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Rose, rose, rose, rose -- from the bottle, to wet on my skin, to dry to a couple of hours later. Nothing but rose. And I was really hoping that since rose was listed among the last in the scent ingredients list that Touched Twice might work on rose-hating me, but nope: epic fail due to ROSE-on-steroids clobbering everything else in this scent. (at least on me). I hereby vow never to knowingly purchase another BPAL scent with rose in it ever again.

Pretty, bright and clean scent -- I get mostly sweet olive which I love. But having lived in New Orleans to me this is so much more the scent of spring nights in the city than Halloween, because the sweet olive flowers bloom in very early spring. That said, barring any unexpected aging issues, I'll keep and enjoy my bottle.

Well, based on prior encounters with the notes that are in The Velvets I expected this to go to powder on me -- and that's just what it did. If I was an infant with a penchant for the dark side, this would be the perfect scent. (sighs, and stashes decant away in the wild hope that a couple of months in the BPAL "troubled scents time out box" will make a difference.)

Well, I hate to be harsh but this doesn't work on me at all. On my skin, Narkissos smells as if you somehow had managed to set a huge pile of baby powder on fire, and then tried to put it out with the slimy water from a vase of flowers that were a few days past their prime.

Wow, a lighter version of my beloved Bakeneko! On my skin, wet Harp is cardamom and amber with just a touch of plastic ... the latter made me wonder whether Harp was going to be added to the swap box. But the plastic vanishes quickly and I get full-on Bakeneko (sans the tangerine and tea) for about an hour, with a drydown into a lovely vanilla/cardamom cloud. Amber almost always goes powdery on me, but I love it and am delighted to find another blend where the spices seem to beat back the powder invasion. Bakeneko has been a winter season favorite of mine for a few years, but I find it a bit cloying when the temps and humidity start to rise -- and we don't get a lot of dry, cool months in S. Florida so it hasn't been getting the wear time it deserves since I moved here. I'm going to give harp a few more trial runs, but I suspect I've found my warm weather cardamom scent. I am very happy :-)

Ditto -- and beautifully said. I can only add that I am utterly amazed the amber hasn't gone powdery on me here, as it almost always does. A beautiful scent for midwinter revels.

Fruity bargain shower gel scent when I first tried it on, but a week later I bravely gave it another try. The cheapo shower gel smell made another appearance but faded fast and I was left with a beautiful incense scent spiked with a subtle fruit overlay that lasted for at least 12 hours, and probably more. Perfect for the festive season. If you hate this straight out of the post box, you might want to try letting it settle for a week or so before swapping it away. The difference, at least on my skin, was amazing.

This unexpectedly has become one of my faves out of the dozen+ yule 2009 scents I've tried so far. Added it to a decant order because I wanted to smell it, never thought I'd especially want to wear it. But on me, this is a soft hazelnut honey scent that is warm and comfy and doesn't scream "FOODIE." Had it on yesterday and kept catching surprise whiffs of something that smelled wonderful -- and realized it was me. :-D The yules I thought I'd love are languishing in my BPAL box while Sleipnir is making regular appearances on my skin. And I bet it'll age beautifully.

wonderful carmel scent with a tiny bit of a burnt undertone which only adds to its loveliness and the barest splash of cream. Happy happy comfort scent for the first 10 or 15 minutes. Then it morphs into baby powder, just as 60-75% of BPAL scents do on my skin. While I'm getting rather used to smelling like a freshly washed infant when testing BPAL, the morph from loveliness to powder actually surprised me here, as this doesn't have any of the notes I've learned to avoid (resins, mostly, which thankfully I have no prob wearing in blends from other perfumers). Will let the decant settle in and will retest in a week or so to see if there's any change, but I sort of doubt there will be. Oh, well, thankfully I've learned to test whatever I can via decant circles (all hail the lovely decanters!) as so much of BPAL just doesn't work on my skin. But when it does work -- it *really* works! :-D

On my skin this is Milk Moon 2007, with a supersweet shot of canned fruit punch when first applied and a chaser of incense when its ready to fade away. In between -- its all Milk Moon. No idea why as these two don't seem to share notes. Nice enough, but not at all the rich tropical explosion I was hoping for given the notes. I'll test the imp in a few days when its had a chance to settle down, but if it remains the same my Pet Magah bird will be flyng off to the swap box.