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This reminds me of My Little Grotesque but with peppermint instead of cardamom. It's nicely textured with slightly crumbly cake note, creamy, sweet, rich icing, and a breath of peppermint. It's a fun, uplifting blend, and while I don't wear mints, I would love to smell this in a diffuser.

YUMYUMYUMYUMYUUUUUUUUUUM!!!!! I snatched this baby right up! I love me some raspberry and this IZ sweet and thick and jammy and SO good (!!!!) with a delicious, vanilla-ey cakey note, and the tiiiiiniest touch of spice on the dry down. I smell like a grown up, sexy, raspberry Strawberry Shortcake Doll! I smelled it on my friend when she got in the car the next day. It has the bangin' sillage and tenacity. Mix it with Snake Oil. Try not to eat yourself. Lovingly referred to as "Raspberry Shenanigans". Hoard-worthy. Buy it blind.

This scent is very dry and surprisingly light...sandy even...but not warm. The coconut is similar to that in Goblin, but it's so DRY. It's not particularly patchoulish or resinous...it's like the makings of incense before it's bound together.

I am so sad, too, that this is "just" a bath oil! It has a mapley note, but it's not thick or cloying. It's like smelling the maple house, standing on the edge of the woods. It's warm, creamy, slightly incensey, but light...It doesn't smell like food or potpourri..it smells like warm skin and fall air! It's not aquatic or heavy or sour or dirty. It's my scent memory of fall in upstate NY in a bottle. This is it.

This is like if Lights of Men's Lives and The Sharing of the Cake Between the Lion and the Unicorn had a ghost baby! It's sweet, waxy, with some richness from the leather/wax combo. There is a tad of lift from an ecto note-a little minty, but only if I'm really looking for it. I consider it gourmand.

How did I not review this last time around?! It's my partner's favorite Ween, next to Samhainophobia. It smells like: RED MUSK INCENSE, one of my favorite fragrance genres. The woods blend deliciously, the touch of honey adding just a bit stickiness to the juicy red musk. The champaca and hemlock add an herbaciousness lift on the top, dried and ground with a sweet grassiness. It reminds me of a more masculine Scherezade...but less spicy, more woody and sweet... not as firey and (wonderfully) "stinky" as my beloved Crimson. Third Charm, I'd say, smells the creamiest of the 3 on the dry down. It glows and radiates like impassioned skin in a heavily incensed room. Love, love, love it.

I'm late to this party, and even though I had a pretty good idea what this would smell like, So Below has been keeping me guessing. It is full of notes I love, and seemed like a no brainer. But on first wearing, my nose didn't "get it". It sits close to my skin and read like...not what I was expecting. I initally thought..."niche edp that I would buy for my husband", but now I want back ups-for myself. It has a kind of transparency and lightness in it's resinness that I don't recognize in oil format. I was expecting something denser. But I love it! I'm always looking for dark blends that are lighter weight, and they're few and far between (Hippie Ghost and Scheherazade are others); like...I always wear black (for real), but the density of the fabrics I wear change with the seasons. I aim for my perfume wardrobe to have similar variety. But back to So Below. I've had to wear her all week to understand. It starts out with bright, transparent resins and wet woody note (???), like wet oude, which is confusing to me. It's not creamy or sweet initially. I can't find the cardamom, which I am intimately familiar with and had been huffing with ecstasy via My Little Grotesque the week prior; there it is in the initial blast of the scent. In So Below, I have to wait... Drying down I start to smell the coconut...it's dry and husky yet subtle. I wear Goblin all the time (coconut, bezoin, and patchouli)-but that is chewy and sweet (and why I waited to try So Below...did I need them both...?...YES! YES I DO!), and this is very different. It's not coconut heavy at all, not as thick. The patchouli emerges, not as floral as the red patch single note...it's all golden, encapsulated in the dry, clear, slightly sweet copal...kind of musky, woody. THEN the whole thing starts to become creamy... To call it "dried down" seems inaccurate here because it seems to have melted, like incense in a warmer. I smell consecrated. It's it perfect for me to wear when I want to feel like myself, but I don't want my scent to project too far. I just smell like a relic. Warm...golden...statuesque...smoldering. Hours later, I get a faint scent memory of Cody Wild Musk, which just makes me so happy! I really have to slather this one. The sillage is ghostly. It lasts all day and I get slight wiffs of it, but it sits very close to the skin. Instant favorite. Never leave me...

I wanted to try this because I love guiac wood and brown musk. Initially I smell the leather, but it quickly dried down to Skin So Soft?! What in the WORLD?! It smelled lovely on other people at Will call. I got a warm, incensey floral on them!

This...is haggy! I love musks and "old lady" scents, but this...is not a musk I know. It's...definately brown smelling, but with a greenish edge, kind of soapy...maybe aldahydes? I usually find musks, sweet, round, scalpy...but this smells...off...abrasive... I don't find it comforting at all, which is a total shocker.

I was very excited to try this one, because I love honey, patchouli, and champa, but the dead leaves were so dominant, and became too acrid on my skin. It was very dry and bitter, like a dead leaf single note, even.

Wall paper paste crafty time! It's got that kind of minty, creamy, fresh, chemically smell of wallpaper paste spot on! It made me laugh, for sure, and I got a delightful scent memory, but I don't want to wear it as perfume!

This is spot on candy debris: fruity, dusty, with a bit of waxiness. It does smell like Pixie Stix! I get a lot of lemon on top, then a plasticy fruity note.

I was most looking forward to this scent of all the Weenies. While I didn't get it at Will Call, I may end up buying it now that I read reviews saying that other people are getting more incense notes. I lamented because it smells so much like The Lights of Men's Lives, which I have and love and wear all the time. I smell almost entirely beeswax. It's the most glorious, sweet, slightly floral, creamy beeswax note, but I got little else.

This was my favorite of the Dead Leaves at Will Call. Blackberry usually goes very sour on me, but I tried it anyway because I kept feeling a pull to go back and sniff it again and again. It really does smell like the last of the blackberries for the season, combined with dead leaves: bright, sweet, and juicy, almost like wine, with a touch of dusty, dry woodiness.

I love myrrh, vanilla, and bookish notes, so I was very surprised that this did not work for me at all. It's very green...wet even. I was expecting something much drier with strong, sweet incense notes.

Hag Grey is beautiful and could be SO popular. It smells fresh, a little sweet, and slightly creamy...reminding me of the grey hair trend on young people. It reminds me of a scent by the Thymes that I smelled in Florida years ago but has since been discontinued. It has that boutique feel to it...expensive and unoffensive.

This smells like the old, haunted cider mill that I visited every year as a child: the strong scent of crushed apples in the air, and rich, kind of dank, wet, woody notes. My favorite of the apples this year.

LOVELOVELOVE! Honey notes can sometimes smell green or waxy or indolic (kinda pissy on me. This, though, is amazingness. The honey is golden, sweet, and earthy. The cake note is rich and dense, but not buttery. I imagine it to be made like a pudding cake, but with a sticky honey liquor infusion and glaze. I want to hoard this! It will layer with everything!

This is the Lil I HAD to have. It really wasn't even on my radar until I just happened to smell it at Will Call. It's deliciously sweet and spicy...a sophisticated, gourmet confection. On my skin, it does not read as "foody". The cardamom is distinct, forward, fresh, and bright on application, but soon dries down, warming with the skin, and combining with complex vanilla notes that are both creamy and dry. I love the cake note...it's similar to the one in Eat Me. This cake becomes like sweet incense on my skin, not plasticy or sophomoric like other brands' It's not as heavily spiced as say, Shub or other pumpkin spiced Weens. It has good sillage and better than average wear length on me, but it's not at all cloying or heavy like you might imagine a cupcake to be. I love it and plan to rip through the bottle!

I'm in LUUUUUUST. Villainess makes the best scrubs on the planet, and all notes for the WIN, so this purchase was a no brainer! The scrub is nice and scrubby, but not too harsh on my sensitive skin. It dissolves slowly on damp skin, and it rinses with a magical combination of both clean and moisturized! It's not at all sticky or filmy like other scrubs I've tried. I didn't realize that this a different Lust scent than the GC, which I also love, until I opened it up to smell it, and thought, "huh...it's DIVINE, but different!". I get mainly a sweet, creamy, patchouli, but made red by the musk and slightly rosey incense. The honeyed amber shines through all golden with copal in the drydown, but the patchouli/musk lingers, and the rose adds a touch of fresh powder. It's just perfect for stepping out of the bath or shower, ready to go, but plays nicely when layering, too!

Oh! I was expecting this to be way more funky with the ho wood and honey, but it's not at all! It's a soft, pretty, creamy skin scent, but not as sexual as say, O (GC sweet amber w/out wood). I'm not really getting a lot of wood! I would guess beeswax, vanilla, amber, and a touch of wood, if I didn't know differently. It's like if The (Not So) Penitent Mini Magdalene and Some Strangeness in the Proportion had a baby in the springtime! It sits close to, and fades quickly on my skin. It'll be nice to wear around the house during the day when I know I'm going to wear something else that night that amps to high hell. I believe it will layer very well, too.

I love BPAL's Paramnorman version of The Book, Picture Books in Winter (another book scent, quite soft, with tiny flowers and a touch of caramelized sugar), and have this tumultuous relationship with rose, so of course I had to go for the Luper Book. The rose is pink and fresh and forward when wet, but this quickly dries down to a leathery scent quite quickly, that reminds me much more of Hand of Glory than the other Book. It has a sharpness that is more like new, hard, fresh leather, yes, like in Whip, but gentler and a pinker. The Paranorman Book is more vanillic, more creamy and dusty, like an old, worn book, and I have to say prefer it.

Ooooh! How can a Smut lover say "no" to the HAIR Gloss?! Hair glosses go well all oh-vah the body, anyway...! I, too, think this is brighter, lighter than previous Smuts, which is just fine for all over spraying. It's slightly juicy, with a thick, chewy sweetness, and reminds me of the color and consistency of Chambord. The musks are rich and dark...maybe red, Siberian, and brown? It's dark, velvety, and delicious. The bottle art is absolutely perfect.

Red ALL THE SEXY THINGS! The fruity headiness of the red musk leads out of the bottle, soon enveloped by vanilla amber. Red patchouli always smells a bit rosey to me, and combined with the red musk, becomes thick and jammy...heavy and rich. The drydown of orris and oude is glorious...so BODILY, scalpy, creamy...fleshy. This is a more vanillaed version of Crimson or Scheherazade, her red, spicy, incensey sisters. The Lady in Black reminds me of the wanton women in Edward Gorey drawings...all kohl eyed, mysterious, full of glamour, but of an almost indescribable place and time.

Heartacheingly beautiful! This is the peony scent I have always wanted. As a little girl, I was fascinated with the giant, heady blooms that emerged from the ant covered buds. The honey and sweet peach notes add just enough creamy sweetness and depth to the floral to make it sink in to the skin, personifying the flower.