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I fell head over heels with Black Opal. Does anyone have recommendations for scents like it, and others that feature a clean, mineral, granite, stone type smell?

Unfortunately, White Rabbit smells just like burnt rubber on my skin, in a very bad way. Nothing but bad, burnt rubber. I wanted to like it, from the description, but my skin hates it. I'll definitely have to try those two. I don't need a dupe of Black Opal necessarily, but more... I just like the smell of stone, you know? Rain on wet concrete/cracked granite sort of thing.

(this is from my blog, which is why there's a link to this board in it) Preconceptions - I seem to remember something about roses in this one. In the bottle - Sweet, powdery, rosearific Wet - Goes a little warmer, drier, but still very rosey/diapery. Maybe cinnamon? Not a scent I like at this point. Will have to give it some time. 5 minutes in - Has gone very green/woody. Weird, like a pile of rose stems left out over night, with Cinnamon on top. Still not my cup of tea, but I better than the rose/diaper it opened with. I checked the BPAL Madness Board Harlot review thread at this point, and this “waterlogged/soil” smell they speak of, I think that just reads as spoiled to my nose at this point. I like broken green scents, like Glasgow and Vinland, but Harlot just isn’t coming together for me yet. 15 minutes in - Now the green wood is coming forward with the powder/very dry cinnamon. When I lean back it sort of morphs together into rose, and it’s drifting up nicely from the inside the elbow test. Hmm. If I liked rose, I might enjoy it, but I find the flower cloying and old ladyish. It’s interesting, but still not for me.

For me, O is a perfect example of what BPAL does best, give you a perfume that’s much more interesting than the sum of its parts. Initially, I didn’t like this scent. For some reason, it read a little rubbery to my nose at first, and I disliked that inital burst so much that I wiped it off and didn’t allow it a drydown. I realized later that that scent was like honey without the sweetness, if that makes sense. I’ll do a longer review later with the stages, as I’m wearing it at the moment layered with another scent. It blends really well with cinnamon and spicy scents, on my skin. By itself, it’s almost disconcertingly subtle. Like it wants to be sweeter, but the amber (which I never would have sniffed out on my own) does a lot of grounding. It’s very sexy, but not overtly. I'm getting a 5ml of it as soon as I can. It's a very adult kind of sexy.