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Thanks so much for pointing me at that review, kscha.

 

It's definitely an earlier version of it, as I wasn't purchasing in 2012. I'm wondering if it just didn't get a review?

 

Is there anyone else who remembers an older an earlier version of Theotokos? Was it the same formulation as the newer one? I have a cold and just can't tell and someone interested in the bottle.

Does anyone remember the Winter BPAL bottle that had an icon of the Virgin Mary on it? I believe it was called Theodosis but when I look for it in reviews I can't find it. I have an old bottle of it, but the label is damaged and I can't quite read it. It's from when I first started BPAL so back around 06 maybe? It was one of my first bottles. I'd appreciate any help tracking it, and the review page down. Thanks!

Egg moon? Hay moon?

Egg here

 

Hay here

 

Plus, Persianmouse's review of Egg Moon is hilAIRious.

 

 

On the question at hand, unless they're doing full body scans, I've put the bottles in my pocket, in my luggage, etc. with no problem. Have you flown that way before or do you know what security is like at your terminals? The safest way is to put them in your luggage well wrapped, but I've walked through terminals with several bottles in my pockets. Once I think I was asked about one, but I opened it up, the TSA agent sniffed appreciatively and that was that. It's perfume, not explosives. I do cringe at the thought of somebody over-enthusiastically dumping a rare 5ml, but...

I'm not a note maven, but these are my impressions, on my skin. A series of very clean, subtle scents...

 

MCXCIV -- clean scent, goes on cotton and smooth, light soft mild floral on drydown. Clean linen, very fresh and soft. Linden blossom? Dandelion? Goes all soft and creamy.

 

DCXV -- soft, sweet sugar. The sweetness of Treat I without any fruit. Vanilla in there, but mostly sugar without being SUGAR or really foody at all if that makes any sense.

 

MCCCLXII -- Clean background, astringent herbal on top. Lemongrass? Bay? I haven't the faintest. While it's definite in the bottle, this is not forefront on the skin giving a faint edge within this overall CLEAN impression. Creamy slight herbal goes really nicely soft and sweet on full drydown.

 

DLVII -- again very light with a touch of leather and fruit. Nice drydown where it goes to sweetness. Maybe some faint apple at the end.

 

MCCXIX -- light in bottle but the darkest of the lights thus far, or lightly touched with dark, if that makes any sense. Maybe a waft of something like patchouli but mostly light resins. There's a kinda 'spicy' note here that's common in a lot of my favorite blends and I wish I knew what it was.

 

I also wish I knew what the background is in all of these oils. It's a clean faintness that makes me want to go to all the lighter oils or maybe the background on the lunar oils. A light skin musk?

 

I smell unexpectedly delicious and I kind of want to mix them all together. LOL I was just going to put this up here because I was sorting through to smell and sell and now I kinda want to mix them all together and find out what that background is. Gah!

 

ETA: I think they're all skin musk, most with just one note more (1 floral, 1 vanilla, 1 herb, 1 leatherish and 1 resin. Cool)

I'm pulling out rares from my impage for impending sale and thought I'd give a few of them a try first. I'd heard good things about Masabakes for a while now, and I understand why -- it's an interesting mix, kinda floral, kinda fruity, kinda spicy, kinda sexy.

 

Imp huffing gets me mostly myrrh, cedar and a little fruit.

 

Wet: kinda grapey-winey spice that swiftly gets a little...citrusy? Ok. Sharp but good.

 

Dry? Deep resin-y goodness kinda sweetened. Dark. Sexy. Good.

 

Yeah, I get it.

Hi guys! Thanks so much for the answers. Yes, it is the forum only scent for the wedding. I know and love Jolly Rodger but this has a very different look. Thanks for the thought, though, Mel85, and thanks very much for pointing me to the review portalkat. Good to "see" you btw.

Is there a review page for the Pirate Flag scent from October 31st 2007 (an event exclusive I think but I can't find it when I check that area)? I might be looking in the wrong area, but would appreciate a kindly nudge in the right direction, or indeed, what to actually call the scent.

I like good Karme.

 

For me, it registers as purely bright and fresh: a little bit of sunshine in a bottle. Maybe a bit grassy, definitely bright, almost a white light floral.

 

On: Softens up and goes creamy. I do get that floral feeling, but perhaps I'm associating it with the green note under some rose scents I like. Gord lies very low underneath, throwing hints up now and then and giving some stability. Mostly waving greenery on a sunny day, resting in the cool shade.

 

Soft, creamy, fresh. Like lying in the grass in your backyard next to clover.

 

Really good summer scent. It's hot already!

Bat's Day gift with much thanks!

 

The ginger in this scent is soooo dry and crisp it's Death Valley scary and happily so!

It may be candied, but you'd break your teeth biting into it...unless you're a ghoul. Then maybe it would just freshen your breath.

 

Because it *is* very fresh, almost lemony at first, and I do understand the reference to a slightly sweat-like edge, similar to what I get sometimes with grapefruit actually.

 

The ginger sits at the forefront and throws its weight around for quite some time, which I'm rather grateful for as my skin tends to just eat things so it's always nice to get something that lasts and throws.

 

Then we're a bit musky sweat-ginger-like...maybe that's meant to be the dessicated skin. Perhaps if Shub had a younger, smart-ass second-cousin, an embarrassment to the family who stole the milk from the kiddies and knocked over mailboxes as a hobby..but don't go all Shub crazy on me now! Seriously. This scent has teeth.

 

ETA: On full dry down last night I noticed what I'm assuming to be the non-ginger spices coming out a lot, which was pretty nice. Long lasting for me so if you've got skin that sucks scent up this might be something to try.

Received as a frimp on Bat's Day 2008: thanks Lab!

Every now and then Beth pulls out one of her what I call "trick" perfumes. In my own terminology, this means a perfume that's *such* a dead ringer, so evocative, that it just makes me want to go full on squee with glee: the popcorn of Shill, the warm dry stone in the road (on me) of the Clod and the Pebble. It's genius.

When I first applied this, on *my* skin, this scent did a story-morph I would not have missed for the world. It was as if you were standing next to someone eating a banana, who then throws the peel to the ground. The peel begins to slowly decay, and in it's fade comes this dry dusty decay. Literally, a banana peel in a graveyard. Eventually the peel fades entirely and I was left with the graveyard alone. I would not have believed it if I didn't smell it myself.

It went from very strong bananas in the vial to an almost bananas foster note on the skin, to a faintly decaying banana...peel! Yes. A peel!...lying on the ground (dirt note). And then on to a dusty graveyard scent.

It's insane. I've repeated the experiment with slightly varying result: more creme in the banana initially, a longer fade, a shorter fade, and a lingering sweetness at the end. Yes, my skin chemistry is more than a bit wonky right now and I am a bit stuffy as well, but STILL!

It's delightful. It's skilled. I'm amazed. Maybe this isn't what it's supposed to be. I know other people who get bananas and patchouli and on whom bananas foster lingers or the patchouli deepens, and I'd be jealous really...except I get a story. I love the story. Thanks!

Rat King mixed with something else. It's pretty disturbingly furry.

From Fatalbellydance and the Civet Evangelism Circle:

 

In the imp, faintly herbal. Pleasant. Unstrenuous.

 

On: I smell like my precious auntie! She has a lotion that smells something like this. Ummm...so maybe a little waxy (as some lotions will), a little fresh from the shower clean/soap (but not bad soap) and a little herbal.

 

I love the sage in Lear. I'm not getting a strong sage from this.

 

Kind of an early throw, but it's on a shoulder which might account for it.

 

Very nice lotion skin fresh from the shower, wearing a robe, sitting in her kitchen and talking to me. Put my nose against it and I'm getting a hug from her.

 

Awwwwww...I love my aunt!

 

Thank you BPAL and the Civet Evangelism Circle for giving me a "Love Teta" scent.

Big squishy hugs to you, hot tea, comfortable bedclothes and much love.

Lust comes from Fatalbellydance and the Civet Evangelism Circle:

 

It's not really registering much to my nose in the imp, kind of a nebulous ah a dark scent red musk patchouli hmm...etc.

 

Put in ON though, and it's distinctive. Spicy definitely. Ylang ylang comes out to play for a little and the patchouli is just watching the swings from the background like a good mum at the park. Is it myrrh that lends it this interesting spice? It's got this really delicious edge that registers and feels like the swirling center of the scent. An edgy muskiness.

 

Fun!

 

But is it lusty? Let's try!

Orange creamsicle! The Devil is an orange creamsicle to me!

I know that makes no sense.

I'm sorry.

 

But that's what it smells like fresh!

 

The orange part goes FAR background quickly but the creamy bit stays.

Very fresh, some musk, a little sharpish.

 

A little floral, somewhat lily-esque or toy doll head smelling. Yes, I can't keep away from the weird associations. Maybe faintly lavender, but not really.

 

Very pleasant! Goes a bit darker as it dries, come up from underneath-like. The floral note is enough to make this a little heady while the musk(?) keeps playing solid in the same range as the floral. For me this all takes place in a high place with very little underpinning it. It's dancing in the penthouse and upper/midfloor but haz no basements.

 

That doesn't make sense either but good luck to you!

From Sealgair, queen of reviews, and the Civet Evangelism Circle:

 

In the imp, this...well, I just say scrummy! It's yummers! It's delightful in other words, sweet and fun and sexy.

 

On the skin, this goes sweaty hairy sexy guy very quickly.

Now, initially the sweaty hairy guy is kind of randy and sexy with a little fir tree or faint cedar maybe...and I'm working with that, but MY he's really throwing his scent around!

 

I mean it's much more rare for me to be able to smell a scent, I mean have it really in my nose, while I'm typing and be worried that it's carrying over to my beloved on the couch (hates the BPAL) but I'm choking on the fumes here because I'm afraid Saytr has taken a bit of a turn. Generally I'm lucky with scent. I've rarely RARELY ever have something "go" on me, but for a while here it's kinda... and worse yet, crawling up my nose UGH.

 

However, just in the course of typing this that ugh has turned a bit to relief since now I can really smell the red musk/patchouli, a bit soapy and rubbery faintly but OH so infinitely better than before. It's still a little flat/chokey from a distance. Nose to crook of arm it's much better and sweeter but it's kind of light a faint gassy flatness when my nose isn't up against skin.

So much so, that I want to keep my nose buried in my arm so I don't have to endure it...

...and I can't type if I do that.

I'm sorely tempted to wash this off except for faint wafts of sweet deliciousness that drift up occasionally. It's mostly patchouli and red musk, I imagine, but it keeps getting negated by whatever WWI toxic vapor persists in rising up crying "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"

I need a TimeLord to move us up a few hours and gets to a full dry stage which I hope will be better...

 

Thanks Doctor!

 

Okay, this is better.

*wipes sweat from brow*

Lovely sweet grittiness with a kind of fresh, sharper edge.

I need not chew my arm off.

Yay!

 

(And yes, by the clock this didn't take very long, but it felt like an eternity!)

Courtesy of Innana9 and the wonderful Civet Evangelism Circle with all courtesies extended to the Lord of the Forest, despite this being principally a scent review:

 

Caveats fully in place...we now review.

 

In the imp this is rather bitter and harsh. There's an almost smoky edge to it. Dirty and mossy.

 

On the skin this almost burns a bit. Am I being rejected? I'm soorry!!! And here I always thought I had a bit of a feral, masculine side. At any rate...

It's definitely tingly. It's pine-y, cedarish at first but has a dark muskiness that follows through.

Then it turns into a musky patchouli with a little floral. It's almost sweet.

 

 

It doesn't make ME feel particularly controlling, but still I wish I had someone to dominate right now, if only for the sake of science. :wicked:

Cranberry seduces from afar through the Civet Evangelism Circle:

 

Seduction is interesting, an almost candy-like whiteness in the imp. It's triggering some sort of scent-memory reflection but I cannot for the life of my specify what it is.

 

On: I'd also vote for lily, since SmileCat let me sniff some Tiger Lily as an example when we met up recently. Civet turns to lily on her, and here we have civet pared with something that's already lily. Lil-stravaganza!

 

At any rate, lily. It's a smooth creamy floral. I don't find it particularly seductive and regrettably today is a miserable day to try my powers of seduction because I'm overwhelmingly busy, as is my partner. Alas. We'll see if this overcomes. :wicked:

Cranberry geeks out, on behalf of the Civet Evangelism Circle:

 

In the imp this smells like leather, then a little patchouli, then a little somp'in somp'in else.

 

On it begins that bright fresh thing, then hits mostly with leather and patchouli.

 

I'm begining to detect a pattern with the civet-y scents. It seems to be pared a lot with patchouli and seems to always carry a bit of cedar, fir, pine or woodsy scent along with it. Of course, the results all tend to be quite different, which is the fun thing.

 

A bright leather & patchouli. Very nice!

 

ETA: By bright I don't mean that the scent of the leather is that very fresh leather, but rather that there's a brightness to the scent irrespective of the leather and patchouli which ground it. It darkens and sweetens slightly later on.

Raving thanks to Cranberry and the Civet Evangelism Circle:

 

In the imp this is glorious. My first thought was YUM!

Orange blossom smells very juicy to me and deliriously pleasant with just a tiny tiny hint of patchouli.

 

Alas, on my skin the orange blossom is sucked away immediately and the civet (I imagine) begins doing it's fresh almost cedary thing briefly, and then the whole thing goes faint. Woe is me.

 

It's a pleasant faint -- sweet, slight patchouli, hintingly orangish, but my nose would have to be right up against my arm and I don't walk good that way. (I've tried. I've failed.)

Love to Cranberry of the Civet Evangelism Sniffing Circle:

 

This smells a lot brighter in the imp than several of the civet ones I've tested. To my nose it's almost a golden spicy smell.

 

Once it hits the skin the florals open up. I had thought perhaps a little carnation in the imp (because of the spiciness) but here I have to back the rest of the reviewers and think jasmine...or maybe even a little gardenia? It's heady, certainly.

 

It's pleasant. If my love starts snorfing up my left arm, where I've tested Fire of Love as well, we'll know it works.

 

There's a bit of a dead space in the center of this scent, that everything seems to be dancing around, an absence if you will. Barely noticable under the floral. The spices are giving it a little punch but my skin doesn't telegraph it that much. Floral feels a tiny bit sour to me, not much civet that I can smell directly.

From the illustrious Cranberry, per the Civet Evangelism Circle:

 

This is very dusty on me.

Very dusty, then very woody.

There's this flat, kind of Chinese medicine cabinet part of this, which is a tiny bit like I get from the LE Frederick. Makes me think of astralingus and this medicine you can brew up for wellness.

But mostly dusty wood.

Since I find libraries sexy, whoot!

It gets a little darker as it dries down.

A very close skin-scent for me, but many things are.

Yay Baitu, who gifted it to the Civet Evangelism Circle:

 

Hmmm...Now, here is something in the imp that registers as sexy. It's underneath some things, but it's reading sex to me. Let's try it, shall we?

 

On the skin: Immediately this begins doing nice things. The wood note is really carrying through the waft, kind of laddering everything if that makes any sense.

 

There's a definite sweetness to it. It's charming. A very friendly, cuddling wolf.

 

Let's see if it gets more sexy as it dries.

Hmmm...Very woodsy and dry but the amber and red musk warm it up and sweeten it. Is there any sage here? Just a little?

 

In any event:

Lovely!

Rather sophisticated, actually.

From the lovely Baitu and the Civet Evangelism Circle -- Go Civeteers!:

 

For me, I can smell juniper in the imp from the start. It's not a gin drink in your face, but simply nice and fresh and there.

 

On the skin, the musk comes out and I think that's the ambergris (I'm never too sure). But definitely pine/juniper-y resins too. For a sec I did get that candied pine impression that a previous reviewer got, which was exciting, but that's not really where this is right now. I get a little pitch, too, if that makes sense. As someone who grew up close to the woods, this is a pleasant experience and a memory trigger.

 

As it dries it tends to vary between a more artificial pine note and something more interesting and deeper.

Part of Innana9's contribution to the civet circle:

 

One of the things I've noticed as a Civeteer is that civet seems to be pared with the darker earthy scents, perhaps because it adds that hint of freshness or a crisper edge to it and keeps things interesting.

 

At any rate, yes, here we have a lovely dark, wet, sweetness in the imp that when applied opens up to a very civet-like (for me) freshness. That's a lot of bright sunshine for a dark god! Perhaps it's his duel nature! Because of course there's the dark undertone too it as well. Actually, it's kind of dancing! Definitely patchouli brightened with lemon/fir/cedarishness.

 

I'm very attracted to the Slavic background of this story, but alas, I think that Czernobog is already leaving me. It's skin scent bare minutes out, and remains just a zingy, fresh scent with a little patchouli sweetness.

 

He likes me, but apparently, I do not hold his attention.

Well, there are those goddesses he hangs with, you know.

 

 

It's a strangely pronounced freshness, although faint, if that makes any sense. Kind of like standing in front of one of those air filtration things: an almost unscented FRESHNESS!

 

Czernobog -- the fresh-maker!