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Alright BPAL junkies, I love daffodils. Looooooove them. Deep underneath the tacky-goth exterior within my dark little heart a special place beats just for those goofy lookin' yellow flowers.

 

And now that spring is fading fast into Summer, I'm wondering if there is a magical BPAL scent that can help me hold on to them all year long.

 

I really like the way they smell - it's a faint smell, a pale yellow-green smell, that I associate with those perfect sunny mornings when everything is too warm to have any hint of winter left, yet cool and breezy and fresh before the summer settles in all dusty and hot.

 

I've done some searching for daffodils on the BPAL site under all of the common names, as well as all the flowers in the same family - Narcissus, Jonquil, Paperwhite, and Buttercups. This is the list I have of BPAL scents that use Narcissus-related flowers as a note:

 

Does anyone know in which of these the narcissus/daffodil notes are most noticeable?

 

Or are there other scents out there that remind people of these flowers?

 

Any reply would be greatly appreciated.

For me, Eos is the one where the daffodil/narcissus scent is the most apparent (bear in mind that I haven't tried Poisson d'Avril, the Salon scents, or Pride). Baneberry smelled of nothing but waxy berries, Hunger of orange blossoms, Kitsune-Tsuki of tea, House of Night smelled like a florist's cooler, etc.

Eos was pure daffodils; just beautful.

This smells like my house right after we put up the Yule tree.

Much as I love that smell, this may be a little much for a personal fragrance. Think I'll use the imp for scenting the room, not my body.

On first application, this smells like strong coffee brewing. Where Miskatonic is a sweet latte in a bookstore, this blend is a waft of coffee from your own kitchen. Dry, the tobacco sweetens it, and makes it softer, more complex. There's a bare hint of cinnamon when I put my nose to my wrist, the but the throw is all black coffee.

It smells divine.

In the imp, this was sharp and clean, a really pleasant scent.

Wet on my skin, it was a fresh, clean springtime scent - almost like an after-rain smell.

Dry: Soap. ::sigh::

When I opened the bottle, it smelled like a dead ringer for S.kadi, one of my favorite scents. It went on my wrist all sweet pine, and then bloomed up underneath with multiple evergreen scents, all hitting different notes, and underneath it all was a blanket of snow. It truly smelled like an evergreen forest in winter. In my head, though, it's not called 'Wolf Moon' at all - it's called 'Green Man', because this, to me, is what the Lord of the Forest smells of. It's very comforting, as it reminds me of where I grew up. Definite keeper. In fact, I think I'll go put some on right now.

I was almost expecting the first sniff of this to be almonds (because so many bpal cherry scents are heavy on almonds), but in the bottle, this was sweet cherry syrup.

I slathered a bit on my arms, and wow, what a burst of juicy cherry! Fruity and delicious, but not sickly sweet. It smells...happy.

Sadly, it began to turn, morphing away from the sweet scent - how disappointing! - until I stopped sniffing my wrist. Then I could smell the sweet cherries again. The throw is all cherry goodness, while up close there's just a tartish vanilla.

In spite of my usual distaste for fruity scents, I'm quite taken with this. I'm not sure how often I'll wear it, but I think I'll keep it around for a little pick-me-up when I'm feeling low.

In the bottle, this smells just like a candy cane. Mmm, sweet peppermint! Drying, it loses some of the sweetness, and the vanilla isn't out quite yet. Hmm.

Dry, it was almost entirely a grassy, herbal smell, with only the merest dry whiff of mint. The vanilla never appeared, wet or dry.

While I love peppermint, BPAL's peppermint blends do not love me.

In the bottle, there's an undertone of vanilla, sweetened with something juicy. On my wrist, this is all grape and pomegranate, with a base of sweetened milk. Very light and frothy; less heavy than the last outing for this scent, but the base is still that milky vanilla. Definitely a keeper.

There was only the barest hint of citrus in the imp; on my skin, it went from a pale, slightly lime scent to a very generic perfume. I wasn't impressed.

On my teenager, it was crisp and feminine and very pleasant. Go figure.

Lemon-fresh, with a very masculine musk beneath it. The musk was a little too, well, musky, on me, though I loved sniffing my arm and thinking of what it would smell like on on my husband.

After a few hours, it died down to a very sweet lemon. I'm hoping that it'll smell delish on the man, since he's a chemist, and therefore needs a Mad Scientist scent.

Verdict: This smells quite like a sweeter, yet more masculine 'Embalming Fluid'.

In the imp, this smelled very...wet. Deep, still waters, with something lurking underneath. Wet, on my skin, it gave me the sense of brown water - like muddy swirls in a bottomless lake. Not terribly pleasant, but very evocative.

Dry, it was soap. ::sigh:: I just have a terrible track record with aquatics.

Misk U is my favoritest perfume, EVAH, so I was really looking forward to the soap. I unwrapped it slowly and carefully, and admired the beautiful bar. Sniffing it, it smelled a little...well...funny. Huh.

This morning, I showered with it. It's obviously very high-quality soap, sudsed well, and left my skin silky smooth. However, it didn't smell like Miskatonic University. It smelled of...well, sweet oil, with a bit of bite to it. No coffee, no dusty books. Wah!

After I toweled off, if I put my nose up to my skin, I can smell sweet dustiness (though still no coffee, wah!), but while I was washing? Nada. Weird.

::sniffs arm::Mmm, old books.

This was a little dusty in the imp, and on my skin it bloomed into strong, sweet incense. Very, very strong - a little overpowering, in fact. Hours later, it's still over-sweet. Not unpleasant at all, but very much not for me.

In the imp, this was a slightly 'off' cocoa scent. On my skin, this turned sour and funky and piercing. Yuck! Not for me.

I'm echoing everyone else in the thread, I'm sure, when I say that this smells like the best parts of Snake Oil and Velvet. Mmmm. Long-lasting, too, and with a low-to-medium throw, it's like wearing chocolate silk.

In the bottle: Whoa, this is sexy. Spicy, rich, luxurious.

Dabbed on my skin: WHOA. This is hella strong. I'm pretty sure people across town can smell me. A little dab'll do ya, yea, verily. It has a big rush of cassia and ginger, strong and a little overpowering. But happily, it starts to ease off as it dries.

Dry: The rich vanilla of the Snake Oil comes out, with a veil of cinnamon over it. Smells very like Morocco, actually. Yum! This is delicious, and I can only imagine how beautiful it'll smell when it ages up a bit.

In the bottle, the cedar is very strong. On my skin, it's all about the lavender and some sort of sweet smokiness, with almost a bit of citrus. This is a very old-fashioned perfume, very feminine and delicate (ergo, not for me). As it dries, the citrus moves forward, but it's pleasant and sweet, not bitter or overpowering. It has medium throw, and the throw is all lavender - the citrus only becomes apparent up close. It smells to me as though it would be the perfect scent for a weeping lover, lying in her dressing gown, head bowed over her faithless lover's thoughtless note of farewell.

(After discovering that awapuhi is white ginger, I realize that's probably what I'm smelling as citrus.)

In the imp, it smelled sharp but pleasant, but on my skin? ::shudder::

It turned at once to the most bitter, vile potion, rising like a poisonous stink from my skin. I couldn't bear to let it dry, and ran at once to scrub the hideous stench from my flesh.

I didn't like it. It didn't like me.

This smells, wet to dry, like a commercial men's cologne. Must be vetiver.

In the imp, and wet, it was a delicate sweet mint, with just a hint of vanilla. It reminded me a little of 'Snowblind'. As it dried, the vanilla disappeared, and it took on a more aquatic feel, cold and watery, with the very faintest breath of sweet flowers. Very like Snow White, yes, only without the coconut note.

In the imp: This smells so very familiar. ::sniff:: The most commercial-smelling BPAL I've ever sniffed.

Wet, the tea leaf flares for just a moment, and then the cardamom overtakes it, with a hint of cinnamon beneath it.

Dry: Oh. Oh, my. I recognize this. It smell exactly like one of the perfumes I used to wear in college. Either "Opium" or "Poison" (the former, I think), without the harshness of the perfumer's alcohol. Wow, that takes me back.

I smell like a dried stick of cinnamon - not that this is necessarily a bad thing, you understand. I'm just trying to get past the personal references to decide whether I actually like it or not.

In the imp, this was smoky and dark, but not sharp or unpleasant. On my skin, though, it was all PATCHOULIPATCHOULIPATCHOULIOHGODGETITOFFME.

I scrubbed three times, and I can still smell it, and it's killing my sinuses. Ugh. Not for me.

In the imp, this smelled just exactly like a Jolly Rancher. Seriously. On my skin, it swiftly turned to a sweetsweet vanilla with only the faintest hint of fruit. Huh. Go figure.

In the imp, this was very commercial-smelling. On my skin, it was a gentle blend of lavender and rose. Very feminine and light - it had very little throw, and was quite pretty. Unfortunately, it turned a little soapy at the end.

Wow. This is such a complex fragrance; I don't know where to begin. Every time I sniffed my wrist, it had changed, moving from apples to brilliant sunflower to some smoky fruit to sweet autumn flowers. It's beautiful and brilliant and dammit, why didn't I order a bottle of this when I had the chance?