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vlad-adsl – :
I am a huge fan of Dorian and I just received a pretty old bottle from a swap. This is one of the few BPAL scents that I just love. Sweet musky delicious tea goodness. This is a tea lovers comfort scent. Truly wonderful and very glad to finally have this perfectly aged bottle in my collection.
Tied with Alkemia Madam Pearl as my favorite tea oil.
kuzgen – :
I agree with jdusk. I gave this a solid two tests, and I just didn’t get the hype. Starts as lemon cleaner, mellows a bit to vanilla + lemon. Pretty linear and boring. Husband says “Meh. Smells like breakfast, I guess. I don’t like it.”
Kirill271999 – :
Enjoyable, but overrated. It is very sweet sugared vanilla with tea, a tiny bit of lemon, and a pale sheer musk. Simple and linear.
mahouni2008 – :
This was one of the few BPAL imps I thought I liked enough to order a bottle of it. Big mistake.
No tea at all, or if there is, it is smothered under sickly sweet vanilla musk. Not pleasantly sweet, but offensively sweet, like a sweet drink left in a hot car for weeks until it went off, and then spilled over someone, in the same airless car, eating vanilla sweets and wearing cheap deodorant.
I hope its new owner likes it better.
kyrte – :
I was desperately hoping to like this. It sounded so perfect: tea, sugar, lemon- what’s not to love? Unfortunately, when I wear this, I get very little tea and lemon and lots of masculine musk. The scent was very, very masculine on me, so much so that I washed it off. And I so wanted to love it.
Рыжая – :
I have to agree with yogabear – this is one of the very few BPALs that’s wearable. The only other 2 I can think of are Lilith Victoria and Huesos de Santo, both limited editions and very hard to find. Most BPAL perfumes are very linear and strong and with most of them I wonder why anyone would want to smell like that.How they keep their following when they’re selling such low quality perfumes is a mystery to me.
This is a simple vanilla-musk-tea combination.
unmalmLoatt – :
If overpowering vanilla isn’t your heh, cup of tea then I recommend not wearing it if vanilla is one of those throw scents for you. This didn’t have much throw for me, I asked my sensitive with scents Auntie. *I could smell it* but not my Aunt. There is a lemon touch to it, which is just a wee bit surprising. But it’s all sugary, milky sweetness on me.
I’ll post again when I’ve tried it on my Man. Should be interesting. He’s not a macho man, so maybe it will suit him rather nicely.
ramzes1983 – :
Dorian starts out smelling like a cup of very sweet tea, with just enough lemon squeezed in to be noticeable without overpowering the tea itself. The vanilla lingers in the background, like a plate of freshly baked cookies on a nearby table, making everything else just a touch softer and warmer. The musk comes out very gradually, probably an hour into wearing it, and everything is just that much sexier for it; as if, in your rush to get to “desert,” you never bothered to leave the table.
Wearing Dorian is like having a very lovely, polite tea with a very lovely and polite young man who nonetheless seems to be very fond of stealing little touches during conversation–his hand resting upon your own or stroking lightly along the inside of your elbow–which you don’t really notice until his fingertips are flirting with the inside of your thigh and you’re stealing little touches of your own back. Tea ends, before you quite realize it, when he has you on the table, trapped between his arms with your skirts bunched up around your waist and a damp glove tossed haphazardly in a saucer.
Unfortunately, like most BPAL scents I’ve tried, it has very little throw. It’s the kind of scent that you don’t notice until you get really close. The wear time is pretty average, I’ll usually reapply about halfway through the day as it fades, but even if I don’t, it never really completely disappears until the next day.
Some people have said this isn’t unisex, and if you prefer for men to smell overpoweringly of Axe, then no, it certainly isn’t. Personally, though, I would LOVE to smell Dorian on a guy. This belongs on the kind of man who remains well-mannered and pleasant even while you’re unfastening his pants, and afterwards hands you his handkerchief to clean up with and fondly calls you his “wicked girl”. It’s the kind of sexy that doesn’t feel the need to flex it’s muscles to prove it: elegant and discreet in its debauchery, and all the more attractive for it.
This would be great for someone who wants something unobtrusively sexy, or for somebody who wants something that is sweet, but not childish or cloying. It is also a great introduction scent for anybody who’s interested in dipping a toe into the BPAL pool, as it seems to be one of the most consistently liked scents and, though rather different from most perfumes you’d find in a department store, isn’t quite as disconcerting as other BPAL scents can be.
MutsOccuttkak – :
Okay, seriously I thought that “snake oil” was my favorite, but this has it beat. I LOVE the way this smells so much, that I spent hours online looking for any “perfume” with similar notes to go with it. When it comes to BPAL I usually do that, because I love the SCENT but the sillage is usually nonexistent, more of a personal only you smell it kinda thing. So when I find one I love, I have to “match” it to a perfume thats a good match. So for anyone out there wondering, I found the PERFECT match for this to be worn together, Lolita Lempicka L de Lolita Lempicka. They were made for eachother!!
олег-biba – :
When I first smelled the applicator on my imp (sample vial), all I smelled was vanilla. Imagine my surprise when I applied it and a strange lemon smell invaded. For a while, I couldn’t remember what memory this was evoking, and then it hit me-lemony bathroom cleaner!!! Since then, I have searched for and found the tea notes, so it is easier to deal with. Still, that memory link of the weird lemon scent has really made this fragrance pretty unwearable for me.
SypeSletSek – :
Had high hopes about this – but on me it’s just insanely sweet vanilla with sweet lemon, cramped down in condensed milk. Really disappointed.
ijin – :
I agree with lara0905.
Maybe more scents of BPAL could be added to this website (TKO comes to mind) but it would be hard deciding which ones to add. Their scent list is huge. 🙂
Wint_ik – :
I don’t like lemon. at all, ever. this isn’t lemon. this is the faintest hint of a super-sweet lemon sugar. yes, there are some musks but not a “white” musk or anything that smells like Tide. and i love this scent.
Manesta – :
Mmmmm…this scent is delicious, like a piece of gingerbread with a cup of Earl Grey with a touch of milk.:)Pleasant, soft and mouthwatering.I’d like to categorize this as a vanilla gourmand scent.
At the first moment freshly baked ginger bread smell reminds me of a cold winter afternoon with a cup of tea in my hand.:)Vanilla,faint musk and tonka aroma hiding until the ginger nuance fades away. The tea is clearly detectable in the heart with tonka, vanilla and oak moss.Soft, soulwarming drydown with the familiar touch of vanilla, which is appears in almost every BPAL perfumes.Oak moss, musk, vanilla, pink pepper, cardamom and pale ginger and lavender fusion on my skin.
Lightly spiced winter fragrance at the border of feminity and masculinity, full with emotions and sensitivity. Like Dorian….
gnommm9 – :
I join the ‘this isn’t that manly camp’ on this. It’s a lavender/earl grey/vanilla scent, and while I love it, I haven’t had much love from friends or family for it. I’d like to smell it on a man, but it isn’t classically manly to my nose. Perhaps I will try it on my man later and report back!
Ahmet idid – :
I can’t imagine the typical macho-macho man wearing this at all, but it would be perfect on a boy like Dorian. Combined with my chemistry, this perfume smells like a lemony sugar cookie with hints of black tea and maybe just a whiff of oakmoss in the background. It’s very light and delicious, and stays close to the skin, though it lasts for a weak hour or two. That’s the only thing I would improve about this perfume — it needs to last longer! Otherwise, it’s a wonderful treat of a perfume.
titomip – :
This thing is delicious – how did someone else put it? like having tea with a refined gentlemen with whom you’re going to make love like animals after. It is most definitely a fougère though, and it’s a tad too masculine on me…. I love wearing it because unf dat sharp (probably a bit of lime, it smells like) sugary vanilla and oakmoss, but the woodsy elements just… it feels too masculine on me. I am a lady. I want to date someone just so I can make them wear this oil and smell them at my leisure.
Also: as a fervent fan of The Picture of Dorian Gray… all I can say is, this is IT. This is EXACTLY what Dorian smelled like. I’m convinced. 😀
Катя – :
LAB DESRIPTION
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. Inspired by and created for my beloved Tedwin: my eternal, beautiful, wicked Dorian Gray. Refined, elegant, and lovely, with a noble bearing and seemingly gentle air. This blend is an artful deception: a sweet gilded blossom lying over a twisted and corrupted core. A Victorian fougere with three pale musks and dark, sugared vanilla tea.”
A men’s blend? hmm. I’m not feeling that at all.
This is lovely though…
It smells at first like a lemony/vanillary tea..this is when first applied..
Vanilla amps on me like crazy so I’m waiting to see what’s gonna happen from here on in.
The wet stage is yummy, it changes into a much more muskier vanilla tea with a slight hint of something citrussy. The vanilla in this is the vanilla that’s in Balck Phoenix’s “Antique Lace” perfume, it’s incredibly sweet, almost sugary.”..
The faint citrus dies down after this and oh my gosh…the vanilla has not taken over the blend entirely for probably the the first time I think..
This is quite a sophisticated, soft blend. It feels secret to me, and when I say secret I mean..like..nobody would know I’m wearing it but me. I don’t know why it makes me feel like that but it does…!
Kind of like this scent would become me…part of me. (It’s not often blends evoke a proper physical emotion in me but when it happens?? wowzers!)
This ends up being a very sexy musy vanilla that’s very soft and subtle enough to be my own secret!