Jenjin

Super strong grapefruit blast going on. I am literally surrounded by a fruity citrus squirt. After several minutes it calms down and smooths into something very much like chewing a stick of juicy fruit or zebra stripe. This makes my mouth water. I'm usually not into fruity scents but this is really pretty, youthful and moodlifting. Will see if it sticks in my memory as something I need since I have no other grapefruit scents. 

Blue, cool and watery aquatic overall. I love the notes here but on skin it reminds me of my husband's deodorant. It's clean and refreshing but not something i'd wear. 

Floating roses swirling into a white honey pot with a splash of sparkling wine. This honey is hands down PERFECT! Even honey perfume haters would slather this. Sweet without that cloying heaviness some honey fragrances have. It's bright and YUMMY. I am compelled to lick my arm (but I know better ) It's reminding me of sugary chewy cherry candies. I am LOVING this and have nothing else like it.  I was not planning on finding another win. At least i'll get free shipping when I place my bottle order. 

This cacao isn't the earthy kind, this is creamy white cacao if that even exists. Echoing what's already been said above, the rose is fresh and the most beautiful soft pink you can imagine, with petals dipped in sparkling sugar. Very pretty and girly, overall it is gorgeous, sweet and smooth with good throw. If you love Velvet Unicorn, Love and Loli.Goth you need this! 

This is reminding me of something, the ginger is just a little bit medicinal, like a salve or a foodie sauce. The notes are competing with each other at first, it takes a few minutes for things to calm down. The clove and ginger are giving me a foodie sort of spice, while the benzoin steps in and lends an aquatic, watery top note. It's got a dampness to it i'm not sure about. It's harder for me to write about the ones that confuse me.  It does give me flashbacks of being by the ocean, but i'm sitting in a waterside cafe eating sushi and downing sake, LOTS of sake. 

Starts off with a sweet, woody blast and quickly smooths down to the perfect spa scent. It transports me immediately to Ten Thousand Waves in New Mexico, plush robe on with cushy slippers and creaking wood planks all around. Waters trickling and steam rising. I can only imagine what a wooded spa would be like in Japan, but it would smell like this. Warm golden wood, heated amber, shaggy leathers and a burning fire. The green tea floats just above the surface. This is BEAUTIFUL and soothes my retched haunted soul.  One of the top Luper standouts for me and an immediate bottle upgrade.

Whoa, I wasn't expecting this to be so buttery and gourmand, but duh,  all of the notes are edible besides the tuberose. Like a creamy, drippy sticky dessert topped with a tuberose bouquet. Syrupy, did I say SWEET, it is just a bit overwhelming  but I can never wear foodies. If you love sweet, sticky dessert gourmands like Miskatonic University, The Pancake Bell, Cockaigne, and King Cake,  YOU NEED THIS. 

The cacao opens slightly sweet, like smelling dry cocoa powder. After it dries few minutes, the sultry, earthy cacao appears along with the sweet, hypnotic Copal and sacred and a bit sweet and salted, Palo Santo. Like a sacred path to bliss, all the notes become a soothing ceremony. Deep belly breaths in, the scent of this is grounding, centering, even sensual. I could see using this during ritual for focus, heart opening and clearing. 

Creamy pale purple lotus swirled mallow, and when I say mallow, this is literally creamy like snarfing on candy marshmallows. I could wallow in a pan of marshmallows flavored like this. It is yummy and creamy yet not in an overly gourmand way. During the pandemic lockdown, I got hooked on this ice cream that tastes exactly like this. We called it "unicorn poop" so I kinda want to rename this cause if you were galavanting through the forest, and came upon piles of horned horsey poo, I could imagine it smelling this way. POOF! you're a fairy, i'm a fairy, We are all magical fairies! 

Gosh, I really kindof love this, it's retro and smells like very expensive incense. It's also giving me Cacharel vibes - dark girly gothy incense burn and Norma Kamali swimsuit summers spent tanning by the pool. I could totally see Nina Hagen, Siouxsie or even Robert Smith rocking this scent. It definitely has an edge to it and in the end, the jasmine might be too much for me, still testing. Perfect for date night when balmy out, taking a midnight walk, noses nuzzling on necks. Needs a fancy antique crystal bottle just to keep it in.  

This reminds me alot of Lady in Speckled Pink Kimono, but the Lychee is stomping those flowers. After 30 minutes, the Peony makes itself known and it's juicy and fresh. A fruity kind of floral, like chewy, peony candy with a splash of refreshing tea. This would be lovely on the beach or even an outdoor concert. I could see a bride wearing this at a sultry, summer wedding. 

Slather this and sit back, close your eyes and enjoy. Imagine you are the Princess of an ancient empire, wrapped in leathers and the finest silks. You are taking part in a sacred ceremony, whips are cracking, passions are igniting and wonderful, delightful smells are all around, spices, patchouli, and musky vanilla. The sun is just setting and you can hear the soothing chants - hypnotic, enchanting and mesmerizing.
Still debating on whether to hunt down more of this, it does have a bit of a cola float vibe, but I kinda dig that part. Yummy!

I almost blind bottled this since the sandalwood and amber fit right, but I am quite content with a decant. 

It is all snuggly and warm as others have mentioned, but something about it makes me very nostalgic, sitting at my Nanny's makeup table sticking my face into things. It might need more sweetness for my liking but I can definitely see people enjoying this. 
Yesterday, when my decants came, I had spotted my arms with this and a bunch of other Lupers. At the end of the day, this one was still winning. I could still catch plenty of whiffs of it even after many hours while all the others had taken a backseat. 

This perfume smells so, so beautiful a classy, delicately floral. Sweet, light and airy, it also reminds me a Venus Verticordia which I adore. I'm also thinking of alot of other florals, like Wild Honeysuckle, Queen Mabs Lace and Flowering Lines. 
The floral notes all swirling together, become a kind of flower cotton candy, like glittering spun sugar made of wildflower nectar. The honey is bright and light in tone. I would LOVE a flavored water like this made with blossoms and golden honey. Simply delicious. 

What do you get when lotus and champaca are combined in a fragrance? A bouquet fit for the gods. This is a dreamy, otherworldly scent, captivating and heartbreakingly delicate. It has a classic tone and does allude to pearly abalone and a sun-dappled waters. The drydown transforms into a salty clean scent. Reminds me a bit of those round salty soap bars that I love so much, mixed with a kiss of sweet-spicy jasmine and rich sandalwood. 

OH my this is STUNNING! A literal summer masterpiece. I'm a little confused by the notes, but perhaps my palette isn't as sophisticated as it could be. I don't have anything like this and am running to the lab because I need this in my life forever. I'm getting something like the smell of muscat grapes, plump and shiny on the vine. It must be the olive blossoms, which I don't have much experience with, but am in bespotted love. I've only got a bottle sniffy right now, and can't wait to slather. 

This one is somewhat avant garde - experimental to me. It's very interesting and atmospheric like a salt white beach linen spray. 

An up close skin scent, i'm getting how skin and hair smells after spending the day washed in azure waves. The seawater, salts and sand blending together with ozone and heat. I don't get any carnation, except that it could be adding a tiny bit of sweetness. Definitely try this if you love Thalassa or other BPAL mermaid gems. 

This is a GIANT juicy peach. I remember my very first peach. I was very young, and I wasn't sure how to deal with the peel, so I ate it. My face was so sticky and prickly with the fuzz and fruit. I can see alot of people seriously loving to smell this,  with the tart scent of peach and slightly candy and sweet. It's got a softness to it as well, which balances out the sweetness and makes it delightfully creamy on the skin. This is perfect for fuzzy navel summer days at the beach or the pool. 

A yummy Thai milk boba tea shop experience. I absolutely LOVE the beginning stages, the coconut is sweet, mixed with a crystalline tea. The rice milk is delectable and makes it creamy and divine. Interestingly enough,  after some drydown time, it all turns to playdoh. A sweeter kind of doh, but yah, that's what it reminds me of, which I could see some people really enjoying. This would be interesting to test out to see other people's reactions. I bet they wouldn't be able to place it, yet it could give them happy, bubble tea youthful feelings. 

Airy and lightly floral in a fresh way,  i'm getting upper, floating layer which is very Japanese fruity-perfumey. 
Very much like walking through a street in Japan in early spring. The streets lined with all the flowers - the smell of sweet, dewy fresh petals filling the air. 
It's very unobtrusive and reminds me of a pretty, clean shampoo scent. It makes me feel bright and freshly bathed without smelling heavy. 
Could be worn in an upclose situation without anyone noticing it too much besides getting whiffs of sweetly clean blossoms. 
May have to get more of this one. 

The Days of Wine and Roses
I just typed a lengthy review which somehow disappeared into the internet ethermist. Needless to say, this is a mysterious black tobacco rose, she's got her fishnets on and some long tall sexy beast is smoking a swisher sweet down the street. I'm going to need a cigarette after wearing this, it is so damn smoldering sexy  Whew, those dang elephants seriously know how to shake my hut.  Burns down to a deep rich burgundy smoked merlot rose
(ding-dong, can you keep a secret? this is pure epic classic BPAL lux.

Sweet and simple, nothing too fancy, this a treat to wear. A nice light youthful fragrance, the apple is crisp while the amber and vanilla keep it grounded. A very ladylike apple, and most definitely red. It's not dark to me at all, more bright and summery. I could see myself wearing this as a mood lifter, or casually around the house.

Yuuuuuuuuum, smooshy, smashed up squishy marshmallows and warm, sugary cardamom cake, this gives me the coziness I crave. Just lovely, addictive even, like being in a warm, cakey sugar shack. Wonderfully delicious subtle cardamom spice, it smells edible, covering me with its wild floofy magic. It's perfect and comforting for lounging around the house, undercovers marshmallow cakesmashing noms. More than the sum of its parts, I can't stop thinking "My Little Grotesque", mixed with "Stekkjarstaur", two of my all time faves. 

I adore a cuddly smooth amber, and this is one smooth operator. Faster Kittycat is a lovely veil of scent that wears like a sheer scarf, with a transparency crafted through blending these sometimes heavy notes, with a light touch. It is graceful, and speaks in a gentle whisper and soft purr. The secret weapon here is the orris I suspect, which keeps the perfume close to the body, yet gives the overall experience a kind of elegance. The cashmere amber and white chypre give me whiffs of warm sweetness, very exotic from a far away land reminiscent to Shalimar to me also, except with a bit more "bite" from the patchouli. 
I urge you to give this a try before the Lilith's come down, especially if you are a fan of seductive and gracefully smooth orris fragrance. It is discreet, refined and eminently wearable. Another GORGEOUS modern classic from the lab. 

I'm just a little obsessed with "In Night When Colors All to Black Are Cast". This is such a beautiful and distinctive fragrance, i'm getting whiffs of elegant resin and musks that are strangely intoxicating. Sexy, gothic and dare I say, moody. All the notes swirl together into a kind of melancholy elixir, fragile yet powerful, like a doomed romance.
As the scent dries down, the distinct, sweet and smooth myrrh is serenaded by the juicy plum and a touch of earthiness from the nagarmotha. A sudden tenderness hits, like the bittersweet solitude we have all been a part of, the dark folds of words left unspoken. Is the essence something just sitting upon the skin, or has it somehow sunk underneath and become part of me?