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Tony smells like very sweet, creamy, floral, slightly powdery soap. My husband likes this on me and said that it smells clean and girly. I agree. This doesn't smell masculine to me at all (my husband refused to even try it on, lol). I'd say that this reminds me of Dirty, but I don't find this as complex as Dirty, and this is more artificial-clean-smelling. Dirty is like clean laundry hung out to dry over a flowerbed. Tony is like a bar of sweet, pink floral scented soap on me... not bad, but not really 'me' either.

I'm not great with picking out floral notes (and I usually don't enjoy florals), but I love this spray. I love it even more than I thought would be possible. I can definitely smell the sweet cherry blossom, but it's somehow a very cool and calming scent. It makes me feel so relaxed, even moreso than the lavender/sleep therapy blends that I own. It's like the air around me is refreshingly cool and clean when I use this. There's none of the fake, sharp, chemical-y floral that I was worried about. I really think that this might be my favorite of all of the bptp room sprays that I own (and I have many). I wasn't really expecting to like this scent at all, but it's beautiful. And the peacock on the label automatically makes it the best looking of my room sprays, lol.

Gun Moll reminds me of LUSH's Silky Underwear/Alkmaar at first, but Gun Moll is more complex and heady smelling. I get lots of sweet, honeyed, dry, sultry floral and a hazy, almost smoky sharpness from the opium. The sweetness keeps the harsh opium in check for me, though. I can smell hints of a dry, spicy amber as well. The drydown is a bit sharper than I would prefer, but it's still wearable and I find myself liking this scent a lot. This scent is definitely floral, but not in the usual way (not soapy/clean floral or chemical/sharp floral or fresh). It's like dried flowers with lashings of honey, clove, and amber. Warm and sultry. I probably don't need a full bottle of this, but I can see myself wearing Gun Moll from time to time.

This is super-fizzy, super-sweet lime soda on my skin. I get more of the sweet lime feel than lemon. I thought that it smelled a bit like bpal's gin note in the bottle, but not so much on my skin. It's very simple and verrry sweet. I keep switching between thinking that this is way too sweet and cloying to thinking that the fizziness is really fun and pleasant...

This... reminds me of my ex-boyfriend. Soft, well-worn, slightly sweet leather and a hint of that oil smell that people get after working on cars. The oil smell only lasts for a few minutes on my skin, though. Rivet.Goth is mostly a gentle, comforting leather single note on my skin. It's like having a man you like fold you up in his well loved leather jacket for a hug. Nice. A lot of bpal's leather blends smell similar to me, but I think this is the closest to a pure, soft leather. It's nothing like the intense, dark, slightly smoky leather of De Sade. It's more of a gentle Quincey Morris or The Traveller leather... ETA: Rivet.Goth and Gothabilly haven't aged well at all. Rivet now reminds me of Thunder & Blazes' dusty, soured leather (only this lacks the grass & dirt notes that make the other more wearable for me) with an almost tobacco-y edge. I don't find it very soft and wearable anymore...

First on, this is all tart, candy-sweet black cherry on my skin, with a hint of creamy, sweet vanilla. And then after about five minutes, I suddenly can't smell the cherry anymore and I'm left with a light, silky, sweet, exotic, boozy vanilla scent. It's like a drydown of amber colored vanilla liquor. Very nice. I just wish that this had more throw and staying power (it lasts about 2 hours on me and clings close to my skin), but it's worth taking the time to reapply. ETA - I had two bottles of Gothabilly and don't care for the scent at all now that it has aged. Gothabilly is like sickly sweet cherry with baby powder on me now, like the cherry has gotten stronger and eaten the lovely vanilla notes.

My skin amps up rose notes, and this is almost all rose on my skin. It's a sweet, pleasant, creamy, dewy rose with a sophisticated, perfumey floral edge. It's sort of like a cross between the feel of Peacock Queen and Marguerite on me, but with more of a fresh, dew-covered feel than either of those blends have. I was hoping for more lilac and frankincense, but I can't pick out either of those notes. This is a gorgeous rose scent, but I already have so many rose blends that go to single notes on me. I'm not sure that this one will get much attention from me...

In the bottle, this smelled kinda scary. Dark, heavy incense with some perfumey sharpness from the opium. On my skin, this morphs into instant love for me. Black, dark, heavy incense notes with what smells like a hint of smoky black musk to me (and maybe a hint of patchouli and beeswax? something reminds me very much of fresh, 2006 version Luperci in the drydown). The amber adds a rich, subtle sweetness to the blend. I can't pick out the plum at all, and thankfully I don't smell any opium notes on my skin. It's just the most amazingly dark, sexy, incense notes. It also smells very dry to me, without being dusty or powdery at all. It's an intense, unique fragrance. Romanti.Goth definitely smells dark and gothy, and conjures up images of heavy, black clothing and darkened rooms. I think that this is the darkest, sexiest scent I've ever tried from bpal... I'm going to cherish my bottle of this. It's amazing.

I *love* this scent. I wasn't sure about the musk, and iris is usually sharp, perfumey, and awful on me, but this blend is awesome. It's creamy and sweet, but also clean and fresh smelling. It gives me an impression of very pale pink. Loli.Goth smells like a creamy strawberry smoothie mixed with clean, breezy peach and a pink, girly edge from the pink musk at first. It smells like a very well-blended perfume. The drydown has the soft, dry, pale woods base to it that I love, and that makes the scent smell a bit more sophisticated to me. There's nothing sharp or cloying about it at all. I think that this is a perfect scent for spring and summer. It smells clean, feminine, and gorgeous on me. The touch of sweetness makes it wearable for me, but it's definitely not a sugar, candy, or foodie scent to me. It's not as cutesy-sweet as I thought it might be. It sort of reminds me of Castitas bath oil (not as sweet, and more perfumey and complex) and like what I had hoped Vasilissa would smell like based on the reviews. I'm SO happy to have a bottle of this.

This soap was a disappointment for me and my husband. Port Royal is his favorite bpal oil to wear, but neither of us thought that this soap smelled like Port Royal. It mostly smells like a generic soap base scent. If I really focus on it, I can smell hints of something manly-cologne-like and maybe a hint of dry wood, but I would never recognize it as being Port Royal scented. It mostly just smells like soap. As far as bar soaps go, I didn't find this to be as drying as bar soaps usually are to me, but it's not something that I'll buy again...

I don't get the resins or vanilla that other people have mentioned (unfortunately, because I *love* resin scents). I do get the soap that people have mentioned, though. I think that there might be some sort of ozone in Nagarjuna, because I get a strong, soapy dryer sheets impression from this. I also can smell a hint of something woodsy (cedar?) and cologney. So... this smells like someone spritzed a manly woods cologne on to some dryer sheets for me.

I didn't have much of this oil to test, and it's very light and fades quickly on me, but I'd definitely agree that it smells orangey while it lasts. It starts off a bit bitter on my skin, but quickly dries down to a juicy orange smell, with perhaps a bit of a sugared edge. It's very nice and cheery, but only lasts about 20 minutes on me...

This reminds me a bit of a not-as-sweet Garden Path with Chickens - herbal, green, slightly floral, and slightly lemony - but it's like Garden Path with Chickens in soap form. Something in this goes really soapy on my skin (reminds me of dish soap) and then takes on more of a sharp, perfumey floral note in the drydown. It's not awful, but there are definitely green scents that I like a lot more than this one...

Hmm... why does this smell like sour pine on me? :/ I put this on and it's like I dumped pine-sol on to my arm. Exactly like pine-sol. I thought that I loved all of the notes in this, but the combination is doing something awful on my skin. After about 20 minutes, it starts to lose the heavy pine-sol smell and morphs into a dry, slightly powdery woods scent with sweet, dry, spicy saffron. Helios, as it dries down, is a warm, powdery, dry woods and spice scent. It's all cedar and saffron on me, it seems. I wish that I got more of the frankincense & copal from this one. I might keep my decant, if only to see if it gets better & more resinous with some aging. As it is now, though, I hate the early pine-sol stage and don't love the powdery drydown either...

I thought that I would hate this scent, because tuberose is awful and sharp on me and bpal's amber usually goes to baby powder, but it's actually not so bad. Something about this smells fruity and sweet (perhaps the orchid?), almost like a hint of gummi bears on my skin at first. I get that sweet fruitiness and a smooth, creamy base from the sandalwood. It's really light and subtle on me, but pleasant enough. As it dries down, the sharp, perfumey tuberose takes center stage, but the fruity sweetness and creamy sandalwood keep it in check for a while. The drydown after about 45 minutes does get a little too sharp and perfumey for me (starts making me think of sharp, chemical-heavy hair spray), but I do like the initial stages of wearing this... Echo is like a light, tropical smelling fruity-floral on my skin, with a more aggressive, perfumey floral side in the drydown. It's not awful, but I doubt that I'll ever wear this scent again. I have a lot of tropical floral scents that I like a lot more than this one...

I usually love heliotrope, frankincense, and neroli, but I can't pick out any of those notes in this blend. It has an overall sweet, soapy, watery floral smell, but nothing that really smells like heliotrope or neroli to me. It also has a really weird spiciness to it that I thought was black pepper, but after reading the reviews, it does kinda smell like chili powder to me as well. Very weird. Soapy, watery, slightly sweet, perfumey florals and a touch of pepper/chili powder. And something about this keeps making me think of dried flowers and fake flowers in a craft store. It's too perfumey-chemical-floral for me. I had to wash this one off after a half hour, as it was starting to give me a headache...

Narkissos is like a sickly sweet, cloying floral with a touch of smoke on my skin. The narcissus adds a heavy, yellow floral feel to the blend while the opoponax and vanilla go intensely sweet. Something is lending a dark, sharp smokiness to the blend as well that reminds me of burning leaves in the fall. Every once in a while, I find that the scent also smells sharply soapy to me. All in all, this smells so sweet that it makes me feel a bit sick to my stomach, and I don't like the soapy-smoky-sharpness to it either. It has stages where it smells kinda similar to LUSH's Vanillary scent (which I lovelovelove), but even then it's still way too sweet and there's something a bit off about it. Narkissos is very heavy and sickening on my skin. It's like it's overly sweet and overly sharp on me at the same time

I smell dry woods and a bit of sweet tobacco from this at first, but it's mostly a sharp, acrid, ashy, smoky scent. It makes my throat feel tight when I smell it, like I'm having trouble breathing. I don't really get a cologne feel from this and don't think that I smell anything like "neon discharge," whatever that is. As it dries down, this is mostly a really sharp, heavy smokiness and hot ash smell on my skin. I catch whiffs of a sweet tobacco, but it's barely noticeable underneath all of the smokiness. I find this very heavy and unpleasant. ETA: Trying this again, now that it has aged. It still has a good dose of smoke and ash to it (reminds me of cigarettes and full ash trays), but there's more of a caramelized, sweet tobacco to it now, and I get hints of a sharp, cold, pine-y cologne as well. Like smoke, ash, caramel, tobacco, pine and snow (which turns towards dryer sheets soapy smell on me in the drydown)... Time for me to give up on this bottle and put it to swaps, I think.

This mostly smells like fancy, expensive soap on me at first. I imagine a creamy looking bar of soap scented in perfumey, sharp, white florals and a drop of herbal sage. I smell this and think of bars of white soap sitting in clean hotel rooms. I normally don't like soapy scents or sharp florals, but something about this is oddly appealing to me. After about fifteen minutes, this smells much the same, except it's also starting to smell smoky, like someone lit a cigarette in the otherwise clean hotel room. Something about it also strikes me as being very strong and womanly (perhaps that strong, sharp, sure-of-itself floral perfume scent). I should hate this scent, but I actually find it interesting and keep coming back to it... I don't know if I'd ever wear this, but I'll keep my decant and dab this on every once in a while. I like the images and feelings that this blend conjures up for me.

This smells like a cross between Wilde and a clean, metallic/aquatic cologne (like House of Mirrors or Sea of Glass). It's not soapy exactly, but definitely smells clean and I kept worrying that it would go soapy. I get a lot of the cool, lemony sweetness in this that I get from Wilde, so I'm guessing that there might be bergamot in here as well. Tin Foil Hat smells like a lot of the masculine blends that are widely available today. It's a clean, cool, masculine scent with touches of smooth, citrus sweetness. I kept thinking that I was wearing Wilde when I had this on, but it does have a cleaner edge to it than Wilde does.

In the bottle, this smells a lot like Planting Moon with less vegetables (damp potting soil and green, garden things). On my skin, I get that lovely, realistic, comforting (for me) dirt note and something that really does smell like sweet corn, with a hint of grassy greenery. As it dries down, it's much lighter on the dirt note and mostly a mix of sweet, unique, outdoorsy goodness. It smells wonderfully summery and comforting to me. ETA: Most of the black helicopters blends haven't aged well at all. This is super soapy on me, just like a bar of creamy white soap with a hint of dirt. I don't know why it has gone so soapy :/

When I first smelled this, I thought that I had picked up a bottle of Midnight Mass by mistake. It has that smooth, dark, sweet, resinous scent. On my skin at first, this still smells a lot like Midnight Mass. I'm surprised that the rose isn't stronger, because my skin usually amps up rose notes. I can't smell any rose for the first 15 minutes or so of wearing this, and then it's just a hint of sour rose that comes in underneath the blanket of sweet incense. I can't really pick out any of the tobacco and this doesn't have a strong woods feel for me either. I like this well enough. I like sweet, resinous scents. I don't know if I'd ever reach for this over Midnight Mass and Cathedral, though...

In the bottle, this smells like warm, musky, slightly masculine ambergris with sweet, resinous benzoin and a hint of spicy red rose. It has an overall soapy men's aftershave quality to it. On my skin, this instantly morphs and settles into smelling like the soapy shaving cream that my dad used when I was little, with a layer of rose scented baby powder over it. The drydown is creamy and lotion-y smelling. It's a very fresh-from-the-shower with baby-soft-skin scent. Clean and soft, and it reminds me of Shadowless like Silence a bit. ETA: This is one of the better scents from the Black Helicopters series, I think. The spicy-musky ambergris has gotten stronger with age, and it's less soapy now. It's mostly a rich, red rose with ambergris and a baby powdery finish. It turns a bit too powdery for me in the drydown, and fades quicker than I would like, but I do love the lab's ambergris note...

I have an odd relationship with Snake Oil. I like the way that Snake Oils smells in the bottle and on other people (and I can wear and love a lot of Snake Oil blends like Boomslang), but plain ole Snake Oil smells like greasy, dirty hair covered up with baby powder on my skin. That said, I also love this soap, because it smells like in-the-bottle Snake Oil and my skin chemistry doesn't get a chance to ruin it, lol. I didn't care for the Silk Road Trading Co soaps (I found them very drying and they didn't hold scent well at all), but I'm really loving the Villainess soaps. This very obviously smells like Snake Oil, and it has *a lot* of fragrance to it. I love the fudgey dark chocolate topped with cream look of the bar as well. A lot of bar soaps are way too drying for me, but this one wasn't so bad (made my legs a little itchy after the bath, but some lotion quickly fixed that, and I would have put on lotion anyhow). The soap feels really creamy and has great lather, and the scent is just so amazing and sensual <3. The scent doesn't linger on my skin at all, but it's very strong while lathering up. It definitely made me want to get out of the bath and slather on some Boomslang. All in all, I'd definitely repurchase this, and I think it's a great, romantic sort of scent for the shower.

I usually don't like lemongrass or lemon notes (too bitter and sour), but this smells really pretty on me. Skytyping with Chemtrails is mostly lemongrass, but I think the extra sugar is keeping it in check for me. It starts off a bit herbal, but quickly dries down to a sweet, pleasant lemon that's more on the candied side of things. I think of lemon popsicles and lemon gummi bears when I smell this. It's a fun, playful, sweet, smooth lemon that's a bit cool and refreshing. I actually really like this, much to my surprise. I think that I'll wear this a lot over the summer. ETA: My bottle of this hasn't aged too well. It's more of a sour, faint, watery lemon, and the staying power isn't very good on me anymore. I'd recommend Lemon Scented Sticky Bat over this for a chilled lemon sugar scent. Sticky Bat has stayed true/sweet smelling and has really good throw and staying power.