. I love smelling the scent and looking at the image, then rolling around laughing because it's so accurate. Musky lingering-sex but yet light and weirdly pure considering. Outdoorsesq and beautifully soft and summery. Personally I was looking for a more prominent fruit note, with hopefully boozy undertones. The Shunga scents all seem to have this sex-musk to them that sort of clouds up the scents for me. It's pretty in a perfume-esq way, but I prefer either crisper or darker scents. Probably gonna be a swap for me, so sad! But I'm really glad I got to smell this one. It would be beautiful on the right person for sure.

Wet : ... Fruity? I dunno what that's about. wet on skin: Thirteen, Feb '09. Super excited now that's one of my top ten fav blends. There's an overlap here I'm loving. dry on skin: So far so good, sticking around. It is exactly what I thought it would be - Gingerbread is the wrong term for it. Dark, miskatonic gingerbread maybe. Smoky, spicey, but not in a "well blended" generic way. The spices are like amazing pops being held together with a gingerbread glue. I'll have to watch how the musk ages with wear time; but so far this is amazing. Glad I was able to get a decant.

Wet in the Imp; buttered apples. Wet on Skin; goopy fruits (fruity but sticky?) Dry on skin; Spicey Fruit. First half hour, it's autumnal fruits, ripe, sun kissed, spices in the air. I can't pinpoint each fruit, it just has a general atmospheric vibe. I like it. Want it. About an hour in; Perfume? Like, that's generic of course it's perfume. But something went sideways and turned into cloy-y old lady perfume. It doesn't have crazy throw, but no longer fun to sniff for me. So sad. I'm assuming it's a musk I'm not familiar with. As I tend to avoid many, as this happens. :|

Bottle: Neglected bachelor pad's fridge's old cream. Wet on Skin: RUST. Like, lol. Whatever she used for "rust" is suuuper potent wet for me. Dry on Skin: Oh hi there Vetiver. I hate you Vetiver. Did you know that? You're in my scent hates, sir. You're not supposed to be here. The drydown after initial is a little crazy for me. I'm going to have to come back after wearing for a few more hours... but it went from VETIVER FEARS, to LEATHER OMG. To a tempered blend of spices and leather. I'm thinking if my skin wasn't odd this blend really could be awesome. I'm not sure what the "spices" and "liqueurs" are, but they add these interesting moments of really layered, beautiful, RICH scent. Sometimes it smells almost fizzy. Like I've smelled that before... the BPAL Gin? But mixed with Leather and cake and this is just a weird morpher for me. It doesn't seem to settle into one place and establish it's identity. Overall it's incense-esq with a steady leather and/or vetiver background. With these effervescent pops of scent, either rust or mystery fizz. It's one to try for fun. I could see the more masculine-spectrum members really liking it. Maybe an atmospheric as well.

Bourbon vanilla, custard accord, white rose, cocoa absolute, oudh, lemon blossom, and skin musk. Tricky tricky scent. My bottle has literally been sitting for years (lol). So when I rolled it, yeah I have like epic sludge at the bottom of my jar. =o I really had to roll it a WHILE before I got the dark sludge down the side instead of solid chunks on the bottom. Then rolled it longer still until it was flawless smooth. Important, I think. You know the scent though. You gotta look at the image this was based on, and then I think it all makes sense. This scent is ... wonky but serious. So my skin amps rose, turns chocolate into chalk, and half the musks amp and the other half are weird. So, this was a little risky for me. But I was too intrigued by custard not to try. Overall, the scent is dominantly perfumed wood for me. I can FIND the notes listed if I search, but it doesn't come across obviously. The mixture of everything is well mixed, so it creates a unique scent. Which is... sweet fruity-esq musk wood. I was thinking of when I'd wear this - and this feels WEIRDLY appropriate to wear in blank pantsuits and heels. I wish I had more vanilla and custard, but hey. That wouldn't match the image at all

Black Cat, black "13" orange label bottle. In bottle - smells like decadent rich chocolate. Yum Wet on Skin - As hubby says "Uh, you're just wearing chocolate now?" Dry on skin - CUMIN. Hi there Cumin. Though I like to taste you, you don't smell so great on my skin. Could you maybe leave the party? If I inhale and get all epic about it, my brain can find all the elements and appreciate how much complexity is in the scent. But on a passing "What's that smell" the answer is cumin, cocoa, and dust. Like, dry cocoa powder that got spilled in my spice cabinet. I'll trade this along so someone who's skin doesn't just eat chocolate away can enjoy. Hopefully it's not just an age thing with the scent, it's a tiny bit old now.

I got # 122 in a swap. Fresh on skin it's very water-esq, it also smells a little bit like Planting Moon. But given a bit more time, it mellows out and has a slight 'Tombstone'esq scent rise out of it. More time just gives way to a very warm musk. Musky vanilla with a cut of herbaly aftershave and a splash of sassafras? There's my best guess. Smells a bit like cologne, in a nice way. I might see how this goes on the SO.

This is all crazy mint in the imp and fresh on skin. Good for a sinus clearing! Then it gets all frumpy. Dirty. Earthy. Musty? And then I come to the forums and read "If you really dislike vetiver (a.k.a khus), stay far away from this one!". And then I go "Oooh that's why Khus never works". Although I have noticed scents labeled with Khus tend to be less basement and more outdoorsy grunge (on my skin?). I wonder if there's something distinguishing the two. In any case, the mint on this one faded semi-quickly for me and turned into a kind of frumpy hippy smell. Actually, it smells exactly like a shop I visited once in Yellow Springs, Ohio. So instead of wet basement, this is musty antique shop with a slightly mystic overtone. It's interesting. There's a definite overtone of summery dirt-rolling festiveness in this. I really enjoy it for what it is, but have a hard time imagining wearing this anywhere. In light of all the other soul-selling scents BPAL offers, this one will have to get swapped off. But I'm glad I got a decant. Maybe I'll sneak some on the SO and see if he smells awesome in it first. He just might...

Disclaimer: I hate vetiver. Hate it. Haaaaaate it. So I'm always overly skeptical when I try scents with vetiver. But I LOVE lemon verbena. LOVE it. So I gave this scent a shot. In the imp this was SOLID vetiver. All over musty musky dirty old basement (that's what vetiver smells like to me ). I contemplate putting this straight to the swaps but then tell myself if I don't try it I'll always wonder. When I first apply it to my skin, lemon explodes. What kind of lemon? Lemon sticky bat lemon. Lemon pledge lemon? Lemon heads lemon. I wonder how much lemon a person can take. Fortunately, this only lasted for MAYBE 5 minutes max. For the next half hour, this scent turns into something warmly beautiful. It smells like my step-grandmothers Kitchen while she's making lemonade. Herbs hanging from the raw wood rafters, fresh produce all over the place. Freshly squeezing lemons with the dirt just brushed off the peel. And is that fried apples for dessert? The longer it sits on my skin, the more the lemonade is drunk and the pie eaten. The house warms up and the wood seeps in. After that? I get random notes of pencil shavings and lemon pledge. It's like there's this moment when the blend perfectly combines to make a heavenly sniff- but then something unsettles and the notes come apart. Perhaps the herbs and vetiver fade from my skin first, leaving lemon and wood to battle it out? Perhaps my skin just doesn't like it? It's struggling with itself, poor thing. Overall- glad I tried it. But will be swapping.

First sniff on skin: "Oooogh" just stress relieve oozing out of me. This is going to get slathered on my SO when I next see him. This is... Superman sherbet. Really. There's nothing else to say. It bubbles out right on skin, but is a quick fade. However it has this lasting skin-closeness I like and not a complete fade. And oddly? It's somehow masculine to me. It's not sugar sweet or girly lolipop. It's like ... summer walks on the bike path while your Flintstones push pops melt down your hands. I'll come back after I snuggle against my SO this summer with this slathered on his neck and let you know how great that goes. It's a very personal scent, so I think he'll appreciate that not everyone gets giant wafts of his fruity. It's a secret fruity.

The overall feel for this blend is very warm, sweet, and natural. The description fits perfectly. I feel like I can even smell strawberry seeds on a freshly squished strawberry in the hot summer sun. Today was, interestingly, the first day above 80 in my state since "spring" hit. We had an ice storm just weeks ago, so when spring comes we know how to LOVE it. This scent fits absolutely perfectly. I can feel the adoration Beth has for her daughter in this blend. It smells like youthful sweet innocence, with a touch of wisdom far beyond what you'd expect from something so sweet. It could melt your heart Beautiful. This is a scent I advise to not pick apart, and take in the entire wholeness of it. Jam-sweetness on top of crushed rose petals, all under the warm heat of a happy summer sun. With a touch of static fizz that only hair ever smells like. This may not be a bottle buy for me, but it will definitely be something I go to on happy summer picnic days this summer

Aeval is a bright, light, happy, fruit-like sweetness yet gently floral scent. Which is weird - I was expecting more musk and warmth. It's very feminine - If you're into unisex this wont cut it (there are some nice "clean floral" scents with lavender for example that are spectacular unisex or masculine scents). I personally got this scent because I went on a Tonka kick after discovering how incredible Dee is (mmm) and was in a search for anything with Tonka. I'm fairly confident I amp most florals out the wazoo - and because I'm not super familiar with sweet pea, I think this scent may have become 90% sweet pea on me and overpowered the rest. But I guess I like Sweet Pea! But that being said - I have a hard time wearing Aeval as my daily scent. However, I tossed an imp (I ended up with three eventually o_O) in a grapeseed & tamanu oil mix and it's a FANTASTIC after-bath moisturizer. The scent is just perfect for freshly-washed me. It lends itself to cleanliness. And as a bonus, since it gets slightly diluted it doesn't hang around all day (just in the "mmm I'm clean" phase) and I can easily add another BPAL later without clashing. I was fairly surprised, because it's one of the few imps where I didn't really "get" the interpretation. I was assuming it would be somehow bold and sexy - instead it makes me think of sweet freckle-faced girl just out of water. I guess that works! If you want a clean fresh feminine scent, this might be perfect for you.

Phobos (Diabolus GC) It was a bright citrus with a sweet touch. Kind of reminded me of Lemonheads (candy). My sister actually stole my imp, and I need it replaced. It has grapefruit in it which I think prevents it from going pledge. It's really "citrus" and not one fruit or the other. The other notes make it feel "cold", which according to the description is mortal fear. But in practice becomes an amazingly refreshing summer scent. You also mentioned liking sugared florals - so while this is a discontinued LE, I would recommend Faith (sugared violet). It's not citrus, but it's pretty, sweet, and uplifting.

The Banshee Beat vibe of this is remarkable. But it's less soft (the hemp, I imagine in Banshee) and a lot dirtier. Banshee Beat is what everyone wants to think of tree loving hippies (sunshine and kisses), Feed me~ is what I think most hippies really are. Dreads, no processed sugar (honey yay ), and a tough love that gets you kissees when truly appropriate. Or that's just me. I think #Occupy Wallstreet is a lot deeper/wetter and didn't work as well on me. Womb furie is a close scent too- but a lot sweeter (went a little cloying on me). It doesn't have the wet slap of patchouli like Depraved, and is a bit closer to the patchouli in Goblin (but sans coconut, so Goblin is a LOT dirtier). All weird comparison's aside, this is an amazing scent. Easily jumping into my top 5. This is the most amazing patchouli I've had from the lab yet (granted, there are many other on my MUST TRY list), and it's tamed to a wearable level (aka: not annoying coworkers/sisters that hate patchouli). The amber gives it the over-all feel of sensual, warm, sexual. But add that sweetness of honey and vanilla and oh... my god. There is nothing more delicious in this world then a warm vanilla'd patchouli. Final decision. So glad I got a bottle of this. I just wish I had gotten more, because I'm certain I'll be doing hunts for this in the future. It'll be a regular scent in my go-to rotation. Highly recommend to everyone that likes patchouli even a little. Note: Amber usually amps on me, making every blend with amber be AN AMBER BLEND OMG. So it's possible that for me, the amber and patchouli balance each other. In comparison to other reviews where the patchouli is dominant.