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2014 version Soft, rosy incense with a hint of smoke and currants. The incense is the type typically found in Latin American mass (ie - this smells very Catholic to me). Low throw, but decent wear length. Soft, catholic, incense.

2014 version Super strong leaves and aquatic wind dries down to a green, manly sort of musk with a touch of leaves. Decent throw, but yeah, definitely fairly masculine. I swear this smells like that Jimmy Choo blend with Kit Harrington in the front. So, if you would like to smell like the manly wind that caresses Jon Snow's flowing locks while he's on the Wall, give this puppy a whirl. Green, windy, masculine.

Cherry and dragon's blood with a heaping amount of sugar. Think crushed cherry candies swirled with dragon's blood. I'm sort of surprised how much I don't hate this considering it just cherries and DB. All you DB lovers out there, and if you loved Dragon's Milk - this has that same dragon's blood note but instead of creamy milk, its all crystalline sugar.

Oh man, Graveyard Dirt, we seem to have the same problem as we did with the previous incarnation. On wet, you're a moist, wet, dirty earth note. With perhaps a touch of clay. Low throw, but that's OK. 15 minutes later, you're GONE. Like you were never there. Graveyard Dirt has left the building.

UGH. Where have you been all my life? This smells like clove and tobacco flower, and I don't really get much of a grave soil. So my hair smells like I've been smoking clove cigarettes, but without actually having to smoke a damn thing. EPIC WIN, people, EPIC WIN.

Eat Me hairgloss is more in line with the Eat Me atmosphere spray experience as opposed to the perfume. I get white cake and a touch of currant. But as stated before, I am not one of those people that likes smelling like cake. I mean, my hair smells delicious, but I keep trying to eat my hair. Which in an office setting is probably disturbing to see a coworker do this.

This is the quintessential BPAL cake blend (and honestly, how fabulous is it that its a GC!) but I'm more in line with asterope. Eat Me as a perfume never worked for me because it ended up too buttery. Eat Me atmo isn't buttery - its straight up white cake with a touch of currant and vanilla. Very foodie, very tasty, perhaps too tasty? I'm not a huge foodie fan, and when I do like foodie elements, I like them to be balanced with other types of notes. So, just because I'm not declaring my undying love, that doesn't change that this is a great atmosphere spray.

It starts with moss and pine, a touch of light flowers. I get something that smells almost like animal musk and a whiff of chill air. I find this very atmospheric, and in alot of ways, what I would think of an old English Manor House that is inhabited by the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. Hazy, romantic, brooding.

Peach Candyfloss smells of peaches and sugar... and surprisingly to me, more than a whiff of coconut. I get candies, I get peaches, and a get some coconut. It's sweet, light, and delicious.

I get a ton of BPAL's peach note - fruity, juicy, succulent, and just a whiff of incense. In general, this smells super peachy, and very much on the sweet side without developing a candy-like sweetness.

Flushed with ardor, and vibrant with passion: rose-infused honey, radiant amber, pale myrrh, and golden jasmine enfolded in warm cardamom. Rosy honey and jasmine. This is a very warm, very sexy jasmine/rose honey blend. For me, rose, honey, and jasmine are very dominant notes. So I remember this one having a huge throw.

Sweet tobacco, what smells like rum, and soft brown leather. This smells like a nicely worn in leather couch. Decadent, cozy, leather

Definitely like Light of Men's Lives. Soft creamy beeswax and honey. Hint of smoke. If you like either honey or beeswax, give this a whirl.

Insula Ventorum smells like the Unsteady Governess stayed out too late one winter night. Tons of white tea fringed with minty eucalyptus on wet, dries down to tons of white tea, and hints of icy amber and cedar. This is cool, cold, and like a blast of winter air. Think of Foreigner's "Cold as Ice" and you got this. Easy, breezy, COLD.

Also previewed here by bheansidhe, here by TTP, and here by Ina Garten Davita Ectoplasm is lemon/lemongrass, something slightly gooey in nature, but overall it really reminds me to Lemon Scented Sticky Bat. There's no musk or fur, to it's more of a pure sense of lemon stickiness. I get a fair amount of sweetness from it actually and in general ends up as lemon candies on me. It's bright citrus, slight bite but nothing too bracing or crazy. Very tasty. Sweet, lemon, candy.

Sweet candy pink roses, hint of vanilla and apple blossom. Very sweet, very rosy. Very moisturizing.

This is another LE, which kind of defeats the purpose of this thread, BUT it wasn't a number-limited run like Ava so you can find it floating around at times: Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending. Similar heady, feminine and flirty mix. Looking at the GC - have you given Dorian a shot? Someone in the Ava thread said they were like two sides of the same coin, where Ava is warmer and hazier and Dorian is more cool. But I can smell the resemblence: both give a sense of vanilla musk with some dainty florals and citrus. I haven't given Dorian a try yet, but it's been on the list! I'll order an imp on my next order, for sure (and keep an eye out for that LE!) Thanks for the sugestions! This. To me Dorian is the 'cool' version of vanilla fougere, in the same way that Ava is the 'warm' version. That has to be the closest GC/LE comparison I have. I adore Ava, and Dorian. And wear either one depending on how I'm feeling when I want a vanilla-heavy blend.

I get sweet peaches, a touch of rose, and hay. This one is pretty light, and I only used I spritz on my wet hair and then blow dried it out. I may try it on when my hair is dry and see if that changes the throw. Pretty, light, peaches.

So I finally got my hands on some Cootie Blast. I used it after an argument (the day after, once the house was cleared out since both mr. zee_zee and the zee_zee kid had such a negative reaction to Release's smell). Cootie Blast from a smell standpoint is a softer citrus/citronella candle. I only used one spritz in the living room and upstairs. In general I think its helped just bring some calm into the rooms, and things that may have escalated before have been only minor irritants. There are alot of factors contributing to this, and I think Cootie Blast is one of them! I really hope this comes out again because I'd pick up a bottle.

Roses, frankincense, and violets. This one is a dreamy, warm, resinous blend. Both the roses and violets give it a feminine edge, but there's something cool and mysterious lurking in the background. Deep, resinous, dreamy.

Jasmine tea (and its jasmine TEA, just to be clear), bergamot and sweet roses. I'm honestly surprised since jasmine and I have a supernemesis relationship going on. The jasmine isn't aggressive, and its super pretty. It's closer to real jasmine as opposed to the cat pee type. It's soft, delicate, and playful. More along the lines of a traditional white floral perfume but lighter and a little irreverent.

Mermaid, there is something here that smells like popcorn to me. So I have fresh gardenia, bubblegum and popcorn with a dash of sea water to keep things from being too sweet or too floral. It's more of a dressing up as a mermaid than an actual mermaid blend. Cute, sunny, and sweet.

Grass, sunshine, something lemony and dirt. There's also something in here that smells like clean laundry. And as it dries, I get a bit of red licorice wafting throughout the blend. It smells like outside, sunshine, and candy.

Boozy coconut macaroons. I get rum, coconut, and a slightly plasticky vanilla on the drydown. So, ultra foodie. Ultra coconutty, ultra rummy. So if that sounds like a trifecta you would like to bathe in, give this one a whirl. For my part, none of those things are really my boat, so I'm getting off at the next port.

Rose, clary sage, frankincense. This is a serene, contemplative, beautiful resinous blend. It's meant to be soothing and calming, and it is. If you like slightly rose, resinous blends, give this a whirl.