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To my nose, Harikata smelled a whole lot like L'eau d'Issey. And a hunt of my own.One of my favorite commercial perfumes is Design, by Paul Sebastian. I stopped wearing it along with all my other commercial perfumes, but miss it and would love to find a BPAL equivalent or similar so I can stop missing it. The to notes are: peach, orange blossom, and jasmine. The middle notes are: honeysuckle, carnation, and gardenia and the base of the fragrance is: black currant, musk, and sandalwood.There's so much in there that I'm not coming up with anything. Help?

Lust! Oh yes. And I usually don’t like patchouli. Do I smell coconut in here? I believe I do. Jailbait - I like it, but it smells like Materva (soda) with a little bubblegum! This might be a Cuban/South Florida thing. Lilith - I can’t pick out anything but I LIKE! Blood Countess - Fruity and Floral? But I likes! Obatala - a coconut that works!!! Oh this is delicious!! It's everything I wanted the Tikis to be. Dirty Viking (HAEE)- Mint or eucalyptus? This will be good for hangovers. Voodoo Punani (HAEE) - holy crap! More, now, please. Skuld - OMFG my nose had an orgasm! This is up there in all time favorites. I must have buckets of this, and I’m so happy this is GC!!!!! Golden Priapus - Amber, juniper and vanilla all in one? And pine that doesn’t smell like cleaning fluid? yay! The pine reminds me of Christmas, this will be a great holidays scent. 13 - I want to eat myself!!

In the bottle I got a lot of yland ylang, red hibiscus, and some sweetness from the coconut. I had been hoping for more coconut and some vanilla in there, but it still smelled like a very good coconut-y floral. On me: Bubbelicious tropical bubblegum. I guess it's not bad, and I'm sure if I was 13 I would love to smell like that, but no. Unfortunately we didn't get along.

I've discovered that on me, Fae smells A LOT like Ebisu Making Love as Two Octopuses Look on. Yay! I liked too many salons and didn't end up buying all of them, one of them being Ebisu. Now I can haz Ebisu-like Fae from GC.

I got decants of the Tikis that didn't appeal to me too much, and bottles of those that did. The verdict? Most of them didn't work at all on me. Tiki Queen: Smelled like Bubbleicious Bubblegum on me. I guess that's not bad, but it wasn't what I wanted to smell like. Tiki King: OMG coconut heaven in the bottle!!! And on me, it turned into a very weird lemony coconut, but the sweet turned to bitter and wasn't all that great. Damn. Te Po: Smelled like the cherry syrup they put into Cherry Coke. And then upon drydown it was a combination of artificial cherry syrup and red hots. This might be great if I was 12, but it wasn't for me. Marae: I had high hopes!!! But alas, it smelled like very faint baby cologne on me. Bah. Boo Bam: Meh Blue Fire: artificial blueberry explosion??? I'm keeping it to give it a second shot because I really wanted to like it!!! Moai: Nasty ashes, ick. Rangoon Riptide: Meh Tupapau: Meh The few that worked: Screeching Parrot: Delicious apricots and pineapple, and some pomegranite too. Yay! Upa Upa: Oh yes! Coconut and vanilla, and they don't go all weird. Heaven!! Moana: It's very ocean-y clean. Opuhi: Delicious!

King Cobra: Snake Oil with orris, frankincense, and copal. In the imp: A very resiney Snake Oil On me: Snake Oil with incese!!! A dryer incense, not like Temple Viper at all but still very good. After several hours it smells mostly just like snake oil, but that's what reapplying is for. Verdict: Yum! I wouldn't mind swapping for a bottle of this too.

Temple Viper: Snake Oil with sugar cane, frankincense, champaca, opoponax, labdanum, and hyssop. In the imp: Definitely getting a lot of Snake Oil from it, but it's sweeter and darker. I can't identify individual notes, but I can smell the sugar cake, frankincense, and champaca adding to the blend. On me: This has to be the sexiest perfume I have ever worn!!! Sex in a bottle. It's Snake Oil, but different. Deeper, darker, definitely getting the sugarcane. The frankincense gives it a touch of incense without making it incensey. The champaca adds more spice to it. The opoponax makes this more vanilla-ey. So this is snake oil, only better and waaaaay sexier! I think I need 2 bottles of this one!!!!

Dragon Moon '08: Our Dragon Moon represents the forces of rebirth and the vigor that springtime brings: dragon's blood resin, galbanum, blue sage, lavender, peppermint, sweetgrass, frankincense, moonglow magnolia, bergamot, and green cedar. In the bottle: A delicious herbal blend of mainly sage, sweetgrass, bergamont, and a bit of cedar. Where is the dragon's blood? On me: This is deliciously sweet herbal. I'm getting a lot of sage, frankincense, and cedar. The other notes are there, but blended so well that I can't pick them out. I like this very much, and it is very different from all the other BPAL I have.

Australian Copperhead: Snake Oil with acai berry, amber, cardamom, neroli, and smoked vanilla. In the imp: A deliciously sweeter snake oil. On me: The Snake Oil is very faint underneath the acai berry, neroli, and smoked vanilla. I didn't get much amber or cardamom out of this, mainly a lot of acai and neroli sweetness. But if I sniff deeply enough, I get the precious snake oil too. Sniffs at different distances also smelled different, so this one is very complex. And it has become my favorote snake. I definitely need a bottle.

Boomslang: Snake Oil with cocoa, teakwood, and rice milk. In the imp: Strong snake oil presence and some cocoa. Teakwood and rice milk? They are hiding. On me: HEAVEN! Slather PLEASE! Delicious snake oil with a lot of cocoa yumminess. I think I may sniff a teeny bit of teakwood, but I still don't know where the rice milk is. This smells sooooo good! It's got more throw than Snake Oil, or any of the other snakes I've tried so far. Boomslang is a dark oil, and when it was wet I could see it on my skin. I'm sure if I hadn't rubbed it in it would have stained my skin, so must be careful with that. This is most definitely a bottle need.

Coral Snake: Snake Oil with blood orange, red apple, lemon peel, plumeria, and gardenia. In the imp: Is there really snake oil in this? And where's the plumeria and gardenia? This smells very apple-y to me. Reminds me a bit of Bath and Body Works apple body splash. On me: Wet was ALL apples. As it dried, the florals peeked out and it was a delicious blend of snake oil with fruits and florals. And then it dried down and the florals went away, leaving apple. After a bit, the plumeria decided to come out to keep the apple company. The snake oil is hanging out faintly underneath the apple and plumeria. This is definitely a complex scent. Verdict: It smells good, I alternate between smelling BBW Plumeria and Apple body splashes, and sometimes get straight up snake oil. It smells good, but it's not really my kind of scent.

Cottonmouth: Snake Oil with linden blossom, calla lily, passion flower, and narcissus. In the imp: A floral snake oil! But not even close to floral overkill, the snake oil balances out the florals to make this a very well rounded scent. On me: A very sexy slightly floral scent with snake oil undertones just underneath. The perfect blend of vanilla, spices, and mainly passion flower. I couldn't stop smelling myself all night. This is definitely a must buy bottle.

Habu: Snake Oil with ho wood, teak, black musk, and bamboo. In the imp: Sweet snake oil! I think it is the bamboo making it sweet. Something a little woodsy, but no musk to be sniffed. On me: This blended so well onto my skin. It was subtle, but very good smelling. Again, the snake oil is there, but as a bottom layer. On top of it was delicious sweet bamboo, a tiny bit of ho wood, and a bit of musk. This worked really well on me.

Western Diamondback: Oil with leather, tonka bean, red sandalwood, and sage. In the imp: Snake oil with sweetened leather, a bit of sandalwood and sage peeking out. On me: I was afraid of the leather, as it usually goes wrong on me, but this one went right. I smelled the snake oil underneath, but got a nice blend of leather and sage in there too. No sign of the sandalwood, and maybe a peek at the tonka. This is a great blend. This will be turning into a bottle!

Sunrise With Sea-Monsters: Ocean mist, kelp, ambergris, amber, white pear, osmanthus, freesia, and seafoam accord. In the imp: Lots of delicious ocean mist, a bit of kelp, and the seafoam. Not detecting any freesia, pear, or amber in this. On me: I definitely feel the humor in this, I can visualize funny looking sea-monsters splashing around. This is wonderfully blended, as I can't pick out any notes in particular. It definitely reminds me of the ocean.

Faith: Sugared Violets In the imp: A very sweet sharp violet softened by delicious sugar On me: True to the imp, smells much like it did in the imp. Soft and sweet, yet still sharp and deliciously violet. I definitely need to get Hope & Faith bottles!

The Flower Song: Pomegranate wine, lotus root, river reeds, hyssop, and barley. In the bottle: Not floral, as the title would suggest. I get sweet pomegranite and lotus, with something else I can't identify (I don't know what hyssop and barley smell like). On me: Oh this scent was made for me! The predominant notes are pomegranate and plum (no plum listed, but it smells like plum to me), with deliciously sweet lotus root and river reeds right behind them. I'm sure the hyssop and barley are there, I just don't know how to find them. This is exquisitely blended, and works wonderfully on me. This was a last minute, unsniffed add on a whim even though most of the Lupercalias didn't do much for me. I'm so glad this fell into my shopping cart!

Beltane 08: Mugwort, French rose, Lily of the Valley, broom, frankincense, myrrh, benzoin, foxglove, woodruff, rowan wood, ivy, sandalwood, spring mint, thyme, iris, copal, and night blooming jasmine. In the bottle: Green!! This is a deliciously green Spring scent. I definitely get mint, but it blends in really well with the herbs and greens I'm smellling. I don't get any flowers out of this, but I'm sure they're hiding there somewhere. On me: It was deliciously minty for about 10 seconds, and then the mint lost its sweetness and turned bitter. And then I began smelling like some sort of scented cleaning product. NOT good. No mint, no herbs, no flowers, only cleaning product. Hours later, it faded into a very faint floral but that's it. Unfortunately, this totally bombed on me. And it smelled soooo good in the bottle.

In bottle: A delicious green Spring scent. I got a lot of mint from it, but it blended very well with the herbs and greenery. I sniffed no flowers in this one. Wet: For a teeny tiny second, it smelled just like it did in the bottle and I was in heaven. Dry: Oh my. The mint lost its sweetness, and almost turned to a soured mint? And I now smell like some sort of cleaning product. This is NOT good on me at all, my skin chemistry totally went wonky. And I'm sneezing my head off, so something in this is giving me allergies (which is strange because no BPAL has ever made me sneezey).

Tiresias, the Androgyne: Dark, moody, and bittersweet: black currant, patchouli, tobacco, cinnamon leaf, caramel, muguet, and red sandalwood. In the imp: It smells totally foody, I get A LOT of sweet caramel. No sign of patchouli, tobacco, cinnamon, or sandalwood. Maybe a bit of currant. On me: OMG it is heavenly!! And it morphs. The throw smells all foody and caramelly. When I put my nose up to my wrist to sniff (which I've been doing very frequently), it's a completely different scent. I get a caramel sweetened black currant with a fair amount of red sandalwood to balance it out and make it non-foody. I LOVE THIS!!! It has very good throw and medium wear time. I wish I would have brought some with me to work to reapply. A bottle of this is definitely needed.

Zarita, the Doll Girl: Soft, yet sociopathic: white carnation, iris, orange blossom, and sugared cream. In the imp: A floral-ish cream? Yum!! On me: a nice sweetened floral blend, but I think I need to wear this again before deciding on whether or not I need a bottle.

Lucretia, Albrecht Dürer: Iris, black amber, sage, Kashmir wood, vanilla musk, mandarin and violet. In the bottle: There was something funky in here that my nose didn't like, it might have been the Kashmir wood but I'm not sure. On me: This totally transformed into a delicious spiked violet/sage with a little amber in the background scent. Wow! I sniffed at the test site all night, really enjoying this one. What a change from bottle to skin. This may very well be on its way to becoming a favorite. Violets: I didn't think violets were my thing, but I think I've been converted into a violet lover between Lucretia and Faith.

Valentine of Rome: Ecclesiastical incense, Roman flora, and the fruits of martyrdom: cypress, olive blossom, frankincense, myrrh, and blood accord. In the bottle: I got incense, but with something harsh in there. Maybe it was vetiver, even though it's not listed? Vetiver and I have a love/hate relationship, but it usually ends up being hate. On me: The vetiver-ish note toned down some, but there was something ash-like that I really wasn't enjoying. There was incese too, but not enough to overpower the vetiver/ash thing going on.

Chokmah: The Primordial Point of Creation, Mazloth, Being Out of Nothingness, the Origin of Thought and the source of the 32 Ways of Wisdom. In the bottle: It smelled a bit medicinal, maybe like iodine? On me: Firstly, it stained my skin just like iodine. And then it deifnitely smelled like iodine on me. After about an hour it softened up a bit to a kind of incensey iodine? Not good.

Bigger Critter: A deceptively sweet scent; just like the Critters themselves, the perfume is fluffy, poofy, soft, snuggly, and googly! Five vanillas with Moroccan jasmine, white gardenia, and pink grapefruit. The bottles that accompany the Critters have a grr-specially kyoot label, designed by Jennifer Williamson. In the bottle: I want to eat this!!! It's vanilla grapefruity yuminess. On me: It smells like VOMIT. I tried the teeniest swatch on me, and smelling it was making me nauseous. And no matter how hard I scrubbed I couldn't get the scent off. Very very gross.