Hi guys! I guess you already know that BPAL has
decided to do some spring cleaning to their general catalog scents. When I read
about this on the forum I panicked but Beth was kind enough to let us know
almost 2 months ahead which ones are going to be discontinued.
The real lose for me is Black Hellebore Honey
but I have already bought a bottle with some Yules last month.
I haven’t tried the majority of these scents
but I will give you my impressions of the ones that I have tried.
Here is the list and with the red color are the
ones I have imps of.
Black Hellebore Honey
Bluebeard
Death Horse
Delphi
Devil's Claw
Dian's Bud
Dove's Heart
Dragon's Eye
Ehecatl
Ekhidna
Epitaph
Forbidden Fruit
Grandmother of Ghosts
Hairy Toad Lily
Horse Chestnut Honey
House of Night
Hurricane
Iambe
Jezirat
Kuang Shi
Laurel Honey
L'ecole Des Filles
L'Examen
Love-Lies-Bleeding
Love's Torment
Mandrake
Manila
Meliai
Peitho
Pool of Tears
Saturnalia
Serpent's Kiss
Slobbering Pine
Sluggard
Temptation
To A Woman
Tobacco Honey
Ulalume
Umbra
Versailles
Whoso List to Hunt
Wolfsbane
Ya-te-vo
Yellow Jessamine Honey
Yew-Trees
Black Hellebore
Honey
Hellebore resembles
the wild rose, but does not belong to their family. The scent is a pale green
herbal, darkly rooty, with a faint rose and peony-like overtone
I loved this from the first sniff. It’s strong powdery
honey, slightly medicinal with a touch
of greenery. It has a good lasting power too.
Slobbering Pine
Dewy, wet, whiplike
and sticky.
From the imp I get fresh pine. It’s not harsh
at all. If you have other Bpal pine scents and you found them too harsh or detergent
like maybe you will need this one in your collection.
It has a nice citrus top note as well, grapefruit
I guess.
After the initial pine and citrus notes it does
get a little bit soapy and it reminded me a lot of some snow scents.
Dragon's Eye
A piercing, radiant
perfume: dragon's blood resin, lily of the valley, lilac and galbanum
I wore this yesterday without knowing that this
was in the list and I loved it.
It’s a great floral scent. The lilac it’s very
pronounced and fresh. I also get a gardenia vibe. Very beautiful. If you like
dragon’s blood and lilac go get this.
Temptation
An expression of love,
adoration, and desire, of beauty that transcends mortal desire and piques the
interest of hell itself: attar of rose, calla lily, palmarosa, peach blossom,
wisteria, rice flower, and black musk.
From the imp this is peach blossom all the way.
Very feminine!
On the skin the rose blooms and small orange
blossoms come to mind.
A blend perfect for spring and in my opinion it
would be amazing on a young girl too. It has something very innocent that it
reminds me of my childhood. Average staying .
Ulalume
Starry white lilies lend an eerie brightness
to the deep black wooded scents of cypress and oak, layered with a touch of
crushed dried leaves and the faintest aquatic note.
I was wearing this when me and Theodore had
visited a spa a couple of months ago. I remember smelling this while I was in
swimming in the warm pool and I really enjoyed that sensation.
My sample is almost empty now.. Anyway from
what is left I’ll try to do my best!
The strongest note is the dirt. On skin however
it almost smells like ice wine. Soft and clean lilies and a soft camphor like note. On me it’s not
woody at all.
It smells like sleeping near a lake in the
spring.
While I was swimming in the pool I couldn’t
smell the dirt note on me. It was mainly fresh lilies.
Whoso List to Hunt
Sensual brown musk,
rich amber, English rose, oak bark, and moss.
From the imp this is all musk and amber.
Trying this on it’s still a lovely amber with a
tiny bit of rose.
Wow now I get something like a lemony note,
maybe it’s from the rose.
The moss comes to play eventually but it isn’t overpowering
note at all.
All in all this is an amber-rose perfume with a
lemony edge.
Is it anything that it caught your eye from
that list?
I really want to buy a Dragon’s Eye bottle and
maybe Yellow Jessamine Honey.
