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Creamy sweet rose petals! Plus some...little hints of raspberry and currant, like you just ate a dessert with those, and you're next to a rose bush, but the bush also has sweet luxurious cream flowing around it in some sort of fountain. This is really pretty, and I could wear it to teach a graduate seminar on medieval romance, or something like that - fruit-floral + sweet cream, professional but interesting, more stately and plush than flirtatious or dramatic, but still more intriguing than an average commercial scent.
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This is...also...oddly...reminding me of some other older BPAL, something with sweet apples and fruits...something from the 2010s era...this is what I get for dropping out of the BPAL scene for a decade, ahaha! I get sweet red strawberry + sweet crisp apple, more strawberry than apple, but I do get both. My childhood hometown has a Strawberry Festival, and this is like the sweetest best small ripe berry, no insipid grocery store imitations, please! Plus that sweet, not-at-all-tart apple. I don't really get the cream or amber here, but I'm not mad about it; I like this. It feels very springtime to me!
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Ooh...spicy cherry-strawberry liqueur! Spicy as in cinnamon and clove, not, like, hot sauce. 😛 This is very fun and I keep sniffing my arm just to smell it. I don't really get the amber; it's very spice+berry/cherry. It feels like a Lab throwback to me in a weird way - trying to place what scent it's reminding me of! Something about the classic BPAL spice/dark fruit combo... I like it, though it feels 'darker' to me than some of the other Love Bites - more autumnal, perhaps? Maybe it's the spices?
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Dark sweet cherry and a swirl of tropical fruit! A hint of cream in the background, just enough to add some rounded, well, creaminess, but it's not overly dairy or buttery. I really like this one! (Also a lot of my husband's family is still in Manila, so we love it when the Lab does all the Filipino-inspired scents!)
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This is so good! Creamy butterscotch, buttery pumpkin, warm slightly sweet dark ale. Absolutely delicious; I keep reaching for it!
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Lemon, sugar, brandy, rum - exactly what you'd expect from a warm Victorian holiday punch-bowl! It's bright and festive and a little old-fashioned, and I've been reaching for it during the gloomy weather this week!
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Mmm, this one's nice! I primarily get a thick creamy cheesecake, plus the same graham cracker note that's shown up in a few other scents lately. Not overly sweet, more creamy vanilla - I don't really get pumpkin, and I think the ube is contributing to the creamy not-too-sweetness, like a sweet potato pie, perhaps. I like it!
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This goes on very big and loud: mostly coffee, plus the dark caramelized almost-burnt swirl of brown sugar. At first I don't get much vanilla or milk; I would like it to be a little more balanced. My husband really likes it though - he loves coffee! As it dries it gets a little sweeter; maybe some of the vanilla is sneaking in there. I like it better at this stage, I think!
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This is primarily about the angel food cake on me: lightly sweet, airy, white cake! There's a little buttercream that's adding some sweetness and creaminess, and just a whisper of slightly artificial strawberry - not artificial in a bad way, more like, well, exactly when you have a scented lip gloss or chapstick, and it's got that hint of wax/solidity to it. But, again, that part's very light; on me it really is mostly light white cake and some buttercream. Which is actually very nice, if you want an uncomplicated fluffy white cake scent! This seems like it'll be good for layering with other scents, too.
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Oh, first! Let's see... Very pink, sweet, sugary strawberry, indeed! I don't really get the sufganiyot part; it's very much about the strawberry preserves with extra sugar and the addition of marshmallow: a distinctly fluffy airy creamy marshmallow. Fun and sweet - if you think you'll like this one, and you like candied strawberries, you'll probably like it! Good throw so far, though I've only put a little on, as I'm testing a few.
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2025 version! I couldn't find any other thread, even the older ones. Very similar to 2024, I think - sweet vanilla peppermint. Not as loud as some of the other years have been, and pretty much exactly what it says!
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Hungry Ghost Moon: Hazelnut Spread and Mini Marshmallows
splendidissima replied to doomsday_disco's topic in Duets & Menage A Trois
Delicious! Exactly as listed: creamy hazelnut chocolate, with an added marshmallow note. Low throw, but it does linger on my skin. I like it! -
My husband and his whole family are Filipino, and we couldn't resist getting this one! (Though he says he'd spell it differently...maybe dialect variation...?) Big tropical flowers + sticky sweet desserts! This is a loud cheerful scent with a lot going on. I'm not typically a florals person but I was hoping the desserts would balance it out, and they kind of do, though it seems like everything's shouting! It's hard to pick out individual gourmand notes, but I do get banana (the cooked caramelized turon kind) and a sweet sticky rice like when my mother-in-law is making bibingka. It actually really does smell like we walked into her kitchen while she was making desserts for a party, and we happened to bring a big bouquet of tropical flowers with us. So if that sounds good to you, this is exactly that!
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Agreed that it's similar to PS Hot Buttered Rum, except this version is lighter on the spice and more about brandy butter and creamy pumpkin. Not too boozy, just warm and golden. Good throw, and long-lasting!
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Fried dough (just like at a fair!), cinnamon sugar, buttery pumpkin! Good throw, too. Perfect late-summer-carnival-into-autumn vibes!