Perfume newbie looking for some help

[lunabee34]

Several people in my DW circle are really into perfume, and I've been reading and enjoying their posts for a while now. One of them mentioned this community had started, and I figured this was a good place to ask some questions.

I have been to the BPAL website, and I have to admit that I find the descriptions of the perfumes kinda intimidating and confusing. I'm not sure where to start.

I also have the added issue that my husband reacts poorly to some scents. He can't abide anything heavily floral which has limited my perfume choices over the years.

I was wondering if I could get some BPAL recommendations from those of you who are more familiar with the perfumes there based on my scent likes/dislikes that I've listed below the cut. :)



Likes

All citrus
Herbal scents like rosemary, basil, parsley, clary sage
Grass
Green plants
Lavender
Fresh Cannibas Santal (Top Notes: bergamot, Brazilian orange, black plum; Middle Notes: patchouli, cannabis accord, rose: Bottom Notes: chocolate, vetiver, vanilla musk)
Church incense

Beyond that, I'm not really sure what I like. :)

No-Gos

Anything overly sweet
Anything floral, particularly tea rose, gardenia and honeysuckle


I would appreciate any recommendations y'all can give me.

Comments

[undomielregina]

I just got into BPAL this year and have been going mad testing things. Your scent needs sound a lot like mine (anything floral goes horribly, horribly wrong on me in remarkable ways.) Given that, I'd recommend:

Beer from the Marsh Woman's Brewery (beer flavored with marsh arrow grass, yew berries, purple foxglove, and giant hogweed) -- green and yeast on me. Has a wonderful and very unusual smell. This was the first perfume I ever bought, a couple years ago, and it's still a favorite.

Druid (ancient trees, fertile soil, wild herbs, spring grasses, and burgundy pitch incense) -- on me this smells very, very green and a tiny bit spicy, exactly like freshly broken ferns.

Nanshe from the Oeniros collection (no notes listed) -- smells strongly of basil and lavender on my skin. Scents in the Oeniros collection tend to have strong lavender notes in general.

Yggdrasil (nine woods, nine leaves, and three herbs each for Ratatosk and Vidofnir, with three final herbs to placate Nidhogg) -- the birch in this comes through strongly on me for a wintergreen scent. It's all woods and herbs.

Envy (green herbs slithering through mint, lime and lavender) -- I admit that this was a complete disaster on me for some reason (the scents combined in a mysterious and horrible way), but there's no reason it shouldn't work oh you, as my skin chemistry is very odd. It has a whole lot of notes that should work well for you and nothing that you wouldn't want.

[lunabee34]

I had gone to the site and started to fill up my shopping cart and now I shall have to ADD MORE THINGS OMG!

Thank you so much for these recommendations. I am so stoked. It's possible I will have to try them all.

I am particularly interested in Druid and Nanshe.

Yay!!!!!!