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Green Tree Viper, Psionicist, and Green Lovebird are my current faves! I'm especially enjoying the vanilla with the mint in Green Lovebird.

This reminds me of mint chocolate chip ice cream; it's such a lovely ratio of vanilla and mint. I don't really pick out the pistachio, but I suspect it may be giving this scent its dense, creamy texture and keeping the mint from being sharp.

Thanks for the recommendation; cardamom and wool sound like an amazing combination!

I've been on a bit of a fuzzy/cozy/wool scent kick recently and thought I'd see if people have any recommendations in that vein. I love Rendezvous Behind the Rice Straws and also like Cozy Pumpkin Sweater and Cafe Au Lait and a Wool Blanket. I'm really interested in Two Sheep and Two Goats, as well. Are there any I'm overlooking?

This is probably the sweetest, most sugary rose scent I've tried so far. The honey reminds me of the honey musk note in Lady Una at first, with the rose being faint. As it dries, the rose---which is soft instead of bold---peeks out and the sugar crystallizes over the honey. It's like rose and honey cotton candy. It's probably too sweet overall for my tastes, but I'm glad I got to sample my sister's bottle.

I've heard this compared to Snow White, a favorite of mine, so knew I had to try it. At first, it's a blast of cherry ish almond, then it fades into a light milk and honey skin scent. There's a whiff of coldness that does remind me of Snow White, which is really interesting since I have no idea what note gives it that quality. Almost like mint?? It doesn't have much throw, but I like how ethereal it is. Anyway, it's super pretty and if I use my imp quickly, a bottle may be in order at some point.

Who knew that red musk and pine would go so well together? I really like this combo! I get the metallic smell as it dries, but don't detect the leather much at this point. I'm hoping this will get stronger with age. Although I don't think I'd wear it enough to get a bottle, I will enjoy the decant when I need something dark and foresty.

I love yarrow and knew I had to sample this one just based on that note alone. I agree that this smells like a forest floor! Mossy, with lush ferns and a soft carpet of dark evergreen needles. It's a cool, deep, sweetly green scent. My skin kind of eats it up, unfortunately, but since I just got it out of the mail, I'll have to see if the staying power improves with rest/age. I adore this.

There's definitely something citrusy in this, blended with the amber and sweet, carrot-seed snow note (for those of you who like/dislike this snow note). It's much sweeter and less cold than I expected. I like it, but wish I smelled the amber more, to ground the scent with something more resinous.

To me, the honey note in this is nearly identical to the honey musk in Lady Una (which I love). So, honey musk + dandelions and wildflowers. Gorgeous. This scent is less sweet and more green than Lady Una, but they are definitely sister scents. The dandelions fade as it dries, but I still get whiffs of them every now and then. The wildflowers are sweet and lightly floral. Mostly, though, my skin seems to like bringing out the honey musk type note.

For some reason, this one smells like apples to me. Apple blossom, maybe?? I'm not getting lily, just a sort of floral fruitiness.

This is sweeter than I expected (I'm starting to think I amp tobacco a bit), but very elegant. After the initial blast of vanillic, sweet tobacco, the rice milk is the main feature. And like the rice milk in Rendezvous With Her Lover Behind the Rice Straws, the rice milk note here is creamy, lightly sweet, and vanilla-musky. These two scents have my favorite rice milk note I've tried so far, hands down. The tobacco leaf gives the scent an intriguing, non-foodie edge that I agree is similar to the tobacco flower note in Zorya P. I don't notice the frankincense so much, but I'd assume it's what keeps this scent from being too sweet. Maybe it also helps with the floating scent cloud I'm getting in terms of throw. Overall, this is lovely and I'm glad the glowing reviews got me to try it. Tobacco, rice milk, and even vanilla fans should definitely give this one a whirl.

Huh, I am usually a sweet-lavender-is-best kind of person, so I didn't expect to like this much after seeing the reviews. I do like it, though! It's clean without smelling like soap and the lavender is softer than I expected. It's slightly salty, and the rain note reminds me a little of the almost-grapefruit type note in Lightning. But it does also read as rain-like, somehow.

I love the fig/honey/olive leaf combo, it's very sweet and delicate. Reminds me a bit of Eden. Before the scent fully dries, I get a hint of almost-sour milk, but that goes away.

The spicy chili is prominent during the wet phase but burns off fairly quickly when it dries. The black vanilla note is gorgeous and blends well with the chewy caramel. This is sweeter than my normal fare but I think foodie lovers will appreciate this.

Wet, this is an electric zing of sour grapefruit and it's kind of awesome even though it gives my nose some shock. My skin eats it pretty fast though; in a half hour, it was gone.

I love the way this one opens, with powdery, sweet cocoa dust and bitter Darjeeling tea. But then I amp the incense and that's mostly all I can smell, though I still sense a touch of cocoa. It reminds me a bit of the incense backbone in Snake Oil, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I think I'll have to save this one for days when I want to feel bold, because on me at least, the incense is strong!

This smells kind of like fruit punch to me at first, but it dries down into a pretty mouthwatering sugary scent. Would be fun to layer. I enjoy it and am glad I got to sample it, but I probably don't need to track down a whole bottle.

I'm really glad this ended up on my radar. It's one of those blends that illustrates that note combinations are probably more crucial to my enjoyment of a scent than the notes alone. Cherry blossoms can go soapy; white tea can be too citrusy for my tastes. But here, these notes combined just work. I think the wood and tea help keep the florals grounded, and the result is pretty magical. It smells, to me, like a steaming cup of white tea scented with fresh cherry blossoms. If there's such a thing as sakura tea (which there probably is), I need to try it.

I was expecting a much more polarizing scent from this (and I've learned that I don't mind some dirty honey), but on my skin, fresh O is actually pretty tame. It's a mild, sweet honey/amber/vanilla, no surprises. I like it enough to keep my imp, but I have other honey scents more interesting to my nose.

I'm getting sweet, realistic golden delicious apple. The underpinning of birch keeps it from being cloying and the apple blossoms give it some throw. Simple and lovely. I didn't expect to like this as much as Poisoned Apple, but it's on that level of apple goodness for me.

@mountainwitch I can't think of any BPAL library scents at the moment without leather, unfortunately (though I luckily love leather + paper smells). But Moonalisa's Alexandria, while somewhat hard to obtain because of her release timeframes, is a pretty good paper scent. (Notes: Soft, woody, mossy, floral, and about 13 other components, with hints of ambergris, dry old book pages and a touch of intoxicating sweet labdanum.) I find it similar to, but lighter than, Hexxenacht's Cetalox, which Ajevie has samples of on her decant website. (Notes: a post-modern synthetic ambergris perfumery component redolent of warm skin/paper/cedarwood/ozone/pepper with an ambroxan-like background -- and to *some* -- smells like nothing at all.)

Wet, this has a great machine oil note and general steampunk vibe. As it dries, though, the blue musk takes over on my skin and drowns out the other notes, leaving me with a vaguely sawdusty clean scent. Darn skin chemistry.

This reminds me of Anne Bonny at first, and I really like it in the initial stage. Then it sweetens up to a more basic aquatic smell that, while still pleasant, is kind of like . . . pirate cologne? I could imagine a dashing, dapper pirate smelling like this, like Jack Sparrow but with good hygiene. So, probably not something I'm likely to wear, but maybe if I write a pirate character someday.

I've been enjoying Unicorn, Rushing Against the Tree this spring. (Notes: Ethereal white orris, pale early lilacs, mallow flower, Queen of the Night, white moss, and dusk-lit mist.) The mossiness definitely makes me think woodland lilacs rather than garden lilacs, though, if that makes sense.