Sprinklecake

[The Planet Queen]

This is the scent of the cupcakes that her (kind, generous, and wonderful!) Aunt Sarah made for her birthday! Lilith's request was for sprinkle flavored cupcakes ("sprinklecakes!") with pink and purple glitter frosting, and that's what she got. That's what you're getting, too: this cupcake fragrance is the sweetest of the sweet, the sugariest of the sugary! Rainbow sprinkles baked into rich vanilla cake with thick, creamy frosting topped with glittery candy flakes.

In the bottle: vanilla and almond extract strong but pleasing.Wet: vanilla, very sweet smelling like I've poured vanilla extract over sugar.Dry: exactly like cupcakes which I love. I wanted to lick my wrist.I might look for another bottle very nice, very girly.

[bpalscentsual]

... Whoa.

 

I have a feeling that, a little fresher, this would have been more cakelike. As it is, it's this strange... red velvet cake and musky cream cheese over plastic? What in the...

 

Strong, too. I'm not liking what this is doing on me. Where the hell is the musk coming from? I have a feeling that this aged very poorly, or maybe my skin is just doing bad things to me again.

[vanilla323]

Oh Sprinklecake. We have fallen back in love. I didn't review this the first time I had a bottle because it was a light cake scent on me. It was good but just eh. I sold it off. BUT my skin has been loving all things cake again big time so I wanted to give this a second try. Got another bottle from a forumite and now its all delicious frosting and sprinkles. I can actually smell each pretty sprinkle (my coworker even agreed). So weird. So now I have another bottle coming to me. And I hope it's the same spinkle love again! There are variations I hear of this and since it's no longer available I'm getting what I can.

[SadariEvenstar]

This smelled like lovely red velvet cupcakes in the bottle and like high pitched fruity hell on my skin. I was disappoint.

[sunlitgarden]

In the bottle, Sprinklecake really smells like a sweet vanilla rainbow chip cake. My partner said that even without knowing the description. On my skin, it smells cakey at first, with a bit of a sweet berry-sugar, maybe strawberry, but that berry note fades away and leaves a sweet honey-sugar. I want more cake, though! The throw smells more cakey than up close.... and I'm kind of getting coconut from it. Deeply sniffing my wrist, there's something a bit off about the honeyish note - it smells almost.... pee-like.... but the throw from farther away is yummy. I'm annoyed at my wacky chemistry, though! I want more cake!

 

Dry, the weird note in the honey or sugar or whatever it is is gone, thankfully. Close up, I mostly get that sweet note, but I keep getting whiffs of cakey goodness here and there.... I want more of that! I might need to finally get a scent locket. O_O

Edited May 11, 2012 by sunlitgarden

[Gin]

In the bottle, Sprinklecake smells like milk chocolate, but when it hits the skin, there's a blast of almond extract and then it smells like vanilla cake with pink frosting. Cute!

[lejlkwiet]

This smelled quite lovely to me in the bottle - very reminiscent of Eat Me without currants, or a bit like Cake Smash but younger, more playful.

 

Wet on my wrists it went strongly to a plastic/playdoughy smell that almost had me washing it off right away, but I'm glad I gave it a chance. After 15 minutes of so of playdough it softened up to a light, airy, sugary cake smell, shot through with vanilla. It still smells a bit weird up close but is lovely at a short distance - sadly it doesn't have much of a throw on me at all.

 

I'll probably be keeping my half bottle of it to use now and then when I have the time to let the playdough wear off, and to see what it's like when I've let it age a bit more, but I don't think I'll be going crazy to find more. It's a nice addition to the Lilith series, definitely, but sadly not an instant favourite with me like I was hoping for.

[Lailya]

In the decant I mostly smell vanilla frosting, thick and rich and lovely. After application, it definitely turned into cake proper; I can't really find words to describe it any other way. o_o; I love foody smells, but I honestly can't decide if I like smelling like cake or not. It also failed the Brother Test, but I think that was because it was too sweet for his tastes; apparently my brother's love of Mom's baked goods does not extend to smells that attempt to mimic them.

 

I might come back to this. I really want to love Sprinklecake; maybe I'll give it another test at a different time of month, see if that plays into anything.

[killersandliars]

I love this! It is very vanilla, sweet, a little furity, and totally cakey. It smells like the most moist, luscious birthday cupcake, which is right on the money with the description. It wears really nicely on me, and has a decent throw. For comparison, it is much more straight up cake than something like Eat Me.

[whitsunweddings]

In the imp: Intensely sweet cake icing smell. Oy, it makes my teech ache.

Wet: SO SWEET. Butter, icing, but also kinda like lemonade?

Dry: This doesn't seem to work on my skin. It's kind of cakey, but the vaguely citrusy/artificial sweetener note dominates. I gave my cat a cuddle not long after putting this on, and when I sniffed him later he smelled just like delicious cakey things. So yeah. It's not you, Sprinklecake, it's me.

[BuxomM]

Cake notes tend to go to pure butter on me. Based on people's reviews of chocolate cake I was hoping this would be chocolatey goodness. This just smells like artificial sweetness on me. No choco and it's starting to smell like playdoh.

[Aveya]

I was really excited to try this oil out. I got the bottle through a swap.

 

Skin Test!:

It's a very very very very sweet scent. It's rich. In the imp and wet on skin you can visualize big ole' chunks of white cake with sprinkles, thiiiick white icing with sprinkles, and a diabetic coma around the corner. It's delicious in every sinful, amazing, horrific way possible. I did NOT however notice anything fruity, honey, or even chocolate. This was solid solid white cake, white icing, candy sprinkles. Maybe that's how my head choose to interpret it.

 

However, for me and my skin, this did not work. About 20 minutes into wearing it turned into playdough. I'm not sure if I'm misinterpreting a scent or not, but my boyfriend said "OMG YOU SMELL LIKE PLAY DOUGH" and dug his nose into my skin. Not exactly the reason I wanted him to go on an inhaling frenzy.

 

So, despite his love of playdough, this isn't going to be worn on my skin.

 

Oil Burner Test!:

So on the warmup, I notice where some may get a "chocolate" vibe from. It's just a creamy sweet cake scent I think my nose tries to fit into "chocolate", but yet isn't quite chocolate proper. Next up in the warming oil is OMG SPRINKLEZ. This is where the "fruity" note is that others have described. It's not actually fruit proper, it's sprinkles. It's the rawest roughest omg SUGARINYOURFACE sprinkle ever. Purple pink mixed with iridescent unicorns. It's amazing (but I could see how that could go SO wrong on skin o_O). The cake is less dramatic, the sprinkles overpower. The icing is so heavy I might drown in it. Melt.

 

This is being kept for Oil-burner alone. With much joy!

[JazzieCazzie]

Received an imp of this as lovely lagniappe in a recent swap and always especially grateful and appreciative to get something so rare. Sadly, as I tested this as part of my alphabetical journey through A-Z of all of my BPAL imps and bottles, en route to finalizing a comprehensive swap list and wishlist, this really, really, really did not work on me.

 

IN THE IMP: No likey though can't put my finger on the specific note that is setting my teeth on edge. I don't think it's vanilla because, while vanilla tends to go play doh on me on drydown, I generally don't have issues with it when wet. Booze? Fruit? Caramel?

 

Dabbed on wrist and in crook of arm in hopes that it was an in-imp aberration.

 

WET: Just ... no. If it's vanilla doing this to my nose and stomach, it's evil vanilla. Overly sweet, way too sweet, cloying, nauseatingly so, but moreso it's boozy and fruity, two dealbreakers for me and neither of one I expected in the description. No cream. No vanilla. No frosting. No cake. No sprinkles.

 

DRYDOWN: Sadly, one of the worst scents on my skin in years. And it has legs. And arms. And other limbs. Even after washing it off it remained. In fact, when I came back into my study hours later, the whole room reeked. It's a rare BPAL that will take over the scent from all the other BPAL's that have preceded it AND the two candles.

 

OVERALL: This makes me even sadder because it's a Lilith scent and I so wanted to love it.

 

ON a scale of 1-5, a 1.

[tharsei-thanate]

Bought an imp from a forumite!

 

In the imp: Smells just just vanilla cupcakes and frosting, with a fruity touch. Not as yummy as fresh baked cupcakes (it's too cool and it smells a tiiiiny bit stale), but man, Beth really knows her stuff.

 

Wet: Yikes. That doesn't smell very nice. Mix of that weird fruity touch and staleness and toothachinly sweet frosting. It also smells a little burnt? And there's plastic from the vanilla, which I was hoping to avoid.

 

Drydown: It's all sort of melding together into an unpleasant but still oddly compelling batch of terrible cupcakes as made by someone who's never baked in their life and can't follow directions. I'm a bit impressed by how thoroughly my skin ruined this blend. Oh, wait, there's that chocolate note others have mentioned. It's not even a tasty chocolate. Wait, now the fruit is getting boozy? And it smells decent? What is happening.

 

Dry: All the gross staleness and burnt bits and plastic parts of the scent are calming down and a light and sweet boozy fruit syrup with a dash of vanilla is emerging. I mean, it's still not the most pleasant scent overall- all the yuck has morphed into a single note of Play-Doh- but wow, it's waaaay better than the wet stage.

 

Further on: Less Play-Doh, more syrup, with a bit of buttery cake.

 

Verdict? Bit of a no, really, even if it does get ok after wearing it for a while. I'll save the imp for another test or two but if it continues to be horrible death in the wet and drydown, I'm throwing this in my swaps pile.

[Ajila]

In the bottle - Cream soaked vanilla sponge and a touch of red fruit

 

Wet on me - A very milky, sugary, cake confection

 

Dry on me - Sweet, sugary sponge cakes

 

Overall - I like it a lot, it's very faint on my skin

[Acayde]

Bottle: Sweet delicious vanilla cake batter and icing

 

Wet: Cloyingly sweet...chocolate cherry cordial candy? The chocolate scent is more of a dry and unsweetened cocoa, the cherry is what is really sweet.

 

Dry: Definitely has staying power! This is not the cake I was expecting, but it smells delicious nonetheless. The sweetness stays and is very thick (I felt like I needed to drink a glass of milk to counter the sweetness). It is a wonderful scent...I just hate Maraschino cherries. 8 hours later, I just get whiffs of the unsweetened cocoa powder, the cherries have gone.

 

Evokes images of: Bathing in luxurious vanilla cake batter that pours into a cherry cordial ocean where the wind wafts wisps of the chocolate powdery-sand beach your way.

[icecreamcone]

On my skin this smells like chocolate cake.

About an hour later a berry scent shows up, so the chocolate cake now has raspberry frosting.

 

It doesn't have much throw. Cute scent, but I'm not sure I would wear it again.

[Xylis]

Expectation: Ever since my failed experience with Eat Me, I have been wary about approaching another cake blend because the first one just didn't work on me. Still, Sprinklecake is just too adorable to resist and I'm thinking that if there's a cake blend that's going to work, this has got to be it.

 

In the bottle: Cake, cake, CAKE. And oh my, is my nose feeling a little quirky today because I swear that this is something almost sexy and more than a little boozy (I thought I was crazy at first, but I see I'm not the only one!) at play here. I think it's the honey and almond in the marzipan that's adding a little omph to this edible scent. I'm intrigued.

 

Wet on skin: This smells almost exactly the way it did in the bottle except that the marzipan note is more pronounced. The buttery cake note is given a sharper edge by the honeyed almond and I have to say that I actually like this. At least, it's not instantly repelling in the way that Eat Me was on me (alas!)

 

Drydown: The sharpness of the marzipan has subsided, leaving behind a sweet, buttery little dessert on my skin. I'm actually getting a bit of strawberry as well which adds a nice candy-ness to the scent that I like.

 

(Aside from the scent, I'm actually getting a bit of a sensitive reaction to the blend where my inner elbow is turning a little red. This little cake blend has some bite to it!)

 

Verdict: I actually liked this a lot better than I thought I would. I'm not sure if this is a keeper; I'll have to wear this a couple more times before making a decision but I'm hoping to love it because the name and bottle label are just so adorable. If I keep it, I'm probably going to wear this in my hair or in a scent locket.

[tinyvulture]

Perfect vanilla cupcakes, buttery and rich and piled high with white frosting. It's sooooo sweet and intense.

 

I know lots of people love Eat Me, but it didn't work for me, so I'm thrilled to have found a cake scent that I love!

[hammy]

In the bottle - Oddly, I’m getting chocolate from this. I double-checked the description and there’s no mention of chocolate. Maybe it’s the plastic-ness of the frosting?

 

Wet - It doesn’t read as a pink scent to me; it’s muddy yellow. There’s some butteriness to it.

 

Drydown - There’s still chocolate in the mix, and now that it’s dry I’m detecting some yellow cake.. Maybe marble cake? There’s a hint of Play-Doh under the marble cake that makes me think it was made in an Easy-Bake Oven. The plasticy Play-Doh smell lessens after a while, but it’s still there, right beneath the cake.

 

Verdict - Unfortunately I didn’t get a single pink sugar sprinkle. Butter, chocolatey cake and Play-Doh. I really really wanted to like this, so I'm upset that it didn't work on me. It’s not unpleasant, but it’s definitely not what I was expecting. (And since I don’t like chocolate, this is a swap.)

[dementia_divine]

In the decant: Sprinkles (some of which may be chocolate, because I do get a bit of chocolate from this), vanilla, almond, and creamy frosting.

 

Wet: Sprinkle-adorned frosting, with some of the sprinkles being fruity and some being of the chocolate variety. I think there is some vanilla extract and almond extract in this concoction. SO MUCH SUGAR.

 

Dry: For the first time I have gotten the dreaded Play-Doh! Why ya gotta be like that, Sprinklecake?

 

Verdict: Alas, Sprinklecake is one cake that is not for me, which is too bad, as I am a slut for super sprinkle-y things. (Sprinkle doughnuts? My favorite. Sprinkle cupcakes? The sprinklier, the better. Sprinkle sandwiches? Yes, I make those with De Ruijter sprinkles from the Netherlands, which are far superior to the sprinkles we have in the US. I also use them in scones and pour a them over vanilla ice cream.) Maybe I'll try it in the oil burner to see if I get a better sprinkle experience.