quartz

First: The drydown is very, very nice. It's a sort of woodsy skin-scent that's not too deep or cloying (actually, I wish it were more present on my skin). It works very well with the concept. The problem for me is when I first apply it, for the first half hour or so. Apparently before heading out to the forest, these dancers washed with soap and more soap (I think Irish Spring but wouldn't swear to it). It's a very sharp smell, and I'm trying to decide whether it's worth keeping the bottle for the drydown. It also might make a good room scent. ETA: Tried it on the room scent, not so much.

Enough people love this that I tried it several times over. It's like the scent is on the edge of something nice, and then it tips into plastic-powder-sweet on me. The soap is closer to what I was expecting, but the oil is not for me.

The Hummingbird of Love, the Rose Sucker. A potent, benevolent, merciful love blend. I like this one--spicy floral. I'm not so hot at picking out notes, but I'd definitely believe that it had rose, cinnamon, and something more on the herbal side of things. Some people around me have said that it smells a bit like shampoo--not necessarily a bad thing. I'm a bit hesitant to randomly wear it because of the love-oil aspect but it is a scent that is clean and soothing without being boring.

I am somewhat confused at all of the squeeing upthread. On me, it was strong! lemon in the imp, and sharp lemon cleaning fluid on the skin. High marks for fidelity to the concept, but unwearable for me--I swapped the imp.

Sounds familiar--I got a frimp of it a few weeks ago. Wet, the woody/earthy scent comes out; dry, it disappears and the smell is kind of like fruity marshmallows, very sweet and comforting.

I get much more butter and spices from this than anything resembling pumpkin or fruit. It was very buttery wet, and as it dries some spice comes out too (though someone upthread mentioned it smelling waxy/candle-y, and that's the main feel here). If this is how BPAL butter smells, I think I'll be avoiding it in the future. No reason for me to keep the imp, even as a room scent--the buttery feel is too overwhelming.

Rage? More like prissy offense or passive-aggressiveness. I expected something deeper than this--this is vaguely floral (but not identifiably so) and vaguely fruity (I think I get a little mandarin) over what I think is the black amber going bad on me. Not at all a scent for me.

Sweet melon in the imp. On, it's still sweet and I was trying and trying to place what smelled so familiar. It finally hit me--it smells like the melon-flavored poprocks I'd eat as a kid. There's the sweet fruit, but there's something underneath it (grape and something else?) that's a bit higher-pitched and underneath it. Kind of like poprocks.

I really like this. It reminds me a lot of Faustus (cinnamon-incense-floral) but is lighter, cleaner, and more complex. I get the comparison to Priala, too, but again, there's more going on here, and I think it's the rose geranium and bay rum that make it less deep and more balanced. No one note is overpowering. To me the sweetness puts it very slightly on the feminine side of gender-neutral. ETA: The boyfriend says it smells powdery but not bad. *shrug* Smelling it again, I can see how it might come off that way but is not my first impression.

Wet: Tart pomegranate, very fruity. After 5-10 minutes, though, some kind of spice comes out that turns it to candle-store on me and the pomegranate dies down to the background. If it stayed with the first sniff , I'd like it--as it is, I can't decide whether to use it as a room scent (might even be too heavy for that) or swap it.

I put this on and got mostly floral (the geranium, I guess). It smelled much like Thanatos--almost floral on top of something thin and sharp-ish, not like most dirt I've smelled. The geranium came out even more as it dried and I washed it off after an hour or so--I like scents with more substance. I think this is for the swaps.