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I don't really feel informed enough to comment one way or the other, but you did remind me of something I read the other day. Australian farmers were starting to plant sandalwood as an investment plant, which also helped with the water table and salinity and the soil generally because it meant there were more trees around. I don't know how widely spread it is yet, but I thought it was pretty cool. The article made the point that the sandalwood would therefore be sustainable, and what a good thing that was.

Smut is pretty heart breaking for me. For the first 4 or so hours, it's quite unpleasant - a faint peanut butter smell, as others have mentioned before, but otherwise a sort of strong, kind've bitter scent. I can't really describe it, but it's not great. Then! After waiting for 4 or 5 hours, it turns into the most glorious, delicious, I want to eat my own arm vanilla. But it's so difficult to have to wait for hours before it arrives, since it's not something I'd want to wear around other people. I've been aging my 08 bottle in hopes of improvement, but no luck. I think I will keep my imp for the rare occasions I want to wait and wear it, but sell my bottle.

I was really excited about Hay Moon, and grabbed a bottle of Mead Moon because I thought it was worth a try. I was completely wrong - I love Mead Moon but Hay Moon (which I thought was a pretty certain bet) does not work on me at all. In the bottle: Sharp, soapy cologne. On my skin, wet: Soap and cologne. On my skin, dry: Soap. Not floral soap, which is how things normally go soapy on me, but still soap. I kept this until April in the hopes that it would age differently, but no.

Once dry, this smells very like Beaver Moon (the first one) on me. A sweet cake smell. It's a little too sweet for me, actually.

Just one, I believe, but I don't own it to be 100% sure.

Apparently no-one's mentioned Mead Moon so far, which I'm surprised by sine I find has a very strong, sticky, almost but not quite overwhelming honey note.

Here's some relevant posts from earlier in this thread (I edited them down slightly so that the parts that are relevant to synthetics in BPAL are easier to spot, but if you click on the arrow in the top of the post you can go and read the whole thing, if you want). (Also, I was wrong before - there are a couple of prototypes with synthetics around, some of which came from a forum raffle and some of which were iirc auctioned on ebay.) To the best of my knowledge, the full list of prototypes in circulation that may contain aldehydes are Toxin, Nihil, and Zero. They were involved in the forum fundraiser raffle last year. Nothing currently on offer from BPAL contains synthetics, or the Lab would be very clear about saying so.

Actually, and this has been discussed previously in this thread, the Lab doesn't use synthetics. The only BPAL around with synthetic components is a prototype that the Lab auctioned on ebay.

I would expect one per person, and then be pleased if it were more, rather than the other way around, but I don't really know, sorry. Perhaps you could ask in the dedicated Will Call thread? Dirty South Will Call

Thank you for the picture.

But it does give me more an idea of what it looks like, so thank you.

Apparently there is a new standard GC label design? People saw it at the West Coast Will Call. what?!?!?? new labels for GCs?? YES! They're very pretty. They're a dark cream/light tan with little scrolly edges. They're not on all of the GC bottles yet, but it's fun to see them show up on the sniffing bottles; see how fast they come in and how often the display bottles are changed.* *how often can I say "bottles" in one sentence? Let's see. Bottles bottles bottles bottles bottles bottles bottles bottles bottles bottles bottles.

Does anyone have a picture of the new GC labels? I know they're still very very new but I'm really curious.

This is quite unpleasant smelling in the vial - vetiver with hints of patchouli. On the skin, it's quite different and comforting. Wet it smells like dirt, with vetiver in the background, but then after a minute or two the cedarwood comes out to the front, and then all three scents meld together to make a warm and comforting scent (provided you don't hate the smell of dirt). The cinnamon adds a little something interesting to the mix, but doesn't stand out. I agree that it would smell nice on a man, but it's not an exclusively masculine blend. I was pleasantly surprised at how nice this was - I kept wondering what the nice smell was when I caught whiffs of it - but I can't see myself wearing it, so I'll pass it along. It has good throw and wear length.

I really love the Graveyard Book labels - they've got the right kind of vibe.