I just realized I haven't reviewed any BPAL in a while...I should throw in some mini-reviews of the ones I've been wearing lately, at some point.

KITSUNE-TSUKI ( Read more... )

OCHOSIThe Archer, Lord of the Bow and Arrow. To know Ochosi is to know the movement of the arrow into prey and the whistle of the arrow in flight. He is the transference of energy over a distance, and His is the speed of light, sound and thought, though he is not merely though, he is the stroke of instant understanding or realization. Ochosi is the ( Read more... )

BLACK MOON
The absence of light: motia attar, black orchid, mugwort, English pear, cucumber, blue lotus, jonquil, massoia, calamus and crystal musk.
So apparently motia attar is jasmine. Jasmine that behaves on my skin. It's a miracle! So far I can tell the pear and the cucumber, but most of the other notes, I have no idea what they smell like. ( Read more... )

And tested the swap package I got today. Out of 7 oils, I only disliked one of them, and that was the frimp the swapper included. All the ones I picked out are in the "try it for the whole day" pile. (Seekrit message to Jen L.: Mme. Moriarty was one of them! I bet that's the closest to patchouli I'm ever going to get ( Read more... )

ENVY
Green herbs slithering through mint, lime and lavender.
When I first put this on, I could smell each and every note separately and together. It was fairly amazing. But, I had a feeling the inevitable would happen, and though I was hoping it wouldn't come to this, an hour later I smell like...say it with me...SOAP ( Read more... )

TITANIA
A nocturnal bounty of fae dew-kissed petals and pale fruits: white grape, white peach, iced pear, musk rose, sweet pea, moonflower and snapdragon.
It's quite close to Thalia, which I love. I can smell a bit of a difference which I'm pretty sure comes from the sweet pea (which used to be my warm-weather Bath & Body Works scent). When I ( Read more... )

THE HAMPTONS
The scent of a Cosmopolitan cocktail.
Wow. Exciting description. Fully accurate though, because in the vial and for the first hour or so on my skin that's exactly what it smells like. Then it does what Swank did. It became boozy soap. THEN it seems to come back from soap before fading out altogether. Doesn't last all that long, ( Read more... )

GOLDEN PRIAPUS
Insatiable lust, unending vigor! A truly carnal, energetic men's blend: vanilla and amber with juniper, rosewood and white pine.
Okay, maybe it is a *little* masculine (hey, maybe I should try to sneak some on Russ and see if it works on him!), but to my (admittedly stuffed-up) nose it smells like Christmas! I'm getting the pine and ( Read more... )

LICK IT AGAIN
Every holiday season should be full of lewd suggestions and filthy double entendres, right? This is a new take on last year’s Lick It - a peppermint candy cane with an extra jolt of sugar.
Not much I can say in a review past what's in the description...it's sugary minty vanilla. I've successfully avoided licking my wrist for now ( Read more... )

LICK IT (disc.)
This is a candy cane perfume, minty, sweet and sugared.
This turns into a vanilla mint on me, emphasis on the vanilla. It's almost like after-dinner mints. It's fairly light and I think it'll need a reapply mid-afternoon, or possibly I need to put more on when I put it on to begin with. I have a bottle of Lick It Again coming in a ( Read more... )