Reviews

1. 

   Cesium – September 26, 2024

   Got this as an imp- will definitely be buying a full size.

   I love this so much more than I thought I would.

   In the bottle it smells a little crisp. Like you shone a tiny flashlight beam into the night sky.

   On my skin, though, its heaviness comes through. It smells like I’ve just been wrapped in a blanket of void to take a nice little nap. Less disconcerting to me and more of a lull.

   Throughout the day, the orchid comes out. At the end of my 8 hour shift it was a dark, but not overbearing floral scent.

   It’s almost like a grandmotherly perfume, but amazing and also if your grandma was a black hole.

2. 

   alexmitchell2391 – August 16, 2023

   A swamp witch awakens from a long slumber. She pushes away the growth of moss and notices her cauldron is still bubbling after all of these years, a deep resinous concoction. Her hanging dried flowers are just as perfect as always with their dusty florality. She realizes her self-necromancy ritual was successful.

3. 

   Laurel Buliavac – September 27, 2021

   I got this as a frimp, and I’m glad I did — I wouldn’t have picked it, since I’m not a perfume head, and I have no context for what ‘opoponax’ smells like in a vacuum. It smells incense-y, as you might expect from something with three different tree resins, but there’s a ‘high’ note (top note? is that what smell people call it?) that takes it from general incense to specifically ‘that New Age store in the mall that I loved when I was young but my mom hated because it set off her asthma’. That store is long gone, but this perfume remains.

4. 

   yashendwirh – September 7, 2020

   Very warm, deep, creamy floral. The orchid is doing a lot of the work but layers really cozily into this scent. Gets a little more powdery on my skin. Winter/fall scent, unisex to femme.

5. 

   Katie – March 5, 2020

   I got this as a frimp, and was surprised to see it described as disconcerting and heavy. Just a very pleasant, musky, warm, sweet scent to me. Didn’t stand out enough to make me want a full bottle.

6. 

   [email protected] – December 15, 2018

   Once it settles a very ,warm, spicy and mature scent. Very similar to the yves saint laurent opium but not as cloying. A little goes a long way.

7. 

   cmgauthi – October 20, 2018

   I didn’t get anything disconcerting from it at all. It smells warm and incense-y, with a flash of something metallic. Like an old tarnished silver perfume bottle pendant bought in New Orleans when I was young. Mysterious and smooth. Good. Very Good.

8. 

   ranepage11 – June 4, 2018

   This scent really does pull you in. Reminds me of a mysterious perfume I was gifted in a very abstract black bottle by a former acquaintance. Smells intimate, captivating, sophisticated, not too complex either. Honestly smells more feminine than I prefer, but nonetheless I admire it & hope my wife takes to wearing it.

9. 

   artimisia – November 10, 2017

   This one is really hard to describe. I recognized a lot of notes that bpal has used in the background of other perfumes, but I couldn’t put my finger on any single element. (It reminds me most of the underlying scent in Morocco, only with out the too heavy perfumey overscent) So that made it feel familiar, while definitely being its own thing. Dark and mysterious, with a powerful mystique, this one is definitely a keeper.

10. 

    xancanfly – November 2, 2017

    woahh. I can’t describe the smell but it is powerful, mysterious, and unique. It almost smells like the ozone in the air before a storm? It is a weird scent, definitely just-this-side of perfumey. Like it smells pleasant enough that I can wear it as a perfume, but definitely unlike any perfume I’ve encountered before. This is for days when you want to intimidate people in a way that they can’t quite put their finger on. I wouldn’t wear it for a date, but I’d wear it for a meeting where I need to show everyone whose boss.

11. 

    littlejackal – May 11, 2017

    Imagine a demonic priestess has just unleashed a spell of black fire upon a church- that’s Event Horizon. I absolutely adore this smell, it makes me feel pure evil. It smells hot, dark, and thick, with just enough sweetness to still be appealing.

12. 

    driveallnite – March 13, 2017

    This is my new favorite scent…I absolutely love wearing it and feel totally badass in it!

13. 

    nborges – October 13, 2015

    Definitely a heavy scent that may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I love that. I wear it on days I want to smell intimidating and untouchable.

14. 

    Gloame – February 15, 2015

    Disconcerting is a good descriptor for this blend, but I don’t think it’s disconcerting in a bad way. It’s just unusual. It calls for a double-take when smelled.

    The overall impression I get of it is dry wood, warmed up and ready to burn. The orchid gives it enough warm floral to balance out the heaviness of the other notes. I think it’s quite lovely.

    Unisex, woody, soft, warm.