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This reminds me of Kabuki without the complexity (please show the GC some love, if you missed it), and is kind of Smutty without all the sweetness. I love the crimson musk on the drydown-nice and skanky and kind of dusty.

Yesyesyes. Beeeeeautiful jasmine. Got a "Waaaaaow!" from the man who hates floral perfumes. It smells like melted jasmine ice cream, if there ever was such a thing. I don't wear florals, you all. I want a gallon of this! It's indolic and so creamy and sweet! I had this jasmine oil in the 90s from Hawaii-it was almost coconutty it was so rich..THIS baby is the only jasmine LOVE I've had since; Defututa is a close 2nd, though, so check her out if you miss La Prostitution. It's not screechy or soapy...it's MAG-NI-FI-CIENT!!!! Yummy, springy, fresh, sweet, sexy, REAL FLOWERS, creamy deliciousness. More people should have skin that smells like this!

So many of my BPAL loves are dripping with dark and red musks! I love the white musk drydown of Fae and wish there were other BPAL blends that had the same feel: it's so creamy and really hangs around; the other notes fade into it seamlessly. Antique Lace did it, too... :cry2:Any other white musk recs that don't screech? Have you tried Fae?

B&BW Black Tea Rose, ya'll! Have you smelled it? It's earthy, slightly sweet, with a hint of dry rose. It's so lovely!

Hedylogos and Hippie Ghost Coraline Jones: Dry grass, clean skin, and a little bit of mossy berry.

Oooh! A frimp! Honey and wild roses! Yes, kind of lemony and very fresh; some roses can be thick and heady or jammy...this is delicate and lovely. This is a much lighter rose incense scent than say, Spellbound, one of my all time favorite BPAL roses. It's pretty without being girly or silly...the honey adds depth and maturity...not too sweet. I really love it!

[No additional description given.] It's...ugh...aaah...uuuuugh...a musty Santa costume! It totally smells just like the bin of old Xmas things forgotten about in the damp barn. For realz. It's straight up old cloth and must. I just threw out some old cloth garland that smells just like this. I'm not even kidding. Again, BRILLIANT, but not even close to wearable. This is not a romantic interpretation of old things, like The Book or Antique Lace...this is a MUSTY old SANTA COSTUME! HILARIOUS!

[No additional description given.] Oh. UGH! Oh, god, no! NONONONONONO! It's. It's MASHED POTATOES! I mean, of course it is but....it's fucking mashed potatoes! Warm, creamy, zingy, earthy, kinda old, creamy, GARLIC mashed potatoes! Oh, GAG! It smells like the time I forgot mashed potatoes on the stove and then lifted the lid the next day. Oh. UUUUUGho! BRILLIANT! But DISGUSTING as perfume! LOL!

Lots of sweet amber made a bit earthy. It really glows. I don't find it particularly mossy or woody. It's very sweet and golden and dries down quite powdery. A gentle, soft, grounding skin scent for amber lovers.

This is so salty and dry on me (me and nuts, man! ), but smells like a deliciously sweet shortbread cookie with salted caramel on my friend. I don't get any cocoa-they must mix with the dustiness of the cookie crumbles.

Heavy drifts of snow blanketing winter's narcissus. This scent was not even on my radar based on it's description, but as I was sniffing down the Yule line at Will Call, The First Soft Snow stopped me in my tracks and I had to have a bottle. I'm not usually a snow OR floral fan! When I sniffed, I smelled OUTSIDE in WINTER. Just straight up outside on the edge of the woods in the cold in upstate NY. I tried to pick it out: mint? pine? fir? aquatic? No. All I got was the visual. Hauntingly beautiful and totally out of my comfort zone in the way of perfume. I may turn it into an atmosphere spray for myself.

This reminds me of My Little Grotesque but with peppermint instead of cardamom. It's nicely textured with slightly crumbly cake note, creamy, sweet, rich icing, and a breath of peppermint. It's a fun, uplifting blend, and while I don't wear mints, I would love to smell this in a diffuser.

YUMYUMYUMYUMYUUUUUUUUUUM!!!!! I snatched this baby right up! I love me some raspberry and this IZ sweet and thick and jammy and SO good (!!!!) with a delicious, vanilla-ey cakey note, and the tiiiiiniest touch of spice on the dry down. I smell like a grown up, sexy, raspberry Strawberry Shortcake Doll! I smelled it on my friend when she got in the car the next day. It has the bangin' sillage and tenacity. Mix it with Snake Oil. Try not to eat yourself. Lovingly referred to as "Raspberry Shenanigans". Hoard-worthy. Buy it blind.

This scent is very dry and surprisingly light...sandy even...but not warm. The coconut is similar to that in Goblin, but it's so DRY. It's not particularly patchoulish or resinous...it's like the makings of incense before it's bound together.

I am so sad, too, that this is "just" a bath oil! It has a mapley note, but it's not thick or cloying. It's like smelling the maple house, standing on the edge of the woods. It's warm, creamy, slightly incensey, but light...It doesn't smell like food or potpourri..it smells like warm skin and fall air! It's not aquatic or heavy or sour or dirty. It's my scent memory of fall in upstate NY in a bottle. This is it.

This is like if Lights of Men's Lives and The Sharing of the Cake Between the Lion and the Unicorn had a ghost baby! It's sweet, waxy, with some richness from the leather/wax combo. There is a tad of lift from an ecto note-a little minty, but only if I'm really looking for it. I consider it gourmand.

How did I not review this last time around?! It's my partner's favorite Ween, next to Samhainophobia. It smells like: RED MUSK INCENSE, one of my favorite fragrance genres. The woods blend deliciously, the touch of honey adding just a bit stickiness to the juicy red musk. The champaca and hemlock add an herbaciousness lift on the top, dried and ground with a sweet grassiness. It reminds me of a more masculine Scherezade...but less spicy, more woody and sweet... not as firey and (wonderfully) "stinky" as my beloved Crimson. Third Charm, I'd say, smells the creamiest of the 3 on the dry down. It glows and radiates like impassioned skin in a heavily incensed room. Love, love, love it.

I'm late to this party, and even though I had a pretty good idea what this would smell like, So Below has been keeping me guessing. It is full of notes I love, and seemed like a no brainer. But on first wearing, my nose didn't "get it". It sits close to my skin and read like...not what I was expecting. I initally thought..."niche edp that I would buy for my husband", but now I want back ups-for myself. It has a kind of transparency and lightness in it's resinness that I don't recognize in oil format. I was expecting something denser. But I love it! I'm always looking for dark blends that are lighter weight, and they're few and far between (Hippie Ghost and Scheherazade are others); like...I always wear black (for real), but the density of the fabrics I wear change with the seasons. I aim for my perfume wardrobe to have similar variety. But back to So Below. I've had to wear her all week to understand. It starts out with bright, transparent resins and wet woody note (???), like wet oude, which is confusing to me. It's not creamy or sweet initially. I can't find the cardamom, which I am intimately familiar with and had been huffing with ecstasy via My Little Grotesque the week prior; there it is in the initial blast of the scent. In So Below, I have to wait... Drying down I start to smell the coconut...it's dry and husky yet subtle. I wear Goblin all the time (coconut, bezoin, and patchouli)-but that is chewy and sweet (and why I waited to try So Below...did I need them both...?...YES! YES I DO!), and this is very different. It's not coconut heavy at all, not as thick. The patchouli emerges, not as floral as the red patch single note...it's all golden, encapsulated in the dry, clear, slightly sweet copal...kind of musky, woody. THEN the whole thing starts to become creamy... To call it "dried down" seems inaccurate here because it seems to have melted, like incense in a warmer. I smell consecrated. It's it perfect for me to wear when I want to feel like myself, but I don't want my scent to project too far. I just smell like a relic. Warm...golden...statuesque...smoldering. Hours later, I get a faint scent memory of Cody Wild Musk, which just makes me so happy! I really have to slather this one. The sillage is ghostly. It lasts all day and I get slight wiffs of it, but it sits very close to the skin. Instant favorite. Never leave me...

I wanted to try this because I love guiac wood and brown musk. Initially I smell the leather, but it quickly dried down to Skin So Soft?! What in the WORLD?! It smelled lovely on other people at Will call. I got a warm, incensey floral on them!

This...is haggy! I love musks and "old lady" scents, but this...is not a musk I know. It's...definately brown smelling, but with a greenish edge, kind of soapy...maybe aldahydes? I usually find musks, sweet, round, scalpy...but this smells...off...abrasive... I don't find it comforting at all, which is a total shocker.

I was very excited to try this one, because I love honey, patchouli, and champa, but the dead leaves were so dominant, and became too acrid on my skin. It was very dry and bitter, like a dead leaf single note, even.

Wall paper paste crafty time! It's got that kind of minty, creamy, fresh, chemically smell of wallpaper paste spot on! It made me laugh, for sure, and I got a delightful scent memory, but I don't want to wear it as perfume!

This is spot on candy debris: fruity, dusty, with a bit of waxiness. It does smell like Pixie Stix! I get a lot of lemon on top, then a plasticy fruity note.

I was most looking forward to this scent of all the Weenies. While I didn't get it at Will Call, I may end up buying it now that I read reviews saying that other people are getting more incense notes. I lamented because it smells so much like The Lights of Men's Lives, which I have and love and wear all the time. I smell almost entirely beeswax. It's the most glorious, sweet, slightly floral, creamy beeswax note, but I got little else.

This was my favorite of the Dead Leaves at Will Call. Blackberry usually goes very sour on me, but I tried it anyway because I kept feeling a pull to go back and sniff it again and again. It really does smell like the last of the blackberries for the season, combined with dead leaves: bright, sweet, and juicy, almost like wine, with a touch of dusty, dry woodiness.