Little Bird

I don't often enjoy jasmine or perfumey florals, so this didn't have much of a chance on me. I recognize the tobacco flower in this, because it always smells dry, white, and slightly soapy & sour on me. The tea makes it even more of a sharp, clean scent and the jasmine amps up the sour aspect. So it's a perfumey, soapy-clean, sour floral smell on my skin. I like my floral blends to be sweeter, creamier, and more natural smelling, so this doesn't work for me. I was curious to see how the cacao would work here, but I don't smell anything chocolatey at all. This just smells a lot like the traditional, sharp, department store floral perfumes that I can't pull off at all. I wound up scrubbing this off after a half hour, though it was pretty light and didn't have too much throw by that time.

This smells of a medicine cabinet full of cheap toiletries on me - bars of creamy, white, generic soap, cheap perfumey floral cologne, and a filthy layer of baby powder and dust. I like some clean blends (I loved the sweet, creamy soapiness of Tony, for example), but this is too sharp and dry smelling for me. It doesn't really smell green on me at all either. After an hour, it just smells like I rolled around in dryer sheets... my skin turns most aquatic or ozone scents into a cheap soap smell, sadly.

I'm not a huge fan of Mabon 04. It smells sharp and cough syrup-like on me. I actually prefer this 2010 version. I definitely smell the "wild nuts" and English ivy, and I looove the ivy note (smooth, cool green). The nuttiness adds a sweet touch and a bit of a wooden smell to the blend. There's also a hint of something that reminds me of dry, spicy-earthy fall leaves. It smells great in the bottle and then goes a bit sharp and perfumey on my skin at first. I'm not sure what note in this is going sharp and perfumey, but it has that chemical, musky floral edge that a lot of department store perfumes have. I don't get any fruitiness at all. I don't like the sharper stage, but it sort of calms down after about a half hour and smells great again. It's like sugared smoke, fall leaves, wooden, sweet nuttiness, and ivy. It's a really interesting fall blend with good throw on me. I like this now (and like it more than the 04 version, for sure), and I think that it might be awesome with some aging.

I agree with Hunger over Paramatman for an orange blossom scent. Hunger is rich, gorgeous orange blossom and has lots of throw and staying power. Paramatman is more of a sandalwood incense blend.

Both of my bottles of Anne Beany have a weird line in them where the oil has separated. In one the separation is at the top of the bottle and the other the separation is near the bottom. The one with the line at the top smells more cheesecakey and the one with the line at the bottom smells like tons of butterscotch and rum. I rolled them carefully to mix the scent back up, but they still smell different from each other and separate again pretty quickly. Both bottles are directly from the lab and came from the same order. Anyhow. The butterscotch-heavy Anne Beany reminds me of Creepy 06 at first (which was almost all boozy, sharp butterscotch on me) and then MVJBA Spring Training 2008 in the drydown (warm caramel popcorn and a bit of salt). It's an intensely sweet, heavy, warm, caramelized scent. Over time the scent starts to calm down and I can smell more of a vanilla-y cheesecake tone to it. It's prety strong and has good staying power (lasts about 5 hours on me). My cheesecake-heavy bottle reminds me of the original Beaver Moon. It's like vanilla-y cheesecake, maybe a touch sour, and a warm, buttery, graham cracker crust. The oil in this bottle is really light and doesn't have a lot of throw on me, only lasting about an hour.

I don't get orange or orange blossom from Sacred Whore at all. I find that the floral in that is more like a heavy, sweet, creamy gardenia. It's like gardenia with honeyed almonds and light spice on my skin, but very unique, dark, and unusual. Sacred Whore is one of my favorites. I find it really sultry and exotic. No orange blossom, though, lol.

Bpal scents have a very different feel when compared to department store perfumes. Fleur d'Oranger, if I remember, went soapy on me and had a heavy, perfumey floral feel. With bpal, if you're looking for a clean & floral scent, I'd recommend Dirty. For orange blossoms, I'd recommend: *Hunger. With black narcissus, vanilla, and orange blossom, this is a heavier, sweeter, more perfumey sort of floral with great throw and staying power. *Tweedledee. Kumquat, white pepper, white tea and orange blossom make this is a juicier, fresher, sweet smelling orange scent with that clean blossom edge. Lolita, Katharina, & Jezebel also had rather strong orange blossom notes, in my opinion.

My first thought was that this smells like powdery spearmint and sweet honey on me. It has a soft, natural smell to it that makes me think of fuzzy mint leaves. It doesn't sound bad, yet it has a quality to it that's rather awful on me. It makes me think of the way that rest area bathrooms smell and more of a dentist office's smell in the drydown (sickly sweet, disinfectant cleanser, maybe). It goes more powdery in the drydown as well. The overall feel is just not good at all to me.

I love this in the bottle and on my skin for the first half hour. It goes on with lots of the fresh, ripe strawberry, hints of whipped cream frosting, and a girly, sweet rose. It smells like the realistic strawberry note that I love in White Chocolate & Strawberry. In the drydown, this is much less awesome, as the strawberry disappears and the floral takes over. It's all sweet, perfumey rose with hints of a clean, sharp tea. It has a lot of throw and lasts about 6 hours on my skin, but I wish that the strawberry and foodie sweetness stuck around longer. I'm sad with how floral this one turns on my skin over time, but I'm going to love wearing this in my scent locket, and it does have the cutest bpal label ever.

Maybe check out some of these: *Croquet - Pink lime, pink grapefruit, white nectarine, wild rose, sage, woody patchouli, bergamot, and ornery hedgehog musk. *Ehecatl - Hibiscus, matcha, white musk, and lime. *Kuang Shi - Mandarin orange, white musk, mango, and white sandalwood. *Night-Gaunt - something akin to yuzu, white grapefruit, and kumquat mixed with the snow-dusted flowers of Mount Ngranek. *Rosalind - Dew-covered berries and fresh green grasses with a faint breath of spring flowers. *Serpents with Glittering Eyes & Forky Tongues - Serpentine green herbs, glistening red currant, sparkling yellow lemon rind, green musk, lime, and snakeskin. *Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat - green tea, melon, mint, lime rind, and champagne grape with lemon balm, mullein, and toadflax.

I really like the released version of this and use it for layering with other blends. It was sort of like red wine gums candies and cranberry wine coolers on my skin. This prototype has a darker, earthier edge to it and more of that heavy red wine feel at first. It's not as light and playful as the released version was on me, and the prototype seems more complex and wearable on its own to me. The drydown is a little sweeter and less earthy on me, and sort of reminds me of a lighter spiced Gluhwein with a side of grape jelly. I like it, and it has decent throw and staying power on me (lasted about five hours pretty strongly).

This kinda reminds me of Gaueko more than TKO at first. I get a sweetened lavender feel, but also a dark resin and dry woods undertone. As it dries down, it's less sweet and goes slightly powdery and has a bit of a soapy, musky feel to it. Looking over the other reviews, I guess I can see the tropical floral feel as well. I wish that I had more of this one to test, because I kinda want to try it on my husband...

Two recent-ish LEs that were coconut & floral: *Paper Kite (coconut, white sugar, angelica, and black pepper) *Tiki Princess (frothy, cold coconut perfume with gentle wafts of plumeria, pikake, and ala ala wai nui) Older LE: *Velvet Tiki (Gold-washed frangipani, vanilla flower, vanilla bean, coconut, hibiscus, papaya, pineapple, bouganvilla, passion fruit, and three orchids) For GC blends, Obatala is a nice, creamy coconut with cool aquatic tones, but not really fruity or floral. But maybe you could layer that with a tropical floral or fruity blend from the Luau Lounge for more of the feel that you're looking for (maybe something like Pele, Machu Picchu, or Manila for tropical floral).

I like this more than either of the released versions of Strawberry Moon. It's not as artificial and cloying as the original and it's not green like the 09 version. I agree that it's closer to the realistic strawberry note in the Truffles (which is a strawberry note that I happen to love), but maybe a little sweeter and more candied. It's mostly a lovely ripe strawberry smell on me, though. The drydown is a little like strawberries dusted with baby powder, so there's probably some amber in here turning powdery on my skin. The powdery edge gives it more of that strawberry scented dolls feel for me, but I still like this. It's girly and pretty... I'd probably try to get more of this if I didn't already own a dozen bottles of White Chocolate & Strawberry <3, which I still prefer for a strawberry scent.

This is a tropical fruity-floral mishmash on my skin, with a bit of green grass thrown in. I can't pick out any one note; it sort of reminds me of Shango in that it just smells like a swirl of different, fresh fruits. It smells like waking up on a resort on a tropical island and opening your suite window to a cool breeze infused with flowers, fruits, and green grass. Very pretty and refreshing. I might try to track down a bottle of this, except that it fades incredibly fast on me (only lasts about an hour and is pretty light & subtle).

I usually love cake, vanilla, cream, tea, gardenia, and leather notes, so the reviews for this sounded promising. This is all floral on me, though. If there's any vanilla to be had, it's the sort that turns chalky and powdery on my skin. I might be able to smell a clean, sharp white tea in here as well. But AFI is mostly like perfumey, sharp white florals and cool powder on my skin. It's a bit sweet for the first minute or so, but all perfumey floral as it dries down. Not my thing.

Some potential recs: 1. Eat Me, Polynesian Pop 2. High-Strung Daisies, Comforting Plush Companion 3. ? dunno for this one... maybe Witchblade for the metal/axe 4. The Obsidian Widow, VILF, The Witch Queen 5. Nanny Ashtoreth, Loviatar, De Sade, Black Opal (womanly, cold, and dark, in an odd, vanilla-y way)

The apple here doesn't smell really crisp or juicy to me, but its delicately sweet and definitely apple-y. The wood isn't green, but isn't an overly dry wood smell either, more like bark on a tree as its leaves are changing colors. It's mushy apples laying at the bottom of big apple tree in fall, which makes for a very pretty, calm sort of scent. I think I can smell a hint of apple cider somewhere in here as well. The scent is awesome, and I wish that I didn't find the bar soaps to be so drying. I can only use this sparingly as a hand soap. I really would have liked this and Plastic Jack O'Lantern in perfume oil form.

The Halloween: New Orleans perfume oil goes intensely sour and mossy on my skin, but this is pretty nice as a room scent (without my skin chemistry in the mix to mess things up). It smells like fresh peach, lemon floor cleanser (which I adore), and a pot of tea with a little bit of honey. The overall feel is like a clean house with a cozy pot of tea getting ready to serve some friends. It's a great everyday scent and makes me want to invite some friends over. I don't smell any of the sour moss. I thought that I would hate this, since the perfume was dreadful on me, but the room spray version is rather awesome. Clean, but still cozy...

I agree with the reviews comparing this to LUSH's Rock Star soap. It has a similar creamy, pink, fruity-vanilla candy feel to it, like raspberries and vanilla cream with hints of cotton candy and bubblegum. I actually wish that I could get a perfume oil version of this scent. The smell is fantastic and cheery and the bar itself is beautiful. I find the bar soaps to be really drying, though, so I can only use this sparingly as a hand soap. It has a great lather and smells great while I'm using it. The smell doesn't last on me at all, though, unfortunately.

I was worried about the lemon in this, but I can't smell the lemon in the bottle, in my bath, or on my skin afterwards. This is all sweet red apple and sugar to my nose. It smells like bathing in Sugar-Slathered Candied Apple, which is intensely awesome, lol.

As has already been said, this is heavy on the patchouli (which I love <3). If I had to pick a bpal scent that it reminds me of, I'd say it reminds me of Goblin's sweet, dry, earthy patchouli. The honey does a great job of sweetening the scent up without smelling intensely like honey; this smells more like a patchouli and sweet vanilla scent to me in the bath water and on my skin afterwards. It feels like there's a spicy-earthiness to the patch as well. I love this one. It made me want to go and slather on Goblin after my bath . Also, of course, my skin felt *amazingly* smooth and soft.

I think that I like White Pumpkin Extrait more than anything else in the inquisition sets this year, including the perfume oils. It starts off smelling like the lab's traditional buttery pumpkin note, but quickly dries down to smelling like the perfect apple pie on me. It's like crisp, fresh, sweet apple and golden pie crust with hints of warm, buttery, sweet pumpkin and creamy vanilla tones. I don't know if this actually has any apple in it, but that's what it smells like on me - lovely and comforting apple pie. I'm tempted to buy another inquisition set just to get another sample size of this.

My imps of this just say "wad of chewed up bubblegum" on them, but I guess it's supposed to be this scent? I'm not really sure, because it doesn't smell at all like strawberry on me. It just smells strongly of powdery spearmint gum and makes me feel sick to my stomach (I hate spearmint). Blech.

This is wonderful, and I love having another foodie room spray to use. I was hoping that this would be like the Horse Chestnut Honey perfume oil (which I've been using as a room scent in an oil warmer), but this is sooo much better. It's like warm, sugared, toasted nuts (slightly wooden nuttiness) with a hint of peppery spice, maple syrup, and maybe a hint of cinnamon rolls. It's sugary, warm, spicy, and gorgeous. I might need a second bottle.