Came home last night after a HELLUVA bad day...to find I'd gotten nine BPAL Imps in the mail! I'd ordered 6 from someone on the message board; she included 3 extras :-)

Black Opal: Vanilla...tonka...musk; creamy...a comfort scent.

Malice: Ylang ylang, clove, Indonesian red patchouli, and dark myrrh.

Jolly Roger: Sea spray with an undercurrent of leather, Bay Rum, and salty, dry woods. I put this on last night before I went to bed in hopes of dreaming of a certain pirate captain...but no such luck!

Midnight: A bouquet of night-blooming flowers--evening primrose, ruellia, flowering nicotiana, wild petunia, pa nani-o-kai, night phlox, night gladiolus, moonflower and the elusive scent of Nottingham Catchfly. I don't normally like floral scents, but this one smells SO good to me...must be on the dark side ;-). I'm wore it to work today and it reminds me of flowers tucked into a book to dry but that are still faintly fragrant.

Morocco: Spices wind through a blend of warm musk, carnation, red sandalwood and cassia.

Silk road: This is like a light, spicy incense; slightly woody, cinnamon, possibly a hint of clove, a touch of ginger, dried grassy. As Northernminx said: "the silk covered interior of a wagon train from the east where the spices and dust and cool shadows are protecting you from the scorching sun outside." I put this on when I got home and all I can say is WOW! It's my favorite BPAL scent so far...spicy, but not in a powdery way.

These are the extras:

Athens: A reformulation and modernization of a true Classical Greek perfume, myrrhine: voluptuous myrrh, golden honey, red wine, and sweet flowers.

Madame X from Possets: Wicked, sinful, hedonistic, and irresistable. It's musky, creamy, enticing, perfumy, slightly foody.

Shambhala Perfume Oil by Arcana, from Magical Omaha: Sandalwood, Himalayan cedarwood and a dash of spun honey.

I vote for Madam X and Black Opal...but what is tonka? Gotta go look it up. Why such a bad day?

Morocco sounds interesting. I want to come smell them now, they sound so intriguing!!

Black Opal and Madame X sound very intriguing.....

I acutally had to go 4 pages into Google search before I found a reference to anything other than Tonka Trucks. But here it is a discription on tonka, which I am sure you already know anyway:

The beans are soaked in alcohol, dried, and fermented to create a distinctive bitter, nutty flavor, with an intensely aromatic scent reminiscent of spice and vanilla. Tonka beans, often used to scent pipe tobacco and snuff, are a favorite ingredient of perfumers, showing up in fragrances by Burberry, Marc Jacobs, and Jean Paul Gautier.

Taken from here: http://www.pastryscoop.com/miniscoop/thescoop_miniScoop_0506.html

Jolly Roger and Silk Road are my picks. Glad they got there to make a bad day better. I saw someone else's BPAL imps on Flickr as a part of her project365 and thought of yours! LOL

Hope tomorrow is better.

Silk Road is going on my wish list.

I tried Madrid the other day...it smells like Sangria.

Mmm. They all sound pretty cool...I'm curious about Silk Road. Wonder how it would smell on me? :)

Black Opal sounds nice too. A "comfort scent" might be just what the doctor ordered.

That's great that you got the three extras. They sound really romantic!