Juliet's Silk

Oh thanks, at least I do have the notes now. Now, if I only knew what is the dominant note in there... to me, it smells like... perfume. Ick.

Too bad that it doesn't smell like roses and carnation at all... I love roses and carnation.

 

Apart from that, it does resemble Szepassony a bit, I think, with the perfumey scent and all. I think I'm going to compare the notes just now.

Ah I need your help!

Now, I own over a dozen BPALs or so that I love sooo much. Unfortunately, my boyfriend isn't so excited about them. Sure, when I ask him whether he likes a scent or not he'll say "oh it's nice"; but he never comments on his own.

 

Now, I also own a couple of perfume bottles from "before-BPAL", which I usually don't use - I do like the scents, to some extent, but this distinct chemical smell of them... hmhm. Anyway, when I was in a hurry a couple of days ago I grabbed one of those bottles and sprayed myself with it.

It's Pure (femme) by Jil Sander

The bf noticed it right away. "Wow you smell great!!!" and now whenever I wear it he'll hug me tight, sniff at my neck, doesn't want to let go.

Uhm.... yay?

The worst is... it's the one of my perfumes I like the least, it's somewhat ozoney, chemical perfumey smelling... sigh. Nothing at all like the scents I prefer (like, Snow White, Alice, you get it).

 

So... maybe you can help me find a) maybe a BPAL that is similar to it and b ) find out why my bf likes it so much. There has to be a note in it he loves, but we don't know what and I can't find a note description on the internet, so I don't know what's in it.

 

Please help that I don't have to endure the Pure smell for much longer, I get headaches from it

50€?!

Problem is that I'm not home... I KNEW customs would mess up my order this time, just when I'm not home to sort it out!

I hope my mother is able to print that PayPal Email or something and sort it out. Ack! Just when I stopped worrying about customs...

 

Just to update that - I finally received my order (WHEW) and didn't even had to pay whopping customs but "only" 11€.

For some reason this BPAL package was declared differently than all my previous orders - my previous orders were always declared as a gift while this one was declared "merchandise". I think the German customs had problems with that because the package lacked a bill inside or something, at least this is what they said.

Can anyone confirm that? I don't know if I should email the Lab about it or something because I don't want to have to go through this again with my next order...

oh no! customs give me the shiver all over

once they had my HAEE package and I had to pay about 50 euro which was more then the whole order!

 

50€?!

Problem is that I'm not home... I KNEW customs would mess up my order this time, just when I'm not home to sort it out!

I hope my mother is able to print that PayPal Email or something and sort it out. Ack! Just when I stopped worrying about customs...

My latest package from the Lab is caught in the customs. I'm supposed to bring a bill and payment confirmation and a translation of contents or something to that extent.

Eh? Anybody had that happen? Advice?

In the imp, this smells sweet and soft. I'm not able to tell the notes apart, but the first impression is really lovely.

On my skin though, the lemon (why is lemon in here!?) comes forward. Ouch! Biting, sharp - I can only guess that beneath the lemon, there is the niceness I smelled in the imp. Go away, lemon. Sadly, it stays this way and doesn't change anymore.

I bet this is delicious once the lemon is gone after proper aging.

When I read the description I thought "uh-oh... that is going to smell... interesting". I was quite surprised when I sniffed the imp - it smelled like some kind of candy or bubblegum to me. On the skin it's obviously an aquatic, ozoney and salty and yet... sweet. Now that I've read the other reviews I can detect a hint of bitter grapefruit, but without knowing it, I wouldn't have guessed it.

My skin usually makes scents disappear quite fast, but this one has a good amount of throw on me.

It's nothing I would wear, but really interesting nonetheless. It reminds me of Szepasszony.

In the bottle I can smell lavender and something sweet, citrussy, but I can't really discern different notes.
Wet on the skin I get something quite sharp, citrussy, I think this is the Dorian part. I already lose hope but then, suddenly as it starts drying, the Snake Oil comes forward. And it's Snake Oil minus the patchouli. Snake Oil like I always wanted it to be. It is light, clean, fresh Snake Oil. I love it. The Dorian part fades and I get neither lavender nor fennel or anything else - only a light Snake Oil. Perfect.

I used a rather aged imp, I'm guessing it is already 2-3 years old.
In the imp and wet on skin: Muted lavender with something else to it, I'm guessing it could be the orchid.
On my skin it stays very light, I have to sniff my wrist to detect the scent, even though I slathered quite a lot.

On drydown, the rose comes through and mingles with the lavender, it now smells like a sibling of Somnus. It's now even fainter so it is hard to judge how it smells like... but it still remembers me a lot of Somnus. Musk usually smells perfumey and powderey on me, so I'm glad that I don't get any musk here. I also don't get orchid or anything else - only rose with a hint of lavender in the background.

After like 20 minutes on my skin... this has almost faded away to nothingness.

I guess I don't need to explain why I wanted to try this scent. And I wanted this scent to work!

But alas - hello sweet pea. As with Aeval, the Sweet Pea is very prominent on me, so much, that it almost smells like Aeval, only not as sweet; my skin seems to amp sweet pea.

As it dries, this reminds of a face cream I used to use. I can't remember, which... I think this is the honeysuckle coming through. The whole scent is grounded by the white musk, which is very nice. It is sweet, warm and floral. I don't get pear or lilies.

All in all, it is a very nice, pleasing scent - just... the sweet pea. I don't know what problem I have with it, I just do. I like to smell it, just... not on me.

To me, this smells like Cool Water woman. It has a fresh, ozoney quality I always associate with perfume, maybe because I was an avid worshipper of Cool Water back in the days.

Nowadays.. it gives me a headache. It DOES have an aquatic quality to it that I associate with rain, but for me, it smells too perfumey, sadly. I love the smell of rain. If I concentrate on the scent I can smell the "rain", but everything is dominated by that "perfumey" scent. Sigh.

I got an Imp of this because I have trouble falling asleep lately - more trouble than usual to be exact, because I don't have an easy time falling asleep anyway, it takes one or two hours for me.

 

Wet, it is a very nice lavender. It does not have this astringent sting I'm accustomed to from my lavender EO, which is a very pleasant surprise. There is a hint of lemon, but not very much at all (I really don't care for lemon, so I'm very happy about that).

As it dries down, the lavender starts to fade and makes room for a sweet and very soft rose, the faint lemon hint is gone completely. It smells exactly like the roses my mother grows in her garden. I'm not sure about other florals, so I'm pretty sure that my skin makes a single note rose out of Somnus. And what a pretty rose it is!

 

Unfortunately, it doesn't help me fall asleep, staying asleep or being more refreshed in the mornings at all. It is nice to have something pleasant to smell while trying to sleep, though, so I'm using up my Imp, but I won't buy a big bottle of this.

I think Yggdrasil may be close. On me it was all cedary sandalwood with some cinnammon - don't know if this may be the spices and sweetness you have in mind, but I really liked it. You should give it a try!

Yggdrasil was a piney forest on me too - it faded a bit, but was still noticable after a while, so I don't think that it matches the "pine-free forest".

I'm watching this thread too, as I like pine-free more than a coniferous forest

Thank you for the fast answer!

Off to order now

Hi,

 

sorry if it's a dumb question but - do I have to pay 8$ or 9$ for 9 imps to Germany?

I'm confused because the initial posting says 9$, a reply says 8$ but the first posting isn't changed and the homepage still says 9$.

I don't want to bother the lab, because I understood that they have much work to do anyway.

And I want to chose the right amount, because I understood that I have to order via PayPal and place the order in the PayPal comments field without getting a notification about the right charge (therefore I won't know if I did it right or not).

 

Thanks in advance

Juli