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Quite a sharp lavender here, not the soft and gentle kind like I like. Too many herbs. I think I'll stick with the TAL Nocturne.

I'm ready for summer too! Ugh, one more quarter. Don't let this professor get you down. If your English professor says you know how to write papers, then you do. AND, I also can't wait to get my Pink Moon t-shirt!! I think it's my fave one ever. Plus... I look really good in pink, much to my dismay.

I accidentally put more oil on for the test of this oil than I usually use, and now I'm regretting it. I really don't like this scent. It smells bitter and strange -- almost sticky -- and it's really strong. I guess I'm not sure how to describe the scent, I just know I don't like it.

This does smell like a classic men's cologne, probably because of the patchouli and musks, but the poppy gives it an interesting edge. It smells crisper and cleaner than most patchouli scents do. I bought a bottle of this because I like it so much, but the more I smell it the more I think I'd like to smell it on my husband rather than on me.

Very dry-smelling, with lots and lots of sandalwood. Not much in the way of florals or herbs at first, just sandalwood. Soft. Over time the herbs come out a bit... unfortunately I preferred the sandalwood without herbs. It's not bad, but I like others better.

I'm not sure what most of these notes smell like, but whatever I'm smelling, I like it. It's pretty, soft, and very slightly sweet. It doesn't smell herby or floral like I thought it might, it's just a good lovely scent. It's smooth, and gently spicy in the drydown. This one seems like it'll be a good scent for summer.

The first time I tried this, months ago, I didn't like it and thought it smelled like bug spray. I thought this was what civet smelled like, so I thought I didn't like civet. Then I tried some other blends that have civet in them, and I realized that I actually do like civet. I just don't like it with opium as well as in other blends. Instead of balancing out the civet the opium seems to push it further in that heady civety direction. I kinda like this, but 'm not sure if I like it enough to want to wear it because it's still a little much for me. It smells mature and grown-up... kind of sopisticated. It smells like a perfumey perfume. More traditional than most BPAL oils, I think. I should say that I think this smells good on me, it's just that I like other civet blends better.

This is a beautiful scent. I love dragon's blood, but this smells even better than Dragon's Blood on its own. It's deep and musky, dark and warm. The fig and current aren't strong on me -- I wouldn't be able to pick them out as notes in this -- but they contribute a sweetness to the scent. They make it seem more feminine. I understand why this one is called Dragon's Heart; it's warm and comfortable and makes me feel at home.

This oil is extremely dark, almost as dark as Smut... and that's usually an indication that I'll like it a lot. This one is no exception. The red musk is really strong at first, but as it dries the roses come out more. Red musk usually smells dark and sexy on me, and it blends really well with the roses. Normally I don't like roses, but I like them in this. It's a sultry, grown-up scent. When I'm wearing it I feel like I should be on the prowl. It makes me want to put on stilettos and something slinky. It's too bad the only thing I'm doing tonight is prowling over to the laundry room and folding clothes. *sigh*

Well, I don't really know what any of these notes smell like on thei own, so I'm not sure exactly which notes I'm smelling. I do know that I like this, though. It doesn't exactly smell like bananas, but it does smell tropical. Sweet. And there's a lovely undercurrent of something creamy, too. Actually this scent reminds me a lot of Vasakasajja. Sweet, slightly floral, a little bit creamy and a little bit fruity... all in all, lovely.

I usually like the notes in this, but it turns out that this particular combination isn't a good one for me. If it were just orange or just raspberry I'd probably like it better -- the two together are just too much. It's overly sweet and almost... chalky, for some reason. I think it's just too much fruit for me.

I can't really smell the vetiver in this, it seems like mostly sandalwood. I can maybe smell a teeny bit of lemon rind, but it's barely there. It just makes the sandalwood smell sweet. The imp I'm testing is at least a year old, so that probably has something to do with the scent, but as it is right now I like this quite a lot. It's a lovely sandalwood.

This is mainly fig on me with a slight shadow of cocoa. I love the dry woody notes, they make this scent smell more dry than other fig scents. It smells mysterious, but sweet and full too. The wood notes come out nice and strong when it's dry. This is a great scent -- it should be in heavy rotation for my BPAL perfumes. Smells good next to Depraved, too. (Something I just found out while I'm doing some testing. )

Lots of berries, but grown-up berries, not sweet innocent ones. I'm surprised that I like a berry scent this much because usually berry scents smell like shower gel to me (thanks to using too many sweet berry-scented shower gels, I'd wager). The wine gives it a nice dryness that keeps it from being too sweet. I think it's a great scent.

When I first tried many months ago I thought that it smelled too much like cough syrup while it was wet for me to like it, although I did like it after it was dry. I let the imp age for a while, and now I like it a lot better. The patchouli is much stronger and deeper, and although the apricot is strong at first, it fades out. It turns into a lovely sweet patchouli. Deep and rich. I like this one.

I like the rum and tobacco leaf combination, and it smells like a spicy, interesting scent. A little on the sweet side, but the florals seem smoky instead of heady. Overall not a bad scent, but it seems like it might be a little too masculine for me.

I'm making a list here of my favorites from the GC, mainly just for my reference. The ones I don't have bottles of yet have an asterisk. The ones that are next on my list to get are purple. Bewitching Brews Jack Scherezade Sin & Salvation Anathema Dorian Love Potions Bathsheba Bordello Perversion Snake Oil - AGED Vixen Diabolus Fenris Wolf *Kitsune-Tsuki Marquise de Merteuil Mad Tea Party Eat Me Frumious Bandersnatch Mouse's Long and Sad Tale The Unicorn Illyria Tamora *Titania Wanderlust Tintagel Tombstone - AGED Ars Draconis Dragon's Milk Dragon's Musk Rappaccini's Garden Cobra Lily The Salon Silence Two Monsters Three Gorgons A Picnic in Arkham Miskatonic University Excolo Loviatar Ogun Osun Santa Muerte Shango Sephiroth Chokmah And these ones are the ones I like a lot, but they're a step down from the "love" category. I wear them often. Bewitching Brews *Blood Kiss *Intrigue *Lampades *Omen *Sudha Segara *Velvet *Voodoo Wilde Funereal Oils *Midnight *Nocturne *Thanatopsis Sin & Salvation The Bow & Crown of Conquest *Fallen *Hellfire Lust *Oblivion Sin Love Potions *Carnal Loralei Salome *Spellbound Vicomte de Valmont Diabolus Dracul *Hell's Belle *Hellcat Villain Mad Tea Party Cheshire Cat *White Rabbit Illyria *Lady Macbeth Wanderlust *Hollywood Babylon Manhattan Morocco *Lyonesse *Pontarlier *Prague Ars Draconis *Dragon's Heart *Dragon's Reverie Rappaccini's Garden *Black Hellebore *Love-Lies-Bleeding *Moon Rose *Strangler Fig The Salon *Three Brides *The Ecstasy of St. Teresa *Judith Victorious *Les Anges Déchus *The Sailor's Den A Picnic in Arkham Al-Azif *The Music of Erich Zahn Excolo *Grandmother of Ghosts *Kali *Mania *Oya *Queen Mab *Tezcatlipoca *Xiuhtecuhtli *Aglaea Vechernyaya Voodoo Blends French Love *Love Me *Wolf's Heart The Chakras Swadhisthana

This is almost entirely lemon verbena on me, with a smidgen of bergamot. I can't smell any jasmine, which is weird because that one usually amps on me. There is something distorting the lemon scent when it's dry, though, and I guess that's the jasmine because the sandalwood wouldn't do that. But I wouldn't be able to peg it as jasmine. When it's dry sometimes I think I can smell some sandalwood, but it's fleeting. I'm not a lemon verbena kind of gal, but this does smell fresh and light, and I think people who like lemon scents should give this one a try.

I like the wisteria, and it seems like I can smell some tea too, but the star jasmine is giving me a slight headache. I won't be able to wear this one, which is too bad because I like this better than most jasmine blends. It's nice with the tea.

This is incredibly bitter on my skin, just like yuzu. I like sweet and sparkly grapefruit notes but not this kind. It smells acidic. Urgh. There's something weedy and acrid in it, too. It reminds me of Aizen-Myoo, which is one of my least favorite scents. My skin just doesn't like notes like this at all.

This a pretty scent -- it smells like meadows of flowers. It's calming, pretty, and soft. There's an overtone of some floral note that's a bit too sour for me, but it isn't bad. This isn't my favorite floral, but I don't object to it as much as I object to most florals. It smells very natural.

Mostly the marine notes, but they're not dark and murky. It seems quite light, almost too much. It reminds me of fizziness. It's definitely in the marine/aquatic category, but it's not as heavy or as piercing as many of the other aquatics are on my skin.

Lemongrass is almost always a note that ruins a blend for me, partly because I my skin seems to amp it outrageously and partly because I don't like it. This seems like mostly lemongrass and lime to me with barely a hint of anything else. There's a tiny weeny amount of coconut. This is the kind of scent I like in a wax tart but not as a perfume.

This is a spicy leather scent, with a really nice incense over the top. It does smell masculine to me, but not too much. Over time it's mostly leather and incense, but not in a loud way. It's soft. I think this scent is on the comforting side. I'd probably like it better without the pepper and pimento, but they're not bad. They give it an interesting twist.

Oddly sweet and resinous. And something like eucalyptus. It's a bold, kind of sharp scent. It's the sort of scent that seems medicinal to me because it smells like Vick's Vaporub. With cedar. Not really my kind of scent at all, but my dog thought it was very interesting and worthy of about a minute of concentrated sniffing.