Ina Garten Davita

Beth continues to evolve as an artist. This collection is unique, and beautiful, complex, and stunning.

I've never been a "church" person, but I do love the smell of an old church, especially ones that have candles and incense burning. We have another glorious church scent here. Slightly smoky, but not cloying, but almost fresh, like a drafty church on a chilly day. The floral is a suggestion, so no fear here floral averse people! There is a touch of a creamy overtone that I can't quite explain.

I think this will be traveling to Paris with me to wear on the day we tour the churches and cathedrals of the city.

Beth continues to evolve as an artist. This collection is unique, and beautiful, complex, and stunning.

Another stunner! Again, nothing like this in my collection. Creamy, woodsy, resinous, perfectly blended, with just a breath of floral skimming below the surface.

Cedar can be problematic for some people, but my skin loves cedar, rendering sweet, smooth, and gleaming.

So well blended, no one note is screaming for attention. It's beautiful, I want to bathe in it.

Beth continues to evolve as an artist. This collection is unique, and beautiful, complex, and stunning.

THIS THIS THIS!!! A scent with rose that I can adore, and wear with reckless abandon. She is so gorgeous. Smooth, creamy, feminine, this combination of red benzoin and rose is a winner. The creamy benzoin is the first thing I noticed. I didn't even realize this had rose until after a few minutes. Then she appears, but is kept well in check by the benzoin. It's like the perfect vanilla rose. I'm going to wear the hell out of this.

Reminiscent of a softer, creamier Crucible of Courage, which has long been a favorite of mine.

If you don't like rose, give this one a try, you may find yourself pleasantly surprised and loving the rose perfume life!

Beth continues to evolve as an artist. This collection is unique, and beautiful, complex, and stunning.

The hay is front and center, and I adore Beth's hay note, and it's here in all its glory, like you find in Hay Moon. I also find the light pine and lemon prickling beneath the hay. The huntress aspect of this scent is prominent, witch, secondary, and virgin, hmmm, not finding it. Definitely not a feminine fragrance.

Vetiver and leather, two problematic notes for me, but they aren't too prominent here. I like this but I'm not as enamored with it as some of the others in the collection. I'd like to smell this on a man. I also think it will get better with age. Needs cellaring.

Beth continues to evolve as an artist. This collection is unique, and beautiful, complex, and stunning.

Purple and green, with a hint of smoke. This starts of a tiny bit sharp, and a little soapy from the green, and like the pomegranate itself, it's sharp when you first bite down on the juicy arils, but then the purple sweetness coats your tongue. The drydown on this one is definitely evokes the violet, purple, and crimson.

I'm not sure I love this one on my skin, but I may have to let it age out a bit to to see if it smooths out a bit.

Beth continues to evolve as an artist. This collection is unique, and beautiful, complex, and stunning.

Oh, she is STUNNING! I adore night blooming jasmine, it's a note I crave but find it lacking in my collection. The evokes a moonlit lover, sexy, deep, but light and bright at the same time. A little spicy, the clove is kept in check by the florals, which is great because clove, while I like it, can be a bit of a bully in some blends. This may be one of my favorite applications of clove I've ever experienced in a BPAL blend.

This blend is so smooth, nothing heady, sharp, soapy, or prickly in this moonlit bouquet of gorgeousness. I can see myself reaching for this time and again.

Beth continues to evolve as an artist. This collection is unique, and beautiful, complex, and stunning.

 

This is the first scent I tried when I got my box yesterday. Absolutely gorgeous, feminine, and ethereal but not in that ghostly way. The carnation and cardamom is a magical combination, sweet, creamy, with just the suggestion of spice.

 

Honey and milk can be problematic for me, but here, they are barely a breath, grounding the scent. I love that I have nothing like it in my collection. Simply gorgeous!

Beth continues to evolve as an artist. This collection is unique, and beautiful, complex, and stunning.

Two problematic notes for my chemistry, honey, and cinnamon, and my skin is not having it. Myrrh is typically great for me, but unfortunately she's nowhere to be found. Honey and spice lovers are going to have so much fun with this one.

 

 

I have all the Lace scents and the only one that isn't an instant favorite is Solstice Lace because of the apple, but I took a gamble. Just like I took a gamble on Krampus Lace despite honey and red leather being listed. But this time the gamble paid off BIG!

 

This scent hits so many high points, it's creamy, sexy, cozy, sweet, a touch foodie without being cloying, spiced without being spicy. It's really perfect for the season. The honey and leather read as beeswax candles burning, the note is really evocative of a church I visited in Florence, San Miniato al Monte.

 

It's just wonderful, I love it!

 

 

No freebie should ever be expected.

 

My advice is order to get the special imps and then use them to swap for imps of scents you really want to try. They will make popular swap fodder, I'm sure.

Sweet and sexy.

 

Definitely masculine leaning, and I know this because that type of scent tends to go super sweet and cozy on my skin. The hay note is beautiful, it's a hidden gem of mine that is vastly underrepresented. if you like Hay Moon, you'll love this.

 

The tobacco is a note I collect, and it's gorgeous as ever here.

 

The patch is sweet and creamy and vanillic, not earthy or gnarly. If you're looking for the gnarly hippie feet patchouli, you may need to look elsewhere.

 

I amp sweet, and this combination is reading as gorgeous non-foody vanilla hay tobacco. It reminds me a lot of the Lace family, like the lost Lace brother.

 

It will age like a dream, I love it!

 

I want to put this on my husband's neck and just nuzzle.

I just greedily tore into my box from the Lab. Closet Raid has arrived! I've been wanting a BPAL version of Chanel No. 5 since I first became a devotee in 2004. But of course, Elizabeth delivered an homage to the classic scent so great that Coco herself might claw her way out of the grave and snatch Beth bald.

 

That undercurrent of Snake Oil and a breath of lilac and lavender takes this scent to a whole new level.

 

I bought this unsniffed because I just love anise. But don't fear the anise, it's a sweet backbone to all the delicious sexiness happening. I sprayed this on my hair and used it as a body spray.

 

It's a cool floral that's warmed up by the anise. The musk is so sexy, I just love all of Beth's musks that are labeled as iridescent. This scent would fit perfectly if had been released as an Asian themed Luper, it has that vibe. Sexy Dragon flying over Kyoto on Valentine's Day, perhaps.

 

It's well blended, and has a subtle waft. I'll be making people sniff me later to see what they thing. But at the moment, I'm in love.

I couldn't find notes on this. I'll have to ask Lilith who Kwamie is when I see her a dinner this evening.

 

This is the softest and most fleeting of the three Lilith creations. It's so soft and so light and really quiet. It reminds me of a soft stuffed toy lamb, not a new one, but a raggedy well loved one that smells of lots of bedtime baths and bedtime stories.

 

I have zero maternal anything about me, I'm allergic to human babies, but this made me say, "Awwwwww!"

I managed to grab all three of the Lilith's Dragon Con exclusives at the booth yesterday and meet the little lady herself.

 

I can't seem to find any notes or information on this scent.

 

I'm terrible at reviews without knowing the notes because my nose likes to play tricks,

 

Soft, pretty, slightly floral, sweet, with the barest breath of lavender that leaves so quickly it made me wonder if it was imagination.

 

Definitely the strongest of the three scents and it's morphing quite a bit. I'm not sure if I love this on me.

Lilith certainly inherited her mom's talent for blending. Her scents aren't as complex, obvi, but they are lovely. And as exuberant and fleeting as childhood itself.

 

This is all fun and candy and a day at the fair with dragons! Dragon's blood can be an iffy note on me, but it's perfect here with the candy sweet strawberry, which is one of my favorite notes.

 

You'd think the strawberry candy would be the top note and fade out quickly, but it's the resin that seems to recede to the background after saying HELLO! The strawberry candy lingers long after the dragon falls asleep, like the stickiness on a child's cheeks and fingers after a day at the fun fair.

 

Love it!

I can't believe it's a Weenie and not a Yule! It smells so much like my beloved Bloc Na Nolaig (sp) atmos.

 

It's surprisingly wearable on my skin and took on a soft, sweet floral quality as it wore for a few hours. I'm so excited about this!

Rich, sweet, lush night blooming floral tempered by a touch of musk. I get the sweetness of the currant as an impression but this isn't a fruity floral to my nose. The clove is so well blended I can't seem to find it.

 

As invidiana said, it makes me want to read The Witching Hour again.

This is the scent of being down wind of ethereal fairy wings! It's so delicate and perfect.

 

The vanilla musk is predominant through the length of the wear. The freesia and tea are fleeting as lovey top notes.

 

It's a clean, glittering scent. And I love it!

Just when I thought I didn't need yet another tobacco scent, Mrs. Bunce strolls into my life. She is a STUNNER!

 

My favorite sort of tobacco~ rich, chewy, almost creamy and sweet. I love the sweet musk and amber in the background. It gets sweeter and more golden the longer it wears, which much be the blonde woods and hay sugar peeking out.

 

This has good throw and good wear. Sexy as hell, I just love it.

The first Dragon*Con Peach that has me smitten!

My skin does bad things to peach notes. Bad, musty things. But this is a revelation. It's sweet and candied, sparkling and lovely.

The lemon top note is candied yet tart, fades quickly and leaves this candied, pinky-peach jelly candy fragrance. I can't wait to enjoy more of this beauty!

It reminds me of a perfect BPAL version of those Fresh Sugar/ Aquolina type scents. Only better, of course. (Bether!)

Major points to Izile for keeping the spreadsheet up to date!

Prototype tested at DSWC 3/25/16

 

I couldn't smell it in the bottle, literally nothing. A swathed on a healthy amount, still nothing, I tend to have a blind spot for marshmallow and cotton candy scents. It wasn't until an hour later that I started detect the barest hint of something sweet. And then the magic started to happen, over the next few hours this warm, sweet, RICH, marshmallow scent ramped up, and the crystalline sugar crust even appeared. I fell asleep huffing this perfect Easter sweetie. It's 12 hours later and this Chick is still wafting, but the scent has morphed. It smells just like the taste of that crispy candy on a Cadbury mini-egg!!! Dying.

 

We need to start a campaign to get this into a bath oil. I want to smell like this FOREVER.

I could have sworn we had a topic about imp and bottle cap issues but my searches have yielded niente. Editing the title, moving to FAQ.

I bought this at Will Call last year when the scent was just released. It was all ripe, juicy dark fruits with sweet hints of amber. I cellared it to see if the amber would deepen over time. It did! This yellow and purple beauty aged perfectly, like a fine wine. The amber is deep, rich, glowing. There is the barest hint of gleaming metal wet, and as it starts to dry but that goes leaving a seductive, slightly sweet, ripe and dark scent. Just wonderful!