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This was too much apple for me. And it got kinda gross on my skin. I didn't get much of the other notes sadly. And it had little to no staying power but the apple did throw the short time it was on my skin.

This is very simple on me. It's a lovely sandalwood scent with a little dragon's blood in the background to spice it up a notch. Not much throw at all. And short wearlength. It's just ok. But if you love sandalwood give it a go.

This one was not buttery on me at all! It was very berry with a weird ozone note on top. I did not like it at all. I hoped for delicious berry pie but nope. It was just ozone and berries. Maybe the ozone was supposed to be the "frost" but it didn't work on me. Had no throw and stayed on my skin maybe 20 minutes, so at least it didn't last long.

This scent was mainly bready, yeasty, and had an apricot jelly note that wasn't very sweet but almost bitter, maybe the cherries made it that way. It was foodie and delicious but I'm not sure it won me over as a perfume but I would like to eat it, lol. It had very little throw and short staying power...maybe an hour tops. The label was cute though.

I tested this a while ago and I remember on me it was all ginger truffle and cardamom. It may have had a little rum mixed in there too. I didn't get any chocolate or coconut at all. It had decent throw but only lasted aboout 30 minutes tops on my skin. I had to let it go because all that strong ginger wasn't really a love for me.

In the bottle: tart delicious cherry (no cough syrup here) Wet: the cherry is very prominent and I love that it's not the cough syrup variety. The cream accord comes out too and it's so lovely! Cream is a note I love to slather on my skin in any scent it makes me happy. Luckily it works very well on me. This is a delicious cherry cream scent. Drydown: Now is when the rose water peeks out and it's light and lovely as well. It does smell a little like Turkish Delight to me and that is AWESOME! I love that. The throw is not that strong, but the staying power was great, it stayed close and comforting on my skin for quite some time. Glad I took a chance on this one!

In the bottle: Sugary pepper nuts Wet: this Cardamom and nutmeg come out now on top of the sugary pepper nuts. This is very interesting and different then any other foodie scent I've tried. It's very complex in a way. The throw is pretty good. Drydown: What ends up sticking around is the sugared pepper nuts. I love all the notes that popped out during the wet to drydown phase but sadly they don't stick around that long. The staying power was maybe 2 hours. Foodie lovers should give this one a try though since it is quite unique.

2009 In the bottle: delicious coffee like egg nog...oh yes!! Wet: this is a delicious egg nog latte scent (better then the actual Eggnog Latte scent BPAL did). Now I just hope it will stick around because all the delicious egg nog scents I have tried from BPAL fade away so fast. Drydown: Sadly this one did the same thing and faded away so fast. Like a half hour maybe. But it is delicious and creamy and I loved it while it lasted. YUMMY! It's just a shame on that staying power. Adorable label too!

In the bottle: light classic gingerbread...but very light Wet: again very light gingerbread with maybe a touch of honey. I thought this scent would be stronger and a little twisted like the other Mother Shub scents I have tried. But it's actually very light and there's not much going on. Drydown: This faded super fast but I wasn't surprised since it was never heavy to start with. It is a nice gingerbread scent though just very quiet and has no throw. If your scared of Gingerbread this is the one to try first. It won't scare you.

This was my favorite of the Pumpkin Patch series. In the bottle: sweet pumpkin On the skin: sweet pumpkin mixed with sugared tea Drydown: The pumpkin fades away really fast which all the pumpkin patch scents did on me. But what is left over is a sweet sugared tea scent. I really think Dorian benefits from this hit of pumpkin. It didn't have heavy throw but stayed close to the skin for a good while. This scent was sweet and simple but very delicious

In the bottle: with the cap still on I can smell the nutty pecans! This must be strong!! Bottle sniff: Heavy pecans and VERY nutty Wet: no pumpkin at all but it's all NUTS! Pecan and others! It's very salty too. And there's that strong buttery note too that is in a lot of cookie type scents by BPAL. This has amazing throw and a little goes a long way! Drydown: It's still smells super nutty and pecan like. Salty still too. I never get any pumpkin really. It's all about the salty pecans. Great throw and lasted pretty long maybe 3-4 hours.

In the bottle: pumpkin Wet: that petigran note comes oyt which is kind of seedy or hay like. But it's mixed with sweet pumpkin and grapfruit. Maybe it's the blood orange too but it is very sweet! Not candy sweet but perfume sweet mixed with a little hay. Drydown: the pumpkin turns a little cinnamon like and the sweetness is calming down as well. This has very low throw and short staying power. It's a nice scent but I wanted much more candyfloss!

Got this as a frimp from a forum member. This scent is very similar to Spellbound which I also tested recently. It also has some heady notes that give me a little bit of a headache. Not sure what is doing that but it is. The scent isn't that bad though. It is a sexy, smoky, boozy, dark, but musky type scent. It smells like a dirty dark bar or club might smell like. I don't know it's kinda hard to desribe for me. It's not my typical foodie scent but wanted to try out some GC scents since I usually ignore them. But sadly the two I tried are not working on me. This had good throw but only lasted about an hour.

This is all roses and red musk. It's very heady and kinda gives me a headache at first. On the drydown though it's more powdery and musky. This isn't really working on me. I got this as a frimp from a forum sale.

In the bottle: Very light gingerbread Wet: This is definitely a dainty gingerbread house Drydown: This is a lovely gingerbread scent. But it's not in your face gingerbread this is much lighter. I do smell the icing too which is sweet but very light as well. This scent is a very pretty Christmas scent. While it sounds like a strong foodie scent it's not. It's elegant and and has low throw. I could see a lady in a beautiful red dress wearing this on Christmas Eve to a fancy party. But for someone to smell it they need to be very close to her. It was nice but not foodie enough for me.

Ths was the softest lightest mint scent ever! It was much lighter then Mother Shub's Unmentionable Peppermint Creams (with none of the marzipan). It was like sweet watered now mint. Like peppermint tea. But still not very minty at all. It's amazing what the lab has captured here it's hard to describe. I don't think of Snow White though that's sweeter to me. It is sooooo light that I can barely smell it 15 minutes later sadly. It is lovely though. More of an emotion then a scent. Definitely a sleepy time scent.

Capax Infiniti...cool name, pretty label In the bottle: don't smell much maybe a hint of vanilla and honey Wet: Now the lavender and vanilla are coming out, and I really love this vanilla ice cream note it's a favorite Drydown: On the drydown which was fast I still smell the vanilla ice cream and and lavender its very pretty but I think the skin musk is taking away from it a little. This scent is very soft and light. When I sniff again and think about it I do smell the tiniest bit of Dorian in there...it's a light sweet tea scent. This is very sweet and pretty but very light and doesn't have much throw. It would be lovely on a little girl, and perfect to wear to bed I definitely can see that.

... because the holidays can be really, really frustrating. Blueberry slush with a hint of lime and blackberry juice. 2012 In the bottle: lime and ozone...uh oh Wet: Some blackberry comes out but the ozone and lime are clashing above it and I don't really like how they smell together. Actually I think what it is is that I don't like ozone. It is strong on my skin and I swear it makes scents smell so weird on me. It's not minty at just ozoney. lol. Drydown: The ozone note never goes away which is sad. So the blackberry and lime are just buried underneath all the ozone snowballs I guess. If you like ozone notes go for it. The throw wasn't that strong and the staying power was about an hour or so.

In the bottle: nothing Wet: I smell sweet light oatmeal and some pear Drydown: I thought this would get stronger on drydown but it didn't. It stayed super light and barely there. But what I can smell when I sniff pretty hard is sweet yummy oatmeal with pears on top. And there is a sense of sunshine too. Not sure how to describe it but it's there. Sadly this was sooo light on the skin but if these notes were stronger and pronounced this would be a love for me. Had no throw and didn't last long. Bummer.

This scent started off all pumpkin spice. The classic BPAL pumpkin spcie scent that is more cinnamon and sweetness then actual pumpkin. But the pumpkin is there too. I actually didn't get much Snake Oil at all. It had low throw and short staying power. It was delicious though just not the snake oil with a touch of pumpkin pie which is what I wanted. This was all pumpkin pie spice and not much else. I would've hung onto it for aging but I wasn't as impressed as I was by Gingerbread Snake so I let this one go.

Nope...Jasmine is not for me. Not at all. I get the bad soapy, dare I say cat pee scent. I wanted to try this because the reviews sounded lovely, but sadly my skin does not agree with this. It did have a tea note in there that was nice but the rest gave me a headache. Darn. It had good throw and staying power though.

I love Banshee Beat and Silkybat so I'm always curious about patchoulis but they do not always work. I love that foody rich pathouli that almost reminds of chocolate. This is the middle of the road patchouli though not to dirty and not to light. It's just right as Goldilocks would say. But it's not foodie or rich at all. Just very simple. Not saying that is a bad thing but it didn't blow my mind. I know it's a single note and maybe that's why it seems so simple to me. I must need my patchouli mixed with lovely foodie notes. Or something to sweeten it up. Glad I got to try this one though it helped enlighten my patchouli knowledge.

In the bottle: musky rose Wet: I smell tobacco, musk, and rose. It's not sugared at all for me. It's rough and leathery but weirdly not that strong. I had to sniff my skin to get those notes. Drydown: Mainly musky rose. I wanted more sugary goodness but it's not that. This is a sexy scent don't get me wrong. Would be good on the hubby maybe but not for me at all. I was hoping it would be strong too. With lotsa throw and staying power but oddly it didn't have that. I love the label though, super cool.

In the bottle: Butterscotch! Yum!! Wet: The butterscotch is loud and delicious! I love the butterscotch note BPAL uses it's a favorite of mine and I have tried a lot of scents with it. Dry: Sadly the dry down is where this scent gets less love and more like for me. As it dries down (which does take a while like and hour or so) that dirt note comes out. I hoped it would be earthy but actually it is like dirt and I don't think I like it. I don't get any anise either. The dirt note starts to come forward and the butterscotch fades away. And then I'm left with dirt. I will say though the initial butterscotch hit is amazing and I wish it stuck around. But I have plenty of other wonderful butterscotch scents so no need to hoard this one. I do love the labels on the Coraline scents! They are soooo adorable! And this one is awesome!

This scent was very simple on my skin. In the bottle I smelled a light amber scent which was kinda powdery. On my skin wet it had a little bit of patchouli come out with the amber. It was really light though. I could barely smell it. I did a pretty heavy test too. When it dried down I smelled just powdery amber and light patchouli. This was a fail all around I guess. It had little to no throw and barely any staying power.