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Blech. I got this as a frimp, and yep, that's vetiver. I have yet to find a tolerable vetiver.

Jasmine is so iffy on me, sometimes it can be perfect, but in this case, it tends to overwhelm the whole and more gentle gardenia and tea rose, and this mostly vanilla and jasmine on me. Lots of throw.

I had suspected this, but this confirms it - I don't like narcissus.

With night-blooming jasmine, I wasn't expecting this to be so heady - it smells more like traditional jasmine and the moonflower (my favorite) is just a breath in the background. This is just too heady for me.

Oh, hello gorgeous! This is the kind of incense I can handle, it's sugary spice than incense and with the night-blooming flowers, it takes on a slightly fruity component - all wrapped in ozone. I like it a lot!

Very sweet, unsurprisingly. I thought the grasses and floral components might mellow out the sweetness, but it's just all sweet on me, particularly the throw. But if you like sweet, summer strawberries - this is perfect.

It's got that slight funkiness that I also got from Bread-and-Butterfly. It seems depending on what is combined with the pastry scents, it can go either way on me: slightly sour or perfect toasty, buttery goodness. This ones does the latter - I think it may be the kukui nuts.

Oh, lemony goodness! This is mostly lemon on me (though lemon sugar because it's not too tart) with lavender on the edges - it manages to be both bright and soothing at the same time. Perfect for summer.

This reminds me right away of the more traditional milk and honey scents you find at the drugstore, but of course better quality. There's no almond listed, but that is very prominent on me here with milk, honey, and grains in the background. I was hoping for something more akin to My Baby & a Baby Goat, but this is not as rich and buttery as that. It's a lighter honey and milk scent - with too much almond for me.

Yet again, the Crimson Peak scents are just magical. There are so many notes that usually give me pause, but that just work beautifully in these scents. This is soft fading roses and a whiff of lily anchored by ylang ylang and dark musks. The latter being notes I am usually wary of, but they work beautifully here. The amber starts to come in as it dries as it usually does on me. I get why everyone has been raving about this one.

Oh, wow, this is a scent I would not have picked on my own, but I was swapping with someone and all of the Crimson Peaks have been so beautiful that when I saw they had a decant of one I asked for it. My first whiff of this, I thought I may like patchouli. I learned I could get along with white patchouli with Edith, but usually the reds and black variations of scents are too potent for me, but this is just stunning. It is sophisticated yet perverse. I love it.

Blackberry can be temperamental on me, but there's a malicious greenness to this scent that I like, probably the dark musk, and the sage and green tea is really lovely with this.

On first smelling this, I did a little jazz hands sort of thing. I mean the BPAL champagne note is always a good one for me, but I love the smokiness that is there right away. I want to make a cocktail based on this with a vanilla bean simple syrup and something to capture the smokiness. Truly an inspiring scent.

Oh, the peonies in this are fresh, dewy, stems still attached while the cream is a toasty, warm cream. They are doing this little dance at first, trying to outshine one another, but eventually they balance out. This is gorgeous - soft, pink petals atop a dollop of cream.

Oh, hello, beautiful pear, honey, and cream! I really like pear, and this is like honey poached pears with clotted cream. It's a keeper.

Wow, this is a perfectly balanced blend of the lab's crystalline note, their soft snow, and apple - a not quite red one, but not green either. The snow note eventually takes prominence on me and it reminds me a bit of Snow White without being as cloying.

This is the perfect rose oudh, and I had to give it a try because I thought I might like oudh combined with my favorite floral, but nope, oudh is definitely not for me. The rose is more prominent than the oudh on me but it has that fruityness of oudh to it.

A scent of profound foreboding: dusty black stone, dried rosehips, black moss, and creeping ivy. At first, this was strangely dark fruity, but as it dried down, the rosehips came out a lot - it reminds me of those bins of rosehips at the health food store, but there is still this fruity note I can't quite describe. I wish it didn't have this. It has a lot of throw, and there's a tiny bit of dusty stone, but this mostly fruity rosehips on me?

I liked this more in the imp than on me - overall, I just don't like smelling like a headshop. Though this would be a very fancy headshop, mind you. I think I will use this in my oil diffuser because I don't mind my home smelling like a fancy headshop.

Well, everyone's glowing reviews of this one prompted me to get a decant, and for good reason. I was worried, despite my love of the BPAL marshmallow note, that this would be too sweet, but the staleness is what prevents it from being too cloying. But, yes it does stay close to the skin with little to no throw and the warmth that is there at first does fade and it becomes less complex on me.

I thought this was a sort of garden scent, not a fungi scent. There's the beautiful BPAL dirt note, but I find it surprisingly soft and floral - the papery white seems more delicate, white florals to me than paper persay. The thin, crisp soil part os very accurate because the dirt note isn't as intense and goes away after awhile. Usually, the BPAL dirt note reminds me of having just been playing in the garden, but this is more a whiff. I can see this working well for people who may be hesitant to try the dirt note.

I am surprised by how sweet this is! I love moonflower for its fruity floral qualities, but it seems the rest of the notes in this one are amping the sweeter qualities of the moonflower rather than the floral, but as it dries, gets more floral and much headier white florals, its like a rather sudden change of direction from this girly, saccharine scent to a grandmere white floral! But then finally mellows out into the sort of moonflower scent that I have come to know and love from BPAL. After that, it finally settles into a sweeter white floral and the moonflower isn't as prominent in this one as it is in some other BPAL scents with moonflower, but it is still a stunning floral, especially as the beeswax moves into the picture as it dries.

When I first sniffed this, it was like pirate-y fun without the rum note that hates me! Then as it evolved, it became surprising - a pirate who bathes, huh. Overall, this was quite a morpher on me and was at times spicy, salty, soapy, and coconutty. I liked it best when it was coconutty, but it ended up being mostly soapy on me.

This was just all aquatic on me. I was hoping for more depth being that it is based on the Morrigan, but alas it is just wet florals.

I have always been a fall kind of girl and therefore a sucker for fall scents, and before BPAL I snuffed up any fall scent I could, but BPAL has turned me into a snob! This is very much what I anticipated - at first, it is foodie, pumpkin, but then the beeswax comes in. At one point, it gets a little spicy, which I am not keen on, but then mellows out to a beeswax pumpkin.