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Imp: Straw

Wet: Straw and cedar

Drydown: Woody incense. It's a cross between cedar and sandalwood. This is really dark and mellow. After a couple of hours, I kept getting whiffs of a sweet musky incense. I kept looking around trying to figure out what it was. Well, it was my arm. Close to the skin, I could smell sweet musk and sandalwood, but when my arm was moving around, the wafting scent was a sweet, thick, heavy unburned incense of musk and sandalwood. Fabulous!!

Overall: This scent has good throw. It really morphs on my skin and I prefer the drydown to the initial stage. It is a fabulous "dark" scent. I want to try this one on my husband.

Imp: Raw, green, floral (in the imp, it doesn't smell like anything I'd wear)

Wet: Green vegetation and watery florals

Drydown: Soapy flowers

Overall: Started out a bit worrisome. As I expected in the beginning, I didn't like it.

Imp: Astringent & medicinal lavender

Wet: This is bad. Stinky bad. I'm this close to running to the sink and washing this off.

Drydown: I'm finally able to distinguish the stinky smell to the combo of lavender and jasmine. This was suffocating when it was wet. It calmed down a bit during the drydown, but it is not something I'd want near me. It is now waxy and soapy.

Overall: This was really bad on me. I was barely able to keep myself from washing it off before the drydown.

I'm looking for a BPAL fragrance for my very first imp pack that might be reminiscent of Prell shampoo.

 

I believe it was a mix of mainly citrus and anise with some jasmine and lavender, over a base of warm musk, and cedarwood.

 

Anything come to mind? Especially if you are familiar with the scent.

I've never tried any BPAL that smells like Prell. But someone else did here HTH

ETA: Ack! I'm sorry. I thought it worked...I'm floating in space...earth to catattack, over....

What I was trying to do was link to the "If you like ___ then you'll like this product" thread. There was a post from AmandaMayhem stating that Phantom Queen smells like Prell. But I see she has posted on this page now. Sorry for my lack of teh technical skilz. Sorry mods for my goof up.

Imp: Asian pickled vegetables

Wet: Asian pickles with a teeny bit of spices.

Drydown: It has something in it that doesn't smell good to me.

Overall: Not for me. I can see those that like the sour resin blends being into this.

Imp: Tart green floral.

Wet: Green aquatic florals.

Drydown: Green aquatic florals

Overall: Not my thing.

Imp: Dragon's Blood

Wet: Wildflowers doused with dragon's blood

Drydown: This has mellowed quite a bit. The dragon's blood was a bit overwhelming in the wet stage. It's a pretty combination of dragon's blood and purple flowers.

Overall: It's not bad, I just don't think I'd wear it.

Imp: Pineapple Cream. Yum

Wet: Starting to smell like tart pineapple.

Drydown: Starting to go "Pledge". This is going sharp and sour.

Overall: This didn't work on me. It started out smelling sooooo good.

Imp: Sweet florals.

Wet: Sweet orchid. The stephanotis is adding some depth.

Drydown: The sweetness has mellowed. It's a very summery floral. Smells like vacation.

Overall: I like this a lot. It's very light and doesn't have much throw. It's sweet and powdery. It's not heady at all.

Mint in the lick its is a little too strong. Anything that you can recommend that will compliment either the vanilla or the mint solely?

Perhaps Nuclear Winter? It's LE, but not difficult to find. It's a nice refreshing mint scent. Not as strong or sweet as the Lick Its. Juke Joint has a light mint note. Some say it's boozy, but I don't find it to be boozy boozy. Just boozy in the sense that it kind of reminds me of a mint julep, but it doesn't make me smell like I had a cocktail or anything. Sorry, that was bumbling...

Embargo and Dionysia (patchouli goodness)

Xia and Daiyu

Imp: Fruity.

Wet: Pink bubblegum. After a couple of minutes, a bright fruity scent. Could it be the sandalwood and honey combo?

Drydown: The fruitiness has combined with the woods & florals. Further drydown, this morphs into an incense scent that a person could wear during the warm months.

Overall: Like this a lot. Will be wearing this throughout this summer.

I had to wash this off. It smelled like pepto-bismol without the mint.

The notes in this one were impossible for me to pick out. Initially, this smells of generic perfume, but after a couple of minutes, there's a hint of greeness that develops, and that's really nice. I don't know if I need a whole bottle of this one, maybe just a partial.

Imp: Chocolate.

Wet: Bliss with cocoa butter.

Drydown: This goes waxy/plasticky on me.

Overall: Oh well, at least I have Bliss for my choco cravings.

Imp: Fruity and "watery" (not ozone).

Wet: Fruity, but not overly sweet. I smell caramel in the background. Not getting any rose (hurray!). It's becoming a little tart, maybe from the berries? And the benzoin is making an appearance and adding a little more sweetness.

Drydown: The combo of berries, greenery, spice, and florals really work well in this blend. Further, the Pink Pepper comes out and it's fabulous.

Overall: This is nice. It's reminiscent of Yule scents. To me, this is a winter scent.

This blend definitely smells "airy". How that happens is beyond me. There are wildflowers and greens. It's a nice non-offensive scent, but I don't think I'll wear it.

All I could smell was a non-descript wood and a berry-like note. It's not an overly fruity/red berry. I'm not liking this.

Okay, I think I need to try this one again. All I'm getting from this is sharp perfume. I'm not getting any of the listed notes! This on my skin, is sharp non-descript perfume. Icky.

This was a very faint scent. Considering the notes, I though this would be really powerful and intense. Unfortunately, all I got was a chemical smell.

Imp: Spicy

Wet: Stinky spice.

Drydown: Ack! This smells of cinnamon-y

I also smell the clove, and it's reminding me of the dentist.

Overall: I thought this would work on me. None of the notes listed are problem ones for me. Oh well, can't win 'em all.

Imp: Smells like icy cocoa.
Wet: Butter and coconut suntan oil.
Drydown: Suntan oil.
Overall: I like this well enough. But I don't think I need a bottle of frangrance oil that makes me smell like tanning oil.

Imp: Florals.

Wet: Tart fruits and florals. There are no fruits listed, so I don't know what my nose is interpreting as fruity.

Drydown: This is well blended. I couldn't really pick out any one note.

Overall: This is a nice sweet floral scent. It's not bad, it's just something I wouldn't wear.

Imp: Strawberry smoothie.

Wet: Strawberry & white chocolate. The strawberry scent is very strong.

Drydown: Reminds me of another e-tailers strawberry scent. Very little girl-ish.

Overall: It's not bad. I just don't think I'll wear this.

Imp: Jasmine

Wet: Jasmine and other florals.

Drydown: Jasmine.

Overall: This is all floral. I don't smell anything else. The lab's Jasmine doesn't do very well on my skin, and this blend was no exception.

Imp: bitter/tart

Wet: Sour/tart citrus rinds. Starting to smell florals. I can smell the astringent lavender. Starting to smell the cedar. I can smell a hint of the vanilla caramel, but it quickly disappears.

Drydown: Starting to smell like a sharp perfume. Floral and wood, but otherwise non-descript. Head-ache inducing.

Overall: This had too many notes that were fighting with eachother.