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The reviews for this were so generally positive that I ordered a bottle even though I couldn't imagine how the scents would fit together. I'm a new convert to SO and wasn't yet introduced to BPAL for the last Carnaval, so I was eager to see the Snake Pit offerings. My first sniff out of the bottle was pure Snake Oil. 2nd sniff was all mint. 3rd sniff was mint on top of SO. I applied and it remains, both wet and dry, a gentle mint with Snake Oil peeking out. After about 30 min I can pick out the pretty bergamot and green tea. I still can't fathom all these scents working with SO, but they do and it's beautiful! It also reminds me, oddly enough, of our pool in the backyard on a hot summer day when I was a kid. I think my mom must have had a suntan lotion that smelled a bit like this. It makes me long to sit out in the sun all day and get tan, worry free, like I did back then. So far, a nice medium throw and good lasting power. I'm one of those for whom a dab on each wrist is sufficient to clear a room. I'm working with a one-wrist-only application here and I give it a A+.

My nose says Temple Viper is a deeper, richer, and darker Snake Oil with slightly less vanilla. It evokes exactly what it represents - a warm, dark, incense smoke-filled temple that's a tad frightening. It immediately made me think of Medusa from the old Clash of the Titans movie. After an hour or two, I'm picking up a deep purple/grape tone that reminds me of one of my favorites, Queen Gertrude. I'm not sure which component it is, but it fits. Like you were brave/faithful enough to put aside your fears in the temple and came out knowing you were blessed. I wasn't going to get this one after reading reviews but I'm so glad I did. Will need Ordered another bottle. Out of the Snakes I chose, it's by far my favorite.

A beautiful, dewy, deep blue reminding me of humid summer nights when there was heat lightning on the horizon. It has that feeling of excitement and langour. Midnight on the Midway but without the sugary incense and diabolic undertones. As with MotM, I have to keep sniffing myself every few minutes. Sometimes I think there is a blue lilac bush in this mix too. 30 minutes later: I had to wash this off. My lips and tongue started to burn and tingle. Same thing happened with Muse of Fire (which was the first time I had a negative reaction to a scent). I have alot of other floral/incense/lemon BPAL scents that don't do this. I wonder which ingredient is the culprit.

Very lemony for me. I love it. Fresh and clean. Reminds me of the lemon body wash I enjoy all summer as well as my favorite lemon verbena hair conditioner. Guess I just love lemon.

I completely agree with zankoku_zen. I tried this last night. Sniffed my decant first and thought it wasn't nice. Afraid to spray it and get a migraine. But then I thought okay I can deal with it, and sprayed it on my pillow. It was lovely and lemony. I really liked it. I'm currently wearing the Lab's "50" and they are quite similar.

My nose says this is a very sweet, rich, homemade vanilla custard with a hint of mild sandalwood. I can only just barely pick up on the rose if I re-read the description and remember it's there. Quite pretty and rather calming/comforting. Also reminds me of the white chocolate version of the Peter Rabbit we sometimes got at Easter back when. Given the masturbatory title, I feel a bit ooky for saying this would be a lovely scent for a child. (My test: Rubbed onto skin, not poured into bath)

I never would have thought of combining lavender with cedar, although I suppose it must be common to store clothes or linens in cedar chests with lavender sachets. I've used one or the other, never both. This is wonderfully odd and comforting. The lavender is sharp and cold, while the cedar is mellow ("buttery" smooth mellow, if that makes sense, rather than mild/weak mellow) and warm. I'm not picking up the frankincense or jasmine but perhaps it's just that well-blended. This is really good! I would love this in a room/linen spray!

When I was a kid, our backyard was enclosed by a thick border of lush, pink peonies which were often heavy with bees. They were torn out when I was about 12 because we had to put up a fence due to our swimming pool. I always loved those peonies and missed their smell. This is just how I remember them smelling round about the 4th of July. Happy memory in a bottle. ♡

Sex in a bottle. I'll also echo the Elizabeth Arden Green Tea reference but add in a little sweet cream. Even without the name and the label art, this conjures up in my mind a warm sudsy bath, a fluffy white robe, and multiple orgasms. One sniff out of the decant and I was placing an order. I'll be pairing this with the Post's Yakumo No Chigiri Bath Oil as well as A Fling in the Lagoon Bath Oil.

Gifted with a partial decant. This is sultry. Greta Garbo sultry and sophisticated. Silk pajamas and a long black cigarette holder, shiny fingerwaved tresses, high arched brows, and deep red lipstick. Don't fuck with me/screaming sex appeal. Not so much a scent as an attitude.

I was imagining this would be cold, wet, freshly-cut lawn. It's more like sun-warmed denim jeans with a big green grass stain on the knee. Ya know, just like the name implies. Which is even better than what I imagined because it evokes so much more than "wet grass". It's perfect for combining with the Easter Lily SN of course. Very nice. Update, 6 weeks later: The grass is now heavenly sweet, maybe studded with clover (oh, to be a rabbit), a bit warmer and dryer. The new blue jeans scent is still present, slightly richer even. Very, very nice. I now wish I had gotten a 2nd bottle of this too.

This is spot-on sheer perfection, moving and miraculous. Almost more real than the flower itself. How many lilies were liquefied to make just this one bottle? I too layered it with Egg Hunt Grass Stain and it's *swoon*.

This is one of the first frimps I received from the Lab. It's what made my nose realize I loved the scent of dirt so much that I wanted to wear it. Back then, when it was fresh from the Lab, I don't recall much, if any, rose or moss offsetting it - just a general "something herb-like" mixed in. I tucked the frimp into the box I designated for samples I wanted to keep. Now, a couple years later, digging through the box for something to wear to bed, it called my name. It has aged into the remarkable for not only the strength of the parts, but also the sum. It is red roses wilted and drying. It is damp green moss. It is earth that has been turned over, perhaps containing a stray splinter or two of wood and some bits of ragged cotton. It is slightly mournful, slightly menacing, slightly horrifying ... like that photo and story of the real zombie woman in Haiti ... but, as this is only perfume, that's a good thing. A bottle or three must be added to my collection.

For me, this is a beautifully uncomplicated and perfectly balanced scent: rose, amber, ice. Nothing more, nothing less, each component equal. One element does not stand out over the others, although the rose scent does bloom on warm skin. The amber lends a soft powderiness to the rose and the ice lends a fresh aquatic. It's like fresh, dew-laden roses at the height of their glory were dried and ground into the finest particles without losing their dewiness. I keep thinking this would be a gorgeous scent for a traditional June bride.

2016 Luper, fresh from the Lab and eagerly, generously applied ... eye-watering, sinus-clearing ROSE OUDE (yes, in all caps)! It is elegant, regal, sophisticated, rich, deep, attention-grabbing. I have not a single item of clothing good enough to wear with this. It's perfect.

Exactly what I was imagining and hoping for! I had the (good?) fortune to have actual, Mother Nature-made sleet in my hair about 2 or 3 nights before my order arrived, so I can attest that this is the scent of real sleet, at least the sleet that falls where I live. It's a clean, cold, refreshing scent, icy with a hint of evergreen in the background. This is a bold, strong scent too and I could smell it in my hair many hours later (it took about 4 hours to lose the "just sprayed" power). In fact, even after I washed my hair with shampoo a few days later, the scent was still there! I had to get a 2nd bottle. Sheer perfection.

I concur with everything the first poster says. Fresh, green, invigorating! This is the scent of how I feel after a long hike in the woods at the beginning of spring when the sun is warm and the snow has melted into mud, but there are still little patches of ice in the deepest shadows. I also think it's perfectly unisex. So much better than I imagined.

Didn't think I'd like Snake Oil as I generally don't like "spice" anything and I got it into my head somehow that this was loaded with spices. Finally after several years, I ordered some, just to try it, see what all the fuss was about. Fresh bottle, right from the Lab, it's ambrosia for the nose, nasal Nirvana. In the bottle I got marshmallow-rootbeer-patchouli. On my skin I got Rice Krispie bars made by angels. It's glorious. It's not what I expected. It's not "me" at all. But yes! Yes! I will be wearing this. I am a fan. I will buy more.

This smells just like my favorite conditioner which is very strong, sinus-clearing lemongrass. I often use it just for the vibrant, refreshing scent. This Phoenix is just as bright and energizing, uplifting, positive. I can imagine myself wearing this on an early morning hike thru the woods in summer, a big smile on my face. Not what I was expecting from "poison" and "entrails".

Demeter, bright goddess, was joined in sweet love with the hero Iasion in a thrice-ploughed fallow in the rich land of Krete, and bare Ploutos, a kindly god who goes everywhere over land and the sea’s wide back, and him who finds him and into whose hands he comes he makes rich, bestowing great wealth upon him. Hay absolute, honey, oats, and patchouli. Lovely. Smells like sweet, dry hay with just a hint of green (like a memory). Stays consistent from bottle to drydown. Very beautifully balanced/blended, I cannot pick out the individual notes. Very close to a beloved perfume I had as a kid in '79 of which I've been desperately trying to remember the name. Oh, for a big bottle of this. *sigh*

A vanilla-rose snuggled in warm, dark fur. Sexy. Makes me want to read naughty fairy tales ...

Wow, what an odd but lovely thing this is. Sniffing the bottle I got a big, fresh, wet carnation (which reminded me so much of childhood Easters that I got tears in my eyes) and a bit of mint and fir. As I dabbed some on my wrist, I got a little waft of patchouli mixed in, then a big push of lavender before the carnation came back. It doesn't smell like the big wooden door I picture this lad slamming, but it -does- smell like all the flowers in the rosmaling pattern I'm imagining on the door! I'm gonna have to add a bottle to my recent order. This is very good and will be wearable in spring or summer too!

A science fiction thriller by Lilith Victoria Barrial. Swirls of black plum, orange flower, white musk, spun sugar, and lollipop goo opening up into an abyss of patchouli, benzoin, and and fig. Okay, I'll start with my humble review ... I could not "picture" this scent in my mind when it first went up but, because it was Lilith-oriented and was accompanied by a video which gave it its name (and it included my beloved patchouli), it was an automatic must-have. This is a joyful, playful scent. It makes me smile every time and has become my favorite bedtime scent. My nose tells me this is an expensive gourmet black raspberry lollipop (warm and sticky) floating in a cloud of sweet patchouli. If I concentrate when I'm spraying it, I can also identify cocoa and fig. I am also greatly amused that the quote from the video "Vanished into oblivion! Bye!" appears on the bottle.

September 27th brings us a Supermoon Blood Moon Full Lunar Eclipse in Aries. This is the scent of domination and belligerence, passivity and compliance – revenge clashing against reconciliation – and the internal struggle to balance it all. Soul-rending hatred gnawing at the impulse of compassion, the struggle for safety at all costs, and the blood and tears that cleanse it all in the end. May the Gods show mercy to any who stand in the way. Impenetrable, blood-spattered, Martial red musk, fiery pomegranate and black pepper, the splintered woods of uncountable wooden arrow shafts and shields, sharp frankincense and morose myrrh, all smothering the gentler impulses of the moon. First review I'm writing and I can't do it the usual way because I'm not that good yet. But I needed to say that I bought this scent believing I wouldn't like it. But the concept of it fit me to a T. It described me, like someone had seen me from the innermost part of my soul. I thought I was being very foolish with my wallet. I figured instead of wearing the scent I wouldn't like, I'd use it in ritual (likely something pertaining to my rage issues). Well, the bottle arrived and I tentatively sniffed it. What?? This isn't rage. This is the gorgeous rust-red color of the moon the night of the eclipse. If color had a scent, this would be what the moon wore that night as she gazed down on us in beauty and splendor. I could do nothing but stop and gaze back in love and wonder. She was calm, comforting, soft, caring, and gentle despite her position in Aries. I can't describe this other than, on me, it smells like a soft, floral nag champa. It's utterly beautiful and brought tears to my eyes. If this is rage, let me rage.

I suggest a bunch of imps so you can have a little bit of alot of scents.