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In the imp: Deep red wine with the tiniest hint of peach.

Wet: Peach and assorted red fruit flavored hard candy. The wine is much sweeter and less dark on my skin than in the imp. As it dries, the rose starts to peek it's head up way in the background.

Drydown: Something (I think it's the wine) is going a little sour. It's just the slightest whiff of something that's gone off but it's enough to affect the whole scent.

Conclusion: I think this one is going in the swap pile...

Discalimer: I tested this on the back of my hand, which sometimes affects the way the oil smells. The same oil on back of my hand sometimes smells different than on my wrist or elbow or neck, etc. So I may need to do another test in different places.

In the imp: Peach candy!

Wet: Juicy peach and floral tea. As this dries the tea is coming through more strongly. The neroli is back there way in the back. This is like sniffing the tea bag that you took out of the cabinet and placed in your cup while waiting for the kettle to boil. There's a plate of juicy, sweet freshly sliced peaches sits beside it on the counter as a snack to eat with your tea.

Drydown: Juicy peach and tea at the forefront. I can just barely detect the neroli but it's there. After a little while a light, golden beeswax-y honey note comes through (honey always smells beeswax-y to me so YMMV). Someone poured a dollop of sweet honey into their tea. And all that's left of the peaches is some juice left on the plate.

Long wear: after a little more than an hour all that's left where I applied the oil is a faint sweet peach scent. The sweetness smells more like sugary sweet than the fresh juicy sweet that it was before. I like this stage

Conclusion: I like this scent but I'm not sure how much I'd actually use it. I don't tend to use imps and decants as much as bottles. But I do think I'll save this for spring and summer and see how I like it then.

In bottle: Those distinctive "lunar herbs" that almost never work on me and just a touch of creaminess.

Wet: Floraly lunar herbs, the creaminess stays well in the background, smoothing the overall feel of the scent.

Drydown: white florals with a hint of something wintery. That winter note is fresh and clear (the "crystalline" part of the scent description?). Maybe a little ozoney. I'm not really a connoisseur of wintery/icy/minty notes. That tiny bit of cream is still hanging on in the background.

Dry: I really want to like this but it's just not doing it for me. There's a slightly aquatic note floating around in here now. Maybe it's that icy/wintery/crystal note morphing. Like the ice that was formed into tiny crystals on the delicate white blooms is melting. I was hoping the cream would be more apparent but I can hardly smell it.

Long wear: After a few hours a sweet creamy, tiny bit of white floral scent is left on my skin. I like this part. If I could skip the step with the icy/aquatic note so prevalent, I would really like this.

Overall this is going in the swap pile. It does smell good, It's just not something I would really wear. I prefer my florals with something a little more grounded and robust.

Number 134:

In bottle: Sniffing from the bottle this scent smells perfumey, There's definitely something floral in here.

Wet: Very herbal, whatever that floral was it's way behind all the herbal green-ness.

Drydown: I recognize this scent but I can't put my finger on it. As it dries the green note transforms from herbal to a wet green planty smell. This is like the cast off stems from someone's floral arrangement, with a few blooms still clinging to the ends, wet from the water they were kept in. I'm not getting much, if any amber from this. I know it's there but it's not apparent.

I applied this on my wrist and elbow. On my wrist it's green herbal/floral plant stems, while on my elbow it's a much warmer, rounder, smoother scent. I'm getting the amber there. I get tiny whiffs of something that smells like leather from my elbow, but I don't think it is leather. I don't know what it is.

Dry/long wear: The herbal notes are fading a bit, and a warm, slightly sweet scent is coming through (Ah hah! There's the amber!). It's really pretty right now and I don't usually like herbal or green floral scents.

I'm trying to figure out which other scent this reminds me of. Maybe Succubus a tiny bit? It smells like something that should be in the Rappaccini's Garden section.

In container: Patchouli! And lots of it. Smooth and warm. This smells like aged patchouli, not fresh. The dirty sharpness that I smell in new patchouli isn't there. (The container is smaller than I expected but a little goes a LONG way. For this test I wiped off the bottom of the safety seal and that was more than enough for my hands)

Rubbed on hands: Leather with red musk and patchouli in the background. This smells like the leather that's in The Black Rider and my beloved De Sade.

Soaking in: Still warm leather with the vanilla note coming in. The red musk and patch seem to be fading into the background a bit.

This actually reminds me of The Bow and Crown of Conquest a little. The leather and vanilla have the same kind of feel.

The consistency of this stuff is a little greasier than I'd like. It leaves that greasy feeling on my hands even after I've rubbed it in thoroughly. It's absorbing pretty fast but until it's absorbed I'm afraid to touch anything. It's also thinner than I thought it would be. The bit I put on my hands almost slid off into my lap while I was getting the lid closed.

I would love to see more lotions from BPTP. I hope this is the beginning of a new product line!

I haven't sniffed it in a while but you might try Jailbait (Innocence defiled. Sticky pink bubblegum and the thick, sweet scent of orange and cherry lollipops smeared over a breath of heady womanly perfume.)

I really like Candy Phoenix (A dusky, yet effervescent mix of pomegranate and black currant candies, with a dusting of sugared pear and white apple.) It smells like grownup, sexy candy. It's definitely a dark pink rather than a bubblegum pink smell.

You could also check out Love (Marshmallows and rose sugar with whipped vanilla cream and a hint of strawberry.) It's a very candy-pink and sugary scent. It has rose in it which I know you said doesn't work on you in large doses. I seriously amp roses but this scent walked the like nicely between nice, soft, pretty rose and super overwhelming rose.

Jailbait is GC, the other two were LEs. Love was pretty recent though, it might not be too hard to find in swaps or sales...

There are also some scents from other companies that I like and are very pink but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to suggest non-BPAL... If you want these suggestions, PM me. Unless I am actually allowed to post non-BPAL recs in which case I'll post them here.

I use my bath oils as moisturizers so, YMMV.

In the bottle: florals and cream. It smells pretty perfumey at this stage. Looking at the scent description I don't know where those perfumey florals are coming from, but it seems I'm not alone in smelling this aspect of the scent.

Wet/just applied: A minty/snow note dominates with those perfumey florals in the background. I can start to smell a tiny bit of fruit.

Dry/during wear: The minty snow notes fades (yay! I'm not a huge fan of that minty snow) and the cream comes back in force (also yay!) and there's more fruit that floral.

In the end this scent ended up being what I wanted out of it. Cream and cool fruits. I bought it on a whim but I'm glad I did.

I bought this scent not knowing exactly what to expect. I like cookie-foodie type scents and I love orange so there didn't seem like there was much that could go wrong here. I was a little hesitant about the flour note though.

In bottle: Sweet bakery-like vanilla with a tiny hint of a floral orange smell. Smells more like orange blossom than orange to me.

Wet: Spicy vanilla cookies, Over 5-10 minutes the cookies get a hint of sweet orange glaze.

Dry: Like sniffing spices in the kitchen where cookies were just baked. The vanilla cookie smell has drifted to the background but it's most definitely still there.

I had no reason to be wary of this scent. It's beautiful! If I had my choice it would stop at the wet, vanilla spiced cookie version but A warm vanilla spices scent never goes amiss.

A lot of people say that Morocco smells like a basket of spices with vanilla scent. So I thought of that while I was typing this up. To my nose, they're very different. Morocco is warm, creamy vanilla with an undercurrent of soft sandalwood and spice while the dry version of this is like smelling spices out of the bottle. But maybe if you like one, try the other.

I tend to seriously amp florals but I love foody/sweet scents so this was kind of a risk for me. Also, I really want to like rose, but too much of it is just not good. But this scent actually walked the line pretty well.

In bottle: sweet, creamy rose.

Wet: A green note joins in for a while and the scent gets very pink-sugary. The rose, though, seems more mature than the overall smell suggests.

Dry: sweet and creamy strawberry rose. A very pink, almost candy-like strawberry.

Long wear: The rose mellows out a lot and the scent is rounder overall. It didn't last as long as I thought it would. 5 hours maybe? I could still smell a bit of creamy sweet if I stuck my nose to my wrist but the body of the scent was all but gone.

I liked it but I didn't love it. I don't know how often I'll actually be reaching for it. I usually go for Little Flora if I want creamy flowers.

I did a side by side comparison of the '08 version (which I LOVE! I was ecstatic when I saw this on the Yules list this year. I never even smelled it until a few years after its release. I don't think I even read the notes until after I smelled it so I'm used to warm, yummy, evenly balanced cake and leather all the way from bottle to drydown)

In the bottle the '13 version has more cake than the '08 version. Which is okay.

Wet on my skin I am getting more notes than I expected. I was surprised to smell something dirty and a bit gritty in with my leather and cake. The coal dust I guess? The leather also smells a bit newer than the '08 version. The smell overall isn't as warm.

Drying down there's some kind of sharp smell that I can't identify. It's not bad or ruining the blend, but definitely present.

Dry it gets a little warmer and more like the '08 version. But as time goes on that sharp smell creeps back in.

I think the verdict is that I'll use up my '08 bottle and let the two (yes, two ) that I bought age in the drawer for a while.

P.S.- I get absolutely no licorice from this at all. Either year.

(I use my bath oils as on-skin moisturizers)

In the bottle I get all warm fuzzy chocolate hazelnut with a little bit of coffee

On my skin the coffee comes out a little more and as it dries down the pine shows itself but if you didn't know it was pine you wouldn't know it was pine, if that makes sense. It goes surprisingly well with all the warm fuzzy amber-chocolate-hazelnut-coffee goodness.

Yummy and sexy!

Huh. I forgot I'd already reviewed this. Well, here's a more thorough review:

In bottle (sniffing pump nozzle): patchouli, patchouli all day long. The dirty-sharp smell of new patch. Maybe a tiny bit of sugar?

Sprayed on damp hair and sprayed into hands and run through hair): sweet patch. This is when the sweetness is most apparent. There's some kind of lemony note in there too.

Wear: This is not at all as strong as expected. If I flip my hair I can smell woody, fresh patch. It's kind of hard to hard to pick out the "sweet" in here. Whatever that lemony note was, it's gone now.

Dry hair: all but gone. I catch the barest whiff when I turn my head but it's so faint. Maybe it's because I sprayed it on wet/damp hair. I use argan oil in my hair on a regular basis and always put it in when my hair is still damp. (I'm not applying that for the scent, but it does smell good - bonus!) Or maybe I didn't use enough. I did 2 direct sprays (scalp and ends) and a total of three sprays into my hands and ran them through my hair. I was about to go to work though and didn't want suffocate those around me with a cloud of parchouli.

I'm not going to give up on it. I'll do another test on dry hair and besides, this is just going to get better with age. The patchouli will get rounder and less dirty-sharp (new patch smell isn't bad but aged patch is better and richer.. This will be a good base or accent to other scents too.

I was very lucky to get a goblin squirt of The Inn in my last BPTP order. I tested it on a paper towel.

I get mostly purple/red fruit and breadyness with some leather and wood in the background. It's like the scent of currant bread and cake with juicy purple fruit drifting out from the kitchen. You can smell the worn leather of the clothes and armor of the adventurers in the dining room and the rough-hewn wood that the building is made from. This is a really complex scent that tells a whole story in a single whiff.

This smells just like Katrina van Tassel to me. I mean exactly. It's been a while since I've smelled that once so maybe if I did a side by side I would find some differences but If you like one maybe check out the other. At first, I'm getting an even balance of the sweet cream and peony. The cream seems to be dissipating as I wear this, which is slightly dissapointing for me, the more cream the better, but it's still a beautiful scent.

In the bottle: Burnt. not good Burnt.... overwhelming burnt... sweet plastic? This isn't going well so far.

First applied: Still overwhelmingly burnt, sweet, slightly plastic-y.

Drydown: The plastic smell disappeared, thankfully. The burnt toned down a bit and the sweet sugary marshmallow is coming out more. The burnt smell is ind of putting me off though. It's not good smoky or toasted sugar, it's burnt in a not good way.

Dry, wearing: Sweet and sugary is wearing off, leaving just a faint burnt scent.

Overall, not really working for me. Maybe I'll test again at a better time if the month... :/

I *had* to buy this when it went up and I'm glad I snagged a bottle but I was a little worried about the star anise and the rose. (Rose anything can take over a blend and go bad on my skin)

Thankfully, the main note is the leather. Black, S&M, whip leather. With a background of resinous notes and a bit of spice. And it holds true for hours until the leather starts to fade a bit and a some green note starts to creep in (the matcha maybe? I really don't know.) Whatever it is, I love this scent and it has made it into my high favorites of leather scents. (nothing can replace my beloved De Sade... but this is pretty damn good.)

I really like this one! I get beeswax (that's the honey I guess) and amber, and some overall sweetness. It feels so warm and golden. The vanilla just kinda blends in but I get a little spark of citrus. Just detectable as a highlight to the glowy warm goldeny body of the scent. Glad I grabbed a bottle when I could.

I am a huge fan of smoky leather scents myself and I kind of hesitate to even suggest this but my favorite smoky leather scent *EVER* is De Sade (The essence of pleasure heightened by pain: the raw scent of leather). It is the holy grail of smoky leather but first you need to track some down.

Another good leather and smoke scent is Doc Constantine (Sheer musk, cedar smoke, fir needle, black amber and leather.) if he doesn't mind some pine as well. To me Doc Constantine smells like standing in a Christmas tree lot next to a wood fire while wearing a leather jacket.

Dee (soft English leather, rosewood and tonka with a hint of incense, parchment and soft woods) is also good but that's more leather and herbs to my nose than leather and smoke.

Hope that helps!

*edit, left out a word

In the bottle The Butterfly is soft citrus and not much else. It was really hot yesterday so I decided that soft citrus would be really nice

On my skin The Butterfly starts out very citrusy with the tonka and amber very soft and delicate underneath.

As it dries the citrus kind of reaches a balance with everything else and it turns out to be a much more complex and beautiful scent that I expected. There is a lovely woody and slightly spicy-incensey scent to it yet it's still sweet. I like it a lot and I think this bottle is going to get a lot more wear than I originally thought.

Seconding the rec. for Inez! (Golden amber, vanilla musk, myrrh, cedar, carnation, and red sandalwood) It's the first thing that came to mind when I read the title of your post. To me it's very carnation-y but with dark, amber-y undertones.

She's part of the Carnival Diabolique which is technically limited edition but is still available on the lab's website.

Let me just preface this review by saying I find this scent sexy as hell. It's kind of... odd. And I'm not sure that everyone would consider it a sexy scent but I certainly do! (It also kind of has a scent memory of the beach for me because I took an imp of it to the beach with me one year but that's beside the point )

In the bottle it's very herby and green with a hint of orange.

Wet on my skin it stays pretty much the same. The orange blossom comes out a bit stronger along with juuuuust a hint of clove. The clove never gets very strong for me at all.

Drying down it stays herby and green with the orange blossom giving the scent a hint of sweetness.

Love it, love it, love it! I don't usually love herbal scents overly much but for some reason I just can't get enough if this one. I am so glad I got a bottle just before it got discontinued!

In the bottle: Sugared musk and boozy vanilla. yummy

just applied: the vanilla gets stronger right away and... something fruity? dunno what that is...

drying: the vanilla and musk stay strong. The sugary sweetness of the bottle and freshly applied scents dissipated quickly. I'm smelling something smoky/spicy. could that be the cardamom? hmm.

dry: smoky and spicy with a musky base and a little bit of vanilla. Not as vanilla-y or sweet as I thought it would be from the description or from the first stages of the scent. But that's not to say I don't like it, it's just not what I expected. Also, not much throw at all. I'm generally pretty liberal with my perfume application but I have to go extra heavy with this one to get much out of it.

This is delicious! The white chocolate note smells the same to me as the one in White Chocolate and Sugared Violets (which I also like).

In the bottle and freshly applied it's all white chocolate and bit of raspberry with the apricot way in the background but as it sits on my skin the fruits get jucier... I can't stop sniffing my wrists! The white chocolate gives a creamy background to the raspberry and apricot. I definitely need more of this.

Mine would have to be Host of Air. For me it smells like OUTSIDE.

This so much! It smells like grass and squished flowers! (It has that green element of broken flower stems and the blossoms too) Florals don't usually do it for me but I like this one.

It wafts chocolatey yumminess around me all day and nobody will ever know I have big brown Boomslang splotches all over my head.

For some reason this struck me as really funny. But also as a really good idea. I have very fair skin and Boomslang stains me as well. I usually just apply it normally and ignore the blotches.