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Somehow I missed this scent release entirely, so when it popped up as an offer for a swap - the scent description sounded perfect. And I have been a HUGE fan of the Lilith scents, ever since Crawdad. Note: Haven't tried TKO. So no comparisons for you here. Bottle: Lavender. Beautiful, soft, sleepy lavender. Initial Skin: It instantly gets... "soapy" But I say that with the most love possible. I use lavender as a bath oil - so it me it smells like bathtime. Plus something in this coconut is really clean and fresh. I swear I can smell fuzzy clean puppy hair in this. probably in my mind, but so lovely. Drydown: Coconut starts to bloom beautifully. This is legit coconut to me - not plastic or fake or suntan-y. This feels like coconut cream. Backing up a still herbal natural lavender that's staying strong. Verdict: This is absolutely stunning for me. It's a soft, gentle scent. and it's NOT soft in throw. It's actually fairly powerful on the scent-front; but it's such a calm scent that you could drown in this and love it. I'm going to be trying this in the diffuser in the house. It might also be nice to keep AT work, for those stressful moments I feel I might go homicidal. So relaxing and calming. Nom.

This one wasn't on my radar, but came up as a swap option. I adore carnation. I adore "sugared" things (Faith and Hope as examples). So figured heck why not! I had previously not saught after because I don't know what Phlox will smell like as a perfume. I assumed generic floral so ran away - I dun like floral. But, let's try it! Bottle: massive head tilt. Sweet almost floral. ethereal musk? Initial Skin: Artisan Red Hot candy. Like, smells like those so much to me, but without being fake or too cinnamony. It's super gentle beautiful. Artisan organic. lol Drydown: More of a floral tilt comes out. I own the single note of the Spanish red carnation. Perhaps this is not the same carnation note, so I'm taking a gamble- But if I assume this is the same note, and remove that carnation from this scent in my brain - what's left I'm assuming is Phlox. If so - Phlox appears to be a soft gentle floral. Almost buttery? My brain thinks it's a cream-colored floral. Carnation is as spicy as ever on my skin. LOVE it. it's tempered down by a soft sweetness to everything - nowhere near candy levels or straight sugar notes. There's an overall soft delicacy to this scent that I'm really adoring. This is one of the few florals I'm going to keep around. My kind of strong powerful feminine. Verdict; Summery carnation, spicy power, soft and gentle floral hints. Very Woman to me. If this is pink, it's in the burgundy family. Edit to add: This baby has BEAUTIFUL drydown. 12 hours after applying and a really flippin' long workday it's the creamiest most beautiful vanilla-like faintly spicy shimmer left behind. Thing is beautiful the whole way through.

Imp: sweet wood Initial skin: GOOY SWEET BEEERRRRIIIES of indiscernible origin. Drydown: Daw, the goopy strawberry/blackberry amazingness i was excited about gets quickly replaced by watermelon. That is a powerful watermelon shew. Another reviewer said it best. This is watermelon bubbilicious. The wood comes out on further drydown and just sort of makes the whole thing extra odd to me. Spiffy scent, but super weird and confusing for me. Nailed the mark. lol

I actually don't know when/where I got this imp (lol). But these notes are scaring me. Pumpkin if not spiced right just goes wonk on me, Chocolate turns to chalk, pomegranate amps to bitterness, and cream is 50/50 chance to be beautiful, or to be sour milk. So. Lets do this. Imp: Dark chocolate pomegranate bar, from the organic section. Initial skin: Sort of uneventful. Not really.. anything. My skin is thirsty I guess. Drydown: Cherry/Cranberry white chocolate. Dry, chalky... stale? Caramel pops out but not in a wet thick way - very much so stale and old. Dunno. Maybe it's aged poorly. Maybe it was always that way. But just not anything to write home about. Sometimes it wafts and reminds me of some of the Sugared She-Goat chocolates with white chocolate. But only for a few moments, then its like the caramel gets in the way. The pumpkin is just making a mess of everything as well. Proooobably should have trusted my instincts on this one. Not one for my skin.

Got this one as a tester in a swap. I'm not a floral person, but I like rose and vanilla musk sounds awesome. So let's do this. Imp: SHEW FLORAL Initial Skin : :| Yep so that's floral. All kinds of floral. Powerful floral. I'm realizing "tea rose" is a white scent that amps all over the powderyfloral place and I just can't handle it. Drydown: I think I can sense the vanilla musk in there. These florals are high notes and powerful. The vanilla musk is acting like a base note gluing them together and making things cohesive and just slightly smooth and sweet. But SHEW FLORAL.

Hm. I thought this scent would be more interesting. Just a mash of spices in the already spiced pumpkin scent from the 2012 year. Faintest hint of mimosa? That and the spiced pumpkin are the only light/high notes. Everything else feels base and heavy. Making this a real heavy autumnal scent. There are these tendrils of lightness that waft through ~ like, mimosa and tea tree oil almost. Not very strong. Verdit; Masculine deep smooth heavy.

Imp: yuuuuuum this reminds me of my favorite Friday the 13th scent (Feb '09). rich spicy almost foodie. Initial Skin: mmm keeps it up. Please continue pumpkin III, so I can hunt you down instead of Feb '09, because you might be easier to get. Drydown: I really love this scent. Everything is playing well together. It's spicy, warm, smooth yet peppery, sultry but foodie. I just love it. Verdict; 13 Feb 2009's cousin. Yum yum.

Imp: Coffee Patch (omg why isn't that a flippin' thing) Initial on skin: Eh. Dumbed down pumpkin latte, basically. Drydown: Woodier elements peak out through the pumpkin. Spicy, rich, deep. Not bad. Verdict; Strong spicy pumpkin scent - I just prefer some of the others. Nothing crazy notable about this one to me. But it's solid. Slightly masculine.

Imp: wet (as in, being ruined it's so wet) leather Initial on skin: Yup BPAL spiced pumpkin Drydown: I don't even. Maybe age is hard on hay. This smells like "BPAL's Spiced Pumpkin Scented Crayon". The leather is strong on me, and clashes awful with the pumpkin. Crayons everywhere. Blech. Life was not good to you, little imp.

Imp: leather tobacco. Super masculine. Initial skin: Smoky herbal. Drydown: very masculine. Dee + Carnival smoky leather scents. It's got a tart green-ness to it that makes it really unique and fuzzy. Verdict; masculine fuzzy warm dark scent, rubbed with herbs. Creepy thing - it again smells exactly like the spider looks. So Creepy.

Imp: Super herbal and green Initial skin: Remarkably floral at first, but quickly fades off. Drydown: Super smooth base that reminds me of vanilla, but not vanilla scent. Like a coconut milk floral drink. On top of it is sparkles of lime and gentle ginger. It blends really well together. It's a bit faint, I wish it had more uumph because I would really love this. Initial morpher, I had to wait at first. But it blends into a smooth, gentle, key-lime coconut slush. Really relaxing to sniff. I looked at the picture on scentbase - and this scent is EXACTLY THAT SPIDER! It's fragile, unimposing, but yet somehow flawlessly and eerily beautiful. hmmm going to keep this imp and try again. I think it will be a fader, but something about this scent really draws me in. We'll see how it does as a room scent too.

Wet in imp: Dirty dirty pine Skin initial: Patch pine. Skin drydown: This is tricky. I LOVELOVELOVELOVE black patchouli. I can smell it clearly in this and want to love it. But then there's pine. and they weirdly go together very seamlessly. But it's... wrong. But it's right. It's vaguely sweet, herbal. But it's just MOSTLY patchouli and pine making love on my arm. It's beautiful but it's wrong.

Imp: Oh my. This is orange cookies of amazingness Initial Skin: I'm going to eat my flipping arm what is happening. This is heaven. Orange sticky glaze on pumpkin ginger cookies kind of heaven. Drydown: YUP stays amazing. All the other reviews are spot on too. This is heaven. My imp was from the original decant in 2012 I never got to testing. REGRETS. SO MUCH REGERTS.

Imp: Diluted BPAL pumpkin Initial Skin: What the. This smells exactly like stovetop stuffing. Drydown on skin: It's still bordering on stovetop stuffing for me. Which i really weirdly kind of like. I'm pretty hungry right now too... It's basically pumpkin on me, with a level of cinnamony spice on top of it. But predominantly foody with almost herbal tangs to it. Verdict; Stovetop stuffing. I'm sorry.

Imp: Classic BPAL pumpkin foodie. Initial Skin: Ballooned around the room into a pumpkin latte frenzy. Literally exactly like pumpkin latte Skin drydown: F me this is better than pumpkin latte. It's got a dark thickness to it that pumpkin latte lacks. Smoky maple smells amaaazing. At first I got no licorice at all, but then it started to slowly and gently bloom. It is proper BLACK licorice. Rich and dark and appropriately Halloween. Verdict; This is Pumpkin latte's brooding older brother, snacking on halloween candy. I like this a lot. I'd consider this a TRUE unisex scent. It's got sweet from the candyfloss/licorice, but yet smoky-spice from the pumpkin & maple. Nommy. Wish I had tried it in 2012 so I could have grabbed a bottle.

2012 Version (I noticed there's no tag on this thread for that... so that's weird.) Apple apple apple. That's it, that's all I got. Apple. Juicy juicy apple, with splashes of Pomegranate. In the imp this smelled FUNKY as funkily possible. But on skin it was just juicy red apple and pom musk. I'll probably trade it off because I like a little more depth, and Pom. is not a great note on me :s

In the imp this was all green musky. Skin initial - HONEY. Bloomed beautifully. Reminded me of Crib Girls with the intensity at first. Settled on skin ... this is Crib Girls Light. Actually this smells a lot like Diabolical Offspring did on me (from years ago). It had a "Baby sweetness"; this is basically this scent entirely. Like really well taken care of baby butt. Kind of lovely but uh, you know.

On a never-ending quest for Peaches and Blueberries. But ... I don't know how I feel about strawberries yet. Thankfully I don't need to know yet, because while the initial add was all strawberry Jam, it quickly faded on me. What it leaves behind is a soft, warm, musky vanilla concoction with the faintest peach stirred in. It's almost like my blend is entirely different from some of the other reviews. Oh this gets so beautiful as it wears and melds. Gentle, sultry, musky, sweet. Sweetness is all fruit (no added sugar ) and I don't care to dissect peach from strawberry. The musky base is probably benzoin + sandalwood - I don't even care. It's just the warmest, softest, best thing ever. makes me want to sunbathe in the grass while eating a bowl of fresh picked fruit. Flipping amazing scent. These peach scents I swear. I love you so much. EDIT TO ADD: My bottle was thick with ribbons of something in the oil. Within ten minutes of setting my bottle down after rolling and mixing, it's separated again. Worth checking to make sure it's well mixed for applying.

I'm on a hunt for amazing peach scents. So there is not a single Dragoncon I do not want to sniff. So - Bottle swapped for one. I'm VERY concerned about the Jasmine, as I haven't found a single blend with Jasmine I can wear happily. This scent however, may be that exception to prove the rule. This is a zippy, bright, tart citrus first, with juicy fruit sweetness underneath. It is not peach prominent, but it IS there strongly for me. Jasmine is not a prominent note, thank god, but is a backer playing well to tie everything together with a soft white light. I don't notice the green tea much - except that I felt this peach was unripe. Everything in this scent feels like an ALMOST ripe note - as in it's still green, living, pulsing. This is really beautiful to me. The more I inhale the more it grows on me. Jasmine usually gets cloying/heading/up-in-my-face in a way I despise. But this scent is blended together in a way that I barely notice the Jasmine. It adds a feminine element to the blend that I think otherwise would be too bitter from the citrus prominence. I'm really fascinated by how these notes are blending and playing so well together on me. Yum. Like it a lot.

Basically just a mead scent to me. Honey heavy and a bit yeasty. The yeasty part kills it for me. Literal foodie scent.

Imp: Oh god sickly sweet. Sugariest syrup ever. Thick & heady sugar. Wet on skin: Yup still thick. Almost butterscotch-y in how thick sweet it is. Caramelized, condensed? Uh, or aged maybe. Dry: It's like the sugar starts to unwind from each other. It was so heady sweet because it's like every sugar possible wound together. They're still eternally glued together and will never be completely apart. This is so much sugar - but it is NOT the sugar like in candy phoenix or bitches love unicorns. This is thick sugar - like wet cotton candy re-hardened in the bag. It's the goo and the gunk that is making this so so heavy of a blend. This is the male counterpart to Candy Phoenix. It is dark on the sugar spectrum vs Candy's bright light upper tier. I can grab the upper notes when i sniff this scent that are in candy phoenix/Bitches love unicorns - but it's overwhelmed by the abundance of what's almost a deep caramelized toffee. Swapper for me personally, but a really neat scent. I also remember this scent- I did test it back in 2008. It doesn't smell like it's changed at ALL.

Imp ; mmmmm cider Wet on skin ; mmmmmm cider Drydown; mmmmmmm cider. Perfectly apple cider. The good kind of apple cinder. Tons of vague spices and apple pulp. Much more clear than other "cider" scents I've tried. I love this so much. Another review said it was just like Pure Applesauce. If so; I'ma stockpile me some bottles. Off to swap for that lovely since it'll be easier to get than a bottle of this one. Verdict; Love it. Perfect Apple Cider. If a version gets remade I'm going to be all over it. Flawless love.

This is my first New Year scent I think I've tried. Right away on skin this is just simply delicious. Juicy and sweet. I don't identify it as honeydew or melon off the bat, it's not that clear-cut to me. This scent is really blended together well; so I'm going to toss all the individual notes and give the vibe. This is gently earthy, sweet-musky predominant, spicey, fruity. This is a really clear scent to me - that is there isn't any floral/amber/soapy/powdery anything happening. It's very deep and rich to me. It reminds me of what I love in Crawdad and other berry scents - a sort of musky fruit that blooms as you wear it. This is startling beautiful. I believe I was frimped this one in a swap; really grateful for that! I'm learning that the lab scents that have a trillion things in them I tend to absolutely ADORE. Love this scent. Love it.

So I'm firmly planted in the "Aquatic cucumber" camp as well. I do get a layer of leather though. When I huff the leather I think the "Aquatic Cucumber" better blends in and then becomes Cologne. But if I back off again - back to aquatic cucumber. I think this one is all skin chemistry. I purchased this for my husband on a whim-buy. As he said; "I don't want to call it basic, but... I mean if I look at the counter and go 'Lordy or Dee?' I think the answer is obvious". I love him. Yes, Dee is the obvious answer <3 That said ; on him this is ENTIRELY leather cologne. 100% that's all it was. Morphed into a musky, "generic" man scent. And, to him, this was just a really crappy version of Dee. Completely different than how it smells on me.

Very Green scent. I didn't 100% know what lilac smelled like (Florals are not my strength) but now I sure do! This is a nice gentle floral/woodsy scent. It's not powder/soap or in-your-face floral. It's really comforting and natural. This warmed me up to lilac for sure. Initially the florals come across strong, but after a small wait they mellow down. It makes this scent truly unisex to me. If you're actually non-binary this scent could be perfect. It's got such a beautiful balance between trees and flowers, it feels like... exactly what it should. The lilac wood. Innocent but with shadows. New growth but old as earth. Hmmm this scent gets to the heartstrings somehow. Probably a swapper for me due to the floral slant, but there's something mystical about this one.