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Got this as a frimp with my last order too! Thank you labbies! I was thinking about getting this, but wasn't sure about of the red musk - Smut didn't work out too well for me. But I LOVE this! It starts out cocoa-ey - the kind that turns to peanuts on me (don't ask). But that goes away in literally 45 seconds, then it starts turning spicy - must be the sandalwood - but also happy and effervescent - like a soda pop - and kind of fruity. This is sooo goood, but not for what I was expecting/hoping I would like - I love cocoa/vanilla notes most. ADDED March 15: Lovely frimp from the labbies - thank you!!! First whiff - light chocolate, a bit floral and a bit spicy A few minutes later - cola? Dry - cocoa, fruity cherry-ness, and something spicy - reminds me a bit of Smut - must be the red musk. Not my favorite, but definitely yummy!!!

Monster Bait: Bloody Mary is my dream come true! Chunky red fruits indeed! It's cherry, it's strawberry with confectioners sugar. Sweet and juicy and a little creamy. Strawberry cream pie comes to mind. Treat #1 also comes to mind, except that instead of watermelon, it's cherry and strawberry candy - chewy candy, like cherry or strawberry flavored Starbursts. I looooove this. Yum!!!

Christine Daae - Below is a post earlier in this thread: Also, if you have my weird skin chemistry and you can find it, Trick or Treat smells exactly like spiced Chai tea on me. You can also try layering tea scents with pumpkin or pumpkin pie scents since they're spiced with all that nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and ginger.

Frumious Bandersnatch I first tried it on without reading the description so I would have no pre-judgments (I got this as a frimp from the lab - thank you !!!) I'm surprised this works for me now that I have read them because of the carnations. Alice didn't love me, neither did Zarita the Doll Girl, so I assumed it was the carnations. But FB is lovely! It's spicy and fruity, and I distinctly smell the mums. It is sort of light though, or my skin just drinks this one up. But it's a great spicy scent that I'd never have thought would work for me. Mmm!

Dark Delicacies Lovely! This blend is so fruity and floral. It's very warm, sweet and sticky, with a hint of greeness. To me this isn't dark or smokey at all - it's bright and happy, sunny and honey sweet! Somehow I get a hint of Treat #1's watermelon, so it's kind of like Treat #1's more complex, beautiful older sister. It's hard to pick out individual notes as this is so well blended. ETA: The coconut comes out at dry down. Mmm! I'm a foody addict trying to ween myself and maybe add some florals to my palate. I thought DD would be a nice start, but this is turning out somewhat foody to my nose - fruits with warm honey and coconut! Love DD!!

Midway A bombardment of edible carnival indulgences. Funnel cake, caramel apple, cotton candy, salt water taffy and sugar tart. Honestly, reading the description for Midway with its sweet and salty and oily notes kind of scared me. They don’t sound like they’d smell good together at all! But after reading and re-reading (and reading again) the wonderful reviews here, the more I knew I just had to try it. Being a self-proclaimed foody, I just knew I had to at have a bottle for my life to be complete. Snagged one at a Will Call and after a whiff, I think I’d died and gone to heaven! Oh Lord! Oh my! I would never have imagined that this strange combination is so amazing – the diabetes-inducing sweetness of the cotton candy – pink cotton candy with a bit of bitterness that food coloring can have sometimes, a bit of saltiness from the saltwater taffy, the oily butteriness of the funnel cake, and a tiny bit of apple. This truly is a bombardment of carnival treats! From the bottle it was so light I could barely smell it. This worried me a bit until I put it on. On my skin, it warms up beautifully and becomes stronger – in a good way. It’s very soft and well rounded. Love it!!!

Lick It Again Lick It was the scent I was hoping and praying Beth would revisit since I hadn't been enabled soon enough for last year's Yule. I mean, peppermint and sugar? With vanilla maybe? What could be more perfect? So yes, I just about cried tears of joy when this Yule update went live. Beth heard my prayers! Lick It Again in the bottle is pure peppermint - refreshing and cool, don't get much sugar yet. On my wrists - It starts out intensly pepperminty and gets sweeter as it dries down. I'm reminded of the peppermint candy the white ones with red swirls and not of candy canes, but that's probably because I eat those more often. They are pretty much the same thing. As it starts to fade, it becomes creamy. My skin tends to do that - everything fades into vanilla. I'm a peppermint addict, and I always have strong mints and peppermint gum in my purse, so I adore Lick It Again! I'm not disappointed even after all the anticipation and speculation. ETA: Now that it's begun to age a bit, it's sweeter and creamier, the peppermint is a little less intense. I can now smell sugar and vanilla from the bottle. I love this!

Kuang Shi Mmm...lemons...But wait! No lemons in the description? If Kuang Shi were a color - it'd be bright yellow. First on it's very citrusy, mainly lemons. Very sharp and tangy. Will wake you up in the morning. As it dries, it becomes sweeter, and a little softer. Gets a little musky and now I can smell some oranges and mangos. I never get any sandalwood, but that's alright with me. Very nice!

Dorian This is REALLY good. On me I smell sweet lemon tea. It's very soft and pretty. After a while I start to get some creaminess, which later blooms into vanilla. Mmm! After that, the scents seem to rotate. I'll get a whiff of lemon, then vanilla, then sweet sugared tea. Beautiful! This will be on my next order for sure.

Creepy I agree that this reminds me of Sugar Skull. The butterscotch and caramel is deliciously warm, brown and thick. And that's all I get from sniffing the bottle. But when it goes on, the tart apple wafts out. Caramel apples!!! It's so good!!! I think this is a well rounded blend - the tart apple keeps the butterscotch/caramel from being too sweet and the butterscotch/caramel keeps the apple from being too tart (which is the essence of a caramel apple!). Add coconut booze in there to make it interesting, and you've got a little bit of heaven in a bottle! Yum!

The Candy Butcher First whiff from bottle - Roasted peanuts? Roasted salted peanuts? Um. This is weird, very carnaval appropriate, but weird. I was expecting chocolate. Wet on wrist - Still salted roasted peanuts with something creamy. Reminds me of those candy bars with chocolate over roasted peanuts. This is my first chocolate blend ever, so maybe chocolate just doesn't work for me? I'm sad. Very sad. Dry down - Ok, here we go! This is beautiful sweetcream over some soft white florals - must be the 'Chocolate Snow White' everyone is talking about. I don't specifically smell chocolate though. Just something creamy and sweet. Even drier - This is MB Underpants! Peanut chocolate underpants! I smell sandalwood in here for some reason! Even drier - As this fades away, I get creamy chocolate. Finally. Yummy. Overall I actually like this stuff! I believe the nuttiness will gradually change to cream as this ages, because MB Closet started out nutty to me too, then turned creamy. This is a very interesting blend which goes through many stages for me. I will have to experiment on the Candy Butcher more! Will update!

Treat #1 = Yum! I agree that this is Jolly Ranchers candy, watermelon Jolly Ranchers, in a bottle. As it dries, I definitely smell strawberry, and pink lemonade, but the watermelon is always very front and center. And yes, this is diabetes-inducingly sweet, not brown and sticky like Sugar Skull, but clear like rock candy. This scent is so pretty and happy and simple - just they way candy should be. I am in love with Treat #1 and I cannot stop sniffing my wrists. The description is so spot on - it is a glittering mound of crushed hard candy! ETA As this wears off, it becomes pure sugar. Mmm. I can still smell it on my wrist - one shower and 12 hours later!

SKULD Frimps are wonderful indeed! This is one I would never have tried on my own. First on, this is mostly honey, sweet and warm, a little boozy like mead. Lovely. I get a hint of grapes as well, strange. The grapes go away and it's almost pure honey with a hint of something floral which I'm guessing is Ylang Ylang. I don't detect much else, but I love it just the way it is. Sweet honey with a bit of floral. Mmmm. ETA: Strong throw, but not much staying power.

Black Hellebore Got this as a lovely frimp from the lab - so a great big THANK YOU LAB - as I would never have ordered it on my own. This is a very floral and clean green scent that starts out really pretty. But as it dries out, something in it just isn't right. I tried it at different times of the month, but it always ends up giving me a headache. It dries out smelling like toilet paper for some reason. Weird. But a lot of green BPAL scents turn into toilet paper on me. Must be my skin chemistry.

Ace of Cups Another frimp from the lab (THANK YOU!!!)! And this is a beautiful blend in a cherry kind of way. In the bottle and wet on my skin this oil screams CHERRY! ALMOND EXTRACT! and MARASCHINO CHERRIES! Which scared me a bit since I did not like Kabuki. Reminded me too much of my highschool bathroom where the aroma of cherry scented cleaning liquid was enough to knock you out. But the Ace of Cups morphs into this beautiful fruity/floral concoction that reminds me of Mi-Go Brain Cannister. Yeah, it's Mi-Go with cherries. With so many fruits and flowers it's hard to pinpoint any one note except for the cherry, which is thankfully muted enough to blend into the crowd. This is a beautiful well blended oil!