Ryvre

So much throw, and it lasts forever! Unfortunately, it makes me smell like a cedar chest. My skin amps the cedar so hard that nothing else comes through.

Oooh. I think I tried that when my skin hated honey, but not in the last few years. It's going on my wishlist!

My top 5 (in no particular order):

Womb Furie Snake Oil and three types of honey

Gothabilly Black vanilla, Egyptian musk, Rožolj liqueur, and black cherries

Hellion black plum, champaca flower, dark musk, patchouli, narcissus and scorched sandalwood

Imp white peach, amber, golden musk and patchouli

Harvest Moon 06 chrysanthemum, pomegranate, cane sugar and dusty wheat, sorghum, green tea leaf, rice flower and rice milk, Russian sage, bamboo shoot, elderberry, black cherry, wild plum, red haw, hazelnut, red apple and shagbark hickory

(Honorable mentions to Perversion, F54, Boomslang, Schwarzer Mond, and Black Temple Burlesque Troupe)

I'd love some recommendations!

Is there anything even remotely like Gothabilly? I love it, but I can't shell out $200 on ebay...

In the imp: This is so soft that I barely smell anything. A bit of amber, maybe...

Wet: Baby powder amber.

Dry: The cognac comes out and blends with this amber. Wow, this suddenly turned gorgeous! It's pretty and warm, but still really soft. I love the scent, but I need a bit more throw for something I'm going to wear.

I'm not normally a fan of citrus blends, but this smells exactly like Mountain Dew. Unlike every other blend, it doesn't morph on my skin at all. It even smells fizzy somehow, and it manages to last pretty well on my skin.

On my skin, this is a soft herbal soap. It's really, really soapy... Not good for wearing, but I might try it in the burner.

If I were to rename Wanton, I would call it Rosey Rose McRose. No sandalwood. No patchouli. Just rose, and so much of it!

Wet: spicy and musky and a little sweet

Dry: Dries to a weird spice that overpowers everything. Grr. Carnation!

I generally take pretty good notes when I try a scent. For this, all I wrote was "aquatic. " I was hoping for more cedar and cypress, but my skin was not on board with that plan.

Wet: Fruity, but not in a fresh fruit sort of way. More in a scratch and sniff way.

Dry: The sweetness dies down a bit. It ends up as a nice fruity incense. It's pretty, but not something I expect I'll ever wear.

On me, this is super manly aftershave. Intensely masculine.

On my boyfriend, it smells like baby powder...

I was hoping for the vanilla and tobacco to be most prominent, but that was not to be...

Wet, this is an odd, dark scent. There's a strong patchouli covering something off.

Dry: Earthy, herby patchouli. I'm not getting any vanilla from this.

Dryer: A weird, foreboding pine.

In the imp: Sharp and herbal, with incense in the background.

Wet: Honeyed herbs? It's really odd, and not good.

Dry: After about half an hour, it calms into a gorgeous honeyed woodsy blend. (I'm not sure where those notes are coming from, but they're really nice.) I hate the first half hour of this scent, though, and this isn't quite good enough to make up for it.

In the imp: Light and fruity, with a hint of coconut.

Wet: Floral! Overwhelmingly floral.

Dry: It smells like an air freshener. The throw is great. Why don't scents I love even have this kind of throw?

I was hoping more coconut and blackcurrant, but I didn't smell either of them at all once it was on my skin.

In the imp: This is softer and lighter than I expected. A soft mix of amber and leather.

Wet: Sometimes leather loves me, and sometimes it goes weird on my skin. This went weird in a major way. It ended up smelling almost aquatic, and it drowned out everything else.

The Marquis is a lovely blend of spicy, smokey, just slightly sweet leather. Wet on my skin, it was a bit more masculine than what I generally wear, but still quite lovely. As it dried, the bay rum took over, and it ended up too masculine for me. Alas, it is not for me. I definitely want to slather it all over any man I might cuddle up with, though!

In the imp: This is the peachiest peach ever! It makes me hungry.

On my skin: Gorgeous and ripe. It goes just a touch plasticy on my as it dries, but it's still lovely.

Wet: On me, this is a spicy floral. I can smell the jasmine, which I normal hate, but it's mostly behaving.

Dry: More floral and powdery. I was expecting plum, but that it seems to be hiding.

Later: This faded like mad, then came back with a vengeance! It spent about 15 minutes as an awesome spicy floral, then faded into a boring powdery floral. It stayed nondescript for the next hour or two until it faded completely.

I've been looking for something in the GC to pinch hit for Hellion. This isn't quite as nice as Hellion, but it's similar enough.

In the imp: Super fruity!

Wet: Still all fruit. There's a bit of artificiality to it, like bubblegum.

Dry: Smokey and incensey, with fruit notes. This is gorgeous dry!

This is going on my bottle list.

In the imp: OMG Patchouli!

Wet: Too much patchouli for me! I like a bit of patchouli, but this is something else...

Dry: Pencil shavings, which fades into slightly burnt pencil shavings. Yech!

Wet: Soap! This smells like bubble bath.

First few minutes: I swear I smell lemon in this. I can't smell the wasabi at all.

Later: After about 20 minutes, the honey comes out. Which would be nice, except honey notes always turn into ferret on my skin. So now it's ferret and soap.

I'm not sure what to make of this scent. It's nice, but doesn't smell like perfume on me. It smells like a very clean wooden table. Or possibly like the pews at the church I used to attend. Something wooden, but not tree-like or outdoorsy.

I hate violet. I hate it with a passion that I normally reserve for people who drive under the speed limit when I'm in a hurry. But I picked this up at C2E2, and I decided to give it a try and hope the other notes would win out.

No such luck.

From the moment it touched my skin to a few hours later when I scrubbed it off, I was enveloped in a cloud of pungent violet.

If anybody is still looking for an update, you can download my copy here: BPAL Spreadsheet

I just updated mine with the Samhain, Order of the Dragon and A Picnic in Arkham scents. (Typed by the wonderful bifemmefatale) New stuff is at the bottom so you should be able to just copy and paste those rows.