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This is gorgeous! It reminds me so much of Black Lace. It's like a sweeter, woodsy, Black Lace. I'm glad I bought two bottles. This is totally a favorite!

I get all the sexy, musky, smokiness of Snake Charmer. It's really beautiful. This is the first single note that I actually "get". Beth's blends are so amazing, I found many single notes to be lacking. Not Siberian Musk! It's gorgeous and would be my new "go to" scent if it was GC.

My skin must be broken. It starts off smelly sickening sweet and just like Silver Haired Bat. It has now morphed into Antikythera Mechanism. I was hoping to smell the amber and myrrh, but I don't detect either.

I thought I would love this. Not so. I smell pure baby. That powdery soapiness of baby things. That's it.

OMG! I got my Marianne yesterday and tried it. I think it's like liquid crack cuz I can't get enough of it! I don't do crack or drugs in general for that matter but I just think it was a good analogy cuz they say crack is highly addictive.I think it might be the red musk, idk.So, I'm looking for other oils that smell similar, or other oils with red musk in it seeing my bottle of Marianne is just under half full and my skin just sucks up oil like crazy.Thanks in advance posters!

I'm a red musk junkie! I adore that stuff! Some of my favorite blends with red musk are Hygeia, Luna Negra, and MME Moriarty, Red Lace, and L'essence de Passion. Hygeia and Red Lace are particularly perfect.

This is beautiful. It's just what I wanted Perversion to be. The tobacco note is prominent with the honey sweetening it beautifully. The leather is subtle and sexy with the myrrh adding a slight smokiness. It's very well blended and difficult to pick out the individual notes (but I've been huffing and seriously trying!) It's really gorgeous and sexy but not in-your-face. This will age beautifully too, I think. Definitely back-up bottle worthy. (Possibly two back up bottles!)

Wet, it smells like dark, evil skittles mixed with Smut.

Dry, it's a beautiful blend that smells like MME Moriarty and Smut doing naughty things with berries. It's dark and rich but the berry lightens it a bit and makes it more versatile. I generally am not a fan of berry scents since they go all starburst candy on my, but this berry is just enough to lighten and lightly sweeten and otherwise dark, musky blend. It's gorgeous.

If you are a musk fan and enjoy MME Moriarty, Smut, Red Lace, I think you will really enjoy this.

ETA: My husband hugged me and took a big whiff of my neck and said "Wow, you smell great" and proceeded to continue sniffing me! Normally he tells me I smell like a "dirty hippie" but he really loved Luna Negra!

I don't know. I'm not getting Kitty. Wet, she was very candy like. Now on drydown, the sweetness is nearly gone. I get orchid, vanilla, and sandalwood, and that's it. The strawberry was very present while wet and now is gone. It's a pretty scent, but no where near the showstopper I was expecting. I think I will probably swap it for Veronica.

I don't know where it went wrong, but this smelled like dirty socks on me. It was sour and sickly smelling and was actually making me queasy. Sad, it sounded so beautiful. Alas, my skin hates it.

I cannot really pick out any individual notes. It's so beautifully blended and works so well with my skin chemistry that it is just the most perfect slightly sweet, slightly floraly, incencesy perfume. This is my all time, absolute favorite scent. It's more sweet and slightly fruity at first, but on the drydown the incense come out more and it's really beautiful.

I always put my oils on fresh from the shower clean skin. I use a wand and apply on my wrists, elbow creases, behind ears, and sometimes a dot just below where my necklace hits. I also only use wand caps in scents that I am totally sure about keeping. I wouldn't want to "dirty" something I was going to swap to someone. My non-wandcap scents I turn the bottle upside down then back and the drops in the cap I hit over my wrists. (If that makes sense)

At first application, it is overwhelming cedar and what I believe is balsam fir. It's so strong it makes my eyes water. After about 30 minutes, it cools down to a really pretty scent, but I can't really make any notes out. Then BAM it's totally gone without a trace. Strange.

I live in Florida where it is 98474524996 degrees out and it is fresh, so I'm going to give it a week or so to relax before I try it again.

Lambswool 2010 was the first BPAl scent that has truly disappointed me. While wet it smelled like fake apple air freshener or potpourri. As it dried it just smelled like spicy fake apple potpourri. No depth whatsoever. I waited for a bit of the sweetness or the milkyness to come through, but nothing. This was very sad, I wanted to love it.

Bliss is the perfect name for this oil. While wet, it is a decadent, creamy, pure chocolate scent. As it dries, it gets richer somehow. Perhaps almost nutty. I put it on 14 hours ago and I can still get little lingering whiffs of awesome! Love this scent! It totally changed my opinion of chocolate scents.

For those speaking about hops and gluten: It's a contamination issue from how they are processed. By my research/experience they are nearly always processed in plants that also process wheat and wheat products.

 

As someone with Celiac's disease, it's better for me to assume they are contaminated that to risk how sick I could get.

 

Oats don't technically have gluten in them either, and those are almost totally off limits. Contamination is major to people with my disease.

 

Seriously. I only got my Celiac diagnosis a little over a month ago, so I'm barely on my way to healed, but the reactions I had from my one run-in with gluten (trace amounts in cheese, of all things. And not moldy cheese.) have driven my paranoia up to absurd levels. I haven't even eaten out since then, at any of the places locally who are gluten-aware and responsive. Cross-contamination is scarier than most people realize.

 

And yes, there's always an excuse for another order! I broke out my bottle of the original Mabon in celebration!

After about 6-8 weeks when your body is clear of the gluten, you may notice hypersensitivity to it. Before my diagnosis, when I was still consuming it, it was destroying my intestines, but my skin didn't react much to it. After elimination, I developed hypersensitivity where if I were to say rub a piece of bread on my arm, I will break out in blistering hives. I wanted to give you a heads up that it's totally normal. Once your body is rid of what it considers to be a toxin, your reaction to it increases exponentially. Be wary of things like shampoo and soap. Many have wheat germ oil in them and may cause you an awful reaction. [No one warned me and I freaked, so I figured I could pass on some info!] If you need any help or suggestions or just need to vent the frustrations of making the change, feel free to PM me!

That actually explains why I was asking about the hops. I've become so sensitive that the contamination has caused my blistering hives episodes and I wanted to be sure.

Thanks for the heads up on the inner elbows! I never would have thought of that!

For those speaking about hops and gluten: It's a contamination issue from how they are processed. By my research/experience they are nearly always processed in plants that also process wheat and wheat products.

As someone with Celiac's disease, it's better for me to assume they are contaminated that to risk how sick I could get.

Oats don't technically have gluten in them either, and those are almost totally off limits. Contamination is major to people with my disease.

Anyone know if actual hops are used to make the oils for Mabon 2010? I'm severely allergic to gluten and don't want to have a major reaction.

 

Wow, better ask the lab directly on that one.

 

 

I sent them an email. Still waiting on the response. I was just hoping maybe someone happened to know the answer. Thanks!

 

For what it's worth, I asked them about gluten a couple of weeks back and was told that none of their oils had gluten in them.

Damn! I wish I had read this 45 seconds sooner! I just placed an order with no Mabon!

Oh well! That's an excuse to make another order!!

Anyone know if actual hops are used to make the oils for Mabon 2010? I'm severely allergic to gluten and don't want to have a major reaction.

 

Wow, better ask the lab directly on that one.

I sent them an email. Still waiting on the response. I was just hoping maybe someone happened to know the answer. Thanks!

Anyone know if actual hops are used to make the oils for Mabon 2010? I'm severely allergic to gluten and don't want to have a major reaction.

In the imp: I smell mostly the myrrh and vanilla.

On skin: Wow. At first the cocoa was powerful (in a good way) and in a few minutes it faded a bit and the sandalwood really began to shine. It settled to this beautiful creamy sandalwoody/myrrh awesomeness. I actually was walking in a store about 20 mins ago and thought "What smells so good?" just to realize I did! This may be the first scent I buy a full size bottle of. Really beautiful.

In the imp: Smells like honey with a tiny bit of a cake type scent poking through.

On me: Honey. All I get is honey. Nauseating, super sweet, thick smelling, honey. Right now, I hate it. I'm trying to deal with it to give it time to fade, but I highly doubt I will wear this again since it's giving me a stomach ache. Sad, I really would have liked the oatmeal cookie-ishness other people mentioned.