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I was hoping this would be a little more crystalline on me, but like all of the CPs I have tried, it is a beautiful, beautiful scent. A bit more perfumy than I like. I have other CPs I love more, but I still can't get over how beautiful and evocative each CP is.

I adore fruity florals! Princesofcats is spot on about osmanthus, and I would also throw in moonflower as a fruity floral. A lot of these are great recs, but if you like tropical flowers and greenness with fruity, try Isle of Demons. It's such a peculiar scent experience and it morphed tremendously on me so you will need to give it time. It's a bit of a left field one, but I think it will appeal to you and it's just a fun scent to experience: The scent is of wet, dark greenery, carnivorous flowers, volcanic gas, and the hot black musk of the demons and wild beasts that populated the islands.

I usually just pour it right in the vial, and it seems to work just fine, but I haven't tried it with a lot of different scents, just my bedtime scents, so it might depend on the viscosity of the scent?

I have tested Belgian Chocolate, Orange Blossom, Marshmallow, and Jasmine from this year's Lupers twice so far and find myself constantly sniffing it when I wear it. It is such an intriguing combo with heady florals and foodieness. I realized it is a perfect Easter scent with the foodie elements of chocolate and marshmallow with the strong white florals.

The chocolate scents continue to surprise me on BPAL. This seemed like such an odd combo, I had to get myself a decant. Jasmine and orange blossom can be a bit too heady for me, but in some cases, I adore them, and I thought with the foodie components of this scent that they would work well for me. Turns out I was right! This is heady jasmine tempered with foodie Belgian chocolate. The orange blossom and marshmallow are there, but take a backseat to the jasmine and chocolate. It seems appropriately Easter with the chocolate and white floralness. Might be a bottle purchase.

2016 decant from Lupers circle I have a Snake Oil hair gloss, and I like it well enough to use it, but I am not bonkers about it. I tried Womb Furie because everyone has raved about it, and I didn't want to be left out of the BPAL fandom! Boy, am I glad I did, because wow, this is gorgeous. Bridgetvoid described it as "softer" due to the honey, which I think is apt because I tend to prefer softer scents. It's not so sweet as to be cloying and is working beautifully on this humid spring day in North Texas. And sometimes honey can go a bit stale on me, but I think the Snake Oil component is preventing that. I will probably buy a bottle of this before the Lupers go down!

This is mostly vanilla cream on me with a spicy twist, the saffron is subtle and gives it just more of a general spice scent unless you get up real close, and then I can detect the saffron effect that has that sort of root beerish quality. I like it and considering how everyone raved about it, am glad I tried it, but I have vanilla cream scents I prefer a lot more.

Okay, I have tested a lot of stuff after first initially trying BPAL, and now that I have gotten past the TRY ALL THE THINGS phase, I want to try some more things...just a little more specifically. Here are some of my top five favorites right now: 1. Lullaby from Crimson Peak: Moonflower and iris root with French lavender, tuberose, white sandalwood, night-blooming gardenia, vanilla orchid, and moss. 2. My Baby & a Baby Goat: Fuzzy baby goat musk, goat’s milk accord, wild rice flower, and a little bit of farmer’s market honey 3. Rose Red: The perfected winter rose, dew covered and freshly cut 4. Somewhere or Other: Ephemeral, elusive: a mist-veiled, pale rose. 5. Bon Vivant: An effervescent blend of crystalline champagne notes and sweet strawberry. I enjoy hunting down LEs, but it is always nice to find stuff in the GC.

Yes, moonflower is such an ethereal scent to me. A lot of the fairy scents I have tried had fruity notes I didn't like, and to me moonflower is just the right mix of a fruity floral with that sort of floating, ethereal quality. I am always looking for more moonflower for this reason. I actually wear Lullaby to bed in hopes I will dream of other worlds.

I got this from a Lupers decant circle. I thought the description was just too intriguing not to try! Like Casablanca, the almond is boozy on me, which may be the cognac, but it reads more like amaretto on me. Considering that I usually dislike anything almond, this is a very pretty scent like all the Lupers have been. I, too, want more citrus pop from it, and the rose is very subtle. I will probably put this in my sale/swap pile, but I am glad I got to try this interesting and complex concoction! Also, like OctoberGwen said, this is a good initiation into red musk. So far, I have been iffy about it, but with this one, I think I could find one I really like if it is combined with some of my favorite notes.

I sniff this and think green tea immediately! I like it in the bottle and right on the skin, but it does get perfume-y towards the end, not necessarily in a bad way as Tziporra puts it: "reads as straightforward 'perfume', but utterly unlike anything in a department store right now." Unfortunately, it fades on me to practically nothing in about an hour as many green tea scents do. Sigh.

I think this scent is perfectly reminescent of what orris smells like. Violet is usually too strong and soapy for me, but this is orris, softer and a touch powdery. The vanilla is very subtle, but the coconut is prominent. Like many of the other reviewers have said, I did want the pear to be a little more prominet to create a crisper element to this scent. But, overall, very beautiful and pearly.

Sigh, I was hoping it would be red roses and sex on me like other posters described, but it was just mainly red musk on me...which is not a musk I care for on its own.

Definitely fall, with that touch of decay, but I have fall ones I prefer more.

I was hoping this would be more floral than fruit on me, but it seems any sort of currant can be really unpredictable on me and this is no exception. All I could really smell was currant with some florals - maybe I amp it? I was hoping this would be more ethereal on me.

Oh, mandarin! Wicked mandarin! The magnolia is barely there when wet though the spices are dancing about. Hm, is that cinnamonm, it is starting to amp...do I want to smell like cinnamon? Why do spices hate me? Okay, it has settled down into that sort of languid, southern spicy magnolia scent. I think I will come back to this in the late spring/early summer.

I got a sniffie of this with a swap, and I was able to try just a little bit on me. What I could get from it, I really liked, which was surprising considering the ylang ylang didn't bother me, nor did the star jasmine. The birch, pale musk, and davana really make this an interesting, silvery scent.

Really like how the sandalwood comes through on this more green, earthy scent, and there's this touch of smokiness that is intoxicating, but as it dries, it becomes sweeter and more perfume-y.

When wet the bergamot is fairly prominent, but the herbs linger in the background, especially the rosemary water which gives me a very pleasant quality, but not like an aquatic one. As it dries, the blackberry starts coming out and interacting with the bergamot, and it gets almost citrusy, more orange, than dark fruit. Summertime scent, but not much throw and fades quite quickly.

Liking the sea air part - it's late spring or a cool summer day. Refreshing, but the herbs and florals keep it from being just an ocean scent. This is like an ocean nymph's scent.

Herbs do well to balance the sweetness of the honey, but it is almost too sweet when wet, but once it dries down it becomes more herbal with a touch of honey. Really nice summer scent.

Reminds me of a lot of the other musky green scents from BPAL (not a bad thing as I love those scents), but this one works for me better because those green scents often have a deciduous green of some sort that my skin tends to not like. These greens are less assertive with a sneaky little touch of lily and berry. This strange mix definitely has a sense of elf to it - mysterious and shifting, a complex mix of natural and supernatural.

Oh, an apple laced with wickedness. The apple is very prominent when wet while the wicked poisons linger - it might make you hesitate, but the sweet apple smell is so tempting.

This came as a frimp in my most recent order, and this is yet another strong green scent that has convinced me that herbal and green scents are definitely a favorite category of mine. I never knew! It doesn't quite make my top list (as in must have a bottle of it), but I wouldn't turn one down if offered. The spice from the ginger and sweetness from the fig are subtle on me, but also balance the greenness of the scent. These herby scents are just fantastic. Little bit of spice from the ginger and sweet from the fig, but mainly a wop of herby with some tea mellowness. A little bit soapy.

Sprout beat me to it, but I will second her! My Baby and a Baby Goat was one of my first BPALs. I picked it because of the hay and goat's milk, and the idea of a barn. Sprout is spot on about the sort of primal quality of it that is so soothing, and I think this is only amped by the hay and milk. It has a barn quality to it which is incredibly comforting for me, having grown up around barns, horses, goats, etc. The funny thing is I don't wear this scent a lot out, it's more for just curling up under a blanket and lounging around to me because it is so soothing and comforting.