Little Bird

I thought that I would love this, but Bette Noir falls flat on my skin. I can't pick out any of the listed notes at first, except for the smoke in "smoky amber." As it dries down, I can smell something sour and fruity, that could be the plum or the berries, and something is also going intensely soapy. I don't think that I've had an issue with any of the listed notes going soapy on me before, so I don't know what the problem might be here. On me, Bette Noir is super-soapy bar soap, sour fruit, and something sharp and perfumey total failure.

Lamia starts off gorgeous and then after about five minutes, it softens and becomes pretty lackluster on my skin . It starts off as a burst of rich, sweet black currant and creamy coconut with amber and myrrh warming the scent up <3. And then the black currant disappears (and along with it, a lot of sweetness and depth) and I'm left with light coconut, plastic-y peach, and clean, perfumey floral. After fifteen minutes, the coconut has disappeared as well and I'm left with a clean, perfumey floral that's slightly plastic-y and not so much peachy anymore. It's sad how awesome this is at first and how quickly it morphs into a bland, clean floral...

The fruitiness here smells like a cross between watery apple, melon, perfumey berry (like a Bath and Body Works sun ripened raspberry, I think), and a hint of wintergreen on me. It's clean, watery, cool, and slightly sweet. I don't get a strong honey smell from this or the strong sweetness that I usually get from honey. I'm not so fond of this one. Something about the minty fruitiness smells slightly medicinal and cough syrup-y on me at first, and then something like soft, fruity shampoo after a half hour.

I think that this might be my favorite of the Infused Honey scents. I get a little bit of something like cool evergreen, but it's mostly a honeyed spice smell that's sort of like spiced cola on my skin at first. Sticky-sweet and spicy, but with enough of a woodsy note to keep it from being cloying. The drydown is golden honey, spices, and a touch of green woods (not so much of a cola smell in the drydown). I think that this is the most honey-heavy of the Infused scents, and it has lots of throw and staying power on me. I feel like I'm surrounded in a cloud of sweet, golden honey and soft spices. I like this a lot, but I think I'll save my decant for colder weather.

Thisbe is dry, dark mulberry, tart lemon, and bright, tart rose. The mulberry is strong for about five minutes and then I'm left with a tart, strong, perfumey, lemony-rose. It gets sharper and more perfumey-floral the longer that I have it on. Thisbe is very strong with lots of throw, and a little too sharp and tart for my tastes. I wound up washing this one off after about an hour.

Pyramus smells like a very sweet, sugared, cool lavender with clean tea and a hint of soft musk. It's like a delicious, sugared lavender tea . I think that I'll wear this a lot over the summer, as its cool, clean feel will be great for hot weather. I can smell something a little darker and slightly herbal in the drydown, which I guess is the dragon's blood, but it's not strong enough to ruin the blend for me. I really like this, and might have to upgrade my decant to a full bottle.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this scent at all, and was surprised that it smells like oranges. It's fresh, juicy, and sweet, like I've just peeled a ripe orange and smushed it on to my wrists. In the drydown, there's something sweet and honeyed underneath the orange that makes me think of picking wildflowers. I don't smell any of the greenery, herbs, or pine that other reviewers have mentioned. Meliai is delicious, sweet, juicy, refreshing orange and a bit of honeyed, sunny wildflowers on me. It smells very summery, pleasant, and cheery to me. I'm going to love my imp and might need a full bottle of this one...

I love the color of this oil (a very dark brown that I can't see through at all). And I really like the scent as well. The Forest Reverie reminds me of The Zadok Allen Vineyard. It's like a very dark, thick, not-so-sweet, grape wine (definitely not as sweet as most of bpal's wine notes). Underneath that wine-like scent is a sexy, confident, smoky, dark floral perfume smell. There's also a little bit of something earthy, like patchouli, that smells like a touch of dry leaves. The earthy quality gets stronger in the drydown, but doesn't overpower the fruitiness. It makes me think of an evil, sexy lady sipping a dark wine in a forest at fall, feeling very peaceful and content with herself. I'd say that this is fruity and earthy, with a smoky floral edge. I like this one a lot.

I love frankincense, lilac, and myrrh, and I like plum and rose as long as they're not too strong, so I was excited about this scent. Unfortunately, I'm kind of let down by how strong the myrrh is. I can't really pick out any of the other notes at all. Sweet, smooth, golden, resinous myrrh. I might be able to smell some dark, glossy plum, but if I didn't know that there was supposed to be plum here, I doubt that I'd ever identify it. I'm surprised that I don't smell any rose, because rose is usually insanely strong on me. Tons of myrrh and a hint of plum. I might keep my decant of this to see if it gets more complex with age.

I get a hint of clean, sweet orange blossom at first, but after five minutes this is all sandalwood and hints of incense. The sandalwood here is darker and more woodsy than the white sandalwood, but still similarly powdery and clean. It's like dry wood, baby powder, and a hint of sweet incense smoke. Very heavy on the sandalwood. This one does have decent throw and staying power (lasts about 5 hours on me), but I don't love how dry it is or the powdery edge from the sandalwood. I wish that the orange blossom were stronger.

In the bottle, this worried me for a second, as the lime smelled reminiscent of household cleaning products. On my skin, the lime softens (but it's still on the sharp, zesty side of things, and not sweet like key lime notes). The white musk amps up for a few minutes, and adds a creamy, slightly powdery edge to the lime zest. It reminds me of Thoos for a while, but with zesty lime instead of sweet tangerine. After about 15 minutes, the white musk fades and the matcha takes over. This has the same lemony green tea smell that I get from the Milk Chocolate and Matcha Green Tea Ganache Truffle. It's sharper & cleaner smelling on me than blends like Embalming Fluid and Shanghai. The blend also starts to smell slightly soapy and harsh on me. Ehecatl is very clean, citrussy, and zesty smelling. The citrus aspects might be a little too sharp/sour for me, though, and I don't like that it leans towards smelling soapy in the drydown.

Doll's Eye Honey = pillowmints on my skin. It's like the softest of mint notes all wrapped up in an extra dose of sugary sweetness. It's definitely minty, but much sweeter on me than any of the Lick It blends have been. As it dries down, I get something like a splash of citrus tea underneath the super-sweet mint. I might also smell the hint of something like marigold that other reviewers have mentioned, but I might be imagining that. I find this to be very refreshing, sweet, and summery.

This smells exactly like tomato plants to me. Spicy, sun-warmed greenery . It doesn't change at all in the bottle or on my skin. Jerusalem Cherry makes me smell like I rolled around in a garden full of tomato plants (no earth or dirt smell, though, and I don't get any honey from this either). I love the smell of tomato plants, and this scent reminds me of my father and all the time he spent in the garden when I was little <3. I don't know that I need a full bottle of this (love it, but I don't know if I'll ever want to slather myself in the scent of tomato plants), but I'm sooo happy to have a decant, at least.

I get a strong, musky, man's cologne smell from black musk. And Panther Moon is a very strong black musk on me, with the resins dancing around the musk. It was a bit sour smelling on me at first, but the drydown is sweet, vanilla-y resins and that dark, musky cologne smell. It really reminds me of Satyr, but Satyr + some resins. I think that this is too dark and masculine for me, but it does smell dreamy on my husband. It's a dark, strong, musky, intense sort of fragrance, and the sweetness from the resins softens it enough that I find it enjoyable.

I get lots of creamy, sweet coconut from this at first, with a bit of earthy, smooth sandalwood and warm amber. It reminds me of a warmer, smoother, lighter Goblin... like Goblin with warm wood notes instead of patchouli. My skin usually amps up spice notes, but I'm not getting any of the cinnamon or clove from this, much to my surprise. Unfortunately, the drydown is less awesome on me. The coconut drifts to the background so that I can only smell a hint of creamy coconut. The sandalwood seems to amp up and smells very dry and slightly powdery. It smells like I dusted myself with a powder that smells lightly of coconuts. The whole scent is very light and subtle, and I don't notice it much at all after fifteen minutes. I was hoping that this would be a stronger scent and that I'd be able to smell the black licorice. Now I'm hoping that this gets more complex and stronger with some aging...

Tweedledee is my go-to bpal for a sweet orange scent. It says orange blossoms, but I get a sweet, juicy orange scent from it. I get a fizzy, sweet, orange citrus from Shrodinger's Cat. I also like Hunger, but find that to be very heavy, vanilla-sweet, and floral, with not much orange...

I used to like this scent and posted a good review for it here, but then it was discontinued... Bottles recently went up for it on the bptp etsy, so I ordered one, and the scent smells like it has gone bad. Now it smells like sweaty armpit, hot and rotting ketchup, sickly yellow flowers, generic white bar soap, and no honey. It's sour, soapy and rotten.

Some green-floral and fruity-floral type scents: *The Ghost (notes: white iris, osmanthus, Calla lily, tomb-crawling ivy and a coffin spray of gladiolus, lisianthus and delphinium) *Glasgow (notes: wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather) *Grandmother of Ghosts (notes: laurel, stargazer lily, splintered woods, peony, mandarin and white musk, and is spiked with pale pepper) *Grief (notes: lily of the valley, hyacinth, calamus, muguet, hydrangea, and elemi) *House of Night (A sorrowful graveyard bouquet of somber blooms, funereal boughs, dismal green and laden with grief) *Rosalind (notes: Dew-covered berries and fresh green grasses with a faint breath of spring flowers) *The Unicorn (notes: wispy linden blossoms, white flowers, and a touch of sweet herbs) And I agree with the rec for High Strung Daisies. It's clean, sweetly pink, and has a floral quality to it. Very playful and girly. Slippery Poppy Tincture is also nice for a clean, fresh floral, tart berry, greenery, and sweetness.

I get mostly a sweet, warm, slightly smoky clove with dry woods and maybe a bit of the root beer smell that other reviewers have mentioned. As it dries down, I get something like a hint of sour, bitter orange peel underneath the spices, and the spices seem a bit sharper and more perfumey. I see that no one else has mentioned sour orange, though, so this oil must be doing something odd on me, lol. I expected this to be heavier, but it's actually rather light and short lived on me. It smells like something that would be better as a room scent than a me-scent. I definitely have spice&wood blends that I like more than this one...

I don't see any similarities between this and the released version (and I like this prototype version a lot more than the fruity, cloying version that was released). This smells like a buttery spice cake with creamy vanilla frosting and a dusting of cinnamon sugar on me at first. It starts to smell less delicious as it dries down, but I still like it. The drydown is spicier and more dry smelling (but spice notes do tend to amp up on me), and reminds me more of gingersnaps or lightly frosted gingerbread cookies. My husband doesn't like this on me, though. He said it smelled buttery and then like spicy potpourri :/.

For about ten minutes on my skin at first, this is all dark, smoky, charred vetiver, and I thought I might have to scrub this one off. Thankfully, the smoky vetiver calms down in the drydown and makes room for the warm, rich, red sandalwood and sweet coconut. I was most excited about the black currant note, but I don't smell anything fruity here. The red sandalwood has an almost spicy, incensey smell on my skin, and it pairs well with the vetiver for me here. The coconut and tonka add just enough creamy sweetness to the blend for me. The husband told me that this smells dark and earthy on me (which is a switch for him, since he usually says that everything smells like flowers, lol). It's mostly dark, ashy vetiver with incensey, warm sandalwood in the drydown, but the hints of tonka and coconut are lovely and keep the blend from being too dark or smoky for me. I like this. I don't know if I need a full bottle, but I'll definitely be keeping my decant.

Sky City (Before) is very crisp and clean smelling on me. I hate it at first, because it starts off very sharp and perfumey, but the drydown isn't so bad. I can pick out a hint of dandelion in the mix, but it's mostly this clean air freshener type of scent on me. It reminds me of Dirty, but if Dirty is clean, damp laundry hung to dry over a flower bed, this is laundry hung up to dry over a yard dotted with dandelions. It definitely reminds me strongly of Febreeze. I don't know if I really find this to be wearable. It's just a little too sharp at times, and a little too much like I've sprayed myself with a bottle of Febreeze... I'll probably use this as a room scent if I use it for anything.

It kinda makes me feel bad that I like Sky City (After) a lot more than Sky City (Before). I prefer my Sky City burned to the ground, apparenty, lol. I don't care for smoke/ash scents, but I get more of a woods, spice, and warm resins feel from this. It's not really smoky or ashy on me at all. On me, this smells like cedar spiced with sweet cloves and a tiny hint of cool, sweet pine, all wrapped up in a warm, resinous feel that smells slightly like dark, sweet cola. Dark, sweet, warm, woodsy, and spicy. It reminds me a bit of Schwarzer Mond, Priala, and Sunbird. It's smooth, pleasant, and very wearable. I'm definitely happy to have a bottle of this.

This smells like a not-as-good version of Twenty-One on my skin. It's like fizzy, cool, juniper-y gin note, but sharper and more clean smelling. It's sweet in the bottle, but not so much on my skin. The drydown reminds me of a cleaning fluid smell. I can't pick out the clove, nutmeg, or anything spicy. Just a sharp, fizzy, almost chemical-soapy juniper/gin. I don't find this very wearable at all...

This scent is really weird on me, especially at first. It's like a mix of green, bitter wood, medicinal menthol, sharp pepper, sweet honey, and a touch of resinous smoke (but I guess that's the tobacco I'm smelling). I don't like the overall medicinal feel, and it smells like the notes aren't really getting along with each other. That said, the bitter and medicinal qualities do calm down for me after about a half hour. The drydown is slightly smoky, dry wood (kinda reminds me of cedar plank bbq smell) with sticky-sweet, honeyed tobacco and the sharpness of the black pepper trying to keep things from being too sweet (and failing at points). The smoky sweetness + spice & wood smells oddly bbq-esque on my skin... and at points I found the honeyed tobacco to be a little cloying. I don't know if I'll keep my decant to see how this ages or just pass this along to a new home :/.