Jarek

This was a frimp from two orders ago. In the vial I smell florals, I think the jasmine mostly, and it's slightly indolic I think as well. And lemon. Definitely some citrus. On my skin I don't really smell the lemon much anymore, and the floral gains some depth to it. It took me a little bit to get used to the jasmine, it's a bit "stinky" but I've come to realize I can quite enjoy that in a perfume, just took some getting used to. There's a base of some spices that's apparent on my skin too but I can't quite pick out which ones. After being on my skin for three or four hours the florals have faded more and the spices remain, maybe a bit of the lemon is showing through although it's largely faded as well. But touches of both remain, with the spices, and it's really nice. I would agree that I think one of the spices is cardamom, now, but I still can't quite pick out what the others are. All in all I have come to love this perfume and would like to get a bottle of it one day.

This was a frimp. I think I had it on a wishlist because of the cumin, possibly? So I was interested. In the imp vial I smell the pine pitch and vetiver, maybe smoke. On my skin, as usual, I smell so much more. Though I think I'm getting better at smelling different things in the perfume in the bottle. Black green-ness, smoke, scorched, a bit of spice and blackened herbs, vetiver smokiness, and pine pitch specifically. I don't quite smell the musk yet. I wasn't sure what I thought of this at first. It's so confronting. I like some confronting scents but it really took me a few tries to start to like this one. And now I think I love it. Some hours later I smell more of the musk and it's not a black musk but is there such a thing as a green musk? Or like, a dark green musk? Anyways the green parts kind of fade but the darker and scorched parts stick around, the musk for sure, the pine less so but I can still smell some of it. It's very evocative of a troll, in concept. Yes, I love this perfume. I would like to get a bottle one day.

This came as a frimp. I didn't know what to expect, but I do like patchouli so when I looked up reviews I was interested. In the vial I smell... patchouli! It's like. A dark patchouli. Very earthy patchouli. On my skin and yes, very rich, dark, earthy patchouli. There's some other woods present too, I think, and I can pick up a bit of resin as well, possibly. It's more complex than patchouli but it's hard for me to pick out just what is accompanying it. The oil itself is a bit darker and it has slightly tinted my wrists after a couple applications today, so beware! It has a really long throw, my roommate could smell me across the room, this is unusual I find with BPAL blends, so a little will likely go a long way with this one, and careful if you're going somewhere a strong scent might not be appropriate. I find it lasts a really long time too. I had mine on for eight hours and could still smell it without having to put my wrist right up to my nose, though I don't think my roommate would've been able to smell me across the room anymore. Doesn't change much over time, maybe a bit more of the resin/incense comes through but the patchouli is just. Really. Everywhere. I really love it, I have some straight up patchouli perfume oil and this definitely smells different and more complex than that but I love them both. I would like to get a bottle of this one, one day.

This was a frimp. I take heart from the "golden" in the description, because that's probably indicating amber, and I've come to enjoy amber from BPAL in a few blends. In the vial I think I smell amber and something resinous, incense-y, though I don't know quite which resin it is. I don't think it's myrrh, anyways. On my skin and the resin really blooms, and I think there's some woods in there too, I'm detecting maybe some cedar, I could see sandalwood being in there as well, and of course the amber. I know some others say patchouli and I don't quite get that, unless it's a certain variation of patchouli like maybe green or red or golden patchouli. It plays fairly close to my skin and it seems to fade fairly quickly, although when I sniff at my wrists after a few hours when I think it's gone, it is in fact still quite present. Just. More subtle, than some other scents I've been wearing lately. This one is more gentle and subtle, soft. Like smoke or light, it's not a harsh desert sun but some golden rays of light peeking through some sort of covering, like clouds or a curtain. Or incense smoke. This one is a love and I'd like to get a bottle one day. It's been added to my favourites wishlist, anyways. :3

This was a frimp. I was a bit wary of it upon reading the description of notes, as I'm not a fan of mint in most things, I find it too overpowering. But I do like two BPAL perfumes with mint so far (Vicomte de Valmont and Celestial Beings Making Love Above the Sea) so I knew it was possible I'd like this too! In the vial, I smell mint and sweetness, likely the sugar. The mint is a bit cooling but not quite like the mint in Snow White, it smells fresh and green and yes, minty. But the mint isn't super overpowering, so I tried it on my skin! At first it's mostly mint and sugar, and I like the smell of it with my nose further away from my wrist than up close, I find the mint a bit too much when my nose is up close to my wrist. Over a little bit of time and further away from my nose, the bourbon comes out. It's not overpowering either. The mint is quite gentle and I like that, because I find (especially in food) that a little mint goes a very long way, the only foods I have liked with mint used it very very sparingly! And typically used the fresh green leaves. I don't like mint tea but this isn't like that. It sticks around for a few hours, it's not very strong or far reaching but I can still smell the mint and bourbon and sugar a few hours later against my skin. I like it enough to have reapplied it a few times today and I reapply it more frequently than some others I've tried recently. I like it, more than I thought I would, but I don't love it and I won't be getting a bottle of it. But if you sometimes like mint but don't want it to be overpowering, this is a nice blend to try that with. :3

This was a frimp, and I was excited to try it because I love the oud in Uncertain Horror and I had yet to try oud in anything else yet. Unfortunately this seems a rather indolic oud, at least on my skin, and at first. For like, the first hour to two hours. It's hard for me to smell much anything else past it. I can see why the prediction of the "manure" scent in a certain Yule perfume from 2024 was that it would be a stinky oud. It's not bad enough for me to wash it off, but the first time I tested it I was glad I was only applying it once. That being said I've applied it twice today so far and might go for a third. It's kind of growing on me? And I *love* what it morphs into. The woods, including the fragrant oud, and the frankincense and the hazelnut just morph over time into something much less "stinky" and absolutely wonderful on my skin. I find this one lasts a fair amount of time, too. Like at least five or six hours. But the extra strong and stinky version only lasts for one or two, so I could see why this would fade on some other folks' skin. Sniffing it later I think that even earlier in the "stinky" stage it must have a fair amount of frankincense, it's just again hard for me to smell past the very fragrant oud. It's not a "urine" scent to me, I wouldn't call it quite like a bathroom either but again, I can see why some descriptors of oud are "animalic" and yeah stinky oud could really mimic a... manure scent. Almost. Like it's woody too, and mostly just. Stinky. But I can see why others like it. I'm still going to try other things with oud because depending on the oud I might really, really like it. Also this might change with some aging. I'm not interested in buying a bottle of this anytime soon, it's definitely more of a "meh" (but then becomes a like/love) than anything else (also not a "yuck" though) for me personally, but I'm going to try aging it a bit and try it again in six months to a year and see what it's like then.

This was another frimp, love all the notes. I love how many frimps have turned out to be perfumes I love. In the vial I smell the amber and the vanilla bean. On my skin those really bloom and out comes the floral and the wood too. I don't know the scent of peach blossom off hand but there's definitely a floral there so I'm presuming that's it. The sandalwood is of the slightly creamy sort that I really love, it blends into the vanilla rather well but it's very similar to the sandalwood in Veil, which is supposed to be white sandalwood and not golden, but I find the "creamy" element of them similar. This one is a bit more.... woody though. It lasts quite a while, I was getting whiffs from my wrists some seven or eight hours after I initially applied it, and that was without putting my wrists up to my nose, it was faint but still noticeable. Usually it's a musk that lasts that long on me but this and the perfume I tried yesterday both last a really long time! It's very enjoyable. It doesn't have a long throw but it doesn't play super close to the skin either. I really want a bottle of this one, eventually.

A frimp, one I got excited about because I love green and wood and cedar especially. In the vial I smell pitch pine and something green, assuming that's the two kinds of leaves. On my skin I smell so much more. The cranberry and cedar really come out. It plays a bit closer to my skin, but lasts a really long time, I could still smell the pitch pine and cedar some six to seven hours after application. Usually only musks last that long on me, but I'm so happy. I really love this one and hope to get a bottle one day.

This was a frimp, but something I also had on one of my wishlists to try in the future. So I was quite happy to see it show up! In the imp, all I smell is the aquatic. It's salty and perhaps slightly more ozone than ocean but definitely, clearly, aquatic. Which I love! On my skin the aquatic, salty, almost ozone quality really blooms and takes centre stage. I don't smell much else really, not fresh on my skin. Maybe a hint of wood? That settles fairly quickly, within the first 30min or so the wood and the bay rum come out to play, and I think I can smell the leather too although I don't notice it as much, and I don't typically make leather notes vanish so this seems more a feature of the perfume than the nature of my skin? Maybe? But then, everyone is different, and this could just be my skin today. An hour or so after that the aquatic is still there but fading a bit, and the salt is going, but now I smell more of the leather. The rum is still around but it's blending in with the leather and wood. I would like a bottle of this one day. Although I keep buying LEs instead. xD But one day, I will buy more from the GC again! Especially aquatics.

This was a frimp, but I also had it on a wishlist of scents to try. In the imp I smell honey and florals, mostly. Once on my skin I smell the honey, though it's a bit different from other honey notes so possibly the honeycomb is what makes it different. I smell amber, I smell a bit of green (I'm assuming moss and aspen leaf), but the green is also very light and almost sweet, light florals, and a touch of wood. There is a gentle musk too but it's really light. I don't know if I smell any berry. The musk may be light but it plus the wood/bark is what lasts longest on me, after everything else fades away. This whole scent stays fairly close to my skin but lasts a decent amount of time. I could still smell the musk five+ hours later. This one was more of a like but I've really come to appreciate it more, and I think I love it, all on its own. But now I also want to try layering it with my other RPG scents, I bet it would be amazing with Ranger.

This was a frimp, I do not think of myself as a gourmet/foodie enjoyer. But I'm glad I got to try this! It's my first perfume from BPAL that smells exactly the same in the imp as it does on my skin. I find the smell has a decent amount of throw too, especially at first. Oaty, nutty, a bit of pastry. It smells delicious! I'm less certain I want to smell like this all the time but once in a while is quite enjoyable. As I wear it longer it does play closer to my skin, and it's hard for me to say if any of them fade more quickly than the others, it stays pretty similar throughout just less prominent. It lasts a decent amount of time, four-ish hours or so, and after that I can still smell it okay but only closer up. I don't think I'll buy a bottle but it's done a lot to entice me to check out further foodie scents. Also I want to try layering this with some of the other RPG scents I have. I've got Fighter and Ranger and I'm not sure how it'll do with either but I'm curious to try!

The scent in the imp is dark, musky, and sweet. Black musk can sometimes smell almost sweet, and that's probably enhanced with the honey. On my skin it's beautiful black musk, honey, and saffron, and a bit of lemon, plus touches of the smoky vetiver. Though it's light on the vetiver and I might just be smelling the "blackened" saffron instead. Largely I get back musk, saffron, and honey. And those latter two soften up the harshness that black musk can sometimes have. After many hours it still had s fair amount of throw, the musk is still present, and maybe the vetiver, and a touch of the saffron, but the rest has faded. It's still very soft and warm and I really love this one, hope to get a bottle one day, as this was a frimp.

I had been trying my imp of Snake Oil lauered with my imp of Fighter, which has plenty of leather, and loved that mix, so when I saw this was available for Luper 2025 I just had to buy a bottle. In the bottle I mostly only smell the spices of Snake Oil. A bit of the musks. It took me a bit to come to love Snake Oil, some multiple tries before I really liked it, but this one is quite beautiful even though it's barely aged. The leather blooms on my skin and I think it's black leather, so it smells quite different from the Snake Oil + Fighter combo I was layering. But still good. It tones down the sweetness of the vanilla, whih I do like in the original but I also quite enjoy this take on it. It has a fairly long throw and the patchouli and vanilla and spices are so, so good, supported by the musks and leather. The musks and leather are revealed more as I wear it longer and other notes start to fade on my skin. There's still some spices too. It has a long wear time of many hours, the musks linger especially long, I've still smelled them on my skin the moening after I've been wearing it. Very nice. So glad I got a bottle. I need a bottle of regular Snake Oil too, and I would like to age them both but this is so lovely as it is I want to keep wearing it over and over again!

In the imp, very woody and herbal, with a bit of green. On my skin, all of that but even moreso. I can't quite pick out individual notes. I don't get mint, maybe some eucalyptus, the wood is cool and dry and the leaves and herbs are very green and a bit wet. It provides a nice contrast. It's a bit sweet almost but not sugary at all. As it dries, the green leaves and herbs fade more and the woods fade too but more slowly, so they stand out. It gets more dry and warms up ever so slightly but is still largely cool. The throe started out maybe mesium to long and after a couple/few hours becomes a lot closer to the skin but I can still smell it without putting my wrist directly to my nose. I really, really love this blend and hope one day to get a bottle.

In the bottle I smell wormwood and maybe a bit of orris or cardamom. On my skin the wormwood really blooms and takes over everything. It's quite nearly overpowering in a way I find similar to mint, but it's not mint, it's wormwood. And so while I don't quite love it I do still really like it. I can smell the lavender and orris with it more as I wear it longer, the wormwood is just very present. A bit of cardamom? Maybe? That one comes out even more as I wear it longer. It has a decently long throw and it lasts a pretty long time, the wormwood slowly backing off and still noticeable as the perfume finally starts to fade like five or six hours later, but not overtaking everything like it was. Not quite what I was expecting but I hadn't experienced wormwood outside of actual absinthe before, but still very ethereal and pretty. Spooky.