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Le sigh. This is mostly powdery rose on me - which often happens with rose scents on my skin, and I don't actually mind, but I was hoping the other ingredients would create a more nuanced rose on me. I adore beeswax and tobacco leaf, but nope it's just powdery rose on me. I am going to go sulk now.

The patch is pretty strong when wet and does calm a bit as it dries down and the scent becomes more complex. My nose doesn't really pick out any of the others as distinct on their own, but it's definitely more than patch. I am also less familiar with the others - it's outside my wheelhouse, so that could be it, as well.

Sweet and soft - dreamy and a little fuzzy, but otherwise nothing spectacular. It's a little too simple, and the pear too subtle.

I really like the smell of jasmine, but it can be too heady on my skin and give me a headache. This is definitely one of those. Interestingly, up close I can smell the white tea blossom - it actually softens the jasmine a bit, but unfortunately, the scent that wafts on to me is a shrieking kind of jasmine. Which seems appropriate with this...I don't quite know what I was thinking...

Pine, pine, pine, pine, pine, pine. There's some other stuff - and if I sniff real close I can start to parse out that there's some interesting stuff going on, but unfortunately, without that intent, this is just pine-y on me - and not like pinesol pine-y - it's like legitimate pine, but still not what I wanted out of this one.

I anticipated that the fir needle would be more pungent and dominant this scent, but when I tried it, I didn't even detect the fir needle until I read the description and thought, "I guess that's the background winteryness." It doesn't even seem like fir needle, just a general winteryness with thick honey musk being most dominant. This seems like a Yule scent - wintery outdoorsyness and candy.

Wow, that's sweet! Interestingly, once it dries down, it's still very sweet, but there's a licorice quality to it that tames it a bit, but I am not a fan of licorice. I think I wouldn't mind this as a bubble bath or something, but not as a perfume.

Le sigh, rose lovers, I have noticed that a lot of rose scents are growing increasingly powdery on me. The ones with lots of green are still working well - I am not sure if my skin chemistry has changed or my preferences have changed, but I has a sad.

Edit: Sorry I meant to put this in the rose apologist thread! Mods, please delete.

GC Blends similar to Zombi? I love the watery-dirty type of flower scent

Deep in Earth!!! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/ars-moriendi/deep-in-earth/

 

I received a wandcapped oil that leaks, and now I'm noticing that wandcapped is added at the end of some listings almost like a warning. Do they all leak?

I can't believe that all leak as I've received some in the mail that did not, however, enough do that if I ship or store them, I take precautions:

 

Leave upright during storage and usually no problem

 

If shipping, use electrical tape or plumbing tape and place in its own, individual baggie

 

I hate reducer caps. I pry them out immediately and use either regular or wand caps. I've never had an issue with wand caps leaking in transit. I use electrical tape and a separate bag as sprout notes.

 

sylvis, if your skin eats some scents (as mine does), try a scent locket. You can get inexpensive ones on eBay and washable felt discs for the oils on Amazon.

I seem to only have a problem with wandcaps leaking during higher temperatures. I used to not put electrical tape on them because they didn't leak, but I do now during particularly hot months.

Sylvis, if you want some to travel with you, I can't recommend roller bottles enough. I find them at my local Natural Grocer or online: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EUXDLOO?th=1

I have noticed though that the metal may clash with some scents, so sometimes you might want rollerballs with plastic applicators. For example, I noticed milk-based scents did not seem to like the metal.

Wet this smelled like snake oil with leather, but as it dried down, it became mostly leather prominent with a touch of vanilla spices. I want to slather my husband in this.

This is more rose than I anticipated, almost like the jasmine makes the rose rosier? The pink pepper gives it a bright quality to counteract the powderiness of the jasmine and rose (which often happens on me). I do get some vanilla, which my skin sucks up, but it doesn't seem vanilla bourbon to me. No patch, none - whatsoever. Kind of bummed about that, but still I like it - I just can't decide if I love it. It definitely has that old-fashioned, Southern lady quality to it - but, not a proper Southern lady, obviously, she's a tart - an expensive tart.

This one is pretty potent on me - it's a sort of spicy floral, but not a powdery spicy floral like carnation on me. Instead it's sharper in an herbal way - like the truth itself. It's very, very interesting - I don't particularly like it, yet I keep sniffing it, trying to figure it out, which I think shows just what a work of art this is.

This was a sort of mix of powdery florals and sweet sugary. The carnation gives it a bit of spicyness, but I still found it too sweet.

Well, this one has taught me that the jungle scents just don't work for me, basically because based on these notes I am noticing a pattern. It smells lovely, it's got a clean jungly scent, not like the hot, humid ones - like it is being cooled by moonlight, but I just don't like these on me.

I lurve that spicy, baked BPAL scent. It's very spicy and cakey at first, but once it settles in the lavender comes out - it's super cuddly. I could see this being a great bedtime scent!

This went through several cycles on me, but I couldn't tell you exactly what notes were prominent at what time. It's very well blended. It has a slight overall powdery quality. The neroli and patchouli seemed very prominent at first, and the cacao and labdanum were more prominent after drying for a bit.

Oh, this is the epitome of gourmand to me! It smells like a delicious, decadent dessert. When first applied and drying down, the thyme was around a bit, but by the time it set, it was mostly lemon zest, cheesecake, and sugared pear.

A lovely simple floral - it's sweeter than I expected, but not powdery, delicate - I feel like I can picture a nighttime quality to them.

This scent pretty much hits on all my happy BPAL triggers: white musk, lavendar, mallow, rose, vanilla. I was a little cautious about the apricot, but I don't notice it. Instead, I smell yummy mallow, vanilla, and white musk - the florals and lavendar take the background in this scene. It's gourmand in terms of airy, fluffy meringues with rose water, not fresh baked cookies. I freaking love it.

Oh, that's potent rose mingled with violet right away, which I do not like...at all. It gets even more violety as it dries - like the freesia and violet and rose all mingle together to maximize the qualities of violet that never work on me. But, hey, if you like violet, go for this!

I expected this to smell more florally than this, but it mainly smells fruity - like musky plum. Perhaps it can find a home with someone else.

When first wet, it smells like only sakura, but the wisteria jumps in almost immediately. This defintely has a white or pale pink floral quality to it, but has a slightly more exotic quality to it with the subtle fruitiness of the sakura.

I haven't smelled plumeria in a long time, but the plumeria definitely comes out on this for me with a mix incense and the BPAL jungle blooms I have smelled before. I am not exactly sure what copal smells like, but I don't really get much sweet orange from this.

This has so many death notes for me, yet altogether it really works! It's well blended and surprisingly light - more glittery than dense metal. Sublime and cultured it is!