All Saints-Bpal

Today it’s the first day that actually feels like autumn here. The perfect timing for a Halloween update from Bpal! Actually I’ve printed everything out so I can decide what to get. It’s so hard to choose only a couple of them..

So this review-impression is inspired from this update. I’ve purchased my first Halloween scent in 2010 and I still have some decants. One of then was All Saints and they re-relished it this year.

PERFUME: All Saints 2010

COMPANY: BPAL

AVAILABILITY: Limited edition, currently available in the Bpal site

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION: Based on a venerable French pontifical incense blend: monastic frankincense and myrrh, Damascus rose, Russian gardenia, cassia, and lily of the valley wafting on a chill Autumn wind. A celebration of the glory and suffering of the saints and martyrs of the Church.

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE: The rose is the strongest and is rich, deep like the real rose absolute. I get a whif of pine and the whole it’s very autumnal. The incense gives another dimension to the rose. Very similar to the rose incense that I have. Definitely not for someone who likes subtle scents!

WET ON SKIN: Pine and incense. I don’t get gardenia or lily of the valley. The rose is the star

DRY DOWN: You just need drops of this magic juice for your whole body to smell amazing all day. When I smell it I have a strong image in mind: the vitro art from the windows in French catholic churches. Actually I have the one in Lyon in mind which I've visited some years ago it looks like this

 Is very sensual too and I highly recommend it from a date.

Overall: I need a bottle!

Thanks for reading!!!

HALLOWEEN PERFUMES! Bpal- The black apple of Saturn

PERFUME: The Black Apple of Saturn

COMPANY: BPAL

AVAILABILITY: Halloween limited edition 2011

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION:Dried Arkansas black apple, opoponax, cypress, myrrh, tobacco absolute, quince, black musk, and galbanum.

BEFORE I SMELL: I don't always like apple scents especially if they are the clean kind. Although, sometimes I can't resist, it's the fruit of sin after all.

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE: Flesh of baked apple and sweet raisins... A night garden with apple trees and burning incense...

WET ON SKIN: very sexy and musky. It's a different take on a fruity perfume. I don't smell the tobacco absolute.

DRY DOWN: The resins take over, I get a little bit of tobacco note and it's the sweet type, very nice. As it dries down I get more galbanum . It doesn't change that much but it has amazing staying power. I put it last night and I could smell it till the morning

FINAL THOUGHTS: Very well blended and different from other apple scents. I wish I had another decant

RAVEN MOON-BPAL

PERFUME: Raven Moon 2012

COMPANY: BPAL

AVAILABILITY: Limited edition

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION:Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance: shining, moonlit ebony musk with benzoin, myrrh, smoky vanilla, patchouli, nutmeg, and dried red chili.

BEFORE I SMELL: I am a huge fun of E.A.Poe and I love Ravens. I wish we had ravens in Greece as well... The notes sound interesting as well especially the dried red chili.

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE: Spicy patchouli and deep raisins.

WET ON SKIN: Nutmeg is the strongest note. The red chili note is similar from the scent that you get when you are opening a vase of dried chilies and not the hotness that you are getting while eating them. The patchouli is lovely, is the variety which I love. In my opinion is a little bit masculine and definitely something that Poe would wear!

The myrrh and the benzoin are definitely there and my boyfriend thought that I smelt like incense and he really liked it.

DRY DOWN:Still no vanilla.. It isn't so strong as I was expecting from a heavy on the patchouli scent. It remains smokey and resinous.

FINAL THOUGHTS:I really like it, I will keep my decant but I don't think I will hunt a full bottle.

IF YOU LIKE THIS YOU WILL LIKE: All sinners day- Possets for the weird chili note!

AND A SONG TO LISTEL WHILE WEARING THIS: THE CURE- BURN 1994

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyr5WdrEvGI

Scent of the day-25-

COMPANY: Posh Brats

AVAILABILITY: Available through her site

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION: Deep, dark, wicked blend of dragons blood, real myrrh resin, black cherry and blood red currant with a stab of clove. Makes you want to do bad things.

BEFORE I SMELL: I have this for so many years… I didn’t remember how this smell like. I thought to give it a try. I see cherry in the notes and I don’t like that.

FROM THE DECANT/BOTTLE: Not the bad cherry from the sample. Dragons Blood, clove and red currant!

WET ON SKIN: For a moment I got something like a cleaning product. I think it’s the myrrh which doesn’t play nice with me sometimes…

DRY DOWN: This has also a bubbly quality. Like a spiced sanguine soda!

FINAL THOUGHTS:  The clove goes very nice with the red currant but I have another blend with that notes which I like best.

IF YOU LIKE THIS YOU WILL LIKE:   Eat me\Drink me by Posh Brats