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Anything like the Lady in Black atmo? "Opulent gilded red musk and ivory-encrusted vanilla with orris root, smoked amber, red patchouli, and red oudh"

 

the recent event exclusive Mrs. Valentine

 

Lacy white vanilla, mallow flower, white sandalwood, sweet oudh, and a drop of red musk.

Alright folks .... I'm looking for something similar to Montale Dark Purple for a friend of mine, and I swear the scent notes read just like a BPAL LE I have (but I'm at work and can't go through my spreadsheet right now).

 

Scent Notes for Dark Purple, from Fragrantica.com

 

Top: greedy plum, fresh orange

Heart: rose petals, geranium bourbon, patchouli, red fruit cocktail

Base: grey amber, teak wood, white musk

 

I swear this reads like one of the Lupers ....

try Madame Moriarty, Morgause, Countess Willie, and The Witch Queen

I love Elizabeth and James Nirvana Bourbon and Tokyo Milk Tainted Love. Looking for stuff that are similar!

 

So, first of all, thanks for sending me on a search for a likely new obsession! I love Nirvana Black, but somehow hadn't heard about Nirvana Bourbon. it sounds amazing.

 

my number one suggestion for you, unfortunately, is an out of stock/discontinued limited scent that's pretty highly sought after. it's beautiful.

 

Ava

 

 

My second suggestion is also a past LE, but maybe sliiightly easier to find, or at least less expensive to find:

 

Blossoming Vulva Golden amber and bourbon vanilla with sweet oak, blue lotus, and tea blossom.

 

Some other possibilities:

 

Bard A ridiculously charismatic blend of bay rum, honey, and white musk mingling with the scent of harp wood and lute strings and the twang of horn brass.

 

Faiza, The Lady of Serpents

 

Good

 

Mad Sweeney

Rather recently I fell in love with Sixteen92s Paper moon: "Soft vanilla musk, benzoin, oakmoss, trailing ivy, peach blossom, rose". On me, paper moon is green: ivy and moss over wet, cold stones with comforting benzoin and some vanilla for warmth. The rose isnt noticable and the peach blossom belnds well together with the vanilla.

 

Is there any BPAL that would be similar to this? Ive seen some blends that have several green, ivyish or moss notes but often together with dirt. Even though I like some dirt in my scents, as long as they arent too dominant, Im even more smitten by green moss/ivy/fern, cold wet stones and vanilla/benzoin. Though just a bit of dirt would work :]

Bestiaire du Moyen Âge

 

Alcie

 

Banded Sea Snake

I posted here once before, but my collection has grown a lot since then and I have some new favourites

Sarah the Mother Bear

Paladin

Coyote

The Bear Prince

Bewitched

I seem to like skin musk, vanilla, leather and berries, but welcome any recommendations!

Maybe elf for the berries and herbs. Tombstone might be great for the desert-ness.

P.S. Everyone was spot on for me, I love baobhan site and will one day get a bottle when I have the moneys as I drench in the imps.

Neutral

Good

Wanda!!!!!!!!!!

Dana O'Shee

Firebird (still available on the CBLDF website, soooo desert-like)

Kathmandu

I'm just freshly back to the BPAL fold and now actually have a decent income (money?! what's this!) and want to try some new things. Problem...my #1 is long gone and hard to find. But here are my top at the moment. At least most are GC?

 

1) The Girl <3

2) Morocco

3) Dorian

4) 51

5) Archangel Winter/Torture Queen toss-up

 

I would bathe in The Girl if possible, so some of those notes would be awesome in another oil perhaps? I've been scouring but not found much luck. I think I tend towards ozone but more in a 'crystalline' sense? I like white and green musks (usure on reds?) and white florals.

 

But! I want to try some new things since it's been so long and my skin chemistry and nose aren't the same as they were 5 years ago. Thanks! <3

The Girl is my favorite as well. The closest I've ever found is general catalog, but not impable - Lady Death: Savage.

You might also like (GC): Elf, Mage, Lyonesse, White Rabbit, the current Bestiare unicorn, Mouse's Long and Sad Tale, Le Serpent Qui Danse

Past LE/DC: Winter-time, Nuclear Winter, Ava, Fairy Market

I am looking for a BPAL that resembles Bath and Body Works Dark Kiss. It's my husband's all time fav for me to wear but it is retired and I don't know how much longer it will be available for.

 

Top Notes: black raspberry, burgundy rose

Mid Notes: Bergamot Incense, plum amber musk, geranium, peony

Dry Notes: dark vanilla bean, labdanum, vetiver, sensual balsam

 

I would appreciate any good leads....I have tried a lot of the BPALS but have not come across one like this yet.

Thank you so much

 

While I'm not familiar with that scent and don't always find B&B Works smells like its listed notes, based on the description I would recommend these (all of which I personally love as well, i'm not just plucking them from the site blindly):

 

WANDA

Her scent is a deep red merlot with a faint hint of leather, sexual musk and body heat over crushed roses, violets and myrtle.

 

COUNTESS WILLIE

Chocolate plum musk, red musk, amaretto, candied fruits, and red ginger.

 

MADAME MORIARTY (second of her name)

Red musk, vanilla bean, pomegranate, black currant, patchouli leaf and wild plum.

 

Please note, for the madame you do NOT need to like patchouli - in fact, i don't like almost any of the notes on their own/in most blends, but together they are stunning. and all of these suggestions are based on the overall impression i get of what that would smell like, as opposed to a note by note breakdown.

When I tried this on fresh out of the mail, there was a sort of high pitched note that has ruined several scents for me. It's a note I attribute to blue musk, but which also may be the result of a flower I've yet to peg as the culprit. I was leaving town the next day for a week, during which I also went through the peak of my monthly cycle, so upon return, I tried it again.
MUCH better. It's soft and sweet, with an elegant powdery quality. At first you think it's mature, it's what your classy great aunt's boudoir smells like, but then you realize it's also what you, a child trying to wear her high heels, would put on yourself while exploring said boudoir. It has a sort of end of the evening glow about it, like the embers of the fire of your adventures of the night (without anything remotely smelling like fire or embers or smoke). A soft scent which lingers close to the skin, beckoning a loved one to lean in for a hug. It's very early 20th century glamour, but not at all outdated.
I think it would appeal to a similar group as The Unicorn Rushing, but particularly recommend it for lovers of sweet, powdery florals, such as violets and irises.

I'm glad I only got a decant of this one, because I definitely don't think I would ever need to own both this and De Vos. if, however, you collect every sweet, pink scent you can find, then you do need them both. Whereas De Vos had the mysterious, crackling kind of sweet fluff I described earlier, this one has pure, fluffy, bountiful clouds of sweet cream. And the rose definitely makes itself known. In fact, for the wet and early dry phases, all I could smell was aggressive pink rose. But then it settled into a beautiful, creamy rose scent. Ultimately, I don't need to own this - I loved Pink Snowballs and Love, but ended up passing both along because I just didn't reach for them enough and didn't quite feel like ME when wearing them - but it's a great one. I didn't notice the jasmine *at all,* and it's my favorite note and stands out to me greatly, so I think you're safe to try it if you're not into that, but I probably wouldn't recommend a blind bottle if you're only here for the jasmine.
I recommend for fans of Love, Pink Snowballs, Vasillissa, Volcano in Springtime, and all pink rose scents.

This will definitely be super popular. it smells sweet, pink, and fluffy. there's a note i can only describe as almost having a dash of static electricity about it which sometimes pops up in these fluffy scents. i get it in araña as well. that's in here. rather than a fully smooth, creamy kind of fluff, it's this richer fluff that's innocent yet somehow *slightly* mysterious or otherworldly. i don't detect any one flower over another - it's just fluffy, pink, sweet, and you can tell it contains florals. i guess i can pick out the rose a bit more than the others, but i hesitate to say that, because it really is only rose TINTED as described - the rose isn't loud or stealing the show or anything. It's basically just what I'd hoped it would be and it's really pleasant - I would say I definitely like it - but it might prove to be too strong and girly for me to actually wear on its own for a full day or evening. i like scents that are neither girlish nor mature, but are still feminine, as though they might be worn by an elf or an Aes Sedai, belonging to no age group. this one leans just a bit girlish, although i could see it working as almost a young Aes Sedai still working on her ageless face, as opposed to a giggling middle schooler. regardless of whether or not it turns out to be for me, i give it at LEAST a solid 8.5/10 for what it is.

I recommend for fans of Araña, Love, Pink Snowballs, Mouse's Long and Sad Tale, Serving Fish, Stekkjarstaur, Rosy Maple, and basically all sweet, pink scents.

This smells golden brown, with what I know to be the rum note, but which never smells boozy to me. It smells like liquid gold. If you DO find the rum note to be generally boozy and that's not your thing, then steer clear of this one, because while I don't notice any actual alcoholic element from it, it's definitely the note I smell the most. I get some tonka and some tobacco. This scent would be at home in a collection belonging to an autumnophile or a Mexicophile. It's rich, sweet, offertory, and extremely universal. It's strong enough and comforting enough to be a 'Weenie, but not so overwhelming that it couldn't be worn year round. It's unisex, and in fact would probably smell amazing on a man, but I definitely wouldn't say it veers masculine. I think it would smell appropriate on all genders, and that your own chemistry would probably make it work with you to seem juuust right.

I recommend for fans of Litha, Hellcat, Bard, Wezwanie/Hold, Elegba, Kill-Devil, Star Promenade.

So far, this is my favorite of the unicorns. It's everything I'd hoped it would be, and nothing I'd feared it could be.

 

If De Vos is a unicorn, this one is a unicorn scene. It's coming over a hilltop on a hike and being startled by a misty glen just before you, just below. Your eyes skim the scene, which is mostly an array of flowers - somehow you both recognize them all by scent and smell, and yet can't distinguish or hone in on any one, so well do they work together in their shared garden - and there, in the middle, looking up at you through the mist, is a unicorn. You can't believe your eyes; you tell yourself it's a trick of the mist, a trick of the air in this queer place. And yet, there it is. Staring at you, both calm and assertive, the master of its realm. Perfect. Stunning.

I recommend for fans of Fairy Market, Moonshine and Mist, and basically any scent you think of as ethereal, well blended, ageless...really, so long as you like florals at all sometimes ever, give it a try. It's a winner.

Oh, wow. This guy - and he is definitely a guy - does not just talk the talk when it comes to his disrespect. He struts the walk. He's a big Sex Pistols fan - hell, he might BE a Sex Pistol. He smells like the freshest, most golden tobacco, as though he rolls his own cigarettes from really high grade tobacco that is his only fancy indulgence. Well, that and the extremely high quality black leather jacket, which is broken and beaten from constant wear, but still retains its natural smell. I don't really get any vanilla in its own right, but the tobacco smells sweet.
I recommend this for rock stars, Johnny Depp, and fans of Ruddy Daggerwing, tobacco single notes, and masculine scents.

fresh out of the mail: this is like Feed Me And Fill Me With Pleasure, but with a deeper, darker vanilla that doesn't threaten to turn cloying on a hot day or anything. It's a very sweet patch, which is great, because I don't much like patch but this kind I can do. I will add to this review after it's sat for a week, a month, etc., as it's the type of blend that will likely deepen with age.

Anyone have a recommendation for something that smells similar to Banshee Beat? Yes? YES?

it's eventually being re-released as a general catalog scent called Revenant Rhythm, which is already available in hair gloss, atmosphere spray, and bath oil form at the Trading Post.

i absolutely love this scent. it's a bright, candied tangerine-orange above all for me. i don't specifically detect the lavender, and the anise darkens it around the edges a bit but isn't especially prominent. but they both work to make this scent complex, simple, calming, and uplifting all at once. the throw and longevity are surprising for a citrus, too. if i put on too much it can become cloying, but applying just a little with an optional afternoon touch up is perfect.

In the bottle: I recoiled! Strong, syrupy cough medicine. Always skin test, my pretties! Always skin test.

 

Wet on skin: this is eyes rolling back in the head good. Bright pear and a hint of coconut. Just pure joy.

 

Drydown: check out the throw on this lad! I first tried it this morning, an hour before leaving for work, by using a headless Q-tip to put one dot on my inner left elbow. I was testing other scents in the same manner on my wrists, but by the time I got to work I smelled this one wafting around me. Good thing I love it! In fact, I tossed it in my purse before leaving this morning and reapplied an hour ago.

 

There is a darker, deep richness to the pear, probably coming from the other notes, but the pear is definitely the star of the show. It's gorgeous and fun, just the thing for a long workday.

This is one of my favorite Lupers from last year. On me it's a creamy, effervescent, cherry-type of almond. My fiancé thinks it smells like pure gummy worms, which is unfortunate for him because he loves almond, and also because I'm going to keep on wearing it.

I smelled Tom Ford's Tobacco Oud . I must seek out the BPAL equivalent.

 

The BPTP Snow Queen update isn't officially live yet, but they're putting it up right now, and this is one of the perfumes:

DARK AND WEARY PERFUME

Somber oudh, grey benzoin, raw bourbon vanilla, and tobacco.

The beautiful love child of The Mahogany Tree and Picture Books in Winter. Yet another scent to support my lack of belief in death notes - cinnamon never works for me, but it doesn't mess with this scent at all. The overall scent is sweet but not cloying, leathery but not masculine, resin but in a very subtle way, and just a bit spiced. My boyfriend often dismisses scents immediately as smelling like incense or food, and he liked this one. It's just very well blended, comfortable, and absolutely perfect for curling up with a book and a glass of scotch under a thick blanket on a winter's night.

Is there a list somewhere of "yearly" scents that return? I know they have Weenies, Liliths, Yules, Moons, Carnival, but what I want to know, what scents return each year? I know Snow White does in the winter, are there certain other scents that are available yearly?

 

I'm not sure if anyone has compiled a list like that, but if you google the scent name, sometimes you'll find multiple bpal.org results for the same one, or you can just tell by browsing a category in the reviews and noticing which LEs have a ton more pages of results. It's tricky because there are many scents that are recurring, but not necessarily every year - for example, this year we have Rose Red and Peacock Queen which are recurring popular scents, but no sign of Pink or Yellow Snowballs, which are also fan favorites that come back a lot. And Lick It in some incarnation has seemed pretty much guaranteed, but this year it didn't come back, so even for the really recurring ones there's always a chance it won't be back around. Then there are scents like Sonnet d'Automne which first appeared in 2011 and didn't come back until 2014, but now it's come back for two Weenies in a row. I guess the short answer is that it takes some investigation to figure out which ones are recurring, which ones come back the most often, etc.

I'm still pretty new to BPAL, and I do tend to prefer different scents at different times of the year... but out of all the scents I currently own, these are my favourites. In no particular order:

 

- Sarah, the Mother Bear

- Shanghai

- Velvet

- Samhain

- Bewitched

If you like Velvet, try Gelt and/or Dia de los Reyes from the Yule update that just launched. Also, as sort of an outlier based on your overall list, give Wanda a try. It's one of my favorite GCs, and it has elements of various tastes that seem to appeal to you.

Oooh! I'd love to try this!

1. Monster Bait: Closet

2. Fairy Market

3. Midnight on the Midway (original)

4. Black Lace

5. L'Autunno

I really wanted to add Ava, Butterflies, Flowers and Jewels Attending and muse of fire but I'd be cheating because they're on the way and I haven't sniffed them yet

Can I do one with commercial perfume? Would love a separate set of recommendations! (Ignore if not allowed)

1. Chanel - Coco Mademoiselle

2. Chantal Thomass - Chantal Thomass

3. V&R - flowerbomb

4. La Perla - J'aime

5. Marc Jacobs - Daisy

I love expensive smelling sugary fresh florals, sugary incense, sweet musks, vanilla, fresh strawberry, and cotton candy kind of scents.

I need to try L'Autunno, because everything else in your list is in mine as well. And you are going to LOVE the ones you have on the way. BFAJA is like Flowerbomb BPALified.

Some others you might adore are Edith Cushing, Love, Pink Snowballs, All Souls, Antique Lace (lol), Pink Lace, Pouring Strains of Sacred Song, Mouse's Long and Sad Tale, Rosy Maple, Lyonesse, Lady Death: Savage, Vasilissa, Champagne and Opium, Sonnet D'Automne, Stardust, Madame Moriarty (I prefer the new one, the currant really balances and makes it smell fancier)

In the bottle: a warm, comforting sweetness with a patchouli spine.

 

On the skin, all phases: sweet patchouli. FWIWX I don't like patchouli, but this blend is nor bothering me, and I've had it on for two hours. It's fairly close to the skin, but I also didn't apply all that much, so YMMV. Unfortunately I just don't get any nuance, so while the patchouli isn't too dirty or earthy in this case for me to handle, I imagine I'll pass it along.

 

I've worn Eau Duelle, it's not too much of a stretch to recommend Snake Oil. Eau Duelle is a little woodier maybe.

Thank you for the rec, I have purchased a bottle of aged Snake Oil, can't wait to try it out

 

 

you also might like one of the Snake Pit scents from the Carnaval Diabolique collection (you can find some of them secondhand, and they will be re-released eventually, possibly in the next year).

you might particularly like:

AUSTRALIAN COPPERHEAD:

Snake Oil with acai berry, amber, cardamom, neroli, and smoked vanilla.

 

BOOMSLANG:

Snake Oil with cocoa, teakwood, and rice milk.

 

HABU:

Snake Oil with ho wood, teak, black musk, and bamboo.

 

KING COBRA:

Snake Oil with orris, frankincense, and copal.