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In the imp's ear I would have sworn that this had pine or cedar or some other woody scent to it, of course it doesn't so I have no idea why I get that. But it was a strong earthy woody wet scent to me.

 

Dry its a whole different beast. It turns into an incensy orangy floral which is anchored by a warm woody scent. I really can't pull out the individual elements other than the orange blossom and I suppose the patchouli is the incensy warmth, but this is really nice, very different and sophisticated. I like it a lot.

This one reminded me of Bacchanalia in that it also is a thick musky fragrance. Initially, oddly enough, it reminded me of a really robust round white wine in that it was strong with a floral scent and that thick musky-ness like Bacchanalia but without the purple grapyness of that scent. It dried down and stayed quite strong in that I would catch whiffs of myself from my wrists without even trying. I completely agree that this is a very sexual scent. I assume its that musky civet. I kinda like this although its not an everyday scent for me, it is nice to wear when I know I can spend some one on one time with my hubby.

Name: Erin

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Photo: still trying to figure out how to do this one

Sin of choice: Lust followed closely by vanity

Virtue you embody: Honesty (brutal honesty) and loyalty

Astrological Info: Sagittarius, but a wanna-be scorpio

How you found out about BPAL: From shriekingviolet and viciousviolet's poetic reviews on MUA.

Any comments you'd like to add about the Lab or life in general:

About the Lab: I have never had such personal customer service. Elizabeth provides updates on her status the status of the lab and the shipments. She clearly cares about her customers and her product and it shows in the complex unusual and enticing blends she creates.

About life in general: If you don't take risks you will always wonder what might have been. Also, sometimes falling without a net is the only way to inspire growth.

Wet, I swear I smelled carnation, the spicy/floral carnation not the powdery one. I have no idea where I get it from since there is no carnation in this blend.

Dry, its a lovely light and bright white-floral. The sandalwood adds depth to the bright florals. This is very nice and I will undoubtedly be wearing this more as the weather gets hotter.

This is gorgeous and unusual. Its a sparkling fresh green scent. I ordered it because sage is my favorite herb when cooking, and oddly enough, I don't smell particularly of sage. I definately detected sage when I opened the vial, but on it mellows and morphs into an herby green fresh scent. It is perfect for a sunny cool spring day!

What else it there to say? Its chocolate -- milk chocolate to my nose. A very true chocolate scent, and although I love and cannot live without chocolate, I do not like foody-bakery-sweet scents. If you do, I believe you would love this.

I must be in the minority for not immediately falling in love with this. For me, wet it smelled like berry sweet-tarts with a touch of floral, when I first applied it smelt strongly of sweet-tart tangy berries with florals wafting around the edges. Dry it loses the berries and the tart tangy scents and becomes a soft sandalwood-floral. I like the dry-down quite a bit although I am very partial to anything with sandalwood in it. I am not too sure about the stages before dry-down and I will have to sample this again before I make up my mind.

I know its not particularly helpful or evocative but the words that come to mind with this scent truly are warm, slightly sweet, and spicy. Not hot pepper spicy but more like many spices grouped together. Its as if you were standing in an Egyptian souk between a cafe serving sweet tea and baklava and a spice vendors stall. I believe this may be a perfect scent -- I adore it and I intend to reapply before bed tonight.

In the bottle this smelled light, soft, and warm. I just barely detected an herbal floral scent wafting around on top of something woody.

Wearing I initially smelled the sandalwood and some green herby scent quite strongly, but it calmed down after about 10-20 minutes into a very calm, quiet scent. On me, the drydown is very cohesive in that I can no longer pull out the individual elements. The floral and herbal and green (grass I guess) scents are soft and light rounding out the warm woody base. I find this to be very calming, centering, and quiet scent. It feels like the season is right now, transitioning into spring, but not having reached the full explosion of the colors of spring. I like it and expect I will wear it often during these start of spring days.

If I can come up with a more descriptive review I will edit, but my initial impression is that this is a meditative and light scent.

Yay! Three Cheers for Elizabeth! Thanks for the update, I just want to let you know I got my package today. I am in heaven floating around on cloud 9. Thank-you for helping me to smell so bewitchingly good!!!

I third all the above sentiments! Thank-you for keeping us posted about the status of the shipments, thank-you for following up on them and please, please, keep yourself well so that we can continue to order from you! By the way, I got my order today! Yippee!

Hmm, me too! I'm in the Atlanta area, but I'd be more than happy to tie or label or do any other drudge work to help ease your load. Let me know if I can help! Also, my mom's in Newport Beach, I could probably get her to help you if you need/want it. She just moved there and doesn't know many people or have any hobbies going on right now.

So awesome, I thought I might never get an avatar to use! Many many thanks!

Elizabeth- I have to agree don't make yourself sick with stress, we will all survive. Sure people get antsy when their order doesn't arrive, but no one is going to fall apart because of it. I strongly suggest that the USPS is still just jacked up with mail and at least state-side, I am betting they just take a long time. I personally will not be concerned until at least 3 weeks have gone by. I have no idea why they take so long, but getting mail from my mom in CA to GA still is taking at least a week, and it should only be a few days, I expect packages take longer. Its a hassle, but don't stress too much, we love your oils and no one is going to love them any less because the packages are taking a while. I for one already have my next 4 orders planned out. We love you and we love your oils.

 

 

Erin in Georgia

ShriekingV-

 

The new features rock! I love em! Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to make this forum so easy to use and keeping it fun.

Enjoy your break! Good luck to Ted with the hockey games & I hope you get lots of sleep, rest and fun!

If you are using ccnow, there is a place for notes and you just list the names of the samples you wish to try there.

I hope you are taking a wonderful and relaxing vacation. Hopefully sometime next month I will be able to narrow down my wishlist to a managable size and place an order (again)!

This is amazing! You have done incredible work putting the forum here and it looks fantastic, kudos to you! Three cheers! Yay!!!

I found Faustus to be a spicy warm slightly powdery scent. Mostly I smell a dry incensy scent (frankinscense I assume) warmed by cinnamon, the violets lurk around the edges softening the scent and keeping it from being too austere. I like this a lot and I don't find it to be too masculine at all. However, I have also been known to wear men's cologne from time to time since they are usually spicy and warm and less floral than many women's scents. I like this a lot, I will definately be using up my imp's ear and may even buy a bottle.

To me this is a slightly sweet heather. Beth provides the perfect name and description for this! Based on sniffing my wrist alone, you can just envision a bunch of heather blooming near some craggy hills in Scotland. I like this a lot, its a really nice casual Sunday relaxed fragrance perfect for lounging around, reading the paper and of course smelling really really nice.

I'd gladly pay, this has quickly become my favorite forum/site. OOOps well, Thank-You so much for hosting this and starting this place. You are a wonderful person to take this on and very thoughtful to find another place for it to go to.

This is such a unique scent! Wet it smells of grapes, thick purple sweet grape juice, or ripe concord grapes heavy on the vine. That quickly morphs into a drydown that is pure sex. Musky animalistic sex tamed only by the sweetness of the orange blossoms and the sweet winey grapes. This is a bold scent, perfect for a hot date with your honey.

Initial impression: very rosy and perfumy

Drydown thoughts: I like it, the incensy patchouli and sandalwood come out and the rose calms down. I don't know what palmarosa smells like so I cant say if I can smell it or not, but this is a very nice really well blended and balanced drydown. I will definately continue to wear this one. Also, I layered this one with Haunted the other day and it was also quite lovely.

For me in the bottle it was very almondy, on my skin I felt very Chrismas-like in that I smelled a lot of orange and clove, a little like a pomander. The dry down is lovely, I still smell orange, a little rose and some spices. I like this a lot, in fact, I may be wearing this exclusively for the next week or so.