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This reminds me more of Pumpkin Latte than Miskatonic University - roasted, almost burnt smelling coffee and lots of spices, only here it has an undertone of clean musk, sharp greenery and powdery woods on my skin. I don't really like the mix of spice + clean on me. After an hour, it's mostly a faint, clean, musky cologne smell.

Pumpkin III is my favorite of this year's pumpkin blends, though none of them are really keepers for me (they're all too spicy on my skin). This one is like cinnamon potpourri with sharp black pepper and hints of spicy carnation. There are just a lot of black pepper and carnation blends that I like more (mainly aged Clemence <3).

Pumpkin IV is mostly like a cinnamon potpourri smell on me, with whiffs of the powdery amber and darker, woodsy tones that fade in and out. Dry, spicy and slightly dark smelling.

I was excited to try this one, because I like Hay Moon, leather and a lot of the pumpkin patch blends, but this year's pumpkin blends seem a lot spicier than the previous ones ever were. I can't pick out any of the listed notes with this, it just smells like sharp cinnamon on me. Way too heavy on the spices

First on, this is sour pine with sharp lavender and citrus tones.. reminds me of PineSol. It's mostly pine for about a half hour and then the patchouli starts to get stronger on my skin, and I like the black patchouli (kinda reminds me of wet potting soil and dead leaves), but there's still an undertone of PineSol and medicinal lavender that I don't enjoy. I'll stick with Depraved for a black patchouli scent.

Wolf Spider is mostly tobacco, patchouli and chamomile on me.. sort of a dry, bitter, dirty, herbal + ash tray smell. I get a little bit of dry coconut sweetness after about a half hour, but I was hoping that this would be heavier on the sweeter elements. Starts off kinda strong on me, but fades quickly into a subtle skin scent. Dirty tobacco, bitter herbs and a hint of dry coconut.

This reminds me of Peony Moon and some of the asian themed Lunacies (Budding Moon, the original Dragon Moon). I definitely get the tart, sweet peony and a breezy, fruity blossom note that reminds me of plum blossom, but I suppose it's the freesia and white peach. It's a cool, sweet spring floral. Like spring flowers and cool breezes rustling through tree blossoms and laundry hung out to dry. I can't wear these clean floral type scents (the soapy edge gives me a headache), but I do like the sweetness of this. It's a very cheery, clean, sweet floral.

I thought this would be awful on me, because I haven't been enjoying bpal's patchouli scents lately, and honey rarely works for me. But this is gorgeous on me. The honeysuckle and French vanilla smell so delicately sweet and charming, with the earthy patchouli and honey giving off this sort of outdoorsy skin scent smell. It smells like a beautiful girl in a country song.. cowboy boots, lacy sundress, sunshine and flowers... it's outdoorsy, but in this pretty, classic, feminine way. Almost sort of airy and sunny rather than dark and heavy (which I expected from the leather and patchouli). The patchouli reminds me of Thierry Mugler's Angel a bit. I'm very glad to have a bottle of this one <3 ETA: This is another bottle from this series that seems to have gone off over the last six months. This totally smells like sour, funky jasmine (I guess it's the honeysuckle) and dirty ash tray on me now

Nymphes de Pave seems to have gone off with age. I liked it a lot more six months ago, but don't find it wearable now. It used to be a sweet, creamy red rose, golden beeswax and hint of fruitiness. It was a buzzy, sweet, playful-sensual sort of fragrance. Now it's more of a sharp, bland, perfumey rose with hints of real, sharp, raw honey. It's strange that it went from being such a sweet scent to such a sharp one in such a short amount of time.

Tea rose usually smells sweet & a bit fresh to me and white sandalwood turns to a creamy powdery smell. But somehow this reminds me a lot of Pulcinella & Teresina (notes of Labdanum, cedar, teak and red rose). The rose smells dark, intensely dry, crumbly, red and slightly perfumey, and the wood smells dark and sort of ashy and sinister. I was expecting a delicate rose with powdery undertones, but this is dark, intense and almost masculine-woodsy on my skin with an odd peppery quality

I loved this when I first got it, but six months later it has turned and is kind of awful on me. It used to smell like cosmetic powder (almost sweet & violet-y) and fluffy vanilla with perfumey floral. Now it honestly reminds me of urinals (sour, funky jasmine) and the cheap white floral perfumes at Walgreens. The jasmine and verbena are just sour, dirty and off smelling, the gardenia has turned very sharp and perfumey, and the vanilla seems to have disappeared entirely. The sweetness that I used to love in it is just completely gone. Almost all of the event exclusives from this round have aged really poorly for me. Really sad. I've already sold off my bottle...

I love black licorice and black currant, but they are completely buried by the spicy pumpkin. Nothing about this one really smells black or dark to me, actually, more of a maple pumpkin floss. Maple syrup and pumpkin spice...

I like this one, especially for the first half hour where the orange sticks around. The mix of sweet orange and buttery, spicy pumpkin smells deliciously foodie. It's kinda like the smell of a spice cake with an orange and vanilla glaze. After a half hour, the orange fades away for me and I'm left with sweet spices. I wish that this didn't fade so quickly into a bland spice blend, but I do still like this and will keep my decant.

I'm not getting any of the fruit notes or red licorice/candy from this one. It pretty much just smells like sweet cinnamon and buttery pumpkin on me, with emphasis on the cinnamon. It's my least favorite of the Pumpkin Floss blends.

I love vetiver oils when they're softly earthy and reminiscent of dry grasses. I dislike vetiver when it's smoky and reminiscent of mesquite bbq and charred cedar planks. This seems to be that smoky, heavy, charred bbq variety. The drydown has a weird green note underneath the smokiness, but mostly just reminds me of bbq.

The Dutch Apple Caramel Streusel Cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory is in my top three of favorite desserts. I was hoping that this would be the scent equivalent of that deliciousness, lol. Unfortunately, Beaver Moon 2012 has way too much cinnamon in it, and this pretty much just has a blah cinnamon potpourri scent on my skin. Turns my wrist red and burn-y where applied.

I was excited by the mentions of black licorice and spices, but this isn't really dark or spicy on me. I get the same cologney, slightly soapy ozone scent that I get from bpal's other 'stone' notes. Smells masculine and clean with a bit of that ozone and metallic feel.

Sometimes I think that this smells a bit spa-like (medicinal, clean, cool, mentholic, and natural-herbal-ish) and other times it smells very dusty and dry as the sandalwood seems to amp up. It reminds me of some of bptp's massage oil scents.

Snow note (slushy, cold, and a bit minty & mentholic) with a slightly soapy quality to it, probably thanks to the ozone. I'm not really getting any of the woods or incense, as it seems like the aquatic/ozone part amps up for me.

I can barely tell most of bpal's red musk blends apart, because the red musk is so overpowering to me. Witch Dance is another one that pretty much just smells like red musk to my nose (red, warm, slightly fruity/wine-like, heavy note that turns a bit powdery on me). This is tons of red musk and a hint of woodsmoke that dries down to all red musk on me...

The pumpkin patch blends seem to get spicier every year (a trend that I don't enjoy, unfortunately). My decants of this year's pumpkins all seem to be heavy on the spice/cinnamon potpourri smell. On me, Pumpkin II 2012 is cinnamom potpourri with an undertone of dry wood and dirty, sour smelling patchouli.

The King's Daughter is the only one that I can think of that has a good watermelon note to it (in The Last Unicorn series): "A matter of formality: lilac musk, sandalwood, sweet pea, watermelon accord, pale woods, elemi, and oakmoss." Yemaya (Excolo) has a strong honeydew melon type of scent: "Her ofrenda is a bounty of melons and grapes, strewn with the petals of the flowers of motherhood, draped with sea mosses." Tis the Voice of the Lobster lists watermelon, but it went all weird on me (perfumey, artificial, sickly mishmash of fruits).

This might be the only Weenie this year that I've considered buying a full bottle of (but the spider on the label makes me have panic attacks, so that's out the window, lol). Everyone else has already described this well. I don't get much of the mint or floral (maybe a cool feel from the mint), which I'm happy with, but I get lots of sweet, creamy coconut whipped up with energizing ginger, lime, and tea to give it a fresh, tropical drink edge. It starts off as a big tropical burst and then fades quickly and becomes more of a skin scent on me after an hour. It smells clean and sweetly tropical. I like it and will definitely use my decant as a pick-me-up on some of the dreary winter days ahead.

I was hoping for something like Egg'd Mailbox (foodie, sweet egg custard) but this is unfortunately a mess on my skin. I get the weird, aquatic, slightly soapy, cucumber-y note that others have mentioned, mixed with a sour beer note and something like maple syrup and brown sugar. I don't like the warm foodie part mixed with cold non-foodie... though, weirdly, the drydown after about an hour smells mostly like a spicy pumpkin pie smell on my skin. It's a chaotic, mismatched sort of smell on me

The Bloody Banister starts off like dusty, dry, dark woods and dirty patchouli on me, and dries down to more of a sharp, perfumey muskiness and powdery woods. Oddly, I'm not getting anything like bpal's blood or dragon's blood notes...