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hrm. i'm still indifferent to this one right now. smelling it from the bottle - nice, no grapefruit, but soft and lovely. immediately upon hitting my skin i get a typhoon of wet juicy grapefruit and i LOVE it. my mouth literally starts watering! shortly thereafter, the fruitiness disappears and the smell dries out a bit. the ginger isn't real out there. it's just soft and dry. subtle fruit, subtle woodsy, subtle ginger. not even an hour later and i'm struggling to smell anything at all outside of this barely there dryness. ho hum. [edit] oh me oh my. the staying power has increased a bit. at work i kept noticing ... something. unsure what notes it is b/c it is all so balanced, but it's there. very faint, but there. hrmmm..... more fitting for summer, yes, so i'll just obsess on this one a while since i've got 5ml to go through. which should last me a good while.

my first new sniff in well over half a year. (what can i say, i took a break. heh!) first whiff... LOVE. oh wow. i'm absolutely AWFUL with picking notes. and i'm highly influenced by reading other reviews. i tend to associate smells with memories or ideas. my first thought was "wow this is indeed golden." soft light. i don't know why, but the vision of photographs of the house i was born into came into my mind. i've no recollection of the place, but all the photos have soft golden light in them. it reminds me of that. after reading some reviews, i can definately pick out the vanilla and some sort of woodsy scent. how it works together, i've no idea but it does blend so beautifully. i guess it is the amber? i've little history with amber so i'm only taking a stab at it. it is soft while being really strong. of the other imps i've tried and applied the same, this one has a lot more oomph to it comparitively. as for throw... no idea. i'll have to ask the boy in a bit. heh. this one is a keeper. and i'm sad (well, my bank account is) to say that it will definately be going on my wishlist as a 5ml in the future!!

current pending orders/items: 2006-07-10: (from the lab) • 5ml harvest moon 2006 • 5ml bewitched • imp pack of: akuma, blood, kabuki, madrid, swank + obatala (for the mum) 2006-07-22: (from astrid) • 5ml hungry ghost moon i am a wee bit nervous about the lust i'm feeling for oils right now. i cannot justify getting more when i have two body shop oils i never use in my medicine cabinet. i feel the need to be rid of them since i don't use them but who and how? i'm petrified of swapping and suches b/c, well ... my mind thinks, "who the heck would want those? this is bpal we're talking here!" plus i've got like two bottles of samhain 2005. true - i LOVE the scent. it's something much like i've always dreamed of, but my god! i just NOW got a tiny fraction below the label on the first bottle! the second will probably rot to the smell of death before i finish the first. should i sell the second? why keep it? and all the 8 or so imps i have. there's some i don't like to much. why keep them? b/c they're not nearly full enough to draw interest? i'm so damn ridiculous! why must i be so practical? why can i not just give in and allow myself pleasure in one of the few things in life i draw it from? i also cannot justify the price of the oils right now as i've got the monster electricity bill coming up (w/ deposit) plus my auto insurance. basically half a month's pay sucked out of the account right there! oh but i want more. more more more. at least two chaos theory bottles b/c i'm feeling risky (at least today) and all this talk of a big update. then again ... i've sat through big updates before and thought "eh. nothing sounds good." i'm hard to entice. sometimes. why why why? on a retarded note ... i'm going to start putting all the oils in splashshopper on the pda so i can track what i like, what i want and what i have on order while i'm away from my computer. lame! and on a random note ... i need some final fantasy gaming fantasy to escape into for the day. too bad i no longer have such access to things.

his reaction to a lot of bath products - "it's okay." i don't think he's much of a scent kind of guy... whereas i'm very much into smells. thus i just tend to ignore his opinion (unless it gives him a headache which is sometimes the case) and purchase whatever i like. i keep hoping that one day i'll run across something that will interest him though. mostly i think i'm just a little jealous as i've never had one "oh hey you smell nice" reaction from anyone.

unfortunately. while i haven't tried a lot of bpal, my boy doesn't really have a single reaction to any of the oils other than "oh". i let him smell most and his reaction with the exception of march hare was "it stinks".

dusty fruit. I can definitely smell the sandlewood in this. Amazingly it doesn't bother me as much as I would have thought since I am not a fan of sandlewood. More than likely this is because of the mandarin orange and mango butting in and sweetening things for me. It is a somewhat neutral scent. Not too musky and not too fruity. I'm not getting any sharpness from it. In fact, I find it rather calming and perhaps even somewhat feminine without being girly-girl. I don't think i would buy a bottle, but I could see myself getting another imp in the future when I run out of ideas on what to order.

On application, this is flowery. No citrus at all. I can't place the floral scent but it is very green and purple to me. I keep reading mention of violet and that could very well be what it is. I am NOT a floral girl. The scent changes very little over time on me. I will also agree with the mention of hotel soap. Thus to me it makes me think of a cheap scent.

ugh. this is the first one i really, really dislike. could be b/c i hate mint? boozy smells are iffy to my nose too so coupled together and i just want to run to the shower. otherwise it is a very sticky smell to me. not blended horribly b/c i don't immediately think of those red and white peppermints one gets after dinner. so that is something... i could see the scent being helpful in the summertime when it is over 100 degrees and i want to feel cooler without running to the shower every 10 minutes, but otherwise... i wouldn't wear it.

in the bottle and immediately on skin it is all apricot. big, wet, juicy, fruity and delicious. no hint of clove until maybe a couple minutes when it starts to peak out. the apricot and clove blend perfectly later on, every now and again coming to the front only to settle back down again in a perfect balance. i do agree... this is definately a good match for summer. i do so like this one. it satisfies the fruity scent i wanted. can't wait to see what others i find! edit - aha! i just figured it out. when i first put it on it is ALMOST the same scent as a peach jelly belly jelly bean. only with a tiny small hint of spice that grows.

much lighter than i imagined. i can't quite pick out anything in terms of peach. incensy? yes... a bit. reminds me a touch of what red devil wanted to start out as at first. as it dries the cinnamon does start to come out. smells too much like potpourri. no wickedness. no darkness. not me. it reminds me of something in particular but i cannot quite place it. while i don't HATE it, i'm a bit disappointed.

received as a freebie. never even noticed it on the site before. omg! on first smell it reminds me of the gonesh incense i burned as a teenager. i loved that stuff! while it doesn't last all day like samhain does on me, it definately is still there for a good while. it tends to die down and mellow out on me after an hour which is too bad b/c i'm mad about the fresh resiny/woodsy scent i get straight from the bottle. i'm quite happy with this one! i think i'll be ordering some in the future. though it isn't high priority.

got this as a freebie. never even noticed it on the site prior to receiving it. i don't know what the notes are in this but i find it incredibly bland and boring after about 30 minutes. it honestly doesn't smell floral or resiny or spicy or anything. just a scent with no definition. it is completely gone in about an hour or two. i'll definately be swapping this.

finally my turn to review this! i have been lusting after this scent since 2003 and never caved in as i was very hesitant about purchasing scents online having never smelled them before. it seemed really iffy and weird. well, after reading so many reviews about samhain being THE autumn scent and all the hooplah around it... and bpal gaining more of a following, i caved in. i'm not regretting it one bit!! i must admit, when i first opened the bottle i was thinking i might have made a mistake. i could definately relate to those who said it smelled medicinal. it didn't smell JUST like pine-sol to me, but it did seem artificial like a cleaning product. it also was very cooling to my nose.the first time i applied it the scent didn't change all that much. lots of fir though the cleaning product side of it toned down and it smelled more natural. now when i open it i just smell fir. pure fir. it's not quite like going to pick out an xmas tree or anything, but in the same neighborhood for me. i smell nothing but fir. once applied, it's toned down a bit. perhaps that's the patchouli, i don't know. me and patchouli don't have much of a history together so ... i don't really recognize the scent. after maybe 3 hours everything comes to a perfect balance. i can never quite pick out the pumpkin, but i do smell some spiced apple smell mixed with fir. and staying power? yeeeeeeah. yesterday i applied it at 6am and by 10pm i could still clearly smell it when i put my wrist to my nose. i wouldn't say this how i imagine autumn smelling. not by a long shot, but it is still gorgeous and i will definately be picking up another bottle before it is discontinued again. i don't even want to be without this scent again.