snowfox090

My favorite sandalwood is Dragon's Claw, hands down. I can barely detect the dragon's blood in it, it's almost pure sandalwood and it is gorgeous

I'd also recommend Hypothermia, if you can get ahold of it. It's less sweet, but just as minty and bracing as Lick It, and on me at least it's VERY potent.

Roses, Pearls, and Diamonds is absolutely gorgeous, with a soft creamy coconut note. However, it's also primarily a rose scent to me, so if you hate roses, it might be best to pass on it for now.

Aizen-Myoo. It is the most aggressively-grapefruity blend, that doesn't actually contain grapefruit, that I've ever tried. It is the olfactory equivalent of brilliant Dayglo yellow-green.

Ladon and Punkie Night. *nod* Ladon is a beautiful golden apple backed up with sweet spring florals on me. Punkie Night, on the other hand, smelled -exactly- like freshly crushed apple--pulp, juice, skin and all. With a tiiiiiny smidge of cider-spice at the very bottom.

Dragon's Claw! It is utterly perfect, and recieves -so- many compliments when I wear it. Kathmandu is also gorgeous.

The scent itself is heavenly. It starts out a sweet, smooth-as-silk sunwarmed grape, then fades into a softer scent that feels clean and comfortable while still remaining fruity.

But that's not what this oil is really about, is it? It's about effect, not aesthetics, and today I learned the hard way that the voodoo scents are not just perfume.

I work at Subway, and today I layered HJtC over Hungry Ghost Moon because I thought it smelled yummy. I forgot about it attracting wealth--and we had a record number of sales. There was no rhyme or reason to it; it just seemed that everyone in my tiny little town decided to get a sandwich for lunch today. I literally stood still for more than a handful of seconds *maybe* once. It was hot, exhausting, and frustrating, but hey! The store made money hand over fist!

OTOH, my boss *was* very complimentary of the way I handled it. "Kicking ass and taking names" was the phrase she used.

So yes, this stuff works. It works above and beyond my expectations. Powerful stuff.

Oh my lovely Kumiho, perfume of discerning foxes everywhere. Why must you fade so quickly?

This was the very first BPAL oil I ever tried on, a birthday gift from my boy. In the bottle it's lovely, sweet, and pale yellow-green, but with the oddest, faint edge of bubble solution. It makes me think of scented bubbles floating around, rainbowed in the sun.

On my skin, it starts out much the same, that lovely burst of light green sweetness (thankfully this time without the bubbles!). As it dries down it fades into a nearly-white scent, perhaps the faintest tinge of green to it, with the tiniest tannic edge from the tea if I inhale -very- deeply. Heaven, sweet cool refreshing Heaven in a little blue bottle. And like all good things, it's gone far too quickly--within half an hour, all I can smell is a faint ghost of tea on my wrist.

In my hair, it's an entirely different brand of beautiful. Although not a constant presence, every so often when I move I get this deep breath of sweet, sap-filled growing greenness. It makes me think of the first shoots of spring, snapped crisply in hand, their sap spilling over my fingers. It's a very -growing- scent, if that makes sense. Planty and full of life, enough that I wonder if it shouldn't be in Rappacini's Garden instead.

Just beautiful. I need a 10ml of this. Maybe more than one.

(Ack, my first review! Where did all that flowery stuff come from?! )

Spellbound. Whenever I smell it, I get an impression of vivid, glowing red and gold. Morocco's also good, in a soft lightly-browned red way.

Have you thought of writing to Dior to see if they have a record of it?

Ooo, good idea. Might be the only way to find out for sure.

She says it was the Dior version. Last night we brought out my imps for a sniffathon--Langour was close, but it disappeared within ten minutes on her!

Does anyone remember Infinity? I can't remember who made it, and it's one of my aunt's favorite perfumes. I want to enable her -so- bad, but we've been scouring the net without success for an hour trying to track down the notes. Does anyone who recalls this scent have any suggestions for a similar BPAL? TIA!

Yeah, Pain will kick your ass. It's...invigorating. And great for migraines, as a side benefit .

Really? Wow, I gotta try this one.

Ultraviolet. It's got a blast of mint to jolt you awake, then melts into the prettiest sugared violet scent. *purrs* I bet Pain would also work really well.

Although I don't think anyone's reviewed it, Obatala sounds like all coconut, all the time. Shea, milk, and water don't sound like they'd do much more than add a creamy, refreshing quality to the coconut scent... mmmm.