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Got decant of LXII (62) Always hard for me to describe these Chaos blends. Funny what your nose is telling your brain and then trying to translate. This, to me, is a soft incense blend with possibly cassia? When sniffing, I get something cinnamon-like, but it is a watered down kind of cinnamon which I tend to think cassia smells like. Not a strong cinnamon or a baking cinnamon, but yeah... cassia. It is light and doesn't hang around long. I am also interested what others think of this blend since there are 3 others out there.

Finally got a decant of this! Been wanting to try this one for a while. Sniffing in the decant, a very sweet brandy and orange. So far it's great. As I applied it in my damp hair. I got the quickest whiff of what must have been the chestnuts. It was a super quick smoky note, but that went away immediately. I am left with a wonderful lightly brandied apple, apricot and orange. I get a little of the fig as well. I knew this would be a good one. It is light on me...with a light throw. Very festive but I think this is one that can be worn anytime of the year!

Got this imp from a wonderful fairy....ok...on with it!! In imp: First sniff...yep, there is that all known chocolate Bliss note, but with a wonderful hint of spice! On Skin: OOh my!! This is so wonderful! Why oh why are we doomed to NOT have bottles made of this! The perfect mix of chocolate, spice, and wonderful pumpkin. This is not buttery like the other Pumpkin Patches seem to be, but foodie lovers will love! Drydown: Doesn't stay long and not a huge throw, but this is amazing!! Stays true and doesn't morph, at least not on me!!! Now I need to see if I can hoard as many of these as I can!!!!

Oh my goodness!!! I got a bottle of this and decanted some of it out... kind of regretting doing that! In the bottle and in my hair... it is the BEST mulled, spiced wine scent!! Good scent and throw. I was worried about the honey note (that is why I decanted it out..just in case a whole bottle was a miss) but this is so beautifully blended. It really does capture the mulled spiced wine drink! Get this if you are a foody/wine lover. If you are one where honey notes don't work... no fear!! This is amazing!!

Got my bottle today... LI (51).... this is tough. I might update this when I actually have it in my hair. Sniffing from the bottle... yep, there is incense.. but it is real soft. I am detecting something sweet, but it is more a sweet floral...maybe? Not foody or candy sweet in any way. I am real bad at floral notes (if this is what I am detecting) but it seems floral, but then not. WOW this is hard to descrbe. So....after giving this a squirt... it is so weird. I am still getting that sweet.... SOMETHING.... making me batty. If it existed, I would think this is a soft incense with the cotton candy flower! It's the best I can do

This is very lovely!!! Wondering if I should try for a full bottle!! In the decant, there it is... that warm, buttered rum that just seems to go hand in hand with the holidays! In my damp hair, the rum is less prominent, but it is there. The smokiness, to me, is perfect. The smokeiness is a wonderful faint chimney fire scent....like the fire has been out for a while. It isn't overpowering, which is good. but it is there... there is a sweetness that keeps it in check. As said above, this isn't gourmand, but anyone that likes gourmand or foody scents should love this. Anyone who likes smoke scents, will love this as well. A perfect well rounded sweet/smoky scent! I love this!!

All I read was that the Yules will be up until Feb. 14th and usually, the 13 blends are only up for a day or two. As for the Weenies... I am sure they are coming down soon. Sorry that isn't much help. But I am guessing as long as the items are on the site and they don't say "out of stock" you can still order.

Got this in a swap...surprised there aren't more reviews!! So, I tend to love anything pumpkin...wasn't sure about absinthe, but here goes nothing! In the bottle - Smells lovely. There is that yummy Lab pumpkin spice scent.... there is something lurking in it... the green fairy? On skin - At the first quick sniff, it *almost* smells like Snakes in the Pumpkin Patch. but only for a brief second. The absinthe comes out right away for me. The pumpkin is there, but the licorice/absinthe note is starting to take over... in a strong way. Dry down - Hmm....not sure this is for me. If the pumpkin was more prominent, I might like this, but it isn't there enough for my liking. There is something a hair masculine about this.... oh well.... sadly not for me. Off to swaps!

Can't really help, but there was one review for the Manger Hay....seems to read pure "barn"...so it might be exactly what you are looking for. Might make a good layering note as well. Black Bear Moon that came out a while ago had a nice fur note to it.... to my nose, so that might be something also? Good luck in your search!!!

After reading the above reviews... I decided I needed to try and hunt down a bottle... anything with chocolate in it, count me in! In the bottle - Just got it in the mail a while ago... it was very cold, so waited until it got to room temp. Yep, there is chocolate.... and something else. I guess it could be some sort of pine note... everygreen.... that makes it "slush?" Not sure.... but it is there. On skin - Hmm... I get a chocolate medicine thing going on. Like chocolate flavored Vics vaporub.....not full on menthol, but it is there.....guess that is supposed to be the cold slush note. Drydown - Stays the same.... a menthol minty chocolate. Sad...don't think I like this very much! After a bit... it gets a hair cologn-y on me. Not overpowering, but still a no go.

Had to try this... always on the hunt for a good holly type scent that doesn't go all over-the-top pine-sol on me! In the bottle - very green and holly! Not forest or garden green, but that holiday wreath/holly green scent. In damp hair - the green part gets pretty sharp at first...but then it quickly mellows, but it is still fresh and "there." The holly part comes out as well and I think this is a perfect balance of green and holly notes. On me, it is strong, but I like how it smells...fresh and green and Christmas-y. If you are worried about green notes, don't worry with this one. Medium throw and very festive.

Being a foody lover, um... yeah....easy choice! In the bottle - sweet mashmallow fudge sugar goodness...surprisingly not overly sweet. On skin - OOh, at first, this seems like Bah! and The Gorobble got together and had a baby!! But then...it seems I have smelled this before, but can't place it! It is a foody lover's dream! Drydown - Oh this is good!!! I get the marshmallow and cookie....... WAIT!!!! THAT'S IT!!! It reminds me of Marshmallow Cookie Pie that came out!! This smells like that! So if you loved that, get this!

Hard to believe there isn't many reviews for this one....yet! This was a no-brainer purchase for me! HAD to try! In bottle - Very red berry, but there is something "Chrsitmas" about it...so far so good! On damp hair - This is lovely. I get the blast of berries, but it quickly turns into something festive and green. I am not one for green scents, but anything that has to do with a Christmas green scent, I have to try. After a few minutes, it fades quite a bit but it is still a lovely scent. Very pale green/cranberry/holiday scent!! I do wish it was a little stronger as with how it is sniffing, but this is a keeper!! Anyone afraid of green scents, you will like this one!!

Wanted to try this.... Yuletide is the ONLY perfume oil I have found to have a perfect blend of that holly/pine/green/ Christmas-y vibe that works on me without it being too pine-y on me. Plus with chocolate listed as a note... yes!! In the bottle - WHOA!!! A BLAST of fir needles! Like, they were cut and the sap is all over the place. Kind of scared. On skin - Ok... mellows quickly, but still pretty sharp on me. The white chocolate is now present and keeping the fir needle at bay. Drydown - This gets a little better....fades a little, but in a good way. I think if this stayed strong like the first sniff, it would anger anyone around me. This is pretty and soft....not detecting too much chcolate. Hmm.....not sure this is for me at the moment.

Maybe Mango Infused Pumpkin Chai Latte? I never tried it because I am not a mango fan. For other warm, spicy goodness... I suggest: Pumpkin Latte Pumpkin V 2009 These don't have the tea/chai vibe to me, but they are a wonderful comforting spicy type scents to me!

Went back and forth with a couple of the gingerbreads...decided to try this one, since I am wanting to still find a sweeter, foody type gingerbread, which I haven't found...at least to my nose. In the bottle - get a slighty sweet, jam covered gingerbread. I get the sweet and the sharp-ish gingerbread scent. On skin - the sting of the gingerbread is sharp...almost hurts to sniff, but the sweet fruit/jam comes out. Drydown - Hmm...hard to decide if I like this or not. Hate when I get a scent on and one second I am thinking, "yeah...I like this" then another second later I am thinking, "No...not for me." I get the fruit and jam, and the gingerbread is still slighty more prominent, but it is still a bit too sharp for me. Not sure I am making sense, but I am wanting that sweeter, cookie type GB....mostly what I have gotten from the Lab is like a more baking cupboard GB...more nose tingly and hard to sniff. Not sure what to do!!

I love anything peppermint...sadly, ALL the Lick It's I tried faded real fast. So, had to try this one...one last ditch effort to try something with peppermint! In the bottle: Like mentioned, I get a creamy peppermint....very frosting-like. YUM! On Skin: I get a peppermint buttercream scent. This is good... please last!! Drydown: The peppermint fades.. a little, but at least it is still here. I get a peppermint cheesecake vibe, but that could be the red velvet as well. This wears close to the skin, but at least I still get peppermint and not left with just sugar as in the past!!! This is a great scent and hoping it will get better with age....not that it isn't good NOW!! Edit to add.... been a couple hours, and sadly, this is almost gone. I get a very faint whiff of it... but I have to have my nose ON my skin. I still love this... just wish these stuck around longer!

I LOOOOVE Yuletide!! For me, most berry/holly/mistletoe scents have gone funky on me... either too pine-y or too berry-ish and just wrong, but Yuletide, on me, is the perfect blend!! Also, the recent Post update, I am ordering Fresh Green Holly hair gloss and Mistletoe and Berries hair gloss... hoping those will be winners!! Maybe look into those?

Sweet cigar smoke, brown wool, Old Furry Touk accord, and a little bit of coffee. Wow...first to review. Ok...do my best!! Wet: All I smell is sweet tobacco...not too strong, but that is all I get at the moment. On Skin: Still sweet pipe tobacco, but a little sharp at the same time. I don't get any coffee out of this. I do get a sense of wool. Dry down: Mellows nicely, but stays true to the above. I think this would be nice on a guy...not me.

Was leery about trying this, since ALL the honey notes I have tried have failed on me, and I really want honey to work...and reading other posts, well, guess I better try it! In the bottle - This smells very yummy!! Like already said, it is a very crisp sweet apple! On my skin - Ohh, promising so far...still very sweet and apple-y. So far the honey note is playing nice. Fingers crossed! Dry down - Alright...this might be the ONLY scent with both apple and honey that actually works on me! The honey is there, but it is being nice! Usually, honey can go VERY sweet on me, or it turns to honey powder, but maybe the apple combo in this is helping to keep it just right! Lovely sweet apple with that touch of honey on it! So far so good!! If you have issues with honey notes, give this a whirl.... it is turning out to be very good. Edit: Well.....bad news. I guess honey and I are officially over! After about half an hour, it went all powdery and way too strong on me. <sigh> I tried to make it work, but no.....

The Lab's website has a wonderful directory where you can search scents by notes or scents. I would go there... you can plug in rainy or watery and it will pull up some recommendations. Some might be discontinued scents, but it is a good place to go as well. They have aquatic on there! https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-directory/

UGH!! Ok... I give up! I have tried many Dead Leaves things, and ALL of them smell like cheap. men's cologne. Maybe I never smelled real dead leaves, but I don't smell this walking outside through a pile of them. This one though....is too much! Very headache inducing to me. All I smell is heavy cologne!! There is a dustiness to it, but really... I hope this fades fast because it is too heave for me. Sorry dead leaves....time to part ways!!!

Well, I am, and always will be, a Snake Oil fan.... can't go wrong with that. BUT the Carnival did come back and is up and running... might be a good time to look at those before they disappear without warning! I LOVE the Snakes (go figure) like Boomslang and Western D..... Always amazing!

If you ever tried Orange Pumpkin Floss... this is it, but for your hair!!! It is so good. I get a little more of a citrus vibe from this though than OPF, but that is so ok. This, to me, is also a very good scent for Spring/Summer. Has good throw and wear!

Have to agree with Moranna above..... In my decant, sniffing....I get a sweet-ish coffee scent. I know there is cacao in the notes, but it doesn't seem like a cacao note oddly, but something sweet. In my damp hair, I get a quick whiff of something that is close to almost smelling like Boomslang (LOVE) but then it quickly changes.... I don't get coffee or cacao or even any patchouli (which is ok) but there is something sweet and a little sharp....but not in a foodie way at all. Doesn't last long on me and I can see where this would be more of a sophisticated book shop scent. Not sure it's for me... have to live with it for a bit!