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    I wanted this scent because of the linden blossom - I snatched a decant a few years ago and I'm pretty sure I just forgot to test this! Realized it now, because it had no comments in my bpal-sheet so I searched it yesterday and tested it finally!

     

    Wet: Beautiful, fresh, linden blossom and soap. How cool would it be, if this would smell like this on me. But I turn everything sweet. We will see.

    Dry: 😳 this is the first scent, that does not go sweet on me! This stays fresh! :wub:

     

    This is the 80's! It's funny, but that's the first thing that comes to my mind when I smell this: The 80's! Which means for me: Feeling protected and happy and like a child again (but it doesn't mean that it's a childish scent!). And yes, it is like soap - but really beautiful soap with some linden blossoms! I totally want to smell like this. I don't get the vanilla - and while I love vanilla I think this is a good thing, cause otherwise I would have turned this into something sweet again!

    Definitely a bottle! 

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    First: I love Blood Amber. It’s my signature scent, it’s always beautiful and „fluid“, perfect, red and golden swirls, it makes me happy and confident. Since it’s OOS right now, I had to blind buy a bottle of this, because I do love Snow White and the thought of Snow White and Blood Amber was just so tempting (since the other Frostbitten Scents seems to be „scent“ + Snow White).

    But …

    Wet: a bit gingerbread and soft snow. A hint citrus.

    Dry: more amber. Creamy, yet dusty amber with a hint of gingerbread.

    After two hours: Still creamy amber, there is some very faint Snow White.

    It’s a comfy scent, it’s nice and behaved but it’s not outstanding. From my point dissapointing because there is just no Blood Amber in it. Well, yes, perhaps the „Amber“ part, but not the „Blood“ part. I’m not sure if I’ll keep the bottle. I have to retest it when I have erased the connection to my beloved Blood Amber from my brain. Then I can try to judge it without prejudice.

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    It just seems that most of the popular scents are nothing for me. So this is ... sexy? On me it's a cup of black tea with some lemon. In fact not even that, my husband has one black tea (forgot the name) which smells just like Dorian.

     

    I wanted to write an extensive review. But through all the stages it is and stays: a cup of tea. Something I don't aim for, when wearing a perfume. I so wanted to get what Ina Garten Davita wrote in the very first review, cause it sounds so great. But I'm just sitting in the parlor with my tea and the Victorian gentleman stood me up. Damn

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    Hi there!

     

    Have been away for quite some time - again *sigh* All the time I have been waiting for an update for Revenant Rhythm. Wasn't there talk about it becoming a GC? I know about the hair gloss etc and when it came online I was "ah well, I'm waiting for the perfume blend ... no need to go for the gloss". Now I regret this decision. Anyway ... any information about it?

     

    I asked Puddin about it about a month ago and currently they are out of a component and are not sure whether or not they'll be getting it again. So right now it's permanently out of stock unless they can can obtain more of that component.

     

     

    Thank you!

     

    But really not the answer I was hoping for. Well I'll just hope the component will be available again.

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    Hi there!

     

    Have been away for quite some time - again *sigh* All the time I have been waiting for an update for Revenant Rhythm. Wasn't there talk about it becoming a GC? I know about the hair gloss etc and when it came online I was "ah well, I'm waiting for the perfume blend ... no need to go for the gloss". Now I regret this decision. Anyway ... any information about it?

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    My bottle says lotion / very water resistant sunscreen.

     

    Have been to the page, too, and was surprised by the lack of information ...

     

    Funny, the components listed are nothing my nose is picking up - well except for Flower Extract. But the rest?! :blink:

     

    late to reply, but I know someone mentioned that the 2009 LE Season of Ghosts smells a lot like Australian Gold sunscreen to them. Just a warning, it's pretty hard to track down.

     

    Never too late :D Thank you, so I'll perhaps take the quest and search for it. I admit I have hopes that the Coconut Vanilla and Tiare HG is something like Australian Gold, but nobody mentioned it - sounds delicious anyway, so I ordered it ;)

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    First of all: Congratulations and I wish you the best for your pregnancy :hug:

     

     

     

    If you are pretty sure that the scent will work on you: Why not get a bottle and wait till you can wear perfume again. If it's a fail, you can still trade it away later, after proper testing. But I think I would not bother testing new GC-stuff ... on the other side: Could be that you find the perfect scent-locket scent!

     

    The moment I knew about my pregnancy I stepped away from all my perfumes and make-up. First because I knew I should not wear them, after some time because I didn't even want to wear them. So I didn't test anything and I did not wear my scent locket.

     

    I even had to hide my TKO massage oil bottle - a scent I often used for sleeping time - because I just could not stand it any more and opening the closet where I stored it was terrible! It took quite some time before the scent went totally away. But funny how something you always liked turns into something so very ugly. But I was really sensitive. Only had to throw up once in the 12 weeks, but I was not able to open the fridge or to feed my guinea pigs. Even after my miscarriage it took some time before I could use TKO again.

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    This is a approx. 2 years old frimp.

     

    Okay, this is going to be short:

    Mint toothpaste! Somewhere in the dry stage there comes a hint of fruit, but it stays way in the background. Since I'm not a big fan of toothpaste-mints I won't be wearing this as a perfume but I'll keep it to test if it helps me when I have a cold.

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    This one was a frimp from the lab. My biggest loves came from frimps - but this one ist just terrible, ugly and negative. :ack:

     

    Wet it's pure medicine on me. Something you smell in hospitals and gives you the feeling that something is wrong and you want to run away, away from hearing some bad news.

     

    Dry the medicine steps back a bit and makes the ashes and the fire come out. But not a nice, cozy fire, which makes you grab some cocoa and a book! No this is a mean, bad, vicious fire. It burns down your house and all the stuff you love and leaves you feeling empty.

     

    This scent has such a negative vibe to it, that I almost feel scared and I really can't wait to wash it off. Something in it triggers some really bad feelings in me and turns my stomach into a big, hard stone.

     

    Need to get rid of this and apply something poitive, warm, cozy.

     

    Wow, never had such a bad reaction to any BPAL ... like a nightmare.

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    Hi there!

     

    Is there any BPAL with is similar to Australian Gold Fragrance #1? I really like the scent but obviously I don't want to slather myself with sunscreen for perfume purposes ... and I can't pinpoint what this scent is! There is some coconut in it, I think. And some fruit I can't figure out.

     

    Picked up a bottle of this on our honeymoon in Mexico - here in Germany Australian Gold is not available in drugstores and now this is THE vacation scent for my husband and me and gives us right away this great, sunny, warm and totally relaxed honeymoon feeling. I don't know if it's common in the US - but if someone knows it and has a similar BPAL scent in mind: Tell me :wub2:

     

    Have a nice day!

    Antaria

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    I almost bought a bottle of this unsniffed because I love cucumber/green/grass - I'm so happy I did not!

     

    Yes, this is cucumber - but it's not fresh. It's rotten. You know, the sort of cucumber you cut and see that it is already yellow inside? Like this but 10times stronger + somehow like someone perfumed the cucumber with a terrible scent.

     

    A total no-go, I had to wash it off :P

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    I'm so sorry that I have to say this. BUT PP III ist ugly on me :D There is no chocolate, no pomegranate and no cream. :P

     

    There is only sweet tabacco and smoke :D It is really terrible on me and I would like to wash it away but I sweard to give it 2 propper chances (this is already the second). I think it is the caramel. Hellcat has the same behaviour on me.

     

    I guess this is the first 5ml bottle which I can't stand. :)

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    The mint vanishes within the first minutes and after that there stays a hospital-scent. Really hospital. After some hours it gets a bit better, not as pungent any more, but after all: This one is not for me. (which I already thought - I just bought it because I liked the name somehow ...)

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    Breezes blowing off of the waters of the Caribbean: marine accord, seaweed, and bladderwrack.


    :D The first to review this one!!

    My very first first review ... well, lets get started!

    Imp: Wonderful salty sea breeze!

    Wet: It's like the part of Jolly Rogers that I really love which reminds me of wind, sea water, perhaps a bit of wood. Really beautiful!

    Dry: Still a bit of the salty sea breeze but a lot of soap, too. It reminds me of a blue bubble bath we used as kids. Somehow I love it because it brings back the memorys of hugging my dad after he had a bath - he always used a lot of this bubble bath and later on those evenings the hole house smelled like this.

    I would have loved Windward Passage more if it would stay in the wet phase - but I still like it :)

    In addition it is one of those few BPALs which does not turn sweet on me.

    It doesn't have much throw - at least not compared to Pumpkin Patch III (2007) which I have on my other hand.

    Definitly a keeper and I will try to use it in my hair, on my boyfriend and as a room scent :P Perhaps a bottle one day ...

    edit:
    Later: A lot of the soap is vanished and now it is again more like wet - it is not the perfection of the initial scent but still - I like it a lot :D

    edit2:
    Lots later: It is really nice and still fresh and salty. Everytime I get a whiff from it I smile. The soap is now completly gone. I'm sure I'll buy a big bottle once because this makes me happy.

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    Well, tracking down what it really is seems hopeless ... and I can't say that I think it's citrus-like (hate citrus :P ). The twist is more in the scent because ... well I never realized that the color would change - it is neon-yellow and mine stay neon-yellow.

     

    *sigh* Perhaps I take a piece of a melt into a perfume-shop and ask if they have anything that goes in the same direction. And buy all I can find on ebay :D

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