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All I get is patchouli and a slight hint of dry wood, I don't really detect any of the other notes at all. I had been hoping for more vanilla, almonds and clove but they don't seem to come out on my skin. One for the swap pile I think.

This is certainly very cinnamony on me, but there's also a rich sweetness like a creamy honey kind of sceny, a bit like sweetened warm milk. I'm not a big fan of cinnamon, but this was quite nice.

This turned to nothing but dry, dusty sandalwood on me, which was a little disappointing as I was hoping for more lavender.

This starts off all warm and chocolatey on me, but then plunges into a boozey nightmare. It's too much wine for someone who doesn't drink, which is disappointing because it started off so well!

This is a very soft warm scent on me, mainly saffron with a faint muskiness. It's not quite what I was expecting, but it's very nice indeed.

This smells dry, cool and sweet and like Parma Violets sweets, floral and candyish. Not really what I would expect bone to smell like, unless is was polished, white, bone jewellery perhaps. Very nice though and a good hot day scent (though it's almost winter!).

This is a very smokey blend and smells like burning pine and incense mixed with a hint of something spicy. This isn't too bad, even though I'm not really a big incense fan.

To me, this smells very creamy, like vanilla mixed into a big vat of double cream with a faint undercurrant of... TCP antiseptic. Luckily, I like the smell of TCP and it's almost entirely drowned out by this spicy, warm, vanillary milk and honeyness that floods through the rest of the scent. I really like this.

This is a tad incensey, but mostly smells on me like... dungeon. Old castle dungeon, with that damp, musty, earthly scent and a touch of green winter forests. It's certainly an interesting scent but I don't think I can really wear it.

This smells like... citrus and spices, mostly an orangey kind of citrus. There's also some kind of floral note that I can't identify. It reminds me of eating fresh sweet oranges on a warm summer day.

On me, this is certainly very orangey and inscensey. I can't quite decide if I like it. It's a fresh clean scent but a bit smokey too. After a while it turns a bit more floral on me but it doesn't last very long at all.

Initially there was a strong marzipan kind of scent which made me dread wearing this a bit but then the sickliness dies away very quickly and I'm left with a very jasmine smell with bits of sandalwood here and there.

This is the Cadbury factory down the road bottled! So deliciously milk chocolately and perhaps a tiny tiny bit of nuttiness in there too. I love this scent so much! It's a 5ml for me next order I think

This smells to me a lot like tea, but it can only be the milk scent (from my experiments of adding milk to cola!). So... I get the milk mostly with a faintly lemony spice scent mingled in. I don't really get any roses and not very much carnation or honey. It's a nice sweet scent though and quite calming.

This smells like cool clear water, like completely colourless water lapping round your feet on a white sandy beach or early morning dew on spiderwebs. It's a very fresh scent and I like it, though it's not really as sweet as I was hoping it might be.

I love love love this scent. On me it's very jasminey (one of my favourite notes, along with honey) with a soft warmth to it. After a little while the vanilla and sandalwood notes come out, with an undercurrent of musk. It's soft and sweet and delicious.

This is certainly a dark, fruity scent, and somehow very dry smelling on my skin but at the same time there's undertones of damp earth and a slightly bitter tinge. I'm not getting any vanilla at all which is a shame. I think this is a bit to earthy and bitter for me.

In the bottle, Queen of Hearts is a bit medicinal... like cherry flavour cough syrup. On my skin, it develops into a light floral scent that... somehow morphs into washing up liquid.

 

I'll probably try it again in a week or so, but while it's not an unpleasant smell, I don't really want to smell like Fairy Liquid.

This is a very lemony scent, but lemons that are white rather than yellow, as if they were lemon light bulbs or something like that. Saying that though, it's not a cool white smell, but a warm dry white smell with a feeling of freshly laundered, soft bathtowels.

 

After a while I start to detect cloves, then it becomes like oranges with cloves poked in them. I quite like this scent and if the returning Sol is similiar then I think I'll be picking up a bottle.

This is a very light and airy scent. The rose note is fairly strong on me, a bit like rose-scented incense though. I'm not sure whether I really like it though, it's certainly non-offensive to my nose, but it doesn't really stir me.

I was so disappointed earlier this year, when I got into BPAL, to find that I had completely missed 13 being released. So, of course, I hunted around for it as anything released on my birthday couldn't be bad, right?

 

Finally got hold of some today and it is divine! It starts off like Ferreo Rocher chocolate if they made it with orange chocolate in the bottle and then develops into a delicately orange, chocolatey scent on my skin. After a few more minutes it turns from a warm melty chocolate smell to that with a thread of cool floral winding though.

Must get more next Friday the 13th!

This is very berry-y. And a lot like bubblegum. Most like Strawberry Hubba Bubba I think. It's a bit too fruity and sickly for me I think.

Sadly I don't seem to be getting any jasmine with this, all I have is the scent of roses! I do smell a slightly sour note though and this is a very very floral scent on me.

 

If only there was more jasmine and less of the roses!

Shroud is a very clean, dry scent on me. After a few minutes it develops a more woody flavour and the sandlewood starts to stand out a bit more, but stays fairly herby.

This is a very warm, sweet golden scent. Initially, it's like sweet oranges with a hint of spiciness. Then it develops into a more incensey scent, but still with the citrus and spice lingering. This is the first scent with any incense-type notes that I've like and it's great on a cold, overcast day.