TheresaRedSkull

This skips straight over cherry and jumps right to spicy, smoky Christmassy wonderfulness--a bit like one of the classier Yankee Candles, really. Love love love! Unfortunately, and unexpectedly, it makes my skin sting and itch, however.

Roses and creamy strawberry ice cream!

Returning to BPAL after a bit of a break and so ready to investigate new scents!

 

Top 5 right now:

Eclipse

The Mouse's Long & Sad Tale

Alice

Queen of Hearts

Prague

I find O and Stekkjarstaur to be similar to Mouse's Long and Sad...all three have a "good enough to eat" quality without really being gourmands (though perhaps Stekk could be classified as such...)

I just love this soft, delicious vanilla scent. It does, however, activate my sweet tooth...

To me, this scent is best summed up as "oranges and tortillas." I really can't muster a more intellectual description than that.

I got this as a decant and I'm starting to wonder if it was mislabeled. Provided it wasn't, Flickering Lantern is reminiscent of my mother when she would trim the grass at my childhood home--sweaty/musky and grassy. No rose, no tobacco, but perhaps just a hint of beeswax, though that might just be the power of suggestion.

This is one of those scents where I read the reviews and I think, "Are you guys sure you actually have noses?" This smelled like awful fake banana to me, not a hint of cassia, but with all the burning and redness of Inferno.

To the swap pile with thee!

Haunted, for me, hovers somewhere between "quite pleasant" and "powdery old lady." I wanted to love it, and I'll keep the imp, but it's not bottle-worthy, alas.

You know, I've tried Bastet, Tamora, and Hetairae, and it wouldn't have occurred to me to compare any of them to Mouse's. Lyonesse is def. on my wish list, and I'll add Eden--I hadn't even heard of it.

 

You might try:

Bastet

Lyonesse

Aeval

Tamora

Hetairae (the drydown)

Eden

 

I recently tried Mouse's Long and Sad Tale, and I love it--it's like creamy vanilla pineapple. Can anyone suggest scents that remind them of Mouse's?

 

I recently tried Mouse's Long and Sad Tale, and I love it--it's like creamy vanilla pineapple. Can anyone suggest scents that remind them of Mouse's?

In no particular order:

 

Outlaw

Dee

Smokestack

Tombeur

Unicorn & Ram

 

Honorable mention goes to Fighter, but I wear that mainly as a comfort scent and not so much as full on perfume.

I will be watching this closely, as Smokestack is one of my all-time favorites as well. Dark Chocolate, Blackened Tobacco, and Vetiver has been suggested to me in the past. Also Agnes Nutter, though it's unimpable. If it looks good to you and you'd be interested in going halves or a bottle, or a decant, please please let me know!

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My top 5 scents are:

 

1. Dorian

2. Perversion

3. The Waltz

4. Krampus

5. A Phantasmagoria: Conjuring An Armed Skeleton

 

What would you all recommend? Thanks in advance!

I find Wilde to be like Dorian's older, more sophisticated, more complex brother.

According to my sense of smell and body chemistry, this starts off as soapy incense (which I like, in this case) and ends on a base note very similar to Xiuhtecuhtl. No one else had gotten the latter? Everyone else says snow and aquatic, but theoretically Xiuhtecuhtl is tropical.

I got this in the amber imp pack recently. I didn't expect anything special from it based on the description, but it's rocketed up to one of my favorites. It starts off as...warm lumber? This sounds totally unappealing but is, in fact, a lovely moderation of Lab's usual piney/woody/lumber note, which usually comes out on me as CEDAR CEDAR CEDAR. Then as it mellows, as the other folks have noted, into a rose scent--charming, warm, woody. Far more complex and engaging than other rose scents seem to be.

This one's a winner! Thanks, BPAL!

In no particular order, my Top Five Scents are:

 

1) Brisingamen

2) Morocco

3) Edith Cushing

4) Pediophobia

5) Blossoming Vulva (because I had a hard time picking a #5, and this is the one that got me into BPAL)

 

For what it's worth, I also really like Snake Oil (who doesn't?!?) and the four Snake Oil-based scents I've tried -- Womb Furie, Boomslang, Saw-Scaled Viper, and Temple Viper. My death note is rose! And while I really like most of the lab's amber, I've recently discovered that Jacob's Ladder and I absolutely do NOT get along.

 

Wise forces of the BPAL forums, I unleash you!

I, too, enjoy the lab's amber note. Have you tried Oblivion? Same base note as Morocco, but with a very different set of top notes.

Forget the Irish coffee--this is caramel corn.

Wet, this is menthol and cedar, with the overall effect of a strong cleaning product. Very chemical-ly. It tapers off into something more pleasant, but it's just not worth the menthol up front.

 

I'd love to get everyone's advice. Please, feed my obsession!

 

Strangler Fig

 

The Grave-Pig - ​Fig, oakmoss, mushroom caps, and patchouli. (This is a really pretty scent despite its name. )

Intrigue - Black palm, with cocoa, fig and shadowy wooded notes.

Nephilim - Holy frankincense and hyssop in union with earthy fig, defiled by black patchouli and vetiver, with a chaotic infusion of lavender, cardamom, tamarind, rosemary, oakmoss and cypress.

 

I'm especially excited about this Grave-Pig idea. Thanks!

Among my favorites are (in no particular order--can't favor any among my babies):

Smokestack

Oblivion*

Dorian

Strangler Fig

Morocco

Al Azif

I know that's more than five, but I couldn't chose between Morocco (lovely sweet) and Al Azif (banana pudding, oddly comforting).

My death notes are apricot and peach scents, though jasmine and honeysuckle will likely drive me away also. My skin tends to amp evergreen notes (vetiver et al.).

I'd love to get everyone's advice. Please, feed my obsession!

*Edit: I mildly dislike Oblivion's top notes and heart notes, but whatever's in the base note is to die for.

I. Love. This. Scent. I love it so much that I can't imagine another human finding it unappealing--I am untouched by rationality in the face of Smokestack!

Once in a while a perfect scent comes swimming up out of the bell curve and makes you fall in love with BPAL all over again. This, for me, is that scent. It's the rich incense smell that I've been searching for--Christmas mass performed in a pine forest. Normally evergreen notes amp on me, to the point where I smell like a hamster cage, but in this the pine is balanced out by the sweet complexity and the tiniest hint of smoke.

Am I the only person who feels that this perfume smells exactly like Oxy pads? I'm not even saying there's anything wrong with that--they smell pleasant and clean to me. But I can practically feel the slightly rough texture of the round pad on my face. It's odd.

What's the scent with the most dominant smoke note? I want to smell like the burning piles of autumn leaves my dad would make when I was a kid.

Two words: banana pudding.

Not that I have any problem with that.

I had no idea that bon vivants were eating Skittles and drinking Sprite, but now that I know, I'll claim the mantle more often.

Chocolate? Wow--it's like people are smelling this with different brains than mine.

Oh wait, they are.

This smells like sap to me. Then kind of a spicy-sweet with notes of the sap gradually fading.

I concur with the folks here who find this different from other perfumes--I didn't realize perfume could smell this way.

I love green plants and I love this stuff!