13 Help

[CathedralOfRoses]

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 1 hour ago by CathedralOfRoses

[amoray]

Could you post a pic? 

[forspecial_plate]

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).

[CathedralOfRoses]

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 Wednesday at 01:54 AM by CathedralOfRoses

[forspecial_plate]

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.  

[bellumed]

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 Wednesday at 03:08 AM by bellumed

[CathedralOfRoses]

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!

[bellumed]

16 minutes ago, CathedralOfRoses said:

 

You're a saint! That's the one. Thank you so much!

 

Saint? No! Merely a... perfume sleuth 🕵️‍♀️  

[violetblue]

OMG I love this thread, I have several I need to get IDed as well. LOL.