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I've worn this three times, and every time it made me happy.

I can't really say what it smells like because I can't pick out anything individually. It's definitely fruity -- kind of a red fruit? -- and it has a little bit of a spice kick that I guess is from the ginger. It smells a bit like fruitcake to me, to be honest. And now that I'm reading the notes and I see that it has green tea in it, I think maybe I can smell a little bit of tea. But I wouldn't have been able to tell you it had tea in it just from sniffing it.

It's unusual, but it's quite pleasant. Cheerful, even.

I'm not sure what I'm smelling in this. I put some on, and a single note or impression wasn't jumping out at me, so I thought I'd let it dry and see what happened. Well, it's dry now, but it's so faint I can barely smell it. So I put on a little more, and this time I noticed orange straight off. But then it turned a little sharp, like herby. Not sure what that's from. It gets a little floaty and kind of ghost-like, but the citrus in it gives it a kick. Then when it's totally dry, it's just sort of a light, indefinable soft scent that's barely there. Again.

I sort of see where this is trying to go, but I don't think it quite gets there for me.

Nice! It does smell like oak and paper. The herbs were a little strong at first but got softer as it dried, and the lemon cookies are just a smidge. Not overly lemony at all. Mostly that part of it just seems to be contributing something fresh-smelling to the scent. It's very warm and comforting to me.

My husband loves scents like Misk U and Lurid Library -- and they smell great on him -- so after I discovered I like this I passed the decant over to him to try. He likes it too! So it's a winner for both of us.

I really like this for the first 2-3 minutes -- thought it was going to be a new favorite -- but then the dreaded Note of Plastic made itself known. Before that happened, it was a gorgeous sweet rum scent, and I could smell the cheesecake too. I get so fed up with my skin chemistry turning all these lovely BPAL foodie perfumes into plastic on me.

Oh. This is one of those ones. One of the ones that smells very different depending on where I put it.

I put some on the back of my forearm. Nice. Musky -- rather like red musk, actually -- dry, slightly powdery. Not bad, but nothing that's making me dive for my wallet and hit the sales posts. I can smell the vetiver in it when I get up close, and it smells mostly like a pretty animalistic musky skin scent. On the prowl, for sure.

Being of the fair-haired, fair-complected variety, I tend to have dry skin issues in cold weather, and that does sometimes affect my perfume oils -- often the ones that are complex with musk or resin notes. So I thought I'd give it a whirl on the inside of my forearm, just to see.

Goodness, it doesn't even smell like the same perfume. The inside of the forearm swipe is strongly patchouli with a little bit of vetiver, and something so sharp it almost smells like anise. Hunh. Okay, let's try one more spot.

On my throat, it smells kinda similar to Death Adder. Obviously I can't get my nose to my throat to sniff my skin there, but the scent that wafts up is much more like Snake Oil than the other two spots.

I like all three scents. As you can guess, I'm pretty much sitting in a cloud of Tombeur right now after practically bathing in it, and it's wonderful. Sometimes with these ones that are morphers, I only like one of the varieties so I never wear it because I'm not sure what I'm going to get out of it. Well, I like all of these.

I'm glad we can still buy this on the BPAL site because I'll be adding a bottle to my next order.

For the first 20 minutes it was apple apple apple. After about 30 minutes or so, it's candy candy candy.

Apple is not my favorite fruit note, and I prefer smooth-sweet over tart-sweet. So although this one isn't a winner for me personally, I totally get why other people like it. I like it too, it just doesn't suit me.

This is a dry, very sweet tobacco/wood scent on me. It's so sweet it actually smells fairly foodie, like it has some sugar and some sort of spice that's commonly found in food.

I'm completely unfamiliar with bunn (thank you to surlygurl for pointing out that it's a type of taro -- Google apparently only thinks that bunn is a type of coffee maker), but I assume that's what's giving it the sweetness. The sweetness is unmistakably not like what you get from a fruit note, it's more like baked goods sweetness.

I only have a tester of this, but I would really like to have some more of this to let my husband try it. This seems a bit on the masculine side to me, and also exactly the sort of scent he likes.

I swiped this on before I looked at the notes, and I sniffed it for about 20 minutes. Basically my main impressions were that it smelled like a nondescript cologne. Soft, a bit musky, kind of incensey, and very much in the "skin scent" category. Not strong at all. I thought, "Eh, it's okay, but not a big winner."

Then I looked at the notes and thought, "Ooooh, Moroccan musk! Oh, and there's red currant in there too. Well maybe I like it more than I thought I did." I gave it another sniff and thought, "Yeah, it's pretty nice,"

Then I sat here and called myself a dumbass. Why would I change my opinion of a scent after finding out what the notes are? That doesn't make sense. It's not like someone who smells this on me would be like, "OOOH it has Moroccan musk, I am so jealous of your amazing perfume." They wouldn't know. Hell, I didn't even know until I looked at the notes.

So I'm going with my initial evaluation: Musky, incensey skin scent. Nice, but not a standout for me.

This smells quite similar to Kindly Moon on me, possibly because I seem to amp moonflower and blue musk. Thankfully I like both of those notes. I liked Kindly Moon, and I like Long Night Moon. They're both blue, kind of bright florals on me -- unusual and pretty. My problem with both of them is that they're just both so strong on me that it's all I can smell for like 2 hours after I put it on. I love it for about 30 minutes, and then I'm ready to smell something else. So I didn't wind up wearing either of them much, even though I thought they were very pretty and I liked them.

Very gingerbread-like at first, and a little bit of fruit. It's not nearly as WHOA GINGERBREAD as Gingerbread Poppet -- the musk and other notes kind of soften it up and make it more complex. I like it, but it doesn't really last very long on me. Plus I've been wearing Gingerbread Poppet for years, and it seems like whenever I'm in the mood for that sort of scent, I just automatically go to that one.

Delightful, simple, and bright. The tea note is strong, and the violet leaf is in the background. I'd swear there's some sort of citrus in there as well, but that could be because this tea scent is more crisp than other tea scents I've tried, so my befuddled brain thinks it's smelling citrus.

As others have mentioned, this is probably a great scent for spring.

I get a big blast of lavender, but only right at first. It calms down very quickly. Then I can smell geranium, and then it goes through a strange phase where it smells identical to soap, and then the whole shebang turns into kind of a dark, resiny powder scent with an odd high-pitched characteristic that I can really only describe as the scent equivalent of a buzzing or a whine. And that's where it stays.

How weird. I sense that strange doings are afoot. I believe my skin chemistry has no idea what to do with this oil, as it appears to have freaked out. OOOOoooh, wait, it has olibanum in it. Yeah, see, I should have noticed that earlier. There's your problem right there. That note doesn't play nicely with me. I'm sure this smells lovely on someone else, but it's not gonna work for me.

This smells like a deep, rich, and kind of dry blend of musk, patchouli, and oakmoss, with something sweet over the top that reminds me of vanilla. It's really nice. Doesn't smell old and decrepit at all. Smells kind of luxurious to me.

I think it's a tad too masculine for me, personally, so I handed the decant over to my husband to try. On him the cypress is a lot stronger. HA! This one smells better on me. This is seriously like one of two out of all the BPAL oils we've tried that smells better on me, with my weirdo skin chemistry.

I'm not quite sure what a couple of those notes smell like, but I do know I like this. It smells kind of like a spicy caramel scent on me, with a kick of copal. It's unusual but for some reason it's comforting to me. The tequila part of it doesn't smell alcoholic or kind of sour like some alcoholic notes sometimes do on me -- it just smells sweet and a little rich.

I waffled about getting a bottle of this about 12 times, and then ended up not doing it. I'm still not sure why I didn't. Every time I sniff it I love it. My husband likes it a lot. It's different from anything else I have. Probably should have gotten a bottle.

This product is fricking awesome. I use it in the bath, I use it in the shower, I dump a couple of drops into lotion... take your pick! Totally silky and beautiful, and in every way possible it's my favorite bath oil ever. I've even put it in my hair. I think my favorite way to use it is to use it as a moisturizer before I get out of the shower. At first I thought I should stand under the shower and sort of rinse after putting it on my skin, but I discovered that for one there is no need to rinse, and for two it seems like the hot water changes the scent of it a little bit. At first I thought that was just my imagination, but after several experiments I think it really does. So I just rub it all over my arms and shoulders and don't rinse.

I'm not sure how to review this one because it smells very strongly of frankincense on me, and every time I sniff it trying to figure out what it smells like all I can think of is church and Grandma. Rose petals... er, maybe? Saffron? I don't know. Church and Grandma. That's pretty much it. See, this is why I can't wear frankincense scents. I certainly don't dislike it, because my grandma was super awesome. But being constantly reminded of Grandma in a church setting makes me feel... guilty. LOL, Oh, Catholic upbringing, you strike again.

Soft, whispery, shadowy florals. Sweet and feminine, but not at all heady. It smells complex and intriguing. Seems like more of an evening scent than a morning one -- it's not bright and cheerful, it's mysterious. Very pretty. I only have a decant, and that's probably enough for me since I don't wear florals much, but I really won't want to give up my decant.

I don't really get any creaminess or honey from this, just red musk. I like red musk, but it's so strong on me that I like a little bit blended with other notes. This one is almost like a red musk single note on me. Not very soft, just very musky.

ETA: OH. Oops. My decant has been sitting there for a few weeks, and I decided to try swirling it around a bunch before trying it again, and now it smells a lot different. Beautiful and very soft and creamy. WOW, I'm really glad I did that because now I realized I like it a lot. Seriously, it smells a LOT different. Goodness. Had to check and make sure it was the same decant. This smells awesome.

When I first put this on, it smelled solely like carnations. Very true to the actual flower. Like I just put my nose in a carnation.

Then over the next 20 minutes as it dried, the patchouli and wood notes came out, making it a deeper and drier scent.

It ends up smelling mostly masculine to me, with a rather prim overtone.

Honestly, I'm not sure that I've smelled a BPAL oil that was similar to this one -- at this point, after sniffing/testing/wearing a few hundred over the past several years, it's not that often that I smell a BPAL oil without being reminded of another one. This one is distinctive. I can't remember another one that has a cologne + carnation scent.

I'm not sure my husband could pull this off, but... I could. And I will.

Boozy vetiver when it's wet, and then it sweetens up for a while, and then... it ends up smelling like an earthy (but not like dirt), dry, sweet dark musk when it's fully dry. It's unusual and although it's not what I'd call pretty, it's quite alluring.

See, this is one of those ones that I enjoy a lot personally but I'm a little afraid to wear outside of my house in case someone near me doesn't like it. It seems like it's a love it or hate it kind of deal. My husband crinkled his nose at it when it was wet and said, "It's better now," when it was dry. I don't think he likes it much. I do. But I suppose I probably shouldn't wear it if he objects to it.

I wasn't sure about this one but I wanted to try it because it sounded very pretty.

It is pretty -- it's an aquatic floral that has a nice, clear, crisp overtone -- but WHOA is it ever strong on me.

I'm testing four different BPAL oils on my arms right now and this one overpowers all the others. After about 30 minutes of it, I was kinda tired of smelling it.

It's nice, but I don't think it's for me.

Cute, pink, sweet, and strong.

If I didn't already have a couple of cute pink scents in my BPAL stash, I'd be all over this one. I see what people mean about the Crunch Berries. That is pretty much what it smells like.

Ghoulish, you jerk! What the hell?!

OK, the first time I tried this, it was medicinal cherry right at first but quickly settled down into a sweet pink fluffy sort of scent with a feel very similar to Velvet Unicorn. Quite nice. Velvet Unicorn is one of my favorites, and I liked Ghoulish a lot.

So today I'm pawing through my decants and I see Ghoulish, and I get all happy and smiley and swipe a bunch all over my wrists. I wait through the medicinal cherry phase and... practically an amaretto single note with a hint of coconut. Balls. Not what I was expecting at all. I don't know why it had to go and change on me, but it did.

I actually do like it, but I wasn't really in an amaretto+coconut mood when I put it on, so it's not what I wanted.

This is 70% sweet cinnamon candy, 25% spicy pumpkin and 5% blackberry on me.

Yup. Same for me. It started out with a promising pumpkiny scent and then turned into WHOA CINNAMON. There's a faint undercurrent of something that smells cookie-like. But as for the blackberry? Not much. And I could only smell something that was definitely a pumpkin note right at the beginning.

It's definitely not bad. Not at all. It smells good, and I like it. It's just that I was expecting some sort of sweet fruity pumpkin scent and I got cinnamon biscuits with the barest hint of fruit jam.

I usually like the Chinese New Year scents, and I definitely like this one. It smells fruity and bright and happy. Not much wood or dryness in there -- just a little bit. And the ctirus scents don't smell acidic at all -- they're nice and juicy-smelling.

I always try these New Year scents and I always like them, but Fire Pig is still my favorite. I always wind up comparing them to Fire Pig and thinking the new one just doesn't smell quite right because I keep wanting to smell Fire Pig.