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Reapers Gonna Reap is such a nice sandalwood skin scent. On my skin, the fuzzy musk and sandalwood are about equal and then there's just a hint of dry vanilla. This feels like it belongs in the same 'family' as Morocco and Grooming Scene in a Brothel (both absolute favorites of mine). What I like about Reapers is the simplicity and closeness of the scent—it's very comforting, somehow. My favorite of the BPAL Liliths this year, and backup worthy.

Bewitched's berry notes aren't overwhelming on me: Deep, luscious green and berry scents that evoke images of woodland witchcraft and the raw power of nature: blackberry, sage, green tea, wild berries and dark musk. There's also Elf: Pale golden musk, honeycomb, amber, parma violet, hawthorne bark, aspen leaf, forest lily, life everlasting, white moss, and a hint of wild berry. And the lovely, discontinued Vinland, if you can find it: The legendary site of the Viking colony in Newfoundland founded circa 985. Crisp northern wind blowing over loganberry, wild roses, prairie crocus, iris versicolor Linné, mountain avens, yellow birch bark, mayflower and maple leaf.

Ooof, I love this. Apple X is the polished patchouli apple of my dreams. Wet, that juicy red apple note looms large and delicious. But as it starts to dry down, the patchouli and teakwood come forward and balance that fruity note out. The white and red musks and vanilla cream are more apparent 10 minutes in as this mellows into the most awesome slow-jam apple. It's the olfactory equivalent of a Sexy Apple Halloween costume. Will probably pick up a backup bottle of this one because I think it will age spectacularly.

Wet, this is all caramel and green apple with a bit of cinnamon. The cookie comes forward as it dries down, with the oaty, burnt sugar note that I get from Sugar Skull. That sugar note can be a little iffy on me, but I love the caramel apple opening.

When I was a kid, we didn't have many sweets in the house unless it was a holiday or birthday...my brother and I would get a small cookie after dinner if we ate the healthy bits. But there were always marshmallows in the pantry and maraschino cherries in the refrigerator. And when wet, Yipe! is the nostalgic smell of that maraschino cherry jar when I opened it to fork out one radioactive-red sweet. It's a very strong cherry-vanilla scent with an edge of almond. As it starts drying down, the cream comes through and this smells more like a real dessert. The blackberries pull in a darker berry note, making the cherry a black cherry. A couple of hours after applying, this is still black cherries and cream.

(Edouard Manet) Peach, white rose, and charentais melon with tuberose, French vanilla, Darjeeling tea, white sandalwood, and soft musk. Still Life with Melon and Peaches is a very light and refined peach, a gentle fruity-floral with a slight purr of Darjeeling, sandalwood, and musk running underneath. I wasn't sure I'd love the charentais melon, since I'm not a huge melon fan in general. But here it seems very...restrained? I can smell it when I unscrew the cap and huff the contents of the bottle, but via the sprayer, it seems to just diffuse and melt into everything else. In my hair it smells like a tea-dimmed peach, well-blended with a very soft touch of roses, woods, and musk. It's quite pretty and falls into the category of 'could wear anywhere'. At the end of the day, the peach is only faintly detectable, and it's just a whisper of tea, roses, and woodsy musk.

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Leda is just...amazing. First of all, let's talk about the sandalwood. Even though this contains white sandalwood, it has the persistence and heavy-lidded density of red sandalwood on me—incensey and sensual. The white oudh, pearl orris, and translucent spiced petals are gently in tension with the crimson and gold musks, and it smells like red and gold musk giving a thin gilded coat to something opalescent. As it dries, it gets lighter and lighter in feel until it seems to float away, but make no mistake, this is one hell of an incensey blend in the main. If you like Smut, Sinus Amoris, Spellbound, Hygeia, and O Love and Time and Sin...this feels like it's in the same family. A red musk-centric blend on my skin that made my husband think I was burning actual incense. No, that's just how I smell.

Yum! A Little More Tea is predominantly sugar cookies and a spot of Earl Grey tea on me. There's also honey and cream here, but they're not overwhelming on my skin. The honey is stronger than the cream, especially on the drydown. Mostly I get the cookies, from start to finish.

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They are imps of the kitchen, or drawing-room at most; and, if any spirit answers to their sphere, it must be those of unclaimed and disaffected ghosts, who, having no substance within themselves, out of which to compound a spiritual body, wander about church-yards, or haunt the localities where they enacted old crimes, or lived frivolous and disjointed lives. … It may be that the spirits called the Rappers… belong to this class. They are in, what Dante would call Limbo, driven to and fro, perturbed and lonely. These eagerly question the finer spirits, who pass through their realm on their way to higher spheres, of all the gossip that used to interest them on earth. But, inasmuch as the companionship of these people was in no way desirable while they lived in this world, they become less so when separated from the body. They are the gossips of ghost land, poor, frivolous, flimsy wretches, who receive the shred of thought here, and the shadows only of through in the spirit world, for all thought has a body and a substance as it were to itself, so that we say a thought may be grasped in anticipation of the fact hereafter; hence, thought finding no lodgment in these thin poor spirits, floats right through them. They have a restless desire for tangibility, and are perpetually trying to command material objects in a way to make themselves known. —d’Espérance, 1897 Idle poltergeists and truant phantoms loitering in darkened corners and shadowed hallways: black cedar, patchouli, and tea leaf spiked with a tittering cackle of pink peppercorn, mate, and lime rind. Gossips of Ghost Land is kind of a wild olfactory ride. First applied, it's definitely cedar and patchouli, with something that feels minty but might be the lime? The tea leaf, mate, and pink peppercorn add color and movement so it does smell restless, like different spirits moving around in the dark. Dry, this is primarily patchouli and tea leaf on me, with cedar lingering but not dominant. (I don't amp cedar, though, for the record.) The pink peppercorn and lime smooth into an interesting layer that adds subtle spice and freshness. The sillage smells a bit like chocolate, which is so weird and fun. The overall effect is really unusual and perfectly evocative—there's something a bit disturbing about this one, in the best way. I'm definitely hanging on to my bottle because the progression is so fascinating and the patch/tea leaf drydown is really nice.

Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn is really lovely. The vanilla, ruby musk, amber, and orange create a creamy, golden orange-red feel that's complicated in the best way with frankincense, saffron, cardamom, anise, and fennel—and a hint of smoke and honey. Overall, it's like a spiced vanilla-orange on me with a musky-ambered base. It's elegant and well-blended, upscale and straddling the line between a modern amber and a gourmand. If I didn't have so much hair gloss already and just the one head, I would be waffling over whether I should snag a backup of this beauty (and I still might). It smells like the colors of a sunset, my friends.

I'll echo Teamama: hugs to you and your caregivers and family. Sometimes I use BPAL to anchor and comfort me and it's usually not so much about a specific scent, but about the right scent for me that day. I dot a little on my collarbone and do some deep breathing exercises, to enjoy the scent and to dispel anxiety.

Crucifixion is a lovely feature for red clove: Frankincense, dried red roses, and myrrh with soft orris, labdanum, and red clove.

Allegory of Chastity is indeed super pink! And super pretty.

Bestiaire du Moyen Âge is an amazing capture of the art. This is a blue, green, and pale-white-pink palette of notes, all working together. The watery blue musk, grass, mint, and pine needle notes center this solidly in the fresh, airy outdoors. Although any of those notes could overpower, they're kept amazingly in check. The strongest note on my skin is the apple blossom, and it's so pretty. It smells like a combination of tart green apple and sweet white flowers. The overall effect is of springtime in a bottle: blue skies, blue water, green grass, fresh mint, aromatic pine needles, and cascades of pale pink and white apple blossoms. Lovely!

Crucifixion is frankincense, red rose, and myrrh in almost equal parts on my skin. The rose really does smell dry...this is not a lush rose, brimming with dew and volatile oils, this is a dried rose that gives off a historic and slightly dusty notion of itself. The clove, labdanum, and orris support and add depth. There's a church incense angle here that I find really nice, and the overall scent is very relaxing to me. I agree that this will age beautifully, and I'll be pulling this out again in the late fall and winter to wear.

The Unicorn, Rushing is my favorite unicorn from the first release. This is truly ethereal on my skin— the pale lilacs lead, with orris and mallow flower trailing. There is no marshmallow note listed, and I get none from this blend. Queen of the Night is referring, I think, to the night blooming cereus. I have no idea what it smells like, but there's a slightly waxy, white floral here that might be it. The white moss and dusky mist notes smell like a shadow of oakmoss and something aquatic—light as air. But it's the lilac that has me spellbound. I love the smell of lilacs and here they're spun like moonlight into a pale floral masterpiece. Gorgeous!

De Vos' Unicorn is so fun. The sugared peony, rose-tinted vanilla, and apricot send this into sweet fruity-floral territory, with the white musk grounding and blurring, and the lavender adding a spike of something herbaceous and slightly astringent. I get zero marshmallow from this—the listed note is mallow, a plant/flower. That said, the sweetness from the sugared peony and apricot do give the impression of a confection...but at least for me, this is more 'sugared bouquet' than 'floral marshmallow'. This is sweet enough that I'll need to be in the right mood to wear this, but it's a keeper. I think it would be tough to wear this and be in a bad mood!

Like others above, St. Clare was a bit of a surprise for me. Rum notes in perfume tend to get very loud on my skin—I amp booze, what can I say. So when I first tested St. Clare, I was expecting a rum ball of sorts, but what I got was a gentle, fuzzy, soft cloud of tobacco and white sandalwood and mahogany and oudh. It's as soft as the downy fur on that tiny brown unicorn! The rum and vanilla give this a bit of a gourmand turn, but it's mostly light, layered woods and tobacco incense. I dabbed some of this on my husband this morning, and it smells even better on him—we're going to have to share this bottle.

Allegory of Chastity is pure sweet pink roses and cream. I get just enough jasmine and rosehip to make things interesting and impart a slightly tart, indolic edge—but if I didn't know it was in here, I'm not sure I could pick it out. Dry, this is similar on my skin to Venus Libitina, if you subtracted the cherry note from VL. Very pretty, and chaste as f*ck.

Of the Unicorn is definitely earthy—that's such a good word for it, Herb Girl! It's patchouli-dominant on me but far from simple. The orris, agarwood, and ambrette add subtle notes of violety oudh, sweet soil, a hint of woodsmoke, and an undercurrent of cinnamon-vanilla animalic musk. The result is a sexy, earthy patchouli blend that's also gentle and very relaxing to wear.

Mythological Scene smells regal. Wet, the orris butter, red sandalwood, and mandarin are the most prominent notes, with the patch and leather close behind. The ambrette musk comes out as this starts drying down, and gives it a rawer edge that works well against the elegant orris. The bergamot, bourbon vanilla, and saffron are tougher for me to pick out, although they seem responsible for the red-orange-gold glow imparted to the sandalwood and musk. Once it's fully dry, I catch bits of the saffron for sure. This is totally beautiful and so difficult to describe. It's like something outdoorsy—warm woods and musk—up against something refined—orris and leather—burnished with something bright and gourmand—saffron, vanilla, and mandarin. I'm going to love wearing this now, and also in the fall.

It was 94 degrees today and humid as hell. These are the days that call for Lick It!