Little Bird

I didn't try the Eldritch Dark bath oil, because the bath oils make my skin break out like mad, but I'm definitely enjoying the perfume oil. Dark, black leather (like a black leather jacket) with a bit of powder and smoke from the black musk, sweetened up by an ever so slightly honeyed red musk. Warm, musky, sexy black leather. Red musk, leather and rose all amp up on my skin, but I'm not getting any rose here. Black leather and sweet red musk.

Frimp of this in a lab etsy order. I'm really loving Ploutos. It's a strong leather first and foremost, like the scent of a black leather jacket and a hint of soft, brown, suede leather. The amber threatens to turn powdery (like bpal's ambers always do on me), but the other notes are keeping it in check and it comes off as a waft of amber incense smoke instead, thanks to the smoky oud and honeyed patch. Dark, incensey, warm, black leather. Like being snug and warm in a black leather jacket, in a room where Midnight Mass type incense is burning. I'd buy a full bottle of this if it were available.

My decant of this might not have aged so well. I find the musk to be sour and almost metallic, something is turning powdery (like baby powder and a hint of cocoa powder) and the tobacco & patch are gritty and smoky, reminding me of cigarettes and ash trays. I wanted this to be rich, heavy and dark... gourmand, but dangerous and sexy and smooth... like Blood Moon 05, The Tell-Tale Heart and Tezcatlipoca... but Callidora has gritty, ashy, sour tones that remind me of Midnight Kiss and it isn't working for me.

I liked the scent of the Tricksy bath oil, but the bath oils started irritating my skin a lot, so I'm happy to have this in perfume form. It reminds me of the patchouli in Goblin, which is like a mix of gritty patch and resinous, sticky patchouli, sweetened with a vanilla-creamy type honey. Sensual, and always makes me think of autumn and Halloween time. It's a perfect fall patchouli

Soft, dry, woody, light brown smelling mix of patchouli and hazelnut. The hazelnut adds a warm, wooden, toasty, nutty goodness to the patchouli, but I don't get the vanilla and the hazelnut definitely isn't supersweet or reminiscent of nutella or anything like that. It's a soft, earthy, dry, wooden scent. A little darker from a hint of leather in the drydown. I'm kinda tempted to buy a bottle of this, because I do think that the statue is cute too, but $125 is a bit much for me at this point in my life, lol. I think I'll just be happy with my decant and my million other patch blends.

Bpal's apple notes and I don't often get along so well (unless they're caramel apples, and even then, it's iffy). This is another apple that reminds me of green apple air freshener (slightly floral-apple) and soapy apple shampoo. I can smell the dirt and some spices in the drydown, but it mostly just keeps reminding me of Febreeze and Yankee Candle :/

I like Sylvia. It starts off with a blast of pine, but dries down more warm and spicy. The musk makes it warm and snuggly while the spicy clove and carnation combo are almost sweet and cinnamon-ish on my skin. I was worried about the spices and that the pine + spice would remind me of holiday potpourri, but my aged decant of this seems to be doing well. The musk is powdery and soft, but not baby powdery, all warm and snuggly, with a bit of soft leather backing it up. The vanilla and pine are pleasantly sweet and foresty. The spices are there, but not overwhelming or turning to a cinnamon disaster as the whole thing dries down. Powdery musk, sweet vanilla pine, soft leather, and warm spiciness from the carnation and clove. It reminds me of blends like The Illustrated Woman, Ivanushka, Golden Priapus...

Sharp mint and intensely sour, tart, red currant and sharp, citrusy green tea. Reminds me of Smell Bent's Mama Cassis in the drydown, which is like a weird toothpaste smell + fruit that doesn't seem to mesh together well for me.

I like violet when it's a sweet, violet candy type of violet, but this is more of a bright, wet, sharp spring floral on my skin. The jasmine adds a touch of sourness. The cucumber is watery. Sandalwood makes the drydown slightly powdery. Clean, watery, sharp spring floral. Not my favorite type of fragrance.

I think that Europa is my least favorite bpal ever. I bought two bottles, because the description sounded so amazing, and I've already re-sold both of them, after trying for weeks to let the scent settle and to keep an openmind about it. But it just smells awful to me. Europa smells nothing like vanilla, myrrh, resins, vetiver or coffee to me. Nothing at all. This is very baby powdery, dry, sour, and unpleasant. In no way sweet or gourmand. It's baby powder, sour and rusty metal (so much like rust), and green grass that smells half dead and like a dog peed all over it. That's the only way that I can describe it. It's foul. I'm going back on a firm no-buy for lunacies. No matter how good they sound or what notes they're supposed to have, they seem to show up as a completely different beast.

This oddly smells like the pink pepper note does on my skin - pink bubblegum, cinnamon potpourri and a weird, fruity candy scent. I don't get ozone and the fruitiness is just a sweet, nondescript candy more than strawberry to my nose. Very sweet and pink.

Metallic cologne with warm amber and woods. It kind of reminds me of a department store men's fragrance. Sort of musky, warm, and clean. This one was okay, but didn't leave much of an impression on me.

I find Cushing Manor to be very masculine smelling, with the bay rum and whiskey. Bay rum smells like sweet clove and warm, dry wood, with a slinky, dark, boozy whiskey note backing it up. I don't pick up on the carnation. Spicy, warm and boozy.

Lucille's fragrances are, in my opinion, the best of the Crimson Peak line. I loved the Lucille Sharpe and Black Moths perfume oils, and this is my favorite of the atmosphere sprays. The black amber is like a dark, rich amber musk with a vanilla edge to it (same as in the Thomas Sharpe blend, appropriately), mixed with swirls of cool, sombre florals. It's all purple shadows and gothic romance.

To me, this smells like warm, golden musk and warm, powdery, golden amber. Resinous, musky and powdery. Delicately sweet. Too powdery for my tastes.

Sweet, waxy honey and big, waxy, white floral blooms with something like baby powdery sandalwood. I don't really smell the leather, which makes me sad.

I agree that this is similar to the Crimson Peak perfume oil. Tons of snow note - sweet and slushy, slightly minty. Clean and cool. I only have a decant of this, but it doesn't smell earthy to me at all. Snow single note.

Starts off as screechy, hairspray, sharp jasmine and then settles into more of a warm, sweet, glowing beeswax. It smells like melting candles and sharp floral perfume. I found it much more floral when I first got the spray, but now I get more of the sweetness in it and enjoy it much more.

Overview: Hair gloss is a heavy, oily spray that quickly overwhelms my long, fine hair and makes it look and feel very greasy. I can't use this product anywhere but very sparingly on the ends of my hair, or else it makes my head look like an oil slick. I'm really careful with my hair and the products that I use on it. For a while, I was using this to fragrance the ends of my hair, but I find that it makes my hair fall out a lot, either from the high fragrance oil content, the heaviness of the oil itself, or something else. I wanted to love these and wanted them to work, because of the fragrances, but now I only use the hair gloss as a body mist on my arms and legs, not actually on my hair. Fragrance review: I enjoy pretty much any variety of coconut fragrance, as long as it's not that cheap, oily, suntan lotion type of coconut. This hair gloss is all about that suntan lotion coconut, and I find it oily, cloying and off putting. Suntan lotion coconut mixed with monoi (creamy gardenia scent) oil. It smells like a stereotypical oiled-up-on-the-beach scent and makes me feel sick to my stomach after a while.

Every time I read the name of this fragrance, I think of that saying: "My knight in shining armor turned out to be a loser in aluminum foil," and I laugh. That has nothing to do with the actual perfume, which I actually think is very good and not loser-y at all. I'm not sure why I'm even mentioning it. I digress. I enjoy so many of bpal's more traditionally masculine smelling blends. If it says fougere, cologne, or mentions being for 'gentlemen,' there's a high chance that I will love it. Knight in Shiny Armor is lots of cool, crisp, clean, musky lavender cologne paired with swirls of dark leather, sweet vanilla, hints of dry and earthy-herbal clary sage and oakmoss and a bit of carnation spiciness. It does have a sort of metallic brightness to it, and a Dorian-esque feel in it. It's manly, crisp and complex, but snuggly and so appealing. Clean, but dark, and with just the right amount of sweetness. A very good cologne that smells like a good, loyal boyfriend and makes me think of snuggling into a man's well worn t-shirt.

Similar to Anne Beany and En Garde, with lots of very sweet, butterscotchy, boozy rum and a bit of creamy vanilla. This one has a hint of warm, toasted coconut on me, though, and a dry vanilla cake in the drydown. Still, mostly a butterscotch rum on my skin.

This is such a fun, interesting fragrance. It starts off as a creamy banana candy (like banana laffy taffy or banana pudding) with a slightly boozy, caramelized goodness. Then a warm, slightly powdery, slightly smoky, soft, sweet incense note creeps in, reminding me of Midnight Mass and Feeding the Dead. I really enjoy bpal's creamy cake + incense blends, and this has a similar feel with the sweet, creamy banana caramel and incense. Over time, the cool vanilla muskiness of Dorian starts to come in and the banana fades away, but I still really love the experience of wearing this fragrance. It gives off wafts of incense, caramel and Dorian for several hours before it disappears entirely.

Nutty, buttery brown sugar and buttercream frosting type of scent. Very cloying and reminds me of foodie candle fragrances more than a perfume; it even has a bit of a waxy note to it. It's so overwhelmingly sweet on my skin.

Powdery, tart pomegranate (always reminds me of sweet tarts candies) with soapy rose and a sharp, perfumey/musky white floral something. Surprisingly, I am not getting any red musk at all, and red musk usually turns blends into red musk single note on my skin. I find this to be unpleasantly sharp and tart.

I like my lavenders to be creamy, cool and sweet, but this is a sharp, dry, herbal variety, made sharper, dryer and more herbal with the addition of the chamomile. The chamomile smells like yellowy, dried herbs, almost sage-like and sour. I'm not getting any vanilla, so this isn't working for me.