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I've found most of the Helicopters already, but I don't seem to see Reptoid Dominion anywhere. Can anyone post it, or point me in the direction to a link?

 

Thanks so much. I'm dying to try this one... weird scents with bad reviews are sometimes a recipe for success for me.

 

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/45326...ool-bpal_fiends

 

Top row, sixth one from the left.

Lol, it looks like a sleestak!

Please, let me not be the only one that knows who they are!

Oh, I had such high hopes for this one. And it is horrid with my skin chemistry and nose.

It starts out pretty sweet but quickly turns into this super amped up, headache inducing thing that I believe is amber. Which I usually like. But not in this case. I get super heady (and not in a good way) amber doused in cheap high school boy cologne. With a twinge of the feared 'green bell pepper' note of doom, which until now I had thought was what the lab calls dried leaves, but apparently is not. Super disappointing, this isn't even a scent I could see myself loving after some aging. I hope I can swap it for something good.

If you like black lace, you'll like this too. It's black lace's vanilla/tobacco combo with wood instead of sugar floss. But the good kind of wood, the polished, smooth, goooooood kind that you actually want to smell like (not the 'I'm going to get a splinter if I put my nose to my wrist' stuff). Perfectly well blended, long lasting and luxurious. Good stuff.

I have to admit that I had really high hopes for this blend. Unfortunately, I forgot (or perhaps never really realized) that I don't like ozone. It smells like nasty old lady soap.

Anyways, this blend starts of pretty stereotypical masculine when wet. As it drys, the old lady flowers come out, screaming over the lovely base notes. If I venture close enough to my hand to smell it up close, I get an old lady batting me away with her purse, while her small vetivert dog cowers beneath her feet. 'Nuff said.

I'm not usually one to like BPAL aquatics, or at least what people call aquatics. They usually end up smelling like Aqua Velva to me. Anyways, I had to get this one, mainly because I find tentacle porno all too amusing, and I love the stench of seaweed. I was a little worried about the mint and honey, two things that I really don't like.

In the bottle this is strongly mint and seaweed. But the second it touches my skin, the ambergris comes out, making it such a lovely scent. On my skin, it's mostly seaweed and ambergris, with a touch of mint cooling the whole thing off a bit. There isn't any honey that I can detect, which suits me just fine.

This is also one of the longest lasting blends on me. And not just that you can smell some semblance of it for hours to come, no, this stuff stays just as when I put it on for 7+ hours. Yay!

Oh, this stuff is awesome. I love love love earth smells and BPALs graveyard dirt.

Anywho, this smells like Zombi without all of the rose. Sure, there's still rose, but not enough to make you go "phew there some rose . . . and a little bit of dirt" oh no, this scent is DIRT and a little bit of other stuff.

Totally worth buying a bottle unsniffed.

I seem to be having a reaction to carnation in BPAL. Pink Moon and Morocco both gave me itchy read, sore spots where I applied it.

 

Lurid Library is now doing that to me. I seem to remember having a mild reation to Misk U a long time ago, so I've come to two conclusions:

 

Lurid Library had carnation in it (possible)

Lurid Library has something Misk U has (more than likely, given they are both "library" scents)

 

 

What's the best way of finding out exactly what this might be, so I can avoid it in future if necessary?

Email the lab. I had to do that with one of the new winter scents, as it sounded really good, but I'm DEATHLY allergic to cashew, and that's a listed note. Sadly, they apparently use the real stuff for this blend.

But seriously, just email them and they should be able to tell you if they have something in common and what it is. They don't want their customers getting sick from the product.

I tested this a few times after I got the bottle and decided to be ballsy and wear it full on last night. It fit rather well with work, as I wages my own wars against the tides of hood waters. (I clean industrial kitchens, and last night was hood night, meaning tons of water, everywhere)

Anywho, it's a largely aquatic scent to me, fresh and light. And I actually didn't mind smelling slightly of man. It gives me the impressing of raging waters and a slight bit of ship. I can't actually smell anything besides salty sea when I stick my nose to my wrist, but every now and then I get a waft of the ship and the snake oil. It's really nice, actually, I have to admit that I'm glad I got two bottles of this.

Here are a few pictures from the lovely mandragora in the community gallery:

 

Swan Maiden, Vampire Tears & Pirate Moon

Thanks for the link! I adore Pirate Moon. I wonder if the Phoenix will have the same flag or a Phoenix or a ship or something entirely different.

I got my bottle the other day and it has a black and white drawing of a pirate ship in a moonlit cove. Or something like that.

I got a frimp of this from the lovely jessiesquash in our last swap. I really wanted to buy some of it with the last update, but decided that I probably wouldn't like it because of the cocoa. I always hate that in a scent.

Anyways, yesterday when the GF and I were going on a mad sampling spree, she let me put some on her. It was freakin' awesome. So I put some on me.

It's everything I ever wanted bloodlust to be. It's bloodlust with out the cinnamon. It's perfect. O.O

I really don't know how else to describe it. It's sweet and sexy and . . . perfect.

I'm anxiously waiting photos of the new Halloween scents!!

 

I can't wait to see what the Haunted House bottles look like!

 

I'm such a sucker for great designs.

 

 

You and me both! I wanna see Crypt Queen and her coffin

 

the bottle in the crypt on the trading post site says Crypt Queen. Wouldn't it just be the same bottle?

Yep it is. My bottle and coffin look exactly like the picture on the TP.

This has got to be one of the craziest morphers I've tried. (And also the first TP blend that I wasn't 'meh' about)

In the bottle this is pure, sweet fruit. Dark fruit, evil fruit. What I feared it might have smelled like.

When I put it on my skin it smells like it does in the bottle for about . . . thirty seconds. Then this crazy grounding almost pepper smell comes through. About a half hour later, a floral is blazing into strength, with the peppery base fighting for the top. It reminds me of all of the old people I used to take care of. It makes me think of the women that refuse to give up to death and old age. It's empowering, yet utterly creepy at the same time. A good six hours later, it's dried down to a soft peppery floral.

Never thought I'd love this one, I just wanted it for the cool coffin. I have a feeling I'm going to be hoarding this one.

I'll admit that I've never actually tried YSL opium, but I am an opium freak.

I second the Chrysanthemum moon comparison, on my skin it's just like opium incense. Kanishta (it's a LE from earlier this year) is the closest I've found to a BPAL version of my favorite opium single note, while Darkness is a sweet/floraly opium. I have bottles of all of those.

I've tried Anathema too, and it seemed like a not as good (less opium, more other stuff) version of Darkness. If that makes sense.

There's my two cents . . .

On my skin this smells like it does in the bottle-like a very aquatic scent with some woodyness thrown in. Not really my cup of tea. I tried it and thought 'meh'.

But then . . .

My girlfriend decided that she wanted to smell what this 'scooby doo' scent was that I had been going around the house and mumbling about smelled like. So she put some on.

About half an hour later, I asked to smell her wrist and blurted out "OMG that smells like having sex with you when we were 16!!!!"

Seriously, it's the smell of that summer. Swimming in the creeks and lakes in our home town, laying together in the middle of the night smelling the warm summer air float through my windows and smelling the lakewater still in her hair. Her own smell seems to be amped by this perfume, making it smell like bits of her are floating around in it. This is the best BPAL for her so far, IMHO, and . . . just wow. It's amazing on her.

I wore underpants for Christmas. Later in the day, after my Mum had given me my giganto box o' bpal she bought me ( ) I put on some lick it again, continuing on with the whole vanilla thing.

anyone knows how all saints, brides of dracula, purple phoenix and glitter looks like? i've placed an order but i just cant wait. going crazy thinking about labels.

Brides of dracula looks like the other ootd.

Purple phoenix is like red, black and pink phoenix, but with a purple background, a slightly different font, and purple lettering.

Glitter looks like all the rest of the ressurecteds.

This is my insta happy, rub-my-toes-together-and-giggle scent.

Really, it does that to me, puts me instantly in a good mood.

I can smell the pink pepper for sure in this one, or at least what smells like the actual pink peppercorns that they have in the kitchen at work (yes, I go around smelling the spices if I know they're in a bpal I like) It's light and airy and just . . . happy.

Sadly though, it has no staying power on me.

My solution: buy a few more bottles and put them in a roll on.

Did anyone ever have the vanilla lipsmackers, the sparkly gloss kind, when they were a kid? That's exactly what this reminds me off. Gloriously sweet and sticky and vanillay. Not something I'll ever wear, but it amuses me.

This has become my new favorite oil from the lab. It's more than I could have ever hoped.

Wet: Some kind of sweet flower with incense underneath.

Dry: EXACTLY like my favorite opium incense. Really, it's exactly like it. It smells like I somehow condensed the smoke into an oil and smeared it all overmyself. And, this has more staying power than any other perfume I have ever experienced. I work in a place where I get really dirty, wet, and sweaty, and wash my arms a good dozen times a night, and I still can smell it on my wrists when I get home. Wow, I really love this stuff!

Death . . . This is by far my favorite oil. This is pure me in a bottle.

Dark and mysterious and musky and I find as it starts to age (the bottle I have is already at least a year and a half old) a sharper metalicy something is starting to come through. I like it as it seems to add to the . . . hostility of the scent, though others don't find it as pleasant; a coworker remarked the other day that I smelled like paint. I also find that it doesn't go sweet and floral like many other reviews have commented, it fades and gets a little softer, but I've still yet to find the sweet. And I'm rather glad about that.

I have to disagree with quite a few people that have posted about this scent and say, it doesn't smell exactly like the real thing. I even went downstairs and smelled the bottle vs. my arm.

It does, however, give you the same feeling when you smell it (if that makes any sense). It has a ton of anise, like the real stuff, but has an added lemonyness that I've yet to encounter in a bottle of absinthe. The perfume also seems to have toned down the raw herb smell that reminds me of Vic's, making it much more suitable for a perfume.

I love this perfume, though it is not anything that I wear on a regular basis, I enjoy smelling it on others.