halcyon_flight

I wanted to like it, really. Imp: Sour, like a vegetable left too long in some dank corner of a refrigerator. Wet: same as the imp Dry: Now it's got the same sourness while developing into something sickeningly sweet. I ran to the sink wrists first.

In the Bottle: Herbal in a way that is almost lemonish. Wet: More lemony herbal Drying: the herbal smell deepens into a more complex herbal, but unlike most herbals there's no sharpness to it. This Buck has not bite. There's something warm about it that's hard to place, and a grassy musk. Dry: my skin is eating this until all that's left is a soft, warm, rendition of it's earlier self. I almost want to describe this scent as intimate. A scent to snuggle up to. Overall: a gorgeous scent, no throw whatsoever on my skin so I'm trying it in a locket. It seems, as all scents do, to like my hair and want to hang about in it, which is fine by me.

I have some Harvest Moon '05 that smells like spiced apple booze to me. Yum. In the realm outside of BPAL, I know that the Body Shop has just released a Golden Apple line of products.

With all this talk of grapefruit and sugar I feel as if I've gotten a completely different version of Hungry Ghost Moon. Fortunately I absolutely _love_ my Hungry Ghost Moon. The top notes for me are the woods and aloe. I don't know what ho wood and white sandal wood smell like, but to me the wood smells almost like bamboo. The aloe in this is so natural, so unlike any aloe in the world except a fresh aloe leaf cracked in half. Beautiful! In the background I get a bit of mellow citrus that must be the white grapefruit, and I can smell the ginger candy as if catching a whiff of it from across the room. The rest of the ingredients are such a mixture I can't pick them out. I don't get smoky vanilla at _all_ and my skin usually amps such things. Hungry Ghost Moon is the kind of scent that I don't know exactly _why_ I like it, but I do. It's unique to the extent that I'm only in the mood for it every couple of weeks, but when that time comes around I practically bath in it.

WET dirt, loamy leafy WET dirt? Anyone, a little help?

I have a bit of dirt conudrum. I tried Queen of Clubs, and while I liked the earthiness, it seemed like the dirt was sort of dry and dusty. Kind of a turn off. Which of the dirt scents would you describe as being a more loamy, leaf-littered, wet dirt?

I've found in my experimentation that almost all BPAL blends I try go sugary on my skin. That's all well and good, but I'd like _some_ scents that have bite, an herbal bitterness, or a spice that makes your nostrils flare. Any suggestions?

Baku, Mantis, and Tenochtitlan sound like winners. Bewitched is soooo already on the list. Another question. I do like to toe the line as far as masculine/feminine scents, but there can always be too much. I tried Lear and it was a bit too masculine for me. How would Count Dracula, Anthony, and Nero compare to Lear in masculinity?

Ooooooo exciting *hangs around the update page* Djinn sounds perfect. Also, another thing I'm looking for: angry sage, if that's a useful explaination at all.

Thanks for the recomendations! I do love Gennivre, but it's mostly musk and sugar cane on me. Not so much tea. I also love the uber-milked uber-sugared tea of White Rabbit, obtained on generous tea related suggestions. I'm looking to try Sudha Segera, too. I was wondering if there's a BPAL scent (or even not BPAL, *gasp*) that's an un-diluted black tea. Strong strong English breakfast tea, yum. Would Dorian or Severin come close to the mark? (The leather in Severin scares me a wee bit) I'm also getting a lot of tea from The Apothecary's dried tea leaves.

I know that there are a lot of scents that list tea as a note, but which do you think smells most authetically like tea? (Green, lemon, Early Grey, whichever)