Aveya

Imp: Wet green. Aloey/cucumber. That's apparently my generic "green wet" smell. Skin Initial: Stickin with it. Cucumber face peel lol. (Maybe it's Eucalyptus?) Skin Drydown: Gets a little floral-er but still an herbal-forward scent. Morphs into something like Dandelion sap. Something in it starts to dry, and gets more prairie grass and sunshine. Reminds me of Passionate Shepard's greenness. It wafts between dandelions and cut grass. I fully excepted a marijuana accord when I first got this, but none of that nonsense. This is all bright, nature-loving green optimism.

Imp: Tangy. Gin-citrus fizz Skin initial: CLEAN fizz. Based on other reviews people are calling this lemon .... I guess. It's NOT lemon-sticky-bat lemon, or any lemon I'd like to call it. It's citrus for sure. But it just smells too... clean. Lime, lemon, citronella. I dunno. Skin Later: It does envoke lemon-pledge, but personally I think it's because it smells so CLEAN. It must be a floral, likely a citrus floral. Well, whatever it is. Verdict: Fizzy moscow mule while you clean the house.

Imp: Floral. Rose most prominent to me. Then a mashing of what I'll call white floral. I'm bad at my floral scents. Skin Initial: Brief vanishing act then pops back to a gentle floral. Skin longer: Dark and musky. It's trying to act like blueberry does on me, where it gets all... warm and slathered and ripe. But it's having a battle with that. I think my nose is blurring Plum going ripe and dark and the "wild berries" staying a bit tarter. I'm also pretty sure gardenia smells like a rancid-butter-floral to me, so I probably should have just passed on this imp instead of trying it out. Gave myself a headache huffing my arm on this one trying to understand it. I'll pass this on to those who like it and miss it. Verdict; Odd buttery floral-fruit, fractured between being dark and light. Nice throw, staying power.

CLEAN. I'm clean now, thank you Wensleydale. It's actually a white floral, aquatic kind of clean. Makes me think of sun-dryed sheets. They don't get that fuzzy warm dryer smell. They get a sort of crisp clean. I'll sniff myself one moment and get an almost cucumer-aloe vibe, then the next moment get MUSK like I literally just inhaled full foamy soap up my nose. It's interesting. If you love the clean smells you'll want to add this. If you don't, this isn't going to magically change and be something new lol. That said, I'm not a huge fan of being so clean. I'ma go roll around in Depraved now, thank you.

In the imp this is a bright faux leather (its like leather everything to my nose lately :| ) Disclaimer: I've never been a snake oil fan. I just don't see it. People say it gets better with age - sure. I've had some seriously aged imps I gave a shot and still don't see it. I'm betting it's a skin chemistry thing just not working the right way. Which is all good - but that means I got Fruit Phoenix sort of randomly and with skepticism. Also never tried Schwarzer Mond. Fresh on skin: Sweet, dark, tart, wet. Drydown skin: Interestingly sweet. Yet remains dark. Not very spicey or fragrant in any other notable way to me. It's got that BPAL musk to it, almost like when I open up boxes of my favorite imps and get hit in the face with musky deep overtones of random darkness. But sensual and deep. Overall; Goth pomjuice-injected Pomelo.

This is my first Dead Leaves~ blend I've tried out. So forgive any obvious redundancies. Wet in imp ; masculine, boozy/tart, smoky? Skin Initial: Cherry tootsie pops Skin drydown: Cherry calms down from tootsie pop land and blends into smokey woodsy. It smells like a really well mixed cocktail, to be honest. Because of that it comes across a bit masculine. The longer it sits, the more it settles into masculine territory as the cherry sweetness fades. It reminds me of my Italian step-grandfather. Expensive booze, nice leather shoes, smell-good aftershave & lotion, and (likely) illegal cigars. That's INSANE this smells exactly like him. Useless to other people looking for review scents, but hey! Low throw, but a nice warm masculine scent with a touch of sweetness. Not "too" masculine though, this is near gender-neutral. Because it reminds me of my grandfather I'm twisting it a touch more masculine than it really is.

Mmm. This almost comes across like a fizzy booze drink, but isn't. It's like apple ginger ale. Light florals aren't overpowering, they just add an air of fluffy femininity. Underneath is a gentle light vanilla. This could be really beautiful. Unfortunately it does have a prominent floral that my anti-floral nose can't get itself over. Sad!

2012 Version, From an original Decant circle, not traded around. Just got around to sniffing it. It's just a faint trace of sugar on clean clothes. But with a slight wonk to it - almost buttery waxy. That wonk throws this scent out of my keeps and to the swaps. Hopefully someone else can enjoy this!

This is very... clean. Like, soprano floral with tart berry bouncing. It's bright and uplifting. Laundry-esq in a good wet clean way. But too much floral for me personally. I also don't get "dark green" from it. It does smell fresh & wild though.

Imp: WHOA this is black bananas. This is tart over-ripe I can almost smell the fruit flies. At the same time it makes me think of those dried banana chips. Wet on Skin: Banana vanished and it's just a tonka-esq tobacco (why tonka? OH WAIT - It smells like Dee. Which I = tonka in my brain) Drydown: So I SWORE I hated vetiver. Because it smells like basement. But in this blend it's coming across as Tonka/leather to me. It's actually flippin' fantastic. I know nothing. This is just like a glorious re-iteration of Dee to me. Take out the sexy part of Dee and condense & multiply it into a stronger more potent scent. THIS IS THAT SCENT. Too masculine for me. But yet I looove this it's so beautifully dark and luxurious to me. Gonna smear this on the husband. Gonna layer this with vanilla. Gonna make girl-Dee and live happily ever after.

I honestly don't know where/why/how I got this imp. Maybe I had a random whim buy from Ajevie, but maybe it was a frimp. Huh. In any case - I hate florals. I avoid them chronically because they just don't fit who I am, and most of them go "powder", "old lady", or just amp up my house and are too much. So, with that... Imp : Yup hi florals. I'm gonna put you on my skin though. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. Wet on skin: You guys aren't so bad. Sort of sweet soft white overall. I've come across "night" florals before and they have a nice mellow vibe to them I really appreciate. Drydown: I'm useless at notes, but I think even skilled people will say this is well-blended. Soft, floral, somehow damp white scent. Has tons of throw, as florals do. It feels white, cool, robust but delicate. But yeah you're still a floral and now it's all up in my nose and all I can smell lol. Would be beautiful florals for a floral person. I'll trade this off so they can enjoy!

Imp : Lavender. I'm worried it'll all be floraly stuff. Wet on skin : Omg that sugar. Drydown : This is beautiful. I hate florals but this is herbal through and through. Lavender raw and proper. With candied grapefruit. I think the other descriptions of lavender candy is slightly off for me. It isn't candy-sweet. It's surely sweet - but bright and crisp. That grapefruit cuts through anything that could go candy-cloy over-sweet. No this is just flipping amazing. I purchased this imp on a whim - soooo glad I did. now I have to hunt for a bottle. This is perfect every-day girl at the office for me. loooooooove Disclosure - I don't know what TKO smells like. It seems compared a lot so one day I'll come back to see.

Imp : Wet. Cucumber-y. Wet Skin: Club soda with lemon? This is a quirky scent. It's got elements of citrus or something sharp - but it's not forefront it's just accent. It has a general funky vibe overall. I keep going back to cucumbers, but it's not. not proper. I think it smells like a skin-peel I had as a pre-teen. It was cucumber and slightly medicinal. But fresh and clean and kind of funky smelling. That's exactly it. Verdict : Aloe-Cucumber facial peel-off mask. Or sprite in a mister.

2017 Decant: SHEW so I just tested the Graveyard dirt redux from 2014. This one is SO MUCH MUSHROOM wet on skin right away. Like the redux it changes on drydown. Dry: This stays damper longer than the redux does now. And the drydown is different. The redux test went warm and ambery (pleasant almost). This is staying RAW DIRT. This feels like gardening, with earth worms and pillbugs and the whole speal. I'm assuming it just means that aged graveyard dirt gets warm and loses it's spunk. But MAN this is dirt. good for a sniff. But I have no idea what I'd do with this otherwise . Trade time I guess so someone else can enjoy. Overall : mmmm loam.

Wet / early on skin : Mushroom single note. Drydown on skin: Warm amber-y almost vanilla-leather dirt. Actually really really beautiful. Low throw, a skin-sniffer. The low-throw will cause me to trade it. But worth the smell. I won't be so afraid of her dirt scents now.

2012 Decant: Amazing. I didn't expect to like this. I got it from a decant circle back in 2012, then life happened and I never got to testing it. I got it on a whim, though. But When i FIRST got into Bpal a scent I wanted was bonfire. I gave up on it, because you end up with Hellfire more often ( ). But this is THAT SCENT. This is nights around a fire with friends. There's a touch of even autumn leaves. This is a fall/late summer fire and camping and omg the emotions this brings up is amazing. This makes me want to go visit my family and stay up late watching shooting stars. Holy cow man. It doesn't get too dark/masculine. It stays just light enough. There is a lingering.. almost-basement smell. But it works in this scent and feels like it belongs - burning grass and playing in dirt around the firepit. I think I'm going to need to hunt some bottles of this to put into the diffuser for a room scent.

Blech I don't know what I expected mango pumpkin to smell like, but maaaan this is mango pumpkin. That is not a mix that belongs together. I feel awful for saying this, but each sniff makes me want to puke a little bit. Oh god. I'm not even going to keep sniffing this to pull out other scents. I haven't had a scrubber in forever and this was the last one I expected to scrub. There's more in this - for sure. But juicy ripe mango + wet pumpkin filling is just... omg why is this so pukey for me lol Trades

Fizzy! I was excited to try this one. I have imps left from a decant circle form 2012 that I JUST GOT TO now. What the heck, right? In the imp I was super excited. On skin at first I really loved it too. Reminds me of the atomic lau scents, and other gin/champagne scents. But it's the pumpkin spice. Something in the labs "pumpkin spice" goes a little... sickly sweet on me? Vaguely fake, tooo pumpkin? Something. I found it in the single note and it's 100% in this as well. It's an ALMOST awesome for me. The pumpkin is just a bit too thick/sweet for me. Then I read the review above mine and now I can't stop smelly sweaty feet either

Imp: Floraly musk Skin: Blech florals. I thought this one wouldn't be so floral. Rose tends to not feel "floral" to me, but this one is. I think it's something in white musks. Plus vanilla flower. Never came across that before so heck if I know lol. Overall this is a white scent, rosey with green accents. Musky without getting too deep and dark. Hints of a maybe vanilla in there. Predominantly a clean maybe "soapy" rose for me. ETA : Red musk is there for the long-game. Comes out much later, but not changing the baseline of the scent too much.

Creamy damp coconut plastic. I mean. Yep.

Imp: LIME. Sort of refreshing. I just realized I haven't ran across a lime scent in FOREVER. Initial impression : My husband might really like this one. Wet on skin: Leather lime. I mean I know it's not leather proper? But it is, go away. Drydown: This is a curious thing, isn't it? Honestly I like this. I don't want to hack it apart to it's components. It reminds me of Dee in ways. It's almost leathery, but bright. It's warm, as it sits the more cookie-esq aspects come out. This is really awesome actually. All that said, it's just a touch too masculine for me, as it should be. So I slathered some on my husbands arm and we'll see how that works out.

This scent is not one I was clamoring for, but came up for a swap so went what the heck, and did a bottle swap. I don't like florals so wasn't sure this would work or not for me. I'm also on the fence about sandalwoods, ambers, and honeys. As they're sort of hit or miss for me. That said... In the bottle: Musky. Slightly woody. Slightly sweet. Masculine and darker. Wet on skin: POOF nothing. Vanishing act. I've been testing a few sandalwoods & honey lately and they all seem to do this to me when I first put them on skin. *waits a few minutes* Dry on skin: After it sinks in, this is soft, sweet, warm, smooth. This is morocco-esq to me. I think that means it's sandal-wood prominent, rounded out by a sweet honey. Minus the spiced chair aspect, but add in the barest wiff of a lighter orange peel vibe. This is super close to skin. I've got very little throw. The florals I was afraid of are nowhere to be found. It COULD be that this is what it does aged. This is warm, soft, musky. There's this faint trace of an orange floral maybe underneath, but it's been literally drowned in warm soft amber-wood. If you love morocco or maybe mouses's sad long tale, this could be a love for you.

Im really suprised I haven't tried this one before. On me this has 0 throw. NO THROW. I think I saw like two reviews with the same problem. This is a nose-stuck-in-my-skin-scent. I just like, ate it up. I get no florals. Nothing. Which is fine by me tbh. This has an amber haze to it. Sandalwood's sweetness with vanilla. Maybe a tiny tiny twinge of something powdery thinking it wished it was a floral. And that's it. Soft, warm, fuzzy. Like dog hair stuck in fleece pajamas.

I often browse reviews as I contemplate my review. Morocco I know I've tried before and yet always think I haven't. Because the notes and the way people talk about this makes it seem like it should Rival Bengal in "Spice". But it does not. If you're on the hunt for IN YOUR FACE SPICE SCENTS this one will not scratch that itch. That is exactly this scent, just the dry-version. On my skin this just feels... odd. wrong. Something is just tweaked a little off in the wrong direction. Like almost sour milk but not quite there. I think the "warm musk" + sandalwood just isn't sitting right either in my nose or on my skin. Oh well.

I gambled on this scent, but someone offered a trade and figured what the heck. Full disclosure I hate Jasmine. It's all personal preference. On someone else or in someone else's house, sure it's lovely. The same way I can appreciate floral print bedspreads at someone else's house, or classical tea cups on display. But I sure as hell am never owning floral bedsheets or frilly tea cups It's just that Every. Other. Note. in this scent I adore. I had to try it. Apricot? patchouli? Skin Musk! Maybe Honey ("blossom-honey" is always a coin flip - honey or floral?). Sadly it's all Jasmine. Well behaved Jasmine, to be sure. It's not powdery over-floral overtaking the whole flippin' room Jasmine. I was hoping the candied apricot and patchouli would bring in an element of the labs Depraved into things. But this is totally different. This is soft, floral, sweet, pretty, sensual in an almost-innocent way, light-musk. I'd consider it a well rounded floral. One that if someone who fit this scent wore, I'd be jealous and probably a little attracted . But It's simply put, not for me. The patchouli in this is NOT the black patchouli I love. Not sure what kind it is- it's not forefront at all. It peaks out close to skin in dry-down later moments. There are splashes of apricot that cut through the Jasmine, I love those splashes with the skin musk. Later wear they do give off a slight Depraved feel, but cleaner. I'm just aching for a different scent I guess. This is Jasmine-forward, tamed by sweet fruity musky accents. Feminine, light, bright in a diffused light kind of way, innocent, but still carrying that luper sexy-body-musk thing with it. Amazingly attractive on the right person.