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This one taught me the importance of letting perfumes age before giving up on them! When I first got an imp, it was soooo incense forward. But as it's aged, the incense is completely settled. Now this is a mossy, spicy, rococo painting-ish forest. It's beautifully blended and kinda difficult to pick out any of the specific floral notes. Sometimes the spicy carnation or a light waft of smoke stands out.

Titania starts off as pure, bright purple grape candy (think grape bubblegum and grape hi-chew) and then gradually fades into a soft fruity floral scent that I associate with sweet pea and pear. This perfume summons my inner child who loved flower fairies and imagined Titania as a Glinda-like figure in a big pink dress. This isn't my usual type of scent at all, but I'm really treasuring the imp because it makes me so happy.

My top 5 right now: Druid Arcana The Little Wooden Doll Lyonesse Like the Very Gods (I tried an imp of Defututa and it goes sunblocky on me.) I feel like Druid and Arcana are similar, and then Little Wooden Doll and Lyonesse are similar. And then I impulse bought Like the Very Gods 'cause I'm gay but it ended up being my dark horse holy grail summer perfume. So I guess I like deep green woody, loamy and herbal scents, then dry soft ambers, and then... uh, smelling like a magnetically beautiful ancient-world lesbian? I'm still pretty new to BPAL, but I got Baby's First Political Campaign with my latest order and it's such a lovely sweet lavender! The lavender seems quite strong and stand-out to me, and it sits on top of the ambrette seed, honey, and orange. I feel like the orange is really soft and gentle, not a bracing citrus at all.

Dwarven Ale and King of Hearts made my skin get red and irritated where the oil came in contact. I’m hoping to learn if there’s any common ingredients between the two of them, so I can avoid that ingredient in future imp purchases. Does anybody know? FWIW Morocco and Spellbound both gave me headaches, but I didn't experience any irritation. I'm just starting out on my BPAL odyssey, but so far my skin chemistry seems to do poorly with any note that's described as "red" ? which is a shame since the scent descriptions always sound so tasty and alluring.