• Al-Shairan (Excolo) ★★★★
  • smells like cinnamon and fruit in the bottle; wet, it smells strongly & purely of cloves, but the orange and peach come out once it starts to dry, although they are blended so well it's hard to pick them apart; overall it's very dark but with a tinge of fruit.
• Frumious Bandersnatch (Mad Tea Party) ★★
  • smells okay in the bottle, embarrassingly spicy/cinnamony when first put on skin, then turns rather soapy.
• The Hesperides (Bewitching Brews) ★
  • very sharp and cool in the bottle, gets cooler but less sharp on the skin; becomes a good deal sweeter after a while, but loses its coolness and becomes a little buttery.
• Hurricane (Bewitching Brews) ★★
  • disappointing; smells musty and dull in the bottle, too sharp and minty wet; however, gets a slightly sweet aquatic feel when dry.
• Jazz Funeral (Ars Moriendi) ★★★★★
  • gorgeous in the bottle, gorgeous on the skin.
• Mania (Excolo) ★★
  • I liked it better in the bottle than on my skin; it turned pretty fruity.
• Siren (Ars Amatoria) ★★★★★
  • love it! Smells like jasmine with a tiny bit of vanilla; I could smell the ginger in the imp, but on me it didn't come out until much later, and I do not smell any apricot as of yet. doesn't last that long.
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat (Mad Tea Party) ★★★★
  • got this as a frimp. was originally unsure, as it smelled extremely, cloyingly sweet and melony in the vial, but after I put it on, a lot of the green tea and lime rind came out, as well as a bit of mint. It's still sweet, but in a nice amount.
• Black Dahlia (Sin and Salvation) ★★★★
  • in the imp: lovely floral; not overpowering.
  • wet: very, very strong flowers (I think mostly rose, with some jasmine) and some amber.
  • dry: the amber has gone away, and now it's mostly rose; after a while there's a lemony smell too, which I guess is magnolia.
• Hellcat (Diabolus) ★★★★
  • in the imp: very strong scent of buttery honey with a touch of rum.
  • wet: first, it's so buttery and rich that it makes my throat start to close up. Then something spicy like cinnamon comes out.
  • dry: loses most of the butteriness, thank god. It's lovely, gorgeous, sweet honey, with rum and a tiny bit of almond. It's quite foody, which I usually don't go for, but I like this.
• Kitsune-Tsuki (Diabolus) ★★★★★
  • in the imp: absolutely gorgeous blend of florals (mostly jasmine, I think) and plum!
  • wet: turns extremely flowery.
  • dry: the scent of plum wafts up over the flowers. Gorgeous!
• Mag Mell (Wanderlust) ★★★
  • in the imp: I smelled the sage first, but then the verbena overtook it; it's summery, yet somehow pleasantly cool.
  • wet: verbena is still dominating, but I can also smell ginger; light and summery.
  • dry: unfortunately, it just smells like vanilla when dry; I'm not a big fan of vanilla, and although this one doesn't bother me much, it's not what I would have wanted it to be.
• Moon Rose (Rappaccini's Garden) ★★★★
  • in the imp: it does smell like rose, but less sweet due to something else layered over it, which I can't identify.
  • wet: really rosy but not too sweet; I love it.
  • dry: it's rose, but it's so, so, so faint. It's not really a smell anymore, but more of a feel.
• Szepasszony (Diabolus) ★★★
  • in the imp: it's the scent I associate with cold water (love this scent), but with a touch of something warm & slightly sour hidden underneath.
  • wet: smells lemony; actually I would say the watery scent is almost completely hidden by lemon. There's also a touch of something slightly bitter.
  • dry: I'm so disappointed with this. It was one of the scents I most wanted to try ever since I first heard of bpal, but I can barely call it an aquatic. Mostly it smells of overripe lemons, and it's a much warmer, fruitier scent than I'd expected. Not unpleasant, but not what I wanted when I ordered this. Also doesn't last long at all.
• Gluttony (Sin & Salvation) ★
  • in the (fr)imp: ew, buttercream, lots and lots of buttercream, with a bit of vanilla, neither of which I care for.
  • wet: I was a little afraid to try this on because it smelled so buttery in the imp, but it's not as bad now. There's a really spicy scent, and vanilla beneath that.
  • dry: Spiciness faded into the background, and now it's mostly sweet - vanilla and caramel, I think. Not as bad as it was in the imp, but I'm still not a fan.
• Prurience (Ars Amatoria) ★★★
  • in the (fr)imp: the scent that I'm learning must be amber jumped out at me, then a bit of vetiver, which I haven't had good experiences with so far. To be honest I have never smelled most of the other things in this, so I don't know what I am smelling.
  • wet: smelled purely of amber.
  • dry: really burnt smell, with a sweet and powdery smell underneath. Surprisingly, I kind of like it.

want to try:

• Aureus (Bewitching Brews)
• Belle Époque (Bewitching Brews)
• Bewitched (Bewitching Brews)
• Black Opal (Bewitching Brews)
• Dee (Bewitching Brews)
• Ephemera (Bewitching Brews)
• I died for beauty (Bewitching Brews)
• Jack (Bewitching Brews)
• Kill Devil (Bewitching Brews)
• Phantasm (Bewitching Brews)
• The Poisoned Apple (Bewitching Brews)
• Saint-Germain (Bewitching Brews)
• Schrodinger's Cat (Bewitching Brews)
• Seance (Bewitching Brews)
• Swank (Bewitching Brews)
• Tempest (Bewitching Brews)
• Zephyr (Bewitching Brews)
• Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo (Bewitching Brews - The Conjure Bag)
• Chuparosa (Bewitching Brews - The Conjure Bag)
• Has No Hanna (Bewitching Brews - The Conjure Bag)
• Embalming Fluid (Ars Moriendi)
• Eternal (Ars Moriendi)
• The Phantom Wooer (Ars Moriendi)
• The Great Sword of War (Sin and Salvation)
• Akuma (Diabolus)
• Blood Countess (Diabolus)
• Hell's Belle (Diabolus)
• Imp (Diabolus)
• Kuang Shi (Diabolus)
• Wicked (Diabolus)
• Carnal (Ars Amatoria)
• Defututa (Ars Amatoria)
• Depraved (Ars Amatoria)
• Kabuki (Ars Amatoria)
• Les Bijoux (Ars Amatoria)
• Queen of Sheba (Ars Amatoria)
• The Temptation (Ars Amatoria)
• Alice (Mad Tea Party)
• Alice's Evidence (Mad Tea Party)
• Cheshire Cat (Mad Tea Party)
• Croquet (Mad Tea Party)
• The Lion (Mad Tea Party)
• March Hare (Mad Tea Party)
• The Mock Turtle's Lessons (Mad Tea Party)
• Tweedledee (Mad Tea Party)
• Tweedledum (Mad Tea Party)
• 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster (Mad Tea Party)
• Katharina (Illyria)
• Amsterdam (Wanderlust)
• Bayou (Wanderlust)
• Danube (Wanderlust)
• The Hanging Gardens (Wanderlust)
• Shanghai (Wanderlust)
• Sybaris (Wanderlust)
• Lyonesse (Wanderlust)
• Dragon's Eye (Ars Draconis)
• Dragon's Reverie (Ars Draconis)
• Hairy Toad Lily (Rappaccini's Garden)
• Sundew (Rappaccini's Garden)
• Azathoth (A Picnic in Arkham)
• Hi'iaka (Excolo)
• Oya (Excolo)
• Aglaea (Excolo)
• Egle (Marchen)
• Bensiabel (Marchen)
• The Witch's Repast (Marchen)
• Violet Ray (Steamworks)
• Bruised Violet Compound (Pharmacopoeia)
• Nostrum Remedium (Pharmacopoeia)

unimpable:

• Abe Sapien (Hellboy)
• Aziraphale (Good Omens)
• Crib Girls (The District)
• The Death of Sardanapal (The Salon)
• Fairy Wine (Stardust)
• Famine (Good Omens)
• Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Garment Nettle Tree at Oji (The Salon)
• The Isle of the Dead (The Salon)
• Josie (The District)
• Kiyohime Changes From a Serpent (The Salon)
• Lot and his Daughters (The Salon)
• Lucretia (The Salon)
• Pepper (Good Omens)
• Silence (The Salon)
• Spider (Anansi Boys)

bottle wishlist:

• Kitsune-Tsuki