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Coconut, lemongrass, and amber. This smells like tropical coconut fun. Comfy, cozy, coconut. Great throw and wear length.

*squints* Red Rose is that you? This reminds me to BPTP's Red Rose from the duo Red Rose/White Rose. I get red roses, clove, and musk. Strong, clovey red roses. Good throw and wear length.

Lemon verbena, neroli, orange water, and a whiff of rose water. This is a very citrus cologne scent. It's somewhat old-timey and nostalgic, but very clean and bracing. Perfect for any lady after doing her toilette. MONDO throw and wear length.

Cotton, and whiffs of jasmine and bergamot. This is mainly a clean cotton blend, with whiffs of different teas. Sort of like a baby Lace even, if you like because of the cotton note in it. Great throw and wear length.

*squints* This sort of reminds me to the Isolde prototype. This smells like sugared white florals. Maybe magnolia? If you love florals, give this a whirl. It's very accessible, very pretty, and very spring-like. Great throw and wear length.

Goat milk, marshmallow and a whiff of lavender. This is a marshmallow-lavender creamy buttery goat milk blend. Soothing, comforting, good throw and wear length.

Lavender, bergamot, and a whiff of gin. This smells like a fresh, sporty lavender. You know, the kind that deodorizes the fact that you spent 2 hours sweating with a group of people. Great throw and wear length.

Red vines and a whiff of popcorn. This is definitely red vines, a touch of vanilla cream, and popcorn when it dries down. Sweet, sugary, candy-like. Good throw and wear length.

Pecan pie, dough, and honey. Not really getting a bunch of cream per se. But this is a nice pecan pie blend. Medium throw and wear length.

Beneath the Berlin Cathedral lies the Hohenzollern family crypt. It is the final resting place of many of those who shaped the history of Berlin, and is one of the most important dynastic burial sites in Europe, with roots reaching back through centuries. The memory of an 18th-century perfume from the royal houses of the Holy Roman Empire drifting through marble-white walls: white bergamot, clementine, lime peel, grapefruit, blood orange, neroli, lavender, thyme, and tobacco.  This one is what I'd consider a traditional sort of perfume - it's mainly a citrus chypre (I get whiffs of lemon, orange) and sometimes I get something that reminds me to Jean Nate. I did really enjoy this perfume, and its very clean and gender neutral. Monster throw on me.

Butter cream, coconut, vanilla and a whiff of chocolate cake. The coconut cream is very very fragrant on me, and sort of overwhelms everything else. Good throw and wear length.

Gooey chocolate cake with a whiff of orange. On the drydown I get whiffs of cocoa, and cocoa butter, and vanilla. Sadly the vanilla in this isn't the kind that works for my skin chemistry. Medium throw and wear length.

Herby focaccia bread and a whiff of honey. This one smells like bread. Sweetened, focaccia bread. If you wanted bread, this is it folks. Medium throw and wear length.

Honestly, this straight up smells like caramel popcorn. Vanilla, popcorn, more vanilla from Dorian, and yeah, its just caramel popcorn with a bit of woodiness underneath. Medium throw and wear length.

Take tiger's balm and throw in some leather, and you sort of want to sleep with the assassin that was sent to kill you, but if you're gonna die anyway, better to go out with a bang? Anyhow, sexy AF, very much killer, very much Asian, and not what you expected at all. Medium throw and wear length.

This is an incensey dragon blood's blend with frankincense and amber. Tasty, incensey, good throw and wear length. Sort of wild?

UGH, Monk smells amazing. It smells like flowers and incense, and just sort of downright low-key sexy. It's got a suppleness that is understated, and actually would amp up the sexiness to any blend, and would definitely cozy up to your Lupercalia. Good throw and wear length.

This one is one of the stranger ones I've tried in the sense that this smells like watery musk. You get a mentholic vapor tinge on wet, but then it dries to what seems like an almost electric water musk. I mean, I suspect that water that an electric eel just zapped would sort of smell like this. Very gender neutral. Good throw and wear length.

This just smells like forest musk. You get that fur smell, musky, and the juniper sort of makes me think of the forest? I think either Black Forest or the Jersey Devil smell similar, but this one is muskier. Medium throw and wear length.

Artificer smells like someone works with metal and lubricant, and just smells like a metallurgist. You know, someone that can fix your card, craft your sword, and also throw in that nice Victorian scrollwork while you're thinking about it. It's a nice gender neutral metallic smell. Good throw and wear length.

Hot and bright.

Carnation, clove, honey and a sweet patchouli. This one is a sweetened carnation-clove blend with dollops of honey. Ugh, this is so good in the same vein that BPTP Red Rose is, but not roses and spicy honeyed carnations instead. Soft, cuddly, carnation. Good throw and wear length.

Amber with a whiff of oudh, which gives it oddly enough an odd mint/licorice note to it. WTF skin chemistry. Low throw and wear length.

A filthy, heady bouquet.

There was at some point a BPTP duo of Red Rose and White Rose. This isn't as robust, but its got two of the major components, and it reminds me to the BPTP Red Rose version with red roses and tobacco. If you love either red roses, tobacco, or a combination of both, give it a whirl. Medium throw and wear length. Also, if your BPTP Red Rose stash is dwindling, well, nab yourself some of this.