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Directly on, this reminds me of Leanan Sidhe, one of my first ever bottles from BPAL and a favorite scent to this day - but it has a sultry vibe to it and something reminding me of the color blue. Leanan Sidhe is "Irish herbs and flowers" and mist and dew, but a lot of reviewers pinpoint it as a lily scent, and I've always gotten a bit of a grass note among the general atmospheric vibe of it - Queen Mab's Lace has so many well-blended notes that it's difficult to pick any point, but it's a heady floral over a veil of vanilla lace (that grows more prominent with time), a general sense of twilight blue-tones and coolness. When I analyse the notes list I can pick out some of the specifics - I think poppy gives it some of its haze, honeysuckle its headiness, and especially as the scent wears I think I get lilac in particular; the grass I do notice, but I think the evergreen gives it its depth and forest-specific feel, and idk what indigo musk is but maybe that's why this does remind me of that blue color at that time of the evening - but it's mostly a scent that smells layered than a scent in which I can pick anything out. Over time, the vanilla lace note grows stronger and gains a golden tone from what I assume is the bee balm - it reminds me of a much gentler beeswax (a note that still amps on me, though not as much as honey) - while the scent gains more shadow-tones, and over much more time, the vanilla lace, with just a breath of florals, is the only note left. I love this scent. I think it perfectly evokes the scent description. It reminds me a whole lot of a Bella Kotak photograph, with that sense of being outside amongst the woods and grass with colored mist or smoke hanging in the way, wearing a huge gauzy dress and a halo of blossoms. This is already on my shortlist for favorite perfumes of 2019, and reminding me I should be quicker to take chances on lace scents!

I got this in the same order as Overlooking the Garden and I was a little concerned they would turn out to be the same scent. They're close, but not the same. Iris tends to amp on me but not as badly as other powdery florals (violet, namely; orris, which is iris root but smells like violet to me), therefore this scent has a reasonably well-behaved iris, but though the other florals give this a springy vibe, I can't pick them out individually. So iris, a misty springtime floral impression, and golden amber predominate. Eventually, after hours of weartime, the iris softens enough that I think I get a bit of a tulip/daffodil impression same as I get out of Overlooking the Garden, over a veil of golden amber. But the whole scent is softer overall. This is very nice, though I do think I prefer Overlooking the Garden. I'd like this more if there was a white floral note alongside the iris to make it a little filmier. But it's not this perfume's fault iris amps on me.

Someone mentioned daffodils and apple blossoms, two must-have florals for me, and this went from "pretty, but probably not something I'd want to wear" to "I want to wear that right now". Safe to say, this is a beautiful and atmospheric blend that does not disappoint! It does really effectively remind me of rain, but that note isn't soapy or anything like that on me. The grass note worried me - I'm not sure if I had any reason to believe it would amp, but did - but it's very pretty and blended with some spring-y florals, plus the amber is so golden and grounding. I absolutely get daffodil out of this. It's possible there's apple blossom, maybe tulips in here, but daffodil is the only note I for sure recognize. The amber hangs on forever, as it always does, with a couple of floral notes clinging to it faintly. This would make a great room scent, with that rain-and-grass combination in the background, but the floral and amber dominant aspect of it make it a stunning spring perfume, too.

I bought this for a friend and oh my god it's SO beautiful i am tempted to keep it! (I won't post this until i send it to her though because I know she checks these reviews regularly, so if you're reading it, I did the right thing, guys.) Immediately on it's an intensely pretty, sparkly white musk - like this is the best of white musk, if you like that note as she and I do - with a glorious citrus type overlay. because it's composed of such tart notes, it's almost dry, and reminds me a little of champagne (except the lab's champagne note is soapy on me and this isn't). Unlike a lot of reviewers, I found this lasted on my skin for many hours. It was the white musk that had the most longevity for me, but the grapefruit lasted a long time too. I hope she loves it!

I think I had the same experience as doomsday_disco. For the first hour or so this was a clove-dominant creamy rice milk with undertones from the vanilla, sandalwood and frankincense, but I wouldnt say I could detect those notes until the clove had burned down from being the main note. It remained very soft and hard to detect throughout weartime. It was interesting and I could imagine a lot of people enjoying it - it seems like a comforting autumnal scent to me, like a soft sweater - but just a bit out of my wheelhouse. I'm glad to have gotten to try it though.

This is the super-pine-y ice note that has something in it I could swear is a spice. I think the same one was in Snow Maiden. I get white tea and bergamot, and maybe a floral though I don't know freesia well enough to detect it, but unfortunately this is all around floor cleaner-esque on me. I was tempted to blind bottle this one and I am relieved I didn't, but the idea of it is lovely. If that one snow/ice note didn't amp on me fiercely I can imagine this being an unusual and delicate snowy scent, because I can tell the white tea+floral aspect is there, but in this context it just smells aggressively clean.

Deeply sugary rose. Seconded that it smells like Cinq. There's something almost powdery/cloying about the sugary part of this that I recall from that. This reminds me a little of Turkish Delight, but I prefer my roses to smell like flowers, and this is decidedly candy.

In the vial, this smells bright and elegant - mandarin over that absolutely gorgeous white rose note. When first applied, both of those things shine, plus a bit of carnation and something "perfume-y" for lack of a better descriptor, but still beautiful. However, the scent quickly became all of that "perfume-y" note, which I recognized as cedarwood. It's a very lovely note, but it dominates the blend, with nothing but a supremely clean white musk detectable. I want to retest this before I make up my mind - maybe today was just not the best day! - but I am a little sad, because it smells so good before my skin amps the cedarwood. I don't know that I've worn a scent with that note before or not, so I have no idea if that note always does that on me.

Jasmine from BPAL pretty much never shows up on my skin (or if it does, it's a weird dusty kind of smell), but I love white florals in general and I was hoping I could get something lovely from the magnolia (a beautiful blend BPAL doesn't use as often as I'd like). I also am a big fan of pine + florals. This scent has a weird, cucumber salad smell in the bottle in which I can't detect pine or any flowers at all, but on the skin it's all pine and a very soft floral. I do think I recognize the magnolia from The Bride, but here it's cool and not very strong. I wonder if there's actually a snow note in here; I could swear it smells a little bit snowy and minty. But then again, there is a lot of pine and they have a few snow notes with pine in them. I don't know how magnolia ages, but this is largely pine with some hints of magnolia on me. ETA: So giving this even just a couple more days to settle, the magnolia is much stronger! It's never strong - it's a very unobtrusive scent - but I like it very much. A very happy addition to my small yet beloved Piney Flowers family.

The rose and moss note of this reminds me so hard of A Young Woman Appealing to a Witch (Halloween 2015) that, as much as I love those notes, I kept cringing and waiting for the weird bog scent that aged into that one to appear on me. Fortunately it does not! And the moss and roses get more beautiful as I wear it, plus the lovely ink note I recognize from The Manuscript (Crimson Peak) emerges. Love love love love love!!!! Of all the Lupers this year, this one was the one that made me immediately have to buy and it did not disappoint. It's everything I hoped it would be, and i know all of these notes age beautifully. Totally worth the embarrassing name.

I agree that this snowdrop is somewhere similar to iris, but it doesn't amp powder on me the way other iris scents do! That said, I do love a soft powdery iris, and i love this snowdrop. This scent is somewhere between Snow White and Pink Snowballs, but cold. This doesn't have the warmth of either of those, and in spite of the whipped cream, which adds something delicate and pretty for sure, this isn't sweet or vanilla-y - though I do think it's the same snow note as those two (no coconut/almond vibes others report from Snow White, though). I was concerned this would have whatever "frozen"/"misty" note goes straight to soap on me (and is also in the lab's champagne scents), since it's a note that never ages into not being soapy on me, but it doesn't. Whatever is making this feel glassy and cold isn't that. It's not that powdery on me, nor is it especially clean - but glassy feels accurate! This makes me think of the most perfect, whitest of winter wonderlands. I really like it - this is the kind of scent I want from Yules basically every year. I was anxious from some of the reviews that I'd bought this (namely, the Lab's jasmine hates me, and i was scared of the frozen note emerging) but I ended up being very glad I did!

This morphed a lot on me. Initial application with mostly citrus and reminded me of soap, and I dreaded it having the Soapy Frozen Note that some BPALs have on me - a lot of the time scents with the word 'frozen' (or misty!) in them turn out to have the same note in champagne scents that turns into soap on me. But that dissipated, and the apple came out - so i was getting Chilly Fruit. Which I did not love! Over time the snowdrop note I recognize in Lilith's First Icicle (but probably wouldn't place otherwise) started to emerge, alone with the ozonic snow note. At this point I mostly get chilly ozone snow and a blend of apple and snowdrop that reminds me of apple blossom. It's actually really pretty! Still fairly fruity, but not in a bad way.

The vanilla in this is SO GOOD. This reminds me of a lace nightgown. While I get the smokiness impression at first, it quickly turns into a regular chypre underneath a huge vanilla veil. Moss!!!!!! Hurray!!!!! I think this could lean sexy or just beautiful without the sex connotations, depending on how you wore it, but if you love vanilla then just go buy it. Just buy it. This reminds me a little bit of Lyonesse/Edith Cushing on a good day (her patchouli doesn't love me). Edith Cushing and Fairytales and Lies smushed together. A girl in a white dress in a gilded ballroom at the turn of the century. I'm sincerely in love with this.

I want to drink this so bad. Spiced up blackcurrant drink that definitely feels like being indoors on a cold winter's night. For me this is like a winter answer to Fairy Wine from the Stardust collection. It's got a slightly effervescent feel i get from a lot of BPAL wines, but it doesn't go too sweet and fruity because of the wine and spices and the tartness of the currant.

I agree with the "soft and ghostly" assessment. This is a very gentle but insistent rose - these are those roses that remind me of a jam or wine note, which i find is accurate to how wilted roses smell - with delicate resins. I don't know if I get black lace out of this, but a smoky grey scent for sure. This one is really beautiful and I think any rose lover would be happy to have it, or anyone else who loves either Lupercalia roses or the Crimson Peak line, which it reminds me of a bit (The Waltz, Between Your Heart and Mine and Lucille are definitely similar rose-atmospheres to this imo).

Alas, the white amber in this goes kind of powdery and weird on me. It does that on me in a lot of other scents, but not all of them - I can wear Fresh and Blooming as a Rose easily - so I had hopes. Lavender and mint snow open this and are lovely until the white amber decides to kick in.

I agree with zankoku_zen; this doesn't really smell like Alice to me. To me it's like a sweet, candy pomegranate note + the honey and milk of Alice. I don't really get any florals. In my experience, though, Alice, new, smells nothing like aged Alice (the flowers definitely get stronger!), and I think pomegranate starts with a tart and plasticky vibe that it doesn't end up with, so I was expecting to put this away for a few years anyway.

The white musk was the strongest note on me. I didn't really get any of the specific florals from this, maybe some powdery iris, but I got a spicy note like you wouldn't believe! I gave it to a friend of mine who had also wanted it - we tried it at the same time and she didn't get a spicy note from this at all. It was baffling. I wondered if there was a misremembered carnation or clove in this (the spice of carnation can sometimes go clove-y on me) but it beats me which of the notes went that way on me. Had hoped for a lighter floral made ethereal by gentle white musk, powdery notes and lavender, but that's not at all what I got here, and my favorite note, the honeysuckle, never made an appearance on me.

It took forever for silvery musk to show in this blend; I've had it like a year now and in the past i just got mugwort and fir, as loud and medicinal as could be. Now I finally get those things as a beautiful silver counterpoint to the vaguely vanillic silver musk. I've never really gotten apple blossom out of this as an individual note, but it and the lemon are probably what give this its fresh, crisp edge and boost the impression of "silver." ETA: My skin chemistry's abruptly done an about-face and a bunch of things I didn't love but kept in hopes they would someday work for me are now working wonderfully for me (I'm trying to focus on that instead of all of the scents I can't seem to wear any longer). This is one of them. This time i get Silvery Musk right off the bat and don't have to sniff around for it and the fir doesn't really amp at all, though the mugwort stays strong, if more willing to share the playing field. I definitely get a distinct soft floral. I don't pinpoint it as apple blossom but it's soft, spring-y and not a white floral or a rose so it's recognizeable as in that category of scent. Overall this really has become beautiful and thank goodness.

This first goes on with an almost buttery, glorious vanilla and a lot of sour-lemony (but in a good way!) frankincense and sour-rosy rose. I think sour makes it sound like it's gone off, but I can't think of a better word - tart isn't quite right. It quickly dries and becomes a soft, gilded rose-frankincense blend with heavenly non-gourmand vanilla to uplift it. I almost didn't get this because I didn't know what to expect from "golden" roses and thought for sure vanilla bean would be a strong note. It's more like a general warm, sweet vibe it gives everything. This makes me think of a cream-colored white rose - it's similar to the Lab's white rose note, and this blend reminds me a little of Parlement of Foules, but it's more vibrant and less polite - and the vanilla bean plus the dry and gorgeous resins together remind me of old books. The rose note doesn't stand out above the other two; it's very well-blended. But I detect it distinctly. I got this on a whim, but so far it's my favorite Luper. I highly recommend this one to anyone who likes a very elegant, sophisticated rose scent, or anyone who adores frankincense.

I got a delightful pink tea rose from this and a lot of sandalwood - I struggle with sandalwood amping on me so i generally avoid all sandalwood blends as a rule, but I had been craving a roses-and-sandalwood perfume so I bought this at once, but here the sandalwood stays a pretty side note and blends gorgeously with the pink, bright tea rose. I do get a bit of vanilla flower and hay - the hay came out for me a couple of hours in - but i think they mostly bolster the other notes. Unfortunately this faded to something very light, though it was still there for hours. I hope it's because of the weather or because it's not fully settled yet. I really love this one and i'm glad i got it.

I expected this to be a soft white rose, haunted by the other notes. It's a soft and well-blended perfume, but it's more like the rose and carnation bring a distinctly floral edging to the dominant oudh and oakmoss notes, with a bit of a clove-y undertone from the carnation. I like both of these base notes and don't view them as masculine, but I could see them going that way on a lot of people (how you gender perfume is kind of a personal distinction, anyway). I like the earthy deep green of oakmoss and the dark sophisticated headiness of oudh, but together they are quite a lot, and definitely take over from the rose. That said, the floral note is very strong - and very perfume-y. I agree with the statement that this feels vintage. It has a very 20th century vibe to it. Staying power going pretty strong so far. I've been wearing it for just over 5 hours without any change to its strength or its scent. It's nice, but I don't think I would have gotten it if i had tried it first.

This scent is alarmingly beautiful. I knew I liked all three of these notes, but worried the scent wouldn't really hold its own. But it is much greater than the sum of its parts. A ghostly, gossamer lavender - a perfect mixture of herbal and floral - with a strange, translucent body to it from the other notes. This is a must for lavender lovers.

Maybe this is a good scent, but all I get out of it is "This is The Haunted Beach and a slightly soapy note that doesn't register as a floral". I adore The Haunted Beach, so maybe if I had never tried that one, I'd adore this too. However, it just smells like The Haunted Beach but having gone off slightly. I'm going to keep it, because I've found rose generally ages to become much stronger, but so far I don't get any rose out of it, and the slightly soapy note is probably the mist, since I've had that experience from a mist note before (and I get it from champagnes as well). Get this if you missed The Haunted Beach, but skip it if you have that.

A really pretty, honeysuckle-dominant scent, with sweet slightly-herbal slightly-floral edges to it. This reminds me a lot of Do the Dancing Maidens Sleep Or Are They Dead (enough that I wonder if i should have them both, and I have SN Wild Honeysuckle too...), but that one had a touch of the Snow White-esque snow note and a pale, pale honey note; this one is just other flowers. It feels really bright and fresh for early spring and is a beautiful late-winter scent, hopeful and gentle.