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Lily and rose can easily go grandma on me, but in this case the myrrh (which usually hates me) comes through and keeps the lily and rose from going floral grandma! On the whole, it's just not for me, but I gave it to my mom as she loves florals and the spice of the myrrh added a depth she liked.

I really want to like this one - I love lilac and musks, and lilac musk, be still my beating heart, but ack the benzoin and the violet, and it hates my skin. Sigh.

I got this in an Ebay imp lot that I purchased so I could test out a bunch of BPAL scents that I might not select on my own. I really like honey scents, but they can very quickly go to this weird stale sweetness on me like really, old vintage candy. At first when wet, the honey wine is prominent while the incense takes a back note, which is great because my skin doesn't usually like incense - it even ends up being an incense I could like, but then...the drier it gets, the staler it gets on me. Into the swap box.

This is definitely a smoldering, dark scent. I got it with an Ebay imp lot because usually I avoid these types of scents...and for good reason, I need more notes to balance the darkness of this scent, but it is definitely its name!

I thought I would like this because I adore Pele, another tropical flower blend, but this just doesn't do it for me. I think I need other notes (like the ginger in Pele) in tropical florals to grab my attention.

I really wanted to like this as New Orleans is my favorite Southern city, buuut it's the honeysuckle that kills it. Despite liking honeysuckle (and eating it), honeysuckle does not like my skin. However, this scent does make honeysuckle more bearable for me than some of the other honeysuckles (or honeysuckle/jasmine blends like Twilight). I like the humid decay that creeps in, but the drydown gets more honeysuckle, and I am afraid this one has to go to the swap pile.

This is a very potent lavender on me. I couldn't test if it worked because the potency just overwhelmed me, and I ended up washing it off. Oh well, off to find some other BPAL bedtime scents!

I got this as a frimp, and it has all the things I wouldn't usually pick or my skin wouldn't like (which is a part of the fun of frimps!). This was okay in the bottle and better on the skin, but overall still not a combination I am a fan of. I think I need more florals or fruits to balance spicy scents like this.

I really like the florals and cypress in this, but unfortunately my skin amps the myrrh and overwhelms the florals and cypress. Otherwise, it is blended beautifully (if my skin didn't hate myrrh).

Oh, I liked this at first. Wet it was all coconut and dirt on me which seemed apt for "black coconut" (which I have no idea how that smells), but then the benzoin starts to show and it becomes medicinal on me, campho phenique, ick!

These sort of head shop scents don't seem to like my skin. Oh well, lesson learned. I ordered a BPAL imp lot on Ebay so I could play around and learn and this is what I have learned. Like several other viewers have said, each note is very distinguishable and prominent, but it's just not for me.

Very purple flowers like many others have said, but I am starting to think that I may not like violets though I like most florals. The violet is pretty prominent in this which yay if you are a violet person, but otherwise not for me.

I got this as a frimp from a decant circle. I often like apricot/peach scents so I thought this would be obvious for me, but it was just kind of blah, single note for me. I like the complexity of BPAL scents, and while I appreciate how this one really smells like apricot brandy, it's just really not for me.

Well, I just learned I don't like rum. This reminds me of a Buttery Nipple shot. I hate those. Very boozy on me.

I got this as a frimp from a decant circle. I have been testing a lot of different BPAL imps right now, learning what I do and don't like, or what my skin does or doesn't like regardless of what I like. I have found that I do like cinnamon when it is less prominent which is not the case here. However, I hate almond scents, and I was surprised to find that the cinnamon prevented this from going straight to almond hate on me.

I got this as a frimp with an Ebay order, and while I figured it would be a shoe-in with the ginger, the jasmine ruins it for me. The ginger is a very strong, heady fresh ginger like when you bite right into it which doesn't mesh well (on me) with a heady floral like jasmine. However, my Mom liked it so I gave her the imp.

I got this with an Ebay imp lot I purchased. My skin really seems to amp incense, I get some of the rose and salty tears, but mainly muddled incense. What a bummer, but I do still want to try more salt, aquatic scents...just ones sans incense.

I received this in an Ebay imp lot - it's exciting as a BPAL newbie to get to try discontinued scents. I really liked this in the bottle, but on me, it is super sweet berries and it just gets worse as it dries. This was actually the first BPAL I had to wash off. I feel like I have crossed a BPAL milestone!

I got this in an Ebay imp lot. Cedarwood can go medicinal on me pretty quick, but the florals in this prevent that. It definitely fits the description of a gentle floral bouquet with a black heart. Interesting, but the cedarwood is still too iffy on me. To the swap box.

Le sigh. I got this in an imp lot I purchased on Ebay. Scents like myrrh and ylang ylang can go iffy on me, and while the rose (which my skin loves) helped, this was still amped myrrh on me. I suppose I will have to avoid myrrh from now on.

This scent at least taught me that it is not jasmine that my skin hates, but honeysuckle. My skin really, really hates honeysuckle, doesn't matter what it is blended with. Oh well, I learned something about my own skin chemistry. I like florals, but I think such heady florals as jasmine AND honeysuckle also just overwhelm me.

I got this as an imp with an Ebay imp lot, along with several other spicy scents. I am quickly learning they are very iffy on me. Sometimes, I find with some BPAL's that the wet is so pungent for me that I don't care how good the drydown is, I cannot get past the scent when it is wet. This would be one of those. Wet on me this is all citrus which the vetiver and cedarwood team up with and are like CITRUS CLEANING SUPPLIES, yeah!

I really wanted to like this scent, I mean Baudelaire, c'mon! But this was just sweet, sweet, sweet on me. The gardenia would sometimes pop up, but it was mostly vanilla and candied violet. After trying some other violets, I am thinking violet may be temperamental with me. Ultimately, on me, this scent ended up more sweet than floral, and I really wanted floral.

Well, this is confirming what I am quickly realizing - that labdunam gets weirdly, chemical on me. I lean in and smell dry spices, but light, not heavy spices, then my skin amps the labdanum and it gets chemical which the incense does not help - it like burns my nostrils. That is how much my skin hates what I think is labdunam (not amber because amber gets a little softer on me, but when it is labdunam specifically, it seems to go bad).

Labdanum is not a scent my skin seems to like, it seems to amp it. I smell the honey and ylang ylang and the musks, but then the labdanum keeps sneaking in and making this so weird on me.