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Midnight on The Midway- Sugary. Turns to soap quickly. At least my wrist smells clean.

The Candy Butcher - Chocolate with plastic beneath. It smells like something crawly, sharp plastic legs. Beth did a little too good of a job evoking the imagery here. I'm afraid. A little too scary of a scent for me. Could it be the 'plastic' is the cream note? My fiance rather liked this scent on me. But not so much with me. There are other chocolate scents I prefer over it, rather.

Phantom Calliope - Reminds me strongly of *Nanshe. Very much incense-ish. I think I prefer Nanshe. *description for "Nanshe" -Nanshe is part of BPAL's Somnium collection, created to aid and abet sleep and dreams. Nanshe "opens up psychic sensitivity during sleep and aids in the understanding and correct interpretation of portents and symbols."

Black Moon - Strange floral. Nothing spectacular. I could pick out the cucumber note before I even opened the imp, it was the first to waft to my nose as I picked up the vial. Sweet. Reminds me of Mott's Apple sauce. My skin amps all the notes a little too well. It is strong but light. Strange. Verdict: Swap.

It's slightly zangy in the bottle. Sorta hits me hard. "I'm not going to like this." I think to myself. I barely smell anything at all and yet what I do smell kind of has the bite of a lemon to it. You know when your nose retracts because it feels like a citrus scent even if it isn't a citrus scent. Hah. Then I dab some on my wrist. And OMG!!! THIS IS ME! This is my signature scent! This is SO beautiful! It's honey-dipped lilies!! I am honey-dipped lilies, ya know. Lily is my favorite floral and the honey makes it almost drinkable! Jeeze. It's very femme. It's sophisticated ultra-femme. The word "beautiful" keeps coming to mind. It makes me want to hoard bottles of it. If only I wasn't still looking for work, gah! Dry down: It's been a couple of minutes and the lily is slowly disappearing and the honey is brightening. It's becoming more delicious and foody than light-floral ultra femme sophisticate it was when wet. It's "yummy" now. Mm, I wanna lick my wrist. I have NEVER had such instant sparks between my skin chemistry and a single scent. This is really incredible for me. I haven't had a chance to test the throw on it yet. Or know what other people think it smells like on me but so far it reminds me of Brittany Spears "Curious" perfume in a GOOD way... except minus the 'blonde'-ish note. This is like a bundle of light, airy-fairy, honey dipped lily petals. If I could name it? I'd name it LilyHoney Golightly. It has the barely palpable softness of Moon Rose. It's continuing to soften but maybe I've just sucked all the scent up out of my wrist into my nose because I couldn't stop smelling myself all this time. OMG, I can't say this strongly enough- Brides of Dracula is a WINNER! Now to hoard all the bottles I possibly can!!! Must collect the preshhhusss! Ya know what even if this has absolutely no throw and I'm the only one who can smell it on me? I don't care!!! This smells good enough that I would just slather it on to enjoy for myself! hah! This smells like an EXPENSIVE perfume... like 50-60$ perfume and you can get it for 20$ off the bpal website. Shuh-weet! EDIT: It's been about an hour and all I smell is powder now. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo!"

Mmm, I get pure citrusYUM! It is sweet and tangy with lots of ZANG! The ozone bites your senses sharply... in a good way. It's a bit heavy if you apply too much and can give you a headache... a tiny dab will do you.. It lasts a good while without fading... but fades beautifully, becoming softer. my imp lid broke and i ended up accidently pouring this scent on myself. ACK! Headache-city! but um, lol, in moderation it is a keeper. Maybe not 5ml yummy but definitely good for an atmospheric scent. it reminds me vaguely of a sharper meaner Thunderbird... but nothing could be as delicious and complex as Thunderbird.

vial ~ Rose and mist. wet ~ Candied-roses and powdery mist. dry ~ Softer roses sweet to the taste, fairy-roses surrounded by stronger mist. This is a hint of a rose, the mere suggestion of a rose rather than a full scale garden. EDIT: Later it actually warped into (what smelled like to me)a sandalwood and cinnamon mixture. Very pleasant. My fiance asked me to buy a big bottle of it and he generally hates my BPAL obsession.

vial ~ Flowers. Clean flowers. Lightly sweetened clean floral! It somehow brings the image of clean cotton to mind. A clean cotton dress fresh out of the dryer, wrinkle-free and ready to wear. wet ~ Very light plumeria. I can barely smell it at all. Fabric softener! dry ~ Aw, it's gone now. There is a light remnant of a Febreeze-type scent. But it's not nearly as chemical as Febreeze. If flowers could be forced into smelling like fabric softener, I guess this is what they'd end up smelling like. It's funny but it's almost an aquatic note. It smells so airy it nearly becomes watery to me. I wouldn't say it's unpleasant but not something I want to smell like.

NOTE: I've got to admit I'm still getting over a cold so my sniffer might not be at it's best right now. vial ~ That sweet note I'm smelling which is sort of sweet and soft and 'floral' must be the heather note. But I must not like heather because it comes off as being too sweet for my tastes. It's sort of like a grabby, prickly sweet like a way-too-pink Barbie accessory. I guess 'cloying' is the word I'm searching for. There is a hint of softly-fruity berries(that I like!) buried behind the stinky heather note. But it's just not enough to save this scent for me. I think it'll have to go in my 'swap pile'. Maybe my skin chemistry will surprise me? Overall there is a soapy tinge. wet ~ The heather note is standing out and much to my delight it seems to be 'softening'. dry ~ This is becoming more 'traditional perfumey' on me as it dries. It's becoming lighter and more airy and gently sweet. I'm liking it more now. But now I'm thinking it's too light! Wait, stronger notes of berry are wafting up to me. Oh! Now it's like a berry harvest!! The berry is really blossoming out! I smell bountiful baskets full of ripe, juicy blackberries. Mmm. I just had to be patient and wait for it, silly me! Beth is a genius!!! This is beautiful!(And yummy) It reminde me of the vintage scented My Little Ponies. I had a Vintage pony with bubbles and fluffy hair and she smelled just like this! It's a happy memory. :0) Alas, I don't think I'll find an occasion to wear this pretty scent. It's very lovely and I recommend it highly as the description is perfect for it. But it just isn't 'me' very much. EDIT: Oh no.... now it's gone all to soap on my skin. Definitely a swap imp.

this smells like pumpkin spice to me.... it is heavenly.... a very incense-heavy scent that is thick and sweet. it does feel like it's opening your mind up to new things.... something psychic. something mystic. pumpkinypie-ish. totally a 5ml purchase for me! it didn't last long but i'm willing to slather. Edit: I forgot to mention that there is something very 'herbal' about this and usually I dislike herbal but this is herbal in a good, yummy foody way... and well, sumptuous comes to mind as a descriptive term.

This will sound weird... but... it smelled like friggin' bacon bits on me. In the bottle it smelled like 'flower soup'. But on my skin...... bacon!?!? bizarro.

This scent is beautiful. Simply beautiful. I was wearing it during a thunderstorm and it lulled me into the most soothing slumber. It's fresh, it's young, it's sweet, it's clean and yummy. This is a truly masterful blend. Those who got to smell it or purchase it are lucky individuals!

I was so excited about the 'chili' note some people had experienced. I was very disappointed when all I got out of it was the 'cherry nyquil' scent someone else was talking about. very saddening... it was beautiful in the bottle and stinky on my skin.

Othello is wonderful. I really did like it. It's very sexy and unique. That's why it's such a shame about the powdery note that overwhelms the rest of the scent.

It smelled good in the imp but.... It smelled like moldy basement on me.

I have highly anticipated trying "Dorian". This smelled yummy in the imp... cookies & tea.... but like raw sewage on my skin. There were still the cookies and tea but with a hint of fart. No one around me had passed it or anything. It was the perfume, sadly. Maybe it's the 'black tea'-ish smell (which I think stinks a bit) I don't really know... maybe a bit too crazy on the musk here.

Argh!!! Why does my skin have to eat this scent??? It fades so quickly! It's HEART BREAKING to me because I've looked forward to this scent since I saw it. I love unicorns. Have always loved them my entire life.... deeply, spiritually.... and I smelled this scent out of the imp and it was completely 'me'. No words could describe me better than this smell. In the imp. When I put it on my skin it totally zapped it.... ate it all. all the lovely notes gone! totally tragic! SIGH

All I will say is although I didn't find it to be anything extraordinary at first I have never gotten more compliments wearing any other scent than I got wearing "Snake Oil". My flat-mate called it 'edible'. I didn't mention it... he was just sniffing around trying to find it... "Where is that wonderful smell coming from?" then my boyfriend said I smelled "Yummy".... heehee. The compliments never end when you don this scent.

Zephyr is a cloud of bees on a warm spring breeze. It is sweetened breath.... honeyed tongue. It IS a sweet wind. The kind of wind with spring on it.... warm, buzzing in your mouth, cotton cloud textured.... it is a BREEZE. This has captured perfectly a spring breeze on a warm day... though perhaps sweeter, a utopian breeze in a perfect world set in eternal spring. I like it but not anything I'm going to buy big bottles of. Just not my personality.

I adore Black Lotus. It took me completely by surprise but I knew from the start that I LOVED the description. It was so creative, so dream-worldish... like something out of a horror writer's mind. More than that, a dream within a dream. I didn't expect the scent to actually live up to the description but oh, it did. It is to be experienced as no words can truly bring the sensation to life in a mere sentence. All of the notes blend together in harmony... it is scrumptious. I can't really wear it because of my skin chemistry but I might just buy a bottle to keep it around to smell.

Interesting. This is very interesting. Rich chocolate. For some reason, before I uncork the imp, this is my impression. It could have been the smell of another perfume on the label but i think to myself that it is Malice while still in the imp with the cork in place. I open it and sample. MINTY to my nose. (edit* yes, I'm aware there isn't any mint but that's what I smell) I think the mint just jumped out of the bottle and bit my nose but I don't dislike it. In the imp there is a sharp twang to it. It's almost like it smells like certain glues I used in elementary school it's so biting. It grows softer on my skin after a time of pitching mint daggars at me. This is a complicated scent.... not at all easy to describe. Now some kind of lemon is appearing slowly. A sour, scowling, powder-covered lemon. The sharpness is gone. The twang has ended. The perfume has thrown a fit on my skin and all has subsided now but a gentle throb of sour. This isn't a 'happy' scent but it has it's place. I could see myself wearing this on a bad day and feeling very apropriate doing so. Final thoughts: Interesting. Not buying a 5ml but I will wear what's in this imp.

I don't like it. I can't think how to describe it either. It is EXTREMELY familiar. It is apricot gone sour. Apricots gone wild. Bad, bad apricots that need to be spanked. It is orange sticky white-cream filled popsicle laying on the ground attracting flies to it's sicky sweet smell. It is the smell of a bathroom cleaner attempting not to smell chemically. And my skin said "I think I'll vamp this up a bit" and it totally jazzed it up to the highest volume possible so that anyone could smell me from across a crowded room. It's like shredded coconut laying in a grave of the blood of angry oranges. I can see why it is doggified. There is a certain "Woof! Woof" to this smell. I can't explain it. I'll bet this is the most confusing review anyone has ever written..... My last impression: Ick! Not buying a 5ml!

I can't possibly convey how excited I was about getting this imp because I ADORE pumpkin scents. I could die of pumpkins and be happy. The first thought when my nose got close to it was "Nutmeggy!" and it does seem to have the 'plastic candle' tinge to it other people were describing but the thing is I *like* plastic scented candles (my favorite brand is YANKEE and in fact I worked in a scented candle store for a time) I smell pumpkin! It isn't 'fresh' pumpkin. It is a more synthetic scent. But I like it. I'm on the fence still about getting a 5ml of it though... it isn't quite as compelling as I had hoped it would be. The nutmeg is nice. The pumpkin is quaint but it isn't earth-shatteringly good like some of the smells I've sampled. I wouldn't turn it down as a gift but I don't think I'll be spending me hard-earned cash on this one. Poo. Edit: I meant to mention this impression.... BUTTERY POPCORN. It makes you want to drink it right out of the imp. Wear Jack to a movie and people will start nibbling on you thinking you're a bag of popcorn smothered in buttah...

OKAY.... to me this smelled like one of those candy necklaces from back when I was a kid... the ones with all the little different colored candy beads attached, each a different flavor. smelling it right out of the imp I was kind of blown away by how indistinctly sweet it smelled. and it's been a few minutes on my skin and now it seems like my skin is eating it and it's turning very powdery. Awww, too bad. I could see why someone would call it 'bubblegummy'. But I think it's something else... I don't smell the roasted marshmallow smell other people were talking about. That makes me sad because I wanted to smell it. this scent is a very young smell, very little-girly. it is sort of like a festival. but i wouldn't say it was all that exciting and it isn't what I was hoping for... plus the magical properties don't seem to be working for me as I'm still feeling low spirited. It kind of reminds me of a strawberry shortcake doll that is scented by the smell of it. there I am with more childhood references... i guess it is a very child-oriented smell. i think maybe a little kid might like it better than i do. then again, if it hadn't gone so faint and turned to powder i might feel differently about it. stupid skin chemistry! Blah!

It was like purple berries in the imp... and the image of a purple fairy sitting on a ripe, juicy plum. My boyfriend got a hint of it and exclaimed, "Ah, JASMINE!" ... on my skin the berry scent deepened into a earthy frolicking aroma. It was all deepest purple and secretive. Like midnight in the land of fae. The musk came through after it dried on my skin a bit and was very sexy and mature. My conclusion: I need a big bottle of this! This fits my personality: Purple, midnight, fruity, earthy and jubilant! Edit: my only complaint is it didn't last very long before it faded.... and none of the smell had very much 'throw' to it... you had to have your nose right over my wrist to really smell it... but maybe I just didn't put enough on. It's okay though, I'll slather it on if I have to! This scent is divine!