Little Bird

Intensely tart fruit, smelled almost sour and lemony to me, with no cotton candy to be found. Sour lemon and tart sugar plum type of scent.

No Dorian or clove as far as I can tell. Spinning is a cold, mentholic lavender and green, herbal, minty presence with a pine/evergreen-ish note from the cypress. Cold, medicinal. minty and herbal. I need to stop buying things just because they mention Dorian in the description.

No leather, no bourbon vanilla, no honey, and only the cinnamon part of cinnamon buns. The whole scent comes off as a very sharp, woody cinnamon. It reminds me of plasticy craft store wreaths and cinnamon potpourri oil.

Aged, this has become so intensely satisfying to me. It's Dorian with the milky vanilla turned down (but still vanillic thanks to the Antique Lace) and the white tea turned up with a freshly sliced lemon. Fresh and aged, there's absolutely nothing in this that reminds me of Formula 54, lol. The lavender gives it an edge that's cool and breezy. White tea with vanilla and lemon. I'm hoarding my last 20mls of Dorian since it's been sold out for so long, but I've been able to snag a couple bottles of this for $40-50 a piece and it fills the clean, cool vanilla niche in my heart

Simple, soft, low throw and only lasts a couple hours on my skin, but it's a pleasant sandalwood & myrrh where the sandalwood doesn't turn to pure baby powder on my skin. The sandalwood is a warm, toasty, and dry wood note, and the myrrh gives it a dark, rich sweetness. It's one of those fragrances that feels like a warm glow on the skin. A little bit of a dusty, dry, incensey note in the drydown.

Similar to Spiced Rum Buttercream on me (very dry, spicy, lots of sharp cinnamon), but with a hint of sweet apple. I was hoping for more of the vanilla and butter notes, but this is mostly spices on my skin.

A very sharp, tart, slightly sour lemon on my skin, with the hint of clove making it medicinal and strange. I don't get anything like orange or orange blossom. Only lasts about 20 minutes on me before it's just a barely there smudge of sour lemon.

This one is not working for me at all. It smells so cheap and waxy/plasticy on my skin, like a generic vanilla buttercream candle, with a heavy handed wallop of sharp cinnamon potpourri.

Clean, tart apple that doesn't turn full-on soapy, but it always seems like it's on the verge. It smells green to me more than red, and a little apple blossom-y. Makes me think of green apple and apple blossom scented air fresheners. Clean and tart, but still very sweet.

My Little Grotesque (cardamom cupcakes) is one of my favorite bpal foodies, and this is like a cousin of that blend. It's like buttery spice cake instead of yellow cake, and has more of an airy, milky smelling frosting rather than MLG's heavy vanilla buttercream scent. I can smell the cardamom in this, but there's a cinnamon note that's definitely stronger than the cardamom on my skin. Buttery pumpkin cake with a good dose of cinnamon and a milky glaze topping. Probably too much cinnamon for me to wear this a lot, but I think it would be great in an oil warmer.

I get a similar waxy, perfumey, burnt brown sugar thing that I got from Last Year's Stale Candy Corn, with a hint of lemon and a cinnamon note that amps up on me in the drydown. Weirdly, I'm not getting the dead leaves part at all. I would have thought this was one of the pumpkin blends.

The Sufganiyot blends and I have not gotten along in the past (Raspberry turned to plastic raspberry jam and no pastry note, and Strawberry was too cloying), but I took a chance on Blackcurrant, because I love the lab's black currant note. Unfortunately, this isn't the same black currant that's in every other blend I have enjoyed it in. It's nothing like Eat Me and doesn't have that rich, jammy, dark berry scent to it. It smells kind of like raspberry scented doll heads and fig newton bars. The pastry part actually makes it smell a lot like fig newton bars on me at first, but with some raspberry jam added in, and a little bit of a plasticy-perfumey edge. The berry is bright, red, sweet, tart and plasticy-perfumey. Drydown is all that berry note and no pastry, donut, or glaze smell. If someone tried this on me blind and told me it was Raspberry Sufganiyot from last season's yules, I wouldn't have argued. I have already found a new home for my bottle.

I love clove and was hoping that this would be like bpal's long gone Sweet Clove single note, but it is not. There's something watery and astringent about this, almost tea-like, and it has a dead leaf scent to it that I'm not loving. It also has a sweet cinnamon quality to it more than clove, as other reviewers have mentioned. In the bottle, this smells like all cinnamon all the time. On my skin, it's like a watery clove tea with sharp cinnamon and dead leaves. Dries down to something like a sweet cinnamon potpourri. I have a lot of clove essential oils that I like a lot more (and that were a lot cheaper than this blend). Essential Wholesale sells great Clove Bud and Clove Leaf oils and I can get 2 oz or 16oz for what I paid for this. I'm let down by the lack of clove scent in Indonesian Clove and regret this purchase.

Amber and balsam peru with patchouli, blood orange, and rose geranium. This was the luper that I was most excited for this year, because I adore geranium and patchouli. My only hesitation was with the blood orange, because citrus can go too sour on me, and I wanted this to be an herbal-spicy-rich-earthy-amber sort of fragrance. I thought that the other, heavier notes would overpower the citrus, but that is not the case. In the bottle, I get creamy orange and nothing else. On my skin, a big blast of sour, tart orange. 15 minutes later, still mostly orange, but I think I can pick out a sweet, smooth, chocolatey patchouli and dry, sandalwood-like wood notes. Sadly, I can't really pick out the rose geranium at all. I get none of its green spiciness. I don't get any green balsam notes either. A half hour in, this is a barely there skin scent that's mostly baby powdery amber and a smear of sour orange. My biggest hope of the Lupers this year is my biggest disappointment

A scent for all rabble-rousing, nose-thumbing reprobates: black plum, champaca flower, dark musk, patchouli, narcissus and scorched sandalwood. In the bottle and first on my skin, this actually reminded me quite a bit of gummi bears. It had a wonderful, fruity sweetness. But these would be gummi bears with an edge to them. These are purple gummi bears that are wearing a sexy musk fragrance. The sort of gummi bears that might sell themselves on a street corner for fun (no, I haven't been getting much sleep lately). After about ten minutes, this one gets much muskier and spicier on me. My mother sniffed it and said that it was too spicy for her tastes. It rather smells like pepper and patchouli to me, but with a heavy dose of smoky musk in the background. I do not really detect the fruitiness anymore, though there is a lingering sweetness that seems like the remnants of plum. After a half hour the muskiness has settled down (but it is still the focus of the blend on me) and this is started to smell sweet again, along with some of the sandalwood coming out. Black plum and woodsy, slightly powdery sandalwood. This is pretty strong on me and has a lot of throw for the first hour, but it calms down considerably after that. It still has a lot of throw, don't get me wrong, but is more subtle and closer to my skin. I'd classify this one as a spicy musk with a hint of elegant fruitiness on me. It actually smells more grownup and isn't as sweet or playful as the perfumes that I tend to favor, but I do really like it, especially in the first ten minutes or so. I wish that it would keep more of that initial sweetness and fruitiness.

Creates a veil of sexual allure and charismatic comeliness. Used for casting Venusian glamours and spells for beauty, charm and sensuality. Glamour smells like sweet, slightly powdery tea roses on me. Perhaps with a light backdrop of something like myrrh. It has that scent of a silky smooth resin on me, rather warm and pleasant. I don't know about the veil of sexual allure and charismatic comeliness, but this is a very pretty and girlie perfume on me. I wore it around some people that I was hoping to impress, and they didn't react to me any differently than they normally would. Still, this is a beautiful rose-ish scent on me. I find it intriguing and would definitely continue wearing it, it's a sultry sort of fragrance.

I'm so glad that I was able to get a bottle of this. I'm more into florals this year and this one smells mostly natural, like soft petals with that floral-vanilla-honey sweetness and a touch of wet greenery. It turns very sweet and heady on me. A lot of Bpal scents lately have no staying power or throw on me, but Wild Honeysuckle is noticeable for about ten hours on my skin. I feel like I'm wearing exotic, sweet, sensual, true wreaths of flowers when I have this on.

Damp, wilting, rotting jasmine flowers in a vase of old water, smelling sickly sweet, a little perfumey, and slightly soapy. I feel like there's a hint of floral dragon's blood as well, and the drydown is all powdery amber and waterlogged jasmine. Leans soapy and musky floral on me.

Sharp, soapy rose, amber that immediately turns to overwhelming baby powder scent on my skin, and hints of dry, spicy, floral cloves. Dries down to 80% powder, 15% screechy rose (reminds me of hair spray in the drydown), and 5% hint of nice clove. Way too powdery for me.

First on, this goes to sour pine (reminds me a bit of cat pee) and acrid, sharp woodsmoke. Then, all of a sudden, the scent shifts and it smells like sweet root beer and vanilla float with spicy bay rum cologne over a warm, woody base. Masculine, spicy, sweet, woody. Very warm. A smokiness wafts in and out, but it smells like rich tobacco in this stage rather than sharp woodsmoke. A nice scent for a warm and masculine leaning forest fragrance.

A very dry and spicy scent with a hint of burnt coffee. I can pick out the cinnamon, clove and cardamom clearly, and the oil burns my skin where applied. I don't get the buttercream or any creaminess, but lots of dry cinnamon and cardamom with roasted, toasty, slightly burnt coffee. Super spicy.

Smells pretty much identical to Miskatonic University on me. Sweet, creamy, sugary coffee, with the whiskey adding that undertone of a spike of warm booze and polished woodiness. Starts off strong, but fades to a skin scent on me within ten minutes or so. Coffee with a lot of sugar and creamer, and a hint of booze and wood.

[No additional description given.] I'm really shocked that this doesn't have any other reviews, because it's amazing to me, like my favorite atmosphere spray ever kind of amazing. It has even edged out The Agricultural Building, which I previously thought was the ultimate in chocolatey goodness. This makes The Agricultural Building smell like a cheap packet of hot cocoa mix, though (which is still great to me, as I love chocolate, lol). This is the sexiest chocolate-marshmallow-musk-thing ever. It smells like melting milk chocolate, melting marshmallow cream, and sex with dark, rich, vanilla-booziness. The rum adds a dark, rich, grownup warmth to the blend and the ambrette makes it like some sort of sensual marshmallow cream musk with melting chocolate. It's so smooth and amazingly good, and sweet without being cloying, because it has such a smooth, creamy feel to it. It's gourmand, but adult and dark around the edges. I wish that I could get this in perfume, hair gloss and bath oil form as well. I want to bathe in it.

When Marianne was originally released, I got two different batch variations (one very red oil that smelled like Snake Oil with blackberry added in and hints of woodsy patchouli). Sweet, fruity, red musky. The second variation I got of this was a dark gold oil that smelled like ashy, gritty patchouli and sour (kind of body odor-y and sweaty) berries. New Marianne is a dark oil, almost pure black with a reddish hint, and smells very similar to the GC blend Satyr. Definitely a dark, animalic, musky fragrance. I can't pick out any of the listed notes and it doesn't smell like the original variations. I would have guessed that this is civet, black musk and black wine grapes. Dark and animalistic, flat and not complex. A little sour.

My decant of this wasn't what I was expecting at all from the notes. Indigo opium must not share much with usual opium note, which goes unbearably sharp, white, and musky-floral smelling on my skin. Dusky Shroud smells sweet and fruity-floral, rather like neroli on my skin. It actually reminds me a bit of Ruddy Daggerwing (which was cocoa, tobacco, coffee, and orange). It doesn't scream coffee or vanilla, but it has a toasty, almost earthy warmth and a hint of creamy sweetness to it. I keep thinking orange/neroli whenever I wear it. After a half hour, there's a bit of smokiness to the scent, like neroli, earthy coffee and smoked vanilla. Sultry and sweet. Smells like a good night time fragrance.