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Very pretty! I immediately get the sugary vanilla rose and musk when wet. As it dries, lavender and rose become stronger and the musk starts to fade. The lavender in this is my favorite, and I can see why it's Lilith's favorite too. It doesn't overwhelm the other notes, just compliments them. This could be a beautiful sleep scent! It's a very clean floral and I would suggest trying this if you love any of these notes! I am not getting a bottle upgrade because I don't wear scents like this often, I'm more of a foodie, but this was such a pleasant surprise and I'm glad I got to try this decant.

I really like the initial wet stage of this: very rose and honeysuckle heavy. Once it dries down, the oud and musk come out and turns the blend from a very sweet and powdery scent to a darker one. I can barely pick out the honeysuckle now, it's just roses and oud. It also is fading pretty fast on me, within just a couple hours it's barely present on me at all. Holding onto my decant in case aging changes it, but no bottle upgrade. If only that wet stage lasted longer

First initial sprays of this were lots of dark chocolate with a little bit of mint. With a bit of time drying, the tea finally comes out and now it's a pretty minty tea with some chocolate. I don't think this is extremely foodie, so if you are a fan of mint this might be a good fit for you because that's the most dominant note once dried down. No upgrade for me, this is just not as sweet as I was hoping for it to be. But I will enjoy this when I wear my mint or chocolate oils, I think this would compliment them well!

Hmm, the wet stage on this was very puzzling. It started out a very chemically clean scent, something I've never had happen with the oils I've tried that are similar to this. Maybe the cardboard or tonka was to blame, I'm not sure, but it was foul for a good bit. Eventually, it mellowed out to the clean laundry with lavender scent that I anticipated. But I'm not getting any tonka and the lavender is very faint. Would recommend this for laundry lovers, not so much for lavender. Maybe aging will change this drastically and it'll come out more. No bottle upgrade for sure, hoping a bit of aging will fix this for me.

Snake Oil for me was only present in the wet stage, after it dried it was mostly a powdery cherry scent. It's really good, but I was expecting more Snake Oil from this. I'm sure the SO scent when fresh would have been stronger than my aged version, but I was still expecting more than what I got. Love the decant, but unsure about a bottle upgrade considering I can just layer similar scents with my original Snake Oil. Would still recommend if you like a sweet cherry lollipop perfume, and hopefully Snake Oil shows up more on others than it did for me!

This really confused me. First the first few minutes, this smelled just like espresso! I've tried Smut before so I know it wasn't from that. Eventually, it dissipated and I was left with Smut plus some extra sugar. I didn't get candy corn from this at all. Weird, but still good if you are a fan of Smut and coffee! If I didn't already have a few coffee blends, I'd be tempted to upgrade to a bottle. But since the coffee note didn't last terribly long and it wasn't all that different from Smut once dry, I'll just keep my regular Smut bottle for now. It also fades pretty quickly, within just a few hours in my case.

Disappointing. I got none of the other notes besides tobacco and frankincense. I was hoping once it dried down, I might get some of the caramel or sandalwood at least. But nope. I'm sure this is a great fit for someone out there, especially if you adore tobacco, but for me this wasn't what I was expecting. Glad to have tried it though, but definitely no bottle upgrade for me.

This just smells like a generic cologne to me with some herbs, nice but not terribly exciting. I was really looking forward to some of the foodie notes such as caramel and raisins, but none of that has shown up for me in the hours that I have tested it out today. Regardless, it is a nice clean scent but not something I would gravitate towards. Definitely try and pick this up if you love cologne and herbal scents, I'm sure this would be a better fit for you than for me!

Starts off as very sweet cookies and dust. The leather darkens it as it dries, but it's not overpowering the other notes. Lavender comes out after leather fades some, but it is very faint. So on me, it's mostly cookie dust and leather. Not sure what type of cookies this is, my first guess was chocolate chip since I had previously tried Baby's First Chainsaw. But I think it's closer to sugar cookies than anything. Not sure yet if this will see a bottle upgrade. I was hoping for more lavender since that and the cookie notes were the main reasons I sought out a decant. But this is still lovely and I'm glad the leather wasn't too harsh in this like it can be in some oils I've tried. So if you are interested in this but the leather note is scaring you off, I say go for this regardless! On me, the leather just added some depth and didn't overshadow anything except maybe the lavender.

Snake Oil was barely present at all for me in this blend, but I still enjoyed it. It was mostly a powdery, waxy cherry note with the tiniest bit of spice. I would pass on this if you are wanting the wax vampire teeth note to not be as strong as Snake Oil. I have a similar BPAL to this so I doubt this decant will be upgraded to a bottle. But if you really like cherry, this could still be good if you don't mind the powder and wax notes that are also present.

Thankful I have a partial imp of this to test, but I know already that I have to start a bottle hunt. I love carnival themed scents the most and this definitely does not disappoint. On me, it's faint apples and funnel cake with a hint of popcorn. Some vanilla comes through when dry. This is just beautiful and a perfect blend of carnival foods. I expected it, but the wear and throw are pretty disappointing. I've heard this fares a lot better in lockets.

This is the best chocolate perfume I've tried from BPAL yet! The milk chocolate doesn't overpower Smut at all and they work wonderfully together. Even once it dries down and the chocolate mellows out a bit, this is still a really great blend. Throw is pretty good on this too and so is the wear length. As much as I like this, I'm not going to upgrade this decant to a bottle. Chocolate is probably my least favorite gourmand note, weird enough since I love to eat it. Since I have Smut already, I'd rather just wear that on its own than add chocolate to it. Glad I've tried this though, and I wouldn't overlook this if you adore Smut and chocolate!

Review for the 2011 version. I already have a decant of the Pumpkin Latte Hair Gloss and really enjoyed it, so once I found out there was a perfume oil as well, I was eager to try it out. It's a very sweet coffee scent, but weirdly enough I'm not getting any pumpkin. Basically every other note is present in this, especially the espresso, cinnamon and vanilla bean. Throw is kind of low on this, but the wear time is pretty good at least! I may try out a newer year version to see if the pumpkin is more prominent in it. If you have the hair gloss, this makes a great compliment for it. However, they smell pretty different to me. The hair gloss has more pumpkin and the overall scent is stronger, while the perfume oil has no pumpkin to me and is faint.

The dead leaves note is the strongest, but when it settles the donuts come out more. It's still not sweet enough for my personal taste, but I really like the dead leaves note in this! My only issue is that the donut note is not as strong as I had hoped. I was hoping it would be the same strength as the dead leaves. But this is still nice, however I would pass this up if you are wanting a super donut atmospheric spray.

Milk chocolate is the strongest note, it almost overpowers the honey cream. The honey part is hard to pick out for me, so it's mostly chocolate and cream. When it's dry, it turns a little powdery, probably from the honey I'm guessing? It also turns a little bit waxy on me as well, but it's not enough for me to dislike it. It's pretty good, but I want to try more BPAL chocolate blends before I decide to get a bottle of this. Especially since there's barely any honey in here for me. Throw and wear time are pretty good though, which is a bonus!

When wet, the cookie note is the strongest. But with drying that note fades quickly and I'm left with caramel and baked apples. Also have to agree with others that it can lean waxy at times, but I don't think it's that bad. The throw, however, is abysmal, and I wouldn't get a bottle for that reason. I enjoy this, but I was expecting some better performance and for the cookie note to not fade within mere minutes. Apple lovers though, this could be a great fit to your collection!

I like this, but I would suggest not going into this expecting sugary sweet donuts. The maple and pumpkin notes are way stronger than the donut. It's still really good, and because the donut note isn't as strong I could see this working well for people who are wanting to try gourmand hair glosses without smelling like a donut shop. The cinnamon almost reminds me of dead leaves for some reason, maybe there's something else in here that makes it smell similar. I'm not picking up on any floral notes that other reviews are mentioning, I guess any of those notes faded away with aging. This would be a perfect compliment to any pumpkin oils and is a great fit for autumn.

My decant is from 2008. I love this! Sugary iris and orange blossom heaven. The cream and carnation don't jump out to me much. Really the only downsides are low throw and the fact that two notes out of four appear the most on my skin. It's definitely not a foodie scent if the sugared cream note is scaring anyone off, I'd say this would work better for floral lovers. This has me wanting to try more blends that include iris. I wonder if the newest Zarita has the same notes or if it is completely different. Would like a bottle of this one day!

This is interesting. The rice milk was drowned out by the cocoa and teakwood, and Snake Oil itself didn't last very long on me, maybe an hour? If this didn't have Snake Oil, I might have liked it better. But since I knew it had that in it, I was expecting more of it to show up on me, and I definitely wasn't expecting it to fade as fast as it did. I'd still try this out if you really love Snake Oil. I'm unsure of the age of my partial decant, but this could fare better if it's newer or something. Definitely great for chocolate lovers, this is the first BPAL I have tried with chocolate in it and it is wonderful!

Pretty sure my imp is fresh, so this review is for the unaged version. All I can say is wow, Snake Oil lives up to it's reputation! This is beautiful. Ar first the spices overwhelm all the other notes, but with some drying the vanilla becomes more prominent. It also has a slightly powdery note on me. This is one of those oils where it's hard to take your wrist away from your nose, it just smells so lovely! Absolutely need a bottle of this, and now that I've tried the original I'm looking forward to trying the many Snake Oil varients.

I loooove the bubblegum note I've tried from BPAL so far (Courtney and Jailbait), and this is no exception! This is basically a combination of strawberry and cinnamon bubble gum on me. Slight mint note as well, but on me the bubblegum notes overpowers it considerably. With more drying, the strawberry note gets covered up and it's now a cinnamon bubblegum scent! I don't know if cinnamon is a true note in here, that's just what this smells like to me. But I'd still advise caution to anyone who has a sensitivity to it and is interested in this perfume. It could just be my body chemistry morphing some other note or whatever. I already have bottles of Courtney and Jailbait, do I really need a third bubblegum scent in a big bottle? Yes.

100% bought this for the name, I mean who wouldn't want to smell like embalming fluid? But wow, this is so much nicer than I expected and may get a bottle upgrade with more testing. Starts off heavy aloe, but the tea note and lemon are more present with drying. It's a clean scent, like a little bit of aftershave but softer. Plus the slight bit of citrus from the lemon, but this doesn't turn powdery or chemically on me. Only downside? It does not last terribly long, literally within 10 minutes of applying I can tell the scent is fading some. Not completely gone, but the lemon disappears almost completely. Tea and aloe are the most prominent for the rest of the time it's on my skin. And with the lemon barely hanging on, the scent turns slightly minty.

Gomorrah to me is a very heavy fig scent with not much else; the herbal notes are the second most prominent scent but they get drowned out easily on me. I tried Cannibal Lady Macbeth from the 2020 Liliths before this one and this reminds me of it a lot, but it's way less strong. Maybe due to the age of my imp? I don't hate fig, but I don't think I will find myself reaching for this often.

This is a heavy cake and vanilla scent when wet, some sweetness from the currants begin to come out once dried down. It literally smells like I put icing and syrup on my wrists instead of perfume oil. Probably the best from the Mad Tea Party collection that I have tried so far. The throw is pretty good too and with good wear time, definitely another reason to look for a bottle in the future! If you haven't tried many MTP scents, you have to try this one after Alice!

I was really looking forward to trying this since I grew up on the Addams Family show and was born on a Wednesday. At first sniff, this does match the description perfectly about being a kid's interpretation of a gothy perfume. The clove and patchouli were the most dominant on me with a tiny little bit of rose showing through after drying. I sadly didn't get any black cherry notes or the cacao. This would have been a bottle purchase if the wear time was better. Only a couple hours on me . But if you don't mind that, this could be a great scent if you love patchouli and clove and don't mind that there is little to no sweetness.