I got Bear Prince from BPAL in a destash. It is a tiny sample in oil format. I had been eyeing this one because the name sounded so whimsical. This gets me to buy more perfumes than I want to admit. I think I saw a variation of it floating around for a while too, with cardamom, so I kinda thought this one had it, too. This is a perfume from BPAL’s Yule collection, so around wintertime. The notes for this one are very simple:

Shaggy fur, snow-flecked and rose-touched.

This is unbelievably strong rose. It was all I got for the first hour. BPAL is known well for their rose scents but I personally am not crazy about them so I was a bit disappointed. The rose was a little on the artificial side even, reminding me of a rose scented bar of soap. It was very intense. After the rose toned down, I got the hint of a musk but I could still also smell the same rose. It was like equal amounts rose and just musk. I wonder if this plain white musk and slightly watery quality is the snow. If you didn’t say snow, I would not have thought it. 

And now:  I had suspected this, but this definitely confirms it: I am anosmic to fur. I have tried so many fur note things and I cannot smell it at all. I looked into a review of this perfume talking about the fur and how it smells like their cats. I just got a cat earlier this year and have tried huffing her MANY times and I don’t smell anything. I think I can train my nose if I smell the fur note for like months so maybe someday, I will get around to doing that. I wonder if this smells much nicer to people that can smell the fur. I am bummed I didn’t like this because I was so ready to buy a full bottle from a destash listing too, all because of the adorable name.