This perfume embodies her gentler, benign aspect as the capricious Goddess of Dance: muguet and Hawaiian white ginger enveloped by warm, damp tropical blooms.

In imp: yes on the tropical blooms, but this is quite far from being a bright cheery tropical scent: this is soft and gentle, almost ethereal. Very pretty.

Wet on skin: soft, creamy and ( Read more... )

Lady of the Ocean, Queen of Mothers, Mother of the Children of the Fishes. She is the River of Life, the ocean is her womb, and she is the mother of many of the Orishas. ... Her ofrenda is a bounty of melons and grapes, strewn with the petals of the flowers of motherhood, draped with sea mosses.

In imp: sweet melon candy! Yummy.

Wet on skin: sweet ( Read more... )

Three-way death match!

(Quick note: I have a few of this over at the forums, but I find I sometimes want to refer to them and go back through my thoughts on them, and it's difficult doing that on the forum. So I'm putting them here one by one!)

Xanthe, the Weeping Clown (Carnaval Diabolique)Guava, orange peel, white pepper, spun sugar and apple ( Read more... )

Deep herbs and apple with black amber.

In bottle: apple with amber, rather creamy. This is a somewhat "grown-up" apple.

Wet on skin: apple, herbs, and amber. Going on, it's almost sharp, with a touch of dark bitterness? There's an interesting, almost peppery texture which I'm owing to the mix of herbs. This smooths out while it dries.

Dry: ( Read more... )

Her perfume is starry and crystalline, a jewel-clad and glittering paean to night: dazzling white musks, white rose and night-blooming jasmine with the soft moss of moonlit meadows, a waft of Egyptian incense, and a gentle breath of moonflower.

In bottle: floral and cool, glittering. Soft jasmine. Very pretty!

Wet on skin: soft jasmine, cool and ( Read more... )

No scent description given.

In bottle: oh, very...*ponders* floral and fruity. Slightly soapy, too. I'm getting apples, but it's a little flat--yes, flat, not crisp.

Wet on skin: relatively the same as the bottle smell, but oh! On my skin, it becomes a little creamier, with a vanilla sort of creaminess. It's still fruity-floral, but the bottle ( Read more... )

Her ofrenda is thick with honey and herbs of love, passion and desire.

In imp: heady, almost boozy sweetness. Honey and herbs, definitely. Am I getting lavender? It's slightly minty, slightly fruity.

Wet on skin: sweet, slightly powdery, faint spices and herbs. Also bright, minty, but not too astringent--just enough to give it a coolness. Clean, ( Read more... )

Mania, Roman Goddess of the Dead, Matron of Madness, Governess of the Ancestral Spirits, Bestower of Divine Frenzy. Her scent swirls with a high-pitched tumult of laurel, stargazer lily, splintered woods, peony, mandarin and white musk, and is spiked with pale pepper.

In imp: pink and sweet, with a faintly citrusy note from the mandarin blending ( Read more... )

Plumeria, pear and white champagne.

In imp: this is a sweet mix of fruit and floral, almost candy-like. I went "oooh" as I sniffed this! Plumeria and pear is well-blended.

Wet on skin: the pear seems to rise up more than the plumeria now, and the candy-like sweetness is still there. Slightly bubbly, almost bubblegummy--I have "I LIKE" in caps here ( Read more... )

My first BPAL sniff :)
Beautiful, radiant daughter of Demeter… her loveliness was so exquisite that even Hell itself could not resist her. Pomegranate and rose.
In imp: definitely floral, very rosy, and very sweet-almost cloying, but not enough to be overpowering. This reminded me of swapping scented stationery with friends in my childhood. Very nice ( Read more... )