Nemesister

so far i have reacted to anything containing cinnamon..... but i love cinnamon

and i'm not sure whether the voodoo blends contain it too but love me and follow me boy i've reacted to as well.....

i still wear them i just can't go out until the redness has worn off!

ok ,so it was just one person that said that. but for all i know, all my colleagues could be saying "you smell lovely" but be thinking 'just like baby powder'!

i still smell spicy vanilla. is there any amber in it or notes that are often powdery?

well i don't know so much now...i was wearing snake oil at work and it's a popular one everyone at work says how fab i smell all the time. so when someone said "you smell gorgeous" i was ready to do my usual "yes i know" when she added "you smell just like baby powder"

so there you go...i obviously cannot smell powdery smells and my colleagues do

so it seems that the powder smell does depend on a person's skin? ....hmmmmm i was actually asking as a friend likes baby powder scents and i thought i'd get her some powdery bpal as a cheering up gift. i might have to take a gamble!

so if i was after a baby powder type scent what oil would i go for? no bpal's seem to turn powdery on me so it would have to be one that is a powdery scent anyway.

when fresh this is pure jasmine. when a bit older it is more lemony. i have 2 bottles at dofferent stages just so i can compare! it's a perfect summer scent and for those who love lush it smells so similar to flying fox.

bear in mind i live in the UK.....the usual smell around here is wet grass and mud! scarecrow smells just how i imagine those barren, red dusty landscapes would smell. the scorching sun warming the dust and dead corn stalks......not sure it's a perfume for me, but it gives me an odd feeling when i smell it. i'm transported into the landscape....even if i didn;t like the scent i'd like it just for that power.

i love swank so could not wait to try this. it's got the fruity boozy punch to it but has a sharper tang to it.......it's another fav!

i could not get past the musk in this.......wet it smells just like impulse hint of musk...no violets, baby powder...nothing, just strong musk. my mum uses that impulse and uses far. far too much of it.......this smells just like it. i had to wash it off it was giving me a headache.......

what if your idea of autumn is spicy, warm and soothing. i'm not a fan of the smoky, incensey, bonfire type scents and in the UK pumpkin pies don't feature too highly on the menu....well not in my house anyway!

my idea of autumn (we are talking mid to late october here as it's my birthday!) is:

mulled wine

cinnamon

leaving the house in the morning frost all wrapped up warmly

sitting in a warm room in pyjamas and thick woolly socks, all wrapped up in a blanket watching chick flicks and drinknig hot chocolate

i adore three witches and am now down to my last bottle so i think this one will get finished quickly if i don't find others to use! what else might i have missed that could fit my description?

wore snake oil to work last week and 4 times people said there was a lovely smell in the office

wore sea of glass the other day and a a guy at work said that i smelled lovely, like fresh, clean washed hair

unfortunately none of them have made Gaz leap on me

this really is a perfume i should hate. i really do not get on with strawberry scents, but this is a gorgeously fruity, boozy oil. you can almost imagine getting the bubbles up your nose when you sniff it! champagne and strawberry...nuff said

this is another favourite of mine. dragon's blood and amber. if this perfume could be a colour it would be a deep semi opaque red with slices of translucent orangey gold

perfect for late summer early autumn. it's a warm scent that's just a little bit sexy

OMG where do i start?

think of a mixture of O and snake oil with a dash of bordello/blood amber

if i could swim in a vat of this i would

interestingly it is the same scent on my skin after an hour as it is in the bottle....i love this

not so sure about this one.......it's very, very buttery. once it's been on my skin for 10 minutes or so it's less buttery and all the autumnal goodies start to come through.....it might just be spicy enough for me to keep it and love it.

ETA that i don't think i can get past the buttery-ness......it make sme feel sick before the spices come through

the thing about selling BPAL that doesn't work for you is that you end up with a huuuuuge pile of money in paypal just waiting to be sent to the lab...........i had no idea about pumpkin patch when i said i needed the money for new orders....i thought i was talking about wolf's heart and block buster along with 10mls of somnus and oneiroi.

do not tempt me into buying more or my next post will be asking about postage for 20 or 25 items.....i kid you not

as far as pumpkin patch is concerned i take it for shipping purposes it counts as 5 items and not 1? i have 4 bottles and pumpkin patch to order so presumably i add shipping for 9 items not 5?......wouldn't it still be $11 for both?

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i didn't get any of the jasmine that most other people got from this....which is a shame as i love it! this to me is lavender with something herbal behind it. i thought i could detect rosemary rather than florals. can't tell you what it's like once dry as i tend not to be awake when that happens

this scent is pure leather.....now as a vegetarian i thought i might find this unsettling, but i bought 5ml for himself anyway as he is a biiiiiig clint eastwood/spaghetti western fan so might appreciate the western name!

He has an old, tan suede jacket that he refuses to take off in autumn. dead man's hand smells like he does when he wears it. it's a comforting, warm smell......his reaction was that it 'smells of new shoes' lol...he's right

to me this was bewitched's winter sister. it had all the berries and mossy heather but with an added frostiness.....gorgeous

in the bottle this smells of mint chocolates. Once on my skin the coconut comes through. It smells just like burts bees coconut foot cream! It's a mix of mint and coconut. my only quibble is that sometimes it smells like the two are fighting for dominance.

it not my fav scent but it would be perfect as a pick me up on a sluggish day or when hungover*

*or so i have been told. being a good girl i couldn't possibly comment

*ahem*

ooh i didn't see that

that's possibly near enough the same as my quest....thanks

Demeter's wet garden?

It's all April showers weather here at the moment. So it's not *too* cold but very damp and this demeter's perfume captures it totally. I'm not too up to date on BPAL green type scents so am asking the experts!

Any ideas?

before i got andrabell's excel sheet (thanks for that btw lol) i copied and pasted the BPAL descriptions into word and printed out a 53 page booklet lol i would then write on it next to the names a couple of words on what i thought of them.......some of them are more useful than others....('makes me think of childhood'...yep that's really gonna help me decide whether i liked that one or not and what scent it had 8 months from now.....)

i still have it and am in the process of copying it onto the excel sheet with a colour key of liked (blue), loved (green), disliked (red)...

i don't know if this has been mentioned but hell's belle and perversion smell so similar that i could only justify getting a 5ml bottle of one scent not both!