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A Breathless Chuckle is like a pile of treats. Well, it starts out as a pile of treats, and then it dries down to a MALLOMAR. I have happy childhood memories of eating mallomars, so there's no way I'm parting with this bottle. Another fun Yule gourmand!

Peppermint Cream Cupcake is mostly peppermint cream frosting on me, with just a bit of red velvet cupcake under it. The peppermint vanilla scent of the frosting stays true on me and I get more cake as it wears. I'm not sure red velvet and mint would be a combo I'd want to eat, but this smells great.

Sweet brandy, dark rum, heavy cream, sugar, and a dash of nutmeg. Vintage 2016: Even though Eggnog is a BPAL Yule staple, this is my first year trying it. Probably because I don't like drinking eggnog? But I hadn't considered that wearing it might be a whole different experience. What I like best is that it's heavy on the brandy and rum, yum. The heavy cream, sugar, and nutmeg do their best to balance out the booze, and they do a nice job of acting as counterweight. It smells like eggnog, and even though I'd never drink it, I'll absolutely wear it.

2016 vintage: Wow, this really is a pumpkin latte with a hit of cinnamon and nutmeg. The pumpkin isn't overwhelming on me; it's nicely balanced. The coffee note always gets a little weird on my skin, so I might use this in an oil burner next fall rather than trying to work it as perfume.

Love the Dickinson poem about how snow transfigures (and to the voice of the poem's mounting fascination/horror, erases), so was excited to try this. The notes are pale and pale brown. Frankincense and patchouli are the strongest notes on me, with the white sandalwood and white coconut providing a thin blanket of creamy, downy woods. Backup worthy.

If a vanilla cream soda transformed itself into an upscale perfume by wishing on a star, it would become Road to Versailles at Louveciennes. Cream vanilla is the headiest of the notes when first applied (it's almost fizzy), then I get the yummy brown sandalwood. There's an herbal quality to the blend that comes forward as it dries down, and the base of wintry musk also gets stronger with wear. An hour later, this is a creamy vanilla and sandalwood with musk and just a breath of petitgrain. Lovely.

Auroraphobia starts off with strong green musk, bergamot, and lavender. The agarwood and blue plum trail. There is something electrical and discomfiting about this in the way the eerie green musk is pierced by the lavender and bergamot like rays. It dries down to a spectral, citrusy green musk with hints of lavender. Really interesting!

Ecclesiophobia is like church incense at Easter. I'm loving the combo of frankincense and myrrh with labdanum and tolu balsam. Jasmine is my friend, so it doesn't bother me here. A keeper!

The Inexorable Finger is for those of us who love patchouli. This is a camphorous patch, earthy and real, followed by tangy oudh (always smells a bit like band-aids + wood to me), buffed to glisten and shine like obsidian. Seriously, if there was such a thing as a black patchouli stone, it would smell like this. On me, I got a lot of patchouli and it went sweeter than it smelled in the bottle. On my husband, an almost cedar-like note came out and it was less sweet. Smells good on the whole family!

Pediophobia is as beautiful as I suspected it would be. I get what smells like a straight split between white tobacco, vanilla, and cognac with a stony, mineral note backing it. It might be my nose playing tricks on me, but it also smells like there's a touch of white musk in here. It definitely has a powdery edge, like the texture on matte, unfinished porcelain. Lovely.

I'm loving Raspberry Sufganiyot. On me, I definitely get more of the raspberry jelly than the pastry, but I'm not complaining. This is such a great capture of that gooey, sticky jammy jelly at the heart of a powdered donut! A foody mood-lifter of a perfume, for days when I need a smile or just want to wear my dessert instead of eating it.

Four Seasons: Winter was the scent of my Christmas getaway this year (needed a bit of a breather from pretty much everything and everyone for a little while!). I think I wore this nearly every day. It's just so pretty. I love the apricot, blood orange, and lavender notes together, they're so bright and cheerful but not too sweet. The amber does give this a coat of something golden and warm, and the red benzoin chypre gives it a mossy, resiny bottom that helps this linger for hours after the fruits have dimmed a bit.

YUM. Gingerbread, Vanilla Sugar, and Pink Pepper is delicious. Each note is present and they marry together so well. Even though there's a vanilla sugar note in this, it's not overly sweet at all. Love this and the other two Yule 2016 Cotillion scents I picked up.

Pink rose, indeed. The First Rose is a perfect powdery pink rose with a tiny hint of stem and just a bit of dew. It smells just like leaning into a freshly picked bouquet. Super pretty and would be a great gateway BPAL gift for someone who loves roses.

The Sea of Ice is softer than I imagined it might be, with those shards of ice sheets stacking up in notes of chilly waters, gentle herbals (rosemary and lavender?), and the barest touch of something like mint. On my skin it reads almost like a more muted, less minty, more aquatic version of Stress Relief Elixir. When dry, it telegraphs as a clean scent with vague herbal undernotes.

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A Dusty Moth is such an unusual perfume...I don't think I've ever smelled anything quite like this before. The tuberose, black tea leaf, and orris collide in a way that smells sweet and slightly bitter and rooty, and then it's like that's powder-coated with a sooty, grey, slightly aquatic dust from the grey musk and ambergris. It's slightly fuzzy, like a moth's wing. At times this smells a bit aquatic (salty, tangy) because of the ambergris and at times it registers as a dusky floral because of the tuberose. As it dries down, I get more of the black tea leaf and then it smells more like a tea blend. Fascinating swirl of notes and very evocative!

Lydia, oh Lydia, say, have you met Lydia? On me this is sweet opium incense...it smells like a loose blend my boyfriend used to buy from a vendor on 14th Street when we first moved to NY. The patchouli is awesome, unabashed. There's a strong vetiver note that comes out on drydown, but even though vetiver isn't usually my friend, it's submerged here in the darkness of the other notes. I also get a phantom black coconut note that I quite enjoy. This smells like a shadow that turned into smoke.

3-year aged patchouli, tree moss, rose thorn, leather, and vanilla oudh. The Thorny Path is mostly leather to my nose, but's a sophisticated leather with the other notes giving it a lot of dimension. The tree moss and rose thorn smell like oakmoss, a touch of rose, and a bit of some wood—and they make the leather smell outdoorsy and refined. The vanilla oudh gives a tang and warp to the blend, and I swear I can't detect the patchouli at all! I think I might be coming down with a cold, so it's entirely possible that my nose is broken right now. I sprayed our front hallway and it smells like a clean leather, upscale and rounded out by the other notes. Very nice!

VENUS VICTRIX Venus the Victorious Peru balsam and aged patchouli with white sandalwood, red musk, red roses, and wood moss. Venus Victrix is much softer than she sounds—on me this is patchouli and peru balsam right out of the gates, with the red musk and red roses coming forward on the drydown. The wood moss and sandalwood keep things grounded. After about 20 minutes, it's still mostly a resiny and woody blend, but the red roses give it a rosy, lush roundness. From the note list, I thought this might be a strong blend, but it's very soft with little throw. Definitely an intimate scent—the victory here is personal.

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Reapers Gonna Reap is such a nice sandalwood skin scent. On my skin, the fuzzy musk and sandalwood are about equal and then there's just a hint of dry vanilla. This feels like it belongs in the same 'family' as Morocco and Grooming Scene in a Brothel (both absolute favorites of mine). What I like about Reapers is the simplicity and closeness of the scent—it's very comforting, somehow. My favorite of the BPAL Liliths this year, and backup worthy.

Bewitched's berry notes aren't overwhelming on me: Deep, luscious green and berry scents that evoke images of woodland witchcraft and the raw power of nature: blackberry, sage, green tea, wild berries and dark musk. There's also Elf: Pale golden musk, honeycomb, amber, parma violet, hawthorne bark, aspen leaf, forest lily, life everlasting, white moss, and a hint of wild berry. And the lovely, discontinued Vinland, if you can find it: The legendary site of the Viking colony in Newfoundland founded circa 985. Crisp northern wind blowing over loganberry, wild roses, prairie crocus, iris versicolor Linné, mountain avens, yellow birch bark, mayflower and maple leaf.

Ooof, I love this. Apple X is the polished patchouli apple of my dreams. Wet, that juicy red apple note looms large and delicious. But as it starts to dry down, the patchouli and teakwood come forward and balance that fruity note out. The white and red musks and vanilla cream are more apparent 10 minutes in as this mellows into the most awesome slow-jam apple. It's the olfactory equivalent of a Sexy Apple Halloween costume. Will probably pick up a backup bottle of this one because I think it will age spectacularly.

Wet, this is all caramel and green apple with a bit of cinnamon. The cookie comes forward as it dries down, with the oaty, burnt sugar note that I get from Sugar Skull. That sugar note can be a little iffy on me, but I love the caramel apple opening.