Dorian Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab for women and men

Had high hopes about this - but on me it's just insanely sweet vanilla with sweet lemon, cramped down in condensed milk. Really disappointed.

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. :)

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.

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....

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!

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.

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. :D

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!