Black Dahlia: well, it's been a while, and basically anything with jasmine in it goes the same sort of acrid commercial-perfumey-powdery on me. If jasmine didn't hate me it would probably be a lush, creamy sort of floral. In my original review of this scenet I think I said something about it being a secretive scent, if you can call a scent secretive.
Devil's Night: My opinion is essentially yurgh. I have not a sample imp of this but an actual 5ml bottle, and I will give it to you if you want to try it, but I'm not recommending it to you. Better in text than in actuality.
The Hesperides, on the other hand, is pretty awesome. It smells pretty much like genuine apples, freshly cut and juicy and with a bit of the bitterness of apple peel. It's on the list only because I have two imps and may get a bottle eventually.
Lightning: Can't give a truly accurate impression of this one because, rather like with Black Dahlia's jasmine, all BPAL's aquatic scents just seem to hate me. Initially, it's a kind of masculine fresh scent and gives a vague impression of salt spray - it was too masculine for me - and then on my skin it went unpleasantly weedy, just like every other BPAL water-themed scent I've tried. Some weird skin chemistry thing.
Montresor: Pricey booze was my impression. I got a rich, almost kind of buttery alcohol scent from it. (What kind of alcohol? I couldn't tell you, but it smelled like good alcohol instead of leaving me smelling like I'd been crawling cheap bars, which is what Juke Joint did on me.)
Tiger Lily: qara_isuke could tell you better on this one. Lily's another note which hates me, and goes all weird and weedy; I didn't even get an initial impression to work with before it turned. I gather it worked much better for Star.
White Rabbit: On me, it smelled pretty much just like what the notes said - milk, tea, and a bit of pepper. The combination didn't really suit me
Aizen-Myoo, in case you - as I did - have no clue what kaki and yuzu and mikan are, puts me in mind of nothing so much as grapefruit and tangerine.
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Date: 2006-08-30 04:08 am (UTC)Black Dahlia: well, it's been a while, and basically anything with jasmine in it goes the same sort of acrid commercial-perfumey-powdery on me. If jasmine didn't hate me it would probably be a lush, creamy sort of floral. In my original review of this scenet I think I said something about it being a secretive scent, if you can call a scent secretive.
Devil's Night: My opinion is essentially yurgh. I have not a sample imp of this but an actual 5ml bottle, and I will give it to you if you want to try it, but I'm not recommending it to you. Better in text than in actuality.
The Hesperides, on the other hand, is pretty awesome. It smells pretty much like genuine apples, freshly cut and juicy and with a bit of the bitterness of apple peel. It's on the list only because I have two imps and may get a bottle eventually.
Lightning: Can't give a truly accurate impression of this one because, rather like with Black Dahlia's jasmine, all BPAL's aquatic scents just seem to hate me. Initially, it's a kind of masculine fresh scent and gives a vague impression of salt spray - it was too masculine for me - and then on my skin it went unpleasantly weedy, just like every other BPAL water-themed scent I've tried. Some weird skin chemistry thing.
Montresor: Pricey booze was my impression. I got a rich, almost kind of buttery alcohol scent from it. (What kind of alcohol? I couldn't tell you, but it smelled like good alcohol instead of leaving me smelling like I'd been crawling cheap bars, which is what Juke Joint did on me.)
Tiger Lily:
White Rabbit: On me, it smelled pretty much just like what the notes said - milk, tea, and a bit of pepper. The combination didn't really suit me
Aizen-Myoo, in case you - as I did - have no clue what kaki and yuzu and mikan are, puts me in mind of nothing so much as grapefruit and tangerine.