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Starts off sweet and powdery and floral. I smell rose, tuberose, and honeysuckle. Dries down to a musky, woody floral. It's really nice, but a bit too much for me

Hmmm, interesting. It starts off as a soft wood, but after a few seconds, a fresh green starts to come out. It's not a sharp, grassy green, but more like a fresh leafy smell. As it dries down, something faintly creamy and sweet starts coming out--coco butter or white chocolate, I think. But there's also something figgy there. This reminds me of a fainter, less sharp version of DS&Durga Debaser. It's nice but I wish it were stronger.
After 15 minutes, the green is completely gone. It's devolved into the sweet powder. I'm really sad, because this was so, so promising. I can still smell it if I huff my wrist two hours later, but it's still just the same powdery sweet smell.

 It starts off smelling sweet and faintly aquatic (or fresh?) with tobacco in the background. As soon as it starts to dry down, it becomes a deep, rich smell. It's musky and dark but with a fresh boozy smell. I pick up opium incense smoke. It's masculine and sexy and so, so nice. 

Mmmm coconut (funny coincidence, since I made coconut macaroons today! They were delicious!) and incense. It's sweet but not cloying. I really like it! It doesn't have much throw, though.
As it dries down, it becomes a beautiful, musky coconut and incense. It's gorgeous. Sadly, the throw is fading fast. After an hour, I can't really smell anything anymore. It's too bad, because this was really, really nice. It was warm and cozy.

This is sexy, musky peach. It's juicy and sweet and almost candy-like, but not at all in a cloying way. Once it's dried down, the brightness of the peach has settled, but it's still distinctly peach. There's something kind of spicy going on. This his is deep and rich and incredible sexy. Instant favorite.
This, unfortunately, doesn't have a whole lot of silage/throw on me, but it does last longer on my skin than most BPAL does.

I am in LOVE with this! Holy heck, it smells like perfection. I don't even care that it burned my skin lol.

Wet: Spicy and floral. Very sweet, pretty, and complex. I smell sugary lotus flower (reminds me of Black Lotus), something warm and boozy in the background. It smells amazing. BUT it burns I think it's the ginger.
Drydown: A beautiful flourmand--sugary floral, sweet citrus, warm amber. I smell lotus flower and the mandarin upfront, followed by amber and jasmine. It's bright and fresh (thanks to the balsam). The background is a soft spicy, rich opium and tobacco with black leather at the very end. This is absolutely stunning. It's beautiful, incredibly complex, but so well blended. It's warm and fresh, sweet and woody... Just overall gorgeous and timeless. Perfect bridal scent.
After 30 minutes, it morphs into a gorgeous, warm, slightly spicy vanilla with the sugary florals in the middle. There's still leather and tobacco in the background. Still a very lovely scent. It's lost some of its throw but I can still smell it without lifting my wrist to my nose. After an hour, it settled into vanilla, spice, and opium. Warm and sexy and entirely intoxicating. 
 

Wet: Hmmm, this is sharply masculine. It smells like men's aftershave. It's woody with a very prominent salty/aquatic background. It reminds me of Bath and Body Works' men's ocean scent. As it begins to dry down a bit, I start smelling a hint of flourmand sweetness. It has nice throw on my skin--better than most scents from this house.
Dry: Oh wow! This is changing FAST! Now (10 min in), the aquatic/ocean spray is deep in the background. Instead, it is very sweet, slightly boozy bubblegum but with a bit of warm spice (woody, even). Sadly, at the 30 minute mark, it starts being a bit soapy--like spicy aftershave and soap suds. After another 5 minutes, the soapiness progresses from suds to full detergent. The sweet spinicess is still in the background, but the soap smell is becoming overpowering. I gave it another 15 minutes, but had to scrub it  Which is too bad, because I was really into that boozy bubblegum ocean spray smell. 

Starts off smelling sweet, like chocolate and something creamy and fresh. As it starts to dry down, the chocolate smell dies down (which is a shame because I LOVE chocolate scents), and instead smells like whipped honey and cherry cough drop. The menthol was pretty strong and eventually overpowered everything else. 

Sadly, I got no citrus from this. All I got was sharp, green neroli, to the point where it smells like freshly cut grass and dry dirt. As it starts to dry down, I start smelling musk and soft white florals in the background. After 30 minutes it starts to turn into a sweet powder and soap. The longer it sat, the soapier it got. I eventually had to scrub it. 

YUM! It starts off smelling like amaretto. It's sweet and fruity and makes me want to lick my wrist. As it starts to dry down, the chocolate mint comes out in the background. Unfortunately, my skin ate this up and it doesn't have much silage (less than average). After 15 minutes, I can barely smell anything. I have to really huff my wrist in order to get a whiff of this perfume. It smells like dark, musky amaretto. SO good! It's warm and comforting without being overly sweet or overly gourmand. If my skin hadn't eaten it up immediately, this would be one of my favorite gourmands. After 30 minutes, it devolves into that sweet, semi-powdery quality like so many perfumes from this house tend to do.

I am a HUGE incense lover so I had high hopes for this one! It changed a lot as I wore it. Freshly applied, it started off smelling like cologne scented soap  Uh-oh. But after a couple of minutes, I began smelling something deep and mildly smoky in the background. As it continued to dry down, the soapiness faded. Ten minutes after application, it smells like rich, deep incense and musky citrus. There is a masculine, cologne-like quality to it. After an hour, it settled into a powdery, mildly sweet incense cologne scent with a hint of spiciness in the background. I really love it. It's rich and complex, and so up my alley. 

Starts off smelling like bright citrus with a very slight musky background. It's sweet, but not overly sweet. I really like it.
Drydown: While the citrus notes are still there, I can now pick up the lilac. Sadly, the lilac is a bit soap on me. After an hour, it smells like lilac soap. I'm so sad, because it was so nice before. 

Started off as a soapy floral with a bit of spice in the background. It quickly dried down to a very dark, musty incense with a soapy background. It reminds me of cheap men's bar soap that you find in discount stores like TJMaxx and Ross. I've had issues with clove turning soapy on me, and I'm pretty sure that that's what's happening here. The clove just isn't jiving with my skin. 

While wet it smells like detergent BUT once it dries down, the soapiness went away! It's a warm, cozy resin and sandalwood with coconut in the background. It has very little throw, and I have to sniff my wrist in order to be able to smell it. But that's OK. It's definitely a my-skin-but-better kind of scent. After an hour, it's soft, warm, sweet, and cozy. It is very faint, but it's very nice. It smells like resin and coconut and warm amber. After 3 hours, I can no longer smell it. I really enjoyed it 

This is interesting. It starts off very green and slightly musky. But then it dries down to soap and musk. I left it on for about 45 minutes before I scrubbed it. The soap became so overpowering that I could taste it 

It starts off as a rich, bitter chocolate with tobacco and ends on a bourbon note. It doesn't really have any sweetness to it. There's a weird cough drop/medicinal aspect to it that I don't really care much for. I enjoy androgynous and masculine scents, but this is way too masculine on me.
Drydown: Much nicer. Where it started off as sharp and bitter, it's now creamy and rich. It smells a lot of bourbon and cream, with a hint of tobacco and cacao. It wouldn't be accurate to call it chocolate, because the cacao has no sweetness to it. There's still a weird medicinal property to it. After 10 minutes, I can smell honey. After two hours, it mellows and smells like shea butter. It was really interesting, and it smelled SO good on my husband, but it didn't really work on me. 

In the bottle, it smells like pomegranate juice! So yummy! Once I put it on, though, it smelled more like rose with a hint of fruitiness. After it dried down, all I got was a non-powdery, realistic rose. I don't really care for rose, but I liked this more than I expected. The rose isn't powdery and it doesn't have that old lady smell that lots of rose scents tend to have. All in all, it's pretty nice, but just not for me.

I had such high hopes for this one, because I adore incense scents especially when they have cacao. But, unfortunately, this didn't work on me from the get go. It started off as a mild incense, with a heavy background of lavender soap. Once it dried down, all incense notes were gone, and I could only smell soapy lavender--the kind of soapiness that is so strong that you can taste it. I had to scrub it

Wet: It smells like almond extract and cinnamon. Very foodie.
Drydown: My skin ate it up and I've been left with a very faint powdery vanilla. Also, this does NOT jive with my skin because it lowkey stings. I'm generally not too sensitive to cinnamon, so I'm surprised. I had to scrub it.

In the bottle, it smells just like maple syrup! Once on my skin (wet) it's a nuttle maple syrup. It's very sugary sweet. Once it starts drying down, the sweet nuttiness comes to the forefront, followed by juniper. It starts of really warm and them, by the end of the sniff, it's fresh/cold. After 30 minutes, the warmth is hanging on by a thread. While the syrupy, nutty smell is still the top note, the freshness of the woody scent makes it feel very cold. At the 2-hour mark, it's once again the warm, nutty maple syrup, but without any woodiness. I lasted forever on me--I could smell it on my wrist the next morning!

It's a very sweet, winter gourmand scent. I like that the nuttiness helped tone down the syrupy nature of this scent. It was earthy and foodie and it smelled like winter. It brought up a specific memory of walking through the cobbled streets of Prague with my husband while it snowed. As much as I enjoy the memories this scent invoke, I am just not that into gourmands, so, while I will finish this imp, I won't be looking for any more. I'll likely save it to wear on days I want to remember my time in Prague.

This is for the 2022 version. I had been dying to try this out considering it's BPAL's signature scent. 

Wet: I smell the patchouli first, followed by musk. Once it dries down for a bit, it becomes sweet and dark and a little earthy. The vanilla is warm, very deep, and musky. There's a touch of something powdery in a way that reminds me of how Oma (my grandmother, RIP) smelled, minus the sharp floral of her perfume--I think it's the patchouli. I don't think this is terrible in any way, and it blended really well with my skin, but I don't find it particularly great. After the first hour, I had to sniff my wrist to be able to smell it. 

My husband was watching me sort through my imps, saw Hellfire, and wanted to give it a try. He told me he was looking for a dark smoke and fire scent, and having just input Djinn's notes into my spreadsheet, I had him try it out. Holy hell, it is gorgeous on his skin! It's very ash and smoldering fire forward, but there's a hint of dark sweetness in the background (maybe plum?). There's something woody there too. It smells sinister and powerful, and I cannot stop sniffing him when he wears it! I'll be adding this to my wishlist for him, because I want to smell that all night ?

So imagine my disappointment when I tried it on, and it started off smelling like coca cola and ashes, but dried down and turned to soap. Some people have all the luck.

Anytime I see patchouli as a note, I'm a bit skeptical. My skin tends to amp patchouli to the point where I usually just avoid the note altogether. But this is really enjoyable. While wet, it's a sweet, nutty gourmand. It smells like pie crust and amber. After drying down, it becomes rich, and creamy. It smells like caramel and amber with the fresh cardamom in the background. I usually don't find gourmands wearable, but this is really enjoyable. After 30 minutes, it starts smelling like sweet, woody shea body butter. It's warm and cozy. It has very little throw, and I can't smell it unless I huff my wrist. After an hour, I can't smell it at all. 

It starts off smelling heavily of herby lavender (I don't care for lavender at all). After it dries down, though, the lavender fades into the background. It becomes a dark, sweet, fruity blend. The sweetness of the current and resin work so well together. After another ten minutes, the musk smells like it's just melting on my skin and the sweetness of the currant is in the background. It doesn't have much throw, and it faded after an hour. 

This is one of my all time favorite scents. In the bottle, it's rich and almost boozy. On my skin, it smells incredible. It's rich, creamy, and spicy, but with a soft amber sweetness. The musk and amber are at the forefront, but ends in spicy, resin-y goodness. The spiciness of the saffron cardamom blend together beautifully with the amber. It's complex and elegant. As it dries down, there's a tad powderiness to it, which somehow just works to bring everything together without being too much. It projects the perfect amount for me to be able to smell it (without mindfully sniffing for it) without it being overpowering and lasts a decent amount on my skin.