Jarek

This one starts out with a sweet liquor and that graveyard dirt smell. Once on my skin it blooms a bit more with florals I'm not too familiar with and a bit of a woody smell that might come from the Spanish moss? I can't quite pick out what the liquor notes are either but it's not super heavy on them. The florals fade over the next hour though not completely. The dirt note also fades a bit but some of it still zhangs around. The woody smell and parts of the liquor hang around longer but it's less booze-y smelling by this point and more like an earthy woody spice of some sort. It's a bit less sweet. It's still got a fair amount of throw at this point too, like about medium. I really like this one. In fact I love it. It was a frimp from the lab. So many loved scents I have encountered this way! I hope to get a bottle one day.

This reminds me a lot of Rose Red, but maybe not quite as dewy. The green of the stem is there right from the start. il In the imp was more just a light rose, fresh on skin the green stem comes through right alongside the scent of the rose itself. The green fades more quickly than the rose, but the rose doesn't stay around very long after. It has maybe medium throw at the start and goes very light on the throw in about an hour, hour and a half. I think Rose Red maybe lasts a little longer? I'll have to try it to be sure. I really like this one, I may get a bottle of it if I can't get a bottle of Rose Red when I want to buy that one.

In the imp and fresh on my skin I get lilies and jasmine, and wet on my skin that's rounded out a bit with almond and some green scent and something a bit spicy that I thought was cinnamon at first but seeing as that's actually the leaf then maybe it's the saffron? As it dries over time the green and some of the florals fade, I detect incense more, the almond is still there, and there's an almost musky patchouli. Can't say I've smelled red patchouli before but it's very interesting! There's still a bit of "spice" but I wonder now if that's the incense maybe, instead of the saffron. Afew hours later the patchouli remains with some of that spice, possibly the remains of the incense. I haven't really gotten any bergamot and I'm not sure about the saffron now, but the florals are largely gone and the leaves are as well. There's still something a bit sweet, I want to say it's the almond, but the notes list it as bitter so I'm not sure what it is. Maybe a remnant of the florals? I like this one, a fair amount, but I'm not necessarily in love with it. I'm undecided if I'll get a bottle. But I think I'll keep the imp and use it up.

Mostly I smell the florals, in the imp and fresh on the skin. Epecially the lily, though also the jasmine, maybe a bit of the orris but in this blend the orris smells a bit different from some of my other experiences of it. Not really getting woods, musks, or lemon peel. As it dries in the first 30min to an hour I get a touch of the woods and it brings out the orris a bit more, but still very white floral dominant. The florals kind of fade over the next couple hours and maybe I can make out some lemon peel in there as it's fading too. The musks are very... like, gentle. They bloom out from beneath the florals and I can see how they've likely been present all along but they smell strangely a bit floral themselves. Sandalwood is more noticeable and the orris doesn't fade quite as fast as the white florals. Overall I wasn't really a fan but neither did I dislike it on my first trial of the scent. This is my second experience with it and I've allowed it to wear out at least once today before refreshing, and I think I like it a little bit more than last time, especially as it dries, but not enough to buy a bottle or hang on to the imp, I don't think.

This scent starts out plenty of rose with a bit of green and maybe a breath of wood. Can't smell any dirt. It reminds me of The Rose and Rose Red at this stage, although it's ever so slightly different. As it dries the wood/yew comes forward some more and there is a bit of the dirt coming through now too. This starts to happen fairly early as it's drying,like in the first fifteen to twenty minutes. After more time the dirt and the rose fade more, and the green, but there's still some floral and the woody nature of yew and some of that earthy element of the Spanish moss are more noticeable. Overall it's a pretty nice scent, I like rose a lot, I'd like more dirt and yew though, I might get a bottle but it's not at the top of my list to acquire.

I'm not sure about being precisely like Smut, but I received a frimp of Wanda from the lab a couple months ago with a purchase, and I think it's a bit in theme, though without the sugar, and the alcohol is different. "Her scent is a deep red merlot with a faint hint of leather, sexual musk and body heat over crushed roses, violets and myrtle." I don't know for sure but I think the body heat might be another musk variant. I don't smell much leather in this, the merlot is pretty forward, and the florals are balanced nicely. It's definitely got the alcohol plus musk thing going on, and it's meant to be a sexual/sexy sort of scent. :3

Got a frimp of this with my last order from the Lab. In the bottle: sweet, a bit fruity, and amber Wet: Fruity amber, with floral elements. Not sure if the floral is only the lotus or else also parts of what make up the amber, but it's very lovely. Drying: Less fruity, slightly less sweet, florals are still there but not quite so forward. Amber, for sure, it's very golden. I'm getting a bit of cardamom as it warms on my skin, and myrrh. I'm not really getting almond? Unsure about saffron. There may be musk but it's hard to tell with everything else right now. Dry on skin a few hours later: You know, I also like Haunted, which is amber and black musk, and this doesn't smell like Haunted but it is in the same kind of general area, just with extra elements. The musk is kicking in and it's not dark like in Haunted and the amber seems fuzzier than in Haunted, but it does make me think of that a bit. While also being its own thing. I don't perceive gold with Haunted, but this is still very golden. The florals are pretty gone, the musk is revealed and lingering, there's still some amber, the cardamom is still around too. The myrrh is largely gone. This was an instant extra special love for me, and I really want to get a bottle. I love it when frimps turn into must-haves.

This was essentially my first blind bottle, there weren't any reviews yet when I purchased it I don't think. In the bottle: orris, vanilla, ambergris. The vanilla does seem "sheer", it's present but really letting the other scents shine through it. On my skin: as it warms and dries the oakmoss comes through, the first three notes are very present although ambergris isn't quite as taking over the scent like it can in some others. It's rounding out everything instead. Drying more: ylang ylang sap and green patchouli do kind of smell like these notes but also they're different. The patchouli in particular seems quite changed by the "green" modifier, and while it doesn't smell "green" like grass or a leaf or herbs, I can see it being a still-green young bit of patchouli. I'm less familiar with the ylang ylang sap but I think I can pick it out. This is floral, slightly woody, a bit earthy although the green patchouli isn't quite as earthy as regular, and thrown overtop is a sheer sheet of vanilla. It's quite beautiful and was an instant love, I'm so glad I bought this. I'm saving for Lupers right now or else I'd get a backup bottle right away. All in all a great experience for my first blind bottle.

Got this as a frimp, and I pretty much immediately extra special loved it. I need a bottle! In the imp: Not the most pleasant, but hard for me to place. Kind of sour, maybe some of the sassafras? Wet on skin: That scent in the vial doesn't carry over to bring on my skin. I mean there is some sassafras, but it's quite lovely, and a buttery but not very boozey rum. As it starts to dry I get more clove, it's a bit spiced now, but still with the sassafras and maybe the bay, I do smell something a bit herbalish behind the rest. I'm not getting much almond, but it might be blending in. As it dries, a couple hours later, the cloves back off a bit but are still present. The rum is mostly gone but it's still a bit present. Still no almond. I think the sassafras is mostly gone too. Maybe some bay? The throw is less than it was. Doesn't last very long, but long enough, and it smells amazing on me!

This was a frimp two orders ago, from the lab. Not something I would've gotten on my own, as I'm less likely to try foodie scents, but thanks to The Apothecary and Poor Monkey and a few others, I have come to love the lab's fig note. This scent is largely about the fig to me, although there is also plenty of juicy mandarin orange mixed in. In the imp it's sweet and I can smell the mandarin a little bit more, perhaps. Wet on my skin it's earthy, almost spiced smelling fig brightened up with some very juicy mandarin. The scents play well together and I really like the fig, of course. I do wish there was a little bit more of something else, I think, so I might try layering this with something else but I'm not sure what yet. It might be nice with The Apothecary, actually, or Yggdrasil. I want to try it with herbs. Medium throw, to lower throw. Quite strong up against my nose, doesn't seem to travel very far, though occasionally my sleeve will block the path. I get slightly less mandarin from further away. Anyways, initially this was a like in my spreadsheet, but now it's a love. I quite enjoy it. Although I have since others with fig, it's wholly different from anything else I have. I'm still going to try it layered with something with herbs, but I hope to one day get a bottle.

I chose this imp to buy, and I really love it. This is a lovely aquatic with perhaps some citrusy notes, maybe some floral, smooth and clear and almost crystalline. I don't really smell salt, and the aquatic is quite bright, light filled. Medium throw. It dries into still an aquatic but loses some of that floral scent, though a bit remains, still very fresh and clear and smooth. But some of the more acidic elements are gone, and the sweet, but what's left behind us still very much an aquatic. Medium to low throw. I quite love this one and hope to one day get a bottle.

Bought a partial bottle off a forumite. :3 In the bottle: just a strong, almost chemical smell of salt. Salt to the max. Salt to the power of salt. Wet on skin: salt is pretty forward but the lavender is out to play as well. Also the salt smell, while strong, isn't quite the exponentially strong chemical smell of salt that it in the bottle smells like. I concur that this is an herbal lavender, sharp, not particularly gentle. I like it. As it dries: Worth its own note, after maybe ten to twenty minutes the salt scent starts to back off and the rain smell comes out. The lavender is still herbal but slightly less sharp. Dry, a couple hours later: the wear time on this isn't super long on me but I like it so much I don't care. xD I love aquatics and this is no exception, I've quite come to enjoy lavender, and a watery aquatic with salty tang is very good. Interesting to have the salt with a rain rather than a sea scent but BPAL pulls it off very well. Quite happy I have a bottle of this.

I bought an imp of this as I was very interested in trying out BPAL's dirt note. In the imp: An earthy scent combo of dirt and some sort of evergreen, juniper likely. Wet on skin: Similar to the above but moreso, the soil note is very prominent but the juniper and patchouli are also very forward. There's a hint of more to the forest scents but I can't quite pick out what they are specifically. I don't get any florals (yet?). It's very nice and I like it at this stage a lot. Medium to long throw. Dry, a few hours later: The dirt smell backs off more though it's still present, patchouli is still there though the juniper also lightens, I still think there's other woody smells but I can't quite pick out what they are. I'm still not getting any florals. Short throw. I like it at this stage too though I wish it stayed a bit stronger. I love this enough to hopefully one day get a bottle.

I had first smelled ozone from a different company that I yried whose perfumes sadly were not to my preference, so that worried me I wouldn't like BPAL's ozone, but I needn't have worried. :3 In the imp: fresh, clear, slight hint of what I know is ozone. Wet on skin: The aquatic and ozone notes are so, so prominent. And I love it. ShadowEtienne said it reminds him of a brighter & sharper Sea of Glass, and as I got that imp in this order too I can fully agree. I think I like Sea of Glass slightly more but I still really really like Lightning. It makes me want to try all of those "Lightning Strikes..." perfumes too. Aquatics work well on me often and this one doesn't remind me of doing the laundry. Dry: The scent doesn't morph or change much I find, it starts a lot like it was, maybe a bit of the crispness of the water goes away but the ozone and the watery scents stay pretty balanced. I really like this one and hope to one day add a bottle to my collection.

I bought an imp of Tavern of Hell because of the ambergris and lavender fougère. I love both of those things. In the imp: sometjing a bit salty and maybe something citrusy? Could be some of the liquor, or ambergris. Wet on my skin: kind of peppery, maybe the tobacco flower, something a bit floral but bitter. Not picking up fougère or lavender at all, and the ambergris might be sort of present in the background but it's not forward at ALL unlike some scents. So, maybe, coriander, tobacco flower, a touch of absinthe? As it dries: some more of the alcohol comes through and maybe a bit more of the ambergris, though the latter still stays in the background as a supporting actor. I think I smell whiskey and absinthe, the wormwood liquor scent seems most peominent, but there are some florals as well. Mayyyybe the lavender fougère,so some lavender and woody scent, but it's all very well blended. That peppery scent is still around. A few hours later: wood scents, could be ebony wood, could be something in the fougère, could be both. I don't know what ebondy wood smells like. Liquor scents are still present, more of the whiskey now. There's florals in the background but they're faded. Maybe some ylang ylang is still present? The ambergris is hidden beneath the liquor & peppery scents, I'd likely miss it if it weren't in there but it's hard to pick out on its own. I do wish I could make out more of the ambergris, but it's an enjoyable scent overall. Not thinking I'll get a bottle, but we'll see what some aging does to the imp. I will wear out the imp. Like it.