Little Bird

Nothing warms the cockles like a mug of Mother Shub's egg nog! Goat's milk egg nog with coffee liqueur and spices imported from the Crimson Desert! In the bottle, this smells like bpal's egg nog note with lots of sharp, dry spices. On my skin, the egg nog disappears. This scent isn't as creamy as I had hoped it would be. It's rather light/subtle, but it sticks around for hours and smells terribly cloying on me. Spiced Lait de Chèvre smells like chai spice, a hint of black pepper, and super-cloying sugar on my skin. I don't think that it smells anything like Egg Nog Latte, really. I don't smell any coffee in this. I thought that I would love this, but it's not doing much for me...

Sniffing this in the bottle, it's like being attacked by soapy laundry. I get that clean soap and damp clothes smell. It's really strong and intense. I can smell a little bit of high pitched saltiness here as well. On my skin, this reminds me of a bar of soap. It smells like classic Zest soap to me. It's leaning slightly to the masculine side of things. I think that Abe Sapien is the soapiest scent that I've ever tried. It makes me a little bit queasy when I smell it. It's so strong that I can practically taste it, which makes me feel like someone crammed a bar of soap into my mouth :/. Aquatics often turn soapy on my skin, but this is insanely soapy and strong. I won't wear this one again.

I don't normally like herbal or mint scents, but I adore this bath oil. In the bath, it smells a lot like the Rose Geranium single note that I love (an almost spicy, herbal, dark green smell). I get lots of the geranium and a hint of cool, sweet mint. It's insanely relaxing. I feel like it turns my bathroom into a decadent spa. On my skin after the bath, I can smell mostly a cool, sweet lavender, hint of sweet mint, and a hint of powdery amber. For me, this is a perfect oil for a bath before bedtime. It's so relaxing, and the lavender that lingers after the bath is a perfect bedtime scent. It's definitely a pricey bath oil, but I think that it's worth it.

I'm really surprised that I haven't reviewed this yet, since I've used it so often over the past year. I love the Snow White fragrance. It's such a perfect, magical, unique smell. It never smells like the description to me. I don't get snow, ozone, or flowers from it, really. It sort of smells like a frosted vanilla milkshake and the cold, clean, green stems smell that you get in florist refrigerators - a cool, smooth, calm, quiet sort of scent. The perfume goes a bit sweeter on my skin, but the spray smells like Snow White in the bottle. I get a hint of earthiness (like wet dirt) when I first spray this, but it quickly morphs into perfect, in-the-bottle Snow White. This is my perfect, every day room fragrance, and it's one that I use all year round. It's sort of subtle, but it lasts for a long time, and it just makes my house smell clean and beautiful <3.

I only had a small amount of this to skin test, but I think that it'll be enough. I don't like whatever citrussy note is in this. It smells like a sharp, cleaning fluid type of lemon on me. I don't get the sweeter lemon that others have mentioned. Sharp lemon and then something odd and gritty smelling in the drydown, like lemon cleaning fluid spilled over dirty floorboards. It smells slightly herbal after a while, but it's mostly a dirty, sharp lemon on me. It also fades very quickly on me, but that might just be because I had so little of it to apply...

I was disappointed when I smelled this in the bottle, because it had that strong, charred vetiver smell to it (smells like mesquite bbq on my skin). I usually amp up vetiver, so I was sure that this would turn into smoky bbq on me, but it doesn't. This actually smells rather amazing. The vetiver pretty much disappears entirely once this oil touches my skin. At first, I can smell a cool leather, sweet, cologne-like metal, and sweet, golden resins. It starts off more resinous than anything else on my skin, but I can pick out the leather and the men's cologne smell from the metal. I smell something like a hint of earthy patchouli here as well, but it's light and disappears in the drydown. The words sweet, smooth, and cool keep coming to mind when I smell this blend. As it dries down, the metal smell seems to take over, the resins go to the background, and the leather fades away. It winds up smelling like a sweet, clean men's cologne on me, with a hint of resins (a lot of the metallic/citrussy/clean men's colognes available smell like sweet lemon ice on my skin, and I kinda get that here). I expected the vetiver and leather to be strong here, but I'm getting a clean, sweet men's cologne and polished resins more than anything else. It's a really nice scent, and one that smells good on me and on my husband.

I agree that this has a manly aftershave smell to it. Unfortunate Shopping Cart almost smells like a cool, salty aquatic + old spice on me at first. This reminds me of another bpal that I cannot place (perhaps The Masque or A Fit of Artistic Enthusiasm, though I'm not sure). The blood note smells dark, metallic, and kinda spicy to me. In the drydown, this does start to go powdery, but not enough to ruin the scent. I also get a hint of sharp, generic soapiness underneath the other notes as this dries down, but it's not bothering me either. This is like smelling a spicy men's aftershave, a touch of powder, and a hint of soap in the background. It would smell like a clean, well put together, average sort of guy. I like this one, but I think that it's something that would be better suited for my husband, on days when I feel like I can't handle him wearing a heavier scent.

I keep testing this scent and trying to think of something helpful to say about it. It's pretty much just a soapy floral on me, though, and I've never been good at picking out floral notes (if there's even any floral in this, but 'floral' is the impression that I get). It starts off smelling like a sweet and creamy floral soap on me and then dries down to laundry soap and a sharper floral feel. It's fresh, bright, and soapy smelling as it dries down. I don't tend to like soapy scents, and this one makes me feel like I'm getting a headache...

I read an article on the Comics Alliance site that described this perfume as "a breakfast-themed coffee/maple/bacon perfume matching a diner scene death." I thought that sounded awesome, so I was really let down when the scents were finally released and this was described as "house salad" (which is also my reaction whenever anyone gives me an actual salad for eating). Lettuce scents tend to not work on me, because the lettuce goes oddly sharp and perfumey. I get that sharp green perfume smell here. For a while, it sort of smells like sharp green grass. As it dries down, it's like a sharp lettuce and grass salad sitting next to a bar of floral soap. It's perfumey and strange on me. Occurrence at the Diner is really light on my skin and fades away within an hour. I don't love it while it lasts, though.

I love the photos and concept behind these scents, but the perfume oils haven't been very wearable for me (at least not the ones I've tried so far). Floater is soapy on me, which I was kind of expecting. Aquatics & ozones usually go soapy on my skin. Floater feels more ozone-y than aquatic. It smells like dryer sheets and dank water. I don't get earth or dirt notes exactly, but there's something stagnant and murky smelling about this. It's like floral-fresh, soapy dryer sheets sitting next to a washer full of clothes & water that have been sitting for way too long. As it dries down, it's mostly just floral-soapy-dryer-sheets. I don't wear soapy-clean scents, so this one isn't a keeper for me.

I am totally in love with the Pet Magah Bird label...

This smells just like Vicks Vaporub on me at first. It's a medicinal, chilly, menthol/eucalyptus smell. As it dries down, the menthol quiets a bit and it starts to smell like spearmint gum and a hint of soap on me. It makes me feel like I've splashed mouthwash all over myself, lol. It's a clean and cool sort of scent, but it's not something I'd like to wear...

You might want to try The Lady on the Grey. I know a lot of people get a pretty strong tobacco flower note from that blend (the listed notes are: pearly sandalwood, white amber, tobacco flower, orris, castoreum bouquet, soft resins, and pale petals).

This perfume morphs quite a bit on my skin. It starts off smelling green, grassy, and slightly fruity-sweet. My husband said that it smelled like green apple skins, and I can agree with that. It reminds me of crab apples and green grass. I would love this to pieces if it stayed that way on my skin, but it morphs and goes into a really powdery phase on me. It's like a sweet, earthy, powdery, cozy musk + baby powder drydown. After about an hour it's not so baby powdery; it's more of a dusty brown scent, slightly musky, with a bit of smooth sweetness (not sugary-sweet at all, just on the sweeter side of things). I really want to love this scent, but I only really enjoy the first five minutes or so when it's green and grassy smelling. It doesn't have a great drydown on me, and it doesn't have much throw or staying power either. I'll keep my bottle, though, if only for the sweet label and beautiful sentiment behind it.

I don't usually get along well with aquatics or ozone (exceptions: Sea of Glass, Banded Sea Snake, Sea Rat), but I was hoping that all of the other listed notes here would make this wearable for me. Not so much. This is intensely soapy, harsh, and sharp. Worse, it's incredibly strong and overwhelming with lots of throw. I like a few of bpal's soap scents (Dirty and Tony come to mind), but this is incredibly harsh and chemical-y, like I've drenched myself in bleach and rolled around in a factory full of generic bars of white soap before pinning dryer sheets all over my clothes. Bad. Very strong and intense, in a bad way.

This starts off smelling like dry woods (cedar? sandalwood? both?) and something green and herbal-y on my skin. As it dries down, this starts to go soapy on my skin. It sort of smells like an herbal soap sitting in a wooden soap dish with sandalwood incense burning off in the distance. There's a lot going on in this scent, but it's very light on me and seems to shift underneath the soapiness, so I never really get a good picture of what it smells like, other than soapy...

I think that this is the first bpal scent that my husband has ever asked me to buy for him, which is unfortunate, because it's really powdery and turning out to be something neither of us will wear. On me, this smells especially bad. It reminds me of some of the animal shelters that I've been in where the animals were lined up in cages and there was this sickly, sad, sour smell everywhere. I guess that's the 'cat' note. My cat smells like a sweet, sunny amber (I have a single note amber that smells just like her, actually <3), but I'm getting more of a sour, musky smell from this scent. There's that sour note, a little bit of charred smokiness, and lots of baby powder. After an hour, it smells rather like a powdery amber (bpal's amber almost always goes to straight baby powder on me) with a touch of something sour on me. On my husband, this isn't quite as sour, but it does turn to a heavy baby powder smell. And baby powder is not a good, manly scent, in my opinion. I actually wish that this did smell like Old Spice, because I much prefer regular Old Spice to this powdery, sour version...

In the bottle, this smells like sour, slightly powdery resins. On my skin, the sourness backs off, thankfully. I was worried about the black musk (smells like cheap men's cologne on me) and the chili, but I don't smell anything musky or peppery here. Mostly this is dark, resinous myrrh with hints of sweet vanilla and a very baby powdery drydown. I'm not sure what in this is going powdery on me, but the drydown is all dark, sweet resins and tons of baby powder. I don't like powdery scents, so this is kind of disappointing. I'll have to try this on my husband and see if it smells better on him.

Edit: Purchased another bottle of this recently and it's no longer even remotely the same fragrance. The new bottle smells metallic, but in a weird, sharp way, like the metallic smell of cheap hairspray. My husband said it smells, "Really soapy and bad." It's chemical-y and oily smelling. Hairspray, soap, vegetable oil... I don't think it smells resinous or incense-like at all anymore, and it doesn't smell earthy. It just smells like it's gone bad. I hate all of these bpal reformulations nothing smells the same as it did even a couple years ago. My old, now irrelevant review: I wish that I had just gotten a full bottle of this instead of messing around with an imp, lol. El Dorado is amazing. I think that this has the same gold smell in it that I liked so much in Leipreachan. It's like a cool, metallic, hard, golden smell. The gold smell is paired with a very hot, dry something that makes me think of incense on a dry desert breeze. As this dries down, I'm fairly certain that I'm smelling patchouli or something quite like patchouli. It smells like a sweet, golden-brown, earthy patchouli. Earthy, dry, sweet patchouli-something with hard metallic gold and a dry, warm, slightly sharp incense smell. I also get a hint of that men's cologne smell that others have mentioned, but the cologne feel just makes the scent more wearable for me. My husband really enjoyed wearing this one and it smelled sexy on him, but it's a scent that I'd also wear myself (though I usually have no problem wearing masculine scents anyhow). I really like this scent, and it's one that I think would just get better and better with age.

I don't really like herbal scents or most floral scents, so I'm not sure why I wanted to try Thy Godfather's Present. It really is a beautiful, surprising scent, though, and I find it very wearable. This smells like a creamy, sweet, slightly perfumey floral (maybe a bit tropical smelling as well) and a bit of greenery, but the green aspects smell almost sparkly and crisp. I agree with previous reviews in that something about this smells slightly aquatic, but aquatics usually go soapy on my skin, and this smells like clear, cool water. Thy Godfather's Present makes me think of a creamy, sweet gardenia with its green stem shimmering underneath a pool of clear water. It smells beautiful, serene, and a bit magical. The scent doesn't really strike me as being herbal at all. It's more of a beautiful, watery, sweet floral. I like this scent a lot, but it does have a strong floral quality that's slightly perfumey. I imagine that this could give me a headache if I didn't apply it very sparingly.

In the bottle, this smells like sweet honey and a sharp little hint of clean soapiness. On my skin, it's a tooth achingly sweet honey and a little bit of sharpness that reminds me of hairspray. It does smell more like honey than of beeswax to me. As it dries down, the sharp hairspray smell starts to smell slightly smoky and I actually like that aspect of the scent. It's the super-sweet honey smell that I'm not enjoying. It's just too sweet for me. I expected to love this, because I love so many blends with beeswax in them, but this isn't the dark, serious, complex scent that I had hoped it would be. I was hoping for a dark, smoky scent with a little bit of sweetness. This is intense sweetness with a little bit of smokiness. The Lights of Men's Lives is just too sweet and simple. It actually smells like a cheap candle, like I rolled around with and am covered in an unremarkable vanilla-honey scented candle. I don't think that I'll be keeping my bottle of this...

I agree that The Red Rider smells like walking into a leather store, and I love it. It's like the clean, cool smell of a new black leather jacket, and I find it so sexy . On my skin, I can smell a red, slightly spicy woods smell with a little bit of sour moss. The sexy leather stays strong with the other notes adding just a bit of complexity to the blend. As it dries down, this reminds me most closely of the soft leather note that's in Quincey Morris, but I like this even more than QM. I really love this scent. I was sad when De Sade was discontinued, as I've been wearing more leather scents lately, but this blend is amazing enough to make me forget all about De Sade. This is heavy on the leather, sexy, and with a red woodsy touch. I liked to layer De Sade with other blends, but The Red Rider is nice enough to wear on its own. I definitely need a bottle of this one.

I've gotten imps of this where the opoponax was sweet and overwhelming, but the last few frimps I've gotten of this have been more well balanced and reminiscent of De Sade and Brom Bones' dark, slightly smoky leather. In the 'good imps' I have, it's like dark leather and smoky vetiver sweetened with resins. Very dark and intense, but it doesn't have a lot of throw and staying power on me when the opoponax isn't super strong.

Twenty-One is the fizziest scent I've ever smelled, and one of my favorite gin scents. I practically expect it to start bubbling on my skin when I wear it. Any of the scents with "gin" listed in the description have at least a little of that sparkling, fizzy, refreshing quality to them. And Te Po smells like Dr. Pepper and dark spice on me <3

This is definitely a very ozone-y blend. Unfortunately, ozone smells soapy and dry on me (dryer sheets = bleh). This starts off like dryer sheets with something cool and creamy underneath it (white musk, maybe?), but the drydown is all laundry soap on me.