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Bottle Pic: http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL202/154131...8/120631125.jpg In the bottle It smells like Blue Moon (sort of) with Amsterdam and with a lovely minty throw. On OMG, this is what I wanted Numb to smell like. 30 minutes I smell minty ice. How is that possible? Throw: Scent category: Herbal/Aqua Summary Beth. God love ya, you did it again. It's minty but not sweet, it also smells like water and ice and snow. Purchase again? Yes. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 5

Bottle Pic: http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL202/154131...8/120630175.jpg In the bottle I can't get over how lovely the bottle art is. It's a rose blend like The Empress meets Kurkulla. On I love rose...but it doesn't love me...so I'm preparing for this fact. It is turning green smelling as rose usually does on me, but, this isn't getting too bad with that "greening up" that happens, in fact this is nice. If it was going to turn bad it would've done so already. 30 minutes It's got great staying power, longer than the average blend for sure. I can't wait to try Rose Red 2005 now. Throw: Yes, a bit. Scent category: Floral Summary It's a heady fresh red rose smell the likes of The Empress and Rose Red but it's not as sweet as those two. I actually like a bit of sweetness to my rose as it helps to make the green smell not be so astringent on my skin. Purchase again? I think I would. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4

Bottle picture: http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL202/154131...8/120629230.jpg In the bottle Like...fruity alcohol. On Let me say that white musk in here is exquisite. Yep, there's the ylang ylang but it's not too twangy with the ylang ylang. The tuberose is so lovely... ohh. I don't smell the sandalwood nor the tobacco flower but I'm sure they're working their magick on me. Oooh, here comes the tobacco flower. It almost smells like carnation at this point, milky creamy carnation. I smell the hairspray now. 30 minutes Now it's a floral that's warm and golden. Mmm. It's long lasting, i'd say it's even on the strong side so a little goes a long way. Throw: a bit more than average because of the musk, and champagne. Scent category: Fruity/Floral/Incense/Animalistic Summary It's much fruitier and bubblier when wet. As it dries it takes on a warmer, golden, scrumptious floral scent because of the tobacco flower, getting stronger on me as it dries. It is a scent which is indicitive of that time. Purchase again? Yes. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4.5

BPAL blends which use blood orange as one of it's ingredients: Akuma, Haunted Palace, Kuntzkammer. In the bottle Smells like sex and an orange. It's interesting that the blend is a pale gold color. I have to preface that I love oranges. Their one of my favorite scents, so consider this when reading on. On This is so scrummy smelling it just sends me. 30 minutes Ohhh. After about an hour it's faded alot which is a pity because I need to smell something this good all the time. Throw: Yes Scent category: Fruity Summary It's dark, orange, and sweet. Great in the bottle. Great wet on skin. Great dry. Great dark orange smell. Great throw. Lasts only a bit longer than most blends. I wish it would last longer. It's interesting that this smells almost similar to raspberry. Purchase again? I'd give one of my critical organs (and anything else I own) for a bottle of BPAL Blood Orange. Just throwing that out there. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 5

BPAL blends which use cherry blossom as one of it's ingredients: Aizen-myoo, Kyoto, Neo-Tokyo. In the bottle *swoon* Light, airy, vaguely cherry scented floral. On It's sweet but not too sweet, the flower is more of a beautiful smell than the fruit. At 30-60 seconds it is getting quite strong. It's more than vaguely cherry scented now. It seems that cherry anything is going to amp up on my skin. Only a dab will do me in the future but do me it does. I thank the heavens I have an imp of this. 30 minutes The dry down is heavenly. It's at this stage when I give this a 5. It blends so well with my skin chemistry, so fresh and subtley sweet. It's a scent that could be worn alone. Throw: a bit more than average Scent category: Floral Summary It smells like you'd think. It smells pink, sweet, cherryish when wet, then pink fresh and floral when dry. Purchase again? Yes. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 5

BPAL blends which use white sandalwood (vs. Red Mysor, Blackened) as one of it's ingredients: Damnation, Dragon's Bone, Fallen, Hakkotsu, Kuang-Shi, Kyoto, Ode on Meloncholy, Nefertiti, Oneiroi, Seraphim, Shroud, Spectre, Stardust, Thanatos, The Black Tower, The Raven, Veil, Zephyr, Vicomt De Valmont, Utrennyaya. In the bottle Here's what the bottle looks like, http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL202/154131...8/120520732.jpg It's that lovely familiar smell. Sandalwood always reminds me of these lovely carved sandalwood fans that my uncle brought my mom while he was stationed in Japan when I was a girl. It's a woody and dry smell of course but there's that totally warm and addictive part about Sandalwood, that seductive presence it has. It's a serene smell and all that because of the connection with incense, meditation, temples that Sandalwood has, but it so sensual to me because of that musk-like twinge of scent which lies on top of the dry wood odor. *swoon* On This White Sandalwood single note blend is lightly cedar-ish when initially wet on my skin, then after about 5 seconds the cedar quality fades and the dry scent of sandalwood takes over luckily and I smell that sort of nutty qualioty too now after a few seconds. That is what I like about white sandalwood that subtle nutty quality that doesn't turn too rubbery smelling. One of the most precious things I own is a sandalwood pencil given to me by a forum member once. Apparently all the smell cannot be sniffed out with freakishly repetitive sniffing, but maybe now I can give the pencil a break. 30 minutes It just gets better in that it gets drier and mellower smelling. The strength of scent is diminshed more than I'd like in a single note dangit but that's the unfortunate thing with most single note sandalwood in general on my skin, not just bpal. Throw: average Scent category: Woody/Incense Summary Subtle, serene yet sensual. An dry, airy, nutty, wood scent. I have to compare once again but I think I like the white sandalwood more than the red Mysor sandalwood. Purchase again? Yes. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4

4.5 BPAL blends that include Cherry (vs. Black Cherry or Cherry Blossom) as one of it's ingredients: Blood, Kabuki, The Queen of Hearts. In the bottle I like this better than the black cherry single note, I thought it would be the other way around. This Cherry single note is more of a "real" cherry smell to me. It's a bit tarter, not as cloying. It's actually making me salivate. But I like berries and cherries and that kind of fruit anyway. On Wow, this is almost too strong. It smells like cherry candy after awhile though, really strongly. (15 minutes) I'm thinkin' it's just that a little of this goes a long way because it's so concentrated (as naturally a single note would be I guess). I'm impressed and cherry single note gives bang for the buck that's for sure. 30 minutes Wow this is like the longest lasting, strongest bpal blend I believe I've ever tried. Throw: Yep, more than the average blend but nothing record breaking or anything. Scent category: Fruity Summary Dayum that's some strong, long lasting cherry goodness. Purchase again? Yes 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4.5 I tried not to give this a 5 as I try to take this a bit too seriously and thus don't hand out 5's willy nilly. But it almost fits all the requirements; It's a perfect representation of what's it's supposed to be (in this case Cherry) it's long lasting, a little goes a long way, it smells good, etc. What's really good about this particular blend for me though is not what it is like wearing it but how it would be the perfect one for, well blending. Maybe a drop with a drop of vanilla bean just to change the vividness of the cherry alone. By the way I do love the cherry goodness of BPAL's "Queen of Hearts".

4 Polianthes tuberosa. Polianthes dates back to the Aztecs in Mexico who used the essential oil of the plant to flavor chocolate. Today the oil is a key ingredient in perfumes. Tuberose is a Mexican flowering plant belonging to the agave family, grown as a sweet-smelling greenhouse plant. It has spikes of scented white flowers like lilies and smell a bit like gardenia. BPAL blends with Tuberose as one of it's ingredients: Delight, Dreamland, La Belle Au Bois Dormant, Languor, Muse, Nocturne, Sed Non Satiata, Spectre, Stardust. In the bottle Such a pretty creamy sweet white lily smelling floral. On I can't compare this to any of the other floral single notes. It's different and individual yet it's not weird smelling in any way, it smells tropical, fruity and almost coconut like. That's weird but it smells somewhat like a suntan lotion I used to use when I was a teen in the 80's. Can't remember what the name of it was, it didn't have alot of crap in it and had the word tropics in it...that's kind of what this floral reminds me of. I like it alot and I didn't think I would like Tuberose for whatever reason. 30 minutes Smells cleaner now that it is drier. Almost Snow White-ish. It's a creamy, nutty floral now almost almond-y on my skin but more soapy and less foody. Throw: more than average Scent category: Floral Summary Starts out a tropical smelling creamy floral. Morphs somewhat into a suntan lotion coconut tropical floral smell which is better than I'm making it sound actually. Turns into a cleaner, soapier (but still tropical) floral. Has a bit better than average staying power as it's been about 40 minutes now and I still smell it without having to hunt for it on my arm. PS. lol, my husband says it smells like Jergen's skin lotion. Purchase again? Not to wear as a floral I don't think, as there are so many more florals I like better, but this is right up there and I'd certainly use it for blending as it would lend an ethereal vibe in that way. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4

3.5 Frankincense is an aromatic gum resin obtained from African and Asian trees. Frankincense is also known as olibanum, which is derived from the Arabic al-lubán (“the milk”), a reference to the milky sap tapped from the frankincense tree. BPAL blends with Frankincense as one if it's ingredients: All Saints, Anne Bonny, Antony, Arcana, Cathedral, Damnation, Danse Macabre, Deimos, Eclipse, Faustus, Hymn, Kostnice, Magus, Nephilim, Pannychis, Penitence, Psyche, Rose Cross, Seraphim, Titus Andonicus, Torture King, Tzadikim Nistarim. In the bottle A nice piquant incense smell. On We have pinon nuts that grow wild where I live and the Frankincense smells similar to the bitter woody sap that comes from those pine trees. It's not really warm and sweet as most incenses and resins. It's more pine tree bark smelling with the subtle sweet spiciness on top of that. 30 minutes It hasn't changed much but it is a bit softer and a sweeter on my skin now. Still has that turned up edge of bitter woodiness but it's more rounded than it was when wet. Throw: Aa bit more than average. Scent category: Resin/Incense Summary This blend doesn't morph on my skin, It smells like woodsy pine tree sap and reminds me of camping while sitting around a campfire but a bit more incensey of a campfire. Purchase again? Yes. This is a comforting smell. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 3.5

4 An orchid, vanilla is a viney plant. The vines produce yellow-white orchid flowers which turn into slender beans or pods. BPAL blends with Vanilla single note as one if it's ingredients: Bearded Lady, Belle Epoque, Blood Kiss, Desire, Dorian, Eclipse, Euphrosyne, Fee, Freak Show, Gluttony, Golden Priapus, Hollywood Babylon, Hunger, King of Spades, Le Serpent Qui Danse, Love in the Asylum, Mata Hari, O, Pink Phoenix, Siren, Snake Charmer, Snake Oil, Snowblind, Spooky, Tamora, Tombstone, Velvet, Voodoo, White Rabbit, Zephyr. In the bottle What a golden and perfect vanilla bean. Sheesh. On *swoon* The perfect, creamy vanilla. As it dries but is still somewhat wet it starts to get I dunno to the stage that is familiar to me with Snake Oil et al; It reminds me of a medicinal/bandaid smell. Why does my skin do this to me? 30 minutes When I smell it on my skin 30 minutes later it's so wonderful but still now and again I still get that medicinal smell. Must be my nose. Throw: average Scent category: Foody/Spice Summary Initially it is this creamy vanilla heaven in a bottle smell. Than it goes through this morph with my skin chemistry and smells kinda plastic-y or something. And then the scent just vascillates between creamy milky vanilla goodness and chemical plastic bandaid smell. Purchase again? Whenever I need to smell something heavenly I can smell this blend in the bottle. It's that good that I would keep it just for that, and to mix with other sn's too. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4 (if it wasn't for that weird thing with my skin chemistry this would be a 5)

4 BPAL Blends which include Ambergris as one of it's ingredients: Antony, Black Forest, Cathode, Deimos, Hades, Hellfire, Love in the Asylum, Masquerade, The Black Tower, Torture King, Vicomte De Valmont. In the bottle An almost citrussy musk On Lovely. It's brighter and fruitier smelling then I imagined. It doesn't have the smell of the sea that I had imagined. It does have a soft warm musk smell in the background but it's not too anything, it's just right and really pretty. 30 minutes The bright citrussy quality has toned down, it's more warm and musky now with a subtle sweetness and a slight acidic tang to it. Throw: More than average Scent category: Animalistic Summary Initially bright sweet yet warm and musky in the background. As it dries it's more of a tangy musk, still pretty. When dry it's a golden, smokey, sweet, acidic musk. Lasts a bit longer than average (a couple of hours). Purchase again? Yes 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4

5 Egyptian Amber is one kind of Amber that BPAL utilizes in their blends. Among the different types of ambers used in BPAL blends are: Regular, Tunisian, Black, Grey, Sudanese, Egyptian. BPAL blends that utilize "Egyptian Amber" single note as an ingredient; "Snake Charmer", "Bastet" and "Hollywood Babylon". In the bottle This is a very pale gold blend. So light and sweet and beautiful. It has this slight spice or incensey quality to it, smooth and gentle though. I had no idea but Egyptian Amber smells somewhat similar to Sandalwood. On This is a perfect scent if you're into incensey blends. I've always been a Sandalwood freak. This Egyptian Amber is so good that it takes the place previously taken by my beloved Sandalwood. 30 minutes At 30 minutes Egyptian Amber single note retains it's lovely, warm, incensey scent only not as strong. Throw: A bit more than average Scent category: Resin Summary It has a warm, golden and lightly spiced incense smell immediately and it stays this way, not morphing at all on my skin. It lasts (thus far for an hour) a fair amount of time too, it does lose the strength of scent when dry but not a huge amount. This would be so perfect as a meditation blend, but also I'd love to smell this on me all the time as a regular everyday scent. Purchase again? God yes. A 10ml, as if. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 5

4 During the romantic Victorian era, it was doubtless the fondest dream of most brides to carry fresh bouquets of fragrant white orange blossoms on their wedding day. These lovely bouquets were so fashionable that myriads of their blossoms were transported nationwide from Florida just to accommodate brides. BPAL blends which include Orange Blossom single note: Baccahnalia, Bess, Catherine, Dracul, Hunger, Jezebel, Lolita, Katarina, Les Infortunes De La Vertu, Maenad, Masquerade, Melpomene, Ravenous, Santa Eularia Des Riu, Succubus, Vicomte De Valmont, Vice, Vixen. In the bottle Wow, very similar to neroli. Orangey but not sweet at all. I've smelled neroli in products but not orange blossom, not by itself and I can't believe how similar they are. On So fresh smelling. Ohh. I'm not sure if I got some on my nose or if this has an incredible amount of throw. 30 minutes A little goes a long way with this single note which is fabulous. It's one of the strongest smelling, longest lasting bpal blends that I've tried, no lie. Throw: Not sure but I'm thinking it has alot. Scent category: Floral/Citrus Summary I cannot believe how fresh this smells. A bottle and an imp smell so different. I mean my imp smells the same but it's so amped up in the bottle holy smokes! I've never smelled orange blossom before by itself and I'm just so enamored of this. It's a green orange if that makes sense, almost herbal smelling. A just off the tree orange smell, and not one iota of sweetness to it, it doesn't even smell like a flower really more like a cross between a fresh orange and a lemon....but just intoxicating as hell. Goddess bless the person who took such good care of this blend, it's so fresh smelling. Purchase again? Yes. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4

4.5 Pikaki is a small off white Hawaiian flower. Either the closed or open flowers are treasured for decorating Lei's. In the bottle Lovely and light, tropical smelling floral. On Lovely and creamy sweet floral, yet has a slight crisp bite to it. It reminds me of honeysuckle mixed with Jasmine but Pikaki is not as strongly scented as those two. 30 minutes Doesnt' morph at all, still a beautiful exotic smelling floral. Throw: average Scent category: Floral Summary At first it's almost subdued and creamy and then it becomes more fresh and crisp smelling as it dries. Purchase again? Yes. I love this. I like it better than most Jasmine I've smelled. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4.5

4 BPAL blends which include Georgia Peach single note as one of it's ingredients: Fruit Moon In the bottle It's better than smelling a real peach from my grocery store that's for sure. This is what it must smell like on the tree. On Good Lord. This is fabulous. It's better than I thought it would be. Hardly sweet at all, it's warmer and less bright than I thought but still juicy and lushious. 30 minutes What a bonus that this doesn't sink into my skin and disappear. It actually stays smelling like a peach. It doesn't morph in anyway. So smooth. Throw: average Scent category: Fruity Summary It's actually juicy smelling. It's got a bit of I dunno, tree, in it...like a piece of bark or a stem smell that doesn't detract from the peach at all but makes it a very wearable peach on me. Not fake smelling at all and not sweet. Purchase again? Yes. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4

4.5 In the bottle Unreal, it smells like I've stuck my nose in a head of lettuce. On So lovely. Just as you'd think it would smell. Light, crisp, fresh, light green. Similar to lavender now with that almost minty bite of herbiness coming through now. 30 minutes Fresh lettuce with a crisp green bite. Throw: average Scent categor: Green/Herby Summary Smells like fresh lettuce, it gets more herby smelling as it dries. Purchase again? Yes 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4.5

4 BPAL blends which include Coffee Bean single note as one of it's ingredients: Mata Hari, Miskatonic University. In the bottle Just like opening a fresh container of coffee. On It's coffee lol. It's also got a teeny weeny bit of sweetness at the very end of the sniff. 30 minutes It smells of coffee almost a bit woody but still nice and coffeeish. It lasts a more than average amount of time on my skin. Throw: average Scent category: foody Summary As it dries it smells more like an actual cup of coffee then like fresh ground coffee beans, which is what it does smell like when it's wet. Purchase again? No. I love coffee, just not on my skin. I'm am glad and thankful to purchase the single note though. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4

3 2004 In the bottle Warm aged maple syrup. We have a lot of sugar skulls during that time of year in my neck of the woods. On I smell some candied fruits. Exactly like moist plum dates. 30 minutes This dries to an almost espresso smell or a burnt sugar smell now. It turns a little bitter. Throw: average Scent category: Foody/resin Summary The wet phase of this 2004 blend is when Sugar skull is best. It smells so warm and carmelized sugary and alot like maple syrup. This 2004 wet stage is the best as it gets in my opinion in both 2004 and 2005 and all phases therein. Purchase again? No 1-5 rating (5 being best) 2.5 2005 In the bottle An almost pickled maple syrup, compratively speaking. On More boozy. And almost sour, but only sour comparitvely. I wouldn't notice it otherwise. I smell a bit of an herbiness way in the back. 30 minutes This is drying down much nicer in a fruitier way than the 2004 blend. The boozy scent helps the dried fruitiness have something to hold on to. The spice that is in here is nice whatever it is, this 2005 blend smells more authentic. Throw: more than average (more than 2004) Scent category: Foody/resin/fruity/boozy Summary The dry phase of this is the best part of the Sugar Skull 2005 blend. Initially almost sour with the whiskey, brandy or rum scent but eventually it mellows and helps the fruit to hold it's ground and not become as muddy burnt sugar quality as the dried down 2004 blend. Purchase again? Maybe. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 3

In the bottle Yummy blood orange and amber. On I bought this for the blood orange. The vanilla, heliotrope and amber are all things I love too...this is absolutely yummy smelling. It does remind me of "Red Moon" and "Sol" too. 30 minutes I was worried about the way it would dry as I thought "something has to go wrong, it can't be this good". I was wrong, it dries on my skin beautifully. When dry it smells like orangey Christmas candy. I don't even know if there is such a thing...but there should be. Throw: a bit more than average Scent category: citrus/foody/resin/floral Summary This is so orangey and bright with the blood orange and heliotrope yet the vanilla and amber provide a layer of warming goodness. This all works wonderfully. I'd say it's right up there with Red Moon, Sol, Seraglio, Al-Shairan for a great BPAL orange blend. Purchase again? God yes. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4.5

In the bottle Smells like grapefruit. On Smells so clean and fresh with a subtle citrus bite and the scent of water. 30 minutes The fresh herbal grapefruit scent doesn't change, it's still as it was when wet. I like this alot, it's very crisp. Throw: average Scent category: Aqua/Citrus Summary This has such a clean crisp smell, it's also refreshing like crisp clear water. It's got a subtley herbal citrus scent also that reminds me of "Sea of Glass", "Dublin" or "Amsterdam" but greener, lemony and crisper even. Purchase again? Yes. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 3.5

In the bottle Spicy candy On This is similar to "Blood Lust" and along the same lines as "Malkuth" as well. It's sweeter than I imagined. Like dark candy. I don't smell any grain and it's not particlularly herby on my skin. 30 minutes It's very candy like and it smells like red hots mixed with musk. I do smell more of the grain now. Throw: average Scent category: Spicy/Woodsy/Animalistic Summary Sweet and spicy it definitely feels like the color red. The scent lasts longer than average too. Purchase again? No. Never thought I'd say this but it's too spicy and sweet on my skin. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 2

In the bottle Bright, boozy and creamy. On Woo! I smell Bourbon. As soon as the alcohol bourbon smell calms down a bit, a fresh water smell with soil/earth is present. Very nice. In her review "Troubledoll" described what I'm smelling exactly when she said... "like Zombi with the rose replaced with sweetgrass". 30 minutes The scent has not strayed from the earthy, fresh green smell. Throw: average Scent category: Earthy Summary Initially in the bottle and wet on the skin it's creamy, sweet and filled with bourbon. As it's drying it's Earthy, boozy, fresh air/ fresh water smelling. Yes, I know it's weird but I smell fresh water, I dunno either. On my skin it smells so much like one took "Amsterdam" and "Zombi" and mixed them. How it can go from creamy to fresh is beyond me but it's part of it's magic I guess. When dry, it is Earth, Air, Water and Fire all at once to me. Mossy earth, fresh air (the sweetgrass smell does that to my nose sometimes), water (dunno) and bourbon (fire ). I've still got the glow of the bourbon in my stomach. Bravo. Purchase again? Yes. A 10ml. This is quite unique. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4.5

In the bottle As someone perfectly described earlier "cotton candy sex". On Different on, but still sexy and darkly fruity. It has more than average throw too. 30 minutes At this stage the ozone and musk are more prominent with the currant being less strong than it was 10 minutes ago. Reminds me of "Storm" or "Lightning" meets "Lady MacBeth" or "The Red Queen". Throw: More than average Scent category: Fruity/ozone/animalistic Summary The combination of the fruit and the musk is what makes "Lurid" to my liking. It reminds me of Lush's nuclear pink colored bubble bar "It's a Date" or their "Sugar Plum" ballistic a little bit. I don't smell the lavender a whole lot in "Lurid". I've tried Beth's single note Bulgarian lavender and I can smell it but it's not the overriding scent, on me anyway. This is right up there with Beths' other berryish, red and black currant blends such as "Lady MacBeth, "The Red Queen" and "Gomorrah". "Lurid" isn't as sweet of a currant scent as "Bordello", "Jester" or "Swank" however. It also smells similar to "King of Spades" or even "King of Clubs" a little bit. Lurid smells like one of the above blends mixed with "Storm" or "Lightning". Purchase again? Most definitely. 1-5 rating (5 being best) 4.5

4 http://pic7.picturetrail.com/VOL202/154131...4/117657209.jpg In the bottle Peppery fruitiness? Something good. Could it be...Orange? On OMG. I definitely smell orange, and maybe even sandalwood, smokiness, sugar skull like. This smells a bit like "Xitiuchtul" too. 30 minutes Turns more carmelized sugar than when wet but it's still got that great wafting of wonderful scent. Ohh. Damn. When it's dry the orange kinda goes away and I smell patchouli or something left. Throw: more than average! Scent category: Musk/Fruity Summary Oh My, this is fruity, spicy, musky and damned addicitive with this great throw. However it disappears WAY to quick on my skin. It morphs into nothingness on my skin. My skin hates me. Purchase again? Yes! Why didn't I get multiple bottles of this! 1-5 rating (5 being best) When wet this is a 5 When dry it becomes a 4

3.5 In the bottle green and pumpkin-y On I love the earthy root smell with the pumpkin, and the ivy is green and bright but neither is too strong nor do they overpower the pumpkin or anything. It's more earthy smelling than in the bottle. 30 minutes I like this, it's more sharp now with the ivy but nothing negative at all, it's nice. Throw: average Scent category: foody/earthy Summary This is a nice just picked from the earth smelling pumpkin blend. It's grounding to me also and helped my mind stop racing and helped me to fall asleep. Purchase again? maybe 1-5 rating (5 being best) 3.5