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Amber adores me and I adore it! I knew I would love this one. What I didn't anticipate was how strong the carnation would come through! Wow! It makes for very spicey amber! Loving it even more! Will probably have to get a big bottle down the road (after I get over the stress of four big bottles already on their way... ) Sniffs wrist again...yup still spicey, still amber! Love it! Hmmm....my cleavage is amping apple blossom....weird how different body locations bring out different notes. Actually this reminds me very much of a perfume my mother's best friend always wears that I've loved for years...! I'll have to find out what its called.

Took this to work last night with a few others and a male co-worker I've been indoctrinating into bpal picked this as one of his three favs of the 8 I had with me. Which is actually really funny because he's said to me in the past that he HATES patchouli! So I talked him into trying some on (he talked me into trying Les Bijoux....because he really liked it in the imp and is thinking about getting some for his girlfriend.) This was fabulous on him! Wow! I kept grabbing his wrist and sniffing him throughout the morning! I even made some of our other co-workers sniff him...LOL! It was wonderful on him! I could definitly smell patchouli, but it was a warm, yummy, golden patchouli...not an overly woody, bitter smell. Funny thing is.....I caught him furtively sniffing his OWN wrist!!! Yeah.....he wants a bottle now!! (and he kept sniffing ME and has decided he must have Les Bijoux for his girlfriend as well!......I'm an evil enabler, I am!)

Just got this in the mail...and ,as I collected my package from the mailbox on the way out the door to work last night, I took it with me.....during my shift I invited my male co-worker whom I've been slowly winning over to BPAL to come sniff all my new smellies! This was one he immediately loved in the bottle so I agreed to apply some for him to smell the changes (he's looking for a new scent for his girlfriend). I talked him into trying Greed on, even though he said he didn't like patchouli---he LOVED Greed on himself, btw....LOL! In bottle--Very floral and expensive smelling. On wet--the orange blossom and rose are heavy (I love orange blossom!)...the second time I applied (after I got home from work) I could really smell the peach as well. The apple is there for me, but faint. Drying down--the honey jumps to the fore and wraps the florals in a warm, gentle embrace. I really am not getting any of the resins at all.....oh, wait.....there was a whiff of frankincense!.....wow! This is really a complex, pretty, VERY femme scent! The throw is strong on me (according to co-workers) so don't need to use much. And......after testing this on four separate male co-workers (as in making them smell it on me, not making them wear it...LOL!), the consensus was that this is a VERY sexy, feminine scent....and the initial co-worker who had me try it on is determined to get a bottle for his girlfriend....and a bottle of Greed for himself (LOL!.....I caught him furtively wrist sniffing when he thought I wasn't looking!!!!) Edit......!@#$#$%$&$%& LAB!!!! MUST NOT ORDER MORE 5MLS!!!!! sigh.....bpal will drive me to bankruptcy!!

I can't tell you how this smells on yet....as I'm too entranced with just sniffing it in the imp to try it.... But let me give you some background... I've been walking down to my busstop since January. These last few weeks as the snow melts the earthy, moist, compost smell has really started to appear. I also walk right past my city's cemetary.....and the newest graves are right along the fence line where I walk (in fact, right before the time change I was walking past in the dark---I work graveyard hours....LOL!----and there was a new grave with a lit candle burning beside it....very eerie! ) So I've been smelling a particular scent of earth and cemetary floral arrangements for a couple of months now......AND thinking of how wonderful it would be if someone could capture this scent in a bottle....Heh! And then....a few weeks ago I encountered BPAL for the first time and thought...."if ANYONE could/would!!!!" So my latest online purchase of imps arrived this Monday and Zombi was one. Imagine my suprise when I opened the bottle to sniff and THAT EXACT SMELL that I had been longing for in a bottle....WAS IN A BOTTLE!!!!!! I'm actually kind of scared to try it on.....as I don't want it to morph and dissappoint me.....so bear with me and I'll edit later if I do gain the courage to try it on my skin.... Am sucking up and trying on! Wet on skin--Wow! where did all the roses come from and where is the dirt? Drying down--The roses have settled in...not too obnoxious....more a dry, dusty floral...the mosses are a nice background. On my wrists its mostly rose....on my elbows there is still that "dirt/loam" scent YAY! Response--not quite the heady earth scent it is in the bottle, but it is a rose scent that I can wear without feeling too icky/girly/floral! Green moss, dry wild rose, a foresty wild scent! I like this..will probably have to get more....sigh..... Just ordered a 5ml of this....the throw is incredible and this lasts forvever on me.....very different from what I usually wear, but very, very unforgettable!

From online sale....no idea what vintage this is.... In imp.....Grapefruit and a whiff of something floral. On Wet.....Grapefruit and the floral now smells just like lilacs to me. Fresh lilacs like the rain washed ones I used to pick off the bush for my mother when I was a little girl and we had bushes of them in our yard! Yum! Same realistic floral smell....even get a hint of the woodyness of the branches..........sigh....I LOVE this! and I'm not even a big floral fan! Not smelling ginger at all. The grapefruit fades....shame as I'm a big fan of grapefruit, but I love the floral smell. Dry down....lilac smell lasts about an hour and then vanishes! Huh!? Where'd it go? I caught whiffs of floral from my clothes here and there throughout the night....but no scent left on my skin at all! Not even a trace! WAAAAAAAA!!!!! Verdict...I LOVE this scent and it is a perfect spring scent, but it vanishes almost immediately. I might have to get a scent locket JUST for this scent alone!!!

Bought a decanted imp for a co-worker who wanted a spicey fall scent, but *shifty eyes* had to try it myself... In bottle- warm, spicy, foody Wet- pumpkin pie and whip cream Dry down-all sorts of spice and amber with pumpkin still in the background. I'm SO craving pumpkin pie right now! YUMMY! I'm getting more of this for ME....yeah, you're damn right I am!!!! Sigh....I just want to lick my wrists right now, but I know that wouldn't taste anywhere NEAR as good as this smells! Edit....eeeeee! got my own big bottle!!!! Yay! And this does remind me a bit of Shub....just not as lemony/ginger. (yeah....I've got a big bottle of Shub on the way also...sigh.....)

I know its suppossedly a SUMMER scent, but Litha smells like spring to me....all light and flowers and yummy honey sweetness! To me summer smells like coconut and heavy fruits..... so a good summer scent for me would be Aglaea (peach and amber!)! which I just tried last night and may have to order a big bottle of....sigh.....

Mine's a decant and I think its 2006 version. In bottle-caramel/boozy Wet--warm, rummy, caramel, coconut and tobacco--almost too sweet though.. Drying down--more tobacco smell and something whitish beneath...maybe the white in the white opium? A crispness beneath the heady spice/caramel Dry for awhile (4 hours?) Nice! Not so boozy....the caramel has blended nicely with the tobacco and coconut to produce a warm, soft, comforting smell. I think the amber is helping out there as well. There is an undertone of fruit...Yum! Throw-strong I don't know if I want this in a big bottle, but it will definitly find its way back on my pulse points when I need a naughty, spicey smell!

WOW! Peach! In the bottle-just peach! On wet--peach with a hint of soft amber behind drying down--more amber, but the peach stays very strong I put this on last night before bed and every time I woke up I could smell peaches. The throw seemed very good and when I woke up today I could smell the musk beneath the amber with just a hint of the peach sweetening up the mix. It has still hung in there until just now when I applied again to get a good "wet" scent so as to be accurate in my review. I really like this one. Wasn't sure how I would feel about the peaches on....but it is summery and lovely! I think I'll save the rest of this one to wear later in the summer when it gets warmer. **Edit**bought a big bottle of this one.

Dammit! I did not need ANOTHER oil I MUST have as a bottle!!!! imp reccommended and sent by LJ friend.... In bottle....LEMON (and ginger peeking over lemon's shoulder and grinning evilly) Wet....MORE LEMON....but now ginger is dancing behind the lemon and just knowing its time is coming.... Dry down....Initially this smells exactly like Florida Water ( an old perfume blend used in Cuban Santeria)....I LOVE Florida water! It is citrusy/tangy, spice! Further dry down.....the lemon has left the playing field and ginger and the other spices are settling in for some long term foody goodness. If there were even a hint of pumpkin here I would swear it was my mother's pumpkin bread! Verdict.....arghhh! This will definitly have to be a full bottle in the future! Luckily for my budget I have more than enough smells (both here and on the way) to keep me satisfied...but I think I'll have to get a bottle of this by next fall....this is a perfect October/November scent! **Edit.....got a bottle....not like my imp much! I think my imp is the old LE version. Still that heady cinnamon, clove, ginger smell, but the lemon is WAY far off in the background and the warm roundness is missing. Maybe this will age well....but I think the lemon is a lost cause. Okay....dry down does bring out a more warm "cookie" scent....but the spices are still WAY too strong in this. I like it....just not as much as my little impy. **Edit #2.....yes it ages well! One of my top ten!

Had an allergic reaction to Snake Oil yesterday, but I think it was because I'd just scrubbed off another oil with hot water and soap. The reaction was limited to my inner elbows and was basicallly just mild stinging with red spots. Due to the way my inner elbows distort scents I think I'm going to stop applying there anyway. I've decided to use wrist pulse points, back of hand, neck, cleavage and sometimes hair (if I really, really want the scent to linger). Shub just made me a bit tingly too...but no discoloration and it also went away shortly. I'm pretty sure its probably the ginger.

SHEESH! Nobody's mentioned Kali yet!!! Spicy, incensy goodness!

In the bottle-ylang ylang...that's all I'm smelling. Wet-ylang ylang and rose (with the ylang ylang still prevalent) and a dark smokey base which I'm guessing is the myrrh. Dry down- on my wrists its gone ultra sweet light musk. In my elbow creases its pure rose attar! (Funny how each pulse point amps a different scent!) Verdict--I like this. Its a floral I can wear without it being TOO sweet and cloying. I like rose and the ylang ylang mellows out on my skin. I don't know that I'll get a bottle of it, but I'll definitly keep the imp and use it for those ultra femme days.

Recieved as frimp from lab. In bottle--lavender and not much else. Wet--lavender and rose....titch of light musk in the background Dry down--Musk comes out more and the frankincense is lightly present. Throw--I definitly could smell this wafting about in the first couple of hours. Later in the dry down it hugs closer. Doesn't last as long as the darker scents I have. I applied before bed and the lavender was WONDERFUL for inducing sleep. I noted the transitions of the scent everytime I woke up a bit. Upon waking this morning all I was left with was a hint of floral musk. I'll definitly keep this if for nothing else but helping me sleep. I also think I'll ambush a friend with it. She loves lavender and frankincense!

Argh! I wish I hadn't read the reviews that mentioned peanut butter!!! I LOVE Smut! I got an original bottle (2005? I think?) from ebay and was in immediate lust! So I just ordered a 2007 bottle...hoping it is close to the same... I didn't smell peanut butter before the other reviews, but now....must turn off mental association!!! I love the musk/sweetness. And thankfully the peanut butter issue doesn't stick around too long. Woozy.....yes.....and throw?....oh HEAVENS yes....more throw than anything else I've tried. AND it lasts and lasts. (I went to bed the other night, pulled up the covers and THERE WAS SMUT!!! It had gotten on the bedsheets and was lying in wait for me... ) This scent is a musk lover's dream come true! *edit** Wore some to work and a co-worker asked what I was wearing and said I smelled like spicy incense! ....so the throw, I'd say, is very good. Edit for 2007 review......Definitly age this one! The new bottle is very much more sharp and peanut buttery than the old bottle I got on ebay! I can see how aging this changes it. I'll definitly be hoarding the new bottle until it is worthy and using my old bottle for scenting. ADDED March 17: Just ordered big bottles of Shub and Smut 2007....so will have to try that! ADDED March 18: Let it set for awhile and who knows....this is a scent made to age well...... Well, my co-worker thought it smelt like the incense used in a hippy/new agey store....so I can see how your mom would think that....but I'm with YOU.....this is sexy, boozy, night on the town stuff!!!

Vote three for Brides of Dracula! Its a nice floral skin musk. The florals aren't overwhelming and the musk is apparent throught the entire life of the perfume without being too heady. I like it as a spring scent. And I've noticed you can find it on ebay on a regular basis. I used to wear "Skin musk" and Brides definitly has that scent.

Nom nom....Fenris Wolf! yup....lasts forever on me as well...though it goes through transformations...sandalwood to musk to musky amber to amber. Not too sure on throw yet...Smut seems to have the most throw of any so far.

Shalimar is my mom's signature scent. I thought Fenris Wolf dried down to a feral smelling Shalimar. Oooo, another Garden Botanika hoarder! I've got a teensy bit of GB's Vanilla Musk left....I'm hoping to find a vanilla musk in BPAL that replaces it.

It lasts a while. I think because the sandalwood creates a really good base. You have to like musk also though, because the musk is definitly very present.

I've found my musk/amber/sandalwood mix!!!! FENRIS WOLF!!!!! YUM!!!!

OMG! This may be the ultimate one for me!!!! In bottle-A woody spice. Most likely the sandalwood and rosewood combining. I was afraid it would be too spicy for me. Wet on skin-Still very woody, but less spice. The musk and amber(two of my favorite scents) are starting to appear. Drydown-Very warm....starts out heavy on the musk but the longer it drys the more amber is coming to the forefront. Verdict--MUST HAVE BIG BOTTLE!!!!! (my mother has worn Shalimar for years and this smells like Shalimar's feral cousin! LOVE IT!!) ***This is one of my first reviews.....and Have to say.....still very true! Fenris was the first description that really caught my eye on the BPAL website....the first imp I knew I had to have.....and after two months (and over 100 imps--plus several Big Bottles of LEs--later) is STILL one of my top five if not numero UNO! Something about the way the amber and sandalwood combine makes this divine! Oh....and I love this so much I've imped out alot of my first Big Bottle (because when I love something SOOOOO much I just HAVE to share it!) ....so a second bottle will soon be ordered...sigh.... Especially since I've started making a "perfume spray" of it with 1 part oil to 9 parts Everclear and spritzing my bed....sigh.....yes....this is a KEEPER scent!

From my first imp order and second scent I've reviewed (first being Hell's Belle) I'd wanted to like this as a long distance friend described it as "pure sex" on her, but....... This is soap on me from start to finish. The drydown was a bit more warm, but still that soapy scent that doesn't work well on my skin. Sigh. Will be swapping this one.

The first bpal scent I've ever applied....so....here goes..... In bottle.....Woah! I smell dragon's blood but there isn't any in the description! Must be the citrus and spice combining. Wet....Strong. A lush floral is coming out but the spices are still dominant. 1 hour...more creamy/musky less floral....still a hint of citrus as a top note, but it is blending well with the musk scent...I smell like a sexy dreamsicle! Oooooo! Well....pretty sure this will have some serious staying power (hoping so as I'm going to a party tonight and want to WOW the guests)....but I'll have to come back later to give the final results. So far....in lust with this! (But be warned! VERY potent when wet!) *edit..... The party was very smokey and incesney so I'm not sure if anyone got to smell the goodness or not. But when I woke up this morning I could still smell some musky caramel scent on my wrists.

I'm a NOOB (as in...haven't even gotten my first order yet, noob!) But I'm also a huge amber fan.....so this thread is of great interest to me. My question is....is there a good scent that blends amber, musk, vanilla and dragons blood? (the dragons blood doesn't need to be there.....but it works well on me.) I adore musky/amber/vanilla smells! (maybe some sandalwood, though it sometimes gets a bit soapy). Anything warm and not too floral!