Blood onmy hands

I love foodie scents and I love sweet scents... but Eat Me is so intensely sweet that it makes me feel sort of nauseous. At first, this smells like a combination of gummi bears and vanilla on me. Gummi bears with an extra pound of sugar added to their recipe. And vanilla frosting with so much extra sugar that it has that grainy taste. The point is that this is SUGARY. After about an hour, the fruitiness has dried down and I don't get the gummi bear smell anymore. But I'm left with hyper-sweet vanilla that actually smells somewhat like vanilla incense on me. It has a very smoky, suffocating sort of quality. In Eat Me I have finally found a blend that is actually way too sweet for me. Drink Me is pure, complex foodie heaven on me... this one is a bit too much of a good thing. I don't know if I'd ever be able to wear Eat Me. I don't much want to smell like sugar buzzed gummi bears and vanilla incense. The overall result was that this was so strong and sweet that it actually made me a bit queasy (and I'm a person that normally *loves* sweet).

In the bottle I kept thinking that this smells kind of like marijuana and I get the same toned down smell on my skin at first. Thankfully, some spices come out to cover up that impression. This isn't intensely floral on me, but I am getting a good dose of cinnamon. It smells like dusty, old, wooden trunks and cinnamon on me. Sort of reminds me of playing around in my grandmother's attic and finding some of her old spice racks. In the drydown, I'm getting an herbal, sweet sort of floral. Perhaps jasmine or honeysuckle. Dixie Love Perfume smells very heady and intriguing on me. I'll enjoy wearing a tiny bit of this for the boy and seeing what unfolds

I was a bit afraid to try Dragon Moon, just because dragon's blood doesn't seem to work well on my skin in most cases (exception: Dragon's Milk). Surprisingly, I don't get much dragn's blood out of this one at all, except perhaps a spicy/hot hint for a few seconds upon first application. First on, this is all bamboo and tea leaf, and is reminding me a lot of Holiday Moon. Green and fresh, with hints of sweetness. In the drydown, more of the cherry blossom comes out and it's really gorgeous. It's such a sweet and pleasant floral. Dragon Moon turns into something like cherry blossom singlenote on me after a while. It's a pretty, sweet floral. This isn't something that I would typically wear, but I am enjoying it.

I don't get along with most aquatics and ozones, as they tend to smell like evil migraine inducing dryer sheets on me. Still, I want to like The Pool of Tears, just because it would be a great perfume to wear when I'm feeling angsty and self-pitying. First on, something about this smells strangely like BO and sweat on me . Flowers drowned in dirty, salty water. The dirtiness fades off after a while to linger in the background, but it's still very odd. At the Brookfield Zoo in IL, they have a living coast exhibit featuring all sorts of coastal water creatures. The Pool of Tears smells exactly like that exhibit on me. Cold water, salt, and animals... This is a somewhat pleasant change from the usual dryer sheets smell that I get, but I still don't see myself ever wearing an aquatic scent like this.

Hymn to Proserpine smells like someone took Oya's dark plum and turned it into a sugar plum. Amber goes to dusty powder on me and pomegranate is one of the fruits that smells sharp and awful on me... and all I'm getting here is sweet, sugared plum. Dark and sweetly fruity. It's a very simple fragrance on me. I can see myself getting a 5 ml of this one .

On me, this is definitely more than a spark of lavender. I get a hint of cherry for about the first 30 seconds, and then it's all lavender. Sweet, cool lavender. I'm not getting any musk at all or any rose. After about 15 minutes, I'm getting some rosewood in with the lavender. Unfortunately, rosewood doesn't smell very good on me (okay, it smells acrid like vomit, honestly). The sweet lavender in this is pleasant enough, but it's too much lavender... and not good at all on me paired with the rosewood. I'm afraid I'll have to find a new home for my imp

Mouse's Long & Sad Tale smelled sweeter to me back in 2006. Now my aged bottle and recent lab purchase bottle smell more sharp and clean, like the vanilla sweetness has faded and the floral aspects have amped up and gone a bit sharper. Clean, cool, perfumey floral with a bit of powdery sweetness from the amber, sandalwood and vanilla. It's definitely more floral and sandalwood on me now than it was in 2006. I sometimes find that this is a little too sharp and simple for me nowadays. It's clean floral more than anything else.

I thought that I would like Tweedledum more than Tweedledee, but I think that Tweedledee is actually the winner on my skin. Orange blossom sometimes smells strangely burnt and foul on my skin, but it is just lovely in this blend. I get mostly orange blossom, and it's sweet and beautiful, as it should be. At first there is a bite of pepper in the background, but it fades away after a few minutes and leaves me behind nothing but orange blossom and a hint of white tea. It's a very simple/refreshing scent on me, and one that would be great for summer. Tweedledum struck me as being more masculine, Tweedleedee as more feminine. They would be a cute pair for me and the boy to wear out together. If we are in a sickeningly matchy mood

First on, I do not get any fig or patchouli out of this blend at all. Tweedledum smells like green tea mixed with a mango soda, as it has a bubbling and effervescent quality to it that makes me think of soda. It's a nice mix of tea and fruity, but not really what I was expecting. Very refreshing. In the drydown, earthy patchouli and fig come out and ground this blend for me. Over time, my first impression completely shifts and a lot of the tea and fruitiness fades. Tweedledum becomes more of an earthy blend with hints of fruit in the background. It's like patchouli and fig with a bit of that fruity soda that I had mentioned. Interesting. I like this, but I don't really love it. I could see Tweedledum working out better on my boy.

I think that this was my most anticipated and longed for BPAL scent ever. I purchased a 10 ml of it the first day that it was released, because it just sounds that good. Drink Me smells just like buttered toast, creamy-sweet custard, and hints of cherry in the bottle. On me, there's a burst of cherry and pineapple mingling with a buttery toast and caramel-like sweetness. In the drydown, this is mostly a creamy vanilla-like custard with lots of rich toffee thrown in. I still get hints of the toast and fruity cherry in the background, popping up every once in a while. For a while the pineapple gets really strong and overly sweet on my skin. Without the fruity notes, this would be perfect. As it is, the custard and toast make the hyper-sweet canned fruit smell bearable for me. So yummy.

I was expecting this to be sweet, but it definitely isn't the foodie sweet fragrance that I was expecting. This is a sharp and powerful ginger, very earthy and kind of lemony. In the drydown I'm getting that odd, earthy potato-ish scent that other reviewers have mentioned. I can't imagine actually wearing this as a perfume, and I'm not sure what I would want to layer it with either. Red Ginger is overwhelmingly strong on me.

Lobban is pure lemon dish soap on me. Herbal, lemony, and soapy. After fifteen minutes or so, I'm also picking up some sort of sharp and astringent floral note behind the citrus-soapiness. The combination of sharp florals, citrus, and soap is not good at all on me. This is my anti-scent

Vetiver/t is one of those notes that can be amazing on my skin or just amazingly awful. Torment is a strong, earthy vetiver that is rather dark and overwhelming on me for the first fifteen minutes. Then the spicy-herbal bay kicks in and I like this a little more. After an hour, this is still strongly earthy vetiver, but it's starting to go powdery on me. I never smell any of the gardenia that is supposed to be in this one. It's dark, earthy, slightly herbal, and a tad spicy... with a drydown of strong baby powder. Torment is not a good scent for me.

This is going to be mainly a scent-based review, as I'm not really working with it for its intended purpose and I only have a wee imp of this that will be passed on to a new owner quite soon. I'm not really looking to attract prosperity right now, I just want to have a relaxing/healthy vacation while I'm out of school for a few months, lol. That said: Perpetuum Bonum is sickeningly almond-y on me. It has that thick, sweet, boozy cherry smell that kind of reminds me of cherry flavored cough syrup. It is rather similar to Horn of Plenty on me, as other people have mentioned, but it doesn't have the same vanilla note that I get from Horn of Plenty. This stays very strong and cherry-ish on me though, with a powdery herbal scent coming out more in the drydown. Not a good smell for me.

Spectre does not work out well on me, and I honestly wasn't expecting it to. Tuberose is unbearably sharp and harsh on me and lily often goes soapy. At first, I'm getting mostly a sweet, slightly powdery lilac scent, but even the hint of sharp tuberose in the background is making me queasy. Drydown... this is soapy, a bit watery, and unpleasantly sharp. I'm not getting any sandalwood, but this is a medley of rather sadistic florals on me.

This smells rather like Lemon PineSol to me. Not something that I'd wear as a perfume, but I actually don't mind the fragrance (I, uh, enjoy the smell of most household cleansers). It would be way too strong and all to wear as a perfume, but I don't mind it as a room scent. Which is what I've been using it for. The few times that I have used this as a room scent while trying to work out some serious issues in my life... it really energized me and made me want to clean my entire house. It's not the result that I was going for, but my house is sparkly clean now, lol.

Temple of the Maiden smells like sweet wildflowers and sugary lemonade on me. It's light, warm, and not at all a sharp citrus (thankfully). Rather nice. I have not used this for any specific purpose, but it is a pleasant scent to me. I don't know that I'd wear this as a perfume, just because I don't care for light florals so much, but it's nice

Bat's Blood is very strange on me. I'm definitely getting something dragon's blood-esque, as this has a funky rotten florals sort of smell on me. Sickly sweet and unpleasantly spicy. I'm not really smelling anything that reminds me of lilac . Dragon's blood so often takes on this smell that makes me think of sickly, decaying things.

Voodoo blends do not often work well on my skin. This one starts out smelling strongly herbal and green, with some sort of sharp floral (very sharp rose?) lingering in the background. It's also a bit soapy to me. Then, after a half hour, Crucible of Courage starts to smell like sweet floral powder. Within an hour, this is pure baby powder on me. A lot of the discontinued blends don't work on me, and voodoo blends almost never do. Crucible of Courage just isn't something that I would ever wear for the fragrance.

I really like Ingenue for the first few minutes on my skin, it has a wonderfully green sweetness to it that I am guessing is the clover. It's very refreshing and summery. However, after about 10 minutes, this morphs into a bland aquatic floral on me . It does not smell like violet or rose on me specifically, just has that nondescript powdery floral scent with what smells like a base of powdery light sandalwood. I wish that I could find a blend that has the same green notes that this one does in the beginning.

First on, Anthelion smells like sweet lavender and menthol-eucalyptus. It's chilly and airy. In the drydown, a pleasant sweet clove scent begins to dominate the blend. Within an hour, this has morphed into Sweet Clove singlenote on me. Delicious I'm still feeling ill and I'm still grieving, but this *is* a very happy sort of scent. Warm and mood-lifting. I'm definitely going to get a full bottle of this one.

First on... Gha'agsheblah reminds me a lot of Numb, it has that same soapy men's shaving cream scent. And then the drydown is almost pure rose on me. Strong, full-bodied, blood red rose. Rich, a tad spicy, a bit sweet, and just a hint powdery. I still catch whiffs of the chilly Numb-like scent behind the rose every once in a while, and the overall result is lovely. I really like a lot of BPAL's roses, and this one is quite beautiful

Thaumiel does not go soapy on me as it did for a lot of people, but this is intensely powdery on me. First on, I'm getting a very balmy lemon fragrance... a soft, subdued sort of lemon, not at all sharp or overbearing. Also, perhaps a bit of sweet, herbal, powdery lavender. I lose the ability to distinguish any one note in the drydown, it just smells like a soft powder with a hint of sweetness on me. Nothing about this really wows me, but it's not a bad smell either.

I actually don't get much clove out of Jack. Mostly it smells like buttery pumpkin bread and spice cake on me . It's very warm and foodie. A lot of clove scents smell 'off' on me, so I have a hard time describing what clove should smell like. Thankfully, I didn't get that weird clove smell from Jack, lol. Some people get a slight oaken note from it... on me it's like crisp caramel apples, apple cider, and the smell of autumn air and leaves. Mostly I get apple cider in the drydown. If you just don't like cedar blends, you shouldn't let that scare you away from all woodsy blends though. Cedar tends to smell foul on me, and I love a lot of other wood-type blends. I definitely agree with that last statement, lol. I really strongly dislike quite a few of the BPAL incense blends, but Midnight Mass is one of my absolute favorites (most velvety-gorgeous scent ever) and I've fallen in love with so many blends containing frankincense and myrrh. There are different types of resins and incense notes, so one can smell awful and another completely amazing... or they might be paired with other notes that completely change them. One of my favorite things about BPAL is how often I'm surprised by loving a perfume that I thought I would despise. Oh, and just to throw out one more scent that you might want to consider: Eclipse (bitter almond, vanilla, frankincense and heliotrope, with a drop of cinnamon), it smelled like lovely vanilla and cinnamon on me. Dragon's Milk is also sweet, warm, milky and comforting. Okay. I'll shutup now, lol.

You might want to try Jack (Halloween pumpkin, spiced with nutmeg, glowing peach and murky clove), Florence (Elegant iris, bright berries, gilded amber and velvety spices), and The Hesperides (oak bark, dew-kissed leaves, twilight mist and crisp apple). Jack and The Hesperides are very 'fall' smelling to me, and Florence has the amber, fruit, and spice that you seem to be having luck with. You also might want to try something like March Hare, which is just apricot and warm clove. Tamora also sounds like something that you might like. When I think of fall, that's the sort of perfume that I think of... warm spices. But, really, I'll wear anything no matter what time of year it is, lol. The Lion and O always strike me as nice, warm fall fragrances as well