melandie
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At first sniff, straight out of the mailbox, this one was a very "screechy" honey (my husband: "screechy? what does that even mean") note, which reminded me of Honey, Mahogany & Incense Smoke from several years ago - which is beautiful now, but it did take a good couple of years to calm the eff down to something wearable. I find this one, while the floral honey blast at first is quite strong, quickly it settles in with the tonka and vanilla softening and darkening it up. At this point, I've had the bottle a week, so I imagine it's going to age quite beautifully (as most BPALs do)
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Oh I love this! I usually can't pass up a "buttercream" scent, but sometimes raspberry goes a little too tart on me. This one...well, the raspberry jam note reminds me of my grandma's from her own raspberry patch (and oh, how I fondly remember her constantly chasing the squirrels out of that patch), the honey is beautiful, and the buttercream rounds it out to soften it up and make it more..buttery...and creamy. Gorgeous. Wonderful summer scent.
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Ok I just received this in the mail yesterday, and already it is DIVINE! I was out walking and I just keep getting whiffs of this glorious coffee scent with the unmistakable Snake Oil. I definitely agree with the comparison to Jiaolong - maybe a touch less sweet.
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I love this one! Agree that it's dark, malty, buttery and biscuit-y, grounded in a nice, not sweet, coffee chocolate stout base. I also get orange zest on sniffing the bottle, and on first application, but that goes away within a few minutes. On me, I find it has good staying power and throw (and like most things BPAL, I only expect that to intensify with age). I have a habit of doing "bake a BPAL", and my birthday is in two days, so I'm going to concoct something that incorporates every one of these elements.
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2025 Version! (I've never tried the earlier one) Fresh out of the mail, this one kind of confused me - I couldn't really pick out any notes, except the honey seemed a tad "screechy", as honey tends to do on me sometimes. But last night, after having it for about a month, I put this on before bed, and suddenly, I *got it: Like others, I don't really get much pumpkin at first, but it's lurking in the background, grounding the sweet vanilla-amber experience. I imagine this will only age beautifully.
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Matcha Latte Cream Pie
melandie replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
Super realistic matcha note, with some creaminess to temper the grassy/herbiness, and a tiny hint of pastry backing it up. The pastry note comes on stronger at first, and then fades away. I wish that would stay longer, but this is a total winner of a creamy green scent. And now I want to find a recipe for a matcha cream pie. -
This is wonderful! I get tea, cake, vanilla, and a definite hint of lavender. Might be a great sleep scent. Exceeeeeepppt....my husband hates it. I wish I had a photo of the face he made when he smelled it. "Smells like it went off. Like rotten eggs or garbage". So, if I have any hopes of sleeping beside my husband, won't be a sleep scent.
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I have the 2021 version, and revisited this one while we're in the "cold snap" part of early spring here in southern Ontario, and I'm recuperating from a fractured ankle so am going for all the comfort scents I can get! A few years of aging have done this one wonders: initially it's quite sweet and buttery, but then fades to a lovely and surprisingly light creamy sweetness. Hours later, I was wondering what that wonderful sweet scent was wafting around me, and lo, it was me. Thankfully, I don't really get much floral, or if it's there, it's tempered by the cream and butter. Very pretty.
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I want to say how much I love this. Initially I was afraid of the lemon, but on me, it's such a soft little undertone. I love a good cake-y sleep scent, and at 8 am the next morning, I'm still pleasantly wafted with a beautiful olive oil cake.
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It's been AGES since I've smelled Dorian the OG (I had an imp from the Beloved Favorites set, and remember I liked it but wasn't wowed enough to get a bottle, even after the restock). However, I LOVED the Snake Oil Suf, I loved how the pastry element really played well with SO, so I had to try this one. Definitely a great choice. I don't really get a fried aspect, but just a lovely pastry note cozying up with the tea and vaniilla. A nice addition to my small Suf collection.
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Sniffing the bottle: LEATHER. I get a definite black leather jacket scent from this just sniffing the bottle. When I put it on the Snake Oil comes out to play and I definitely get a "Snake Skin-adjacent" vibe from this, which is what I was hoping for. But wow this is STRONG! I guess I must have slathered because my husband kept commenting he could smell me all over the apartment. "It's good, but maybe it's TOO MUCH good??" I see people commenting that they're getting more of a "well worn brown leather" vibe from this one, and I've had it less than a week, so I think it will settle down gloriously.
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As a vanilla lover, I thought it was high time I got this one. I think I was scared of the moonflower and tobacco petals adding too much of a floral note. I shouldn't have been. Sweet, sheer, ethereal, ghostly vanilla. It really is evocative of Miss Zorya P and the scene on the roof with the moon. Quite new, I found it disappears quickly on my skin, so I'm hoping age will bring about more longevity. I feel this one is a good one when you want to feel quietly powerful, subtle and mysterious.
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What a great blend for a beautiful image. This really does, to me, conjure up the chestnut-coloured horses in the painting. Between the chestnut and pecan, this is a nutty, only slightly musky scent, with the fig and amber backing up with a lovely sweetness. The clove is indeed sweet, and doesn't read as "spicy" at all. Really glad I got this one.
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Iced Apple Dumplings Plopped Into A Sweet Potato Pie
melandie replied to Seajewel's topic in Gifts with Donation or Purchase
I missed the window when these were available in 2021, but got all 3 Black Friday scents from that year in my most recent order! This goes on as a blast of apples-with-icing-sugar sweetness, and as it wears, it loses the apple, and primarily becomes mostly baking spices and really does smell like a candle. Might be nice to burn as a scented oil? -
I had a similar experience to the first reviewer on this one - everything got blasted with a torch! Smelling it in the bottle, it definitely is "all the things caught on fire", but it quickly balances out to a toasty pumpkin note, sweetened by the marshmallows, backed by the rustling of dried leaves. As with all my DL scents, this will be fun to revisit in future years as the notes all settle together. Very cozy fall scent.