BPAL duets and trios

[devon]

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I was chatting with someone about BPAL perfume oils and how their complex blends never end up smelling that complex. I think their duets and trios (menage à trois) hold up very well and smell like the listed notes. This is a comment I wrote that I thought would be relevant here.

I've had good luck with their "limited edition" duets and trios, just 2-3 ingredients. They tend to be very accurate to what they say. They usually run for several months, so there's time to get a sample from someone's decant circle and also a bottle later, but I have blind bought a few of them.

here are some I like for reference, even though they're not all in current production.
Milk, Burnt Honey & Ambrette seed **nice for its genre**
Cacao & Oud **nice**
Honeysuckle & Wisteria
Elderberry Flower & Sandhill Plum (not as interesting)

There are a lot that I find intriguing, but I've been trying to buy less BPAL over the last year. A few I'm pretty interested in now. (they are on their way out this month to make room for new ones.)
https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/a-little-lunacy-limited-edition/menage-a-trois-a-little-lunacy-limited-edition/

Caramel, Teakwood, and Vetiver
Almond Blossoms, Patchouli, and Sea Salt
Coffee Bean, Oak Bark, and Patchouli
Oakmoss, White Sage, and Woodland Fern
Sandalwood, Lime, and Tahitian Ginger
I have a lot of florals, so I'm not as interested in those offerings rn.

Looks like Duets are not live, but this is their page:
https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/in-memoriam/a-little-lunacy/duets/

Comments

[full_metal_ox]

One that I loved was, I suppose, technically a duet based on the ingredient description: the late Saturnalia:

Unrestrained revelry, unchained licentiousness! Violet deepened with vetiver.

(Disclaimer: I'm severely hyposmic and synaesthetic, meaning that my perceptions may not reflect common experience.)

Saturnalia may not have bottled Shriekback’s concept of a Roman orgy,
but it distilled a wild, dark, and numinous place, most commonly defaulting to brooding rain-damp forest earth: suitable not only for the season implied in its name but for hot weather, as the expression of a cool green vegetal shade (as distinct from an icy air-conditioned cyan.) My periods would bring out a really fascinating effect: the ingredients would separate out into a changeable taffeta of dark funky chthonic olive-green vetiver and sweet girly periwinkle-blue violet: “Some Velvet Morning”(the original song by Lee Greenwood and Nancy Sinatra) in a bottle, or animus and anima fissioned out as in Arthur Machen’s “The Novel of the White Powder.”