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Almond, rose, myrrh, touch of honey, wool, and musk. This smells mainly of almond-rose, but as you sniff closer you realize how incredibly complex the background is. It smells female, redolent, and comforting. Good throw and wear length.

Cobwebby prototype. Last seen available via etsy. No scent description given. All LU starting prototypes are for the Last Unicorn series. My guess is that AT stands for Amorous Tree. This one is a slightly different version. It's got mist, citrus, a touch of florals, some menthol or camphor, and underneath a woodsy/cedary note. I'm mainly smelling the mist-lemon-menthol on wet though. It's a soft, pleasant, sort of sunshiney blend though. Good throw and wear length.

Oh god, I can't believe I didn't update this. I've owned a previous bottle of this and then let it go. According to my notes, this one is a foodie/dough version, more almond and cinnamon than the original. It was soft and gourmand vanilla, with just a smidge of cocoa.

The Fortunes of Returning Home After a Perilous Journey A hymn for safety while travelling: tobacco jasmine. Spicy tobacco with a touch of jasmine. This is mainly a tobacco blend with just enough of a jasmine edge to it.

Titan is an icy orange blossom and aquatic blend. It's got a bit of Lightning's ozone, a tad of citrus, and something that I swear smells like lavender underneath. Medium throw and good wear length.

Fruity pom with just a touch of clove. This one has great throw, and lovely warmness.

Sweet white rose petals and the same slushy snow note as in Marshmallow Snow.

Slushy piney snow. Definitely spruce as opposed to pine. Good, piney snow.

Spices and champaca. This smells like gingerbread spices and heady champaca. Medium throw and wear length.

Basically, I get rose oudh. If you like both roses and oudh, that's what this is. Rosey, perfumey. Medium throw and wear length.

Strawberry vanilla cake with a whiff of lavender and flowers. This is a fruity, sweet cakey confection. It reminds me to lavender macarons - in the sense that its a foodie with a strong floral component. Sugary sweet flowers is the drydown. Good throw and wear length.

Woody smoke, with a whiff of leather and nuts. I mainly get nuts and woods. Medium throw and wear length.

Minty musky hay that dries down to a vanilla-tinged musk-hay. Fuzzy, warm, and very comforting. Masculine. I think mr. zee_zee would amp up all the sweet elements in this but it's a very friendly blend. Medium throw and wear length.

Chalky, dusty, beeswax. If you loved Light of Men's Lives, but it was too much honey or sweetness for you, this one is more somber, toned down version. The chalk element tones down both the honey and sweetness notes. Good throw and wear length.

Dark sleepy lavender and amber. It's sort of heavy and smoky lavender. Definitely darker than say First Loves Fades Too, which is my favorite lavender atmo. Not as cuddly as TKO.

Cool apples and red currant. It's kinda frosty, very fruity, and very Yule-inspired. Sweet, fruity, good throw and wear length.

White icing skeletons, sour gummi worms, red licorice bloodstains, chocolate werewolf prints, and pretzel stick vampire stakes. I get gingerbread, white icing, a hint of chocolate and licorice. This really reminds me to a Yule Gingerbread scent. More candy in it than the typical Yule Gingerbread combination, but yeah, it smells like a mix between Halloween and Christmas. Medium throw and wear length.

Ton of apricot and orange blossom, but with a cloying sweet muskiness to it. Too much. Great throw and wear length.

Red roses, oudh, with sweaty patchouli-leather. This reminds me to a cross between Whip and Loviatar, but if they had some weird dirt match in it. Good throw and wear length.

Cedar, sage, and oudh. This one is actually fairly masculine on me. Very woodsy-herby. Good throw and wear length.

Saffron, tobacco and a resiny red musk. This one is a very red blend, but it's mainly red musk + tobacco. Good throw and wear length.

Herby honey with a touch of amber. This reminds me a lot to the American Gods' "The Drink of Heroes, the Drink of Gods". It's a honey blend, but it's like a magical honey blend. Honey with purpose. Good throw and wear length.

OH, 2004 ARKHAM. I have been searching for you for 14+ years. Thanks to a generosity of another long-timer BPALer I finally, finally, can test out the original incarnation. On wet, I got more of a verbena blend, with a bright lemon edge. As it dries, it gets DARKER. I now have a juniper + cedar blend with a slight edge of nutmeg. Through out it all, the lavender plays a ghostly presence wafting in and out. Ghostly woods. Low throw and average wear length.

Jasmine, green tea, touch of mugworth and herbs with some peony bursting through. This one smells like an aquatic herbal bath. It's cool, calming, and herby. Medium throw and wear length. It sort of makes me think of orange blossom water. That's the impression I get.

Pom, tonka, honey, cognac and a whiff of patchouli. This is a very fruity/complex blend. I am however, amping up the pom and cognac which I didn't expect. Sweeter and fruitier given that it has patchouli. Medium throw and wear length.