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This is fruity and fun. It doesn't do anything funky or weird. It's light on me, I can tell it's there but it's a subtle cloud of scent. Feels summery to me. I think I recognize this fig from a previous dead leaves scent. I'll keep this decant for sure, fruity scents do not always work for me and I'm happy when they do.

In addition to the awesome recs above, bpal also has Nosferatu: "As soft as grave dust and as dry as a breath drawn within a long forgotten crypt, this is Nosferatu: desiccated herbs and gritty earth brought to life with a swell of robust and sanguineous red wines" The notes are very different but it could be worth a try, same inspiration! : )

Something in this is disagreeing with me and I'm blaming the candied lotus root, I think it has gone wrong on me before in something else. It was in a Yule scent a few years back: I Hear You Call, Pine Tree. I'm not getting anything floral with this one but that lotus note smells very similar here. And something smells like honey to me in this scent, it's not terrible but it's just a little funky on me the way honey sometimes does. It's trying to dominate the scent but I can smell other things going on behind it. After a while something kind of fruity is starting to peek out, I think I'm smelling the black tea note which I like. Can I wear this, would I ever be in the mood for it? I'm not sure but a half hour in it's a lot nicer than when I first put it on. I am undecided on this! Edit: yeah, whatever that funkiness was did recede a lot and this settled into a fruity tea scent for me, not bad. I might hold on to my decant but wouldn't need to hunt down any more than that. Edit (last one): whatever smells like honey slowly crept back in and reading other reviews I see I'm not the only one who smelled honey! That part got stronger again and lasted All. Day. Long. I'm not kidding, it's been 12 hours and the honey is still cheerfully rising up to greet my nose. Go to bed honey!

This is a lot like a dead leaves scent on me but sweet and a little spicy. I think of October (the scent) when I smell this, but this is a little sweeter and a little dusty. I do pretty well with the lab's "dusty" scents and that's a big part of this one. I wanted this because I thought it might resemble Velvet Bandito, which I always regretted not getting the full 5ml, and it is a little bit like that one, but VB has a big clove note if I remember correctly. The clove note in this is barely there but that's ok, sometimes clove can take over on me and can go wrong. Not sure what else to say! It's just really nice and comfortable for me, fits into the dead leaves category, but can be worn any time of year. Sweet and dusty leaves. It just smells good! I probably will regret it if I don't get a full 5ml.

Might take a couple days to get through this! There are lots of "maybes" this time. Posting here because I want to come back and edit, probably multiple times. Box of Chocolates 2025 Choco-Goblin Perfume Oil Coconut covered chocolate lumps, gnarly patchouli, and sweet benzoin. Pass - not usually a big chocolate fan (in my perfume), but I am interested in the white chocolate ones. (Sometimes there are exceptions though). I like Goblin but this combination doesn't sound great to me. Choco-TKO Perfume Oil A soporific dessert: Hidcote lavender, golden hops, and vanilla bean dusted with cacao. Pass - have enough TKO in various forms. Chocubus Perfume Oil Frozen white chocolate and the heart-stopping chill of sheared mint, fanned by caramel-touched body heat, and the diabolical sensuality of black musk, nicotiana, and sage. Interested, decant? I tried Incubus a long time ago and it's fine but I never wear it (I think it gave me nightmares or something), but this combination of notes has potential. Horreur Choco-Tique Perfume Oil Dark chocolate, ruby cocoa, blood musk, golden honey, thick black wine, champagne grapes, tobacco flower, plum blossom, tonka bean, oakmoss, carnation, benzoin, opoponax, and sugar cane. Pass - mainly due to honey, we don't get along. Although looking at this I wonder if it smells anything like Temple Viper? It's a stretch but TV gives me grape + incense vibes, and they do share the sugar cane note. Sea Foams Chocolate Perfume Oil White chocolate froth and marshmallow fluff cresting on an ocean wave. Don’t drink it! Interested! I really liked Supposed To Be A Pretzel, I know this isn't the same but still my mind is connecting them for some reason. Decant. The Dark Chocolate Rider Perfume Oil Dark chocolate, leather, sweet myrrh, tobacco absolute, and black amber. The Ruby Chocolate Rider Perfume Oil Ruby chocolate, red leather, red musk, red berries, red mosses, balsam, and passion flower cordial. The White Chocolate Rider Perfume Oil White chocolate, frothed milk, sandalwood, and leather. Don't need any of the Riders, tried them when they first came out and they weren't for me. White Chocolate Rabbit Perfume Oil White chocolate filled with black tea and cream, splooged with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla. Interested, I like gc White Rabbit and also the snow one, and I'd like to try this one too. Decant. Girth of Venus Cake for Breakfast Perfume Oil Peach silk, cherry fizz, pain au chocolat, and a cup of generously creamed black tea. Pass but it was close. Erotes’ Valentine Perfume Oil Pink buttercream roses, wingbeats of pearly suede, and whorls of dark musk. Pass - for now Mars and Venus Perfume Oil A stolen moment preserved for eternity in a gleaming amber jewel, entombed in malachite swirls of oakmoss and velvet. Pass, pretty confident on this one. The Crimson Perfume Oil Burnished rosewood, clove cigarette smoke, oozing apple slices, and plum cashmere cushions fouled with trickles of labdanum. Pass on this one. The Pearl Perfume Oil A salt-encrusted cocoon overflowing with almond blossoms, sweet patchouli, and dried peony petals whipped into orris butter. I feel like I have more than one thing like this already but not sure. Pass for now. Lupercalia 2025 Amoretti LXXV Perfume Oil A great and golden love: immortal, undying, infinite. A love brightly burned into the stone of eternity: golden amber and scarlet musk, black vanilla absolute, red apple, Siamese benzoin, and sweet fig. Pass, mostly because of apple, it tends to take over the whole scent on my skin and ends up smelling like shampoo. Like the Very Gods Perfume Oil Shuddering, sweat-warmed skin gleaming with sheer musk, honeyed olive blossoms, vanilla cedar, white sandalwood, and orris butter. Pass for sure because of the honeyed part, I know it would dominate on me. Luperci Perfume Oil This scent is for the Luperci, the Chosen of Faunus, the Brothers of the Wolf: raw, down and dirty patchouli, Gurjam balsam, and essence of Sampson Root sweetened with the heightened sexuality of beeswax, virile juniper, oakmoss, ambrette seed over honey and East African musk. Pass, tried before and didn't work for me. Penetralia Perfume Oil That heavenly spot where creamy, angel-pink hibiscus petals meet the pale, juicy-green pistil. Pass, for now but could change my mind. I don't really know what hibiscus smells like. Pink Fuzzy Handcuffs Perfume Oil It’s not quite as fun when you lose the key. Pink cotton candy, candied rose, and vanilla sugar. Pass, pretty confidently. I like some sweet scents but this sounds VERY sweet. Red Lantern Perfume Oil A tribute to the opium den cum bawdyhouses of Shanghai in the 1930’s. Golden amber, blonde tobacco, Sudanese black coconut, rich caramel, black currant, white opium and delphinium laced with a sensual blend of Asian spice. I will pass for now. I think I tried this before and didn't get alomg with it. Rose Milk Tea Perfume Oil An impossibly sweet concoction of green tea and frothed almond milk poured over fresh rose petals and glistening tapioca pearls. Had to really think about it but I'm going to pass for now. I'm not really in the mood for rose right now. Smut Perfume Oil We are the smuttiest. Three swaggering, smutty musks sweetened with sugar and woozy with dark booze notes. Like it, but my 1 bottle is enough. Snake Skin Perfume Oil A sinuous leather variant of BPALs Snake Oil. Have it and don't need more. The Elephant is Slow to Mate Perfume Oil A rolling, unhurried, volcanic passion sustained by a love that is slow, shy, patient, and wise – and expressed through a scent as warm, languorous, luxuriant, and comforting as a cloak of heavy, soft red velvet: deep burgundy musk, red labdanum, smoked rose petals, opoponax, 17-year aged patchouli, blackened vanilla bean, dried black cherries, blackberries, and tobacco absolute. Have it and don't need more, although I should try it again, it has been a while. The Serpent in the Carnations Perfume Oil Snake Oil-soaked carnation petals, spiked with a dash of clove and allspice. I have a bottle and don't need more, even if it's different this year (not sure if it is). The Serpent in the Lilacs Perfume Oil Spring’s first lilac branches dunked in 3-year aged Snake Oil. I really just feel like I have enough SO variants. The Serpent in the Opium Poppies Perfume Oil Snake Oil, opium tar, indigo poppy petals, plum cognac, and a dribble of laudanum. Pass but the hype is testing me. The Serpent in the Roses Perfume Oil Snake Oil dribbling across a cluster of amber-flecked, blackened rose petals. Already have it and don't need more. White Flowers, Red Ink, Black Paper Perfume Oil If this year’s Lupercalia fragrance collection was a book, it would be printed in blood-red ink rolled across the soft, stubborn bodies of dream-pale flowers, and stamped onto heavy black paper. We’d pass it around before the letters had a chance to dry, staining fingers with the turn of every page, marking the curious as aspiring erotes, as fellow Lupercalians. The sanguine contents of this text were made to be devoured by the eyes, the skin, the heart, and then the story continued by its readers, passed along to others. Pass on this one, not really calling to me. I'm not big on ink and paper scents, from my experience. Womb Furie Perfume Oil An itch that needs to be scratched: Snake Oil and three types of honey. No thank you! On Lovers' Lips Coquette Red Perfume Oil A flirty strawberry-tinged rose lipstick. Dominatrix Red Perfume Oil Latex, leather, and blood-red lipstick. Egyptian Red Perfume Oil Cleopatra’s vibrant carmine suffused with myrrh, blue lotus absolute, cinnamon bark, elemi resin, and cassia. Elizabethan Red Perfume Oil Orange blossom water, fig milk, clove bud, madder root, and gum arabic smeared on an ambergris-dabbed white leather glove. Jiroft Red Perfume Oil Ground hematite and manganite pounded into vegetable waxes and scented with dates, narcissus, rosewater, and oud. Vixen Red Perfume Oil Confidence, sensuality, glamour. Ripe black cherries, velvety red rose, and a flirtatious sparkle of pink pepper glide seamlessly through iris-touched vanilla bean wax. Don't need any of these - they just don't sound that appealing to me but I would sniff if any of them came my way (I guess that's true for just about any scent). Raunchy Hearts 2025 Aces Wild Perfume Oil A big, wet blue raspberry blown to the idea that asexual people never get off, don’t enjoy relationships, or are generally anti-sex. Cuck Me Perfume Oil A sticky-sweet love letter to the stranger (coworker? lifelong friend?) who’s been sleeping in your bed: candy cigarettes and root beer barrels. Don’t Peek Perfume Oil Lychee tears soaking through a blindfold of opium tar. Findom Perfume Oil An arrangement in which eros is expressed via liquid assets and cold, hard cash: shiny butterscotch and pale green vanilla mint. U Tried Wild Perfume Oil You sure did! Here’s your participation award: a bright, sweet lemon candy lightly dusted with sugar to soothe the sting of rejection. UNF Perfume Oil Hot, heavy slaps of dragon fruit punctuated with pink pepper whimpers and a grunt of patchouli. Yelp Perfume Oil Make some noise if it feels good! Make some noise if it feels bad! A paper pouch of popping peach and sour cherry candy Don't need any of these. I can't afford to try a whole lot so I'm kind of glad when I can pass on a whole section. Happy for those who are getting them, though. Edit: Ok I might want to try the lemon candy one. The Seven Veils The Fifth Veil Perfume Oil Putrefaction, the veil of decay. A yellowing shroud of raw-edged Muga silk, banana-spotted with chunks of fermented fig and exuding rich, earthy puffs of mushroom dust. Pass for sure The First Veil Perfume Oil Calcination, the black veil. A densely-ruffled carapace of peppered ambergris, sandalwood smoke, and charred silk Doesn't sound like something I would like. The Fourth Veil Perfume Oil Conjunction, the veil of reunion. Ripples of sage-green silk covered in a mossy velvet-burnout pattern of wildflowers and slithering ivy. Probably pass, but there is some potential here. On the fence about this one. The Second Veil Perfume Oil Dissolution, the flowing veil. A crystal-sequined torrent of lilac-wine organza soiled with trampled grapeskins, cinnabar smudges, and smears of liquid myrrh. Undecided - probably pass but I weirdly want to try it. The Seventh Veil Perfume Oil Coagulation, the veil that lays bare. Bare skin visible through a glittering web of blood-red garnet beads strung on threads spun from filaments of pure gold. I'd like to smell this just out of curiosity but overall I think I can skip it for now. The Sixth Veil Perfume Oil Distillation, the veil of steam. Condensation gathering in clouds of tulle, white tea, aqua vitae, rosemary liqueur, and bourbon vanilla. Same as above except I might actually look for a decant of this one. The Third Veil Perfume Oil Separation, the veil of distinction. A tumble of pearly pale-blue chiffon shot through with slashes of white ginger and lined with ivory satin rosettes. Not sure, this is another wild card, maybe a decant? Shungas 2025 A Cluster of Red Chrysanthemums Perfume Oil Red chrysanthemum petals, guava pulp, crimson-tipped peonies, and sandalwood incense. Ok now we're talking. I can't help but think of Chrysanthemum Moon but "sandalwood incense" could turn on me. Probably a decant. A Pause in One’s Studies Perfume Oil Luminous amber, white tea, sweet heliotrope, golden lotus petals, toasted almond blossom cream, and a smear of ink. Sounds nice but I have to be selective and this doesn't stand out a lot. I will watch reviews though. Maybe decant down the road. A Record Book of Ships Entering the Harbor Perfume Oil Vanilla sandalwood and vanilla cream with a hint of tobacco absolute and blackcurrant bud. Sounds nice but again, does this stand out? I feel like I've smelled lots of things with these notes already. Possible decant. Affair Between an Amorous Doctor and a Wanton Married Woman Perfume Oil Gurjum balsam, lemon peel, ginger root, and clove. Sounds a little too zingy for what I've been in the mood for lately. But I do love a good lemony scent.... have to think some more on this one An Intriguing Observation Perfume Oil Pomegranate milk, scarlet musk, red sandalwood, frankincense, and white almond. Passing for now, I feel like I have plenty of red musk scents and it can sometimes take over. Aroused Demon Perfume Oil Red and black vegetal musks, pink peppercorn, lychee, wild plum, green tea, oakmoss, and matcha Not a combo I'm really interested in right now. Battledore and Shuttlecock Perfume Oil Calla lilies, green tea, peony milk, and blue lilac. Now this is something I want to try and actually have a bottle in my cart at the moment! (Edit: I got a decant to try first) Cascade of Tissues Perfume Oil Marshmallow cream, red silk musk, pomegranate juice, and red currant. Interested in the marshmallow cream but not the red musk. Possible decant. Celestial Beings Making Love Above the Sea Perfume Oil Eucalyptus blossom, salty foam, ambergris accord, blue spruce, white mint, lotus root, and blue musk. Sounds nice but I'm passing for now. I like aquatics but there are a couple iffy notes here. Contest of Flowers: Iris Perfume Oil Iris, peony, and carnation petals soaked in strawberry cream and lotus milk. Has potential but I need to be strict and this doesn't quite make the cut. Convivial Vulva Perfume Oil Cherry blossom cream, blush marshmallow, white amber, and wild pink strawberries. This has potential but I'm skipping it for now. Couple Engaged in Intimate Acts as the Man Pours Tea Perfume Oil Jasmine tea, yuzu rice, and smoked vanilla. Decant - potential, but I also feel I have some other scents like this. Discarded Weapons Perfume Oil Toasted rice, almond cream, champaca resin, fig, and roasted coconut meat. Again this has potential but I'm skipping for now. It sounds similar to some other things I have. I am interested in the rice note though. Possible decant at some point. Enthusiastic Recreation Perfume Oil Vanilla-soaked sugared pear, frankincense, osmanthus blossoms, and hazelnut. This is a wild card and I can't decide. Festival Acrobatics Perfume Oil Akebia, guava pulp, pink sandalwood, melon, green bergamot, Florentine iris, and sandalwood. Undecided, potential decant? Gongsun Sheng Uses Magic to Cause Heavy Rain and Strong Winds Perfume Oil Ebony musk shot through with scarlet, tobacco absolute, a crack of ozone, and sandalwood-dusted rosy skin musk. Not quite what I'm looking for at the moment. Great Pleasures for Women and Their Treasure Boxes Perfume Oil Amber incense, guava cream, almond milk, and sandalwood. Pass for now, not calling out to me. Hazy Moon Cats Perfume Oil Sandalwood incense, dusky violet petals, mauve orris root, sweet labdanum, jasmine sambac, frankincense, and ti leaf. Not totally sure but probably pass for now. Orris can sometimes come across like baby oil on me, and it's not a deal breaker but sometimes it stomps on the other notes. In the Hallway of a Brothel Perfume Oil Lemon cream, incense smoke, and candle wax. I usually pass on waxy scents. I love the sound of lemon cream, though. Intimate Experiments During Household Activities Perfume Oil Mango cream, black cherry cordial, blackcurrant, and neroli. I'm wary of mango cream because I think it went wrong on me in the past. And cherry notes can be very sweet and strong. Jealousy, Fingering, Masturbation Perfume Oil Green tea with mint cream, jasmine petals, lotus root, and sugared violets. This is very much the kind of thing I'm interested in right now - except the jasmine, it could take over. Maybe just a decant for now? Lesbian Maidservants Cavorting with a Tortoiseshell Dildo Perfume Oil Polished amber and honeyed teak draped in red silk brocade and soft mosses. Not calling to me at the moment Lingering Plum Scent in the Sleeping Chamber Perfume Oil Ume blossom and ripe black plums, clove incense, mogra, and a gentle mist of lavender and white honey. I was somewhat interested until we got to white honey, not for me. Lu Zhishen Pulls the Weeping Willow Upside Down Perfume Oil Willow boughs tangled with strawflower, patchouli root, cypress, clary sage, vetiver, ho wood, and golden musk. Undecided, pass for now. Michiyuki Koi No Futozao Perfume Oil Brandy-soaked pears, plum incense, and honeyed amber. Pass, not my thing. But I wish for a plum incense single note! Onnagata Making Love at a Tea House as Mane’emon Watches While Holding a Kite Perfume Oil Orange blossom caramel, yellow tobacco flower, and sugared patchouli. Hmmm....I'm wary of the caramel, but otherwise really interested I think. Decant probably. Playful Abalone Divers Perfume Oil Lotus petals, jasmine sambac, orris root, coconut, clove, and honey. Probably pass, mostly because of honey. Plume of Incense Perfume Oil Tendrils of sandalwood, agarwood, and cypress incense, moss silk, calla lilies, and yellow amber. There was a time I would have jumped on this but now I feel like I have lots of incense scents already. Might possibly want a decant but maybe pass? Radiant Entanglement Perfume Oil Dragonfruit, honeyed hibiscus, fuchsia orchid, and white tea. I'm just not sure, but it has potential. Possible decant. It sure sounds pretty and joyful..something I need right now! Rapturous Spouses and Curious Cat Perfume Oil Lemon blossom, neroli, white honey, Himalayan cedar, ylang ylang, white frankincense, and a fuzzy purr of musky amber. Probably pass because of white honey. Scarlet Blossoms Perfume Oil Beeswax, white tea, amber-warmed skin musk, cherry juice, wild plum, and a cascade of cherry and plum blossoms dipped in silky red musk. Several notes here can go wrong. Safe pass for me. The First Tea Ceremony of the Year Perfume Oil Matcha tea and nerikiri. I think I just am not crazy about matcha in my perfume. I already have the matcha cheesecake Beaver Moon and that is enough for me. The Fox Spirit’s Jest Perfume Oil Russet musk, red silk, rose chypre, wildflower honey, and patchouli root. Definitely a safe pass for me, too much red and I don't like honey notes for the most part. Shunga HG 2025 Annual Events of the Vagina Hair Gloss Pine needle, crushed grass, jasmine absolute, and juniper. Chart of the Muscles of the Hand Hair Gloss Toasted almond cream, white musk, and hazelnut sandalwood. Diver Combing her Hair Hair Gloss Salt-dusted lilac and lavender petals splashed by sea water. Glowing Vulva at Ryogoku Bridge Hair Gloss Cream accord, amber, teak, and lotus blossom. The Harbor of Love on the Island of Women Hair Gloss White tea, cherry rose petals, marshmallow, frothed cream, and amber. Diver Combing is the only one I'm mildly interested in but I don't need any more Hair gloss.

Strong dragon's blood incense, nothing more or less on me. I don't really get the vanilla but I'm not going to complain. Ooh, wait. I'm sniffing up close and getting a cool vanilla note, so I guess it is there. This is really strong and I know there will be a right time and place where I need it, so I'm happy I took a chance on it. PS, there is something a little bit spicy here too, like just a hint, and it might be coming from the red musk, it does that on me sometimes.

Urd, I agree with this one! The Caterpillar, but be aware it has jasmine too Madame Moriarty, I used to think this smelled like a freshly lit incense stick so I wanted to mention it here Temple Viper, if it ever comes back in stock, would be worth a try, it might be a little more frankincense heavy than you're looking for but it's a sugared frankincense and oh so good. Midnight On the Midway, the old formula was very much sugared incense on me, but the newer formula is a little more sweet musk. Still it could be worth a try! Scherezade - again, might be more musk but still could be worth a shot

I'm a little embarrassed because I tried this a couple times and kind of forgot about it. Today's it's blustery and snowing outside and this is just right. The sandalwood is the star and I don't get much lime at all, and I think the ginger is giving this a bay rum kind of feeling for me. It's a great spicy sandalwood, I plan on wearing it more often when.the mood strikes.

Blood-spattered cotton candy. I know some people are curious about this, so I'll give it a shot. I got it yesterday and wore it all day, applied twice, and wearing it today also. The cotton candy comes in at the very beginning, but after a short while I found that the blood note took center stage. I am having trouble thinking of how to describe it. It's complex and incensey with hints of fruit or berry maybe? I do think there's some dragon's blood in there, but I did compare it to Dragon's Blood (gc) and Blood (gc) and it's definitely not floral like DB, and it's not clovey like Blood either. I would describe the blood as rich, kind of juicy, a little sweet and fruity, and I think there might possibly be some red musk in there (I could be wrong about that). I can't wait to read some other reviews and opinions. I really like it! I could wear this with all kinds of different things, Mme Moriarty and Midnight on the Midway come to mind. Edit: As the day goes by, I keep thinking, maybe I AM smelling the cotton candy note, more than I thought. Because this seems familiar but for some reason hard to describe. If so, it would be a more incensey cotton candy and not a straightforward sugary note. It is fab.....

This has rested for a while. Such a weird scent and strong too. It's like amber shining through a fuzzy reddish filter. I don't get a strong sense of red berries except for the hazy red "tint" I guess you could say. It's a hard scent for me to pin down but I've always liked red musk and I enjoy this a lot.

I wore this last night, it's really pretty, cool and light, lemony with a little lavender. Somehow it reminds me of Carnaval Diabolique and Antonino, like a little of both (which is a good thing for me). Probably more Antonino but the lemony part makes me think of CD. I will enjoy wearing this to help calm my nerves when needed.

I feel like I might have got a batch variation or something because I just smell bpal's champagne note, strongly, and not much else. It has a little bit of a metallic edge that makes it sharper than usual for a champagne scent. I don't really think it's a note that I usually amp. But here I don't smell any of the other notes, no myrrh, no cherry. It's actually my least favorite of all the champagne scents that I've tried from bpal. : ( I have the gc scent Blood and I have always liked it. I'm really not smelling it in this.

For me this is the love child of Schrodinger's Checkmark and Tricksy (the bath oil - I haven't smelled the perfume but I think they're the same scent). It has the same kind of balance of earthy and sweet that I get from Checkmark, but this is like the late summer/fall counterpart to that. I don't often like honey in perfumes but this honey is like a gold jewel resting on a dusky purple fig patchouli velvety cushion. I guess I'm getting the buttercream too because sometimes this reminds me of patchouli frosting (if there really as such a thing). It's totally yummy and I really like it!

I don't wear a lot of coffee scents but I do enjoy some of them and I like this one. The coffee note isn't strong on my skin. I'm getting a lot of warm spices, a lot of powdered sugar, and a little coffee. This really reminds me of those round powdered sugar cookies that you find around Christmas time. It really smells specifically like powdered sugar to me for whatever reason. Also I think I'm picking up on some anise from the guardiente (I had to look it up). The clove and cinnamon don't stand out strongly either, it's just a general warm spicy feeling.

I never posted my thoughts on this scent! Obviously this is aged now but I'm still getting strong incense, but kind of sparkly and fancy. I can pick out the frankincense and champaca, and possibly bergamot. It smells much the same as it did when it was new. Complex incense.

On my skin the clove stands out strongly, but it's a cozy clove so maybe the cream part is coming through a little bit. I can't specifically pick out burnt marshmallows but after a while, I'm reminded of a sweet and salty treat of some kind. The dead leaves are at about "medium" level in this one. And I can detect the whiskey but it's a background note for me. Sometimes clove can be tricky on me and this does teeter on the edge of "aftershave", but never quite topples over. It just keeps going and going, reminding me of a cozy baked sweet treat that's maybe a teensy bit salty. Or maybe a sweet and salty taffy of some kind, almost like licorice (it doesn't smell like licorice but somehow I keep thinking of it). I only bought a decant but I keep bringing my wrist up to my nose, and I'm thinking about upgrading to 5ml.

I took a chance on this but didn't know it has a particular note or accord that bpal uses, that is screechy and high pitched and feels like bleach fumes in my nostrils. I've never seen anyone else mention it, so it might be just me. I wish I knew what it is, it's in Apple Butter Rum off the top of my head and a couple other scents. I think there was a Shunga with mango and cream, that has it too. So for me this was a gamble that failed. I smell the pumpkin but with the screeching note this unfortunately doesn't work for me.

All Hallows Oud Perfume Oil Black oud spookied up with pumpkin puree, amaretto, scorched caramel, almond paste, cacao nibs, and honey. Wary of oud, especially black oud. Also I generally avoid both caramel and honey. Interest level rating: 2/5  Bonfire Toffee Perfume Oil Our spin on a traditional Guy Fawkes Night treat: treacle toffee soaked in rich, dark bourbon. I think I've tried this before but I can't remember for sure. At any rate, it's not really calling me. 2/5 Bourbon-Soaked Pumpkin Peanut Butter Fudge Perfume Oil Gooey. I just have no interest in nuts or nut butter in perfume. 1/5  Dry Ice Cocktail Perfume Oil A sparkling absinthe martini swirled with a glow stick and overflowing with cascades of dry ice fog. I like absinthe notes but dry ice fog makes me think of one of the "fog" scents that I tried a few years ago, I think it was a Yule series? And I didn't like that one much. Anyway this one isn't calling to me. 2/5  Pumpkin Latte Perfume Oil Espresso, pumpkin syrup, smoky vanilla bean, milk, raw sugar, and a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg. This sounds like a candle scent to me, which isn't necessarily bad, but I just never had much interest in this one. 2/5  Pumpkin Musk and Black Oud Perfume Oil A strangely romantic, disturbingly erotic perfume. Has this come out before? I feel like I've tried it. Pass for now. It wasn't bad (if it was the same scent), just not calling me right now. 2/5  Pumpkin Spice Everything Perfume Oil Literally everything! Pumpkin spice it all with this traditional brew of cinnamon, cardamom, allspice, and clove. I have a decant and like it, don't need more. 2/5  Pumpkin Spice Halo-Halo Perfume Oil With apologies to my ancestors. Ube halaya and ube ice cream chonked with mango jelly, flan, boiled taro, evaporated milk, sweetened kidney beans, dried coconut, kaong, gulaman, tapioca pearls, and a copious shake of pumpkin spice. Sounds interesting, I wouldn't mind trying a decant. 3/5 Pumpkin Sugar Perfume Oil Crystallized glittering shards of lightly spiced pumpkin sugar. I have an old decant and like it, but not sure I need more or not. I will retest it in the near future. 3/5 Samhain Perfume Oil Truly the scent of autumn itself — damp woods, fir needle, and black patchouli with the gentlest touches of warm pumpkin, clove, nutmeg, allspice, sweet red apple and mullein. I love Samhain, but I don't need more. 2/5 Sugar Skull Perfume Oil Vibrant with the joy and sweetness of life in death! A blend of five sugars, lightly dusted with candied fruits. I love Sugar Skull but don't need more - although I'm curious if it's different this year! It seems there are some different versions of it in the last few years. Maybe a decant. 3/5 Vintage Pumpkin Blow Mold Perfume Oil A grinning, glowing gourd gleaming with 40 watts of radiant white musk, sweet orange, crystalline amber, and pumpkin rind. I have this in my cart, Vintage Ghost was so good, I'm interested in this too. 4/5 Halloween 2024 - Carmilla A Glare of Skulking Ferocity Perfume Oil Scorched oud, bitter resins, black musk, a torn shred of gossamer vanilla, and a clang of metal. Not sure about oud, bitter resins and metal. Possibly a decant. 2/5 Carmilla Hair Gloss Sweetness shadowed by danger: dark amber and ylang ylang gleams through smoky chestnut, cacao, mahogany, blackcurrant, and vanilla bean. No hg for me, I have enough. Chocolat Viennois Perfume Oil Turns out this is a thing that vampires are into. A warm mug of dark chocolate and cream with a dribble of blood. Chocolate perfumes aren't usually my thing. 2/5 Come With Me, Loving Me to Death Perfume Oil Black orchid, cacao, bitter almond, and black musk. It depends on the orchid, but really, I can probably pass on this, unless I get really curious from reviews. 2/5 Darling, Darling Perfume Oil Sugared pear and wild violets with orris butter, coconut milk, white musk, and vanilla silk. This combination doesn't sound appealing to me. Edit: it kind of sounds like a Luper scent! I would definitely try it if it crossed my path. 2/5 Die, Sweetly Die Perfume Oil Inevitable surrender. Opening with a heady blend of blood orange and black cherry, the heart of this perfume pulsates with narcotic jasmine, sinuous tuberose, blood amber, vanilla silk, and deep red labdanum. I was on board until red labdanum, I have a questionable history with that note. 2/5 Indescribable Solemnity and Fear Perfume Oil The crescendo of a phantom’s caress: golden frankincense and cardamom smothered by honeyed kisses of labdanum, red rose, merlot, black oud, and myrrh. Couple of iffy notes for me, and labdanum in general can turn sour on me. 2/5 Laura Hair Gloss An ode to delicate femininity, evoking an image of a golden beauty bathed in sunlight: delicate sandalwood and white musk shimmering with neroli, yellow amber, pear blossom, peonies, and iris. No hg for me. Melancholy Fire Perfume Oil A luminous cold flame: chilled bergamot, Ceylon cinnamon, white clove bud, amber, and incense smoke. Sounds kind of interesting, maybe decant. 3/5 Millarca Perfume Oil White lace, blackcurrant, and tea roses. I'd like to smell this. 3/5 Mircalla, Countess Karnstein Perfume Oil Black velvet, blackcurrant, and black roses. Definitely interested. 4/5 My Soul Acquiesced in It Perfume Oil Melancholic white rose petals drifting in a pool of white musk, bitter almond, and icy vanilla. Hmm.. possible decant. 3/5 My Wild Heart Bleeds With Yours Perfume Oil A fierce rush of pink pepper, carnation, pulsating red berries, and crimson musk. I'm interested but wary of pepper and carnation. 3/5 Resembling the Passion of Love Perfume Oil All-consuming, relentless desire – deceptively luscious, murderously brooding, and blindingly sensual: blood musk, black cherry, crimson amber, 21-year aged patchouli, golden saffron, jasmine sambac, and black rose. Not sure but could be good. 3/5 Ruins of Karnstein Perfume Oil Palatial grandeur in ruins, its decrepit majesty poised in the liminal space between decay and beauty. A haunting memory of all-consuming desire: the rich, earthy depth of oud, vetiver, and moss, grounded in the untamed wilds of the forest, echoing the ancient stones that remain. Wary of oud and moss. 2/5 Seven Inches of Blood Perfume Oil A shimmering pool of coppery red musk, Dracaena cinnabari, clove bud, cacao, and lead. I want to love this but wary of "coppery" and wary of lead. 4/5 Sinister Restlessness Perfume Oil Fear and fascination: blackened vetiver, amber smoke, clove, and oudh. There's that oudh again. 3/5 Smiling Melancholy Perfume Oil Distant, enigmatic, shadowed: delicate heliotrope and pale rose petals, muted and soft, resting atop a chilly, intimate base that blends white musk, cashmere woods, and a touch of tonka bean. Might be good. 3/5 Strange Paroxysms of Languid Adoration Perfume Oil Parasitic intoxication: narcissus, opium poppy, and red orchid veiled in heliotrope, blush sandalwood, and crushed violet. Narcissus is a deal breaker for me. 2/5 That Silvery Splendor Perfume Oil Moon-kissed petals of night-blooming florals aflame with hypnotic opium tar, fae tuberose, and a sliver of metallic aldehyde. I'd smell it but it will probably be soapy on me. 2/5 The Fading Crimson of the Sky Perfume Oil A scent both bright and subdued: bergamot shuddering through lime leaves, ruby-tinged amber sunlight, violet leaf, oak bark, and sandalwood smoke. Sounds kind of interesting. 3/5 The Great and Titled Dead Perfume Oil The haunted stillness of a long-decayed cemetery plot choked by ivy and wild blackberry thorns. Very interested. 4/5 Troubled by Revenants Perfume Oil A paean to ancient malevolence and the unseen forces that grasp and scratch at the living like gnarled roots clawing through blood-stained soil in midnight forests: patchouli, mandrake root, black pepper, and fossilized amber. Somewhat interested. 3/5 You Are Mine, You Shall Be Mine, You and I Are One for Ever Perfume Oil The consuming intensity of a passion that claims body and soul, blurring the boundaries between longing and obsession, lust and loathing. Ylang ylang and clove evoke the heat of skin against skin, bruised by bittersweet blackcurrant honey kisses. I like the concept a lot but wary of some notes, especially "honey kisses". 3 or 4/5 Halloween 2024 - Freak in the Sheets Pt. II Lavender Silk Sheet Ghost Perfume Oil A sleek, seductive eternal slumber: silky ripples of spectral lavender cascading around the labdanum-shadowed absence of a living being. Wary of labdanum, otherwise sounds good. 3 or 4/5 Motel Sheet Ghost Perfume Oil Chills and thrills, but certainly no frills: a polluted, rough-riding version of the Traditional Sheet Ghost: cool white cotton, marshmallow fluff, and lemony Oman frankincense, marred with suspicious blotches of coconut oil and a cigarette burn. Pass on this one. 2/5 Traditional Sheet Ghost Perfume Oil Boo! Cool white cotton, marshmallow fluff, and lemony Oman frankincense. My bottle from last year is enough. 1/5 Tropical Print Sheet Ghost Perfume Oil Does the carcass match the drapes? Cascades of banana Leaf, bamboo fiber, mango, papaya, and hibiscus, streaked with ectoplasm and sticky tears of strelitzia sap. Not for me. 2/5 Halloween 2024 - Halloween Atmospheres 2024 Pass on atmo sprays. 1/5 Pumpkin Nut Bread Atmosphere Spray Pumpkin puree baked into a walnut-studded loaf, steaming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. Halloween 2024 - Halloween Beard Oils 2024 Pass on beard oils. 1/5 Bonfire Smoke Beard Oil Woodmoke, glowing embers, drifting ash, and the memory of bones. Pumpkin Spice Beard Oil Pumpkin spice EVERYTHING. Type AB-Beard Oil For the most discerning vampires. Dragon’s blood resin, black cherry, clove, cardamom, black leather, and kyphi smoke. Halloween 2024 - Halloween Hair Glosses 2024 No hg for me. 0/5 Autumn Bouquet Hair Gloss Carnations, sunset roses, hydrangea, and sunflowers bound in a clove-tinged pumpkin-orange velvet ribbon. Halloween 2024 - Heloise & Abelard’s Spooky Single Notes Black Lipstick Perfume Oil A goth awakening: waxy drugstore lipstick and clove cig residue. Pass for me. 2/5 Blood Squib Perfume Oil A sanguinous firecracker of cherry simple syrup and dragon’s blood resin. Might be nice but I already have Blood. 2 or 3/5 Bonfire Perfume Oil The perfume of withering leaves, their brittle forms surrendering to the flame, releasing a sigh of bitter smoke that is flickering with the ghosts of summer’s memory. Probably pass, I have some scents like this already. 2/5 Candied Apple Perfume Oil Sour green apples encased in a sticky shell of iconic glossy red caramelized sugar syrup. I don't like green apple perfumes, usually. 1/5 Clown White Perfume Oil No joke! Greasy petrolatum, lanolin, and titanium dioxide accords smeared with vanilla cream. Please note: this product contains no clowns or clown-derived materia. Pass for me. 2/5 Datura Blossom Perfume Oil Corpse white and bruise-purple, sacred datura is native to my west coast homeland. A seductive, heady, hypnotic bloom, as poisonous as it is beautiful. I'm interested, but just have no idea what it smells like. It could go either way. 4/5 Graveyard Dirt Perfume Oil This is the scent of pure graveyard dust, spattered with grave loam and dusted lightly with tombstone moss. I have a bottle already. 1/5 Insulation Board Tombstone Perfume Oil A fragrant melange of foam insulation board, PVC pipes, jigsaw grease, stone-textured spray paint, and polyurethane sealant. Pass for me. 2/5 Halloween 2024 - Nightmare Novellas Pt. II Fuchsia Eyes Perfume Oil Blood-tinged raspberries oozing into globs of blackcurrant and red plum. A "fruit notes only" scent isn't that interesting to me, it needs to have something else. 2/5 Hatman Perfume Oil Scarlet musk, red oud, opium poppy, and tobacco absolute. Sounds too red. 2/5 Hollow Hallow Perfume Oil A suffocating pumpkin kyphi soaked in dark red wine and darkened by vetiver, opoponax, and black oud. Possible decant. 3/5 Jolly Perfume Oil Pumpkin cream, caramel-coated marshmallow, crushed candy corn, lemon peel, and belladonna honey. Doesn't sound like my thing. 2/5 Leaf Spirits Perfume Oil Smoky vetiver, flaming sparks of black pepper, clove, and nutmeg, charred wood, and dark amber. Sounds too dark and raspy, but I'd try it. 2/5 Sleight of Hand Perfume Oil Incense-tarred patchouli, opoponax, blackened cloth, frankincense resin, and black moss. Hmmm... Sounds a little rough but I'm somewhat curious. 3/5 Slowly She Turned Perfume Oil Flaming amber, queen mandarin rind, yellow peppercorn, scorched yellow roses, and a hint of decay. Interested, likely decant. 3/5 Sweet Tooth Perfume Oil Scorched candy corn and melted toffees Pass for me. 2/5 The Autumn Folk Perfume Oil Hay-dusted oak, honey mead, pumpkin rind, vetiver root, corn husk, and maple leaves. Couple of no-no notes for me, the combination doesn't appeal very much. 2/5 The Bell Witch Perfume Oil Rusted iron, mandrake root, burnt vetiver, and patchouli leaves Sounds very cold and raspy. 2/5 The Treat Keeper Perfume Oil Dried apples, sour apple mash, and molasses. Not an apple perfume fan. 2/5 Halloween 2024 - Pile of Leaves 2024 Copperhead Snake on Dead Leaves Perfume Oil Snake Oil slithering through a scattering of dead leaves with amber, cardamom, cistus, hops, white sandalwood, neroli, orris root, and smoked vanilla. Hmm, could be good. Possible decant. 3/5 Dead Leaves and Honeycomb Perfume Oil Not for me. 1/5 Dead Leaves, Black Tea, and Bergamot Perfume Oil Possible decant. 2 or 3/5 Dead Leaves, Blood Orange, and Neroli Perfume Oil Probably pass. 2/5 Dead Leaves, Burnt Marshmallows, Clove Cream, and Whiskey Perfume Oil I'm strangely interested. 3/5 Dead Leaves, Dried Lilacs, and Labdanum Perfume Oil Pass. 2/5 Dead Leaves, Incense Smoke and Oud Perfume Oil Probably pass. 2/5 Dead Leaves, Lavender Buds, and Golden Sandalwood Perfume Oil Interested in a decant. 3/5 Dead Leaves, Oakmoss, and Pine Needles Perfume Oil Probably pass. 2/5 Halloween 2024 - Pile of Leaves 2024 - Pile of Leaves Hair Glosses 2024 No hg for me. 0/5 Dead Leaves and Pomegranates Hair Gloss Dead Leaves, Nag Champa, Tunisian Patchouli, and Vanilla Bean Hair Gloss Halloween 2024 - Pumpkin Patch 2024 Embalmed Pumpkin Perfume Oil Pumpkin rind encased in white musk, green tea, aloe and lemon. Mildly interested. 2/5 Knave of Pumpkins Perfume Oil Crushed roses, red currant, and pumpkin tarts. Very interested to at least try it. I actually have a bottle in my cart. 4/5 Moroccan Pumpkin Perfume Oil Pumpkin spices wind through a blend of warm musk, carnation, red sandalwood and cassia. Interested but I already have bottles of Morocco and Pomegranate Morocco. Not sure about this. 3/5 Pumpkin Bliss Perfume Oil Honey-dusted milk chocolate pumpkin bites. Honey and chocolate, no thank you. 1/5 Pumpkin Blood Perfume Oil Pumpkin pulp and dragon’s blood resin, thickened with myrrh, black cherry, and a trickle of clove. Somewhat interested, but I already have a bottle of Blood. 2 or 3/5 Pumpkin Kisses Perfume Oil Sloppily sexy: sweetly spiced pumpkin juice with vanilla cream and wildflower honey, smeared with the vital throb of husky clove, swollen red cherries, but darkened with the vampiric sensuality of vetiver, soporific poppy and blood red wine, and a skin-light pulse of feral musk. Very interested, 4/5 Pumpkin Lust Perfume Oil We don’t judge. Red musk, patchouli, ylang ylang, myrrh, and pumpkin guts. Probably pass 2/5 Pumpkin Smokestack Perfume Oil Burnt pumpkin skins, creosote, coal, and industrial waste. Pass 1/5 Pumpkin Tombstone Perfume Oil I’m yer pumpkinberry: dried pumpkin leather with vanilla, balsam and sassafras layered over Virginia cedar. Probably pass 2/5 Halloween 2024 - Wild Hearses Atmosphere Spray Series No atmo spray for me, 0/5 Convertible Hearse Atmosphere Spray The cadaver, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind: a chilly whoosh of dead leaves seasoned with the perfect amount of smog. Headless Hearseman Atmosphere Spray A bottomless swirl of black leather, dead branches, and flaming pumpkin guts. Hearse of Pancakes Atmosphere Spray There’s still a little time to kill before the viewing… surely it wouldn’t hurt to stop for a short stack? Black coffee, syrup-drenched buckwheat cakes, and a crusty cruller for the road. Hiss and Hearse Atmosphere Spray A dribble of Dorian and a squiggle of Snake Oil, delicately stirred with a moss-crusted muddy shovel. Hot Pink Hearse Atmosphere Spray A dream hearse for anyone who grew up presiding over numerous doll funerals: flashy pink guava, strawberry jam, sugared pink grapefruit, blackberry, bergamot, and pink champagne adorned with a gleaming chrome Landau bar. Lime Green Hearse Atmosphere Spray A shiny, genteel, vintage ride for all those who feel dead inside: lime rind, citron, petitgrain, white musk, a swish of bay rum and a bit of black pepper.

Either my nose is wonky, or I got a batch variation, or I got a mislabeled bottle, because on me this smells like Dorian plus a pretty strong white pepper note. There's no lemon, no cake, nothing sweet or creamy at all, instead it's peppery Dorian that almost smells metallic. Kind of reminds me of Quicksilver Phoenix from way back. I've tried a few of the sufganiyot scents and this isn't anything like them. Nothing remotely like a pastry note - but to be fair the description says "deep-fried fougere", not pastries..... But still, when I read the other reviews, I really feel like I got a different scent. I keep trying it again, thinking maybe it will age into something like the other reviewers talked about, but it hasn't changed at all. After being absolutely blown away by Snake Oil Suf, I have to admit I was disappointed by this one.

For a while I think the benzoin is really strong, it's a powdery stage that lasts about a half hour. Then the white sandalwood comes in and the powdery aspect calms down. This reminded me of an old scent I couldn't even remember the name of at first - The Court of Honor. I think the sandalwood is the same, but it's funny I looked up that one and it reads "a marble-white blend...". Overall I agree that this is a very "cool" smelling scent. I personally don't wear this kind of scent very often but it would make a good "office" scent IMO, it's kind of safe and smells clean to me. I was expecting something a little more smokey, due to the lapsang souchong, but I'm not getting the tea note very much.

I feel like the Steamworks scents would be good for that vibe, even if they're not exactly "mad scientist" themed, they still might fit the general mood, especially Galvanic Goggles, No. 93 Engine, and Aelopile. Beholder Optician from the RPG scents could be a possibility too. Dee might be good, too. Edit: bellumed beat me to it, I second those suggestions, and the Skeksis is a good one I forgot about!

For me this has a little bit of a "golden" quality that has come out with age. The cranberry is subtle but it's there. A wooly gold berry sunset. I used to think this was a fall cousin of Krampus but it has mellowed a lot with some age.

On me, this starts out like a baby-oil type of scent that borders on soapy. Something is happening with the lilac that reminds me of the lab's champaca note and I was surprised to see it's not listed. I don't smell much if any lavender, it's hiding from me. Later as it dries and starts to develop I can smell the sandalwood coming out stronger. The word "sweet" keeps coming to mind but I'm not sure that's the best description. It's still close to being soapy but not quite there. I like this kind of scent but the only drawback for me is I have a few other scents that are very close to this, even though I am not smelling much lavender here, it reminds me somewhat of School of Silence maybe? In that general category. I'll keep this decant and wear it, I think it will be great for spring weather.

I'm amping the moss but that's not unusual for me. OOF that is a nose full of moss. This is deep, green, mossy, and more aquatic than I expected. From memory it reminds me of Bayou but I haven't smelled that in a long time. It's wearing a little oppressive and heavy on me.

I really love this scent. To my nose it is herbal, green, and a little grassy. It reminds me of a few of bpal's "green" scents, especially Blade of Grass. It goes through some subtle changes but overall this is a peaceful and soothing scent. I'm struggling a little to describe it but it's cool, clean, and a little sweet. It makes me think of going for a walk in shady woods with sunlight coming through the leaves. Breathing in the air. It's a bit of an unexpected hit for me.