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This blend has body and throw for me and I mostly get the vanilla lime deepened by myrrh and patchouli. The dry down lasts for at least half a day for me, which I really appreciate. This is one of my favorite fall scents that I find myself reaching for year after year.

This is a wonderful, sweet, but not overpowering white tea scent. There is honey here, but it is light, not heady honey. The fruits play a supporting role in the background.

My discovery of late: Jolly Roger smells a lot like Walking the Prime Meridian

Hello crazy goat lady! I am slightly unbalanced goat lady, so good to meet you! I am in a goat milk co-op, so I don't have my very own goats. Yet.

 

I think the suggestions for goat perfumes have been spot on so far. You also asked for barn scents, and I recommend Eastern Comma, a dried tobacco and wood and oranges scent. Not hay, but it evokes a storage barn in late summer to me.

 

I've also seen some chatter about the Mother Shub perfumes from a few years back.

Sparkle and Glitter from the current BPTP Yules is fir, snow and white chocolate, a unique take on the evergreen plus sweet snow idea.

White chocolate, fir, and a wet, aquatic snow. All three totally present with fir and chocolate at the front. It's a great combo, if you ask me.

When I first got this (2014), it was so faint I could not smell it much, and it had a sort of strange evergreen note I didn't like. Two years of age have rendered it exactly as advertised, sweet snow. It's beautiful! This is a sweet frozen aquatic note, it really does mimic that sweet scent the air gets when snow is coming. Medium throw, and a pink color from my synesthesia, for what it's worth. I love it, and I am just sad I don't have more.

I love aquatic and watery scents! I would also recommend Waiting (from the current Motherhood collection) as it really does have the smell of wet pavement. You might also look at The Stormhold (Neil Gaiman - Stardust), Thalassa the Galapagos Mermaid (Carnival Diabolique), and Plague of Frogs (Hellboy).

 

There are several good aquatic scents in the Picnic in Arkham collection too!

In Tennessee, the first part of autumn is still pretty warm. I like to wear Aristocratic Couple, Eastern Comma, and Deadly Nightshade Honey during that time. Edit, also Boo.

This is my second bpaliversary, so I am not sure how new things are, but two of my favorites are Deadly Nightshade Honey and Egle

I agree with those above who compare this perfume to The Book from Florette's Purple Snails. The leather in this blend is much softer, however, and the rose is very well blended with the amber. It's a pink, vulnerable, warm, and feminine scent. I didn't purchase it in the end, because I already have The Book and they are in a very specialized family for my collection, but if The Book was too strong on rose or leather for you, or if you want a new rose/soft suede scent, I highly recommend this. It's beautiful and lasts and lasts.

I bought this as a bottle this spring. This is amazing in cool weather. It is Glace peaches with wine and tobacco. Sweet, chewy, but deep and not too much. Very sexy.

The Waltz and Edith Cushing from the Crimson Peak collection, Living from the 14 Anniversaries.

Joopjoop- the GC scents Embalming Fluid and Sea of Glass are some of my favourite light green scents. You might also check out Full Moon, Rendezvous in the Bath,and On the Porch in the Rain from this year's Lupercalias.

 

If you like the herbal aspect of Catherine, Mummeries and Straining-to-be-Memorable Passages from the Scalia collection might please you.

For as long as I can remember I have LOVED the smell and colors of Hyacinth flowers.

I adore the mythology behind it, the 'bromance' between Apollo And Hyacinthus

 

A lot of perfumes I have sniffed that try to emulate it are pretty sub-par or make them smell too sour, cloying, or wilted *COUGH*Penhaligon's Bluebell*COUGH*

 

I own Grief and love it, but it is unfortunately one of those BPAL scents that just don't throw or last on me. I don't mind too much, as I enjoy it while it's there.

I also have Egle, probably the best perfume I own with Hyacinth in it. It throws and lasts very well. It can just be very sweet!

 

Recently I got my hands on Whirling Wind Moon (2013) and a decant of the earlier one (2008?) and found the 2013 had a stronger hyacinth note while in the 2008 version it was more in the background.

This could easily be the age difference and the added ginger note in the 2013 version. I do love both, though.

 

I love the ones I have, but that said they are not the Hyacinth I am seeking.

 

I don't mind the mild blue sweet-sour scent that has become the main stream version.

Hyacinth is the best at smelling sad, given the story behind its namesake. I just want something closer to what's in my garden, greener and spicier than the BPAL oils I have now.

The closest right now is Egle, but it is a bit cloying.

 

I am nonbinary and while I do not gender-label perfume oils and consider everything unisex, I prefer to smell what can be deemed 'masculine.'

 

 

Suggestions of anything outside of BPAL are also welcome.

 

Any tips on layering? What can amp Grief? What can calm Egle down?

 

You might check out the notes for Ladon and Dawn:Mourning Victory.

Hi

 

I recently tried BPAL for the first time and am looking for suggestions based on what I liked. I really like Smokestack, I also liked Bard, Goblin, Bayou. Scents I got which didn't work for me were Yorick and Iago.

 

Based on that what would the more experienced people here recommend next time I order?

 

Many thanks!

Yay! Welcome! Based on your list above, you might enjoy Obatala and Beer from the Marshwoman's Brewery.Also, you might like some of the scents in the Picnic in Arkham collection. Lots of those blend aquatic notes with green or smokey ones. I haven't tried smokestack, but if it is the sweet smokiness that you like, you might try a blend from the Ars Draconis collection, all of which have Dragons Blood Resin and smoke with other notes. Goblin is one of my husband's all time favorites!

I am in love with the Fae Forest atmosphere spray from the Black Phoenix Trading Post. ETA Notes: Mist-shrouded woods: Siberian fir needles, white pine bark, aspen leaf, wild lily, bergamot, wood violet, thimbleberry, sun-star, golden bell, snowdrop, heartsease, and bloodroot.

So many good suggestions! I would add The Great Sword of War, Red Lantern, and Ploutos.

Also my husband likes BPAL and here are the ones he likes most:

 

Thunder Moon (he super loves this one)

Villain

Arkham

Calico Jack

Hexennacht

 

I'd recommend Jolly Roger!

Reviewing the 2015 oil. A very warm and sweet perfume. Very classic smelling, the chief notes are the vanilla, rose Otto, and amber with the other notes adding fepth and support. This reminds me of EDITH CUSHING without the goody quality.

The top of the cap of my frimp of Dracul just popped off leaving the top of the imp open and the bottom part of the cap still inside the top of the tube, which I think is what has been described upthread. This frimp was included in my April order. It's a frimp, and I really don't care too much about it, but I'm reporting here because I think the Lab got a bad batch of imp caps, as I have never had a problem previously and this is the third one (only from recent orders, mind) that has done this exact thing.

Apple Pie is at the Trading Post in the great pie debate! Also Apple of Sodom and Verdandi from the GC. My favorite apple scents are both from 2015 Lupercalia - Venus Obsequens from the Lab and Faces Cleaving Each to Each from the Post.

Deep in Earth is very soil filled and has florals too. It is an impable GC.

A few folks have recently mentioned White Rabbit as a favorite. To you all I recommend Kubla Khan, which also has a spiced vanilla tea and creamy florals vibe. Instead of a clean white shirt Kubla Khan has hay and incense smoke in an ice cave. It's like White Rabbit went on a Walter Mitty adventure through Mongolia.

This is starting to look like a trend. The same thing happened to me with frimps of Saturnalia and Rakshasa that came to me in February from the Trading Post.