O
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

O proves a point about the suggestiveness of marketing - name a scent after an orgasm and soon everyone will be feeling the ground move. Unfortunately, given that the perception of sexiness in a scent is as subjective as the perception of sexiness in a person, it is practically impossible to reach a consensus. O seems to be the Chris Hemsworth of BPAL blends, with everyone agreeing that it is one hunk of a scent.

Unfortunately, just like with Chris Hemsworth, I just don’t find O to be as sexy as advertized. In fact, O smells alarmingly close to those honey and lemon cough lozenges you buy in a pharmacy at the first sign of a throat tickle. The opening is both unpleasantly sharp and unpleasantly sweet – in other words, honey at its worst. The resinous amber in the base makes things slightly more bearable, but if you are talking about a perfume in terms of less or more bearable, then you really should cut your losses.

There is nothing natural in the constitution of O at all, an unhappy fact attested to by the third-degree burn it gave me when my top lip accidentally brushed against the spot on my skin where I had applied it. Many people reviewing this scent note that it smells like dirty panties. All I can say is that if your panties smell like this, you need to visit your gynecologist.

Here's your Play-Doh scent right here.

Yuck - to me, this is the smell of after-sex with a lot of lube. The amber and the vanilla interact in indecent, obscene ways in this scent. I think the amber is where this scent goes sour.

Amber, and it smells like a floral / honey, and then it goes to vanilla. It's actually quite nice in construction and attractiveness of its accords. It's basically a gourmand that sticks with just the sweeteners… i.e.: Keiko Mecheri's Loukoum without the almonds, and rose. Deep in the background I get that little chocolate ghost note that I sometimes get in fragrances like this. I kind of like the way this stays close to the skin, but in the end, it is just sweet.