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My husband definitely looooves O on me, also Fire of Love

Did I get a bad imp? My imp of Fire of Love smells....like death breath. (sorry)

and if it is actually supposed to smell like that, does the scent change after a while? I've been wanting to try its voodoo properties but I'm scared it will have bad effects.

I was all set to review this when I got my decant , BUT when I put it on I was so confused... I didn't know what to think of it. I didn't know whether I liked it or not. I knew I didn't hate it. it was just SO DIFFERENT of a scent.

It's sharp, but in a dull earthy way. it smells like FRESH sweet earth. and it is so sweet. I can't put my finger on the sweetness. it reminds me of the sweetness in Hell's Belle.

but yeah now that I have tested it around three times, I've decided I love it. too bad its an LE and I only have a decant.

this is really amazing. It's a delicious spiced pumpkin with an end note of peach.

then as it dries it turns into a strange sweet apple.

I love this. I never thought of putting pumpkin with peach and apple.

I'm so disappointed because in the vial I can smell just the kind of lemon scent that I don't like. I am so particular about my lemon. I like very light sweet fresh and clean lemon smells. not the tart bottled lemon juice from concentrate smell. I'll try it anyway.

wet on skin: lemon. the same lemon. but hmmm. there are a few added smells a few seconds after applying. I can smell a very dry rose, a sweet mint.

dry: whoa. it made a vanishing act. I can just smell a hint of lemon/rose and that's it. weird.

verdict: nah.. too much lemon.

in vial:very rich and decadent. I can smell gardenia vanilla and amber. I remember the first time I sniffed this I thought it smelled ancient.

wet on skin: mmm very smoky. it almost has that pipe tobacco scent that Hellfire has. but there is this luscious banana smell. I'm thinking that is the gardenia. it is so so so sweet. so incredibly sweet. but for some reason it doesn't bother me like gardenia usually does when it is so overpowering. it is the smoky undertones and tobacco-ey smell that makes it enjoyable for me to smell.

oh this is so sinful and rich and decadent. it smells so good I'm tempted to bite my wrist (but I won't lol).

I am so keeping this one. the imp will last me since the scent is so powerful!

in the vial all i smell is lavender.

wet on skin: oh my. this is the most beautiful lavender blend I have ever smelled. It is prominently lavender on me but enhanced with other...things...making it cool and sweet. after a few seconds I can smell the chalky violet. It is hard to detect underneath the plethora of lavender. but yes, I can definitely smell the violet. but that is it. just lavender and violet. (not the biggest fan of violet, ever since I had violet candy as a kid, the kind with anise seed in each one. Violet reminds me of being sick from violet candy on a car ride home.

as it dries: nice blend of violet and lavender. I think I can detect a hint of gardenia now? (how does Beth do it? how can she make a scent invisible but then appear whenever she wants??) yes I can smell gardenia and violets now, with just a hint of the menthol-ey-ness of lavender. I never thought of combining gardenia and violet. It is so interesting! the gardenia takes away the chalkiness of violet that I dislike and sweetens it. I can't smell any lilac though. maybe I just forgot what it smells like.

this scent isn't for me because of the violets, but I may keep the imp just because I like the initial sweet lavender smell.

I'm excited to try this after hearing so many raves about it.

I can smell the amber right in the bottle

wet on skin: I can't smell anything! it is so faint.. what I smelled in the bottle. but so very faint I can't smell anything. hmm. weird.

oh, oh. it is a very deeep scent. for some reason I can only smell it with my left nostril and not my right. which is weird.

dry: it is so very sexy. I feel so sexy for some reason. the scent is so deep that I can only smell the undertones. there are no top notes to this at all. I put a lot on too! it's like a work out for my nose trying to smell it. I can smell the amber, and definitely the BPAL version on dragon's blood. but its so deep, its like my nose is digging into the scent trying to find it! I'll be keeping this one, it's lovely.

I am a huge dragon's blood fan. I burn the resin alot, and I have an oil by Azuregreen that has been my signature for a while. But I'm excited to try BPAL'S version!

in vial: hmm. very light, I'm only getting a rose-ish smell

wet on skin: um... ick. I'm getting a cherry cough medicine smell. I hope it smells better on dry-down.

dry on skin: It's alright. it reminds me some of my beloved Hell's Belle and Hades, but that cherry cough medicine smell isn't really going away. Also I can not detect any sort of resin in it! It is way too floral for some reason. hmm. oh well. I guess I'll just stick with my azuregreen DB. It was fun trying a different version though!

I got this as a frimp from someone very nice. I tried it on and tested it without ever looking at the description, and all I could smell was jasmine...

so I'm trying it again.

in the vial: I can smell something very sweet and sort of translucent. the honey perhaps. and then at the end I get the sharp smell of apple blossom.

wet on skin: ahhh okay. I was mistaking the sharpness of apple blossom for jasmine. the sweetness almost goes away instantly and it is just sharp overpowering apple blossom. I can smell a mix of ylang ylang and a little rose behind the apple blossom. arg! its so strong on me.

now it is turning INTENSELY sweet. like numbingly sharp as a knife sweet. how that is possible I don't know. but it hurts my nose like sniffing too much intense pine or eucalyptus would. ack.

the apple blossom and rose and honey combo really got me excited. I guess its off to the swap pile for this one

oh my god. I am in love.

This is a beautiful rose. it is not my ideal (ideal= a very fresh and light rosewater and glycerin kind of rose) but I will DEFINITELY wear this one!

It is not overly spicy and dry and powdery like those old lady perfumes. this is young and fresh and alive... I can almost see a fresh pink rose dripping with dew water.

I love this so much. Thank you Beth for creating such a beautiful rose.

in vial: smells juicy. strawberries and definitely cotton candy. mmmmm.

I can also detect a hint of floral.

wet on skin: very very sugary, very pink. I can't smell the strawberry as much as the pink-sugar! there is a bit of an almost...caustic smell to the candy though...I can't really explain it. It is a very dry candy smell, very chalky almost. like the way those pink canadian mints are, except cotton candy flavored.

dry: this reminds me of Maenad. It has that sweet strawberry with a hint of sharp green to it, but Pink Moon has cotton candy, pink sugar added to it. a combination of Maenad and Calvin Klein's Eternity (which I am not really fond of, but nevertheless I like this).

I couldn't really smell any florals except slightly in the vial and very slightly when it was wet on my skin.

I do rather like this, but I doubt I would be able to get a 5ml of this as it is discontinued. If I do find it somewhere I'd get it!

this is way lemon-ey on me. way way too much lemon, not unpleasant but annoying. Like a lemon cough drop smell. but it is rather sweet. unless it is a skittles kind of candy lemon smell, or a perfect lemonade lemon, lemon and I don't get along so well. I wish I could have liked it, though.

*is so excited to finally have this scent!!*

in vial: extremely light in the bottle. I can faintly smell eucalyptus perhaps? and something very sweet, like watermelon candy. (Yes I know that's the 2nd or 3rd time I've reviewed something and said 'watermelon candy' lol. I swear Beth could make a scent called 'Man Musk' and it could be likely I'd smell watermelon candy I'm silly)

wet on skin: this scent is so perfectly ethereal! It still has this candy sweet scent but I can't detect what kind of fruit smell it is. Lime maybe? Lime skittles! exactly! wow!

this is DEFINITLY an OMFG BPAL!! for me!! I love it so much. I imagine the unicorns from the movie Legend more than the Alice in Wonderland unicorn. in fact this scent reminds me of the whole movie!! OMG.

this is going to be bought in a 10ml, 20 ml....GALLON. I LOVE IT.

I wish I could use this, but I have a mac.

in vial: very sweet, almost candy like gardenia (makes me think of watermelon candy)

wet on skin: It is a BIT less candy-like and I can smell the floral gardenia. I can definitley tell it is an aquatic. However the gardenia is a bit too much, when gardenia has a 'too sweet its almost sour' endnote, I usually don't like it. I like lighter gardenias.

dry on skin: I can definitely sense a sort of sadness, loss, maybe even grief? Gardenia tends to do that alot to me though, with those emotions. There is this slightly bitter note that I can not figure out, it clings to the end of the gardenia. It makes it almost sharp and cold.

Another one of those notes that remind me of something, but its always a vague something and I can never figure out where I've smelled it before. It reminds me of menthol maybe? very slightly. It makes the gardenias smell sharper.

few minutes later: it makes me think of something gone sour. something rotting? the sweet smell of decaying flowers? but its not exactly unpleasant. It also reminds me of crying. I think I would want to wear this scent when I am crying or very sad.

more minutes later (now completely dry) the sour and sharp smells have gone away, and I am again left with a much lighter version of the sweet candy-like gardenia. And I like it. I don't know how often I would wear it as I'm not too mcuh of a floral person besides some roses, but I would wear it when I am sad. It seems as though it would be very comforting to wear.

I really like this blend. it is some of what I liked in Black Phoenix, the afterscent of it when it has faded a bit. Its base, undertone is similar to Black Phoenix's. except Hell's Belle is darker, murkier, spicy but not in a tart and overpowering way. I think I can smell patchouli in it, but a sweet patchouli.

I have the same exact problem as the above reviewer with recognizing flower scents. Unless they have a distinct, individual odor, I can not tell most apart from each other.

but this is so lovely. in the bottle is smells like patchouli, straight and raw. on the skin it is just lovely.

I am loving too many scents now. I must have this however in at least a 5mL :

in bottle: a deep rich dark chocolate mint...hmm. with rose of course.

wet on skin: hmm......... very sharp. I'm kind of afraid it is going to bloom into an awful terrible ROSE MONSTER. It's like the calm before the storm. Luckily, I like rose. But more young fresh sweet roses than heavy spicy old lady roses. I'm smelling all sorts of roses. a rose geranium smell, lemony-rose, sharp sharp sharp rose (who knew there was a sharp rose??) in the middle is almost a yummy spicy rose, then at the end I can smell the lemon-ey rose.

this is very dark. very sinister, but seems like it could be kind of annoying and suffocating. this stuff is so strong! it stays in your nose for a while after sniffing it. I probably should not have put so much on, but my mom is cooking sausage so I wouldn't have been able to smell it otherwise.

I don't know. there seems to be a generic dollar store synthetic rose smell that I just don't really like. I might have to give this a try later.

oh I love this! It is so lemony and fresh! like someone earlier said, "Lemon poundcake and Jasmine flowers"! I can't wait to try this out on boys!

The scent sort of has me picturing New Orleans, the French Quarter and all the voodoo shops.

It seems as though all the voodoo blends I've tried, (follow me boy, Come to Me, Fire of Love) all have this same base smell. not so much on the skin but in the bottle. And after trying Come To Me and then Fire of Love, I was a little disappointed in the voodoo blends.

I guess this reminds me a little of Come to me, except Come to me is much weaker on me. I absolutely love this scent. I might have to get a big one of it!

I'm so undecided.

wet on skin:I smell patchouli. very dark dark patchouli. there is something else added to that which may be what others describe as a 'bad breath' smell (meaning, the worst kind you can have, like death-breath lol). it does sort of smell like baby diapers. and also I hate to say it, but... poo.

but at the same time not really. because I know it is the patchouli. I can also detect the slightest hint of jasmine. but I agree it is incredibly musky, very very animal.

dry: I can understand how it smells like sex. but its pure animal sex. in a desperate, completely uninhibited 'who cares how we smell, let's get it on!' way. which excites me a bit. (actually quite a lot)

the 'death-breath' smell is almost undetectable. the patchouli is sweetened.

edited to add: PINE! I could not notice it at first as it is a high note and so very high I thought I was the smell of rubbing alcohol (as I was using it earlier to remove another tested scent). I don't know if it is exactly pine, but it definitely smells like a sharp evergreen.

final: so I don't know. to me it is really an interesting smell and I'd like to try it out on my boyfriend, just after it dries and the 'death-breath' baby diaper smell has gone. but then again, the turd smell is kind of still there. ehhhh. I like it because it excites me, but I don't like the scents very much. I don't know I might want to try something else.

this is a great scent.

in bottle: strong lemon tea. or lemonade iced tea.

wet on skin: the linden blossom is making me think lemon. I can smell the strong tea. there is almost a chilly ghastliness about it. like sharp winds, chilly but sunny winter days. it is also a dry smell.

dry: for some reason this took a long while to dry (well maybe because I had to put a lot on because I knew it would fade fast). I really like this scent, and I would probably wear it from time to time. I just wish it wouldn't fade so fast from my skin.

rating: 3.5/5

in the bottle it smells just like Sea Breeze face astringent.. very alcohol-ey

wet on skin: definitely getting a men's cologne smell, but a pleasant one. I have been a fan of most men's cologne since I was a little girl. But its also more than just the cologne smell. I can almost smell the violets at the very end of the scent. Somehow the scent makes me think of wide open spaces, the sky, the sea. just vastness.

it also reminds me of the Illuminations candle scents of Waterlilies and of Bamboo, which are my favorites from the store (I used to work there)

dry: the sharpness of the cologne smell tones down a bit, and there is a saltiness now. I can definitely smell the deep sea, underwater (if one could smell the deepest parts of the ocean, I imagine it would be similar to this). there is also something dark underlying it, I think. maybe its the seaweed. when completely dry, the lingering scent smells just like Yankee Candle's Midsummer's Night (my best friend always has a car jar of this in her car, so this scent reminds me a lot of her and the times I've spent with her)

final verdict: I like it. I don't think I would wear it as it is too masculine. but I like the scent and will keep it around for aromatherapy reasons.

I must say I am a bit disappointed with the scent, as I was hoping it would be murky and dark, lonely and sinister. But to depict such elements of a watery grave without having to resort to eau de water-decayed flesh, I think I'll take the clean freshness over that .

I do however think I'd be happier with it if it were darker and murkier smelling. As this city is old, decayed, mysterious, and it is a place of darkness and death. Not really getting those images with this as it is so fresh and clean smelling. but that's just me I guess.

(also, this scent STAYS on your skin like its life depends on it. after washing and using rubbing alcohol, it is still very obviously there on my wrist. I'm just glad I like the scent )

my rating: 4/5

I don't know what year this is, because it was hand decanted by someone on makeupalley (unless for some reason, these gingerbread poppet imps had individually handwritten tags?)

in the bottle it is very yummy smelling gingerbread

wet on skin: the ginger is very strong.

dry on skin: ginger is still a bit strong, its so true to its name. not yankee candle-ish and over sweet. in fact it is not very sweet, just has a pinch of sweetness, just enough to make it smell like baked gingerbread and not like, raw grated ginger.

I can smell cinnamon.

I love this! I might have to buy a 5mL

in bottle: a very dark pine, very fresh smelling but not too overpowering.

wet on skin: getting a nutmeg sort of smell. gradually getting sweeter and lighter. it reminds me of the dragon's blood oil by Azuregreen. maybe that's the myrrh, as they are both resins.

I really love this. it smell really sexy and dark like my usual dragon's blood. I guess I'm just a tree resin kind of gal.