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Blue Moon 2004 was my first Lab Lunacy, and I didn't buy it. I don't think I understood the whole Lunacy thing, and the oils were only up for 12 hours and it was just a lot of work for me at the time. Anyway, when I realized what I was missing, I managed to get a bottle from a kind forumite, and it may have been my best secondhand BPAL purchase ever. I love Blue Moon. It's floral and watery and cucumbery, and really not my style at all but it's so. beautiful. It's softly sweet and almost minty in its cool wateriness. I don't wear it often, but I love to sniff it every now and again. It smells quiet and tranquil.

My decant is of indeterminate age and seems to have lost all of its carnation. However, I still get loads of warm, golden amber and musk. It reminds me of L'Estate and ... that other one that was like L'Estate. Et Lux Fuit. Inez is warm and pretty. I might pick up a fresh bottle to see if I can get more carnation--or maybe just so I can have more.

Chaste Moon 2005 is a creamy, buttery vanilla scent, kind of like sweetened condensed milk. There's a tiny hint of mintiness underneath. This is one of my favorite lunar blends.

Eh, I wanted a stronger apple/blackberry presence but I got a lot of nuttiness.

Wad of Chewed Up Bubblegum smells just like that. Pink bubblegum, with the white powder on the outside to prevent it from sticking to the wrapper, like lamenteuse said above. I'm disappointed about the lack of strawberry, but amazed by how dead-on the bubblegum scent is.

I didn't like Creepy back in '06. I swapped it away but ended up with a decant years later. Now I love the Creepy. Both versions. I think that in '06, I wanted apple with caramel and Creepy delivered rabid caramel butterscotchiness with a bit of apple. I still prefer a stronger apple tone, but I can appreciate Creepy for what it is.

So flowery! If I can get past the "A yellow smell. Old foul, bad yellow things." part, it's actually a pretty floral fragrance. I might have to decant a bit and label it something like, "Pretty Happy Spring Bouquet!" to trick myself into forgetting the unfortunate imagery.

Bite Me goes to almonds and roses on me and never fails to make me queasy and give me a headache. I don't know why, it just does.

First thought is cough drops. There's a bit of that almond-cherry edge that I really don't like, but it goes away in an instant. From then on, it's "black cherry brandy" bordering on maraschino cherry. This is nice, and I can't remember why I don't wear it more often.

Grrr. Fearful Pleasure should be OMGamazeballs, but it's not. Not on me, anyway. I get too much smoke and oakmoss and not-apple. I want apple, but my chemistry prefers to party with oakmoss.

Eerie billows of spun sugar, fluttering white cotton, and sheets of cream. I can't believe I haven't reviewed this--it's one of my favorites! Tooth-achingly sweet, Boo is the Peeps of the perfume world. It's vanilla-cream-marshmallow, buried in sugar. I know that turns some people off, but I love it.

This is a lotta smells in one bottle. First, blueberry and spicy pumpkin, then a little smoke, and then red currant and tea. I've tested this one a couple of times, and I still don't know what I really think of it. I think that I'm drawn to it because I find it to be very different, but ultimately, it's not something I'd wear.

Orange and lilac over amber. This is a kind of 'meh' scent for me. It's okay, but it's not really for me. I love orange and I love real lilacs, but somehow lilac oils always smell off to me--kind of wet and limp. The lilac here recedes quickly, but still... off to swaps.

From the vial, I thought this was going to be Snowblind with the butter turned up to 11. Instead, I get what filigree_shadow described as "a cross between Beaver Moon 05 and Sugar Cookie". BRILLIANT. I get a vague whiff of vanilla-mint (a la Lick It) every now and again, but it's mostly a buttery-cheesecakey-snickerdoodley-sugar cookie. Love it.

Strawberry Lemonade, with a hint of coolness. I don't like this as much as the berry lemonade I get from Sweet Winter Berry Ale, but maybe it's because SWBA is too fresh in my mind. Strawberry Lemon Drop Candy Cane seems a little plastic and artificial--things that aren't always bad, IMO! In this case, though, it seems maybe a little too simple and a little too fake. I'll pass it along to my children who are sure to love it.

Love this. It's familiar--or, it has familiar components--but I can't quite figure it out. It's like the product of Tokyo Stomp + Nuclear Winter and maybe + Snowblind - the buttery bit of Snowblind. Oh! And + Lick It. Fern Frost and Lick It have a similar peppermint note. I guess I'd reduce my equation to Lick It + Nuclear Winter (or maybe Frost Moon). Anyway, it's minty and cold and fabulous. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a bottle if it were available.

Fantastic. I love Sweet Winter Berry Ale. It goes from raspberry ginger ale to a sort of strawberry lemonade scent. It's not the most mind-blowing combination, but it's done so well. LOVE IT. I want a bottle of this.

Apple apple apple! With sugar and caramel! Similar to Creepy but Sugar-Slathered Candied Apple lets the apple shine through much more than Creepy does. I hope this is re-released sometime, I'd love to have an entire bottle or two.

Lump of Coal is the scent of the most fudgy brownies ever. Darker and richer than Bliss. I wish this were a GC.

Spicy Pumpkin pie-y cheesecake. I'm not a big fan of pumpkin, so this went off to swaps.

Chewing Little Bits of String goes on with a weird mishmash of scents but dries down into the most true marshmallowy scent I've ever smelled from the Lab. It's not pink marshmallows (Velvet Unicorn, Marshamallow Poof), it's pure white marshmallows. I'll definitely use my imp but I won't bother hunting down a bottle.

I wanted to love this. Unfortunately, the pancake is what amps--it smells almost yeasty/bready. Plain pancakes are great on the griddle, but not on my body all day long.

I have no idea what Kourabiedes is, so I have no preconceived notions. On my skin, it's almost pure Sweet Clove SN. I love (LOVE!) sweet clove, so that's great, but it's also a little disappointing because I expected more.

This sounded so fabulous. In reality, it's not really my thing. It's chocolate and gingerbread with a bit of coffee--I think it's just too much for me and maybe 2 of the three would be more agreeable to me. Oddly enough, this dries down to a sweetened condensed milk scent. I'll probably give this one another shot, but I think it might ultimately be headed to either my children or swaps.

I love Pollution. It's masculine and cologney which normally wouldn't appeal to me, but it works so well here. My first impressions of Pollution were that it was clean & crisp, the sort of BPAL I'd pick on days I don't feel like wearing perfume, if that makes sense. A different decant got me a slightly different Pollution--one that went a little tobacco-y (interestingly enough, decant is from TrailerTrashPrincess who also mentions tobacco in her review). Tobacco is usually a turn-off, but Pollution turns it into something intriguing. Love it!