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NEW REVIEW because after looking back, I was unhappy with my old one.

Mrrrrow.
Of all the GC's I've tried, Perversion is my uncontested favourite. On me, it smells like sweet rich tobacco with a grounding underlay of leather, that dries down to a very sexy tonka. It's a warm, sly, slinky scent -- it's not an aggressive come-on like Lust is, but it's what I wanted Snake Oil to be. Leather scents don't usually work on me, and my skin usually amps sweetness like crazy, but this stays sane and not-sickening and grounded. I'm powering through my imp, and I know I want a bottle.

In bottle: aquatic with mint and a delicate sweetness that's so light it's basically the absence of any non-sweet characteristics. I've been quite looking forward to this one.

WET ON SKIN: gentle mint! lovely.

DRY: eucalyptus.

AFTER A WHILE: armpits.

Swap!

TMI Portion of the review: I would sell my virginity for more of this scent. it's jumped to Second in my top ten, displacing Stardust to sit one below La Fee Verte...

 

gently sweet, not teeth-singing sugary like Midway, it hugs close to the skin and is soft and peachy-light. I smell a leeetle bit of the tea making this clearer and preventing it from becoming sickening. I am so lucky to have a full 5mL, and I hope something similar comes out as a GC. I'd buy it all up in a trice.

halcyon_flight put it correctly: sliiinky. she poked me to try this, and she was ever so right.

 

wet on skin, it starts off as candlesmoke! which rapidly disappears into sweet, dark with a hint of wax and an incense base. The 'sweet' is mostly rose cut with carnation, and the amber musk prevents it from becoming heavy and oppressive floral incense. It's beautiful, but it has character -- even if it doesn't have huge throw, it's one of my 'character' fragrances, not my go-everywhere scents. But it is ever so lovely, and I'm glad I have a bottle, though I won't need another.

I got this as a sniffy from eviltemptressdq, thanks everso and mmmm... I am content.

 

So far I'm 3 for 3 on the Salon blends (Lucretia, Great Cry, and now this). I'm seriously considering this as a big bottle purchase. It starts off quite green, and crisp but I don't get the sharpness that others complain of; as it driesit retains its green quality, but the floral notes emerge, couched in resiny softness and laid over a hint of musk.

 

Due to a few overenthusiastic first ventures I've learned not to trust my first impressions until I have fourth impressions to back them up; but this is really looking like it'll be a bottle. I could stand smelling like this every day.

I wanted to like this, really. None of the sexy/slinky scents ever work on me It smells powdery and sickeningly sweet, and reminds me rather of Gluttony. I'm sure on someone this smells gorgeous. On me, it smells loathsome.

Someone else can have it!

I love and adore La Fee Verte -- it is by far the loveliest BPAL blend I've tried, which is saying something -- and so I was hoping Absinthe would at least bear some resemblance to it, so I could maybe layer it with Dorian or something to produce a sweeter, creamy approximation...

 

Blech! Sharp! Like sticking freezing needles into my nose. Needles freshly-sterilised with alcohol. I didn't even wait to see if it morphed -- washed it off after ten minutes. So very very not me.

 

This is my second crack at it, incidentally. Not yummy at all.

I was thinking about this just a week ago!

 

Song/Scent combinations that have passed through my collection:

"You're My Angel" (Styles and Breeze) -- Snow Angel

"Twist" (Goldfrapp) -- Smut

"Every Me Every You" (Placebo) -- House of Mirrors

 

 

Songs I need scents for:

"It's No Good" (Depeche Mode)

"Cells" (The Servant) -- this is my very favourite song. If anyone can help with this I'd give my undying thanks

"World in My Eyes" (The Cure cover version)

IN BOTTLE AND WET ON SKIN: Spicy resiny dark. H'mm.. I don't usually love scents this dark. It doesn't seem distinctly masculine to me, but it's definately not femme-y. We'll see.

 

[NB: while it was drying my roommate -- who is normally indulgently indifferent to my smellies -- sniffed, said 'mm! I really like that!' and glued her nose to my wrist for about fifteen seconds. This is the first time she's actually expressed an opinion, other than a nod-and-smile 'that's nice'...

 

DRYDOWN: quite sweet on me! maybe it's my skin chemistry, everything comes out too sweet on me; I wonder what this would be like on a fellow. This actually kind of remidns me of the drydown of Freak Show, which I already have a bottle of.

 

 

EDITED A SECOND TIME: I picked up another bottle of this on a whim. If I give it an hour or so, it dries down to a resiny softness that I actually quite like -- and it didn't go supersweet on me this time around. I could go either way, but now that I've got another bottle I'll keep it I think.

WET ON SKIN: ooh, a bit spicy! a bit of incense, rather sharp actually.

 

DRYING: oh, now the earth is coming out.. it softens considerably, the incense is still there but the rose is coming out. it's quite subtle, my skin kind of eats it but leaves a trail behind -- enough of one that I want to keep the bottle.

 

DRY: I get pomegranate (yum), myrrh, earth and just a little rose and vanilla.

 

VERDICT: very beautiful, unusual and elegant. I feel like a slightly-exotic lady, very self-possessed when I'm wearing this. Which is odd, because I'm really not a pentacles girl (swords are more my game). not one I'll wear a whole lot, but maybe it'll be a grounding influence for me.

wow, I can't believe I never reviewed this. I got it as a frimp from a swap (I think) and kept it even though I know I'll never wear it, just because it smells so, umm, accurate.

 

First off this stuff is hella strong. It's stronger than my Monster Bait: Closet which can be detected a floor away (no kidding). The dominant note is red musk, and it's sweet and spicy and oozes with sex, but definately not romance. If pure sex smelled good, that would be Lust.

 

unfortunately, it's way too strong for me. I will stick to Envy, my very favourite sin.

mm! I'm not usually a florals gal, but I had a good feeling about this one. Not disappointed

 

It smells quite soft on me, which I was looking for -- delicately floral underneath, but that lovely amber scent keeps the flowers under control. The musk makes it sexy but not overpowering, and because it's so soft, even when it wafts up from my skin I don't feel like I'm being hit in the face by a wall of scent. It blends into my skin quite a bit -- I know that's weird, but that's what I wanted. something delicately scented that smells rather like 'me, only better'

 

after a few minutes the musk comes out in slightly more force, and I get a bit of the spice mentioned in the description. yumm. we'll see how I feel once I've worn it for a few days, but I might need to collect this.

awwright, I'm reviewing an aged bottle and the gal who sent it to me said it smelled a *lot* nicer to her when it was new, so this may be a bit wonky. But..

 

WOWsweet. Vanilla, lots of that, and the usual suspect -- Play-Doh. Doesn't change, doesn't morph, and my skin feels curiously slightly gummy where i dabbed the oil. We are not fond. I'll pass it around to some of my friends who like the sweets and see if any of them like it... otherwise it's up to ebay. I'm sure *some*one in the universe will go, "Yesss! OMG, Aged O! I *love* that stuff!"

that's interesting... I'm a Cancer, moon in Aries and Aquarius ascendant, so I've basically got everything but Earth in my chart, but my fragrance likes seem to be all over the map. I like resins but hate woods; I like amber in moderation, but I absolutely loathe cinnamon and almond; and vanilla (the underrepresented element) is something I'm quite drawn to. I've always associated resins with earth rather than air -- there's something wonderfully grounding about them, myrrh to me is like being wrapped in a blanket rather than feeling floaty or airy or off the ground. I'm not sure what to think.

 

maybe i should start trying more florals...

This is the second Salon blend I've tried, and it's two for two. They are, so far, stunning -- on a different level than the rest of the catalogue, and that is no mean feat.

 

I can't pick out individual notes in Lucretia, but it just makes me want to stick my nose to my wrist and inhale. It's a woman's perfume, and (being eighteen) I don't have many of those -- it smells rich and sophisticated and a little haughty, it's not sweet or wispy at all. It would be quite at home on a neck dripping with diamonds. I wouldn't call it sexy, per se, but docile and demure it isn't.

 

I wouldn't wear this every day -- it would rather be like wearing a mink coat to go buy groceries -- but it's so beautiful that I'm tempted to get hold of a bottle for those (very) few occasions when I would wear it. Lovely.

How beautiful. This is my favourite currently-available blend I've tested so far, and lands at number two on my overall top ten, just below the inimitable La Fee Verte.

 

It's a warm, dry scent, and while it's certainly not definitively femenine, I don't get the cologney vibe a lot of people have mentioned. It's very subtle, slightly sweet, and it has body without being -heavy- (a problem for me -- I can't wear heavy fragrances, they just don't love me back ) I get velvety resin-smells with sandalwood, and the amber and the red musk come out to play about 20 minutes after application.

 

So glad I found a bottle. Will be ordering more post-haste.

IN BOTTLE: Good Lord, strong! Umm... booze. Lots of alcohol. and sweet.

 

WET: I smell like a bar. A smoky, slightly sweaty bar.

 

DRYING: ...now I smell like musky charcoal. THis is - interesting.

 

DRY: waah! I wanted this to love me I'll give it another try later, but right now I smell like smoke again. It's not unpleasant -- just not smutty enough.

 

ETA: okay, after a while it sweetens up, and I smell kinda hot. I like Trick 2 more as my sexy scent, though... I'll sit on this for a while, but maybe swap it for something I know I like more.

In the imp: mmph, rose, lavender. meh. soft floral.

 

On skin: ooh! frankincense! lovely. florals in the background, the musk is developing..

 

Dry, on skin: It's quite delicate and femenine; really, very lovely. sweet and floral but not cloying. The frankincense 'grounds' it and prevents the rose from soaring over the top (yecch). I'll keep the imp since I can't bear to part with something so lovely and well-blended; unfortunately, I'm not a florals girl, so I won't end up wearing it often :/

In the imp, it's a nice apricot-clove blend, although the clove is dominant. Wet, it's allll clove. As it dries, it's clove with a hint of sweet apricot...

I wanted so to like this one. I'll keep the imp around, but I it might be a little too clove-y. nice for winter months, rather. very light throw.

Rose.

Still rose.

Yup. Still rose.

 

My, what a lovely delicate flower! Too bad what I was looking for was leather.

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EDIT: SO glad I tried this again. After over a year someone frimped me some of this. I wanted to wear it yesterday, and was reduced to lying down and tipping the vial upside-down on my neck to get the last drops of it out. The leather cuts the sweetness of the rose and makes it fresh. It goes /everywhere/ -- I wore it to class, to a semi-casual dinner, to a rave on NYE. It's a very subtle scent, but one that I think I need a 5mL of.

I dressed up as Monster Bait for hallowe'en

(so of course I wore my Closet. but yeah. BPAL was the inspiration for my costume.)

I need a boy so I can make him wear this!

 

She of the Busted Sniffer detects... mm, tea mostly, but not sweet at all. Vanilla underneath, but it's not femenine, just sexy. A touch of jasmine underneath. There's something anchoring all that, it's not at all girly. As it dries, the vanilla becomes more apparent and the musk comes out to play a bit.

 

Sadly, it's far too masculine for me; but I like it so much I think I'll keep it until I ensnare my next boy, and then make him wear it

DISCLAIMER: world's worst nose etc. etc.

 

PRECONCEPTIONS: thought I'd hate this because I didn't want to smell like booze...

 

IMP: minty-mint. sharp, slightly unpleasant.

 

DRY ON SKIN: ooh. nice! gently sweet, buttery bourbon-smell that doesn't make me smell like I'm just coming off a week-long binge. This is quite pleasant. I don't get a lot of mint, but there's a little if I'm looking for it; mostly just gentle buttery-sweet, reminds me of Kentucky. Maybe this will be a nice summer scent...

 

LATER:...and we have baby powder. alcoholic baby powder.

 

I'll keep the imp in the desperate hope that someday this will work. the rational part of me says it never will. Gah.

I'm bad -- mostly I bought Midway for the pretty label I didnt' expect to really love this one -- by and large I try to avoid smelling like a confectionary, but everyone else seemed so hyped about it that I figured I'd give it a try.

 

it is yummy! sweet and sugary without being sickly at all, for the first time a candy scent that doesn't make me gag. It's surprisingly wearable as well, it's not too much of a 'concept scent' to wear out and about. It's my standard Silly Day scent.

 

thank God for superficial girls and lovely bottle art.

You know, it's not actually as heinous as I was expecting.

 

I saw the name and thought 'Oh god no...' I didn't remember the notes, but I remembered reading the description and thinking Not Ever in a Million Years. It also looks absolutely vile and dark and murky in the imp.

 

In the imp -- vetiver. vetiver and I are not friends. and... bogwater.

 

And yet! It's heavy -- but I get an odd sweetness to it, which is lovely. Less is more with musk, IMO, but this manages to pull it off. It's quite vanilla-y on my skin. I don't get any of the stinkiness a lot of people seem to be getting -- this one comes off as, really, quite sweet on me, maybe even a little too sweet. Weird.

 

Sort of nice, but way too heavy and rather too sweet. I'll hang onto it for a bit, but probably off to swap.