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My skin chemistry usually amps up rose and floral notes, and I tend to hate jasmine, so I wasn't expecting much from Hilma. I do love tea, cedar, and clove notes, though. To my surprise, this actually smells rather dark and complex on me. The cedar and clove mingle together in this dark, spicy way and the tea adds a cool, fresh, almost minty zap to the blend. I can smell lots of honeysuckle as well, and just a tiny hint of the rose. The honeysuckle makes me think of hot summer nights; it smells very sultry, heavy and perfumey. I kept expecting the florals to overpower the clove and cedar, but this scent stays very well balanced on my skin. Hilma is lots of honeysuckle and a dark, dry wood and spice smell. The combination of cedar and clove actually smells more like black pepper and dark, dry wood on me. The words 'dry' and 'dark' are what keep coming to mind. This smells like a sophisticated, dark, serious perfume. Where Josie is innocent and romantic and Countess Willie was playfully sexy to me, this is more serious-sexy. This is like the serious perfume of a woman who seriously knows what she wants and how to get it, and she's blunt and doesn't want to play games. I like it a lot, and I didn't expect to like this one at all.

In the bottle, this smells like some sort of creamy, sweet, lemon-raspberry gelato. On my skin, I have to agree with what a lot of reviewers have already mentioned. This smells like Froot Loops cereal on me (no milk, and with some extra emphasis on the lemony loop, lol). As it dries down, the lemon smell gets sharper and more like a lemon scented pledge. I expected this to be insanely sexy and unwearable for me (I don't often get along with honey notes, though I love the honey note in Josie), but I really don't smell any honey at all. I would think that this was the wrong blend if not for reading the other reviews, because Crib Girls doesn't smell like any of the listed notes to me. I like this well enough, but I probably won't wear it again. The lemon goes a little too sharp on me in the drydown. Still, if you ever wanted to smell like Froot Loops, you should probably give this scent a try. It is a fun, happy fragrance. I feel as though I would take an instant liking to someone who smelled like this, because it smells so sweet, energetic and happy.

In the bottle, this smells like a sweet, innocent fruity-floral. On my skin, this is instant love . I love peach notes, and this is a sweet, juicy peach on me. It smells ripe rather than candied. The floral part goes creamy and heady on my skin, giving the peach a little lift and complexity. As it dries down, I can smell the honey. I don't normally like bpal's honey notes, but this is golden, smooth, and delicate honey. Something about this scent seems heated and sensual to me as well, like a hot southern night (perhaps the floral night playing very nicely on my skin). It's just gorgeous. Josie smells romantic and southern, and I think that she's my favorite of The District blends so far. It smells like the perfume of a young girl sneaking out of the mansion on a hot summer night to meet up with the guy she's crazy about <3.

The First Soft Snow has turned out to be one of my favorites of bpal's snow blends, much to my surprise. I usually amp up the snow note, making a lot of the snow blends smell too similar on me, or they go sharp thanks to the other notes. The narcissus is really strong in this blend, though, and manages to overpower the snow note in a good way. The snow note is like slushy, chilly aquatic, almost pine-y, but not quite. It's a good smell. I like the snow note more than I like most aquatic/ozone notes. The narcissus smells like a sweet, perfumey, yellow flower poking out from the snow. I like the sweetness a lot. It's almost narcissus single note on me in the drydown, with just a hint of the snow giving it a fresher feel. It makes me think of daffodils, which are my favorite flowers. This is a really pretty scent <3.

In the bottle and on my skin at first, this smells like I just opened up a bag of fresh, squishy gummi bears. I don't know how to describe it other than gummi bears, lol. I like the smell. I find it really cheery. Countess Willie starts to smell really awesome when the red musk and ginger come out to join the bears, though. My skin amps up red musk, which smells like a really sexy, red, almost smoky incense on me. So I'm getting sexy, warm incense, a little extra heat from the ginger, and a touch of sweetness from the candied fruits. It makes me feel exotic and sexy when I put it on, but it also smells happy and approachable. Over the hours, the candied fruit morphs more into a sultry plum smell, but the red musk and ginger stay strong, smelling hot and incensey. I actually bought this because it mentioned chocolate, but I don't smell anything like chocolate here at all. It's really awesome without the chocolate, though. Countess Willie is sexy, exotic, and playful smelling on me. I can see myself wearing this one a lot. :love!:

I agree with Xanon that this reminds me of Tweedledee. In the bottle and on my skin at first, it smells like Tweedledee is splashing about in a tub full of lemony dish soap. As it dries down, it's less Tweedledee and more of a soft, honeyed orange note and fluffy soap bubbles. It actually smells a lot like Possets' "California" blend on me. Soft, honeyed orange splashing around in a bubble bath. After an hour, I get a little hint of bpal's shiny metal note (sort of cool, ozoney soap and cologne), as though the honeyed oranges have emerged from their bubble bath and splashed on a bit of cologne that I don't really care for. This blend just isn't working for me. The citrus is too sweet and mellow, and the blend is overall too soapy and the drydown is too ozoney-sharp.

My first thought was that this smells the way that glossy, shimmery wings look, if that's possible. It smells sort of glassy, cool, sweet and enchanting. I can smell the leaves at first, and they smell like fall leaves that are damp on the ground, mingling with a little bit of sweet, pale green grass. Then the scent goes through a smoky, perfumey phase that I don't like (reminds me of smelling a clean, fresh perfume on a girl who has been smoking cigarettes). The drydown after about a half hour is rather pretty, though. I think that it's reminding me a bit of Dolce & Gabbana's "Light Blue" fragrance, but this is more smooth and watery, with hints of sweet musk. Evening Cicadas strikes me as smelling more like some of the scents that I could pick up at a department store, but softer than most of those scents. It's like smooth, bright, shimmery aquatic, a hint of dry leaves, sweet musk, and maybe a touch of delicate floral perfume on me. I like this, but (in a strange way) I can imagine this being a good scent for a lot of girls that I don't particularly get along with. I feel like it's not really "me." I keep flipping between really liking it and finding it really off-putting... :/

I'm not sure if I've ever disliked a bpal scent quite as much as I dislike this one. It's unbearably sweet and makes me feel sick to my stomach when I smell it. I love vanilla, red musk, and patchouli, so I had high hopes for this. On my skin, though, this is like brown sugar, butter, burnt white sugar, and caramel baked together. For the first five minutes, I smell a hint of incensey, sexy red musk, but it's quickly swallowed by overwhelming, burnt sweetness. I only applied a tiny dab of this to my wrist and it's been going strong for 5 hours. I'm going to scrub it off and go to bed now. I expected this to be one of my favorites of the yules, but I really hate it. It's scary sweet and burnt sugary. It's gag inducing.

Emma is sweet tea rose and perfumey, slightly smoky jasmine on me. I don't get any vanilla, pepper, or patchouli, but my skin does tend to amp up rose and jasmine notes. This smells rather boring on me, and I don't really like these classic perfumey floral type scents. I wish that I could say more about it, but it's just a perfumey floral rose on me. There are a lot of bpal rose blends that I prefer over this one.

This reminds me of blends like On Darkness and Scattered Gloom (only this isn't as good as those two blends are on me). It smells of dark, syrupy sweet resins and woods. I can't pick out any one of the listed notes exactly, but it smells like dry, polished wood buildings covered in something sticky and sweet, that makes me think of molasses. The smooth, resinous quality reminds of Midnight Mass and Cathedral. And then there's an odd undertone to the whole thing that I'm not liking (it almost smells like menthol or something medicinal?). The Magician smells similar to a lot of blends that I already own & love, but not as good, so I won't need a full bottle of this. I probably won't keep my decant...

I really hoped that this would smell like dirt + bpal's snow note on me (I had it in my mind that this would smell like mud and be awesome). I don't smell any dirt or earth notes here at all, though. Snowball Fracas smells like bpal's frozen, watery, slightly sweet snow note, plus an extra hint of sweet pillow mints and dryer sheets. It's a little too sharp, bright, and clean smelling for me. It makes my throat feel tight and my head ache after a while.

This smells really scary in the bottle. It's sharp, bright, harsh pine that conjures up images of Pine-Sol cleanser for me. On my skin, this is sharp pine cleanser, spicy clove, and a hint of woodsmoke. The coolness of the pine note paired with the warm clove note is interesting, but I don't really like it or want to smell like this. The pine note here is just too sharp for me, and starts to give me a headache after a while

In the bottle, this smells like chocolate mixed with the original Milk Moon. On my skin, the chocolate disappears and this smells exactly like the original '05 version of Milk Moon. It's like a soft, delicate vanilla cream with hints of milky caramel and marshmallow. It's amazing how much this smells like Milk Moon for the first fifteen minutes or so on my skin. Over time, the chocolate note here creeps back in and stirs things up (and smells just like a cup of warm hot cocoa <3) and the sweetness calms down and softens. I agree that the drydown is more like Boo's vanilla cream + Bliss's chocolate. It smells soft, sweet, and pretty. I love puppets, so I'm glad that this puppet themed scent works on me

In the bottle, this has a fresh, cool, airy smell mixed with crisp green grass. On my skin, it takes on a manly freshness that makes me think of axe body spray at first. It's like laying with a teenage boy on a blanket of green grass, which isn't awesome now that I'm in my 20s, lol. Thankfully, the drydown isn't so overapplied-cologne-of-teenage-boy, and it's actually quite lovely. I don't smell any popcorn or leather here at all. The drydown of this smells sort of like the scent of laundry hanging outside to dry and hints of green grass wafting in through an open window in late spring. It's nice, because normally this sort of scent (fresh, clean, airy) goes to soap on me, and this isn't soapy at all. I think that I like this more as a room scent than as a perfume, but I might wear this one every once in a while, if it doesn't get sacrificed as a room fragrance first. This is definitely my favorite of the green grass type scents that bpal has done.

Cacao, black musk, and tobacco absolute. In the bottle (and on my skin), this smells sweet, dark, slightly earthy, and *amazing.* It sort of reminds me of aged Hurricane mixed with Boomslang. It has that rich, deep, resinous cocoa smell that I get from Boomslang, with the dark earthiness that reminds me of Hurricane. I don't normally like tobacco (it can smell gritty, dirty, and gross on me) or black musk (smells like cheap men's cologne on me), but somehow this blend just smells awesome. I think that the sweet smoothness of the cocoa is rounding out and softening the dark muskiness, while the tobacco adds a gorgeous, earthy, almost resinous smell. It smells sort of like a manly version of Boomslang. My husband doesn't like to wear foodie, sweet scents, but this smells dreamy on him. He actually likes this scent and didn't think that it smelled too chocolatey. I love this scent <3. I'll need to get a full bottle of this for the hubby (and for me to steal from him every once in a while).

Nothing warms the cockles like a mug of Mother Shub's egg nog! Goat's milk egg nog with coffee liqueur and spices imported from the Crimson Desert! In the bottle, this smells like bpal's egg nog note with lots of sharp, dry spices. On my skin, the egg nog disappears. This scent isn't as creamy as I had hoped it would be. It's rather light/subtle, but it sticks around for hours and smells terribly cloying on me. Spiced Lait de Chèvre smells like chai spice, a hint of black pepper, and super-cloying sugar on my skin. I don't think that it smells anything like Egg Nog Latte, really. I don't smell any coffee in this. I thought that I would love this, but it's not doing much for me...

Sniffing this in the bottle, it's like being attacked by soapy laundry. I get that clean soap and damp clothes smell. It's really strong and intense. I can smell a little bit of high pitched saltiness here as well. On my skin, this reminds me of a bar of soap. It smells like classic Zest soap to me. It's leaning slightly to the masculine side of things. I think that Abe Sapien is the soapiest scent that I've ever tried. It makes me a little bit queasy when I smell it. It's so strong that I can practically taste it, which makes me feel like someone crammed a bar of soap into my mouth :/. Aquatics often turn soapy on my skin, but this is insanely soapy and strong. I won't wear this one again.

I don't normally like herbal or mint scents, but I adore this bath oil. In the bath, it smells a lot like the Rose Geranium single note that I love (an almost spicy, herbal, dark green smell). I get lots of the geranium and a hint of cool, sweet mint. It's insanely relaxing. I feel like it turns my bathroom into a decadent spa. On my skin after the bath, I can smell mostly a cool, sweet lavender, hint of sweet mint, and a hint of powdery amber. For me, this is a perfect oil for a bath before bedtime. It's so relaxing, and the lavender that lingers after the bath is a perfect bedtime scent. It's definitely a pricey bath oil, but I think that it's worth it.

I'm really surprised that I haven't reviewed this yet, since I've used it so often over the past year. I love the Snow White fragrance. It's such a perfect, magical, unique smell. It never smells like the description to me. I don't get snow, ozone, or flowers from it, really. It sort of smells like a frosted vanilla milkshake and the cold, clean, green stems smell that you get in florist refrigerators - a cool, smooth, calm, quiet sort of scent. The perfume goes a bit sweeter on my skin, but the spray smells like Snow White in the bottle. I get a hint of earthiness (like wet dirt) when I first spray this, but it quickly morphs into perfect, in-the-bottle Snow White. This is my perfect, every day room fragrance, and it's one that I use all year round. It's sort of subtle, but it lasts for a long time, and it just makes my house smell clean and beautiful <3.

I only had a small amount of this to skin test, but I think that it'll be enough. I don't like whatever citrussy note is in this. It smells like a sharp, cleaning fluid type of lemon on me. I don't get the sweeter lemon that others have mentioned. Sharp lemon and then something odd and gritty smelling in the drydown, like lemon cleaning fluid spilled over dirty floorboards. It smells slightly herbal after a while, but it's mostly a dirty, sharp lemon on me. It also fades very quickly on me, but that might just be because I had so little of it to apply...

I was disappointed when I smelled this in the bottle, because it had that strong, charred vetiver smell to it (smells like mesquite bbq on my skin). I usually amp up vetiver, so I was sure that this would turn into smoky bbq on me, but it doesn't. This actually smells rather amazing. The vetiver pretty much disappears entirely once this oil touches my skin. At first, I can smell a cool leather, sweet, cologne-like metal, and sweet, golden resins. It starts off more resinous than anything else on my skin, but I can pick out the leather and the men's cologne smell from the metal. I smell something like a hint of earthy patchouli here as well, but it's light and disappears in the drydown. The words sweet, smooth, and cool keep coming to mind when I smell this blend. As it dries down, the metal smell seems to take over, the resins go to the background, and the leather fades away. It winds up smelling like a sweet, clean men's cologne on me, with a hint of resins (a lot of the metallic/citrussy/clean men's colognes available smell like sweet lemon ice on my skin, and I kinda get that here). I expected the vetiver and leather to be strong here, but I'm getting a clean, sweet men's cologne and polished resins more than anything else. It's a really nice scent, and one that smells good on me and on my husband.

I agree that this has a manly aftershave smell to it. Unfortunate Shopping Cart almost smells like a cool, salty aquatic + old spice on me at first. This reminds me of another bpal that I cannot place (perhaps The Masque or A Fit of Artistic Enthusiasm, though I'm not sure). The blood note smells dark, metallic, and kinda spicy to me. In the drydown, this does start to go powdery, but not enough to ruin the scent. I also get a hint of sharp, generic soapiness underneath the other notes as this dries down, but it's not bothering me either. This is like smelling a spicy men's aftershave, a touch of powder, and a hint of soap in the background. It would smell like a clean, well put together, average sort of guy. I like this one, but I think that it's something that would be better suited for my husband, on days when I feel like I can't handle him wearing a heavier scent.

I keep testing this scent and trying to think of something helpful to say about it. It's pretty much just a soapy floral on me, though, and I've never been good at picking out floral notes (if there's even any floral in this, but 'floral' is the impression that I get). It starts off smelling like a sweet and creamy floral soap on me and then dries down to laundry soap and a sharper floral feel. It's fresh, bright, and soapy smelling as it dries down. I don't tend to like soapy scents, and this one makes me feel like I'm getting a headache...

I read an article on the Comics Alliance site that described this perfume as "a breakfast-themed coffee/maple/bacon perfume matching a diner scene death." I thought that sounded awesome, so I was really let down when the scents were finally released and this was described as "house salad" (which is also my reaction whenever anyone gives me an actual salad for eating). Lettuce scents tend to not work on me, because the lettuce goes oddly sharp and perfumey. I get that sharp green perfume smell here. For a while, it sort of smells like sharp green grass. As it dries down, it's like a sharp lettuce and grass salad sitting next to a bar of floral soap. It's perfumey and strange on me. Occurrence at the Diner is really light on my skin and fades away within an hour. I don't love it while it lasts, though.

I love the photos and concept behind these scents, but the perfume oils haven't been very wearable for me (at least not the ones I've tried so far). Floater is soapy on me, which I was kind of expecting. Aquatics & ozones usually go soapy on my skin. Floater feels more ozone-y than aquatic. It smells like dryer sheets and dank water. I don't get earth or dirt notes exactly, but there's something stagnant and murky smelling about this. It's like floral-fresh, soapy dryer sheets sitting next to a washer full of clothes & water that have been sitting for way too long. As it dries down, it's mostly just floral-soapy-dryer-sheets. I don't wear soapy-clean scents, so this one isn't a keeper for me.