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This has so many death notes for me, yet altogether it really works! It's well blended and surprisingly light - more glittery than dense metal. Sublime and cultured it is!

Ohhhh, I like this. I can't tell you anything specific about the individual notes. It's so well blended and sexy, so very sexy. This is going on my list with Whip and Perversion as my go-to scents for when I want to feel sexy.

At first whiff, this is a subtle baked foodie scent. The berries come out a bit, but are very subtle, which surprisingly for a foodie scent this is generally a very subtle smell. I would have to slather it to smell it.

This is just kind of a powdery floral on me...there's really not much more to say than that.

Wood! Sandalwood to be specific...and something else to makes it very potent and gives the scent something I really don't like. Probably a resin of some sort which combines two things together that never work for me. This is golden in the sense of a church.

Apple was my first thought right when I applied this, but now looking at the description, I suspect the apple comes from the combination of cherry blossom with the other fruits as it smells like a floraly apple, a little powdery even.

I'm one of those people who will walk by a rosemary bush then stop and rub some of the fragrant leaves in my hands, so I have been trying to get my hands on this for a while. I suspected the rosemary would dominant, which it does, but the rose and orange blossom soften it a bit and also make it less fresh and more...well, maybe it's the description, but sinister.

At first this smelled very fruity on me with anise (ugh!) on the corners, but it calmed down pretty quickly - still sweet and fruity, but more nuanced and the anise quality (which could be the frankincense and myrrh?) become more background. The skin musk and orange blossom give it more complexity, and you can pick up the notes individually sometimes - it walks you through a lot.

Okay, new lesson learned - I just don't like cedar on me, and the sandalwood only emphasizes the woodsiness, which I tend to like in small doses. Once the lemongrass comes out to play, the woodsiness dies down a bit, but it seems to emphasize the indolic qualities of the jasmine on me. I have found I really like jasmine, but I have to be very careful with it. This one is definitely jasmine with woods and lemon.

Definitely a different kind of lily - kind of tangy, which often happens with purplish scents on me - they go berry tangy, even a little sour. I didn't really notice a goldness to it.

Okay, wow, I never would have guessed these were the notes in this. I got this in a GC swap with someone, and when I tried it without reading the description it smelled mainly licorice-minty on me - basically, it smelled medicinal on me.

The chocolate, like most of the BPAL chocolate, is pretty strong on my at first, but the waxy, dusty books come in pretty quick after that. Once it dries down, that's exactly what it smells like - eating a box of chocolates whilst reading an old book.

Yep, that's definitely opium. I got this accidentally, so it's already out of my realm of usual scents...where it shall stay.

This is delightful and refreshing! I am keeping this for those oppressively hot Texas summers when this combination of scents will give me some temporary relief.

I got this as an imp with purchase, so not anything I would have ordered on my own and for good reason. I hate sassafrass, this one confirms it, which isn't to say BPAL doesn't constantly surprise me with notes I think I hate, but this is just not one of them. The balsam and ceder seem to enhance the licoriceness of the sassafrass, particularly when wet. It mellows out a bit as it dries and becomes more cedar, but not for me.

This is so fun! Very sweet and foody though the pink pepper does help with the sweetness, but yeah, I mean I smell like a gingerbread cookie. Too sweet for me to wear, but put this in an oil warmer and bam, your house smells like Christmas!

Patch is always iffy on me, but pale or white patch is okay and often patch completely surprises me, but with the other notes in this - this one was a real gamble for me! I mainly picked it because I love the coconut-white snow BPAL note, and I wanted to smell it with these other notes, so I got this as a decant. I won't wear it, but it smells lovely - delicate, yet woodsy and resiny.

This is sooo pretty, delicate, even fragile. It's an innocent sort of joy as opposed to a more boisterous celebration. Need to slather it because it's so light and pale to get some throw. It's well-balanced on me, but I would say the violet is more prominent than the others.

I snatched up a decant of this because of the hay mostly. There's not enough BPAL hay scents imo! Unfortunately, the ambergris just overwhelms, which isn't surprising, the other Yule similar to this one The Forest in Winter at Sunset was also all amber on me.

The BPAL wine note doesn't often work on me - it ends up smelling more ripe red and purple fruits and nothing else, but I got this one because the phobia appealed to me so much. Unfortunately, the wine note does the same thing here and while I get a bit of bread and whiskey, the linen and flowers are not showing up at all for me. It's mostly red fruits - I guess I really amp these fruits, I often can't wear a lot of scents with them because they overwhelm me.

This is just pretty, whites, pinks, and purples, but sophisticated, not girly, feminine. This was actually what I thought of when I tried this: It's like wearing a pretty soft pink coat in winter - like the one Lorelei wears in Gilmore Girls, and I covet so hard.

This is just mostly powdery amber on me. At first, I could detect a little of the woodsy scent, but amber just kind of tramples all over that. A lovely and deep amber scent, but I was expecting more forest and less amber.

Holy-moly, that's a lotta peppermint! When I first apply it, it's a sweeter mint, but as it dries the peppermint quickly moves front and center and overwhelms the sugar-crusted vanilla aspect. That being said - it's such a fun scent! This isn't really one I will wear as it would overwhelm me, but I had to try one of the Lick Its! I need this in a bubble bath actually.

This was mostly spicy cake on me with a dash of ash.

Ack, I guess this is a skin chemistry issue, because this is sickeningly sweet on me. I was hoping the tobacco and whatever white porcelain may be would balance this out, but this makes my head hurt with it's sweetness.