BPAL reviews

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Eos
Website Description: An 'Excolo' scent. The Rising Sun. She is Ostara, Easter, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility and the dawn. She is a protector and friend to all children. Her scent is that of softly glowing skin, jasmine, buttercup and honeysuckle.
In Vial: Musk is definitely the strongest scent. A warm musk, like the smell of skin when you're in the sun or wrapped up in bed.
Wet: A big burst of daffodil (which I guess is actually the buttercup)! And then the jasmine comes right after it. Very floral, although not too sweet, more like a jar of real flowers. I don't really smell the musk at all now, but I think it's what's keeping the florals from being too sweet.
Dry: A very sweet, spring-time floral. This is just a wonderfully happy and bright scent. Highly recommended if you like florals; this is the scent that is most like actually carrying around a bouquet of flowers.



The Hamptons
Website Description: A 'Wanderlust' scent. Diese Tage, die leer dir scheinen
und wertlos für das All,
haben Wurzeln zwischen den Steinen
und trinken dort überall.
...
But nothing's lost. Or else: all is translation
And every bit of us is lost in it
(Or found—I wander through the ruin of S
Now and then, wondering at the peacefulness)
And in that loss a self-effacing tree,
Color of context, imperceptibly
Rustling with its angel, turns the waste
To shade and fiber, milk and memory.

The scent of a Cosmopolitan cocktail.
In Vial: Champagne. Or maybe more accurately, club soda. A very strong scent of that carbonated-beverage type.
Wet: Same thing. A very sugary carbonation. You know, it actually seems closest to ginger ale.
Dry: Totally ginger ale. Which, you know, is awesome, because I really like ginger ale. I've never had a Cosmo, so possibly I'm interpreting the smell to something I'm more familiar with, but I can't say this smells particularly sophisticated to me; it makes me think of, like, silly picnics. There's very little change in this scent from vial to dry.



Port Royal
Website Description: A 'Wanderlust' scent. The Sodom of the New World! -- touted as the richest and wickedest city in all creation! Port Royal was the center of 17th century Caribbean commerce, a notorious safe harbor for pirates, and the site of our third flagship store, which was, sadly, destroyed in the earthquake of 1692. Spiced rum and ship’s wood mixed with the body-warmed trace of a prostitute’s perfume and a hint of salty sea air on the dry-down.
In Vial: Rum. This is very boozy, that sharp alcohol scent, though a bit more sugary than real rum.
Wet: The first burst is genuinely salt-soaked wood. I can completely get that wood scent, down to the detail in the grain, and a very strong salt-water scent with it. It quickly mellows out, with spices (I can particularly detect cinnamon) coming in.
Dry: There's a strong ozone scent, which I think is supposed to be the "sea air", but which is just gorgeous and sharp, mixed with this salty-wooden-box-of-spices scent. The whole thing is just gorgeous, and absolutely reminiscent of a pirate town. This is one of the few BPAL scents where the perfume actually makes me think of their description of it, and it's one of my very favorites.