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In bottle (impsize 1ml) Amber and caramel. This is 10min of wearing this for the first time and my train of thoughts / associations along with it: Wet On my skin, it smells like a spicy latte with a hint of dried sweet fruit (which is not listed, so that is in my mind). This stage seems foody, like a beverage with soy milk (not listed), cardamon and candied-tea-sugar (not listed). Dry Once this calms down a bit, it has more of a chestnut note as it dries down, ... and briefly feels more like a pastry than a beverage now. ... But my mental image is not where you'd expect it, as I see someone wearing nothing but a fluffy red-and-white Santa-style bathrobe, buttoned up in the front. Uh, surely this mental association is only my own and was never the intention of this scent, uh. ... Ok I think the allspice is starting to mellow a bit on my skin, making it more like a chai tea with rock sugar on a wooden desk, ready to drink; and in my metal image, there is a single decorative chestnut sitting next to that drink, on the table. This reads like a combination between fall and winter. ... Unfortunately, the person with bathrobe now is nowhere to be found now, which is good, cause, like, uh, distractions... But the feeling "it is okay to wear flannel pajamas all day, and to stay inside" stays. There is a calm nutty note (not necessarily chestnut, to me), and the sugar has disappeared now, and I still can read wood, which also is not listed and thus only in my mind... It then stays very balanced and reads "cozy!" to my nose. Conclusion Spicy, rich, warm Christmas themed scent. Safe and cozy.

In Bottle Golden, warm shimmer; I read this as marigold but that note is not listed, so I am wrong. I also get a lot of a champagne image (my mind sometimes does funny things when I smell bpal). No leather, no image of a laufeyson variant, and not magically or green at all. Just warm flowers and amber. No leather, wood or patchouli at this stage. Wet stage On my skin, Laufeyson initially provokes an “elvish” image, a bit like the elves in The Lord of the Rings, in long shiny robes in a very fresh leaves-forest, holding little green and white flowers, just standing there, doing nothing at all... Fresh, green, and when I try to smell the complexity, I get a hint of fresh green leather in a very, very far away distance, so far away, that I doubt whether it is there, or not there. But it’s also too “clean,” so this a Laufeyson who is at home, in some kind of cell made of stone, and my feeling is that they have just summoned a fresh leather outfit. That outfit doesn’t really exist: it’s an illusion only. Ok, that is a very precise associated image. Hm! The scent now also slightly soapy, but not as much as with other scents I have, and it’s only present, when I really press my nose against my skin, and I think bergamot is the culprit causing that, but I dont know. Clove is always a bit weird on my skin, and I get that here too, but it doesn't give me headaches. So, yeah, at this stage, it’s very clean, but I like it! Dry on skin This is written while I was wearing it for the first time, and describes around 10min of my reactions to what I'm smelling, in a train of thoughts: Happy: I do like this scent very much. It is very balanced on my skin now, but also "too balanced".... I wished for some kind of magic spark, some kind of trickster-y. I hope the clove amps down a bit, because it distracts me... There is a funny thing about it that makes me want to hug someone who wears green leather, and feel the warmth of the skin underneath the armour, but the thought is disappearing, and I can't get a hold of it. Is this the trickster-y after all? ...The next image is just a cozy orange leather chair in a stone room, a fireplace behind it that has a fire too orange to be true. ... And a whiff of a nearby forest coming in from a window to the right, it is dark outside, no stars, and this place inside is warm and cozy. ... There is this very deep feeling that someone *should be on the chair, only because it would be aesthetically nice to have. Like, right now. But that image also disappears... I don't know why I get stone, but that stays... Oh-oh: To be fair, this does give me some weird feeling of hope and safety, paired with a weird interest in something i won't write about publicly.... It now is still very clean and fresh, and maybe I would have hoped for more of a worn-down leather, but I do get a very clear image about who is wearing this green leather armour and present in this stone hall. It stays this way and becomes very balanced: green, cozy, very-very fresh. Wearing this To me, this is a scent that might be dependent on skin warmth, as I noted that it reactivated itself during yoga. That experience made me super happy. Conclusions This is a very nice scent! I think it is super interesting in its' changes. So there definitely is a charmer, transformer, and a trickster hidden in this scent (100%). On my skin, it is very cozy, and I love it. I get why this may not work on every skin type, tbh. I'm very glad I tried this and I'm already sad that I only have half a bottle of it (thus, I will order a backup). Happy to see what ageing will do, but hopefully, a bit of the freshness will stay, cause it is important for this type of scent and the green and fresh smell. Overall, I am extremely happy with this scent. To me, it is very uplifting. It makes my day. On my skin, Laufeyson stays for around 15-18 hours, but it has a very limited range, so it is absolutely suited for the office. Hint: you can just secretly smell on your wrist and calm your nerves down. (very calming and hopeful). So, I found my second signature scent (next to "fuck you said the raven"), and I cant describe how happy this scent makes me: it makes me VERY happy.

Very comfy scent! The aged 2019 version: It's strong as long as it is in the wet stage, but afterwards it's a milky coffee with sugar and cinnamon. Very nice and balanced. Reminds me of lupin-based coffee with spices and syrup

In the bottle Beautiful. I mean, I always love opoponax, and I like BPAL's wine scent. I don't know kyphi, but to me, kyphi smells like frankincense, myrrh, wood, ginger and purple berries with a dash of honeyed raisins. A campfire further away, someone drinking chai tea. I don't get pumpkin at this stage. I usually get images from BPAL's scents, but here I don't. It's just nice and calm, and I need to get this on my skin now. On skin, wet Oh hello pumpkin. And goodbye pumpkin (it disappeared). It's gooey and sweet, and to my nose, there is some kind of smoke for a brief moment? To me, it feels like walking on the edge of a steep hill where you shouldn't stumble or otherwise you'd fall down. There is something there, watching in the darkness below, but I am not sure what it is, or what it wants. I am briefly appearing to face a mild headache - but it may be more of an uncomfortable emotional image than a real headache. I don't get wine at this stage. If at all, the wine is mulled with spice. On skin, dry I think this is nice! Well-blended, strong, balanced. Sweet and it has some darkness to it (I mean literal darkness, not an evil darkness.) Can't wear this to the office, but it's a nice mood scent for the autumnal season.

What can I say, it's great. Strong lavender, maybe some chamomile, but mostly lavender. I didn't really believe it would work beforehand, but, interestingly, there is something strong in this oil, and it does have a calming effect on me indeed. It really brings instant tranquility, although if you are, for example, in grief, the emotion or the tears will stay (which is also a good thing, cause tears are a good invention in my view) - but the physical feeling will somehow be calmer and peaceful. It does wear off after an hour or two, but I didn't see any harm on applying this a couple of times, with the same effects. I also tried combining this with Lionheart, but on me, I had the impression that Lionheart also does something to the emotion (temporary strength but with an aftereffect; and I might go so far as to call Lionheart manipulative), whereas Peace is really just that (not really extra strength, but some easy, physical calmness, without demanding anything in return). So, great to have, although it is really for unique situations I think (for example, I personally would not use this as sleep oil, but get a bpal lavender scent for that purpose). Also, I have to say that, rationally, I am sceptical on these things, but physically, it was clear to me that I did feel the physical calmness effects - and that's super cool.

Aged imp (3 years): Wet: water, some salt, and a clean soap, sharp jasmine, sand, and... blue air. This stage on my skin is slightly headache-triggering, and smells mostly like a clean, perfumed, floral soap, for about an hour. After an hour onward: I can't smell any ingredient on its own now. This is a somewhat neutral, clean scent, and not sweet. Mental image: wearing (very) clean clothes, while being on a small, wooden boat that is sailing on the easy waves of a blue tropical sea, with sandy beaches nearby; there's a huge, white sail and, somehow, collected white flowers are neatly dropped on the planks of the boat

Aged bottle: On my skin, lemony old women cologne (sorry) with a whiff of rosemary sharpness initially; then setting to grape-rose; then nice roses. Aristocracy and 17th century evoked mental image. On my mother's skin (she is around 60 years old): perfect match! Like a forest and flowers. And definitely bewitching, because it is just one big "Woooooow" on her.

After three years of ageing, I still like this: I mainly get 3 notes: Gardenia typically works very well for me. Oakmoss usually adds some complexity to a luper scent, to sort of balance out things that might get to flowery otherwise. As a consequence, I can usually appreciate oakmoss in luper scents. Here, it matches the magnolia leave somehow. All other ingredients on my skin are in the background. Image: It's like walking through a garden that has a couple of trees, but its still too cold to wear spring clothes.... I somehow get a dark blue colored huge flag ....made of silk ....hovering in the still too cold spring wind ... that carries first pollen.

Initially this was too sweat and sticky for me. Also, I wasn't very keen to get cherry, rather than blossoms, because cherry isn't my favourite thing. Reviewed after 3 years ageing, my nose picks up rather as a duet of pink rose (I guess that is the cherry blossom then) and strawberry ... with some dew. It is a straightforward, pink scent, somewhat shallow, that fits a pink dress I am wearing today. I prefer my more complex scents, but the view is nice.

Tested based on frimp that is a few years old First associations Metal, rose wine, decadent room, "eehhh" effect, juicy Long-term Stone, floral, shivers/creepy Image Disoriented, where am I? I smell: earth, stone walls, dust, ... ah okay so we're deep below the ground then,.... moss on the walls and it's cold but not uncomfortable, ... ehm?... So okay, more stone on the ground, but surprisingly clean,... Ah, there is a smell from a nearby sauna in the air but still far away....Somehow the room has dim light but without any light source...Now, the question is, if there is not more than this to the image: is this a prison? I would be able to move, but this space stays to look the same: stone walls, stone ground, clean, and a sauna far away. Haha But it also feels like there is no way out in this mental image that comes from the scent, and there is also no more to this image: a stone-walled place below the ground. Oh, but something observes me, that I can't see: I see stone walls, but there is something else that I cannot see, nearby, but when you turn, there is nothing there, it's really just stone walls.... In sum The "ehh" remains.... but it's somehow nice, but weird, on my skin... It's soft, but I wouldn't wear this to the office, cause there is something that spooks me about this scent (which is not a bad thing) -- PS: Interestingly, when I layer this with Arkham, I feel that the mental image is that there IS a way out, cause it suddenly becomes a creepy stone house in a flowery wood then haha, I love this mental imagery bpal triggers...

- tested based on a frimp that might be a few years old- Walking through a bright green forest, with white flowers along the path you take. Rays of sunlight are caught between the trees' shadows. The steps you take are soft, as if embedded or embraced by moss beneath your feet. Some of the flowers along the way might be magical, but not poisonous, more like bringing some renewed energy. Ah, and probably, you're the giant in the family, but you're related to pixies somewhere in your blood origin, decades, what do I say, a few hundred of years, ago. You're probably on your way to your garden, located in the woods, but you would never get your hands dirty, you will let the flowers fly out of the soil, so your hands stay clean. Ok back to the scent, not the image it provokes for me: Well-balanced: hard for me to distinguish individual notes, as cypress for example intermingles with bright moss and wildflowers. I might have expected more pine, but I don't smell it at all, it's way sweeter. In sum: bright, calm, flowery, and not woodsy on my skin. I like flower and wood scents, so its fine for me. It does have magic, but there is nothing 'creeping' at all Very approachable, and this scent really couldn't be more safe for the office...

This is a frimp I received from the lab in April 2019, but I somehow forgot about, because I'm not that much into chocolate scents. Also, perhaps fairly boring to say after 21 pages of reviews about Velvet: the description is exactly as this scent is on my skin: a comfy embrace with maybe a blanket of wool, mostly milk chocolate, a little sandalwood-vanilla (attached together somehow), and in the distance some myrrh (but myrrh disappears on my skin immediately, so that's not unexpected). The embrace is an image I do get from this scent, but it does not have a velvet color or tactile fabric in my mind. After some time of wearing, the sandalwood does a weird egocentric dance on its own. This is chocolate that is not too expensive and somehow fell into a bucket of sandalwood and melted with it, while the store around it is somehow filled with myrrh. It's "okay."

Oh, finally a blind date that went well Mountain temple (which I subconsciously somehow want to call winter temple) starts with eucalyptus or mint that has a big entry, along with what I read as mandarin, wood, and honey snow. And then slows down to leave honey snow, so not much of its initial entry remains. But that's fine, it's a lovely calm scent, like the image on the bottle.

Once on skin, something breaks loose like a fire, wanting immediate attention, and you have to let go of anything you were previously thinking. This is psychodynamic discharge in its finest, although in my decant, I relabelled this to "PD", as I wasn't sure what the government in the city-state I live in would think in terms of drugs at the border. On my skin, there is little change between how it smells in the bottle, wet, or dry on my skin. Its mostly "LISTEN TO ME!!!" (yes, in capital letters and with the exclamation marks). Given I did like all notes listed, this couldn't go wrong much. But it is much LOUDER and more "demanding" than I expected (although the description kinda warned me). This one isn't romantic, it speaks a different language, more like "BOW" or the like. Given I mostly get images from BPAL scents, the one here is FIRE (in capital letters), then: a non-gender individual covered in black leather, slowly and cross-leggingly moving towards you like a hungry tiger, watching you as prey, but only intending to play with you, not eat you. You now realize, this individual is your psychotherapist. You can't really cope that they walk towards you like this; aren't they supposed to listen to YOU?; this one feels like you need to listen ? After a while, PD dries down to a less dominant and fiery scent, and I am able to focus on other things again. Yet, every time I open the bottle, same effect. This later part is very balanced, more in the background (but it might be that my skin just sponges it up), and I can't get individual notes now, not without much creativity anyway. Even later, I get mostly a sweetened gingered patchouli, which is a bit sad, as I liked the initial stage. But thats fine, it can't be screaming all the time; its fine if it becomes a purring cat image (without the cat smell). Super interesting mood scent.

Romans 13:08 works excellently in tropical weather, as this is one of the few notes that stay a whole day and dont become weird. This is really really good. I like rose scents anyway, but the combination with fig and almond is very nice, and the cardamon adds spicyness to it. I dont get oudh and instead get some berries and sweetness, but thats ok. This scent is fruity yet spicy yet fresh, and deep, balanced and well-blended - I think its great!