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In bottle: Oh! It's summer in the park! On me: Freshly planty and summery. This is a happy smell. Great throw, too.

In bottle: Mostly cocoa, like Wulric, but then I get a mild, deep fruit beneath it - the fig meat. On me: Cycles from pure cocoa through rice flower... I get a tiny bit of clove. This is a serious morpher. Ah, there's the cardamom! This gets spicy! It continues to evolve throughout the day, but overall - delicious spicy chocolate.

In bottle: Ungh. This goes to the hindbrain. Musk and vetiver and dirt. On me: ZOMG. The above, and Spanish moss drapes itself around the scent like a shawl. The moss brings out the sage and cypress. This is deep rich earth and musk and plants that I love. This is freakin' awesome. And then the caramel winds through... yeah. I'm in love. So glad I ordered a bottle!

It's barely there. I'm disappointed - usually anything with leather or tobacco notes in it amps deliciously on me. But here I can hardly smell the leather or the tobacco, and the musk is vaguely cologney. Sad.

In bottle: Myrrh + galbanum = 'song in a puddle. On me: Oh, this is good. Oh *man*. This is the very heart of the Labyrinth; this is who the Minotaur is when he's at home. Dark and resinous and lush. Nestlike. *gibbers* If you like resinous scents, get this before it goes away. This is a cousin of Schwarzer Mond.

In bottle: Sweet and fruity, but not too much of either. On me: Mmmm! Things interact in unexpected ways. It becomes a darker scent than I'd thought it would be. Dates! There are dates! Not smelling the grape (good!) or the pomegranate (unexpected!). This is sweet fig and date. This is so yummy. Oh, and *there's* the milk note - but it's not cold milk, it's a warm creaminess. This is yummy!

In bottle: Mmmm. Amber spilled with honey. Currant in the background. On me: There's the wood, there's the bark. They give the honey something to rest on, seep into. They deepen it. This is sweet and natural and just a little heady and sexy.

In bottle: Unfh. The darkest vetiver yet. This vetiver wants to take me out back and do me up against the wall, skirts hiked to my waist. On me: It lightens, becoming velvety dark rather than frightening pitch. The pomegranate is a temptation. The patchouli backs the vetiver, leering. Man. This is complex and gorgeous, but I don't think I can wear it in public! This one's dirty.

Just read this thread and went to look for Nocturne on the TAL site - didn't find it! Is it an unreleased?

Yum! Zazzle's wonderful. Extremely fizzy, so fun to *watch* - and a lovely gentle cocoa scent. Visual: As it disperses, you see chips of shea butter and cocoa absolute in it; the ball, mid-fizz, resembles a chocolate-chip cookie with dark chocolate and white chocolate chips. But, y'know, spherical. It tints the water light brown, and has a *froth* to it at the beginning. This is very like being in a mug of hot cocoa! I was almost tempted to throw in some mini-marshmallows. Tactle: Very smooth, very silky; my skin feels very soft right now.

I dropped Ugh into my bath to try to combat muscle pain in my legs and back, which had been achy, weak, and heavy-feeling for a few days. Note: this fizzyBOOM was demolished in transit; hopefully a better packing/cushioning solution is being developed. This was basically a bag of powder. The one decent-sized chunk did fizz spectacularly when it hit the water, but most of it, being pretty much just powder, dissolved on contact. The scent is lovely. It started out faintly citrusy, which made me worry, but it settled down to something mild and non-invasive. My cat loved the smell - he perched on the side of the tub sniffing at the water, which he's never done before! The color is a very light yellow. I had no bubbles; don't know if it's supposed to bubble. No ring in the tub, yay! And the answer to the big question? Yes, it helped with the pain. I immersed myself up to my chin and just floated and relaxed as best I could, telling myself that I didn't have to go crazy over my upcoming busy weekend, that everything was fine; telling myself that the muscles were letting go and relaxing, that I would get out of the tub and have a nice rest. (This has a major soporific effect, too.) And I did. I still have some heaviness and the same amount of weakness, but I'm not *achy* - and the headache I'd had is gone. I'll definitely buy this again, but hope it arrives intact next time - I want the full fizzyBOOM experience! And now I shall take a nap.

In bottle: Huh. Weird. What does that remind me of? On me: Indian restaurants. *looks up unfamiliar stuff* Ajowan. That's got to be it. I smell like an Indian restaurant. It's a foody smell, but savory, not sweet. I quite like it.

In bottle: Minty goodness without going to wintergreen! On me: Ooooh. I wanna lick my wrist! This is like Andes Candies. I know there's no chocolate in here - I guess that that's just what I associate the strong mint smell with. It's not an Altoids smell. It's a smooth, edible smell.

In bottle: Sugar, hint of strawberry, dusting of flowers. On me: Candy-sweet. I like it. This is so very *pink* - how does she *do* that?

In bottle: Poppy is the only one of the individual notes I'm getting. It smells soft and soothing. On me: Still poppy-centric, but I'm getting the lavender that this shares with TKO - fresh, twiggy lavender. This is nice, and I do plan to try to use it as a sleep aid.

In bottle: Woo, dark musk! Musk and tobacco. On me: Mmmm. The amber and oakmoss come out, too. This is *nice*. Touch of leather, touch of sage. Earth. Yum.

I was so looking forward to this, after reading all the Schwarzer Mond comparisons. I eagerly opened the bottle, sniffed, and - Nothing. Sniffed again. Absolutely nothing. Smeared it on my skin, and smelled. Nothing. *blink* *blink* I had my husband and a few friends smell it to see if I was on crack or had been sent a bottle of water. The unanimous response was that it smelled like mentholated shaving cream. *blink* So apparently something in this cancells out the scent receptors in my nose. Spikenard? I'm pretty sure I've smelled fragrances with all of the other notes before. Weird.

Cockaigne seems to go for *miles*!

I wore Gingerbread Poppet on Christmas Eve and Christmas itself. I have two dates while I'm down here (staying in Florida through New Year's) - to one I'll wear Beaver Moon, for silly fun, and to the other I'll wear Blood Moon, because it is all dangerously dead-sexy like that. Don't know about New Year's.

In bottle: The sweetness of myrrh... other things reaching up and blending with it. On me: Ooooh. Smooth spicy goodness. The amber lurks under it as a base for the wisps for spice. This is lickable. Very masculine. Very...yum. Were I to meet someone who was wearing this, I would want to pin them down and do... oh, many things to them. Mmmm. I keep sniffing my wrist! Sweet and spice and musk and... this is dark. I am so glad I have a bottle of this coming.

In bottle: I swear I'm getting lotus from this. o_O And crumpled fresh leaves, the juices on your fingers... On me: Ummm. This is a beautiful light woodsy thing. One of the things I love about BPAL is that they have quite a few scents that are forests, but they're all different forests. There's lots of light in this one. Juniper is here, but in the distance. Silvery-barked birch. That lotus-like smell rises. The scent changes, like you're walking through the forest. Yum.

In bottle: Sweetly musky. On me: Oh hell. Y'know how some of BPAL's scents are not-you, and some are wonderful, and some are completely made for your skin chemistry - it's as if Beth studied you and made something that blossoms just on/for you, that smells nice on everyone but on you, it's just... you? Gorgeous and amazing and made for you? Yeah. On me, that's Kathmandu, Drink Me, Beaver Moon, Blood Moon, Torture King... and Storyville, rarest of the rare. There's creamy sweetness in here, and a thread of skin musk and a winding trail of tobacco, and a hint of sex, a touch of booze - like hungrily kissing someone who's just partaken of some really good whiskey. EDIT: And some foodiness - small cakes eaten between clients. Beignets? Are there beignets in here? Holy crap, I smell like musk and a whiff of chocolate and a touch of a really good cigar and licking really good booze off someone's body and beignets. *whimper* I need more of this, and I can in no way afford it!

Dusty pepper is an excellent description. Dusty pepper and the herbs and darkly mossy, with a base of vetiver. Not getting any woods. It's a fascinating scent. Like Wolfsbane, I'm not sure I'll wear it as a perfume, but it's very effective at setting a mood. It is strong and dark and ash and... earth without the BPAL "dirt" note. Deep earth and dust. I do quite like it.

This smells absolutely nothing like I expected something called Nihil to smell. It is very very floral. It is department-store perfume. I'm not getting rose from it; I'm not good at identifying floral notes in a mix of same, so I can just tell you it's *not* rose, magnolia, gardenia, or honeysuckle.

In bottle: Sugarcane! On me: Sugarcane, a trace of coconut (but not suntan-lotion-y), something green - but dark green. Palm leaves? The rum in this is mild, not in-your-face. The predominant note is sugarcane. This is one of those that gives me such a clear visual that I almost feel like I can touch the sugarcane, peel back, bite into it. Elegba makes me happy. As does Yemaya. I really want to try the other Orishas! *sniff* This is gorgeous.