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Auspicious Q

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    Moonbathing

    Solar-powered electric melons and droplets of pina colada caught in an electrical storm. This is one sweet, cool creamy scent! Green melon, white cream, lime, cocanut, and the sense that it's cold. It's almost like melon pina colada ice cream. I do not get much in the way of water or rain or ocean or other "aquatic" smells, but those notes do very well for me, so they may just be blending into the other notes for me. I tested this straight out of the mail. If things have changed when I try it again after it has settled, I will update my review!
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    Improvisation

    This is a wonderful, sweet, but not overpowering white tea scent. There is honey here, but it is light, not heady honey. The fruits play a supporting role in the background.
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    Limited editions equivalents in the general catalog?

    My discovery of late: Jolly Roger smells a lot like Walking the Prime Meridian
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    Goat BPAL? Hay and goats?

    Hello crazy goat lady! I am slightly unbalanced goat lady, so good to meet you! I am in a goat milk co-op, so I don't have my very own goats. Yet. I think the suggestions for goat perfumes have been spot on so far. You also asked for barn scents, and I recommend Eastern Comma, a dried tobacco and wood and oranges scent. Not hay, but it evokes a storage barn in late summer to me. I've also seen some chatter about the Mother Shub perfumes from a few years back.
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    ISO *Perfect* Winter Scent!

    Sparkle and Glitter from the current BPTP Yules is fir, snow and white chocolate, a unique take on the evergreen plus sweet snow idea.
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    Sparkle and Glitter

    White chocolate, fir, and a wet, aquatic snow. All three totally present with fir and chocolate at the front. It's a great combo, if you ask me.
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    Winter-Time

    When I first got this (2014), it was so faint I could not smell it much, and it had a sort of strange evergreen note I didn't like. Two years of age have rendered it exactly as advertised, sweet snow. It's beautiful! This is a sweet frozen aquatic note, it really does mimic that sweet scent the air gets when snow is coming. Medium throw, and a pink color from my synesthesia, for what it's worth. I love it, and I am just sad I don't have more.
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    Rain Scents

    I love aquatic and watery scents! I would also recommend Waiting (from the current Motherhood collection) as it really does have the smell of wet pavement. You might also look at The Stormhold (Neil Gaiman - Stardust), Thalassa the Galapagos Mermaid (Carnival Diabolique), and Plague of Frogs (Hellboy). There are several good aquatic scents in the Picnic in Arkham collection too!
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    Autumn Scents - recommend the ones you love

    In Tennessee, the first part of autumn is still pretty warm. I like to wear Aristocratic Couple, Eastern Comma, and Deadly Nightshade Honey during that time. Edit, also Boo.
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    GC recs from the past 1-2 years

    This is my second bpaliversary, so I am not sure how new things are, but two of my favorites are Deadly Nightshade Honey and Egle
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    Boticelli’s Unicorn

    I agree with those above who compare this perfume to The Book from Florette's Purple Snails. The leather in this blend is much softer, however, and the rose is very well blended with the amber. It's a pink, vulnerable, warm, and feminine scent. I didn't purchase it in the end, because I already have The Book and they are in a very specialized family for my collection, but if The Book was too strong on rose or leather for you, or if you want a new rose/soft suede scent, I highly recommend this. It's beautiful and lasts and lasts.
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    The Initiation

    I bought this as a bottle this spring. This is amazing in cool weather. It is Glace peaches with wine and tobacco. Sweet, chewy, but deep and not too much. Very sexy.
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    'Pink' scents

    The Waltz and Edith Cushing from the Crimson Peak collection, Living from the 14 Anniversaries.
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    If your top 5 scents are... Then try these!

    Joopjoop- the GC scents Embalming Fluid and Sea of Glass are some of my favourite light green scents. You might also check out Full Moon, Rendezvous in the Bath,and On the Porch in the Rain from this year's Lupercalias. If you like the herbal aspect of Catherine, Mummeries and Straining-to-be-Memorable Passages from the Scalia collection might please you.
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    Daffodils, Narcissus, Paperwhites... and Hyacinth

    You might check out the notes for Ladon and Dawn:Mourning Victory.
  16. Yay! Welcome! Based on your list above, you might enjoy Obatala and Beer from the Marshwoman's Brewery.Also, you might like some of the scents in the Picnic in Arkham collection. Lots of those blend aquatic notes with green or smokey ones. I haven't tried smokestack, but if it is the sweet smokiness that you like, you might try a blend from the Ars Draconis collection, all of which have Dragons Blood Resin and smoke with other notes. Goblin is one of my husband's all time favorites!
  17. I am in love with the Fae Forest atmosphere spray from the Black Phoenix Trading Post. ETA Notes: Mist-shrouded woods: Siberian fir needles, white pine bark, aspen leaf, wild lily, bergamot, wood violet, thimbleberry, sun-star, golden bell, snowdrop, heartsease, and bloodroot.
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    Femme Fatale Scents

    So many good suggestions! I would add The Great Sword of War, Red Lantern, and Ploutos.
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    If your top 5 scents are... Then try these!

    I'd recommend Jolly Roger!
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    Dolce Stil Nuovo

    Reviewing the 2015 oil. A very warm and sweet perfume. Very classic smelling, the chief notes are the vanilla, rose Otto, and amber with the other notes adding fepth and support. This reminds me of EDITH CUSHING without the goody quality.
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    Imp and Bottle Cap Issues (breakage, leakage)

    The top of the cap of my frimp of Dracul just popped off leaving the top of the imp open and the bottom part of the cap still inside the top of the tube, which I think is what has been described upthread. This frimp was included in my April order. It's a frimp, and I really don't care too much about it, but I'm reporting here because I think the Lab got a bad batch of imp caps, as I have never had a problem previously and this is the third one (only from recent orders, mind) that has done this exact thing.
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    Apples?? Finding the right apple scent

    Apple Pie is at the Trading Post in the great pie debate! Also Apple of Sodom and Verdandi from the GC. My favorite apple scents are both from 2015 Lupercalia - Venus Obsequens from the Lab and Faces Cleaving Each to Each from the Post.
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    Smell like a Greenhouse

    Deep in Earth is very soil filled and has florals too. It is an impable GC.
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    If your top 5 scents are... Then try these!

    A few folks have recently mentioned White Rabbit as a favorite. To you all I recommend Kubla Khan, which also has a spiced vanilla tea and creamy florals vibe. Instead of a clean white shirt Kubla Khan has hay and incense smoke in an ice cave. It's like White Rabbit went on a Walter Mitty adventure through Mongolia.
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    Imp and Bottle Cap Issues (breakage, leakage)

    This is starting to look like a trend. The same thing happened to me with frimps of Saturnalia and Rakshasa that came to me in February from the Trading Post.
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