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I've never gotten a the opportunity to sniff The Unicorn, but Boober is a lovely, clean linden blossom with sudsy vanilla. Spirits of the Dead is another sweet, clean scent with linden, but to me it's cooler and more dry. On me, Self Portrait with Puffy Stickers was a sweet rose with undercurrents of strawberries and clover, so maybe that or Love, which was rose with marshmallow and vanilla. They share no notes that I'm aware of, but Holiday Moon and Sea of Glass have a very similar feeling to me -- they're both cool and clean and crystalline. Sturgeon Moon was another clean, watery aquatic on me, with greenery. Boo Bam has been on my to-try list for some time, too. Lilith's Feel-Better Flowers makes me think of Fairy Bites. And I've never gotten a chance to try The Unicorn, but Boober and Spirits of the Dead both have nice linden. The Boober is warmer, sweeter, and has vanilla, while Spirits of the Dead is cooler, dryer, and has more tea. Mouse Circus! It's primarily peanut brittle on me, which is something I would have never expected to work as well as it does. Uncle Brian also has a lovely helping of cotton candy. Plastic Pink Flamingo is strawberries and marshmallows over greenery. I haven't tried Eat Me, but it would fit right in. A Game of Yes and No is a lovely marzipan and mulled wine scent. I haven't tried Eat Me, but it sounds like it would be right up your alley. Dessicated Frostberry Pie Filling might also be worth checking out. For Coraline Jones, you could check out The Apothecary! Other ones that on me have a similar low-key clean feeling are Nostrum Remedium, Sea of Glass, F5, Holiday Moon, and Sturgeon Moon. For strawberry in the GC, you could try Bon Vivant, though it's somehow rose on me. If you're looking for sweet, candied fruit (orange/tangerine) +vanilla, you could try Gobo.

Thank you so much for all of the lovely recommendations, folks! I actually haven't had something work on me since the Tremulous Song update so I'm so looking forward to trying all of these out. Plastic Pink Flamingo is actually another one of my favourites! Yemaya and Olokun sound nice, too! Unfortunately, the patchouli in Lawn Gnome rules out something that otherwise sounds great, but the others sound like they'd be worth the effort! Kumiho is quite lovely on me, but unfortunately it disappears very quickly. I want to love Dirty, but it turns into a very high pitched floral. Ogun sounds like it might be worth checking out an imp -- the juniper/melon/chilli/honey aspect sounds quite interesting. Salma as well! Bon Vivant is probably my biggest BPAL disappointment -- I don't get any champagne or strawberry at all, just rose shampoo. I actually tracked down a second imp to make sure it wasn't mislabeled. Awesome, thank you! Shanghai is another once that's lovely on me but has no lasting power. And Wensleydale is one I've been dying to try, and I think I've just found a decant. Oooh, so many, thank you! Eldritch Drunken Constellations sounds kind of fantastic, and Herbert West could be neat. I think I might actually have an imp of Twenty-One lying around somewhere, and I'll have to dig it up. 51, unfortunately, went haywire on me, and smelled like every commercial perfume in a store sprayed at me at once. Ehacatl and Tanuki no Kikfune sound lovely, and I do love Tanuki no Orai. Self-Portrait with Puffy Stickers was largely rose on me, unfortunately. I wanted strawberry/clover/grass! I'll have to check out Reflected Vulva as well. Oooh, nice. I am forever sad that Bon Vivant is rose shampoo on me. Croquet and Phoenix at Dawn both sound entirely lovely -- except for the patchouli. Even Tweedledum turned into single note patchouli on me that lasted for 36 hours. The reviews for Phoenix at Dawn compare it to a bunch of my favourites, however -- maybe white patchouli would be bearable on me. I know white sandalwood works much better on my skin than other types. Oooh, I do love lime and coconut. Titania is definitely going on my list! BV and 51 are, alas, not meant for me. The LEs you've suggested all sound worth looking into. Thanks again, everyone!

I seems to favour a somewhat different scent profile than most of the people already playing along, but what the heck: 1) Spinning Multicoloured Metallic Pinwheel 2) Embalming Fluid 3) Boober 4) Strawberry Moon '09 (with the grass and dandelion sap) 5) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. skyeleric: Based on Aglaea, what about Peach II or Tamora? DJ Sin: A Thought From Propertius was mostly bubblegum and honey on me, so these might be a little off, but you could look at Door or Jailbait.

Thanks so much for the recommendations! Ichigo, my skin loves marzipan, so I'll definitely have to give it a go. annemathematics: Treasure Ships Coming In sounds like a combination of pretty much everything I love! I'll definitely have to check it out. Lick It Now, unfortunately, disappeared from my skin within minutes. Green Tree Viper is likely a no on me, alas, due to the patchouli in SO. I amp patchouli to an almost unbelievable degree, even in SO. I'll have to try out How Doth the Little Crocodile even if it's not super minty, because it looks awesome. Thanks again!

Bumping this in hopes of new minty recs! I'd love to find a clean, fresh mint scent. Some sweetness is okay, but I'm not looking for an earthy/patchouli vibe, or anything predominantly menthol. I've found Cathode is nice, but it goes mostly moss on me. Mad Hatter smells almost exactly like scotch mints candy, which is stickier than I'm looking for. Envy is (very disappointingly!) mostly herbal lavender. Aurelia was almost totally pine and cypress, and Stentor was trampled by the khus. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I've encountered an unfortunate difference in Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat. I've had a few imps of it - all of which have been a bright, sparkling and effervescent, somewhere between fresh honeydew and melon candies. I swapped for a bottle a little while back, and it's not sparkling or effervescent at all. It's much heavier and muskier, and smells quite a bit closer to Tanuki no Hikifune than the TTLB I've had before. Which is okay, but really not the deliciously fun fizz I was going for. Has anyone run into this with TTLB before? Maybe it's an aging thing or a batch thing? I'm trying to figure out if I should order a bottle straight from the lab and see what happens.

This is a fizzy, fruity, magnificent melon. Somewhere between fizzy melon candies and fresh honeydew. There's something in here that adds depth without really tying it to the ground -- the tea and mint, I think, though I can't pick them out as individual notes. My colour impression is a pale, glittering green. Lasting power is only so-so, but I really do love it. Throw is relatively low, which is actually something I appreciate in a perfume. It's a definite bottle for me, and has found a place in my top ten.

The patchouli here would normally have been enough to warn me off of it, but all the reviews seemed to say that it's primarily fruit, with just a darker undertone form the patchouli. Mango, fig, and green tea sounded like a heavenly combination to me, so I decided to give it a try. I've been really hoping for a perfect mango. I should have trusted my instincts here. As soon as it touched my skin, this blossomed into nothing more than dirty, oily wood. I didn't get any fruit or tea at all. (My skin chemistry is incredibly fickle, however, so take this balanced against the weight of the rest of the review thread.) I'm mostly posting this review because though I should have known better, the throw and lasting power were incredible -- which is great news for the people this would work on, but less so for me. I scrubbed with dish soap several times, showered, and could still catch whiffs of this on my wrist the next morning.

I really wish that I was getting what anyone else here was getting! I would love fresh cut wood, greeness, plants, garden hedges, or sap. I would even love sawdust (I have a lot of really good memories of shop class in high school, and it always smelled of sawdust). I assumed I was going to get some combination of the above, as I tend to amp most woods quite strongly. Alas, after the first few minutes, what I get is high-pitched men's cologne, like a number of bottles from the department store were all sprayed at me at once in some sort of aromatic offensive. My unstable skin chemistry strikes again.

This bottle was a surprise win for me. I threw it on with an order on an impulse, and regretted it almost immediately, because I was just sure that it was going to be a floral mess on me. I'm so glad that I succumbed to that impulse, because this is one of my favourite scents. I still feel rather new to perfume (and was even more new at the time I ordered this), but I credit it with really helping expand my horizons. This is cleanly warm instead of a cool clean, like I find most "clean" scents to be. I'm somewhat synaesthic, and to me this is a soft pastel, a sunny yellow. This is soft, clean, and incredibly comforting.

This is my very first review! I thought I should probably start with the scent that has turned out to be my absolute favourite, though I may not be able to do justice to it. There's something about this to me that just smells like sunshine and happiness -- it's like the most cheerful, bright, summer's day, outside on the deck in the sun, with a rainbow of fruit ices while a tiny breeze ghosts across your skin and carries a sparkling suggestion of metal. Sometimes, I just like to open the bottle and sniff, because it's a fizzy, fruity, cheerful thing of beauty that always makes me smile. There's a part of me that's almost afraid the effervescence will burn off -- that's how realistic of a fizzy scent it is. I came across this because the reviews mentioned Fruit Moon (long before I actually got into BPAL, I was gifted an imp of that), and I figured I'd never get my hands on a bottle of FM: this is better. I'd told myself that I wasn't going to be a bottle hoarder, but I just had to get a backup of this, because it means I can wear it as often as I'd like without worrying I'm going to run out quickly.

Door! (Golden honey, nicotiana, blue chamomile, and cistus.) I was afraid it would be too floral for me, but it's like a lovely cup of honeyed chamomile tea. A lovely, surprisingly deep, cup of well-honeyed chamomile tea.