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My daughter just fell in love with and promptly spilled my entire bottle of 2012 Atrocious Attic. It's been so long since I've collected BPAL and I'm no longer familiar with the scents...does anyone else love this one, and have a BPAL scent that is similar? Here are the notes: A shadowy shrine filled with forgotten toys, broken dolls. The altar: a collapsing trunk distended by a rotted wedding gown. The air of the room is dusty, laced with the scent of a child's perfume and the remnants of a dried, crumbling bridal bouquet: tea rose, violet, white sandalwood, French lavender, and Calla lily. Thanks! Lesley

I'm finally running out of my L'Estate atmospheric spray...I've never found a perfume that is similar to it. Suggestions?

This scent smells so beautiful! I'm probably using it wrong, but I dab a bit on whenever I'm feeling totally overwhelmed by life. It does make me feel like I can accomplish everything I need to do. Mostly? I just love the scent. I can't describe it...sort of incensey amber, with an herbal grounding. The camphor gives it just a hint of menthol, but not in a bad way. Sort of vibrant and fresh.

I've been using abundance on a money draw bag after a series of financial hits. Hubby just applied for and got an extremely well-paying position in the span of 8 days. Pretty spectacular results!

This really is super-effective! But I also feel like I might need something less pure aphrodisiac and more "rekindle love" too. This one is just what it advertises. Pure desire for sex, a bit divorced from finer feelings. It's a lovely, lovely scent...rose, with a bit of almond or amaretto. It reminds me a little of Black Phoenix, without the cola.

rich, buttery, hot chocolate. It stays pure chocolate on me and lasts for hours. I find most cocoa blends bitter and sort of moldy-smelling, but this one smells just like you've ripped open a childhood pack of Swiss Miss. To my nose, nearly identical to El Dia Del Reyes, so grab a bottle if you missed that one!

I thought I'd like this one the least, as it has three flowers that HATE me: tuberose, jasmine, and ylang ylang. However, this is the blend that makes me love even those usually too-sappy, sickly sweet flowers (just as Lucifer was the blend that won me over to vetiver). This blend is fresh and sweet and heady, perfectly blended to be a multicolored floral (seriously...bold, primary colors in this one, or bright shades of violet and yellow and green) that lasts and lasts on me. There's something in the background that gives it an almost minty zing without being minty- something breathy and fresh like wintergreen. I simply adore this blend. I'm finding that E Pluribus Unum is a similarly beautifully blended floral in the same spirit as this one, but in different shades. Beth has an amazing talent with florals that can turn even a picky floral curmudgeon like me into a raving fan.

This one was the surprise hit of the four seasons for me. I find apple scents generally headache-inducing, but this one is just simply gorgeous. There's spice, and smoke, and mulled cider, and burning leaves...it is truly autumn in a bottle. It reminds me a lot of the harvest moons, with more depth. It also reminds me quite a lot of Fearful Pleasure, too- a good substitute if you missed this one.

I really like this one about an hour or so after I put it on. It's gorgeous all throughout, but it's the whiffs of vanilla-amber throughout the day that make me keep this blend around. It's rare for me to find a scent that lasts all day, but this one does. Oddly, I don't think "summer" when I wear it. Easter, maybe. It's much more of a spring scent to me.

Add me to the list of folks who get creamy orange creamsicle goodness from this blend, which dries down into a comforting vanilla-anise cake combination. Just utter yum.

Wet: really foul, actually- the coal dust/leather combination smells rather like tar on me, and doesn't mesh with the anise at all! Leather and I do NOT get along. Dry: once the leather fades, this is a really gorgeous vanilla licorice (perhaps a little sassafrass in there, too?) scent that lasts for hours and hours. But the initial leather notes really turn me off, I'm afraid.

Not so spooky, right? Here's to finally being able to hit the slopes again! Soft white powder snow with a touch of youthful girlie perfume. I don't know why I dissed this one last year (two years ago?)- perhaps because it does resemble Snow Moon, which came out at the time. Trying it again the second time around, I appreciate its uniqueness. It does start off with the "snow" note which makes all the winter scents smell identical to me, but the drydown is pure fluffy sweetness. It's very girly indeed.

This is a very grape-y scent. That's all it was on my skin- hours of grapes. Not bad, but not really a standout scent either. I certainly didn't think of a severed head when I kept getting whiffs of this lovely scent!

My husband says this is straight up Irish Spring. I like it, but it's extremely strong and long-lasting. An imp will be fine! ETA: I'm considering getting a bottle of this one...I think I'm a secret fan of Beth's ambergris. This actually smells like a masculine, spicier version of Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, one of my top ten.

I love all the listed notes, and I love mole. If you're at all a fan of these notes, this is a truly marvellous, snuggly, earthy blend. Warm earth with a slight hint of masculine cologne (though I don't find it masculine at all on me), and I'm sure it will just get better with age. Equally lovely on my husband, too.

this is an odd little scent, here. Wet, it's a mix of rum and amaretto. Then it dries down into a smokey, spicy, dry, delicious scent reminiscent of Haloa and to my nose, nearly identical to Posset's "Halloween" scent this year. Cinnamon that doesn't smell like stale gum on me is a plus, as well- cinnamon that doesn't give me a RASH is simply wonderful. By far my favorite of the Yule blends this year. I also don't get the pancake syrup smell that I dislike from a lot of the "sugar" note containing perfumes. Instead it's a carmelized, burnt, smokey scent that is sweet without being cloying or sickly. Very nice!

For anyone pining for L'Inverno, I find that Snow Moon is a close sister to it. Although Snow Moon is awfully hard to find these days, too.

This might sound weird, but I found Stimulating Sassafrass Strengther to have a similar feel.

I keep reading Samhain reviews every year and wondering if I got the same oil... Last year's was straight up cinnamon followed by vetiver, and gave me a rash. This year's made me even sadder: dirty wet dog and pine sol, with a patchouli afterburn. WTF? Where's the lovely spices? I love all these elements, but this particular combination was just heartbreakingly not tolerable on me. Perhaps next year....

I think this is my favorite of the Halloweenie foodies! I'm not usually into orange, but the cakey bits and the anise make it like a toothy , warm creamsickle. NOM!

I *love* this one. And I can't even begin to describe it. I get the nuttiness and the spice, but it's also mellow and warm, like a warm shaft of sunlight. It's lovely, and lasts quite a long while on me.

AAAAK! Leather! Way too butch for me, and possibly too butch for my husband. This is seriously testosterone-laden, dirty cowboy leather. If there's musk in there, it's hidden by the rawhide. But if you love leather, this is one helluva distinctly perfect leather scent. Seriously. Leather. In a lockeroom. Eeep. NOT a girly-girl perfume.

It's definitely mulled cider and woodsmoke, very clear and evocative. A bit too bright at times- apples tend to scream when they touch my skin, and sadly my skin tends to redden when anything with cinnamon touches me. So this one's a scent-locket only scent for me. I have to admit that it's similar to L'autunno to my nose, and I liked that one better (it was a little more deep and complicated).

Add me to the list of Katrina fans. Nearly the most perfect rose scent yet, and I say that as a Peacock Queen and Hope fan. I don't have much to add since I agree with most of the other reviewers- if rose tends to go sharp on you, then the honey note seems to sweeten and temper it. Very, very pretty. A princessy scent, indeed.

If you have any love for SO or Dorian, you must have this scent. I'm a big fan of both, though I find SO a little strong sometimes, and Dorian a little sweet at times. This one is an absolutely perfect blend of the two. Dorian comes out a little more strongly at first, cut a bit by the lavendar. However, it's not LAH-VIN-DAAAAR! as it appears in many blends (not a fan) and I think it adds a bit more depth and innocence to what are two damned sexy blends. I don't get any of the fennel or florals, and once the Dorian fades, the best aspects of the snake oil emerge, with a very soft throw. Lovely, lovely, lovely. My favorite scent to be released in the last year or so. I can't wait to see how this ages.