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This blends out into a gorgeous, warm, sweet, spicy-smoky scent with a hint of fruit that is just gorgeous. If the notes sound good to you, then get this. Edit: it reminds me of Mania! I miss Mania, so that's a delight to realise.

Why I got this: shakespeare nerdery, plus clove and tea! Wet: clovey and sweet. Dry: warm, dry, sweet cloves, a very blended scent that feels comforting. Very nice!

Why I got this: sounds like it might smell rice pudding-y? I hope? Wet: CAKEY Dry: rice pudding with a sort of spicy warmth to it and the merest hint of fruit in the background. Exactly what I'd hoped for, if a bit faint.

Why I bought this: lab freebie Wet: VERY STRONG SWEET JAMMY FRUIT. I'm not sure I'd peg this smell as pomegranate exactly. I don't know that I have a strong scent association for pomegranate, but if I do, I think of it as less sweet than this. Dry: This is a single-note of whatever sweet fruit this is. I can't say it's a scent I need to hold onto, but I'm glad I tried it. Update: My wife hated the lingering traces of this, which lasted ages. It went a bit sour. Oh well.

Why I bought this: almost entirely for the name (any variant of Kit/Kitt is meaningful for me) but also the notes sounded decent enough. Wet: a barely-there sandalwood. I went and applied more and it's just... really faint. Dry: Still super faint, though I can also detect a sort of cottony tinge. I think it'll go into my aging box.

Why I bought this: rose is a toss-up with my chemistry but the rest sounds like it could be divine. Lavender and saffron and white musk are all scents that work well on me. Wet: Rose! A very perfumey, nearly-soapy rose. Dry: Soapy rose, very sugary-sweet and drowning out anything else. Alas.

Why I bought this: I love gingerbread, and I love peppermint. Wet: raw gingerbread dough with a faint hint of mint. Dry: SPICY. The other notes sort of take a backseat to strong gingerbread but that mint chocolate is still hazing on the horizon. I think it's a keeper for me.

I was actually hoping this would be MORE bonfire-ish! It's not that it doesn't evoke that, it's just that there's this peppery-sweet tinge to the smoke edge that makes me think of cloves or vetiver or something, more like a really good candle scent than a bonfire.

This is warm vanilla and amber sweetness with just a tinge of the cognac giving it a tiny, gentle kick (more like a nudge?). If you find Laces don't work well on you except for Antique Lace (that's my situation!) then this one also works nicely, and is very reminiscent of that.

Yum yum yum, once dried this is basically the scent of my favourite vanilla tobacco blend from when I used to roll my own cigarettes, with a hint of coffee and shortbread. It reminds me of a winter's morning in my late teens. I... didn't know I missed this scent. What a lovely thing.

This went on sort of woodsy and leathery, and then vanished completely for about an hour, and then blossomed again into a warm, skin-hugging beeswax-smoke-and-leather scent with the faintest tinge of rose in the background, not enough to sweeten it much but still just there. I like it but it's a 'jam your nose in my wrist or you can't smell it' sort of affair.

I was expecting this to be punchier with the booze or the spices swamping it, but nope: this stays a really *blended* scent all the way through, no one note dominating. It's buttery, sweet, has the subtlest warm tinge, and surprisingly light!

In the bottle: cedar, PSIYH's funnel cakes, and a sort of boozy background tinge? On wet: cedar, cedar, FRESH-CUT CEDARWOOD, then a surge of sweetness so it's sugar-dusted cedar, VERY strong. Yikes. Dry: Oh thank god, the cedar has faded down. It's like an old, well-worn piece of furniture filled with churros now. I can still detect the cedar but it's much, much fainter. The most prominent note on me now is cinnamon-sugar.

I was gifted an empty bottle of this as a sniffie, and have tracked down a full bottle and it's yum. BPAL's wooly note (in here, and in Cafe Au Lait And A Woollen Blanket, for instance) is really soothing to smell on my skin, sort of a warm linen-tined vanilla-y feel, and I'm always about buttery pumpkin and pumpkin-spice-mix. It's a definite comfort scent.

This smells so warm-banana-y when you open it! Like fresh-baked bananas splitting out of their skins in the oven. The rest of the bready scent comes through soon afterwards. and it's sticky, sugary, flavorful goodness. Yum!

Lots of cookies, a sprinkling of leathery goodness, and lots of warmth and cosiness. Like clean, spicy, slight floral leather. I really like it!

This is sweet and kind and soft. It feels comforting, that faintly vanilla cotton-clean scent and sugared lavender and a papery tinge that all-together reminds me of curling up in a bed with a much-loved book when I was a young child. Honestly I can see myself wearing this on days when I need a scent that feels like a gentle, uncomplicated hug.

*cries* I love so many of the scents listed as components. I have seen how lovely this sounds on other people. And I'm sure this is great *on other people*, but on me it's orange blossom single note. Sigh.

I am obsessed with how this smells on my skin; warm hazy smoke, almost saffron-ish? It reminds me of Oblivion.

I'mma come back and update this review once the bottle's had a chance to settle, because fresh out of the mail this smelled like buttered caramel bread on me -- gorgeous, but not nearly as savory as other people seem to be getting!

I'd also never tried the oil, and now I wish I had! This is such a sweet lavender, the initial sharpness vanishing in minutes, and the vanilla reminds me of the old antique lace in that it's more creamy than foody. It's a very peaceful scent. (and I spritzed my pillow with this and huffed it every time I woke up during the night, and it was delicious.)

Clean, lavender-scented laundry. It's pretty and comforting and... IDK, kind-feeling? Like napping on top of the ironing pile, having just recently found the perfect fabric conditioner.

I did a few tests today and this was definitely the winning and the strongest scent, reminding me strongly of Spooky with the vanilla and mint, with only the faintest whisper of other scents. I adored Spooky and have regretted selling my old bottle. I'mma pick up a bottle of this.

This is soft, sweet and powdery-delicate. I'm always hesitant over frost/snow scents, but here it's pitch-perfect, adding a watery coolth to the warm base. It clings close to the skin, and weirdly reminds me of Kindly Moon though I don't think it shares any notes. Lovely.

This is a warm, snuggly peach. The florals are there, a whisper in the background, but mostly I get a really cosy, amber-y peach tone. Glad I nabbed a bottle!