BPAL description: Gardenia, neroli, and white peach with vanilla amber, cream, and honey.

In the bottle: Colourless oil. Quite sweet, fruity, and floral. The warm and creamy notes hit secondarily, held in check by a spike of neroli. I can smell every note clearly, and it reminds me a bit of Eisheth.

Wet: A bit less sweet, and significantly more ( Read more... )

BPAL description: Sublime peace, ecstatic joy, and thunderstruck awe: terebinth pine, patchouli, brown musk, linden blossom, honey, mallow, blood orange, heliotrope, and golden amber.

In the bottle: Deep peach/light amber coloured oil. Woody, fruity, slightly sweet. Brown and golden. The pine, patchouli, musk and amber come through strongly, with ( Read more... )

BPAL description: The scent of a moonlit night on the road, orchards in the distance, and swirling dust.

In the bottle: Very pale lemon-yellow oil. Crisp, green, and planty - with an odd sort of stone undertone, I guess the dust and some ozone. Leafy-planty, with a distant spark of tart fruit.

Wet: So clean and fresh it's almost soapy or aquatic ( Read more... )

BPAL description: Mist and dewy roses, aspen leaves, and translucent yellow blossoms.

In the bottle: Very pale yellow oil. Soap, wet leaves, roses and other intense flowers. Vaguely sweet.

Wet: Soapier. Whatever those yellow blossom are, they're soapy-powdier, and the roses have that powdery edge too - they're not the fresh, lush sort.

Dry: The ( Read more... )

BPAL description: Dapper cologne, scorched waistcoat, a bit of pipe tobacco, and motor oil.

In the bottle: Light, bright yellow oil. Clean, fresh, and spicy. A hint of aftershavy, almost soapy cologne, a metallic tang like the one in Galvanic Goggles, and that sweet, smoky-spicy tobacco.

Wet: Less cologney-fresh, more mellow, subdued, and refined ( Read more... )

BPAL description: Seaweed, ambergris, and sea buckthorn berry with exotic herbs, incense smoke, ship wood, and Burmese musk.

In the bottle: Deep goldenrod-coloured oil. INCENSE, smoke, wood. A bit of salty seaweed, that sweet waxy ambergris, and some rich musk too.

Wet: Much lighter, and saltier. A little soapy. A tiny hint of sea buckthorn. ( Read more... )