Dinerdulcinea

imp: fruit and herbs

wet: strange...it smells...FLUFFY! Sweet but not too sweet and soft but not too soft. Beautiful!

dry: stays lovely sweet musk. Some peach arrives and then fades. The musk remains. Great lasting and good throw.

Verdict: Very pleasant! a keeper!

imp: Fruit FESTIVAL! WOOHOO! Berries and citrus and nectarines and lemons.

mmmm...

wet: lovely citrus!!! Gorgeous!!!

dry: Gets a little faint after 2 hours but stays gorgeous. Light and pleasant! YUM! I'd like this to last longer, but it is just so beautiful I might use it anyway.

Verdict: YUMMY! A keeper!

imp: herby minty fruity

wet: bergamot?

dry: minty, fruity, and cool. A very icy scent to my nose.

Verdict...maybe now and then...we'll see.

ADDED 1/2/08:

too sugary sweet. Nauseatingly so. Must wash off!!!

imp: WHOAH! Strong and hard to pin down. Do I smell wood? herbs?

wet: RUBBING ALCOHOL!!!!

dry: SAME! (Hubby says later that it reminds him of the novacaine swab that the dentist uses)

Gets spicey after about an hour and 40 minutes.

Verdict: disappointing.

imp: cardamom and cinnamon.

wet: sour old Big Red gum.

dry: smells like Big Red gum that someone has chewed all the flavor from.

Verdict. No way.

imp:super-sweet headachy-floral...(probably the desert cereus)

wet: musky/sweaty sweet flowers. Also a chlorophyll smell that reminds me of the smell of cactus leaf sliced and gooey, and a very sweet flower.

dry: no more sweaty smell or greeney chlorophyll smell. Now there are heavy florals (cactus possibly, but more likely cereus) with a faint cocoa base waaaaaaaaaaaaay down at the bottom.

It stays a little bit too strong on the cereus note for me. I'll have to ponder if I am ever in the mood for this one.

imp: fruit, sugar.

wet: some kind of sour flower is coming up from the bottom. I smell the musk (that may be making it a bit sour right now) and the spicey carnation.

dry:this has a lovely warm spiciness, but there is too much if a "perfume-y" note that I am guessing may be the particular musk being used here. After 2.5 hours it all gets play-dough-y and very light. meh.

imp: 1st sniff...fruit. 2nd sniff...COCOA!!!

wet: wood, cocoa, fruit. mmmmmm...

Dry: the fruit goes slightly candy, but the cocoa really grounds it. I like it very much.

imp: lix a stix candy powder with cheap, flat champagne.

wet: same but with old squashed mint leaves.

dry: stale mint syrup.

Nah.

imp: Jean Nate bath splash

wet: weird...warm Jean Nate with something odd...cheap powder and cheap booze.

dry: too baby-powdery for me!! ble. Secret baby powder deodorant.

imp: luscious fruit

wet: fruit and some dry herbs...gets metallic.

dry: fruity burnt plastic bugspray! EEEEEEEEWWWWWWW!!!

imp: grapefuit

wet: grapefruit and something stinky.

dry: nasty, perfume-y flowers and grapefruit. ICK!

imp: musk and sweet sultry florals.

wet: spicy and warm! I like it!

dry: spicy and warm (good for fall/winter) but I am not sure about this---it's a little heavy in a bad way. I'm not sure it is "me."

Verdict: it's not unpleasant, but it is not really pleasant either. I think there is a "too perfume-y" note that is probably from the particular musk being used. Some like me and some don't...still working out which do which.

imp: has a cool breeze, warm desert smell about it. I can smell soft, sueded leather like doeskin. There is a dusty herbalness too (sage?).

wet: the cool breeze note has actually become a little "watery" or "aquatic" on me. hmmmm...

dry:this gets very soft on me without much of a smell at all...just a softness. Later I can smell the grasses, but they are green rather than dry. It is a very faint smell, not the overpowering scent of freshly mowed lawn...

Verdict: It is really too light on me and is rather average. Oh well.

imp: gooey chocolate brownie! MMMMMMMM!!!

wet: cocoa grande! lovely! It smells like powdered hot chocolate as it is drying. It goes through about 2 minutes of a metallic smell.

Dry: It is a nice cocoa for a little while, but then the metallic notes comes back. My hubby doesn't smell it, but I do.

Oh well. Probably a good thing since it is an old LE.

Verdict: nahhhhh.

imp: buttery sweetness with a kind of butterscotch...and a little buttered popcorn to my nose.

wet: soft buttery sweetness.

dry: sweet pinkness. Hubby says it smells like pepto bismol, but I don't think so. To my nose it smells like fruit and cake and buttercream icing.

Verdict: I'll have to think about this one since hubby thinks it smells like pepto and I like it.

imp: buttery sweet candy---like toffeee with extra butter.

wet: same with a little salt when I put more on and sniff. I also smell a smoke smell and metal and a dirty fairground smell.

dry: MORE of the same metal smell. The sweetness is still there, but the metal is so strong (and some other folks can smell the metal too) that I have to wash it off.

Verdict: SWAPS!

imp:reminds me of Scherezade only less "warm."

wet: same, but more of a tang of commercial perfume and flowers.

dry: OHHHH MYYYYYY! A gorgeous RICH scent that becomes more and more a delicious warm vanilla (so far, my perfect vanilla, I'd say) as the hours pass. It has incredible throw all day and more.

Verdict: Probably my alltime BPAL favorite so far. I just can't believe how AMAZING this turns as the day wears on. I can even smell it in my hair the next morning. I wish I had MOOOOOORE!!! This is what I had HOPED Snake Oil would smell like on me.

bottle: strawberries and cream creamsaver candy. yummy!

wet: FRESH wet SLICED strawberries. Amazing!!!

dry: Fresh uncut strawberries with the green part still on them. Later, it becomes more and more sage-y. Sage sage sage with a little strawberry sweetness.

A co-worker just tried to bite me. I guess it is a winner!

Verdict: KEEPER!

imp:dark chocolate and cream with sugar.

wet: Nutter Butter peanut butter cookies (2 people PLUS me smelled this ---without ANY suggestion)

dry: cocoa powder. Gets a little metallic note but that is not noticible to anyone else but me (nothing like Lump of Coal and Midway do on me). Mostly, I just smell cocoa. MMMMMMMM...

I'd like a bottle of this...but I don't covet it like I do Snake Charmer.

imp:earth and pale wood like Destroying Angel smells to me, with some far away sweet fruit.

wet: it's funny, but my skin seems to suck it all up. It becomes faint.

dry: this is VERY much like Destroying Angel on me. I can't believe it! Whatever in in Destroying Angel...I am getting the same note here VERY strongly with some extra notes very faintly.

I am shocked this is not more different on me! How odd!

UPDATE: I did a quick small test on the other arm and I got a lot more musk and some plum, which was nice...but the same woody note was still there too much. All in all, it makes it too manly on me.

imp:spicy, peppery florals

wet: a little bubblegum, a little citrus, a little candy, a little floral.

dry: nice for while, then a lemon smell TAKES OVER and it becomes very sour for about an hour or 2...then it turns into this gorgeous, well-blended fruity floral. (????) Where did that come from after the lemon?

Verdict: The last stage is lovely, but i am not sure I can take the sour lemon stage. *ponders*

imp: pine, fruit

wet: lovely spicy wooded fruit.

dry: This is nice, but there are other things I like more (like Ssssssssnake Charmerrrrrr). I tried it on the hubby and it turned too floral on him...but it was a little too masculine on me.

imp:butterscotch, baked goods (snickerdoodle cookies?) and perfume

wet:same, only less butterscotch and more perfume. nice.

dry: It gets really lovely for a while and I can see how people compare it to Snake Charmer, even though it is different. I smell a hint of something menthol-y (but nobody else smells it). I tried adding a bit of Scherezade to see if it would be mroe snake charmer-y...it is, but still not THAT close. The menthol smell comes and goes to my noze, but I get big thumbs up from my coworker who likes BPAL. He likes it plain and with Scherezade, but he likes it best layered with Scherezade.

Verdict-Not bad! But I like Snake Charmer better. *sigh*

I like Dragon's Milk for a cold/rainy day scent. It is so warm and rich and lovely that it smells to me like how curling up at home with hot cocoa on a very snowy day feels. Does that make sense?