gingiemay

Crushed East Lothian Pippin apples scattered amongst fallen leaves from dool trees, Arran Whitebeams, and Lochwood oaks. This smells like a lot of dried leaves tinged with a sweet autumn hint of apples. The apples are crisp. This is like the gorgeous love-child of October and Samhain. I love it! I think as it ages, the apple will get more prominent. As a soap, it's much like the other Villainess for BPTP soaps, a slick, cleansing lather that doesn't dry my skin, leave a residue and has the barest hint of fragrance after drying. Huge, mega thumbs up!

RIMMON Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. – the Song of Solomon, 4:3 Tart and sweet pomegranate. This works much better on my skin than the lab's pom perfume notes. The soap is a fabulous purple color with a magenta sparkle on top.

I get pumpkin, but not so buttery as previous years, and the sweetgras and vanilla infusion taking the forefront. This is lovely, and would be nice at any time of the year, not just fall. I get more sage as it dries down, but this was a very pleasant surprise for me.

In the bottle, it does smell of damp dirt, it is strong and a little strange. But on my skin it sweetens in a lovely way. I'm very happy as I had tried an older Graveyard Dirt and it didn't work on me, just smelled like rotting. But this version is really nice, I even reapplied throughout the day. Not a lot of throw.

Jasmine, jasmine, jasmine. Painfully head sharpeningly jasmine. Sad panda is sad.

Mostly I get coconut and amber from this, with a bit of golden must. Almost no patchouli or cardamom, but I hope as it ages it will plump up a little.

Sharp and cold. As said above it's not white musk single note, but I like it. Sharp and brittle are good descriptors, it's very wintry.

I got one as well, I got the very sticky sweet vanilla note, it's similar to the lab's Sugar Cookie. I swear there might be some pumpkin in there. It's strong but nice.

Soft and sweet vanilla and sandalwood. There is a bit of sharpness from the snow note at the beginning but it goes away quickly. Really lovely.

I get leather and tobacco, no gingerbread or fruitcake. It's soft leather and sweet tobacco, not too sharp or manly. Love it.

This is gorgeous, white, brilliant and sparkling. White musk and davana, almost no champaca for me. Stunning and softly glowing.

This is absoutely lovely... the vanilla musk is the predominant note, with a tiny hint of floral tuberose... but normally I am a powdery rose amplifier but on me it's light and sweet and floral, not powdery at all. No red mandarin on my skin, and I think the almond is also lending some sweetness as well but I can't place it specifically. Gorgeous, sophisticated, feminine, wonderfully blended.

Mostly metal, amber and the tiniest hint of sweet red musk. Surprisingly delicate and feminine.

Buttery-sweet pumpkin with the perfect autumn fir/spices/patchouli underlayer. Yum yum yum.

Aquatic, soft salty musk that smells very classic and perfume-y. I love how soft it is, I don't get any green musk or nectarine. Lovely and classy.

I love this scent, it's a soft, sweet toasty almond scent that isn't too sickly, saccharine or sharp on my skin. Normally almond is a disaster but this is a huge win. Love love love!

There are so many notes in this blend that normally work on my skin, but I'm amping the magnolia and the ylang-ylang like nobody's business. SAD.

Some aging has made this lovely on me. A soft, dry apple, not fruity, but with the moonflower, sandlewood and orris it is quite nice. I really am pleasantly surprised as before this was a bit soapy on me.

Apple blossom and white rose for me, with a hint of lemon. The lemon tinge gives it a very slight powdery feel so it's just not for me. A lovely floral, though.

Benzoin, wild plum, smoky amber, bergamot, orange blossom, myrrh, and dark berries. Lots of bergamot, orange blossom, benzoin and myrrh for me, unfortunately, whereas I was hoping for more plum and dark berries. It's very "perfume-y" as people have said and powdery to boot.

I'd been hearing about this for so long and all the elements that usually work on me are here, but alas, they just don't work. The cardamom amps terribly for the first two hours, giving this spicy cinnamon smell, and then the leather is left behind, but it's dry and sharp. It's not a soft, sexy leather note. My bottle is aged a year, so that hasn't helped at all. Sad sad sadness.

I thought I had reviewed this when it was first released, but I guess not. In the bottle and when wet, it smells like a very bright and fizzy lemon ginger ale. After dry down, the warmer spices come out and it smells lovely. I'm much happier with this now than when I first got it in 2010.

This is the 2006 version. I get all the wintry snow, pine and oakmoss but no Christmas pastries, which gives me a sad. To the swap pile it goes!

Butterscotch rum candies mated with butterscotch jellybeans. Sweet and intense. A little overwhelming.

Sharp rosin, very manly and cologney. After dry down it warmed up and was pretty sexy. I don't think I could wear this, but my boyfriend could!