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Are we reviewing the 2013 version here, too?

 

This is nothing but sweet musk. I do not get the usual plasticky unaged BPAL vanilla here, though I assume that the "sweet" is the vanilla.

Out of the bottle, this smells like pencils being sharpened in a glass of champagne.

 

The cedar mellows and the whole thing changes. An hour later, this has changed to a musky leathery amber, which is pretty masculine. It really does smell "antique." I'd call this sort of bronzey.

I love tonka. So, when I saw that the single note was tonka, I had to have it, even though the description frightened me a little -- I didn't want clove (I hate it AND I amp it!) and I was afraid of being boozy. Not to mention, I'm allergic to almonds.

 

Still, I jumped in, and I am so so so glad I did. When I opened the bottle, I fell in love. It's not often that I like something so much in the bottle. It's warm and sweet and has none of that chemically aftertaste that normally comes with similarly warm and sweet commercial scents.

 

I skin tested boldly, and even on my skin, there is nothing clovish about this. Honestly, it barely changed at all on my skin, which is odd for me. My only complaint is that it's not a long lasting scent; after a couple of hours, no one was noticing it anymore. I'm with different people all day, so it's not a matter of olfactory exhaustion, it just disappeared.

 

Overall, I'd give this high marks, like a 8/10. Bonus: it's perfect for layering with something I need to fem up a bit.

This hurt my skin. Sometimes that happens randomly and never happens again, so I am sort of hopeful it's a one off, but at the same time, I didn't love this as much as I hoped I would so I don't know if I'm anxious to try again.

 

In the bottle, this is great. It is pumpkin and citrus and a hint of sweet. But on my skin, it goes through a wicked transformation, where it gets all spicey and weird, clovey almost? Like when people say "pumpkin" but really mean "pumpkin pie spice." It eventually settles into a warm baked pumpkin cake sort of smell, with the zest of citrus but not the sour, but I was really disappointed by the spice phase.

I have only sniffed this, so I will be back to say more when it has actually been out of the bottle, but I have to agree about the plastic note. Does bath oil age well? I've been able to age the plastic out of many of my favourite oils, like Lawn Gnome, which started out smelling like someone dipped strawberry shortcake doll in patchouli, but now is wonderful and deep and complex. Lots of lemon sweet and plastic.

lust.

third charm.

scherezade.

romanti.goth.

midnight bell. -- if you like holy terror, i rec. this

al azif.

 

oh! and mme moriarty.

When I opened this bottle just to sniff, I was immediately in love. It's the perfect grapey red musk that I love! I kept trying to figure out what this was like, because it's SO familiar, and maybe it is Scherezade, only a dirtier, deeper, darker Scherezade. I was thinking that it was Lust that it reminded me of, 'only dirtier' and then I was thinking, what could be dirtier than Lust? LOL. When I put it on it did something funky for a bit, but then settled into being good again. It really retained the original, in the bottle scent, except that my skin turns everything incensey so it did that.

 

Eta: this isn't scherezade, it's lust. Defitely. I have one on each arm and third charm is a butter musky lust. Other than the difference in the msk, there is nothing to separate these two, and that's just my skin chemistry bringing out the musk in the third charm... Wet they are practically indistinguishable.

This is absolutely fizzy! In the bottle, it is like opening up a carbonated beverage in the way that it tickled my nose; I actually checked for bubbles! On my skin, it retained the super fizzy for about an hour, and now is gently flat. I like this much more than I expected to. I thought it would be a novelty scent and it is actually very wearable. It has a dry, sweet quality that I can't put my finger on. It's not at all beverage like at the two hour mark. I do smell pumpkin, but not foodie pumpkin. More like gourds.

I am wearing this now.

In the bottle, it's MANGO to the extreme. Like mango and a bit of spice, but mostly just fruity. On drydown, I was getting coffee along with my mango, and it was oddly unpleasant. It's possible this was actual coffee, because I did make some, and had nothing to do with the oil. LOL. Then the coffee ran away and I was getting vanilla chai tea and mango, which was awesome!

 

now, two hours later, I have mango. Just mango. There's a slight vanilla warmth in the background if I press my nose to my skin, but otherwise, it's all fruit. It smells almost like mango lotion, sort of gentle like that, rather than the sharper initial in the bottle smell.

 

eta: the poster below me was from my decant circle, which just goes to show you how different two people can see the same oil! I promise I rolled it well!!

Can I be the first? Is this how it works?

I tested Red Pumpkin Floss today. It started off very "red" candy in the bottle; not red like cherry koolaid but just that generic red, like popsicles that aren't really any flavour. On my skin, it warmed considerably and the pumpkin came out -- almost like butternut squash -- and the currant came to the front. This is considerably sweeter on me than the Orange, but it's a warm deep sweet, not as candy as I thought it would be, not the slightest bit cherry to me (I don't like cherry). It's like warm squash with currants and sugar. I love it, and I did not expect to love it. Glad I have a bottle!

Is there really a limit to how much I can order?

I don't think I've reviewed this, at least not the 2006 version. This is my favourite apple of all time; sweet, crisp, utterly delightful, slathered in buttery vanilla burnt sugar caramel and spiked with just a touch of spicy rum. I don't get coconut at all, which is good for me because I don't like it.

In the bottle, this is sugared popcorn, like buttered popcorn jelly bellies. On my skin, this is sugared, buttery popcorn. It seems a little 'thin' when compared with the richness of B&B up there, but I need to try it totally on its own so that the comparison factor isn't messing with it.

 

Eta: I am wearing this today and I keep thing omg, I love this! I need to buy all the bottles! So I thought I'd come find my review and amend. On my skin, it is this amazing sugary buttery incense y not foodie deliciousness. It is not deep, but its certainly not thin... It's just perfect.

 

Editing again... It is like a woody, slightly salty boo!

In the bottle, this is just butterscotch. Delicious, but foody sweet cloying. On drydown, this gets all dirty leather. I was sort of surprised. But then it mellows out to this totally amazing warm sweet leather awesomeness. A lot like Misk U on my skin.

 

i was worried about the anise seed but i don't get black licorice at all on my skin.

This is dirty (nonwood) smoke and leather. I do get wax eventually, but it takes forever.

 

I can't imagine what I could layer this with that would make me need it.

I love this. It's warm and wonderful and unexpected. Porridge porridge porridge. I am not getting the buttery raisiny that others describe, but I'd like that too, if I were to get a bottle and it turned out to be more that direction. I think I need this.

I love this.

 

I received a half decant and adored it, so I ordered a bottle. I love the bottle as much as the decant, and that doesn't always follow the way you'd think.

 

It's the same perfect sweet that Ronin is on my skin. An almost marshmallow honey musk. Gentle and velvety. The tobacco gives it that tiny bit of incense that everything has on my skin anyway.

 

I just love it. I should have ordered five bottles.

I don't understand this thread.

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I think that I'm in love. Sweet and rich and not foodie. I theoretically don't like coconut but it's lovely. I just love it.

BPAL lists these ingredients -- acorns, oak leaves, oak bark, and oak sap rising through a mist of traditional lunar oils. If you have seasonal allergies, like to trees, you might have a problem with the tree components. I know I have problems with Apatrophia and Coyote and both have tree components. Hay Moon also has an allergy note in my spreadsheet, but that's a lunar, so it doesn't help eliminate lunar oils as the problem component. But I have about a dozen lunars and that is the only one that has an allergy note.

For me it was tea scents, but that was pregnancy nausea not chemo.

 

:hug:s to you and best wishes for a full recovery.

a perfect rose-- just rose, not rose perfume, but real roses, growing somewhere in the sun