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My daughter smells: candy, lime, roses, sage, grapefruit; she really like this My husband smells: no. Just no. (which ultimately rules the day in the house as I don’t want to make him sick) I smell: candy in the imp; then as I put it on, I smell roses, grape chewing gum, lime, and grapefruit. It smells like some perfume I’ve smelled before, and it dries sweet. Something about it is off-putting to me. This goes off to swaps.

Everyone liked this. I can’t tell if my daughter really has a sharper nose than we do or if she’s just highly suggestible from reading the catalog description, but she smells tea, ginger, green grass, moss, herbs, and fig. My husband's parents both liked this, and so did my husband who smelled grass, tea, and ginger. I really like this. I smell herbs, grass, tea, and ginger with a sweetness that must be the fig. I grew up with an enormous fig tree shading my bedroom window. I have eaten many a fig in my lifetime (although I don’t especially care for them raw). What does a fig smell like? IDK I don’t know what moss smells like either (and I suspect Emma doesn’t, but she’s all, “Mom, it’s that earthy smell. Moss smells earthy.” And I’m all, “Mmmkay.”) Again, this fades really quickly. I feel like Embalming Fluid, Envy, and The Apothecary are all sisters; they are really similar to each other but different enough to be distinct entities, and they all layer well together.

Emma smells: lime, mint, green, herbs, lavender, floral My Mom smells: lavender, green, herbs, floral Josh smells : mild grass I smell: green herbs, lime, lavender, floral; like a subdued and less floral version of Kate Spade Beauty So far, I have smelled zero mint in any BPAL fragrance with mint on the billing. I don’t know if that’s because I have a subpar sniffer (which I am beginning to think is probably true; I do not have a nuanced nose) or because a lot of the mint lotion and shower gel I love so is relying on the much stronger menthol for its minty-ness. I really like this fragrance and would order a big bottle if not for the same problem with Embalming Fluid; it fades so quickly. It layers well with Embalming Fluid which does help to increase the staying power.

My daughter and I smelled pretty much the same thing with this one: lemon and green tea. I love this scent. I agree with the forums that it smells much more like a commercial perfume than anything else I’ve smelled from BPAL so far. It’s citrusy; it’s light; it’s springy. It smells fabulous. I clearly love white musk. And yet, it fades so quickly (as do many of the scents I love the most from BPAL; anything light and herbally is almost guaranteed to disappear super quickly on me). I have found that moisturizing helps. Layering Bath and Body Works White Citrus shower gel and lotion underneath helps it last, as does layering with Envy. I hope I’ll have better luck putting this one in my new scent locket. If this had satisfying throw and endurance, I’d order a big bottle for sure, but as it is, I’ll have to pass.

When I first tested it, I initially smelled lavender followed by strong lemon. My friend Michelle commented that it smelled exactly like fresh lemongrass, which it does, and now, I don’t smell the lavender anymore whenever I wear it—just a freshly broken stalk of lemongrass. As far as its purpose as a sleep aid goes, Nanshe does not make me sleepy. I do wonder if it has an effect on my dreams, though; I remain skeptical that a scent could influence my dreams, but every time I wear it at night, I remember my dreams/dream more than usual. I like this well enough, but not enough to get another imp or buy a big bottle.

This oil is very dark in the imp, coffee colored. I’m a bit worried. LOL Initially, this smells very earthy. In fact, it smells exactly like dirt—that sharp, acrid bite of freshly overturned wet earth. This is not the black, loamy dirt of a fertile field, though—it’s the Mississippi dirt out in the woods behind the house I grew up in—that yellow or red or beige dirt buried underneath years of accumulated pine straw. I smell something sweet, and then the pine and juniper jump out at me. This smells like my forearms are sticky with pine needle sap. The trees eventually fade quite a bit, but it continues to smell exactly like dirt with something sweet and resiny underneath. I love this. Hard. Apparently I really want to smell like dirt. LOL Thanatopsis lasts and lasts and lasts. On the first test on Saturday night, I could still smell it the following afternoon after showering that morning. I think my daughter is right that something in Antony is also in Thanatopsis, and I think it’s the musk. There was something sweetish in Antony that made me almost, almost like it before it went to powder on me, and I’m guessing it was musk. I tried layering Thanatopsis with Incantation today, and it was glorious. I am going to have to get big bottles of both those fragrances.

At first I smell sage and basil and a strong metal smell which quickly turns into an overpowering smell of gasoline that slowly burns off. I smell leather and something incensy, probably the frankincense. I smell nothing at all sweet in this scent to start with. It reminds me a bit of Juke Joint, and I wonder if they have ambergris in common. It's either the frankincense or the ambergris that I'm smelling as gasoline; my money is on the ambergris. And then it starts to get a little sweeter and more powdery, and I almost like it for about ten minutes, and then BAM!, all I can smell is baby powder. I wondered as I was reading forum reviews what people were talking about when they said a perfume had turned to powder. Now I know.

This perfume smells exactly like cinnamon toast to me. I smell buttery, sugary cinnamon toast that's just shy of being burnt around the edges. At the same time, I smell that waxy vanilla smell (that I think some reviewers are describing as plastic) my mom smelled and disliked so much in Bread and Butterfly. I do not know how these two scents can exist at the same time, but they do. it lasted a fairly long time and had pretty good throw for the amount I applied. I didn't hate this perfume, but I didn't love it either.

Like Kiera on pg 6, this smells exactly like Estee Lauder Youth Dew on me. I am so disappointed. I get no mint although I can tell it contains mint because my wrist was cold and tingly for an hour or so after application. From the imp to my wrist and through one washing and an entire night's sleep, all I smell is Youth Dew. This is a strong scent with a lot of throw, and it didn't disappear until I showered the next morning after testing it.

I think this smells like wood and vetiver; a bit smoky; no lemon at all. I can see where the forums get masculine from this scent although I don't read it as an exclusively masculine scent. I also am surprised at the people who described this perfume as light or springy; body chemistry is so interesting. LOL I think this scent is deep and pleasantly green, like a forest or a handful of herbs stored in a cedar box that's a bit burnt around the edges. This scent stayed essentially the same from application until it faded. It didn't have a lot of throw and it faded within a few hours. I liked it and I'll definitely use the imp but it's not going on my list of scents to purchase in a big bottle.