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the lunacy scent is usually only up for a few days, so don't hesitate if you're wanting a bottle. as for combining TALs and BPALs, your best bet is to message customer service directly, being sure to include all relevant order numbers (and the order dates might be helpful as well).

I don't think I've run across valerian in a bpal. I have and adore my nature's gift essential oil, but I can see this note not being used in something intended to be popular with the masses as many find the funk of valerian quite off-putting. I adore it it's weird ways. and effectiveness. two essential oils that share elements and qualities with valerian are agarwood aka oudh and spikenard. the lab has many scents featuring the former, and a few featuring the latter. these are in perfumes intended to be worn out and about, and nothing I've run across in bpal fumes with them listed has made me sleepy. the somnium blends don't have listed notes, so you'd have to message the lab to get the official word, but I'd wager that they are all valerian-free. are you familiar with twilight alchemy lab? there are two amazing TAL sleep blends, nocturne and ebon night, that pop up on the etsy page every now and again. neither is sweet like TKO. nocturne has a nice lavender, ebon night doesn't smell very lavender-heavy to me at all, but it is floral.

I always think of quince as being in the apple/pear family. a fall fruit with seeds that oxidizes vs the spring stone fruits. so maybe light pear or apple blossom/applewood notes?!?!? fave peaches are 2014/s peach vii: "Dried peach, black musk, and North African spices" it's amazingly perfect musky peach...or is it a peachy musk? dry and complex and perfumey and headily seductive yet still also fun, with just enough bright and sweet. also a fan or awabi divers from the 2014 lupers: "Polished ebony, ho wood, apricot peel, patchouli-infused vanilla husk, Lebanese cedar, and vetiver." and 2014's peach viii: "Whipped jasmine cream and peach blossom with vanilla orchid and white frankincense" is beautiful and a rare foodie scent that I can enjoy on my skin chemistry. fave bptp peach is the golden peach and bergamot HG, also containing "patchouli, white jasmine, and glimmering golden musk"

Amber and black copal with black coconut, Sumatran red patchouli, green cardamom pod, and golden musk. very true to the perfume (although a little "brighter" in feel, might be because my perfume is from a few years back, while this is a newer batch) big big sillage and goes the distance. I used two spritzes yesterday and enjoyed a giant halo of musky dark coco-patch-resin bliss. still present today, but with mellower throw. love it!

dark musk with the coffee working here like a resiny base note. the sweet factor here is perfectly balanced for me and isn't over the top toothache-foodie-kinda-sugar-rush. this reminds me of destructive vagina of the fox spirit and dusky shroud. I love it! might be my fave of the grindhouse gang.

In life, she was Amelia Goyri de Adot. She was promised into a loveless betrothal, but through patience, guile, and the strength of her devotion, she was able to repeatedly postpone the marriage until the death of her father, upon which she was free to marry the man she truly loved. Tragically, her joy was short-lived: on May 3rd, 1903, both Amelia and her son died during childbirth, and she was laid to rest in the Havanas sprawling necropolis with her son resting at her feet. Day after day, year after year, Amelias heartbroken husband visited their grave. He would knock three times, screaming, Wake, Amelia! Wake! In his grief, he could not bear to turn away from her, so when he was forced to leave by exhaustion or circumstance, he would walk backwards until he left the cemetery, always keeping his eyes on the grave of his wife and son. For seventeen years, he came to the grave daily, his heart wracked with anguish. Many years later, Amelias remains were exhumed, and witnesses saw that not only were the bodies perfectly preserved, but the infant child now rested in his mothers arms: a miraculous symbol of eternal love. To this day, pilgrims visit La Milagrosa to pray for her intercession, asking that she watch over, bless, and protect children and loving couples. Lilith paying her respects at the tomb of La Milagrosa, Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón: clusters of mariposa and mahoe, sprays of black orchid, loves red roses, and a thin drift of cigar smoke. bold bright syrupy floral. LM conveys both a sense of fun but also something elegant and regal. Big throw. The cigar smoke is light, delicate. the flowers remind me a little of heirophant and empress--rose + POW-- without the herbs and resins. the smoke is similar to that in dia de los meurtos: ethereal, wispy, a part of the offering, adding grace and depth (this ain't the big tobacco of In Time of Plague). as someone who doesn't like breathing real tobacco smoke, while this evokes said smoke, it isn't unpleasant at all. this feels like a monumental floral ofrenda. Intriguing. I like it, but don't know if it's really my style.

An incense of myrtle leaf, sweet bay, white myrrh, stacte, and the golden frankincense. first applied there is a bright, slightly camphoraceous herbal note, sharp but not unpleasant. as this scent dries down, the myrrh and frank come forward and do "that bpal thing." this is a lovely incense blend. actually very soft and light when it's dried down. I'm hoping a few weeks of aging will improve it's wear length, which currently is under a few hours.

The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he answered with a sidelong glance. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always awkward doing business with an alias." A masquerade, a scent to camouflage: tonka bean and vanilla with red patchouli, Spanish king mandarin, white sandalwood, black pepper, and rose geranium. From the sniff in the imp to fresh on the skin, this is a rose geranium cologne. A complex and nuanced rose geranium cologne. As it dries, rg sits back in her throne and I get more of the patch and especially the sandalwood coming forward. There's a veil of tonka floating in after about an hour. The citrus and the spice don't stand out but add brightness and a bit of warmth. I'm admittedly not the biggest fan of rose geranium on my skin. I like the essential oil only for short bursts and in small doses and I tend to amp it. That said, I find Alias lovely and strangely cozy, especially as it dries down. I get the image of a classy gentleman in a warm tavern. Looking forward to layering with this, and seeing how it ages.

a beautiful rich velvety rose sexxxed up with some honey. I can see this honey being too musky/funky/naughty on some folks' skins, but on mine it's just right. I really love this and have been reaching for it as soon as I get home from work at night. snaps me right out of "work" mode by rinsing away the stench of wage slavery and replacing it with fabulous fantasticness. happy long life, here I come!

was curious if the circuit boards would be kindred to some of the notes I love in OLLA adam, but in fact, said note reminded me more of of the plastic note in OLLa Edge of doom, sans rosemary. instead there's almost a "lite" foresty waft caused by a pine-y bit of frankincense, some bloody dirt (dirty blood?) and myrrh. the exhaust puffs out in little bursts here and there. being fairly true, this is my least favorite note of this scent. the exhaust made America's New Gods hard for me to even test; instead I found myself instinctively gagging and gasping for air. fortunately said note is much much lighter in GOC. I do actually kinda love this blend, and ultimately find it quite wearable, but not sure if I'd reach for it enough to need a big bottle. leans quirky and unisex.

Startlingly loud: Himalayan citron, white musk, and pink peppercorn with peppermint, yuzu fruit, lemon verbena, and green tea absolute. the weather here is swelteringly hot and dry. venturing outside is treacherous. I've got this magic potion on and it's so beautiful I wish I could drink it. on me this is all about the luminous glory that is citron. backed up with a little yuzu, given warmth and depth from the musk, made summerific and flowing by the tea. I love mint; here is it minimal to the point that i would never guess it was here. the pepper and verbena add elegance but I only find them because I'm looking for them. there is a sweetness to this, but it's not a candy scent on me. (although it might please those who do love hard candy smells, it's a little more complex and not so over-the-top sugary). I'm so grateful to my fairy to have this. fingers crossed that this and black bar make it to the CBLDF site for sale, so that others can mind their mouths, minds and aromas with some solid and stunning censorship. this is fantastic.

on me this is a pure, soft cedarwood SN. the lab's cedar does amp on me like crazy, rarely letting other notes come through. I am a sucker for the label art and all things cat, so I may still keep this even though wearing straight cedar isn't my thing. I did discover that it layers fantastically with the Buffalo Man, which helps tone down the cedar and allows the fluffy musk to emerge.

Scattered leaves, fir needle, and thick honey musk. aw, what a beauty! I almost passed this by, as I have already a good assortment of scents flaunting the lab's fabulous leaf note. some honey notes are wins, others go kinda foul on me. love fir and love the lab's musks. although I can smell the leaves when I first put this on, this isn't a "dead leaves" scent when it dries down. once this hits my skin, the leaves retreat and what shines is a lovely combo of sweet fir jam over an elegant and subdued honey with the barest edge of pale musk. this fir and honey musk combo is DIVINE. very much an in-a-forest-glowing-aura kinda scent. dreamy and magical.

this is a BIG scent. booming throw and lasts for ages. it's honestly too foodie for me to wear, but I do appreciate its richness and complexity. the label art is stunning. thunders open with a big voluptuous chocolate, fruity sweetness shining underneath. in the background, smoke and musk make this different from straight-up foodie scents. I get the coffee both supporting the chocolate and swirling with the smoke. big! booming! rich! all from a tiny spider!

Petrified woods bound in a rigid leather cord. strong and strange. leans manly. while there's a bit of light leather in the background, what is prominent is mostly a mishmash of other notes...the woods? I assume--and I'm sorry that my nose hasn't yet sussed out which and what woods/wood notes are present. there's something green and almost herbal as well, as thought the woods are closer to fresh branches still alive and green in the center rather than petrified. very unique and intriguing, although not really my style.

this is a bright and happy beauty. might lean unisex to those who who typically go for the more out-feminine scents, but otherwise this feels pretty neutral. getting a lot of the lab's fantastic asphodel note. I smelled something bright and happy; rereading the notes, I can see it's the frankincense, but pre-reading I couldn't i.d. it. ozone is a note that doesn't play well 100% on my skin, but this scent is pure fabulousness. nice, medium sillage and lasted a few hours into the night, but completely dissipated by the next morning.

sweet labdanum, woodsmoke that bounces between campfire and non-offensive almost ciggie-esque and the lovely musk from faunalia, coyote, ivanuschka, etcetc. very lovely. that musk and labdanum are two of my favorite bpal notes. this starts out with a nice strong oooomph but (freshly landed, keep in mind) faded away within a few hours. smokey sweetened musk still detectable at the skin, but not much waft.

AL 2017 reminds me of Dorian without the tea, or NAVA moonstone vanilla. it's very "young goth" in spirit, transporting me back to hanging out with friends in bedrooms, that mysterious scent aura (alluding to but not including wafts of RIT black dye and manic panic) that surrounded us while we played records and made brilliantly bad art. it smells so nostalgic yet this is the first time I'm smelling this legend. it's nice, layers wonderfully with deeper, darker scents. it's divine against oud. not getting much floral and it doesn't smell like any marshmallows or cheesecakes that I've eaten.

this has a pretty innocence to it, but with something a little bit...macabre? ...underneath. sort of like how in those 70's horror movies, they use children's voices in the soundtrack. slightly sweet pale floral notes (no specific flowers are standing out) over a big blast of fuzzy moss. I can see some folks rocking this in utter delight, finding it to be feminine and sophisticated perfume, while others will lament it smells like a fancy toiletry. blame my libra moon, but I get both in equal measure. eta this is in the same family as esbat (a lighter, less patch-heavy hm scent) or closer to the dark del cemeteries than to the previous deeeeeep darrrrrrrrk hm graveyard scents from last year)

Where I come from, ghosts are not to be taken lightly. Terror by birthright. A legacy of sorrow, violence, and undeath: chrysanthemum petals, crushed violet leaf, and funereal incense. [from the prototype at loved to death] the incense on me is lovely wafts of soft frankincense. ghosts is a skin scent, very light; it truly wears like a spectral and otherwordly veil. the flowers are dried and restrained: the chrysanthemum not too honeyed, the violet not sweet. the whole thing feels translucent. I think it really does capture the image of a victorian ghost wonderfully. it's light enough that some might miss it but for those who can tune into it, there's a lot going on here. one of the employees at ltd mentioned it had become one of her favorite perfumes to wear.

Since most of us here don't work at the lab, we can only shrug our shoulders in curiosity. Why not message customer service directly and see if they are able to help you out? Eta, if the order you want to cancel is from the post, then message puddin, not the lab!

Red patchouli, sage leaf, Darjeeling tea, smoke-scarred sandalwood, green tobacco, and oud. I wasn't around when this was released in perfume form years back, but the reviews motivated me to snag a decant. it's divine! above and beyond my expectations. the heart of everything is a lovely patch/tobacco/sandal, a lil' bit smokey yes but also lightened by the tea and sage. definitely got that "classic bpal" thing going on. I keep running my fingers through my hair just to smell them. lovely and complex and addictive.

conjunction of mars and saturn has a smokey element to it, but it's more complex than straight up tobacco smoke. elegba is heavy on the coconut on my skin, but I've read reviews from others who've found the drydown to evoke puffs of ceremonial cigar smoke in time of plague is a unisex scent that is smokey rose tobacco cologne. (if you want rose tobacco that isn't cologne-like, try la pierreuse, a current luper) interfector is a scent that shows off the lab's french tobacco note wonderfully. it leans sweet rather than straight up smokey to my nose. looming spectre is tobacco heavy, absolutely stunning, although more of a "blend" than a showcase for tobacco smoke. mr prenderghast smells like snuggling up to a ciggie-coffee drinker, but in the best, coziest possible way. the organ grinder borders on the gourmand for me, due to the almond milk, sarsaparilla and coconut, but it's divine and worth trying. previous LEs that might interest you are phoenix and dragon (oud smoke mostly with tobacco in the bkgd) and the bptp's dark and weary (these scents would be twins but for one note that differentiates them) the top: BOOM POW strong rose over smoke heavenly epic sexiness visions of autumn 7: tobacco gloriousness it doesn't list tobacco as a note, but Ligur is dark and smoldering. almost like a campfire; perfect to evoke a demon

I snagged a decant of this, curious to see how it would compare to the Top from last year's lupers (and then also to in time of plague after reading about that comparison too!) it's honestly closer to dead leaves and tobacco, or the tobacco bonbon, in that it's the lab's rich and pretty french tobacco note with just a hint of rose. the rose comes on strongest when wet, and then fades on me as the scent dries. the end result is light, sweet tobacco with the ghost of a rosy floral memory.

Ink musk, incense tar, black patchouli, and polished cedar. an absolutely beeeeeeauuuuutiful black musk scent! I can suss out the patch in this, but it's very much a background player. cedar, which loves to amp on me, is not easily detectable. this is stunning dark musk surrounded by very light wafts of rich incense. alas, the throw and wear-length are almost nil. if this shifts with a bit of time, then backup bottles will be acquired. even if this stays light, I'll still enjoy the heck out of my bottle. at the very least, the heartbreakingly low throw is extremely workplace-safe. eta months later now, the throw has picked up a bit and the notes are coming out more, also developing/merging in the most beautiful of ways. there's something in here (the ink of the musk?) that adds tendrils of a beautiful feminine perfume to what I had anticipated (at the time of Add To Cart) to be a more unisex/masculine leaning scent. very very pretty!