Velvet Lilly

This is a fun one! I first got whiffs of both creamy coffee and buttery, boozy rum. I know it should be whiskey, but my head keeps thinking....shades of hot buttered rum. There's even a faint whiff of toffee. As it warmed on my skin......the most gorgeous, fresh buttery sweet roll scent started playing just off my skin. Not like... "oh how nice... it's sort of sweet roll-ish", but honest to zod, if I didn't know it was perfume oil, I'd think I needed to lick buttery, warm, doughy sweet roll off my fingers. But this isn't too sweet either. It's not as sweet as the cookie scents. It's a real winner of pastry, foodie, cake sitting next to an Irish coffee. LOVE it. It did go away a bit fast on my skin, which is unusual for the gourmands, for me...... but very yummy!

White oud and white sandalwood, iris pallida, blonde woods, and pink pepper. Oh, Karikkotsu, you gorgeous elegant, bony nightmare you! This is special. This is unlike any of the Shungas or lupers in the (huge) collection. This is high end chic. This..... is elegant, dry wood with a whisper of what seems to be Bay Rum and a touch of pepper. As if a perfectly dressed gent has arrived at the bar for drinks before dinner..... but it's so unique it's ungendered. Everyone who smelled it, even bpal folks themselves seemed surprised at and enthralled with it. Wearing this I feel.....grand....put together...impossibly chic yet laid back and comfortable. I think the iris is the key that blends all these notes together in a magical way that creates a soft, amazing, sleek yet relaxed scent. I. Love. This. ...Bottle bought.

Hot pink rose wet with cucumber and water lily. Hey! Floral note lovers – This is your new Spring gorgeousness! It may have an adorable, silly name, but this is seriously beautiful floral and greens scent! So well blended, with a medium throw, and it dances softly through it’s notes. This reminds me of, if a painting was a person and had a scent – Monet’s water lilies, wearing a Gatsby floral frock.

My Gods this is gorgeous (what I did there). This is soft, elegant, chic and debonaire. This smells as if Anubis got spohisticated, but on a Savile Row suit and spent his evening at the high stakes bacarat lounge. I need this in my life.

Chocolate note lovers - This is adorable! Milk or semi sweet chocolate caramel with a bit of nuttiness from the tonka. There might be a hint of coffee in here as well? Chocolate drink or a chocolate bar? I'm not quite sure but it's so much fun and delicious. A definite chocolate note collectors item.

I love it. Love it, love it , love it. It reminds me very much of gorgeous Boadecea, mixed with Heroine, but with a forward whisper of men's aftershave. This is soft, languid, citrusy verbena, and creamy ambergris. The neroli and other notes may be giving that aftershave whisp of elegant, masculine roundness to it. This doesn't morph much at all on my skin, and stays beautiful and true on the dry down. This is a top ten scent for me, and we'll see if it edges out Boadecea. Sultry, airy chic, and exotic.... my favorite thing. <3

Bluberry musk!! I wanted a bottle but they were sold out! ::::qqqqqq:::::: SO! If you loved Blueberry Picking from the Birthdays...... this is like the grown up version! (Blueberries from Birthdays is made to honor a young (awesome amazing) girl. This is taking that gorgeous happy scent and giving it a more mixed, blended, grown up turn) I huffed it and huffed it..... and by the end of the night... it was sold out! Congrats to all of you that were smart enough to grab bottles of this.... instant bpal coveted diso.

This is amazing. Once I found it, and tried a bit on my skin, I knew I had to have a bottle and couldn't stop sniffing it. It's so well blended that the notes are hard to pick out and create a unique new whole that's glorious and nostalgic at once. It reminded me, in the best way of a high end tiki parlor, like Trader Vicks in it's day..... or the Polynesian Hotel lobby way back in the day. Polished woods and the faint whisper of orange blossom and tropical, verdant things. WIN: this orange blossom doesn't go anywhere near the bandaid thing it can sometimes to in my nose! This stays true orange blossom in all it's sunny reverie. On the dry down the vanilla comes up and plays nicely... in an almost sugary way. For a kid from the rustic touristy byways of Florida...this is high end nostalgia in a bottle. I love it! (and everyone that smelled it on me went wide eyed and had to try some.... it's so good)

Mutable Earth: the essence of duty and analysis. This is a perfume of altruism, introspection, and wisdom found from within. This blend can be utilized to enhance critical thinking, mental dexterity, and problem-solving skills, spark creativity, and sharpen the wit. Like Virgo, this scent is elegant in its presentation while unexpectedly complex in its inner composition: a dazzling chypre, glittering with sardonic humor, that is grounded by sweet aged patchouli and uplifted by lemon verbena. First off.... this. is. Amazing. <3 :::heart eyes::: In the bottle: it smells..darker then on my skin. Beautiful, heady, lemon verbena, softened with a shadowy dose of skin musk and yet, merry and elegant, just as the description says. How does she do that?! The glitter or dazzle is very soft in this, not a forwardly fizzy scent, as some can be when she describes them that way, but it plays far underneath, down at the base of the notes. There is something else, soothing and amber-brown in this...a whisper of wood. Wet- same. Dry on my skin: It's lovely, autumn foresty yellow - but just at the end of Summer, when the colors are changing but life is still vibrant. As is wears, the skin musk (?) comes forward and so does the fizz, just a wee. Catching wiffs of this from my neck and hair the next morning, is enchanting. I may need another bottle of this because yes.

Dried peach, black musk, and North African spices. Oh my Peach VII, you coy, delectable little peach, you. You start off honeyed innocence and peaches, but you are sly..... I can tell you have a bit of a spicy side.... I like that about you. Why dahlin, on that dry down I can plainly see you have naughty inclinations.......that dried peachy honey note fades and your rich spices start peeking through. Spiced, juicy peaches! There's even a hint of a boozy note, and makes me think I'd like to translate you into a dangerously delicious cocktail to sip on the veranda and flirt over your glass. "You're a peach charmer.....that's what you are..."

oh I lurrrrve this. It's such a warm yet...banked smoulder kind of scent. So well blended that I had to read the notes to realize it was leather I was loving, mixing so beautifully with the cardamom and white musk....wit that gorgeous, low and slow incense..... and I'm getting a touch of cola or sarsaparilla in the middle of it all. This could almost be a wild west saloon/ cat house... I loved it at first sniff from the bottle. The incense warms up on my skin and slow dances with the leather, smoke and cola..... My new favorite cozy yet enigmatic winter scent...... YUMMMM...... And huge surprise, Yes there's cinnamon in here, but i can actually wear this one without it going DEFCON 1 on my skin, to drown out other notes. Huge happy Cheshire Cat smile over here...... Hellooooooo Satan.....

I brought a bottle home.... and will do more skin testing tomorrow. This is so much more than just bittersweet chocolate and cream.....the whole sordid gathering in her tray is here.... I'm getting whispers of bourbon...tobacco? And a whiff of old burlap, crushed dried grass she's standing over....painted wood and yes....that shrunken head. This is no sweet candy confection......this is troubled. The candy of nightmares. And yet...it's beckoning draw is unmistakable.

My nose got confused! I kept thinking..... incense and patchouli.....and something more...... but now reading the notes, it must be the wood and rose combination that fooled me. I love this in a dark way. It smells......dangerous to me. It's got sharp edges among it's beautiful notes and it warns anyone that dares to get close: BEWARE.... I am more than I seem and I may be deadly. At first smell I imagined incense, patchouli...the allure of soft night air, a whisper of booze and the promise of adventure. I get zero pickle.....but the resin around the wood is a bit sour, yet so balanced it reminds me much more of that wonderful unique scent of old, faded solid perfumes from your grandmothers hope chest. I almost got two bottles.

I adore this. What a win of a scent for me! In the bottle: Lime-y citrus and mandarin blend wet: now comes the gorgeous petitgrain and amps into the citrus, blending well... dry down....All the pretty petitgrain, with a whisper of lime and a bright glint of mandarin. It reminds me a bit of an old general store - deliciously herby in a quiet way. I've paired this with The Norn's Farmhouse and it's stunning together as well. Really amps that "old general store" vibe in the very best way. Storytelling in scent!

SO beautiful and softly glowy. This doesn't feel or smell like "RAAWWRR" Courage..... this fells and smells like "Aaahhh... all is well....we got this" Courage. I love people have pointed out it's like Lionheart with extra florals. I love how those notes all blend together. It's very soothing to be surrounded with as it blooms on my skin. Safety, Comfort, Calm. Everything is handlable. <3

ZOMG.......:::fainting couch:::*thud. If Tree of Life, Eastern Comma and Anactoria made sweet, sweet love and fed each other ginger..... it would be this..... I've never blind bought a bottle before....ever...... and I did with this. And sweet mother of Pearl.......I cannot even... The creamy heaven....the gorgeous mellow, warm oak and tonka lulling me into a Bottom's Dream like stupor of bliss.......haloed by the whisper of flowers and ginger and apricot... This is ridiculous, spell binding, soul singing heaven. MOAR HALOES.... all the Haloes.....<3

Really lovely! Am I the only one that seems to get a lovely wood smoke note from this? Like smoldering piles of fallen leaves outside, amid a few dried wildflowers..... It's amazing and soft and warm and cozy in the outdoors.... This is definitely sweater weather days kind of a scent! I understand how someone said "fuzzy", almost fizzy brown leather.....like a doeskin shirt.... It wears very close to my skin and dissipates pretty fast but that's okay - it's one of those, "get closer" and smell me... and " your skin but better" kind of blends. It's not my normal note profile, but I really really dig it! I love Lookingglass' description of "a lovely epic journey across Canadian wilderness" That's a perfect way to say it!

Oohhh this is so lovely! Bright, beautiful lemongrass .....with sugar underneath as well as a lovely herbal something.....I love the balance of this. It's both beautiful and feels gently, flowingly powerful.....in a gentle happy way. This is so uplifting! Wow.....I adore it and I wish a full bottle could be had. <3

A Masterpiece with a funny name. (I’m rather going to enjoy telling people the answer to “What are you wearing?” with this debonaire beauty.) In the bottle I get the bevy of notes in a saucy display, like a spiritualists ornate window display…….then on my skin the leather raced with the red musk, and as it warmed…..the leather won….blooming into soft, *perfectly tailored glove leather dancing softly with the red musk and coconut meat. As it dried down, the other notes played all around that leather, giving it different facets of tone and scent. On the dry down it got a bit sweet and an incense kind of note lingered....and lingered...A truly remarkable journey. This is one of the sexiest bottles in all of ever..... Where Whip is a definite "you must be in this specific mood to handle her" kind of thing. THIS is a "come one, come all, the night is young" kind of beckoning, sexy, thing I can wear all the time. This is definitely my favorite of the Spiritualists and maybe of the Yules. I think this will be a huge, much sought ofter bottle. This is what I imagine Cullen Bohannon, Mal or River, Wyat as well as Josie Earp and Lestat smelling like....... sex in a leather duster....

I. Love. This. Scent. I truly love it. This is a fresh light green field covered in buds and tiny wild flowers. Almost lily of the valley-like in a wash of other blended, fresh notes. It's so casual chic and still sophisticated, in a light, airy way. It's refreshing and calming as well. This is spritzers in the Hamptons on a balmy day with a light breeze. This is afternoon gatherings with friends. This is a luxe garden party with champagne and small bite petit fours. It wears close to the skin. I wish it was a bigger throw....but that's exactly what sophistication is......Just enough scent to be there and whisper in the air as you sip a tall something in the grass at Tanglewood. <3 I cannot love this more. <3

I knew... I just KNEW Peanut Musk was going to be amazing, and it is! In the bottle: Hello dark musk, you handsome devil. You lead the way and are almost juicy and caramel-y as you pair up with whiffs of lovely, roasted, salted peanut hull. Something else, the peanut leaves, which aren't a green note, meld with hints of a spice....faint whispers of cassia? Cardamom? Something.....sandalwood? All together it makes an amazing blend and balance of warm, rich umber-liciousness. On my skin: a better blend of musk and roasted hull and mild umber spice. Somehow I'm amping a cinnamon like note (but my skin is strange and amps cinnamon/cassia to a bajillion jiggawats) Dry down: a TRULY gorgeous, luxurious blend of what seems like skin musk, sandalwood, roasted caramel-ish cassia that becomes the coveted "your skin, but much much better" thing....but even more so. It's "your skin but better" that's been gilded and warmed with musk........ just... wow. For the foodie folks....... in the bottle, this smells similar to Mary Janes candy. <3 But then on the skin it does it's beautiful warm up and change (on my skin at least....my skin morphs things a lot) "Mary Jane is a peanut butter and molasses flavored taffy-type candy with peanut butter in the center. Originally made in 1914 by The Charles N. Miller Co., and later by Stark Candy Co., it is now manufactured by Necco." All kinds of yum.

Yup..... Total Snack Bar smells! I love it. It smells like sweet fried things and then Twizzlers.....wonderful delicious juicy Twizzlers. I'm so glad to have a bottle of this. It's my perfect Late Summer weekend days scent.

Oh so Beautiful......and it's a bit of a morpher......which I love. I get the rosehips and honeycomb right away......tempered by the wheat. Then the nectarine gets juicy and forward and, exactly as people say, small pink roses bloom. I also started to throw a very interesting citrus note as it started to dry down.....it became a real medley of notes that flashed around all mad cap for a minute..... And now on the dry down.... it's a very forward blend of roses...English and hips and tea buds, creamily mellowed by the wheat and the honeycomb. I just love it! Thank you to Sara for pointing it out to me. I'm a walking Summer Garden Party!

An amorphous mix of Delicious! I loved this scent and I remember how much everyone loved smelling it for the first time, eyes would light up and smiles would gleam with surprise and delight. To read these notes, it sounds improbable....impossible to smell lovely.....but IT IS. It's perfectly aquatic chocolates! It's so delectable and unique and chocolate and deep ocean water! Perhaps the first real ..... gourmand with Umami scent I ever encountered and I love it.

A Victorian bathing beauty: wisps of vanilla cream, caramelized tobacco absolute, white opium poppy, summer honeysuckle nectar, effervescent white mandarin, apple blossom, and green cognac. This is SO beautiful! I loved it wet, and then my skin amped the sweetness of the vanilla to overpower the rest. I thought.... too sweet..... and now I'm kicking myself for missing the last bottle. So lovely. SO perfectly sweet and tobacco, and vanilla but so fresh and airy light from the blend of the other notes.