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On me, this is really sour green grass and sharp soapiness. I was hoping for tonka and dandelions, but I can't pick out any sweetness from this blend and the greenery is grassy and unpleasant. It was a scrubber for me.

I put off trying this, because it had a PineSol vibe in the bottle, but I finally got around to wearing Sparkle & Glitter today and really enjoy it. When I first put this on, it leaned a little soapy and I was ready to list my bottle on my sale page. Within five minutes, though, this settles into a gorgeous, masculine white chocolate scent. I love the lab's white chocolate - it's a soft, creamy, not overly sweet vanilla-ish scent that's almost a little powdery on me, but not dry or baby powdery. It's elegant and lovely. The snow in this does go a little soapy on me, which usually doesn't happen with bpal's snow note, but it's clean and crisp. Peppermint, melting snow, and evergreen branches showing through a veil of creamy white chocolate and a whiff of men's soapy shaving cream. I like this. It's kind of a clean and manly truffle scent.

I was excited for blue plum and green musk, but the lavender and ozone are dominating this scent on my skin. It's clean lavender and a hint of lemony bergamot at first, and dries down to a chilly, soapy lavender that leans masculine and herbal on me.

I like the lab's snow note, but I'm kind of tired of it in blends, because the snow note usually overpowers everything else. This is strong snow note - wet, slushy, not soapy, chilled, slightly minty, and lovely, really makes me think of snow melting off of pine trees and cold air - with a drydown that's mostly snow with an undertone of white sandalwood. The sandalwood turns dry, baby powdery, and slightly dusty smelling on me. I don't get clove, orange or tonka at all.

This smells like the King Mandarin single note met up with Love's Philosophy and rolled around in baby powdery amber. Dry and powdery on me rather than being creamy, so it doesn't have a gourmand/creamsicle impression on my skin. I don't really love the chalky/dry vanilla in Love's Philosophy, and the amber makes it more powdery and dry. It's warm, glowing, powdery orange. I was hoping for more honey and more of a creamy, sweet vanilla.

This reminds me of Britney Spears' "The Naughty Remix" perfume (I know it's a horrible name, but it's actually one of my favorite fragrances). It has the same creamy, cool, sweet, realistic white chocolate and magical, powdery orris. Like eating chocolate in a cool summer garden full of white moonflowers. The orris and sandalwood add a creamy, powdery, warmer base, but this is a big blast of realistic, creamy, gorgeous white chocolate. I like this a bit more as a personal scent than a room scent, but luckily I have The Naughty Remix for that, lol. It still makes for a sweet, yet glamorous smelling room fragrance. I love the lab's white chocolates (White Chocolate & Strawberry still being my #1 after all these years) and this is another love.

I don't know if something is wrong with my nose or my decant, but this smells a lot like a spring floral scented laundry detergent to me. Kind of soapy, sharp and oddly floral. In the drydown, I do get the comparison to Single Note: Polyester Spiderweb, like hints of watery, green cucumber, sharp chemical hairspray and powdery white musk rolling around in the laundry detergent. I expected this to smell more plasticy and like newly opened plastic toys, but I don't really smell the plastic. It's more of a perfumey and soapy floral scent on me than anything.

I'm attracted to anything that mentions cherry blossom (or plum blossom or peach blossom - they're the sweet, delicate, airy florals that tend to work on me), and the other notes in this sounded good to me. And I like this blend, though I don't quite love it. The hinoki cypress makes me think of sweet, creamy, cool cherry blossoms falling to the ground and laying on a bed of freshly cut wood chips and evergreen needles. Sort of a foresty cherry blossom. I don't love the bright, citrusy sharpness from the ti leaf or the slightly soapy, cool, mintiness from the snow. The ylang ylang adds more of a warm, perfumey quality over the hours as well. I wish I could pick the cherry blossom and hinoki cypress out of the blend and just wear those, lol, because those notes are lovely and I find the other notes to be distracting. Still, the sweet, creamy, airy, cool cherry blossom is always lovely.

This scent makes me sick to my stomach, and this is coming from someone who didn't mind Gore-Shock and Day-Old Ham. It has an oily, salty, weird overtone that reminds me of canned chicken noodle soup, and a dusty, seasoned quality that really does smell like sour cream & chive flavored instant mashed potatoes (still in the box and dry). I love the smell of garlic, so I thought that maybe this would be fun, but it's so salty and over-the-top. It smells canned, freeze dried, processed and all wrong. Fun to try, but no.

Soft, warm, baby powdery amber and sandalwood with the slightly woody, sweet cocoa absolute. It's kind of a Hershey syrup and powdery woods scent. I didn't try this year's Gelt, but this blend reminds me of previous year's Gelt. Too powdery for me. This lasts for about 4 hours, but has almost no throw on me. Cocoa absolute seems to cling close to my skin.

I don't get the dirt or greenery from this the aquatic and snow amp up too much on my skin. It's minty snow and slightly soapy aquatic. Clean and chilly. There are snow blends that I like more than this one, though, because I don't like the edge of soapiness in this one.

I love the lab's cherry blossom and wisteria notes, but the iced lily turns very soapy on my skin. It's still a lovely, sweet, breezy, creamy cherry blossom and pale, blue, lilac-ish wisteria, all gentle and delicately sweet florals, but with an undercurrent of generic white bar soap. I prefer the cherry blossom and wisteria to be paired with more of a honeyed note that plays up their sweetness. This amps up the clean aspects of those notes, and I'm not huge into soapy fragrances.

The blood orange starts out strong, glowing red and citrusy, but the drydown is all about the apricot on my skin. It's a sweet, fuzzy, dried apricot sort of scent, with a dry, perfumey quality from the chypre and a touch of warm powder from the amber. I don't get the lavender, and I wish the orange stuck around longer, because the dry apricot is a little too one dimensional for me. Still, it's a nice, pleasant, cheerful apricot.

Soft brown leather and crimson musk made me think this was going to work on me, but the glowing embers and coal dust translate into a sharp, smoky, acrid sort of fragrance. I don't get anything like red musk or leather, which are usually quite strong, but a tart, slightly sour orange joins the ash and woodsmoke in the drydown. After an hour, the smoke is settling down and it smells a lot like fireplace ashes and baby powdery amber on my skin. Not working on me at all.

I expected this to be stronger and heavier on the cinnamon, but it's woody and surprisingly soft and light. The fig is velvety, sweet and has a dry, wooden quality to it, that's further enhanced by the red sandalwood. The myrrh and sandalwood have a warm, glowing feel, and the cinnamon is warm, sweet, and lightly dusted over everything. Fades really quickly on me, though, and doesn't have much throw. Fades into a quiet, warm, woody fragrance that's gone entirely by the three hour mark.

Mostly sour pine on my skin, sharp and green, with hints of dry, herbal sage. A warm, golden spiciness from the saffron in the drydown, but it still mostly reads as PineSol.

This is mainly pomegranate and blackberry on me, and it's tart, sharp and a bit cough syrupy. The herbal, minty-cool edge from the mugwort and pennyroyal makes it smell more medicinal. After about an hour, the patchouli is creeping in, but it's very dry and the whole thing turns oddly plasticy. A fail on my skin.

Baby powdery white sandalwood, lemony bergamot and a touch of herbal, green geranium. Very natural and soft. Dries down to a slightly smoky sandalwood incense and powder. Only lasts about an hour and clings very close to the skin.

This smells basically exactly like the Honeyed Apple from the Halloween series did on my skin. "A slightly soapy, perfumey apple that really smells like apple scented salon shampoo to me. There's a definite sweetness, but I can't place it as honey, and the drydown smells rather waxy/plasticy to me, like melting candle wax." Green apple shampoo with a bit of waxy sweetness. I don't get the carnation at all.

I was hoping this would be a moderately spiced myrrh and red musk, but the cassia is so strong on my skin. It's a sharp, woody, red, bold cinnamon smell. I can smell the coffee in the drydown, but it's that powdery, bitter, burnt coffee that I got from Europa (that doesn't really smell like coffee to me much at all, and more of baby powder and sour, burnt metal). This is a scrubber for me. Like Europa coated in cassia.

I love popcorn scents, but this one is a letdown for me. I like a salty, buttery popcorn or or a caramel popcorn. Truly gourmand. This is like stale, popped, fluffy popcorn with no salt, butter or sugar, with a sour, glowing pine note that reminds me of PineSol. I don't get any fruit, but it has a woodsmoke tone to it in the drydown.

I was hoping for a soft, warm, freshly baked gingerbread cookie sweetened with tart, red berry jam. Subtly, sweetly spicy. This is very sharp and spice-forward on me, though. It does kind of remind me of the sharp cinnamon of red hots candies. I can smell a hint of sour fruit in the bottle, but there's no fruit to be found once this is on my skin. It's all amped up, sharp cinnamon.

Roasted, caramel coated nuts that lean towards being too sweet and warm smelling for me, and kind of remind me of cracker jacks (that hard, sugary caramel coating) and pecan brittle, over a snickerdoodle cookie dusted with cinnamon. It does have an overall very dry, hard quality to it, if that makes sense. More crumbly smelling cookie and hard nut brittle than buttery or gooey. The cookie part is similar to the slightly burnt sugar cookie and cinnamon base from the Halloween 'Caramel Apple Cookie' blend. Not much throw or staying power on me, leaving a whiff of nut brittle and cinnamon as it fades away. Lasted about 1 1/2 hours total, leaving behind a whiff of cinnamon, with no cocoa and not much throw at any stage. Nice enough, but not my favorite gourmand.

Cloying, slightly plasticy, raspberry jam that's super-sweet with a tart edge to it. I like the bit of a tart bite to it (almost a touch of green leaf and sour candy), but that disappears in the drydown and it's all sugary raspberry filling. It flips between smelling like sugary raspberry jam and a powdery-plasticy, berry scented doll. Faint, not much throw, and only lasts about an hour total on my skin. I wanted this to have more of a pastry/cake, actual donut and glaze scent to it, but it's all raspberry filling and no donut to my nose.

Florentine orris butter, red sandalwood, white patchouli, leather accord, and ambrette musk with a drifting eddy of King mandarin, wild bergamot, bourbon vanilla, and gold-limned saffron. Mythological Scene reminds me of a lot of the Phoenix anniversary blends at first, in that it has a warm, glowing feel underneath darker notes. In the drydown, it reminds me a bit of Morocco. The red sandalwood is prominent, giving off a warm, almost incensey woods note, with the mandarin giving it a sweet, citrus brightness. The patchouli and leather add a dark, earthy hint, but that's barely there on my skin, and I have to really search for the leather, especially in the drydown. In the drydown, this is mostly vanilla and sandalwood on me, with the orris giving it a plush, powdery softness. Woody, warm, red sandalwood and creamy vanilla with a hint of powdery orris. I smell a soft, white, suede-like leather every once in a while, but mostly this is a soft vanilla-sandalwood.