BPAL Wanderlust scents

[woldy]

My reviews of Glasgow, London, Rome, Santa Eularia Des Riu, and Shaghai

Comments

[theora]

Thanks for sharing. Shanghai is probably my favorite BPAL so far, though I sadly don't get much honeysuckle from it - it's mostly green tea with a touch of sweet lemon, and not at all soapy. Whereas every rose I've tried has gone soapy on me. The whole soapy thing is so weird, since it's a term people (including me, obviously!) use, and yet I'm not sure what it means. I mean, I know what *I* mean by it, but I have no idea if it corresponds to what other people mean. Does that make sense?

[woldy]

On me the honeysuckle starts to kick in after the first couple of minutes, so the lemony scent gets sweeter. I don't get the green tea scent at all, though. Mind you, I'm not sure what people mean by a green tea scent. Is it the scent of the dry tea, or of a cup of green tea? Both of those are quite dry, bitter scents to me, but it's listed as a component in perfumes that I find sweet and fruity :-/

I don't know what other people mean by 'soapy'. This is the first scent that has smelled soapy to me, and I thought it smelled like a generic store brand hand soap in one of those pump bottles. It's like the other scent components just vanish into a vague chemical-y residue. I'm not sure what component in soap makes it smell like that, but glycerin soaps don't have that smell.

[kore]

I never get any wickedness from London either! It's kinda puzzling. I also amp citrus notes like it's my job, so Shanghai has never been anything but lime-lemon ("limon," remember that one) on me, SIGH.