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In the decant: Smells like Jelly Belly buttered popcorn jellybeans. Very buttery and sugary. Wet: Same buttered popcorn candy smell. It is very unpleasant wet. Dry: Fruit Loops in milk. I had to pause and resniff again. Yes still Fruit Loops in milk. What is this sorcery? It is very nostalgic. 30 minutes later: Still Fruit Loops. But now it is dry cereal Fruit Loops. No cream. 1.5 hours later: The scent is fading. Now it smells like buttery cookies soaked in tea. However the tea note is very subtle and it does not smell like Earl Grey to me. Maybe more of a lightly steeped Earl Grey. It lasts under two hours on my skin and the throw is light. I was hoping for a stronger Earl Grey note but it was hardly there for me in the end. Earl Grey is my favorite tea. I will stick with the decant. Even though this scent was not what I had hoped for, it is still a unique and fun scent in my collection.

This perfume has quickly made it into my top 10 favorite perfumes. It is so beautiful and well blended. I absolutely adore it. I bought backups immediately! When I sniff from the bottle, I get major flashbacks of being in the dressing room of my high school's theatre. We would leave the back door open and dry dead leaves would blow from the wind and get smashed up underneath costume racks backstage of a drama production. We had a lot of old, soft, worn leather jackets on the costume racks that had a lingering smell of warm men's cologne. We would all have homemade, baked goods backstage for the first night of the play for a cast party. It was usually vanilla cupcakes or some spiced cake. Dead Leaves, Raw Leather, Bourbon Vanilla, and Clove remind me of this wonderful memory exactly. I can pick out each note individually in the bottle but it all swirls together in perfect harmony. The dead leaves smell more like a cold fall night rather than the typical green/rainy dead leaf note I get from other dead leaf blends. The leather is very soft and worn. No chemical smell at all which is lovely. The cloves and vanilla give the perfume a gentle sweetness. The vanilla never goes plastic on me. The scent stays the same scent on the skin as it does in the bottle. As hours go by, I smell the vanilla and clove more on the skin. If you are afraid of leather notes, I suggest this perfume. It is very mellow for a leather perfume. It is unisex and very nice for the fall. Nothing is overpowering in this scent. It is very wearable out of all the dead leaves scents I have tried.

I have Tombeur from 2015 and Tombeur from 2010. Is your label on Tombeur the same label art as the current label art on the website (male vampire bting a woman)? Or does your label look like it has older art (3 people on the label)? In the bottle: newer Tombeur to me smells dominantly of juicy (slightly fruity) blood musk with almond and vanilla-infused sandalwood whereas older Tombeur (from 2010) smells dominantly of lavender, amber, and snake oil. Both of them smell completely different to me. I own Dorian and Dorian definitely does not smell anything like Tombeur. I would contact the lab if you purchased your bottles from the lab. Also if you just received your package in the mail, I suggest letting the bottles sit for a few days to settle. Shipping and temperature changes can change how perfumes smell temporarily. I hope this helps and I hope you can figure out what is wrong.

Stinky is a nice, clean scent. I just finished off my decant of it and I felt it was time for a review. This is the only baby powder scent that has ever worked for me. Normally, I can't stand the smell of baby powder. When I go shopping, I avoid the baby section to avoid the smell of baby powder. I was pleasantly surprised that this perfume works on me and how much I enjoy it! In the bottle/wet on skin: Honey, and powder. Drydown: Honey and milk with a powdery overlay. This reminds me a lot of Burt's Bees milk and honey lotion. I used to use that stuff everyday in 6th grade. Dry: Sweet powdery honey. The milk disappears on me. The scent has a medium/light throw. This is a nice bedtime scent. It is very soft and relaxing. A decant was enough for me. I don't feel like I need a bottle of it. I would recommend this scent as a bedtime scent for those who enjoy honey.

Odd Portents is very well blended and complex dark scent. In the bottle: I mostly smell dark musk, black currant, bourbon geranium, and an undertone of amber incense. Wet: Very strong rose (reminds me of the rose in Black Rose). Slightly herbal. A faint undertone of the lavender buds. Dry: Myrrh and olibanum. The rose faded quite quickly. It is a soft herbal rose now. No powdery or soapy smell. It is more like a rosebud smell. 10 minutes later: The bourbon geranium and black musk are back. The olibanum overpowers the myrrh and amber. The faded rose note is less herbal now and more of a sweet whisper of a rose. This surprisingly sweetened up! The lavender is still not very noticeable. Medium throw. I was hoping to smell more amber incense and lavender buds in the blend. This perfume is a dark unisex perfume. The bourbon geranium keeps it from being too dark. It has just the right amount of sweetness to keep it from being too dark, too fruity, or too herbal. It is a nice Fall scent. If you are a fan of Black Rose, I would suggest this perfume.

I don't normally go for candy scents but this one sounded like so much fun! In bottle: Very strong. I can smell this perfume even before I take off the lid. It smells like assorted flavors of pixie sticks and a fizzy lemon lime soda. Wet on skin: All kinds of fruity smells. Mostly orange, lemon, lime, strawberry, and a bit of sugar. Dry: A SUGAR RUSH! I mostly get a lemon-lime fizzy sugar scent. It smells like crushed/melty sour skittles to me. So yummy and uplifting! Very strong throw! An hour later: It transforms to a perfumey fruit musk that is close to the skin. The perfumey fruit musk smells like an old aerosol room freshener... It is a bit unpleasant. I definitely prefer the sour skittles smell over this perfumey stage. I may have to try this in a scent locket to see if the sour skittles smell stays. I only used two small drops from the cap. I will have to retest it to see if putting more on my skin will make the skittles scent last longer. Hopefully the aerosol stage doesn't happen on my skin when I retest this out again in a few days. Overall I really enjoy this scent. It is very fun and unique. I recommend anyone who enjoys sugary scents to try this.

I am a patchouli fan and I tend to buy bpal that has patchouli in it. I usually tend to go for the more "sweetened" patchouli scents like Silkybat, Incipient Madness, and Lady in Black atmo spray. But Sumatran Red Patchouli is a very different patchouli smell to me since it is a single note. It is earthy but not "dirty". The earth is more of a woodsy smell. It is more of a dry, warm, woodsy, relaxing patchouli. Very meditative and comforting. The initial hour on my skin is very woodsy and has very strong throw. After about three hours of wear, it is a more close to the skin scent. On my skin after 3 hours it has morphed to be a sweetened patchouli scent. The slight sweetness reminds me of Lady in Black. The longer I wear it, the softer and sweeter it gets. Both stages (woody and sweet) of Sumatran Red Patchouli are gorgeous.

Whoa this scent is perfect for Fall nights. If you are not a fan of fire smoke, this is not a scent for you. However, I love the smell of smoke from a fireplace so I was very curious about this scent. It is a comforting smell to me. I get major nostalgia being a child and building a fire when the house would be cold at night. In bottle: Very strong, worn leather. It definitely smells like an old leather book cover. It does not have a fresh chemical leather smell. Wet on skin: The smoke overtakes the leather. It smells like a fire that has paper being thrown into it. I smell the ink from the pages. Dry: Gorgeous balance. It is like sitting in an old velvet chair with an old leather bound book by a grand fireplace. The leather is soft. The paper is worn and has a slight sweet vanilla smell. The fire smoke is very light and airy now; like wisps of smoke from a dwindling fire. This scent I would wear at home in the evenings while I read a book, write, or watch a movie (like Crimson Peak). It is definitely an atmospheric perfume, and it makes my imagination run wild. Oh this would be a fabulous atmosphere spray. I definitely recommend this perfume to anyone who loves books and fire smoke!

It has now been well over a month since I originally bought Crucifixion. At first, it smelled like red wine or berries to me. Now that it has sat and aged on my shelf I finally get the frankincense and rose smell when I sniff the bottle. I was hoping for more clove when I bought this perfume. The orris is not noticeable to me. I have many other frankincense blends and I have not tried frankincense and rose together in a blend before. The rose is definitely a dark dried rose. Maybe even attar of rose because I think of the rose note in GC Lilith when I smell Crucifixion. The rose is more powerful than the frankincense in the bottle. It has been awhile since I've tried GC Lilith but Crucifixion is reminding me of it. I will have to compare them side by side.