BPAL: Blood Countess and London

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Blood Countess (Diabolus): Elizabeth Báthory, also called Erzsébet Báthory in Hungarian and Alžbeta Bátoriová-Nádašdy in Slovak, was the Bloody Lady of Hungary. In order to preserve her youth and loveliness, the brutal and incomparably savage countess captured, tortured and slaughtered innumerable young women and bathed in their blood as part of her beauty regimen. Ah, vanity. Corrupted black plum, smoky opium and crumbling dead roses covered by a deceptive veil of Hungarian lilac, white gardenia and wild berry.

Vial: sickly berry, like cough syrup and some lilac

Wet: eww, rotting opium with lilac

Drydown: Opium still there, under flowers. Plum and berry come in after a bit. Still perfumy opium, with lilac and berry under it.

Dry: artificial smelling berries with lilac and rose.

 

London (wanderlust): Venerable Victorian Tea Rose… twisted, blackened and emboldened with wickedness.

Vial: floral and syrup

Wet: Rose!

Drydown: Roses! More roses. No twisting and blackening here, just bold roses.

Dry: Sweet roses. Fades fast though.