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Try Three Brides--rosey carnation loveliness!

Does anyone have any smell-alikes to suggest for Ninon? (Other than SL Chergui, which is even more expensive and hard to obtain)

I was lucky enough to get to try this through Suedonym's Will-Call Sniffie Circle! Thanks again for sharing in this circle.

Wet, this is equal dollops of tart, juicy red fruit (I would have said cranberry, but I'm sure it's pomegranate + plum) and waxy, powdery honey. The rose is a subtle presence that grows more obvious as the oil dries. Dry, the fruits have faded a lot and my general impression is of powdery honey lightly perfumed with myrrh and roses. I can smell a little bit of fruit in the back still, but just barely. The roses and myrrh make it smell pretty and non-edible once it dries down. I don't think I detect the osmanthus. Although the outset is quite different--bright and clean fruit and honey--once it dries, it has a fluffy, creamy, powdery, pink and white quality to it that reminds me a bit of The Atrocious Attic, but it's not nearly as floral as that scent.

I was also lucky enough to get to try this through Suedonym's Will-Call sniffie circle!

First impressions: a burst of bright, tangy tamarind and fresh, green, delicious fig overlaid with a perfumey, slightly powdery haze of amber and tonka.

As it dries, the patchouli gets stronger, but it's a soft patchouli that just dirties up the fruits a bit. Something starts to smell a bit like latex gloves to me in the drydown, an impression I also got from The Lantern Ghost of Oiwa. If I smell it from a little further away, the latex smell seems more vanillic, so maybe it's the tonka. Although the notes don't list any florals, I would have thought this had lily or something in it if I had to guess the notes blindly; there's a definite flowery "perfuminess" to it that I associate with heady florals.

Fully dry, it reminds me of dried apricots, green figs, and light woods, but still with that fluffy, perfumey amber floating over the top. The throw isn't too strong--I tried applying it to my neck since often the scent wafting from there gives me a different impression than smelling directly from my wrists. I don't really smell anything from my neck. It's much cleaner and lighter than many other fruit-and-patchouli scents like Madame Moriarty or Snake Charmer, and way more tamarindy and less dirty than Gomorrah. It makes me think most of Hymn to Proserpine with its fruits and amber, but I haven't smelled that in ages, so take that with a grain of salt.

Final verdict: inoffensive, but nothing I feel like I need to hunt down. The sum of its parts is quite different and less appealing overall than what I would have expected from reading the notes list.

Yesterday I wore The Most Magnificent Christmas Tree; today I wore Possets Gingerbread Whorehouse

Mrs Palmer's smells divine--any suggestions for a matching perfume? I like how soft the leather is and how strong the vanilla is.

Blergh. Foody and floral in a way that combines the worst of both worlds. It smells more like cookies than cream to me, with an overpowering buttery/baked goods note that fades into a headache-inducing, powerful, soapy, heady floral. It is much stronger than the peony note in The Dormouse or Lady in Speckled Pink Kimono, which I thought of as more delicate--this is almost like a boozy tea rose. Like getting punched in the face with flowers. It has a bit of an ozone or aquatic note in the drydown that is contributing to the soapy feeling. I do like it better dry than wet, but just not a fan either way.

Personally, I would go with Black Lace, because I like it better But also Snake Charmer smelled quite similar to Mme Moriarty on me--plummy Snake Oil--so if Moriarty was just OK, you might not have great luck with Snake Charmer.

Check this thread!

http://www.bpal.org/topic/8131-chocolate-and-cocoa-in-every-combination-possible/page__st__225

How about these 6:

1) How Doth The Little Crocodile

2) Vice

3) Velvet

4) intrigue

5) Tezcatlipoca

6) Centzon Totochtin

Bliss is purely milk chocolate and quite foody, while these a have some other stuff going on. The Crocodile is my favorite! Mint chocolate and cedar.

A question: Any recommendations for a BPAL scent that smells similar to Snow Glass Apples?

 

Background story:Bought an imp of Snow Glass Apples for a friend who was keen on trying BPAL perfumes,and now she's head over heels over it.Finding a bottle of Snow Glass Apples is difficult due to the super limited availability of the bottle-so any suggestions would be much appreciated.=)

You might try mixing a snow scent like Kumari Kandam with an apple scent like one of the Apples from last year's Weenies... Glittering Apple of the Stars would be my recommendation, but it does have a sweeter and somewhat more flowery scent than SGA.

Gypsy Moth is white sugar and cardamom, I think.

Oh I didn't think of that one. My mom has a bottle, so I will try it this Thanksgiving. Thanks!

Have you considered Tamora or Fae, if you like peach scents?

For floral vanillas, I second the rec for Mouse's LAST; you might also try The Atrocious Attic, Blossoms in Springtime, Regan, Marae, or Opuhi, if you can find them. Pink Snowballs is a lot like Snow White plus soft roses.

I thought about this a lot before my wedding, but I was flustered and rushed getting ready and totally forgot to put on the perfume I had chosen (I was going to wear Chimera, but a friend gave me Lush's 25:43, a wedding-themed, lemony vanilla scent, and I decided to wear that instead over Lavanila Pure Vanilla. Except that then I forgot, so it was just the plain Pure Vanilla in the end.)

That's so weird- I like morocco in the bottle but it vanishes on me. Disappearing act- where did it go?

Kenzo amour I notice more florals and woods where morocco seems to be musky. Isn't chemistry bizarre?

Hmm, try it on your hair or in a scent locket, maybe? They smelled almost exactly the same to me, but this is going off a spritz of Amour from Sephora; I don't own it so I can't do a side-by-side.

This has a strong, soapy-clean white musk note that sort of burns my nose when it's first applied. The ambergris gives it an aquatic, salty cleanness so that it has a kind of Selsun Blue kind of vibe. I don't mean that in a bad way; it just smells kind of like a commercial "shower-fresh" scent to me when wet. However, the lovely green floral note of the muguet becomes more apparent to me as it dries down, and it becomes a pretty, fresh, white musk and lily-of-the-valley scent, but much more of a spring scent than an autumn one.

Bright, zesty, and fresh-smelling. My husband said "It smells like 'clean'!" It has a slight tropical vibe from the coconut, and a slight hint of an old-fashioned-white-soap, powdery quality from the vanilla and orris, although if I didn't have the list of notes in front of me, I doubt I would have been able to name any individual notes at all. I think the main presence in this must be the dammar, which is described online as "lemony, light, ethereal": the scent has a fresh, citrussy, slightly green/vegetal quality to it overall, and the only citrussy suspect I see is the dammar. Very nice, I'll definitely use up my decant.

Can anyone recommend something similar to kenzo amour?

It smells VERY similar to Morocco to me!

I wore a Yule instead of a Weenie today--Jacob's Ladder! It's a cool, sunny day today, seemed like a nice time for some warm amber and vanilla.

This is mostly the distinctive BPAL snow note, cool and minty and slightly fruity-smelling. I think I can smell a tinge of sandalwood incense if I think about it, but the main impression is just a general snow accord. It's too bad; I would have liked something more complex, but I feel like this smells identical to a million other snow scents that have passed through my hands.

Perfumey, with a bit of a "fancy soap" smell, like the finely milled pastel kind pressed into seashell shapes. There's a slightly aquatic note, and a slightly grapey undertone. Very pretty, girly, clean, soft, but it's not much like the creamy clove-vanillaish scent you might expect from looking up descriptions of the scent of stock. I would classify it alongside light, clean "watery floral" scents like Amsterdam, Lady of Shalott, Danube, or Prague.

Atlas is a beautiful vetiver scent--very soft, woodsy, and cuddly. I often feel like vetiver smells like old peanut butter but I don't get that impression with Atlas.

Quick question: Is there anything like WILF in the GC? The beloved enjoys it greatly and is concerned (now that he has half a bottle left) that WILF might not be coming back. Obviously, the Snake Charmer comparisons aren't a great backup plan. Or Temple Viper.

 

I'm thinking I should try to get him something entirely different, so he can't compare it to WILF (which does smell amazing and manly and sexay on him) and end up disappointed. But if there's something GC that's similar, I'd like to be able to reassure him that his wonderful smellies can be replaced.

 

Help?

 

(WILF - Warm fur coupled with red and black musk, vanilla bean, patchouli, champaca flower, juniper berry, chocolate peppermint, frangipani, browned sandalwood, ferntop ash resin, and massoia bark.)

You might try mixing a few things... The chocolate mint reminds me of How Doth the Little Crocodile, the juniper of Illustrated Woman and Golden Priapus, the vanilla/musk/patchouli of Snake Oil.

As you may have gathered from other reviews, this has a LOT of jasmine in it. It's a pretty strong floral, but sweet-- not as rank/stanky as Ceanothus Silkmoth, which was a sad surprise for me with its powerful jasmine punch. It has a kind of creamy, traditional feminine perfume feel to it, with a slight sweet powderiness, maybe from the vanilla and amber grounding the scent? After a bit, I can smell hints of the fruity fig and dark, smoky leather, but they never do more than dance around the edges of the jasmine. Unlike angelamaria, I don't find it sharp and I can't smell enough of the leather for my liking. I wouldn't think of this as a serious, studious scent... it's more of a sexy girly-girl scent to wear with a little black dress. Smooth, powdery, smoky jasmine.

This is a very sweet, very rich, almost custardy French vanilla type of scent. I was going to say I didn't get chocolate from it at all, but I put on a new dab just now and realized I do get a chocolate note when this is wet, and it does remind me of Gelt at that stage. But the chocolate/cocoa-ness fades away pretty quickly. The vanilla reminds me of a sweeter version of Tombstone or Chimera v5--like Tombstone minus cedar, plus a slightly boozy butterscotch aspect. Even though it's sweet and rich, I don't get the same over-rich plasticky grossness that I got from Detestable Putrescence or Love's Philosophy. I think I prefer slightly less rich/boozy vanillas in general, but this is lovely overall!

My first thought was Kypris--She Who Furnishes Pregnancy, though I don't know if it's sexy so much as pretty.

http://www.bpal.org/topic/72141-kypris/

Spicy, clove-y fresh carnations! It does smell very realistic, and has a strong greenery component that I think could turn a lot of people off--it's reminiscent of the smell of cut flower stems as they start to get a little old. It fades pretty quickly on my skin, but is a wonderful, uncomplicated spicy fresh carnation scent.