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A popular holy day beverage in 18th century Ireland: roasted apples mashed into warmed milk and ale, with nutmeg, sugar, ginger, and clove. In vial: not what I was expecting! Minty apple sauce! (warm cooked apples, spices, and sweet mint ... not what I'd normally expect with apple sauce but it could be tasty!) Wet on skin: Juicy apples (cooked), spices ... maybe the minty cool blast thing is actually clove? Dry: More warm and spicy cooked apples, yum! I can pick out some specific spices now - definitely clove, and ginger. Later: more clove and ginger, less apple.

In vial: Almond, burnt sugar, floral honey? Wet on skin: Almond, caramel (not burnt anymore!), honey, but not necessarily floral anymore Dry: odd! Kind of like a clean floral honey. No idea where the almond has gone, nor any sign of croquembouche! It's actually less foody than I thought it was going to be!

In vial: Caramel and apples! Wet on skin: Apples, with caramel sauce! Dry: More appley, less caramelly. No sign of coconut rum though. Probably lucky about that seeing as I'm at work *grin Later: Still apples, and caramel. Yum. Gets more appley with time. I rather like this, but I don't actually get to wearing super foody things that often. Even though I keep signing up for decants of super foody things.

Finally getting back to testing and reviewing after a long absence! In vial: Caramel chews? I think that's what sugar + cream makes me think .. Wet on skin: Icky, sticky, chewy, gooey caramel ... mmm (: Dry: A hint of clean sheets peeks out behind what now smells more like toasted marshmallow. I'm kind of hoping that in the time that it gets to waft about, it doesn't develop the buttery vanilla thing that goes plastic on me because that's what's stopped a lot of the foody vanilla blends working for me, but that might be from cake type foody things, and not cream-type ones? Later: Hmm... it's kind of going a bit ... toastier, not quite burnt. Not sure where the clean sheets went after all that. Overall I do rather like this - a decant will be enough for me, and I'm quite glad that I've found a delicious foody vanilla-ish scent that doesn't go to plastic!

In the imp: sweet in a honey/sap kind of way, slightly green, resiny. Wet on skin: the green is still there but way back in the mix. The first hit is the sappy sweetness. Dry: The resiny things (storax, myrrh, balsam) round out the sweetness. From a bit of a googling, the embalming herbs might include basil, thyme, chamomile, marjoram, cinnamon. Can't say I can detect all or any of those; I seem to get a slightly soapy green mingling with the resiny sweetness on my skin. I rather like this, perhaps not enough to get my hands on a bottle, but definitely enough that I'll keep the imp about.

In the imp: incense, dark rose. I think it's the combination of amber and musk that is giving me the impression of incense here. Wet on skin: The roses dominate, but there's a hint of something sweeter in the background Dry: a more subdued rose, with a kind of spicy powdery background. I don't know whether I feel I'm an appropriate age to be wearing this - it feels to me to suit a more mature age than I would appear to most people. Having said that I tend to feel older than I look, although that's not difficult considering I still occasionally get checked for ID (: Perhaps, it might be something to wear on a night out where the people contact wouldn't be too crowded - a dinner out, versus a night out at the opera/movies/sit-down concert. I wouldn't say it's necessarily old ladyish, just that I don't feel old enough to do it justice, and I feel like I'd just be playing dress-ups if I were to wear it out.

First review in a very long time. I received this as a frimp when my clocket arrived from BPTP. In the imp: clean musk, light florals. I can't detect anything in the way of spices though. Wet on skin: jasmine but not in an overwhelming way, still with the clean musk, slightly powdery in a fresh kind of way. Dry: clean powder dominates, with florals, and something kind of ... earthy in the background. It's not something I'd necessarily choose to scent myself with, it may be a way to get non BPAL converts used to your standard floral perfumes a gentle introduction ?

Hi all, I was going to go and buy another replacement bottle of Diesel Green: Masculine for DH, as his third (? I've lost count!) bottle looks like it's going to hit the bottom soon, but basenotes.net is listing Diesel Green: Masculine as discontinued ... I'm figuring, while it's still available-ish (I still see it in the perfume discounter stores online and out in the shops), I may as well try to find a BPAL match ... Notes for Diesel Green: Masculine are: Top notes: fresh aromatic ginger and lime. Middle notes: floral orange blossom, orris, carnation, rose, cinnamon and jasmin. Base notes: cedarwood, musk, amber, sandalwood and vanilla. Now, I've seen other descriptions that include jasmine, sea rose, orchid, ginger, Canadian fir, geranium, OR orange, mandarin, bergamot, cardamon, pimento, star anise, and I can't find the original description on diesel's website... I had a play with searches earlier, and thought maybe Villain (although there's lavender in that...), or Whitechapel may fit the bill, but the whole lavender thing kind of scares me off. I have tried Dorian, which I like on me, but (at least in soap form) I don't think is a good fit for DH. Any help would be greatly appreciated (:

In the imp: green tea and lemon verbena. It actually reminds me of Elizabeth Arden Green Tea, although I haven't done a side-by-side comparison. Wet on skin: still with the green tea and lemon verbena. Very fresh, non-cloying on a hot summer day. This is the second scent I've tried tonight that has me thinking of summer ... I thought Embalming Fluid would be the go-to lemony summer scent but there's something in that, that feels a bit cloying in high heat... Dry: honeysuckle, with a green tea edge and a teeny bit of lemon verbena. I actually wish there was more of a green tea kick here... it's still something I'd be happier wearing in summery weather though ...

Straight from the twisted alleys of Dis, by way of the City of Angels: opium smoke, lemon flower, heliotrope, tuberose, black musk, vanilla, coconut, apricot flower. In the imp: coconut, lemon floral, a non-plastic, non-buttery vanilla (! perhaps that's the influence of the heliotrope?), something faintly hazy Wet on skin: lemon acid drops, with a slightly powdery (like powdered sugar) floral background. Would the floral background be the lemon flower, tuberose, and the apricot flower? Dry: I think the hazy thing I'm getting is opium smoke, it's kind of sweet... powdery lemon acid drops, and the coconut has come back for a second go. I can imagine wearing this in spring on the way to summer, out in the sunshine, maybe at the beach or by the bay where there's food and craft stands trading into the evening.

Right, now that I have my scents the right way around! In the imp: Even with the list of notes, my nose refuses to think anything other than this is a floral aquatic. Wet on skin: really quite masculine, if I think about it, some of the cues that made me think aquatic, would actually be woodsy and leathery. Dry (really dry now!): sweet leathery wood, I smell something vaguely medicinal in the background (red patchouli?) It's not really me, and it's not something DH would wear, unfortunately. Because on the right person ... mmm...!

In the imp: sweet, slightly smoky incense Wet on skin: slightly bubblegum/fairyfloss sugary incense. The bubblegum part kind of worries me, but it's gone after a short while. Once dry: the impression of bubblegum goes away, and it's a lovely sweet scent. The flowers in play a very understated role on my skin. I think this may be a bottle-worthy purchase before the carnaval disappears. Still being on training wheels when selecting BPAL, I did peg this as a possible straight-to-bottle purchase, but am glad that I got to try a bit first!

I wasn't sure about how mildewed raincoat could smell at all pleasant, but hey, willing to give something a go here! In the imp: kind of ... milky-oceany. Perhaps this is how the raincoat came into it? Wet on skin: there's some black tea in amongst the ocean, it's rather ... milky-sweet aquatic. Dry: on me, Shadwell has decided to be a sweet milky aquatic with tea, and ... I'm not really one for aquatic anything, ETA - I had my shadwell where my crowley was.

In the imp: smells slightly sweet, green (herbal) but not in a bright way. Something smokey in there also? I think my nose (although fairly new) is out of practice! Wet on skin: kind of damp smouldering green with ... what I imagine deeply sorrowful roses might smell like. If roses could have an emotion rendered in scent. Dry on skin: there's nothing at all sharp about the green smokey roses. I'm surprised I quite like this, actually! Perhaps it's because it's something that would be suited to the winter weather we're having at the moment (southern hemisphere dwelling person that I am). It makes me want to have long black hair tumbling down in waves down my back ... which will take me a few years to get back seeing as I got it all chopped off about 8 weeks ago!

The logical brained side of me tells me I shouldn't go looking for discontinued LEs, let alone forum-only LEs to covet, right? In the imp, I get kind something kind of lemony, powdery, and clean. Wet on skin, it's much the same, powdery lemony. Once dry, the lemon goes away, my impression of this scent is ... clean. I think this might be better suited for ... not winter, for me.

In the imp, whoa, almond! Plus something a tad ... bitter? dirty? Wet on skin, it's almond plus something like ... dirt? Once dry, the almond calms down, what I'm fairly certain is jasmine pops up and turns this into pretty much jasmine and friends rather than almond/cherry/plum/dirt? I never got any plum out of this. I skimmed the reviews before mine, and it's very interesting how it seems to be so different on everyone.

This was a decant I picked because ... I don't like making other decants in a circle feel unloved? I think I've said that about a couple of the decants in this group, but I might just be a little weird *grin* Besides, there wasn't anything that made picking this an outright no for me, so I figured I should just take a chance. In the imp, I smell ... apple blossom, something herbally (thyme?), and a dash of mint. It's a very ... rounded scent. I keep using this description because I can't figure out any other way to say it's not spiky in my nose when I take a sniff *grin* Wet on skin, it's minty-apple blossom-rose, with a kind of sweet base. Once it's dry, the mint isn't so prominent anymore, but I don't think I could go wearing this in warmer weather. Good thing it's winter here (: Overall, I'm glad I got a decant of this.

I got an imp of Hod as a frimp in a forum purchase (sale? decant circle? um... I can't remember!) before it was announced that the Tarots and Sephiroths were being discontinued. I had a quick sniffle when it arrived at work, and my first impression was all - it's like O, but with more ... spicy milky-creaminess! In the imp, it kind of reminds me of ... The Lion + O. Wet on skin, it's not as outright *OMG teh sex!* (too much time lurking in the macro thread ... methinks!) as I found O on my skin, I think the milky-spiciness tempers this somehow. Like others, I think the spiciness is contributed by carnation, and the amber is what's reminding me of The Lion (my first GC bottle purchase), and there's something honey-ish about it all too. Once dry, it's kind of like a less overt O. I really quite like this, actually! Trust me to go for something that is now no longer available ... *sigh* It's lovely for wearing in this colder weather we're having at the moment, I feel it might be a little too heavy for when the temperature heats up a little once winter's over.

I bought two bars of Dorian so I'd feel OK about opening and using one bar *grin* ... but you guys would understand that, right ? Dorian as the oil was my first OMG I *love* this scent, and while I'm done for now with my initial infatuation, it's still lovely to have about. Through the wrapper, the soap bars faintly scented the bathroom cupboard with Dorian loveliness. Even with two bars, unwrapping one was sweet torture. But I did, a few days ago, and the bathroom was then lightly Dorian-scented ... The soap itself (wet or dry) isn't very strongly scented though, usage-wise, it lathers nicely, rinses clean without making skin super tight and squeaky, and doesn't leave anything oily behind either. What I *really* want to know is how Dorian might take to the DH - I can't slather him with oil, but he hasn't got much choice what soap to use if I've only actually got two bars of Dorian soap left!

In the imp: It's spring flowers ! I don't know what all the individual notes smell like, but the general impression I get is sweet spring flowers. Wet on skin: those spring flowers are still going ... Dry: there's a hint of green in the flowers, it's all very pretty, but I don't know that I do pretty much justice. This makes me feel like I should be lightly made-up, wearing pearls and a twinset. I'm more likely to be in 20-up doc martens, skirts, shirts, and armwarmers, no make-up in sight! Or ... jeans and a t-shirt. With armwarmers. Lovely, but not for me.

This was a very recent frimp from recent forum sales/decant circle activity, which I received not long before the lab announced that Arachne was to be discontinued ... In the imp, it's sweet and watery. Kind of pink, in tone. Pale pink and lemon sherbert in colour. Although, there is something in there making me think of sherbert ice or something. Wet on skin, it smells like what I think this painting's colours should smell like. My piano teacher had a print of this hanging over the mantelpiece in her house, I spent a lot of time looking at this waiting for my lesson (: Oh, the scent - hmmm ... softly sweet, light florals and their green stems and leaves. I think my nose today is translating scents into pictures and colours today, so my impression when dry says ... pink sherbert powder. I feel like I should be wearing a floaty summer dress, frilly ankle socks, mary janes, and a big straw hat with a pink bow tied around it. It's not currently my taste in clothing (except for the mary janes!) ... I'm *sure* it'll find a better home than here, one day (:

Hmmm... another imp in my pile of imps to test ... In the imp, it's a blast of ... fruity flowers? It's certainly not what I expected to get from the listed notes ... ? There's a touch of dirt in there too. Wet on skin, I don't get any boozy sort of quality, fruity flowers, a touch of citrus (google tells me spanish moss might be considered lemony?), and some dirt. Once dry, the dirt is still there ... it's a kind of clean dirt, if that makes any sense at all, the florals are not all sharp and spiky ... I'm not too big on dirt notes, but it kind of works here.

In the imp, whoa, lavender! This probably won't find a happy home here seeing as DH is definitely not a lavender fan... Wet on skin, it's quite a green sort of lavender ... trying not to wave it too much in DH's direction...! Dry, there's a little bit of licorice/anise amongst the LAVENDER, and the green-ness fades off a bit. What can I say, it's got a fair whack of lavender, so it can't stay in this house too long!

This imp came my way because although I didn't think it sounded like something I'd go for, I thought my already BPAL-enabled workmate might go for it (: In the imp, it's all dark and resiny. I don't know that I could tell you what all the components smell like individually, but all together, they're a dark swarthy melange of resins. Wet on skin, it's still dark and resiny. I went and looked up atramenous, and inky does fit with the dark and resiny thing, especially if said inkiness were also to include that slightly viscous feel also? Once dry, it's sweeter than when dry. I gather this might be the effect of the benzoin? It still smells swarthy, but sweeter than before. I think I'd enjoy it much more if it were on a boy, rather than on me, but it's not likely to be something that would appeal to the DH. Hey, at least it's already got a happy home to move to!

In an attempt to keep myself awake a little longer, I thought I might give a few more things in my 'to review' pile a test... In the imp, it's ... kind of lemony - but in a preserved lemon rind kind of way. There's also something that smells ... like what a match smells like after it's been struck and then blown out. Also, a teeny bit of something that makes me think almond. Wet on skin, the recently-lit-and-blown-out match smell is definitely in the forefront, perhaps it burnt the lemon rind? Once it dries a bit, the blown-out-match part mellows out a little, and a certain sweetness creeps in, along with some ... jasmine? Nothing in the way of almond though. Jasmine in BPAL doesn't behave the same way as jasmine from elsewhere does on my skin, I'm learning.