Delirium1009

Thank you for the opinions, and the congratulations I really have very little interest in most of my perfumes, but have worn Pumpkin Princess and Embalming Fluid in my clocket so far, and the latter is especially nice and refreshing. I guess I just fear I'll miss out on something, but I have more important things on my mind so it shouldn't matter too much. I got a bottle of SN Tonka, and picked up Autumn Lace, and will probably wait a while until I smell or skin test either.

I'm newly pregnant (6 weeks tomorrow) and was wondering what people here did as far as testing new scents during their pregnancy. I only intend to wear scents in my clocket, not on my skin, but I don't know if it would be worth it to get new stuff of it just smells good on a piece of fabric or paper. I guess I wouldn't be using a lot, so a decant might be enough.

 

I'm hoping to get the Tonka SN just because its one of my favorite notes, but I probably won't be able to wear it for a long while.

The only bpal that has had a noticeable effect on my dreams was the first Singing Moon, and it wasn't a good one. I dont often have bad dreams, but both times I wore that blend to bed, I did. They were bad enough that I ended up selling my bottle, though I can't remember the specifics

now.

I LOVE honeysuckle and have yet to find a bpal that smells like it. Joyful Moon and Encroaching Madness are two of my favorite scents, but I don't really get honeysuckle from them.

 

I've had to go to other companies for my honeysuckle fix unfortunately.

When I first opened the bottle I was a little nervous as I got a lot of booze (bourbon in particular) with some deep caramel notes and a bit of creamy cotton candy, since I was hoping for a lot more of the latter. Using it in the shower, I get very boozy cotton candy. The scent left on my skin, however, was a rich but very light cotton candy scent that I really love. It goes very well with my favorite cotton candy scents (Boo and Loli.Goth) and leaves my skin lightly fragrant and moisturized. Definitely a keeper!

This scent to me smells like a hybrid of Celeste, Antique Lace, and Candy Butcher. It's vanilla but on the perfumey side and just a touch musky, while being slightly sweet and smelling a little like a sort of whipped vanilla confection.

 

While I never loved Antique Lace, Celeste, or Candy Butcher enough to keep bottles and put them in my regular rotation, I think I would buy a bottle of this if it were released. Of course, I might just be loving it because I know it's something I'll probably never get my hands on.

Mostly gingerbread with a little bit of orange. This is very foody, and not too strong on the spice. It also behaves on my skin while in the past I've had issues with Gingerbread Poppet and other bakery type blends turning almost salty and savory smelling on me.

 

ETA: I've worn this a couple of times now and the more I do, the more it reminds me of apple pie as opposed to gingerbread cookies. There's a hint of fruitiness to it aside from the light amount of citrus that's quite nice.

A gorgeous and very feminine, subtle polish. But not boring... oh, no. You may not notice this at first, but once you do you won't stop staring! It's a gorgeous light color, right in the middle between baby pink and lavender. It has a beautiful golden flash and is almost duochrome but not quite.

 

I thought at first it would be a frost color, but it behaves so much better than frosts usually do on me and there's no odd lines on my nails whatsoever. Maybe it would be more honest to call this more of a pearl finish, which is what it reminds me of.

 

This color is very transparent, and at 2 coats there's visible nail line while 3 is just about perfect. Application was flawless and the dry time was average.

Halloween: Los Angeles from the Halloween update is a very nice smoke scent with an underlying sweet perfumey note to it. I usually don't like bpal's smoke note to much (my favorite smokey perfumes are from Cobalt Blends and CB I Hate Perfume), but Los Angeles is really nice on me.

 

HALLOWEEN: LOS ANGELES

The sky on fire: a strange incense of burning brush, junegrass, tumbleweeds, chaparral, and wild sage.

In bottle/imp: Beeswax, honey, and some clean, high ozoney scent.

 

Immediately on skin: Beeswax with a bit of honey and a bit of feminine perfume. This is not very good on me, but I’m not surprised as I generally dislike beeswax and honey scents.

 

After a little while: This fades into the scent of skin-warmed beeswax mixed with a little honey. Any extra notes have all but disappeared on my skin.

 

Overall Impressions: Beeswax and honey lovers will probably adore this scent, but as those notes don’t generally work on my skin, this scent isn’t for me.

In bottle/imp: Boozy, alcoholic vanilla.

 

Immediately on skin: This is mostly vanilla, with some booze and a light bit of the green note from Snow White… maybe bamboo, or stems. It has this lovely, creamy frosting-like vanilla note blending into this bright, tangy green scent that really is rather pretty and unexpected. The booze that I got at first sniff kind of melts away from the green note.

 

After a little while: The more I wear this, the more I love it. It’s all boozy, thick, rich vanilla (and no powder in sight!) with just a touch of that green note still lingering in the background.

 

Overall Impressions: I love this scent. Vanilla can sometimes turn to powder on me, but the one in this stays rich and foody. There’s this really nice green background note that keeps this scent from being too foody, however, which is really nice. If the final version of this is as nice as the prototype, I need at least a couple of bottles!

In bottle/imp: Red musk and powdery amber, or something like that. Musky and dirty smelling.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells musky and sexy. It’s very deep and resinous, but has this dry note that tickles my nose. I think resin, red musk, and some amber. There’s also a metallic edge to this.

 

After a little while: This scent stays pretty much the same on my skin as it dries. It’s sexy red musk with something resinous and a powdery note. The metallic edge seems lighter, but it still lingers. I might get just a touch of leather, too, but it’s faint.

 

Overall Impressions: This scent is rich and deep, dry and mysterious. It’s feminine, but just slightly so. This scent is sexy and self-assured.

In bottle/imp: Lots of deep, dark florals with a very clean, almost soapy edge.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells like lots of flowers all strewn together. It’s got soapy ones and deeper, sexier ones, but it’s still just about all floral notes. The deeper note reminds me of one of the flowers in Dark Delicacies… black orchid, perhaps? This is much more floral and less dark than that scent, however.

 

After a little while: This gets a little more soapy and less dark as it dries. The higher floral notes seem to stick around while the deeper ones have all but faded.

 

Overall Impressions: Flowers, flowers, flowers. Lots of them, from soapy, clean smelling ones, to more sinister and darker blooms. The pretty, lighter flowers stick around for the dry down, while the darker ones seem to fade however. Very pretty, but not something I’d wear.

In bottle/imp: Stone, leather and vetiver. This is very bitter and dank.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells of bitter greenery, damp stone, and leather. It’s quite an atmospheric scent, and is quite complex.

 

After a little while: This gets a little less bitter as time goes on, and even a touch sweet. I smell a lot more incense and a background of damp stone and leather.

 

Overall Impressions: This scent is very interesting in the way that it really does smell like a dark stone dungeon. Quite interesting, and I love the stone note. This isn’t something I’d wear, but I can see myself pulling out my partial decant just to smell it.

In bottle/imp: Deep musks and resins with a slightly bitter undertone.

 

Immediately on skin: This is heavy on the musk and resin, but it’s a very powdery scent. It’s dry and slightly bitter with an earthiness to it but a slight warmth.

 

After a few minutes: This is so powdery on me, like dark, musky, baby powder poured over resin. There’s no sweetness in this at all, and the warm note has pretty much disappeared.

In bottle/imp: Dried flowers and plants and light spices.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells like the dried flowers/plants section of a craft store. It’s slightly spicy and sweet, but also powdery, herbal, and dry. This blend is very grounded; it smells earthy and solid.

 

After a few minutes: This hasn’t morphed much… it’s still a dry, slightly spicy, earthy scent. It has a slightly cool feel from the chamomile, and the sage lends a dry, herbal feel, but I really can’t pick out any other notes.

In bottle/imp: I smell alcoholic coffee and a finish of tonka. Very creamy but a little bit too alcoholic for me.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells like nutty, rubbery and alcoholic coffee. The nuttiness is the wood, I think. This is very fragrant, rich, and warm with a touch of spice.

 

After a little while: This smells much the same as when I first put it on: nutty, alcoholic, rubbery coffee. It’s an interesting scent, but a bit powdery on me.

 

Overall Impressions: I was hoping for a scent close to Pinched With Four Aces, but this blend falls a bit short. Still nice, an alcoholic coffee scent with just a touch of annoying rubber and powder. I wish it worked a bit better on me.

In bottle/imp: Light florals, a bit of dry spiciness.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells of light florals and bay, with a touch of clove. It’s not sweet or particularly warm or creamy on me, like I was hoping. It’s a little herbal and dry with a touch of powder, and then just a touch of warm sweetness from the carnation.

 

After a few minutes: The carnation comes out a bit more, and the bay dies down. This smells like lightly sweet carnations with a very powdery finish.

 

After a little while: The carnation seems to fade a bit, which lets the other notes come out. Now this is a very warm but powdery sweet and earthy scent. I get a bit of patchouli and sandalwood spiced up a little by clove. It’s dry and warm, but has a hint of baby powder to it.

 

Overall Impressions: Yoohoo, vanilla, where are you? I had such high hopes for this blend, but the creaminess I was hoping for just wasn’t there. I got lots of carnation, then after an hour or 2 I finally got some spiced warm earthiness. I’m sure others will have better luck with this one, but it doesn’t work well on me.

In bottle/imp: Lots of spice and plum.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells of potpourri, all spice and brown sugar with plum. It reminds me of a hot spiced fruit drink you would drink in the fall. I smell a lot of spice, but not just clove.

 

After a little while: This really hasn’t morphed much on my skin. It’s all spiced brown sugar and plums, and smells very holiday-ish. This blend is sweet and spicy with a nice fruitiness.

 

Overall Impressions: Smelling this scent in the summer is so odd because of how un-summery it is. It’s moreso a late fall or winter scent. It’s heavy on the spice, but I don’t get just clove from this… more like miscellaneous spices. Along with that is thick sweetness (though not very caramel-y) and lots of plum. Very pretty, but I don’t think I’d wear it.

In bottle/imp: This scent is so odd. It smells to me like buttered popcorn Jelly Belly jelly beans and pepper.

 

Immediately on skin: At first I’m hit with pepper, than creamy coconut, then for some reason I think I smell maple. Then all of a sudden it just starts smelling like the buttered popcorn flavor of Jelly Belly jelly beans… it’s sort of sweet, buttery and almost caramelized, with a bit of pepper on top.

 

After a little while: This scent smells of coconut candy now, maybe a bit like macaroons. It’s sweet, creamy and very heavy on the coconut with only a hint of black pepper now.

 

Overall Impressions: If you like sweet coconut scents, you’d probably love this. I ache for something a little more coplex, even with the pepper. It smells a bit odd at first, but dries down to a lightly peppered coconut macaroon scent. It’s very sweet and smells quite yummy.

In bottle/imp: Ginger and pumpkin muffins, with a bit of tropical mango.

 

Immediately on skin: This scent is thick and almost buttery pumpkin and ginger with sweet, tropical mango. It smells like baked goods in fall, with some of summer’s mango tarts still sticking around. It also smells like a Yankee Candle scent unfortunately.

 

After a little while: This scent has a lot more pumpkin and amber after a while, and less mango to lighten it up. It’s not as spicy, but it’s still very thick and almost buttery.

 

Overall Impressions: This scent smells of fall baked goods, all buttery and thick and rich. It’s a bit too heavy for me, and the pumpkin is a bit too dominant.

In bottle/imp: A blast of apricot, overpowered with vetiver and a little coconut. Earthy and smoky, and a bit rubbery.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells of smoky vetiver with the apricot and a hint of currant trying to sweeten it up, and the coconut adding sort of a rubbery note.

 

After a little while: This scent stays mostly vetiver, though the apricot, currant and coconut add a sort of lightness to it. This scent is rubbery, smoky, and deep with a lightness over the top. It tries to be sweet, but fails.

 

Overall Impressions: This scent is mostly vetiver on me, when I was really hoping that all the other notes (which I love) may win out over it. They try, boy do they try, but it’s still a very dark, smoky, earthy and almost rubbery blend with just overtones of apricot, currant and coconut.

In bottle/imp: Cotton candy, berry and… banana?

 

Immediately on skin: This blend is very candy-like with a lot of super sweet berry notes. Mostly I get the two berry notes with a lot of the candyfloss, and the vanilla as sort of the base. There’s something cloying about this to my nose, however; the candyfloss and berries are clashing with another note and not quite blending well. Overall, this is a very sweet blend without anything to temper it.

 

A few minutes later: The clashing note faded and now this scent is all berry candy with a touch of sweet pea.

 

After a little while: Sweet, sweet, sweet! The assertiveness of the huckleberry note has faded, but this is still berries and cotton candy, but now with more creamy vanilla to it. Very pretty and candy-like.

 

Overall Impressions: From start to finish, this scent was much too sweet for me unfortunately. For those that love candy-like scents, I would highly recommend this blend. It’s all berries and candyfloss with hints of sweet pea and vanilla wafting in and out.

In bottle/imp: Fresh, juicy pear and lime.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells very green, in a very fruity way. Juicy pear and lime blend together, with a full-bodied tea note adding body. The base smells of slightly warm musk, and the whole blend is very fresh and sweet.

 

A few minutes later: The pear note has faded a little, and now this is more of a tea scent with a bit of lime, just a touch of pear, and a lightly herbal background. Still sweet and very pretty and fresh.

 

After a little while: This scent gets a bit more muddled as time goes on. It’s lightly musky with fresh tea notes and a touch of creamy lime. It smells pretty, but is kind of unremarkable on my skin now.

 

Overall Impressions: This scent was very bright when fresh, with that juicy pear note. However, after I wore it I started to feel sort of meh about it, as it started to smell less of a burst of lime and pear and more like a slightly fruity tea and musk scent. I imagine others may have more luck with these notes.

In bottle/imp: Warm musk and light spice, accented with creamy tonka.

 

Immediately on skin: This smells of dirty spice and musk to me with a hint of warm creaminess. I think the cardamom is turning on my skin, or the bourbon vanilla is not working on me. This smells powdery and dirty on my skin.

 

A few minutes later: The dirty feel has gone, though this is still a little powdery. It smells of warm, sensual musk mixed with powdery vanilla. The cardamom is very dry, and not sweet.

After a little while: This scent gets much prettier as I wear it. It’s all creamy musk and a touch of spice with a nice creaminess to it. It’s very feminine and sensual in a quiet, waiting way. A bit dry as well.

 

Overall Impressions: This blend scared me at first, as it smelled a bit “off” on my skin, but after just a few moments it settled into a very warm, creamy musk scent that got my attention. So far, this is my favorite of the moth scents.