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When I saw this blend up, I was SOOO excited....ALMOST as excited as when I saw Snakes in the Pumpkin Patch!! Then, I thought..."oh, it may be just like Shub layered with Snake Oil...I can live wirhout it". I quickly dismissed that last part and insisted that Santa immediately buy me a bottle outright- then I snuck it a week early because I just HAD to have it and compare them side by side. Shub is often described as "evil gingerbread". Gingerbread Snake now owns that title. Shub is sharper, almost lemony in its fresh ginger bite and bright resins. Gingerbread Snake is more baked, cinnomony, molassesy, chewy GINGERBREAD, with the ever famous, all time favorite, sexy assed Snake Oil!!!! Dried out, it smells like a potion of spices and black honey. OMG. It's way more than the sum of its parts, and while I smell delicious (if I do say so myself), I don't really think I smell like food, which I appreciate. Serge Lutens and Chanel can SUCK their gingerbread notes-BPAL NAILED it! Sophisticated, sexy, gourmond, brilliance! I love, love, love, LOVE it!!!

The Other Miss Forcible! I've been surrounded by lustful sniffers several times. Baked goods sweets+musk=sexy on me

Yes! So much like The Book when wet: well worn leather and dry, vanillic paper. The flowers are tiny, mossy, soft, pale things-I hardly notice them unless seeking them out, until the drydown, where they become a bit more prominate: tea dyed pasel colored, and delicate. Scottish tablet is crumbly, carmel sweet, but here is only strong as the smell left on my lips after eating it. I'm tearfully happy!

When I was at the BPAL booth at Dragon Con 2 years ago, someone asked Beth if she had a vanilla single note. My ears perked up, and Beth made some witty retort about how she had the vanilla of all vanillas, and I was introduced to Detestable Putrescence. (I was also sucked into a BPAL time warp where I lost 4 hours, nearly blinded by the glory of our beloveds, but that's another story...). I wouldn't guess it was melted vanilla ice cream. It reads to my nose like a Godiva liqueur: sweet, thick, vanilla, boozy, cream. It also kind of smells like raw sugar cookie dough, with a TON of vanilla extract...like, the Devil's vanilla extract: the bottle's shoved full of sticky, black vanilla pods and filled up with the richest, most magical extract EVER. It's not human. It has a tangy note that could be cherry/almond, booze, or milk, but I don't recognize it from other blends. It's strangely not straight up foody, though, as it dries on the skin. It's fleshy, sexy, and absolutely wearable for me. It's a dark, dark vanilla for SURE. Yeah. It's awesome. I have a bottle. Aaaand people want to eat me.

Violet Ray!

Here's the Snow thread! Go To Sleep Darlings is to be sweet snow. I can't wait to try it!

Necro bump because we've got 2013 Yules!!!: Almond Blossom: almond blossom, hoar-frost, and snow-wind Go to Sleep, Darlings: Kiss-soft clouds of spun-sugar snow Purple Snowballs: Sugar plum snowballs with a touch of currant and cardamom The First Soft Snow 2013: Heavy drifts of snow blanketing winter’s narcissus The Garden in Winter: Swaths of red poppies, white roses, graceful winter lilies, and sun-bright primroses beaming from beneath a flutter of snowflakes Winter Stars: starry blue musk with mugwort, white mandarin, rockrose, and snow

"Classic make up table" suggests powdery or leathery (galbanum) scents to me: Haunted, Dance of Death, Velvet, Florence, and No. 93 Engine.

Go ahead and kill my dreams- this stuff's amazing! Sweet patchouli wins my heart every time! Almonds are nearly always welcome, too! The cumin is spicy and kiiiinda skanky, but isn't overwhelming. The resinous notes add a bit of a golden glow, but this is all about the patchouli: woody, grounding, dark, round, roll in the vardo sexy! (If you missed it, get thee to some Goblin for a similar sweet patchouli fix....ooh, layered with some Hecate!)

Tricksy is all about the aquilaria aguillocha, otherwise known as oud, slightly sweetened by gentle, musky, dark, crystalized honey. The patchouli is smooth but secondary. It's a very linear scent, close to the skin, earthy and...kinda skanky. It's the most wearable oud scent I have; I appreciate that it's not medicinal-many ouds smell like band aids to me. It's a deep, damp, woody scent that stays close to the skin. I hope it goes GC, too!

This smells like the dementor love child of Old Demons of the First Class and Antikythera Mechanism; the golden glow, richness, and spices of his parents has been sucked dry. It's slightly sweet but not creamy; the tobacco reminds me of a fresh pack of smokes. It's very soft for a resinous patchouli musk. While I think of classic perfumes like leathery Bandit when I smell it, it reads as masculine to my nose. Achluophobia creeps me out like only Zombie does, though they don't smell the same. This is a masterful conceptual blend. Don't be afraid of the dark...

Ooooh! Green, musky, light floral with an earthy, dusty drop off (earth? vertiver? patchouli? there's so little it's hard to say-very subtle...), all in one sniff. It's BRILLIANT, evocative, and beautiful-a light scent I can and will wear. It's not sharp, or soapy, or overly anything! I was hoping for a Halloween light musk, and this is it!

Pumpkin spiced Snake Oil?! It's a forum dream come true, and a Snake Oil lover's Weenie fantasy. 'Starts out slightly buttery, creamy, golden, pumpkin, and mellows into an extra spicy Snake Oil. It smells really cinnomony, but, YEA!, does not make my skin red, even fresh out of a bath. Dried out, it reminds me a bit of maple and brown sugar oatmeal, but sexy and musky: dark, sweet, thick, and delicious. Wearlength is loooong, sillage varies on how much you apply, and is gender neutral. Beth, thank you for hearing us and making magic! We lovez it!!!! Please make it the new, much awaited annual! It's CLASSIC!

Defututa feels most like HP, but it's missing almond.

Hey there, Sumatran Red Patchouli! Come on over here and stay with MEEEEEEE. Forever. And Ever. And E-VER...! Ya know, this does seem a bit rosey! Hey, I'll take rose over menthol, like some patchoulis throw. This Sumatran Red is smooooo-ooth, warm, velvety, deep, and rich. It's woody, neither dry nor dank, but still earthy. The drydown is a-mazing: like dark cocoa incense. OMG. I die. Agreed, THIS is the one patchouli to rule them all! THIS. Coming from a life long patchouli wearer. THIS!!!!! I gave up straight patchouli oil years ago in favor of BPAL blends (Snake Oil, Depraved, Dance of Death, Mme Moriarty-all my companions), but I will do this single note. Oh, yeah, baby! I will DO it!

Katharina is fizzy, slightly floral apricot.

Call me crazy, but this smells quite a lot like Michael Kors perfume on me: a creamy white floral! I love it, though, and drying down it's definately musky, indolic, but in a sweet, clean rather than salty, way. It's not the swarthy skin musk I know in say, Le Lethe. It's nearly fruity...there's a tanginess like berries or an underipe peach. It's simple yet interesting, and altogether pleasent. Some days we need that in a fragrance!

I've never publicly expressed my love for the Bloody Banister, and find it difficult even now, when I feel compelled to do so. It evokes a very powerful scent memory for me...a haunting banister... Sweet, incensey wood...a nod to classic orientals, but more raw, yet cozy to me in its darkness...leading me down the stairs...

Psychological Horror is the Other Miss Forcible's equally disturbing, less foody sister. Wet, it's musk, musk, musk...soft powdery notes, and skin scents of various levels of cleanliness. On the drydown, it becomes deeper and more complex. I am thinking a bit of rose, maybe a touch of violet, a sweet yet dusty note, and scalpy, creamy orris. It definately has a vintage feel, and I love it!

Yeah, Zombie totallly freaks me out...

I think this is a good dupe for Inez! I don't find this scent heavy or dark. I find it slightly sweet and powdery with a clean, musky finish. Gender neutral, nuzzly, yum.

Yeah...I don't know why all the Banshee Beat freaks aren't just beating down the Lab's door for Goblin. It's very, very close, and truly, I like it better! Goblin is more woody, and less sweet/powdery/weed seeds than Banshee Beat. The patchouli is dark and dank like in my beloved Depraved (yuuuuummy, nasty, freaky stuff!). I thought (fearfully) that the coconut would smell like suntan lotion, or a coconut scented hair product but it does NOT; the black coconut is not a typical one...I wouldn't even guess coconut if I didn't know it was there, I'd truly say black vanilla and benzoin, maybe another resin. Knowing it's there, it's more like the husk instead of the meat or milk of the stuff. Goblin is a dry, dark, woody, slightly sweet, sexy scent. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE eeeeet!!!

WORD! I remember when Beth posted the pic of Lil with the tarantula fascinator on facebook. SO ADORABLE!!! It's got the Boomslang choco/spice thing and the Snake Charmer plumy, sassy thing going on FOR SURE. The hazelnut isn't too nutty...more like Nutella than nuts. The drydown is A-MAAAA-zing, snuggly sandalwood and I would guess some sweet musk, too. Iz LOVEZ eeeeet!

So Below sounds like it should be added to the list, though I haven't tried it. Has Vixen been mentioned? It has now!

While there are a lot of florals listed here, it's the soft musks that steal the show. "Clean" or "scrubbed" patchouli has been trending in the fragrance industry, and this blend does evoke a similar feeling as the popular scents mentioned above; I'll add Lancôme's ' La Vie Est Belle to the list. However, BF&JA is BPAL!, and melts into my skin with much more quality, warmth, and creaminess. The white patchouli is not vampy or earthy (for those who both love and hate patchouli!) , nor is it as woody as Tom Ford's. This scent is pink, sparkling, sweet, soft, and darling.