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For me, it's what it says on the description: dark rose and resinous myrrh. They balance each other nicely and the result is a sexy, simple blend. It's a very wearable rose for me.

Surprisingly sweet! On me, this is a sweet piney scent, with sweet and resiny opoponax, wood and tobacco. It's dark, but not... you know... scary, at all. I am really surprised how NOT blast-me-in-the-face pine this is, since I was really expecting some industrial cleaner strength pine. It's the opoponax and tobacco that sweeten this up and make it special, to me. I agree with the above review saying it's almost fruity.

 

I like this much more than I thought I would, and I'm so glad I impulse ordered it. I tend to like dark and resiny scents, but this is lighter and easier to wear than I anticipated and I can see this being a regular wear.

 

Edited to add: it reminds me of Bewitched!

2014 version.

 

This is clean and cold smelling, with a bit of evergreen at the back which does very much make me think of snowy days outside, and pine trees weighed down with snow. I have been hankering after snow scents and this does it for me, very light and clean and a little sweet!

To be honest, I expected more cinnamon, since it has cinnamon and cassia! It's cinnamon with a floral-wood, and something that's almost figgy to me. This oil had a lot of things that I'm unfaniliar with (acanthus, amomum, spikenard) so I assume it's one or more of them I smell. Drying down it's interesting, but I don't know that my socks are knocked off. I probably won't be keeping this one.

Wet, Lick it with Consent is a candy cane! Sweet and minty but not sinus-clearingly so. It's really lovely and sweet and refreshing and I can't stop smelling my wrist, which means it must be a win!

 

It does fade quickly, though. I applied maybe 20 minutes ago and it's not a very faint, sweet vanilla peppermint.

In the bottle and wet this is mostly apple with a bit of rose. Drying down it's pretty rosy, and edging towards soap as rose tries to do for me. After it's dried, it's a sweet roseapple, with maybe some vanilla and nothing from the wood or geranium. I'm honestly having a hard time separating the rose from the apple, they pair very nicely. Throw is pretty low, and I applied fairly heavy for me (although heavy for me still might not be all that much). I would have liked to detect more geranium and wood, but it could be it just needs to settle. Overall I like it very much, it's light and feminine and a bit sweet, but it's not a knock-my-socks off LOVE scent.

Sharp and soapy at first application, not unpleasant. Drying down is opium backed by citrus. Opium scents feel very sophisticated to me, this is no exception, but it has a nice brightness from the neroli. I was hoping for more bergamot, but I suppose it and neroli are fairly similar? There is a bit of a laundry aspect to this scent, especially during drydown. However, it mellows into a gentle opium scent with a tiny, almost Jasmine-like edge to it. I am very much looking forward to seeing how this ages! It's different from anything else I have in my collection and I'm glad I took a chance on it.

I agree that this was very sweet on initial application, almost candy like to me! Drying down the pink pepper is dominant, and now, perhaps 45 minutes after applying to my wrist it's low throw, some sandalwood, a little smokiness, a bit of vanilla. I will need to revisit this, I think. As it was drying I didn't think I liked it but now that it's dry it's subtle and interesting.

This is pretty sharp to me. I keep getting whiffs of citronella underneath everything. It's not bad, but it's not my favorite. I keep trying lavender blends and I may have to accept that they're just not for me.

I ordered a bottle before I even got my decant. Now that I'm wearing the decant, I'm glad I did. I get mostly tobacco and wood, with a bit bite from the pepper. Overall, I like it very much and I anticipate wearing it a lot in cooler temperatures, and I agree that it should age spectacularly!

My notes for this are: "GLORIOUS. Lovely light incense, sweet and spiced. Not heavy or dark at all. Very light, though, may need a more generous application. 5/5" It stays pretty close to the skin. I'm not super familiar with ambergris, so I don't know that I can comment on it. Generally speaking I liked this because it was inscency without being so dark or heavy or resinous that I couldn't wear it on hot days.

An interesting scent. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I couldn't resist ordering it. Wet on my skin, I almost got a kind of peanut butter smell, which was odd! After it dried, it's a little sweet, a little musky, and a little almost-leathery-almost-cologney-woody smell. Reminds me a bit of leather, a bit of sandalwood. I generally like it although I can't wear leather scents. It verges on masculine to me, which I do kind of like. Overall, I'm intrigued enough to keep it and see how it ages, as it's not like anything else I have.

Very piney wet, almost sinus-clearingly so, but not unpleasant. Drying down it calms and warms to a nice cedar forest scent, with faint honey in the background and patchouli adding an earthy smell. No sign of tobacco, unfortunately. At first it had a very masculine feel, but now it's fresh and a little sweet and lovely, it reminds me of warm, deep evergreen forest.

I am a real sucker for Achluophobia and I was wondering if there are any regulars that smell (a bit / almost exactly) the same like this one.

 

No answer, I'm listening in because I have been very keen to try Achluophobia!

Reading the reviews of SSV, I was more than a little scared, but I went with my gut and bought it from a lovely forum member. I am so, so glad I did! It's a little scary in the bottle, dry and super sharp ginger and cinnamon, and it's loud and hot when first applied, but it does down to a really sexy cinnamon-ginger-vanilla spice that I didn't consciously know I wanted. This is honestly the first scent that makes me feel sexy!

 

I put it on as soon as it came in the mail, and reapplied it after my bath I liked it so much, even mixing a drop with my lotion to wear it everywhere.

 

Be advised it did tingle a bit when applied to the back of my wrist; I'm not super sensitive to cinnamon so it may irritate your skin if cinnamon irritates you.

 

I'm already stalking the sales forum for a back up bottle.

So far I've loved:

 

Penitence

Hope and Fear Set Free

Plunder

Maiden

Roses, Pearls and Diamonds

 

Frankincense, white tea, and coconut have all been surprise loves for me!

I just dyed my hair fuchsia. It's seriously the color of beets - deep, intense, purpley pink. I'm still pretty new to BPAL so I haven't narrowed down what I like too much, except I know I don't like patchouli, or foody scents, or amber. I've found I like spice and incense and resin (like Plunder or Penitence), as well as some fresh florally things (like Roses, Pearls, and Diamonds or Kumiho). What would go with my beet-hair?

I applied a whole smear from an imp wand to my left wrist. It's a light scent, even wet i have to get close to my wrist to smell it. Like a few other reviewers before me, this smells exactly like celery on me wet. Once dry, if I really huff my wrist I can get a bit of sweet and spice under the celery. I don't hate it, but to me it smells nothing like the description and I don't know that I'll be reaching for a celery scent.

I received my imp last night and put it on this morning before work. In the vial, it's thin and almost colorless. Wet, it's candy sweet on me, with some fruitiness, but mostly it's a sweet floral. I can't pick up any woodiness from the birch at all, which is a shame because I love wood notes and thought the birch sounded really interesting. Faded fairly quickly for me, I swiped the imp wand at the hollow of my throat, dabbed behind each ear, and swiped on one wrist and then rubbed them together It's a little more than an hour later and if I press my nose to my wrist I get a bit of apple-and-something-else (the birch?), but it is very faint. All in all, too sweet for my tastes so the short wear doesn't break my heart. Perhaps I will try another apple blend?