$6.25 – $25.00
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.
A fastidiously clean scent, with a dash of pipe and cigarette tobacco. Faintly beneath, you catch the fragrance of a smear of greasepaint, a stray horsehair, and a whisper of Moroccan leather and rosin.
It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning during the winter of ‘97 that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face and told me at a glance that something was amiss.
“Come, Watson, come!” he cried. “The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!”
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Soft, well-worn black leather, hemp, and rosin.
Iron filings and chips of stone, Styrian Golding hops, and soot-covered leather.
“And yet a restless, always unsatisfied craving for the nudity of paganism,” she interrupted, “but that love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural, you become common. To you nature seems something hostile; you have made devils out of the smiling gods of Greece, and out of me a demon. You can only exorcise and curse me, or slay yourselves in bacchantic madness before my altar. And if ever one of you has had the courage to kiss my red mouth, he makes a barefoot pilgrimage to Rome in penitential robes and expects flowers to grow from his withered staff, while under my feet roses, violets, and myrtles spring up every hour, but their fragrance does not agree with you. Stay among your northern fogs and Christian incense; let us pagans remain under the debris, beneath the lava; do not disinter us. Pompeii was not built for you, nor our villas, our baths, our temples. You do not require gods. We are chilled in your world.”
Along with Loviatar, she has become something of a Patron Goddess of all Dominatrixes, Wanda is the breathtakingly beautiful sable-wrapped marble queen of Sacher-Masoch’s fantasies. Her scent is a deep red merlot with a faint hint of leather, sexual musk and body heat over crushed roses, violets and myrtle.
Say that the men of the old black tower,
Though they but feed as the goatherd feeds,
Their money spent, their wine gone sour,
Lack nothing that a soldier needs,
That all are oath-bound men:
Those banners come not in.
There in the tomb stand the dead upright,
But winds come up from the shore:
They shake when the winds roar,
Old bones upon the mountain shake.
Those banners come to bribe or threaten,
Or whisper that a man’s a fool
Who, when his own right king’s forgotten,
Cares what king sets up his rule.
If he died long ago
Why do you dread us so?
There in the tomb drops the faint moonlight,
But wind comes up from the shore:
They shake when the winds roar,
Old bones upon the mountain shake.
The tower’s old cook that must climb and clamber
Catching small birds in the dew of the morn
When we hale men lie stretched in slumber
Swears that he hears the king’s great horn.
But he’s a lying hound:
Stand we on guard oath-bound!
There in the tomb the dark grows blacker,
But wind comes up from the shore:
They shake when the winds roar,
Old bones upon the mountain shake.
A sepulchral, desolate scent. Long-dead soldiers, oath-bound; the perfume of their armor, the chill wind that surges through their tower, white bone and blackened steel: white sandalwood, ambergris, wet ozone, galbanum and leather with ebony, teak, burnt grasses, English ivy and a hint of red wine.
amerginwhiteknees –
I got this 100% because of the name. The clean linen and rosin are most evident to me, and if there’s tobacco, it’s still unsmoked (but really I don’t get much of a tobacco scent). It’s a lighter masculine cologne that is well suited to anyone in my opinion.
lillizp –
received this as a frimp with my last order & it has quickly become my favorite. i cannot stop reaching for it! wet it’s very clean – reminds me of tea tree oil. as it dries down it becomes deliciously sweet, which appeals to my preference for gourmand scents. maybe it’s the tobacco? i find it wears close to the body but lasts all day. i will be getting the full size.
suntannedcactus147 –
Clean is definitely accurate. If you want to feel like a fancy gentleperson, this is great. I don’t think this is a strictly “masculine” scent, but it wears nice on a man’s skin. It warms up to the skin beautifully. Mom said it didn’t smell much like tobacco, and I have to agree even if my only experience is secondhand. It’s still very sweet with spicy type smell, though, so I would recommend it for anyone looking for a mysterious, enticing, mix of dark and light to wear.
Clark –
This scent makes me feel like a fancy gentleman, but not a dandy. Don’t be scared of the Smoke – Cigarette, Tobacco note; that doesn’t mean dirty ashtray. It just works.
Jessica –
I ordered this because I’ve had good luck with some of the more ‘masculine’ scents that BPAL’s created. In the bottle, the leather mixed with a lavender-y and powdery scent stuck out to me.
After putting it on, my skin picked up the stronger scent of tobacco and a sharper, not quite citrus but definitely some sort of chemical smell. For a few minutes I was worried that it was going to turn sour on me (that’s always the worst!) but the tangy note faded rather quickly and I was left with a much more mellow leather, tobacco and faintly floral or cottony scent. After wearing for 3 hours, I can still pick up a soft powder and very ‘clean’ scent, indeed. Overall I’m very pleased with it! It’s probably my second favorite scent to Dee.
asgardianwolf –
In the imp I smelled a fresh clean scent, slightly like soap just ever so slightly muskier. After wearing it as it dried, I got the notes of tobacco and leather with a slightly powdery scent. Now, after wearing it for hours, I smell the strong scent of tobacco tempered by a hint of leather and something light, almost airy to it that I just can’t place.
Was included in my order as a ‘sample’ and I am glad it was! Whenever I do order again, I think this will be part of it.
Cesario de Rozlinde –
I’m wondering if I received the wrong imp? When I open this, I smell sweetness and menthol. I’s like a very candylike cough drop. The chief difference on my skin is that the sweetness overwhelms the menthol, leaving me with a smell that I can only characterise as ‘poisoned candy’ or ‘tainted birch beer.’ I couldn’t handle the sweetness. I finally layered it with John Watson (also reviewed). Together, I got a scent that I would call ‘well aired-out Victorian Parlour.’ There was a trace of tobacco, amber, dust, and something musky, and the ‘poisonous’ scent was more like some old-fashioned curiosity. Without Watson, I would only give Holmes a 2 rating.
dementia_divine –
In the imp: This is a rather clean scent with a bit of tobacco in the background and a very faint hint of leather.
Wet: A very clean scent, indeed! The clean aspect of this scent dominates, but I can smell traces of the tobacco in the background. After a while, I start getting hints of the leather, and every once in a while, the rosin.
Dry: While the clean scent is still present, the tobacco and leather (and I think I am getting the Moroccan aspect of it as well) are much more prominent now. I am not sure what greasepaint would smell like, so that’s why it hasn’t been mentioned in my review! The tobacco reigns after a few hours.
Verdict: I like this a lot more than I thought I would! I’m not sure that I need a bottle, though.
Velvet Lilly –
There is, foremost, a clean scent, fresh ablutions perhaps, and a feel of space.
As if he is sitting among the mullioned panes of a conservatory, light green fronded plants nearby, in the cool space of the room.
A fascinating sheer blend of Morrocan leather and whisps of tobacco play softly with the horse hair note, etc. and was told these are subtle remnants of his disguises……..brilliant!
Not masculine per se, but not soft either……this is an intelligent scent.
Gorgeous and enticing.