Lunacy Blends
Beaver Moon
Because it was too hard to resist, BPAL's Beaver Moon is sillier, sleazier, and full of camp. This scent is of cheesecake and cupcakes, more in line with its cheekier connotations.
Nice in a 'jeepers, sponge cake with jam' way, but I won't ever wear it. (My forum review).
Bitter Moon
Nepal poppy, lotus root, wild rose, and blue hibiscus with blackberry, tonka, sage, lavender, peony and vetiver.
Bittersweet - like a lavender and berry jam, but perhaps too soapy/foody for me to wear much. (My forum review).
Blood Moon
The feral scent of the heat of the chase, deep woods, undulating musks, brushed by forest herbs, crushed grains, and touched by blood-dimmed lunar oils.
Sexy porridge - warm, rich, creamy, spicy, and with sandalwood and musk too. Makes my wrists sting, though. (My forum review).
Buck Moon
Buck Moon is an animalistic, deep scent: an amplification of one's natural musk coupled with forest herbs, a hint of clear, warm evening air and a crystalline spark of lunar oil.
Beautiful soft sweet clean skin scent - reminding me of a moonlit forest in spring. (My forum review).
Budding Moon
Budding Moon shines as Spring moves with its first breath, and this scent expresses that burst of life-affirming joy through an olfactory interpretation of Huang Quan's flower-and-bird paintings. Plum blossom, peony, lotus root, Chinese musk and a hint of white ginger.
Gentle, light pink sweet floral with a hint of fruit and musk. A bit girly. (My forum review).
Chrysanthemum Moon
The ceiling is low and intimate, the walls are terraced with wooden berths and riddled with shadowy alcoves, and the air is thick with leaden brown opium smoke that hangs thickly over a seductive mixture of red musk, body-warmed perfume, and hypnotic Eastern flowers.
Faint lightly spicy opium-smoke-and-chrysanthemum. Enh. (My forum review).
Dragon Moon
The Dragon Moon celebrates the glory and vigor of Springtime: dragon's blood resin, tea leaf, bamboo reed, sandalwood and cherry blossom.
Light, airy, bamboo cherry-blossom tea SHAMPOO scent. Sigh. (My forum review).
Fruit Moon
A horde of wet, ripe fruits: green apple, apricot, blackberry, black cherry, black and red currants, cantaloupe, English pear, guava, lemon and lime, orange, mandarin orange, kiwi and mango, passion fruit, papaya, Georgia peach, raspberry, plum, tangerine, pomegranate and strawberry over a luminous blend of lunar oils.
Delicious fruity goodness. Very nice indeed. Iain is a big fan. (My forum review).
Harvest Moon '05
The autumnal scents of gladiola, chrysanthemum, aster, dahlia, anemone, bergamot, marigold, sage and verbena dust a blend of wine-soaked apples, plums, and red pears, mulling spices and brown sugar, the ivy leaves of Dionysus and Janus' amaranth and lingum aloe.
Sugary baby powder, after a brief plummy juiciness. Wah. (My forum review).
Harvest Moon '06
This Harvest Moon oil is a merging of autumnal scents from all over the globe: chrysanthemum, pomegranate, cane sugar and dusty wheat, sorghum, green tea leaf, rice flower and rice milk, Russian sage, bamboo shoot, elderberry, black cherry, wild plum, red haw, hazelnut, red apple and shagbark hickory.
Soft dry dusty apples with sugary hints of woods and other fruits. Not really my style. (My forum review).
Holiday Moon
When the moon is full, mankind is one. Bamboo pulp and oude with green and white tea.
When wet it's nice, but otherwise it's too plasticky and not sharp enough for my taste. (My forum review).
Hungry Ghost Moon
Offerings of ginger candy, sugar cane, smoky vanilla and rice wine mingle with a ghost's perfume of white sandalwood, ho wood, ti, white grapefruit, crystalline musk and aloe. This scent is tapered by the presence of seven herbs, woods and resins used in the purification of the spirit and the purging of earthly concerns from the soul.
Sweet citrus and ginger over watery aloe. Very bright, clear and airy. (My forum review).
Kindly Moon
Utterly ethereal, an exquisite expression of love: moonflower, lotus root, white gardenia, beeswax, peach blossom, blue musk, stargazer lily, golden osmanthus, ti, sandalwood, hyacinth, ylang ylang, and a touch of vanilla bean.
Beautiful airy light gardenia scent, like nihil without the perfume tinge and with a touch of warmth. (My forum review).
Milk Moon '07
A fertile scent, generous, life-affirming, and swelling with a sense of triumph, warmth, and abundance: sweet milk, golden honey, fig fruit, pomegranate, dates, and white grape.
Pineapple and coconut, milky and sugary-sweet. Too sweet for me. (My forum review).
Peony Moon
Peony, plum blossom, water reeds and soft Asian woods.
Oh, my word. It's like a peony version of London, with added fruity plum blossom. Must get a bottle. (My forum review).
Pink Moon '07
A sweet and silly compliment to the first breath of Spring! Sugared carnation and phlox!
Really overpoweringly sweet at first, and then nice enough spicy carnations but enh. (My forum review).
Red Moon
Our blend for this Moon mixes traditional lunar oils with the warmth of amber and heliotrope, the russet haze of dragon's blood resin and crushed orange peel, and a swirl of summertime herbs: chamomile, rue, elder flower and marigold.
Weird spicy-fruity soda smell on me, with a hint of rotting apple underneath. Ecch. (My forum review).
Red Moon '07
Our blend for this Moon mixes traditional lunar oils with the warmth of amber, red musk, and heliotrope, the russet haze of dragon's blood resin, sunflower, and crushed orange peel, with a dusting of summertime herbs: chamomile, rue, elder flower and marigold.
Ends p as a warm, sweet, but very faint red musk note. Tasty but not breathtaking. (My forum review).
Schwartzer Mond
The keeper of secrets: opoponax, Tunisian black amber, night musk, antique patchouli, zdravetz, terebinth, myrrh, and Pimenta racemosa.
Sexy and dark and masculine, but Iain wouldn't wear this and it's too MALE for me. (My forum review).
Sleepy Moon
A nearly-narcotic blend of opiate-touched bark and blossom reflective of the bleakness and solitude of winter, the quietest point of the year : black opium poppy, bamboo pulp, ylang ylang, lavender, chamomile and white sandalwood.
Very herbal lavenderish soapy smell. Meh. (My forum review).
Snow Moon
A scent of purity and silence, soft with falling snow, as dark as Midwinter: an icy flurry over the winter blooms of narcissus, pansy crocus, dahlia, tulip, chrysanthemum and white rose, with a hint of fir and birch.
Sugary snow and fir. A bit too sweet and powdery, but okay. (My forum review).
Strawberry Moon
Strawberry moon is a blending of strawberries and cream with light, dry lotus and soft ylang ylang and a touch of green tea and sage to bring it closer to Earth.
Storm Moon
A raging, electric and wet scent: slashing rain notes, rolling thunder, and sharp, cold winds layered by a breath of softly wafting lunar incense, a hint of Luna's blooms, and the brittle herbs of winter.
Seadrenched ozone, powerful and electric and fresh and awesome. (my forum review).
Allison Gross
Witch-herbs, crushed golden flowers, and a man-made-dragon's surly musk lightened by the scent of the blossoms and unearthly incense that clings to the Faerie Queen's hair. Dragon's blood musk, ambergris, sunflower, chrysanthemum, muguet, and rue, with gingered lily, moonflower, bluebell, peony, nightwort, and white rose.
Carnation SN stuck in the green phase, with muggy herbs behind it. (My forum review).
Bakeneko
Warm amber musk, Satsuma tangerine, black tea leaf, cardamom, cherry blossom and cinnamon.
This should be perfectly to my taste, but it's so faint - and a bit too like other scents. (My forum review).
Minotaur
A deep, swarthy black musk dusted by a dark, resinous blend of sacred bisabol myrrh, atramentous benzoin, tsori, balsam, and galbanum.
Warm, sweet and resinously delicious - but very similar to Laudanum on me. (My forum review).
Roux-Ga-Roux
Spanish moss, swamp jessamine, bog water, cypress, hickory wood, lobelia, sweet flag, wisteria, and marsh milkweed.
Those notes don't sound inspiring, but they add up to creamy warm gently-spiced muskiness on my skin. Yum! (My forum review).
Selkie
The chill waters of the Orkney coast, tea-leaved willow, honey-touched Grass-of-Parnassus, sea aster, and Scottish Primrose.
Light florals and honey with aquatics, but there's a fruity edge which is nasty with the powdery honey. (My forum review).
Tamamo-no-Mae
Tamamo-no-Mae's scent is soft skin musk, brushed by white tea leaf, rice flower, black locust flower, white sandalwood kodo soke, dry ginger, benzoin gum, and Amacha.
A very pretty cream-and-fruit asian scent... but do I need yet another asian fruit scent? (my forum review).