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I'd e-mail 'em. I ended up making two orders very close together in early to mid-February and I received them both last week. People, if you're feeling weird or hesitant about e-mailing the Lab you shouldn't. They don't bite.

Definitely e-mail customer support. Mistakes happen. I would think if there were a backlog it'd be simpler for the Lab to hold the order rather than send half of it without explanation but I could be wrong. An e-mail wouldn't hurt.

I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that when you purchase with PayPal you only have the option to use a credit card or do you mean you can no longer use PayPal when you check out through CCNow? Because I'm fairly certain the Lab discouraged the latter.

Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener (sassafras, vanilla extract, oak leaf, CO2 butter extract and onycha) from the Pharmacopoeia line smells like root beer.

133. In the bottle it's very warm, buttery, sweet, and slightly boozy. Butterscotch-esque. On my wrist it's sweet buttery vanilla and... snow? Not minty or eucalyptus-y or coconut-y, but piney snow. Yep, I think it is. After about an hour of wear the snow lets up, the buttery-ness has all but left, and it sweetens considerably. The pine's still there. No throw on me, really. It's foody in the bottle but not much at all on my skin although, I can't help but imagine the crunch of sugar between my teeth. It's really reminding me of one of the most recent Yules. It's not a stunner as of yet but I'm intrigued. I think I'm going to take another stab at Chaos. I think it's piney snow... Edited because even though Firefox disagrees "piny" just looks strange to me.

The wax and smoke of millions upon millions of candles illuminating the walls of Death’s shadowy cave: some tall, straight, and strong, blazing with the fire of life, others dim and guttering. I don't get any smokiness (I wouldn't mind some, but it's not there for me). It's waxy and sweet and warm, but not heavy like some scented candles smell; it's like the scent of an unscented candle. I'm assuming that's the beeswax. As of this test it doesn't have much throw but I'm not particularly warm and I'm not moving around much. In fact, I'm doing little more than sniffing my wrist over and over. I think, shortly upon application, it's a little coconut-y but it doesn't last if that worries you or thrills you. I find this scent very comforting, like the smell of hair grease, something I haven't smelled much of since I was a kid. It's very evocative. I'm getting a bottle. And maybe some beeswax candles. And possibly some hair grease.

It's kind of citrus-y in the bottle but not on my skin. The first thing I notice when I apply Olisbos is that it's very smooth, something I enjoy in a dildo scent. Seriously, whether I liked it or not, and upon application I was still undecided, I found it to be really well-blended. This is quiet, unobtrusive leather. I have to remind myself that it's there. The wood reminds me of the cedar in Tombstone, only not as sharp, and the olive oil, or what I think is the olive oil, smells green. In fact, it's green with wood in the background; it's like the smell of green leaves on a branch. On one wrist the scent has faded to faint wood with just the tiniest bit of sweet leather; the other, the one I applied the oil to, still smells pretty green, although the wood is inching closer to the front. Overall I'd say this is a smooth, comforting woody scent. I'm looking forward to seeing how this ages.

Apparently Autumn Moon was backordered (I read that in the Squee thread, I think) but I did see an order containing it in the CnS thread. That order was placed after yours, though. It probably wouldn't hurt to drop the Lab an e-mail just to make sure your PayPal order didn't get eaten.

Take Severin, lose the leather, and add milk chocolate. If you love and miss Severin and can wear a bit of chocolate you might like this. When I sniff my skin up close it's the lemony tea note from Severin only sweeter. The background is sweet and creamy chocolate, not too strong. I get more chocolate in the throw than sniffing close up. The longer I wear it the more it smells like lemon hard candy. The chocolate becomes less pronounced and more of a generic sweet base. I was unsure about this Truffle but my curiosity won out, and I'm so glad it did. Like Severin, this seems to be fading pretty quickly on me. I love it on my skin but this might be one for the locket if I want the scent to last. It's also sweeter on my skin than in the bottle.

Resurrected. Virtually no morph. From the bottle to my skin and thereafter Hod was all spicy-sweet carnations. I didn't get much if any creaminess; I might need to roll my bottle. It's a strong, (but, not in a bad way) perfumed scent, one I associate with the grown-up lady perfumes my mom wore when I was a kid. It's warm and soft and lovely, and a little dab will do me.

Spooky (Resurrected): It's coconut rum, and that ain't bad. I love opening the bottle. I get a crazy boozy blast of coconut rum swirling with icy mint. It honestly smells like a mixed drink. That initial blast makes me go, "Woo!" as though I'd taken my first sip of said drink. This might be the booziest of the boozy BPALs I've sniffed so far. I love it. On my skin it loses the alcoholic edge fairly quickly and when I sniff close up it's mostly a chocolate-y vanilla-mint with a hint of coconut bringing up the rear. It's kind of like Thin Mint cookies but a bit buttery? Maybe. I get more coconut in the little whiffs I catch just moving my hand around. I've only been wearing it for a short while but I'm pretty sure this ride stops in mint country. I would love it if the coconut note were more prominent but I love the scent just the same.

I really have to huff it to get a sense of it in the imp. I'm reminded of cleanser, either for my face or for the bathroom. The longer I wear it my wrists smell of soap; not that the scent is turning soapy, but that the oil smells like some commercial brand of soap. The secret to sexual attraction is bathing! It's a little sharp close up but otherwise doesn't have much in the way of throw on me. I imagine if I wanted to test its effectiveness as an attractant I could dab a little somewhere on my body and wear a different scent without worrying about them clashing. Fake edit: As I'm previewing my post the sharpness is already dying down.

Did anyone recommend The Girl? It is an LE but it's still up as of now. Vanilla's not listed as a note and when I first tried my imp I couldn't understand where people were getting vanilla from but I've since gotten a bottle and it's a sweet vanilla-ey scent. Very sweet and floral but light.

In the imp I get cherry from the almond, the tiniest bit of caramel and something else I can't yet identify. On my wrist it immediately turns...to linen? And floral? It doesn't register as rose but I definitely get some floral. I don't know what croquembouche smells like and while I wasn't expecting anything really cakey as it's cream-filled pastry I don't really get anything remotely like dessert. It really is a floral linen scent on me, although not as sharp or sweet as Antique Lace. After a while I do get some sweetness but I wouldn't call it caramel. In fact, for once caramel plays nice with me in the form of not showing its pee-like face. Maaaaaybe just a wayward smudged caramel fingerprint to account for the sweetness but nothing more. I'm surprised and pleased by this scent. Not a lot of throw. The floral eventually fades and I'm left with a very light, slightly creamy scent. I'm glad I didn't let the caramel scare me off.

Yeah, it was definitely just a brain-fart on my part. I can follow simple intructions sometimes, people! What's funny is it was at least a few days later when I did the whole just-about-to-fall-asleep thing and I realized that I'd forgotten to add it to the comments. Startled me awake and everything. I checked CCNow and my order had already been harvested at that point and I felt like a bit of an ass. A quick e-mail resolved it, though. On a side note I'm glad to hear the oils are a win, angelicruin. I'm really looking forward to getting mine; I ordered all three as well.

If you haven't already just shoot them an e-mail if you want to be on the safe side. I forgot to include mine in my most recent order but I didn't want to chance that they'd just overlook it this time, nor did I expect them to remember my last forum-only order. If all else fails you can always google "BPAL forum only." I think that's how I found the page the first time; that's also how I found the Shojo Beats. And strangely, the Tarot 10mls.

I'm assuming you no longer have the e-mail confirmations? I'm a slow deleter; I have this link: https://www.ccnow.com/cgi-local/os.cgi? which brings you to the "Find Your Order" page. When I plug in the entire credit card number plus my e-mail address I get a list of every CCNow order I've ever made (I've only been ordering since May of this year, though). If I put in an order date as well I get that specific order.

It's going wrong. In the bottle I get all pear. Where's vanilla? On my wrist it's the juicy pear I recognize from Thalia and some kind of harshness that jars my nose when I lean in to sniff. It's very similar to what I experience with the patchouli in Snake Oil except it's not patchouli, but a strange sourness. For the next hour or so it's pear and muskiness, a vaguely manly cologne scent. Now all the pear is gone and it's just some men's cologne. I've run into this before with a very slightly aged bottle of TKO; once the lavender fades I'm left with a vague muskiness and the tiniest hint of sweetness. I don't get even a hint of vanilla in The Perilous Parlor. Could it be the bottle's age? Where's vanilla? eta: Vanilla, or at least some sweetness, did eventually show up. Strangely it decided to show up after I tried to wash the oil off so I decided to reapply and, apropos of (almost) nothing, take a nap. When I woke up I had the faint scent of both pear and vanilla on my wrists with a bit of the manly musk I experienced earlier. I guess I can chalk it up to a new, unsettled bottle and wonky skin chemistry. I'm definitely re-retesting.

A sensual scent, compelling and passionate, that stays close to the skin: Roman chamomile, bourbon vanilla, and smoky vanilla bean. Two words: Vanilla Sharpie. A few more words: After the initial Sharpie-like edge goes away I'm left with a warm, buttery vanilla. For all its warmth and butter I don't get much throw from it, and it's sweet but I'm not finding it sweet enough. I think what's throwing me is that vanilla puts me in the mind of foody and I don't find this foody enough. Or foody in a way I like. Or something. It's sweet, inoffensive, wears close to my skin, and isn't blowing my mind. Still, it's vanilla and I love vanilla; I'm undecided on whether or not to get a bottle just to see how it ages.

After two or three hours the dead-on sweet baby powder scent is starting to fade but the brimstone totally stood me up. I didn't get any in the imp, none on my wrists, and none as the oil takes its leave. Still, it's pretty sniffable and pretty awesome. I'm not terribly fond of baby powder proper but somehow I'm all over it in an oil. I'm getting a bottle; I'm getting it twice.

In the bottle and wet on my wrist this is orange-glazed cake. As it dries the cake gets cakier and the orange glaze is still there, still sweet. It's a little like a creamsicle. Love. That. The orange backs off very quickly and it's more bitter; the anise must be stepping forward. The cake is front and center, but the florals are perking up and getting creamy. Less buttery cake and more straight vanilla with wear; faint but zesty orange is just underneath. Ultimately this is Antique Lace with orange zest and minus the linen on me. This is as close as I've gotten to the orange creamsicle scent I want so much. I wear AL regularly; this is its fruity candy, summery cousin. Edited to remove the link to the forum's main page that I inexplicably slipped into the post.

In the bottle it smells peanut buttery-chocolatey, and very easy on the -chocolatey. And tiny whiffs of coconut, and something syrupy. As it dries on my wrist it's pomegranate from the grenadine, and it's one of the few times the pomegranate doesn't come off on me as a waxy, fruity scent, like flavored Chapstick. Even with all the syrup and candy sweetness I have to slather this in order to get more of the chocolate coconut (and peanut butter. Who knew?) I love in this scent. I don't get much throw otherwise. Incidentally, B-Horror mingles well with Antique Lace if you enjoy the heady sweetness. I do.

I had to look up the notes to be sure but I ran into the same problem with The Arrival... as I did with Tiresias, the Androgyne: patchouli+caramel+sandalwood+me=pee. Drink-some-water-wouldya pee. Vanilla couldn't save this from me and my skin loves to amp vanilla. I'd rather get sexy cinnamon french toast. I'm a little jealous.

Someone dropped pink Peeps in the grass. This is definitely a candied floral but not as intense a scent on me as say, Hope is. It smells both sweet and clean, a little creamy, and while the pink sugared marshmallow is dominant the dandelion is nestled firmly in the center. It's a nice scent, and it's nice on me, but I'm not "clicking" with it in a way that makes me love it. Maybe later, though; this seems to be one for which I have to be in the mood.

I have the '08 version. In the bottle and wet on my wrist this is a dead ringer for butterscotch hard candies. Once I rub my wrists together it turns into cookies: the buttery ones that come in tins, a little gingerbread, a little cinnamon-sugar. This is the scent of cookies that have been just a little too long in the oven and the bottoms are dark and crisp (which I like, for the record). As the oil dries it smells of brown sugar and maple oatmeal with butter stirred in. Sugar Cookie '08 is a crazy little morpher but no matter what it turns into it smells of warm, homey, comfort foody-goodness. I've been wearing this to bed and I still smell faint maple syrup when I wake up so it lasts and lasts. This would make a nice room scent, too.