Miss Landau

Very sweet and eggy. On me, the apple is strong on application but quickly calms down and takes a back seat to sugary dough with just a hint of spice, I get more nutmeg and cinnamon than ginger. 

I’m getting mostly apple from this, with a bit of musk and almond. It’s very warm and sumptuous, and has good length on me. 

Whoops, thought I reviewed this back when I got the bottle. It was INTENSE then, and it's even more INTENSE now. Some BPAL's barely last a couple of hours on me unless I slather, this one needs just the lightest touch of the roller ball. 

 

For me this is straight strawberry conserve, super sweet and jammy, with just enough fruity tang to make it more than just a sickly sugar fest. For anyone who knows Solstice Scents, it's quite reminiscent of their Blossom Jam Tea Cake. 

 

Because strawberry, used lightly, tends to be inoffensive I had hoped for this as a daytime scent but to be honest it's a little too full on for that. It's one of the ones that people who get close enough to smell it always compliment, though. 

On me this is just sweet cranberry, it actually reminds me of a bottle of premix cosmopolitan that you add vodka to. But it's not as loud and in-your-face as that suggests, this works as a good day scent on me. 

Jasmine and damp dirt. Vanilla is usually very strong on me, but I'm not getting any of that at all yet, after wearing for about five hours. Although I do like vanilla, I feel that's a good thing this time round. I know "jasmine and damp dirt" sounds pretty unappealing but oddly enough it's not. It's a good clean earth smell. I should also say this has a very weak throw on me but that's fine, as if it was stronger it could be a bit too overpowering and intrusive.

Got a bunch of RPG frimps in my latest order, and Orc was one of them. To me fresh out of the imp this smells strongly grassy, almost astringently so. A few hours later I'm getting something vaguely, um, floral? Doesn't smell much like musk or leather, or at least not leather like I recognise it from other oils like Tezcatlipoca.

Turns out I'm a big fan of BPAL's apple scents. This one reminds me a lot of Apple VI from the Halloweenie line - a strong blast of chilled apple, either red or golden for me, not green, with an intriguing medicinal/herbal note to it. If someone offers you an apple that smells like this, do not eat it!

I'm a big fan of Grand Guignol so I suspected I'd like this and I do. While Grand Guignol smells to me like dried apricots (plus booze) these are fresh, plus the zing of fresh cut oranges. It's seriously bright and bracing at first, then a more rounded sweetness starts coming out. Love it.

Vaguely floral, but the main thing I'm getting from this is pine, almost resin-y, with that hint of menthol freshness. Not unpleasant though, and it seems to have pretty good staying power.

Some sort of floral, can't quite pick out what, and damp, green moss. Kind of like the smell of the moss on rocks in a creek bed. Very delicate and faint, but atmospheric.

Marzipan rather than "sweet grains". Very light and almost zero throw, it was gone less than an hour later. Pretty and sweet.

I think this is gorgeous. Lots of red sandalwood and carnation. I was worried the main spice would be cinnamon, which doesn't really work on me (and seems to cause terrible contact dermatitis) but it smells like vanilla.

This has immediately become one of my new favourites. I'm guessing "purple fruits" means plums and grapes and I definitely get a lot of the former - but fresh ripe plums, not the over-ripe-turning-to-prune plum of Bordello - but don't think I can pick up anything I recognise as grape. Violet is the flower scent I'm getting, the incense is very much in the background for me.

"This reminds me of....Vera Wang's Princess Night" was my first thought. Very fruity and I was getting a LOT of watermelon, so that made sense when I went onto the BPAL website and read the notes afterwards. It's almost alarmingly strong at first, but tempers down almost immediately. I think this will make a nice eau de toilette strength scent for hot days.

 

I've had quite a few frimps from the Alice in Wonderland collection, including some repeats which I'm not unhappy about. I've enjoyed all of them so far, and am considering ordering bottles of Alice, Eat Me and Queen of Hearts. The frimp system works, LOL.

I could have SWORN that when I read the BPAL page for Lucy's Kiss sometime last year, it listed this as a violet scent, not a rose one. Anyway, this is lovely. I'm not a huge fan of rose scents per se as they tend to give me a headache, but this is light enough for that not to be an issue. The "Victorian spices" add a sweetness that is delicate as opposed to sickly.

Got this as a frimp. Super sweet resin - as in, so sweet it's basically honey, and very strong. I have to be honest and say that smelling blind I only got this sweetness, couldn't pick up anything like incense or galangal, and I don't have the faintest idea what gurjum balsam or olibanum are, haha. Now that I know what to look for, I THINK I get a bit of the smoke of incense and maybe a ginger-y element. This is definitely one of the most potent BPALs I've tried lately.

This is the "weakest" BPAL I've encountered in quite a while, I can barely smell a whole imp in my scent locket when I hold it right up to my nose less than an hour after loading it up. What I can make out is a generically pretty floral, very delicate, with the warmth of ginger. I do like it, it's just that I'm reluctant to buy a 5 ml bottle if it's this weak on me.

I actually don't get much mandarin from this, which surprised me as I REALLY get it from others like Carnal and Belle Epoque. Lots of magnolia, and a warm wet spiciness.

I got mostly warm sandalwood from this, and then the orange blossom faintly detectable under that. This lasted reasonably well on me, but very, very faintly.

I'm into this. Getting the mandarin more than anything else (this scent reminds me of Carnal more than anything else), backed up by the sandalwood and possibly opium. Not sure I can detect any lily of the valley or vanilla, but that might come later. Pretty potent, I put a couple of drops onto a piece of fabric in a scent locket, and I can just smell it without having to hold the locket up to my nose.

Cinnamon, and it's caused contact dermatitis on me too.

I'm discovering I'm a huge fan of the foodie BPAL scents. This is delightful. Bright and citrussy and I'm not getting much lavender but I am getting a kind of biscuit or cakiness, reminsicent of Eat Me, which is possibly the aniseed.

This smells amazing. Dark chocolate and incense. I could detect something else under all that, but didn't know it was patchouli until I read the notes after smelling. Not sure I'm getting anything leather, is it that faint dustiness? Smells like a similar kind of dusty to Bordello, i.e. a good kind.

Patchouli and floral. Pleasant and inoffensive, but also very faint. I can barely smell it in my scent locket three hours later.

A strong wet green smell. I'm not sure I'm picking up much actual honey (although it's definitely sweet) the way I can in Honeyed Apple, say. But it doesn't get cloying (the green herbalness takes care of that) and it seems to have amazing throw.