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Liking the sea air part - it's late spring or a cool summer day. Refreshing, but the herbs and florals keep it from being just an ocean scent. This is like an ocean nymph's scent.

Herbs do well to balance the sweetness of the honey, but it is almost too sweet when wet, but once it dries down it becomes more herbal with a touch of honey. Really nice summer scent.

Reminds me of a lot of the other musky green scents from BPAL (not a bad thing as I love those scents), but this one works for me better because those green scents often have a deciduous green of some sort that my skin tends to not like. These greens are less assertive with a sneaky little touch of lily and berry. This strange mix definitely has a sense of elf to it - mysterious and shifting, a complex mix of natural and supernatural.

Oh, an apple laced with wickedness. The apple is very prominent when wet while the wicked poisons linger - it might make you hesitate, but the sweet apple smell is so tempting.

This came as a frimp in my most recent order, and this is yet another strong green scent that has convinced me that herbal and green scents are definitely a favorite category of mine. I never knew! It doesn't quite make my top list (as in must have a bottle of it), but I wouldn't turn one down if offered. The spice from the ginger and sweetness from the fig are subtle on me, but also balance the greenness of the scent. These herby scents are just fantastic. Little bit of spice from the ginger and sweet from the fig, but mainly a wop of herby with some tea mellowness. A little bit soapy.

Sprout beat me to it, but I will second her! My Baby and a Baby Goat was one of my first BPALs. I picked it because of the hay and goat's milk, and the idea of a barn. Sprout is spot on about the sort of primal quality of it that is so soothing, and I think this is only amped by the hay and milk. It has a barn quality to it which is incredibly comforting for me, having grown up around barns, horses, goats, etc. The funny thing is I don't wear this scent a lot out, it's more for just curling up under a blanket and lounging around to me because it is so soothing and comforting.

Mostly honey, wine, champagne grapes and plum on me at first, but then the other notes come in like tonka bean to warm it up and oakmoss to give it a touch of green decay, and the benzoin is not a problem in this. It does feel like gleeful decadence.

A drier spicy scent, which tends not to be up my alley, but there are florals in it to keep it from going too incense on me. It almost makes me like the voodoo style scents.

This has a dark fruity, but not overwhelmingly fruity scent, that I find enticing, probably all the other notes help this. It has a mischievous, devious quality to it, seems very fallish.

When I first sampled Rage, I wasn't sure what fruity element was throwing me off, I thought it might be the black currant, but after trying some currant scents and dragon's blood scents, I realized I just don't care for dragon's blood. Though, I did like this more on the drydown, it just wasn't overall my cup of tea. Maybe my skin just amps dragon's blood which is a weird combo of dark fruits and soapy violets on me.

This surprised me as once it dried down, I am not usually one for the spicier scents, especially with vetiver in them, but ultimately it is another one of those dry, spicy, powdery scents that just don't really seem to work for me.

Minty, minty, minty and champagne - which = loooove for me, this really does have the crystalline quality it says, like whoa, I want to wear this on an unbearably humid Texas summer day.

Another tropical floral meets ginger like Pele, but with more floral. I like it, but Pele is better - I like the more ginger forwardness of Pele.

Definitely floral, but the grass keeps it from becoming too floral. Nice, but I have other grassy florals I prefer.

Perversion is really proof for me that there are no real death notes with BPAL. Rum is usually a death note for me, while tobacco, leather, crystalline chardonnay, and tonka are usually pretty good on me. Fortunately, because those are good on me, this scent rocks! And not because the rum is largely absent - I can still detect the rum, but in combination with everything else, this is a rum I enjoy. And this scent is most definitely sexy.

The rum is, of course, very strong, but on the drydown the tobacco leaf comes out more, which I really like, but the rum is still prominent. I generally don't enjoy the rum scents where it is really prominent, but I do like this more than others. The tobacco leaf is really lovely.

This is spicy florals and really just not for me.

Ginger and verbana makes for a sharp scent, but actually not as sharp as some other heavy gingers I like such as White Rabbit, I think the grass and rain curbs that. This is a beautiful scent that I will have to revisit in Summer - it's up there with Pele, and may even surpass her.

Clean linen, yes, but there is still a touch of dirt under this - like when you try to conceal the fact you have been out all night engaging in debauchery so you show up to the local coffee shop in clean clothes, but dirty hair and big sunglasses.

Very rose, I think it is the red wine that makes it a sweeter wine, some berry notes from the wine, it makes for a fall rose. The wine seems to amp the dragon's blood resin which is just too berry for me, but it is drowning out the violet element of dragon's blood that I don't usually like.

Oh, definitely a summer spice - a little sharp, but still light and herby with a touch of floral.

Oh, I love the tea notes in the Mad Tea Party collection, but this black tea is quickly overwhelmed by mint on me. Mint is not listed in the description, but it is there (and has seemed to turn up for other reviewers, too)! After awhile the mint calms down and then something woodsy enter the picture, that could be the musk, pepper, ginger, honey, and vanilla working together, but I wanted more black tea from this.

Testing jasmines, and this one is a jasmine I do like - I think because the lavender and musk softens it. It's a gentle jasmine, and gets better on the drydown.

Beautiful light citrus summer scent, but there is something that lingers that doesn't quite work for me, like the pithe of the lemon which can be a little too pungent. After awhile that goes away, and citrusy white musk lingers, but then it pretty much goes away altogether in just a few hours.

Delirium is just all over a fun scent! The rose lends a sophistication, but the buzz and pop of lemon with the sweet apple in the background makes it a little whimsical. Particularly good and refreshing for summer - I would consider this my summer rose scent.