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Eat Me starts out as pure buttercream vanilla goodness. I suspect that I'd be like the Pied Piper if I wore this around sugar addicted children. After a short while the tartness of the currants cuts through the creaminess and makes it a little subtler. I don't wear it often, but it makes me happy enough that I bought a bottle!

This is a really interesting scent. Wet it smelled like some sort of medicinal sasparilla concoction, but in a very nice way. It dries down to something dryer and more nutmeggy. I really love that it's spicy without being sweet. Wearing it feels like being in an old apothecary's shop.

This is a very gentle, quiet scent. The tea and herbal notes dominated at first. Eventually the peony comes out and takes over. Not a lot of staying power, but nice. I don't think I'm very fond of peony, but I was very fond of everything up til that point.

On me it was all new car smell. Unfortunate. Results were a lot better on my husband. It went from all dark musk and leather to lovely vetiver after a while. Unfortunately there was a long in-between period where he insisted that he smelled like Old Spice and was disgruntled. I'll have to give up on this one or else I fear he'll rebel against all future anointing.

This was very much a rose scent on me, but in a much warmer sense than many of the other BPAL roses. Unfortunately it was hateful on me and turned to pot pourri. I blame my chemistry for that because I love the smell of roses for the most part. I may have to try it out on my tester husband for scientific throughness' sake.

This had a lot of nice qualities about it. The outdoorsy but polished quality of it seemed very Oberon to me. I found it to be a little too store-bought mens' cologne for repeated use on my tester husband though.

This is exactly as described by the lab. The initial scent is the deep, dark cocoa. Then the rum takes it sweeter and it's almost like a flavored coffee scent. Very odd. Once the wine kicks in things are a little calmer scent-wise, but it's so very much about joyously silly, drunk rabbits. I'm not sure how often I'd wear it since I generally don't want to smell like rum. It's fun though.

This is a really interesting scent. It's initially very minty in a refreshing green kind of way. As it dries it gets warner and sweeter, but there's still the cool mint interjecting itself here and there. I'm feeling fairly sick right now and there's something really comforting about this combination of warmth and coolness. It's just fascinating.

This scent had a rich, almost choclatey quality to it. I think that must have been the tonka. The clove definitely lent its spiciness to the mix. I don't think I liked the way the violet mixed in though. I kept almost liking the scent, but something was holding it back for me. Overall it was actually very nice though. Just not quite right for me.

This is above all a confident scent. It's very outdoorsy and goddessy is all I can think of to say about it. After a while it smelled a bit like Anais Anais. I'm not sure what that's about. Just a general powderiness I suppose.

The plum and smoky opium entirely dominate this one me. It's got an almost bubble gum sweetness to it, but with a strong spiciness backing it up. It's simultaneously dark and youthful.

The tea rose scent came through strongest for me. Very old fashioned and regal. I have no doubt that Marie Antoinette would have loved it. After a while it mysteriously transformed into something very like Anais Anais (which I believe is rose and lily,) so if you love that scent you'll do well with this.

Oh, this is very interesting. The citrusy scent dominates at first. It's very sharp. As it dries down the musk and lavendar start to take over. Somehow the citrus pops through that and gives it a quality of being not quite decent. It's just this element of fierceness cutting through the scent of a gentleman like a subtle warning. It's so exactly as the description says.

I think this scent would have been lovely on me if I didn't have some sort of anti-rose curse going. It's tragic. Otherwise lovely though. It was very floral and the violets were beautiful, but the rose was just going all wrong on me.

Oh my. This one started out sweet and lovely and then morphed into some fruity rose air freshener. Not for me, but probably fabulous on others. I seem to have an anti-rose perfume curse that has applied to everything but Alice thus far. *sobs*

The way the different notes shift and then re-combine differently in this scent is incredible. In the bottle it smelled like a combination of rosewater and almond extract. The initial scent on was honeyed and rich, but not at all sickeningly sweet. It was lovely. Then the spiciness of the carnation came forward to dominate for a little while. It was almost peppery. After that the milk and rose started up and now, a few hours in, the honey and rose are strongest. I've had a number of other rose scents go hideously wrong on me, but this one is lovely and doesn't make me smell the least bit like old pot pourri. I just feel good while wearing it.

I am so very sad that this scent didn't work for me. At first I could smell all of the elements at once and it was a bit confusing. The violet that I loved so much in Saturnalia was there, but the iris just grew stronger and stronger until all I was left with was a little hint of powdery musk behind sharp, unforgiving iris. I'm just so jealous of everyone who could smell the violets for more than a minute. This is probably lovely on some, but for me it was just generically perfumey and incompatible with my chemistry.

While it was still wet my first impression was that this smelled somewhere between white and a light purpley scent. It gently switches between floral scents from an almost soapily sharp jasmine and ylang ylang at first to a mellower, sweeter blend of the jasmine and lilies after a while. It's got a very sentimental feel to it. It really smells as wistful as I would have expected from the description. I don't love this scent for me, but it is everything it's advertised to be.

This starts out with a strong white grapefruit smell. It's immediately different from the pink grapefruit in Cheshire Cat. Unfortunately once that faded things went all wrong. I suspect my chemistry is not suited to this because it just got sharper, sweeter and very powdery until I felt like I couldn't stand it. I tried to wait it out even though it was making me dizzy but I had to take it off with rubbing alcohol. Baobhan Sith + Me = poisonous fumes. Gah.

I'm wearing Cheshire Cat right now and it's making me crazily cheerful. I put it on right after a shower and the scent has me feeling like I took the pinkest bubble bath ever mixed. It's citrusy to be sure. While wet it was especially like a pink grapefruit. As it dries down it's getting more powdery and surrounding me in this gentle, insane pink cloud. It's very much a mood altering scent. I don't feel as though I could do anything but smile while wearing it.

When I first applied Fenris Wolf it smelled like thick, sweet resin. The sandalwood came through some and it had a cedary sharpness that made my eyes water a little. After a while it's calmed down to be more powdery and less sharp and sticky. Not for me, but that's more about my personal taste than the perfume itself.

This didn't really work for me, but I'm sure that others would love it. I just can't like sweet Vanilla in scents. It was very sweet and had a nice old fashioned quality to it. Just too sweet and vanilla-y for me. It did smell less overpowering after a few hours but it was still very sweet.

I just received a bunch of imps yesterday and Saturnalia is the first BPAL I've ever tried. It has temporarily wiped away my curiosity about the other scents and I've now worn it twice in a row. It smelled incredibly strange in the bottle. I thought there was a very good chance I'd hate it. Wet it smelled like moist, slightly rotted vegetation briefly. After drying a little is started getting spicy in an almost cedar-y way and gradually seduced me. Past reviewers termed it "vegitatively feral" and "furry." So true. I smell like some sort of fierce, green and purple flowered topiary animal come to life. It's sweet and spicy and green and a little bit musky. Very lively. After a few hours it became sweeter and the violet came into its own. I woke up still smelling wonderful this morning and just had to wear it again. One caveat: Saturnalia is very strong and more than a little would be too much of a good thing. I expect the imp will last for ages as a result, but when it gets low I'm buying a bottle.