CathedralOfRoses Report post Posted yesterday at 08:28 PM (edited) I received a frottle of 13 from the Lab, but I have no idea which year it's from. It has a plain dark red/burgundy label with black tattoo-like font on it that says 13. Thanks for any help in advance! Edited 21 hours ago by CathedralOfRoses Share this post Link to post
forspecial_plate Report post Posted 21 hours ago Does it smell like chocolate? It might be the one from May 2016: "This 13 is a blend of blackened cacao and thirteen sacred oils: Siamese red benzoin, olibanum, black copal, fossilized amber oil, sweet myrrh, Coptic rose resin, guggul gum, dragon’s blood resin , Palo Santo, bdellium, dammar gum, and attar of onycha". That label sounds like one that I bought to split with a friend, around that time - but there are lots of them that I haven't tried, so I could be wrong. (Also I didn't keep my half, so I don't have it any more). Share this post Link to post
CathedralOfRoses Report post Posted 21 hours ago (edited) 4 hours ago, amoray said: Could you post a pic? Sure thing! Here you go. 12 minutes ago, forspecial_plate said: Does it smell like chocolate? It might be the one from May 2016: "This 13 is a blend of blackened cacao and thirteen sacred oils: Siamese red benzoin, olibanum, black copal, fossilized amber oil, sweet myrrh, Coptic rose resin, guggul gum, dragon’s blood resin , Palo Santo, bdellium, dammar gum, and attar of onycha". That label sounds like one that I bought to split with a friend, around that time - but there are lots of them that I haven't tried, so I could be wrong. (Also I didn't keep my half, so I don't have it any more). There's definitely a chocolate or cocoa note in there, yeah. I figured it might be the 2011 version, but I have no idea. It seems like a lot of past 13s had chocolate/cocoa notes, which makes this a bit more difficult to figure out. Edited 21 hours ago by CathedralOfRoses Share this post Link to post
forspecial_plate Report post Posted 20 hours ago 55 minutes ago, CathedralOfRoses said: Sure thing! Here you go. There's definitely a chocolate or cocoa note in there, yeah. I figured it might be the 2011 version, but I have no idea. It seems like a lot of past 13s had chocolate/cocoa notes, which makes this a bit more difficult to figure out. Ahhh good point, lol - I forgot they used to always have chocolate or cocoa! That one in the pic looks like the one that I smelled, and for some reason I remembered it was in May, but not sure on the year. 2011 could be right! Hopefully someone else will know. Share this post Link to post
bellumed Report post Posted 20 hours ago (edited) Yeah, I think all (?) of the Thirteen blends use a chocolate/cacao note so that's not the best clue to go off of. It looks like March 2009 according to the picture on this ScentBase page. I checked the other pages and the ones I own all had the correct label picture attached. EDIT: Oh, yay, can confirm: see this BPAL Etsy page. Edited 19 hours ago by bellumed Share this post Link to post
CathedralOfRoses Report post Posted 19 hours ago 17 minutes ago, bellumed said: Yeah, I think all (?) of the Thirteen blends use a chocolate/cacao note so that's not the best clue to go off of. It looks like March 2009 according to the picture on this ScentBase page. I checked the other pages and the ones I own all had the correct label picture attached. EDIT: Oh, yay, can confirm: see this BPAL Etsy page. You're a saint! That's the one. Thank you so much! Share this post Link to post
bellumed Report post Posted 19 hours ago 16 minutes ago, CathedralOfRoses said: You're a saint! That's the one. Thank you so much! Saint? No! Merely a... perfume sleuth 🕵️♀️ Share this post Link to post
