Little Bird

I actually don't enjoy Snake Oil (though I like about half of the Snake Pit blends and enjoy Snake Charmer and Mme Moriarty). Siberian Musk is like the worst/weirdest parts of Snake Oil and Smut on me - baby powder, dirty hair and burnt raisins. It's not sweet enough and just has a weird mix of dirty and powdery that does not work for me at all.

I wish that I got more of the ambergris note from this, but Singing Moon is mostly a faint, lightly soapy lemon and green moss scent on my skin. Clean, green, and a little bit perfumey. Not my sort of perfume.

Harvest Moon 2005 and 2006 are two of my bpal favorites, so I always try the Harvest Moon blends. I think that 2012 might be my least favorite Harvest Moon, though. It starts off with a slightly soapy evergreen/pine-like note that I don't like, and dries down to what smells like a sharp, cheap cinnamon potpourri on my skin. It reminds me of the potpourri section of a craftstore (where it's cheap and overwhelming spice oils, a bit of evergreen, and a dry wood mixed with a sweet & plastic-y mishmash). Gives me a headache

I love this and already hugely regret only buying one bottle. This is going to be my Halloween scent this year, for sure. I love the intensely sweet and heavy butterscotch mixed with all of the darker notes. The darker, earthy parts of this make me smell like I've spent the afternoon rolling around in a pile of fallen leaves in a secluded patch of forest, and the creamy sweetness is so enticing. This is the sort of scent that has a playful, innocent, come & get me sweetness to it while also having a huge backdrop of something dark, dangerous, mysterious and sinister. Which works out to being insanely sexy to me. And I love how smooth this is. It reminds me a little of Goblin after a while (which I also love), except this is smoother and not quite as dirty/patchouli smelling (sort of reminds me of Falling Leaf Moon as well). Love. So much. It's like a naughty and grownup trick or treater smell on me. Just awesome. :love!:

I want to say that I love Mouse Circus, but it has a weird undertone that smells like peanut butter and it sort of ruins the scent for me. I don't like this nearly as much as I love Midway and Monster Bait: Underpants, but I can see it being in the same family as those. Something in this smells strongly of peanuts/peanut butter on me, which I find very off-putting. Sweet, nutty, woody, warm.. peanut butter. It doesn't smell right mixed with the more sheer vanilla and cotton candy notes. But I do love the pink cotton candy and touch of salt from the popcorn, and it dries down to have more of a vanilla-y mix that is reminiscent of Boo for me. Mouse Circus is like Boo and Midway with peanut butter and swirls of different vanillas to it. It smells like sweet vanilla mixed with clean, perfumey vanilla, salt, cotton candy, and peanuts. Sometimes it's just a little too sweet, and I hate how strong that peanut-ish note is.

Lots of great recs already, but I don't think anyone mentioned Blood Kiss yet? Blood Kiss (Bewitching Brews) - "Lush, creamy vanilla and the honey of the sweetest kiss smeared with the vital throb of husky clove, swollen red cherries, but darkened with the vampiric sensuality of vetiver, soporific poppy and blood red wine, and a skin-light pulse of feral musk."

All of the Ides of March scents have slight variations, but tend to smell very similar on me (like a mix of soap, men's cologne, lemon and maybe some darker musk or florals). This one is closest to the 05 and 09 versions, heavy on the greenery/herbs, lemon, and a sour, sharp, perfumey floral (the iris, I think). All wrapped up in a clean/soapy feel. Not something that I find very wearable...

I have a hard time wearing the champagne scents, but this one isn't so bad on me (probably still not something I'll wear, but not something I have to scrub off either). It's like red wine with grape candy and warm citrus, mixed in with that fizzy, boozy, citrussy champagne. It winds up being one of the sweeter champagne blends on my skin as it dries down. After a half hour it has faded into a hint of light, fizzy citrus.

I was so excited to finally get a sample of this, because I really like the lab's mango note, but I don't get any mango from this it's mostly that fizzy champagne that I hate (falls somewhere between citrus scented cleanser and pukey booze), amped up with a little more of a citrus edge from the lychee.

I tracked down a bottle of this and regret the money & time I spent on it, lol. I usually love art shop smells and ink smells, but this smells like black pepper, maple syrup, powder and bitter celery on me. Weird and unpleasant. It doesn't make me think of ink or paper at all...

Hagsgate is one of my favorites for a veggie scent (from The Last Unicorn series): "An accursed bounty: rich black soil and hay, cucumber, tomato, red lettuce, summer squash, black eggplant, arugula, grape vine, artichoke, and a tangle of herbs marred by an undercurrent of vetiver, patchouli, and black moss."

I was hoping for gingerbread cookies and chocolate, but this blend isn't that sweet on me. The chocolate is almost earthy and bitter on me, with some slightly green, herbal tones that I'm not liking. Other than that, it's lots of ginger-y spice. This and the tomato chocolate have been my least favorite box of chocolates type scents.

I only have a sniffy/couple drops of this one to test, but it doesn't seem so bad. It's sort of a dark, herbal earthy, rooty scent with some sweet resins. I can't really pick out any of the listed notes, other than the opoponax/myrrh's resinous sweetness.

There are so many bold notes in this (and I would love a scent that really has noticeable notes of coconut, ambergris, incense and plum), but my bottle is nothing but sour lemongrass and soapy, sharp, white floral-y tobacco flower.

This isn't as dark, heavy and rich as I was hoping for. I wanted cocoa, vanilla bean, myrrh and amber to stand out, but it's pretty much a faint chocolate and wood scent on my skin. As it dries down, it's like faint chocolate and a whiff of faded Dragon's Milk with a hint of pencil shavings. I'm really hoping that this one improves with age, because the list of notes sound dreamy to me.

This is all patchouli all the time on me, and unfortunately is a type of patchouli that I don't like. It's a very dry, cheap smelling, slightly powdery patchouli with no real complexity or sweetness to it. It smells a bit of men's cologne musk in the bottle, but is nothing but patchouli on my skin. No bergamot, orris or pink pepper that I can discern. Reminds me of a less complex Fledgling Raptor Moon.

In the bottle and on my skin, this is like honey dusted tuberose and dry, grounding oakmoss. I thought that this scent would be awful on me, because I don't usually enjoy bpal's tuberose, jasmine or honey notes, but the florals don't turn as sharp as they usually do and the honey dust doesn't smell like bpal's usual realistic honey note. It smells like a sugary honey dusting powder with dry greenery and dry florals. Mori Girl smells very sophisticated and sensual on me, actually, like an expensive floral perfume dusted with sexy, glittery honey powder. The woodland mosses, I think, are giving off a sandalwood and oakmoss feel on me that is lovely and adds a beautiful forest feel to the base of the scent. Reminds me of Solstice Scents' Savannah fragrance (which is also tuberose & moss) and Possets' Melanie (ferns and musk) more than any other bpal blend I own. Very beautiful <3.

Dolly Kei is even sweeter on me than Hime Gyaru was, though this is super-sweet tobacco and resins where Hime Gyaru is cotton candy and sweet florals. This smells like very sticky, sweet chewing tobacco and very sweet myrrh on me with a bit of sandalwood. I wish that the sandalwood were stronger, because I think this needs more of a grounding, not-so-sweet note to it. This sticks around on my skin for about three hours, but doesn't have much throw at all. I think that this is my least favorite of the four anime event fragrances. Very sweet and simple.

Hime Gyaru is like a girly perfume crashed into an amped up version of Midway's sugary cotton candy. The pink musk and gardenia are a bit perfumey/sharp smelling, but I like the light edge they add against the sweeter notes. This is pretty much sugary pink cotton candy with hints of sweet rose, violet candy, and perfumey pink musk & gardenia. Bright, pink, girly and sweet. I think that it fits the Hime Gyaru style perfectly. It is a keeper for me

When I first put this on, I thought that it smelled exactly like Suave's Green Apple shampoo, and I see that others have mentioned that as well. Bpal's apple blossom always has a soapy undertone on me, and this definitely has that cheap, soapy feel on my skin. Like tart green apple (that turns a bit sour in the drydown) and a perfumey soapiness that gives me a headache there's also a dry, powdery something that comes out after about a half hour. It winds up smelling like a cheap, chemical-y, perfumey, soapy, sour, green apple with a side of powder. This is kind of a mess on me, but I've never liked bpal's apple blossom, so it's not surprising that this doesn't work for me...

Carnation is one of the few florals that I love, so I'm really happy to have a bottle of this. For me, bpal's Maiden smells like a true, fresh carnation (just like a green stemmed carnation in a florist fridge) and Hod smells like a sexy, spiced, creamy, foodie-ish carnation. Spanish Red Carnation reminds me of Hod, but this is more noticeably carnation and has more of a sharp edge of spiciness. Like a slightly less sweet and creamy and more spicy-sharp Hod. Dry, spicy, sensual carnation <3 and this has great throw and staying power on me.

The Orchard is surprisingly subtle on my skin. I expected something heavier from the notes, but it's mostly a light, sweet, tart plum note with hints of breezy floral rose and dry wood. I actually don't get much of the chocolate (which I am okay with, because I tend to dislike dark chocolate + fruit scents).

I love the bat labels on this series, but the scent is a mess on me. The patchouli smells dry and ashy, more like the patchouli I hated in occupywallstreet than the black patchouli I love in Depraved. My bottle doesn't have any 'cocoa absolute' (the dark, sludgey, delicious smelling stuff), but it does have a note in it that reminds me of chocolate scented markers. Which is to say that it smells incredibly cheap and chemical-y. As it dries down, a sharp, perfumey musk joins the mix and doesn't help matters at all. Cheap headshop patchouli, cheap chocolate scented markers and cheap, sharp musk. Blech.

I haven't really enjoyed any of the Dawn blends, but I think that this is my least favorite so far. To be fair, I'm not often fond of bpal's jasmine or tuberose, and those are the two main notes I get from this one. Mourning Victory turns into a slightly sour, very perfumey, sharp jasmine and white floral scent on my skin. Rose is usually really strong on me, but I actually don't get any rose from this, where it was very obvious in the other Dawn scents. Too much sharp floral for me.

This starts off as a very strong, sharp, dry carnation that reminds me of hairspray. As it dries down, there's that note + the sticky-sweet honey and a bit of warm, smoky red musk. I usually have good luck with carnation (I love Hod, a bunch of the Pink Moons, and Maiden), but this one turns soapy on me as it dries down. Smells like a warm, sultry, honey scented bar of soap and a spritz of sharp, chemical-y hairspray.