tarotgirl99

About 30 years ago, I found a divine pear essence perfume that I wore until it disappeared. It smelled like a juicy pear.

I didn't realize how much I mourned it until The Vine came along and brought me back to that time...but better. Spiced juicy pear FTW.

It's a skin scent, so I have to keep bringing nose to wrist, but it lasts for ages...I put it on at noon and I could still smell it on my wrists at 2 a.m. when I went to sleep.

It makes me gloriously happy. Glad I snagged a second bottle.

I don't know what I was expecting...but it wasn't this. On me, Pink Moon 2012 starts out like a milky white chocolate...with a hint of strawberry and a more diaphanous hint of flowers hiding beneath. It seems to have the milk note that the original Milk Moon had. But it's much lighter and softer, a total skin scent. It lasts a long time, but everything seems to have disappeared but the milk. I think this is going to Swaps.

I have always been a rose fan, but lately it seems the reverse isn't true. Blooming Rose smells exquisite in the bottle--so sweet and pure, it's perfect for evoking angels.

 

On my skin, it gets ugly indeed--what I thought was Ylang Ylang that makes my skin smell like the vase water that hasn't been changed for a month even though the flowers are dead...that note sticks its tongue out at me with contempt. So I can't smell my wrist for at least an hour.

 

But the later drydown is SOOO gorgeous. The Rice Flower smooths everything out until I just want to huff my wrist.

Edited for note correction.

I have always been a rose fan, but lately it seems the reverse isn't true. Blooming Rose smells exquisite in the bottle--so sweet and pure, it's perfect for evoking angels.

On my skin, it gets a little plasticky, esp. at the beginning. Too sweet.

But the later drydown is SOOO gorgeous. The Rice Flower smooths everything out until I just want to huff my wrist.

This is really pretty and light! I get sweetest grapefruit (fig-sweetened?) resting on a gentle bouquet of mixed florals. It's not too sweet, not particularly tangy, and it's a perfect summer perfume. EXCEPT it disappears so quickly...this involves frequent and stronger-than-usual reapplications.

I think it's worth it.

A perfect scent for breakfast out (which was today's beginning). On me, this smells like a sweet breakfast bread of some kind, possibly a cinnamon bun. It was en pointe but not a scent for me...I rarely breakfast out Like, not love...and I have too many scents I love already.

A friend of mine surprised me with three BPAL scents for Christmas--without knowing my taste in perfume. Cloth of Gold was one of them, and I'd never have picked this out for myself.

The heavy snow scent that I associate with Snow White that always gives me a migraine abounds in Cloth of Gold. As it melts, an indistinguishable flower scent peeps through.

Swaps/Sales, here you come.

I normally dislike champagne scents but I love peach ones. So I was unsure how I would feel about Peach Champagne.

Silly me.

The champagne is there, but the peach is sweet enough to blunt its innate acridity. It's like a couple of not-exactly opposites who complement each other brilliantly. The champagne adds sophistication and blunts the potential oversugariness of peach. It is the smell of an expensive, frothy and delectable cocktail. I want to wear it to glamourous parties, though constantly sniffing myself will take many cool points away.

Oh my. This is absolutely beautiful. On my skin, the orange flower is prominent and creamy and I am reminded of a less-sharp, slightly floral and more complex Chimera. It is sophisticated and feminine in an absolutely adult way. This will be divine on summer nights.

I am not a bottle enthusiast in general--I am all about the scent--but the Weeping Branches Moon is the most exquisite BPAL bottle ever.

Happily, the quality of the scent matches the beauty of the bottle. It first reminds me, oddly, of the original Blue Moon--it has that ethereal watery thing going on, but the plum sweet-tarts it up a bit. On dry-down, I get a flash of soap that disappears quickly, settling into a plum blossom on moon water. It's almost a skin-scent with a minimum amount of throw, but it mellows me when I sniff it. Almost like a TAL in its gentling effect.

Very happy to have a bottle of this.

I was sure I would love this scent beyond all others. I am a devout XCDL13 lover...and I had high hopes that this would be akin.

It's not. It has a floral note with the vanilla that makes the vanilla go kind of plastic-y on me. Amazing throw, medium lasting-ness, but not for me.

Super-thankful that I didn't sell my first born (I don't have one) to get it. Even more thankful to the generous person who sent me an imp.

I second Cheshire Cat. This is Beaver Moon 05, with better throw. Yum to the yummiest.

A wonderful BPAL'er sent me a tester of this. Thank you so much!

I get honey and a soft wildflower floral. This is so light and ethereal. Perfectly named! I feel elfin when I put it on.

I will have to slather, but I like it.

I was expecting to love this...and wet, it was lip-smackingly delicious. Sugary lemon yum with awesome throw.

But within a short time, it was less sugary and turned, appropriately, I guess, into Chiroptera, which I decided I didn't love after all. The awesome throw turned into way too much throw.

Heartbreaking.

For me this is similar to Tetramorph (which I love)...but I also get a chemical plastic smell. Not for me, even if it improves vastly on drydown. The chemical plastic thingy is too off-putting, esp. when I have Tetramorph to call my own.

On me this is the ultimate scent of clean. Cotton and powdery, especially for the first few hours when it reminds me a bit of Love's Baby Soft, of which I was never much of a fan. It eventually dries down to something subtle and pleasant. I will keep the imp, but...

This was the only chocolate Luper I purchased an imp of...I like chocolate scents, but prefer them mixed with coffee...and very strong. I had high hopes because I am a big fig and tamarind fan.

Sadly, this is just meh on me. It's light and somewhat pretty, but there's no zip. In fact, after a while it almost becomes aquatic! Where's the fig?

Sad. It's nothing to write home about. Or buy a bottle for.

And that's the last sentence I'll end with a preposition OR a proposition.

Update after aging process (12/10/11):

OMG--LOVE this!!! The drydown is subtle but so pretty. I have been wearing it non-stop and just bought a bottle.

I think Burning Vulva is an apt name for this scent, especially on initial application. On my skin, the red ginger smells like red musk, only more insistent. After a half hour or so it mellows into a very earthy headshop smell. Not unpleasant, but definitely not me.

Like Sybil, the initial application is beyond my wildest dreams...Biwa is spring in a bottle, blasting tangerine drizzled with honey. But within 15 minutes, like Sybil it goes from FAVORITE SCENT EVER to very nice. Throw slows from 100 mph to 30, and the electric rush is gone, gone, gone.

But I still love it very much. I wish it were stronger, but I will learn to slather and reapply for Biwa. Bottle-worthy for me for sure.

Young Pine Saplings is la yum on me. Much like a less sweet Gingerbread Poppet on me, with fabulous throw and longevity. It would be bottle-worthy if I didn't have plenty of the Poppet. As it is, I will enjoy this imp and consider snagging a partial bottle if I can.

In the bottle, this reminded me of a lighter, less bracing and creamy Her Voice.

Jasmine for me is iffy and Ylang Ylang almost always a deal breaker.

Sadly, on me Antheia radiated both, esp. la Ylang, for the first few hours. When it finally stopped having a hissy fit on my wrist, the floral blend was more meh than anything else.

I second Filigree Shadow's review. To the T(ea and cooklies).

Remember when Shub was the most sought after scent in the world (slight exaggeration, but still). Then it went GC. LOL

This is what I imagined Shub to be like. It's lighter and sweeter and spicier than the original and I seem to amp that lemon in a big way. Lots of throw, lasts a long time and I have to decide if I need a bottle of that, too.

Beth, you're killing me here.

When I put this one, I thought it was disgusting. I am not a big Snow White or Snowblind fan, but this was far worse....pine and mint tar yuck.

And then it settled onto my skin. The pine disappeared, as did the mint. And all that was left was the most perfect sweet fresh soft new fallen snow. Not like Snow White or Snowblind. Just. Like. Sweet. Snow. Almost like vanilla ice cream, if it were made of snow.

I freaking love it.

I don't get much apple blossom at all. Okay, I don't get any apple blossom. And I'm not crazy about mint. But I do love honey.

And this scent is one. A honey, I mean. It's honey that isn't too cloying because the mint, while minty, is a mellow mint. The honey sweetens the mint and the mint mellows the honey. It's exquisite. It lasts throughout the day, and while sillage is light-to-medium, it's like a sweet and steady candle that won't go out, giving light whenever it catches your (my) attention.

Bottleworthy.