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White roses, hint of mint and white sandalwood. Cool, white florals. Good throw, low wear length.

Soapy jasmine, tuberose and lily. This smells like amazing dryer sheets on me. Amazing. Great throw, great wear length.

Apple, lavender, tobacco and orange blossom. WTH. There are so many notes and its kinda discordant and its like a smoky lavender apple blend? I just don't know what to do with this. I feel like my skin really amps up the tobacco, but neither the apple, lavender, or orange do much to mitigate/soften it, and it just ends up smelling like some weird floral tobacco. PASS.

UGH. Tobacco, sweet clove and frankincense. This smells like the best cigar smoke you've ever had. Masculine, but who cares. When you smell this good, just go for it. Decent throw and wear length. Smoky, rich, tobacco.

Pumpkin Lager reminds me in vibe to Feeding the Dead. I get a slightly boozy pumpkin, a ton of spice, some yeast, and it's spicy with cinnamon. I'm actually surprised at how wearable and how much I like it. Still too foodie for me, but I like this better than say the Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcakes. More pumpkin, more spice than PCC on my skin. Good throw, good wear length.

YES is a very interesting blend. It's a sugary lemon blend, but I get citron as opposed to lemon. In fact, sometimes it almost veers into grapefruit territory. I get just a whiff of vanilla musk. Sadly, this doesn't even last 2.5 hours on me. It starts off with a nice throw, but it diminishes as each quarter hour until its finally gone. SAD PANDA FACE. SAD.

Soapy TKO. There's something here that smells soapy and I just can't get rid of it. I get hints of lavender and vanilla. In other ways, if this were a detergent, hands down it would be amazing. As a perfume, too dryer sheets for me. SAD PANDA FACE.

Lavender mixed with fresh leaves and autumn leaves. This one is a breezy, outdoorsy lavender when the sun is warm without baking, and the air just has enough chill in it to be refreshing. This one, as opposed to Once Upon a Time, remind me to A Moment In Time in vibe as it really does seem to encapsulate and invoke being outside, running. Lavender, leaves, outside.

Brown suede, brown leather, and amber. On wet, this one is definitely a leathery blend. As it dries, I get a bit of the vanilla coming through which softens the entire deal a bit. But on the whole, this is a very BROWN leather/suede blend. Very masculine on me actually. Brown, leather, soft.

Spiced, sugared flowers. One of them is definitely phlox, and one of them is definitely jasmine. mr. zee_zee does not like the smell of this one. This one reminds me to Hope and Faith from Carnival Diabolique with their sugared flowers smell. Spicy, sugary, flowers.

Green, rainy, hint of wood. However, there's a faint note of dryer sheets to it. This is a very different aquatic to that of A Vast Similitude Interlocks All. It's soapier and greener for one.

Light pink floral note, aquatics and hint of amber. There's something very peaceful and timeless about this blend. Very gender neutral. Despite not being into aquatics anymore, I find this to be very wearable and echoing the first review, I'd think of it as something that would be appropriate to wear at the office.

Moss, leaves and occasional stabs of lilac and moonflower. This is a soft, sort of ethereal, hint of aquatic perfume. It's sort of dreamy and wispy. Moss, soft white florals, wispy.

Buttery nutty creamy, hint of sweet cream and honey. I get a bit of fuzziness on the drydown. This is a warm, comforting scent. It reminds me in vibe to Sudha Segara. Buttery, creamy, milky.

Pumpkin cheesecake, with a hint of dough. It gets oddly floral on my skin though in the drydown. I don't know what it is. Spice, pumpkin, cheese and flowers. Which makes an odd mix. FAIL skin chemistry. You fail so hard.

I get a load of spice, pumpkin and a hint of vanilla cookie. This is definitely rich, autumnal and foodie. As it dries down, it gets a little 'potpourri/craft store candle on me', which I think its simply the sheer amount of spice being overwhelming to my nose. So yes, spice cookies.

Caramel, tobacco, rum. This smells oddly masculine on me on the drydown. On wet, it's more caramel and sweetness. The tobacco and rum start cutting through, and I swear I get like a tobacco musk fougere. This is definitely a foodie masculine male cologne sort of blend on me. BPAL MEN REJOICE. If there was a foodie piratey blend you were after and are not afraid of the rum or some sweetness, come forth and embrace EN GARDE!

Strawberry sugar candy and a touch of blueberry and peppermint. It really is like a mashup of sugary strawberry candy and cotton candy. Sugar, candy, strawberry.

Hot chocolate cocoa powder and a touch of marshmallow. No rain puddles. This smells rich, foodie, and like hot cocoa powder. In some ways, it reminds me to Bliss, which was a straight up sort of watery chocolate. The chocolate note is much denser in Muddy Puddles but retains some of the powderiness that is associated with cocoa mixes. Too sweet for me, but chocolate lovers out there, take note.

Banana, sugared milk, vanilla cereal. This smells very... whimsical. On wet, it smelled more strongly of banana, and it has dried down to a sugared milk, maybe a touch of marshmallow, vanilla and something that smells like soggy cereal. In some ways, it has a very comforting kid vibe. I can see younger BPAListas really going for this.

Nutty, spicy amber with a touch of champaca. This smells both nutty and spicy, and the champaca brings a white floral note in the background. It smells sort of incensey.

Sweet strawberry candy and a touch of vanilla marshmallow. This is sweet, sugary and kinda creamy. Sadly, after 50 minutes my skin eats it right up, which means the throw was sort of non existent on me.

Sugared red currant and cake. I get a bit more of the honey on the drydown. This is a juicy red with a yellow cake base. Foodie, sticks close to the skin. Subtly sexy.

Salty buttery popcorn like in Shill and crushed sugar candy. I don't get a "jelly bean" impression but its definitely candy + popcorn. It's sweet, and salty, and if you ever wanted Shill to be more wearable, I'd give this a whirl.

Pink strawberry bubblegum and a touch of spice. I'm not for candy or sweet scents and BPAL strawberry note rarely works for me, and yet... there is part of me that is very drawn to this blend. UGH, this is seriously good.