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Gin

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    L'Estate Bath Oil

     

    Mmmm... L'Estate Bath Oil. I like the perfume oil well enough, but it sure didn't prepare me for this. This is the standout winner of the Four Seasons items I have tried. This is warm and ambery and vanilla-y. And lemony? I think the peach is somehow translating to lemon to me, but it's *perfect*. It gives it a little bit of zing and keeps this from being too warm and cloying.

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    L'Autunno Bath Oil

     

    Why, L'Autunno Bath Oil, WHY? It's no secret that I'm a selective description reader (I focus on the notes I like to the exclusion of all else) but by all accounts, this should work. This should not only work, but it should be amazing. Instead, it smelles like burnt caramel/molasses and dries down to burnt sage-cedar-sweetgrass. And it makes me feel sneezy. ARGH! I love autumn above all other seasons, and I can't help but be seducd by the sound of BPAL's autumny blends, but they usually make me feel sneezy. I can usually put up with it if it smells good, but sadly, this doesn't even have that going for it.

     

    *runs off, crying*

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    Mr. Nancy

     

    I'm sorry I put off trying this one for so long. I just couldn't wrap my head around cookies and bay rum and tobacco. I shouldn't have worried. There's an initial blast of lime, a waft of tobacco, and then it's allllll cookies. Spicy cookies. Snickerdoodles or gingerbread or something. Very yummy!

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    L'Autunno

     

    Aw, L'Autunno! You were supposed to be my soul mate. Instead, you're the blind date that looked really good on paper, and wooed me with your beautiful spicy apple-yness...

     

    ...only to bolt immediately afterwards, leaving me with nothing but patchouli and leaves.

     

    Sorry, I can't let you continue to treat me this way.

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    Polycarbonate and metallic film monuments to domestic whimsy, whirling merrily in the summer breeze.

    Raspberry, lime, blueberry, tangerine, lemon, juniper, and white grape.


    Spinning Multicolored Metallic Pinwheel is the Garden Series oil I was most looking forward to. I won't say I'm disappointed, but it's not quite all that I had hoped. It lives up to the listed notes, it's just that in my head, it was different. I get a lot of lime, gin, and blueberry at first, and then the other fruits come out to play. It smells like sparkling fruit punch. It's a fun scent, I just won't need more than my little decant.

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    Plastic Pink Flamingo

     

    A surprise hit! At first, it's very dandelion-sappy (and Velvet Unicorn-y), but it dries down to a very pink Marshmallow Poof-y scent. I think I like this better than Marshmallow Poof, and certainly better than Velvet Unicorn. There seems to be a tiny bit of dandelion in the background, if I inhale really deeply, and I think that makes all the difference. I have a decant, but might have to get a bottlle as well.

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    The Torture Queen

     

    I'm pleasantly surprised by this. I had been put off by both the ambergris and the chrome, but it's quite lovely. The dominant note on my skin is gardenia. And this scent is overwhelmingly WHITE. The chrome, I think, smells ozoney to me, but that could also be the white musk--or the combination of the two. This is a fascinating blend and I'm glad I got a decant.

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    Water Phoenix

     

    Initially, this is loud and weirdly spicy. It calms down into a slightly deodorant-soapy aquatic. And the throw is reduced to almost nothing. I'm usually not a big fan of aquatics or lavender, and I don't think I'd wear this as a daytime perfume oil, but I think this is perfect as a bedtime blend. It makes me feel very calm.

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    Black Lace

     

    I can see why Black Lace is a fan favorite. In the bottle it's crazy-musky, on the skin, it goes from musky to tobacco and cotton candy. And vanilla. Lovely, lovely vanilla. I can see where others have found it to be not unlike Dorian + Antique Lace. Pretty, and not as dark and heavy as I had expected.

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    Does ironwood bark actually smell like iron? 'Cause that's what I'm smelling. Coconut, lemon, musk, and iron. Wrought iron? Red-hot iron fire-poker? The smell of your hands when you've been messing about with metal? I don't know, but it's fairly unpleasant. Too bad, because I think this would be a winner if not for that.

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    Snow Bunny

     

    At first, I get piney-snow-slush (not my favorite BPAL scent-type), but give it a half-hour or so, and it turns into a cute berry-candy perfume. Reminds me a bit of Candy Phoenix, actually. I like the candy-berry stage, but I'm not sure I want to wait out the pine stage.

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    Hi'iaka

     

    This is so pretty. Lush and tropical, sweet and floral. I can smell hibiscus, white ginger, and orchids. This somehow takes me back to kindergarten... I feel like I may have had scented stickers that smelled similar to this (though not as good, surely). Unfortunately, I think this is a little too 'girly' for me. It'll probably be a hit with my daughter, though!

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    The Sportive Sun

     

    Heliotrope is a note I cannot pass up. In The Sportive Sun, it dances across a warm golden amber ray. Dry, I get mostly amber and frangipani. I like this one, but I don't think it's 'me'. I think it's a little too powdery.

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