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[masterlist] Tested & Reviewed Scents

LATEST UPDATE: Jan 6, 2022.   Alphabetical by category, then name (hierarchy = LE - GC - BPTP). Use ctrl+ F to find a specific review. Discontinued general catalogue scents are listed under their original categories and indicated by a [*D] notation (some remain listed under the subheading 'discontinued' and will be moved to the correct group eventually). Scents preceded by a double asterisk [**] are ISO's to be migrated to my wishlist when I have the time.

Most of my reviews use a five star rating system (★ - ★★★★★), which incorporates half stars where necessary (½). A general - but not always exact - guide to my ratings is as follows:
  ★★★★★: Beloved favourite, will always keep 1 or more bottles where possible ★★★★½: Love, will always keep an imp where possible ★★★★: Like a lot, would recommend, will rotate with other regular scents ★★★½: Like, would recommend, would consider repurchase ★★★: Like, but do not find original or imaginative, probably wouldn't repurchase ★★½: Ambivalent, would not recommend or repurchase ★★: Dislike, would not recommend or repurchase ★½: Strongly dislike, would not recommend or repurchase ★: Unwearable, washed off immediately  

☆ Limited Editions ☆

A Little Lunacy: 13 (Sept 2019) Black Bear Moon (2012) Blauer Mond (2012) Cold Moon (2019) Harvest Moon (2019, 2021) Hyrrokkin (2018) Mare Crisium (2015) Milk Moon (2020) Sinus Amoris (2015) Sprouting Grass Moon (2020) Whirling Wind Moon (2012) Wood Horse (2014)   Activism: Impeachment  Waltzing Matilda   Anniversary: Bagpipe Dog Alchemy Lab (2018) Bellicose Clam Alchemy Lab (2018) Fishtail Beaver Alchemy Lab (2018) Jupiterian Phoenix (2012) Leather Phoenix (2011) Lunar Phoenix (2012) Martian Phoenix (2012) Mercurian Phoenix (2012) Saturnian Phoenix (2012) Smug Yale Alchemy Lab (2018) Solar Phoenix (2012) The Phoenix at Dawn (2011) The Phoenix at Dusk (2011) The Phoenix at Midday (2011) The Phoenix at Midnight (2011) Venusian Phoenix (2012) Yellow Metal with Mingled Purple Blushes (2014)
Art of the Unicorn: Bestiare du Moyen Age Crucifixion De Vos' Unicorn  The Virgin and the Unicorn 
Bards of Ireland: Fairy Thorn
Chaos Theory: Fougere #31 Fougere #45 Fougere #52 Woods #70 Woods #71 Woods #72
Crimson Peak: Between Your Heart and Mine Firethorn Berry Tea Lullaby The First Time I Saw a Ghost   Dum Spiro Spero: Every Day You Play with the Light of the Universe   Duets / Menage a Trois: Champa & Myrrh Darjeeling Tea, Cocoa Dust, & Incense Elderberry Flower and Sandhill Plum Gardenia, Tobacco Leaf, & Oakmoss Lavender, Sea Salt, & Rain White Sandalwood, Sage, & Bourbon Vanilla   Good Omens: He'd Been An Angel Once Old Fashioned Satanists   Fatherhood (formerly BPTP):  A Winter's Walk in the Cemetery (2021) Blood and Judgement So Well Comeddled (2015) Catch Me, Dad (2015) Lavender Lightning (2021) Meus Amor Aeternus (2015) Playing Tag in a Garden Full of Gods (2014)   Halloweenies: A World Where There Are Octobers (2013) A Young Woman Appealing to a Witch (2015) An Open Grave Underneath the Heavy Leaves (2020) Apple IV (2015) Apple VI (2016) Apple X (2016) Autumn Cider (2011) Autumn Fancies (2013) Autumn Overlooked My Knitting (2014) Candy Apple Smut (2020) Creaking Floorboards (2020) Dead Leaves and Lavender Buds (2016) Dead Leaves, Bourbon Vanilla, and Myrrh (2015) Dead Leaves, Chamomile, Red Roses, and White Tea (2016) Dead Leaves, Red Currant, and Tuberose (2020) From Sunset to Star Rise (2020) Ghost Faced Bat (2018) Ghost House (2012) La Calavera Catarina (2020) Lambs-Wool (2018) Liquid Gold is in the Air (2020) October (2011, 2015, 2020) Pile of Fallen Leaves (2014) Pomona (2012) Portrait of an Unidentified Man as Mephistopheles (2015) Pumpkin Latte (2011) Pumpkin Princess (2011) Punkie Night (2012) Rickety Staircase (2020) Samhain (2013) Second Spring (2015) The Dead Can Hear and the Dead Have Sight (2016) The Dead Can Yearn and the Dead Can Smite (2016) The Goat and the Vine (2018) The Unquiet Grave (2015) The Witch Bride (2014) Witch Dance (2016)   Hellboy: Ganeida  Liz   Hexennacht Hexennacht (2019)   Ligeia: Blacker Than the Raven Wings of Midnight   Lilith: 8th Grade (2021) A Place of Seeing (2021) All While Dreaming, Shakes Her Head (2021) And Sing, And Sing (2019) Bits of Birnam Wood (2019) Go, Hawks! (2019) Good Morning, London (2016) Heavenly Spark (2016) Holy Trinity (2016) Lazy Daisy (2019) Lights, Camera, Something (2021) O Hushed October Morning Mild (2021) Philopannyx (2021) Στοργή (2019) The Empress and the Chariot (2021) The Hierophant and the Empress (2014) The Serpentine (2016)
Lupercalia: A Note from Propertius (2013) Alleviate the Frenzy (2020) Black Fig and Cherry (2020) Bloodlust Bonbon (2015) Box of Chocolates: Milk Chocolate with Macadamia, Coconut, Button Mushroom, and Marshmallow (2012) Elizabeth of Bohemia (2020) From You I Have Been Absent in the Spring (2014) Love and Sleep (2014) Luperci (2014) The Mark (2016) Mars Alator (2015) Mars Ultor (2015) MIchiyuki Koi No Futusao (2020) Mount Fuji Reflected in Lake Misaica (2015) Night Scene (2016) Quaeris Quot Mihi Basiationes (2013) Saint Foutin de Varailles (2010, 2014) Signor Dildo (2015) The Expiration (2014) The Instructional Manual (2016) The Sick Rose (2014) The Voice (2014) There is a Garden in Her Face (2014) Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes (2014) To His Mistress Going to Bed (2016) Valentine of Rome (2014) Venus Caelestis (2015) Venus Cloacina (2015) Venus Genetrix (2015) Venus Murcia (2015) Venus Obsequens (2015) Venus Verticordia (2015) Venus Victrix (2015) Womb Furie (2014)   Lux Brumalis: Winter Scene in Little Russia   Metamorphosis: Passion Butterfly
Neil Gaiman: Miss Spink Snow, Glass, Apples
Only Lovers Left Alive: Adam Eve (2013, 2018) Hal Kit June 23, 1868 The Diamond's Gong The Hourglass This is Your Wilderness
Pickman Gallery: ** Arana My Happy Day Rapunzel in Ballpoint Summoning Stone Play Structure The Goat and the Vine   Suspiciendo Despicio: Capricorn (2007)   The Fool's Journey: The Forest of the Empress The Stream and the Waterfall
The Last Unicorn: Lady Una Yvaine   The Singularity: Demon Goggles Foolish Wooden Cucumber Harlequin Milk Rapture Pig   The Snakes of Spring: Snake Eyes Gleaming in Spring's First Twilight   Twilight Alchemy Lab: White Rose   Walpurgisnacht: Hilf, Ach, Hilf Mir, Kriegsgeselle Verteilt Euch, Wackre Manner, Hier Wer Opfer Heut Ze Bringen Scheut   Yules: Faunalia (2014) Joulumuori (2020) Knecht Ruprecht (2012) Like Brooms of Steel (2013) Mari Lwyd (2014) Midnight Mass (2012) Peacock Queen (2020) Rose Red (2020) Skadi (2013) Stardust (2013) Sugar Cookie (2005) The Cherry-Tree Carol (2020) The Mahogany Tree (2013) The Poinsettia Gown (2020) The Visionary (2013) Winter-Time (2014) Yuletide (2014)

☆ Collaborations, Retail & Event Exclusives ☆

Collaborations: Black Ice Sleeper (Darla Teagarden: Altars 2022)   Retail: Anaxagoras (San Diego Comic Con 2014) Black Heart (Dark Delicacies: Valentine's Day 2010) Conservatory Tableaux (Post War Trade: Who Killed Amanda Palmer? 2009) Lucifer (Dark Delicacies (The Salon, Travelling Exhibition 2007) Who In the World Am I? (Century Guild: Fragmented Alice 2014)
Events: At the Mid Hour of Night (Bat's Day 2014) Fuzzy Peach Sweater and a Mug of London Fog (DragonCon 2021) Georgia Peach, Oakmoss, Sage, and Vetiver (DragonCon 2021) Revisiting the Scents of Past Delight (Bat's Day 2014) Sing the Wild Song (Bat's Day 2014) Tis Thy Voice from the Kingdom of Souls (Bat's Day 2014) When Life Shone Warm in Thine Eyes (Bat's Day 2014) When Stars are Weeping (Bat's Day 2014)
Other: In Omnibus Caritas (BFCM gift 2019) Incolumitas (BFCM gift 2018) Server Gremlins (Lab Gift 2018)

☆ General Catalogue ☆

Ars Amatoria: Bathsheba (2011, 2018) Bordello Brisingamen Carnal Desire Follow Me Boy Golden Priapus Hunger Kabuki La Belle Au Bois Dormant Le Serpent Qui Danse Rapture Siren Snake Oil Spellbound The Lady of Shalott Whoso List to Hunt [*D]
Ars Draconis: Dragon's Blood Ladon
Ars Moriendi: Deep in Earth Embalming Fluid Haunted Les Fleurs du Mal (2013, 2021) Zombi
Bewitching Brews: Anne Bonny Arcana (2011, 2018) Bewitched Black Forest (2009, 2016) Blood Blood Amber Blood Kiss Blood Pearl Brimstone Calico Jack Debauchery Dee Eclipse Fire of Love Follow Me Boy (2009) Grog Horn of Plenty Khubla Khan (2009, 2021) La Bella Donna Mia Mente Masquerade Mata Hari Ode on Melancholy Red Devil Swank ** The Hesperides [*D] The Jersey Devil Tushnamatay Undertow Van Van Veil Wolf's Heart Yggdrasil
Carnaval Diabolique: Banded Sea Snake Faith & Hope, The Siamese Twins Green Tree Viper
Conjure Bag: Fire of Love French Love
Diabolus: Akuma Baobhan Sith Black Annis Black Phoenix Djinn Dracul Ekhidna [*D] Horreur Sympathetique Kitsune-Tsuki Malice Wicked
Discontinued: Ehecatl House of Night Iambe Moon Rose Szepasszony The Unicorn
Excolo: Anteros Baron Samedi Hades Hedylogos Nyx Old Scratch Persephone Qandisa Sjöfn (2014, 2021) Skuld Tezcatlipoca Thanatos Tlazolteotl
Illyria: Helena Katharina (2014, 2021) Juliet Robin Goodfellow (2014, 2021) The Apothecary
Inspiration: Bram Stoker
Mad Tea Party: Alice Alice's Evidence Cheshire Cat Croquet King of Hearts Mouse's Long and Sad Tale Queen Alice Queen of Hearts The Dormouse The Red Queen Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat Two, Five, and Seven
Marchen: Baba Yaga Fire for thy Stepmother's Daughter's Prunella Roses, Pearls, and Diamonds The Black Rider (2012, 2021) The Night Raven The Red Rider The Sea Foams Milk Vasilissa (2009, 2021) Veritas
A Picnic in Arkham: Al-Azif Azathoth (2012, 2022) Y'Ha-Nthlei
Pharmacopaeia: TKO
Phoenix Steamworks: The Antikythera Mechanism The Robotic Scarab
Rappaccini's Garden: Black Hellebore Honey [*D] Blood Lotus Blood Rose Chokecherry Honey Love Lies Bleeding Redoul Honey Strangler Fig The Zieba Tree
RPG Series: Bard Druid Dwarf Elf Fighter Lawful (2014, 2021) Neutral Orc Paladin Ranger Vial of Holy Water
The Salon: The Arrival at the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil [*D]
Sin and Salvation: Cathedral Death on a Pale Horse (2018, 2022) Dorian Paramatman The Bow and Crown of Conquest The Great Sword of War Wrath   The Unemployed Philosopher's Guild: Hypatia   Wanderlust: 51 Athens Bayou Bengal Cairo Eden Jezirat al Tennyn [*D] Kyoto Morocco Paris Pontarlier Prague Sybaris Versailles Whitechapel

☆ Black Phoenix Trading Post ☆

Atmosphere: Villa Diodati (prototype) Alchemical Laboratory
Lupercalia: Gold and Tears (2015) Ruined Roses (2015)
Yules: A Lady Tall and White (2014) Neither Peace Nor Rest (2014)
 

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[masterlist] Note to Self

Not a wishlist! If you've stumbled across this, please ignore; these are not ISO's, just notes to myself regarding scents I intend to order in the future, test at local BPAL meet ups, or will one day go hunting for in the sales/swaps forum.   LATEST UPDATE: April 17, 2016 March 10, 2021. Listed alphabetically and, where possible, by sub-category. Use ctrl+ F to find a specific scent. [**] indicates a priority.   Notes that typically work: apple, vanilla, fig, amber, lavender, violet, tea, moss, vetiver, or wood notes. Notes that have started behaving well: red and white musks, most roses, stone fruits, engine oils. Notes to avoid: lotus, wine/alcohol, anything 'skin' (including skin musk), 'blood' notes, balsam, bay. Allergies and reactions: cinnamon (extreme irritation), lemon/lemon balm (migraine trigger).  
☆ Limited Editions & Retail/Event Exclusives ☆

Bards of Ireland: (none)   Lilith: Walking the Prime Meridian   Lupercalia: Chasing Fireflies   Only Lovers Left Alive: Eve [**] achieved! Thank you, five year anniversary release!   TAL: Ut Ameris, Amabilis Esto   Yules: The Fox Sisters (2021) Upslope Fog

☆ Discontinued Scents ☆ Arachne Asphodel Black Dahlia Bluebeard Bruja Calliope Clio [**] Damnation Desdemona Despair Dissipation Dublin Ephemera Ether Fairy Market Glitter Hamadryad Hurricane Hymn to Prosperpine La Belle Dame Sans Merci Severin

☆ General Catalogue ☆

Ars Amatoria: Depraved Golden Priapus Forbidden Fruit Kabuki Libertine Lilium Inter Spinas Lucy's Kiss Maiden Perversion Spellbound Suspiro The Lady of Shalott Vicomte de Valmont
Ars Draconis: Dragon's Claw Dragon's Milk
Ars Moriendi: Nocturne Thanatopsis
Bewitching Brews: Aeval Aureus Bess Dana O'Shee Fae Highwayman Incantation Jack Juke Joint Kill-Devil Leanan Sidhe Mata Hari Morgause Omen Ouija Poisoned Apple The Forest Reverie Velvet Wilde Yggdrasil
Conjure Bag: (none)
Diabolus: A Countenance Foreboding Evil Marie Serpent's Kiss Villain
Excolo: Megaera Xiuhtecuhtli
Illyria: Lear Katharina Queen Gertrude Robin Goodfellow Rosalind
Mad Tea Party: White Rabbit   Marchen: The Rose   A Picnic in Arkham: Arkham Night Gaunt   Phoenix Steamworks: The Coil   Rappacini's Garden: Belladonna Black Rose   RPG Series: Cleric Druid Elf Good Half-Elf Lawful Monk Neutral Paladin Ranger Vial of Holy Water
Sin and Salvation: Cathedral Malediction Rose Cross Seraphim
Wanderlust: Amsterdam Crossroads El Dorado Glasgow Lyonesse Ogygia Pontarlier Tombstone  

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