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Loviatar: The slap of slick, hot leather punctuates the warm, sensual embrace of black amber, red musk and dark, lascivious myrrh.

Hollywood Babylon: glittering Egyptian amber and heliotrope, infused with the sweetness of strawberry and vanilla - dragged into debauch by lusty red musk and a dribble of black cherry.

Midnight Kiss: red musk, cocoa absolute, Nepalese amber, red sandalwood, aged patchouli, nicotiana, and blood wine.

3 pretty different blends and all pretty darn good.

Mmmmm. Not nearly as sweet as I was expecting, but quite nice. I get a bit of booziness (?!?!) and oddly enough I get the blue spun sugar too. Very pale, powdery blue. I'd bet my bottom dollar there's just a drop of lavender in this. I get no fruit, no strawberry, which makes me sad.

Actually, in a blind-sniff test I would have guessed this was from the Atomic Luau Lounge.

I like it. I'm not sure if I'll get a full bottle though because I'm currently swimming in a lot of sugary, sweet, foody scents. If it had strawberry for me, I probably would.

The label is cute and I adore the concept of this scent.

Damn. Within moments this leapt to the top of my apple favorites. Actually, it may end up near the top of all my favorites. It's a really beautiful apple cider. I get predominantly apple and cinnamon, but it's not candylike. A really lovely fall scent.

I’ll add my voice to the throng of endorsements for Doc’s SSS. It is a thing of wonderment, a divine gift of buttery rootbeery delicousness. I’m all agog.

I get no snaily bits from this.

Disclaimer: The Pharmacopoeia is not responsible for injuries sustained whilst walking around with your nose buried in your own cleavage.

Midnight Kiss is terrific and still available from the lab (no imps though).

Mania is wonderful and fruity (smells a lot like Hollywood Babylon to me)

Scherezade is beautiful and very popular.

also check into:

Bien Loin d'Ici

Blood Lust

Fenris Wolf

The Great Sword of War

Lust

Loviatar

Have fun!!

Initially this is delicious vanilla and sweet cake. The currant slowly emerges until at day’s end there is a decided spiciness that is reminiscent of patchouli, woods and resins. Just glorious.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

This smells overwhelmingly of soap.

Clean, Holy soap. I'm not a fan of aquatics or ozone or florals, so I would have been surprised if it had worked.

I am a foody whore that specializes in sweet. So DLTC is pure sticky sweet heaven to me. I think this maybe the sweetest blend I've ever tested and I just wallow in it like a fat, happy pig.

It isn't overly cloying though, because the ginger and citrus keeps things tangy. I so wish I had a bottle, my decant isn't going to last very long at all.

A rare instance of a milk note that does not sour on my skin. A deliciously foody scent that for some reason resembles Shub-Niggurath to my nose. I think the wine provides some shub-like warmth.

I love it.

Smells exactly like Easter Lilies to me. Oh yes, and some kind of cleanser. A very familiar smell, but not terrifically compelling as a perfume for me.

Antonio the Carny Talker - purchased a decant from a forumite and I think it is well aged.

Gorgeously fruity and yet dark. I normally have a bit of trouble with coconut smelling like suntan lotion - but here it is perfect. Also, the green components of vetiver and verbena are subtle - allowing the fruits to play center stage.

This is worthy of a bottle or three.

This smells like a gun, thrown onto a bonfire and then fished out of the wet ashes 3 days later.

Crazy indeed and not something I could wear.

My step-mom smelled it in the imp and thought it would be a terrific men's cologne.

Yay to the lab for frimping this one!

Another one I would not have ordered on my own. Antique Lace is a very clean soft and sweet vanilla with just a hint of floral. I prefer it somewhat aged so that the vanilla smooths out a bit.

I noticed the last time I placed an order that R'lyeh (Picnic in Arkham) still has a button to buy a 10ml. It even works. I considered leaving it in my cart but I didn't want to cause the labbies needless aggravation just so I could chortle.

I'd like to see certain things come back in a 10ml. I'm just not sure what. Plus it would kind of screw up my little army of bottles - I'd have to find new storage for the taller ones.

Ok here's a challenge. My stepmom is visiting and she was intrigued by my little pile of imps in the living room. She mentioned that her favorite perfume was discontinued and was there a similar BPAL?

Her scent is the old Shiseido Zen from 1964. It's confusing because they've reformulated Zen twice and they're all very different. She only likes the original. From what I can gather it is:

"Woods, spice, a little incense, some aldehydes. It's a "little black dress" perfume, very classy, quite masculine. Nothing sweet or gourmand, and not particularly floral, either."

and

"jasmine, rose, burnished woods, and soft mosses"

It is an oriental/spicy perfume and I don't recall it being floral at all, but it's probably been 15 years since I've smelled it, so I'd say more woods and not much jasmine or rose. I don't know what aldehydes are.

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Aonochi: The search for an equivalent of Armani Code for Women is what brought me to BPAL. Heh Heh. I didn't want to spend $45 on a bottle of perfume. Needless to say, I haven't found it yet and I kind of got distracted along the way.

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Aaaaaaannnnnnnddddddd................. lately aged Mme Moriarty is reminding me a LOT of an old '80's perfume that I wore in high-school/college called Lou Lou by Cacharel. I'm not sure why because they don't really have much in common other than vanilla. Lou Lou has Jasmine, Mimosa, Orange, Tiare Lily, Iris, Sandalwood, Vanilla & Incense. I think maybe the incense is similar to the patchouli leaf in Mme Moriarty.

Pah. My stupid skin turns rose (especially pink and red roses) into nasty, sour rotten dead things.

Why are florals so difficult for me?

It was pretty in the imp - and there it will stay.

When it was fresh, I did not like this. It had an unpleasant, sharply chemical smell. Now aged, it has mellowed into perfect soft musky amber.

It has average duration and throw. There's a brief, odd period where it smells like a terrific carmelized cotton candy, but mostly it is musk and amber with a bit o honey.

Mmmm. Nice. Surprisingly delicate.

A wonderfully perfect, evil, dangerous apple. It's red, but tart. Not a terribly complex scent, but lovely all the same.

This scent took awhile for me to grasp. It comes across as a fruity, juicy floral. It has excellent duration and throw. I've been wearing it without knowing what's in it and I can't say that I can identify any one note. I think the ambergris really makes things blend together.

Right after application DH says "What is that smell????" and not in a good way. Then he says it smells like really strong soap.

Several hours later, a co-worker tells me I smell like "old-school patchouli". I'm not sure that's a compliment.

And yet, I really like it. It's summery and fresh and it makes me happy. I think it will only improve with age, so this is a keeper and I'm glad I bought it.

This scent is a gorgeous contrast between the warm sugar of Snake Oil and cool mint. Culinarily speaking, I'm not a big mint fan, but this scent is everything I wish mint could be.

Like others have remarked, it almost has a chocolate vibe. With aging, the mint smoothes out, but is still perfectly obvious. The mint lasts longer in my scent locket than it does on my skin - so I wear it in the locket and on the skin simultaneously.

I mourn the eventual demise of the Snake Pit, there's really nothing else quite like my favorite snakes.

I'm in love with this blend. If I concentrate, I can tell it is apples, but honestly it registers as midway between some lucious berry and a peach for me. Plus, it doesn't have the cloying quality of Snake Oil. I can slather this and still be in the same room with myself. Other people think of it as autumnal, but to me it seems like the ripest, juiciest laziest late summer afternoon ever. Sigh.

And, it's aging quite well. I think it's better now at 2 months old than it was fresh.

It makes me sad that the Snake Pit is going to slither off to oblivion. I really wish the Pit could become GC.

ETA: after several months, the apple really comes out, no more peachy/berries. It's still wonderful. Swoon

What about some of the pharmacopoeia scents? I haven't tried them yet, but they're verrrry interesting what with the butter and the wasabi and sassafrass and what not. Yep. Go see Doc, I'm going to.

Anyone mention Eos? She's anglo-saxon.

FWIW, I Skuld. It's like O+1

Aelopile smells like expensive furniture polish used for generations on priceless antiques --> exotic woods and lemon oil. It positively glows.

Good throw and duration. Morphs into a sweet woody resinous lemon lime with a slightly smoky base. Incredibly lovely and I wish my house smelled of this.

There is something different than the normal woods, ambers and citrus notes that I'm familiar with. This is, to my knowledge, my first encounter with oud. If it is the oud making this so great I think I need more.

Normally I amp cedar so much that it's unwearable on me, but in this blend it is restrained and lovely.

I will buy a bottle of this and happily wear it, but I think it would be a stunning room scent and most people would perceive it more as a room scent than as a perfume.

My rating: 5/5

This is my first 13 and it reminds me of Willy Wonka's experimental gum that tasted of all the courses of a complete meal in sequence.

Instead of experiencing the top notes that then give way to base notes, I keep getting discrete bits of them all in random rotation. A breath of honeysuckle, a puff of apple, a medicinal little waft of nutmeg and slathers of gorgeous dark melted chocolate. There is also a smoky woodiness that is very lovely and very autumnal. I was surprised to not see more wood in this blend.

Thirteen fades on me at mid-day, but I wouldn't mind reapplying this gorgeous scent. And I have a feeling I'm going to need more of this come autumn.