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My favorite 'comforting' scent right now is Severin, and the only way I can think to describe that kind of leather is a very buttery, well-worn leather. With the bergamot and tea, it feels like a well-loved chair in a study with a hot beverage next to you.

 

I'm very new to this, but I suspect the same leather note is in some of the other 'leather' blends discontinued around the same time. Can anyone point me towards the same 'type' of leather as in Severin? I'm not talking whip leather or fetish leather, more of a comforting-leather-chair leather.

 

Its not really a comfort scent, but a leather that feels like that to me is Mysterious Warning.

 

MYSTERIOUS WARNING

A scent evocative of poisonous family secrets: dry lavender-infused amber, battered leather, nicotiana, osmanthus, and jasmine tea.

 

Its quite delicious, I wear it quite a bit as an every day scent. And has the leather and tea combo you liked in severin

Mmm... pancakes with syrup.

Delicious, and not a thing like I'd imagined... but a great foodie morning scent ^^

The recent pumpkin masala rooibos reminded me a bit of baked goods such as carrot cake.

 

Its been a while, but during the sleepy hollow release there was one based on a horse that was like carrots and grains and sweet things. You might want to take a look around for that (was like 2008 weenie I think?)

 

Ah ha! Gunpowder. Carrot peelings, hay, chaff, molasses, maple oats, red apples, stable wood, and musk.

 

And it was 2008.

 

In the review thread, a lot of people reported it to be like carrot cake on their skin. I traded it off pretty quickly because my skin really liked amping the oat and hay notes... but it seemed to be more foodie on some people, and I can imagine got richer with age.

I picked this one out for v-day as all the notes (except the Myrrh) have correlations to my huni ^^

 

I am not disappointed at all. Its a lot smoother than I expected. Like silk made from chocolate pudding

 

I think I need another bottle before they poof! It layers great with the bath oil... which smells to me exactly like chocolate pudding (cept fancy ones made with roses), where as the perfume by itself is a little sharper and not quite as rich and decadent as when it is layered. So get ye a set!

Hmm... has anyone posted this link here yet?

 

http://anyasgarden.blogspot.com/2010/06/mystery-of-musk-natural-perfumers-guild.html

 

Those are things that can be used to make musk like scents. Vanilla, patcholli and laudanum (one of the main thing used to make amber notes), all of which main notes in snake oil, are all naturally musky.

 

If I were you I would look for common elements on that list between what you amp, and what musks you are fine with, in order to get a better feel for what works on your skin.

O type honey... but here it almost smells like rootbeer.

 

O and Inez had a baby who loves rootbeer.

 

It has promise though, as I HATED Inez at first, and now its one of my fav scents. And this is much less ugh atm than most carnation scents start out on me. I think its the red musk love. This seems like a diffrent red musk than usual though, a little less patcholli, a little less fruit, and more musk. With rootbeer.

Mmm beautiful!

It smells like a simpler version of Ice Princess. Like without the cream and perfumey notes.

I want to slather myself in it!

Sometimes when I take a wift I am struck with nostalgia about something from childhood, though can't pin point quite what.

Beautiful, simple. I wish the peonies were a little more prominent, a little fresher. This as it is is simple and beautiful, though am not sure how unique.

Mmm sexy wood. I love this. There is a sweetness from the pomegranate that is pretty prominent, but other than that I don't pick out any single note, its a woody smokey resin base. Kind of makes me think of 2010 Pom IV, cept with no chocolate (just something chocolate like) and less sharp.

I wish I was getting Cake Smash from this. As that is one of the blends I passed on, was frimped a sniffie of, and loved.

 

For the first 30 mins... all I got was wine and tobacco... at one point I had to check my computer, because it smelled like it might be frying. But no, just the perfume.

 

Finally after 30 mins... I start getting a bit of licorice frosting, with the wine from Wanda.

 

This is going to need some aging before I try again.

Mmm this is delicious. It doesn't really smell like any one particular thing either... Just well blended and soft and warm and a lil sweet. I could see this also being a gift to people you want to enable into BPAL as I think it would be a fairly well received scent. It smells a bit young (not sure if tis too young on me without layering) but has a distinctly soft perfume note to it.

 

Time to work a whole lot to get spending money to buy oogles of this before it goes down though. I think I could actually get my younger sister (who rarely wears perfumes OR moisturizer) to use this. This is the only BPAL bath oil other than Morrocco that strikes me as actually perfumery, and not more of a traditional bath product scent. Which really surprises me when I go back and read the ingredient list...

 

It is definitely a 'princess' scent rather than a 'queen' scent. Its very light and sweet and would be excellent on a teen or young adult. I am 24 and at least how it smells on my skin, I wonder if it is a little too young for me even. But I like it enough to wear it at the house, or when I am subbing with younger children (as I love smelling all sweet and foodie for them).

 

Err... I realize my description isn't quite doing it justice. Hmm, its not young because its a foodie or light floral... some of those can feel quite adult at times. Its very innocent smelling though. Like... its how I liked to smell with I was in my teens. A little musky, a little fresh, a little fruity... but not at all sexual.

Omg the smell to this is amazing. And its good at taming the stray hair on my braids...

 

Need more!

Ooo of the yules that just came out... two of the little match girl scents strike me as subtle honey.

Thousands of lights (beewax type honey and incense) and a wonderful light (citrusy wood honey)

 

As well as Beautiful and Adored from Frankenstein. That one is (at least on my skin) a very subtle scent in general, unlike the other two. And was quite delicious and womanly.

Ondurius for christmas morning! Yeah, been enjoying my yule decants but it went so well with the christmas tree!

Thousands of Lights to Christmas mass.

Mmm pumpkin masala rooibos is totally growing on me. I layered it today with a vanilla lotion... and smell like really yummy bakery treats! Many nice ones... but that is the one I keep craving and coming back to.

Hmm so far hits from this year: ondurius, a wonderful light, winter heavens, and zomg pumpkin rooibos!!! Beautiful and adored was quite lovely too.

 

Chiming in to add my vote to Snow White too... with the absence of trading post items with it this year... I'll be buying a few bottles to add to unscented things. It really is worth bathing/ living in

Okay... for realizes... this smells like generic bpal. Which ofc isn't a bad thing at all. It totally smells like my bpal box, and the bpal packages I get...

 

The honey in here is similar to the honey in O

 

The rose is fairly prominent.

 

I can smell each of the things individually, and it is rather comfy and I'm sure on the right person will be absolutely lovely once their skin plays with the notes.

 

But I don't think a bottle is in my future... It is nice, but not very distinct on my skin. Especially after the honey takes over, and its not the type of bpal honey that really floats my boat.

 

For people that love O though... definitely give this one a shot. Its the sexy O dressed up in sexy lingerie underneath tame clothes she can wear in public.

Misery starts off very abrasive... and settles down to be sharp and powdery at the same time!

 

I get the lemon tea and lilac that lycanthrope did... the lavender is supporting it, subtlely. Not something I am used to lavender being.

 

Nice and refreshing. But not my type of scent.

Okay... if I didn't have such a trusted decanter I'd almost question this one after smelling it and reading the description. I'm starting to read some of the notes after some concentration... but to be honest the first thing I smelled when I put it on was sugared tea. Like a deeper Dorian with rose. I'm guessing my nose is reading linen as tea, as they both are clean notes.

 

If I try really hard I can smell the leaves and the carnation... but everything blends together into the smell of a tea party on an early spring day. I can smell the sweetness of the child with a pastry in hand, weaved in with the perfume of her mother, and the plant smells the breeze carries along.

 

Then as the scent is on the skin longer, it starts to smell like embalming oil and the linen of wrapping a body for burial, and the flowers being brought to mourn.

 

All in all, its a lovely scent, but so evocative it creeps me out a bit. I'll keep it around for contemplation, but there is very much a circle of life feel to it.

 

Even after being on the skin a bit it maintains a freshness to it... its only the morphing of the sweetness that really indicates the passing of time.

OMG love! It reminds me of the floral part of Under the Harvest moon, but wetter and smoother. The magnolia and honeysuckle are the frontrunners in this on my skin, with the magnolia and rose being the ones that stick around after hours, though supported by other notes. I know those are death notes to some, but for the rest of us, I swear its absolutely lovely!

Its wet green lovely ethereal flowers!

Not much throw at all though... (disclaimer: my skin eats flowers) which is the only thing keeping me from the decant traveling over to the definite bottle pile.

After a while its a lovely clean powder on me. Its the nice kind though, that makes you think of elegant archaic ladies.

Not the call back to my childhood home I was hoping for from the note list (we had all of those things around the yard... and juniper) but still a very feminine scent I will definitely wear on occasion.

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Edit: Out of the mailbox a week, it seems to take on more of a green note and less of a powder on the skin. I don't think this is a blend that will overcome death notes or anything, as all of the notes are pretty clear, but it is a beautiful floral I am thinking of getting a bottle of. I think this will make a better lotion scent for me than perfume scent as it is so faint.

Mmmm the perfect holiday spice scent.

At first the licorice was a bit much, but tamed down nicely.

Mom thought it smelled a bit like flowers... I think she was registering the tea I never found.

It gets more pumpkin and spice as it dries... though much sassier tha pumpkin pie. The coconut makes it a touch creamy.

I love it!

I don't know how hard it would be to find on the forum... but my go to lilac scent is Needlework from Lupercalia.

 

Oolong tea, lilac, sheer musk, crushed ginger, wisteria, delphinium, and lavender.

Ooo thats good to know! Thank you everyone! <3

 

I need to try and get my hands on some khajuraho now. Thought about it a few times, but if thats what it smells like...

 

Off to search the reviews

I recently got a sample of Golden Champa Absolute from Nature's Gift (as one of my... ooo this is fancy and out of my budget, I'd like to experience it once in my life) and normally thats the end of story. But no... not this... this was that fantastic jasmine/ honeysuckle smell of my dreams.

 

A day of googling later, and I can't find any affordable bits of it online. So am resorting to what would normally have been my first instinct... find a BPAL that smells like this.

 

Do you guys have any suggestions for a light, almost tea like, floral that is high pitched but deep at the same time? That floral component of nag champa without the heavy hippee parts?

I just had a dream about cicadas last night, so was quite happy to have this in the mail to try today!

 

It starts off very cereally and corny and everything I was dreading... and then turns into... eau de adult toy cleaner.

 

Don't get me wrong... I love how the one I have smells, its very comforting.

 

But the resemblance I am getting is uncanny... I was sure for the longest time today I had spilled the cleaner, until I realized that was the cicadas.

 

I can't wait to see how this ages!

 

Edit: I just realized I was lacking further description of the scent itself. On me it actually turns into an earthy floral (? I keep looking for the note causing that, thinking the almond blossom, rice, and moss are combining into that). I can smell the acorn and hay wafting over the whole scent