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The cognac note featured here is absolutely gorgeous and is the same one in Cognac-Stained Sheet Ghost. I get a little bit of the champaca and white musk in addition to the cognac, and something that almost reads as minty without the mentholated aspect of mint; sweet and slightly herbal. This definitely has a glittering quality to it and smells very elegant. There's something about this that I can only describe as "swirling" too, which is fascinating. Beautiful scent overall.
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so happy to snag this one before weenies go away, the blow molds are secret favorites of mine and these mango and clove kittens are the perfect addition. the mango note is so rich and juicy, with the clove and amber giving this warm radiance and depth that is super delightful. the plastic note is light and comes in at the end of the sniff, that soft flocked-feeling plastic of blow molds. picture perfect scent!
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The shortbread note is one where the shortbread is either made with and/or covered in powdered sugar, and I think it is reminding me of A Breathless Chuckle, of which I think I only have a half-bottle remaining, so I'll be needing a bottle of this in my collection, too. (And it's a cat scent, so there's another reason to get it!) I do get some cardamom with the shortbread, as well as a really lovely lightly smoked vanilla note. I'm not getting much cocoa at all, just a very faint dusting, which I'm happy about, because that means the other notes get more of a chance to shine. The cream is not super buttery, and I only get a hint of the pink pepper, which isn't bubblegum-y, nor does it have a kick to it like it does in some scents. A decant will not be enough!
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I agree with Leopard403. The clove is strong in this one. It's a toasty, sweet porridge scent, but someone might have tipped the jar of ground cloves into the bowl on accident. It's much spicier and more wintery than It Was But the Wild Blast As It Sung Thro’ the Trees, which also features oats and clove. I do enjoy clove, so I like this, but it's not my favorite of the sweet scents from this batch of New Year's Creepers and Oddments, so I don't think I need more of this. I'll be hanging onto my decant and will probably retest it before it departs just to be sure, though!
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This is a scent that's definitely for fans that like to wear Beth's on point, highly realistic lipstick accord. The powdery, waxy lipstick is present throughout wear, with the musk and blood-slicked fangs gaining strength over time, but only the musk ever gets to be as strong as the lipstick. I believe the blood in this is a slightly spicy, resinous dragon's blood as opposed to a floral variety. It smells unexpectedly alluring with the musk, which is not one I can remember coming across in another BPAL scent. I don't need more than my decant, but this is a fun scent experience.
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Wolf Moon: Bloodroot & Evergreens
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I'm not familiar with bloodroot and have only tried one other scent containing the note (The Huntsman from the 2025 Yule collection), so I may not be the best person to describe it, but here's what I got from this scent when I tested it on my skin: something akin to a lemon-y, ginger-y cough drop backed by a light evergreen note. I personally was hoping for a stronger evergreen scent from this one. I look forward to reading future reviews and seeing what other folks' experience with this were like. - Yesterday
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Wolf Moon: Snow & Oak Bark
doomsday_disco replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
I, too, get mentholated snow from this, along with the oak, which isn't as sharp as it sometimes tends to be in other blends, but certainly isn't smoothed over by this sort of snow. This cold, mentholic, dry scent. I was really hoping for a sweet snow note in this one. Alas. -
It is fucking crazy how much this smells like freshly-developed photographs to me, and it's so nostalgic. I get a very distinct floral in here, which I think is gardenia, along with something deeply purple-smelling. This is such a weird, specific caricature of time captured in scent form, and this kind of thing is exactly why I love BPAL so much. There's a distinct wetness to the scent when it's worn, like soggy photographs. I can't get over how fascinating this is. It smells very melancholic and gothic too. This was an instant new favorite.
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In the bottle, this is a dead ringer for animal crackers. On skin, it's less animal cracker-y and more spicy. There's a tiny bit of coffee in there, but it's mostly about the beignet note. For what it's worth, I have no idea what chicory coffee smells like, so I can't speak to the accuracy of that, and the spice I'm getting may be from that. Either way, this definitely evokes imagery of eating some sort of warm, vanillic pastry in a cafe, so I'm not complaining at all. It stands out from the other coffee-centric scents I have and is a unique take on it. I love how warm this smells too, and it would be a great pick for a cold day.
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Adam is somewhat reminiscent of Rogue to me, but definitely cologne-y. The ambergris is quite strong here, and my bottle smells more masculine, clean, and bright than the bottle I'd previously tested (I have no idea which year the bottle I tested was from, but it definitely wasn't this year). Not a complaint by any means, since I don't really care about smelling masculine. The rosin and leather notes are dreamy and slightly sweet, and it does bring to mind a caricature of a tortured vampire musician.
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I grabbed this one right away, as it covers a few gaps in my collection and I am extremely partial to coyotes as animals. Super impressed and enamored with the amber fur note right away upon opening the bottle. Initial application is all about that fluffy musky amber fur note, with pinches of pepper and swirls of the sage and herbs. After some settling the herbs really start to come forward and differentiate themselves the fur falls back but doesn't disappear, becoming more of a grounding element for the disparate herbs to play against. not getting a lot of tonka (it's not a favorite note of mine when a primary, so I'm grateful for that) but I'm sure it's part of what is allowing the other notes to retain their distinct edges. there's nothing particularly sweet or vanillic about how it plays here. Overall this gives an impression of outdoorsy freshness, sun-hungry plants enveloped in warm fur.
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A comforting cold-weather blend. The dry fruitiness of pomegranate weaves seamlessly into the aromatic evergreens. Those with nostalgic associations for Christmas trees will enjoy. A natural, yet elegant, winter holiday scent. No sweetness detected. The bottle is a keeper.
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(2026 version) This is very clove heavy, which I love. There's a bit of a smoky note in there as well, which I'm assuming is the creosote. It has a creaminess to it, which could maybe be the datura (I'm not familiar with what BPAL's datura note smells like on its own, so I can't say for sure). This is really lovely and just about fulfills all of my Fallout: New Vegas scent dreams. In contrast to the decant I have of this from an undetermined year, the OG decant is very green. It smells more leafy and almost herbal. I don't get the clove or the smokiness much at all from that, and if you told me that these were two completely different scents, I'd believe you. They don't resemble each other at all, really. In the late drydown of both, they smell vaguely similar, but still very different. I like both, but I think I like the re-release more.
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Initially, this is a massive blast of pine or spruce, which I wasn't expecting at all. Eventually, some dragon's blood and a bit of fruit and spice come out, but it's mostly the coniferous note. I don't get any sort of smokiness like some previous reviewers did. Conceptually, I can see the inspiration and it's accurate, but in terms of being a realistic blood scent or having any sort of metallic undertone, it falls flat for me. I can't decide if I like this or not and need to test it further, as it isn't anything like I expected it to be. Not a bad scent by any means, though. The hunt for blood scents continues.
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Full disclosure: I have difficulty picking apart any blends with lavender. It’s often a total assault on my senses so I must indulge carefully and deliberately. I like lavender, but I don’t always want it to scream at me, ya know? So obviously, I can compare this to TKO. Whereas TKO’s lavender is the type that fits in an old Batman episode (e.g. *POW* there’s lavender! *ZAP* smell the herbaceous scent!), the lavender in Lavender Apron is softer and a sweeter. For some reason, my brain keeps mislabeling the name of this scent as Lavender Linen Kitchen Apron, and that’s exactly what it smells like to me. It’s a well loved, faded purple apron, its thick fabric worn soft over time, that has been washed in lavender soap, hung to dry out in fresh air, and donned again to prepare something that requires long blending of confectionery sugar. (Homemade frosting perhaps?) If you bury your face in that apron’s fabric, it’s hard not to feel calm and comforted.
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This is remarkably similar to The Queen of May to my nose, to the point that they smell nearly identical until the later drydown. They're both very green, almost sappy floral scents, but this one is a bit less sharp and a tad more floral. I'm also getting some sort of violet-adjacent note hidden beneath everything else. I totally agree with RoseThornAndOak's recommendation for this if you're a fan of Alkemia's Blue Ridge Skyline or Summer Dandelion, and I'll add that if you liked The Queen of May and wanted something very similar to it, this is your gal. Solanine is definitely in the same vein as all of those.
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This is such a delightfully uplifting blend. Must love roses, of course, but this coffee is wonderfully different as well. At first this smells like putting your face right into a pile of coffee beans, except there are a million luscious red rose petals on top. The roses are rosiest through the earlier part of the weartime, 1-2 hours. Through the later part of wear, however, the coffee scent becomes that magical lived in scent - like when you go into someone's kitchen and they are the kind of person who grinds their coffee fresh every morning, the kitchen smell becomes a coffee smell becomes a warm hug. I smell like that kitchen right now and it kindof makes me want to cry (in a good way), especially because I have been hunting ceaselessly for my BPAL coffee scent. I am very happy to have this one! Please do it again with lavender!
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I see fossilized amber resin and I covet!! This gorgeous note is the beating heart of Hearthglow. The beautiful warm bouquet of resin and spice and sustenance sings out while the oil is wet, but as it dries the lavender-orange-honey comes to the foreground of the warm amber glow. Lean in close to get a breath of clove and allspice. Would absolutely love to smell this around the house as well as on my person.
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Mureera is a like, not a love, for me. I really wanted to try this and Aurum and I thought I would like Mureera better, but - as is frequently the case - I was wrong! Of course there's nothing wrong with this fragrance, it's quite lovely and wearable, but I probably wouldn't go all the way to the country of the Troglodytæ to get some. I find that myrrh frequently has a fuzzy aspect to it, and I like to associate that fuzz to dark velvet, but this is more of a fuzzy bunny. Very soft and approachable, honestly likely to pair well with many of your other resinous frags. Just not my preferred fuzz. I am glad to have a decant and I hope folks try this one!
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This is so charming when it’s wet: You really get a cozy foodie scent, chewy and milky and comforting with a distinctive note of pink. Unfortunately, there’s that clove bud. *shakes fist* It takes this blend and turns it right into red potpourri candle. 😔
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beautiful. I get champaca straight out of the bottle but once it's on the sandalwood and black tea come out to play, although subtly. it keeps the champaca from going complete head shop vibescx76. The myrrh is giving the blend a little powderiness as it dries but the champaca seems to be holding everything together and keeping the myrrh from going to baby powder. dries to a sweet but well blended incense. Surprisingly good throw for an incense blend and lasts for a while on me (4+ hours after applying and the throw hasn't faded).
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A little bit of soil, a handful of cotton and the same Indian musk as Galvanic Goggles mingles with sweet tobacco when wet. Applied to skin, a boozy vanilla comes out to play and the tobacco really warms up. I don't really get any moss, or incense. This is softly sweet, lasting just under 7 hours, with moderate projection. I can see why this is such a highly coveted scent; it's gorgeous. The tobacco and cognac are a great combo, and as always the Lab's fabric notes are on point. It truly feels like a "best of" some of the nicest parts of other scents that I like all wrapped up into one. Hopefully it can make a reappearance somehow in the future!
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Got it as a frimp. Love it! I get chocolate peppermint for some strange reason. Doesn't really fit the description for me, but will definitely full size at some point!
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I've been looking forward to the year of the Fire Horse for a very long time, and although I haven't tried a Chinese New Year scent before, I had to get this. They always seemed like they'd be much like I imagined a Chinese New Year's parade would be like: bright colors, music, fire crackers, i.e. a joyful cacophony. The ingredients seem consistent from year to year, but reviews indicate there might be some tweaking to emphasize certain notes so every year is different. I wondered if this year's version would emphasize dragon blood, mandarin, and orange to emphasize the glowing, passionate nature of the Fire Horse. On the contrary, for me the fruit takes a back seat to a peaceful, smooth, watery greenness (possibly from the bamboo). There's a feeling of amelioration and contemplation, almost like the healing and rebuilding phase after a major rupture. I think we are in for a bumpy ride as a society in the next year or so, but need to remember sometimes we have to let what doesn't serve us burn away before we can get to something better. Editing to add how much I love the label featuring art from the Cave of Lascaux!
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Stormclouds Over The Midway
SmellsPrettyGood2Me replied to iiinterstate's topic in Carnaval Diabolique
Always here for the Lab's ozone note! Very mineralic, atmospheric open on skin of a spring storm with a bit of resinous incense. Is the plum-color blackcurrant? As someone who intensely dislikes anise, I'm thrilled that the wormwood is nicely dialed down by the sweetness of the opium tar. The petrichor note sticks around post drydown, and the incense gets a nice spicy bite to it. Medium low sillage that only lasts about 5.5 hours before largely fading away. I like this; the more fragrances I try with opium tar, the more inclined I am to seek out others that include it.
