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in the bottle~creamy spicy goodness... gingerbread

wet~~ argh Pledge

1 hr later~~ argh Fruit Loops

3 hrs later~~ gone

I have two PP from '05 and this one is almost done... maybe an imps worth left in bottle. I tend to think of it as a warm comforting smell and the first bpal that sold me on foodie scents. Creamy, a bit spicy like a pumpkin pie with a sharp undercurrent probably from the pomegranate. Like eating pumpkin pie and having apple cider mulling in background.... Not good at describing scents so thats all folks

I got a decant of this from the generous Gateau for which I am ever so grateful. In the bottle it was everything I could possibly hope for~ buttery spicy pumpkin ala my beloved pumpkin patches. I was woot woot woot I don't have to worry about the dreaded running out since I have an equally delicious pumpkin spice offering. The first half hour on my skin it was so delicious I was nom nom nomming my arm. Unfortunately it then turned to sour apple jolly rancher ice. I guess that apple smell that some stuff morphs into is the milk or cream turning sour I hear so much about but have never noted before. Admittedly my nose, or chemistry, has been wonky lately and I will definitely give it a few more goes before the 13th.... I mean patchouli is being amped to the point where my beloved SO smells rank... so something is off at the moment. I will amend this review if my skin stops acting weird and this scent becomes luscious goodness.

Editing to add my husband says all he smells is cinnamon and nutmeg but then I read the ingredient description to him and he never tells me I smell bad. Even if I say something like don't you think it smells soapy he will say oh now that you mention it maybe a little but it smells good. He is a big BPAL fan even tho he won't wear scents

Okay its getting close to the 13th so I am still testing this imp and not liking it muchly. Today I put it on my child since I accidentally sold off her gluttony imps along with a bunch of other D/C scents {no sense in being tempted by stuff ya can't get ya know} It faded so fast I was astounded. 30 mins max on her.

I am very very sad. I really had high hopes for this one

Fire Eater was my first BPAL love. Here is where my perfume history comes in. During the 80's I wore carnation. Carnation day in and day out. I used a carnation glycerin soap {no longer findable but at the time all the scent your own places carried it} and the carnation used for the scent your owns. The carnation scented lotion, shampoo, body oil. Carnation carnation carnation. When I moved to a city without scent your own shops I started wearing bellogia which is a carnation scent from the 20's~~ classic goodness. So somewhere along the way I heard of BPAL and ordered the carnival scents. I hated them all. ALL of them. And I was used to wearing essential oils from the head shops and scent your own and hippie dippie co-ops {i grew up in a fairly large college town} but something about Fire Eater kinda did it for me. It smelled a bit like pencil shavings but mellowed to a spicy warm yum. Which I associated with carnations. Carnations are spicy warm yummy to me. A few years later my kid let upended my box of BPAL and the memory of spicy warm Fire Eater dragged me into the forum to find some and other carnation based scents. Bellogia had turned to pencil shavings on me so I knew that the note was carnation but somehow Beth's, upon aging, no longer did the lead hell and the fancy french perfume {perfume not eau du toilette or cologne but freaking assed perfume} was staying in the lead phrase.

Just recently I was imputing my bottles and imps into the stash manager and knew I was missing some scents because there was no Fire Eater to be found in my cigar box or imp cases. Yesterday I found it and wore it... no lead, no woah baby this smells icky {the new wet phrase for me way back when} and I was seduced by the warm creamy spicy goodness. I STILL love this scent. If you like that creamy spiciness you get from Hod or other carnation based BPALs you should enjoy this one. The fire and brimstone has aged out very well.

This is my second imp to be tested today.... The first was Satyr which is a very heavy, almost oppressive, resin and I mention that because it might be influencing how I am reacting to this one. YES I showered between them

This is slightly lemony on me which I didn't expect at all from my review skimming. Sweet and lemony.... like a lemonade with a few mint leaves thrown in. That just came to me cus my bodaciousness is smelling a wee bit like my Toilet Bowl Cleaner. However I used Method brand Mint and Eucalyptus scented Toilet Bowl Cleaner so it isn't antiseptic or in your face icky cleaner. Now this is the bit where the earlier scent is coming in:

It is very light and delicate. I see it as a refreshing summertime scent. I have two imps of this from lab and am putting one up for swap right away. It isn't the sort of thing I wear although it is altogether lovely. I am keeping the other because it is so refreshing and I would like to see if I pull it out during the dog days of summer.

UPDATE... in less than 2 hours it is GONE. Very light was right. I cannot imagine it sticking around at all come summer time when I get hot and glow-y. No sense in holding onto this imp despite its loveliness

Testing my imp of this one again.... keeping in mind I am terrible at picking out notes etc and go by feel...

At first it is too strong... terrible & feral with whiffs of pee peeping through but within half an hour it mellows on me. It is heavy and resinous. I love resins. We lived in India when I was a baby and for some reason incense and resin and sandalwood/cedar scents have always appealed to me but this is almost too heavy. The description of it being masculine holds true for me since there is no floral or cream softening it up. Still I have no problems wearing it. It has been 4 hours and I keep bringing my wrists up to sniff. My right and left wrist wear fragrances differently not only in throw but in morphing. I love this and am keeping it although I doubt I will buy a bottle. If it were summertime it would have to go but with the weather turning chillier I am sure my imp will be gone soon.

This turns soapy on me And is very herbalicious. I kept thinking of cutting bouquets to fit into a vase... that sharp green smell. Then soap. Then Herbal Essences {or what I imagine herbal essences to smell like} then sharp green then soap then... It has been over 7 hours and my wrists and inside elbows smell yummy... that creamy skin scent I get from all BPAL I wear but my cleavage is all soapy smelling still. 7 hours is way too long for the soap factor to be in effect. Of to the swap boards it goes

I am no good at describing notes and what not. This is my hands down favorite BPAL scent. I started wearing it when it came out and adopted it as my signature scent. Very close to the skin creamy incense. Unfortunately my skin eats it up~ or I wear it so much that I stop smelling it cus I slather this one. Everybody loves it on me. I love the cardamom

I tried this one on last night. At first it was strongly lemon with something really lovely and incensey beneath it. Within half an hour the lemon was gone and I was left with a really sweet incense. This scent reminds me of a head shop in all of the good ways. Unlike a previous reviewer the sweetness makes it very feminine IMO. It is now morning and I still smell it on my wrists so there is a good lasting power. As with other BPAL fragrances I have tried there is no throw~ it stays close to the skin. I actually think incense might be the wrong phrase BTW. It is like standing over those oils at a head shop or the way the box smells when you first open it.... of course I go for resins such as amber and myrrah and francinscense! Exotic without being heavy or cloying. A total flashback to the 80's when I *did* work at a coop and all the gals wore essential oils and we did burn incense! I will wear this one very very often and I think it might become my fave scent.

edited because I cannot spell <g>

Oh No! I purchased multiple bottles of this unsniffed and in the bottle~ yummmmm but on me.... My left wrist smells like Salmiakki which has to be one of the nastiest tastes ever. Actually it doesn't smell like Salmiakki it smells like how Salmiakki tastes. Meanwhile my left elbow is burning and smells kinda good~ lemony but good. Why in the world am I getting lemon? Nope the lemon faded and there is the Salmiakki again. Thankfully my right wrist and elbow just ate up the frangrance and nothing is discenable. I can only pray that this stuff will age into something reasonably wearable because I have 4 bottles of it.... Cursed skin chemistry turning goodness into Salmiakki that has fallen into a dusty pit of musty dusty grossness... It just keeps turning uglier and uglier as I type. Please fade *fast*

I will edit this if it gets reasonable within the hour otherwise I'm taking a bath then cause I think I deserve a medal for wearing this that long

It has been 3 days and I keep wearing this hoping it will work~ I get extremely ill for the first few hours and then it mellows into yumm. I hope aging will get rid of the ill part because the mellowed version is unbelievably beautiful

In the bottle:yuck

Wet:soap

Drying down:Lemon Dishsoap

Dry:Lemon

quickly morphs into licorice

30 mins later: Star Anise which is one of my favorite smells. I actually have a bag of star anise I sniff on a regular basis. Not sure I want to smell like star anise but it certainly is a nice smell. Maybe in the summer to spice up something a wee bit too creamy. Yes I will buy a bottle of this!

But it's making my nostrils curl. OK, I'll be honest. It mostly reminds me of, um, poppers. Not that I know what that smells like... But I take a big whiff of my wrist and get light-headed. Definitely can't wear this as a fragrance.

 

ETA: After 30 minutes it's GONE. Completely. I can't even tell where I applied it.

OK thats it. I was trying to figure out what it reminded me of. Not that I would know of course In the bottle I was woah ick yuck does anybody like this ick yuck. It took me a couple of days to try it on. Within 20 mins it is much mellower and I keep sniffing. Came to read reviews and realized FS hit it on the head. At this rate I expect it to be totally gone within the hour. For this lack of staying power all I can say is thank you thank you thank you. Tho it might be nice on some smouldering hot day to cool one down.... Maybe mixed with witch hazel as a rub to combat the heat or a fever. It does feel very cool. I guess I might get another imp of this come summer. Mine was an almost empty imp thrown in with a purchase.....

I got this yesterday and dabbed some on my wrists and collarbone. Very pretty scent that stays close to the skin~ no throw to speak of on me. A soft pretty incensey floral~ very creamy. The dabs on my collarbone and between the breasts actually smelled funky compared to the wrist ones and faded much more quickly. It has been 13 hours and I still smell it on my wrist. I had to add this one to my wishlist because my eldest daughter wants some of her own. Will edit when I try it for a few more days but didn't want to miss saying ohhhhhh yeahhhhh baybeeeeee

I have now been wearing this scent for 5 years. Whenever I wear it I get compliments. I have hoarded several bottles since the reaction to it is so wunderbar but it is not the scent I reach for first or even think about. It really is more floral than I would normally pick. However when I do put it on I am confident in smelling great.