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Oh, lemony goodness! This is mostly lemon on me (though lemon sugar because it's not too tart) with lavender on the edges - it manages to be both bright and soothing at the same time. Perfect for summer.

This reminds me right away of the more traditional milk and honey scents you find at the drugstore, but of course better quality. There's no almond listed, but that is very prominent on me here with milk, honey, and grains in the background. I was hoping for something more akin to My Baby & a Baby Goat, but this is not as rich and buttery as that. It's a lighter honey and milk scent - with too much almond for me.

Yet again, the Crimson Peak scents are just magical. There are so many notes that usually give me pause, but that just work beautifully in these scents. This is soft fading roses and a whiff of lily anchored by ylang ylang and dark musks. The latter being notes I am usually wary of, but they work beautifully here. The amber starts to come in as it dries as it usually does on me. I get why everyone has been raving about this one.

Oh, wow, this is a scent I would not have picked on my own, but I was swapping with someone and all of the Crimson Peaks have been so beautiful that when I saw they had a decant of one I asked for it. My first whiff of this, I thought I may like patchouli. I learned I could get along with white patchouli with Edith, but usually the reds and black variations of scents are too potent for me, but this is just stunning. It is sophisticated yet perverse. I love it.

Blackberry can be temperamental on me, but there's a malicious greenness to this scent that I like, probably the dark musk, and the sage and green tea is really lovely with this.

On first smelling this, I did a little jazz hands sort of thing. I mean the BPAL champagne note is always a good one for me, but I love the smokiness that is there right away. I want to make a cocktail based on this with a vanilla bean simple syrup and something to capture the smokiness. Truly an inspiring scent.

Oh, the peonies in this are fresh, dewy, stems still attached while the cream is a toasty, warm cream. They are doing this little dance at first, trying to outshine one another, but eventually they balance out. This is gorgeous - soft, pink petals atop a dollop of cream.

Oh, hello, beautiful pear, honey, and cream! I really like pear, and this is like honey poached pears with clotted cream. It's a keeper.

Wow, this is a perfectly balanced blend of the lab's crystalline note, their soft snow, and apple - a not quite red one, but not green either. The snow note eventually takes prominence on me and it reminds me a bit of Snow White without being as cloying.

This is the perfect rose oudh, and I had to give it a try because I thought I might like oudh combined with my favorite floral, but nope, oudh is definitely not for me. The rose is more prominent than the oudh on me but it has that fruityness of oudh to it.

At first, this was strangely dark fruity, but as it dried down, the rosehips came out a lot - it reminds me of those bins of rosehips at the health food store, but there is still this fruity note I can't quite describe. I wish it didn't have this. It has a lot of throw, and there's a tiny bit of dusty stone, but this mostly fruity rosehips on me?

I liked this more in the imp than on me - overall, I just don't like smelling like a headshop. Though this would be a very fancy headshop, mind you. I think I will use this in my oil diffuser because I don't mind my home smelling like a fancy headshop.

Well, everyone's glowing reviews of this one prompted me to get a decant, and for good reason. I was worried, despite my love of the BPAL marshmallow note, that this would be too sweet, but the staleness is what prevents it from being too cloying. But, yes it does stay close to the skin with little to no throw and the warmth that is there at first does fade and it becomes less complex on me.

I thought this was a sort of garden scent, not a fungi scent. There's the beautiful BPAL dirt note, but I find it surprisingly soft and floral - the papery white seems more delicate, white florals to me than paper persay. The thin, crisp soil part os very accurate because the dirt note isn't as intense and goes away after awhile. Usually, the BPAL dirt note reminds me of having just been playing in the garden, but this is more a whiff. I can see this working well for people who may be hesitant to try the dirt note.

I am surprised by how sweet this is! I love moonflower for its fruity floral qualities, but it seems the rest of the notes in this one are amping the sweeter qualities of the moonflower rather than the floral, but as it dries, gets more floral and much headier white florals, its like a rather sudden change of direction from this girly, saccharine scent to a grandmere white floral! But then finally mellows out into the sort of moonflower scent that I have come to know and love from BPAL. After that, it finally settles into a sweeter white floral and the moonflower isn't as prominent in this one as it is in some other BPAL scents with moonflower, but it is still a stunning floral, especially as the beeswax moves into the picture as it dries.

When I first sniffed this, it was like pirate-y fun without the rum note that hates me! Then as it evolved, it became surprising - a pirate who bathes, huh. Overall, this was quite a morpher on me and was at times spicy, salty, soapy, and coconutty. I liked it best when it was coconutty, but it ended up being mostly soapy on me.

This was just all aquatic on me. I was hoping for more depth being that it is based on the Morrigan, but alas it is just wet florals.

I have always been a fall kind of girl and therefore a sucker for fall scents, and before BPAL I snuffed up any fall scent I could, but BPAL has turned me into a snob! This is very much what I anticipated - at first, it is foodie, pumpkin, but then the beeswax comes in. At one point, it gets a little spicy, which I am not keen on, but then mellows out to a beeswax pumpkin.

Whoa, this is very much sea salt at first - it reminds me of those little packets I would buy for my underwear drawers as a kid. This disappates after awhile and the milk comes in, but not as strongly as I would like. But, still this is a perfect scent for those who want a lovely, sea spray scent.

At first, I was all over this - it's that lovely pastry kind of scent that BPAL does so well, but with more depth. I couldn't stop huffing my wrist, but as it dried down, I got a deep huff and finally smelled that roast turkey, then it was all I could smell.

Oh, this one was a pleasant surprise! While I have overall liked the Mad Tea Party collection, I have found them to be a bit too wispy for my tastes, but this has fun pink citruses combined with such a unique combination of things that ground the scent. I think this one will be another to revist in summer.

I love the coolness of mint combined with something warm like vanilla and this does not disappoint. It is simple - uplifting, while also managing to be warm. I will probably wear this more in the summer because I tend to like warmer scents, but the cool mint will suit the summer weather.

I want to like this scent so much because the idea is ADORABLE, and the animal BPAL scents are usually perfect for me, but this just doesn't work. It mostly smells like chai tea on me with an undercurrent of that perfect puppy smell, and I wanted this to be ALL puppy smell on me.

I adored this scent when I first huffed and tested it, so I put it on my retest list so I could try it again, and it just sat there! I would see it, then try something else instead, so I figured it was time to move on. It is a beautiful creamy scent with a lovely amber warmth, but I have better creamy BPAL scents that call to me more.

Okay, first of all, the Crimson Peak really is magical. I feel like they need their whole other rating system than I usually use. They are all so beautiful and inspired. However, this one, still gorgeous, but just didn't quite work for me. I was hoping for more vanilla than rose, and this is largely rose on me. The vanilla starts to come out to play as it dries, but it is very subtle, and I wanted more of a mingling of the two.