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I wasn't planning on picking this one up at NYCC, but my boyfriend smelt it and decided that I needed it. Good choice! It's the smell of wood burning fires and fallen leaves. Like a little cousin to my most favorite sent: Death of Autumn. It's a more gentle scent, softer and much less smoke. Completely wonderful, and now with the chilly weather, it really works well.

This smells just like bubble gum. That weird candy sweetness, and the hint of the powdered sugar they roll the sticks in prior to wrapping. It is the most literal scent I've ever had from BPAL.

Ginger, spice, and a bit of orange. Like a really amazing ginger scone.

wonderful wonderful scent. Like early autumn longings trapped in a little bottle. It soft and sweet, with pumpkin and vanilla. Neither are very heavy, nor overly sugary. Just sweet and simple with that hint fall.

I think that Licorice Bats is the sleeper hit of the 2010 weenies. I wasn't even planning on picking this scent up, but a random sniff at NYCC made me curious enough to buy the bottle. Normally my skin takes anise seed and runs with it. But with the bats, it's got a nice dousing of cacao to avoid the heavy anise seed scent. It's smooth chocolate with spice and a dash of anise/licorice. It plays constantly on my skin, starting very sharp then drying down to sweet, then turning back up a bit. A really really great scent.

Apparently, my skin is magic. I don't smell any of the lemon scent that everyone else mentions. On me, it's sharp and earthy in the beginning, then dries to this amazing sweet scent, like a floral but sweeter. Almost like....carrot cake?

The only other honey scent I have to compare this to is Mead Moon, which smells wonderful, but not truly "honey" on my skin. This had none of the notes of Mead Moon to my nose. It was herbal and green at first sniff, then herbal and lavender (in the retail thread, I likened it to the scent of my guinea pig when he ran through the garden). It does get a little sweeter after that, but I'm not so sure on buying a bottle. If I want a Mutter scent (which I do, because I love that museum), I'm stick with Ü.

This turns soapy within a few minutes. It's very nice soapy smell, but soap none the less.

This scent is just pure pure chocolate. So chocolate that when I was wearing it, my fiancé decided that we needed to go out and get milkshakes. Am I saying this scent makes men what milkshakes? No, but I am saying I will be wearing it every time I want to go out for dessert.

I LOVE that dress. Since it is falling on Friday the 13th, you can always go with one of those blends. Personally, I think that dress wants a bit more of a chocolate scent and i would use El Dia De Reyes

I wanted to like this one, really, I did. However, this scent just didn't work for me. It was just a light musk scent with...how do I explain it....with the scent of what the back of my television smells like. We always have to fiddle with cords and plugs back there to make everything work, so I'm always reaching back and inhaling a bunch of dust. And that's what this smells like to me. Musk sprayed over the back of my TV.

I picked up Ü at the Mütter Museum (I live in Philly...and go to the museum way more than the average person should) and was really impressed with it in the bottle. On the skin, it does get a little too tree-ish for me. It's fine for a crisp, autumn day, but with warm days like the ones ahead, it's too green, too heavy for me. However, I think a layer of a strong vanilla will work really well with this scent. Need to pick up some Snake Oil and try that out. EDIT: This needs no layering what so ever. Once the warmer days hit and I started wearing this, the heat of my skin cooked this scent to perfection. I adore this smell. Like a cigar box filled with Madagascar vanilla. One of my favorite scents of all time.

In the bottle, this kind of smells like cheese. To check this, I had my boyfriend sniffed, who agreed with me, "Cheese." Now, I'm a big fan of cheese, especially goat cheese. In my refrigerator, I have this amazing honey chevre and literally, I eat it with a spoon. I don't even sit down at a table, or put it on a plate, I just stand there at my counter unwrap it and eat. It's disturbing how much of the cheese I can pack away at one sitting. Anyway, I digress...this blend totally smells like cheese in the bottle. OK, on the skin, the cheese scent kind of fades and becomes more of a creamy, fig smell. It's nice, but not amazing, and sadly, after all this bottle sniffing, I totally want some dang cheese now.

When I was young, I had a totally awesome guinea pig. Why was he so awesome? We could toss him (not literally) outside in our backyard and he would run from where ever you put him to hide under this little shrub in the garden. And I have a huge backyard, but he would do it every time. Have you ever seen a guinea pig run? It's adorable! Now, Piglet (guinea pig's name), had a cage which we lined with cedar chips. So, when he had enough outdoors time, he would go back in the cage. The odor of his cage, fresh from the garden guinea pig and a pile of cedar chips is a really strong scent memory for me. It was tough when he went to Guinea Pig Heaven to walk by the corner where his cage was and not smell that burst of dirt and cedar. What's with all that above, you ask? Well, Depraved smells like Piglet's cage. Dirt and Cedar chips. Sadly, this doesn't do much for me except make my wistful for my deceased guinea pig, which, I assume, is not what the Ars Amatoria series had in mind (unless the reason you're depraved is because you get turned on by dead pet rodents....you pervert).

I really thought I would be a Tiki Queen fan, but when I smelled the king, I knew it was all over. The rich, dark coconut smell mixed with the musk is amazing, even in the bottle!. When it dries, however, oh my gosh...It's just decadent and intoxicating and wonderful. The cocnut really lingers, but smells dark enough to not be confused for suntan lotion. And thankfully, it's not a manly smell, so you don't smell like a dude.

it the bottle: this smells like what I would expect a volcano smells like. All ash and bitterness on n' dry: there's still that ash scent, but the green really pulls through once you've let it dry. This is one of those scents that you have to give some time to. You can't jut slather and walk out the door, but need to let it dry properly so the full scent comes out. It's not...terrible, but I prefer to layer it with the sweeter smelling Luaus. This way, the bitterness of it can tone down the sugariness of the other scents and balance everything out.

it the bottle: well, i have this is imp and bottle. In the imp, it smells like almonds and spice, but in the bottle, it's straight cherry coke. on n' dry: spicy cherry coke! I really like this scent, and it works great with a layer of snake oil.

in the bottle: delicate florals. Not very "tropical" to me.. dry: um...kind of like my grandma's bathroom. just a lot of perfumey florals. this is my least favorite luau, but if you want something light and very flowery, this is a good choice.

I didn't really like a lot of the Atomic Luau, many were either way to fruity or way to flowery for my liking (which was really upsetting because I am a huuuuuge nut for tiki stuff). Marae, however, is perfect. It's not too flowery, just light and summery. Perfect for when you want just a little bit of scent. By "little bit of scent" I do not mean that it fades quickly or does not have enough throw. It's like, forgive me for getting poetic here, wearing a silk top instead of a wool sweater. Amazing, amazing, amazing. Because of this scent, I really hop they bring the Luau back this year!

I would suggest my favorite scent ever, which is Death of Autumn. It's an LE, so you'll have to look for it on the boards.

This is my favorite from the lounge. The rum scent isn't heavy at all and it smells so fresh and summery and just like something I'd get really drunk on. It's got a lot of the apricot with nice touches of grapefruit and lime. Sadly, not a lot of ginger. It's nice, light, and fruity without too much sticky sweetness. Doesn't last too long though, which is such a bummer.

in the bottle: green, tart, and...oranges? wet: mostly a greeny, piney mix. dry: um, much more green than I wanted. I was really hoping for those berries to pop out more. verdict: 2.5 out of 5 kind of meh for me. not bad though, but you have to be in the mood for it.

yay! frimp from my old moon order! in the bottle: Boooooze! It smells like something I'd take shots of, not something I'd wear wet: Kind of sweet. Cherries? Actually, a little too sweet for me dry: wonderful! cherries, almond, and then cake, and ...something sugary. there's also this faint hint of spice, which i wish was a little more there. really nice throw. verdict: 4 out of 5 I'm not much of a sweet scent kind of gal, but this is rather cute and nice.

My boyfriend's mother lives on Kauai, one of the islands of Hawaii. I visited her (obviously along with my boyfriend) this past December and I fell in love with the island. You step off of the airplane and your surrounded with this wonderful scent. It smells like fresh greens, pavement after rainstorms, tropical fruits, a hint of flowers, salt water, and warm sand. But then, as you travel around the island, you can smell the sugar plantation, which fills the air with molasses and grass, and the coffee plantation, which smells like dirt and just brewed coffee. It's everywhere in the air, and it's just unbelievably enchanting. Maybe I will have to mix two or three oils for this? I HAVE regarded other posts, but many seem involved in the idea of the fruity smell. I don't want something overly fruity, and I would love to get something with the fresh forest scent and that hint of coffee and molasses in there. it's hard to describe, but the wikipedia entry on Kauai has two photographs of the island that I feel describes the scent I want. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a...i_Panorama1.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f...auai-valley.jpg Thanks for any advice! PS: I walked along top of those mountains! incredibly terrifying/thrilling. there's about an 8 ft wide trail and then a sheer drop to the ocean.

for the record, i am NOT a fan of florals... in the bottle: rose! but not....that cheap perfume rose scent, more like an actual rose wet: still mostly the same thing, there's a deeper scent to it though...spice that really accents the rose is a wonderful way dry: a really nice blend of mostly rose but with that spicey center that plays nicely with the floral. verdict: 3 out of 5 i'm not a florals fan, but even i enjoyed wearing this. not an everyday scent though.