Little Bird

I get lots of black soil, damp and slightly perfumey, like it has an aquatic and white floral note swirled into it. The fruitiness is purple and tart, like hints of blackberry and tart red currant. Reminds me of The Premature Burial perfume oil. After a while, it's a clean, tart fruit scent, with the soil fading away.

I love this for the first half hour, because it starts off very well balanced. The red musk doesn't overpower or turn as sweet as it usually does, and I smell lots of sweet, dark plum with hints of orange blossom and jasmine, with a soft smokiness from the vetiver and incense (and not the weird bbq smoke that vetiver sometimes has). It's mostly plum and vetiver on me, held together with red musk, with the other notes dancing over that base. Dark and not exactly as sexy as most red musk scents feel to me, but smells confident and a little dangerous. Very bold, with swirls of lighter notes giving it some lift. By about the one hour mark, though, the vetiver in this has amped way up and starts to smell like woodsmoke and ashes on my skin. Very strong, smoky, blackened, ashy vetiver.

I'm going to have to get a full bottle of Shadow. I love the sweet, spicy, rich, clove scent of bay rum, and the amber in this is warm, toasty and not as powdery as bpal's ambers usually are to my nose. Sweet and spicy, but mellow and easy to wear. I was afraid of the oud, because bpal's oud notes tend to be odd and fecal smelling to me, but I'm not getting any dirtiness or oud from this. Smells like thick vanilla, sweet clove, and sandy, dry amber.

The first time that I wore this, it was like roasted, dry, slightly burnt and bitter coffee beans. It read very sour and strangely spicy on my skin. I've liked it a lot more every other time that I've worn it, though. Now it reminds me of the smell of just barely roasted marshmallows (burnt sugary and a bit smoky) and black coffee. Like roasted marshmallows dipped in black coffee. Warm, dark, slightly smoky, sugary fun...

This is in the same family as scents like Pediophobia, Antique Lace, Lyonesse, and The Girl. Sweet, vanilla, powder fluff of a fragrance. It's a little too dry, powdery and warm for me, with lots of powdery amber and sweet (slightly Play-Doh-y) vanilla, and that same hint of pink candy fluffiness that I get from Pediophobia (what is that? the white tobacco for some reason? I have no idea). If you get along well with bpal's amber notes, this is a pretty straightforward vanilla-amber on me. I don't get any moonflower or ambergris. Bpal's ambers just turn too powdery for my tastes. This one is also really strong and long lasting on me; it lasted 8+ hours on me before it started to fade.

Coin Trick is another that just falls flat on me. It actually smells similar to Mister Wednesday's clean, generic, slightly soapy cologne thing. Musky, clean, light, metallic cologne... almost a little lemony and turns soapy on me in the drydown. It reminds me of Axe body spray.

Media is close to smelling like nothing on me, with not much throw or lasting power at all. It's powdery, like violet scented cosmetics dusting powder, sort of sweet and floral, with something like a clean white musk and slightly soapy, sharp white floral. Perfumey, powdery and light. The white floral muskiness turns a little sour on me in the drydown. Powdery, clean, slightly soapy, sharp white floral wafts...

I was hoping for more milk and honeysuckle, but Eostre of the Dawn is a slightly soapy jasmine with green, herbal undertones. Not really milky or gourmand at all on me. Like a pretty bar of soap scented with jasmine and green herbs.

The thought of this scent grosses me out, but if I wear it and don't think about being buried alive, throwing up embalming fluid, and trying to use soap to cover up decay... Laura's fragrance is actually pretty tame and cheerful. I smell a hint of wet dirt at first, but the drydown is all candy-sweet strawberry with fizziness. Like a strawberry version of Blue Fire. It's all sugary, fizzy, strawberry flavored drinks.

A silvery, musky, kind of generic, watery men's cologne with a slight, crisp, cold, green bitterness that reminds me of celery. I get a whiff of dry wood in the bottle, but on my skin, this is all generic and underwhelming drugstore cologne. It's a clean scent, and it turns outright soapy after a while, with something that smells like a chemical, sharp burst of cheap hairspray. I don't get whiskey at all. I like a lot of bpal's men's cologne fragrances (adore Wilde), but this smells rather cheap, flat and screechy on me.

The soft, vanilla-d, polished, smooth patchouli in this reminds me of the Fake News perfume oil. The amber and sandalwood in this actually don't smell powdery, which is what I usually get from bpal's ambers and sandalwoods. This is a cool, smooth amber and soft woods, and I do smell a bit of the caramelized sweetness. Fake News is a chic, non-dirty patchouli with delicate sweetness, and that's just what I get from this atmo.

I am in love with this bath oil. Smells like gooey, dark chocolate brownies, melting chocolate, and hints of sweet, gooey caramel. It smells darker and sexier than milk chocolate, but not bitter at all. So warm, sweet, and decadent. I wish I had more of this one. I've been wearing it as an after-shower moisturizer and layering it with other gourmand scents.

Latex SN is strange. It doesn't smell like latex or rubber or leather or anything like that to me. It smells like baby powder and a sickly-sweet, fizzy lime sort of thing. Reminds me of scented carpet powder. It's pretty gross.

The first time that I tried this, I thought that it smelled like Mouse Circus, so I wore it again side-by-side with Mouse Circus, and the similarities aren't really there at all. Mouse Circus is like a fluffy, creamy peanut butter and marshmallow cream sandwich. Snake Can is weirdly green (like green grass and pulpy, wet bamboo) and soapy, like the new version of Banded Sea Snake, with more of a salty aquatic edge. I get a hint of vanilla in the drydown, but it's perfumey/musky and slightly powdery. Soapy, salty aquatic, sharp green, and powdery vanilla musk. This is one of the few Snake Oil 'flankers' that I don't care for at all.

Pumpkin brittle with cinnamon, toffee, and pepitas. This atmo is way too spicy for me. It smells like a hint of creamy pumpkin pie and a ton of red hots cinnamon candies. Very much a generic 'pumpkin spice' thing. I can't even tell these pumpkin spice blends apart. Was hoping for more toffee and nuttiness, but it's overwhelming cinnamon. My man hated it.

I was excited for this, because I love all of these notes and thought they'd be great together. I can even pick out each listed note - a good dose of earthy, chewy, slightly dry patchouli, sweet raspberry, creamy orange blossom, and warm red musk. I just don't really like them together. I rarely like fruitchoulis, and there's something off putting about this one to me as well. The candy-sweet fruit notes and the dry patchouli just don't do it for me, and they're strangely warm smelling from the red musk, in a way that just churns my stomach. My man sniffed this one and said it reminded him of cough syrup. Not a favorite for me.

I shouldn't like this as much as I do, because I don't tend to like floral, sharp, or clean scents, and this is all of the above. It smells like a modern floral perfume that you'd find in a department store right now. The rose does have a hot pink, screechy quality to it, and the water lily is clean and slightly soapy. I don't get a noticeable cucumber or green note to the blend. At first, it reminds me a lot of a Chloe rose blend, very chic and clean, and the drydown is more of a dried, aged, antique rose mixed with the scent of clean laundry hung out to dry and spritzed with white florals. The drydown reminds me of an Annick Goutal rose. This also kind of makes me think of a rose version of bpal's Dirty. Chilly, cold laundry that's been hung out to dry, mixed with old fashioned roses. I want to full bottle this one. ETA: My bottle of this has aged strangely goes on with an herbal, sweet tang that reminds me of bread and butter pickles, which I actually don't mind, but then dries down to baby powder, green herbs and soapy-aquatic-clean-laundry, and I don't enjoy the powdery aspects.

I am deeply in love with the creepy weirdness of this spray. It reminds me of scents like Bruno Fazzolari's Room 237, which was an homage to the bathtub scene in The Shining. The Hall's Foyer reminds me of every creepy shower scene in every horror movie. Dusty, ghostly, with whiffs of smoky resin and spicy, old wood, covered up with hints of fresh shower curtain plastic and cold, damp stone tiles. I love how cold this smells, and the mix of dirty/heavy/dusty with clean notes. It's dusty and damp at the same time, but smells really good. It smells like being in the fancy bathroom of an old resort and just feeling like something isn't quite right and everything around you is beautifully aged and incredibly haunted.

Smells like spiced, stewed plums (dark, spicy, slightly sour) and dark, rich rosewood. Has too much of a dry, woody cinnamon quality to it, and that starts to give me a headache after a while.

I usually don't enjoy the lab's champagne notes (they smell sickly and pukey on me), but this just has a pleasant, sweet fizziness and lots of blueberry to my nose. Pop-Out Eyeball smells very much like the Blue Fire perfume oil, actually. Tons of sweet, juicy, dark blueberry with a fun fizziness. I kind of like having blueberry scented hair for some reason.

This is a really lovely lime note, because it's sweet, juicy, zesty and a little sour, all at the same time. I was worried that it would smell like lime candy or be too sweet, but it's refreshing and juicy. Smells like squeezing lime juice out over your hands and smelling the juice and the oils from the peel. There's a little lime candy in here, but it doesn't go full-on artificial smelling on me.

First on, this smells like damp dirt, clean spring rain, and touches of green herbs and moss. Outdoorsy and pleasant. Dries down with more of a creamy, vanilla-y floral layered over the rain, dirt and green. Reminds me of the original Banded Sea Snake a little, but less sweet and rich, more clean and floral. Clean, creamy, white floral with a bit of vanilla, rain and dirt. It's nowhere near as chaotic or strange as I was expecting. Misty, perfumey/white musky, white florals and vanilla musk with underpinnings of dirt and mystical herbs.

Goes on like a strong, chilly, slap in the face (bpal's slushy, crisp snow note), mixed with the smell of red fruit punch with an extra dribble of cherry syrup. There's a little soapiness with this one, but it's not overwhelming and I kind of like how the soapiness makes the intense, fruity sweetness more bearable. I get a little vanilla creaminess in the drydown, but it's mostly sweet cherry and snow with a hint of soapy-freshness. A very pretty, cherries-in-the-snow scent. I really like the drydown of this, even though I don't usually go for clean/soapy or fruity scents. Snow, sweet cherries and vanilla cream with clean, soapy skin.

When I first put this on, it reminded me of The Other Hot Chocolate (cocoa and marshmallows, I thought), so I put that on my other arm to death match them. Directly compared, The Other Hot Chocolate is darker and more chocolatey, where Rubber Poop is sweeter and has a noticeable, warm, intensely sweet caramel and vanilla tone to it. As it dries down, I actually don't get chocolate at all, and this smells more like a sweet, perfumey, creamy vanilla sugar and caramel scent on my skin. Toasty warm and a bit cloying on me. Reminds me of Bath & Body Works' Warm Vanilla Sugar, but with super-sweet caramel added in. I'm amazed that other reviewers are getting nothing but chocolate, because the chocolate is short-lived on me and I get a lot more of the vanilla-caramel notes...

White sandalwood tends to turn blends to baby powder on me, and that happens here. I can smell hints of sharp greenery and a slightly soapy rose, but mostly it's dry and powdery.